Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1883 — Page 3

BAPTIST CONVENTION. An luterosting History of Franklin College by President Stott, Discussion of the Subject of “Home Mission*,” President Moss on “Education,’* and Other lnterestiux Addreuies. Yesterday morning’s session of the Indiana Baptise Convention opened with a Scripture reading toy Reverend Britton and prayer by Dr. Stott,of Franklin. The morning was devoted to home missions. Judge D. V. Burns made a report on the subject. He showed that $1,765 bad been contributed by the churches of the State the past year to the society. He strongly set forth the fact that the woi*: of the Home Mission Society was the most important work before the Baptist Convention. He said the work in the West, among the freediuen of the South, among the Chinese, Mormons. Mexican and foreign population was more important than ever before. Rev. J. H. Reider, past-or of the Bluffton Baptist Church, addressed the convention on “Fruits of home mission and work,” and Rev. James Cooper, of Detroit, Mich., on “The apostolic example for national evangelization.” Rev. A. P. Eckmanu, missionary among the Swedes in the* West, made a strong appeal on their behalf, with particular reference to the Swedes in Indiana. His appeal was referred to the executive board. Rev. J. H. Elgin offered a resolution for the appointment of u committee of three to report to the convention before the close of the session upon the expediency of placiug a general missionary in the field in Indiana. Afternoon Session. The business of the afternoon session was the consideration of educational interests. It was decided to hold the next session of the convention, at this time next year, at Fort Wayne. Rev. Dr. C. E. W. Dobbs, of Madison, was chosen to preach the annual sermon, with Rev. J. K. Wheeler, of Terre Haute, as alternate. Rev. A. Ogle, of Seymour, read the report of the committee on education, showing that there are twenty-seven young min or our churches now preparing for the ministry, of whom two areal Rochester, N. Y.; live at Morgan Park, Chicago; three at Louisville, Ky., and fifteen at Franklin College, Franklin, Jnd. Tip?re are aL Franklin 119 suidents, an increase of sevenreeu ovrr list gear's report at this season. The beneficiary receipts have been $427.29. The report. urged liberality in increasing the endowdowmeut funds during this jubilee year of the institution. HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COLLEGE. Rev. Dr. W. T. Stott, president of Franklin College, followed with a historical account of the college. In 1834 thirteen men met in Indianapolis to take steps for the founding of an institution of higher learning for the Baptists of the State. They were William Rees, John L. Richmond, Ezra Fisber, Henry Bradley, John Hobart, Samuel Harding, Lewis Morgan, James V. A. Woods, Eleplialet Williams, John McCoy, John Mason, Moses Jeffries and Reuben Coffey. Elephalet Williams is the only one of the founders who still snrvives; bo lives at Lebanon, and hie interest in the college has never slackened. To adequately appreciate the sublime faith and high resoive of those men, hr they met here fifty years ago, we must contrast their surroundings with ours. They met here with the Baptist Church, then twelve years old and having a membership of less than fifty. Ezra Fisher was the pastor, and the oho roll- house was on Meridian street, where Schnull's block now is. and the lot cost SIOO. The beat lots on Washington street sold for $360. The institution of learning of the place was the old county seminary, located at ihc southwest corner of University Park. Butler University was nor born for about twenty years after this time. But two years before this time (Governor Noble had neen obliged to send troops to the north part of the State to intimidate the Indians. There was not a mile of railroad in the State, and no gravel roads. The Legislature was meeting in the court-house, the ritate-house not being completed until Deceiuber, 1834 the number of Baptists reported in i.J&un- was 12,558, but we an obliged to believe that not half the number were our kind o Baptists, for as late as 1850 the secretary of the convention says that of the thirtyeight associations of the State only twenty were missionary. The better statement would bo that when those fathers planted the college there were but about 6,000 Baptists in the State. It is an inreresting fact ro note that between the dates of 1820 and 1810 the follow ing Baptist institutes were founded: Newton Theological Seminary, Colbv University, Columbian University, Short less College, Georgetown College, Denison University, Wake Forest College, N. C ; Mercer University, Richmond College, Young Ladies’ Institute. Granville, O.; Western Academy and Franklin College. Among the earliest instructors were A. R. Hinokly and A. L. Litton. They both won a. warm place in the esteem of their brethren, and both died and were buried in Franklin. Two others who hold a most honored place among the early instructors are W. J. Robinson and his sister Julia. Tliey are living on the farm first periled by their father, John Robinson, near Greensburg. Mr. Cottingham, once a student in the institution, Mr. Berry and Mr. Keith, who lately died hi Wisconsin, a most prominent worker, succeeded the Robinsons. The college charter was obtained in 1844, and G. 0. Chandler, pastor of the Indianapolis Baptist Church, was the first president. In 1851 he went to Oregon ami engaged in the same kind of work. His wife survives him. The second president was Silas Bailey, a true ou of Atiak as to body, mind and heart. He was a graduate of Brown University, and came to the institution at. a time when any large results in education in the State must be more a matter of faith than sight. His salary was but S9OO a year during most of his presidency. Associated with President Bailey during his presidency were Prof. M. Baily, a man of sterling ability ami an excellent instructor. He afterward went to Oregon and became the president of McMinnville College, and J. S. Hongham, after serving the college in many ways, vras afterward connected with two agricultural institutions, one at Manhattan, Kan., and the other at Lafayette, this State. Rev. Dr. Wayland’s presidency was so short a time ago that most remember it. A t the close of his presidency there was a debt of $13,900, aud ths creditors took the proper*v as security, so that all work was fttispomtaa and the organization disbanded- But there was something left. There were hundreds of men over the State who had received mental discipline and moral purpose in the institution, and there was left a deep convict ion in the hearts of brethren over the State that the educational enterprise must not be given up. That conviction was deeper than most deemed, for soon, wlieu opportunity offered, that conviction gave expression in the most tangible way. Three thousand students have been in the college tirst and last. lam able to recall about 200 who are or have been in the ministry, and doubtless there are almost, or quite as many more not known by me. These srudeutn are in all the w:ilks of life—in- Church and State. It is safe to say that the grade of work done in our college, lias teen ami is such as to compare favorably with that of other colleges. Our present catalogue shows that m college proper we give the student nine terms in mathematics pure and applied, while Wabash gives nine. We give seven terms of Latin, Wabash gives six, We give, ten terms of Greek, Wabash seven. We give seven terms in science. Wabash seven. We give five terms in history and English literature, Wabash gives two. We give three terms in mental philosophy, including its history, Wabash gives one. While some of these figures seem to place Wabash in an unfavorable light, I want to say that Wabash gives considerably more attention to modern languages. The only fact that is sought to make plain is that our institution stands the peer or the best about us, even if it feels a little delicacy in saying so from the house tops. The endowment of Franklin College is about $86,000, counting SIO,OOO non-interest b arlng bonds for legacies, and the net assets of the college are about. $132,000. As can he shown, a considerable number of our institutions negan a eonrso of large financial prosperity aboiif the time of their jubilee year, and why not Franklii,l The scale of present operations is on endowment of at least $160,000. while in fact it is only about half that sum. If ir. he asked who bears the burden implied by the difference, the answer is simple and brief. It is borne by those who teach. They will not murmur in respect to the past if they can only nave the pledge that, there is to be a favorable change. The relative prosperity of the movement beginning in 1872 is due to the fact that all financial matters have been managed with the utmost carefulness and fidelity by the board. There Was a large constituency all over our State, romposed of former students, their parents and friends; himl, perhaps not least, rliose wan were imr. in i m media to charge Were men in tile enjoy-

ment of the vigor and hopefulness and possible temerity that characterize youth. The crime of being young men (then) we do not pretend to palliate or deuy. It could have been demonstrated by any man past sixty that the college could not succeed. If David had been as wise as Kiiah, his eldest brother, or Saul, the king, he had never gone out to meet the giant; but soutebow or other, ruddy of countenance as ho was, and lithe of limb, he returned bearing a trophy that elicited a shout from all Israel. The rational grounds of our hope for a liberal endowment of Franklin College are that the wealth of our people is rapidly increasing—much more rapidly than the membership of our churches. According to an estimate made on a basis that can easily be explained, our wealth aggregates between seventy and one hundred millions. If it were but seventy millions, 7-10 of 1 per cent, of the amount would give us about $500,000 endowment, and our appreciation of the value of a liberal education is growing rapidly. If, as a Christian people, we would counteract the materialistic philosophy and false theology of the times, we must provide teachers that positively ami intelligently deny both spontaneous generation and spontaneous regeneration. If our brethren of wealth do not see these obligations and opportunities, and give liberally of their means for this end, God will give their wealth to others, and other men will bo raised up who will, OTHER MATTERS, Following President Stott's address. Rev. A. Ogle made an eloquent showiug of the inlluence of Franklin College on the Baptist churches of Indiana, and Rev. J. R. Edwards made a clear and forcible presentation of the present movement for endowment. After tins came five-tnin-ute addresses, chbily by members of the alumni association, in wulch Revs. J. K. Howard, G. H. Elgin, W. H. Cartwright, E. Cnrtley, N. C. Smith, A Ogle, Noah Harper, A. Blackburn aud Dr. Martin and Mr. YV. 8. Holman, jr.. took part. Rev. A. E, Dickinson, D. D , editor of the Religious Herald, of Ricnmond, Va., gave notice that, he would sneak at the Baptise social this evening, ou “The truth about the South.” He will tell abont- the colored as well as of the whites of the South, and will toll what he knows about each. Dr. Dickinson has spoken on the same subject in Now York, Boston, Cleveland, Toronto, aud other cities. Evening Session. The evening session was taken up by 8. O. Pickens with “An educated laity,” “Christian conceptions in education” by Rev. Dr. Lemuel Moss, aud “Mere endowment” by Rev. N. Carr. Dr. Moss's address was of especial interest. He said that Christianity affirmed the value of man, Jesus Christ revealed man to himself. He was the son of man. as well as the son of God. Man reaches the fullness of his stature in manhood in Christ Jesus. It may take generations and ages for him to realize tills ideal manhood. Man is greater than any institution of man, or than any devisement of God for man. These things were made for man, not man for these institutions. The florist seeks to bring out of the flower its beauty and fragrance and form which God has placed in the plant. 8o in the development and culture of wind and manhood. We have the unfoldlug of what God lias placed In the soul of man. What is the means of education, the culture of the whole man! It is the truth. When my thought, notion, conception is adequate and corresponds to thefuet or facte I have the truth. These facts are thoughts, God’s thoughts; and when we have a conception or notion which corresponds to those factswo have the truth. He who knows the most of these revelations of God knows most of God. Heaven is to be an eternity of knowing, of ceaseless and perpetual growth iu the knowledge of God. Is the ocean to lie traversed by these multitudinous fleets for the ocean’s sake? Are rbe tolls of business to be endured for business’s sake! It is that truth :ay he apprehended and built into ourself. Man’s great aud only inissiffii for time and eternity is to know the truth. What is the object of education! It is the power by which man ts lifted into fellowship with God. The essential nature of man is akin to God. Perhaps I may be told that lam descended from some animal. Perhaps l am, but T have got so far away that I do not sympathize with him. Education brings man into couscious communion with God. He is capable of being thrilled by the thought and purpose of God. 3l:tndatory aud Not Directory. Thomas Harrison, president of the State benevolent boards, has recently addressed a communication to the Attorney-general asking for an official opinion whether or not the law limiting the expenditure of any of the institutions for one month to an amount not exceeding onetwelfth of the annual appropriation, must be literally complied with. Judge Hord holds that the law is mandatory, and not merely directory, m its provisions,and that the expenditure must bo so limited. By this ruling the trustees can not bny large quantities of supplies at wholesale at one tune, although such purchases would be in the interests of economy.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Monsignor Capel has gone to Detroit. Chisholm, convicted of wife-raimler, at Newark, N, J., has asked for anew trial. Tbe first frost of the seasnu occurred on Wednesday night, at Charlotte, N. C. Long, who assaulted United States Consul Ha* zelton, at Hamilton, Out., was held for trial. The chestnut stallion Kantaka, three years old, was sold in New York yesterday for $3,000. Weavers at the Acushjiet mill, New Bedford, Mass., struck yesterday because of dissatisfaction in wages. At Markeson, Wis., the and five business places burned yesterday. Loss, $30,000; partly insured. An excursion party of West Virginia editors called on the President yesterday, who received them most cordially. General Superintendent dowry, of the Western Union, was tiie tirst through all-rail passenger from St. Paul to Seattle, YV. T. The first annual fat stock show’ of Kansas City opened yesterday. Entries were made from a dozen o; more States and from Canada. Two children of John Earnest, aged five and six years, wpre suffocated by smoke, at Middleton, O , from a fire in the house occupied. Pittsburg h:is shipped 3,225,000 bushels of coal, of which 1,587,000 were for Cincinnati, 125,000 for Irouton, and the balauce for Louisville. The libel suit of the Allan Steamship Company for $50,000 damages against the Moutreal Witness lias been decided in favor of the news paper. In Columbia county, Ark , on the Louisiana border, on Tuesday night, Ephraim Bandy called Win. Scott our ot the latter’s house, and shot him dead. C. M. Wicker, formerly general freight agent of the Baltimore Ohio railroad, has b*;n chosen agent of the Merchants’ Freight Bureau at Chicago. Henry D. Garrett, a young lawyer, pleaded guilty to several charges of forgery, at Jersey City, and was sentenced to three j’ears iu the State prison. Mitchell Patnam, 103 years of age, traveled alone from Texas to South Caro 11 mi to see his old home. He was a soldier iu tiie war of 1812 aud in the Texan struggle. “Steve.” Raymond, an English forger, convicted of passing forged coupons of the Union Pacific railway, lms been sentenced, at New York, to life imprisonment. Hon. Armistead Buit, one of the oldest and ablest lawyers in South Carolina, died suddenly in his office at Abbeville. He was a member of Congress from 1843 to 1853. Arehie Dixon, of Pittsburg, paymaster of the Allegheny railway, attempted to commit suicide at Toronto. He raved about a murder, mentioning the names of Scott and Mrs. Stewart. The total revenue derived from dram-shops, wine and beeriiceuscs atß6. Louis, from Sepr. 1 to Jan. 1, unl**r the new hlgh-llcense law, amounts to $251,128, an Increase or $138,097. Asa freight train on the Southern Pacific was crossing a river bridge, a car wheel broke and eighteen cars were precipitated* into the river. Two tramps were killed and two brake men injured. President Morehead, of the National Onionplantern’ Association, lias gone to Boston to represent the New Orleans Cotton Centennial at the closing ceremonies of the New Ragland Exposition. Shaw & Bros., of Boston, who failed for several million dollars in July, offered to settle yesterday for thirty-three cents on the dollar. A committee of creditors refused anything less than 50 per cent. cash. The Chamber of Commerce at New York adopted resolutions strongly condemning the watering of stocks by corporations, and favoring the red nor lon of city postage. A committee was appointed to prepare a plan for a national bankrupt law. The State Dental Association elected ns officers, at Ci>lmnbus, 0., yesterday: President, A. Berry. Ctiioitvw.iii; vice-presideor, C. 11. J bines, CintiLnaii; mrtiary, J. 11, Warner

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1883.

Columbus; treasurer, G. W. Keely, Oxford; examining board, J. Taft, Cincinnati, aud Ur. RUcwmkle, Chllllcothe. The schedule in the assignment ofEdard Russell, lumber dealer, of New York, gives his liabilities at $96,000, and assets $24,060. In the United States Clrentt Court, at Trenton, in the case of William B. Dinstnore against the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Judge Nixon filed an opinion, yesterday, sustaining the exceptions takeu by the complainant to certain portions of the defendant’s answer. Emerson, convicted of being an accomplice of Nugent and Farrell in their attempt to rob the cashier of the Orange National BaDk, at Jersey City, of SIO,OOO, in a railroad car at Hoboken on July 28, wa- sentenced to teo years in the State prison and to pay the cost of the trial. The committee appointed by the Irish delegates, who met ou Wednesday, to form plans for uniting the Irish-Amerioan societies of lowa, recommended that the State convention he held in Mil waukee on Wednesday, Dec. 12, beginning at noou. and continuing till all business is disposed of. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN* Indications. War Dec art hunt. ) Office of the Chief signal officer. > Washington* Nov. 2, l a. *l ) For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Fair weather, stationary or slight rise of temperature, northwest to southwest winds m we6t portions, and lower barometer. For the Upper Lake Region, Upper Mississippi and Missouri Valleys—Fair weather, southerly to westerly winds, stationary or slowly rising temperature, lower barometer in upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys and western portion of the upper lake region. Local Observations. Time. Bar. j Th. Hum. Wind Weather RTT 6:24 A. M 30.29 33.0 68 NYV Clear 10:24 A. M. 30.33 39.6 39 NW Clear 2:24 P. At. 30.33 43.0 36 NYV Clear 6:34 P. M. 30.37 41.3 37 W dear 10;24 P. u. 30.38 38.0f 53 Calm Clear. Maximum temperature, 43.5; minimum temperature, 32. General Observations. War Department, Washington, Nov. 1, 10:25 p. m. S Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. w £f i. te > •* £ *r 'Z' &Z- © 5 & . sff S STATION. g | i * 5 " [ Sir i I Bismarck, Dak... 30.20 39 8E Clear. Cairo ...30.52 4d N Clear. Cincinnati 30 39 40 NYV Clear. Davenport, la 3042 38 NYV Clear. Dead wood Denver 30.41 47 8 .Fair. Den Moines 30.44 57 Calm Clear. Dodge City 30.44 46 8 ..... Clear, Ft. Aseinuiboine.. 30.09 44 SYV Hazy. Fort Buford ...... 30.14 37 S Clear. Fort Custer Fort Elliott 30.50 47 N (near. Fort Sill Galveston 30.47 61 NE Clear. Indianapolis 30.39 38 Calm Clear. Keokuk 30.45 38 NYV Clear. La Crosse ~.30.38 34 W Clear. Leavenworth 30.48 44 8 Clear. Little Rock, Ark.. 30.4? 47 N ...Clear, Louisville 30.40 41 W Clear, Memphis 30.48 43 Calm Clear. Moorhead 30.27 28 SE Clear. Nashville 30.45 39 NYV Clear. North Platte 30 34 44 E .....Clear, Omaha 30.42 42 8 Clear. Pittsburg 30.18 41 W Cloudy. Ban Antonio Shreveport 30.48 48 NE Clear. Springfield, 1U.,.. 30.4*1 39 NW Clear. St. Louis 30.49 45 NYV Clear. Btockton Bt. Panl 30.39 31 Culiu ... Clear. Vicksburg 30.50 46 N Clear. Yankton, D. T 30.34 40 S C lear. New Orleans 30.40 57 N Clear. Las Animas 30.32 44 NE Clear. Fort Smith 30.50 42 SE Clear. Salt Lake City — 30.37 45 Calm Clear. Fort Billings.

October Weather at Indianapolis. Monthly mean barometer, 30 080; highest barometer, 30.494, Oct. 16; lowest barometer, 29.426, Oct. 29; range of barometer, 1.0G8; monthly mean temperature, 54.8°: highest temperature, 81.0°, Oct. 9; lowest temperature, 35.0°, Oct. 16; monthly range in temiverature, 46.0°; greatest daily range of temperature, 29.6°, Oct. 17; least daily range of temperature, 4.2°, Oct. 6; mean daily range of temperature, 12.8; mean daily dew-point, 44.5; mean dally relative humidity, 70.5; prevailing direction of wind, south; total movement of wind, 2,444 miles; highest velocity of wind and date, 20 miles, northwest, Oct. 31; number of clear days, 6; number of fair days, 13; number of cloudy days, 12; number or rainy days, 15. Total amount of rainfall, 8.56; frost, Oct. 16. Comp, j Comp. Year. mean preeip. temp, j ruches. 1872 54.0 1.07 1873 51.0 5.27 1874 55.5 0 36 1875 51.4 2 67 1876 51.7 4 42 1877 58.6 3.22 1878 54.2 4.78 1879 62.6 1.34 1880 53 3 3.54 1881 60.1 6.11 1882 58.5 2.18 1883 54.8 8.56 Mean temperature for October in 12 years, 55.5; October, 1883, 0.07° below mean. Average rainfall for October in 12 years, 3.63; rainfall for October, 1883, 4 93 inches above average. C. F. R. Wappenii a us. Observer Sig. Ber„ U. 8. A. SPORTING NEWS. A Double Team Trots in 2.10 3 4 atNarragansett Park. Providence, R. 1., Nov. I.—One thousand people saw the double-team record of 2:11 . broken at Narragansett Park to-day. The sky was lowery, the air chilly, and the track in magnificent condition. The contesting horses were IL B. Winship and Hiram Brace (the latter was a mate to Yellow Dock when she made her record on this track a year ago), and Prank and John Nay. Before the horses were called Frank sold for SSO to S4O or $35, Barnabv's pair were not headed nor forced during the race, and showed the fastest double-team heats on record. Os Keenan’s pair, Frank ont-trotted his mate, and broke at the critical point. H. B. Winship and Hiram Brnce' won the throe heats. Time—2:lo, 2:102*’ 2:U%. New York, Nov. I.—At the Brighton Beach races the three-lourth mile race resulted: Maiden’s Golden Plover first, Palonia second, Puritan third. Time, 1:18J4. The mile race resulted: Brunswick first; Ryan second, Clarence third. Time, 1:45 The three-fourth mile race for three-year-olds resulted: Lytton first, Orange Blossom second. Caramel third. Time, 1:18. The mile and one-fonth race resulted: Little Dan first, Babcock second, Little Buttercup third, Time. 2:13%. The mile and one-fourth race over six hurdles resulted: Rochester first, Major Wheeler second, Balby third. Time, 2:51 %. Baltimore, Nov. I.—At Pimlico the threefourth mile race for two and three-year-olds resulted: Old Liz first. War Eagle second, Parnell third. Time. 1:18. The mile and one-eighth race resulted: Empress first, Farewell second. Time, 1:59%. The seven-eighths mile race resulted: Burch first, Pearl Thorn second, War Eagle third, Time, 1:30. The half mile race, gentleman riders, resulted: Charlie Gorham first, Jake White second, Sam Cummings third. Time, ft-sty PVRiWY the blond, cleanse the Btomach and ivreojv- the Breath by using Hep Bitters.

THE FIRE AT SAVANNAH. Eight Bodieß Burned Beyond Recoguit ion iu the Flames, Til© Loss Estimated at More than #1,000,©OO —Scenes and Incidents of the Conflagration. Savannah, Nov. I.—The losses from Wednesday’s tire are estimated to exceed $1,000,000. The insurance will probably not cover more than one-third of the loss. The charred remains of five bodies, in addition to the three recovered last night, were removed from the debris of a burned warehouse today. They were found lying together under the wall, and only a few feet distant from the gateway. The bod}’ of a colored woman was also found among the ruins on Sachem street, adjacent to a warehouse. Seven bodies were negroes. The remains of a white man were recognized as James Cash, connected with a large drayage firm. The bodies were burned almost uevotid recognition, and it was principally by the articles found upon them that they were identified. The sight was sickening. As the burned and unrecognizable remains were retuoved from the debris, they were placed in boxes and removed to the morgue to await the action of the coroner and burial by their friends. It is believed that other bodies are still buried among the /alien walls, and the firemen are still searching. The burnt district was visited by thousands to-day. The sufferers made homeless and destitute by the fire are being cared for by the city. A relief fund amounting to $4,000 has already been raised, and the Secretary of War has thrown open the United States barracks for their use. The ruins are still smoldering, but there is no danger of a fresh outbreak. T he burned district lies in the western portion of the city and is known as “Yamacraw.” The section in ruins was bounde don the west by Canal street and the north by River street, ou the east by West Broad street and on the south by Farm street. It was almost exclusively occupied by negroes, and the houses were nearly all one and two story wooden structues, interspersed here and there with groggeries, small groceries, and brick dwellings. The strong wind which ; was blowing carried the flames from one to the other of these tinder-boxes with great rapidity, and every street was a pathway of fire. The firemen were driven betore the flames from hydrant to hydrant in quick succession, and their efforts to check the advance of the conflagration with water seemed almost foolish. Only four engines were available, and the department was in every other way utterly incapable of coping with the work before them. Aid was asked of Charleston and Augusta, but one engine and 2,000 feet of hose was the only assistance obtainable from those cities, and it arrived too late to be of service, except as a relief for the weary men who were on duty among the fiaminsr ruins. The blowing ‘tip of the building's was suggested, but although the safety of the whole city was at one time considered jeopardized, the expedient was not resorted to. Fearing that the negroes would become intoxicated and riotous, the mayor called out the military, and a cordon of a thousand soldiers was established. No disorder resulted, however. Several large cotton warehouses, full to the roof, the Central cotton compress, the Central railroad wharves, and other wharves, crowded with valuable freight, were saved only by the most superhuman exertions. All shipping sought safety by dropping down the river. There were, of course, the usual narrow escapes, perilous exploits, and other similar incidents attendant on such extensive conflagations. Suffocated by Smoke. Cincinnati, Nov. I.—Mrs. Mary Welsh, aged sixty-five, and her grandson, Charles Skillman, aged seven, were suffocated last night during a fire at their house in Cumminsville. in the northwestern part of the city. Mrs. Welsh, on discovering the fire, went out and gave the alarm, leaving the child asleep. Returning to rescue the child, she was suffocated by the smoke. Both were found dead when the fire was subdued. A Steamboat Burned. New Orleans, Not. I.—The steamboat Katie P. Kountz and cargo was totally destroyed by fire, to-day, at Davis’s Landing, twenty miles above tbe city. The cargo consisted of 50 bales of cotton, 3,500 sacks of seed, and GSO sacks of coffee. The boat wag valued at $18,000; insured in New York aud Philadelphia companies for $9,000. No lives were lost.

A Narrow Escape. New Market, N. IL, Oct. I.—The paper mill of T. H. Wiswell & Cos., at Hackara’s Falls, two miles from here, burned to-day. Five women narnwlv escaped being burned to death. Mrs. So ah l>ieg and Mrs. James Long were badly burned about, the face aud arms. Loss, $35,000: insurance, $14,000. A Hoad Liouse Destroyed. Cleveland, Nov. I.—The Cliff nouse, on the Rocky river, a popular road house, six miles from this city, was destroyed by fire last night. Losssso,ooo, The fire is supposed to have caught from the kitchen range. The Hennepin Canal. Chicago, Nov. I.—A conference in the interest of the Hennepin canal project was held here to-day. A number of new members were added to the canal commission interested in the improvement. The name of tlie organization was changed from the Illinois and Mississippi Canal Improvement Commission to the Michigan and Mississippi Canal Commission. The oflieerschosen wore J. C.Pore,Chicago,president; C. H. Deere, Moline, 111., and S. H. Holman, New York, vice-presidents; Edward Russell, Davenport, la., secretary; F. J. Robinson, Rock Island, 111., treasurer. Steamship News. London, Nov. I.—Arrived: Oregon and Bolivia, from New York. New York, Nov. I.—Arrived: State of Florida, from Glasgow” Gellert, from Hamburg; Grecian Monarch, from London. TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Observations of William Mather, Representative of the British Commission. Boston Letter. A complimentary dinner was recently given, at Boston, to William Mather, of Manchester, England, who is the representative to the United States and Canada of the royal commission ap;>ointed by the British government to investigate and report upon technical education throughout the world. Mr. Mather’s response to the welcome from the host was quite lengthy, and went into the details of the subject which he had been investigating in this country for the past six months aud in other parts of the world for two years. He said: "There was doubt in tiie minds of the Royal Commission whether America had anything to show rn the matter of technical education. I gave up six months of my time to come here and study the way in which you are meeting your industrial problems. We come here to consider

the possibilities of the future. The best way is to traverse the continent from east to west, and then back again to the east. I took this course, and, traveling both ways, I have seen a mechanical skill and an engineering originality which show that you have gone beyond us. Your industries show resource aud the power to overcome difficulties. You show more ability in this way than any other peopleon theglobe. No doubt your past education in the common schools has given your laboring classes the ability to acquire further knowledge. What you have done has been thorough. Your public schools have taught self-reliance, independence, mutual coniidence, all of which account for the independence of your population. Your boys are turned out of school with many qualities. This is the effect upon youth of fourteen or fifteen years of age. The same is seen for the same class in Knggland. But fewer men have shown themselves fit for this with us in recent years The only way to train you.hs in industrial education is to bring them into close contact with industrial arts. I never knew a mere book student to do good practical work. Such young men feel themselves superior to the workshop and know nothing thoroughly. 1 found young Russian students of this sort dead failures;too proud to enter the workshops and go through the drudgery necessary to do skilled work. In this country your danger is of another sort. You are too impatient of results. In all your schools the distinct aim is to bring the highest technical skill to practical work. Electricity is to be the greatest center of developement in the future, and we need to have men ready for it in the future, ready to apply its laws to practical life. I see nothing to prevent your young boys at fifteen years of age from having a sound knowledge of the laws that rule in nature, or from being able to gain sound industrial knowledge. This is also our notion in England. We have introduced carpentry in our British schools. Every boy gives to it three hours a week and is taught the qualities of useful timbers, the habits of trees, also the best way to use tools. I hopo to ste such common interest in this matter that you in America shall everywhere utilize industrial training in your large schools. What yon want is not more buildings or more money, but a better adjustment of your teaching forces. For you and for us tlie hope of the future is in the children of our poorer classes. Tiie foundation of the strength of the state is in them.”

ELLEN TERRY. Her Opinion of American Audiences and Mr. Irving’s Acting. Interview in New York Herald. ‘’Oh, dear, I don’t know where I shall find words to express the glad satisfaction I feel,” she said. ’T ara so excited that I hardly know where I am. Last night I was anxious as I watched Mr. Irving, and to day I was so worked up that I was in a tremble. I)o you know that when I got before the audience for a moment I thought I would faint, bnt I clung on to my part with such tenacity that I mastered tlie momentary weakness. Then came that wild burst of sounding welcome, and in an instant I knew I was among friends. I thank them a thousand times from my heart for their goodness.” "What do yon honestly think of your audience from a purely critical standpoint—were they independent and just?” "Indeed they were. I never played to a more intelligent, sympathetic and quickliearted assemblage. Just look at the scene between Lord Moray and the King. Did yon hear that splendid, knightly burst of feeling which went up from the people when the King was about io knel to his subject? It was a wonderful response. That point was never taken by a London audience, aud yet, do you know, my heart always gives a big throb when I see Mr. Irving make that involuntary effort to kneel.” “That is a fact,” said Mr. Irving. "I never remember hearing an audience take that point before.” "It showed a wonderful depth of sentiment in the people. Then again when Mr. Irving offers to surrender his crown and save his land and secure peace, it is a pitiful touch, and the audience took it. I never saw it taken before. Tiiere were lots of such incidents, which told me that I was in the presence of cultivated minds, and when I began to warm up and do better in the last scenes I felt so sorry that I had not done better in tbs first. But, all! in my art you cannot rub out words once spoken. Yon cannot appreciate bow keenly I realized this to-night,” "What scene do you like best?” “Oh! the last scene. It is perfectly heartrending; don’t you think so? The’ people were crying all over the house. 1 was waiting for the signs of emotion, and when I heard a man sniff in the first row I knew it was all over and we had couquered. Did yon notice how splend.idly Mr. Irving acted in the scene where he reproaches Lord Moray for his treachery? Christ and Judas—is it not suggestive and sublime? Then in the scene where Cromwell made his demands on the King, how much there is of man to man to man in the acting, and how grandly Mr. Irving stamps his foot as he refuses to yield.” Here the graceful, girlish form of Miss Terry was suddenly thrown hack as she arose and stamped her tiny foot like the royal hero she described. “But it is in coined}’ you must see me,” she exclaimed. “I was born to laugh. Mv audiences must see me play Beatrice, in ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ ” Temperance an<l Intemperance. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Whenever a known evil exists, it should be legally suppressed, if possible. Public opinion acknowledges intemperance to be tha giant evil. There is no reasonable doubt but what there are temperance men enough in the Republican and Democratic parties, if united, to over-vote the free-whisby men. We believe, if such men would heartily unite, they would he invincible. Why can, and why should, they not unite? All the best interests of society require it. The vital questions dividing Republicans and Democrats are settled. The only dividing line is the name Republican and Democrat, with the prejudices these names inspire. Our nation is now the happiest, the freest, and with the blot of intemperance removed, the best in history. Wiiy should not good Republicans and good Democrats join hands and ballots, and jointly wipe out the giant evil of the age. The dark stain of slavery is gone. The whisky ring at "Washington, the confederated saloon-keepers and brewers, are united together in a political league, and hang like a terrible nightmare over both parties, and they tremble with fear. The time was when both parties, in the past, trembled at slavery. But the Republicans, aided by patriotic Democrats, through four years of blood ami flame, destroyed slavery. The same union ot the best men of all parties at the ballot-box would bring a like result for temperance. As slavery could not have been destroyed without Democratic aid, so now they must come to the aid of temperance. They did not fail in the civil war, which freed the slaves, and they will not fail now in the contest to free their homes and every home in the land from the great destroyer. Neither party has quite the moral courage to stand fair and square, and strike intemperance between tiie eyes. The Democratic party is wedded to intemperance as it was to slavery, and would not think of it. The Republicans don’t want to loose their drinking men and are afraid of some Germans. While mere politicians tremble they should not forget that mighty moral element, which is gradually drifting away from the Republicans ami, ascertain as fate, will form a temperance party, aud

j fight the battle alone; and it is only a quesj tion of time for tiieir triumph, while both t parties will perish. If politicians believed j that iemperancce would triumph in the first ! contest, they would all be temperance men* Now is it not true that whenever a fair and square contest has been made for prohibition it always succeeds? Sever il years since wo had such a contest in Indiana, a prohibitory law was enacted, aud a Democratic Supreme Court overthrew it, as a Republican court did in lowa. Prohibition would carry to-day if either the Republican or Democratic party would unfurl the Hag. In Maine the Democrats championed prohibition, carried the State, and adopted the celebrated Maine law. The Republicans then championed a severer law. and carried tbe State for many years thereafter. In Mass<v ch use its the Republicans championed prohibition, and carried the State as long as they were true to that idea, and lost it the first time they faltered and paltered. Ln ivmsas they championed and carried prohibition. In lowa they championed it, and victor} 7 perched on their standard. F do not at this time recall a solitary instance where prohibition has' failed when it was a direct issue. To doubt trrt* triumph of temperance is to surrender all hope and concede that intemperance and crime will prevail, ft will not do to say that prohibition is a failure. Temperance in politics is young. Intemperance is as old as Noah. A law forbidding treason. murder, theft, or any crime, is prohibitory. It will not do to say that we must have no law against these offenses, because it does not entirely prevent them. While law does not entirely prevent, it is prohibitory in spirit, and punishes the offense. If prohibition does not prohibit, why arc saloon-keepers, brewers, drinking men. and whisky rings opposing it? Their fierce opposition is a strong argument to show it prohibits. The morning has dawned for the issue of temperance and intemperance. Wildcat and State banks are gone; gold silver and greenbacks are giving us the best currency ever known. Free trade and pauper wages are at discount; protection and good wages for American labor are established Freedom prevails and slavery is dead, and only one stroogbold of sin, pauperism and crime remains, and I echo back the bugle call of Will. Cumback and T. A. Goodwin. Look at Ohio. With both Republicans and Democrats ignoring and fighting prohibition, it came near carrying, while hobbled all around. One hundred thousand Democrats voted for it. Prohibition could not lose us 50,000 votes in Ohio, and 100,000 sober Democrats ara worth more than 50.000 drinking Republicans. With the white flag of temperance and the star-spangled banner in the air. with temperance Democrats, with temperance Republicans, with the churches, with the ministers, with woman’s influence and the spirit of God in the hearts of the people, it could not fail. Could Republicans have a brighter jewel glittering beside that of freedom to the slave than freedom from the cup? And as ail humble member of the part}’ I will vote to put both of these jewels in her radienc crown. Go ahead, Cumback and Goodwin. Anderson, Ind. D. C. Chipman.

Uee* of Sil phur. Correspondence Country Gentleman. A good way to destroy witch grass and prairie grass is to plow and rake up in piles, and burn when dry. Sow about a quart of sulphur to an acre of land, mixing the sulphur with the grain. Plow prairie grass with steel points, for the roots are tough. It is a good plan to sow a quart of sulphur to an acre on sorrel. Take two parts sulphur 10 one of tobacco, and one-sixteenth parts of blue vitroil, and mix; grind the tobacco fine. Put a tabiespoonfui to a hill of vines of a.t kinds, as it will destroy bugs. Putting sulphur on tlie ground where you plant vines wall kill a blue worm that works at the root. Sulphur is good to put on animals to kill lice. Unleached ashes are good to put around fruit trees to prevent the borer, ul.-o to sow on fruit trees when in blossom. Sulphur is good for garden vegetables to destroy worms. Sow broadcast. Fon pains and aches, St. Jacobs Oil has no rival—no equal. C. K. KKEGELO, OHAS. TEST WHITSE't'f, ISO N. Telin. St. 336 N. Alabama St. C. E. KREGELO & WHITSETT, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS, No. 77 North Delaware Street. Telephone connection at office and residence. HI IRON fWPTPE BA FITTING® Selling- airentß for National Tube Wor ha Cos. and Globe Valve*, Stop Cocks, Yf_ ~- : -j Engine Tritnmimfß, I'ii’li If,,:'. ,J<) *\GB, CUTTKKS ViSKS, ■g■j T.AI*B, Stock Hand I tgl Wit-uebea, Sit am Tru , |%| Fnnuis. Sinks. HOSE. HKI.I----MN IN' i. HABBIIT META I S (~0-pound boXCg. Col 101 l Wining: Waste, white" and coin red (IGO-poiitul bales,. F : end all other upplb*H ns, l few ts comifiction with 6TKAM, 1 & WA’I Iff and GAS. ill JOB V lfl REI All DOTS. Do a reu-:u Ft- Jar Meani-tittiiifr huhiii-h. it EKtimate and omitrart to fc| heat Mills Shopg* FurTArica | f and Lumber Dry Houses tl with live or exhaust at -arn. r pii-e rut to orvter by sien>* | KNIGHT & JILLSQN, INDIANAPOLIS Machine and Bolt Works. Manufacturers of Heavy and TdifUt Machinery. Small Steam Engine*, Punches. and Dios. Planing and Moulding Hits. Mariano. liruige. Hoof, Plow, and Elevator Holts, Dag Screws, Null ant W ushers. Taps and Die*. Works. 79 to 85 S. Pennsylvania street. 3STEW BUCKWHEAT FLOOR. JUST RECEIVED Car ot New York Buckwheat Flour. Send in your orders for plain and self-raising. A. B. GATES & CO., Noe. 31 and 33 E. Maryland Street.

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