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are seeking offices, either for their friends or themselves. Mr. Gorman and Mr. Bar tram were hero last week with the members of the national committee and their clerks. But that was because* the national committee was about to dissolve, and the members thought that they would p:\y mo a last visit. * ‘•Have the national committee made any arrangements for the inauguration eeromonies?" “1 think not lam told, however, that a committee, composed of members of both houses of Congress and prominent residents of Washington, have charge of the matter. The least ceremony the better; I wish there could be none of it.” “You could follow Jefferson’s example—ride tip to the Capitol on horseback, hitch your horso to a tree nanl then bo sworn in as President." “Yes, but I am told that the tree has been cut down." A DEMOCRATIC TUI BI TE TO BLAINE. The Brilliancy of tli Fi;ht Ho Made Frankly Acknowledged. New Orleans Times-Democrat (Dem.) There is but one comment on Mr. Blaine’s defeat —“He made a gallant and brilliant fight!*’ Millions of freemen voted against him. Hundreds of thousands labored and schemed, and contrived to compass his overthrow. A score of the most distinguished and influential Republican journals in the country and many scores of Republican lenders seceded from their party and lent their efforts and their example to the cause of the Democracy. Never before in the history of our politics was there a presidential candidate so terribly handicapped for his race. Handicapped by his personal and official record: by the bitter animosities of powerful men within his party; by the independent movement; by the Prohibition movement; by the mischievous folly of such friends as Dr. Burehard: by every conceivable element of weakness—Mr. Blaine yet made a contest which was picturesque in its exterior aspect®. bewildering in its brilliancy and startling in its narrow approach to success. The campaign is over and the result is known. Mr. Blaiue is beaten. There is no longer any doubt as to the facts of the case. But he lost by the thinmest margin ever developed in a national struggle, and the winner may be pardoned for his labored breathingand his reactionary tremor. Looking back upon it all, one can see how small a thing would have turned til© scute the other way. Suppose Mr. Beecher had remained neutral or continued his adherence to the Republican partv. and Mr. Beechers ward had given its usual vote! Suppose Mr. Burchard had not made that silly speech which insulted and alarmed thousands of houest citizens! Suppose Mr. Blaine had not antagonized the stalwarts of New York in 1881, and made sullen neutrals of Conkling. Arthur and Platt! Suppose Mr. Conkling had exerted himself, evenin his own county (Oneida), which gave Garfield 1,900 majority in 1880. and which gave Cleveland twenty-eight majority in 188#! Suppose any of these contingencies, any of them probable, aml what would have been the effect upon the result? The fact that Mr. Blaine, handicapped as he was. weighted as he was with his record, antagonized as he was by the best and most respectable elements of his own party, ham peted by injudicious friends and desperately opposed by implacable enemies—Mr. Blaine. surrounded and embarrassed by such frightful disadvantages. lost the race by the merest scratch. The wonder is not that he was beaten, but that he came so near winning. Any other man similarly circumstanced would have been hopelessly distanced. Mr. Blaine lost by a neck. His bitterest opponents freely recognize that ho made a superb fight. They know’ and they acknowledge that his magnificent intelligence, his matchless address, his dazzling eloquence, his immeasurable courage, brought him within a hair s breadth of achieving the victory.

His Leadership I inter Adversity. JScv Ywh Special. The Tribune contained an editorial during the week which significantly called attention to the fact that Mr. Blaine is only fifty-four year old, and not (lead yet, although hie enemies are very anxious to make that appear. When Mr. Blaine is mentioned as a second Clay, and the attempt is made to carry the parallel to the conclusion of a second defeat, the success of General Jackson, after a first defeat, is pointed at as just as likely a precedent. General Grant is reported as sartor, after he read Mr. Blaine’s address, that it would roily to his support every stalwart in tiiu country not under the personal influence of Mr. Cockling. A Republican of prominence, who hns been through Pennsylvania the past week, says he found there many of the old Blaine and Logan chibs perpetuating their organization. Tho Augusta speech has been printed in both German and English, and is being widely circulated there. It is everywhere talked about, has given direction to the party feeling, and is a rallying point to keep the rank and file from deserting. In Ohio, hv direction of the chairman of the Slate committee. the Blaine and Logan clubs are keeping up their work. In Colorado, Nebraska, lowa and Kansas the Blaine and Logan clubs are going to winter over in the same way. The idea is being taken up in this State, the Twelfth ward club, nine hundred strong, having set the example on Wednesday ami added a resolution indorsing Mr. Blaine for renomination. Among the probabilities of this Blaine movement is ihe return of J. B. Chaffee to the Senate, from Colorado, in place of Senator Hill. Chaffee rn such a position would be a power, and he believes Hr. Blaine is tho leader to whom the party must turn. There have been eharges that the seemingly strong demand so early made in Mr. Blaine's interest is the work of overzealous frionds. fftut so tar as investigation goes, his warmest friends in the late canvass are the most astonished Ht the turn events are taking, and are seriously querying among tiiemselvi-s whether it is wise for party and country. Meanwhile Mr. Blaine is reported to be as dispassionate in the matter as lie was before tho Chicago convention, and to be meditating another speech on a different topic, to bo made at any early day. for which opportunity may be found at Washington. He has been expected here daily for a week, but his coming has been postponed another week. In connection with the leadership he is showing under adversity, an old member of Congress recalls the fact that when the lower House became Democratic in 3874. and he stepped from the speakership to the floor, he became at once the leader of the Republicans, and by his splendid arrangements made it possible to regain control of that body. SENATOR CtILLOSL Surprised by the Election—How liemocratic Ascendency May Affect Business. Interview in New York Tribune. “The result of the election, I confess, was a surprise to me. We are beaten, however, and of course we submit to the will of the people as expressed in the ballot.” “What do you think will ho Cleveland's policy as President?” “1 know nothing about Mm except from the press. I anticipate a lively time for tho Dent •ocracy, and if Mr. Cleveland shall turn out to bo the kind of man he is represented to he, he -will refuse to make removals for political reasons. The row will at once begin. The politicians of the Democratic party want tho offices, and nothing else will satisfy them. The so called independents pretend to stand on a higher plane, but my opinion is that the men at the head of that element are fully as anxious to get a share of patronage os are tho Bourbons." “What will he the effect of the election on tho future of the Republican party?" ••ft will unite the party move perfectly than it has been unitedfor yearn, and in four pars tho party will come up again with more visor and with greater determination, with better chances ~1 success than ever before. The Democratic *iarty will not satisfy the people that the governrtiimaat should remain in its keeping, 'the party is not in favor of anything, and when it ■attempts to come together upon a policy it will come nearer falling to pieces, its members do nor narco on the tariff or cm anything else. While they were out and fighting to get in it made no

difference; but when they become responsible for affairs, they must show their hands affirmatively.” “Was Mr. Blaine the best candidate of the party f “1 do not think it is in the interest of the party to discuss that question. Mr. Blaine was the choice of the party. Rank and file of the party wanted him. He was nominated, and made a magnificent campaign. He proved himself, ir. my judgment, the greatest statesman of tho nge by his bearing and speeches to the people. He would have been elected, but fox one or two blunders in other men, the last week of the contest. He is a great man, and it is a shame that he should have been defeated by other men’s mistakes.” “Then you have faith in the Republican party maintaining a rigorous organisation?" “I do. The battle of 1888 will begin very soon, and will become hotter and hotter until it is fought out. The people of tho North will not any longer passively submit to the manner in which the Bouth is kept solid. If the people of tho South, on a free and fair vote, want to re main solid, that is one tiling. If by preventing a free and honest vote and count they continue solid, it is quite another thing. The South has been kept solid heretofore by controlling the colored vote by intimidation, or by preventing its being counted. The Northern people will not submit longer to any scheme which results ir barring the colored people from the right to cast their votes freely and hare them honestly counted. Certainly not less than four Southern States would have cast their electoral votes for Mr. Blaine at the recent election on a free and fair vote." “What will he the effect of the election on business?" “For some little time the effect will be very injurious to the business of the country. When it comes to he understood that the Democratic party cau do nothing in Congress to change the financial policy of the country, including the tariff, the public confidence will revive, and business with it. But if it should tarn out that the Democratic party can get coutrol of both branches of Congress, find control the tariff legislation, in my opinion the business interests of the counlry would be unsettled find Beriously injured lor several years to come." “Have you seen Gen. Logan recentlyf” “I saw him lor a half hour on Wednesday last, being the only time since soma weeks before the election. The General does not seem discouraged on account of his defeat for Vice president any more than his friends are on account of the party.* He made a very brilliant canvass, which I think satisfied the parly in every portion of the country. I hope he may be returned to the Senate, but in view of the political complexion of the Illinois Legislature the result on that question is uncertain. He is hopeful of the future."

THE Lii.MAN-15K.VNTi CASE. Running Down tlie Alan Who Printed tho Spurious Tickets. Chicago Special. All doubt as to who printed the spurious tickets which the grand-jury investigation discovered were substituted for the original ballots in the Second precinct of the Eighteenth ward, and by whieh Brand was supposed to have defeated Leman, the Republican candidate for State Senator, is now dispelled in the minds of those pushing the case. While there are many points upon which they will be obliged to have more positive testimony to convict, District Attorney Tuthili, “Long’ Jones and E. R. Bliss have sufficient circumstantial evidence to make it very apparent that the tickets were printed personally by W. H. Wright, junior member of the firm of P. L. Hanscomb & Cos. Mr. Wright, on being questioned, gave very evasive replies, but he has not denied the truth of the charges made, that he put the bogus ticket in type on the afternoon of November 11. and printed the ballots ou the evening of that day after all the employes of his firm had left the office. “Long" Jones and E. R. Bliss held a consultation in the office of District Attorney Tuthili at 11 o'clock, and discussed these tickets. This is regarded as the most important point now to he inquired into. Jones said be was satisfied that Wright had something to do with the matter, and that if he would not talk as a citizen in favor of lending his aid to unearth a fraud, some way would & discovered to make him. It was understood that he came to ask Mr. Tuthili to frame a subpoena against Wright immediately for use before the jury on Monday, and in the event that nothing could be got out of him, that that an indictment should he returned on the evidence already in. It is also intended to attempt to secure another order from the District Court for ballots in other precincts in the Sixth district Colonel Morrison a Candidate for Senator. interview !u St. Louis Republican. Colonel Morrison was asked if it was true that he would be a candidate for United States senator in case the Legislature was Democratic. ‘T have never publicly said so,” he replied, “but it has been so understood, and I do not hesitate to say that it is so. There are many other good Democrats in the State who are inspired with the same honorable ambition.” 1 ‘What are your prospects for success?” ‘Well, upou that point I do not care to express myself." “It has been rumored that you favored Hon. Josh Allen, of southern Illinois, and had withdrawn in his behalf.” “That is not true. As I said before, I am a candidate if the Legislature is Democratic. ” ‘•lt has also been reported that President Cleveland desired your election to the Senate. Is that so?” "I have no knowledge of Mr. Cleveland's desire in the matter and have never heard from him on the subject. The person who started the report must have access to sources of information which are closed to me." In speaking of the prospects for tariff legislation this winter, Colonel Morrison said that while he did not know that there would be any, it was possible that there might he. Exactly what course the Legislature would take this winter he was not prepared to say. Strike of Glass-Workers. PITTSBfHO, Nov. 30.—The employes of five prescription glass factories in this city will inaugurate a strike to-morrow against a reduction of wages averaging 21 per cent. The nfen offered to accept a 15 per cent cut, pending efforts at compromise, but the manufacturers refused to continue the works in operation. About 1.000 men and boys will he thrown out of employment by the strike. Mishap to a Balloon. San Francisco, Nov. 30.—The balloon “Eclipse," the largest ever constructed in California, which is intended to make a trip across the Rocky mountains, made a trial ascension today, and suddenly descended in Raccoon straits, tun miles from this city. The occupants and the balloon were picked up by boats from Angel island. The owner intends taking the balloon to the World's Fair at New Orleans. Resuming Work. Laoonia, N. H., Nov. 30. Ballentyn * Fletcher's Granite woolen mills, at Tilton, will start up to morrow. They have been closed since last summer. The Gloucester, New Jersey, gingham mills, idle for three weeks past, thereby throwing about 000 people out of employment, will resume operations to-morrow morning at reduction of wages. Obltnnry. London, Nov. 30.—Sir Alexander Grant is dead. Boston, Nov. 30.— Major Joseph Bust, on the retired list of the United States army, and well known throughout the Northwest, died to-day, aged fifty seven. Possible Murder In Boston, Boston, Nov. 30.—Mrs. Mary Wentworth was probably Fatally shot in her apartments in Jay street. Her husband, from whom she has been separated, is suspected. Ice Factory Burned. Galveston, Nov. 29.—The News's Jefferson special save the ice factory of Deware & Ward was (lostroyed by fire last night. Loss, $14,000; insurance, SB,OOO. Tub most stubborn caseß of dyspepsia and sick headache yield to the regulating and toning inllußnoe* of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Try it

THIS INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1884.

THE KfOTUCO PLAGUE. A Visitor Describes the Terrible Condition of the People in the Backwoods. [from the Journal oj Sunduy. ] Louisville, Ky.,Nov. 29. Arthur H. Loomis, the traveling representative of a New York firm, is in this city to-day, having just returned from a trip through the plague-stricken district of eastern Kentucky. Mr. Loomis said: “I was four days in Martin county without disposing of a single article. The people are absolutely crazy, they have no use for anything but coffins. A groat deal has been printed in the newspapers about the situation in Martin and adjoining counties, but it has been an imperfect reflex of the existing deplorable condition of the people. I know of instances where whole families have been swallowed up in graves, where one man hag survived to bury his family and friends, and then been found dead with no living creature near him excopt, perhaps, a faithful dog. Flocks of sheep and droTes of cattle that used to browse on the hillsides nnd along the range of the Cumberlands now lie dead and rotting. While the pebbles glisten on the bottoms of the creek beds, wells and cisterns have been drained to the bottom, and springs are no longer to be relied upon for a supDly of water. The ground is literally parched, and where vegetation formerly bloomed luxuriantly there is nothing now but decay. Thousands are said to have died within the past two weeks. "What, in the opinion of the natives, is the acuse of this fatal calamity?” "It is very evident that the chief agent of death is starvation. The people in those districts are almest without communication with the outside world. An occasional drummer, like myself, strays among them once a year, and a few of the most prosperous visit some large cities oncein a lifetime. A good season brings with it bountiful crops. Wool and other native products are rudely manufactured into clothing But when the crops fail them the order of things is reversed. lam speaking now of the backwoods neighborhoods, where the plague has raged with the greatest fatality. I learned, while in Martin county, that the crop yield for twe successive seasons had been failures, and the natives are without money and without means to purchase bread- The shutting off of the water supply has brought to the surface poisonous liquids, which, famished for water, the people drank, and the consequienoe was death. The first symptoms are violent gripings. and after this a raging headache, and a hot fever ensues, and' the patient usually lingers two days, suffer ing mental agony before death. I understand that several physicians have heen commissioned by the Stave to make a careful analysis of the water, and describe the poisonous ingredients. Before I left there was a light rainfall, with prospects of continued falling weather, and the opinion prevails that the plague has passed through its most dangerous stages, and is now on the wane. During the last two days of my stay I heard of very few deaths."

Character of the Malady. Lotjisville, Nov. 30. —The Courier-Journal's staff correspondent, who is in Eastern Kentucky investigating the plague in that section, 6ends the following, to-night, from Barboursville, Ky.: “I met Mr. C. F. Davidson, agent of the Cum berland River Lura ber Company, who has been over the infected district Mr. Davidson says the disease, which is an aggravated and very fatal |form of flux, began about six weeks ago in Letcher county Joseph Day, a brother of the county judge being the first victim. He lives on PoorFork, about fifteen miles from Whitesburg, and was taken ill when a short distance from home. He was first seized with griping pains, and in a few moments was paralyzed so completely that he had to be carried to the house. The griping was followed by a bloody and weakening diarrhoea, and in a few hours he was a dead man. From this point the disease spread with great rapidity, and it now extends over a territory embracing about one half of the norther portion of Wise county, Va.,tho northern portion of Lee county, the entire county of Letcher in Ky., the upper edge of Harlen ceunty, the southwestern part of Knott, the southwestern part of Pike, the southwestern portion of Leslie. This embraces a territory about seventy miles wide by eighty miles in length.” “In what particular neighborhoods is the disease worse?” “It is most violent at the headwaters of Straight creek, Clover Fork, and other small streams which rise on the north side of Pine mountain, and on Poor Fork, in Harlan, at the head of Powell’s creek and other Btreams rising in the Cumber land mountains in Wise county, Va.; at tho heads of those streams which rise in Knott and empty into the Big Sandy, at the head of North Pork, and another braneh at Powell's creek, in Lee county, Virginia; at the beads of Shelby and Klkhorn creeks, in Pike, and at scattered points on streams in Letcher and Leslie. In Letcher it is worst along Poor Fork. It prevails at the head waters of almost every stream in the district named, that empties ini > the Cumberland. ” “How long does it generally take for the dieaso to run its course, and what are its exm t symptoms?" “About two days, and it generally proves fatal. In many instances those attacked die in a "few hours. The symptoms are related in the case of Joseph Day —griping pains in tho stomaeh, violent flux and hemorrhage of the bowels, ai ter altotal or partial paralysis, and great thirst The latter satisfies me that mineral poisoning is the real causa of the epidemic. " HENRY WARD BEECHER. The Election of Cleroland Completes the Colored Man's Emancipation. Thanksgiving derm -a, “After fortv ye.ra of toil,” aaid Mr. Beecher, with tears in his v *ice, “Moses was allowed to behold the promisi l land from afar. I, who am So much less worthy than he was, am permitted to go over with the rejoicing troops into a land flowing with milk aud honey. What am 1 that I should be given the privilego of laboring all this time and seeing the glorious end myself? That has come to pass at last which was the only safety to the colored race. Just as soon as the Southern statesmen accept their restoration to the body politic that will take place which has taken place everywhere. There will be a party administration—the ins, and the party opposed, the outs. And the moment you have these two parties, each party has a sentinel watching it. And in the South that will take place which is the only salvation of the colored race. So soon as they are divided between the administrative party and tile opposition party they will be taken care of. The administrative party will not allow their voters to be injured, and tho opposition party will not allow their voters to bo injured. And tliey will be protected as they should be, and the strength of each party in the South will be the safeguard of the colored voters. I regard this as the final step of emancipation. And it is in these views that I have acted, aud in the calmest retrospect rejoice that I have been able so to act. The greatest mistake of my life, I have been told, was the writing of the Cleveland letter. No, not a letter from Governor Cleveland—a letter I wrote from the Ohio city. That’s twice I have stumbled upon Cleveland. [Laughter.] I was invited to act as chaplain to a convention at Cleveland of our soldiers and sailors of the army and navy, the object of which was to bring back tho Southern States. The letter I wrote expressed my views at that time. I will read it that you may see the straight line in which my ideas have run from the time of the war down to the present time." Mr. Beecher then read the letter which em bodied the same thoughts as those he had just expressed. “I then wrote a letter to be read at Plymouth Church,” continued the reverend gentleman, “and it seems as though I had written it for to-day. I said: “ ‘To attempt to class mo with men I have opposed all my life long will utterly fail. I shall choose my place and will not be moved from it. I have done nothing to forfeit tho good name I have earned for myself. There is always a different judgement between men as to the best policy to be pursued. I feel profoundly how small my services to my country have been in comparison with its deserts. But I am conscious I have given to It all I could.

Above all earthly influences i3 my country dear to me. The lips that taught me to say “Our Father,” taught me to say •‘Our fatherland. ’ God is my witness that 1 have given all my strength to that which shall make our Nation prosperous and glorious. Not by the lustre of armies would I seek her growth, but by the civilization that should carry its blessings to the establishment of the political justice and iatelligence of the continent. This is the vision or dream of my life, and inspires me as no personal ambition could do. I am not discouraged at the soverit y of former friends. As soon as my health is again restored to me I shall go right on in the course I have hitherto pursued. Who will follow and accompany me it is for each to decide. I shall labor for enfranchisement of men without regard to class or color. In doing this I will cheerfully work with others, with parties, with any and all men that seek the same glory as I, but I will not become a partisan. I will reserve my right to differ or dissent, and respect the same right in others. Beeking the personal liberties of others, I do not mean to forfeit my own. 1 think I discern beyond the present tronbles that fair form of Liberty—God's dear child—whose whole beauty was never yet disclosed. I know her solemn face, and that she is divine. I know by her girdle of purity, by her scepter of justice, by that atmos phere of love issuing from her lips, tnat she is more royal than a king. FARMER VVAfi.NKE’S MONEY. An Old Man Who Finds No Safety for His Wealth in Ranks or Feather-Beds. Bradford, Pa., Special. About two miles wcet of Bradri'.ii, an the crew flies, in a bend of the public highway, lies a long, narrow, rambling and weather-stained farmhouse. It stands by itself, solitary and alone. For over thirty years it has sheltered Farmer Lambert Wagner and his gray-haired and portly spouse. The old couple, who are childless, lived happily enough until the oil fever swept like a eyclone through the beautiful and picturesque valley, transforming the quiet, rural landscape Into a veritable forest of oil derricks, with here and there cities of massive, red-painted oil tanks. The farm of Farmer Wagner was underlaid with the rich oil-bearing rock, so much sought after. Numerous wells were drilled, and in a short time the farmer and his wife had so much money that they hardly knew what to do with it. Father Lambert thought that banks were newfangled concerns, and wenld not trust his fortune in the strong vaults of the local banksl Instead he hid the money in out-of-the-way places iu the cobwebbed roams in the old farmhouse. When he awoke one frosty morning he found his faithful watch dog lying dead in the door yariL Tho chest of drawers in the bed-chaim-ber was found on the floor, its contents being scattered all over the room. In the spare bed room adjoining the feather bed was found cut opeD. Upholstered chairs had their cushions slashed open. Everything in the old honse seemed topsy-turvey. When Farmer Wagner had figured it out. he knew that the robbers had secured over $2,000 in gold, silver and greenbacks. This was about three years ago. About eighteen months ago burglars again paid their dark-lantern respects to the Wagner homestead. This time they secured nothing for their pains. “I fooled them this time,” gleefully exclaimed Farmer Wagner. “I put all of my money and my wife’s in the Tuna Valley Bank.” He might as well have left his wealth, which cost him so much anxiety, hidden in the musty and deserted rooms in the old farm-house, as the bank a few months later became hopelessly insolvent and was compelled to close its deors. Recently the receiver of the defunct bank paid a small dividend. Mrs. Wagner sold-a slice of the farm for SSOO, while Fanner Wagner realized a similar sum from the sale of some live stock. Farmer Wagner again had his old antipathy against the banks, and the money was kept in the bouse. Last Saturday night Farmer Wagner and his wife sat down to a smoking supper which was served on a long table in the antique kitchen. The proprietor and superintendent of a neighboring brickyard happened along just in time to receive an invitation to sit down and take a bite. After the meal was over, Farmer Wagner remembered that the horse had not been fed, nor the barn-doors fastened. He lighted the tallowdip in an old tin lantern, and tried the handle of the door leading from tie kitchen into the sitting room. To his surprise the door refused to open. “I guess the bolt has dropped out,” said he, “and Til go ’round the hack way and fix it” Mrs. Wagner, who was washing the supper dishes, was startled when a few minutes later the door with the supposed defective holt was hnrst open. A gray-haired old man with blanched face and tottering limbs staggered into the room. It was Farmer Wagner. “My God!” he cried, wildly wringing his hands: “we’ve been robbed.” Mrs. Wagner fainted, bnt soon came to. Then a search was made. Through an open window the chill night air found its way into the bedchamber. “The feather-bed is gone,” wailed Mrs. Wagner, “and mine money! Mine money is gone!” Out upon the sward and within a few feet of the window were piles of feathers. The tick wxs cut into ribbons. Within the feathery bowels of that bed had at one time reposed a canvass sack containing over SSOO in gold and greenbacks. Now it was gone. In the adjoining apartment geese feathers covered the floor. The bed-tick had also been cut open. “My money, too, is gone,” groaned Farmer Wagner. “Why didn’t 1 put it in a hank?” Every room in that long, rambling old house, exclusive of the kitchen, had been visited. Sofas and upholstered chairs were cut open, hod ticks slashed and ruined, bureaus, closets and trunks ransacked and household goods scattered in all directions. The thieves secured fully SI,OOO. There were brand-new S2O gold pieces, brightfaced Bland dollars and crisp hank notes issued on the personal account of Uncle Sam. With all their searching the robbers failed to secure all of the hidden wealth of the Wagners. Last Thursday night Mr. Wagner was aroused from his sleep by the 6avage barking of his dog. He turned over and went to sleep again. On Friday night he thought he heard footsteps and voices on the porch outside. On Saturday night he knew that he was robbed. Hereafter when he has auy money he will lock it up in a bank vault

Delay that Will Prove Fatal. Piiila DKLPHrA, Nov. 30—A special despatch to the Press from Salem, N. J., says the prison officials, on Friday night discovered thnt Howard Sullivan, a colored lad, under sentence to be hanged on Tuesday, for the murder of Elle Watson, on a lonely road near Yorktown, in August last, had disconnected the ball and chain from his ankle. To-day it was discovered that Sullivan had loosened the ventilator in the roof of the room in which he was confined. The prisoner, to-day, realizing that he must hang, confessed to a reporter that he hnd removed the ventilator, pried open a trapdoor and got out on the roof on the nights of Wednesday and Thursday of last week. He, however, returned to his cell, postponing the time of escape till Friday night That night the sheriff plaeed tho death watch over him, and the plan for escape was discovered. Sullivan said to-day that he did not want his feet or hands tied when on tho gallows. “I want,” said he, “to show people what miracles can be done by a hoy. I can gat all the religion I want in half an hour, and I shall have something to say on the gallows. ” Tlie Way It Is Done In Massachusetts. Nrw York, Nov. 30.—A mad dog made the people scatter at tho comer of Houston and Mulberry streets, this afternoon. In the midst of the excitement a well-dressed gentleman made a rush for the rabid animal, picked him up by the nape of the neck, and cut his throat with a pen-knife, saying at the same time, “That’s the way we do it in Massachusetts." Excitement Among Cigar Manufacturers. Kby West, Nov. 30.—There is great excitement among cigar manufacturers on account of the provisions of the commercial treaty between Spain and the United States reducing the duty on Havana cigars. Petitions are circulating and meetings have been called. "Gentle as ine Breeze of Evening." This line oi an old hymn is quite appropriate when app'ied to “Pleasant Purgative Pellets* “I don’t like to take pills if I can avoid it,” we often hear persons say, “because they constipaterueso.” Now, the ‘Toilets" never do this. They are so gentle and mild that their effect is almost precisely similar to a natural movement of the bowels, and no unpleasant effects are left behind

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. Items of News Collected from Correspondence and Gleaned from Exchanges. Indiana Notes. The Jeffersonville people are anxious to have the levee begun immediately, as there is yet time to fill the lowest portion before any flood can come, and the river is extremely low. The flouring mill of Long & Miller, at Hartsville, in this county, burned to the ground at an early hour on Saturday morning The fire is thought to have been of incendiary origin. Loss $3,000; insured in each the Franklin, of Indianapolis, and the Rochester German, for SI,OOO. Ed ward Lemon quarreled with a man named Smith, at Bedford, on Friday. John Wilder pulled Lemon off Smith, when the former fired twice at Wilder. Both balls struck him in the left side, jnst above the hip bone. As soon as Lemon fired iie ran, but tho whole town joined in the chase and caught him about a mile north of town. He was placed in jail. He has the reputation of being a bad man. Dr. Benjamin Newland pronounced the wounds fataL Smith and Lemon had quarreled over a game of poker. A remarkable double golden wedding was celebrated at Arcadia on Thanksgiving Day. The principals were Isaac Martz and wifo and Moses Martz and wife—twin brothers who had married twin sisters, the brides’ maiden names being Lavinaand Tabitha McCormick. The grooms were born in Piqua, 0., May 27, 1812, and the brides in Fayette county, this State, Feb. 27, 1816, the double wedding taking place on Nov. 27, 1834. Each couple has had twelve children, seven hoys and five girls. Rev. C. M. Martz, pastor of the Sixth Christian Church, of Indianapolis, is the youngest son of Isaac Marts. Illinois Items. Shelbyville, Tuscola, Charleston and Maitoon have had their telephone exchanges discontinued for lack of patronage. John Leathers, on* of Shelby county's wealthy and oldest residents, died on Saturday morning from disease of the kidneys, aged 73. Charles Wcstcott, residing a few miles north of Hillsboro, fell from a scaffold while painting his house, and received serious internal injuries. Mr. Petrie, formerly night operator, but recently acting station agent at Somonauk, was killed by a passing passenger train at. that place. Mrs. Maty Oberly, aged eighty-three years, died at the residence of her son, Hon. John H. Oberly, at Bloomington, on Saturday. Her remains were taken to Cairo, her former home, for burial. The hardware firm of S. A. McCullough & Cos., Centralis, suspended business and closed their doors. It is said they expect to ad j ust a certain claim against them and re open in a short time No farther particulars can be obtained. Five prisoners in the county jail atVandaiia have made their escape by cutting through the brick wail, having first slipped the iron bar that secured the cells. The ia.il has been iu use barely two years, and two deliveries have occurred. At a late hour at night a party of men became involved in a quarrel, eight miles south of Decatr, when suddenly the lamps were extinguished and 'William Getz, the host, was stabbed in the breast and side, perhaps fatally. Several arrests have been made. At Galesburg, the suit of Pleas Henderson against Judge Craig, of the Supreme Court of the State, for $15,000 damages, alleging improper relations with plaintiff's wife, has been dismissed by Henderson's attorney. Craig's attorneys were ready to present a mass of ovidenets showing the groundlessness of th charges against him. The result entirely exonerates Judge Craig from the charge against him.

ABRAHAM JAMES. Demise of the Discoverer of the Famous Pleasantville Oil Fields. Oluan. New York. Special. Abraham James, whose singular discovery of the once famous Pleasantville oil field, in 1868, is among the many curious reminiscences of the Pennsylvania petroleum country, died last week in Oregon, aged seventy-seven. James came into the oil regions in the early days of the excitement along Oil creek. He was an odd genius, a spiritualitg, and an accomplished geologist. His remarkable performances as a medium throughout the oil regions converted many leading operators to the belief in spiritualism. James was poor, but managed to dabble a little in oil and oil lands. One day in the summer of 1868 he took into his confidence a few of the moneyed men who had become spiritualists, and told them that a spirit had revealed to him the existence of a vast deposit of petroleum in a locality where no one had as yet thought of searching for it. He said that he had been stopped in the road by tho spirit, who took him from his wagon and conducted him like magic across the fields and through forests to a wild spot in the vicinity of Pleasantville, where they rested. Presently the earth opened and an immense cavern yawned before them. Into this James was led by the spirit They journeyed down into the earth a long distance, and, finally, Jame3 was brought to the margin of a lake of petroleum of unknown extent. Speechless with amazement., James gazed on this apparently boundless store of wealth a few minutes, when the spirit led him back to the surface of the earth. The cavern closed, and the spirit vanished. James assured the men to whom he confided this marvelous intelligence that the great deposit had been revealed to him by the spirit, in order that the faithful might benefit by the knowledge. He solicited them to lose no time in furnishing the means to develop the new territory thus placed within their reach. The necessary capital was forthcoming at once, and James commenced operations. He put down a well on the spot where he said the spirit hadfled him into the cavern, and at the depth of 830 feet the drill struck a rich oil-bearing sand and a 150-barrel well was the result. A well of that size was an unusual one then, and the strike set the entire oil country wild. In a short time Pleasantville was surrounded with wells, which were producing more oil than all the old districts, and the new territory was the greatest oil field in the world. The James combination put down five wells on their tract, every one of whieh was a big producer. Oil was the* selling for more than $3 a barrel, and although the life of this now field was comparatively short, the operators all mad© fortunes. James left the oil country after this Pleasantville field became exhausted, worth half a million dollars. He never came East, and it is said he lost the most of his money in unfortunate investments on the Pacific coast The spiritualists never lost their faith in James's story of the supernatural discovery of the petroleum lake, but skeptics believe that his knowledge of geology had led him to believe from the character of the country about Pleasantville that petroleum undoubtedly existed there, and that lie had invented the story of the spiritualistic revelation to induce moneyed believers in the doctrine to furnish the means to test his theory. Steamship News. New York, Nor. 30.—Arrived: Suevia, from Liverpool: Prussian Monarch, from London. London, Nov. 30.—Arrived: British Prince, from Philadelphia; City of Chicago, from New York. _ Sit Down! Terre Hants Express. Will someone please hand Mr. Hendricks a chair? Mrs. John T. Hearn, Sidney, Ohio, suffered for fifteen years with rheumatism and neuralgia. Her husband says Athlophoros helped her more than any of tho numerous remedies she had tried; also, that other sufferers to whom they had recommonded it have derived much benefit from it

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