Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 27 September 1889 — Page 7

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Talaage Talks of His Trans-Gontinenial Journey.

The Grandeurs of a Grand Country—Christ Shall Have Dominion Over ft All.

The sermon of Rev. T. De Witt Till mage Oil last Sunday on the subject: "From Ocean to Ocean or My Transcontinental Journey," was listened to with wrapt attention by an audiencc that filled Brooklyn Tabernacle to the very doors. Text: Psalms lxxii, 8: "He shall have dominion from sea to sea." The preacher said:

What two seas are referred to? S"ome might say that the text meant that Christ was to reign over all the land ts'etween the Arabian sea and Caspian sea, or between the Red sea and the Mediterranean sea, or between the BlacK sea and the North sea. No in such case my text would have named them. It meant from any large body of water on the earth clear across to any other large body of water. And so 1 have a right to read it: He

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from the Atlantic sea to the Pacific sea My theme is. America for God! First, consider the immensity of this procession. If it were only a sqiall tract of land capable of nothing better than sage brush and with ability only to support prairie dogs, I should not have much enthusiasm in wanting Christ to have it added to his dominion. But its immensity and affluence no one can imagine unless, in immigrant wagon or stage coach or in rail train of the "Union Pacific or the Northern Pacific or the Canadian Pacific or the Southern Pacific, he has traversed it. Haying been privileged six times to cross this continent, and twice this summer, I have come to some appreciation of its magnitude. California, which I supposed in boyhood from its size on the map, was a few yards across, a ridge of land on which one must walk cautiously lest ho hit his head aaainst the Sierra Nevada on one side or slip off into the Pacific waters on the ether, California, the thin slice of land as 1 supposed it to be in boyhood, I havo found it to be larger than all the states of New England and all New York state and all Pennsylvania added together and if you add them together their square miles fall far short of California. North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington territory, to be launched next winter into statehood, will be giants at their birth. Let the congress of the United States strain a poiut and soon admit also Idaho and Wyoming and New Mexico. What is the use k* keeping them out in the cold any Jonser? Let us have the whole continent divided into states with senatorial and congressional representatives and we will all be happy together, if some of them have not quite the requisite number of people, isx up the constitution to suit these cases, fiven Utah will by dropping polygamy soon become ready to enter. Monogamy has triumphed in parts of Utah and will probably triumph at this fall election in Salt Lake City. Turn all the territories into states and if some of the sisters are smalier than the elder sisters, give them time and they will soon be as large as any of them. Because some of the daughters of a family may be five feet in stature and the others only four feet, do not let tiie daughters five feet high shut the door in the faces of those four feet high. Among the dying utterances of our good friend, the wise statesman and great author, the brilliant orator and magnificent soul, S. S. Cox, was the expressed determination to move next wjnter in congress fov the transference of otlier territories into states. "But," says some one, "in calculating the immensity of our continental acreage you must remember that vast reaches of our public domain are uncultivated, heaps of dry sand, and the 'bad lands' of Montana and the great American desert." I am glad you mentioned that. \v ithin twentyJhve years there will not be between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts a hundred miles of land not ^claimed either by farmers' plow or miners' crowttar. By irrigation the waters of the riv'Srs and the showers }f heaven in what are called the rainy season will be gathering into great reservoirs and through aqueducts let down where and when the jjp^ple want them. Utah is an object lessou. Somoparts of that territory which were so barren that a spear of grass could not have been raised there in a liuudred years are now rich as Lancaster county farms of New Yoric or Somerset county fai-rns of New Jersey.

Experiments have proved that ten acres of ground irrigated from waters gathered in great hydrological basins will produce as much aB fifty acres from the downpour of rain as seen in our regions. We have our freshets and our droughts, but in those lands which are to be scientifically irrigated there will be neither freshets nor droughts. As you take a pitcher and get it full of water, set it on a table and take a drink out of it when you are thirsty and never think of drinking a pitcherful all at once, so Montana and Wyoming and Idaho will catch the rains of their rainy season and take up all the waters of their rivers in great pitchers of resevoirs and drink out of them whenever they will and refresh their land whenever they will.

The work has already been grandly begun by the United States government. Over four hundred lakes have already been officially taken possession of by the nation for the great enterprise of irrigation. Rivers that have been rolling idly through these regions, doing nothing on their way to the sea, will be lassoed and corralled and penned up until such time as the farmers need them. Under the same pro esses the Ohio, the Mississippi and all other rivers will be taught to behave thems Ives better, and great basins will be made to catch the surplus of waters in times of freshet and keep them for times of drought. The irrigation process by which all the arid lands between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are to be fertilized is no new experiment. It has been going on successfully hundreds of years, in Spain, in China, in India, in Russia, in Egypt.

About eight hundred million people of the earth today are kept al.ve by food raised on irrigated land. And here we have allowed to l'e waste, given up to rattlesrr*ke and bat and prairie do1?, lands enonirh to support whole notions of ind strious population. The work begun will be consummated. Here and there exceptional lands maybe stubborn and refuse to yield any wheat or corn from their hard lists, but if the whole fail to make an impression the miner's pick ax will discover the reason for it and bring up from beneath those unproductive surfaces coal and iron and lead and copper and si'ver and gold. God speed the geologists and tho surveyors, the engineers and the senatorial commissions and the capitalists and the new settlers and the 'husbandmen who put their brain and hand and heart to this transfiguration of the

American continent! But while I speak of the immensity of .the continent, I must remark it is not an '•immensity of mouotono or lameness. The larger some countries are, the worse for the world. This continent is not more remarkable for its magnitude than for its -•wonders of construction. hat a pity tho

United States government did notta'ce possession of Yosemite, California, as it has of Yellowstone, Wyoming, aud of Niagara Falls. New York! Yosemite and the adjoining California regions! Who that has seen them can think of them without having his blood tingle I Trees now standing there that were old when Christ lived. These monarchs of foliage reigned oof ore Cfesar or Alexander, and the nexttiiousand years will not shatter their scepter. They *ro the masts of the continent, their canvas spread on the winds while tho old ship bears on its way through the ages. Their size, of which travelers often sneak, does not aff *ct me so much as their longevity. Though so old now, the brandies of some of them will eracklo in the last conflagration of the planet.

measure by feet, for they are literally a mile high. Steep so that neither foot of man nor beast ever scaled them, they stand in everlasting defiance. 11" Jehovah has a throne of earth these are its white pillars. Standing down in this great chasm of the valley you look up and yonder is Cathedral Rock, vast, gloomy minister built for the silent worship of the mountains. Yonder is Sentinel Rock, 3,270 feet high, bold, solitary, standing guard among the ages, its top seldom touched until a bride one Fourth of July mounted it and planted the national standards and the people down in the valley looked up and saw the head of the mountain turbaned with stars and stripe©. Yonder are the "Three Brothers," four thousand feet high "Cloud's Rest," North and South Dome and heights never captured save by the lier.v bayonets of the thunder storm.

No pause for the e.ye, no stopping place for tie mind. Mountains hurled on mountains. Mountains in the wake of mountains. Mountains flanked by mountains. Mountains split. Mountains ground. Mountains fallen. Mountains triumphant. As though Mont Blanc aud the Adirondacks and Mount Washington were here uttering themselves in one magnificent chorus "of rocit and precipice and waterfall. Sifting and dashing through the rocks, the water comes down. The Bridal Veil falls, so thin you can see the face of the mountain behind it. Yonder is Yosemite falls, dropping feet, sixteen times greater descent than that of N iatrara. These watersdashed to death on the rocks, so that the white spirit of the slain waters ascending in robe of mist seeks the heaven. Yonder is Nevada falls plunging seven hundred feet, the water in arrows, the water in rockets, the water in pearls, the water in amethysts, the water in diamonds. That cascade flings down the rocks enough jewels to array all the earth in beauty, and rushes on until it drops into a very hell of waters, the smoke of their torment ascending forever and ever.

But the most wonderful part of this American continent is the Yellowstone park. My visit there last month made upon me an impression that will last forever. After all poetry has exhausted itself and all the Morans and Bierstadts and the other enchauting artists havo completed their canvas, there will be other revelations to make and other stories of its beauty and wrath, splendor ana agony, to be recited. The Yellowstone park is a geologist's paradise. By cheapening of travel may it become the nation's playground! In seme portions of it there seems to be the anarchy of the elements. Fire and water, and the vapor born of that marriage, terrific. Geyser cones or hills of crystal that have been over rive thousand years growing. In places the earth, throbbing, sobbing, groaning, quaking with aqueous paroxysm.

At the expiration of every sixty-five minutes one of the geysers tossing its boiling water 1*5 feet in the air and then descending into swinging rainbows. Caverns of pictured wails large enough fcr the sepulcher of the human race. Formations of stone in the shape and color of a caila lily, of heliotrope, of rose, of cowslip, of sunflower and of giadiola. Sulphur and arsenic and oxide of iron, with their delicate pencils, turning the hills into a Luxemburg or a Vatican picture gal.er.v. The so called Thanatopsis geyser, exquisite iis the Bryant poem it was named after, avid the so called Evangeline geyser, lovely as the Lonirl'ellovv heroine it commemorates. The so called Pulpit Terrace from its white elevation preaching mightier sermons of God than lips ever uttered. The so called Bethesda geyser, by the warmth of which invalids have already been cured, the Angel of Health continually stirring the waters. Enraged craters, with heat at five hundred degree.-, only a little below the surface.

Wide reaches of stone of intermingled colors, blue as the sky, green as the foliage, crimson as the dahlia, white as the snow, spotted as the leopard, tawny as the lion, grizzly as the bear, in circles, in angles, in stars, in coronets, in stalactites, in stalagmites. Here and there are the petrified growths or the dead trees, and vegetation of other ages keot through a process of natural embalmment. In some places waters as innocent and smiling as a child making a first attempt to walk from its mother's lap, and not far off as toaming and frenzied aqd ungovernable as a maniac in murderous struggle with his keepers.

But after you have wandered along the gevserite enchantment for days and begin to feel that there can be nothing more of interest to see, you suddently come upon the peroration of all majesty and grandeur, the Grand canyon. It is here that it seems to me—and I speak it with reverence—Jehovah seems to have surpassed himself. It seems a great gulch let down into the etermiies. Here, hung up and letdown and spread abroad, are all the colors of land and sea and sky. Upholstering of the Lord God Almighty. Best work of the Architect of worlds. Sculpturing by tho Infinite. Masonry by an omnipotent trowel. Yellow! You never saw yellow unless you saw it there. Red! You never saw red unless you saw it there. Violet! You never saw violet unless you paw it there. Triumphant banners of color. In a cathedral of basalt. Sunrise and Sunset married by the setting of rainbow ring.

Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and Egyptian basilicas built before human architecture was born. Hure fortifications of granite constructed beforo war forged its first cannon. Gibralters and Sebastopols that never can be taken. Alhambras, where kings of strength and queens of beauty reigned long before the first earthly crown was empearled. Thrones on which no one but tho King of heaven and earth ever sat. Fount of waters at which the lesser hills are baptized while the giant •cliffs stand as sponsors. For thousands of years before that scene was unveiled to human sight, the elements were busy, and the gevsers were hewing away with their hot chisel, and glaciers were pounding with their cold hammers and hurricanes were cleaving with their lightning strokes and hailstones giving the finishing touches, and after all those forces of nature had done their best, in our century the curtain dropped and the world had a new and divinely inspired revelation, the Old Testament written on papyrus, the New Testament written on parchment, and now this last Testament written on the roc' s.

Hanging over one ol the cliffs I looked off until I could not :ret my breath, then retreating to a less exposed place 1 looked down aga:n. Down there is a pillar of rock that in certain conditions of the atmosphere looks l'ke a pillar of blood. Yonder arc fifty feet o'. emerald on a base of five hundred feet of opal. Wall of chalk resting on pedestals of beryl. Turrets of light tumbling on floors of darkness. The brown brightening into golden. Snow of crystal melting into lire of carbuncle. Flaming red cooling into russet. Cold blue warming into saffron. Dull gray kindling into solferino. jVornhig twilight flushing midnight shadows. Auroras crouching among rocks.

Yonder Is an eagle's nest on a shaft of basalt. Th igh an eyeglass we see among it the yonmr entries, but the outest arm of our group cannot hurl a stone near enough I to disturb the featherod domesticity. Yondor are heights that woull be chilled with I horror but for the warm robe of forest foliage with which they are enwrapped. Altars of worship at which nations might kneel.

Dom"S of chalcedony

That valley of the Yosemite is eight -miles Jong and ah tlf mile wide and three thousand feet deep. It, seems as if it hail been the meaning of Omnipotence to crowd into as small piacc as possible.porno of the most, studendou* scenery of the wor d. Home of the cliffs you do not stop to

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ph.vry. See all this carnage of color up and down the cliffs it must have been the battle field of the war of elements. Here are all the colors of the wall of heaven, neither tho sapphire nor the chrysolite nor the topaz nor tho iccinth. nor the amethyst nor the jaspor nor ibo twelve gates of vvelve pearls wanting. If spirits bound from earth to heaven "could pass up byway of this canyon, the dash of heavenly beauty would not bo so over-powering. It would only be from glory to glory. Ascent through such earthly scenery in wh'fh the crvstal is so bright and the red so flaming would bo fit preparation ior tho "sei of gl.iss mingled with fire."

Standing there in tho Grand canyon of tho Yellowstone park on the morning of Aug. !», fo th:1, most part, held our peace, but, after awhile it flashed on me with such power I could not help but say to my comrades "Y\ bat a Hull this would be for the last Judgment.!" See that mighty cascade with the rainbows at, the foot of it.

Those waters congealed and transfixed with the agitation* ol that da/, what a place they

would make for the shining feet of a juage of quick and dead. And those rainbows look now like the crowns to be cast at his feet. At the bottom of this canyon is a floor on which the nations of the earth might stand up and down these galleries of rock the nations of heaven might sit. And what reverberation of archangels' trumpet there would he through all these gorges and from all these caverns and over all these heights. Why should not the greatest of all the days the world shall ever see close amid the grandest scenery Omnipotence ever built?

Oh, the sweep of the American continent! Sailing up Puget sound, its shores so bold that for fifteen hundred miies a ship's prow would touch the shore before its keel touched the bottom, 1 said: "This is the Mediterranean of America." Visiting Fortland and Tacoina and Seattle and Victoria and Fort Townsend and Vancouver and other cities of tlia* northwest region I thought to myself: These are the Bostons, New Yo^tes and Savannahs of the Pacific coast. But, after all of their summer's journeying and my other journeys westward in other summers, I found that I had seen only a part of tho American continent, for Alaska is as far west of San Francisco as the coast of Maine is east- of it, so that tho central city of the American continent is San Francisco.

I have said these things about the magnitude of the continent and given you a few specimens of some of its wonders and let yoa know the comprehensiveness of the text when it says that Christ is going to have dominion Irom sea to sea: that is, from tho Atlantic to the Pacific. Bes'de that, the salvation of this continent ans the salvation ot Asia, for we are only thirty-six miles from Asia at the northwest. Only Behring straits separate us from Asia, and these will be spanned by a rreat bridge before another century closes, and probably long before that. The thirty-six miles of water between these two continents are not all deep sea, but have three islands and there are also shoals which will allow piers for bridges, aid for the most of the way the water is only about twenty fathoms deep.

The Americo-Asiatic bridge which will yet span those straits will make America, Asia, Europe and Africa one continent. So you see America evangelized, Asia will be evangelized- Europe taking Asia from one side and America taking it from the other side. Our great-grandchildren will cross that bridge. America and Asia and Europe all one, what subtraction from the pangs of seasickness! and the prophesies in Revelation will be fulfilled. There shall bo no more sea. But do I mean literally that this American continent is going to be all gospelized? I do. Christopher Columbus, when he went ashore from the Santa Maria, and his second brother Alonzo, when he went ashore from the Pinta, and his third brother Vincent, when he went ashore from the Nina, took possession of this country in the name of the Father aud the ton aud the 1-1 oly Ghost.

Satan has no more right to this country than I have to your pocket book. To hear him talk on the roof of the Temple, where he proposed to give Christ, the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them, you might suppose that Satan was g. e.it capitalist or that ho was loaded up with real estate, when the old miscreant never owned an inch of ground on this planet. For that reason I protest against something I heard and saw this summer and o.her summers in Ai ontana and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho anil Colorado and California. They have given devilistic nam 's to many places in the west and northwest.

As soon as you get in Yellowstone park or California you have pointed out to you places cursed with such names as "The Devil's Slide," "The Devd Kitchen," "The Devil's Thumb," "The Devil's Pulpit," "The Devil's Mush Pot." "The Devil's Tea Kettle," "The Devil's Saw Mill," "The Devil's Machine Shop," "The Devil's Gate" and so on. Now it is very much needed that geological surveyor or congressional committee or group of distinguished tourists go through Montana and yomirig and California and Co.orado and give other names to these places. All these regions belong to the Lord and to a Christian nation, and away with such Plutonic nomenclature.

But how is this continent to be gospelized? The pulpit and a Christian printing press harnessed together will be the mightiest team for the first plow. Not by the power of cold, formalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical technicalities, aui sick of them and the world is sick of them. But it will be done by the warm hearted, sympathetic presentation of the fact that Christ is ready to pardon all our sins and heal all our wounds and save us both for this world and the next. Let .your religion of glaciers crack off and fall into the Gulf Stream and get melted. Take all your creeds of all denominations and drop out of them all human phraseology and put in only scriptural phraseology and you will see how quick the people Will jump after them.

On tho Columbia river a few days ago we saw the salmon jump clear out of the water in different places, I suppose for the purpo.se of getting the insects. An I if when wc want to fish for men we could only have the right kind of bait the.v will spring out above the flood of their sins and sorrows to reach it. The Youn* Men's Christian associations of America will also do part of the work. All over the continent I saw this summer their new buildings rising. In Vancouver I asked: hat are you going to put on that sightly place?" The answer was: "A Young Aien's Christian .association building." At Lincoln, Neb., 1'said: hat, are they making thoso excavations fori" Answer: "For our Young Men's Christian association building." At Des Moines, la., I saw a noble structure r.siug and I asked for what purpose it was being built, and they told me for the Young Men's Christian association.

These institutions are going to take the young men of this nation for God. These institutions seem in better lavor with God and man thau ever before. Business men and capitalists are awaking to the fact that they can do nothing better in the way of living beneficence or iu last will and testament than to do what Mr. Marquand did for Brooklyn when he m:.de our Young Men's Christian palace possible. These institutions will get our young men all over the land into a stampede foi heaven. Thus we will all in some way help on the work, you with your ten talents, I with five, somebody else with three. It is estimated that to irrigate the arid and desert lands of America as they ought to be irrigated, it will cost about one hundred million dollars to gather the w.ters into re.servoirs. As much contribution and effort as that vvoi.ld i. ri.ate with gospel influences all the wasto places of this continent. Let us by prayer and contribution and right living all help to fill the reservoirs. You will carry a bucket nnd you a cup. and even a thimbleful would help. And alter a while God will send the floods of crcy so slathered, pouring down over all the I. nd. and soino of us on earth and some of us in heaven will sing with Isaiah: "In the wilderness waters have broken out and streams in the desert," and with David: "There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the sight of Cod." Oh, fill up tho reservoirs! America for God!

President Harrison's Peculiar Experience.

President Harrison had a peculiar experience near Deer Park recently, He alighted from his carriage and entered a drugr store with a bottle in his hand. "A pint of alcohol," he said. "Have you a doctor's prescription?1' asked the proprietor. "No,

President walked thoughtfully to his carriage, while a bystander informed I the druggist who it was he had bluffed.

I Love is a weakness, but is too strong for most of its unhappy victims.—Somerville Journal.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Peru jail is condemned as unhealthy. Peru will have glass works in operation October 10.

The Indiana State fair opened at Indian apolis Monday with the greatest exhibition in its history.

Diphtheria prevails to an alarming extent at Marion and the schools have been closed HI consequence.

James Read, of Aurora, and William Beatty, of Rising Sun, have been arrested, charged with passing bogus silver coin.

The two-year-old daughter of John Mooney,of Ft. Wayne,swallowed a bottle of liniment Monday and died from the eifects. llachael McGill, aged 50, is suing Micaja'a Chamness, aged SO, at Marion (both from Madison county) for $3,000 for breach of promise.

A movement is on foot in St. Joe county to petition the County Commissioners to appropriate $lO,UOJ fo the erection of a soldiers' monument at South Bend.

All the way from Hartford City comes a report that, a farmer on Bullskin Prairie had a drove of half grown geese killed and swallowed by rattlesnakes, one of wftich measured five feet in length.

Chase and Campbell, two bunko man in jail at LapOrte, are being identified by dotcctives from all parts of tiie country. A Dunkard preacher from Charleston was one of their victims to the amount of S3,000.

Grant Colfax Doll, of Terre Haute, for attempting a criminal assault upon Miss Sarah Gore, has been fined $500 and sentenced to jail for ninety-niuc days. The punishment is considered very light, as tho offense was flagrant.

A tariff reform meeting was held a'Scottsburg on Saturday, under the auspices of tho County Tariff Reform League and speeches were delivered by Senator Voorhees, Governor Gray,and J. G. Shank lin, of Evansville.

A monstrosity in the shape cf a calf with four eyes, four nostrils, and four ears, and a mouth lite a fish is cxciting the citizens of Jennings township, this county. It belongs to a Mrs. Brown, and a large number of people have gone to see it.

J.,M. & I. train ^dispatchers have each,in their turn, been compelled to serve a month as freight conductors on the road, that they might have a more enlightened idea of the requirements of the road. The experiment is said to have resulted great good.

Mrs. William Saddler, of Springfield township, Lagrange county, was struck by lightning at the bedside of her so i, who was lying ill at the time. She was seriously though not fatally injured. The bed was wrecked by the bolt, but the boy escaped injury.

Ambrose Martindale and John Bolner, of Hartford City, between whom there was great rivalry as high kickers, attempted to settle the question of supremacy on Saturday. Bolner set the pattern, eight feet high but fell and broke his arm. The match was then postponed.

John Hart, a colored "trusty" at the Jef fersonville prison, escaped Tuesday evening, and has not been recaptured. He worked at the warden's residence, and, going up to Steward Sam Montgomery's room, discarded his convict garb, and putting on a $10 pair of pants, and a shirt, coat and vest, took his departure. He had thirteen months to serve.

Charles Connor, of Anderson, Dep tv Constabls, several weeks ago prosecuted several saloon-keepers for selling liquor on Sunday. This engendered a bitter feeling all around, and the lodge of Rod Men virtually took vp the quarrel, and Connor was expelled. As a resuit, he is making it his particular duty to see that not only the Sunday law, but also the 11 o'clock law is strictly enforced.

Wm. E. Curtis, the special agent of the Department of State, who has charge of the arrangements for the international American Congress, is receiving x*equests from numerous cities in Indiana to have a visit from the Congress when it goes to Indianapolis. Mr. Curti3 says he has promised that if the Congress can visit any city in the State outside of Indianapolis it will be Muncie, where the progress made by the development of natural gas is to be viewed.

Elijah GUnn, a well-known Elkhartian, realized that he was under the weather a few days ago, but instead of consulting a regular physician he visited a "Christian science" healer, and was treated by him. He refused medical assistance, but continued with the Christian scicnce man until Thursday, when Gunn's death took place, the result, it is understood, of neglect. Physicians say his sickness at the outset was insignificent, and that regular treatment would have brought him around in a day or two.

The litigation over the failure of Marsh Doherty, of Crawfordsville, carriage and wagon dealer, has taken a serious turn, the creditors filing a complaint alleging that a conspiracy existed between Fisher Doherty, Marsh Doherty, A. F. Ramsey, Assignee, E. P. McCloskey,County Sheriff, the First National Bank, aud others, to de/raud them. Per contra, Marsh Doherty testified in court that one of the attorneys for plaintiff offered to take $500 and use $400 in buying up the attorneys, by which was meant that a collusion would be formeu between the attorneys by which the creditors were to be worsted. This is denied by the accused, and there is an ugly feeling all around.

At an early hour Thursday morning a morose-looking couple were seen wandering aimlessly about the streets of Windsor, Ontario. Later in the day their dead bodies were discovered lying side by side in what is known as the old nursery grounds.

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stuff for an alcohol lamp," returned the President, who had not been recI ognized. "Sorry, sir," returned the druggist, "but Garrett county went local option, an if you want to buy spirits without a prescription you'll have to vote against prohibition." The

woman had been shot through the heart, evidently by her companion, and an ugly wound in the man's forehead disclosed the cause of his death. Their appearance was that of a country couple in holiday attire, and it is probable they were visitors to the Detroit Exposition. From papers found upon the man his name was evidently Silas Densmore, of Rushvillo, Ind., and flke woman was presumably his wife.

The real estate operations of B. R. Musgrave at Terre Haute some months ago are giving caupe for very serious concern. Two week* ago it was alleged that be hud

forged the indorsement of the County Re* corder on a mortgage calling for $2,100, and that he obtained a similar amount from the Rose Polytecnic Institute, he be ing aided by the fact that the first mortgage was on record. On Saturday anothei fradulent mortgage for $1,000 was discovered. Mr. Musgrave left Terre Haute some time ago tojserve as treasurer of a large establishment at Kansas City, and when the first questionable mortgage was discov* ered it was reported that he was en route back to make ueedful explanations. He failed to reach Terre Haute and it is now believed he has fled for parts unknown.

A number of prominent citizens of Indiana were, Thursday, invested with power by the Governor to represent the State at important gatherings. As delegates to the International American Congress, which convenes at Washington October 2, the appointments were Hugh Hanna, Indian apolis John H. Bass, Ft. Wayne JosepTi D. Oliver, South Bend B. F. Masten, Lafayette John M. Gaar, Richmond N. T. DePauw, New Albany William Heilman, Evansville Adams Earl, Lafayette A. C. Remy, Indianapolis. Besides these the following representatives of the military interests of the State were appointed delegates to the Congress: D. H. Ranck, Indianapolis M. S. Blish, Seymour W. II. Kidder, Terre Haute Robert Ruston, Evansville P. O. Harris, Greencastle,and James L. Evans,Noblesville. The Farmei-s' National Congress will meet this year on November 13, at Montgomery, Ala. It is customary for tho Governor of each State to appoint delegates to the gathering. In pursuance of this custom the Governor has appointed as delegates R. M. Lockliart, of Waterloo Robert Mitchell, of Princeton James A. Harbison, of Breckenridge P.Monroe, of Saluda Uriah Coulson, of Sullivan J. M. Sankey, of Terre Haute W. H. Goodwine, of West Lebanon: J. C. Stevens, of Centerville J. A. Allen, of Rockville D.J. Terhune, of Linton, and Henry F. Work, of New Washington. All of these gentlemen who attend tho Congresses to which they are appointed will experience the feeling of independence which arises from paying their own expenses.

POLITICAL.

Iowa Democrats, Wednesday, nominated Horace Bois, for Governor S. L. Bestow, of Chariton, for Lieutenant governor Judge W. II. Brannon, of Muscatine, for Supreme Judge (long and short terms): Thomas Irish, of Dubuque, for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and David Morgan, of Poweschiek, for Railroad Commissioner. The platform adopted indorses the national platform made by the

Democra

cy,at St. Louis,in 1888 denounces the tariff as unjust to all classes, but especially to the farmers favors the Australian system of voting and the doctrine of State and national control of the railroads denounces the action of the present administration in ruling that "the dishonorable discharge of a soldier from the service of the United States is no bar to a pension," and also favoi's liberal pensions to all soldiers injured in the line of duty.

A reporter, Thursday, asked ex-Presi-dent Cleveland for his opinion on the action of several recent Democratic State conventions in approving the tariff-reform plank of the last National Democratic Convention. Mr. Cleveland expressed himself as much pleased with these evidences that the attitude of the Democratic party on this question was still courageous, consistent and aggressive. He thought that the careful examination of the tariff question by the people was bearing good fruit, and that all indications pointed to the triumph of the Democratic party's view ol thesubject. He added: "If among those counted as Democrats there are found timid souls not well grounded in the faith,who long for the llesh pots of vaccillating siiifts and evasions, the answer to their fears should be,'party honesty is party expediency."

An unusually warm political campaign is in progress in North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington. In South Dakota politics and candidates have been lost sight of in the contest for the State Capital. Six towns want it and each is confident of getting it.

TITHES IN WALES.

The bitter feeling in Wales over the tithe question shows no sign of abatement. The opposition to the payment of the tithes is deeply rooted, and has its origin in the fact that, though the benefits for which this tax was an equivalent have long since ceased to be shared by the people, all cvomplaints aud efforts to secure a repeaFor induction of the burden have been disregarded by the government. The office of tithe collector is jusj now by no means an easy one to fill, nor even a sale one. In various places streets and hoyses are barricaded, and it is a task of great difficulty for the collector to reach the persons of whom they are to demand tithes. They are then likely to find that those whom they are seeking have fled, as the approach of the official is heralded from afar by means of guns and horns, the inhabitants all working together in their resistance to what they consider oppression.

HE DENIES IT.

3fo Truth in tiie Stiit«.ment that Dcctectives Ave Guarding the 1'rt sident.

The statement that he was guarded by detectives is denied by the presideut. He said he never traveled more unattended that instead of protecting himself from tho G. A. II., he would turn to them for a guard if he ever needed one.

Industrial Note*

Our tramps are placed at 50,000. At London 300 retail bakers are Jn a trust.

In France husband and wife work in shops together.' C-. Natural gas saves Pittsburg 7,000,000 tons of coal per year.

REVENUE REDUCTION.

Southern members of the House oi Representatives deny that they intend to make any special demand fo* legislation on that part' of their section of country, I With one voice they say it is their purpose to work for legislation of equal importance to every section. They are extremely anxious to have the tdbacco tax abolished, but they do not intend to ask it as a consideration for voting in favor of any one for Speaker for the one, if no other reason that they do not consider it necessary.

They say the Republican party is pledged to do this, and all reports about demands they jvi 11 make in the formation of committees are fabricated.

Almost immediately after the House is organized and the committees announced— surely on the first call of the States foi the introduction of bills—a bill will be passed to abolish the tobacco tax. The committee on ways and means will bp expected to report this from its first regular meeting, as the propriety of doing so has long since been settled. It sconsideratfen by the House will be demanded very early. As this will be the basis of the future action on the revenues, and will, in a large measure, govern a large revision of the tariff, it is expected to consume much time but it is expected to pass before any positive step is taken on a tariff bill. Then Congress will know exactly how mnch tariff revision the revenues of the country can stand.

Republicans generally believe that the work of refoiming the tariff will proceed by piece-meal—that is, it will be done by specific bills, affecting only one article at once. For instance, sugar will be worked upon by itself. Then, if it is advisable to go further into a reduction of the revenues, other articles will be taken up by themselves. Bills will be introduced by the hundreds on every phase of the tariff, thus going round the old way of proceeding with a general bill affecting almost every article an the list. If the tobacco tax is abolished there will not be more than half tiie present latitude for work on the customs laws. If half the sugar tax is removed the incomes will be reduced to about the minimum. General Browne,one of the oldest aud most influential members of the House, and an experienced member of tln committee on ways and means, was the first to advance the idea of specific Legislation on the tariff, aud the suggestion is being almost universally indorsed. Tie the work done as it, may, there will be no more lengthy committee hearings and long bills.

DISASTERS IN JAPAN.

T.iii Thousand Uvea I^ost by Recent Floods—A Destructive Land Slide.

Advices from Japan place the total number of persons drowned in the flood of Aug. 20, in the city of \takayamo, and in the districts of Minamilimuro, Mighasi-Muro, Nishi-Muro and Pidaka, at 10,000, and the number of persons receiving relief at The riverCinokuni swelled from fourteen to eighteen feet above its normal level, and the embankments ^and the city of Iwahashi were washed, away. Immediately the village and* about fortyeight otlier herniate were covered by the raging waters.

On the morning of Aug. 19, an enormous mass of earth fell from the mountain near the village of Tennokawa, stopped the course of the river of the same name, and* which being already swooleu greatly, submerged the villasrp and drowned nearly all the inhabitants. A number of the villagers belonging to Tsujido took refuge in their temple, which was on high ground, but he an id re a if persons were buried alive.

THEY USED CANCELLED STAMPS.

Several weeks a-go Deputy Collector Fuller came to Jackson, Mich., to investigate. a complaint made against Carl Eberle, the brewer. He visited the brewery, and caught Charles Ilauclts in the act of sticking cancelled revenue stamps on beer kegs, and sccured about twenty worthless stamps. Haueks was arrested aud taken to Detroit. Wednesday morning Deputy Marshal Moore arrested Carl Eberle, who was taken to Detroit, and waived examina

tion to

the November term of the United Stales Court.

THE MARKETS.

INDIANAI'OUS, Sept. Git A IN.

Wheat. Corn. 0«tS.

Indianapolis..

'1 r'd 75 r'd 71 •.! r'd 77

1 35 'Jye ol V.j 335

Chicago

2 2

10)'.

Cincinnati r'd ~VA 35/2 21 y_ -15

St. Louis

r'd 7fi' 30 lis

"x'u'.v York 2 r'd Wi 43 20

Baltimore 3-4 •io

Philadelphia,

26 50

•2 r'd VJli 42

Toledo 77 5 35 20

Detroit. 1 wh SI 3434

Minneapolis 77

Liverpool

lover

4 :0

LIVE STOCK.

CATTLE—Export grades Good to choice shippers Common to medium shippers L'.MK" Stackers, 500 to Sr0 lb Good to choice heifers Common to medium heifers Goods to choice cows Fair to medium cows Hoos—Heavy Light Mixed Heavy roughs SIIEEI'—Good to choice Fair to medium Commou Lambs, good to choice Common to medium Bucks, per head

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l.()0(«.:3.00 j.uo^.'4. ir 4. !0W4.45 4. l5(t»'4.!iTi 3.-jr,(,?:?. ~r 4.-'0(^4.50 4.10 IJ.25(«)3.75 3.50(0,5.25 3.50(Vt5.50 2.0l0?3.50

MISCELLANEOUS.

Indianapolis Chicago Ciiiciiinati

Fork......... Lard Kibs

11 SO 6 50 5 12

Whites took the placos of striking Chinese at Fresno, Cal. We have more Railroads than the rest ol the world combuule. ,•

11 40 Jl

5 87 r» 4 90 I a

MISCELLANEOUS.

WOOL—Fine merino, washed 33@j35 unwashed medum 2(^25 very coarse 1? i$25

K6GS BUTTER, POULTRY.

Egsa.-.-t Butter, creamery 18o Fancy dairy 12c Choice country.. .10c

Hens per lb..... 7c Roosters 3c Turkeys 9c Feathers 35c