Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 20 December 1889 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by

W. S. MONTGOMERY.

GREENFIELD.

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

The iron ae ver pijpe works at Vincennes were destroyed by fire, Tuesday. Loss, $27,000.

The British barque Tenby Castle was

It is reported that many persons are at Tiflis who have been exiled from Er/e* roum by orders from Constantinople in consequence of their being suspected of

Patents were granted to Indiana invent.

deficiency bill, appropriating ?1 50,000 for

passed. A message iiom the pLesident.

procure legislation and had used money

loi that purpose. Ine Sec letaij of the

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mineral lands bill was bnclly discussed and laid over. The reiusal of the Pension Office to I urn ish papers in eases to Congressmen was discussed. Mr. Mitchell offered a resolution calling oil the Post master General for estimates ol the cost ol extending the free-delivery system to towns of .'{.000. In the House a lew bills were introduced. A motion to

States for the introduction ol oills was

was the nomination of .Judge Biewer, to

be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. This was called up by Senator ingalls upon the favorable report of the committee on judiciary. Although there was no minority report, confirmation of the nomina-

second, that, the statement ol lacts in Judge Gresliam's review of the appointment of receivers of the Wabash system of railroads by Judge Brewer, whose orders the case Judge Gresliam vacated so far as it affected the roads within the limits of his circuit, justify suspicion that Judge Brewer is the friend of corporation inter-

ever, firmed.

Coinpliiiiciitnrjr.

INDIANA Heard in the Holy Land.

friends on the

wrecked in the Irish sea, oif Holyhead, for texl tie verses of the gospel follovvTuesday and eleven of her crew were ing: John vi, 17: ''Entered into a slup, and drowned.

having given information ol the Arineuian of this village, now in ruins, and all .iround atrocities

t^1's la^e,

John Gallagher died at Butte, Mont., er, and glory and pathos when our Lord „, v, lived nere! It lias been the wish of my Tuesday, from the effects of a fight on

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Dr. Talmass's Eloquent Words Again

He Talks About "The Stormy Passage" Across Lake Galilee and Draws Many a Moral to Adorn His Sermon—Inspiration from Bocks-

Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preached in Capernaum last Sunday to a group of

"Stormy Passage," taking

went over the sea toward Capernaum and Mark iv, 39: "And he arose and rebuked the wind and the sea." He said:

Here in this seashore village was the temporary home ot that Christ who for the most-of his life was homeless. On the site

what scenes of kindness and pow-

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Sunday morning. G. H. Warte and Gal- pccted the privilege—to stand on the banks lagher had a difficulty and agreed to this of Galilee. What a solemnity and what a mode of settlement. Thcv fought for 10." rai)ture to be here! I ran now understand rounds. Gallagher was frightfully the feeling of the immortal Scotchman, pounded ^°^crt McCheyne, when, sitting on the

gay the for aevQT ex_

banks of this lake, he wrote: It is not that the wild eazelle Comes down to drink thy tide. But he that was pierced to save from hell

ors, Tuesday, as follows: Thomas Austin, Logansport, sand-box valve H. C. Bailey, Edinburg, wooden mat and blank slitting machine A. J. Hart. Cromwell, traction engine W. A. Horrall, Washington, mail But ah! fur more, the beautiful feet pouch fastener C. D. .Tenuey, Indianapo- Of .Jesus walked o'er thee. ,. ,. •, a I can now easily understand from the lis, automatic regulator for dynamos. J. A.

Oft wandered bv side. Graceful around thee the mountains meet, Thou calm reposing sea

McGill, South Bend, railwa.\ gate oi sig storms were easily tempted to make nal, J. F. Miller, Monon, calf weaner, C. these waters their playground. From the B- Nelson, Crawfordsvillc, metallic crest gentle way this lake treated our boat when title J. S- Patmore, Terre Haute, three we sailed on it yesterday, one would have wheeled vehicle R. E. Poindexter, I-idi- thought it incapable of a paroxysm of rage, anapolis, saw gauge jointer.

In the Senate, Mondav, Senator Hampton took liis seat. The direct tax bill and the treasury relief bill were reported favorably and placed on the calendar The

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but it was quite different on both occasions spoken of in mv two texts. 1 close my eyes, and the shore ol Lake Galilee as it now is, with but little signs of human life, disappears, and there comes back to my vision the lake as it was in Christ's time.

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reeoinmended that the time of the Inter-! an baths, everything1 attractive and beau-st-vlos of vegetation in shorter national .Marine Conlevence be extended Uiul—all 'till March 1. A resolution was offered space than in almost any other space in the asking if naval officers had combined to

Interior was called upon ior information hung and swung from rock and hill and regarding the disposition ot abandoned oleander. 1.Oman gentlemen in pleasure coantrvmon in rop their shout fines on Dec. 20, passed. The Alabama and lauglrter, or swinging idly at their

regarding tne disposition oi aoanooneu vicunuur. i-.u in kuuuuuiuu military reservations. Tne House resolu boats sailing thib lake, and (O.inti,

tion to pay members their December sal-

of great luxuriance the

surrounding hills, terraced, sloped, grooved,

mjmy 0 beauty

were castles, armed towers, Ko-

froin tho

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treeof the forest to

the trees ol rigorous climate.

It seemed as if the Lord had launched

one Waveot

beauty on allthe s-ene, audit

li- „,-i „r ,i hsli smacks coming down to dro

nct9) pass each oth^r Wllll I10ll

can the

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ests, as against these of the public into the air the sails of the vessel loosen, and that the facts, as stated in Judge and the siiarp winds crack like pistols the Gresham's review, warrant an investiga- smaller boats like petrels poise on tlie cliffs tion. The friends of Judge Brewer, it is

said, denied that he was in any wife mflu-

enced in his action the Wabash receiv- back part of the boat, and lay hold of ership, but adjournment came before the Christ, and say unto him: "Master, carest case was disposed of. It is believed, how- thou not that we perish?" That great perthat the nomination will be con- sonage lifts his head from the pillow ot the fisherman's coat, walks to the front of the vessel, and looks out into the storm. All

chin rests, of course, on its unrivaled iralue its ail index of character—ana such a character! It is really nature's patent with nobility. This was long Bgo discerned by tho groat master ol physiognomy. It is not difficult to diHue wlj.nt Lavaler thought of a double itun. lio carefully points out thai man ditlers from tlie animals chiellj by his chin, laying it down as an axiom th.it the chin is the distinctive characteristic of humanity consequent^ flouble chinned people are doubiy differentiated from the beasts that perish, which is greatly to their credit, lie Expressly takes for his model of "the thinker, full of sagacity and penetration,1' a man with a fleshy double chin, coupled with a nose rounded at the end. The portrait he a^ives is even better than the letter press, as the gentleman is limned with at least five chins, so that his lower jaw was a vista of magnificent distances, like WashingIon. This happy physiognomy of the double chin, coupled with the rounded nose, characterizes, he tells us, th« mind which can rise to heights and which follows its designs with reflecting firmness, unalloyed by obstinacy. Let, therefore, those with double chins rejoice, whether they possess rounded noses or not, and quote Lavater ii gratitude.

It is a delicate proceeding to tell a woman that you do not like tho mush she makes, but. in case of necessity tlie thing can be done.

A gentleman with a sensitive and cultivated ear was greatly annoved by the persistent and wretched piano jjlaving of a woman who occupied tho room over his head. One dav lie met fier in the hall accompanied by lier.jvear old daughter. "Your little £irl plays quite well for a child of her age," he remarked.i his most friendly manner. "I hear her

"practicing every day.,'--:Yoiith'.s Com.

Hare You a Double ('liliil around him are the smaller boats, driven in The {Treat justification of the double tenii,esti mid through it comes the cry of drowning men. By tho flash of the lightning I see tho calm brow of Christ as the spray dropped from his beard. He nas one word for the sky and another for the waves. Looking upward he cries: "Poaco!" Looking downward he savs: "HosiUU"

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moorings. O, what a beautiful scene It. seems as il we shall have a quiet night. iSiot a leaf winked in tlie air not a rioplc disturoed the face of Gennesaret but there seems to be a little excitement up the oeach. and we hasten to see what it is, and we find it an embarkation.

From the western shore a flotilla pushing out not a squadron, or deadly armament,

nor clipper wrth valuable merchandise, nor

,. piratic vessels ready to destroy everything

thpy gejzG) but he

beaten bvv a retorencc to the committe on sengers of life and peace. Christ is in rules. the front of the boat. His disciples are The executive session of tho Senate, in a smaller boat. Jesus, weary with much Tuesday afternoon, lasted nice than two spiking to large multitudes, is put into hours. The principal topic of discussion ?™lence

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rocking of the waves.

a a a a a

iiy righted if the wind passed from

starboard to larboard, or from larboard to starboard, the boat would rock, and by the gentleness of the motion putting theM aster asleep. And they extemporized a pillow made out of a fisherman's coat. I think no

4-4.1 sooner is Christ prostrate, and his head

tion was opposed by Senators ol both par- touched the pillow, than he is sound asleep, ties, it is said, who based their objections The breezes of the lake run their fingers upon two grounds: First, decisions the through the locks of the worn sleeper, and prohibition eases in Kansas, which were the boat rises and falls like a sleeping child afterward reversed by the Supreme Court:

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bosom *l sleeping mother.

Calm night, starry night, beautiful night Run up all the sails, ply all the oars, and let the large boat and the small boat glide over gentle Gennesaret. But the sailors say there is going to bo a changa of weather. And even the passengers can hear the moaning of the storm, as it comes on with great stride, and all tlie terrors ot hurricane and darkness. Tlie large boat trembles like a deer at bay among the clangor of the hounds great patches of foam are flung

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the waves and then plunge.

4. Overboard go cargo, tackling and masts,

and the drenlhed discU)ie3 P^8h int0 th^

The waves fall flat on their faces, the f0:iin melts, the extinguished stars relight their torches. The tempest falls dead and Christ stands with his feet on tho neck of tho storm. And while the sailors are bail» ing out the boats, and while they are trying to untangle the cordage, the disciples stand in amazement, now looking into the calm sea, then into the calm sky, then into the calm Saviour's countenance, and they cry out: "What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him.*"

The subject in the first place impresses me with the fact that it is very important to have Christ in the ship for all those boats would have gone to the bottom of the Gennesaret if Christ had not been present. Oh, what a lesson for you and for me to learn! We must always have Christ in tho ship. A\ haiever voyage we undertake, into whatever enterprise we start, let us always have Christ in the ship. All you can do with utmost tension of body, mind, and soul, you are bound to do but oh! have Christ in every enterprisa, Christ in every voyage.

There are men who ask God's help at the beginning of great enterprises. He has been with them in tho past no trouble can overthrow them the storms might come down from the top of Mount I-Iermon, and lash Gennesaret into foam and into agony, but it could not hurt them. But here is I another man who starts out in worldly enterprise, and he depends upon the uncertainties of this life. He has no God to help him. After awhile the storm comes and tosses off the masts of the ship he puts out his life-boat and the long boat the sheriff and the auctioneer try to help him off he must go down—no Christ in the ship.

Your life will bo made up of sunshine and shadows. There may bo in it Arctic blasts or tropical torn idoes I know not what is before yon, but I know if you have Christ with ydu all shall be well. You may seem to get along without tho religion of Christ while everything

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smoothly, but after awhile, when sorrow hovers over the soul, when the waves of trial dash clear over the hurricane deck, *mI tfc* «Mw4«d with pteatiMl

disasters—oh, what would you do then without Christ in the ship? Take God for your portion, God for your guide, God for your help then all is welln all is well for time, all is well forever. Blessed is that man who puts in the Lord his trust He shall never be confounded.

But my subject also impresses me with the fact that when people start to follow Christ they must not expect smooth sailing.

These diciples got into the small boats, and I have no doubt they saul*. "What a beautiful day thi3is! hat a bright sky this is! How delightful is sailing in this boat. And as for the waves under the keel of the boat, why* they only make the motion of our little boat the more delightful." But when the winds swept down and the sea was tossed into wrath, then they found that lollowing Christ was not smooth sailing. So you have found it so 1 have found it. Did you ever notice the end of the life of the apostles of Jesus Canst* You would say, if ever men ought to have had a smooth life, a smooth departure, then tho.se men, the disciples ot .lesus Christ, ought to have had such a departure and such a lile. St. James lost his head. St. Philip was hung to death on a pillar, bt. Matthew nad lus life dashed out with a lialbert. St. Mark was dragged todeatn through the streets. St. James the Less was beaten to death with a tuller club. St. Thomas was struck through with a spear. Tuey did not lind following Christ smooth sailing. Oh, how they ail tossed the tempest! John Huss in the lire Hugh Mo Kail in tho hour of martyrdom the Albigenses, the Waidenses, the Scotch Covenanters—did they hnd it smooth sailing? But why go into history when wo can draw from our own memory illustrations of the truth of what I say? Some young man in a store trying to serve God, while his employer scoffs at Christianity the young men in the same store, antagonistic to the Christian religion, teasing him tormenting him about his religion, trying to get him mad. They succeeded in getting him mad, saying, "You're a pretty Christian!" Does that young man hnd it smooth sailing when he tries to follow Christi Or you remember a Christian girl. Her father despises the Christian religion her mother despises the Christian religiou her brotiiers and sisters scotT at the Christian religion she can hardly had a quiet place which to say tier prayers. Did she lind it smooth sailing when she tried to follow Jesus Christ? Oh, no! All who would live the lite of the Christian religion must suffer persecution it you do not lind it in one way, .vou will get it in another way. ino qucst.1011 was asked: who are those wno are nearest the throne?" And the answer came back: "These are they vvao came up out of great tribulation— gre^t flailing, as the original has it great Hailing, great pounding—and had their robes washed and made white in the biood ot ttie iamb.". Oh- di not be disheartened! Take courage. Vou are glorious companioustue. Gud will sec you through all trials and he will deliver you. My suoject als'j impresses nie with tlie fact tnat good pjople sometimes get very much Irightened.

In the tones of fcnese disciples as they rushed into the back part of the boat, I hnd tuey are frightened almost to death. They say: "Master, carest thou not that wo perish?" They had no reason to be irightened, for Christ was in the boat. I suppose if we had been there we would have been just as much affrighted. Perhaps more. In all ages very good people get very much affrighted. It is often so in our day. and men say: "Why, look at tho bad lectures look at the various errors going over tho church ot God we are going to founder the church is going to uerish she is going down." Oh how many good people are affrighted/ty, iniquity in our day, and think tffi church of .lesus Christ is gom^ V) be overthrown, and araiust ujoii affrighted as were the disciples of my text. Don't worry, don't iret, as though iniquity were going to triumph over righteousness. A lion goes into a cavern to sleep. He lies down, with his shaggy ma.ie covering the p.iws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a web across tho mouth of tne cavern anl say, ".\e have captured him." Gossamer thread aLter gossamer thread, until thj whole iront of the cavern is covered with th3 spider web, and the spiders say "Tue lion is done the lion is fast." After a while the lion has got through sleepinx he rouses himself, he shames his man-j, he walks out into the sunlight he does not even know the spider web is spun, and with his voice he shakes the mountain. So men come spinning their sophistr.es and skepticism about Jesus Christ he seems to be sleeping, 'lhey say: "We have captured tho Lord he will never come forth again upon the nation Christ is captured forever. His religion will never make any conquest among men." But atter a wlnlo the Lion of the tribe of Judah will rouse himself and come forth to shake mightily the nations. What's a spiders web to the aroused lion? Give truth and error a fair grapple and truth will come off victor.

But there are a great many good people who get affrighted in other respects they are affrighted in our dav about revivals. They say: "Oh! this is a strong religious gale we are afraid the church of God is going to be upset, and there are going to bo a great many people broagnt into the church that are going to be of no use to it:" and thev are affrighted whenever they see a revival taking hold ot the churches. As though a ship captain, with live thousand bushels ot wheat for a cargo, should sav some day, coming upon deck: '-Throw overboard all the cargo and the sailors siiould say: "\\hy, cmtain, what do you I mean? Throw over all. the cargo?" "Oh," says the captain, "we have a peck of chaff that has got into tins live thousand bushed of wneat, and tho only way to get rid of the eh alt is to throw all the wheat overboard." Now, th it is a great deal wiser than the talk of a great many Christians who want to throw overboard all the thousands and tens of thousands of souls who are the subjects of revivals. Throw all overboard because they are brought into the kingdom of God through great revivals, because there is a peck ot chaff, a quart of chaff, a pint of chaff I 1 say, let thera stay until tho last day the Lord will divide the chaff from the wheat. Do not bo afraid of a great revival. Oh, that such gales from heaven might sweep through all our churches! Oh, for such days as Richard Baxter saw in England, and

Robert a cCheyne saw in Dundee I Oh, for such days as Jonathan Edwards saw in Northampton! I have often hoard my father tell of the fact that in the early part of this century a revival broke out at Somerville, N. J., and some people were very much agitated about it. They said: "Oh. you are going to bring too many people into the church at once and they sent down to New Brunswick to get John Livingston to Btop the revival. Well, there was no better soul in all the world than John Livingston. He went and looked at tho revival they wanted him to stop it. Ho stood in the pulpit on tho Sabbath, and looitoil over the solemn auditor v. and he said: "This, brethren, is in reality the work of Goil veware how you try to stop it." And ho was an old inan, leaning heavily on his staff —a very old man. And he ill ted that staff, and took hold ot the small end of the staff, and began to l«t It fall slowly through be-

tween the finger and the thumb, and he said: "Oh, thou impenitent, thou art falling now—falling from life, falling away from peace and heaven, falling as certainly as that cane is falling through my handfalling certainly, though perhaps falling slowly!" And the cane Kept oe falling through John Livingston's baud. The religions emotion tne audience was overpowering, and men saw a type of their doom, as the cane kept falling and falling until tho knob of the cane struck Mr. Livingston hand, and he elapsed it stoutly and said: "But tlie grace of God can stop vou as I stopped that cane:" and then there was gladness all through the house at the fact of pardon and peace and salvation. "Well," sa-d the people after the service, "I guess you had better send Livingston home lio is making tho revival worse." Oh, ior gales from heaven to sweep all the continents The danger of the church of God is not in revivals.

Again, my subject impressed me with tne fact ahat Jesus was God and man 111 the same being. Here he is in the back part ol the boat. Oh, how tired lie IOOKS what sad dreams he must have! Look at his countenance He mus be thinking of the cross to come. Look at him, lie is a man— bone of our bone, tlesn of our tiesh. Tired, he fails asleep he is a man. But then 1 find Christ at the prow of the boat I hear him say: "Peace, be still and I see tne storm kneeling at his feet, and the tempests folding their wings in his presence he is a God.

If I have sorrow and trouble, and want sympathy, I go and kneel down at the back part of the boat and say: "Oh, Christ: weary ono of Gennesaret, svmpathzo with all my sorrows, man ot Nazareth, mac of the cross." A man, a man. But if want to get the victory over ."sin. death, and hell, I come to tho front of the boat, and I kneel down, aud I say: "Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, thou who dost hush the tempest, hush all my grief, hush ail my temptation, hush all my sin!" A man, a man a God, a God.

I learn once more from this subject that Christ can hush a tempest. It did seem as if everything must goto ruin. The disciples had given up tne ulea of managing the ship the crew were entirely demoiisned yet Cnrist rises, and he puts his foot on the storm, and it crouches at Ins feet, Oh, yes! Christ can hush the tempest. You have had trouble. Perhaps it was the little child taken away from you tho sweetest child of the household, the one who asked the most curious questions, and stood around you with the greatest fondness, and the spade cut down through your bleeding heart. Perhaps it was an only son, and your heart ha3 ever since been like a desolated castle, the owis of the nignt hooting among tho faileti arches and the crumoling stairwavs. Perhaps it was an aged mother. You always went to ber with your troubles. She was in your coroe to welcome your children into lite, and when they died she was there to pity you that old hand will do you no niore kindness that white loci: of hair you put away in tho casket or in the locket didn't ioott as it usually did when she brushed it away from her wrinkled brow in the home eirclo or in the country church. Or your property gone, you said: "I have so much bank stock, I have so many government securities, I have so many houses, I have so many farms—all gone, all gone." Why, sir, all the storms that ever trampled with their thunders, all the shipwrecks, have not been worse than tins to you- Yet you have not been completely overthrown. Why? Christ says: "I have that little ono in my keeping. I can care for him as well as you can, bettor than you can, O bereaved mother!" Hushing the tempest. When your property went away, God said: "There are treasures in heaven, in banks that never break." Jesus hushing the tempest. There is one storm into which we will all havo to run. The moment when wc let go of this world and try to taire hold of the next, we will want all the grace possible. Yonder 1 see a Christian soul rocking on tne surges of deatii all the cowers ot darkness seem let out against that soul—the swirling wave, the thunder of the skv, the shriek of the wind, ail seem to unite together but that soul is not troubled there is no sighing, there arc no tears plenty ot tears the roo ut tuu departure. Put lie weeps no tears cahn, satisfied and peace ml au is well. Ky il1'llasu oi the storm you see tne liamor .iii.itahead, and you are making for tti.it huroor. All shall be well, Jesus being our iruide. Into the Harbor of heaven now we glide e're home at last, home at last. Softly we dritt on tho bright silvry tidj,

We re home at last. Glory to God! all our dangers are cr, Westind secure on tne glorified shore Glory vo Uod wo will shout evermore, re home at last.

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Sir James Colquhoun was one passing by a, second-hand shop, the Youth's Companion, when ho exposed lor sale a handsome jar one his wifo had long since consigned to the attic as old rubbish. It was at the time when jars and vases must be in pairs."I'll buy it,*" Sir James thought, "and we'll touch up that olu jar in the garret, and we'll have a liaud.iome pair." lie was fond of such bargains. lie went in and asked tlie price. The dealer demanded guineas for it, but after some rg-aining- accepted guineas, fair Jame.-:, pleased with liis purchase, hurried home to his wife, tbe prize in his hands, and cxcianned: "Lady Colquhoun, only sec what I have lound! It's tlie very mate to the old jar in tho garret. Wasn't I luck\ to get it—and so cheap, too! Only guineas, when we paid 10 guineas for each of those jars when now. There!" and he put it down on tho table beside her. "What do you think.'"'

Lady Colquhoun looked and laughed. "Sir James," shesaid, *T sold that old jar in the garret this very day for

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guineas to old Carr, and I believe you've bouffht it back again." "Yes, I'm afraid I have," said Sir James, soberly "I bought tt atCarr's. And it's tho same old jar."

The jar was carried back to its quarters in the garret. It was the last piece of old bric-a-brac that Sir James bought.

lie Followed Instruction.

Trate wife: "John Hawkins, you were brought home on a shutter again last night. I want you to understand that this is to be tho last time." John Hawkins: "Yes, Matilda." The next evening he made the boys promise to bring him homo in a wheelbarrow, as his wife objected to shutters. Judge.

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The railroad which will adopt tho idea of nsing weights on tho window sashes of the cars, so that they may run up and down freely, as in our dwellings, may never pay a dividend to stockholders, but every passenger will advertise the lino from Maino to Texas a9 exhibiting: common senso.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

South Bend claims 25,000. Clay county has G57 pensioners. An epidemic oi measles prevails at Can nelsburg, and the schools have been closed.

The farmers ot Ripley township, Montgomery county, organized a rabbit hun and killed 400 of the bunnies.

S. C. Grubb, a brakeman who was in ]ured on the Foi't Wayne, Cincinnati & Louisville road, was given damages, Wednesday.

A ci izen of New Market, Clark county, drank some of a patent cordial as medicine. He has since become insane, and the cordial receives the blame for it.

At Howard's ship yards workmen are ouilding an Anchor Line steamer, to cost $100,000, and three Mississipi Valley Transportation barges, costing about $50,000. The Ohio Falls Car Works have contracts for 2, 300 cars and nearly thirty coacnes. It will be seen that Jcffersonvillc is a great center for lurmslung means for transportation.

There was a sale, of Clydesdale draught horses on the Adams & Co., stock farm, near Muncie, Wednesday, and good prices prevailed. B. L. Perrv, of Cable, O., purchased a three-year-old stallion for §550: a six year-old went to Fred lee, of Mt. .Summit, for $-100 William Cray, of Modoc. bought one ot .similar age for £1,.J00, and John Barrett, of Randolph county, paid$540 for a three-year-old.

Thursday night Fielding Colbert, of Washington, brother oi bheriif Colbert,attended a meeting of a literary society near that city, accompanied by May Iledriek. After the close, as they passed from the building, Colocrt was struck down with a bludgeon, and was kicked about the head and face after befell. He was picked up in an unconscious condition and at last accounts was still insensible. The assailant was not recognized. Jealousy is supposed to have prompted the attack.

Memories ol the Pollard school furniture swindle are revived in a suit at Greensburg, which Freeman Pollard seeks to recover $2,500 from Llmer Hill and wile. The plaintiff is a son and the defendant a brother-m-taw of R. B. Pollard, and the former claims that his father sent him from Canada some Government bonds, and that he invested §"2,500 with Ilill in a farm, placing the deed the name of Mrs. Hill. The Hills deny the trust, and allege that tho bonds were sent to ilill as commission while he was in business with R. B. Pollard.

EvansviMc was cursod with a gang of gamblers, who plundered right and left and played all sorts of swindles with seeming impunity. Finally the Evansville Journal scored the authorities so roundly tnat- the police were spurred into activity, and the hrst ga.noler captured was fined $:25 and costs bv the Mayor. This alarmed others, and while some hastily left the city, others contented themselves with sending threatening letters to the representatives of the paper in question, only to find themselves still further roasted in print. The course of the paper has worked a wonderful change in public sentiment, and it illustrates the salutary influence to be exerted in a community where once a fearless journalist sets his lace in the right direction.

The annual report of the Northern Prison was placed in: the hands ol the Governor Thursday. We extract the lollowing details: Receipts and earnings of the prison dut ing the year ending Oct. ol, IStsft, were $1 expenditures, balance of receipts over expenditures, $U,b24.^. The Fort Wayne Jenncv Company put an incandescent electric-light, plant costing $'.),400, and the the improvement ever candles is marked. Crude petroleum has been substituted lor coal as fuel. It is clean, odor less and reduces tho annual cost of iuel '25 percent. The sewer lor which tlie Legis lature appropriated $10,000 will be done by snring. The school established a year ago nas proven so popular that a doubling of its capacity is recomtLcnded. There were in the prison on October 31, T4S convicts, an increase of forty-six over year belorc. During the year 314 prisoners were discharged by expiration of sentence, 15 wore pardoned or paroled. 1 escaped and was not captured. 7 died. Each prisoner costs the State ft 1 per year each receives clothing cost ing ST. OS per annum and lood costing 12 cents per dav. There are in the prison 5 broken down consumptives who will soon die. There are seventy-seven murderers on lined in the prison. Oi the 7.40 prisoners, 509 are put down as intemperate, aud 1-19 temperate- There's a whole temperance library in a few words. The clerk who made the report said "Ninety-two prisoners can neither read nor wriglit." lie not say whether they can spell. Only eighty nine are foreign born.

Col W W- Dudley was in Indianapo.is Thursday A warrant was sworn, out by Leon Bailey lor his arrest, but was not served After issuing the warrant at his ofiiee Mr. Van Burcn called on United States District Attorney Chambers and notified him of the issuing of the warrant Mr. Chambers at once said that he would

not

countenance tbe warrant. Ho said to Mr Van Burcn that Bailey's Grand Jury which had indicted 150 Republicans, only a few of whom could be convicted, had thoroughly investigated the charge against Dudley, and had refused to find any indictment. For that reason, he said, ho would not renew the case. With such instructions from the District Attorney, Mr. Van Burcn held that he could do nothing more He put the warrant in his pocket,and there it remains. Mr. Chambers takes the responsibility of bringing about the status quo Colonel Dudley seemed to be court ing arrest. A little after 9 o'clock ho went to the Federal building, and remained there an hour, visiting the United States Marshal's office, the Clerk's office, the postoffice and the District, Court room He was cordially received everywhere. The United States Marshal escorted him about the building, and Judge Woods cauic down olT the b(Mich to shako hands with him. T.ic „-.o.iel curing his stay in the building made many jocular remarks about the efforts of his enemies to havo him placed under arrest. A current opinion is that Dudley came to Indianapolis

solely for the purpose of testing the disposition to prosecute lnm. It is also believed by Democrats that before coming he had assurances that he would not be prosecuted.

Tne State Grange in session at Indianapolis Thursday, declared the new schoolbook law to be a step in the right direction. The liquor license system was ue clared to be ::wrong the tobacco and liquor license should be retained, the Grangers decided: a committee was instructed to bring measures of agricultural importance before the Legislature. No definite action was taken upon the union of the Grange with the Knights of Labor, They resolved in favor oi holding the World's fair at Chicago, that United States Senators should be elected by di reet vote of the people that a graduated income tax would be a good thing: that aliens should not be allowed to own property in the United States that property should be assessed for taxation at its full cash value that elements of agriculture should be tanght in tne public schools that the census should give farm mortgage statistics that county commissioners should not have the ri-,'ht to call for elections to vote railroad tax: that there should be a tree coinage of silver and a circulation of paper currency, independent of the National banks, in sufficient volume to prevent further contraction. Thev also favor a reduction of the salaries of State and many county officers, aud dc crv the great and unjust inequalities in distribution of the rewards of Iaoor and the burdens of government, in that the property of farmers and laboring men generally, never escape assessment for taxes, whrle notes, mortgages and bonds of money-lender's and corporations are largely hid away, thereby escaping assess ment and taxation. Trusts and combines were mercilessly condemned.

NATIONALJJONGUESS.

A reform in the printing of useless doc it-" ments was discussed by the Senators, Thursday. Senator Call introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President to begin negotiations with the Government oF Spain for the establishment ol a Repuoln: on the Island ot Cuba. In connection with this, Mr. Call presented a petition from natives of Cuba (now citizens of the United States) and stated that it had been represented to lnm that nearly all such persons were in lavor of the resolution.

In the House, Thursday, Mr. Butterworth offered a series of resolutions pro vidmgfor an investigation of the ballot box contract forgery in Ohio. They were adopted. The committee to investigate the Silcot defalcation made their report.,

The report ot the Silcott select Committee gives a detailed statement ol the assets and liabilities of the ofiiee ou De cember 5. The shortage is stated at $70,708.90. It states that the committee has not yet made sufficient investigation ot the matter of discounts and notes. Many notes, tho committee believe, were forged to cover defalcation already exist mg. It also says that the committee can not too severely condemn the manner in which the Sergeant-at-arms conducted the affairs of his office. Mr. Payson offered a resolution continuing the committee and giving it enlarged powers, in which along debate sprung up, after which a resolution was adopted extending the powers of the select committee so that it mav report to the House its conclusions as to the effect of any deficiency of cash in the office of the Sergeant-at-arms. Adjourned until Monday.

Among-the various memorials and neti titions presented in the Senate Monday were several for the passage of the service pension bill, one (from Iowa) for the selection of Chicago as the site for the exposition of 1S92 one for the admission of Wvoming as a State one in favor of the Blair educational bill (from the Chicago ooard of trade,, for one cent letter post agt and several for the passage of the Sunday rest bill. The House resolution ior pri*itinb 40,000 copies of the agrieui tural report, at a cost of §200,000 passed. Many bills were reported from committees and placed on the calendar, among them one giving to California 5 per cent, of the proceeds of public land sales in that State. The new committees were announced. Mr. Mitchell offced a resolution inquiring whether Chinese laborers jan, under the law, pass through the country also a resolution calling on the President lor ah eoi respondence with China regarding the exclusion act. Tho Senate decided to ad journ from Dec. 19 to Jan. 0.

The resolution for a holiday recess from December 20 to January 0 was referred the House. The bill appropriating *150.000 to meet the deficiency in the Pr.nt.rig Office and $250,000 iu the Census Bureau was passed atter Mr. Bland's amendment, for finding out what farmers are house owners aud what renters, had been ruled out of order. One year's salary wa* appropriated to Mrs. Neal S. Brown, widow ot the late reading clerk. A resolution to ol fer $5,000 reward for the arrest of Silcott

was

referred to the Commissioner ori Territories, which lulls it. Mr. Coleman introduced a bill lor a navy yard .it ^ew Or leans A resolution was adopted to investigate the murder of Clayton Ai Kansas.

TWO OFFICIALS KILLED.

The pay car, containing all of the general road officers of the O., I. & W., went west at 7 o'clock a. m., Monday, and reached Veedernburg, west of Crawfords ville, in safetv. Between Veedersburg and Covington the track is for the most part good. Tjpon a straight stretch an axle of the car broke, and in tho crash following Superintendent Wilson and Trainmaster Cummers were ground tr death. A strange feature of the catastrophe is the fact that the four other persons-

who

were upon tho oar were not even injured. Tliey wore W. W. Lynn, auditor

and

cashier of tho road John Sloan, road master J- H- M.' Claggot, car accountant, and Frank H. Wilson, clerk to Superintendent Wilson. Between the t^o places named there is sharp curve and a stcei: grade Mail clerks say they often have to suspend work while rounding this curvc rapidly. But tho wreck occurred on a smooth piece of track, threb miles east ol Covington, and, so far as known, was due. solely to the broken axle.