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This went on for between an hour ind an hour and a half, till what between excitement and hope that uvaketh the heart sick I got so weary ihafe I was actually contemplating a descent from the tree and a moonfight stalk. Such an act in ground so open would have been that of a jtark,. staring lunatic, and that I ihould have even been contemplating It will show you the condition of my (nind.1 But everything comes to him frho knows how to wait, and sometimes, too, to him who doesn't, and lb at last those elephants, or rather ane. of them, came to me Hiey had fed their fill, which was a ifery large one, the noble three stood pnee more in line some seventy yards So the left of the hut and in the edge p£ the cultivated lands, or in all (bbout eighty-five yards from where twas perched. Then at last the one tfith a single tusk made a peculiar rattling noise in his trunk, just as ihougli he were blowing his nose, ind without more ado began to walk deliberately toward the hut where the old woman slept. I got my rifle ready and glanced at the moon, only io discover that a new complication was looming in the immediate future. have said that a wind rose with the (noon. Well, the wind brought rainclouds along its track. Several light anes had already for a little while essened the light, though without •bscuring it, and now two more were coming rapidly up, both of them irery black and dense. The first ttloud was small and long, and the one behind big and broad. I remember noticing that the pair of them bore a. most comical resemblance to a dray Irawn by a very long, raw-boned torse. As luck would have it, just as the elephant got within twentyfivo yards or so of me, the head of uhe horse-cloud floated over the face the moon, rendering it impossible for m© to fire. In the faint twilight nyhich remained, however, I could just make out the gray mass of the prcat brute still advancing toward .Ue hut. Then the light went out altogether, and I had to trust to my ears. I heard him fumbling with his irunk, apparently at the roof of the :iut. Next came a sound as of straw •icing drawn out, and then there was complete silence. The cloud began to pass. I could see the outline of fche elephant he was standing with bis head right over the top of the hut. But I could not see his trunk, inside the through fche roof, and attracted, no doubt, by the smell of the mealies, was groping «,bout with it inside. It was growing light now, and I got my rifle ready, when suddenly there was a most awful yell, and I saw the trunk reappear, and in its mighty fold the old woman who had been sleeping in the hut. Out she came through the hole like a periwinkle on the point of a pin, still wrapped up in her blanket ind her skinny legs and arms outstretched to the four points of the compass, and as she did so gave that Most alarming screech. I really don't know who was the most frightened, she or I or the elephant. At any ate. the last was considerably startted, he had been fishing for mealies— the old woman was a mere accident, And o^e that greatly discomposed his uerves. He gave a sort of trumpet, and threw her away from him right •n the crown of a low miamosa tree, where site stuck, shrieking like a metropolitan engine. The old bull lifted his tail, and flapping his great cars, prepared for flight. I put up my eight-bore, and aiming hastily at the point of his shoulder (for he was 'jroadside on), I fired. The report rang out. making a thousand echoes ^n the quiet hills. He went down all of a heap, as though ho were stonedead. Then, alas! whether it was the kick of the heavy rifle or the excitcd bump of that idiot Gobo, or merely an unhappy coincidence, I do not know, but the rotten beam broke and I went down too, landing flat. at ihc foot of the tree upon a certain humble portion of the human frame. The shock was so severe that I felt as though all mv teeth were flying through the roof of my mouth, but although sat slightly stunned for a few seconds, luckily for me I fell tight.auc1 was not in any way injured. Meanwhile the elephant began to scream with fear and fury, and attracted by his cries, the other two came charging up. I felt for my rifle it was not there. Then I remembered that I had rested it on a fork of the bough in order to fire,and doubtless there it remained. Mp position now was very unpleasant. I did not (care to try and climo the tree again, which, shaken as I was, would Lave been a task of some difficulty, because the elephants would certainly see me, and Gobo, who clung to a bough, was still aloft with the other rifle. I could not run, because there was no shelter near. Under these •circumstances I did the only think feasible—clambered round the trunk us softly as possible, and keeping one eye on the elephants, whispered ito Gobo to bring down the rifle, and

and no wonder, for it was in He had thrust it rifcht

awaited the development of the situ«1 ion. I knew that if the elephants

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iv^Vants sy moonlight in the open. So there I was behind my tree, dismay cd, unarmed, but highly interied, *'or I was witnessing a remark able :rmance.

When the other two bulls arrived, the wounded elephant on the ground ceased to scream, but bf"*an to make a low moaning noise and gently touch the wound near his shoulder, from which the blood was literally spouting out. The other two seemed to understand at any rate,they did this: Kneeling down on either side, they got their trunks and tusks underneath him, and, aided by his own efforts, with one great lift got him After jon his feet. Then leaning against him on either side to support him, they marched off at a walk in the direction of the village.* It was a pitiful sight, and even then it made me feel a brute.

Presently from a walk, as the wounded elephant gathered himself together a little, they broke into a trot, and after that I could follow them no longer with my eyes, jr the second black cloud came up over the moon and put her out as an extinguisher puts out a dip.^ I say with my eyes, but my ears still gave me a very fair notion of what was going on. When the cloud came up the three terrified animals were head ing directly for the kraal, probably because the way was open and the path easy. I fancy that they got confused" in the darkness, for when they came to the kraal fence they did not turn aside, but crashed straight through it. Then there were "times" as the Irish servant-girl says in the American book. Having taken the fence, they thought that they might as well take the huts also, so they just ran right over them. One hiveshaped hut was turned straight over upon its top, and when I arrived on tne scene the people who had been sleeping there were bumbling about inside like bees disturbed at night, while two more were crushed fiat, and a third had all its side torn out. Oddly enough, however, nobody was hurt, though several people had a narrow escape of being trodden to death. On arrival I found the old headman in a state painfully like that favored by Greek art, dancing about in front of his ruined abodes as vigorously as though he had been stung by a scorpion.

The editor would have been inclined to think that in relating this incident Mr. Quatermain was making himself interesting at the expense of the exact truth, did it not happen that a similar incident, has sinoe come within his own knowledge.—Ed.

I asked him what ailed him, and he burst out into a flood of aouse. He called me a wizard, a sham, a fraud, a bringer of bad luck. I had promised to kill the elephants, and I had so arranged things that the elephants had nearly killed him, etc.

This, still smarting, or rather aching, as I was from that most terrific bump, was too much for my feelings, so I just made a rush for my friend, and getting him by the ear I banged his head against the doorway of his own hut, which was all there was left of it. '•You wicked old scoundrel," I said, "you dare to complain about your own trifling inconveniences, when you gave me a rotten beam to sit on and thereby delivered me to the fury of the elephaut!" (bump! bump! bump!) "when your own wife" (bump!) "has just been pulled out of her hut" (bump!) "like a snail from its shell and thrown by the earth-shaker into a tree!" (bump! bump!). "Mercy, my father, mercy!" gasped the old fellow. "Truly I have done amiss—my heart tells me so." "I should hope it did, you old villain!" (bump!). "Mercy! great white man. I thought the log was sound. But what says the unequaled chief—is the old "woman, my wife, indeed dead? Ah, if she is dead, all may yet prove to have been for the very best and he clasped his hands and looked up piously to heaven, in which the moon was oncc more shining brightly.

I let go his ear and burst out laughing, the whole scene and his devout aspirations for the decease of the partner of his joys, or rather woes, were so intensely ridiculous. "No, you old iniquity,'' I answered, "I left her in the top of a thorn tree, screaming like a thousand blue-jays. "Alas! alas!" he said "surely the back of the ox is shaped to the burden. Doubtless, my father, she will come down when she is tired," and without troubling himself further about the matter he began to blow at the smouldering embers of the fire.

And, as a matter of fact, she did appear a few minutes later, considerably scratched and startled, but uone the worse.

After that I made my way to my little camp, which, fortunately, the elephants had not walked over, and wrapping myself up in a blanket was soon sound asleep. I And so ended my first round with those three elephants.

CHAPTER

IV.

THE LAST ROUNO.

jdid not see me, which, luckily, they On the morrow I woke up full of .were too engageu to do. they would painful recollections, and not withtiot smell nie, for I was up wind, out a certain feeling of gratitude to Gobo, however, either did not, or, jthe powers above that I was thereto (preferring the safely of the tree,' wake up. Yesterday had been a .would not, near me. He said the tempestuous day. indeed what beformer, but I believed the tatter, for tween buffalo, rhinoceros and ele1 knew that he was not enough of a pharit, it had been verv tempestuous, gportmaa to really enjoy shooting I Havimr realized this fa -.J-

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thought me of those magnificent tusks, and instantly, early as it was, broke the tenth commandment. 1 coveted my neighber's tusks, if an elephant can be said *o be my neighbor rie jure, as certainly, so recently as the previous night, he had been de facto—a much closer neighbor than I cared for, indeed. Now when you covet your neighbor's goods, the best thing, if not the most moral thing to do, is to enter his house as a strong man armed and take them. I was not a strong man, but having recovered my eight-bore I was armed, and so was the other strong man, the elephant with tusks. Consequently I prepared for a struggle to the death. In other words, I summoned my faithful retainers and told them that I was now going to follow those elephants over the edge of the world, if necessary. They showed a certain bashfulness at the news, but did not gainsay me, because they dared not. Ever since I had prepared with all due solemnity to execute the rebellious Gobo, tbey had conceived a great respect for me.

So I went up to bid adieu to the old headman, whom I found alternately contemplating the ruius of his kraal, and, with the able assistance of his last wife, thrashing the jealous lady who had slept in the mealie hut, because she was, as he declared, the author of all his sorrows.

Leaving them to work a way through their domestic differences, I levied a supply of vegetable food from the kraal in consideration of services rendered,and left them with my blessing. I do not know how they settled matters, because I have not seen them since.

Then I started on the spoar of the three bulls. For a couple of miles or so below the kraal, as far, indeed, as the belt of swamp that bordered the river, the ground was at this spot rather stony, and clothed with scattered bushes. Rain had fallen toward the day-break, and this fact,together with the nature of the soil, made spooring a very difficult business. The wounded bull had indeed bled freely, but the rain had washed the blood off the leaves and grass, and the ground being so rough and hard, had not taken the ,foot:marks so clearly as was convenient. However, we got along, though slowly, partly by the spoor, and partly by carefully lifting leaves and blades of grass, and finding blood underneath them, for the blood gushing from a wounded animal often falls upon their inner surfaces, and then, of course, unless the rain is very heavy, it is not washed away. It took us something over an hour and a half to reach the edge of the marsh, but once there our task became much easier, for the soft soil showed plentiful evidences of the great brutes' passage. Threading our way through the swampy land, we came at last to a ford of the river, and here we could see* wlidi^ the poor wounded animal had lain down in the mud and water in the hope of easing himself of his pain, and could see also how his two faithful companions had assisted him to rise again. We crossed the ford, and took up the spoor on the further side, and followed it into the marshlike land beyond. No rain had fallen on this side of the river, and the blood marks were consequently much more frequent.

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All that day we followed the three bulls, now across open plains, and now through patches of bush. They seemed to nave traveled on almost without stopping, and I noticed that as they went the wounded bull got up his"strength a little. This I could see from his spoor, which had become firmer, and also from the fact that the other two had given up supporting him. At last evening closed in, and having traveled some eighteen miles, we camped, thoroughly tired out.

Before dawn on the following day we were up, and the first break of light found us once more on the spoor. About half past five o'clock we reached the place where the elephants had i'ed and slept. The two unwounded bulls had taken their fill, as the condition of the surrounding bushes showed, but the wounded one had eaten nothing. He had spent the night leaning against a goodsized 'tree, which his weight had pushed out of the perpendicular. They had not long left this place, and could not be very far ahead, especially as the wounded bull was now so stiff after his night's rest that for the first few miles the other two had been obliged to support him. But elephants go very quick, even when they seem to be traveling slowly, for shrubs and creepers that almost stop a man's progress are no hinderance to them. The three had now turned to the left, and were traveling back again in a semi-circular line toward the mountains, probably with the idea of working round to their old feeding-grounds on the further side of tlio river.

There was nothing for it but to follow their lead, and accordingly we followed with industry. Through all that long, hot day did wc tramp, passing quantities of every so»t of game, and even coming across the spoor of other elephants. But in spite of my men's entreaties I would not turn aside for these. I would have those mighty tusks or none.

By evening we were quite close to our game, probably within a quarter of a mile, but the bush was dense and we could see nothing of them, so once more we had to camp, thoroughly disgusted with our luck. That night just after the moon got op, while I was sitting smoking m#pipe with my back against a treeheard an elephant trumpet, as though something had startled it, not three,hundred yards away. I was very tired, but curiosity overcame my wearipess,

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men, all of whom were asleep, I took' INDIANA STATU! my eight-bore and a f-nv spare cartridges and steer 1t ward the sound. The game pith which we had been following all day ran straight on in the direction from which the elephant had trumpted. It was narrow but well trodden and the light struck down upon it in a straight line. I

crept along it cautiously for some two hundred yards, when it suddenly opened into a most beautiful glade some hundred yards or more in width, wherein the tall grass grew and fiat-topped trees

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With the caution born of long experience I watched for a

few moments'

before I entered the glade, and then I saw why the elephant had trumpeted. There in the

middle

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glade stood a great maned liou. He stood quite still, making a soft, purr-' ing noise and waving his tail to and fro. Presently the grass about forty yards on the hi.r^'or side of him gave a wide ripple a 't lioness sprang out like a flash :. bounded noiselessly up to the lion. Reaching him, the great cat halted suddenly and rubbed her head against his shoulder. Then they both began to purr loudly, so loudly that I believe that one the stillness have heard! might in them two away.

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Minneapolis ^Larger Than Paris. The Century for July. The existing Paris cover 19.27,r)J acres, or about 30 square miles, whilej metropolitan London, with 4,000,000) population, contains 118 square miles,! and Chioago, as recently enlarged,j provides an area about as extensive, for 1,100,000. The average

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from the center of Paris to the ciH cumference is only three miles. Minneapolis, with only 165,000 people, has a municipal area more than twice as large as that of Paris. Almost the entire population of Paris is housed in the fiats of tenement structures averaging from four to five stories: in height. According to the revised figures of the census of 1886 therei were nearly 75,000 houses in Paris, and the average number of people in a house was about 30. In the old arrondissements of the inner Paris there are probably about 30,500 houses, accommodating about l,000,000 people. For a total contrast in the plan of house construction wd have only to cross the channel and examine London, where we find an average of about eight persons to a house for the whole metropolis. But the people of Paris are better housed, all things considerd than those oj London. A population of 2,500,00(1 within a circle whose radius is only three miles is certainly ver\ dense, but it must be remembered that Paris is a many-storied city.

Down the Tree:

There was eight or ten of us on the platform of a railroad station in Tennessee waiting for the train, and by and by some one called my attention to a woman seated on a barrel and smoking a pipe with great vigor. "What big feet," said one. "How stupid she looks!" added a second. "Bet a dollar she doesn't know A from Z!" put in a third.

Half a dozen people had had their say, when a "native," who had been whittling away at a shingle and sitting with his" feet dangling off the platform, turned about and called to the woman. "Mary, is the shot-gun in the cart?" "Yep." "You'un tot it along here!" "What fur?" "Got to shute some of these 'uns fur talkin' 'bout you! Drapsome extra buckshot in the bar'ls!"

Mary didn't go however. Six apologies were rendered in six seconds, and the husband accepted each and every one and said: "You'un needn't tose that ar'gun over yere! These 'uns hev cum down the tree!"

An Inactive Booin.

New York Tribune. Wichita, Kan., hasn't as big a boom on now as it had two or three years ago, though it is still a bustling town of thirty thousand inhabitants. Among its interesting features are its institutions of learning, whiet haven't much past or present, but great future. There is Fairmont College, which the Congregationalism put up a cost of $100,000. It hasn't any students yet. Wichita University was built by the Lutherans at a cost of $100,000, and is in operation. The Presbyterians have a fine sitf for a college, but prudently refrain from building just yet. Garfield University is to be one of the bip things of the West when finished. II will cover an acre and a half of land, and will accommodate 3.500 students. At present it accomodates a mucL smaller number however.

Cuffllsh as Site is Spoke.

After the examinations: of pupili comparing notes—"Say, Bill watcl ye gittin rithmotic?"

Eighty-seven, i:nni did dun tex pect morn forty. Jew pass in gram mar?" "Betcher boots got ninety-three anni ony made two mistakes in par sin, anni got hundred in spellln." "Sodi George Goodie failed ii spellin." "Yessanni nodewood, too, fury a! ways looked in the book innoral. Ii wont gittin ice-coel furnuther year Ime going in nex fall." "Somi. Gooby." "Gooby. Cummout taftcrs uppe* an navsomfun." "Cant got to go to mectiu wi£l mum-mother.''

A larjre poach wop Is assured. Chrisney has a mad dog scare. Lafayette has twelve mail-carriers, i-iixiy-five wide ws live in Clay City. Now Albany has 825.000 in its treasury?' Ddvftlb co mty has SoO.OOO indebtedness Monroeville is prospecting for natural £as.

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J\nightstown has contracted for electric !ipluinr. The are White Cap threatenings at Columbia City.

Electricity will reylaco the mule at Lorransport.. Ft. Ywi. no clairr.3 the finest church edi-Ik-es in the Mate.

Throe-card montc swindlers are operating at VinetMines. .] Kingsland is developing unexpected natur i! s,m.s resources.

Lafontaine Lodge, I. O. O. P., is organi/.ii:K a cornet, band. Logansport has a tennis club limited to JeH-handed playeis

The Dunkirk natural gas field is one of the host, in the State. Mrs. Phillips committed suicide at New Uidimond on the 7th.

Karl Moss was killed by lightning at Michigan City on the Gth. Mad dogs arc creating a sensation In the vicinity of i'.loomington.

Leavenworth capitalists will invest $7,uOO in a canning factory. The Dwiggins bank syndicate has organ ized a new bank at Jonesboro.

Lagrange comity is shouting with glee over its enormous yield of wheat. Thomas Orrill, of Seymour, aged fiftysix. is dead of delirium tremens. •One thousand barrels af onions are shipped weekly from New Albany.

A. E. Mathency killed his wife and then himself, at Indianapolis, ontheSth. Tiie total inciease in valuation of all laxables in Carroll county is $3,290,595.

Indian creek, in Floyd county, was never so low as at present, due to the drought. Work has begun on the new seventy-ive-tboiisand-dollar opera house at Muu•io.

Wilder* Brigade will hold a reunion at vYoi Ihington on the 26th, 27th and i!8th of August.

Morgan coiinty wheat averaged twonty!ive bushels to the acre, and brought 80 *'.!!? s. lirady & Russell's furniture factory mrned at I'etronia on the 7th. Loss, (K).fOj.

An Indianapolis \vheat dealer estimates Indiana's wheat crop this year at 65,OOOtOCO bushels.

It. is estimated that theDePauworchard in Harrison county will yield 5,OCX) bushels, if peaches.

Pett.it., the wife murderer is very conspicuous in the religious services in the prison north.

A (lying bullet, near Crawfordsville, cut j!r Waiter Schepply's linger and lodged in John Bin ford's eye.

Rushvilie church sextons have agreed to •onml but twelve strokes on Sundays,callng people to worship. ,u"

The largest peach orchard in the State Is said to be one of 5,000 acres at Bethlelem, in Jefferson County.

An entire wheat Held near Noblesville :s set on tire by a spark from a tkresnng engine .vnd destroyed.

The petrified body of a miner is said to have been discovered after a blast in a coal mine near Knightsville.

Two miles of coaar-block pavement are i)eing laid at Crown Point. The town will shortly be lighted by electricity.

Tin- Costelio candy factory, of West Marion, was destroyed by tiro loss,§10,000. The. firm carried $S,25!) insurance.

A swarm of bees took possession of La-w-lie & Hair's store, at Washington, and for .several hours held high carnival.

Orange county is said torealiza annually more from shipment of eggs than from wheat, nogs anil cattle all put together.

A curious-looking brown bug has attacked green grapes and apples in Huntinglon county, doing great damage to the crop.

Lee Berkshire, near Milltown, lost his entire wheat crop by lire, which was communicated by sparks from a steam thresher. ,io.«eph Mitchell, of Clare, has been e'ectKl president-of the Hamilton county Farmers' Alliance,and Eli .Stalker,of West Meld, secretary.

Aiiuilia Joni s, postmaster under Cleveland. and one of the most prominent and highly-respected citizens of Indianapolis* died on the 12tli.

An animal of unknown species is quartered in a cave mi Columbia township, Fayette eouuty, ami great stories are told of its imaginary feiciousness.

A snake of the blue racer species twelve feet in length and eight inches in circumference

was

dead of

killed by a mowing machine

,-,u he Croan farm, near Anderson. SevenU'imi insane persons have been sent to asylums from Morgan county during the past year. In the majority of cases religion* excitement was tho uause.

The Mishawaka Democrat has made its Mpnearance, with I'. O'Neil at the helm li, is the first Democratic venture in that city since, the days of Wilbur F. Storey, in 184!.

Tho. body of an unknown man found on the highway near Los Angeles, Cal., Juno 10. proves to bo that of Jacob Tower, a well-known character at Wabash who went Went recently.

Mrs. Adam Snyder, of Terre Haute, while holding an infant in her arms, for whom a physician wa9 in the act of writing a presciption, suddenly fell over and died of heart disease.

Washington's wi.eat crop Is In dangerof partial destruction by gophers and squirrels. If the devastation continues it is estimated that not less than 17,000,000 bushels of grain will be destroyed.

Patents have been granted residents of Indian as follows: Frederick L. McCahn. Indianapolis, friction gearing for dynamos Geo. W. Parker, Terre Haute, separator for coal and other substances, Wm, 11. Scholl, Hobart, neckyoko.

Mrs. Hanry Nagle, of Jeffcrsonville, Is

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Edward Wolverton, near Montpelier, drew £000 from bank and started for Hart ford City. He is now missing.

The. «tand-pipe connected with the Michigan City water-works gave way unior pressure, causing S2,000 loss.

fright sustaiaed

one week ago

when a traction engine stampeded her horse. She was aged fifty, and regarded as one of the most charitablo women in the country.

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A Huntington county judge has decided that-Sliami Indians living there must pay taxes. Their lawyers objected on the grounds that the original treaty with the Indians exempted their lands from taxation. The case will go to the Supreme Court.

The first wheat of the *91 crop was threshed in Madison county on tho 8th. As| field of ten acres averaged twenty-eighth bushels per acre, and the berry is pronounced excellent, being hard, flinty and} full. Madison county contains 450 square! miles, and the '91 wheat crop is estimated| at 200,C03 bushels.

Wheat threshing is In full blast near Hillsdale, and reports indicate a yield of thirty bushels per acre on bottom land and twenty-two bushels on upland, Thequality is fine. Rain Is badly needed. Pastures* are dried up, corn and potatoes are badly damaged, and the oats are ripening so: short that the harvest will bodiflioult,

A startling discovery was made at the? Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane Monday morning, when friends called to? remove tho body of Ira Ewing, of Wa-i bash, who had died Sunday. The body had been placed in what is known as tho: dead room, and during the night rats had: burrowed through the clay floor and mutilated the body in a horrible manner.* Both eyes and lips were gone, and other mutilations made the scene sickening. Dr. Rogers, the Superintendent, states that this is tho first instance of tho kind on record, and that every care had been taken to prevent such an occurrence.

The first gas well drilled in Indiana was at Eaton, twelve miles north of Muncie,! in 1886, and after the well had been anchored and packed the gauge showed a pressure of 300 pounds. The well was then connected with mains and has been sup-1 plying the town and several factories with fuel. Last Friday the State gas inspector visited Eaton to examine this well and. test Its pressure after more than five years use. After disconnecting it tho pressure showee 315 pounds, demonstrating that it had gained rather than lost during It| years of service. It also tended to show that if a well is not overtaxed it will flow indefinitely.

Almost three months ago the attorneys employed by Carroll county to ferret out taxables that have been sequestered from taxation presented their proof to the auditor in the matter of the estate of Abner H. Uowen and the firm of A. H. «& A. T. Bo wen. The hearing of this case consumed three days and the auditor took the matter under advisement. Tlui Bowen heirs were represented at the hearing by their attornays and fought the matter desperately. The auditor rendered his decision on the 12th and placed on the tax duplicate against A. II. Bowen $1,583,940, and against the firm of A. H. & A. T. Bowen the sum of 8721,700, making a total of $2,305,640. This is about one-half the amount asked by the attorneys Jox^the county. But if this sum is collected, it will turn over ?30,000 into the county treasury.

It is the custom of the stockholders and officers of the Lawrenceburg and Aurora banks to go upon the bonds of the Dearborn county treasurer, and iri turn this official deposits the county funds with these institutions. Two or three weeks ago the banks found themselves substantially without county funds, although there should be from $25,000 to $40,0fX deposited therein, and the Citizens' National, oi Lawrenceburg, jumped to the conclusion that the bank of Aurora was getting more than its share, and vice veisa. This led to an investigation in which, while the county books showed over S25,O.X) credited to the treasurer, yet the balance in banks was less than S2.00J. The treasurer was called upon for explanation, and h« claimed that his predecessor still had $15,000 or $20,000 which had not been turned over. This was denied by tl«j extreasurer, who showed by his receipts that he had settled in full. The supposition is that the present treasurer is loaning money on his own account,and the bank bondsmen are determined he shall make his deposit aa originally agreed upon, else the county commissioners will be asked to relieve them as surety.

THE MARKETS.

INDIANAPOLIS, July M, 1801.

GIlAtN.

Wheat. Corn. Oats. Rye.

Indianapolis..

Sr'd 8-1' 1 62 I w4SM Ii r'tf 7 1 Vfc.r Sr'd 1*0 56 35^

Chicago

Cincinnati....

Baltimore

2 r'd 9J 595-2 40 70 Sr'd 87 G6 87 S r'd 1 0) 09 43 77

St. Louis New York—

Philadelphia. Toledo

Detroit

10!) 65 48 70

!J r'd »3 68 49 Clovoi Seed. 94 63 43 4 30

1 wli 1 05 60 42 1 01)4

Minneapolis..

CATTLE.

Export steere Uowil to choice shippers Fair to medium shippers Common shippers Stockers Uood to choice butcher heiiers. Fair to medium heifers Light, tnin lieil'ers Uood to cnoice cows Fair to medium cows Common old oows. Veals, comrncn to choice Bulls, common to choice... Milkers, good to choice....

$5 35^)5 79 4 75(« 5 20 4 00^4 ,ra 3 UOu# 75 2 75 3 6j\a 4 (JC 2 85u)3 29 2 00(a)2 69 3 00^3 40 2 25(52 79 1 0 XW2 00 3 00g5 0Q 2 00@3 29 15 00335

HOGS

Heavy packing and shipping...$4 00@5 09 Mixed packing 4 80(g4 98 Light Heavy roughs

4 08

... 3 5(kjl4 4l

SHEEP.

Good to choice clipped... Fair to medium clipped.. Common cup, ed Bucks, head..

hens. 8c

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MISCELLANEOUS,

Eggs, 13 butter, creamery, 2T@21c dairy, 20c good country, 1 feathers, 35c: beeswax, 189S0c wool,

30@35c,

unwashed,

turkeys.

8c.

seed 4.38§4..S»

toma, 7e rlov«