Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 42, Hope, Bartholomew County, 8 February 1894 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. By Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA Gladstone's lire motto has beenr ‘‘Whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with thy might." Boston dry goods, stores pow "check” babies along with umbrellas, extra parcels and other superluous baggage. The infants are sarefully looked after by experienced natrons for a specified time, greatly k> the relief of weary mothers when m shopping bent. An extensive system of moveable sidewalks is proposed for Chicago to •onnect the various elevated roads >n the belt plan. The walks will be slevated on posts on the street curb ine and will be operated on the tame general plan of the moveable lidewalk on the big pier at the i iVorld's Fair.

Thk bottom of the Pacific Ocean j Irom the California coast to the | Jandwich Islands has been surveyed ; md the surface has been found to be j K) level that for stretches of five 1 miles, if on dry land, a railroad train could be run at sixty ailes an hour without the grade beBg altered at any point. A chart »f the survey has been made and tow hangs in a newspaper office at [ Honolulu. The women of Colorado are devoting their energies to the study of politics since the right of suffrage las been granted them. The sex in ihe Centennial State are said to be •nthusiastic over their newly acquired right and it is probable that the majority will prize it more highly than the men do at present. The eight of suffrage" is a privilege that isUield too lightly by the majority of American citizens, and it is proba- : ole that they would more highly appreciate it if deprived of its exercise lor a number of years. Stage names afford a curious study ind are often assumed for no apparent good Reason, for they deceive nobody but the great mass of newspaper readers, who are in any event but slightly if at all interested in the artists who thus seek to hide their identity. For instance, Lillian Russell—the actress who has acquired fame and fortune —otherwise Miss Helen Leonard—of whom few people have ever heard —was married lanuary 21 to Signor Perugini—the singer of whom a great many people have read —otherwise Mr. John Chatterton, a person of great obscurity. This is a custom of the stage celebrities that is not infrequent. It. does no particular harm, but makes a marriage notice like this somewhat complicated and unsatisfactory. Imigine Edwin Booth trying to sail under a fictitious name!

People of all parties have long been accustomed to think of New York City as a badly governed municipality, where municipal officers regardless of party affiliations rapidly grew rich at the expense of the helpless taxpayer. Nevertheless it is stated for a fact that the per capita taxation has been steadily declining for some years. This however, is a very misleading statement, and does not necessarily imply that taxation has been reduced. The probable inference is that the poorer classes have increased so rapidly in numbers as to produce an apparent reduction in the per capita taxation.- The per jentage on the $100 valuation is not given, but it is probable that it has not been materially reduced, although it is stated that the running sxpenses of the city government do not keep pace with the growth of population, which is certainly creditable to the officials as far as it goes. As our own James Whitcomb Riley has so aptly said: “I’ve always 'ound that great success is mixed with trouble more or less.” Now lere is dear Dr. Talmage in a peck »f trouble, when everybody supposed he was as happy as a glorified taint, and all because the Board of trustees of his church are insisting sn charging an admission fee of ten scats to see the great acrobatic dirine of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. I

| The emotional preacher couldn’t stand the idea of being made an ex- [ hibition of at so much per head in I his own pulpit on the Lord’s Day, : and has summarily resigned the | pastorate, to take effect on the twen- | ty-fifth anniversary of his having j assumed it. During the past four years Dr. Talrriage has donated his i $12,000 salary as pastor to the Trust- | ees to help them out of their diffij culties, and it is claimed for him I that he has made other liberal donaI tions to the church from the money he has made by lecturing. Surely, if these things are true, he is justified in the course he has pursued, no matter what the necessities of the Trustees may have been. Such a method of raising money is directly contrary to the spirit of the Gospel of which Dr. Talmage is such an eloI quent advocate, and it would be selfstultification should he give it the countenance of his surport or even passive acquiescence. The slot machines seems to be in hard lines. Only a short time ago a promising young machine chewinggum dealer at Elwood got something crossways in its “works," and a post mortem revealed that it was sadly lacking in judgment and discretion, having swallowed an assortment of miscellaneous hardware that nothing but an ostrich could surround and survive. Now word comes from Boston that a similar machine, having become utterly lost to all considerations of morality and right, has been deceiving the public with alleged “fortune-telling,” occasionally dealing out a cigar, for a nominal charge of a five-cent nickel to each confiding dupe who sought to woo the fickle maid called “Luck” through the mediation of its mysterious powers, This machine pursued its downward course until at last the cigars almost ceased to appear and the cards of fortune became plentiful as forest leaves in autumn. The too confiding public rebelled, and as a result the manager of the “fortune-telling” automaton found himself a defendant in the court on a charge of keeping a gambling house. He was convicted, and had the prosecuting witness, no less a person than the Mayor of Everett, Mass., arrested on a charge of gambling, the result of which case has not yet been made public. To paraphrase an old proverb, “Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? They that tarry long at the slot machine when it worketh itself aright and giveth fortunes fora nickel.” Brazilian war news continues to arrive in the usual contradictory state. If anybody in the United States has any definite or well-de-fined idea of where the Brazilians “are at” the fact has not been explicitly developed and placed before the people. One day the cable tells us that Admiral Mello is sick on board his flagship, but fails to state the location of the flagship on the mighty waste of waters known as the Atlantic ocean. The next day the same organized purveyor of alleged news tells us that Mello has been deposed from command of the insurgent naval forces, and that President Peixoto has resigned. Shortly after comes the startling information that the insurgents are rapidly gaining ground and that Admiral de Gama, of the insurgent’s forces, is seeking every means to bring about peace on almost any terms. Dispatches from Pernambuco Jan. 23, state that it is probable that the Unitec States will be asked to arbitrate matters in dispute between the government of President Peixoto (who did not after all resign) and the insurgents, and that both sides are anxious for peace. It is extremely difficult to predict the final outcome of the alleged war from the contradictory information furnished, and quite as difficult to forecast what the latest dispatches will relate by the time this article reaches our readers. Possibly it is highly unimportant what the situation may be so long as the contending factions continue to come to our factories and markets for their supplies and munitions of war to continue the internecine struggle. The people of the United States can view with a great deal of philosophical resignation a struggle that has so far resulted in such a trifling loss of human life and such a vast saci i Ice of gunpowder, bombs and shells, and created such a brisk demand for all the accoutrements of war.

IMAM STATE SEWS. Investigation shows 630 idle men at Columbus. Poaeyville had a disastrous fire, Thursday night. Total loss exceeds $47,000. Insurance 330. “The Midway. Plaisance,” at Crawfordsville, managed for the benefit of the poor, realized about f :8D. Elwood has secured the National InterState Shooting Tournament, to bo held some time in June. The Hotel Ingram was formally opened at Hartford City. Tuesday night. It is one of the finest in the State. Congressman Conn, through his business manager, presented his employes with S12.533.20 at the Elkhart opera house, Tuesday night. Winfield Richards, of Neodmore, has patented a machine to work the gold fields of Brown county. Last week ho had great success, one day taking out $40. Deputy Revenue Collector Pierce, of Lake county, discovered an illicit distillery near Plymouth, Tuesday, and destroyed the outfit, together with six barrels of whisky. The Republicans of the City Council of Madison held a caucus and decided to vote for W. W. Hinds for Mayor. Councilman Smith bolted the nomination, making a deadlock. Presiding Elder W. C. Wolfert, of the Elkhart district of the Northern Indiana Methodist Conference, has resigned. The Rev. B. A. Kemp, of Mishawaka, is a possible successor. A- big sensation has been created at Huntington by the discovery that the. A. P. A. records, containing names of all the members of that city, had been stolen from the lodge room. The Indianapolis free food market for for the deserving unemployed is run now at an expense o'f *1,200 a week. Two hundred and two names were added to the list of applicants last week. The White county commissioners have resolved' to sell the old court-house at Monticeilo, over which there has been so much litigation. This, is interpreted as meaning a new structure In time. Mrs. Ann Reust,of Huntington,.hoarded 5250 in gold-fn her cellar, burying it with great care and concealing tho hiding place, Tuesday she discovered that brer bank had been plundered of its treasure. Philip Williams, of Huntington, who has been sentenced to prison for two years for forgery, has a wife and seven children. He claims that his family were starving, and to supply their wants he was driven to crime. While George Lee, of Jefferson county, was milking a restive cow, his head resting against her flank, tho animal gave a sudden lurch, bending him almost double and dislocating his spine. His death occurred Tuesday. 4 As the result of a quarrel at Stipp’s Hill between M. If. George and Stephen Dilks, over a shoulder of meat which Dilks had purchased and failed to pay for, Dilks used a dirk knifc,stabbing George to death. Dilks was arrested for murder. The following concerns are running in full or part at Elwood: Diamond plateglass works, McBeth chimney factory," McClay factory, American tin plate works, Elwood iron works, Rodefer & Hoffman Window-glass Company and Nivlson & Wieskoll bottle works. An eight-hundred-barrel oil well has been struck five miles northwest of Montpelier. Tho lease is owned by the Standard. Two years ago the Manhattan Oil Company ran in a dry hole on tho same farm an i abandoned the lease, which was quickly snapped up by the Standard. The farmers near Elwood have suffered so much from thieves during tho last few months that they have organized two thief catching companies and two bloodhounds have been secured. The trespassers will bo tracked down, as tho farmers despair of bagging them in any other manner. Ernest Perkins and Miss Emma Huddleston, of Somerset, wore married, and a gang of rowdies ‘ assembled under their window, firing shots into tho house, pounding tho woatherboarding with clubs, and otherwise annoying tho occupants. Tho bridegroom retaliated by causing tho arrest of eighteen of tho party for rioting. II. W. Perkins,of South Bend, was a soldier of the late war and was shot in the palm of the loft hand. Tho bullet was never cut out. It gave him no inconvenience until recently, when ho experienced a stinging pain at the base of the middle Unger. Examination showed tho bullet under the skin, it having worked down from the palm. He had it cut out. Henry Aulwurm, of Crown Point, has been appointed receiver of tho real estate firm of Lane & Lane, of Chicago. During tiie 1800 boom the firm Invested in real astato In tho vicinity of Tollbston, subdividing it into town lots. Since then one of tho partners has died, and his widow seeks to force a sale of the holdings, which the surviving partner says can only bo done at a great sacrifice. The estate is valued at 160,000. The Ft. Wayne Street Railway Company donated its receipts on Christmas Day to tho poor of the city, to be distributed by the city. The mayor of that city refused to receive the gift, insisting upon Its distribution by the relief societies. Tho mayor explained that the city could not afford to place itself under obligation to any corporation whose interests were interwoven so closely with those of the municipality. Oscar Thrall, near West Liberty, while driving home from church with two young ladies was killed in a peculiar manner. The horse not moving to suit him, he struck the animal a sharp blow in the flank. The horse jumped, and almost instantly Thrall’s head was seen to fall forward and he was found to be dead in his seat. The sudden jerk had dislocated his neck. He was but seventeen years old. A young fellow, styling himself Harry Owens, of Colorado, called upon William

Hendricks, a substantial old farmer In tht vicinity of Whitestown, representing himself as a nephew, and so cleverly did he play his part that Mr. Hendricks was deceived and entertained his guest royally. The bogus nephew succeeded in getting his supposititious uncle to advance him *503 on a gold brick, valued at *5,000, aftei which he disappeared. Mr. Hendricks still has tho brick. Charles Long rented a farm of Joseph Rickey, of Madison township, Montgomery county, agreeing among other things to dig a well. Rickey staked off a location, but Long persisted in bringing iu a “wizard” with a hazel switch, who insisted that the well should be dug two hundred feet distant from the site selected bj Rickey. It was dug, and not enough watei was found to float a suniish. Rickey is now suing for damages. For some time it has been known that the German Lutheran pastors of Fort Wayne were opposed to members of theii congregations joining secret societies, and this has led some of the Lutherans o) that city to sever their relations with that church. Recently there was a Union meeting of the four Lutheran congregations belonging to the synodical conference, *t which time the Rev. H. G. Sauer submitted a paper giving the reasons why the pastors were a unit in opposing secret society membership. The position of the Bible on secretism was liberally quoted, and the ground was taken that tho Bible being opposed, the church- bad no choice, because secret soeietyism and true Chrislianity were irreconcilably opposed one to the other. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: A. L. Baughman and I). L. Baughman, Albion, drill attachment for planters; C. F. Bettman, jr.. New Albany, fan attachment for rocking chairs; E. H. Goslin, Washington, wrench; L. G. Gustavol, Monticeilo, hame tug; A. N. Hanna, Fort Wayne, pencil holder; G. J. Herth and G. Ronenberger, Evansville, mine trap door; J. L. Hutchinson, assignor to E. F. Bowman, Lancaster, Pa., jewel chuck; H. Kinzley, Indianapolis, hair structure; G. M. Pilcher, ditching machine; F. W. Soaver, Bennington, saw clamp; G. Thomas and F. Kies, South Bend, minnow pail; J. J. Wood, Fort Wayne, journal bearing.

HOW THE MONEY WENT. Some Features of the Evidence Against Cal. Armstrong. A Kokomo dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal, Jan. 31, says: The fifth day of the embezzlement trial of Calvin Armstrong, Deputy Treasurer of Tipton county, brought out some interesting and bad evidence against the gay young man today. His sweet-heart, a pretty-faced Tipton girl, Miss Mae Shellenberger, went on the stand and testified against him, and a Tipton saloonkeeper testified that Cal, on numerous occasions, squandered the county funds in his place. As a sample, he said that Cal went to the saloon with ten companions, called up ail others in the house for the drinks a dozen timesor more, allowing no one else to spend a cent, passing up a ten-doilar bill each round. Each time ho scooped up the silver received in change and threw it over his shoulder among the crowd. The small change ho threw in the spittoon. He would bet ?5 with all the boys that they could not stand another drink, and. of course, he lost a big sum in tills way. One of the bondsmen testified that a short time before his arrest Armstrong said the county funds were safer loaned to gamblers, wiihout security, than to slow-going men like themselves, who had earned their money by hard knocks and little at a time; He loaned $£0,000 to race-track gamblers without security and squandered a big pile himself on herses of his own. INDIANA DEMOCRATS. State Convention to Be Held at Indianapolis 15. The Democratic State Committee met at Indianapolis, Thursday, at the Grand Hotel. There was a good attendance of representative Democrats from all parts of the State. A contest was made for the State convention by Fort Wayne, but on a vote by the committee Indianapolis was selected. Chairman Thomas Taggart, of Indianapolis, was unanimously re-elected for the coming campaign. The committee did not elect a secretary and treasurer but unanimously recommended that Chairman Taggart reappoint the present officers, Joseph Reilly, secretary; John li. Wilson, treasurer. The date of holding the State convention was sot for Aug. 15. Candidates for the various State offices were present. Andrew M. Sweeny wifi bo a candidate for re-election as clerk of the Supreme Court. C. W. Wellman, editor of the Sullivan Times is also a candidate for the same office. Secretary of State Myers will have no opposition for a re-nomination. THE SUFFERINGS OF CORPORAL TANNER. A Washington dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal,Feb. 2,says: Corporal Tanner, the footless ex-Commissioner of Pensions, has been for some days suffering the agonies of death on account of inflammation aggravated by the wooden feet on which he walks, and it is said that it will be necessary to amputate a considerable portion of both the stumps of his legs. ROASTING A CONSTABLE. Deputy Constable Maynard, of Alexandria, was sent to a dancing hail to preserve order. A gang of glass-blowers overpowered him, and after giving him a vigorous shaking, they sat him on a redhot stove. Maynard managed to escape, but not until he was badly burned. Twenty affidavits have been filed against the rioters.

an arkansaw horse race. How Col. Blood Defended His Honah, “Were you ever at Swampaboro, Ark?” asked a drummer at the Duncao yesterday, as he joined a group 0 f "fellow travelers, says the Nashville (Tenn.j American. None of the crowd had been there. “I’m just from there,” continued the speaker as he passed the cigars and took a seat in the circle, “and while there I went to Mosquito park, the new race-course. There was a good deal of excitement and much betting, the contesting horses being an aged claybank and an old, flea-bitten gray—only two entries. The regular judges were part owners of the horses entered, and it was deemed prudent to call in an unbiased and disinterested party to judge the race. So Col. Blood of Bear Ridge was requested to accept that important office. With the assistance of several members of the association the colonel and his jug mounted the stand. After several false starts the fliers got off fairly well, and the race was closely contested as far as the home-stretch, but »t that point the gray horse in passing through aswamp that bad not been properly drained mired up to his knees in mud. The claybank was a little more fortunate, being on the inside track, whore he struck firmer dirt and won easily, coming in at the finish probably 300 yards ahead. “The claybank’s backers were, 1 of course, wild with joy. It was only momentary, however, for Col. Blood, standing up on a soap-box and flourishing a pair of silver-mounted derringers, said ; ‘Gentlemen of the Swampsboro Blood-Horse association and fel-low-countrymen : All bets on the race What hev’ just been run air declared off !” “Now was the time for the old gray’s backers to yell, and you bet they never lost the opportunity. For ten minutes the shouts were deafening. In the meantime throe men died unnatural deaths and two others were disabled for life. “ ‘I don’t mind gettin’ my' chitlings cut out,’ s lid a wounded man who leaned against the judge’s st md and held his hat over his abdomen, ‘an’ I ken manage to get along with only one eye; but colonel, I’m a son of a wolf if I ken see how in the nation you can decl ir’ the bets off when the gray wuz be t 300 yards 1’ “ ‘Gentlemen!’ roared the colonel, as he finished reloading his derringer and took another pull at the jug, ‘gentlemen, my decision war prompted by the rules and regulations of all firstclass racetracks, and that high sense of hona,h characteristic of a Kentuckybred gentleman. Sirs, I am not ignorant of the fact that the grays were left 300 yards behind in yonder neighboring swamp, but my decision wuz based on the fact that them two yellers run a dead heat, an’ I am here to defend my judgment an’ my honah.”’ “The old fellow had on such a jag that he saw double.” Tobacco Caused Consumption—Notobac Cures the Tobacco Habit and Consumptive Gets Well. Two Rivers, Wis„ Feb. 2.—[Special. | —Great excitement and interest has been manifested in the recovery of an old-time resident of this town, Mr. Jos. Bunker, who has for several years been considered by all his friends a hopeless consumptive. Investigation shows that for over thirty-two years he used three and a half pounds of tobacco a week. A short time ago he wa- induced to try a tobacco-habit euro called No-To-Bac.” Talking about his miraculous recovery to-day ho said: ies, I used No-To-Bac, and two boxes completely cured me. I thought, and so did all my friends, that I had consumption. Now they say, as you say, how healthy and strong you look, Joe,’ and whenever they as.k me what cured my con umption, I tell them Noil o-Bac. The last week I used lobacos i lost four pounds. The morning I began the use of No-To-Bac I weighed t G pounds; to-day I weigh 169, a gain of 41 i pounds. I eat heartily and sleep well. Before I used No-To-Bac I was so nervous that when I went to drink 1 had to h< Id the glass in both hands. -Lo-day my nerves are perfectly steady. Where did I get No-Tc-Bac. J At the drug store. It is made bv the Sterling Remedy Company, general Western office 4o Randolph St., Chicago, bit 1 3e P >>y the printed matter that it is sold by a 1 druggists— I know all the druggists in this town keep it. I have recommended it to over one hundred people and do not know of a single failure to cure.” Ice For This Computer’s Head. A scientific writer says that if people on the star Sirius have telescopes powerful enough to distinguish objects on this planet, and are looking at it now, they are witnessing the destruction of Jerusalem, which took place over 1,800 years ago. Of course the reason of this is that the light which the world reflects,traveling as it docs at the rate of 183,000 miles per second, would take over eighteen centuries to reach the nearest fixed star.

tits closp op the SEASON. —Truth,