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THE REPUBLICAN.ITALMAGE ON THE BIBLE.

Published by

W. S. MONTGOMERY.

GREENFIELD. INDIANA

THE latest Servian cabinet is composed of the following well-known gentlemen: Gruise, Vuics, Djuvics, Popovica, Velimeirvics, Taushauovics, Gervic3, and Milosavoljevics. It is said the country is quite well satisfied wTith the cabinet. If it isn't it is in a bad vie?,surely.

Canadian journals report good progress with the Weld on bill, which will not onlv destroy the popularity of

which will also lead to the arrest or flight

of the drf mltm* cashiers and other sv, in-

of ler3 now posing as respectable residents in Djmiaoa. It is the retrospective feature of this measure which some-ex-citizens of this country are sparing neither money nor trouble to defeat.

THE proposed Constitution of South Dakota, as adopted by popuiar vote three years ago, has in it a prohibitory section. This, however, was only carried by 354, with 31.000 votes cast. The omnibus bill calls for another vote on the Constitution, and the fate of this particular section will be in doubt until the vote is counted. Another, and a rather strangely worded clause, calls for the submission to the people, by th° first elected State Legislature, of a woman suffrage amendment. In many other respects the Constitution is decidedly ordinal.

THE Legislature of Minnesota, says an exchange, is after the trust in earnest. A bill introduced a few days ago covers the ground amply. It is made unlawful to make or carry out auv agreement not to produce any article of commerce below a common standard or figure. Any contract made ia violation of the provisions of the law is void, and the purchaser of any article whose price is affected by trusts has the right to plead the act as a detense for not paying for it. The penalties are heavy enough to frighten the offenders of corporations or individuals into keeping in the lines.

ACCORDING to the law of average and probabilities Harrison has about sixteen years of life before him, though to judge frotn his health and vigor he is likely to live twice as long. But the average age at death of our Presidents has been about 70 years. John Adams lived to be 01, and Jefferson. Madison, John Quincv Adams and Buchanan were all octogenarians. But ten of the remainder failed to see a 70th birthday, and four, including Lincoln and Garfield, di before entering upon their 60th year. Compared with some cf the leading statesmen of Europe, now living or cf recent date, a majority of President Harrison's predecessors have died young.

AN English syndicate has purchased 2,003,€00 acres of land in New Mexico, and is now stocking it heavily with a view to running the largest farm in the world. It is not to be a cattle ranch, but a cultivated farm, and unlimited capital is said to be forthcoming to work it. In some States alien corporations can not hold laud, and. it is a matter of grave doubt whether an enterprise of such magnitude as this is of any great benefit to the locality. After awhile the losses will either be too great, or the profits too small, to suit the foreign owners, when the farm will, in all probability, be split up and rented out, with all the consequent evils of absentee landlordism.

MASSACHUSETTS is to have an alien tax law, unless the Governor thinks fit to veto the bill. Itwas originally regarded as a joke, but was seriously considered and amended, Aait now reads it imposes a penalty of 25a a day on manufactures, and, indeed, all citizens, for each alien employed by them. The measure can not be regarded in a favorable light, however excellent the motives of its promoters may have been. In the first place, it will be almost impossible to enforce theac&, especially in regard to Englishspeaking emigrants ia the second place, it is doubtful whether macti go 1,could be derived from driving men into citiz nship against their will and thirdly,to deprive a class of men of means of earning a livelihood is to manufacture theives and criminals.

MANDALAY, the former capital of King Thebaw, was partly destroyed by fire a few days ago for the third time since the British occupancy. When we read that ceary 700 houses were burned there, it does not follow that the fire was nearly so serious a matter as one of similar extent would be in this part of the world. Houses built mostly of bamboo and thatch are comparatively easy to replace, and the loss is hardly irretrievable even among the poorest people. We are told that Arab slave stealers in Africa burn down hundreds of native villages, but this is really one of the lesser hardships they inflict. The natives, if they are lucky enough to escape, can in a few hours build as good a village as they had before. One of the perplexing things about African maps is that many, even of the laruer settlements, are on wheels, so to speak, and a traveler is likely to find a village miles away from the place indicated by an earlier explorer, the community having moved in a body to find better grazing for their herds or for some other purpose.

RKSE ^RCHUNABIiETO SUBSTANTIATE SCIENTIFIC SLURS.

•Tough Things in the Bible" Viewed in a Common-Sense liijffht—The Creation and Flood.

The subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon last Sunday was, "Tough Things in the Bible," and his text. II. Peter, iii, 16: "In which are some things hard to be understood." Dr. Talmagd said:

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Hard thing the first: The Bible says the world was created in 6ix days, while geologv says it was hundreds of thousands of years in process of building. "In the beginning, God created the heaven nnd the earth." "In the the beginning." Thtre you can roll in 10.i00 years, if you w?nt to. There is no particular date given—no contest between science and revelation. Though the world may have been in process of creation for millions of years, suddenly and quickly, and in one week, it mayhave been fitted up for man's residence. Just as a great mansion may have been many years in building, and yet in one week it may be curtained and chandelierel and cushioned and upholstered for a bride and groom.

You are not compelled to believe that the world was made in our six days. It may not have been a day of twentyfour honrs, the day spoken of in the first chapter it may have been God's dnv, and a thousand years with him are aa one day. "And the evening and the morning were the first day"—God's day. "And the evening aud the morning wei'v* the second day"—God's day. "And the evening and the morning were the sixth day"—God's day. You and I living in the seventh dav, the Sabbath of the world, the day of Gospei redemption, the grandest day of all the week, in which each day may have been made up of thousands of years. Can you tell me how a man can get his mind and soul into such a blasphemous twist, as to scoff at that first chapter of Genesis, its verses billows of light singing up from sapphire seas of glory?

The creation of light. The Bible represents that light was created on Monday, and the sun was not created until Thursday. Just think of it! A book declaring that light was created three days before the sun shone! Why don't you know that heat and electricity emit heat and light independent of thfl sun? Besides that, when the earth was in process of condensation, it was surrounded by thick vapors and the discharge, of many volcanoes in the primary period, and all this obscuration may have hindered the light of the sun from falling on the earth until that Thursday morning. Besides that, David Brewster and Herschel, the astronomer, and all the modern men of their class, agree in the fact that the sun is not light, that it is an opaqae mass, that it is only the candlestick that holds the light, a phosphorescent at.ino-phere floating arouud it, charging and changing, so it is not to be at all wondered at that not until that Thursday morning its light fell on the earth.

Another hard thing: The story of the deluge and Noah's Ark. They say that from the account there it must have rained 800 ei: of water each day in order that it might be 15cubits above the hills. They gav that the ark could not have been large enough to contain "two of every sort," for there would have been hundred of thousands of creatures. They say that these creatures would have'come from all lands and all zones. They say there was only one small window in the ark, and that would not hav« given fresh air to keep the animals inside the ark from suffocation. They say that the ark finally landed on a mountain 17,000 feet hight. They say they do not belie*e the story. Neither do I. There is no such story in the Bible. I will tell you what the Bible story is. I must say that I have changed my mind in regard to seme matters which once were to me very mysterious. They are no more mysteries. This is the key to the facts. This is the story of an eye witness. Noah, his story incorporated afterward by Moses in the account. Noah described the scene just aa it appeared to him. He saw the flood and he fathomed its depth. As far as eye could reach everything was covered up, irom horizon, or, as it says, "under the whole heaven." He ilid not ref*r to the Sierra Nevadas, or to Mount Washington, for America had not been discovered, or, if it had been discovered, he could not have aeon so far off. He is giving the testimony of an eye-witness. God speaks after the manner of men when he says everything went under, and Noah speaks after the manner of men when he says everything did go under. An eyewitness. There is no need of thinking that the kangaroo leaped the ocean or that the polar bear came down from the ice.

Why did the deluge come? It came for the "purpose of destroying the outrageous inhabitants of the then thinly populated earth, nearly all the population, probably very near the Ark" before it was launched. What would have been the use of submerging North and. South America, or Europe, or Africa, when they were not inhabited? And an to the skeptical suggestion than in order to have the water as deep as the Bible states, it must have rained 800 fee', every •lay, I reply, the Bible distinctly declares that the most of the flood rose instead of falling. Before the account where it says ''the windows of heaven were opened," it says, "all tht. fountains of the great deep were broken up." All geologists agree in sa ing that there are caverns in the earth filled with water, and They rushed forth, and ail the lakes and rivers forsook their beds. The fountains of the great deep were broken up, and then the windows of heaven were opened). I? it a strange thing that we should bejasked to believe in this flood of the BiVtle, when geologists tell ustbat again f^aqpiu a^d «iiun the

dry earth has been drowned out! Just open your gaologv and you will read of twenty floods. Is it not strange that infidel scientists wanting us to believe in the twenty floods of geological discovery, should as soon as we believe in one flood of the Bible, pronounce us non compos mentis.

Well, then, another thing, in regard to the size of the ark. Instead of being a mud cow, as some of those skeptics would have us understand, it was a magnificent ship, nearly as large as the Great Eastern, three times the size of an ordinarv man-of-war. Attketine in the world when ship building was unknown, God had this vessel constructed, which turned out to be almost in the same proportions as our staunchest mo lern vessels. After thousands of years of experimenting in naval arcbiiecture and ship carpentry, we have at last got up to Noah's ark, that ship leading all the fleets of the world on all the oceans. Well, Noah saw the animal creai ion going into this ark. He gave )the account of an eye witness. They were the animals from the region where he lived for the most part they were an'mals useful to man, and it noxious insects or poisonous reptiles went in it was only to discipline the patience and to keep alert tne generations after the flood. He saw themgoing in. There were a great number of them, and he gives the account of an eye-witness.

They went in two and two of all flesh. Then infidels say that the ark landed on a mountain 17,000 feet high, and that, of course, as soon as the -animals came forth they would all be frozen in the ice. That is geographical ignorance! Ararat ia not merely the name for a mountain, but for a hilly district, and it may have been a hill 100 feet high, or 500, or 1,000 feet high on which the ark alighted. Noah measured the depth of the water above the hill, and it is 15 cubits, or 27 feet. Ah! mv friends, this story of the ark is no more incredible than if you should say to me: "Last fumtner I was among the hills of New England, and there came on the most terrific storm I ever saw, and the whole country was flooded. The waters came up over the hills, and to save our lives we got in a boat on the river, and tfven the dumb creatures were so affrighted they came moaning and bleating until we let them in the tame boat."

My prayer is that the God who created the world may create us anew in Christ Jesu* and that the God who made the light three days before the sun shone may kindle in our hearts a light that wiil burn on long after the sun has expired and that the God who ordered the ark built and kept it open more than 10.) years that, the" antediluvians might enter it for shelter, may graciously incline us to accept the invitation which this morning rose in music from the throne, saying: "Come thou and all thy house into the ark."

Another hard thing to be understood: The story that the sun and moon stood still to allow Joshua to complete his victory, infidel scientists declaie that an impossibility. But if a man have brain and strength enough to make a clock, can he not stwt it and stop it, and start it again and stop it again? Is a world greater than its God? But, peonle ask, how could the moon have beeij/ en to stop in the daytime? Well, if yo% ave never seen the moon in the daytir) it is because you have nbt bfeen a v£/y diligent observer of the heavens. Besides that, it was not necessary for the world literally to stop. Bv unusual refraction of the sun's rays the day might have been prolonged. So that, while the earth continued on its path in the heavens, it figuratively stopped. You must remember tkat these Bible authors used the vernacular of their own day, just as you and I say the sun went down. The sun never goes down. We simply describe what appears to the human eye. Besides that, the world, Our world, could have literally stopped without throwing the universe out of balance. °ur world has two motions the one around the sun and the other on its own axis. It might, have stooped on its own axis, while at the same time itkeptonits path through the heavens. So there was no need of stellar confusion because our world slackened its speed or entirely stopped in its revolution on its own axis.

Besides that, within the memory of man, there have been worlds that were born and that died. A few years ago astronomers telegraphed, through the Associated Press, to a!l the world—the astronomers from the city of Washington—that another world had been discovered. Within a comparatively short space of time, astronomers tell us, thirteen worlds have burned down. From their observatory they notice first that the worlds look like other worlds, then they became a deep red, showing that they were on fire then they became ashen, showing that they were burned down then they entirely disappeared, showing that even the ashes were scattered. Now, I say, if God can start a world, and swing a world, and destroy a world, he could stop one or two of them without a great deal of exertion, or he could by unusual refraction of the sun's ravs continue the illumination. But iofide.l scientists say it would have been belittling for other worlds to stop on account of such a battle. Why, sirs, what Yorktown was for Revolutionary times, and what Gettysburg was in our civil contest, and what Sedan was in the Franco-German war, and what Waterloo was in the Napoleonic destiny—that was this battle of Joshua against the five allied armies of Gibeon. It was that battle that changed the entire course of history. It was a battle to Joshua as important as though a battle now should occur in wbic England and the United States and France and Germany and Italy and Turkey and Russia should fight for victory or annihilation. However much any other world, solar, lunar or stellar, might be hastened in its errand of light, it would be excusable if it lingered in the heavens for a little while and put down its sheaf of beams and gazed on such an ArmageddoD.

Then there is the Bible statement that a whale swallowed Jonah and ejected him upon the dry ground in three days. If you will go to the museum at Nantucket, Mass., you will find the skeleton of a whale large enough to swallow a man. I said to the janitor, while I was standing in the museum, "Why, it does not seem from the looks of this skeleton that that story in the Book of Jonah is so very improbable, does it?" "Ob, no," he replied, "It does not." Thero is a cavity in the mouth of the, common whale large enough for a man: to live in. There hav.e been sharkea found again and again with an entire human body iu them. Besides thatL the' Bible savs nothing about ft whale} It says, "The Lord prepared a great

fish and there are scientists who tell us that there were sea monsters in other days that make the modern whale seem very insigniticant. I know in one place in the New Testament it speaks of the whale as appearing in the occurrence I have just mentioned, but the word may just as well be translated "sea monster" any kind of a sea monster. Procopius says, in the year 532, a sea monster was slain which had for fifty years destroyed ships.

I suppose this sea monster that took care of Jonah may have been one of the great sea monsters that could have easily taken down a prophet, and he could have lived there three days if he had kept in motion eo as to keep the gastric juices from taking hold of him and destroying him, and at the end of thre°i days the monster would naturally be sick enough to regurgitate Jonah. Besides that, my friends, there is one word wriich explains the whole thing. It save: "The Lord prepared a great fish."

So all the strange things in the Bible can be explained if you wish to have them explained. And you can build them into a beautiful and healthful fire

A QUEER CHARACTER. Rosanna McCormick, aged sixty-five, an eccentric character who has resided by herself near Jordons, White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, for many years, and who was well known to thousands of people from the North and South who have been patrons of these spring«, was lound dead at her home Monday, lying on sheep skins. She had a number of feather beds but never slept on them. She always wore long, heavy boots wiih pistols iii them for protection, rarely ever taking them off, and died in her boots. At the Coroner's inquest a verdict of "died of pneumonia" was rendered. She was a great reader, very intelligent, a fine historian and owner of two farms, a number of cattle and sheep, which she amassed by her industry. She told the fortunes of many a fair maiden and old time lady in the United States. She was a great pedestrian, always walking to the city clad in the roughest material, accompanied by her faithful dog and carrying a long staff. A number of handsome uncut silk dress patterns were found among her effects. She never took medicine and would not have a physician in her last illness.

THE BIG MISSIONS.

Lincoln, Halstead and llico Apprintfd to Great Itiitaln, Germany and ltusiia.

The President sent the following nominations to the Senate, Wednesday: Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain.

Murat Halstead, of Ohio, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Germany.

Allen Thorndyke Rice, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinaiy and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia.

Patrick Egan, of Nebraska, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Chili.

Thomas Rvan, of Kansas, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico.

John Hicks, of Wisconsin, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Peru.

George B. Loriug, of Massachusetts, to be Minister Resident and Consul General of the United States to Poitugal.

How They Prosper.

There is considerable written during the year about the condition of the negroes in the South. But there is such a thing as honest truth. Here is the latest bunch of statistics on the subject: In the South there are now 16,000 colored teachers, 1,000,0 0 pupi's, 17,000 in the male and feimii^ high schools, and 3,000,000 worshipers in the churches. There are sixty normal schoola fifty colleges and universities and twen-ty-five theological seminaries. Thej pay taxes on nearly $2,000,000 worth ol property, this in the Southern States, which, if including the Northern States, would double the property valuation. This is a wonderful showing for the race. A race that has 200 years of slavery and 4,000 years of barbarism back of it needs no silent sympathy or patient waiting when in twenty years it makes such a showing. American generosity has done for the South in twenty years what statesmanship has has failed in over a century but generosity should not be depended on, as even that can reach a limit. The negro population of the United States is now. 7,i 00,000, and in fifteen years it will be doubled.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

for your hearth, or you cau with them Republicans have named VV. H. Drvden put your immortal interests into conflagration. But you had better decide about the veracity of the Bible very soon. I want this morning to caution you against putting off making up your mind about this book. Ever since 1772 there has been great discussion as to who was the author of Junius' Letters, those letters so full of sarcasm and virtuperation and power. The whole English nation stirred up with it. More than 100 volumes written to discuss that question: "Who was Junius?" "Who wrote the letters of Junius?" Well, it is an interesting question to discuss, but still, after all, it makes but little practical difference to you and to me who Junius was, whether Sir Philip Francis, or Lord Chatham, or John Horne Tooke or Horace Walpole, or Henry Grattan, or any one of the forty-four men who were seriously charged with the authorship. But it is an absorbing question, it is a practical question, it is an overwhelming question to you and to me, the authorshiD of thi3 Holy Bible— whether the Lord God ot Heaven and earth or a pack of dupes, scoundrels or impostors. We can not afford to adjourn that question a week or a day or an hour.

AVould God that there might be some one to-day who would co forth and bring in these souls that are drifting. In this assemblage, how many a score shall I say, or a hundred, or a thousand?—not quite certain about the truth of the Bible, not certain about anything. Drifting, drifting, drifting. Oh, how I would like to tow them in. I throw you this cable. Lay hold of that cable of the Gospel. Lay hold of it. I invite you all in. Th^ harbor is wide enough, large enough for all the shipping. Coine in, oh you wanderers on the deep. Drift no more, drift no more. Come into the harbor. See the glorious lighthouse of the Gospel, "Peace on earth, goo*' will to men."

Aurora has found gas. Petersburg wants a furniture factory. Laporte and Warsaw are boring for gas.

A bone meal factory is Seymour's latest. Whitelaw Re id has relatives at Madison, Ind.

White Caps are annoying Rochester residents. Seven foxes were captured in a Parke county drive.

Joseph Rusk, of Linden, aged 9, weighs 1( 5 pounds. Horsethieves are operating in Harrison and Crawford counties.

Indianapolis is anticipating the greatest building boom since the panic. Mrs. John Sesaler, of Laporte, dropped dead Monday while preparing the lamily breakfast.

Thomas Huston, of Columbus, "must go to work or take a walk," say the White Caps.

In a popular election the Martinville

as their choice for Postmaster. The Elkhart Military Company has changed its name from "Koontz Guards" to the "Elkhart Light Guards."

Samuel Swicker, of Yincennes, was crushed to death by an Ohio and Mississippi railway train at Washington, Monday.

Eli Ballinger, a farmer near Huntington, was struck by a fragment of a board thrown off bv a buzz saw, Monday, and fatally injured.

CharleB Abbot, who committed a forgery in Jefferson county in 1882, and went "to Missouri, has been captured and brought back to Madison.

Ivnight Brothers, of Elkhart, who have had great success in peppermint culture, will erect a sugar factory and go into the beet raising industry.

McGarvev & Bros, have entered into a contract to rebuild the Greensburg Court House, work to commence next week and to be finished this year.

Robert Slocum, of Boone county, a Democrat, still maintains a pole ]&!) feet in bight in his dooryard, with Clev-land and Thurman banners flving therefrom.

Theodore S. Hunt, alias McCane. JS under arrest at New Albany for ing falsely to the age of Miss Carrie Ashly, fourteen years old, who wanted to get married.

The Evansville Democracy have nominated Nicholas M. Goodlet for Mayor, while the Republicans have chosen Hon. John H. Daunattell, the present incumbent.

Samuel A. To well, the present Chief Fire Engineer of Anderson, daring the war, while leading his company in the charge at Altoona ^as3, was shot nine times through the leg.

There are signs of a decided revolt against "ring rule" in Huntington, the citizens realizing that the needs of the town are more important than possible political advantages.

Joel Briggs and John O. Kain, of Warren county, fearful that they have been inocculated with virus by a hog afflicted with hydrophobia, have applied the Terre Haute mad-stone.

Chailes Anderson, of Evansville,while unloading a circular saw, struck one of the teeth against his knee. Inflammation followed and he has undergone amputation at the hip-joint.

A cow sfflicted with hydrophobia was killed, Monday, in Terre Haute, and there is consideiable alarm because infants in several families have been fed from the milk of the afflicted animal,

Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Columbu3. was stricken with nervous prostration, Monday, due to fright from a visit by a burly tramp, and she was found in an unconscious condition, with recovery doubtful.

Lightning rod swindlers succeeded in getting Tracy Evans, an eighty-tix-year-old farmer of Elkhart county, to sign a document which turned out to he a note. He was given a worthless receipt in return.

Elkhart proposes to place stringent restrictions upon the Bell Telephone Company if it attempts to again operate in that city. Under-the old law Eikhart repealed the Bell franchise and cut down its poles and wires. "Jack" Collier, of Chambersburg, has been celebrating his eighty-seventh birthday anniversary. He has thirtythree grand children, and one great-gi eat grand-child, making a total of ninety-three descendants.

Alfred Major, of Sheibyville, a prominent lawyer, and the wealthiest man in Shelby county, died,Monday, of typhoid fever, aged sixty-one. He settled in Sheibyville in 1846, and studied law under Vice President Hendricks.

The "boss" sprinter in northern Indiana, is said to be Sheriff-elett Aaron Groves, of Blackford county, it being claimed that upon discoveriig a red fox by the wayside, he gave chase on foot to the animal and caught it after running half a mile.

William Dwyre, of Greensburg, attempted to jest with George Power about a girl of ill-repute, and Power thrust a knife into his brear t, the blade penetrating his iung and causing dangerousi'jjury. The assailant, who is only seventeen years old, was arrested for attempted murder.

A streetcar driver named John Clements shot and killed a printer named Lloyd Nowland in Indianapolis, Monday* night Ciements returned from his work at a late hour and found Nowland in the room with Ins wife. Nowland, who is the son of a venerable ahd reppected father, is a man of family and somewhat prominent.

A prize fight occurred between Jack Burgess, of boston, and Tom McDonald, of Elkhart, at Soul Bend, at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. Burgess weighed 195 pounds and McDonald 180. The fight wasf«r 1500 a tide, tight skin gloves. In the eighth round McDonald was knocked senselesB and had his jaw broken, ending the fight.

Judge Azro Dyer, of Evansville, has dismissed the tihy thousand-dollar libel suit which he brought against George W. Sba/iklin and others, of trie Evansvilta Courier, an answer having been filed that there was no intention in the articles complained of to reflect upon the personal integrry of Judge Dver. or charge him with dishonorable conduct-

Never in the history of Southern Indiana has farming been so far advanced at this season of the year as now. Ah a

rule, the oats are sown and in many cases up and looking well. Wheat, also, has a healthy look, with every promise of an abundant crop, and there is also a great prospect for peaches and other fruits.

A farmer living west of Terre Haute, was, on Thursday afternoon, stopped by two highwaymen, one black and one white, on the National road west of the Wabash river, and robbed of :jy. The robbers were not ma3ked and were very bold. One held atistolat the farmer's head while the other went through his pockets. There have been a halt dozer cJ such robberies on this road, within^ mile of the city, in the last six won':

A discovery has been made which said to invalidate the law passed by 1 recent Legislature for the protecti? mineis in the weighing of co*' bill required that, there should fortuity in the screening and of coal and provided fo~ sue a int. as would be likely to prevent c-i of miners. There was a strong

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against the passage of the hi alleged discovery is now made ti enacting clause was omitted fri bill, and if so, it is doubtless iuva

Jeffersouvjlle lias a rommui colored people who are very sup ons. Joe Lewis, a wei-known died suddenly a short time ago ai..buried with great pomp. It isr claimed that Lewis has madehisap ance on the earth in he form of a and to a former friend conveyed tb telligence that his sudden leave ta S was caused by a dose of poison adm, tered to him. Hirs friends are ta kin having Lewis's remains disinterred •he purpose of finding out if he rea| was poisoned.

David lrvin, of Reno, while in an 11 toxicatea condition a few nights ago

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sat down upon the track in front oi ai approaching train. The engineer saw him in the glare of the headlight, and sounded a warning, and as lrvin disappeared, it was supposed he had gotten out of the way. After the engine stopped, however, a voice was heard shouting, B.ick yer boss off me, will you?" and lrvin was found tightly wedged under the cow catcher, and two men were necessary to hold him by the arms while the "hoss" was backed off.' Beyond stripping off his overcoat and other damages to his clothing, no harm "1 resulted.

Clerk Cr jwley, who with the a-sistance of three of the House clerks, has been encaged in the rk since the ad jourrnent of the General Assembly. The-"'.^ Journal embraces the evidence taken by the Insane Hospital investigating Committee, whi.h wilt make several re pa It ii a it is thought, to make two volumes of the report of proceedings. In one appendix, to the Journal a statement of the ex-

per ditures of the House is given. Itshows that the total for the sf s-ion was^ $66,276,11, while, two yeais ago the amount was $64 212.73.

The Female Reformatory, at Indianapolis, was the scene of a lively insurrection Sunday. On Thursday the inmate known as Henrietta was severely re? rimanded for impertinence and insubordination,and afterward disciplined by consignment to the dungeon. as the matron had concluded her reproof, five other prisoners walked into the

office and declared that if Henrietta had

to go to the dungeon they would share the punishment with her. The entire party was then sent to the dungeon. On Sunday, bv an act of carelessness, the door to Henrietta's cell was left open a moment. She took advantage of it, rushed to the kitchen, secured a flat iron and several knives and returned to the dungeon. With tho flat iron she broke the locks on the other cells, liberating her confederates and the whole party arrayed themselves for war. The matron was equal to the occasion, however. The fire hose waa brought into requ-sition and wit!-, the prospect of a thorough wetting they surrendered their weapons and were returned to the cells.

SUPERIOR COURT'S DECISION.

The Board of Public Work.", nnd Police and Fire Bo»)d Acts for Indianapolis Declared Unconstitutional.

The Marion county Superior Court, Monday, handed in two opinions in the cases testing the constitutionality of the Public Wopks and Police and Fire B^ard acts for tbis city. The majority opinion, written by Judge Howe, Judge Walkerconcurring, maintains that the bills are unconstitutional. Judge Taylor dissents. He finds the hills sound and valid. The opinions were heard with profound interest by crowded courtrooms. However, the Supreme Court's opinion will be the final test. The cases by common consent go at once to that tribunal.

Judge Howe, in his opinion on the Board of Works Act, b^es his conclusions on decisions that local and special legislation ia void. In the police and firebiils, sections requiring that the forcesshall be drawn equally from two parties, are unconstitutional, but the Court does not pass on the question whether this vitiates the entire act.

The opinion is very loug, and inferentially it will be seen that the majority opinion maintains that the failure of the President of the Senate and the Speaker ot the House to sign bills after they were vetoed is not a vital objection. This bears on other cases in controversy, as does also the opinion that the claims that the Governor has the exclusive right lo fill all offices created by the Legislature is not well taken.

THE HOSPITAL BUARD.

The Circu Caurfc Sustains the IiBgiBlatnre.

The argumeat on demurrer in the case of the State on relation of Joseph L. Carson vs. Governor Hovey, to compel the Governor to issue a commission to Carson as a member of the new Board of Trustees of the Insane Hospital was heard t«y Jud^e Rowland, at indiauapolis, Monday. He imstained the demurrer, thus holding in fa* or of the new ,^y Hoards and against the Governor. Bv & agreemtint no mandate was issued and the case appealed atonce*«»th«* Supremo Court, lf t.hrt Supreme U»urt should sustain Jmlgii Howland. Ah^ Governor will be left without legar standing in his position

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