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DEATH OF A WITTY MAN.

The Hon. Sunset (S. S.) Cox, the Congressman, Called to Ilia Long Home.

The Hon. Samuel Sullivan (Sunset) Cox died at his home in New York, Tuesday. He was attended in his last moment by his wife, physician, nurses, two servants and two close personal friends. He breathed his last as peaeefnJlv as if falling into a light sleep. Mr. Cox's last convei'sation was about the four Territories, who9e statehood he wished to father. He mentioned New Mexico and Arizona, and said something about making a great effort in their behalf at the coming session. Two hours before he died his colored servant, who had just come on from Washington, went to the bed, and Mrs. Cox asked her husband if he recognized him. He looked at him and patted him on the shoulder. The colored man's eyes tilled with tears, while all were deeply affected. In the afternoon, while Dr. Lock wood was talking to him, Mr. Cox made some witty remark which completely upset the Doctor's dignity.

Mr. Cox wa~ born at Zuinesville, Ohio, September HO, '.824. He graduated from Brown University ."a 1840. He studied law, and entered into its practice but did not like it. He made a tour abroad and told the story in "A Buckeye Abroad." I1118r3 he became editor of the Ohio Statesman at Columbus. In 1855 he was appointed Secretary of Legation to Peru, and on his return was elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, and was returned to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thir-ty-eighth Congresses. In 1864 he was defeated by the Republican candidate and removed to New York. He here wrote his "Eight Years in Congress." He traveled for some time. In 1808 he was elected to Congress from a New York City district, and succeeded himself the term following. In 1872 he was defeated, but was soon after called to fill a seat made vacant by death. He was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress. He was appointed Speaker pro tempore June 7,1870, and appointed Speaker June 19,1876, serving until June 24. He was elected to the Forty-flfth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth and Fortyninth Congresses, and resigned to become Minister to Turkey. This position he also resigned and again took his seat in the Forty-ninth Congress, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Pulitzer. He wris re-elected to the Fiftieth Congress, and again to the Fifty-first-. He was a favorite both among Republicans and Democrats. His sobriquet of "Sun»et" was won by a piece of descriptire writing which appeared in the Ohio Statesman in 1853, and was entitled a "Great Old Sunset." His death wili be universally mourned.

TALMACE AT HOME.

The Brooklyn Divine Holds Forth in the Tabernacle.

He Disco-arses to an Overflowing Congre­

gation on "The Sunrise."

The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.. was •eloomed home by an overflowing congregation. At the opening of the service the fiynm beginning,

Wcioome. sweet day of rest. That saw the L"rd arise.

was sung with fine effect. Dr. Talmage" subject was: "The Sunrise," and his text: "The day is at hand." Romans xiii, 12. He said:

Back from tho mountains and the seaside, and the springs, and the farin-house, your cheek bronzed and your spirits lighted, I hail you home again with the words of Gehazi to the Sbunammite: "Is It well with thee? is it well with thy husband* is it well with the child*" On some aces I see the mark of recent grief, but all along the track of tears I see the story of resurrection and reunion when all tears are done the deep plowing of the keel, followed by the flash of the pliosphoresence.

Now that I have asked vou in regard to voi:r welfare, you naturally ask how 1 am. Very well, thanKyou. Whether it was the bracing air of the Colorado mountains twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea, or tlie tonic atmosphere of the Pacific coast, or a bath in the surf of Long Island beach, or whether it is the joy of standing in this great group of warm hearted friends, or whether it is a new appreciation of the sroodncss of God, I cannot tell. 1 simply know I am grandly and gloriously and inexpressibly happy. It is said that John Moffatt, the great Methodist preacher, occasionally got fast in his sermon, and to extricate himself would cry "Hallelujah!" I am 111 no such predicament to-day, but I am full of the same rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out this morning on a new ecclesiastical year, I want to give you the key note of my next twelve months' ministry. 1 want to set it to the tune of Antioch, Ariel and Coronation. Some time ago we had a new stop put in this organ—a new trumpet stop—and 1 want to-put a new trumpet stop into my sermons.

I11 all our Christian work you and I want more of the element of gladness. That man has no right tcr say that Christ never laughed. Doyou suppose that he was glum at \ihe wedding iii Cana of Galilee* Do you suppose Christ was unresponsive when the children clambered over his knee and shoulder at his own invitation' Do you suppose that the evangelist meant, nothing when he said of Christ: "He rejoiced in spirit?" Do you believe that the divine Christ who pours all the water over the rocks at Vernal falls, Yosemite, does not believe in the sparkle and gallop and tumultuous joy and rushing raptures of human life? "l believe not only that the morning laughs, and that the mountains laugli, and that the seas laugh, and that the cascades laugh, but that Christ laughed. Moreover, take a laugh and a tear into an alembic, and assay them, and test them, and analyze them, and you will often find as much of the pure gold of religion in a laugh as in a tear. Deep spiritual joy always shows itself in facial illumination. .John W esley said he was sure of a good religious impression being produced' because of what he calls the great laughter he saw among the people. Godless merriment is blasphemy anywhere, but exprcssion of Christian joy is appropriate everywhere.

Moreover, the outlook of the world ought to stir us to gladness. Astronomers recently disturbed many people by telling them that there is danger of stellar collision. We have been told through the papers by these astronomers that there are worlds coming very near together, and that we shall have plagues and wars and tumults and perhaps the world's destruction. Do not be scared. If .vou have ever stood at a railroad center, where ten or twenty or thirty rail tracks cross each other, and seen that by the movement of the switch one or two inches the train shoots this way and that, without colliding, then you may understand how fiftv worlds may come within an inch of disaster, and that inch be as good as a million mile-. If a human swifchtender can shoot the trains this way aud that without harm, oannot the Hand that lor thousands of years has upheld the universe keep our little world out of harm's way Christian geologists tell us that this world was million of years in building. Well, now, 1 do not think God would lake millions of years to build a house which was to last only six thousand years. There is nothing in the world or outside the world, terrestial or astronomical, to excite dismay. 1 wish that some stout Gospel breeze might scatter all the malaria of human foreboding. The sun rose this morning at about half past 5, and I think that is just about the hour in the world's history. "The day is at hand."

The first rs-y of dawn I see in the gradual substitution ?f diplomatic skill for human butchery. Within the last twenty-five years there have been international differences which would have brought a shock of arms in any other day, but which were peacefully adjusted, the pen taking the place of the sword.

That Alabama question in an.y other age of the world would have caused war between the United States and England, How was it settled By men of war off the Narrows, or off the Mersey? By the Gulf: Stream of the ocean crossed by a gulf stream of human blood? By the pathway of n.-tions incarnadined? No. A few wise men go into a quiet room at Geneva, talk trie matter over, and telegraph to Washington and to London "All settled."' Peace. Peace. England pays to the United States the amount awarded-pays really more than she ought to have id. But still, all that Alabama broil is settled—settled forever. Arbitration instead of battle.

So, tlie quarivl eight or nine years ago about the Canadian fisheries in any other age wo Id have caused war between Ihe United States and L'.n-jland. England said:

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"Pay me for the invasion of my Canadian fisheries." The Uniicd States said: "1 will not pay anything. V. ell, tlie two nations say: "I guess we had etier leave the whole matter to a commission The commission is appointed, and the commission I examines the affair, and the commission

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reports, and pay we ought, pay we must, pay we do. Not a pound of powder burned, not a cartridge bitten off, no one hurt so much as by Ihe scratch of a pin. Arbitraton instead of battle.

So the Samoan controversy in any other ago would have brought Germany and tho United States into bloody collision. But all is settled. Arbitration instead of battle.

Frame will never again, I think, through peccadilio of ambassador, bring on a battle with other nations. She sees that God, in punishment of Sedan, blotted out the French empire, and tho only aspirant for that, throne who had any right of expetation dies in a war that has not even the dignity of being respectable. What is that blush on the cheek of England today? What is the leaf that England would like to tear out of her history The Zulu war. Down with the sword and up with the treaty.

V1 0 in this country might better havo settled our sectional difficulties by arbitration than by tho thrust of the sword. Ptiilanhropy said to the north: "Pay down a certain amount of money for the purchase of tho slaves, and let all those born after a certain time be born free." Philanthropy at the ime time said to the south: "You sell the slaves, and get rid of this great national contest and trouble." The north 1 replied: "I won't pay a cent." The south replied: "I won't soli." War! War! A million dead men, and anationaldebt, which might have ground this nation to powder,

Why did we not let William H. Seward, of Now York, and Aloxander H. Stephens, Georgia, go out and spend a few days under the tree on the banks of the Potomac and talk the matter over, and settle it, as settle it they could, rather than the north ppy in cost of war, four billion seven hundred million dollars, and tho south pay four billion seven hundred and fifty million dollars, the destroying angel leaving the

first born dead in so many houses all the way from the Penobscot to the Alabama. Ye aged men, whose sons fell in the strife, do you not think that would have beeu better? Oh yes! we have come to believe, 11 hink, in this country, that arbitration is better than buttle.

I may be mistaken, but I hope that the last war between Christian nations is ended. Barbarians may mix their war paint, and Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but I think Christian nations have gradually learned that war is disaster to victor as well as vanquished, and that almost anything bought by blood is bought at too dear a price. I wish to God this nation might bo a model of willingness for arbitration. No need of killing another-Indian. No need of sacrificing any more brave Gen. Custers. Stop exasperating the red man, and there will be no more arrows shot out from the reservation. A general of the United States army, in high repute throughout this land, and who, perhaps, has been in more Indian wars than any other oilicer, and who has been wounded again and again in behalf of our government in battle against the Indians, told me that all the wars that had ever occurred between Indians and white men "had been provoked by white men, and that there was no exception to the rule. While we are arbitrating with Christian nations, let us toward barbarians carry ourselves in a manner unprovocative of contest.

I inherit a large estate, and the waters are rich witn fish, and the woods are songful with birds, and my cornfields ars silken and golden. Here is my sister's grave. Out, yonder, under the large tree, my father died. An invader comes, and proposes to drive me oft' and take possession of my property. He crowds me back, he crowds me on, and crowds me into a closer corner, until after a while I say: "Staud back, don't crowd me any more, or I'll strike. What right havo you to come here and drive me off of my premises' I got this farm from my father, and he got it from his father. Y\ hat right, have you to come here and molest me?" You blandly say: "Oh, know more than you do. I belong to a higher civilization. I cut my hair shorter than you do. I could put this ground to a great deal better use than you do." And you Keep crowding me back and crowding me on into a closer corner and closer corner, until one day I look around upon my suffering family, and fired by their hardships I hew you in twain. Forthwith all the worid comes to your funeral to pronounce eulogium, comes to my execution to anathematize me. You are the hero, I am the culprit. Behold the United States government and the North American Indian. The red man has stood more wrongs than I would, or you. We would have struck sooner, deeper. That which is right in defense of a Brooklyn home or aNew York home is right in defense of a home on top of the Rocky mountains. Before this dwindling red race dies completely out, I wish that this generation might by common justice atone for tiie inhumanity of its predecessors. In the day of God's judgement, I would rather there be a biood smeared Modoc than a swindling United States officer on an Indian reservation One man was a barbarian and a savage, and never pretended to be anything but a barbarian and a savage. The other man pretended to be a representative of a Christian nation. Notwithstanding all this, the general disgust was and the substitution of diplomatic skill for the glittering edge of keen steel is a sign unmistakable that "the day is at hand."

I find another ray of the dawn in the compression of the world's distances, hat a slow, snail like, almost impossible thing would have been tho world's rectification with fourteen hundred millions of population and no facile means of communication but now, through telegraphy for the eye and telephonic intimacy for the ear, and through steamboating and railroaain.% the twenty-live thousand miles of the world's circumference are shriveling up into insignificant brevity. Hong Kong is nearer to New York than a few years ago New Haven was Bombay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne within speaking distance. Purchase a telegraphic chart, and by the blue lines see the telegraphs of the land, and by the red lines the cables under the ocean. You see what opportunity this is going to give for the final movements of Christianity. A fortress may be months or years in building, but after it is constructed it may do all its work in twenty minutes. Christianity has been planting its batteries for nineteen centuries. and may go on in the work through other centuries but when tho-.c batteries are thorough planted, those fortresses are fully DuLt, they may all do their work in twenty-four hours. The world sometimes derides the church for slowness of movement. Is science any quicker? Did it not take science five thousand six hundred and fifty two years to find out so simple a thing as the circulation of the human blood? With the earth and the sky full of electricity. science took five thousand eight hundred years before it even guessed that there wai any practical use that might be made of this subtle and mighty element. When good men take possession of all these scientific forces, and all these agencies of invention, 1 do not know that the redemption of the world will be more than the work of half a day. Do we not read ihe queen's speech at the proroguing of parliament the day before in London? If that be so, is it anything marvelous to believe that in twenty-four hours a divine communication can reach the whole rth? Suppose Christ should descend 011 the nations—many expect that Christ will come among the nations personally—suppose that, to-morrow morning the Son of God from a hovering cloud should descend upon these cities. Would not that fact be known all the world over in twenty-four hours? Suppose he should present his Gospel in a lew words saying: "I am the Son of God I came to pardon all your sins audio heal all your sorrow to prove that I am a supernatural being 1 have just descended from the clouds do you believe me. and do you believe me now?" h.v, a 1 the telegraph stations of the ear li would be crowded as none of them were ever crowded just after a shipwreck. 1 tell you all these things to show you it is not among the impossibilities or even the improbabilities that Christ will conquer the whole earth, and do it instanter when the time comes. Thtre are foretokening* in the air. i-'ome-tlrng great is going to happen. I do not think that Jupiter is going to run us down or that the axle of the world is going to break: but 1 mean something great lor the world's blessing and not for the worlds dam ago is going to happen I think the world has had it hard enough. Enough, the London plagues. Enough, tho Asifitic cholera. Enough, the wars. Enough, the shipwrecks. Enough, the conflagrations. 1 think our world could stand right, well a procession of prosperities and triumphs. Bettor be on the lookout. Better have your observatories open toward the heavens, and the lenses of your most powerful telescopes well polished. Better have all your Leydcn jai-3 ready for some new pulsation of mighty influence. Better have new fonts of type in your printing offices to set up some astounding good news. Better have some new banner that has never been carried, ready for sudden processions. Better have the bells in your church towers well hung, and rope within rcaci. tint you may ring out the marriage of the King's Son. Cleanse all your court houses, for the Judge of all the oarth may appe-.ir. Let all your legislative halls be gilded, for the great Lawgiver may be about x,o come. Drive off the thrones of depotism all the occupants, for the King of heaven and earth may be about toroign. The darkness of the night is blooming and whitening into the lilies of morning cloud, and the lilies reddening into the roses or stronger day—lit garlands, whether white or red, for him on whose head are many crowns. "The day is at hand!"

One more ray of the dawn I see in facts chronological and mathematical. Come now, do not let us do another stroke of work until we havo settled 0!*e matter. What is going to be the final issue of this great contest between sin and righteousness? Which is go ng to prove himself tho stronger. God or Diabolus? Jsthis world going to be all garden or all desert? Now let us have that matter settled. If we believe Isaiah and Ezekiol afid Hosea, and Micah and Malachi, and John and Peter, and Paul and Christ, we believe that it is going t,o be nil garden. But let us havo it settled. Let us know whether we are

working on toward a dead failure. If there is a child in your house sick, and you are sure he is going to get well, you sympathize with present pains, but all the foreboding is gone. If you are in a cyclone off the Florida coast, and the captain assures you the vessel is staunch and the winds are changing for a better quarter, and he is sure he will bring you safe into the harbor, you patiently submit to present distress with the thought of safe arrival. Now I want to know whether we are coming on toward dismay, darkness and defeat, or 011 toward light and blessedness. You and I believe tlie latter, and if so. every year we spend is one year subtracted from the world's woe, and every event that passes, whether bright or dark, brings us one event nearer a happy consummation, and by all that is inexorable in chronology and mathematics I commend you to good cheer and courage. If there is anything in arithmetic, if you subtract two from five and leave three, then by every rolling sun we are coming on toward a magnificent terminus. Then every winter passed is one severity less for our poor world. Then every summer passed by brings us nearer unfading arborescence. Put your algebra down 011 the top of your bible'and rejoice.

If it is nearer morning at .'i o'clock thar. it is at X, if it is nearer morning at 4 o'clock than it is at :•}, then we are nearer the dawn of the world's deliverance. God's clock seems to go very slowly, but the pendulum swings and the hands move, and it will yet strike noon. The sun and the moon stood still once they will never stand still again until they stop forever. If you believe arithmetic as well as your Bible, you must believo we are nearer the dawn. "The day is at hand."

There is a class of phenomena which makes me think that the spiritual and the heavenly world may, after a while, make a demonstration in this world which will bring all moral and spiritual things to a climax. Now, I am 110 spiritualist: but every intelligent man has noticed that there are strange and mysterious things which indicate to him that perhaps the spiritual world is not so far off as sometimes we conjecture, and that after a while, from the spiritual and heavenly world there may be a demonstration upon our world for its betterment- v\ call it magnetism, or we cail it mesmerism, or we call it electricity, because we want some term to cover up our ignorance. I do not know what that is. I never heard an audible voice from the other worid. I am persuaded of this, however: that the veil-be-tween this and the next is getting thinner and thiner, and that perhaps after a while, at the call of God—not at the call of the Davenport brothers, 01* Andrew Jackson Davis—some of the old scriptual warriors, some of the spirits of other days mighty for God—a Joshua, or a Caleb, or a David, or a Paul—may come down and help us in this battle against uprighteousness. Oh, how 1 would like to have them here—him of the Ked Sea, him of the valley of Ajalon, him of Mars Hill. History says that Robert Clayton, of the English cavalry, at the close of a war bought up all the old cavalry horses lest they be turned out to drudgery and hard work, and bought a piece of ground at Naversmire heath and turned these old war horses into the thickest and richest pasture to spend the rest of their days for what they had done in other days. One day a thunder storm came up, and these war horses mistook the thunder of the skies for the thunder of battle, and they wheeled into line —no riders ou their backs—they wheeled into line ready for the fray. And I doubt me whether, when the last thunder of this battle for God and truth goes booming through the heavens, the old scriptural warriors can keep their places on their thrones. Methinks they will spring into the fight and exchange crown for helmet, and palm branches for weapon, and come down out of the king's galleries into the arena, crying: "Make room! I must fight in this great Armageddon."

My beloved people, 1 preach this sermon because I want you to toil with the sunlight in your faces. 1 want you old men to understand before you die that all the work you did for God while yet your ear was alert and your foot fleet is going to be counted up in tiie final victories. I want all these younger people to understand that when they toil for God they always win the day that all prayers are answered and all Christian work is in some way effectual, and that a 1 heaven is on our side—saintly, cherubic, seraphic, archauglie, omnipotent, chariot and throne, doxology and procession, principalities and dominion, he who hath the moon under his feet, and ali the armies of heaven on white horses.

Brother! brother! all I am afraid of is, not tnat Christ will lose the battle, but that you and I will not get into it quick enough to do something worthy of our blood bought immortality. Oh, Christ! how shall I meet thee, thou of the scarred brow and the scarred back and the scarred hand and the scarred foot and the scarred breast, if I have no scars or wounds gotten in thy service? It shall not be so. I step out to day in front of tho battle. Come on, you foes of God, I dare you to theomoat,. Come ou, with pens dipped in malignancy. Come on, with tongues forked and v.perine and adderous. Come on, with types soaked in the scum of the eternal pit. I defy you I Come on! I bare my brow, I uncover my heart. Strike! I cannot see my Lord until I have been hurt for Christ. If we do nut suffer with him on earth we cannot glorify with him in heaven. Take good heart. On! On! On! Sec! the skies have brightened! See! the hour is about to come! Pick out all the cheeriest of the anthems. Let the orchestra string their best instruments. "The night is far spent, the day is at hand."

A Xegro Curiosity.

In Albert county, near Craft's Ferry,

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the Sa vannah river, lives a ne­

gro who goes by the name of "Sheep Jess," who is a curiosity. His hair and whiskers are perfectly white and almost cover his head and face, leaving- only small patches of dark skin around his eyes and nose, and a perfact imitation of sheep's wool. His hair or wool grows rapidly and his wife shears him every two weeks, •thereby realizing enough wool to supply Jess, his wife, and five children with stockings the year round,and sells enough socks to supply them with sugar and coffee. His wife has nearly enough of the finest part of the wool saved to make cloth for a suit of clothes for Jess next winter. He is about 35 years old.

A Docile Gorilla.

An English trader at Ngove, ou the southwest coast of Africa, has had for some time a young female gorilla whose docility is described as remarkable. Jennie, as the baby gorilla has been named, sleeps with her master and tries to follow him whenever he goes, weeping like child if left behind. She recently accompanied him 011 a journey of twenty miles or more, walking all the way. She has acquired many civilizcd tastes and habits and will drink tea, etc., out of a cup or glass, displaying the utmost carefulness not to break the vessel.

large Salaries.

London's new democratic govern men Isn't given to overmuch economy. The chairman of the new council has been voted a $12,000 salary, the deputy chairman $10,000, and none of the department heads receives less than $10,000 a year.

Johnny (watching his big brother dig ancle worms for bait)—"I say. Bob, if a worm will catch a little fish, wouldn't a snake catch a whopper}"—Grip.

CONDENSEDSTATENEWS.

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Elwood has five gas wells. ^effersonville wants a ball club. The Seymour water works have beei. given a satisfactory tost.

A camp of Democratic ex-soldiers has beon organized at Hammond. JohnBowman, the oldest Mason in Ciavl county, dropped dead of heart disease Wednesday.

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Two White Cap whippings are reported from Harrison county (men) and o::i (woman) from Crawford county.

Elkhart has a tliirteen-acre park, i- represented to the city hv the Studchakei Bros., and named in their honor.

Manitou Lake, at Rochester. t- V:

made an attractive summer resort. A and fine hotel are to be provided. Gen. Ben Butler lias presout"d U.e soldiers' homo at Marion with a inajT. cent fiag 2-lx I-feet, made at his in ills,

Henrj C. Puterbaugh. a wealthy farmer. 1 of Cass county,was found do.vl i'i his !:e!d. Thursday. Cause of death is unknowu.

A quantity of spurious coin with dies fot making the same were found, Tuesday, ii. tue residence of D. D. Kiieinhardt. i,e:c Ft. Wayne.

Louis Graff, daughter of Poier Graff.neur Evausville, committed suicide by jumping into an old well an her father's farm. .Sinwas aged sixteen.

Orson Dodge, of Wawaka. and John Bowman, of Miilersburg, riding011 a Lake Shore train near Brimfield, were struck by a bridge and both killed.

During the months of June, July .d August Steuben county psiid nearly £-20'.) premium for woodchuck seal ps. Totai number of scalps presented,

A girl child, weighing but eighteen ounces, was horn to the fanuly of Oito Ogden, at Jeffersonville, Tlmr-jdav. Jt is perfectly dcveloi»ed, bright and healthy. .Jesse H. Carpenter, of Angola, has written a history of the soldiers of Steuben county, the entire proceeds from tiie sale of which will be donated toward bunding a soldiers' monument, at Angola.

The mail route from raw fords yi He to ODiel will be discontinued. The sale of stamps at Oftiel amounted to io last year, the postmaster was paid j.SO salary and the carrier received ^HK) ioni the Gove''it meiit.

The Washington County Board of Mduca tion lias passed resolutions not only indorsing the Indiana series of school books, but also forbidding teachers to hear recitations in I 3oks thereafter purchased which may conflict with these series.

Laporte's prospect of securing natural gas has gone glimmering, and the well has been abandoned at a depth of over 2,800 feet. A lack of funds to carry forward the work is the cause, nearly Si0,000 having been already expended in the search.

A young man itemed Bert Kiser,at North Webster, was riding utwo-wlieeledvspring-tooth harrow when an obstruction was met and he was jerked forward, his body falling between the frame work and wheel. The unfortunate man's neck was broken, and his body was wrapped around the axlo when found.

A second crop of strawberries is being gathered on the hills surrounding New Albany, something which is unprecedented in the history of small fruits in that county. The rains of a few weeks ago caused the plants to again flower, and while the berries are of large size, they lack the flavor of the first crop.

While James Zoller, of Greensburg, was crossing the English Channel several months ago he tossed overboard a bottle in which was a note requesting the finder to return the same to himself at Greensburg, Ind., U. S. A. A Frenchman living off the coast of Holland found the bottle and complied with the request.

Indiana Patents—George H. Asire, South Bend, steam boiler HomerW. Case, South Bend, body for drays Will H. Donner, Coumbus, signal for mills Windfield O. Gunckel, Terre Haute, revolving coal screen Bearard K. Koopman, Terre Haute, last Francis T. Lamont, Ft. Wayne, road Bcraper Wm. H. Oberne, Fort Wayne, mast arm.

The "Amish sect" is the name by which a small band of religionists in Daviess county are known. The male members are not permitted to wear suspenders or buttons on their clothes the same must be fastened with hooks and eyes, and they have other equally as eccentric customs. Neither are they permitted to own a folding top buggy.

Some months ago Miss Grace Moore, daughter of W. H. Moore, of Youngstown, O., and H. P. Nichols, of Richmond, eloped, but were overhauled at Fort Wayne by the father of the girl, and she returned to her home. This week the parties again eloped, but were captured at Winchester before a magistrate could be found to marry them. Mr. Moore claims that the wouldbe groom is already a married man.

A man named Barnhart, claiming to be a spirit medium, and directly influenced by St. Paul, has located near Hartford City, and he has gathered about him considerable following. He claims that St. Paul has revealed to him that an Indian chief buried gold nuggets near that place, but the exact place where the buried treasure lies is withheld. Barnhart's deluded followers, however, are nigging up the land in every direction with tho hope of finding it.

A sensation was created at Marion, by the marriage of Miss Anna B. Sweetzer to Field W. Siwezey, a young attorney, the marriage being in the nature of an elopement. The bride is nineteen years old, handsome and accomplished, and is th® daughter of D. B. Sweetzer, a banker, one of the wealthiest men in tho county. Mr. Sweetzer was bitterly opposed to the alliance and had forbidden the young man to enter his house. This order, however, failed to sever the attachment, and the young folks went to the Methodist parsonage and were married by the Rev. Mr. Swadener just in time to catch the PanHandle train to Chicago.

Spencer Hollingsworth, the defaulting Treasurer of Knox county, who was sentenced to the Prison South, was released Friday, his time having expired. He was short $86,000 And with the discovery fled to Can?da, but afterward returned and made good the amount, and w»8 then convicted and, sentenced for three years. He now claims a technical­

ity in his favor by which he expects to compel Knox county to return some of the money which he paid over.

Dr. Josephs. Rogers, Superintendent the northern hospital for the insane at Logan sport is linding his position a tr\in?.

one at this time. He has a hospital crowd ed with unfortunates, and 110 money tor •maintenance. Wednesday morning Jh..

Rogers had a long conference w-ih Gi.vernor lioveyover the condition ol alTaii-.' but it ended without any definite plan o:" relief being agreed upon. There are now .TA) patients in the hospital,all the buildingy will accommodate. Speaking of the capacity of tho building Dr. Rogern said it was not. near sufficient for the northern district-.

Hon. Lee l-\ Wilson, of Shelbyville. whelms been placed under bonds for alleged violation of the pension laws, in connection with what, is known as the J.' ox pens'.uti ease, is preparing for a vigorous defense. As shown by his side of the er.se, -Mrs. Ft originally married Daniel Fox. and Ibretj children were the result of the union. Foxwas a soldier, and a. pension was granted

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to her for that reason. In then ay widow, she married Snyder, b.v wniehyi time she had accumulated a little property." One yea" later Vie abandoned her, having obtained all her money. There were no children by this union. Upon a showinir of the fact.-, in the case the Circuit Courw. declared ihe Snyder marriage void al) in-f5 itio, and a copy of the record and the fact* in the case were submitted in the petition for a restoration of the pension, which was granted nearly two years ago.

A few days ago Thomas Myers, a blacksmith of Ft. Wayne, found some lettersaddressed to. his wife, the contents of: which were of such a nature as to convince him of her unfaithfulness. She con fesseu that the letters were written by Dr.: T. T. Linn, one of the most prominent, physicians there, claiming that he, as her physician, had taken advantage of her. A scheme most inhuman was concocted by Myers and his brother-in-law. William Jenkins, who readily secured the aid of the faithless wife. Myers left town Friday, and a note was sent to the doctor by Mrs. Myers, requesting him to call in the L'vening. He responded, and while entering the gate she threw a two-ounce vial of vitrol in his face. Jenkins, who was in hiding, jumped 011 the doctor and gave him' 111 unmerciful pounding. Linn's condition is very serious, and he will lose his eyesight entirely.

STATE CAPITAL NEWS.

At the last sitting of the Grand Jury,'" Harry S. New, of the Indianapolis Journal leclined to answer certain questions projounded to him by the State's Attorney, md a complaint in contempt was filed igainsthim. The complaint charged that Sir. New refused to give the name of the lerson or persons from whom was obtain3d information published in the Journal regarding alleged gambling at the Insane Hospital, and for this he was cited to appear before the court to answer to the jharge of contempt. The court, on passing )n the charge, said: "The Grand Jury 'ives 110 rersons why Mr. New refuses to inswer the questions asked him, and there is nothing brought to the knowledge of iliis court save what is set out in this paper md the court is referred to the article published in the Indianapolis Journal on :he date mentioned. I have read the article is printed, and in my opinion, it is very loubtful if there is any charge in the irticle that any one connected with the isylum has committed a crime. If no crime is charged to have been committed, the question is dearly an impertinent one, and bhe witness need not answer it. The Brand Jury has as much right to ask who furnished the information on which any jther article was printed. I have not thought it necessary to go into the question as to the alleged privileged character of any communication made to the editor or reporter of a newspaper. It is not necessary to decide that question, as it is not involved in this case. This decision will be of interest to newspaper men all over the country.

the reasons given for the predic­

tion that this year's State Fair will be larger than any before, is the fact that farmers have had two successive good crops, and they are in control of the money in the community. Entries are numerous and men in control of County Fairs in different parts of the State say that a verj large State Fair may be expected.

The suit of Ivison, Blakeman & Co., to restrain the Indianapolis School Board from using the new geography was decided in favor of the School Board.

Mrs. John A. Logan, in an interview, strongly indorses her son's action in refusing to forward his father's picture to tho Murat Halstead Club, of Cincinnati. She

that trouble with Halstead was tho last thing that vexed General Logan's mind.

At a meeting of Methodist ministers iTV Chicago Bishop Newman, in discussing tho race problem, said there was more to be feared from the invasion of the North by ignorant foreigners than from the outnumbering of the whites by the blacks in ths South.

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