Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 29, Hope, Bartholomew County, 9 November 1893 — Page 3

her pnde and search for the first n us band seemed, wisely or not, the best initiatory step. He had possibly orunk himself into his tomb. But ™’"ht, on the other hand, have had too much sense to do so; for in t K^' me w *^ 1 had been given to bouts only, and was not a habitual drunkard. At any rate the propriety of returning to him, if he lived, was unquestionable. The awkwardness of searching for him lay in enligntening Elizabeth Jane, a proceeding which her mother could not endure to contemplate. She-finally resolved to undertake the search without confiding to the girl her former relations with Henchard, leaving it to him if they found him to take what ■steps he might choose to that end. This will account for their conversation at the fair, and the half-in-formed state in which Elizabeth Jane was led onward. In this attitude they proceeded on their journey, trusting solely to the ■dim light afforded of Henchard’s whereabouts by the funnity woman. The strictest economy was indispensable. Sometimes they might have been seen on foot, sometimes on farmers' wagons, sometimes in carriers’ vans; and thus they drew near to Casterbridge. Elizabeth Jane discovered to her alarm that her mother's health was not what it once had been, and there was ever and anbn in her talk that finality of tone which showed that, but for the girl, she would not be very sorry to quit a life she was growing thoroughly weary of. It was on a Friday evening, near the middle of September, and just before dusk, that they reached the summit of a hill within a mile of the place they sought. Thei-e were no hedges to the highway .here, and they mounted upon the green turf and sat down. The spot commanded a full view of the town and its environs. ’‘What an old-fashioned place it seems to be!” said Elizabeth Jane, while her silent mother mused on ■other things than topography. “It is huddled all together; and it is ■shut in by a wall of trees, like/a plot of ground by a box edging. Why, it square.” It’s squareness was, indeed, the • singular characteristic which most struck the eye in this antiquated borough—the borogh of Casterbridge -•at that time, recent as it was, untouched by the faintest sprinkle of modernism. It was compact as a box of dominoes. It had no suburbs —in the ordinary sense. Country and town met at a mathematical line. To birds of a more soaring kind Casterbridge must have appeared on this fine evening as a mosaic work of subdued reds, browns, grays and ■crystals, held together by a rectangular frame of deep green. To the level e>e of humanity it stood as an indistinct mass behind a dense stockade of limes and chestnuts, set in the midst of miles of rotund down and concave field. The mass became gradually dissected by the vision into towers, gables, chimneys and casements, the highest glazings shining bleared and bloodshot with the coppery fire they caught from the belt of sunlit clouds in the west. (to be continued.)

TURNED OUT BAD. The Office Boy Was Sorry Ho Mot the Messenger. The boy looked very down-hearted and disgusted, with torn clothes and rumpled hair and a few suspicious bumps on his face. So I asked him what the matter was and whether I could be of any assistance to him, writes Harry Romaine. “Naw, yer can’t do nothing for me; it’s business trouble,” he explained. “Ah! Have you lost your position?” I asked. “Naw; and I wouldn’t care if I had. The president of our company is the worst old duffer in New York.” “Does he ill-treat you!” I said kindly. “Naw, he doesn't oven know me by sight, but he came into the office cross as a hornet this mornin’ and climbed up the secretary’s back the worst you ever seen.” “But how did that affect you?” “Why, don’t yer see?” the boy asked, impatiently, “the secretary bad to get square somehow, so he jumped on the cashier with both feet; and after the cashier’d thought it all over and got good and mad he jumped on the bookkeeper, and the bookkeeper jumped on the bill clerk, and he just sailed in and gimme particular rats. An’ there was no one fer me ter jump on, so I thought I’d go and lick a district messenger." “Well, couldn’t you find one to lick?” I asked. “Oh, I found him quick enough; but I didn’t lick ’im.” "Why not?” “ ’Cause he licked me!” The skeleton of the leatherywinged bat is, bone for bone and joint for joint, similar to that of man.

TBE KEWS OFTHE WEEK Snow fell in St. Paul for tho first time this season, Thursday. Ten steamships have been bought at New York for tho Brazilian government, and will be equipped to attack the rebel fleet. A wild steer ran among a crowd of children at St. Louis. Wednesday, and tossed Grade Mann on its horns and later gored officer Tierney. Joseph Hayes, a messenger for Coffin & Stanton, New York brokers, and four accomplices, have been arrested for forging checks on the firm. Members of the circus firm of Sells Bros, have commenced proceedings against the province of New South Wales to recover $500,000damages. John Floyd was hugging Lncy White, his sweetheart, at Proctor, O., when Harry Smith, a disappointed rival, shot him dead and wounded the girl. There is an increased activity among the Pittsburg mills over last week and it is asserted that fully 15,000 more men an at work in tho various factories. Alderman (too. B. Swift has been chosen by the Republican caucus for Mayor pro tern of Chicago. A special election to fill the vacancy will be ordered soon. At Dallas, Tex., Charles Hampton fell into a cotton seed crusher at the elevator and was ground to a pulp. One leg was thrown out on the roof of the building. The Columbian museum fund was given another big lift by a check for $5O,0OC from Mrs. George D. Sturgis. She subscribes the amount unconditionally. The Patriotic Sons of America, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, will erect a monument to General Lafayette on the spot where he was wounded near Birmingham. A meteorological station, the highest in the world, has been established by Harvard University on the top of a nearly extinct volcano. 19,200 feet above the sea level, in Peru. Rev. Edward Bagley, pastor of the Christian Church of Washington City, was chosen to succeed the late Samuel Hadaway as Chaplain of tho House, Tuesday night. Mr. Bagley is aged twenty-eight and is said to be a very boyish looking young man. Secretary Hoke Smith has issued his requisition on the Secretary of the Treasury for 1X2,200,000 in payment of the quarterly pensions due on Nov.4 at the followingagencies; New York, $850,003: Indianapolis, $2.700 030; Knoxville, $1,400,000: Louisville, $1,100,000; Cincinnati, $1,000,300; Philadelphia. $1,750,003; St. Louis, $3,400,000. Near Sedalia the skeleton of an Indian chief has been unearthed in a fair state of preservation. An old stump of a tree which had grown over the grave indicated that the body had been buried there several hundred years ago. On each side of the head, on what aro supposed to be tho ears, but which look like old pieces of leather, there were five coils of gold wire. FOREIGN. The United States cruiser Detroit lias arrived at Rio fie Janeiro. The Spanish trouble with the Moors at Mellla have assumed a serious aspect. ■ Crew of tho French slave ship Dhow, captured by the British, have been acquitted, thus practically giving immunity to slavers under tho French Hag. London is frightened over the discovery of an alleged dynamite plot. A big bomb weighing seven pounds has been found on Westminster Bridge, near Parliament House. There is no disguising tho fact that considerable uneasiness exists in Europe at tho present situation of the powers, and this uneasiness Is increasing as tho nature of tho Franco-Russian alliance becomes known. PURPOSES OP THE A. P. A. They Are pollued In Letters Sent by the Order to Congress uen. Many Congressmen, Thursday, received a letter from the American Protective Association, sotting forth its objects as follow: 1. The American Protective Association is organized for the purpose of purifying politics. It is a non-sectarian and nonpartisan organization composed of only true American citizens, without regard to nationality. 2. While wc unite to protect our country and its free institutions, we attack no man’s religion so long as ho does not attempt to make it an element in political power. 3. Our aim is to preserve and maintain the Government of the United States and principles of the Declaration of Independence, as set forth by the founders against encroachments of all foreign influences. 4. We regard ail rcligio-political organizations as the enemies of civil and religious liberties. 5. It is, in our opinion, unsafe and unwise to appoint or elect to civil or military offices in this country men who owe supreme allegience to any foreign king, potentate or ecclesiastical power, or who are sworn to obey such power. 6. We are in favor of maintaining one general, unsectarian, free school system, and will oppose all attempts to supplant it by any sectarian institution. We arc opposed to tho use of public funds for any sectarian purpose. 7. We are in favor of changing our immigration laws in such a manner that they will protect our citizens and laborerfrom the influences of pauper and criminal labor, which, through the instrumentality of European propagandist societies, are rapidly supplanting our free and educated American citizens in every line ol industry: but wo do not oppose honest and educated immigrants who come foi the purpose of becoming American citizens, and who will forswear allegience to all foreign potentates and powers. 8. Wo are in favor of putting into office honest and true patriots, who are qualified and owe allegience only to the star: and stripes. When the pedagogue whales the urchins It is but natural that they should blubber

HOPE FOR HAGGARD. Fresh Material For South African Romances. King and His Impls Routed with (ireat Slaughter. A dispatch to the London Daily News, Wednesday, from Ft. Victoria, South Africa, says that the Matabeles have been routed, and that the Intense anxiety which has so long existed Is now relieved. All the advancing columns had a share in tho ikirmishlng on the march, which was necessarily slow. On Friday tho Matahele Impl opened a determined attack up-

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on the majority of Major Forbe’s column. The fight was vigorously sustained, but the Matabele could make no impression on the white forces who held a position in tho Laagaer. The Matabele were moved down on all sides and finally were compelled to retire with heavy loss. Fresh Impls resumed the attack tho next day, Maj. Forbes and the combined columns being then within a few miles of Buluwayo. The blacks fought with bravery, as was expected of them, but in face of the machine guns and unerring rifles of the whites they could never got within striking distance. WRECKAGE OF THE FAIR. Sad Scenes In Jackson I’nrk — Exhibit* Using Removed. Officials of the Exposition have the blues. It is hard to give up tho muchloved and universally admired White City. Thursday tho exhibits were being carried out fast. The Midway was closed. -Sixteen thousand people visited tho grounds, Wednesday. The Columbusearavalssailed out into tho lake, Wednesday, and cast anchor off Van Buren street. On Saturday they will proceed up the lakes to Erie, Pa., where they will remain until spring. In May they will be taken to Washington. Tho matchless Court of Honor at the World’s Fair, with its wealth of sculpture and brilliant electric effects, is to be repro-

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duced in South Kensington, London, and with it a theater is to be built when “America,” tho theatrical sensation ol the Exposition season, will bo given. A company of rich Englishmen who visited the Fair furnishes money for tho enterprise. They have called to their assistance several gentlemen formerly in high positions with tho Exposition. The projectors of this amusement venture expect to have ail their buildings up and be ready for business on M ay 1,1894. The stockholders of the Fair who have holdings representing $5,000,000, upon which they scarcely expected to realize anything, will be paid 50 cents on the dollar. Most of them, however, are expected to bo generous, and contribute their stock to the Columbian Museum. It is believed that $1,500,000 of this stocle will be so donated, and this, with the onemillion dollar gift to the museum by Marshall Field, the $100,C0.1 by George M Pullman, and between $500,000 and $1,000,0C0 more that is expected from others,wil give tho museum a working capital ol over $3,( 00,000. Marshall Field, who made the great donation, is tho merchant prince of Chicago, where he has been it business since 1860. His success has beer remarkable, and ho is now worth many millions. He is a very public spirited citizen, and has done much for charity, besides being known as a just and generous employer, Tho United Sugar Syndicate of New York has written to the Indianapulh Board of Trade its intention to establisl a factory in Indiana for tho manufactun of beet sugar. H. B. Clifford, of the syn dicato, will give an address before tnt board, next month, on “Sugar In America.”

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Arcadia has located a ten-pot glass factory. Now Castle has opened her new opera house. The Brown county gold excitement continues. A test well for oil is to be sunk at once near Gas City. There are 454 children in the school (or feeble minded at Fort Wayne, The American flag floats above 116 school houses in Hamilton county. 6 The Elwood window glass factory burned, Wednesday. Loss, $15,000. Elberfiold. Warrick county, was nearly wiped out by flames, Sunday night. Several business houses wore burned at -Mitchell, Wednesday. Loss, $35,000. Indiana’s IVorld’s Fair educational exhibit will bo permanently located in the State house. Tho Very Rev. Edward Sorln, founder of Notre Dame University, died at that institution, Tuesday. Michigan City is making an effort to have the Indiana World’s Fair building moved to that town. Ernest P. Ford, twelve years old, of Hope, claims to be the youngest telegraph operator in tho State. The two-year-old daughterof Ellsworth Dunn, of Morristown, was fatally burned while playing near a trash fire. Edward M. Douglass, a young alleged horse thief in jail at Peru, was married, Wednesday, to Miss Alice Black. The remains of George Horstman. who was drowned ten months ago, were recently found in the river at Medora. Ex-Mayor Morris McDonald died at Now Albany, Wednesday. Ho was one of tho prominent men of southern Indiana. Tho third annual reunion of the Fiftyeighth Indiana Regimental Association will be. held at Oakland City, Nov. an and 24. A sneak thief, by means of a ladder, while the attaches were at dinner, robbed the county treasurer’s office at Columbus of $835. Several drunken men near Peru, Wednesday, poured coal oil on James McDonald and ignited it, burning him nearly to death. George Taught, of Sullivan, stole a ham of meat, claiming that he did so as a joke. The court sent him to prison for two years. Henry W. Grive was caught in a cave-in near Richmond, Tuesday, and buried under several feet of sand where he died in a few minutes. Twelve pots in a furnace of the C. II. Over window-glass works, Muncie, broke, Saturday, causing $1,030 loss and throwing half the force out of work. A petition is being circulated in Orange county, asking the county commissioners to appropriate $3,000, to be used in erecting a soldiers’ monument at Orleans. James Stone, in his last confession of the Wrattcn family murder at Washington, has implicated Chits. F. McCafferty and Robt. Svvanogan, near relatives of the family. Alfred MacThompson, near Russiaville, disabled by paralysis, fell forward against a grhte filled with live coals, and was'so badly burned that he died. He was sev-enty-seven years old. English has hold a public meeting in favor of removing the county seat of Crawford eounty from Leavenworth to that town. Tho Leavenworth people and newspapers ridicule the idea. Word comes from Bristow that, a sevenmonths old babv lying in its cradle had the flesh eaten oil of its hips by rats, while the mother was out in the. potato patch amHho father helpless from rheumatism. The plant of the Irondalc rolling-mill at Anderson, giving employment to 400 persons, was destroyed by fire. Tuesday night. It bad been recently repaired at a cost of $5,000. The total loss Is placed at $30,000. Ladoga having donated grounds and buildings, besides subscribing $10,000 in stock, toward securing the Dunkard College, has appointed a committee to continue soliciting stock. It Is hoped tho stock subscriptions will roach $50,010. A block of stone, claimed to be tho largest ever handled, was quarried by tho Bedford Stone Quarries Company, last Thursday. This Immense block of stone was 32 feet long, 8 feet wide and 7 feet deep, containing 1,300 cubic feet and weighing 110 tons The Evansville Tribune wants tho Indiana Legislature to pats a law making it practically impossible for a man of dangerous disposition, or one who drinks intoxicants to excess, to carry a pistol, dirk or bowlo knife without being guilty of a penitentiary offense. The Rev. Dr. Charles Hutchinson has completed his fortieth year as pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of New Albany. He was present at tho organization of the church. October 31, 1843, and has remained continuously with the congregation. The. present membership is 796. Said that the organ faction in the United Brethren Church near Crawfordsvllle expect to win the fight that is now in progress among the congregation as to whether they will have instrumental music or not, Their organ was wrecked, recently, by the anti-organ faction, but it is being repaired. William Webb, a farmer of Jasper county, is known among his neighbors as Shakespeare Webb. He has read Burns, Byron, Dryden, Campbell, Pope, Shakespeare and Shelley, until he is familiar with these writings, from which he is able to quote by tho hour. He often entertains his friends with readings. H. S. Wright, who has been constable at Goshen for forty-three years, was enticed away from his home, Sunday night, by Dr. Smithland and David Early and takan to an 'old mill, where the two men $«*t him, saying they would kill him.

Wright got away, but was seriously Injured. His assailants fled. 4Tho Gebhart-Seybort election bribery case, which occupied much attention in Madison county some months ago. In the tllal of which the defendants were acquitted, as now alleged, on a technicality, is to be revived In a suit by James Michaels to recover 1300 damages under the law which recognize* such a claim where a person has been bribed with reference to his vote. The suit will bo the first ever undertaken under what is known as the McCabe bribery law. Messrs. Cole and Vanhook, commissioners appointed to superintend the erection of a monument over the grave of Jonathan Jennings, Indiana’s first Governor, at Jeffersonville, are experiencing difficulty in locating the same. Persons who attended the burial have Indicated the spot, but Investigation proved that they were mistaken, as no remains of any kind were buried at the place pointed out. Consequently the location of the grave of Indiana’s first Governor is likely to remain an unsolved mystery. Thomas Boyle, of Marietta, son of Thomas Boyle, Sr., who was'killed in the battle of Stone river, has been placed in possession of the pocket Testament which his father carried to the war, and which was presented to-the senior Boyle by his sister in March, 1840. The person returning the book explains that he found it o'n the battle-field, and appropriated it to his own use. carrying it until the war was over. Recently he learned the address of Thomas Boyle, the son. and took the earliest opportunity of sending it to him. Patents were granted Indiana inventors, as follows: J. Barlow, Greencastle, washing machine; J. F. Grieve, Clav Hill, plow; F. E. Herdman, Indianapolis, elevator; P. J. Kitsch, Decatur, wash machine; A. Lee, Evansville, hingesetting machine; T. D. Oakley, Vevay, type case; J. Seitz, Hayville, assignor o( one-half to J. T. Corn, Jasper, apparatus for forming leaders in blast holes; W. H. Smith, Albion, wagon running-gear; H. F. Smith, assignor of one-half to H. J. Cannon, Elkhart, process of and machine for making cell cases; P. N. Staff, Terre Haute, holder for opera glasses. A dastardly attempt was made to poison the Liggett family, at Lapelle, Tuesday, by dumping a lot of arsenic in the well. Tuesday morning Mrs. Liggett got up and drew water from the well to get breakfast. After the water had remained in the ves sel for some time she noticed that it turned green. She suspected something was wrong and notified a druggist near, who examined the water. When it was analyzed it was found to be strongly charged with arsenic. Who placed the deadly drug In the well is a mystery. Ruck Creek, Tippecanoe county, furnished a shooting scrape, Wednesday, Ed. Cool, drunk, went to the house of Luke Lowe, suddenly drew a revolver and shot Lowe, the bullet striking just below the heart. Cool then made a rush to the saloon of Obadiah Haller and repeated his performance, shooting Haller in the thigh. Haller grabbed Cool by the throat and held him till the officers came. At the justice’s office Cool drew his pocket knife and cut two ugly gashes in his own throat. It is not thought any of the of the wounded men will die. Cool was landed in jail at Lafayette. Ho had been drinking for several days. Last year, for the purpose of getting ahead with his work, Mr. Poindexter plowed a piece of land in one of his orchards late in the season, well on toward winter. This year they noticed that the fruit in this piece was entirely exempt from the curculio. Col. Wiley’s theory of the matter is. that after the egg is xleposited in the ground there is a period when it is in a soft state, and if the, soil is disturbed at this time the insect is killed in development. For this reason ho is now trying the experiment of late plowing in his orchards. This is an Important test and the result will be awaited with interest.—Jeffersonville News. The desperate effort of Henry Dummerfruit, of Dearborn county, to commit suicide, is frightful in its details. He was found lying unconscious in a ravine near Laughery creek, several miles distant from home. He climbed a tree and tying a rope about his neck and a limb, ho jumped off. The rope broke and he fell to the ground, breaking his leg and badly bruising himself. Several hours later he ho regained consciousness, and then he tried bleeding himself to death by cutting the arteries in his wrists. This failing he stabbed himself repeatedly in the abdomen with a pointed stick, penetrating his entrails. Then he again lost consciousness and lay for two days and nights before his condition was discovered by friends. NOW A LAW, The Repeal Bill Signed by the President, After the Voorhees bill had been concurred in by the House, Wednesday, and signed by the presiding officers of both Houses it was hurried to the White House and at 4:25 Grover Cleveland affixed his signature and the bill became a law. The analysis of the vote in the House shows that 124 Democrats, 68 Republicans and one Populist (Cannon, of California,) voted for concurrence, and Tf) Democrats, 15 Republicans and nine Populists against the ! motion. After the defeat of the amendr ments the whole Indiana delegation voted for the repeal bill. "THE BOSS GIRL." [ Miss Wllla Clara Vanlue; fourteen years | old, daughter of William Vanlue, of Howj ard county, who several days ago de1 spoiled her father of 165 and went to the j World’s Fair, returned to the home of a friend at Frankfort and sent out “feelers” to find out what her reception at home would be. She was welcomed by her father with open arms. The Fort ’JTayne gun club has decided to prosecute violators of the game law.