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-lie Harvest and Thanksgmufa Season Dr. Talmage's Topic.

Tli* Ancient* Ware Acquainted With Our American Corn—The Year's Harvest 'X' Foribadoiri the Earth'* §rV v-' ...... Harveit. '\r y?ft 10 ••v Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject "The Ingathering of the Harvests." Text Job v. 20, "As a Shock of Corn Cometh in in His Season." He said:

This is the time of the year for t* huskin^corn. If you have recently been ip the fields of Pennsylvania, or

N/w" Jersey, or New York, cr New ngland, or in any of the country »istricts, you know that the corn is tS ail' cut The sharp knife struck through the stalks and left them all along the field until a man came with a bundle of straw and twisted a few of these wisps of straw into a band, and theu, gathering up as much of fi/f the corn as he could compass with "v his arms, he bound it with this wisp

of straw, and then stood it in the field in what is called a shock. There are now at least two billion bushels "s of corn either standing in the shock or having been already husked. The farmers gather one day on one farm and then another day on another farm, and they put on theft* rough husking apron, and they take the husking peg, which is apiece of iron with a leathern loop fastened to the hand, and with it unsheath the corn from the hush and

I toss it into the golden heap. Then the wagons come along and take it to the corncrib.

About corn as an important cereal ^or corn as a metaphor the Bible is constantly speaking, You know about the people in famine coming to buy corn of Joseph, and the foxes on fire runninginto the "standing corn," and about the oxen treading out the corn, and about the seven thin ears of corn that in Pliaroah's dream devoured the seven good ears, and the ?. "parched corn" handed to beautiful

Ruth b„v the harvesters of Bethlehem 5 and Abigail's five measures of "parched corn," with which she hoped to appease the enemies of her drunken husband, and David description of the valleys "covered over with corn," and "the handful of corn in the earth,"and "the full corn in the ear," and Christ's Sabbath morning walk through corn fields, and the disciples "plucking ears of corn," and so I am not surprised to find corn husking time

referred

to in my text, "As a

shock of corn cometh in in his scason." There is a difference of opinion as to whether the orientals knew anything about the corn as it stands in our fields, but recent discoveries have found out that the Hebrew knew all about Indian maize, for there have been grains of corn picked up out of ttuordirt cn'pis and exhumed from I hiding places where they were put down many centuries ago, and they have been planted in our time and have come up just such Indian maize as we raise ir« New York and Ohio so I am right when I say that my text may refer to a shock of corn just as you and I bound it just as ^you and 1 husked it.

It is high time that the King of Terrors were thrown out of the Christian vocabulary. A vast mulJtitude of people talk of death as #though it were the disaster of disasters, instead of being to a good man the blessings of blessings. It is ». moving out of a cold vestibule into a warm temple. It is migrating into grove's of redolence and perpetual fruitage. It is a change from bleak .March to roseate Juns. It is a change of manacles for garlandss. It is the ."transmuting of the iron handcuffs of earthly incarceration into the diamond wristlets of a bridal party, or to use the suggestion of my text, it is onty husking time. It is the /.tearing off of the rough sheath of the body that the blight and the beautiful soul may go free. Coming in "like a shock of corn

Cometh

in in

his season." Christ broke up a unreal procession at the gate of Nain by making a resurrection day for a young, man and his

mother,

and I

would that 1 could break up your ..sadness and halt the long funeral procession of the world's grief by some cheering and cheerful view of

the last transition. We all know that husking time was a time of frost, Frost on the fence frost on the stubble frost on the ground frost on the bare bronches of the trees frost in the air frost on the hands of th6 huskers. You remember we used to hide between the cornstalks so as to keep jff the wind, but still you remember how shivering was the body and how painful was the cheek, and how benumbed were the hands. Eut after awhile the sun was high up, and all the frosts went out of the air, and hilarities awakened th« echoes, and joy from one corn shock weut up, "Aha, alia and was answered by joy from another corn shock, Aha, aha!" So we all realize that the death of our friend is the nipping of many expectations, the freezing, the chilling, the frosting of many of our hopes. It is far from being a south wind. ISIS

It comesvbut of the frigid north, and when they go away from us we stand benumbed in body aud benumbed in mind and benumbed in soul. We stand among our dead neighbors, our dead families, and we 4 say, "Will we ever get over it?"

Yes, we" will get over it amid tho shoutings ef heavenly reunionand we will look back to all these ate-.. .,»M| tresses of bereavement only as the mtemporary distresses of husking weeping way endure for a

in the morn-

asking time made ith the ear of corn.

The ieg had to be thrust in, and the thumb of the husker had to come down on the swathing of the ear, and then there was a pull and there was a ruthless tearing, and then a complete snapping off before the corn was free, and if the husk could have spoken it would have said, Why do you lacerate me Why do you wrench me Ah, my friends, that is the way God has arranged that the ear and husk shall part, and that is the way that he has arranged that the body and the soul shall sepai'ate. You can afford to have your physical distresses when you know that they are only forwarding the soul's liberation. Every rheumatic pain is only a plunge of the husking peg. Every neuralgic twinge is only a twist by the husker.

There is gold in you that must come out. Some way the shackle must be broken. Some way the ship must be launched for a heavenly voyage. You must let the Heavenly Husbandman husk off the mortality for the immortality. There ought to be great consolation in this for all who have chronic ailments, since the Lord is gradually and more mildly taking away from you that which hinder's your soul's liberation, doing gradually for you what for many of us in robust health perhaps he will do in one fell blow at last. At the close of every illness, at the close of every paroxysm you ought to say, "Thank God, that" is all past now."

You will never suffer the same pain twice. You may have anew pain in an old place, but never the same pain twice. The pain does its work and then it dies. Just so many plunges of the crowbar to free the quarry stone for the building. Just so many strokes of the chisel to complete the statue. Just so many pangs to separate the soul from the body. You who have chronic ailments and disorders are only paying in installments that which some of us will have to pay in one payment when we pay the debt of nature. Thank God, therefore, ye who have chronic disorders, that you have so much less suffering at the last.

Perhaps this may be an answer to a question which I asked one Sabbath morning but did not answer, Why is it that so many good people have so dreadfully to suffer? You often find a good" man with enough pains and distresses, you would think, to discipline* a whole colony, while you will find a man who is perfectly useless going about with easy digestion and steady nerves and shining health, and his exit from the world is comparatively painless. How do you explain that? Well. I noticed in the husking time that the husking peg was thrust into the corn, and then there must be a stout pull before the swathing was taken off the ear and the full, round, healthy, luxuriant corn was developed, while on the other hand there was corn that hardly seemed worth husking. We threw that into a place by itself and we called it nubbins. Some of it was mildewed and some of it was mice nibbled, and some of it was great promises and no fulfillment. All cobs and no corn. Nubbins! After the good corn had been driven to the barn we came around with the corn basket and picked up these nubbins. They were worth saving, but not worth much. So all around us there are people who amount to comparatively nothing. They develop into no kind of usefulness. They are nibbled on one side by the world, and nibbled on the other side by the devil, and mildewed all over. Great promise and no fulfillment. All cobs and no corn, Nubbins! They are worth saving. I suppose many of them will get to heaven, but they are not worthy to be mentioned in the same day with those who went through great tribulations into the kingdom of our God.

Who would not rather have the pains of this life, the misfortunes of this life—who would not rather be torn and wounded and lacerated and husked and at last go in amid the very best grain of the granary— than to be pronounced not worth husking at all.

Heaven—one great neighborhood reunion! All kings and queens, all songsters, all millionaires, all banqueters. God the Father, with His children all around Him. No "goodby" in all the air. No grave cut in all the hills. River of crystal rolling over bed of pearl, under arch of chrysoprsse, into seas of glass intermingled with fire. Stand at the gate of the granary and see the grain, come in out of the frosts into the sunshine, out of the darkness into the light, out of the tearing, and the ripping, and the twisting, and the wrenching and lacerating, and the husking time of earth into the wide open door of the King's granary "like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season."

Yes, heaven is ft great sociable, with joy like the joy of husking time. No one there feeling so big he declines to speak to some one that is not so large. Archangel willing to listen to smaller cherub. No bolting the door of caste at one heavenly mansion to keep out the inhabitant of a smaller mansion. David taking none of the a'rs of a giant killer Joshua making no one halt until he passes because he made the sun and moon halt Paul making no assumption over the most ordinary preacher of righteousness Naaman, captain of the Syrian host, no more honored than the captive maid who told him where he could get a good doctor. Oh, my soul, what a country 1 The humblest man a^ king, the poorest woman a queen, the meanest fyouse a palace, the shortest life^^^' ^ernity. And what is

more strange about it all is we may all get there. I remember that in the busking time there was a great equality of feeling among the neighbors. There at one corn shock a farmer would be at work who owned two hundred acres of ground. The man whom he was talking with at the next corn shock owned but thirty acres of ground, and perhaps all that covered, by a mortgage.

That evening at the close of the husking day, one man drove home a roan span so frisky, so full of life they got their feet over the traces. The other man walk home. Great difference in education, great difference in worldly means, but I noticed at the husking time they all seemed to enjoy each other's society. The.v all seemed to be happy together in those good times. And so it will be in heaven. Our Father will gather his children around him, and the neighbors will come in, and the past will be rehearsed. And some one will tell of victory and we will celebrate it. And some one will tell of a great struggle, and we will praise the grace that fetched him out of it. And someone will say: "Here is my old father that I put away with heartbreak. Just look at him! He is as young as any of us!"

All the shocks of corn coming in in their season. Oh, yes, in their season. Not one of you having died too soon, or having died too late, or having died at haphazard. Planted at just the right time. Plowed at just the right time. Cut down at just the right time. Garnered at just the right time. Coming in in your season. Oh, I wish that the two billion bushels of corn now in the fields or on their way to the seaboard might be a type of the grand yield of honor and glory and immortality when all the stocks come in.

WALLED IN BY CORAL.

Natives Found on the Hidden Plateau of t» Little Island.

A curious discovery has been made on the island of Kitaba, one of the Trobriand group, off the northeastern coast of New Guinea. A great many sailors passing this little island have imagined it had no inhabitants becausc they saw no evidence of human occupation. Sir William McGregor, the administrator of British New Guidea, says the island has an area of only five or six squre miles.

On all sides it presents a low and slightly sloping margin, usually a quarter of a mile broad, covered by heavy timber. Within is a precipitous coral wall which can be ascended only in a few places. The bank rises to a height of 300 to 400 feet. Once at the top the visitor finds this wall a plateau which occupies the whole of the center of the island and is from 50 to 100 feet below the wall surrounding it.

There about 1,000 natives live and till their gardens. The rich, chocolate colored soil yields them an ample supply of food. They are completely protected from the wind by the rocky rim that incloses their plateau. The island seems to have been an atoli which was lifted above the sea several hundred feet, so that the atoll ring now forms the coral wall surrounding the plateau. On this elevated and almost inaocessible plain are thirteen villages each of which contains over twenty houses.

Sir William McGregor says the natives gave him a most pleasant reception. He found it difficult to travel through some villages on account oi: the yams, cocoanuts, mats and other articles that were laid down before him for his acceptance. There are no inter-tribal hostilities, and it is not possible for the natives of other islands to oppress the people, because on their plateau, naturally fortified as it is, "they are inaccessible to the hostile tribes. The drainage of the plateau is excellent. There are great cavities in the coral wall through which the rainfall filters and makes it way to the sea.

Henry Clews* Opion.

Those persons who believe that extravagance, like charity, should begin at home, will derive much satisfaction from the theory advanced by Mr, Henry Clews that the cholera scare may yet be worth millions of dollars to this country. "Asiatic cholera is a disease naturally foreign to our country," said Mr. Clews to the phrasewriter. "It is epidemic only in foregin lands. The recent cholera scare is likely to impel people on this side of the Atlantic to forego their annual.

JOLLY JINGLES.

The summer has gone with her garlands gay. The meadows are .seat and brown, The stovepipe is going up !o-a»y

And the hammock iB cowing down. --New York Press

The dudheen and the calumet Are hardly of one type: The red man's being a pipe of peaco

And Pat'a a peioce of a pipe.

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—Puck.

She said she would marry at twenty-eight, And I. like a fool, deeded to wait, I've been waiting so long 1 begin now to fret, But she will not confess to twenty-eight yet. —New York Herald.

I would not live alway, 1 ask not to stay "v My neighbor next door

On the cornet does play. —Kansas City Journal.

A Post-Graduate Course in Georgia. He's done been through college an' he's got bis eddication.

An' it's sworn to with a blue an' yaller seal An' now he's gittin' ready to enjoy his long, ra-

An' the ole mule's waitln' for him in the flel" With a "gee!" an' a "whoa!" An' a

-'gitup

thar an' go!"

He'll be jerkin' on the plow-linos .• An' a sweatin' iji the row An' the Latin he will speak

To that ole mule will bo Greek "Whi he parses with the plowstocks An' make a syntax with the hoe! —Atlanta Cons\Itution.

^Caldwell. N. C., it is repor raised an eight pound potato 4 -1. ^$§85^^66^'

THE NATION'S FI^a,

House Committee on Appropriations Considering Them.

It Will Try to Prevent a: Prospective DeA clency—An Enormous Amount Necessary For Pensions. „s

Two-thirds of the members of tlieHous* committee on appropriations assembled In the committee room of the Capitol Monday In response to a call issued

Chairman Holman for a special meeting for the purpose of preparing some of th« regular annual appropriation bills, for th« action of Congress when it meets for th« second session. It is the purpose to pusb rapidly all these measures for the maintenance of the Government next year, anc as the Treasury department has promisee to submit the estimates for the District o* Columbia, the pension, and the fortification appropriation bills by that time there seems to be no reason why the House should not have one of these bills readt for its action as soon as its meets. The exceedingly heavy payments made by tht Treasury during the first quarter of tht present fiscal year have caused some dismay among the members of the appropriation committee. For tlio first foui months of the year these payments have exceeded by $16,000,0C0 the expenditures for the corresponding period in the preceding fiscal year, which means a total increase for the present year of $48,000,000 while the appropriations for the year arc only $12,000,000 greater than tho appro* priations for last year. That means,.If the estimates of tho committee hold good, a deficiency on account of pension of f35,COO,000, which will have to be met by Congress at the next session, in addition to an appropriation for pensions for the next fiscal year of certainly not less than $150,030.(0)So the total appropriations that Congress must make for pensions at tho next session will not be less than §186,000,000. With this enormous sum added to the other appropriations necessary to carry on the Government, and decreased importations expected to result from the agitation of the tariff question,.it would seem that the appropriations committee has good reason to be'dismayed at the outlook, and to doubt its ability to prevent a deficiency in the National accounts.

GOVERNMENT'S FINANCES

Tho Treasurer of the United States, the Bon. E. 11. Nebeker, has submitted t° Secretary Charles Foster the annual report on the operations and conditions of the treasury. The net ordinary revenues of the Government for the fiscal year were 8534.937,784, a decreaso of $37,674,663 as compared with the year bofore. The ne* ordinary expenditures were 1345,023,330, a decrease of $10,319,3,"4. Tho surplus revenues were thus cut down from *37,'.3.)'76? to $9,914,456, including the public debt. The total receipts for the year were $7.!0,101,296 and the expenditures $684,01), 189. The aihonnt of the public debt is given as $1.545.999,591 on ,'lnne 30, 1891. and $1,588,464 144 on June 30,18:i2.

The total net reduction of $37,586,719 in the public debt was affected by the application of the surplus revenue of the year' amounting to uearly SlO.COJ.COt), together with upward of $27,030,OtO taken from the cash in the treasury. According to the revised estimates, the total stock of money of all kinds in the country on June'0, was 37ly34 increase of $50,030,000 in the year. By eliminating that part of the paper currency which is purely representative, consisting of certificates of deposit andtreasurynot.es, tho effective stock is found to have beon 51,755,953,745, an increase of $70,000,000.

FATAL FIRES.

Tiro Children Forgotten and Burned to Death—Other Casualties.

Tho frame residence of W. L. Deesy a* Edgewood avenue, Chicago, was totally destroyed by fire Monday morning. Mr. Deesy's two children, Alice, aged three, and Clifford aged six years, were burned to death. They wore sleeping in the attic and were forgotten by their parents until the flames had gained too great headway to save them. The fire wa9 caused by an overturned lamp.

Three men and two women were burned to death at Middletown, Conn., Saturday night. In a tobacco barn owned by John Hubbard, on the old fair grounds. The victims were a party of umbrella menders, seen near there before the fire. It is supposed they were drunk and sot fire to a small amount of hay, the only contents of the barn'. Tho barn was totally destroyed.

The residence of Samuel Yates, near Milan, Tenn.. was burned early Monday morning. Yates perished in the liames. He was a miser, and was reputed to have a large sum of money concealed in the house. The origin of tho fire Is unknown

HE EIGHTY, SHE FIFTEEN.

An old man eighty years of age. and a young girl not more than fifteen, whom everybody took for his granddaughter, stoppod on the public square at Evergreen, Ala., for an hour on the 28th. While waiting for the train the old man went to a store opposite and bought a dime's worth of ginger cakes, which he divided with his childish companion. "She's my wife," ho said, "and we were only married this morning. We are gosng to Texas. It's too bad," said he with a sigh, "that when people love each other they should be interfered with. I loved this gal, and I've married her in spite of my children."

It was learned that the old man was a small farmer, named Ezekiel Morrow, who lived about thirty miles south of Evergreen. The girl was the daughter of a cropper who worked for him. His children and grandchildren objected to his infatuation for llie child. The old man, however, sold his cotton, aud getting everything in roadiness, took the girl be* fore a 'squire, made her his wife and started for Texas. fffi

Wyoming's Legislature is Republican, and will 61ect a U. S. Senator It is probable California's vote will be divided between Cleveland ana Harrison.

Cleveland's plurality in Kentucky over Harrison is 40,009 Weaver received 23,503 votes and Bidwell 6,385 votes.

Kail), the Populist candidate, will contest the.Alabaina Governorship with Gov-ernor-elect Jones. Kalb claims to have been elected by 45,000 majority. The returns gave Jones about that majority.

An oil well that flows 48,000 barrels per day has been struck in Hancock couII ty O. It is flooding the surrotfudlng country^

Tho French .Cabiuet ha4reslgned.

HANA'8 VOTE.

The vote dT Indiana for all officers was officially counted and verified by the State officers Monday. We append the totals

PR: S DENT.

Cleveland. HarrisonWeaver. .. Bidwell....

2 6 2 7 4 9 255,(515 22.208 131050

Total vote 551,013 Cleveland's plurality 7,125 The total vote received by the electors is as follows:

DEMOCRATIC EI E rrORS-AT-LARGE. William H. Bracken 2.2,71^ John C. Robinson ao0,ti6j

DEMOCRAT. O DISTRICT ELECTOKS. First District—Thomas Duncan SK0.600 Second District—Kph Inman .. V!tj0,5vf, Third District—Gcoige H. Voigt 2fia,.rf0 Fourth District—Jacob L. Benham 2 0.5 0 •Firth District—Luther Short toO 5? Sixth District—Thomas Bagot 20u.'m. Seventh District—Albert I^ieber 2:50,&rr> Eighth District Austin W. Knight Ninth District—Samuel M. Ralston.... seo.'V:) Tenth District—Hiram D. Hatter.y 2!it 5 Eleventh District—Daniel VV. Krisher... Twelfth District—Otis I». IJaliou Thirteenth District—Preston F. Miles.. 2JO,53

REPUBLICAN ELECTORS-AT-LARGE. Robert B. F. Peirce 3rb.6iT: John Morris aj3.S7h

REPUBLIC AX DISTRICT ELECTORS. First District—James S. Wright 25i,8 'Second District—John H. Weathers. ... ii .,N1 Third District—Martin V. Ma'ilory 3 o,7,H •P ourth Dist rict—G eorge F. O' Byrne 2 0 Filth strict—George W. Hanni 2.13 .'J Sixth District—James E. Watson liM.H) Seventh District—Alfred R. Hovey 253,78. Eighth District—Henry Daniels 254,7 Nintli District—William R. Hines 2'3.7! Tenth District—Lyman M. Braekett— 2.'.3.7 7 Eleventh District-Jesse J. M.LaFollette 25o,7 Twelfth District—Amos R. Walter ....... 253,. 7 Thirteenth District—Wm. M. Kendall 25:V.70

The highest vote given a Prohibition elector was 13,053 anb the highest vote given a Populist elector was 22,20$. aovJBNCi Matthews, 2( 0,«0i Chase, 2i3,tii Worth, Pro 12.M# Templeion. Peo. 22,01

Matthews luraiity, 6,976. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. Nye, 2C0,3( 4 Shocknoy, 2.'3,5'.H Culbertson, Pro 12, East, Peo 22,000

I^ye's plurality, 6,7.0. SECRETARY OP STATE. Myers, 2G0,33S Jones, 253,i 2 McCormick, Pro 12,7.1 Hobson, Peo 21,73

Myers' plurality, 6,715. AUDITOR. Henderson, 2fA34 Coons, 2£3 "(58 Taggart, Pro 1~ 87'" Ivasten, Peo 21 ,y./.

Henderson's plurality, f%772. TREASURE OF STATE. Gall, 260,34? Scholz, 253,5.*i0 Moore, Pro 12,91.Cope, Peo 21,98:.

Gall's plurality, 6,7j7. ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Smith, 250,156 Ferrall, 22UH, Dobbins, Pro 12,8J-. Vernandes, Peo 21.L*8t

Smith's plurality, 6.510. REPORTER SUPREME COURT. Moon. 2 0.307 Haywood, 2.Ki,00-. lie ir, Pro 12,871 Lhvecs, Peo 21,USD

Moon's plurality, 6,758. SUPERINTENDENT PURLIC INSTRUCTION. Ourvey D. Vories, 2»0, .31 James II. Henry.

Vorics' plurality, 6,836 CHIEF INDIANA BUREAU OF STATISTICS' William A. Peelle, jr., 2ro 3 0 Simeon J. Thompson, 2:3,5.)..

Peelle's plurality,6.795. SUPREME JUDGE, SECOND DISTRICT. Leonard J. Hackney, 2!'0,W! JohnD. Miller. ~5$,.l

Hackney's j, 1 urality, 6,687. SUPREME .JUDGE, THIRD DISTRICT. James McCabe, 2( o,29.") Byron K. Elliott. 253,83r

McCabe's plurality, 6,4€0. SUPREME JUDGE, FIFTH DISTRICT. Timothy E. Howard, 2g0,377 Robert vV. McRride, 25J,7til

Howard's plurality, 6,616. APPELLATE .JUDGE, FIRST DISTRICT. George L. Reinhard, 260,372 Aden G. Cavins. 25J,5C0

ReinharoTs plurality,6,812. APPELLATE JUDGE, SECOND DISTRICT. Frank E. Gavin, 260,395 Charles 5$. llaker, 2.'3,707

Gavin's plurality,6,638. APPELLATE JUDGE, THIRD DISTRICT. Theodore P. Davis, 260,3 1 James 11. Black, 253,o73

Davis's plurality,.6,578. APPELLATE JUDGE, FOURTH DISTRICT. Orlando J. Lotz, 260.2^0 Henry C. Fox. 2 3,.20

Lotz's plurality. 6,560. APPELLATE JUDGE, FIFTH DISTRICT." George E. Ross, 2"0,.r0D Edgar D. Crumpackcr, 25J,L0.i

Ross'plurality, 6,727.

Congressional Pluralities. FIRST DISTRICT.

Taylor, 19.720 Twiname, 19.26.5 Taylor's plurality, 454.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Bretz, 17,720 Willoughby, .......15,732 Bretz's plurality, 1,988.

THIRD DISTRICT.

Brown, 20,9 0 Borden, •....... .17,v.5i Brown's plurality. 2,973.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

Holman, lO.COO Jones, 15.12* Hoi man's plurality, 3,181.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

Cooper, 17,693 Worrell. 16,(31) y^Cooper's plurality, 1,088.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

Merlng, 11,845 Johnson* 20,414 Johnson's plurality, 8,599.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.,

INDIANA'S OFFICIAL VOTB.

Official Figures en the Presidential Tl«k«t », from Every County.

COUNTIES.

Adams Allen BarMi'I m'w Benton Blackford Boone Brown Carroll Cass Clark Clay Clinton Crawford Daviess Dearborn Decatur DeKalb Delawaro Dulois Elkhart Fayette Floyd ifountalu, Franklin Kul ton Gibson Grant Greene Hamilton Hancock Harrison '-irks Henry

liuntingt Jackson Jasper Jay Jefferson Jennings Johnson Knox Kosciusko Lagrange Lake La porte Lawrence Madison Marion Marshall Martin Miami Monroe Montg'm'ry Morgan Newton Noble., Ohio Orange Owen Parke Perry Pike Porter Posey Pulaski Putnam Randolph Ripley Rush St. Joseph Scott Shelby Spencer., Starke Steuben Sullivan Switzerland Tippecanoe Tipton Union Vand'r'b'rg Vermillion Vigo Wabash Warren Warrick Washington Wayne Wells White Whitley,

Totals

Bynum.D 28,231 Henry, 26,9 3 Bynum's plurality 1,282.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Brookshlre, '...V52,049 Carpenter, R,... 21,327 Brookshire's plurality, 1,622.

NINTH DISTRICT.

Brown, —19,291 Waugh. 23,416 Waugh's plurality, 4,125.

TENTH DISTRICT.

Hammond, H,29s Johnston. 18,256 Hammond's plurality, 42.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

Martin, 21,393 Daly, 21,110 Martin's plurality, 75

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

McNagrey, ...19,991 Yon, 16,926 McNagrey's plurality, 3,065.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.

Conn, ..21,62? Dodge. 19,687 Conn's plurality, 1,910.

1 3 Harri

son

•o 5

2.906

1,247 ICO 214

10.010 3,217 1.39l| 1,340 3,104 l,fc73 2.361 4,008 4,013 3.5. 8 3,0 0 1.529 2,493 3,397 2,353 2^01 2,863 2,847 3,53.) 1,490 4,219 2.331 2.859 2,247 2,460 3,590 2,488 2,492 2,829 2,446 2,023 1,-71 2,331 3,460 3,363 937 2,39? 2,549 1.351 2,C06 3,147 3.064 1,438 3,010 4,"05 2,134 5,733 20,436 3,113! l,'-0l! 3,4:3 1,917 3,£41 2,04 879 2,879 60T 1.628 1,738 2.013 2 074 1,957 1,937 2,6C0 1.352 2,754 1.994 2,412 2,210 6,077 1,043 3,490 2,496 1,003 1,264 3,159 1,sr4,385 2,008 839 6,166 1/37 6,598 2,41? 67. 2,16f 2,: 22 3,72t: 2,725 1,896 2,234

1,081 3,*73

727 37 48 2,650 293 107 2,478 24 lf» 80 2^ 3 2,100 209 196 1,784 128 3'it

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MR. BLAINE 8ERIOU8LY ILL.

Ilia Phyaiclans Are In Conatant Attendance Upon Him,

A Washington special says: Mr. Blafne is still a very sick man, and his physician* are in daily attendance. General alarm i* felt among hfs many friends in Washington regarding his slow recuperation. Th» doctors are non-committal when questioned on the subject of Mr, Blaine'*'

health. They are making no predictions. "Mr. Blaine may be better to-day or to-

respondent on Tuesday by a person thoroughly familiar with the sick room. "Bo* what his condition will bo a week fro'ni today, or two weoks from to-day, cannot bo predicted. Mr. Blaino's health seemd to,v" liave been permauently shattered. His decline began two or three years ago, and ever since then tha current of his physic*! life has been marked by recurrences of aji illness of varying cbaractor. Sometime* his throat troubles him. At another tim^ cold, to which he is subject, settles la some other part of his body. The present* illness is, perhaps, more serious than h«i 'has had for some time. It is caused by disturbed digestion, which, to a man 1b Mr. Blaine's condition, must canse a severe shock to his already enfeebled sys* tern."

That Mr. Blaine will never recover normal health is a fact that everybody hi Washington is beginning to appreciate. Even with the great care he receives th* least baneful influence, either of a physical or mental nature, causes a relaps* Every relapse leaves him less and les* to recover.

A bill has been introduced in the All* bama legislature which provides that "a9 persons whoso State and county taxes, a* assessed, do not amount to 15, shall not b* required to pay the samo if It be shows that such persons failed to voto at tit* August and November elections oftb* previous year." This Is the first attempt in the history of Alabama to legislate against the negro vote. Not 20 per cent, of the negro voters pay tixes exceeding 15 a year. At the lowest calculation 80 per cent, of the negro voters would takn advantage of the opportunity to savefS. The negro vote at the last election was 136,000 out of a total of 300,0G0. It can b* seen that the effect of this bill will

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