Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 37, Hope, Bartholomew County, 4 January 1894 — Page 3

‘Well, well, usage is everything n these matters.,’ “I wonder why mother didn't vish it?” ‘‘Oh, some whim of the poor soul’s, ■few fret a bit of paper and draw up * paragraph as I shall tell you. But •et’s have a light.” “I can see by the firelight,” she ♦nswered. “Yes —I’d rather,” “Very well.” She got a piece of paper, and •ending over the fender, wrote at •is dictation words which he had evdently got by heart from some ad'ertisement or other—words to the effect that she, the writer, hitherto mown as Elizabeth Jane Newson, vas going to call herself Elizabeth ‘ane Henchard forthwith. It was lone, and fastened up, and directed ■o the office of the Casterbridge Chronicle. “Now,” said Henchard, with the •laze of satisfaction that he always nnitted when he had carried his )oint — though tenderness softened t this time—“I’ll go up-stairs, and •unt for some documents that will •rove it all to ’ee. But I won’t •rouble you with them till to-raor-•ow. Goodnight, my Elizabeth ian’e. ” He was gone before the bewildered fir!could realize what it all meant,or idjust her filial sense to the center if'gravity. She was thankful that le had left her to herself for the eveling, and sat down over the fire, lere she remained in silence, and vept—not tor her mother now, but or the genial sailor Richard Newion, to whom she seemed doing a vrong, Henchard, in the meantime, had tone up-stairs. Papers of a domestic nature he kept in a drawer hr his ledroom, and this he unlocked. Bebre turning them over be leaned lack and indulged in reposeful thought. Elizabeth Jane was his at ast, and she \ s a girl of such good tense and kind heart that she would ie sure to get to like him. He was .he kind of man to whom some hunan object for pouring out his heart ipon—was it tender or were it rough —was almost a necessity. The cravng of his heart for the. re-establish-nent of this tenderest human tie had ieen great during his wife’s lifetime, ind now he had submitted to its nastery without reluctance and vithout feai'. He bent over the irawer again, and proceeded with iis search. Among the other papers had been ilaced the contents of his wife's litJedesk, the keys of which had been landed to him at her request. Here vas the letter addressed to him with ;he restriction, “Not-to be opened, all Elizabeth Jane's wedding day.” (to be continued.) Ths Haidah Indians. Ian Francisco Chronicle. At Victoria, B. C., there are many iaidah Indians from the Queen Iharlotte Islaxd, who came down he Gulf of Georgia in canoes hewn rom single cedar trees and capable if holding a hundred persons. The Taidah, like the women of Alaska, rear pieces of bone or pearl stuck hrough their lower lips. They are dever workers, making ornaments if chased silver and baskets of birch iber, woven closely enough to hold rater. The Haidahs also carve polshed columns of coal slate, soft rhen first cut, but hardening on exlosure to the air. The figures are lears, crows, frogs, and lizards. They have a curious mythical bird jailed the thunderbird, which when ie flaps his wings makes ihunder, and when he winks ns eye, lightning. They arc •rcat gamblers, using round, polshed sticks of yew, sometimes inaid with bits of pearl. Th< sticks ire shuffled under a covering of celar bark, the gamblers crooning a ow chant the while. They gamble iway all they possess and become 10 absorbed that they sit a -whole lay and night without food. As varm clothing they wear blankets woven of dog's hair. Kept Her Promise. fid-Bits. Hengravo Hall, near Bury St. Ednunds, which has been sold for over ;90,000. at one time belonged to Penelope, a daughter of Ear'; of ilivers, Of this fair aristocrat an imusing story is told. She had ;hreo suitors at the same time, Sir leorge Trenchard, Sir John Gage, ind Sir William Hervey, and, to , ceep peace between the rivals, j ihe threatened the first aggressor ' with her perpetual displeasure, telling them that if they would wait she vould have them all in, turn—a irornise, which she actually per'orraed. The gentleman first favored vas Sir George Trenchard. He died ihortly afterward, and it was not ong before she became Lady Gage, hr John, by whom she had nine fiiildren, died in the year 1C33, and ;wo years later his widow was led io the altar by Sir William Hervey. The widow survived all her husbands. French vineyards in '93 yielded 1,250,0 0, 00 gallons, valued at $350,000,000,

IMAM STATE NEWS. New Albany is moving for a complete system of sewers. A branch Keeiey Institute was opened at Hammond, Monday. Marion and Jonesboro are now connect5d by an electr c lai.way. The now I. O. 0. F. ball at Martinsville was dedicated, Thursday night. Frank St. John, of Oreenshurg, who died very suddenly, had been taking the '“gold cure.” Col. I. B. McDonald, $)( Columbia City, will eject himself into the race for pension agent of Indiana. The Townsnlp Trustees’ State Association convened at Indianapolis, Wednesday and Thursday. The Citizen’s Bank, of Plainfield, has been vlctlmiz.ed by a confidence man to the extent of $1,179. Daugherty Bros.’ flouring mill at Ladoga was destroyed by fire, Thursday. Loss, $30,000. Insurance, $10,000. 6 Congressman Martin lias written to several prominent Democrats that ho will not bo a candidate for re-election. Richard and George McDonald were killed by the explosion of a boiler in a saw mill, five miles north of Peru, Thursday. William Yearin, an experienced miner of Bloomfield, has located machinery at Neodmore, Brown county, to mine for gold. . . James Longston, a farmer, was sandbagged and robbed near Vincennes, Monday night. The thugs broke one of his legs. The first meeting of the Indiana Association of Elocutionists and.Orators was held at the State House, Indianapolis, Tuesday. Miss Mary Wilson, an employe In the Cottage steam laundry, at Muncie, had her arm mashed between two rollers, Wednesday. The State Teachers’ Association, and the various educational sections of the organlz.atlon, held their annual reunions at Indianapolis, Wednesday. There are still twelve men unaccounted for in the wreck of the big bridge at Jeffersonville, and their bodies are supposed to have boon carried down the river. Said that Rev. Ross, a country preach - or, canvassed Muncie. Christmas day, in a buggy, in search of any one who would likely be in need of a minister at a wedding. . .. ■ Minas Lowe, of Columbus, sixty-two years old,' and three times married, had twenty-two children born to him —four by liis first wife, nine by the second and eleven by the third. The most expensive wreck on the I. & V. road in ten years occurred near Paragon, Morgan county, Saturday. The train ran into a horse and the engine and five cars were derailed, Morris Gore, aged twelve, of Shelby ville, was shooting dynamite lire crackers, Wednesday, when one of them exploded near his head, leafing his left eye out and disfiguring his face. “Jap” Hill, of Frankfort, a housebreaker, has been captured in Shelby county. He will be returned to prison to serve out the remainder of a twelve-year sentence, he still owing nine years. Ten Kentucky eloping couples landed in Jeffersonville, Thursday, and wore spliced according to the Hoosier code. One Justice captured eight out of the ten, and his fees aggregated $50. Miss Louisa Uoilenberg, of Terre Haute, while eating breakfast, strangled over a morsel of food which lodged in her windpipe, and she died before relief could be had. She was thirty-two years old. Charles F. Miller, a well-known young man o f Kokomo, was arrested for attempting to pass a forged check for $20. He pleaded that his family were suffering for food and there was no other recourse. Another large dynamite bomb was found under the new saloon at Ossian, Tuesday, and the anti-saloon war continues. Two weeks ago the same saloon was wrecked by a bomb, the entire front being blown out. The Law and Order League of Marion is making itself felt. Last Sunday all the business houses were compelled to close, save the restaurants and drug stores. Even the cigar stands and candy shops were shut down. A protest Is being prepared at Nobles ville against Dr. Samuel Harrell, recently appointed a pension examining surgeon. Dr. Harrell is a young practitioner, who came from Shelby county. It is alleged that he is hostile to Union soldiers. Dr. Gunn, who settled at Marion several months ago, has been arrested by direction of the authorities at Grand Rapids, Mich., where he is wanted for attempting a criminal assault and for forfeiting his bond of $s€0. George W. Ray, of school supply notoriety, of Shelby ville, assaulted Isaac Carter, of the law firm of Adams <& Carter, inflicting severe personal injury. The animus grew out of Carter’s employment as an attorney to prosecute cases against Ray. William Hepner, who went insane with the delusion that God had commanded him to kill eight men and then preach the gospel, and who gave Sheriff Kohl, of Jefferson county, groat trounbie recently, died in the Central Insane Asylum at Indianapolis. The postoffiee at Willvalo is in a lad way. The railway station is a half-m ie from the village, and the department has provided no means for carrying the mail. Mrs. Mary Condon, the postmistress, has tendered her resignation, and no one seems willing to assume the position. A gang of eight desperadoes well supplied with m mey, foo l and beer, was captured by the marshal and a posse at Hartford City, Tuesday afternoon. The men were not ordinary tramps and had been causing a reign of terror in tho glass factory addition'all day. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, who killed Oscar Walton, at Walton, last Octobcr.was admitted to bail at the close of the habeas

. corpus proceedings at Kokomo, Tuesday. ; The testimony showed that there had ' been a struggle between Mr*. Schmidt and Walton previous to the shouting. | John Rudy, of Camtnack. who was j frightened out of his wits, at best none too , bright, by practical jokers, and who became a dangerous maniac through fear of arrest, has been restored to better mental condition than ever before, due very I largely to the shock received in his fright, i A party of young men of Brownstown, I headed by Daniel and Michael O’Hara, went to Seymour and attempted to "clean” the town, in backwoods parlance. This led to a collision with the police, in which the O’Haras wore roughly handled. They were both badly hurt before consenting to be locked up. George Riley, of Fort Wayne, was a flagman at the Clinton street crossing for many years—so long. In fact, that ho was regarded as a landmark. The other morning he complained of feeling ill and asked to be relieved, and when his substitute came ho walked to an adjoining barn, sat , down on a box and died. William Bixler, of Albion, and H. W. Harrington, of Lafayette, celebrated their release from prison on Christmas by a prolonged drunk at Michigan City, finally winding up in a quarrel, in which Harrington was stabbed in the breast and neck by Bixler. Both were arrested, and Bixler is likely to be returned to his old cell. D. S. Mackey has resigned as President and director of the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad, and Vice-President H. C. Barlow is now acting president of the company. W. H. Tilford was elected di- ■ rector in -place of Mr. Mackey, and also chairman of the Board of Directors. There is a stray dog in Madison that has no owner yet he is well fed and wears a license tag. The dog once saved the life of several school children by catching a wild steer, that was after them, by the nose and throwing it to the ground, thus giving the children time to escape. The community takes care of the canine. Judge Hood, at Columbus, Thursday, overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of the State vs. Cyrus Brown for murdering his wife, and sentenced him to bo hanged by-the neck until dead, in the Southern Prison, Friday, April 20, 1894. Brown stood motionless and breathless while the sentence was being announced and uttered not a word. George Huntsman and other well known sheep breeders of Albion have oganlzed thc'Xndiana National Dickinson,Delaine Wool, Mu’ I on and Merino Sheep Breeders’ Association, the purpose being to develop the industry and register the pedigree of the sheep. Noble county took the first and second prizes at the World’s Fair, and this is the main cause for forming the association. Washington Pofur, aged eighty-live, living near Azalia, Bartholomew county, is the progenitor of twenty-two children, sixty-five grandchildren and twenty-eight great-grandchildren. Eight of his own children are dead. Mr. Pofur has twice married. There were twelve children by the first and ton by the second marriage. He is now eighty-five years old and his second.wife sixty-two. 4 In his anxiety to bo the popular choice for postmaster of Shelbyville, A. J. Higgins has published a card in which he claims that the salary of 82,200 is too high, and that if he is chosen he will bind himself to contribute iflCO per month of his salary to the use of the King’s Daughters, to bo distributed in charity. Anna Wagner, on trial at Indianapolis for the past throe weeks,-for the alleged poisoning of five members of the Koesters family of that city. was>.acquittod, Thursday, The case had attracted universal attention, and the verdict was greeted with great applause by the crowd of people who filled the court room and halls of the building its well as by a tumultuous multitude on the outside. Every member of the jury had tears in his eyes as the verdict was read. The defendant had been confined in the Marlon county jail Continuously for more than six months. Patents were issued to Indiana! inventors, Tuesday, as follows: C. W. Delaney, assignor to J.~W. Dysard, Hammond, coin controlled apparatus; A. Hayward, Warsaw, heater for stock troughs; R. H. Kersey, Lebanon, apparatus for heating and circulating hot water; P. A. Klrchner, Port Wayne, water alarm for steam boilers; R. E. Porch, Spieeland, washing machine; J. L; Ritcr, Brownsville, wire fence; J. F. Slack. Sugar Branch, wbifflotree hook; C. I. and E. Williamson. Union City, land roller; J. J. Wood, Fort Wayne, electric transformer. The Kokomo Dispatch says that when ex-Treasuror Armstrong, of Tipton countywas received at the prison north, where he had been sentenced for stealing county funds, 8200 was found in his stockings by one of the guards. This revives the rumor that the Armstrongs still have money, and that Cal. Armstrong, the deputy under his father, is trying to effect a compromise with the State by which he will plead guilty and be given a mild punishment. Fifteen years ago Michael McDonald and wife settled near New Salem, and soon after Mis. McDonald died. In due time Mr. McDonald remarried, and ids home is one of the pleasantest in that section. Ha is an ex-soldier and draws a pension. Recently a strange woman appeared at New Salem, laying claim to Mr. McDonald as her undivorced husband, and she recounted his army record, his regiment and company, wounds, etc., in’ proof. Mr. McDonald entered a vigorous and emphatic dtyiial, claiming never to have seen the claimant in his life before. The woman, however, persisted, and she brought suit against McDonald for maintainance. Depositions were ordered to be taken at Indianapolis, but when the witnesses were called they promptly disclaimed ever having seen Mr. McDonald, and stoutly affirmed that he was not th{ man. The claimant then took auothei careful survey of Mr. McDonald and cam< to a similar conclusion. The ideuttiy of thi claimant remains a secret..

SAVAGE SUPERSTITION. It Still Survive* on American Soil—Horrible Story From the Far Wc»t. * A horrible story of tho.savgge laws and j superstitious of the Mojave Indians is told by J. F. Raunders, who arrived at Los Angeles, Cal., Monday night, from the Needles, a town on the Colorado river. The Mojaves have their own laws and superstitions. On Tuesday a triple murder was committed, under the plea of a superstitious tradition, by the Indians. One of the prettiest squaws of the tribe, named Lonetta, was married according to the savage rites about a year ago. She was only eighteen years old. Sunday she gave birth to twins and, as a result, a grand pow-wow was called, for, according to the Mojave tradition, the squaw who has twins is a witch and a consort of evil spirits. The penalty has always been death for the babies and mother. Lonotta’s husband was so fond of her. however, that he made a strong plea rfor her and her babies, but it was of no avail, and the two little ones were brought forward and brained with a club. Lonetta’s personal belongings were gathered and put into her “shack” and she was ordered inside. She bade her husband farewell and went in. The entrance was closed and straw and brush was piled around the frail structure, and In two hours but a few embers remained to tell the tragic story. DEATH OF COL. ZOLLINGER. The Distinguished Mayor of Ft. Wayne Answer* the Last Roll Call. Col. Chas. A. Zollinger, Mayor of Port Wayne, died in that city, Wednesday night, of neuralgia of the heart. Ho had boon sick hut a few days: Col. Zollinger was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1838. Emigrating to this country with his parents when ten years old, the family settled at Sandusky, O., shortly after removing to a farm near Ft. Wayne. After a varied experience as a.laborer and blacksmith in various parts of the country, in 1861, at the beginning of the war of the rebellion, he enlisted, and with the exception of a brief interval, when he retired from the service on account of ill health, he served until mustered out in 1805, being at that time colonel of-the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Indiana Volunteers. Returning to his home at New Haven, Allen county, he resumed the b'acksinith trade; until 1870, when he was elected sheriff of the county. Subsequently ho was elected mayor of Ft. Wayne, and served as United States Pension Agent four years under Cleveland’s first administration,, being again elected mayor of his adopted city after his retirement from the Pension Agency. Col. Zollinger was a Mason of high rank and was also an Odd Fellow of note. ' ' YOORIIEES’S PRESIDENTIAL BOOM. Indiana's Senior Senator Backed By All His Colleagues. A Washington dispatch to the Indianapolis News, Wednesday, says: Senator Voorhees’s Presidential aspirations are a subject of much comment and not a little amusement among the Washington politicians. It is no joking matter, however, with the Indiana Democrats here. ' They nearly all speak favorably of of the Senator, and are of the opinion that he will have the Indiana delegation to the National convention. Not a single Indiana Representative has yet declared himself for Minister Gray as against Voorhees. It Is plainly evident that. In a test of strength between the senior Senator and Minister Gray, the latter would not be In it for the Presidency, so far as the Indiana Democratic representatives are concerned. Just who is responsible for having started’ the Voorhees Presidential boom is yet uncertain. Congressman Martin was probably one of the first in the delegation to point out the Senator’s strong points as a Presidential candidate, and to Mr. Martin the most telling feature In the Senntor’s favor was the fact that he had disapproved of Hoke Smith’s pension policy. DO YOU NEED MONEY? Come Down With the Collateral*' and Get It. The surplus reserve of the associated banks of New York has now reached the enormous sum of 880,815,150. The official report of the Clearing-house shows an increase in the reserve of ??,877,375 for the five business days ending Doc. 30. The actual cash on hand composed of 8106,516,400 in specie and 8101:708.201 in legal tenders, amounts to 8307.424.600. To an ordinary mind this vast sura is almost Inconceivable, but it becomes plainer when it is known that if it was all in gold eagles and if One man was to attempt to count ft he would be more than three yeais and six months going through the operaticn If he counted one gold piece a second and worked for five consecutive i hours each day. What to do with the surplus cash has become a problem which is more intricate than the famous fifteen puzzle. Banks are making no profit, and several Institutions will go Into voluntary liquidation at New York, owing to the general inactivity in all lines of business which now prevails. > A BRITISH ROUT. King Lonbengula and III* Matahelc War. riors Too Much for lirttUh Ked Coat., A London cable Dec. 27, says: A terrible disaster is said to have occurred to the scouting party under the command of Capt. Wilson, which has been ln|pursqit of King Loliengula and which has not been heard from lor some time past. Rev-

era) South African merchants in this city have received cable messages announcing that ('apt. Wilson’s force had been completely annihilated by the Matabele, who are said to have cut them to pieces. It Is now stated that in addition to Wilson • party the party under Capt. Harrow, sent out to reinforce him, has been cut to pieces. The number bf men composing too Wilson detachment is said to have been (rum forty to 100, and the Harrow detachment Is reported to have been composed of about the same number of men. The news has caused great excitement throughout the city, and is being magnified on all sides. HE WILL HANG. Prendergast Found Guilty and Sentenced to Hang, Prendergast, the assassin of M ayor Harrison, of Chicago, will hang for his crime. The case had been on trial for some time, and the attorneys for the defense bad exhausted every effort to save their client’s neck, but th<? jury, after an hour’s deliberation following the Judge’s charge, which .was concluded at 1:27 Friday, at 2:27 returned the following verdict: ‘•Wo, the jury, find the defendant, Patrick Eugene John Prendergast, guilty of murder in manner and form as charged in the indictment and fix the. penalty at death.” OPrendegast was led away to his cell in the jail and Bailiff Becker was detailed to stay with him. The prisoner refused to see anyone. Efforts will be made to have a new trial by the defendant’s attorneys, who claim to bo disappointed over the result, stating that it is an outrage on human justice to hang a poor insane boy. They allege that at least ons ju'or perjured himself to obtain a position on the jury, and state that Prendegrast will never hang, The verdict was received with general satisfaction in Chicago and throughout the country. “THERE'S MANY A SUP.” Sad Results of a County Clerk’s Brror and a Preacher's Caution. Friends were assembled and everything was in readiness for a wedding at Seeleyvllle, when the minister discovered that the county clerk had failed to date the marriage license, and he refused to proceed with the ceremony. The high contracting parties were Joseph Acton and Miss Phoebe Roberts. It was Saturday night, aud the hour was too late to secure a correction. On Monday the groom presented himself at the clerk’s office, mad a* a hornet, and the missing date was supplied. lie was still madder, however, upon returning to Seeleyville, to find that the bride had changed her mind and had indefinitely postponed the wedding. 5.021,841,056 PIECES OF MAIL. A statement prepared at the Post Office Department shows that during the last fiscal year the total number of pieces ol letter mail sent in the domestic malls ol the United States was 2, 407,810,17s. of which 2,321,314,563 were paid at letter rates and 86,495,512 were sent on official business. Teere were also 535.917,899 postal cards handled. The number of newspapers and periodicals mailed by others than publishers and news agents, 71,078,777. The total second-class matter handled was 1,434,245,632 pieces; third-class matter, books, pamphlets, etc., 595,134,179 pieces; fourth-class matter, 48,733,181 pieces, making a grand total number ol pieces of domestic mail matter handled 5,021,841,056. THE TREASURY VAULTS. Uncle Sam Has Considerable Wealth «l Hand for Emergencies. There are eight vaults in the Treasury Building at Washington. They contained a total, Dee. 27, of f742,193.000, m pan consisting of coin weighing 5,000 tons. The following is a list of the various kinds ol money and its value now deposited in the vaults: Standard silver dollars, 1149,860,000;gold coin. *11,500,000; fractional silver, *333,000; national bank notes received for redemption, *3,5u0,000; mixed money received daily for redemption, fl.000.ij00; mixed money for daily use, *10.0,(X6; bonds and securities for national bank circulation, #2*),090.090; hold as a reserve to replace worn and mutilated notes unfit for circulation, *325,000,000. COUNTY SEAT CHANGED. It Will Go From Leavenworth to EnjlhhAppraiser*. The Crawford county war over the location of the county scat has been settled and the county seat will be moved from Leavenworth to English. Theroal estate in Leavenworth must now ho appraised and its value paid to the town as an .indemnity. Under the law of 1889 this must be done by three disinterested, non-resi-dent persons. The Governor has appointed John L. Rutherford, of Washington county; C. D. Ridley, of Now Albany, and ,1. Offut, of Jackson county. They willmoef at Leavenworth, Jan. 16. 1894. RACE TROUBLES IN FLORIDA. Negroes Killed and Wounded—The Troop« Ordered Out. At Wildwood. Fla., Monday night, a fight started between armed forces of negroes and white men, and the local authorities were not able to stop it. Four negroes were killed and fifteen wounded. Gov. Mitchell has sent the Tampa Rifles to the scene to restore order. Much bloodshed is feared, Mrs. Frances Reeder, or Elwood, is seeking a divorce because her husband compels her io chop wood and build fires whlls ho sits around and spits on the stove.