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STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. Disgraceful Fight. Between Lawyers in a White County Court Room, history of Sores of the Exploits of Parke County’s Desperado—Sensation in the Carpenter Trial at Petersburg, INDIANA. ExcltlngPagilfstic Entertainment, in a White County Court-Room, bpecial to th InJianapoli* Journal. Montickllo, March 12. While ex-Judge Huff was acting in the place of Judge Gould, tryingtlieDavisca.se, yesterday, for felony, a lively set-to was had between Robert Gregory, the prosecuting attorney, and Daniel Dale, attorney for the defense. While Gregory was addressing the court. Dale made some cutting remark. when Gregory gave the lie. Then Dale followed with an ink stand, which missed its aim. Gregory retaliated by knocking Dale down. Davis, the client, then took a hand by throwing the prosecutor upon the floor. Now was Dale's opportunity, and he landed upon Gregory to pummel him, hut they were separated by outsiders, and quiet reigned supreme. The judge then fined them $lO for contempt, and adjourned court until to-day. Never before was such an exciting scene in our court. A bitter feeling has existed between these expounders of law for some time, and it in surmised that the end is not yet. Ibirke County’s Desperado. Hpcrtal to the I tiffin an p<>iio Journal. Montezuma, March 12.—Charley Roberts is achieving considerable notoriety of a cheap kind. Ue was born and raised near the east side of this county, where his father, who is a much respected citizen, now resides. Charley has borne a had character for some years, and into developments show not undeservedly so. Ho came to Montezuma about one year ago, and very shortly after burglaries and robberies all over the county become so common that vigilance committees were talked of to aid our au thorities in the detection of tiio desperadoes. Several of the parties so robbed now identify Roberts, and in one case the property stolen was found in Ins house after he hud moved from here to Terre Haute. While here he did little or no work, and lived well. He was one of the participants in drunken riots and shooting affrays at a saloon here. He was first arrested by Terre Haute officers, being suspected of complicity in the burglary of a store at Numa. For some reason he was transferred to Rockville jail, and it is worthy of notice, the day before ho escaped therefrom, the jail was thoroughly oxamined by the county officials and pronounced safe. The escape was made by breaking out the grating of his cell, making a hole about eight by seventeen inches in size. As b© got out of the door a little girl was passing who knew him, and she gave the alarm. Hjb struck her down, and then, pursutodb, citizens, ran nearly a mile, when, meeting a Mr. Phillips, he took from him a horse and went to Bloomiugdade, where ho left this ,aniinal and rod© off another belonging to Dr. Goklsben y. lie was then lost sight ot until his reappearance on the 1., B. & TV. railroad as a passenger to Hillsdale, and thence via the C. & E. I. railroad to Clinton, where he was, night befoi'e last, traced to the house of a woman who has two sons in jail at Rockville for some minor offense. Notwithstanding six men. with drawn revolvers, were watching the house, he slipped out, and from a Mr. Flaxford, living near, ho took lii.s third horse. This was tracked to within about three miles of this place, when he turned, and at last accounts those in pursuit were close on his trail at New Discovery, in the east part of this county. He is well known, knows every foot of the country, and his capture seems almost certain. Tall, erect and handsome in person, he. is fearless, quick in action, and of a disposition to make friends amongst his own kind. Lawrencelmrg Again Invaded by Water. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lawkenckjh iv*. March 12.—The river, during the past- twenty-four hours, rose past alt expectations, it having risen nearly eight feet in that time. This afternoon the ■water came in all the houses in “Nigger alley,” and to-night it is in dozens more on higher ground. If tho levees were not broken tho present rise would •lo no damage at all, but in their present condition they do not koep a drop of water outs Many of those who were compelled to move out today had just moved back into their houses yesterday or day before. None of those who lived in their second stones during the last. flood have yet moved down stairs. and all tho harm the present rise can do is to cause a second cleaning. Business of all kinds is again practically suspended. and the people are standing around the streets uumfoundt*! and mystified, and wondering what will come next. Many made up their minds to flay to leave town for good, and sell or give away their property. At 10 o’clock to night the river is not rising so fast, and tho news from above is more favorable. All that scope of country between this city and the Ohio hills, and as far up the Miami as the eye can reach, ia one vow sea. The railroad cannot stand more Utuii five feet more water. Floyd County Republicans. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. New Albany, March 12.— Morris McDonald was chosen chairman, and F. 1). Conner, secretary. Crittenden A. Cox was indorsed for Au ditor of State, and John T. Smith for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Following are Die names of the delegates to the district con mention and the State convention of Juno 10: M. McDonald, W. R Godfrey, George Roberts. It. M. Board man, J. T. I. G. Strunk, A Fite, E. B. Scribner. S. T. Finney. F. D. Con n*t. Charles Smith, W. H. Stephens, Elmor Si iith, Ed Keethley. W. \V. Tucker, George TVoitV, J. E. Wilson, W. 11. Shirley, William I iamb, W. H. Halstead. Marshall Adkins, Jacob Green, colored, Dr. W. A. Burney and James Mi tcli cm. Delegates to State convention, April 17: M. M. Hurley, W.. 8. Godfrey, F. D. Conner, W. W. Tucker, delegate**. Alternates: Morris Me Don • Id. George B. Card will, John S. Mann and D. <’ Anthony. The delegates were unanimously confirmed by the convention, and it was further ordered that all other Republicans of the county bo, and are made delegates the State convention. State Sanitary Convention. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Seymour, March 12. —The first State sanitary j convention, tinder the auspices of the State San i .itary Association, convened here today. The j convention wa called to order by Dr. N. N. Shipman, president, of this city. Prayer was offered by Itev, K. 0. Trimble, of the First Pres t'j tartan Church. There was a good attendance

to-day, and a larger number is expected to-mor-row, from different parts of the State. The fol lowing papers were read to day: “Purposes of a Slate Sanitary Society,** by Dr. Thad. M. Stevens, of Indianapolis. “Legislation concerning the Destruction of Filth," by Rev. Geo. L. Curtis, of Jeffersonville. ’‘Food and Raiment,"by Hon. F. J. Van Vorhis. of In dianapolis. “Ventilation of our Homes and Public Buildings, ’* by Dr. U. AY. Raymond, of Indianapolis. “Chest Pressure,” by Rev. Thomas Harrison, of Brownstown, read by Dr. L. S. Opponheimer of this city. Letters of encouragement were read from the State health officers of Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois and West Virginia, and from Surgeon-general J. S. Billings, U. S. A., and Dr. Albert Gihon, U. S. N. Among tho physicians of note present are Dr. J. F. Hibbard and Dr. Butler, of Richmond. A Swindle on Farmers, Princeton Special. Tho collapse of the firm of Wallace & Runcie, grain dealers at Fort Branch, in this county, is creating a sensation of considerable magnitude in this vicinity. These parties were running an elevator during last season, and received for storage a large quantity of wheat from the farmers in the neighborhood, who were holding for a satisfactory market. It is not certain liow much wheat was thus stored, but it is estimated all the way from 15,000 to 50,000 bushels. Last Saturday it was discovered that nearly all this wheat bad disappeared from tho elevator, and it was subsequently ascertained that Wallace, the senior partner, had disappeared after having cashed a check for $2,700 duo the firm at an Evansville bank. The supposition is that he had considerable more of the firm's money than this in his possession, but this is merely a mattor of conjecture. Runcie claims to have had no intimation of his partner’s intended departure, nor of his crooked transactions A Tramp Shoots a Boy. facial to tho Itulianapolifi Journal. Brook villk, March 12.—Last night a tramp, on his own motion, took lodging in the barn of Mrs. Rhoda Updike, near Whitcomb, this county; and this morning, when her fifteenyear old son. Harvey, went to the barn to feed the stock*the tramp ordered him to leave, and informed him if he did not ho would shoot him. The boy stood bis ground, whereupon the tramp drew a revolver and fired, tho bull taking effect in Harvey's arm. Tho tramp then made his escape. As soon as the facts were made known the neighbors gathered, and are now scouring the surrounding country for tho tramp; and if lie is found it is safe to predict that he will havo justice meted out to him without delay. Suicide of a Fourteen-Year-Olu lloy. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Scottsburg, March 12.—Harvey Brodt, son of H. W. Brodt, a bar her and confectioner, of this place, committed suicide this morning by shooting himself. He arose about 5 o’clock, mado a fire, and went into a room where his father's revolver was kept. He then left the liou.se, and almost immediately afterwards the report of the pistol was heard. The boy’s mother ran out of the house and found him in an out-house with a bullet in his brain. He was about fourteen years old. The coroner is now investigating the matter. No cause is assigned for the rash act. The Duffy Murder Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Crawforpsville, March 12.—The murder case of. Patrick Duffy, for the killing of Frank Corns, at Bowen’s Station, last fall, was called in the Circuit Court yesterday. The prisoner entered a plea of not guilty. During last uiglit William H. Long, one of the jurors, was taken suddenly ill of brain fever, and his condition, todajr, is reported critical. In consequence of his illness tho jnry was discharged and anew jury impanneled, to-day. The trial began over a.aain this forenoon. Duffy will probably bo acquitted. Minor Notes. The Rev. T. G. Bosley, of Jeffersonville, has been appointed to a charge by the Kentucky M. E. Conference. Frederick Troffinger, a Warrick county farmer, residing near Ivynnville, committed suicide by jumping into a well. Cause, domestic unhappiness. Hon. 8. M. Stockslager, member of Congress from the Third district, is in New Albany look- | ing after a renornination. Mr. Stockslager has I served two terms. The Goshen Times will shortly he enlarged, and will at the samo time discard its patent inside. Tho Times takes a front rank among Indiana’s county papers. Rev. Thomas Harrison will begin a series of revival meetings at Evansville, .on the 10th of April It is understood Mr. Harrison receives about SIOO per week for his services. Bishop Chatard has presented Father Audran, of St Augustine’s Church, Jeffersonville, a check for SIOO as a personal favor, considering the suffering he had undergone during the flood. Tlio assignees of McEwen <fc Sons, of Columbus, a banking firm whiidi failed in 1871. have just been discharged. Between $300,000 and $400,000 passed through the hands of the assignees, ami so complicated were the affairs of the estate that the cost of settling it was very great. Richmond has anew ghost story. This time the supernatural visitor appears at a certain house on North Nineteenth street- It is a female form, which melts into thin air on being approached, and keeps a bright light shining from the windows of the house, while all within is darkness. Steuben Republican: “Nathaniel E. Wright, the wealthy bachelor, of Turkey creek, this county, on the 3d of this month bequeathed tho sum of SI,OOO to each of his twenty nieces and nephews. Mr. Wright ia sixty-five years of age and said to be worth from $40,000 to $50,000. and made his start by hard labor and economy.” James Dorris, who lives a short distance south of Boonville, committed a rape on the prison of his five year-old daughter. The particulars have not yet been given to the public, hut the fact that the crime was committed is known, and evidence is being heard by the grand jury which will lead to the indictment of the father. Samuel Reed, of Springport, Henry County, was arrested for the theft of a lot of railroad tickets at that plae last December. He has been suspected, hut no proof could bo got until he took a lot of liis friends over tho road last Saturday on tho stolen tickets. Ho is nineteen years old and a soli of wealthy and highly respected parents. Richmond Palladium: Charles O. Scott, otherwise Frank Rand©, who hung himself ia the Juliet penitentiary on the morning of March 7, once figured in the criminal annals of Wayne and Henry counties. This was in 1863 and 1864. He then resided at Sulphur Springs. Henry county, and was known, we believe, as Onstott. In other places, however, he then passed by hi 9 real name. At that time he was the head center of a gang of horse-thieves. When his operations were discovered ho fled and assumed the name of Ramie. Louisville Courier-Journal's New Albany correspondence: Mr. Dauiol Soabrook died at his home yesterday at noon, aged ninety-three years. Mr. Soabrook was bom in Monmouth county, N. J., Feb. 14, 17111, and came to New Albany in 1814. He Las lived hero continuously since that time. Mr. Soabrook for a number of years was engaged in the busmens of boat building, and was part proprietor of the ship yard which constructed several famous steamers, among them the Peytona, Robert E. Lee and others. Aside from Mr. Sea brook’s business qualifications. he was a man of extraordinary religious merit, and for ft>rty five years was a member of

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Wesley Chapel M. E. Church. He was an industrious, kind and good man in every sense of the word. ILLINOIS. Sensation In the Carpenter Case*—Taking of Testimony to Begin To-Day. Special to tlio Indianapolis Journal. Petersburg, March 12.—Tho sensation in the Carpenter murder trial, to-day, has been the withdrawal of Hon. N. W. Branson and E. B Blinn from tho rank3 of the prosecution. It was caused by a difference with States Attorney Forrest as to how t.ho case should bo conducted Forrest thinks Carpenter guilty, while the others think him only accessory. Carpenter’s wife and handsome daughters were in the court room all day. The room was crowded, and people are coming in from the surrounding country by train aud wagon. Witnesses are hero from Lafayette, Danville, Springfield, Peoria, Lincoln and other cities, and the trial, as it progresses, excites more interest. Prominent men are among tho counsel of both sides, but the betting is forty to one that Carpenter will be acquitted. The taking of evidence will begin to-morrow. Both sides finished their statements to-day. No testimony was taken, the court adjourning at the close of the attorney’s address for the defense. The attorney, in making his plea, accused tho prosecution of resorting to every form of perjury, falsehood and trickery in making up the case, and intimated that if there was blood on Carpenter’s driving-lines after they left the hands of the first oxpeit who examined them, it was put on at the instance of tlio prosecution. Brief Mention. Serious damage to winter wheat by alternate freezing and thawing is reported from the Hillsboro district. The farm residence of Henry Miller, near Lincoln, was burned on Tuesday night, Loss, $3,500; insured in the Home, of New York, for $1,200. In the annual contest for tho Palmer prize for oratory, at Carlinsville. the first award was given to Porter Paddock, of Pana, and tho second to Louis Palmer, of Springfield. The revival meetings atNokomis. in the Presbyterian and Methodist churches, conducted by I. E. Spillman and H. W. Davis, have closed. .One hundred and sixty-two conversions are reported. George Dodd, son of Henry Dodd, a merchant of Paris, took a large dose of chloroform and was found in a critical condition, but was saved by prompt use of stomach pumps. Disappointment in love was tho cause. The committee on invitations for tho formal opening of Memorial Hall, at Springfield, on the 26th inst., are sending out circulars, in which they announce that General Grant will bo present to preside on that occasion if his health will permit. On Tuesday, while four tramps were walking along the Illinois Central railroad track near Hoy worth, one tramp shot another with a revolver. The ball took effect in the right, breast, and it is believed the victim is fatally wounded. The one that did the shooting claims that it was accidental. William Brown, the negro accused of murdering the peddler at Gahokia, has made another confession, saying that he first knocked his victim down with a club, when his wife finished him with an ax, .and then burnt the head, hands and feet, he simply assisting her in burying the mutilated corpse. NEWS IN BRIEF. In a fight in New York James Flynn fatally stabbed his brother, Owen. Fire on the bark John Boyd, at Savannah, damaged 2,000 bales of cotton t valued at $08,000; insured. Near Wilkeebarre, Pa., five laborers were injured and one killed by falling down the Avondale shaft. Two freight trains were in collision near Sufferns, Pa., yesterday. Ten cars of refined oil were burned. Mrs. Jane A. Brooks, a wealthy widow just freed from litigation in the Chicago courts, is in London, Ont Sacramento, Cal., yesterday ©looted a fall Republican ticket, except J. C. S. Brown, Democrat, elected mayor. At Worcester, Mass., the.wool store of Frederick Sm ester burned on Tuesday night. Loss, $40,000; insurance, $40,000. It is announced that through trains will be run between Chicago and the Mexican Capital at an early date. Time of transit, thrte days. Earl of the firm of Putnam & Earl, of New York, states that the defalcation of Wm. (4. Morgan. manager of their Hartford affaire, amounts to $20,000. The rooms of Miss Annie E. Snow, at the Waverly House, a family hotel, of Boston, were entered yesterday, and property aggregating $4,300 iu value stolen. Charles J. Trowbridge, ticket agent of the New York & New England railroad, has been arrested, owing to a shortage in his accounts. Gambling caused his fall. Jas. H. Qtiinby, living west of Columbia, W. Va., while under tho influence of whisky, shot his wife with a shotgun, inflicting mortal wounds. No cans© is assigned. The German Herald, published in New York, fears that Bismarck will resent the passage of the Hisoock resolutions with stronger measures than the threatened tariff warfare. Mr. C. S. Gleed, for many years connected with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company at Topeka, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Denver (Col.) Tribune. The failures of li. Rhett and J. A. Patterson were announced at the New York Mining and Petroleum Exchange yesterday. Rhett was short 58.000 barrels, and Patterson 60,000 barrels. Tho town elections at Franklin, N. H.. on Tuesday, resulted in a complete overturn of the town, which has been under Democratic rule for nine years. It is again Republican by a largo majority. The Merchants' Association, of Milwaukee, has passed a resolution calling for suspension of silver coinage, and it is expected that the Cham ber of Commerce will act on the same resolution at an earlj’ day. At Sandy Hook, N. Y.. on Tuesday, during a fight, H. C. Mabrey was hit on the head w ith a stone thrown by Frank Conn. The light resulted from a dispute over a game of cards. Mabrey will die. Tho New York Board of Trade and Transportation urge Congress to pass the bilpauthoriziug tho Secretary of the Treasury to pay $1,000,000 annually, for a period of ten years, for improvements on the Erie canal. The Northwest News, a morning paper of Portland, Ore., lias suspended publication. About $70,000 was sunk in the venture. ExMayor Nathan Cole, formerly of St. Louis, has been the financial sufferer. The excitement growing ont of the gold discoveries in the Occur d’Alene region, Montana, continues. Thousands are flocking toward tho district, and marvelous stories of the riches hidden there are being circulated. Fletcher, W esenberg & Cos., contractors, of New Orleans, having sued to recover from the Northeastern Railway Company $261,000, a balance alleged due on contract, the company sues to. recover from the firm $350,000. Singer, Nimick & Co.’s steel works. Pittsburg, will continue in operation, its employes having accepted a reduction of 4 to 12 percent. The wages of those working under the Amalgamated Association scale remains unchanged. It is now believed that to the defalcation of the fugitive post -master Tiffany, of Bennington, Vt., will be added a heavy score against the Bennington school district, of which he* had financial charge, lie took tho order-book in his flight. A Starkville, Miss., dispatch says: A cyclone in this county, yesterday, destroyed every building at Street’s Mills, and many plantations* suffered severe loss. Mrs. Grier and a daughter of Ossian Gillespie, ware killed. Tho loss iu tho county is SIOO,OOO. The trial of John B. Griffin, Seneca Miller and George Mulkins, for the murder of Samuel Greener, of Pawling, N. Y., last October began yesterday. The case was a celebrated oha Grumor was killed by a dynamite cartridge

thrown into liis house by tlio three men, with whom ho had quarreled. Griffin was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Miller and Mulleins will be tried to-morrow. Tho Filley Republican State committee met again at St. lands, yesterday, and issued a call for a State convention, to* be held at Sedalia. April 9. This is the same time and place the regular regular Republican, or YanHorn State committe named for a State convention at their meeting several weeks ago. Tlio Western Union executive committee yes terday declared a quarterly dividend of 114 per cent., payable April 15. The net revenue for the quarter ended March 31, the March business being estimated, was $1,650,000. After pay ment of the dividend the quarter's business will have increased the surplus $124,000, making the present surplus $4,094,710. Wool-Growers and the Morrison Bill. Denver, March 12.—A largo number of delegates were present, this morning, at the opening of the wool-growers’ convention, representing Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Utah. Wyoming. Idaho and Nebraska. To day’s session was consumed in speech-making and organization. The feeling is unanimous that the passage of the Morrison bill will prove fatal to the wool industry of this country. Important action is expected at to-morrow’s session. Seven and a half million sheep, or an annual production of 36,000.000 pounds ot wool is represented in the convention. Fresno, Cal., Inundated. Sax Francisco. March 12.—' The dam at Fresno, Cal., lias broken away. The town is inundated. The railroad bridge has beeu rendered unsafe. Passengers are transferred. Interior reports state the weather is clear an 1 reads drying up. A dispatch from Los Angeles says it will be a week before trains can run East, and two weeks before repairs will bo completed to to that point. Shot Dead by a Boy. Greenshurg, Ky., March 12.—At Marcum’s Mill, yesterday, Asa Cantrell was shot by John Marcum. Cantrell and Marcum had an altercation, but were separated by friends. Later. Cantrell bared his breast and dared Marcum to shoot, which he did, killing Cantrell instantly. Marcum is but seventeen years old. Cantrell was aged forty-five, and was a desperate character. Appointments on the IVabasli. St. Louis, March 12.— 1 t was officially announced, to-day, that Charles W. Hammond, superintendent of all telegraph lines of tho Missouri Pacific system, had had his jurisdiction extended over tho Wabash Hues. Thomas W. Furlong, head detective of the service of the Gould roads, has also had his jurisdiction extended over tho Wabash system. Jay Gould's Hospitality. Havana. March 12.—General Badeau, United States consul-general, to-day presented Mr. Jay Gould to Captain general Costillo. Tho latter, with his wife, afterward paid a visit to Mr. Gould’s yacht. To-morrow Mr. Gould will give a breakfast on board, to which have been invited General Badeau, his secretary, Senor Corsa and Mr. Todd and wife. Dressed Beef St. Louis, March 13.—John B. Dutchor, D. H. Sherman and several other Eastern capitalists, who own the old beef-canning establishment in East St. Louis, ltave arranged to turn their property into a large slaughtering concern, from which they will soon send great quantities of dressed beef to New York and the East in refrigerator cars. Steamship News. Lonix>n, March 12.—Arrived: Rhynland, from New York. New York, March 12.—Arrived: Fnmessia, from Gla*>gow. Queenstown, March 12.—Arrived: Arizona, from New York. Attempted Suicide of Mrs. Neville. New York, March 12.— Tho wife of Richard Neville, a dramatic critic, was taken to tho hos pital. to-night, suffering from a probably fatal pistol-shot wound, self inflicted. Mrs. Ncvillo and husband separated some tiino ago. A Special Correspondent's Lie. Nashville, March 12.— Tke special telegraphed to the Louisville Courier-Journal, dated Springfield. Tenn.. purporting to give the details of a triple murder aim lynching in Robertson county, has no foundation in fact.

Barley. Rural New Yorker. This used to boa staple crop, and was valuable in many ways. There is no better grain for the liens or hogs. It is the very bast to grind and feed to f-ows when suckling pigs. It is superior food to give to cows to produce milk. It is the best grain to mix with oats for horses either for driving or work. It gives them strength and at the same time is nob so heating as r/o or corn. Last, but not least, it is excellent to make into flour for griddle cakes. The barley “bannocks” have been an inspiration to the pen of the Scottish bard. It makes griddle-cakes much more healthful than buckwheat, as they do uot affect tho skin or cause dyspepsia. Barley is not so impoverishing to tho soil as oats, and is as good a crop to seed with as wheat. Forty years ago barley was one of the most extensively grown and profitable crops. About thirtyfive years ago it began to fail, or, as the farmers said, run out.” Like wheat, the soil under constant culture of it became depleted of tlio constituents required to make a good crop of barley. A rest of over thirty years has ; ‘renewed” the soil and now barley is hereabouts one of the most reliable and remunerative crops. It lirnls a ready sale at good prices, aud may be utilized on the farm, going further than oats, and being better suited for all kinds of stock. It is more valuable than rya The straw is excellent for fodder, 'cattle preferring it to every other kind, and it ranks at the head of the for making growth. It can be raised much more cheaply than com. which gives it an advantage over that useful crop. There is no other grain which fits in so generally for the spring rotation, and especially for seeding with clover or grass seed, since spring wheat is far more uncertain, aud yields only about a fourth as much per acre. Barley will produce as well as oats, if not better, and may be sown later in the season, which relieves the rush of work in the spring aud allows the farmer to prepare his ground better, which is also an important consideration. Ou this account moist ground may lie utilized which could not be well sown with oats, and to which barley is especially suited. Two bushels of sets! are ample for an acre on rich soil, but two and a half are required for land of moderate fertility, as it will not stool so much on the latter. It is better te be put in with a drill; and when this is done less seed is required. The ground should be mellow for barley and harrowed to a fine tilth. A corn stubble is good, and it will also do well on a clover sod. It should not be put in until the ground has bo come warm, as, unlike oats or wheat, it is not suited to cold conditions. Handkerchief Cases. Art Interchange. Just at present cases for nightdresses and sachets for handkerchiefs seem popular. They usually match, and are always lined with a contrasting color. Tho newest fashion is to make them almost square, with one corner turned back and *plit up the center. The two pieces aro fastoued buck, aud one is of quilted satin or satine, secured by a fancy-headed pin, while the other is plain, and has a monogram or a device embroidered on. The fashionable size for a nightdrois case i* about sixteen inches in length by eleven in width, and the slit up the turned hack corner extends six inches or so from the point. The lining of the case is wadded and quilted, and sometimes scented, and the whole is edged with gathered lace, hemmed muslin, or frayed silk. The handkerchief-ease opens in half, and on each side are two places for handkerchiefs to slip in, from the middle—plain ones, fancy ones, evening and colored. Another fi* vorite shape is a square, bordered fully with lace, with the fourr corners tied together with a bow, and the name or monogram worked on one. Black satin lined with quilted yellow sarsenet, brown lined with pink, ami pale blue with coral aro fashionable, trimmed with tinted taee. The brush-case is also made to match, the brushes and combs being thrust through at the corner. The last idea is to make the usual ugly spongebag ornamental by either covering it with colored satine and working a flower on each side, or in American cloth, painting it aud binding all around with galoon.

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. What Can We Do About It? To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: The graphic picture of tho demoralization of society, in the editorial of tho 12th, is not over drawn. If I should say the half was not told, it would only be saving that it is impossible to do tho subject justice in one short editorial. But the most alarming feature of all is the impossibility of applying a remedy. The editorial suggests none. Can any be proposed that shall not appear revolutionary? This connection of law and crime is not confined, to Cincinnati, or to Indianapolis, or to South Carolina—it is national. Only think of tho wicked dilly-dallying in the trial of Guiteau—a whole year consumed in the conviction of the man of whose guilt there was no doubt, and who should have beeu hanged, at tho furthest, in ten days after the death of his victim. Instead of that lie was lionized for a year, and tried with a pomp of circumstance that was calculated to inflame all such cranks and superinduce a repetition of tho crime for the sake of the notoriety thus given. England does not thus foster crime. No other civilized nation does. In that we stand alone. But what can we do about it 1 In some places the better class are forming what they call law and order associations. In other words, they confess their inability to protect themselves through the constituted machinery of law. and they thus impose upon themselves extra duties and extra burdens. In some cases this takes tho form of a well-regulated mob, as in Johnson county, Indiana, a few years ago. by which ten persons wore hanged within a few weeks; and more frequently of later years in tho hanging of one or more at a time. A notable instance of this was in San Francisco, thirty years ago, when tho rule of gamblers, thieves and cutthroats was broken by a vigilance committee. In New York there is an association of this kind which operates chiefly as detectives and informers, and something of the samo kind is about to be organized in Chicago against tho liquor-sellers who have, within a few weeks, openly announced their purpose to defy the law of the State. Now, the principle which underlies these several shades of independent movements is tho same, whether the purpose be to hang a man because the law. as administered, is not likely to, or to furnish evidence aud employ additional counsel to punish some minor offense; and it is just as wrong to engage in one form of vigilance-eomraitteeism as the other. In either case it partakes of the nature of rebellion against the sovereign—against the State; and has come to be regarded as essential to the enforcement of law, so that it is common for thieves and others, who are bold to defy law, to taunt society by insolently saying, “Why don’t yon enforce" the law!” as though it, was everybody’s duty to quit their ordinary business and become amateur prosecutors, or to hush up about the breaking of law. Is there any remedy for all this! I know of none, unless those who are not in sympathy with the criminal class unite in saying that the criminal classes, by controlling primary elections and nominating men who, if not of their class, yet fear to offend their masters, shall not dictate our candidates and compel us to vote for them, under the pains and penalties of social and political ostracism. Perhaps, to return to the foriner system of making judicial officers, by executive appointment, for life or during good behavior, would be one step in tho right direction. Certainly the evil complained of has wonderfully increased since the election of judicial offices for short terms, and by popular vote, has taken the place of executive appointments. It is largely, if not chiefly, owing to the independence of the federal courts that they aro so much more terrible to evil-doors than our State courts. Tho whole subject demands the gravest consideration of our wisest men, and it is to be hoped that the constitutional convention which is certain to be called, will give it careful investigation. b U. L. See. Another 4 ‘Hoy Preacher.** To tho Editor of tho Indianupolift Journal: Has it occurred to any of our church authorities that we have in our midst now a revivalist equal in strength and power to the so-called boy preacher, Thomas Harrison? I refer to Rev. Geo* K. Little His services at the Opera-house last Sabbath convinced me that he possesses more than average intellectual ability, without the many unpleasant personalties of Harrison. Why, thop, should he not liave our cordial support? Wo could excuse the avarice of Harrison when ho was young and had his head turned by success; but now, when he is nearly forty years of age, to observe the eagerness with which he rakes in tho dimes and dollars is disgusting. I Quote from a recent issue of the Globe Democrat, describing the ovening service: ••Mr. Thomas Harrison was evidently satisfied, for when the collection was being t;tken up and was found to be unusually large, lie stood at the pulpit, rubbing his hands together, his face wreathed with smiles.” Disgusting? Harrison is not a modest retiring man like Brother Little, but always goes to auction off-seats in God’s kingdom to the highest bidder. Mr. Little coraes to us trusting to his own merits, and relying upon that alone, while Harrison trusts to a long line of aristocratic ancestry to give him first rank, and has no personal merits to recommend him, unless the wrinkles and physical disability of premature old age havo that tendency. This city is ripe tor a great revival, and Ido not question but what if Mr. Little gets the support ho should havo from our larger churches, lio will be the means of bringing about a revival that will shake the city from center to circumference. Let some of the churches unite in a fund to hire the Opera house next Sunday and witness a harvest A Methodist. Facts as to Sleighing Winters. To tl) Editor >f the Indianapolis Journal: A reporter for the News, with the concurrence of W. N. Jackson, chronicles the fact that never before has there been ten consecutive* days of good sleighing in March. This illustrates the fact that wo pay but little attention to such matters, and remember them indifferently. The writer entered the clerk’s office of a neighboring county, as a deputy clerk, on the first day of the March term, 1838, the 18th day of the month, and remembers well that the sleighing was first rate during the whole month, people coming to the court in sleighs the most of the time. "On the 26th ot February, 1843 (the year of the Millennium and tho comet), a heavy snow' fell, which was increased from timo to time, and which continued on the ground, furnishing firstclass sleighing until early in April—as late, perhaps. as the 10th. But I concede that, in one respect, the winter just closing is more remarkable than any of its predecessors—it has furnished three months of continuous good sleigh ing; and this no other w inter has done within my recollection. j. b. j. Indianapolis, March 12. Tariff and To tho Editor of lim Indianapolis Journal: I am glad that, you have had the frankness to tell your readers that oijr infamous American tariff keeps wages up to their present, pitch, and that you have proved it ly the testimony of those workingmen before the congressional committee. It is not the price of raw iron or steel that makes pitchforks, scythes aud other farm implements so high, it is the price paid for manufacturing them If we could have free trade we would soon bring these enormous wages down to a reasonable figure, and break up that iniqui toufi monopoly, the trades’-union. Give us free trade and no more monopolies of any kind, es pecially such roonopolias us protect men in such ruinously higli wages. Not only let raw iron come in free, but wrought iron of every kind; not only raw wool, but all kinds of woolen goods. Down with the tariff that protects trade- unions. Free Trader. N. B.—Private—The above is iron y. What cannot bo mado out of paper is something which cannot yet be safely decided. A Hartford, Conn., man Ims lately taken out patents for devices by which very beautiful aud substantial carpets can be made of paper at prices much lower than tho cost of common cotton matting. This new fabric even seems to

have qualities entirely superior to ordinary carpets. It can be doctored so as to resist water, lire and insects without losing any of the soft elegance which is common to fine woolen carpets. So saith tlio in veutor and his friends. The Cabbage Fly. American Cnltirator. Various means have been suggested for controlling the depredations of the cabbage fly. Honcho, the original describer of the fly, says the plants may be preserved by dipping tiio roots, when they are transplanted from tho seed-beds, into oil or lye of ashes. Powdered tobacco. or the fine dust from tobacco factories, scattered over the plants will preserve them from attack. The use of superphosphate of lime has been advised as a preventive against the deposit of the eggs. If cabbages are not grown upon the same ground lor successive years, and tho ground meantimci thoroughly cultivated with some other crop, tho insects will be materially reduced in number. In some experiments at the Michigan State Agricultural College, a strong decoction of tobacco was freely applied to the plants, but without appreciable benefit. Professor J. A. Liiitner writes upon the subject as follows: “When the attack of larvae has reached that stage of progress that the plants unmistakably show by wilting, and tho leaves turning to a faint lead color, all such should be promptly taken up, and the hole left should be filled with strong brine or lye, to destroy any of the larvaio which might remain in the soil. _ This last precaution would be unnecessary if the plants be carefully lifted by means or a broad-biaded knife. The accompanying ground, with the plant, should be thrown in a deep hole, made for the purpose, and covered with solidly-packed earth, through which the flies—if any of tlio buried larva) should attain this stage —could not penetrate to tho surface. Watering the plants with lime water has been found to boos service in killing the larva?.” Prof. A. J. Cook has recently recommended the following method for tho destruction of larvae: Bisulphide of carbon is used. To apply it, a small hole is made in the earth near tho main root of the plant, by the use of a walking-stick or other • rod. and about one-half a teaspoonfnl of tho liquid poured in, when the hole is quickly filled with earth, which is pressed down by the foot. In every case the insects were killed, without injury to the plants. While Professor Cook, as the result of recent, experiments, believes carbolic acid to bo preferable to the bisulphide of carbon for the protection of radishes, he is still of the opinion that the latter material is tho most reliable in contending with the cabbage fly. Roots for the Dairy. Pennsylvania Farmer. Recently the writer visited a large dairy which was daily giving hundreds of pounds of very rich milk. The ration teed was clover hay, a small feed of grain and about a half bushel of sugar beets per day. The point raised is why this particular herd of cows, mostly due to calvo in March, should, within fifty days of calving time, give each more than eighty pounds of milk per week. The dairyman could not explain the fact, but this he knew, that clover hay and beets not only made the cows give good yields of milk but it-also caused them to give milk ten months instead of six or seven, as when fed on hay or grain. The beets, we think, are not rich in nitrogen, but they do contain an abundant supply of natural juices. Clover hay is very rich in nitrogen, and if oat shorts are also fed, all the better. This brings up the inquiry: Do the juices of roots -and ensilage, for that matter —possess a food value, although rated by chemists as water? The discrepancy between what should bo the proportionate value of green grass and the samo grass in the form of hay can but raise the inquiry why the superior feeding value of green and naturally succulent food. Does thin explain why the owner of tlio dairy in question was so successful in extending the season? The feeding value of tho beet, as rated by the chemist, is small, estimated by what he can find in it, and tho fraction found would not account for the increase in production unless the water reported be given a food value when combined with the acids, alkalis, etc., of tho stomach of the cow. This is an interesting point, and one in which we wish every dairyman would interest himself and find out about for himself. Who will be first to raise an acre or two of sugar beets next season, and try their feeding value, as compared with dry foods? The Great Cons umption Bern edtj Jill O WN’S EXPECTORANT Has been tested in hundreds of cases, and never failed to arrest and cure CON* SUMPTION, if taken in time. Jt Cures Coughs. It Cures Asthma, It Cures Bronchitis. It Cures Hoarseness. It Cures Tightness of the Chest. It Cures JJifllculty of Breathing, ExpECJO^NJ Is Specially Heeommended for Wm@@®xwß €qwgm* It will shorten the duration of the disease and alleviate the paroxysm of coughing, so as to enable the child to pass through it without leaving any serious con sequence* THICK, sOr. and SI.OO. A. KIEFER , Indian anon*. In. f. SALE OF STATE LANDS. STATE OF INDIANA, t OVFXCB OF THE AUDITOR OF STATE. V In pursuance to the provisions of an act entitled “An aet authorising the sale and conveyance of certain lands belonging to the State of Indiana and disposing of the proceeds thereof, and providing for the recovery of the possession of any lands of the State unlawfully occupied, and for the rent of any of the lands of the State until sold, approved March 7, 1883,” I will offer for sale for cash, to the highest bidder, at the court-house door in the city of Franklin. in said State, at from 10 a. m. to 4 p. ra. on Thursday, April 10, 1884, tlw following described real estate, situated in Johnson county, belonging to the State of Indiana and authorized to bo sold by said act, viz.: The northwest quarter of northeast quarter section 19. township 12 north, range 3 east, containing 10 acres, appraised at S2OO. This land was mortgaged to'the State of Indiana to secure the payment of a loan from the College Fund and was forfeited for tho non-payment of interest due it. No bid for less than the appraisement will bo received. JAMES If. RICE. Auditor of State. Indianapolis, Ind., March 12, 1884. R LOOS HOUSE, WASHINGTON. D. C., Fifteenth and G Streets. First dass and complete in all its appointment* u situated opposite the United States Treasury Buildings. and in tho immediate neighborhood of the President's Mansion, the State, Wur and Navy Departments. Street Car* to and from Depots, Capitol, and all Departments. pass too house every three minutes during tho day. The honor of your patronage earnestly solicited. C. W. yPOI'TOKD. Proprietor.