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afternoon was devoted to visiting, in company with .Judge Ewing, old relatives and friends, of whom he has a large number in this vicinity. THE HOCKING VALLEY MATTER. Lieutenant-Governor Ames Says Mr. Blaine Told the Exact Truth. Boston Special. Lieutenant governor Ames, in explanation of the Union Pacific and Hocking valley stories, says: In the fall of 1880 Mr. J. Henry Brooks, of Boston, came around and wanted me to subscribe to the Hone Furnace syndicate for a block of $25,000. Ho brought with him a statement of T. Sterry Hunt, the geologist, showing that the lands were full of minerals—coal and iron. Mr. Blaine’s name was down for a block of $25,000, and 1 talked the matter over with Fred and Oakes, and we agreed, as a matter of friendship for Brooks, to take a block, though we didn’t care for it. The interest was to start on the Ist of November, and when I paid in the $25,000 I had to pay some interest. Now. Mr. Blaine was in exactly the same situation as myself. His name was down for a whole block of $25,000, and so was mine: but. as I say, 1 only took a third of it. just as Mr. Blaine only took half of it. The whole subscription was not taken up. and I don’t think it ever was taken up. “In 1881 Mr, Brooks came to me with a great scheme for consolidating this Hope Furnace tract with a lote of furnaces —the Brookdale and si number of others—and call it the Standard Coal <fe Iron Company. Well, that cons oh da tion did not go through. It was going to start early in the year at first, then it was to start the Ist of May. then the Ist of June, and then the Ist of July, and so on. but it did not go. In the fall of 1882 he came around and offered me fifty bonds of the Standard Coal Iron Company in lieu of my subscription, and said all the others had taken them, so 1 consented to take them. That is just where Blaine stood exactly. Now, you can see that there was no time at which the Hope Fumanee Tract Association owned land. We paid in money and took a receipt of Denison. The syndicate never was made up. Consequently, as every business man will understand, \re never owned anything except the receipts for our money: so that when Mr. Blaine says that lie never owned any lands in the Hocking valley he tells the exact truth. ‘‘Some time in 1882 Mr. Brooks came and de Rvered me two dollars in bonds for every dollar T paid in. They were bonds of the Standard Coal & Iron Company, and those bonds proved to be worthless, so that all Mr. Blaine has to show for his money in this enterprise is a lot of worthless bonds. These bonds purported to be first mortgage bonds on the property, and it afterward appeared that there were prior mortgages and never were canceled, so that these bonds delivered to us were not really first mortgage bonds at all. I could not borrow $lO a bond on them as collateral. It is perfectly certain that Mr. Blaine never owned an acre of land in the Hocking valley, or any interest in any coal or iron company, bv virtue of his ownership of these bonds. In short, it was another instance in which Mr. Blaine was like the man who ‘jour neyed from Jerusalem into Jericho' and fell among thieves and got stripped.*’ “What about the Union Pacific stock?” Mr. Ames was asked. “I say without hesitation,” ho replied, “that in .►hat matter also. Mr. Blaine told the exact truth when he said he did not own any Union Pacific Tail road stock. The fact that lie owned six Union Pacific bonds gave him no interest in the Union Pacific Ralroad Company. He simply held a note of the road, secured by mortgage. I might own a bond op note of a corporation, but that would not give me any interest in the stock of the corporation. That is the explanation of that. Mr. Blaine did not lie in either of these instances. He said his actual interest was but sl2. 500. and that was so. He said that he never owned any coal or iron lands in the Hocking valley, or any stock in a coal or iron company, and that was exactly so, too. He said that he never owned any Union Pacific railroad stock, and he never did. That was absolutely true also. Mr. P.laine lias not lied. The fact is that the men who say Mr. Blaine lies are lying themselves. and I fear most of them are duing it will fully.”

A BRITISH CORRUPTION FUND. Neal Dow Gives an Englishman's Story of an English Subscription Paper. To the Editor of tho New York Tribune: 1 see by tho Semi-Weekly Tribune of the 7th inst tliat. the Hon. J. P. Dolliver, of lowa, affirms that "British gold is to be used ut this canvass.” We have in Maine an Englishman who has built up from very small beginings. for himself and his sons, a very large and profitable trade in the manufacture of special goods, which, before his day. always came from England: His goods are now of the very best and his prices are much less than those at which the imported articles were sold. I was his guest a little while ago at his charming home, when he told me this story. He was at home—England—and was one day in a large warehouse of a triend of his, a manufacturer on a large scale. A gentleman came in whom he did not know, and, taking his friend apart, showed him a small memorandum book. AfteT a few moments' talk his friend went to his desk and drew a check which he gave to the stranger, who went away. His friend explained to him that it was his contribution to a fund for which all manufacturers were assessed in proportion to tho products of their mills. • “What is this fund?” my informant asked. “It is for use in the United States in the interests of free trade.” “How is the money employed?” “In subsidizing American newspapers, in paying lecturers ami other persons in operating on public opinion, in payment to writers of tracts. In printing and circulating them in tho United States, especially in the West, and among members of Congress.” “Do yon really operate directly on Congress?" “Yes: by lobbyists regularly employed for that nurpose.” “Docs any of the fund go into the pockets of members, I '' “I do not know anything of that” This information is entirely reliable, coming to mo directly from a man well known to inc and widely known and honored in tliis country. Portland, Me., Oct. 8, 1884. Neal Dow. THE FARMER PROTECTED. Direct Renetits froiu the Tariff to the Farmer —Duties on Ilia Produce. J. W. Frazier, ©f Philadelphia. The free trade organ of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Record, is making frantic demands for the removal of custom duties on what it designates as “the necessaries of life,” and it professes to make that demand in the interest of tho farmer and his wife, whom it desires to see wear clothing, hats, shoes, and to use blankets, muslins and stoneware, etc., made by the pau per paid labor of Europe. The Record ingenuously asserts that if the average duty of 35 per cent, was removed from these “necessaries of life" the farmer would save just that much on his purchases. The free trade Record must admit that if all such goods were brought into the country duty frec. it would result in throwing many hundreds of thousands of American workmen out of employment, and would reduce wages to the ICuro peon rates, and that in consequence wo would require to purchase “tho necessaries of life” as cheaply as they could possibly bs bought, hence ho would very properly expect to have removed the duty of 20 per cent, on cattle, liogs and sheep, of 10 cents per bnshel on corn and oats, and 20 cents per bushel on wheat, and 20 per cent, on wheat flour, 2 j cents oer bushel on rice, and 20 per cent on peas and beans, 4 cents per pound on batter and cheese. 20 per cent, on milk 10 per cent, upon vegetables and 35 per rent, npon preserved and canned vegetables, and 3 5 rents per bushel on potatoes. liven with a duty of 15 cents per bushel on potatoes, for the year ending June 30, 1882, wo imported 8.788.308 bushels, while for the census year 1880, we raised in the State of New Jersey, ;i,503,793 bushels of white potatoes, and 2,080,731 lmshels of sweets In Indiana we raised 0.232.240 bushels of white potatoes, and 112,719,215 lmshels in Ohio. Os course every farmer can see that if the duty of 15 cents per bushel is rctncrcd from potatoes the workingman can pur-

chase them just that much cheaper, and if the 20 cents per bushel duty is taken off of wheat the workingman is the gainer by just that much. Ohio makes 2.170.245 pounds of cheese and 67,634,202 pounds of butter: Indiana produces 37.377,707 pounds of butter, and Now Jersey 0,513.834 pounds of butter and 15,472.783 gallons of milk. Now, remove the duty from all the products of the farm and diary, and any school boy can tell just how much the farmers of these States would ioso, and the men and women thrown out of employment, or whose wages were cut down by reason of the entry of cloth ing, shoes, muslins, stoneware, etc., free of duty would gain by the operation. Even tho milk that camo into the country in a single year under the duty of 20 per cent., was equal to 10,000,000 gallons, at 4 cents per quart. Remove that duty and milk would have to be reduced 20 per cent. It is a nice problem to solve toseo how much the lass would be by a reduction of 20 cents a bushel on wheat, lo cents on potatoes, 10 cents on corn, 4 cents a pound on butter and cheese, 20 per cent on milk, 20 per cent, on cattle. 12 cents a pound, on raw wool, and a corresponding loss on everything ele he raises and sells, in order to gain say $lO a year upon tho clothing, blankets, and crockery ware purchased by him. J. W. Frazihr. BEECHERS “VAI>K MBCU3I." How Our Theological Beau Rrummel Flirted with the Truth for tlie Hake of a Joke. To tli* Editor of tho I utlinnnpnll* Jon mill: While the question of Beecher's veracity is open for general discussion, I beg leave to relate an anecdote which may serve as a mild illustration of the theory presented by the negative side. It has always been a fashion among the “com mon millions ' to lay great stress on the sayings, of public characters. In a word, notoriety is authority, and the measure of a public man’s veracity usually depends upon the length of his autograph list. Six months ago Mr. Beecher lectured at Connersvillo, in this State. Myself and a friend enjoyed the distinguished honor of paying him S3OO for fulminating two mortal hours against a creed which he had spent the greater and the better part of his life in defending. But we had a S6OO house, and that lot us out, though the or thodox portion of the audience afterwards intimated that the next time they wanted a dol lar’s worth of punishment they would take laughing gas and hare a couple of* teeth pulled. Well. Beecher's manager was Mr. J. B. Pond, who had arranged with a well-fed young Now Yorker named Edwards to accompany the great preacher on his rounds and groom him. as it were Mr. Edwards was very familiar with the old gentleman, and nagged him on all occasions with as much freedom as a jockey ticklos the ribs of his favorite stallion. Beecher usually ro ceived the young man’s friendly raillery with a complacent grunt, or perhaps retorted with a curt witticism —after the manner of a halfspoiled grandpapa. The funniest part of the proceedings, however, was that Mr. Beecher’s youthful chum hadn't been in town an hour till he got “full,” which the venerable gent did not seem to notice, though it was quite “plain” to others. During the interval of waiting, just before the lecturer's appearance on the stage, he was introduced to several gentlemen, who called behind the scenes to greet him. Among these was Rev. John & Tevis, pastor of the church in which the lecture was to be delivered. Mr. Beecher presented his young friend Edwards to Dr. Tevis, remarking at the same time, with apparent candor and truthfulness, that he was a grandson of the philosopher, Jonathan Edwards. I)r. Tevis expressed his respect for the memory of the young gentleman’s distinguished ancestor, and presently the conversation shifted to some other topic. In due time Mr. Beecher was introduced to the audience, and proceeded to demolish the Five Points of Calvinism. When he was well under headway, young Edwards, who sat beside me on tho rear part of the stage, reached over, put his hand to his face to guard against disturbing the speaker, and whispered: “Say, do you know that the old cove there doesn't tell the people half that's in his mind? Society aint prepared for it, you see.’’ “Quite likely,” I responded. “You heard what ho toffl your minister, back there,” he went on, “about me being the grandson of Jonathan Edwards?” “Yes. ” “Well, that was a blanked lie! I’m no more relation to him than lam to yon. The old coon got that off for a gag. Just like ira.” Now, perhaps Mr. Beecher is trying one of his playful “gags” on Mr. Blaine—this time using Mr. Joy as a “vehicle.” It is “just like im,” you know. J. C. Ochiltree. Indianapolis, Oct. 11.

VOL'R FIRST VOTE. Points for the Consideration of the Young Men of tho Nation. Robert J. Burdette. My son, you will cast your first vote for President next November. I don’t wan tto influence your vote; I don't want you to vote for a certain mam just, because certain other men do; I want you to sit down and think about it before you vote. I waßt you to go to the polls in good compauy, as a young man of progressive ideas. I want you to be abreast of the world, and shoulder to shoulder with the times when you walk up to the polls. 1 want you on entering politics to align with the party that has tho purest and most progressive record. I don't care a cent, my boy, whether you are a Republican or a Democrat; there are honest men, patriotic citizens, good Christians in both parties; only I don’t wan’t. to see you walk up to the polls and cast your first vote with tne party— That upheld human slavery as a divine institution, That bought and sold men, women and children like so many mules, That fired in Port Sumter and the American flag, That for nearly five years fought to destroy the Union, That opposed the issue of greenbacks when the government was fairly perishing for want of them, That organized mobs and riots to oppose the draft. That swept American commerce 'from tho seas with armed privateers, That is the party of Boss Tweed and Jefferson Davis, That polls its heaviest majorities in the most vicious and ignorant precincts. Tliat is strongest in the States where the percentage of illiteracy is greatest, That has opposed every liberal and progressive principle of legislation daring the last quarter of a century, That was the defender of slavery, That is the defender of Mormon ism, That slandered Garfield and assassinated Lin - coin. Now, as I have said before, my son, I do not care whether yon are a Republican or a Deniu crat —choose for yourself; just keep away from the crowd I have briefly outlined. Find the party to whom this record belongs, then forever keep away from it You Deed not bo particular with which party you unite, if you do not joiu that one. Always vote against tliat party and you will always vote about right. I am a Republican, but’l will shake hands with fraternal love with auy Democrat who votes against tliat record. That kind of a Democrat is always good enough Republican for me. P. 8. —I have never found that kind of a Dem ocrat THE DEMOCRATIC DOG Who IViTI Wag the Cleveland Tall Should lie Be Elected President, Speech of Kdwerd Everett Hale in Boston. I am told that in Mr. Grover Cleveland has been found a statesman of groat experience—a statesman of “one year’s experience," as they say in English advertisements —a statesman who may he relied upon. And then wo are to have such a perfect Cabinet, you know. Mr. Scliurz is to be Secretary of State: Mr. Nast, who furnishes so many drawings, is to be Secretary of the Navy [laughter]: John Kelly, who

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knows about money, is to be Secretary of the Treasury [renewed laughter]: Hubert O. Thompson, who knows how to make a lie go faster than anybody else, is to be at the head of the Postoffico Department. I don’t kuow where my friends Mr. Higgiuson and Mr. William Everett are to be placed, but do you really believe that the solid South, having four fifths of the necessary votes, is going to be the tail tr> any such kite as that? Does anybody who knows the Morrisons and the Carlisles, tho Bayards and the Browns, imagine they are going to take back back seats in that business ! Not much. They are not that sort of men. gentlemen. That experiment has been tried once before, when poor Franklin Pierce was President Most of you never heard of him. He was chosen President in much the same way. I never heard he was an adulterer, but he didn't know when he hud liquor enough, and he was chosen President just as wo are told Grover Cleveland is to be President—a Northern man with Southern principles, and he went there a poor martyr—“Olay in the hands of the potter.” When the United States forces were actually bombarding the homes in Kansas, and the citizens of Kansas asked President Pierce to let them take care of themselves, poor Pierce, with tears in bis eyes, said: “Yon know lam powerless in the hands of these men.” Os course he was powerless. James Buchanan, a much greater man than Pierce, promised the State of Pennsylvania with as much solemnity as he could make a promise to his wife at the altar on his wedding day. but Jeff Davis said “yon shall do this and that;” and ho turned on the State of Pennsylvania and broke his promise, and that is the reason why Pennsylvania is to this hour a Republican State, just as far to-day from the power of tho Southern oligarchy, and as true to the North and to the government of the people, as the state of Vermont, itself. Now, gentlemen. there are kites and there are tails. In this business it is not to be Grover Cleveland who is to be the kite, and Jeff Davis the tail: poor Grover Cleveland is going to do what they bid him do, until the 4th of November; after that they will forget him and he will forget them. [Applause.] But lam told that this is not the issue: we are so prosperous just now we don’t euro about the government. I saw that stated substantially in Harper's Weekly to-day—the first copy of that paper I have scan for six weeks, ft said that was of no account, that we were doing very well indeed, and that tho issue was whether we should have hoviest men or cor rupt men at tho head of tho government—that was the issue.

SALEKATUH UPFB TKAJEDY. Ignominious Treatment of Hemlrix in a Republican Town in Oliio. Letter from Mauaenr Upp. Indignities continner to be heaped on the undefined and the combinashun. The other uite we showed in a retched little town iu Ohio. It wuz a ltepublikan town. At the end of the bangin' sccen. in tho third akt, I wuz called out and presented with a large ttoral tribute, consistin’ of a gallows made out of cabbidge leaves. In another ltepublikan town in Ohio the entire nine muses of Poeckry, Literatoor and the Dramy were outrajod in the person of ray liglitnin’-change artist that plaza the charayfcur of Hendrix. The outraj happened in these wise: In the 4th akt, Hendrix hex a soliliquy, which contains the observashun that “Truth crusht to earth will rise again,” and predictin’ that the Southern cavvse will eo and do likewise. Goin’ on, it apostraphizesAbram Linkum as a “smutty old tyrant,” pronounces the emancipashun war a nigger war and an egregis failure, and promises the solid South full control if Cleveland is elekted. (These wurds aro into Hendrix’s rek ord, and are the features of the show in Kentucky, but I must admit they air strong for a Northern awdiens.) Direktly after this soliliquy the play went on. I. as Cleveland, wue neelin' to reseeve the blessin’ of Jeff Davis (noo tubloiv which I hev just introduced into tho drumy); a pasteboard angel representin' the solid Suuth is hoverin’ above my hed; the wiolins in the orkestrv is softly playin’ “Dixie” in a tremulo; a blue lite is turned onto the scene, which is full of meltin' pathos. While in the middle of tho scene, what wuz ray consternashen to see a stalwart stranger in the awdiena rine, lean over tho fuotlites, grab my ligbtuin’ change artist that plaza the charicture of Hendrix, pull him over off the stage, and then commence to drag him out of the opery-lioyse. I jumped off ray knee3 and rushed to the front of the stage. “You murderin'rillin, what are you doinT yelled I. “We want the man that sez the war wuz a failure,” sez he* givin Hendrix a tremendous jerk. “Why, you monimental idgit,”sez I, “that air man aint Hendrix. He’s only a choap imitashun, and ropisents Hendrix in his vans charieturs of uegro’s friend, violint patriot, pertekshunist, free tradist, &c.” The whole audience then rushed forward. “That’s all very well, boss,” sez a large and muskelar colored man, grabbin’ Hendrix, “but we want the man that spells ‘colored pussou’ with two g’s.” “We want the man that said Abe Linkum was a smutty old tyrant,” said another, a tall person in sojur clothes. “Wo want that man who wanted to make Kansas a slave State,” sod a prominent-lookin’ citizen. •‘Give mo the man who said the enlistment of niggers wuz au insult to every white man,” sed another. “Show us the man who rosined from church bocausod the parson preached a Union sermon,” sed a tall-loookiTi’ man with a G. A. R. badge. “Trot out de Knight ob de Golden Circle,” yelled one colored man. “We’ll teach de man dat voted agin’ de rights ob de colored man,” yelled anuther. As each of the above parties made their remarks, they hit Hendrix a tremendious blow on the hed. 1 called on B. Butler, Carl Shirts, Henry Ward Beecher and the rest to help rescue Hendrix. Hastily ketchin' up the guns, pistuels, daggerz, &c., used in the tublow illustratin’ how elekahuus is carried on in the South, we made one onslaught. In vane! Hendrix was carried out, and after bein’ addressed in sarcastik stile by about two thousand screamin’ patriots. wuz drageed through a neighborin’ frag pond sevorail times and left for ded. As soon as I dared, I gathered up the shattered frame of Hendrix, and the combinashun slowly sluuk from tli<* field of karnage. I shell hev to remodel the trajedy for Northern audienses. leavin’ out Hendrix’s remarks on Abe Linkum and tho war for the Union, also the pasteboard angel, representin’ the solid South, and the tablow of Jeff Davis in the akt of blessin’ Governor Cleveland to slow moosic, <fcct. Theze. things take well in the South, but they are as danjerous as dinamite in the North. rOUTICAL NOTES. The Sort of a Citizen Grover Cleveland Is Said To He. Buffalo Exprosa. I have examined the county records, and find Grover Cleveland has paid county taxes on both real and personal property to tlie enormous sum of $100.12 during Ilia entire life. He charged tlie county and w paid SOSO for hanging Patrick Morrissey; so that he is $189.88 indebted to tho county over and above all tho taxes ho has ever paid. Now', it seems to me the country does not want many such distinguished citizens. He was never known to give a workingman of any kind a day’s work or wages. Hid ho hired an expert hangman, as every other sheriff I ever heard of did, it would have cost SSO. and the county would be S6OO better off; bat he could not forego the gratification of personally hanging an Irishman. In 1883 he was assessed for personal property. One of his partners claimed at the city assessor’s office tluit. Cleveland had removed to Albany and was not a citizen of Buffalo, and tried hard to have his name struck from the tax ! rolls. Evidently Mr. Cleveland himself intended to maintain that position, for ho did not pay the tax due July 1 until tlie Kith of November, after he had voted, nor did he protend to pay it until the collector of taxa* culled, ready to distrain if the tax was not paid. Having voted destroyed his

non resident plea, and, rather than have his library sold, he paid the collector, seeing he could dodge it no longer. Anti-Humbug. St. John Will Not Withdraw. Philadelphia, Oct. 12. Ex-Governor St. John, Prohibition candidate for President, issued a letter to-night giving reasons why he should not retire from the canvass. The letter is addressed to Professor Theodore I). Woolsey, of New Haven. Conn.; Hon. Thomas Talbott, of North Bellerica, Mass.; Hon. Noah Davis, of New York city: Grant Goodrich, John V. Farwell. Rev. R. W. Hatfield, of Chicago; Ovingeu Lunt. William Deering, Evanston, 111., and John Evans, Den ver. Col., whose names were appended to a published reouest in the New York Tribune, that he should withdraw. The Mormons and the Democrats. Salt Lakr City, Get. 12.—President John Taylor and George Q Cannon, leaders of the Mormon Church, in interviews repudiate the statements telegraphed from Now York, that the Mormon Church had appropriated money to aid in the election of the Democratic presidential ticket, for which certain considerations woro to be given in return. They assert that nothing of the kind in any form has any existence or foundation whatever in fact, and that the dispatch referred to has been manufactured for electioneering and prejudical purpose**. Logan and Ilosecrans. Youngstown, 0.,0ct 12.—General Logan ar rived this evening from Cincinnati, and will bo the guest of C. H. Andrews till Wednesday afternoon, when he will go to Chicago. General Logan will speak in the opera-house on Monday night, and General Rmocrans for the Democrats the same night on the public square. There will be opposition torchlight parades on Monday evening. Clerk Healj* Reinstated. Albany, Oct. 12.—The recent difficulties in the State Labor Bureau were satisfactorily adjusted yesterday. Commissioner Peck and Chief Clerk Healy unite in a card stating that Healy has been reinstated, and that the differences between the two, which were due to a misunderstanding, have been adjusted. Change In a Prohibition Ticket. St. Louis. Oct 12—The Prohibition State central committee of Kansas have put H. L. Phillips at the head of their State ticket, in place of A. B. Jetmore, who declined the nomination for Governor. TNDIANA AND ILLINOIS. Proceedings of Indiana Synod of tlie Presbyterian Church. New Albany, Oct 12.—The Synod of Indiana met at New Albany on Friday.in annual session, in the Third Presbyterian Chuach, about two hundred delegates from all parts of the State being preseut. Among the delegates are. from Indianapolis. Dr. McLeod, of the Second Church; Rev. J. A. Rondthaler, of tlie Tabernacle; Rev. A. H. Carrier, of the Fourth; Rev. J. R. Mitchell, of the Fifth; Rev. William Alexander, of the Ninth; Dr. L. G. Hay, and Rev. W. A. Patton, of the Presbyterian book rooms. Rev. Dr. Moffat, of Ft. Wayne, the moderator, preached the opening sermon from Rom. i, 15, 16. Tho subject was “The Essential Power of Christianity.” Rev. J. H. Bernard was chosen moderator, and Rev. George Ernest and Elder McCormick, clerks. After devotional exercises, the standing committees were announced. Rev. Mr. Jenkins presented his dismissal from White Water Presbytery for admission to New Albauv Presbytery, which was aceeptud. The call of Rev. W. L. Austin, of Dunkirk, N. Y., to the Second Presbyterian Church, was confirmed. Rev. Mr. Mcßhea was dismissed and recommended to Vincennes Presbytery. The treasurer submitted his report, which was read and referred. Rev. Charles Hutchinson, of New Albany, delivered an address on home missions, which was quite interesting. Professor Garret's report on education was read. It contained many interesting points. At the afternoon session an overture was received from Indianapolis Presbytery asking that the synod be made a delegated body. This was adopted and ordered sent down to the presbyteries for their consideration. The substance of this overture was that for every ten ministers and churches taken together, the presbyteries shall send each a ministerial and lay delegate* At night a large and enthusiastic meeting was held iu behalf of home missions, addresses being made by Revs. Louoks, Moore, of Logansport: Wilson, of New York: Gilland, of Evansville; and Dr. Munhall of Indianapolis. After the meeting the delegates of the synod were entertained by the Presbyterian ladies in the lecture-room of tlie church, where refreshments were served. Ther proceedings of the synod Saturday forenoon were of routine character, and without special public interest. In the afternoon at 3:30 o’clock the Sunday-school Institute of the synod was held, at which an address was delivered by Rev. Dr. Worden. At 7:30 at night the Freedmen’s anniversary was held at the Third Church, and an address was delivered by Rev. Dr. Allen.

Tri-County Fair at North Manchester. Correspond® no© of tho ludianupo iu Journal. Wabash, Oct. 10.— At the tri-county fair at North Manchester, to-day, “Jersey Lily,” owned by Tlios. Vanderburg. of Anderson, won tho running race; time, :54. In the free-for-all trot. “Katie,” owned by Sanford Vanderburg, of An derson, took fiist money; time, &4L Seven thousand people were present to-day. and 9,000 yesterday. The stock parade to-day was said, by good judges, to be the best of the season. This, the first meeting of the association, has proved a most gratifying success, and tlie officers are in high glee. The association is made up of tho counties of Wabash, Whitley and. Kosciusko. The grounds are first-class, and contain one of the best half mile tracks in the State. Indiana Notes. Harry, a little two-year-old son of William Purtlebaugh, residing on the bank of Wolf creek, near Columbus, fell in the creek and was drowned. While laboring under a temporary mental affliction the wife of John Calvert, a leading farmer of Carroll county, stole away from her attendants, on Saturday, and hanged herself in a smoke-house. Terre Haute Express: The Vandalia shop men will be put to work again on Saturday. A few weeks ago work was cut down to five days a week and eight hours a day. Business warrants this action, which will be hailed by the sturdy workers with joy. Illinois Items. John Dunn, a convict sent to the penitentiary at Joliet last May from Winnebago, under sentence of one year for the crime of larceny, has escaped from the prisou form, outside the walls, where he was working. Gidd Journer and Morris Dinklespeil quarreled in Metropolis, and the latter received three ghastly cute with a dirk knife in the throat, back of the neck and in the right aide. The wounds are regarded as dangerous, and Journer is iu jail iu default of S2OO bond. The coal miners in the Belleville mining dis trict have demanded of the operators a uniform price of two cents per bushel for digging coal. The present prices range from one and a half to two cento. They have also decided to suapend work one day in each week as a moans of maintaining prices. James H. Fonlke. of Shelbyvillo, has received news that a brother he has thought for over tweuty years to be dead is alive. Over thirty years ago this Iwother leaving, behind him three motherless children, went to California. Yoars passed by and not a word was heard from the gold hunter, aiul at last hi.s friends gave him up for dead. Years flew by and tlie boy of two vears became a man, married, and moved to Kansas. He est Kansas, went first to Colorado and Washington Territory, and finally drifted to the town of l'.odio, Cal. By an accident tlio iden

tity of lather and son became known to each other, and the son met his father, whom he had not seen for thirty years. Newton Shinkle and Charles Waterman. Chi cago medical students, who robbed the grave of Mrs. McClughey, in Rochelle, will be tried at Rockford on change of venue from Ogle county. As the parties are highly connected an interest ing trial is expected. The body was sold by the prisoners to a medical college in Chicago, and was partly dissected. Much excitement has been created by the mysterious disappearance of Miss Jessie Keith* a young girl aged seventeen, daughter of Adam Keith, a wealthy farmer of Burritt. On Thurs day morning she started on horseback for school three miles distant Instead of going to school, it is said, she went to Winnebago and took the train on the Northwestern road. Here all trace was lost of her. New Catholic Church In Baltimore. Baltimore, Oct. 12.—The new Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles Borromeo, in the northwestern section of tho city, was consecrated and opened to puolic worship to-day. Archbishop Gibbons, assisted by Vicar general MoColgan and other clergymen, officiated. Wife-Murderer Butler’s Brain. Columbus, Oct. 12.—Several physicians have made an examination of the brain of Charles W. Butler, who was executed at Columbia City, Ind., on Friday. It is thought sufficient evidence was found to sustain the theory of insanity, as urged by the defense. Millionaire Scott’s Newspaper. Erie, Pa., Oct. 12. —The Erie Herald, heretofore an afternoon paper, begins the issue of a morning edition to morrow. The Herald is owned by Hon. William L. Scott, a groat railroad magnate, and Democratic candidate for Congress in this district. THOMAS PAINE. Points In tho Career of an Ungrateful and Indecent Man. “Gath’s” New York Letter. We occasionally hear the name of Callendar and Tom Paine and varlets ot that sort only to shudder when we read them. I possess one of the very earliest lives of Tom Paine published in England. It is a rather insignificant looking book, but 1 think that 1 paid considerable fur it. I bought it on tho principle of buying the life of Lucretia Borgia or Caesar Borgia. I think it was written by George Chalmers, of England, and Lord Liverpool is said to have paid £SOO for the manuscript. This book deals with Tom Paine without any gloves. It seems that he was born in the old Yankee county of Norfolk, on the east of England. Hi.s father was a Quaker, who made stays or corsets. The Quakers expelled the elder Paine from their church for marrying outside of their sect. Tom Paine was brought up to muke corsets or stays. He married a servant and abused her. He got in debt and ran away from his creditors, taking his furniture with him, and it is said that his wife died on the road of ill-usage and premature birth He got an office at the age of twenty-five, the s; me office Burns the poet held, of an excise man. Without any thrift or -foresight, Paine was nearly all his life hard up. He became a teacher, and the boys hated him for his harshness and their mothers for his coarseness. Ho became a street preacher. Backsliding, he went into the internal revenue again, and was distinguished by his intemperate perseverance' in following up violators of the revenue. He now married his second wife at thirtyfour, who was a tobacconist's daughter. Soon after this he wrote a book, entitled “Thoughts on the Corruption Arising from the Poverty of Excise Officers. His creditors again sold him out and his wife left him, guaranteeing to pay him a certain income. Hidiug himself in the midst of London, he got an introduction to Dr. Franklin in 1774, who assisted him to come to the United States. He arrived in this country a few months before the battle of Lexington. In Philadelphia he be> came a book-seller's clerk. This gave him an opportunity to publish his book called “Common Sense. ’’ At the same time he was rat©wrested in, a contract to furnish saltpeter to the American army for the making of gunpowder. Through the aid of Benjamin Rush he ran a brief and vigorous career as a pamphleteer. Yet the ungrateful and indecent character of the man is shown by a letter he wrote to General Washington. His last letter to that illustrious man published says: “Treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be troubled to decide whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.” This editorial and newspaper scamp died in 1800 in tho city of New York, drunk and imbecile, at tlie age of seventy two. Mr. Cheepham, who published his life In 1809, says of him: “His association with low and disreputable persons is attributable to his attachment to ardent spirits and his love of personal dis tic tion. Neither the one nor the other could be gratified in respectable company. He looked for adoration.”

DEFENDING WOMEN. A Young Bride Gives Her Husbaud Some Points in Male Gallantry. Clara Belle’s Letter. I hold it to be a truth constantly self-evident that every man will defend a woman against all men except himself. If you liaveu’t noticed it already, you have only to look for it an hour or so in * any place of mixture of the sexes. Gap your eyes on a pretty woman without male escort, and two phenomena wifi become obvious. Firstly, there will be a large amount of open and covert staring at her, to all of which her obliviousness is of course only assumed. Secondly, if one of tho starers happens to realize that others are at the same game he will manifest plainly his disgust at such treatment of an unprotected beauty, utterl> r ignoring his own offense. A husband and wife got into a street car. The man was somewhat dudish in dress. The woman was under twenty, and as pretty as nature and art are m the habit of combining to pro<luce. They were chatting on the very subject that I have here introduced. “Peremti, dear.’’ said she, “I will prove to you that I am right, and take only ten minutes to do it, if you will promise not to got angry about it.” He closed the contract Then she drew herself up, as though the husband sitting beside her was an entire stranger, and waited for the car to fill with passengers at Union square. “Now,” she whispered behind her fan, “ob serve how 1 am ogled when alone.” Within five minutes he saw that half a dozen masculine passengers, from hoary age to callow youth, eyed his bride with more or less audacity, and several manifestly would not have needed the smallest beginning of a wink on her part to seize upon her then and there. That part of the exhibition was a triumph for the wife, but the most curious feature of her experiment remained to be tried. “You certainly do seem to attract a great doal of admiration,” said the husband, supposing that the pretended strangeness was at an end. She lifted her eyebrows in simulated surprise, as though an impertinent fellow had unwarrantedly accosted her, and pointedly turned her face away from him. He understood her now, and did not speak to her further. Next, she drew her shoulder away from contact with his. By this time the spectators were believing that he was annoying her dreadfully, and scornful glances were aimed at him. Her final trick was conclusive. It consisted in suddenly pulling her skirts clear of his trousers, and deliberately setsting her feet as far in the other direction as the end of the car would permit. Nobody doubted tliat tlie dear, demure creature had been grossly insulted. A man arose from the opposite side. “Will you exchange seats with me?” he very gallantly and politely said, lifting his hat most deferentially. Now, he had been formost among the original osiers—the veriest simpleton of them all. “Thank you, sir,” she replied, as bland as a white heifer, “but I prefer to sit beside my husband.” Thus with the same stone she killed that vul-ture-bird and the dove-mate whom she had undertaken to instruct as to the philosophy of male gallantry. _ WIo Franklin MacVeagh Is. Philadelphia Press. Franklin MacVeagh, a lovely young statesman in Chicago, is making a tremendous fight against Blaine. Mr. MacVeagh ranks among the most intellectual members of the Michigan-avenue Tennis Club, and has made that brainy and powerful organization so nearly a unit for Cleveland that, when it votes in November, he proposes to

make the Hitherto Defiant Vulture of Political Corruption shriek in helpless rage. This sufficiently indicates the sort of b-a-d man Franklin Mac Veagh is. Water Supply of Farms and Houses. Agricultural Engineer, in Country Gentleman. During the past year, I have taken pains to note the situation of more than-a hundred farm wells .and cisterns, and more than half of them are in dangerous proximity to cesspools, some of which have been iiTuse for scores of years; most of them, however, have been emptied every spring for the manure in them; but this, even, has little effect in preventing the inevitable pollution of the water supply. A large proportion of the farms have wells quite close to tho manure yards and stables. In one of these homesteads, of a family of seven, but one survived to thirty years of age* and the survivor came very near dying of an abscess of the liver, no doubt superinduced by tho unwholesome water supply. It is to be hoped that these facts will give rise to investigation in such cases ashnay present suspicious circumstances, and in all cases a comparison with the following points and the condition of die water supply may be useful: 1. There is no well safe that is not perfectly well protected from surface water and tho entrance of worms, frogs, toads and small insects and vermin. The well should be curved up above the surface with brick or stone, laid in cement; or well plastered outside with lima mortar, so that the ground slopes in all directions, and prevents any pools of surface water from remaining within twenty feet of the well 2. It is a common but mistaken belief that a well should be open to the air for ventilation. The reason given is that carbonic acid or foul air will gather in the well. No doubt at times this gas gathers in wells, but in every case it is in wells that are open to the air. and are fouled with decomposing organic matter. The purest water comes from drive wells and artesian wells, to which the outer air cannot gain access. Carbonic acid gas, mo, is only dangerous when breathed. Its presence in water greatly improves it, and a person who drinks one glass of soda water, or a seidlitz powder, takes more carbonic acid gas than could be taken iu ten barrels of any well water. 3. A well should therefore be tightly closed in at the top and closely curbed to the bottom, and every possible entrance should be closed against worms and all other firing creatures. 4. A well cannot be safe from underground drainage unless it is dug down below a bed of clay which slopes or inclines from the well toward any barnyard, cesspool or other source ot pollution, irrespective or distance, for when a drainage flow occurs through the soil it is only a question of time when it will reach the well, although it may bo 100. 200 or more feet from the source of tho impurities, if the slope of the subsoil gravel, hard pan or day is from the source of tho drainage to the well. In porous, sandy soil or gravel, the deeper the well the sooner it will become fouled by any drainage. 5. A cesspool or barnyard should always be located on lower ground than the house and the well, or any spring from which the water is drawn. If this is not possible! the cesspool should be made with an impervious bottom of cement, saturated with gas tar or melted asphalt, and a drain made of glazed pipes, cemented at the joints, to carry the liquid from it to a distant place where it may be used in making compost. 6. A well should be carried down to a permanent boiling spring which enters the bottom, and then lined with cement tiles, the joints of which should be carefully closed; or the lining should be made of brick, laid in cement, or if of wood, of hemlock plank, laid with close joints. No other wood but hemlock should be used for a well curb. The common system of boring wells by machinery is the best and safest, and when a good supply of water is procured, the bore should be filled with cement pipe. Where water is near the surface, a drive well is the best and safest, and although I feel convinced that the patent on this kind of a well is a fraud upon the public, yet it would be better to pay the license fee or royalty claimed by the man who did not invent it, but who has at present a legal right to claim it, rather than do without it. It is now about thirty years ago since I bored, and piped, and used precisely such a well as is now covered by this patent, getting the directions for doing it from a well known book then and now in existence. In conclusion, I would remark that the best time to dig a well is in the driest part of the season, and when an existing well is dry in a dry time it would pay to take that opportunity to deepen tho well down to permanent water, even if pressing work i* put aside until thi<* has been done And lastly, considering the serious consequences of any lapso in securing purity in the water supply, it would be better to spend S2OO or S3OO over it, and do without a parlor organ or piano, or a costly furnishing for a parlor or a fancy road-wagon, if both cannot bo afforded; but a great deal of the cost may be saved by going the right way to work about it A Job lor “Reform.** Kent land Gazette. The Democracy put it thus: “Cleveland, Hendricks and reform.” They have got the vehicle before the animal. It should read properly “Reform Cleveland and Hendricks.” There are no two persons so badly in need of reform. To convert an old Derby hat into a dainty work basket, cover the outside with shirred satin of any color and tie a broad band of the same about the crown, with a bow and ends on one side. Line the inside with any pretty material and make a handle of twisted ribbon. The light that lies, In womau’s eyes,” is a ray of heaven's own brightness: but it is, alas! often dimmed or quenched by some wearing disease, perhaps silently borne, but taking all comfort and enjoyment ont of life. That light of the household can be rekindled and made to glow with its natural brightness. Dr. R, V. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription” is a potent specific for most of the chronic weaknesses and diseases peculiar to women.

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