Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1883 — Page 3

OLD BALTIMORE FAMILIES. Recollection* of Harry Gilmore and Other Noted Confederates—A Fecund State for Rebels. Gath, in Cincinnati Enquirer. Speaking to Major W. H. Quincy, of this city, who was once a Baltimore politician, and chief of staff of the rebel General Jenkins, he told me to-day a queer incident about Harry Gilmore. Gilmore was the Mosby of Maryland, a State which produced a good many irregular soldiery and freebooters like Seinraes and the French Lady and Booth. Harry Gilmore was a giant physically, and he put himself at the head of a small command of partisans, or guerrillas, and frequently raided into Maryland, on one occasion capturing Major-general Franklin between Havre de Grace and Baltimore. The rebel cavalry were so tired, however, that they fell fast asleep, and Franklin escaped during the night. Quincy says that Gilmore was a popular ruan, with abundant friends and good imr pulses, but that he had a strong propensity for liquor, which kept him poor. On one occasion some social institution in Baltimore picked up Gilmore, reformed him, and for a year or two he did not drink a drop. He told Major Quincy that on one occasion he came over to stay in New York, and getting in at an early hour, he went to his hotel, and felt an irresistible inclination to have a cocktail. His conscience and resolution struggled with him hard; still he was on the point of yielding. It seemed to him that he would give the entire city for that one drink. Knowing the effect of the first drop upon his temperament, he feltan agony of pain and remorse come upon him anticipatively. Finally he rushed to liis room, and fell on his knees at a chair, and began to pray, strong and long, that the Lord would take out of his mouth that intense thirst, and out of his mind its insane waywardness. There knelt a man who had been one of the roughest soldiers in the world, some said a rebel who had killed numbers of men standing eye to eye, and whoe tremendous feats of strength equaled the knightly performances of chivalry. Yet lie was as weak as a woman under the propensity to drink. In the midst of his prayer it suddenly came to him that the temptation was over, and he took off his clothes and went to bed instead of going to the bar-room, and had a refreshing sleep of about three hours, and when he got up again he had no idisposition for liqnor. Ke was police commissioner awhile at Baltimore, bat it is said that the best he could make there afterward was $2,000 to $3,000 a year in the insurance business. The book he published of a great many hair- j breadth escapes and feats of prowess is generally considered by his friends to be harmless Munchausenism. He was one of the most determined enemies of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad during the war. and was constantly burning its bridges, stopping its trains, robbing the passengers, etc. His men were accused on several occasions of having stolen watches, purses and articles of jewelry from civilians on the railroad. General Sheridan called Gilmore the last link that bound Maryland to the Confederacy, and at the proper time he was cut all to pieces, and brougli into his own town a prisoner. There was a dashing way about him, and when he saw Fred Douglass, who was a native of the Eastern shore of Maryland, several years after the war, he 9et an example to more sullen rebels, by rising up and saying: “Mr. Douglass, shake hands over the bloody chasm.’’ I aporehend that the native Marylanders who went into the Confederate service were, in the main, very unfortunate in subsequent life. Most of the men who were concerned in the piratical exploits on the bay were driven out of the State, and led precarious lives around Canada. A number of them were engaged in such operations as the St. Albans raid, the seizing of steamers on the lake and the running off of American railroad trains. Martin, who was ane of the parties in the capture of the steamer St. Nicholas, at Point Lookout, and who had been a prosperous wine and liquor merchant in Baltimore, settled as a broker in Montreal, and then went into the blockade-running business. It is believed that he was blown up by his partner, Keith, afterward known as the scoundrel Thomassen, who was killed by a premature explosion of an infernal machine on the Bremen steamer. It was told , to me by the late Marshal Kane that Martin was put on a vessel to run the blockade, heavily insured, and Keith was careful to get the evidence of her sailing, and she was never heard of again. It was this Martin who gave John Wilkes Booth letters of introduction to the people of Lower Maryland, from among whom he came, and Booth proceeded by the aid of those letters to organize the scheme to capture Mr. Lincoln. One of the first men he met was the late Dr. Mudd, and he soon after found Surratt, Atzerodt and llerold. Twoother men he got in Baltimore among his old schoolmates. Another —Powell or Payne—was sent to him from Canada bv the rebel agents there. lie tried to get two or three actors to go in with him, one of whom, by the name of Chester, is still alive, and he was used by the government as a witness. During the war General Crook, a West Pointer front Ohio, was captured with General Kelly at Dailey’s Hotel, Cumberland, bv a portion of McNeill’s rebel rangers, led by Jim Dailey, the landlord’s son. The uugaljaut feature of this surprise was the fact that Crook was at the time courting Dailey’s sister, the daughter of the inn-keeper, whom he afterward married. After the war Crook made this young fellow his sutler in Arizona and the West, but I think he had hut little thrift. He finally died among the very scenes of his youth, where he had burned bridges during the war. The Quantrell family originated in the neighborhood of Hagerstown, Md., though Quantrell himself was born in Ohio, about Canal Dover. He was, however, of ScotchIrish stock on his father’s side, the name being spelled in Belfast Cantrell. On his mother s side Quantrell was of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. Raphael Semmes, who committed o much destruction during the war to so little general purpose in assisting the fortunes of the Confederacy, was one of the old Maryland Catholic stock, and had been before the war one of the Commissioners of the Navy. Maffit, the other rebel privateer, though hailing from the further South, had an intimate connection with Maryland, where his father had been a great revival preacher, and was involved in a number of domestic scandals. Marshal Kane, who commanded the police at the time of the Baltimore riots of 1861, died not long ago in but moderate circumstances. He always professed to me to have been a lover of the Union. He told me that he was on the retreat of the rebel government from Richmond to North Carolina, and, being taken with brain fever on the road, had just presence of mind enough left to destroy a letter of introduction to John Wilkes Booth, which he had obtained some time before from the man Martin I have referred to. Kane said that if the letter had been found upon him he believed that he would have been hanged as one of Booth’s confederates, so exasperated had the Nothern people become against him from the wanton iterations of slander against him. The Winans family, which went into the Southern cause with more zeal than courage, has little or no connection with Baltimore any more, having become thoroughly English by residence. I recently saw that one of Ross Wi nan’s sons, or grandsons, had become an enormous land-holder in Ireland, and was severe in his reference to the Irish cause. People Living in Queer Places. We*v Yurk Sun. The interior of th<* arch on which the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington rested at Hyde Park gnt was found on being taken down to be honeycombed with rooms, '.n which a colony of twcajy persona* includ-

ing the janitor and his family, six policemen and a medical student. When the old palace at Somerset House was pulled down to make room for the new government offices, it was found that a prolific colony of cripples and beggars bad been-squatting there, and that a gang of coiners plied their trade in the cellars. So when the old Winter Palace at St. Petersburg was burned down, it was discovered that nearly three hundred people had been living for years on the roof of the edifice; that they kept cows and grew vegetables, and that children had been born and men died on that old eyrie. ELEPHANTS ON THE MARCH In the Streets of New York—Eighteen Mammoths Create a Sensation. Special to New York Herald. Jumbo and eighteen other elephants, big and little, were taken at about 8 o’clock this evening from their special cars in the yard at Morrisiana, whither they had been brought from Bridgeport, in the afternoon. The moonlight falling upon their backs as they stood herded together, made them look like a bank of dark clouds illuminated above by moonbeams. They switched their trunks impatiently, and occasionally emitted snorts that sounded like the blowing up of steampipes in lower Broadway, until Arsfcingale, who had charge of the herd, gave the word to begin the march to Madison Square Garden. They they fell into line with Chief for their leader. Jumbo brought up the rear and Queen and her yearling offspring, Bridgeport, chained together, were just in front of him. Men ran about to warn drivers of teams that the elephants would claim the right of way. The elephants shuffled across Harlem bridge apparently without suspecting that they were not on solid ground. They wheeled out of Third avenue by the first turn to the right and into Fifth avenue. Few teams were met on the way until Seventieth street was reached. There it was decided to turn through Sixty-sec-ond street into Madison avenue. In that avenue the street-cars were running at frequent intervals, and the horses seemed terrified by the mammoth animals. Near Fifty-third street the elephants, apparently annoyed by the antics of a street-car team, began trumpeting, and half a dozen of the foremost made a stampede. Their trumpeting and the shouts of the keepers as they ran after them made such a din as is not often heard by night in that quiet neighborhood. Hundreds of windows were raised, the stoops of houses were crowded, and persons flocked to the corners from the side streets. The elephants that had not joined in the stampede were turned into a side street. Jumbo behaved well. His only breach of decorum was to emit a stupendous squeal, that chilled the blood of the servant girls, who had flocked to the sidewalks from basement doors. The main body of the elephants was wheeled into Madison avenue again .and marched to Fiftyfourth street, where they turned un to Fifth avenue again. Those that had stampeded were brought under control a few streets further down and were turned into Fifth avenue to join the others. “It would have taken but little to start the entire herd on the rampage,” said Arstingale, “and then it would have been a lively night for New York.” It was just about two hours from the time of starting when the herd turned into the Fourth avenue entrance to the garden. The distance is not far from five and a quarter miles.

IN MALE ATTIRE. Mary Gillick Wear* It Eight Years Before She Is Discovered. St. Lonis Special. When the train on the Iron Mountain road arrived from Little Rock late last night, some of the passengers told the sergeant of police at the Union depot that there was a young map. who had fallen from the train and had been hurt. The sergeant entered the car and found a red-haired youth, dressed in a much-worn suit of jeans, who said that he was the boy hurt, and lie was conveyed to the city hospital. To the sergeant lie stated that his name was John Paxton. At the city hospital this morning an examination revealed that John Paxton was a woman. In reply to inquiries of the physician, the patient said her name was Mary Gillick, and that her home is in St. Louis. For several months past she has been employed at man’s labor disguised m man’s attire among the gang of workmen at Mill Spring, near Poplar Bluff, Mo. Mary says she has been wearing male attire ever since she was eight years old; that once, about a year ago. she put on girls’ clothes, and was arrested and fined for masquerading as a girl. She is now sixteen years old, and a fairly good-looking girl. She labors under the idea that her sex is neutral, but Dr. Dear, of the hospital, says that there is nothing in her physical constitution different from that of other members of her sex. She told the reporter that she had left her home in St. Louis because she could not agree with her stepfather. Her injuries are not serious. A Hero Who Clutched the Throttle. Chattanooga Times. A flagman who was sent back near Limestone station yesterday to warn a passenger train that a freight was blocking the track, fell asleep while waiting for the former train. This train was running at fully thirty miles per hour, down grade, and the engineer did not discover the freight engine until he was within fifty feet of it, too late to avoid the disaster. His fireman, Fayette Carson, jumped from the engine, but Whitlock, with his characteristic grit, reversed his engine, applied the air-brake, and, with his hands on the throttle, waited the inevitable collision. The passenger engine struck the freight engine about midway the boiler with a frightful crash, sending fragments of the engines and cars in every direction. The passenger engine turned over, burying beneath it the brave engineer, Whitlock, wh ”e he remained for nine hours before being extricated. He died last night. A Picturesque Water Fall. Newport (Vt.) Express. Oti the Mouleney river, between the town lof West Haven and the State of New York, may be seen one of the most picturesque water-falls in New England. In high water the river pours over the limestone ledges more than eighty feet to the basin below, about sixty feet of which is one unbroken sheet of water. The roaring of the falls is heard a great distance; when the water is low the apt ire current of the river passes through a subterranean channel and the direct river bed is dry. The Meanest Man Yet, San Francisco Chronicle. The meanest man on the coast is now claimed by Portland, Ore. Some benevolent ladies raised money to buy a stove for a poor widow. The money was placed in Hie mean man’s hands to make the purchase, which he did, but kept the new stove himself and gave the poor widow his old one. A Connecticut Pie Fiend. Hartford (Jourant. A New Haven lawyer has the reputation of being an adept at holding a piece of pie in his sleeve and eating it on the street for luncheon without being discovered by any but the closest observer. The Deepest Depth*. Pittrtbnrjr Dispatch. When the Harrisburg roosters refuse to stay in the same hotel with Dukes, that person will indeed realize to what a depth the brand of Cain goes. Beautiful Women are made pallid uud unattractive l>v functional irreinthi rttfst, which Dr. Pierce'* "Favorite Pre•eriptton" will Inf.thinly cure. Tlnmoumie of Uituwumaig B.v druggism.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1883.

THE TRUST SCHEMES. Experience of a Lady Investor-Remarkable Figuring to Show the Feasibility. St. Louis Glob*-Democrat. The prosecution of inquiries among the members of the Union Trust Company as to the principles and methods upon which its I affairs are conducted is eliciting some inter- { esting information. Mrs. Lucinda Vandewater. a widow, also a member of Trinity Methodist Church, in ! which the trust company obtained such a foothold, was recommended as one who had been very active in working up the scheme. Thus far, Mrs. Vandewater told the reporter, she was one of the fortunate ones, for she had taken out six locals, paying $1 initiation and $33 assessments on each, and had drawn out $398; four on the same plan, for which she paid $136, and drew out $284; two for which she paid SBB ana drew out $132. These were locals, “Class A.” She had paid out $204 for six others, and is confident she will receive $398 next week. She had taken out four policies in the Marion Trust at $lO a piece, paid tw.o monthly assessments of $20.40 each on them, and two of $22; then paid S2OO on a “big January one,” and had received SG6 thus far on it. She was doubtful about receiving any more, however. The reporter tried to learn from the lady who had been go ins to act as the agent for the “company” in lowa, how it was that people could draw out double what they put in. She explained that the money was deposited in the Vailey National Bank, and drew 4 per cent, interest. The reporter endeavored to show her that sl20 —twelve assessments of $lO each—if on deposit a whole year would draw only $4.80 interest, and that in factonly $lO of that sum was in for twelve months, $lO for eleven monts, and so on, but, she added, the last month they paid S2O. That made, with initiation fee and interest, only $144.80, and still the reporter was anxious to find out where the SSOO came from. “Oh! but so many persons go in,” was the reply. Then the reporter asked if three persons put in SIOO each, wouldn’t there be but S3OO, not three times S2OO, and won’t the same rule follow out if there are fifty or 50,000? Mrs. Vandewater feli back upon the famous “reserve fund.” She explained that when three persons put in money the third one’s share was held back for the reserve. The reporter asked her if she could explain the system on which, when three persons put in $lO apiece to a common fund, two of them could draw out S2O each, and the third run a chance of drawing out S2O on some future occasion. Mrs. Vandewater acknowledged that she could not, but produced a sheet of figures, which, she said, had been prepared by a thorough accountant. She said that she presented the arguments that had been presented to her by Wright and the others. The lady also told a remarkable storv about her connection with the Indianapolis , company, which has failed with a deficit of : $150,000. She had until recently forwarded her assessments by check to a bank in Indianapolis, through which A. Collier transacted business. A short while ago her latest check was returned, the bank refusing to receive it. Then Collier wrote her and others that lie had been in a little difficulty, but matters were being straightened out and all they need do was to send the money direct to him at Chicago. They did so, despite the old proverb. Mrs. Vandewater said that thus far she and her friends had been fortunate in receiving everything promised them. She had induced a great many to join the association, wanting to give them a chance to make money like herself, not working for the interests of the association or with any intention of defrauding anybody. Some of her friends had taken the big policies, the S2OO ones. This they did at their own risk, not at her request j or encouragement. In proof of the possibility of every mem ber of the union realizing at least 80 per cent, on his investments in three months, largo sheets of mathematical computation, certified to by an “ex pert accountant,” are shown by the officers and members of the company, and are commonly taken as “clinchers.” In these sheets calculations are made for a steady increase in membership of fifty every ten days, ancl the final representation is to the effect that after the enormous profits have been paid there will still be left $962.10 in the treasury. An independent count of the number of members paid off, according to the showing of the sheets themselves, gives as a result 244 with large profits to their credit, and 50G—there being 750 members—who have been paying their $3 entrance fees and assessments, and will have to content themselves with a division of the $962 10, each one of necessity getttng much less than he has paid in. While Alexander Collier, of the Marion Trust Company, announces the “removal of headquarters to Chicago” from Indianapolis, and expresses “hope that the distribution will be delayed only a few days, as I intend carrying on the company here as if no interruption of its affairs had been attempted,” his son, William 11. Collier, an associate in the company, has been arrested in Indianapolis on complaint of a holder of eight certificates, and sent to jail in default of $8,300 bonds. [Young Mr. Collier has since been released.—Ed. Journal.]

A MINING ROMANCE. The History of a Vagabond—Unexpected Heirs to an Immense Fortune, Fond Du Lac Special. Suits have been recently instituted by Spence Hiner, of this city, cencerning some New Mexico mining property that develops a long and interesting story and considerable family history. Spence <fc Hiner are the attorneys for the saloonkeeper Alexander McKane. who is one of the heirs to mines in New Mexico valued at over $1,000,000. The circumstances are as follows: About the year 1871 Frank McKane went from Indiana to New Mexico, and, like nearly all men who go into a mining country, lie located a number of claims. He was a bachelor, and lived the life of a thriftless vagabond for several years, when he opened a saloon. He maintained himself in the business, not keeping a very elaborate place, until 1880, when he died of smallpox, pov-erty-stricken and deserted. He had not even a friend left to communicate the intelligence of his death to his Eastern relatives, if it was known there that he had any. His family, consisting of three brothers, did not learn of his death until ashort time ago, a gentleman appeared who was desirous of purchasing their rights in the mines alluded to above. McKane’s family consists of Alexander McKane, of this city; James McKane, of Clay county, Indiana, where he is a collier, and Samuel McKane, now confined in the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan City. The last was incarcerated for burglary, but prolonged his term of imprisonment by attempting to hew a leg off one of the prison guards. There was also another member of the family, who, it was reported, died of yellowfever in the South. He was a fugitive from justice, and there was SIO,OOO reward on his head for a murder committed in Texas some years since. Shortly after McKane’s death it transpired that some of the mines which he located were exceedingly valuable, and Brown A Young, ot St. Louis, set about getting possession of them. The Brown of the firm is B, Gratz Brown, who was a candidate for the vice-presidency with Greeley. They sen tout Dapiel Murphy to hunt up the McKane heirs and buy them off. Murphy obtained a quit claim deed from James McKane in Indiana for SI,OOO. He made the same kind of a trade also with Samuel in the penitentiary at Michigan City. He was some time accomplishing his object with Alexander McKane, of this city, on account of the peculiarities of the person with whom he had to deal. Murphy represented that the mines were of little value; that they were undeveloped and

involved in litigation; that McKane’s claim had been sold out, and that he simply wanted to perfect his title to the property. Alexander is somewhat eccentric and rather superstitious. He was, it seems, a little suspicious, and employed Spence & Hiner as his lawyers. They wanted to look up the mines to ascertain their real value, but McKanc was unmanageable by lawyers and obstinate. Murpliy offered him $5,000. and, despite the advice of his counsel, he took it, giving a quit-claim deed of his interest in his brother’s mining claim. Spence & Hiner, however, had their suspicions aroused, and made inquiries by telegraph, learning enough to warrant beginning suit against Murphy, before he left the city, to set aside his conveyance on the ground that it was obtained by fulse representations. McKane repented of his rashness in giving the deed. Mr. Hiner afterward spent some time in hunting up James McKane, taking Alexander along to assist him. James retained the firm to fight his case also. Mr. Spencer has just returned from a two weeks’ trip to New Mexico, looking up the legal points in the case. He found that McKane died possessed of a clear title to a one-half interest in no less than five mines—viz., the Viola, the Penelope, the Windward, the Silver Bell and the Webster. Murphy had been interested in securing titles to the first three only, and all of them are located in Grant county, New Mexico. The first three are worth over $1,000,000, and have been improved to some extent. Murphy transferred his title by a trust-deed to B. Gratz Brown, of St. Louis, and John E. Price, of Grant county, New Mexico. Suits were, therefore, begun there to set aside their title, and the whole matter is now in the courts. The two mines not deeded to Murphy are very rich, but of considerably less value than the others. As Frank McKane owned onehalf the property, the sum of $500,000 or thereabouts, is what the brothers expect to obtain out of it. Besides this, there are the two mines to which their title is free from litigation, and each one of the brothers will get a good slice. Alexander i3 a firm believer in a pack of cards, and thinks that by a game of solitaire he can figure out just how much he will realize on His claim. It is related of him that while down in Indiana looking tip his brother he played euchre continually for the drinks and never lost a game.

FAMOUS POPULAR SONGS. The Authorship and the Circumstances Under Which They Were Composed. St. Lonis Republican. “Auld Lang Syne” is popularly supposed to be the composition of Burns, but, in fact, he only wrote the second and third verses of the ballad as commonly sung, retouching the others from an older and less familiar song. The “Old Oaken Bucket” was written by Wordsworth, in New York city, during the hot summer of 1817. He came into the house and drank a glass of water, and then said: “How much more refreshing it would be to take a good long drink from the old oaken bucket that used to hang in my father’s well.” His wife suggested that it was a happy thought for a poem. He sat down and wrote the song as we have it. “Woodman, Spare that Tree” was the result of an incident that happened to George P. Morris. A friend’s mother had owned a little place in the country, which she was obliged from poverty to sell. On the property grew a large oak, which had been planted by his grandfather. The purchaser of the house and land proposed to cut down the tree, and Morris’s friend paid him $lO for a bond that the oak should be spared. Morris heard the story, saw the tree, and wrote the song. “Oft in the Stilly Night” was produced by Moore after his family had undergone apparently every possible misfortune; one of his children died young, another went astray, and a third was accidentally killed. “The Light of Other Days” was written to be intioduced into Balfe’s opera, “The Maid of ►Artois;'’ the opera is forgotten, but the song still lives, and is as popular as ever. Payne wrote “Home, Sweet Home,” to help fill ud an opera he was preparing, and at first it had but four stanzas. The author never received anything for it, but though the opera was a failure when played in Govent Garden Theater, the song took, and over 100,000 copies were sold the first year. In two years the publishers cleared over $lO,000 by the publication, and the variations, transcriptions, and imitations have been innumerable. The melody is believed to be a Sicilian air, and Donizetti has a variation of it in his opera “Anna Bolena.” Foster’s “Old Folks at Home” was the best sons he ever wrote. Over 400,000 copies were sold by the firm that first published it, and the author is said to have had $15,000 for hi? share in its saie. Christ}', the noted minstrel, paid S4OO for the privilege of having his name printed on one edition of “Old Folks at Home” as the author and composer. The song is thus often erroneously attributed to him. “Rock Me to Sleep” was written b\ Mrs. Allen, of Maine. She was paid $5 for it, and Russell & Cos., of Boston, who had in three years gained $4,000 by its sale, offered her $5 apiece for any songs she might write. Some years after, when a poor widow and in need of money, she sent them a song which was promptly rejected. ! “A Life on the Ocean Wave,” by Epes Sargent, was pronounced a failure by his friends. The copyright of the song became very valuable, though Sargent never got anything from it himself. “What are the Wild Waves Saying?” was suggested to Dr. Carpenter by a scene in Dicken’s novel, “Dombey & Son,” and the music was by Glover. “Poor Jack” was from the pen of Charles Dobbin, the author of “The Lamplighter.” “Poor Jack” netted $25,000 for its publisher, and almost nothing for the author. “Stars of the Summer Night,” a very famous song, especially for serenaders, was written by Alfred 11. Pease, the noted pianist, whose sad death in St. Ixniisafew months ago was so greatly deplored by his friends. “Love’s Young Dream” was one of Moore’s best, but the tune to which it is commonly sung is from an Irish ballad called “The Old Woman.” Moore sang his own songs so well that both the auditors and himself were often moved to tears. Once when he was singing this song a lady who heard him implored him to stop. “For heaven’s sake, stop; this is not good for my soul.” “Auld Robin Gray” was the work of Lady Anne Lindsay, who tells a curious story of tlie circumstances of its composition: “I called to my little sister, the only person near, and said. T have been writing a ballad, my dear. I am oppressing my heroine with many misfortunes. 1 have already sent her Jamie to the sea, and broken her father’s arm, and made her mother fall sick, and given her Auld Robin Gray for a lover, but I wish to load her with a fifth sorrow within the four iines, poor thing. Help me to one.’ ‘Steal the cow,’ said the little Elizabeth. The cow was immediately lifted by me, and the song completed.” “Kathleen Mavourneen” was sold by Crouch, the author, for $25 and brought the publisher as many thousands. Crouch was completely improvident, and in his latter days became a tramp. When Mme. Titiens was in this country a number of years ago she sang “Kathleen Mavourneen” in New York when a dirty tramp introduced himself as Crouch, was recognized, and thanked her for singing the song.so well.” “Bonnie Doon” was the only English song that the Emperor Napoleon liked. “I’ll M:ng My Harp on a Willow Tree” is said to have been written by a young English nobleman in love witli the Princess (now Queen) Victoria. “Annie Laurie” is 200 years old, ami was the production of a man named Douglass to celebrate the praise of a girl named F/aurie. The lady afterward deserted the man who made her famous, and married a man named Ferguson. A rom*LK who lived at Dundee, Felt overboard into the sea, They were stiff ns a post When they reached r.lie onasr, But St. Jacob* Oil cured he and she.

MADELINE STILES. How She Looks, Act*, Dresses, Works, and Hopes. Joliet (111.) Letter. A heavy iron door bars the escape of anyone. In a room on the right, as I entered, were sixteen of the female prisoners, with their faces toward the barred windows, busily at work in making stockings. Their countenances could not be seen, but the tidy, trim appearance of a girl at the other end of the room attracted my attention. Like the others, she was attired in a blue and white gingham dress, but a lace collar was worn at her throat, and it was evident that the woman was not an ordinary prisoner. It was Theresa Sturla, whose shooting of Charles Stiles, caller of the Chicago Board of Trade, last July, created a great sensation all over the country. She was tried on the charge of manslaughter, convicted and sentenced to Joliet prison for one year. Miss Sturla is a very good prisoner, and Mrs. Ayres, the superintendent of the female department, says that Theresa is the most refined and intelligent of any under her charge. The young woman at the time of her conviction announced a determination to reform and lead a virtuous life, but old associations are still very strong, and she has visits from members of the Chicago demi-monde. Miss Sturla cannot be called handsome, although rather striking. She has a lithe, well-formed figure, jet black hair and eyes, with her nose somewhat retrousse. Her term of punishment will not expire for eight months, but she seems to be well contented, and does the work assigned to her promptly and neatly. The young woman prefers to be known by the name of Madeline Stiles, which she possessed when kept by the lover whom she murdered in the Palmer House. What an Emperor Eat*. Shu Francisco Chronicle. Emperor William of Germany is a hearty eater, according to the statement of Dr. Zimmerman, who recently paid a professional visit to tiie Emperor, and waited and watched while his patient finished his morning repast. “First,” the doctor reports, “he devoured a very large quantity of soup of the strongest and most highly-spiced ingredients, yet spiced as it already was, he added to each plate of it a large spoonful of powdered ginger and mace; then a good piece of b<euf ala Russe—beef steeped in a half pint of brandy. Next he took a great quantity of an Italian dish, half Indian corn, half Parmesan cheese; to this the juice of garlic is added, and the whole is baked in butter until there arises a hard rind as thick as a finder. This, one of the King’s most darling dishes, is called polenta. At last, the King having expressed his satisfaction at the excellent appetite which the dandelion gave him, closed the scene with a whole plateful of eel pie, so hot and fiery it seemed as if it had been baked in hell!” An English Girl’s Letter to the Czar. London Truth. A short time ago the daughter of an English gentleman at school in Paris wrote a letter to the Czar, expressing her sympathy with him, and telling him that she nightly prayed that he might not meet the fate of his father. She addressed her letter, “The Emperor of Russia,” and put it in the post. Some time afterward the Grand Duke Nicholas called at the school, brought her various presents from the Emperor, and took her out for a drive. 1 am afraid that my making public this good-natured act is likely to lead to the Imperial Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias receiving a considerable number of letters from English girls, with a view to a Grand Duke, burdened with toys and sweetmeats, calling on them.

The Modern Novel. G. A Townsend. Novels have got to be so bad that Julian Hawthorne and another Pansy writer read essays before a club here last night to explain what they were. Frank HUTCHINS, engineer Panhandle railroad, was cured of indigestion and dyspepsia by Brown's Iron Bitters. DIED. McOßEA—Helen, daughter of Frank F. and Ella \V. MoCrea, at 1.30 a. m., Thursday, March 22, aged 8 years and 4 months. Funeral this (Friday) morning at 9 o’clock. Buried at Dayton, Ohio. FUNERAL NOTICE. GODDARD—The funeral of Mrs. Mary Goddard, widow of the late Samuel Goddard, sr., will take place from the family residence, 100 South Mississippi street, Saturday, March 24, at 2p. m., Rev. F. M. 8. Taylor, of Bt. Paul’s Cathedral, officiating. Friends of the family are invited to attend. C. E. KREGELO, CHAB. TEST WHITSETT, 183 N. Tenu. St. 33G N. Alabama St. C. E. KREGELO & WHITSETT. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMKRS, No. 77 North Delaware Street. Telephone connection at office and residence. WANTS, FOR SALE, FOR KENT, Etc., Five Cents per lino each insertion, payable in.'advance. SOCI Enr Y NOTICE s. Masonic— marion lodge, no. 35. f. and A. M. Special meeting this afternoon at 1:15 o’clock, to attend the funeral of Brother David S. Benson. All Master Masons in good standing cordially invited. HUGH J. DRUMMOND, W. M. John B. Elam, Secretary. ANNOU NGEM ENTS. riiHE EX-PRIEST, O’CONNOR, WHO NARX rowly escaped assassination at Toledo and Lexington, lectures at Masonic Temple, Sunday, at Bp. m. Admission—Ludios uud children, 10 cents; gents, 15 cents. WANTED. \ITANTED-GOOD CARPENTERS. APPLY ▼ ▼ to Indianapolis Car Company. \IT ANTED—A TAILOR AT SM IT IPsTTII EM I- - cal Dye Works, No. 3 Martindale Block, Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED-A RELIABLE MAN WITH #l,(100 to take one-half interest in a good pitying drug business. Address 8.. this office. \\J ANTED-^TIIE CHEAPEST N EWSPAPER f ▼ in tlio West, the Weekly Indiana State Journal. One dollar per year. Ninety cents in clubs of five and over. ANTED--MAY 1, A SEVEN OR EIGHT room cottage, with modern improvements, centrally located, with good size yard and shade trees. Address D., Indianapolis Malleable Iron Cos. XI7ANTED—TO BUY FOR CABH A FIRSTif class shoe store and fixtures, or will buy shoes or fixtures separate; must be in business part of city. Address W. HAVEN, 51 West Fifth street, Cincinnati, O. ANTED—SO YOUNG LADIES AND 16 children, 8 boys, 8 girls, for “Black Crook." Apply at the box office of English’s Opera-house Friday morning, at 10 o’clock. FINANCIAL. M oney to loan at lowest rate of interest. E. B. MART IN DALE A SONS. ryo LOAN—MONEY AT G PER CENT. WID X LIAMS & KISI’XER, 3 and 4 Vinton Block. ONEY TO LOAN ON CITY OR F\ RM property. U. M. STODDARD, Ciavpooi Building. MO NKY TO LOAN ON~FIRST MORTGvTTE of city and farm property in Indiana and Ohio. Low interest. JOi. A. MOORE, H 4 East Market street. I I WILL FURNISH MONEY ON FARM BEeurity. promptly, at toe lowest rates for long or short tuue. THOS. C. DAY A CO., 72 East Market street.

Know That Brown’s Iron Bitters will cure the worst case of dyspepsia. Will insure a hearty appetite and increased digestion. Cures general debility, and gives anew lease of life. Dispels nervous depression and low spirits. Restores an exhausted nursing mother to full strength abundant sustenance for her child. Strengthens the muscles and nerves,enriches the blood. Overcomes weakness, wakefulness, and lack ofenergy Keeps off all chills, fevers, and other malarial poison. Will infuse with new life the weakest invalid. 37 Walker St., Baltimore, Dec. 188 r. For six years I have been a great sufferer from Blood Disease, Dyspepsia,and Constipation.and became so debilitated that I could not retain anything on my stomach, in fact, life haa almost become a burden. Finally, when hope had almost left me, my husband seeing Brown’s luon Bittbrs advertised in the paper, induced me to give it a trial. 1 am now taking the third bottle and have not felt so well in six years as I do at the present time. Mrs. L. F. Griffin, Brown’s Iron Bitters will have a better tonic effect upon any one who needs “bracing up,” than any medicine made.

$m IRON fpgTHHE FITTINGS. Selling scents for NationriiA al 1 übe Wo 1 ks Cos. Jg BBgdflprfr;: Globe Valves, Stop Cocks, BEgiS Engine Trimuiiuirs,* Plpo L J . j \ _ PONGS, CUTTERS. VISES. §Ppf I TAPS. Stocks and Dies, igs| XJKp* Wrencheß. Steam Traps, |gPj Pmnpß,Binks. HOSE, BELT(SW HH babbitt mettals jSJ l sis j (25-pound boxes). Cotton .©t/ I| Wiping Waste, white and gN Itt colored (100 pound bales), P§f Kg and all other supplies used jjfej y|g in connection with STEAM, IMATER and GAS, in JOB m Eg or RET AIL LOTS. Do a reg--31 tft ular s •am-fitaug business. Sf rcaj Estimate and contract to la * ,eat Mills, Shops, Factories Hfej and Lumber Dry Houses M with live or exhaust steam. 11l Pipe cut to order by steam lag pH power. I I KNIGHT & JILLSON, INDIANAPOLIS Machine and Bolt Works. Manufacturers of Heavy and Light Machinery, Bniall Steam Engines, Punches, and Die.3, Planing and Moulding Bits, Mao blue, Bridge, Roof, Plow, and Elevator Bolts, Lag Screws, Nuw and Washers, Taps and Dies. Works, 79 to 85 S. Pennsylvania street. sos; sals. SALE—ONLY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR _ the Weekly Indiana Stale Journal. Send for it. 17*OR SALE-HARDWARE AND STOVE 1 stock, aud store. Address P. O. Box No. 7, Dana, Ind. IjiOß SALE—FARMS, CHEAP, ON LONG credit, which we have taken on foreclosure. Semi for circular. FRANCIS SMITH & CO. AN ASSORTMENT OF SECONDhand engines, boilers, and sawmills in good order. HADLEY, WRIGHT A CO., corner Tennessee and Georgia streets, Indianapolis. SALE—THE BEST LOCATED PIECE OF ground for business bouse nt dwelling; front on business street 203 feet, on residence street 150 feet. Price for all, SIO,OOO, on time. Investigate it. ALEX. MEi ZGEK. Odd-fellow# Hall. IT* OR SALE—FARMS WE HAVE A FEW EX* ' tra good we advertise to-dav: 400 acres Is miles from the city, $25,000; 320 acres 9 miles from the, city; 100 and IKS acres a short distance out, near station; 7;>, 80, Hi. 101, all with fine improvements, all within 6 miles of the city. Call and see us. ALEX. METZGER, Odd-fel-lows Hall. TRIORS ALE-STOCK AND FIXTURES OF A F well established jewelry store, in a thriving town of two thousand, in Wabash county, Ind. A good trade and a good line of watch work. Only one other jewelry store within fifteen miles. Slock will invoice about $2,500. For further particulars utdress JEWELER, Box 99, North Manchester, Ind. I7IOR 8 A LE—TO BE REMOVED—EI,EV A TOR, building and machinery, on Delcware street, near Panhandle freight depot, Indianapolis; good as new, consisting of 1 boiler, 1 engine (20 horse power), 1 corn shelter an 1 cleaner (Decafor). 1 large driving bolt, 5 elevator belts and buckets, from 9 to 18 Indies wide; Shafting, turn tabic, spout, platform scales, office, etc. • Will sell the whole or in part. PETER ROUTIER, For quality of machinery see Fred. P. Rush & Cos., or Bennett, Mor© A Cos. auction sales. HUNT A MCCURDY, REAL ESTATE AND General Auctioneers. 88 E. Wasriinirr-m MISCELL AN LOUS. tI'HK WEEKLY JOURNAL IS THE. Btiai* t\ X per puoihiueu m luauu*. Try * w .

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