Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 5 July 1889 — Page 7

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

The public debt was reduced $16,255,929.21 during June. Theodore wight Woolsey, ex-presi-dent of Yale college, died at New Haven. Conn., Monday.

Mrs. Catherine Arnold, of Cleveland, O., started afire with coal oil. She is dead.

Five glass factories at Fostoria, 0., have shut down for the summer ,season.

Maria Mitchell, the noted astronomer, died at Lynn, Mass., at 8:30 Friday moraing.

An alarming condition of the Illinois corn crop is reported, due to continuous rains urine the past six weeks.

General Simon Cameron's remains were buried at Harrisburg Sunday afternoon. The ceremonies were unostentatious.

T. B. McDow, charged with the murder of Captain W. F. Dawson, editor of the Charleston News and Courier, was found not guilty.

According to the figures of the ustcompleted directories, the population of St. Paul and Minneapolis is now close to half a million.

A cyclone swept a path two miles wide and thirty miles long, in Winona and Huston counties, Minn., Friday, causing a loss of $100,000.

C. D. Graham, Sunday, sent his new boat, on which he has worked for two years, through the Niagara rapids. It went to pieces before reaching the falls.

A wealthy English syndicate announce that they have gained control of the paper product oi that country and by a trust will be enabled to control the price.

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Fire destroyed a part of the Benton Block, Chicago, Friday. Loss, on building and stock 8290,000. The building was occupied by several manufacturing firms.

Miss Elizabeth Drexel, daughter of the late Joseph Drexel. and Mr. John Vinton Dahlgren, son of the late Rear Admiral Dahlgren, were married at New York, Sunday.

Over one hundred square miles of forest and prairie have been burned over in northwestern Montana. Several ranchmen have been burned out, but no lives were lost.

William Schiltz and Charles Schrtcier two sixteen-year-old boys who were attending a picnic at Riverside, near Chicago, Sunday, were drowned while boating on the picnic grounds.

The New York Yacht Club has received official information from the Royal acht Club of England declining to accept the challenge for the American cup. The Valkyrie, however, will come over and enter various club contests.

The Sullivan special train, containing about 200 well known sporting men of New York and Boston, left New York via the West Shore Road at 8:15, Sunday night. Sullivan and his trainer boarded the train upon its arrival in Rochester, Monday morning.

The Lehigh Valley Railway Company of Newark, N. J., is purchasing property in order to connect with the main

line at Rsselle and run through Newark on the bed of the Morris Canal. This will give the company a through line from New York to the West, 5 After a delay of twenty-eight years, the trial of J. Logan Sigmanfora murder committed at the beginning of the war, took place at Mount Vernon, Ky., last week. It was concluded on Saturiiy with a verdict of acquittal. The jury had out been for two days.

The seventh annual convention of the Bureau of Statistics on Labor opened its annual session at Hartford, Conn., Tuesday. Senator Hawley made the opening speech. President Wright spake encouragingly of the work of the Bureau and the outlook for the coming year.

A farmer's wagon was struck by a locomotive, at May wood, 111., Saturday night. August Mullenhour was instantly killed, Fred Leibenhour was fatally hurt, and Hilda Radatz, aged eleven years, received serious injuries. Two children in the wagon received severe bruises.

John Ryan, of Joliet, 111., Friday, won the international prize of $500 offered by a boot and shoe journal of Boston for the best essay on boot and shoemaking in all its branches. Every State in the Union contested for the prize, together with Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

A freight train went over an embankmeut at Latrobe,Pa., at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. Five trainmen were killed and a number injured. The engineer and firemen were at 9:30 still in the creek. It is now stated that thirty persons were killed in the wreck at Latrobe. Some were tramps stealing rides.

A dispatch from Yankton, Dak., says: The liquor dealers of South Dakota have perfected an active organization to operate against the adoption of the prohibition clause of the Sioux Falls ConsituI tion at the October election. An active contest will be made, and as the Prohitionists are also engaged in a canvass it is expected that the sentiments of every one will be expressed at the police election Saturday.

A dispatch from Kansas City. Mo., says: A large cave near the Hermosa mining camp, Bixty miles from Las Cruze, N. M., has been opened up. and its interior is lined with veins of almost pure silver. It had for years escaped the eyes of old prospectors because there was nothing about the cave to indicate mineral. It is now thought the cava will exceed in richnes the "Bridal Chamber Cave" at Ssakevailev, N. M., from which over $500,000 in silver was taken.

A special from Waterloo, la., saye: Farmers from different parts of this county report that a strange insect has been found at work in the cornfields. It is a email green bug, which works at the roots of the corn and seems to destroy its vitality. The ground in some fields appears to be fairly alive with these pests. Under a magnifying glass they are found to have heads armed with pinchers, between which is a sort of proboscis that is used to puncture the staik. Corn attacked by these pests tnrns yellow and ceases to grow, and a large number of fields have been attacked.

The peculiar contest for the mayoralty of El Paso, which has been raging over two months, was setted at the polls, Friday, by. the election oi Wm, Ca-

ples, a Democrat. At the April election Krairauer (Republican) lecehet a majority of thirty-seven. The election was charged to be fradulent and was investigated by the City Council. The Republicans on the recount got a majority of four. It was discovered in the meantime that he was an alien, a subject of Bavaria. He was declared ineligible by the Council and anew election was ordered, in which Caples (Demorrat) was elected by fifteen majority.

A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says: Friday morning, S. C. Morgan, Cashier ot the" State Bank of Sidney, was found lying in bed with the top of his head blown off and a 45-caliber revolver in his hand. The bank, it is said, was not making money. fc»ix years ago Morgan eloped with the daughter of H. W. Yates, President of the Nebraska National Bank of Omaha. He was the son of a wholesale groceryman, and is a young man of excellent habits, but the lady's arents opposed the union. On the*same day Frank Johnson eloped with the daughter of Byion Reed, an Omaha millionaire, and married her, Johnson and Morgan shortly afterward started the State Bank of Sidney, of which Johnson is now President.

The persistency with which Mormon missionaries are carrying on their wo.-k in B0019 parts of West Virginia is beginning to excite a great deal of indignation. There is likely to be trouble very soon. Ritchie county is at present the scene of the most active operations. Two elders have taken up peimanent quarters there. On Indian creek there is quite a large congregation, and meetings are held weekly, at which polygamy is not only openly preached, but attempts are being made to carry the Uieory into practice, at least one convert haying taken unto himself a second wife. In other parts of the same county like success has attended the efforts of the missionaries. In all, there are fifty full-fledged Mormons in the county. No efforts, it seems, are being made to transplant the converts.

The largest contract for the drainage of swamp land undertaken in America for many years was brought to a successful termination this week in Indiana. Eighteen thousand acres of land, which was continually covered with water, and was absolutely worthless, has been reclaimed. Seventeen thousand acres more that could be utilized only in the very driest seasons has been made arable, and fifty thousand acres of farm land have been likewise affected and substantially benefitted. The immense tract referred to lies in Allen and Huntington counties between the cities of Fort Wayne awd Huntington. It is a vast swamp, and is ciossed by the main line of the Wabash railway, and extends for nearly a mile on either side of the tracK for a distance of perhaps seven miles. Its dismal appearance is familar to travelers. In flood seasons the water frequently submerges the track, and trainmen have often been stationed on the engine pilots with pike-poles in their hands to clear the rails of floating driftwood. Oftentimes the locomotive fires have been extinguished and the railroad has been obstructed for hours. The swamp is known as the Little River prairie, and it is the principle source of supply for the upper branch of the Wabash river.

FOREIGN.

Excessive warm weather is prevailing in England. The report that Mary Anderson was confined in an asylum is denied.

Portuguese and English are having dissensions over a railway at Delogoa Bay.

The

Bombay Gazette says that a

Brigadier General of the British army, stationed in Madras, has been attacked by leprosy. The name of the officer is not given.

The Shah of Persia arrived in the Thames Monday morning. The Prince of Wales and his sons received the Shah at Gravesend and accompanied him up the river to the Westminster Palace street pier. The Princess of Wales and her daughters received the Shah at Buckingham Palace.

A dispatch from Toronto says: Canadian millers have called amass meeting here to protest against the action of Parliament in refusing to protect them against American millers. The duty on flour is fifty cents a barrel, while the duty on the amount of wheat necessary to make a barrel of flour is about sixtyseven cents, a discrimination in favor ot the American millers of about seventeen cents a barrel.

One cause of Legitime's overthrow is said to have been his thieving officials. The Clyde steamer Ozama was captured by the Haytian gunboats and held three hours. A demand for her release was refused. Captain Kellogg, of the U. steamship Ossippee, then notified Legitime that if the vessel was not released and $5,900 paid over to the commander, he would bombard the city. The demand was promptly complied with.

Princess Louise, of Wales, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, has been betrothed to the Earl of Fife. The Earl is an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales, and is a neighbor ot the Queen at Balmoral. He is in his fortieth year. Princess Louise is twentyyears old. The Prince of Wale's daughters are visiting the Queen, at Windsor. Her majesty has tully consented to the betrothal. It is said to be strictly a love match.

Dtathof Simon Cameron.

Gen. Simon Cameron died at Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday.

Simon Cameron was born in 1799. He learned the printer's trade when 9 years of age, and in 1820 was editing a newspaper. He soon accumulated some capital and became interested in banking and railroad construction. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1845, acting with the Democrats. Later he became a Republican. In 1857 he was again elected to the Senate. He was greatly in favor of peace. He was strongly supported for the Presidency and Vice Presidency in 1860, Lincoln made him Secretary of War. He resigned in 1862 and was appointed Minister to Russia. He resigned that, position, also, the same year. In 1866 he was again elected to the Senate, and in 1873 for the fourth time. In 1873 he resigned in favor of his eon. During the years of his active public life he was a powerful political leader, prac tically dictating the poiicy of the Republican party in Pennsylvania, and wielding a strong influence over its policy in the Nation at large.

FRIENDSHIP.

HOW FRIENDS CAN BE MADE AND RETAINED.

to Not Accept Everything Said as Gospel Truth—The Friendship of God Through Christ the Best of all.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday subject, "How to make Friends Text Prov. xviii., 24. He said:

About the sacred and divine art of making and keeping friends I speak—a subject on which I never heard of any one preaching—and yet God thought it Ox enough importance to put it in the middle of the Bible, these writings of Solomon, bounded on one side by the popular Psalms of David, and on the other by the writings of Isaiah, the greatest of the prophets. It seems all a matter of haphazard how many friends we have, or whether we have any friends at all, but there is nothing accidental about it.

There is a law which governs the acr cretion and dispersion of friendships. They did not "just happen so" any more thau the tides just happen to rise or set. It is a science, an art, a God given regulation. Tell me how friendly you are to others and I will tell you how friendly others are to you. I do not say you will not nave enemies indeed, the best way to get ardent friends is to have ardent enemies, if you got their enmity in doing the right thing. Good men and women will always have enemies, because their goodness is a perpetual rebuke to evil but this antagonism of foes will make more intense the love of your adherents. Your friends will gather closer around you because of the attacks of your assailants. The more your enemies abuse you the more your coadjutors will think of you. The beBt friends we ever had appeared at some juncture when we were especially bombarded. There have been times in my life when unjust assault multiplied my friends, as near as I could calculate, about fifty a minute. You are bound to some people by many cords that neither time nor eternity can break,and I will warrant that many of those cords were twisted by hands malevolent. Human nature was ship-wrecked about fifty-nine centuries ago, the captain of that craft, one Adam, and his first mate, running the famous cargo aground on a Bnag in the River Hiddekel but there was"at least one good trait of human nature that waded safely ashore from that ship wreck, and that is the disposition to take the part of thoae unfairly dealt with. When it is thoroaghly demonstrated that some one is being persecuted, although at the start slanderous tongues were busy enough, defenders finally gather around a* thick as honey bees on a trellis of bruised honevsucale. If, when set upon by the furies, you can have grace enough to keep your mouth shut, and preserve your equipoise, and let others fight your battles, you will find yourself after awhile with a whole cordon of allies. Had not the world given to Christ on his arrival at Palestine a very cold Bhouldei there would not have been half as many angels chanting glory out of the hymn books of the sky bound in black lids of midnight. Had it not been for the heavy and jagged and torturous cross Christ would not have been the admired and loved of more people than any being who ever touched foot on the Eastern or Western hemisphere. Instead, therefore, of giving up in despair because you have enemies, rejoice in the fact that they rally for you the most helpful and enthusiastic admirers. In other words, there is no virulence, human or diabolic, that can hinder my text from coming true.

It is my ambition to project especially upon the young a thought which may benignly shape their destiny for the here and the hereafter. Before you show yourself friendly you must be friendly. 1 do not recommend a dramatized geniality. There is such a thing as pretending to be en rapport with others when we are their dire distruants, and talk against them and wish them calamity. Judas covered up hi* treachery by a resounding kiss, and caresses may be demoniacal. Better the mythological Cerberus, the three headed dog of hell, barking at us, than the wolf in sheep's clothing, its brindled hide covered up by deceptive wool, and its dreadful howl cadenced into an innocent bieatinf. D.sraeii writes of Lord Manfred, who, afier committing many outrages upon the people, seemed suddenly to become friendly, and invited them to a banquet. After most of the courses of fool had been B«rved he blew a horn, which was in times a signal for the servants to ix on the d°ssert, but in this case it the signal for assassins to enter and me guests. His pretended friendliwas a cruel fraud and there are tui iV people whose smile is a falsehood, ii-lore you begin to show yourself friendly you must be friendly. Get your heart right with God and man, and this grace will become easy. You may by your own resolution get your nature into a semblance of this virtue, but the grace of God can sublimely lift you into it. Sailing on the River Thames two vessels ran aground. The owners of one got 100 horses and pulled on the grounded ship and pulled it to pieces. The owners of the other waited till the tides came in and easily floated the ship out of all trouble. So we may pull and haul at our grounded human nature, and try to get into better condition but there is nothing like the oceanic tides af God's uplifting grace to hoist us into this kindliness I am eulogizing. If vhen under the flash of the Holy Ghost ve see our own foibles, and defects and iepravities, we will be very lenient and rery easy with others. We will look into their character

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latory and not damaging. If you would rub yonr own eye a little more vigorousyou would find a mote in it, the extraction of which would keep you so msy yon would not have much time to fihoulder

Your

broadax and go forth to

•plit up the beam in your neighbor's -ye. In a Christian spirit keep on exploring the characters of those you meet tnd I am sure you will find something in them delightful and fit for a founda- '. on of friendliness.

When we hear something bad about somebody whom we always supposed to h*good, take out your lead pencil and *ay. "Let me see! .before I accept inat baleful story agaisnt that man's aracter I will take off from it 25 pet nt for the habit of exaggeration which

belongs to the man who first told the story then I will take off 25 per cent, for the additions which the spirit of gossip in every community has put upon the original story then I will take off 25 per cent, from the fact that the man may have been put into circumstances of overpowering temptation. So I have taken off 75 per cent." Excuse me, sir, I don't believe a word of it.

But here comes in a defective maxim, so often quoted: "Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire." Look at all the smoke for years around Jenner, the introducer of vaccination and the smoke around Columbus, the discoverer and the smoke around Martin Luther, and Savonarola, and Galileo, and Paul, and John, and Christ, and tell me where was the fire? That is one of the satanic arts to make smoke without lire. Slander, like the world, may be made out of nothing. If the Christian, fair minded, common eensical spirit in regard to others predominated in the world we should have the millennium in about six weeks for would not that be lamb and lion, cow and leopard lying down together Nothing but the grace of God can ever put us into such a habit of mind and heart as that The whole tendency is in the opposite direction. This is the way the world talks: I put my name on the back of a man's note, and I had to pay it, and I will never again put my name on the back of any man's note. I gave a beggar ten cents, and five minutes after I saw him entering a liquor store to spend it. I will never again give a cent to a beggar. I helped tdat young man start in business, and lo, after awhile, he came and opened a store almost next door to me, and stole my customers. I will never again help a young man start in business. I trusted in what my neighbor promised to do, and ho broke his word, and the Psalmist was right betore he corrected himself, for "all men are liars." So men become suspicious and saturnine and selfish, and at every additional worng done them they put another layer on the want of their exclusiveness, and another bolt to the door that shuts them out from sympathy with the world. They get cheated out of $1,000, or misinterpreted, or disappointed, or betrayed, and higher goes the wall, and faster goes another bolt, not realizing that while they lock others out they they lock themselves in, and some day they wake up to find themselves imprisoned in a dastardly habit. No friends to others, others are no friends to them.

Now, supposing that you have, by a Divine regeneration, got right toward God and humanity, and you start out to practice my text. "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." Fulfill this by all forms of appropriate salutation. Have you noticed that the head is so poised that the easiest thing on earth is to give a nod of recognition lo swing the head, from side to side, and when it is wagged in derision, is unnatural and unpleasant to throw it back, invites vertigo but to drop the chin in greeting is accompanied with so little exertion that all day long and every day you might practice it without the least semblance of fatigue. So also, the structure of the hand indicates handshaking the knuckles not made so that the fingers can turn out, but so made that the fingers can turn in, as in clasping hands and the thumb didivided from and set alocf from the fingers, so that while the fingers take your neighbor's hand on one side, the thumb takes it on the other, and pressed together, all the faculties of the hand give emphasis to the salutation. Five sermons in every healthy hand urge us to handshaking.

Besides this, every day, when you start out, load yourself with kind thoughts, kind words, kind expressions and kind greetings. When a man or women does well, tell him so, tell her so. If you meet some one who is improved in health, and it is demonstrated in girth and color, say: "How well you look!" But if, on the other hand, under the wear and tear of life, he appears pale and exhausted, do not introduce sanitary subjects, or say any thing at all about physical conditions. In the case of improved health, you have by yonr words given another impulse toward the robust and the joennd while in the case of the failing health you have arrested the decline by your silence, by which he concludes: "If I were really so badly off he would have said something about it. We are all, especially those of a nervous temperament, susceptible to kind words and discouraging words. Form a conspiracy against us, and let ten meet us at certain points on our way over to business, and let each one say: "How sick you look!" though we sheuld start out well, after meeting the first and hearing his depressing salute, we would begin to examine our symptoms. After meeting the second gloomy accosting, we would conclude we dia not feel quite as well as usua1. After meeting the third, our sensations would be dreadful, and after meeting the fourth, unless we expected a conspiracy, we would go home and go to bed, and the other six pessimists would be a useless surplus of discouragement. My dear sir, my dear madame, what do you mean by going about this world with disheartenments? Is not the supply of gloom and trouble and misfortune enough to meet the deman without you running a factory of pins and spikes? Why should you plant black and blue in the world when God so seldom plants them? Plenty of scarlet colors, plenty of yellow, plenty of green, plenty of pink, but very seldom a plant black or bine. I never saw a black flower, and there's only here and there a blue bell or a violet but the blue is for the most part reserved for the sky, and we have to look up to sec that, and when we look up no color can dons harm. Why not plant along the paths of others the brightness instead of the gloom? Do not prophesy misfortune.

O, what a glorious state of things to have the friendship of God! Why, we could afford to nave all the world against us and all other worlds against us, if we had God for us. He could in a minute blot out this universe. I have no idea that God tried hard when he made all things. The most brilliant thing known to us is light, and for the creation of that He only used a word of command. As out of a flint a frontiersman strikes a spark, so out of one word God struck the noonday sun. For the making of the present universe I do not read that God lifted so mneh as a finger. The Bible frequently speaks of God's hand, and God's arm and God's shoulder, and God's foot then suppose he should put hand and arm and shouland foot to utmost tension, what coald he not make? That God, of such demonstrated and undemonstrated strength, you may have for yonr present and ev­

erlasting friend. But a stately and rel« nt friend, hard to get at, out as approachable as a country mansion on a summer day when all the doors and windows are wide open. Christ said: "I am the door." And He is a wide door, a high door, a palace door, an always open door. My four-year-old child got hurt, and did not cry until hours after, when her mother came home, and then she burst into weeping, and some of the domestics, not understanding human nature, said to her: "Why did you not cry before? She answered: "There waa eo one to cry to." Now I have so teli you that while human sympitny may be absent, divine sympathy is always ao cessible. Give God ycur love, aud get His love: your service, and secure help your repentance, and have Hh pardon. God a friend? Why, that means all your wounds medicated, all your sorrows soothed, and ff come sudden catastrophe should huri you out cf earth it would only hurl you into heaven. If God is your friend yeu can not go out of the world too quickly or suddenly, so far as your own happiness is concerned. How refreshing is human friendship, and true friends, what priceless treasures! When sickness comes and trouble comes and death comes, we send for our friends first of all, arid, and their appearance in our doorway in any crisis is reinforcement, and when they have entered, we say: "Now it is all right!" Oh, what would we do without friends, personal friends, business friends, family friends? But we want something mightier than human friendship the great exi^e s. But the grandest, the mightiest^ the tenderest friendship in all the universe is the friendship between Jesus Christ and a believing soul. Yet, after all I have said, I feel 1 have only done what James Marshall, the miner, did in 1848 in California, before Its gold mines were known. He reached in and put upon the table of his employer, Captain Sutton, a thimbleful of gold dust. "Where did you get that?" said his employer. The reply was: "I got it this morning from a mill race from which the water had been drawn off." But that gold dust, which could have been picked up between the finger and thumb, was the prophecy and specitn that revealed California's wealth to aa nations. And to-day I have only put before you a specimen of the value of divine friendship, only a thimbleful of mines inexhaustible and infinite,though all time and all eternity go on with th« exploration.

WASHINGTON MOTES. Ex -Senator Bruce and Fourth Auditor Lynch headed a colored delegation of Republicans, who waited on the President Wednesday and presented an address adopted at the Jackson, iss., conference on June 13 in regard to the political situation in the South, and expressing the utmost confidence in the President's policy toward the colored people in that region. The President thanked them foi their confidence, and said they could rest assured that he would do the best he could toward all classes. He commended the conservative stand taken by them, and said they would have hie assistance in every endeavor to improve their political status.

Chief Justice Fuller, of the Supreme Court, has leased the old Leland castle at New RochelJe, N. Y., for the summer. Mr. Fuller and his family are expected there next week. It is said that ex-President Cleveland will be Mr. Fuller's guest during ttie month of July.

Frederick Douglas was Friday appointed Minister Resident and Consul General to Hayti Daniel M. Ransdell,of Indianapolis,to be U. S. Marshal for the District of Columbia, and Capt. W. M. Meredith, of Chicago, to be Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

The President has issued an order prohibiting the sale of liquor on the camp grounds of the District National Guards, at their coming encampment. This action is the result of a protest from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

In the specifications for printing new postage stamps just issued by the Post-master-General, the color of the twocent stamps is to be meta 'lie red or carmine

Reciprocity in Lumber.

The N. Y. Sun's Ottawa special says: The correspondent of the Sun learns, on no less authority than the Prime

Minister, Sir John Macdonald, that an impoitant proposition has been made by the Dominion Government to the United States authorities through the medium of the British Government. It is said the Governments of the United States and Canada should consider the propriety of removing the import and export duties on lumber of all kinds, or, in other words, that the Canadian Government will abolish the important export duties on lumber, providing the Washington authorities will lecip rocate.

As an earnest of good faith the Dominion authorities have meanwhile ieduced the export duty on pine logs from $3 to $2 per ttiousand feet, board measure, the figure at which it stood in November last, previous to the representations of the Canadian lumbermen asking for the increase. This new order takes effect July

The Cronin Caso.

The Chicago grand jury has indicted seven persons for the murder, or participation in the murder of Dr. Cronin. Daniel Sullivan is not among the number, and he is, therefore, a free man again. Juhn Kunze, who is among those indicted, is considered an important capture, whose testimony before the grand jury, Saturday, hastened the indictment ana final report It is understood that Kunze has told the police all he knows about the affair and confessed that he drove Detective Coughlin to the Carlson cottage on the night of May 4, the horse and wagon used being the property of P. O. Sullivan. the indicted ice man. What further information the authorities obtained from Kunze is not yet ftnown.

Whisky for Kansas people.

A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kas., says: Some days ago tbe City Marshal seized fortv-three packages from the American Express Company that contained beer and whifky addressed to piivate residences in the city. The stuff was taken from the txprtes company's office before an attempt has been made to deliver it, and Thursday notice was given that all four express companies dob business in the city would bring suit for $50,000 each againet the City M«r«l*al and Police Commissioners for goods that had been confiscated at variuub timet by them.

A GREAT MONSTROSITY.

The Birth of a Double Child Creates Sensation at Kempton, Tipton County, Ind.

A strange and wonderful human birth occurred last week near Kempton, Tipton county, Ind. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Jones, young people, probably not over 28 and 24 years of age. A reporter who visited the Jones house, says: The monstrosity, for such it is, and a wonderful one, too, consists of a single, continuous body, on each end of which is a well formed head. It is provided with four arms and foui legs, which are also well formed and about the normal size and shape. The arms are located at the proper place and on natural shoulders, one pair at each end of the long body, but the lower limbs protrude outward lrom each side at the middle of the elongated being. The two heads face the same way, and the legs are so attached as to extend at right angles from the middle of the sides of the body. There is only one umbilicus* that being on the anterior surface and middle of the body,showing that the entire form has been nourished through one and the same cord during the entire period of emoryonic life. The sex of this curiously constructed being is female with one Bet of organs on each side, and the general appearance of the entire body is that of two children so intimately joined together at their pelvs that the line of junction is almost invisible, yet some things about it exists which go to prove that it has been thus joined from the, time of conception, and not the result/ of the growing together of two seperate foetuses. There is a duplicity in so far as there are two heads, two pair of limbs, two sets of genital organs, and that the voluntary movements of the two portions are not in conformity. On the other hand there was but one umbilical cord, and the junction of the two halves presents no line of oiigin&l seperation, to prove that the being has been joined together from the start. One half of the creature may be sleeping while the other is awake, and at ruch times it is noticed that one leg on each side conforms to the other voluntary movements of the end of the body nearest to them, or in other words the *wo legs on the same side of the body u*e not controlled by one-half. The entire length of the body from head to head is about two foot, and the weight of the creature is twelve pounds, figures which show ample size and weight for two healthy children. Up to the present writing the babe or babes, is or are enjoying good health, and the mother, a small sized man, is doing very well. In case this wonderful curiosity holds on to life it is not known whether or not it will be placed on exhibition. Although the parents are poor in worldly goods they are not in the notion of any dime-museum arrangement, but should this offspring live it would undoubtedly bring them a fortune by being exhibited, and at the some time Rive people generally an opportunity to see fche greatest freak of nature ever born. The reporter found the house crowded with curiosity seekers, no less than one hundred persons having visited the great center of attraction during tbe day. The babe or babes lay calmly andpeacefully on the bed in a room adjoining the mother,and to all outward appearances were enjoying life as well as anybody. It is now settled that the double child, or the Joaes girls, as it is called, has just as pood a chance to live apparently as any baby that ever was *irn. Dr. J. C.

Throne, says that it is he rrost wonderful freak in the way of a living malformation that has ever been recorded." T:e doctor says further: "The freaky represents a twin birth, each child hav-| ing entirely separate and independent*4 organism, and each representing a marked deformity, besides tba deformity that excites the wonder and pity of everyone that sees it— that of being inseparably joined together. The defon* jjty consists of a deflection of the lo we,# part of the spine *nd body, each toward tbe left, the deflation being sufficient to bring the line of the pelvis and lower extremities to a right angle with the body, so that the legs belonging to each child resj ectively are the two to the left side as the body. That this condition is the true one is proven by the position of the outlets ot the alimentary cana1 the bladder, and generative organs. lese outlets are always through the pe.vis. an I that they are* at th sides of the bony in proper relation to the limbs is sufficient to prove that, this is the line of the pelvis, and that the spine is not continuous from one,head to the other. Observing tbe motions of one child, it was seen in a fit of refrtleesnes-s to throw its arm and kick with the feet only of one side, thi other child being a«leep at the time and perfectly quiet. The sole3 of the feet are directed outward, or away from the body, as are also the flexures of the knee joint and the patella, or knes cap, is on the side of the knee toward the body."

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