Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 32, Hope, Bartholomew County, 30 November 1893 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. By Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA ■w.— - ■ The “bloody shirt” has been resurrected. It was found in a carpenter shop at Elkhart. It. is not known that it will be used for political purposes. Sleeping car berths are now sold at $4 from Chicago to San Francisco. The stale jokes about the overpowering wealth of Pullman porters will evidently have to be revised.

The question now agitating the public mind to the exclusion of more important matters is: “Will Bad Stone fall with a dull sickening thud as other stones do when dropped?” “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.” A party of grizzly bear hunters from New York city are already snowed in at the head of Clearwater river in Montana, and do not expect to return before spring. No fears are felt for their safety. Ex-Senator Faewell, of Illinois, continues to brood over the snub he thinks he received from Benjamin Harrison during the latter’s Presidential term, and has given a lengthy interview to the press in which be airs his grievances and exhibits a very sore toe to the public gaze. A scientist has recently discovered than the pain we feel when a mosquito bites us is caused by an acid fluid which is injected by the ferocious insect into the wound in • order to thin the blood to a desirable consistency and make it more readily digestible. This is a great achievement on the part of the scientist. We all like to know what hurts us. A decision of great interest to rural committees has been recently handed down by the United States Supreme Court, the full bench concurring. The decision establishes the right of any man to prevent a dog fight, and holds that if a peace maker in the canine combat shall receive bites or injuries he may recover damages from the owner of the dog or dogs. The contest waged by St. Louis and Milwaukee at the World’s Fair as to which city produced the best beer resulted in a disagreement of the judges, and the final settlement of the vexed question was left to the supervisory committee of the national commission. The result is not inappropriate, as everybody knows that the beer business is a “draw” game anyway. The will of the late Mayor Harrisor has been probated at Chicago. The estate is valued at $950,000, and is left in equal shares to his four children —the amounts a 1 vanned in the testator’s lifetime to three heirs ; to be deducted from their portions— : with the exception of $10,000 to be used by the executors in charity. He appoints his two sons and oldest daughter as his executors, and the will is set forth in his own handwriting. Our own J. W. Riley is said to be superstitious to a marked degree Recently he arrived at Baltimore at J a late hour, and after registering at a hotel the clerk called a colored bell boy, who was cross-eyed, and ordered him to show the guest to room 13. “Not much,” said the Hoosier poet, “I don’t allow no cross-eyed coon to show me to room number 13.” As Mr. Riley insisted on it, another boy was called and the superstitious Hoosier was assigned to another room. Ordinarily to destroy the inherent value of anything renders it worthless. There has been one exception at least found to this rule, however. Four dollar postage stamps are said to be coming into use for letters only requiring a two-cent engraving of Columbus discovering “us”, the object being to have them cancelled by a government official, which at once adds a certain ficti-

tious value to .the bits of paper in the eyes of the stamp collectors, who are numbered by thousands. The letters bearing the valuable medallion are registered so that the sender may recover them with certainty. A premature youth of Indianapolis recently hurriedly era pried a bucket containing gasoline belonging to his mother out of a back -window. His maternal ancestor sharply reprimanded him for his carelessness, but the youth insisted that the liquid was nothing but water. An exchange of contradictory re/narks ensued, and the boy, to convince the mother, applied a lighted match to the wasted fuel. The conversion of that boy to his mother’s views on the subject was quite as sudden as the change of heart that came over Saul of Tarsus one famous day, for “suddenly there shined round about him a light from” —not heaven, but the earth beneath, and he was sadlv burned. The fire department came to the rescue and saved the building, and the M. D.’s will save the boy’s life. Omaha policemen go to church. They even become interested in re ligious services. “One of the Finest” was relieved from duty for remaining too long at the “throne of grace.” Such a charge has nev>r been brought against an Indianapolis Knight of the mace. Of late the force of that city have devoted their energies to suppressing the traffic in beer at illegal hours with great suecess. We are not informed fully, but perhaps this accounts for the unparalleled epidemic of suicide that has devastated our beautiful capita! in the past few weeks. This is a subject for moral philosophers to investigate; What, if any, relation does the suppression of the illegal sale of spirituous liquors bear to the mania that results in self-destruc-tion? PEOPLE. N. C. Engberg, a Waterloo (Ore.) jeweler, has made a clock the framework of which contains over a thousand pieces of wood, all grown in that vicinity. The body of James Curlin, of Trigg county, Ky.,lies in a neglected grave, hidden by weeds. Curlin gave the c nunty the proceeds of the sale of his slaves sixty years ago for school purposes. The railroad car evangelist, Rev. Boston Smith, is meeting with great success in the Northwest. Mr. Smith was the first missionary to utilize a railway car as a chapel. The car he now uses was built for him by John D. Rockefeller and other capitalists, and will seat one hundred persons. The parents of Chang, the dead Chinese giant, who arc now living, are people of only ordinary size, and there was nothing unusual about that of Chang till he had a brief illness in his boyhood, wheu the growth set in that gave him a commanding eminence as one of tho human curios of the time. A bust of Mayor Carter Harrison by Bracci lini was receiving its last touches when he was assassinated. It is exactly the size of life, has the chin raised, the r best thrown out and the head sightly neat, as if listen’a;. It is said uj ho an excellent likeness, representing the Mayor in a characteristic pose. □ On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the house at Ash field, Massachusetts, in which Professor Charles Eliot Norton spends his summers, one of his guests was Henry Norton, eighty-threo years old, who had walked fourteen miles to attend the dinner which Professor Norton was to give on his lawn to the Farmer's Club. The famous library of tho late Mr. Skene (f >r many years historiog rapher for Scotland) lias just been sold at E inburg. It was one of the best private collections in SeoMand, and ren a kablv ric in historical, ge icalog c d a: d n i uarian works. i i Celtic literature. Mr. Skene inherited the splendid library of Ins 'athe 1 , Mr. Skene of Rubisiaw, th, intimate and trusted friend of Sir Walter Scott, but added very largely to it, and was himself a very enthusiastic book-collector. Bernhardt’s crazy lover, Benatro. has just died in an insane «sylum. He was a minor official of the munic pality of Paris, and became enam ored of the actress from seeing her on the stage. Neglect of business and imploring letters resulted, hut they did not affect her. He endured her contempt, however, until she married M. Damala. He then had to be taken to Bieetre and there he died, having never recovered from his hopeless passion.

Till’IWmilE WEEK Employes of tlio Denver electric light company are out on a strike. Joseph Dion, the once celebrated billiard champion, is incurably insane. A now bridge will probably bo built across the Mississippi at St, Louis. The races at Hawthorne Park, Chicago, Wednesday, were run in a blinding snowstorm. Mrs. ilallic Caldwell is dead and Annie Jones is dying at Denver from opium smoking. The search for Gen. Carlin’s son, lost in the. mountain's of Montana, has been abandoned. The Illinois steel works at Joliet have resumed operations. One thousand men are at work. Charles Nettieton, a wealthy resident of Des Moines, committed suicide as the result of a prolonged spree. I At the session of the general assembly ; K. of L. at Philadelphia, Wednesday, T. V. Powderly was re-elected Grand Mas- | ter-Workman. A disastrous hotel fire occurred at Merrill Station, near Heaver, Pa., Tuesday morning. Seven men lost their lives. Others were seriously injured. Ex-Senator Hamilton, twice a Senator from Texas and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas, prior to its admission as a State, died at San Diego, Cal., Thursday. The Ways and Means committee have decided to place iron ore on the free list. A strong fight is expected on the floor of the House when the section is put on passage. W. K. Vanderbilt left New York, Thursday, In his new yacht, the Valiant, for a trip around the world. He was accompanied by his family. The crew of the yacht numbers sixty men. It is announced from Washington that President Cleveland is unalterably opposed to the income tax proposed by the ways and means committee, and will veto any such measure that Congress may pass. Detroit had a big tire, Thursday night. The dry goods house of Edson, Moore & Co., was destroyed. Loss $700,( 01 Three clerks arc supposed to have perished In the building. A number, of others, are missing. Dr. Chas. F. Flanders, Jefferson .City, Mo., worth $5f0 000, will have to go to prison for three years. Got a creditor to renew what the latter supposed was a mortgage but it turned out to bo a warranty deed. The National Grange, in session at Syracuse, N. Y„ Wednesday, denounced Secretary Morton for language used by him in a recent address, in which he spoke disrespectfully of the Grange and similar organizations. A Chicago crank made an attempt to extort money from J. II. Walker, the well known dry goods merchant, at the point of the revolver, Thursday night. Mr. Walker threw him down stairs and he was allowed to escape. The funeral of ex-Sccretary Rusk oc curred at Viroqua, Wis., Friday. Many distinguished persons were in attendance, Including ex-President Harrison ex-At-torney General Miller, Senator Sawyer and many others. At the coming meeting of the executive committee of the Republican National Committee an attempt will be made to formulate a plan looking to a decreased representation from the Southern States at future National conventions. Lewis G. Stevenson, son of Vice-Presi-dent Stevenson, and Miss Helen Davis, daughter of W. O. Davis, editor of the Bloomington Pantagraph, were married at Bloomington. 111.. Tuesday. One thousand guests witnessed the ceremony, including many distinguished persons. At Columbus. O.. Johann Wilhelm Walsteiner, German by birth but resident of Cairo, Egypt, since childhood, and recently of the Midway Pialsanco. wedded Elizabeth Wisger, also German, and lately in the employ of the Street of Cairo on the Plaisance. The couple left for Egypt. Justice Field of the United States Supreme Court, Monday. In a decision in the case of Robert G. Rogers, of Michigan, indicted for assault upon a person on board a steamer In the Detroit river, held that the Great Lakes are high seas, and as such are subject to the jurisdiction of Internationa! law. Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor II arrlson, has written a letter for publication In which he tries to justify his action, and assures the people of Chicago that ho is their best friend, and that they cannot afford to permit him to be executed for an act which was committed in their behalf.

Andrew Carnegie has Informed the ways and means committee that lie will make steel rails and certain other articles cheaper than they can possibly bo imported from Europe, even if the entire duty is removed. He claims that his industries are independent of tarilt laws. Engineer Young, Fireman McDowell, Conductor Odnm, Hrakeman Stacy. Express messenger Hoyle and I*. ,7. Saunders, who defeated the bandits that attempted to mb the Illinois Central train on the night of Sept. 20. were each presented with a medal and throe shares of stock by the company, Tuesday. . FOREIGN. Count Polocki, the Russian Imperial cup lx arer is dead. Forty-nine, fishermen lost their lives near Copenhagen during the recent gales. The employers’ liaoility bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons without a division. An Anarchist conspiracy to blow up the French Law Court and a new mosque at Algiers has been discovered. President TJarrios, of Guatemala, has published a decree, which Is, In effect a proclamation of emancipation >of the laboring classes from slavery Italy la going to Amalgamate her tele-

graph and postal systems and the operators and messenger buys struck. They went back to work. Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone and Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by Countess Spencer, are at Windsor Castle on a visit to Queen Victoria. Woman suffrage in parisli elections at last seems likely to become an actuality in England. A provision allowing women who pay taxes to vote at all local elections lias been incorporated in the parish councils bill. A sixteen thousand-mile race between four British steamships has just been ended by the arrival of the ship Glencaird at Calcutta. The racers started from Philadelphia last July, and the prize was a bag containing 5,OX) gold dollars. The Italian cabinet has resigned because of tl.e scandals brought to light by the deputies’ committee investigating the great bank failure of last summer at Romo. LATEST FROM HAWAII. Provisional Government: Still in Power. A Honolulu dispatch Nov. 16 via San Francisco, Nov. 23, says: The main change in the political situation since the Australia sailed has been one of increased strain and greater business depression. Since his formal call to present his credentials, Minister Willis has not communicated officially with the government. Tlie most significant happening which has taken place occurred last Monday, when a committee of the American League, the lately organized auxilliary of the Annexation Club, called on the now Minister. After welcoming Mr. Willis the committee slated the 'members of the league earnestly desired that the Hawaiin islands should become part of the United States, and with that object in view, the organization would support the present provisional government of Hawaii, and ip ail honorable ways aid in accomplishing annexation. The, address also contained an offer of aid if at any time the Minister saw lit to command them. Minister Willis replied that personally he was an ardent American, and would like to see the Stars and Stripes float over all the islands of the Pacific Ocean, but that ho could not at that t'me make public his instructions regarding Hawaii, further than to state that outside interference would not be tolerated by the United States. The Provisional government believes that Minister Willis’s remarks indicate that it is the intention of the United States to establish a protectorate over the islands. The deposed Queen called on Minister Willis at the Legation the same day. News from private sources received at San Francisco by the Alameda, on the 23d, state that the provisional government had men under arras ail night on the 15th, to prevent the restoration of the Queen, which it was feared would be attempted. However, no such attempt was made, and the force was dispersed on the morning of the 10th. APPOMATTOX’ APPLE TREK Tablets Erected by the War Department on Historic Sites. Work has just been finished on a project of unusual interest, undertaken by the War Department some months ago—the marking of the important spots at and around the old Appomattox court house, connected with the surrender of Lee to Grant in 1365. During the early summer it was suggested to Secretary Lamont by Mr. Kirkley, one of the members of the board having in charge the publication of the records of the rebellion, that it was high time now to mark these spots, as the landmarks were fast being obliterated. The Secretary immediately gave orders to have the idea carried out. Since then Major Davis, the head of the board, has been hard at work, and has at last succeeded in having all the points of interest at Appomattox marked in a permanent manner. The marking Is done by means of cast Iron tablets fastened to iron posts five feet long, The letters of the inscriptions are two and a quarter inches high, and stand out in good relief. The work of ascertaining the exact spot was not an easy one, and without the aid of Mr. Peers, who is now clerk of the county court, and has lived near the courthouse all his life, it might not have been accomplished with the certainty and exactness which now make the work especially vn’ ’able.

Immediately after the surrender the famous apple tree was dug up by soldiers who saw its value as a relic. They went down several feet In order ■ to secure the roots. The site of this tree Is, therefore, all that can bo marked to-day. It stood a few yards west of the road and four hundred yards or so north of the courthouse. The tablet which has been placed there bears this inscription: ‘•Npar this spot stood the apple tree under which Gen. Hubert E. Lee rested while awaiting the return of a flag of truce s nt by him to Gen. U. S. Grant on the morning of April 9,1305.” TilE BRAZILIAN WAR. Sinking of the Insurgent Vestel Javary. President Peixoto telegraphed to the Brazilian Minister, at London. Thursday, that the insurgent ironclad Javary had been sunk by the tire of one of the batteries at Nielheroy. The dispatch added that the crew of the Javary perished. The Javary was an iron-armored turret ship of 3,700 tons, She carried four teninch Whitworth mnzzle-loadingrifle guns, six live-inch rapid tiring guns and live machine gnns. The Javary had 2,30: horse power engines and twelves incite* of armor. She was a powerful vessel, oi light draught and suitable for coast de-fen-e or river service. She was built U Era nee in 1875.

01)1) FELLOWS’ (WAND LODGE. Ifty-Seventh Annual Meeting at In. dlanapolls. Thu Grand Lodge Indiana I. O.O. F. met at Indianapolis in annual session. Wed nosilav. Koutine business occupied the time. The Grand Secretary’s report shows a total membership in the State of 41,165; net eain for term, 1,459; gain for the year,, 3 484; total amount paid ont by lodges of tiie State for relief and charity for past, six months, $81,909.77. At Thursday’s session the election and installation of officers was not completed until 0 o’clock, at which time the Grand Lodge adjourned. Officers were elected as follows: W. H. Talbott, of Orleans, G. M.; M. A. Chipman, of Anderson, II. G. M.; C. P. Northern, of Oreensburg, Grand Warden; jj F, Foster, Indianapolis, Grand Secretary; J. A. Wildman, Indianapolis,. Treasurer; Jno.A. Furguson,Indianapolis, George Shirts, of Noblesville, and John W. VVallicu, Grand Trustees. After the election the officers were Installed, and at the close of the installations the Grand Master announced the following appointments; Grand Instructor, VV. II. Leedy; Grand Chaplain, A. J. Carey; Grand Marshal, Harry Gaines; Grand Commander, W. E. Longley; Grand Guardian, VV. N. Lakin; Grand Herald, Samuel A. Davis. The appointment by Past Grand Mastei Ilogale of George Shirts, of NoblesvHle, as counsel for the Order was approved by the Lodge, and Shirts will continue in that capacity, The trustees were ordered to proceed to convert into cash the securities turned over to the Grand Lodge by ex-Treasurer T. P. Haughey.

BRITAIN NEEDS MORE WAR SHfPS The London Graphic publishes an interview with Admiral Frederick B. P. Seymour (Baron Alcester) upon the state of the navy. The Admiral says that the condition of the navy is most serious Twenty million pounds, he says, ought tc be expended to build quickly ten first-class men-of-war and as many cruisers as possible. He condemned the practice ol building vessels with unarraored ends and advocated the use of a complete bell at the water lino on account of the great strength which would thus be given u the rams, which, ho said, would be tin chief offensive weapon in future naval warfare. He complained of the lack of a sufficient number of trained seamen, and said that the Mediterranean fleet ought to be largely increased and Gibraltar retained at all cost.

THE MARKETS. Nov. 27, 1833. GRAIN AND 1IAV. Wheat—No. 2 red, 56c%: No. 3 red, 53c; rejected, dOgSOc; wagon wheat, 56%c. ; Corn—No. 1 white, 34%c; No. 2 white, 31%c:No. 3 white, mixed. :Hc; No. 4 white. SOc: No. 2 wh'te. mixed, 33%c; No. 3 white, (mixed, 33%c: No. 4 white, mixed. 30c; No. b yellow. 33%c; No. 3 yellow, No. 4 rellow.SOe: No. 2 mixed. 33%c:No. 3 mixed ll3%c: No. 4 mixed. SOc; ear corn. 34c. Oats—No. 2 white, 31c; No. 3 white. fOc; No. 2 mixed. 28>jc; No. 3 mixed, 28c; rejected, 23@25c. Hay—Choice timothy, *11.50; No. 1, P11.25; No. 2, *9.53; No 1 prairie, *6.75; mixed. *8: clover. *9. Rye—No. 2, 45c for car-lots; 40c foi wagon rye. Bran—112. LIVE STOCK. Catti.E — Export grades. *[email protected]; good to choice shippers#!.OOiotMO; stockers, fair to medium cows, *[email protected]; choice milkers, *27.003335.00; bulls, medium, *[email protected] 0 Hogs—Light, *[email protected]; mixed, 5.403* 85.55; heavy, *[email protected]. Sheep—Choice, *3.0033.35; fair to medium, *3.50@2 85; common. *3.2'@3.00 , 1 bucks, *2.0034X0; lambs, *[email protected]. POULTRY AlifD OTHER PROHUCE. *" X [Prices Paid by Dealers.) Poultry—Hens, 5@5%c [>er lb; young chickens. 6c p'<r lb;turkeys, toms,5c ;n‘r lb; hens, 7c per lb: fancy large young turkevs, 8@7c; small and poor. 5c; ducks. 6c per lb; geese, *4.20 per dot., for choice: rabbits, 75c@*l per dor..; quads, *1.50 per doz. Logs—Shippers paying 21c Butter—Choice. I5@l6c; mixed, 10@12c. Honey—New. 15*18c. Feathers—Prime geese, 40c per lb; mixed duck. 20e per lb. I Beeswax—20c for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Unwashed medium wool, 16c; unwa hed coarse or braid, I3@l4c; anwash d line merino. 10*11?.; tub-washed, 18@23c; burry and cotted wool, 3 to 6c less than above prices. r, *J, Ir V5f~No- 1 green hides, No. J g- s ; 3%c; No. 2 G. S. hi ies. 2%c; No. 1 calf hides, 5c; No. 2 calf hides. 3%c X allow—No. 1 tallow, 4%c; No. 2 tallow, 4c. New York. Whe at-No 2 red, 60’< c , Corn-No. 2, 4> sc. Oats — No. 2, 35c. Butter—Western creamery, 27%c. Chicago, 35%c. Oats, 27c. Short ribs. mhldsae ,t,,l! rs. *5 35*1.00; Othi ,s.*3.0l,*5.2a; 1 exalts. $2 (®° «)• \Vesl-5r55-’n#rim j; heavy, *5.50*:,.70; light, >5.25eruM2.7&7 at ‘ VeS - ,2@3 - 50; Weit * Cincinnati. 31c’ l(w T w'/ 0 ' 2 o 57 i C; Corn > ?0 <'- Oats. ;, c, Rye- bO%c; Pork. *13.50- Lard 8cEggs.^lc.' 50 ’ * iUtt, r ' ®’8>n creamery, 27c Detroit. -srs^ 50 "-* 39s; ° ats ’ 33c; ci ° ve * St. Loxli. Wheat—57%c: Corn, 31% c: Oats, 26%c.| Philadelphia. 0aU HK 3^B l utto’ West’ y ''"°' V ' 2 * vv estern creamery, ... B»Ulmore. KX.’SSr^ 1 —• o,o. m,, Liberty. 23 shipments, 5030; X'ucsday. Market *<* New York, f5.50@5.(K); best Vnr*m : |^^- < !r. ,philts « Bon Yorkers, *5.. 0*5 com-