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be disregarded at this crisis in on political history, when Eolations of juatke and parity of life Rre ignored or winked at, and our presidential eoutests seem to be degenerating into a mere struggle for office; believing that the virtnre of onr women is the basis of the family, and the family the corner-stone of the State; and knowing that women, the natural educators of the race, are also the chief victims and sufferers from the vices of licentious and drunken men, the Moral Education Societies affirm that the time has come when the mothers and sisters, the wives end daughters of the men who east the votes. East, West, North and South, should unite in protesting against placing at the head of this Nation a man who has been guilty of criminal offienses against women. “Resolved, That public and private character are inseparable. ■ ..... “Resolved, That Grover Cleveland, by his Immoral character and criminal conduct, testified to by reputable and responsible men (not politicians), and not denied, bat apoligized for by his friends and partisans is an enemy to woman's virtue, and is, therefore, unworthy the confidence and respeot of every man who has any regard for th© good name and. honor of his mother, sister, wife or daughter, or for the purity and sanctity of his home. “Resolved, That the elevation of this man to the highest office in the gift of a free moral nation would tend to demoralize the minds of our youth of both sexes, and precipitate ruin to this Republic. “Resolved, That through the victims of Grover Cleveland the purity‘ni wonwihood has received a deadly blow. Tliereflfre, we call upon women in every station of life, high and low, rich and poor, the cherished wife, and the betrayer’s victim, to do all in their power to prevent Grover" Cleveland being made the Chief Executive of this Nation.” “CaROLINI B. WINSUOW, M. D.. “Corresponding Secretary M. E. S.” Names of the officers of the Moral Educational Society, Washington, D. O.: Susan A. Edson, M. D."president; Elien M. O'Connor, Ellen M. Shekkm, H. B. Johnson, vice-presidents; E. F. P. Pitts, recording secretary; C. B. Winslow, M. D., corresponding'secretary; .Terusha G. Joy, treasurer; Ruth o.'Denison, auditor. THE I’IiOHIBITION PARTY. Mrs. J. Ellen Poster’s Strong and Sensible Letter on Temperance and Politics. Boston Journal. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of lowa, one of the most earnest and best known. Christian temperance workers in this country, is not a believer in the ticket of St John and Daniel. On the other hand she favors, for distinct and emphatie reasons, the election of the National Republican ticket The letter from her pen, reproduced below, is a well-considered review of the present political situation as it appears when viewed from a high plane of observation—that of an earnest, thinking Christian woman. Mrs. Poster, a native of Boston, and educated here, but since her marriage a resident of lowa, is one of the ablest if not the ablest woman in tbe ranks of tlie National Women's Christian Union, an organization with State organizations in forty States and nine Territories, and an aggregate membership of nearly 200,000. To its members, work for temperance, or more properly for prohibition, is a religion. Miss Prances Willard, its president, is a member of the political Prohibitory party, and believes in political work for prohibition, while Mrs. Poster believes in constitutional prohibition, which takes the question out of politics, as in lowa, Kansas and Maine, Mrs. Poster has been to Buffalo, whence her letter was written, to learn for herself the truth of the allegations against Cleveland,and the result of her visit is summed up with epigrammatic terseness. She sees that the election lies between Cleveland, a man without a home, and Blaine, “the true husband, the honest father, the home man,” and she is evidently alarmed last a strong diversion from the Republican to the Prohibitionist ranks might imperil Blaine’s election and put Cleveland at the head of the Nation. MBS. FOSTER’S LETTER. “Buffalo, Ang. 27, 1884. “Rev. E. K. Young, D. D., Des Moines. la.: “My Dear Friend —My allegiance in public work is first of all due to'the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. I believe that as a national organization we should be non-partisan in our attitude toward the political questions of the day, even toward party prohibition. It is my sincere conviction, strengthened by a personal knowledge of the work the country over, that tbe overthrow of ithe liquor traffic will be soonest accomplished if our organizations withhold party effort and give themselves wholly to the regular lines of temperance work which have been developed by God’s providence during the ten years since the crusade. We have some twentyfive distinctive departments of work under the general divisions,preventive,educational.evangelistic, social and legal. These cover every phase of the question, and afford the widest scope for the work of our organization. I deprecate greatly the seeming attempt on the part of some of our women to ally the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union with the national Prohibition party. I believe the larger part of opr membership and of our. best advisers deplore what they consider an unwarranted and untenable position. “Having been choson by the National Union superintendent of the department of legislative works and petitions, I must keep myself free from partisanship. As an individual I cannot and do not smother my convictions. Either James G. Blaine or Grover Cleveland will be President of these United States. As between them I do not see how any Christian voter can hesitate. Writing as Ido from this city of Buffalo, where Cleveland’s home is—no, where he lives —he has no home —I do not hesitate to say, as for me and mine, let it be the true husband, the honest father, the home man—James G. Blaine.

“Further than this, I donotbelieve the demand for national constitutional prohibition is the ‘best indorsement of prohibition principles.’ The prohibition of the lienor traffic is not, by either the letter or the spirit of the Constitution, the subject of national legislation. It must come by States; it cun come m no other way, unless, by an armed resistance to law in the States, it should become necessary for tlio general government, as a war measure,- to aid the States by military intervention. Peaceable revolution according to constitutional methods must come by State legislation. So, also, just as prohibition cannot be carried in a State till a considerable number of voters in the State are themselves prohibitionists, so national prohibition cannot be a practical issue until a considerable number of States are prohibition States. When three quarters of the States'agree the Constitution of the United States may be amended, and national prohibition be the rulet of the land. It is sometimes argued that the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery in the States was submitted by Congress before the States bad taken similar State action, bnt we remember that at this time there was so large a majority of free States that they controlled the government* and carried on a great and terrible war. The question of slavery on its political side was a controversy between States, concerning which the general government and national legislation was the only court of appeal. The prohibition of the liquor traffic is not a question between States, but between the people of a State, and national political action is not at this time the proper court in which to try this cause. “I have taught .this doctrine from ocean to. ocean. Could I now fail to stand for the application of the truths I have taught? This is why I could not if I were a voter enter the political field for the nominees of the Pittsburg convention. I honor John P. St. John; he has my high e3teom, my profound respect, and* so of Mr. Daniel, whom I am honored by numbering among my personal friends. I believe they each were actuated by the high motive of disinterested patriotism; I simply do not agree with them as to this one' method of obtaining what we all desire. “1 do not see how there can be two opinions as to the duty or lowa Prohibitionists. I have no arithmetic with which to estimate the mental calibre or the moral sense of any lowa man who claims to be for temperance and does not stand by the Republican party, with the rights and privileges conferred by the ‘bad man’s plank.’ •‘The Prohibitionists of lowa, dwelling in the Canaan of triumphant majorities, even though their enemies be not all cast yet, can hardly appreciate the weariness, even the bitterness of those still in the wilderness with their children daily dying by the wayside. God bas many ways of accomplishing His purposes; there are many battalions in His great armies. Let us net sit in judgment upon those who differ with Os as to what is the most effective mode of warfare at this particular point of time in the long struggle. Let no friend be disturbed at this difference of opinion; let no enemy be rejoiced thereby;

we shall still keep ‘the unity of the spirit in the bond* of peace,’ and in the final victory shall rejoice together. Yours sincerely, •• J. Ellen Foster’ HE TOLD THE TRUTH. Senator Pendleton Did Say tliat He Believed Blaine Would Be Elected. Washington Special In Cincinnati Enquirer. Three weeks or more ago I printed in this correspondence a declaration made by Senator George H. Pendleton, which was in words towit: “I believe Blaine will be elected." About a week later on there was a denial of the accuracy of the declaration aforesaid sent out by the Associated Press, having as its starting point Cincinnati, where I. believe Senator Pendleton once resided, and for all I know may now. I thought nothing of this, knowing the facility public men have in imposing upon this association, and let it pass. Had this denial been left thus vague, I should never again have reverted to it. lam now constrained, however, to again take up the subject, because I now have a denial which has behind it the Hon. George H. Pendleton himself. In a Cincinnati evening newspaper of date September 6, last, I find an elaborate intewview with this Senator, in which, as a cap to an installment of his views and Democratic hopes, this appears: "You are charged with saying that Blaine will be elected?” “It was a lie, invented and published in malice.” Now, as lam responsible for having publicly given out this declaration as a fact, I have to say that if it be a lie, Mr. Pendleton cannot put it upon myself with the concomitant of “invention and malice.” Hence, I again repeat that Mr. Pendleton did utter, at a dinner at which he was an honored guest, the words: “I believe Blaine will be elected.” I might refresh his memory somewhat bv reminding him that at the same gathering he related how at the national Democratic convention, at Chicago he had labored to secure Judge Thurman the presidential nomination, which filled with amazement those of his friends who know how zealously he exerted himself for Senator Bayard. The matter stands just this way: If Mr. Pendleton says it he a lie to charge him with the utterance hereinbefore quoted, he libels those equal with him in public and private station. The folly of the utterance, to tlie Senator, consisted piobably in its publicity and not in the making of it. Still, at the expense of painful reiteration, I again say that Mr. Pendleton did use the very words imputed to him, namely: “I believe Blaine will be elected.” If this be not sufficient to get myself from under the load of hay, Mr. Pendleton ought to know and does know from what point of the compass I should call the witnesses. And yet I am indulgent in sparing him the embarrass ment.

LEAVE HIM ALONE, And He’ll Come Home wltli Cleveland In tho Bind Behind Him. Boston Traveller. It is reported upon good authority that Colonel Charles U. Codman has, or soon will, formally withdraw from the independent movement in ; this State. It is also touched for that he has : been at considerable expense to hunt up the ; private record of Governor Cleveland, and that | the result is sufficient to cause Mr. Codman to : drop the Governor as an available alternative to Blaine. Should Colonel Codman he induced to put in proper form the summing up of this investigation, it will provo to be a rare episode in American politics. At the independent conference held in New York, July 22, Colonel Charles R. Codman, of Boston, was elected to preside. On taking the chair he delivered a long address, giving the reasons why he could not support Mr. Blaine for the presidency. After the publication of the scandal affecting Grover Cleveland’s private life, Mr. Codman replied to a note from a gentleman in St Louis, saying that it was best for the independents to wait and find out where they stood before proceeding any further in support of the Democratic presidential nominee. Since then nothing has been heard from Mr. Codman. until the Boston Traveller, of Sept. 8, published the paragraph reproduced above.

POLITICAL NOTES. Cleveland’s Friends Fall to Rally—Only a Small Crowd at Elmira. Elmirs Special. Dispatches sent out from here saying that there were 50,000 people in attendance at the State fair ©u Monday, the day Governor Cleveland was present, were gross exaggerations. The gate-keeper's tally showed less than 15,000 during the entire day, and many left before the Governor entered the grounds. At the political demonstration in the evening six reliable men made the number in the line 1,654. The whole address of Cleveland occupied less than seven miautes in its delivery. There was nothing like an ovation at the fair grounds, the cheering being especially weak and undemonstrative. The speaking in the evening did not occupy more than six minutes, and the whole demonstration fell far short of Democratic expectation. The men in line were drafted from eight counties in New York and Pennsylvania, a great effort having been made to get up an imposing show. * m A Free Vote and a Fair Count. James G. Blaine, In North American Review, March, 1879. The mighty power of a republic of fifty millions of people—with a continent for their possession —can only he wielded permanently by being wielded honestly. In a fair and generous struggle for partisan power, let us not forget those issues and those ends which are above party. Organised wrong will ultiinatelybe met by organised resistance. The sensitive and dangerous point is in the casting and counting of free ballots. Impartial suffrage is our theory. It must become our practice. Any party of American citizens can bear to be defeated.’ No party of American citizens will bear to be defrauded. The men who are interested in dishonest counts are units. The men who are interested in an honest count are millions. I wish to speak for the millions of all political parties, and in their name to declare that the Republic must be strong enough, and sffiall be strong enough, to protect the weakest of its citizens in an their rights. To this simple and sublime principle let us, in the lofty language of Burko, “attest the retiring generations, let us attest the advancing generations, between which, as a link in the great chain of eternal order, we stand! - ’

A Republican or Democratic Congress. Edward Everett Halo's Letter. It mnst he remembered that the election of a Democratic President means the election of a Democratic Congress. Though he were an lmmaculate saint, as I believed it is proposed that he shall be, he could do little to restrain the hunger of such a throng. For, very fortunately, the President with us has hut little power when he is alone. The election es a Republican President means the election of- a Republican Congress. Such a Congress can not do much harm; it may prevent a good deal. lam told that the election of a Democratic President is to be a step in civil-service reform- I do not so it I believe Mr. Carlisle and the Democratic convention are expected to promise this to the independents of the North. So I remember that the forester, in “JSsop,” promised his daughter to the lion, if he would let him trim his craws. After the claws were trimmed, the forester knocked the lion in the head. A Good Campaign Document. Washington, Sept 11.—TheNelson letter, defining Gov. Cleveland’s real position respecting tho tariff, is being mod* uM of by tho Republicans as a valuable campaign document, and the Democratic managers greatly regret the fact that the letter was published. Its effect has been to bring prominently forward the tariff as an issue, a result the Democratic lenders have sought to avoid., They have tried wholly to ignore this question, nnd prohibited the Democratic congressional campaign committee from •ending out any of the speeches delivered in

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Congress on the subject; but the Nelson letter, showingTiow the Democratic candidate stands on tho question, is being circulated broadcast by the Republicans, and it is doubtful if their opponents can now avoid the issue. INDIANA POLITICS. Hon. Stanton J. P.eelle’s Canvass In Shelby County. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. Shrlbyville, ' Sept. 11. —Hon. Stanton J. Peelle is making a canvass of Shelby county. To-night be addressed a large crowd of Republicans and Democrats at the town of Mount Auburn. On September 12 he speaks at Marietta, and on the 13th at Fairland. The Democratic executive committee of this county have arranged for a series of township meetings, and the first was held last night at McCarty’s School-house, ia Shelby township. The meeting was addressed by Leon Bailey, W. P. A. Bernhamer, and James A. New, Democratic elector for the Seventh district The Republicans say to-night they are informed from a Democrat who was in attendance that there were about thirty-two persons present. The weather was hot, the speakers anil and dreary, and the hearers got very tired before it was over. The Democratic barbecue Sept 25, promises to be a big affair. _ J. I). Deaendorf at Bloomfield. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomfield, Sept U. —A large and enthuisastic crowd greeted the Hon. J. D. Dezendorf at Bloomfield last night The Journal’s “spread eagle” proclaiming 17,000 majority for the Republicans in Maine caused the Republicans here to spread their arms and lift their voices in cheers at the mention of the Plumed Knight The speaker briefly reviewed the political issues before the people with force and a becoming amount of amusement After the speech the crowd lingered and was entertained by the glee clnb under the leadership of Profs. Lamb and Collins. The meeting adjourned after giving three times three rousing cheers for the national and State ticket

Republicans Lose One Vote. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, Sept 11.—A few days ago C. N. Spenoer, an attorney of this city and a Republican, published a card offering his services to the Democratic committee The fact was telegraphed all over the country, as a matter of great moment, and it wa6 stated that the Republicans here were almost panic-stricken. Whatever effect such a report may have abroad it amounts to nothing at all here, and is treated with derision. Mr. Spencer has nominally been practicing law here for ten years. Soured with long waiting and lack of appreciation by the Republicans, ne turns to be a Democrat By his defection the Republicans lose just'oue vote, and only one. Calkins and Holstein at Seymour. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. Seymour^Sept. IL—Hon. W. H. Calkins and C. L. Holstejn., addressed an audience of 2,000 persons here to-day. The crowd was one of the largest ever seeu at a. political gathering in Jackson county. Mr. Holstein, at the special request of the committee, remained to address a meeting at the wigwam to-night. Brnce Carr, candidate for Auditor, and Rhody Sheil, candidate for Treasurer, accompanied the, speakers. Great good may be expected for the Republican cause in this Gibraltar of Democracy. Meeting at Ekin. ~. i • Correspondence of the Indianapo ia Journal. Tipton, Sept 11.—One of the finest and largest meetings held in this county during this campaign was held at Ekin last night, and was addressed by J. A. Swavelaud, of Tipton, who held the close attention of aJarge and enthusiastic audience for about an hour ana a half. The large grove was lighted up and the stand nicely decorated with pictures, flowers and flags, and at least 500 persons were present Two fine glee clubs furnished music, which was rendered in fine style. John 8. Wise at Evansville. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, Sept. 11.—Last night Hon. John S. Wise, Oongressmau-at-large from Virginia, spoke at Evans Hall, to 2,000 delighted auditors. The parade of young men who •conducted him to the speaking place was very complete and well conducted. A silver cornet band, a cadet corps, a flambeau corps, a drum corps, and three companies of the Young Men's Republican Battalion were in line. Thousands of people were on the streets. George W, Adams at Ifhfiliinttaa, Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. WoRTHiNO'roN, hepi-.- Al.—Major George* W. Adams, of Martinsville; spoke here last night to a crowded wigwam of earnest listeners, and well entertained the audience for an hour and a half. The last man who spoke in the wigman was Ma-jor-general Andy Humphreys. What a contrast! Andy’s words fell upon the audience like the news from Maine upon the Democracy, “with a dull, heavy thud."

Blaine and Logan Club at Greenfield. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. Greenfield, Sept 11. —Last evening the Republicans of Center township met at the rooms of the Republican central committee, and organised a Blaine and Logan clnb by electing John Moore chairman, and Andrew Tague secretary; after which one hundred and fifty persons, including several Irish Democrats, who have heretofore voted the Democratic ticket, enrolled their names. Mr. Rappaport at Evansville. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, Sept 11. —Hon. Phil Rappaport spoke in this city last night to a large and appreciative audience of Germans. 'He used a closely knit, argumentative style that made friends for Republicanism in this regjon. Everything seems favorable for a sweeping Republican majority here this fall. Senator Spann at Rlllingsville. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. LiBERTy, Sept. IL—To-day has witnessed another enthusiastic Republican rally in Unipn county. Two thousand people assembled Ist Billingsville and were addressed by State Senator Spann, in a speech full of vim and bristling with telling points. Brennan at Peru. Correspondence of tho Indianapolis Journal. Peru, Sept 11.—John Brennan, the Irish orator, spoke to a splendid audience here tonight. He was repeatedly cheered, and his speech made a deep impression on the Irishmen present

Campaign Notes, At Ogden the Blaine and Logan Club ratified the victory in Maine with a torchlight procession and fireworks. James Moffett made a rousing speech. * The Bourbon Democracy of Brookville drove out a colored veteran soldier who had been e,mployed to assist in doing a job of plastering in that village. It is a question, however, whether their objections to him arose from race prejudice or from the fact that he had been a soldier and fought to preserve the Union. The Tom Hendricks Democrats of Indiana have no love for the old soldiers. THAT MUNCLB HAN DBILL. The Muncie Times speaks as follows of the scandalous hand-bill circulated in that oity on the evening that Mr. Hendricks made his speech there. Every one thinks with the Tunes, that tho circular was the work of some Democrat. who took this methodof assisting his party. “No Republican having the least particle of political judgment would resort to such unbecoming methods Os Insults to tho young ladies who wore Cleveland caps, ott Saturday, as the circulation of those indecent handbills, which were thrown upon the streets in the evening. He could but know that it would result in injury to his party, Wo cannot there-' fore believe that it was done by a Republican. We know it oonid not have been done by one having tho welfare of his party at-heart *Sucli practices we emphatically condemn as do all honorable men of whatever party. It is but the natural outgrowth of the blackguardism and slander which have already played a part too prominent in the campaign, and which all decent men will try to eliminate wither than encourage."

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The. Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. An Imposing Demonstration at Lebanon in llonor of the Late Col. Kise—Seventeen Persons Poisoned at a Wedding. INDIANA. Funeral of Colonel Klse at Lebanon—An Imposing Demonstration. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lebanon, Sept. 11. —The funeral of Colonel W. C. Kise took place this afternoon, and was most imposing in its character. Agreeably to the mayor’s proclamation, and to the general disposition of all classes to pay due homage to the dead, places of business were closed while the funeral services were ia progress, and a great multitude of citizens joined the Grand Army of tbe Republic in paying tho last sad honors to the distinguished dead. The services at the M. E. Church were conducted by Rev. Allen Lewis, and Gen. M. D. Manson and Col. W. C. Wilson made appropriate and touching remarks concerning • the life and character of their brave friend and comrade. On every hand was evidence of the universal sorrow which prevailed. All the public offices were elosed, and business houses and many private residences displayed the national colors in mourning and at half mast. The First National Bank of Attica. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Attica, Sept. 11. —Owing to the expiration of its charter, in the near future, the First National Bank of Attica, which has done a prosperous business for the past twenty years, is winding up its affairs, and anew institution styled the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank, with Mr. J. Shannon Nave as president, and Hansel J. Green as cashier, has been organized and commenced business to-day. The stockholders of the new bank are nearly all gentlemen who were interested in the First National, including Mr. Simon Finney who has served the full twenty years as cashier of that institution.

The Federal Court at Fort Wayne. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, Sept 11.—The United States Circuit Court will probably close to-morrow. Judge Woods fined the agent of the Louisiana Lottery S4OO for mailing circulars. In the case of Gibbons Fitch against Homer Hale and Garland Hale, a verdict of $4,000 was given the plaintiff for the hreaking of his head on the Huntington race track, last September. The parties were horsemen, and quarreled over alleged unfair driving. The defendants arc prominent citzens of Wabash county, './r. Minor Notes. The colored citizens of Clay county are making artkngeroente to celebrate Emancipation Day at Brazil, on the 22d inst. Hon. James T. Johnson and Hon. J. S. Hinton are among the speakers to be present. A soldiers’ reunion will be held at Seymour on the 18th, 19th and 20tli inst. A sham battle will be the prominent feature of the third day. Gen. John A. Logan, Gen. Ben Harrison, Maj. W. H. Calkins and others have been invited to be present. The case of Edward L. Dealy against David L. Wilson and Albert F. Wray for $5,000 damages for false imprisonment, which has been on trial at Franklin all week, ended last night by the jury finding for the defendants after being out three minutes. William Squires, aged nineteen, while employed to dig a well on Kell’s farm' near Huntertown, was killed by a post auger striking him on the head and penetrating his brain. The auger was being let down to him, while he was standing in the bottom of the well, and it slipped off the rope He was unmarried. Edinburg Courier: Father Dehart, living four and a half miles west of Edinburg, has lived where he now lives for sixty-two years. He entered his land, cleared every foot of it, and raised a family of fifteen children. He is now eighty-four years old, and bids fair for another decade at least. We doubt if another man ean be found in Johnson county who is living on a farm purchased by him sixty-two years ago. The Vincennes Presbytery has just closed a most interesting session at Evansville, at which fifteen ministers Were present. Rev. G. W. Fiske, D. D., was chosen moderator and J. W. Skinner temporary clerk. One thousand dollars were reported for missions. The Women’s Society reported about SB6O for missions. Rev. Geo. R. "Pearce was ejected to Central Church, Terre Haute, and will be installed Sept 25. There are thirty-five charges in the Presbytery, sixteen of which are supplied.

ILLINOIS. Seventeen Persons Poisoned at a Wedding —Three of Them WiU Die. Burnside, Sept 11.—At the wedding of R D. Stouer and Mrs. M. J. Scott last night canned fruit poisoned seventeen persons, including the bride and the minister. Three of the victims, John Wilson, Jennie Eslinghausen and Mrs. Breeden, will die. Brief Mention. Luke W. Jones, of Belleville, traveling sales than for the Alton Agricultural Works, has been arrested, charged with embezzling SBOO from that coiqpaoy. William Shaw, a large real estate owner, started for Walnut Hill to attend a meeting. Subsequently he was found sitting by the roadside holding his horse, unable to utter a word, having been struck speechless. He was taken to his home, near Walnut Hill, since when he has not spoken. • Judge John Casey died at his residence in Shelbyville on Wednesday of paralysis. Judge Casey has been a resident of Shelby county for over sixty years, having come from South Carolina in 1624. He was a member of one of the first legislatures, and served with distinction as an officer in the Mexican war. Alvin P. Greene, of Sullivan, Moultrie countv, diW at North Vernon, Ind., on Wednesday. He was a leading lawyer and the most prominent Republican of Moultrie county. He was one of the 306 at Chicago in 1880, and had been apresidential elector at two different times. He had always occupied a prominent position in the affairs of Moultrie county, being Master in Chancery at the time of his death. James Boyer died in the poor-house at Hillsboro. He was born in Virginia in 1831, and was a colonel in the Confederate army, nnd a man of considerable ability. He was well known in railroad circles, having been a contractor on a number of roads in this State. During the last few years he had been addicted to intemperance, aud a few weeks ago he ran out of money, and was compelled to go to the poor-house.

Secretary Williams Reinstated. 'Columbus; 0-, Sept IL—The minors’ State convention has been in session all day, consid. ering the differences between President McBride nnd ex-Secretary Williams. A voteon the question was reached to-night. The action of the June convention in expelling Williams from the association was reversed and Williams was reinstated. It is understood tliat President McBride will tender his resignation. Steamship News. London, Sept ll.— Arrived: Elba, Zaandam, from New York; Parisian, from Montreal. New- York, Sept 11.—Arrived: Penuland, from Antwerp; City of Chester, from Liverpool. Th£ i-witmnine or Kuy Bias. America a Hegliter. Everything in this p&ntomine takes place by chance, like in real lire, or rather like in dreams. We go from public squares to gardens, and from

gardens to inns, with the rapidity of thought. First the clown falls in with a couple of barnyard fowls and sings them a song; the intelligent birds join in the chorus with a “coek-a-doodle-do.” Then the Pan talon falls into on elastic trunk, which rises to the ceiling; his servant climbs up with a ladder, and begins to saw the trunk in two. which ho does most dexterously, sawing his master in two as well. This unfortunate menial later on has a tooth pulled out* the dentist, in order to get at the molar more easily, cuts his head off, and the clown, who is accustomed to stuff everything he finds in the pocket of his ample breeches, picks up his head mechanically and thrusts it into the usual rereceptaele. After this, however, he has it placed upon his shoulders agaiu by the aid of a great deal of paste.

THE THINKEST AND HIS THINK. Bill Nye’s Lucid Description of the Mechanism of the Mind. Louisville Courier-Journal. What a wonderful thing is thought What a complex piece of mechanism is the engine wo call our thinker, and what a glorious result is the think itself after it has just been thunk. There it lies, firm and fresh from the thinkographer, full of life, a new-laid idea that may change the career of a nation or knock tyranny higher than Gilderoy’s kite. What, then, is an idea? Is it not the evanescent germ of the wherefore, floating through space, and at last canght up and germinated in the bosom of the intellectual forthwith? I do not say that it is, but is it not? Scientific truths are first but theories, afterward demonstrated, tested by time, and at last they become the pillars upon which other scientific truths may rest, until altogether they constitute an architectuai pile, as strong and as symmetrical as the plaster cast of a duck’sfoot in the mud. Thought, however, most be coupled with energy and industry, or it may come -to naught. Many thoughts protrude into the moist spring air only to be gnawed off by the cut-worm of neglect or slowly oaten by the sqashbug of speculation. I once knew a man whose brain was one of the most active of his time, and yet his name is not known beyond the limits of his own school district. When his brain began to act, and, as it were, to give down, you could almost hear it He bad a fine scholarly mind, and yet his liver was torpid. To show how nature delights t.o deal with incongruities, I need only say that although this man was a poet and an artist in his mind, ho ate pie with a knife and finally died in obscurity. He was not practical with ail his greatness, and he walked down the long vista of life holding up his pantaloons by means of a shingle-nail! How often is this the case? Why should mep with the greatest mental endowments be also most prone to gastric eccentricities? And yet it is so. lam that way myself. Sometimes I am temped to repine, and to ask: Why should I run all to soul and to brain, and be top-heavy with intellect, and yet be the plaything of bilious colic? It is but the natural penalty attached to eminence and intellectual superiority. And yet ot times I am almost discontented. I forgot this great law of compensation, or wish that nature had endowed me with a plain seven octave brain and more genial vitals, instead of such a waste of brain along with a stubborn and short-sighted liver. Thought, however, is a great success. Without it we grope through the world, staggering into the legislature at last, whete we sink into oblivion. If we scorn to develops our thinkers, what do we become? We become anonymous and indefinite. The thinker must be exercised in order to make it grow. Exercise devolopes the thinker as it does the biceps muscle. We soon learn to ride the bicycle if we practice constantly, and so we may train ourselves to straddle the bareback of the frisky young idea, and at last make it subservient to our will. We should early accustom ourselves to think, so that when we arrive at middle age, if we have an idea, it will not give us a nervous shock and feed us into a premyure grave. Those who think must at last become thoughtful, and it is surprising to what an extent this is the case, while on the other hand the dose student of human nature will be struck with the fact that those who roll up their thinkers in a napkin and put them away in the refrigerator at last become (noticeably thoughtless, While at first blush this statement may appear doubtful, careful observation will demonstrate its thorough reliability. Give the thing plenty of fresh air and exercise, or at last it will most naturally curl up and die.

Soil for House Plants. American Gardener. Some plants, like the fuchsia, prefer leaf mold, and will do better in it than in anything else I have ever tried: but I grow fine plants in exactly the same soil that I give my geraniums and other plants of that character. It is my practice to mix turfy loam, which I procure from under old sods in pasture, garden mold, and manure which I get in corners of the barnyard, well together, and add sand as I pot my,plants, putting in more or less as I consider it advisable, usually in the proportion of one-thiFd loam, onethird soil and the other third made up of the manure and sand. For 9trong-rooted plants I add less sand than for those having many small roots. In all cases I add enough sand to keep the soil from becoming heavy. Most amateurs do not seem to consider it necessary to pay much attention to the item of sand; but it Is. I would soonor omit the manure, if I had to choose between tho two.” A'Good Idea. Wall Street News. Two weeks ago, when the people of a town in Western Kansas got up in the morning, they found the following notice posted on the doors of the savings bank: “This bank is dosed, and the president is oa his way to Mexico with the money. Depositors will save money by accepting the situation, as there is no chance to overhaul me, and no earthly show to recover any of the swag.” This is anew idea in the business, and one that ought to become popular. What can be recovered from a corrupt bank official is always divided among tbe lawyers, and the depositor who swallows his loss is the one who recovers from it the soonest School Hours. Te th* Editor of the Indianapolis Jonrnal; I heartily approve of the suggestion of your correspondent, John Lane, as to the hours of opening and closing the public schools. Under the present system the "children are required to be at the school by 8:30 in tho morning, and, getting out at 12, are compelled to hurry home, bolt a hurried d’rnner, and hurry back so as to be at the school-house by 1:15 p. m. And often they are kept in on some pretense or other until 4:30 —even later at times. Such an abominable system as this worries the teacher, worries the scholar and worries the parents. It ought to be done away with, even if half the studies “are cast to the moles and bats. ” The fearful results of such over-tasking will be seen in a few years. Nature will revenge herself for being thus defrauded of her rights. The following, from a recent copy of the New York Examiner, is interesting in this regard: After forty-two years’ experience, it is now virtually conceded in Germany that physical exercise is not a sufficient antidote to excessive brain pressure, and a movement is on foot to limit the study hours in the schools as the only remedy for an abase which, as one petition addressed to the Prussian Chamber of Deputies states it, “threatens little by little to reduce the cultivated classes of society to a state of moral weakness that shall render them incapable of great and manly resolution.” Previous agitation of this matter of school hours has had little or no effect. Tho ‘professionals’’ who have charge of our schools have reputations to keep up, and Indianapolis (in their opinion) must not be allowed to fall behind other cities in the high standards set up in educating tbe children. Now, this sort of an argument reminds me of the chap who was “bound to keep up with tbe funeral, if he killed the hose.” Aud, seriously, I have no doubt the present forcing system will produce more funerals ttian parents care ‘ to keep up with.” Sept. 11, 1884. e. P. s. Tired. Languid, Dull, F.xaetly expresses the condition of thousands of people at this season. Tho depressive effects of warm weather and the weak condition of the body can only be corrected by tho use of a reliable tonic and blood purifier like Hood's Sarsaparilla. Why suffer longer when a remedy is so close at hand) Take. Hood's Sarsaparilla now. It Will give you untold wealth in health, strength and energy.

FAIRB FOR 1884. List of State, District and Independent Fairs—When and Where Held. Allen. Fort Wayne, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3; W. W. Rockhill, secretary. Bartholomew; Columbus, Sept. 15 to 20; S. M. Click, secretary. Blackford, Hartford City, Sept. 16 to 19; B. G. Shinn, secretary. Cass, Loganapart. Sept. 23 to 27; D. W. Tomlin, son, secretary. Clark, Charlestown, Sept. 9 to 11; Dennis F. WiUey, secretary. Elkhart, Goshen, Oct. 7 to 10; John W. Irwin, secretary. Fulton, Rochester, Sept. 23 to 26; John M. Davis, secretary. Fayette, Connersville. Sept. 16 to 19; A. B. Claypool. secretary. Gibson. Princeton, Sept. 15 to 20; S. Vet. Strain, secretary. Grant, Marion, Sept. 16 to 19; D. S. Hogin, secretary. Greene, Linton, Oct. Cto 10; P. Schultzo, secretary. Henry, Now Castle, Sept. 16 to 20; W. W. Cotteral, secretary. Huntington, Huntington, Sept. 15 to 19; Leon T. Bagley, secretary. Jay, Portland, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3; L. L. Gilpin, secretary. Jasper, Rensselaer, Sept. 9 to 12; Ezra 0. Nowell secretary. Knox, Vincennes, Oct. 13 to 18; Gerard Reiter, secretary. Kosciuko. Warsaw, Sept. 23 to 26; H. P. Comstock, secretary. Lake, Crown Point, Sept. 9to 12; Harry P. Hewgil, secretary. LaPorte, LaPbrte, Sept- 23 to 26; Geo. C. Dorland, secretary. Lawrence, Bedford, Oct. Ito 4; N. E. Stront, secretary. Marshall, Plymouth, Oct. Bto 11; W. H. Conger, secretary. Miami, Pern, Sept. 16 to 20; John T. Stevens, secretary. Montgomery. Crawfordsville, Sept. Bto 13; F. L. Snvdev, secretary. ' Noble, Ligonier, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3; J. H. Hoffman, secretory. Perry, Rome, Oct. 6to 10; Israe L. Whitehead, secretary. Porter, Valparaiso, Sept. 16 to 19; E. S. Beach, secretary. Posey, New Harmony, Sepl. 9 to 13, Frank D. Bolton, secretary Pulaski, Winamae, Sept. 23 to 26; John T. Holsinger, secretary. Kush, Rushville, Sept. 9 to 12; Lon Link, secretary. Steuben, Angola, Oot. 6to 10; B. F. Dowson, secretary. St. Joseph, South Bend, Sept. 22 to 26; C. G. Towle, secretary. Tipton, Tipton, Sept. 16 to 19; Wm. Barlow, secretary. Vigo, Terre Haute, Sept. 8 to 13; Wm. H. Duncan, secretory. Wabash; Wabash, Sept. 9to 12; Fred. J. Snavelly, secretary. Warren, West Lebanon, Sept. 9 to 13; W. S. Fleming. secretary. Warrick, Boonville, Sept. 23 to 27; S. W. Taylor, secretary. Washington, Salem, Sept, 8 to 12; Fred. L. Prow, secretary: Whitley, Columbia City, Sept. 24 to 27; John Adams, secretary. Indiana District Fairs. Acton District Association 1 * Acton, Marion, Sept. 22 to 26: G. A. Stanton, secretary. Eastern Indiana Agricultural, Kendallville, Noble; Oct. 6 to 10; J. S. Conlogue, secretary. Fairmount Union, Fairmount, Grant, Sept. 9 to 12; W. C. Winslow, secretary. Fountain, Warren and Vermillion, Covington, Fountain, Sept. 16 to 19; O. P. Lewis, secretary. Franceßrille Agricultural, Franeesville, Pulaski, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3; W. A. Brewer, secretary. Huntington, Grant and Wells, Warren, Sept. 23 to 26; Isaac F. Board, secretary. Lawrence District, Lawrence, Marion, Sept. 16 to 20; W. B. Flick, secretary. Miami and Fulton, Macy, Miami, Oct. Ito 4: J. Coffiug, secretary. Northeastern Indiana, Waterloo, DeKalb, Sept. 29 to Oot. 3; D. A. Garwood, secretarySwitzerland and Ohio, East Enterprise, Switzerland, Sept. 9 to 12; Wm. H. Madison, secretary. Union Agricultural and Mechanical, Union City, Randolph, Sept. 15 to 19; I. G. Stall, secretary. Wells and Blackford, Five Points, Wells, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3; J. D. Goodin, secretary.

State and Independent Fairs. Arkansas Valley, A. S.. Wiohita, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. D. A. Mitchell, secretry, Wichita, Kan. Cauada Exposition, Toronto, Sept. 10 to 20; H. J; Hill, secretary, Toronto. Carbondale, 111., Carbondale, Oist. 14 to 17; Sam T Brush, seoretary, Carbondale. Butler County, Hamilton, 0., Oct. 6 to 10; C. Rothenbush. secretary, Hamilton. O. Grand Dominion, Ottawa, Out., Sept 22t027; Henry Wade, secretary, Toronto. Great Central Fair, Hamilton,' Ont., Sept. 30 to Oct. 3; Jonathan Davis, secretary, Hamilton. Indiana, Indianapolis, Sept. 29 to oct4; Alex. Heron' secretory, Indianapolis. Illinois, Chicago, Sept. Bto 13; S. D. Fisher, secretary, Springfield. Michigan Western, Grand Rapids, Sept. 22 to 26, James Cox, secretary, Grand Rapids. Minnesota. Owatouna, Sept 8 to 13; R. C. Judson, secretary, Farmington. Milwaukee Exposition, Milwaukee, Sept 13 to Oct. 18; T. R. Mercein, secretary, Milwaukee. Montana, Helena, Sept. 8 to 13; Francis Pope, sec rotary, Helena. . Nebraska, Omaha, Sept. sto 12; R. W. Furnace, secretary, Plattsmouth. Northern Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Sept. 8 to 12; A. O. Austin, secretary. Oshkosh. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Sept 8 to 20; D. W. Seiler, secretary, Harrisburg. St. Louis. St. Louis, Oct. 6 to 11; Festus J. Wade secretary, St. Louis. South Carolina, Columbia, Nov. 11 to 14; T. W. * Holloway, secretary, Porn aria. Texas, Austin, Oct. 7to 11; E. C. Bartholomew, secretary, Austin. Toledo, Toledo, Sept 8 to 13; Charles Reed, secretary, Toledo, O. Union Agriculture, Ky., Germantown, Ky., Oct. 8 to 11; .1. A. Walton, secretary, Germantown. Western Fair Association, London, Ont., Sept. 22 to 27; George Moßroom, secretary, London, Ont. Wisconsin, Madison, Sept, lo to 20; Clinton Babbitt, secretary, Madison. American Fat Stock Show, Chicago, Nov. 11 to 20; L. O. Fisher, secretary, Springfield, 111. The average weight of cattle now slaughtered is a third more than it was half a century ago. It is certainly made fit for food in little more than half the time than was then required.

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