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THE LAND OF THE SHAMROCK Kev. Goo. W. Pepper, of Ohio, Talks at Acton About Ireland’s Troubles. Tli* Aboses Imposed on the People by the Landlords— Rev. Sidney Dean's Paper on the Immortality of Man. Yesterday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Rev. George *\V I>pper. the widely-known Irish orator, now pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church at Wooster, ()., spoke at Acton Park, his subject feeing: “Ireland and the Irish." Mr Pepper's lecture was listened to with the closest attention, the audience giving timely manifestations of appreciation as the lecturer enfolded his facts illustrated with a profusion of anecdote. and further enlivened by u rich vein of humor. He said that the Irish are proud of their Eastern origin, which dates back to the most Ancient days of history, and would not exchange cob drop of that blood for all that flows in Anglofmxoo veins. There are three different classes of Irish people in Ireland— in other words, throe Irelands. The first class is found In the south and west. They are noted for their hospitality and unconquerable hostility to the aristocracy of England. The second olass i3 landlord Ireland. These are the carpet-baggers of that country. John Bright says two hundred landlords own six million acres of Irish land, and seven hundred landlords own nine million acres. Then* landlords do cot live in Ireland, but abroad, in the European capitals. They take from Ireland every year eighty million dollars. Multiply eighty millions by ten and it will be seen that every ten years the enormous amount of eight hundred millions are taken away from that unhappy country. The Queen of England baa reigned forty-three years. During that period these landlords have filched from their Irtsh tenants two billion one hundred and fifty millions. And who has ever heard of this mercenary Queen raising her voice even once against this pillage? The third class is the Scotch-Irish. Nearly one hundred years ago these rose in their grandeur and strength and shook off, as a lioness does the rain drops, the power of England. This was in the year 1796. The most of these Scotch-Irish were Froabyterians, and lived in Ulster. Thirty of their ministers died upon the scaffold that Ire land might take her place among tho nations of the earth. The liov. Mr. Pepper showed that all the leading revolutionists against England were Protestants, and not Catholics, the only groat exception being Daniel O'Connell. He discussed the characteristics of tho Irish; their earnestness when they speak or write, and particularly when they fight. Their eloquence is not like that of Scotland, where the intellect sways to the exclusion of the imagination; not like that of Prance, whore fancy predominates, but like that of Greece, or, to come to the present day, more like that of this country, and appeals to fancy, to imagination and to the heart. He spoke of Edmund Burke, Gratton, Curran, Emmet, all of wham were orators of transcendent power, and nil Protestants, bitterly hostile to England. He next treated of their patriotism. The Irishman loves his country. Why not? The American is proud of Columbia, and the aspiration of every true American heart is that the flag of Washington, of Garfield, of Grant, may fleat on and on, until tho coming grandeur of the Son of God. There aro three parties in Ireland now. There is tho Government party, that believes in Ireland being a subject province of England. The second is the Republican party of Ireland. If this party had the power it would cut Ireland loose from England and float her across the Atlantic and make her a State in the great American Union. This is the Fenian element. The third is the Home Rule part.V, managed and led by that matchless son of an American mother, Charles Stewart Parnell. The lecturer passed a glowing eulogium upon Parnell, whoso object is to gain the ownership of the soil for tho people, and a Parliament in Dublin to legislate for Irish affairs upon a similar basis to the home governments of Canada and Australia. One among the frivolous objec;ions of Ireland being self-governing is that she as too small for a uation, Too small! Why, Switzerland and Greece are both small, yet they eland in the galaxy of nations. Next, they nay that the Irish are not fit for self-government. Are not Irish cities, the cities of Dublin and Cork, as well governed as the cities of America, and if a part, why not the whole State? In a hundred years there have been but two failures of Irish banks. My recollection is we have not done so well in America, Statiatics show that a smaller per cent, of traveling people are killed on Ir\sh railroads than on the railroads of America or of England. Another objection is that the Catholics would kill all the Protestants. In Franco there are thirty-four million Catholics to two million Protestants, and it is much the same in Belgium. There is no cutting of Protestants’ throats in either country. The Irish do not want England’s rule, nor Rome’s rule; they want homo rule, the people to govern themselves. Mr. Pepper passed a tribute upon Robert Emmet, the Irish martyr, describing him ascending tho scaffold with his face transfigured with an apostolic beauty. lie made an appeal to Americans for sympathy for Ireland, and demonstrated from the archives in Washington that in ail the struggles for American independence and liberty the Irish people were in favor of the colonies. That in 1861. when Gladstone said that Jefferson Davis had made tho South a great nation —at about the time the Mason and Slidell affair—when all England was ready to eo to war with us, 00,000 Irishmen in Dublin met and passed a resolution rewfivuur that in case England went to war with the United .States Ireland would stand by the stars and stripes. The 1 rish have long memories! They never can forget the murderous and barbarous* record of seven centuries. They never can forgot the huadreus and thousands who perished by famine, or died upon tho scaffold for tho coming liberty of their native land. They never can forget that religious wars were fermented by the British government for the infamous purpose of dividing the Irish people. Irishmen never can forget that tho press ■>f England has endeavored to make Rome and Ireland synomynous, making it appear that the war oi Ireland is carried on by Catholics Against England because she is Protestant. Irishmen never can forget that the noblest of her martys and the bravest of Ireland’s heroes have been Protestants whom Irish Catholics almost adore. They never can forget that within two years under Gladstone's so-called Liberal administration it was your land or your life! They never can forget that under Forster and Spencer hundreds and thousands of Irishmen have been arrested at the dead hour of night, dragged from their wives and children, and, without even the form of trial, were consigned to horrid dungeons. In the bloodiest days of Mary and Cromwell there was at least the semblance of a public trial. This is the nineteenth century. American patriots ought never to forget that it warn the Irishman, Edmund Burke, who poured the full blaze of his resplendent eloquence upon the darkness of the revolution, and vrho made the walls of St Stephen's ring with his denunciations of British tyranny as he took fen stand by tho immortal rebel, Washington! They ought not to forget that it was the loftyminded Irishman, Richard Montgomery, married to the beautiful and sweetly accomplished Miss Livingston, who planted your flag on the heights of Quebec. They ought never to forget that it was the Irishman. Charley Thompson, who founded the Sons of Liberty, and afterwards became secretary of the convention which drafted the Declaration of Independence. Every church in the* United States has felt tho influence of Irish h men. Methodists —it was the Irishman. Embury, who, with a spirit like the ancient martyrs, dared to stand forth in his own hired house in New York and preach the first Methodist, sermon ever delivered iu the new world. Three millions of us to-day. Presbyterians —it wag the learned and dfsvoted McKennie, from Donegal, who built your first college and introduced vour church ht-re. Disciples—the church of our beloved Garfield — it was the Irishman Alexander Campbell, from Armagh, who commenced what his admirers lovingly term the great reformation. Homan Cfttbolics—The trophies you possess of splendid

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churches and the laurels won by your sisters of charity aro largely to be ascribed to emigrants from Ireland. It was your great souled patriots, Bish i England, of Charleston, and Carroll, of more, who advocated Washington's cause with a force of argument, an elegance of style, and knowledge of civil government worthy of the reputation of England. The day of Ireland's regeneration i3 approaching. Anew and brighter era in her history has arrived. Men of learning and worldwide fame are beginning to exert their voice audibly in her behalf. I remember when it was worth a Protestant minister's reputation to stand forward as her advocate and champion. Now. all over this broad land, clergymen of all denominations, ornaments of their profession, have spoken in words most sweet and eloquent. I need only mention your own Myron Reed, distinguished by his generous love of freedom, by devotion to tho cause of humanity, and by his taste and accomplishments. Twenty-five years ago I did not know a clergyman of any Protestant church who understood the Irish question; now the majority of them support with their whole hearts and souls the cause of injured Ireland. I exult in the symptoms of Ireland’s redemption. Through God she has arrived at anew epoch, and she is progressing towards native preponderance. The toiling millions are now too strong for their tyrants. The small brook of freedom in which O'Connell paddled, has become a mountain torrent. To day, Mr. Pepper will preach in tho morning. Rev. T. B. McClain, of Charleston, in the afternoon, and Mr. Pepper again at night. A number of fellow countrymen of the distinguished Irishman went from this city yesterday to attend the lecture. A larger number is expected to attend to day. In the evening the paper “Man’s Immortality” was read by Hon. Will Cumback, the author, Rev. Sidney Dean, of Ithodo Island, having by reason of sickness been unable to attend. The paper was an admirable one —profound, clear, keen and scholarly. The closing sentences were as follows: “Man is both material and immortal; a trinity in unity—mind, soul, body. The mind reasons. It is the laboratory, the library, the workshop of tho soul. It is the court room for the trial of the multitudinous cases which arise in the soul's life. It is the soul’s servant, not its master; such is its natural relation. It will sustain that relation during all its existence even though temporarily warped and moved out of its place during mortal life. As the servant of the soul, the subordinate but necessary part of the immortal man, if will expand forever. It will grow in power of mental perception; grow iu the acquisition of knowledge, in processes of reasoning; grow in clearness of perception, in the comprehension of its own nature and laws, and the laws of God's immense and immeasurable universe; grow in power of analysis; grow in every department of its nature and activities, and will grow forever. But it will still be the servant of the soul. The fruits of its ripening powers will ho laid at the feet of conscience—the inner temple of the soul. “The soul will absorb these acquisitions. It will melt them in the crucible of its increasing life. It will form them into wreaths for the crowning of its devotion to the God who created it and loves it with a father's love. By the sweet influence of a pure and superabundant will the soul will direct it, inspire it, sustain it. By the love of the soul—the real man child of tho heavenly life —the mind will become an active agent for the disclosure of that great law of tho conscious universe of God —the law of usefulness to others. In all worlds—this included—this divine law of neighbor love and helpfulness is the only law of growth and soul happiness. Angels are moved by it. They are tho ministering spirits of God to mitigate suffering, allay sorrow, instill hope, smooth rugged paths to bleeding feet, and enlighten the ignorant “The universe of God is pregnant with a resistless activitj T . It is the activity of spirit finding disclosure through tho channels opening up infinite wisdom and love. But the intellect is to the soul what the hands, the eyes, the ears, the feet are to tho mortal body. They obey the voice of the will, speaking from its unseen chamber. It is the law, and the law is universal and continuous. In tho chamber of tho soul where tho ever-living conscience holds its court, the soul is the executive officer, and the mind tho gathering servant, collecting evidence, and judicially preparing that evidence for the soul’s loving decision. The body is the material, mortal servant of tho soul during its formative or earthly period. It has pleased the Creator to create souls with bodies and not without them. But tho re lation is temporary and subordinate. What He may have created in other planets or worlds, and how they were emancipated from their mortal cerements is not for us to speculate upon. We may know hereafter from whence came angel and archangel, cherubim and seraphim—that great spirit brotherhood revealed to us only by name and character in the scriptures. Our mortality is an ever present fact Dio we must to earth, as a material form. Amen, so be it! It is belter, far better thau an eternal continuance of tho present life. Our immortality of soul is as assured as is our mortality of body. The voices of the soul are as clear and emphatic as the voices of material nature. Let them be heard. “In the stillness of the night when, human activities find rest and the body repose, the slightest sounds in nature seem to have an audible voice. When the soul retires from the activities of the mind and the toils of the body, and shut in with its own self-communion, tho voices of the spirit reach it and are heard. Nay it hears and feels. It is touched by unseen fingers, and all the chords of its life thrill with the harmonies which are created by that touch. Memory awakens, hopes revive, aspirations aro kindled, and the angel of light comes with the sweet impression—tho language of spirit, testifying to the immortal life beyond these mortal shores. Then if humble, then if unselfish, then if loving, the soul shall leave the body, and by the holiest of spiritual help be led into life, the real lifo of its nature, which i3 harmony with God aud His law, and harmony complete and absolute with itself. Man is immortal, believe it! Man is immortal, preach it! Mau is immortal, live it." * THE CHURCHES TO-DAY. Rev. E. J. Gantz, will preach this morning at the Central Christian Church. Morning services at the First English Lutheran by the pastor, Rev. John Batzly. Rev. S. F. Tincher will preach at Centralavenue M. E. Church, morning and evening. There will be no preaching at the Third Christian Church until tho first of September. Morning and evening services at Roberts Park M. E. Church by the pastor, Rev. I. H. McConnell. Rev. Reuben Jeffery, D. D., Will preach morning and evening at the First Baptist Church. There will be a gospel mission tent to-day at Belmont. Services at 9:30 and 10:30 a. m., and 2:30 and 4 r. m. “How do we Know Christianity is True,” is Dr. Alabaster’s subject this morning at Meri-dian-street M. E. Church. Rev. O. C. McCulloch will preach at Plymouth Church. Morning topic, “How to Sweeten Lite in Large Cities;" evening topic, “Self-help.” Prostrated by the Heat. Thomas O’Connor, a laboring man about fortyfive years old, was prostrated by the heat at No. 115 Fort Wayne avenue, while wheeling dirt from a cellar. He was taken in Kregeio’s ambulance to his boarding place at the James House, where his case was attended to by Dr. Coombs. He will recover. Heirst ltound Over. The case of Leopold Heirst, who is said to have criminally assaulted Laura and Emma Temuian last Sunday, was concluded before ’Squire Smock yesterday. He was bound over to the Criminal Court in tho sum of SI,OOO. Heirst was released on bail. Fined for Assault. Albert Huffman was fined $lO yesterday in the Ciiminal Court and consigned to jail thirty days for an assault upon the person of Jacob Erie. Huffman was acquitted of an additional charge of stealing a bottle of whisky and 20 cents from Erie. We are having an immense sale on fancy percale shirts. Cull and get out.

RAILWAY GOSSIP. L. L. Fellows, agent of the Wabash, with his family, spends the Sabbath at Kokomo. Mr. Bessemer’s steel process patents have yielded him SOOO,OOO a year for twenty-one years. Superintendent Woodard, of theL., N. A. & C., spent yesterday in the city looking over matters. J. O. Van Winkle, agent of the Bee-line at this point, accompanied by his family, has gone north on a short pleasure trip. The engines on the T. H. & I. road are draped in respect to the memory of A. J. Baird, the engineer who is to be buried to-day. Geo. Tyre, passenger conductor on the C., L, St. L. & C., has so far recovered from his recent illness that he will take his train again Monday. James T. Hurley, a conductor of the Lake Erie & Western road, was drowned while bathing in the Tippecanoe river, at Lafayette, Ind., Thursday. Moses Burpee has been appointed chief engineer of tho New Brunswick railway, and G. A. Haggerty, mechanical superintendent of the same road. Samuel Miller, late general passenger agent of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville road, has gone to Ocean Grovo for a few week’s rest. His family accompanied him. V. T Malott, vice-president of the Union Railway Company, writes that ho is having a grand time on tho New England beaches, and will not return until the latter part of this week. Robert Blee, superintendent of the Columbus and Cincinnati division of tho Bee line system, and Gaylord Beach, chief engineer, sailed yesterday for Europe. They aro to bo absent forty days. T. W. Ransom, late master mechanic of tho Bee line at the Brightwood shops, goes to Cleveland, 0., to take the superintendency of shops where machinery for making ice is manufactured. Charles Francis Adams, jr., is credited by the Denver Tribune Republican with threatening to “shoot a reporter full of holes” if his interview regarding the Union Pacific was not correctly reported. The new receiver of tho Toledo, Cincinnati & St Louis road yesterday removed the superintendent. general freight agent and cashier, according to tho programme given iu the Journal a few mornings since. Nothing new is heard of the much talked-of Central Traffic Association. It is even understood that Mr. Hugh Riddle, of this city, who was chosen commissioner some weeks ago, has never been notified of his election. President Adams, of the Union Pacific, has returned to Boston in excellent health, and says he had a pleasant and useful journey, and now expects to remain at the Hub for some time, closely devoted lo tho company’s affairs. Thomas Casey, foreman of the C., 1., St. L. & C. freight house at Lafayette, on Monday next assumes the position of stamp and delivery clerk at tho postoffice in Lafayette, vice Miss Maud Miller, resigned. Casey is a democrat. The Pike’s Peak railroad is now in operation at a point over 12,000 feet above tho sea level, and when the road is completed it will mount 2,000 feethigher than the Lima &Croya railroad, in Peru, at present the highest piece of engineering work. The amount of legal talent that is engaged in tho superfluous task of adding to the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio muddle, is sufficient to accomplish that task if it is within human power. But it is hardly to be believed that any power exists which can mako that confusion more inextricable than at present. M. E. Ingalls has, the last few months, taken more leisuro than formerly. So many prominent railroad men have dropped out in the last two years as the result of overwork, Mr. Ingalls heeds the lesson. For years he was the first man at the general offices and the last to leave, and seldom did he take a pleasure trip. No double-header trains were sent out by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad from Pittsburg, yesterday, and the strikers still remain firm. Superintendent Harris met the men this morning, but they declined to yield. Ho says the company proposes to run their trains to suit themselves, and anticipates no disorder. The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Mutual Benefit Association held a called meeting at Crestline, 0., July 24. During tho past year the association has paid out $20,000 to policy holders. A reorganization was perfected, ami the name of the association hereafter will bo tho Pennsylvania Company Mutual Benefit Association. A majority of the Philadelphia & Reading stockholders prefer Robert H. Sayre for its next president Mr. Sayre is now president £of tho South Pennsylvania road. He was chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley railroad from its conception, and for many years its general superintendent, and the close friend and adviser of Asa Packer. J. W. Chalfant, who was reported as helping Dr. Hostetter to organize a scheme to prevent tho South Pennsylvania from falling under the control of the Pennsylvania, says: “The report is absolutely false. We have a very good reason for not attempting to form a combination. All our efforts would be futile, and tho sale cannot be avoided by us.” The reduction of the Baltimore & Ohio emigrant rates to $1 was said by its general passenger agent, C. K. Lord, to have been made to help its freight business. The road has a lino of steamers, but emigrants will not land at Baltimore because of the $1 Pennsylvania rate from New York. By offering this inducement it 13 hoped to capture quite a lino of freight. F. B. Gowen is supposed to have washed his hands of the Philadelphia & Reading. A gentleman, on his own motion simply, cabled Mr. Gowen for advice in the present emergency, and received for reply a reminder that Reading people had told Mr. Gowen that they could manage the property without him, ami an intimation that he was going to see how they would do it. A ten-acre pleasure ground at the east end of tho celebrated Portage bridge has been christened “Murphy Park" in honor of Superintendent Murphy, of the Buffalo division of the New York, Lake Erie Sc Western railway. This section of the Erie system has been named the “Flower Garden” division, on account of the tasteful grounds and bright flower beds at the railway stations. Tho American Train Dispatchers’ Association, which was organized only a year ago next month, now numbers 74G active and ten honorary members —a remarkably rapid and healthy growth. The official report of the second annual convention. just received, forms a handsome pamphlet of some sixty-four pages. The Railway Age says: “Its prompt appearanco reflects credit upon the efficiency of the secretary and treasurer. Mr. I. H. McEwen, of Buffalo, to whom much of the success of the organization is due." Gcorgo W. Hibbard, late assistant passenger agent of the Canadian Pacific railwav, sailed from San Francisco the Ist inst., having been -appointed Australian passenger agent of the Union Pacific, the Chicago & Northwestern, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railways, with headquarters at Sydney. New South Wales. The Pathfinder has tho following concerning the above appointment: “Mr. Hibbard is a capable and faithful railroad man. with an experience ?n passenger business which will make him a valuable acquisition to the lines he represents.” Vanderbilt has secured the control of the West Shore railroad line, and it is commonly said that v ' has squeezed it into his hands at fifty.cents on the dollar in 4 per cent, bonds. Doubtless he squeezed it in as cheaply as possible, just as the average business man would do; but it should not be forgotten that ho is paying just about bottom cash cost and certainly bottom cash value for the West Shore line. Bondholders, as a rule, lose 50 per cent, and accrued interest, but the extra 50 per cent, they paid to speculators, not to build the railroad, and tho speculators generally lost by being caught overloaded with their own speculative securities. Personal Mention. CT. Z. Wiley, of Fowler, accompanied by his wife, is in tho city, Mrs. W. H. Walker has returned from a delightful visit of several weeks at French Lick Springs. Capt. John T. Campbell, who was chief olerk of the State Bureau of Statistics under Captain

Conner, but now surveyor es Parke county, was in the city yesterday. John S. Watson, a prominent lawyer of Jamestown, D. TANARUS., and wife, are visiting his brother, Mr. W. M. Watson, of No. 163 Fletcher avenue. Geo. F. Stice, of Swan Creek, 111., has just completed a course in the penmanship department of the Indianapolis Business College. A specimen of his work, a portrait of himself, executed entirely with a steel pen, is now on exhibition at the Model clothing store. The work is equal to tho fiuest steel engraving. CONCLUSION OF THE INVESTIGATION. A Suspicion that There Will Bea Whitewash Report on Postmaster Jones. The taking of testimony in the investigation of the charges against Postmaster Jones, aud the local board of civil-service examiners, has been finally concluded, Chief Examiner Lyman having completed his work of looking after some of the smaller details of the case yesterday and left for Washington, taking with him all the documentary evidence accumulated in the examination. The report of the examiners will be submitted to the commission sometime next week, but nothing can be learned authoritatively regarding the nature of their conclusions. Postmaster Jones, however, seems to be satisfied that it will not be very unfavorable to him, and has no fears of being disturbed. The opinion seems to prevail among those who have taken the most interest in the matter that the report will be iu the nature of a whitewash. The refusal of Judge Thoman to take anything more than voluntary statements in relation to the charges against the postmaster, is regarded as conclusive proof of this. The independents seem to think, however, that they have made a strong case against the postmaster, and that the President will uphold tho principles of civil service reform in trood faith. It is intimated that they may make further trouble for Mr. Jones, as they are holding other charges in reserve for a secord complaint if it should be decided that they have not furnished sufficient evidence to convict him of violating the law. FRATERNITY NOTES. I. O. O. F. Indianapolis Lodge will confer the initiatory next Friday night Tho Grand Encampment of Minnesota has refused to meet bi ennially. The Grand Lodge of Missouri has authorized annual meetings of Rebekah degree lodges. The Third Degree was conferred on two candidates on Friday night by Corinthian Lodge. The officers of Olive Branch Lodge, D. of R., will meet for rehearsal on Thursday afternoon. Grand Secretary Whitney, of Michigan, reports great success in the Rebekah branch of the order in that State. An effort is being made to substitute a metal badge for tho heavy collar worn by members of the Sovereign Grand Lodge. A handsome lithograph of the Ridgely monument has been added to the collection of pictures on tho walls of Corinthian Lodge room. Isaac Shepard, of Pennsylvania, now grand treasurer of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, is reported as not a candidate for re election. O. A. Logan, P. G. S., minister to Peru, reports the order flourishing in that country and the lodges working with much regularity. There is talk of having a grand tournament of Uniform Degree camps at Muucie. Prizes will be offered for tho camp that puts up tho best drill. Fidelity Lodge, D. of R.. has resolved to purchase costumes, and the ladies are engaged in making them. There is no question but their adoption will add dignity to their work and increase interest iu lodge meetings. And now the Baltimore Telegram wants the Sovereign Grand Lodge to buy the home of Wildey in that city and keep it in repair as a curiosity. Two cmts per capita on the member ship, it is said, will-do it There is some display of cheek in this proposition. The weather continues hot and the attendance slim. It would be well for those who absent themselves from the meetings to rememberlhat tho business of tho lodge must bo attended to, and that it is as much their duty as those who brave the heat to see that it is done. • Morning Star Lodge, No. 9, D. of R., of Springfield, Mass., has presented J. W. McQuiddr, P. G. M., of this city, with a neatlyengrossed set of resolutions, executed with a pen by Mrs. Cone, and neatly framed, in acknowledgement of the present of a neatly framed portrait of Schuyler Colfax, P. G. R., presented to that lodge last spring. Seven weeks from to-morrow, the Sovereign Lodge will meet at Baltimore. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, the Ridgely monument will be unveiled. The representatives from Indiana are, S. P. Oyler, of Franklin, and H. McCoy, of this city, for the Grand Lodge, and W. 11. Jacks, of Logansport, and E. L. Porter, of Greensburg, for the Grand Encampment. Now is the time for the lodges of this city to organizo a eeneral relief committee. Winter will soon be on us, and tho sick we always have with us, transient as well as local, and they should be attended to promptly. This can only be done by adopting a well-organized system of relief, such ns a general committee, composed of and supported by the lodges, thus distributing equally the burdeirof labor. Oliver Dufour. P. G. M.. of thi3 jurisdiction, but a resident of Washington, has been elected to represent the Grand Encampment of the District of Columbia, in the Sovereign Grand Lodge. He represented the Grand Lodge of Indiana in 1852-7)3. His reappearance in the Sovereign Grand Lodge after an absence of thirty-two years will be a pleasant episode in his life as an Odd-fellow, although he will find none of his colleagues of that period in that body now. Capt. Joseph A. Moffatt, of New Orleans, is visiting at New Albany. Captain Moffatt is one of the two now living, of the eight who were initiated into the Order Feb. 3, 1836, fortynine years ago, when the first lodge was instituted in this State. He is still an honored member of No. 1. Capt. Sol. Malbon, the other living colleague of Captain Moffatt, also lives in New Albany, but is a member of No. 10. These two old men are proud of their connection with the Order, and are held in high esteem by their younger brethren. Yesterday a man named Clark found on Alabama street a lady's hand satchel containing a small amount of silver coin and a valuable gold watch. The lost articles were put in the care of Gates Sc Fray’s livery stable. Tho Grant Zouaves were organized last night. This is a memorial company, and will bo composed almost entirely of youug working men. Officers will be elected next Wednesday night at the mayor's court room. Committed for Contempt of Conrt. Chicago, Aug. I. —Mary Ellen Cunningham, the handsome young wife of a wealthy merchant, Michael Cunningham, was sentenced to jail today by Judge Tuley, for contempt of court. This was the denouement of a long series of marital troubles, which the Cunningham family have been airing in court for a month past. Mrs. Cunningham refused to produce Mary Alice, the sixteen-year-old daughter of her husband by a former marriage, to be sent to a Catholic school as a ward of the court. Judge Tuley postponed his decision from time to time, to give the lady time to learn the gifl’s whereabouts and produce her. in compliance with the court’s order, and she failed to obey; hence she was committed for contempt when the matter came up for decision this morning. Chicago Breaks tho Record, Chicago, Aug. I.—There was a cessation today of the extreme heat which has prevailed for a Week past in this city. The Signal Service reported the temperature at 7abovo zero at 9 o’clock, it has since f&Uea off to 78 v at 1 o'clock.

PERSONAL MENTION ELSEWHERE. [Concluded from Third Page.) th I. & St. L., taking the place of Charley Allen. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Ripley and Miss Dora Sunderland, of Flora, 111. visited in this city the past week. Mrs. P. L. Menk and son. of Harper, Kan., returned to their home Wednesday, after a short visit in this city. Judge J. W. Wilkins, of thi3 circuit, was married on Thursday, to Mrs. Isadore Archer, of Marshall, at Terre Haute. T. W. lianson, late master mechanic of the Bee-line, was in the city Wednesday night, bidding his employes farewell. Mr. and Mrs. Joe McCrory, of Concordia, Ivan., returned to their home on Friday, after a two weeks’ visit in this county. D. N. Harwood & Cos. gave their employes at Mattoon, Shelbyviile. Cowden and Windsor a picnio at Shelby ville on Wednesday Muncie. Miss Eva Kessler is home from a visit to friends at Sandusky, Ohio. Mrs. A. L. Johnson and family are visiting relatives in Michigan. Mr. O. O. Johnson is in Chicago calling on friends and attending business. Mrs. W. J. Cuitz left last week for an extended visit to her old home near Milwaukee. Miss Emma Grable, of Logansport, is in the city, the guest of Miss Bertha Barnes. Mis? Allie Bechtell lelt last week for an extended visit with friends at St. Louis. Miss Nettie Youse spent the week at Daleville, the guest of Misses Ella and Josie Cray. Miss Mamie Harris, after several weeks’ visit with friends at Richmond, has returned to the city. Marion Stewart, the druggist, spent the wopk in the country the guest of his mother and other friends. W. S. Kuhn, treasurerer of the water works company, went to New York, Thursday, on business. Mr. C. M. Austin, who has been sojourning in Minnesota during the past few mouths, has re£ turned home to remain a few days. Miss Anna Wiidman, who, for the past two weeks was the guest of her uncle, Major John F. Wiidman, returned to her home at Indianapolis on Friday. Prof. J. M. Bios? and family, who are visiting in the southern part ot the State, are expected home soon, as is also Prof. W. R. Snyder, who has been visiting friends in Pennsylvania during the past five weeks. Mr. J. H. Long, of Monkato, Minn., has been in the city for several days in attendance at the bedside and funeral of Dr. Robert Winton.ashas been also Mrs. IJumes, of Kansas City, and Dr. DePew, of Wabash, relatives of the deseased. Rev. D. S. McCaslin arrived in the city and assisted Rev. George A. Little in conducting the funeral of Dr. Robert Winton, yesterday afternoon, the same being under the auspices of Muncie Lodge, No. 74, I. O. O. F. Mr. McCaslin will preach at the Presbyterian Church this morning. Winchester. E. C. Hiatt left for Denver, Col., yesterday, on a recreating tour. Miss Lulu Hall, of Grant county, is the guest of Miss Bessie Smith. John Neff took charge of our postoffice on yesterday, vice C. E. Ferris. The colored campmeeting of this place begins a ten days’ session to day. Hon. J. S. Engle and wife have goue to Michigan to spend the heated term. Miss Lillie Arlington, of Louisville, Kv. f is in the city, the guest of Mollio Kizer. Miss May Wiseman, teacher in our public schools, i3 visiting friends at Greensburg. John K. Martin and daughter, Mellie, returned from their visit to Kansas last Wednesday. Mrs. J. J. Bates was in a very precarious condition on Tuesday from the effects of a congestive chill. W. W. Canada, D. Lesley and C. E. Magee, members of the school board, spent the past week in Chicago. W. A. and J. W. Thompson and families have been at Shelbyville the past week to attend the wedding of their youngest sister. A. E. Butler was at Cleveland, Ind., on Mon day, attending the funeral of his aged grandmother. She was ninety-two years old. THE ‘ CATTLE QUEEN.” ITer Diamonds Were l’aste, and Hotel Proprietors Are Lamenting. Chicago Times. The bald headed gentlemen and thin-shanked and hair banged dudes who have been haunting the corridors of the Palmer House for the past week, sending daintily-perfumed notes and flowers to Mrs. N. Salra, the ‘’Texas Cattle Queen," are now consoling with one another and counting up their losses. A week ago yesterday a very •‘fly,’’ pretty faced little mite of a woman, elaborately dressed iu bright silk and satin, stood on tiptoe in front of the Palmer House counter, and with a flourish wrote the superscription. “Mrs. Salm. Houston, Texas.” She soon had it noised about that the great “Cattle Queen” of Texas, owner of four gigantic ranches. 125,000 head of cattle, and countless diamonds, had arrived in the city. Although giving strict orders to the clerk that under no circumstances would she see newspaper men, she had not been here more than half a day before three or four reporters were at her side, and she was filling them up with “fairy” tales for all there was in it. One or two papers caught at the bait, and gave extended accounts of the fair Texan and her vast wealth. Her principal fear seemed to be that fortune-hunters would seek her out and annoy her. While at the Palmer nothing was too good for her. She had an elegant suite of rooms, and daily rode out on the boulevards with a four-in-hand. But the crisis came Thursday. A fine dress was sent to tho hotel marked “$l5O. Collect.” Would the . clerk oblige her and pay the bill? She had no small change, you know. The clerk pricked up his ears and looked at Manager Howe. Manager Howe looked at the book. The lady owed $75 for board and as much again for incidentals. A bill was made out and sent to her room. The answer came back that a settlement would be made when tho banks opened Friday. Friday tho banks were open, and so was the lady’s account. An explanation was demanded, and the lady confessed that she had no friends, but offered to put up her jewelry, which ofior was accepted. Suspicious, however, Mr. Howo sent the “diamonds” to a jeweler, who pronounced them paste. The outfit consisted of a window-glass diamond necklace, oyster-pearl ear rings, and a silver spoon with a large window glass diamond in the bowl. They were pronounced worth $lB. The spoon was the most valuable of the lot. The Texan’s trunk was next put up. and she went out yesterday afternoon to make a “raise," and forgot to come hack. It is expected that the “Cattle Queen of Texas" has taken an apartment on tho North Side, as a note was received from there asking for the letters from the bald headed gentlemen and thinshanked dude3 which she had left behind. The Rook Agent of the Past. San Francisco Chronicle. The book agent is a distinct product of civilization. It is quite possible that tho civilization which produces the book agent is not new. Very likely, when Hannibal crossed the Alps, the enterprising scribblers of Carthage and Rome had book agents out all over the country selling papyrus devoted to the life and pictures of tho great general. What a chance there would have been for an enterprising American to have sent out ahead and supplied the children of Israel with maps of the Holy Land when they were on the road from Egypt! The fact is, history is full of great opportunities that tho unborn condition of our Nation prevented tho utilization of. Fancy tho streetboys of Egypt calling out on the streets, “’Ere you are; Pharaoh’s last dream, with the inter pretation by Joseph. Only 5 cents.” Fancy the Roman book agent approaching the- agricultural citizen’s dame: “It is a book of winch the sale has been 3imply enormous. You may have heard of Caius Julius Catsar. THis is the first part of his ‘Commentarii de Bello Gallico.’ It is to be in seven books, and I need not recommend it to you. It is, madam, a book that will last I cau look forward aud <joo Uto world reading

this book 2,000 years hence, and only think how valuable a possession this edition will be thett* Madam, let me put your name down.” And thM book-agent would not have lied, which should raise our respect for book agents, for they maj bo telling tho truth accidentally. IIOOSIER HUCKLEBERRIES. A Place Where Thousands of Industrious People Find Employment. Pittsburg Dispatch. “The great huckleberry marsh on norther* Indiana is a curiosity," said Mr. Howes, of Wib kinsburg. to a reporter yestorday. “I understand the crop is small this season," iie continued, “but last year it was very largo. During the season from 5.000 to 0,000 persons—men, women and children—take up their quarters in and about the marsh and remain until the berries are all picked. Some build shanties, some erect tents, and all provide themselves with everything necessary for a residence of several weeks. They come from all parts of the country within a radius of twenty or thirty miles." “Do the pickers find a ready market for their berries?' 1 “Yes; buyers are there from New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chicago, Cincinnati and other cities. Formerly the berries brought very low prices—three or four cents a quart—but now, owing to the great demand for them, they bring five or six cents. Some of the pickers make sls or $4 a day. “ How do the people amuse themselves when not engaged in picking berries? “There is no lack of amusements. Dancing is one of the principal diversions; and the way the Hoosier lads and lassies trip the light fantastic would cause a Pittsburg dancing master to grow green with envy. Half a dozen fiddlers, more or less, strike up some well known air. and the human mass begins to move through all kinds of figures, and sometimes no figures. Everything is of the go-as-you please order, though flagrant breaches of propriety seldom occur. Dancing i* kept up nearly all night, the monotony being varied by an occasional fight for the possession of a girl, or on account of too much whisky having been imbibed by the belligerents. Once in awhile a general row breaks out. when fists, club3 and sometimes more dangerous weapons are used with telling effect. Murder is not unusual on these occasions. A number of bodies have been found hidden away in the marsh, but nothing could be proved to locate the crimes. A year or two ago two policemen went down from LaPorte.jbut as soon as they arrived the pickers held a meeting and decided to order thorn away, threatening violence in case of refusal to go. The euardians of the law took tho hint, and went back home the same day.” “What else do the pickers do to amuse themselves?” “They all gamble. Fakirs from all parts of tho country flock there with their gambling paraphernalia and remain throughout the season. I have seen hundreds of faro, chuck-a-luck, poker, old sledge and other games in progress at tho same time. The stakes are small, of course, but as tho sharpers nearly always win, the amount of their fleecing during the season is considerable. When the pickers have no money, they stake their berries, and accept success or defeat with all the stoicism of an Indian. They may lose everything they have, but between begging and borrowing thoy generally mauage to raise a stake for the next night. The majority of tho pickers are poorer, if possible, at the end of tho season than at the beginning.” “I should think it would be a fine field for counterfeiters to p!y their vocation?” “It i3. bhovers of the ‘queer’ are almost as uumerous as gamblers. The people are too ignorant to distinguish between good money and bad, and hence accept almost anything that is offered them. In this way thousand? of dollars’ worth of counterfeit money is worked off every year. A few years ago the counterfeiters became so bold that they established a mint for the manufacture of small coin, principally nickels, in a part of tho marsh that was seldom visited by the pickets. They had a land office business for a while, but the secret finally leaked out, a government detective was sent down to work up the case, the leader of tho gang was arrested, and finally sent to the penitentiary at Michigan City. Since then operators in spurious money havo been more careful than before, but they still visit the ground in large numbers every year. “Are tho berries as good as thoso of the Eastern States?" “Better, T think. They are very large, sweet and juicy.” Sunstruck at Night. Atlanta f’onstitution. Walt Whitman is such a cranky old fellow that he can’t do anything m tho usual way. It seems that he was sunstruck at night, when he was sitting on the front-door step. This happened in New Jersey. In that State it is a commrm thing for a belated streak of caloric to wobble about after dark. Gkkat $8 suit sale at the Model Men’s regular sl2 and sl4 suits will be placed on sale tomorrow at SB. TYPK-WRITKUS. jBpSSSgW* PURCHASERS OF THB REMINGTON May return 'C. O. D. within thirty days if unsatisfactory. Machines rented. All kinds of supplies. Send for pamphlet. WYCKOPF, SEAMANS <fc BENEDICT, Solo Agents, 84 East Market st., Indianapolis. inTrrrrT rrimn nimim n inni mr HM ACHIN K I NTUaWoBLX^ SAI.K Olt RENT. )NDE, Gen’lAQ’T, M.TTMh.St,, INDIANAPOLIS. A NEW PROCESS. _ The Hendricks Truss a; <1 treatment cures rupture in 30 fcaCJ ~yip*"* to 90 days. Will forfeit .SIOO b. for any case wo accept if v-o fail to cure. Does not prevent attending to I M business. Also, Hendricks's Galvanic Belt ■ 13 will cure or greatlv benefit almost all dis- m. W eases the human body is heir to. Call on or write, in* closing stamp, DR. H. W. HENDRICKS <fc CO., No. 79 East Market Street, Indianapolis, Ind. SOCIETY NOTICES. IMPROVED O. M—MEMBERS OF PALmeto Tribe. No. 17, and Minnewa Tribe, No. 38, are respect fully requested to appear at the wigwam on the 2d sun Sturgeon moon, <r. S. D. 394, at the Ist run. setting ot the sun, for the purpose of attending the funeral of out- departed chief, Arlington J. Baird, late a member of Red Cloud Tribe, No. 18. ANNOUN C E M E JEWELRY AT WHOLESALE. JOSEPH SOLOMON & SON, 45 West Pearl street. ~4~T PLYMOUT H~ttHURCH. THIS IMORNING* iV Rev. o. C. McCulloch will preach on “How to Sweeten Life in Large Cities.'’ The evening servioo will be conducted by tho Rev. John Baltzley. f TNIVF.KSALIST SUNDAY SCHOOL AT 3 P. &£ v J Preaching by Rev. Mary T. Clark at 4 p. ra. These services will be held in tho grove east of O. H. Jenne’s residence, 189 Pleasant street. All invited. personal "" PERSONAL —IF YOU HAVE A THOUSAND J dollars, and wish to engage in the newspaper business, you can “catch on to a rare opportunity bjf addressing NEWSPAPER, this office. WANTED. TEf ANTED SIX FIRST CLASS SOLICITORS W and collectors. J. B. JONES, 19 and 20 Baldwin’s Block. iTranteeCboard in PRIVATE FAMILY Oil II line of a street railroad, for gentleman, wif® and boy 11 years old. For pleasant rooms and afr commodations a liberal price will be paid. Reference* exchanged. Address G. E., this office. FOR RENT. IjtOß RENT—ONE LARGE AND ONE SMALL : furnished room; $1.50 and 75c per week. 86 South Tennessee 9treet. FOR SALE. SALE—BIRDS—PERSONS WISHING TO buy some line parrots and mocking birds will b* accommodated for only one day lorger. Call at ono* at 85 East Washington street, FINANCIAL. OIX PER CENT. MONEY TO LOAN ON~IND? IO anapolia real estate, in sums of SI,OOO and upwards. HENRY CUE & CO., 1J Mavtoublo Bloofc*

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