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which onr father* and mother* started us. and we hare by accumulation, as by infernal com pound interest, made it euough to swamp us forever. The heart a battle ground, across which armed battalions swoon right and left. Tho ivory palace of the soul polluted with the filthy feet of all uncleanliness. The Lord Jesus Christ comes to bring us back to holiness. He comes not to destroy us, but to take the consequences of our guilt. He breaksthrouehlacerating thorns, and be dies to offer us cleanliness. Here is a man who, a few weeks ago, said: "All is right with me. lam not willing to confess lam n sinner.” Now, the spirit comes to liis soul, and he feels himself to bo so great a sinner that there is no mercy for him. When did he make the most accurate estimate? Now. "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately ■wicked.” But says someone in the audience: *‘l have sinned so much 1 do not believe Christ will take me.” A great commander thought of going over into Italy. His friends laughed at him, and said: "You can never get over the Alps. If you know anything about the Alp3, you know you can never get over there. Tho commander waved his hand, and said: "There shall be no Alps.” Then the road was built through the Simplon Pass —the wonder of following ages. We stand and see the mountain of our guilt. The obstacles seem so great that it is impossible for us to find a way into the peace and life of the gospel; but Christ comes, and He waves His wounded hand, and cries: "There shall he no obstacles! I will come oyer the mountain of thy sin and the hills of thine iniquity.” Oh, ye who have sinned, instead of flying away from Christ, if you only knew who it is that comes to save you, you would fly .na further, but turn around: and while Christ seeks you. you would seek Christ, and this house would be a scene of a penitent sinner and a pardoning Savior throwing each other’sarm around each othe-’s necks; while heaven could afford to stop half an hour and hang over the battlements gazing. What is that flutter among the angels? Who is that horseman rushing through the city with quick dispatch? What is that announcement on the bulletins of heaven? I know what it is. Christ has found that which was lost. "Nor ar.gel can their joy contain, Bat kindle with new fire; The s : nner lost is found, they sing. Ana strike the sounding lyre." again, that we are lost to happiness, and Christ come-; to find us. A caliph said: "I have been fifty years a caliph, and I have had all honors and all wealth; and yet. in the fifty years. 1 can count up only fourteen days of happiness.” How many there are in this audience that cannot count fourteen days in all their life in which they had no vexations or annoyances. We all feel a capacity for happiness that has never beeu tested There are interludes of bliss, but whose entire life lias been a continuous satisfaction’’ Why is it that the most of the fine poems of the world are somehow descriptive of grief? It is because men know more about sorrow than they do about joy. John Milton succeeds when he writes "Paradise Lost,” but fails when lie comes to write "Paradise Regained.” Dante’s "Inferno" is a chime of horrors. Bryant’s "Thanatonsis” is a poem of tears. Take the pathos out of the writings of Tennyson and Longfellow, and you have taken three fourths their power. John Kuskin writes his most effective passage about the ruin of Venice. It is because men know more about sorrow than about joy that they are more effective in describing the former. The doe of bad news runs faster than the carrier pigeon flies with good tidings. There are flushes of satisfaction in the heart, but whose life has been a prolonged delight? The soul has four rauks of keys, and the world does not know how to play on such an elaborate instrument. But Religion comes, and with her right hand she touches the higher keys of the soul, and then sweeps them with the symphonies of heaven. Christ comes to find those who have been lost to happiness. He soothes them. He inspires them. He lifts them. He opens the door of the lost Eden, and invites them to come in again to peace. Oh, how many in this house have been goaded, and stung, and plagued! Had it not been for risking your eternal interests, some of you would have put an end to the scene of earthly suffering with your own hand. A deep undertone of sadness rolls through the soul. You would he willing now to give up your money, .and your social position, and all you have achieved, for one day of peace, which the good old slave expressed when he said, in broken language: "In owning Christ I seem to own everything. The air is mine, for 1 can breath it; the sunshine is mine, for 1 can sit in it; the earth is *nine, for I can lie down on it.” To have somothing of tho complete satisfaction which belongs to tho humblest of God's children you would give almost anything. Oh ye, who are struck through with unrest. Christ comes to night to give you re3t. If Christ comes to you, you will he independent of all worldly circumstances. So in tho hour of suffering and martyrdom was Rose Allen. When the persecutor put a candlo under her wrist and held it there until the sinews snapped, she said: "If you Bee fit. you can burn my feet next, and then also my head.” Christ once having taken you into his custody and guardianship, you can laugh at pain, -and persecution and trial. Great peace for all those whom Christ has found, and you have found Christ. Jesus comes into tho sick room. Tho nurse may have fallen asleep in tho later watches of the night, hut Jesus watches with glumberless eves, and He puts His gentle hand over the hot brow of the patient and says: "You will not always be sick. I will not leave you. There is a land where the inhabitant never saith 'I am sick.’ Hush, troubled soul! Peace!” THK MISSION OF .TESUB. This Jesus comes into tho house of bereavelout and says: "I took your lost darling. I ome now to make up for his absence. I wanted lira at the gate when you came through. The laj*s of your separation will only add to the joy of reunion. and the life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he still live.’” Just as sometimes a child is so sick that it canuot lio any longer in the cradle, and the mother has to take it up, so sometimes tho Lord's children are so troubled that they cannot lie easy anywhece but in God’s lap, while He bends over them and sings this sweet song: "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. ” "The son! that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to his foes; That sou l , though ali hell should endeavor to shake, I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.” Again, I remark that wo are lost to heaven, and Ch"i3t comes to take us there. I cannot imagine anything more distressful than, without having musical taste, to sit and listen to an oratorio for two hours and a half. Though it be the best of oratorios, if a man have no musical taste, it is distress to him, while it is joy to others. And 1 cannot imagine anything more distressful for a man who lias no iovo for pictures than to bo shut up in the Luxembourg gallery in Paris. Yes, I cau think of one thing worse than that, and that will bo for a man to enter heaven without any taste for it. I sometimes hear }eople talk as though all man had to do was just to leave this world and go into heaven and sit down to its enjoyments. If a man cannot stand Christian society here for one day, how would he stand a million ages of it? I see an unregerate soul entering heaven. It enters heaven, looks around and sees God there, and angels there, and hears the cry "Holy, holy;” and the unregenerate soul Fays: "This is no place forme,” and ho flies to the battlement*, and lie cries: "I can stand it here no longer,” and he leaps off into outer darkness. In other words, the worst hell for a man would bo heaven, if he has no qualifications—no preparations for it. But Christ comes to take the discord out of our soul and string it * .th a heavenly attuning. He comes to take out that from us which makes us unlike heaven, and substitute that which assimilates us. Ton thousand times the gute of heaven has swung back and forth, but it never swings back and forth save hr Christ opened it, and you will go in through Him or not all. Christ wants you ‘here. How do I know it? Suppose a man lost a liamond, and he looked for it eight or ten days, vould you not coneftide. from the fact that he ooked for it so long, that he wanted the dianondf And when I find Christ seeking for your sou!, seeking fur ii ever since it has been a soul, seeking tor it by dav and by night, seeking for it through heat and through cold, seeking for it with tears in Hts eyes and blood upon His brow, and scourges on ll is back, * and a world of agony in His heart, 1 know that it is because He wants to find yon. Oh. He has prepared a glorious heaven for you! It is all ready. Not merely a throne, but steps by which to mount ft. Not only a harp, but a song to play on it. Not only a banner procession, but a victory which it is to celebrate. God wants no vacant ©bait* at that banquet. 110 does not waul those

who stand around Tlim in glory to wonder why you have not been solicited. He docs not want the book of life to thunder shout ti!l your name is in it. What do I breathe? It is the fragrance of Him whose garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out. of the ivory palaces. What do I hear? It is the footstep of Him who comes with worn sandal in the journey from Bethlehem to Nazareth an* m Nazareth to Jerusalem, ana from Jerusalem to Golgotha, and from Golgotha to glory, and from glory here, seeking that which is lost. Oh, jostle Him not from thy doorstep. Ho not drive this Chiist away, as though He were an unworthy beggar soliciting your alms. Hear llis voice. Trust His sacrifices. Respond to His love. Take His heaven. Ho you not know, oh man, oh woman, that you are the lost one spoken of in my text? "The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that wnich was lost.” You may hide away from Him, but there are some things which will find you, whether Christ by His grace finds you or not. Trouble will find you. Temptation will find you. Sickness will find you. Heath will find you. Judgment will find you. Eternity will find you. Soon you will bo gone from all these scenes, and if a thousand men should come out with lanterns, and torches,' and St. Bernard dogs used to hunting up missing travelers, and search for your soul, you could not be found by them. The grave will have your body. Your heirs will have your estate. Eternity will have your soul. In the flash of a second your last opportunity for heaven may go out. Postpone this question of the soul, and you are postponing getting into the last life-boat that shall put out from the wreck for the beach ere the hulk lurch over and go down. God forbid that any of you should at ihe last have the dismay of the woman of whom I was reading. One night she could not sleep because of her soul's wandering from Christ. She got up and wrote in her diary: "One year from now I will attend to the matters of my soul." She retired, but she could not sleep. So she arose again, and wrote a better promise in her dairy: "One month from now I will attend to the matters of my soul." She retired again, but found no sleep, and arose again and wrote; "Next week I will attend to the matters of my soul.” Then she slept soundly. Tho next day she went into scenes of gayety. The following day she was sick, and the middle of next week she died. Delirium lifted from her mind just long enough for her to say: "I am a week too late. lam lost!" Oh. to be a year too late, or a month too late, or an hour too late—aye, to be a second too late, is to be forever too late. MARY HOPKINS'S RECORD. A Wyoming Woman Who Has Reen Married Seven Times and Never Divorced. Lander, W. TANARUS., Aug. 29. —1n tho spring of 'OB, on the Cache la Poudre river, in northern Colorado, there was married Miss Mary Hopkins to Mr. James Theobald. The bride was barely sixteen, and no one who witnessed the wedding would have guessed that she was to soon develop an absolute mania for the marriage ceremony; and yet so it was. The bride of that day is now living with the seventh man who has responded with her to the marriage service, and every one of these seven men is to day alive and well, and from none of them has the woman been divorced, while the ceremony in every case has been duly performed by a justice or preacher. A few short months satisfied Mrs. Theobald that her husband did not suit her, and soon his place was vacant. The sound of his retiring footsteps had scarcely died away before his wife began to make preparations for anew marriage. In tbe neighborhood was a young man by the name of Johnson, and to his assistance Mrs. Theobald appealed. They went to Fairmount, in the same State, and were there married before a justice of the peace. As long as the recollection of the ceremony lasted, it was honeymoon for the renewed bride, but when that fond remembrance began to fade she began to plot for its revival. Johnson went the way of Theobald, and then the lair enthusiast paid a visit to tiie town of Longmont. Here she found a man named Davis ready to further her views. The services of a minister were procured, and once again the words of the marriage ceremony fell like sweetest music well remembered upon her ear. The nappy man and his blushing bride decided to seek a home further West, and they came to Lander, arriving in the fall of ’73. By the fall of ’74 Mrs. Davis had become aware that the ■ time for another marriage service was rapidly approaching. Mr. Davis returned to Colorado to look after business matters. They were very important, for he is looking after them yet. Mrs. Davis selected as her partner in the blissful time coming a private soldier of the neighboring garrison at Fort Washakie. The chaplain performed the ceremony, and Mrs. Cox leaned lovingly upon her soldier spouse, radiant with tho peculiar joy of the occasion. Time passed on, ami the company to which Cox belonged was ordered to duty at another point. He went, leaving his wife behind. This troubled the lady but little. The desire to hear the matrimonial formula was again asserting itself in terms thut could not bo stilled. Retnrning to Lander, Mrs. Cox looked about her with eyes of a connoisseur, and speedily pitched upon a robust and well-to-do young ranchman by the name of Reed as her next con ductor along the enchanted path. The burly ranchman was nothing loth, and the loving twain wended their way to the nearest justice and were quickly made one. All went well until the insatiate demand for another wedding was again listened to. Petty annoyances were resorted to, os usual, to induce Reed to go, but this time the husband proved obdurate, and a pitched battle was necessary to open his eyes, or rather only one of them, for a blow from the lady’s fist hermetically closed the other, as to the kind of woman he had married. In place of his goiug, however, the order was reversed, and she went, taking with her the ranch hired man. The happy fugitives made for the Big Horn country, and the report of their marriage there has just been received. • Railway Consolidation in Xexas. Curko, Tex., Aug. 39.—The Southern Pacific Railway Company have obtained control of the New York, Texas <fc Mexican Railway, which runs from Rosenberg Junction to Victoria, a distance of ninety two miles. The road will be operated in conjunction with the Gulf, Western Texas & Pacific Railway. forming a through line from New Orleans to Victoria, Cuero and Indianola, giving passengers and mails better facilities than heretofore. There wili be no change in the tariff rate. This branch of the Southern Pacific railroad will be under the management of M. D. Mons°rrat, president of the Gulf, Western Texas Sc Pacific railway. Moody and Sankey at Newport. Newport, It. 1., Aug. 30—Several thousand persons wi re present at the skating rink this afternoon and eyening, on the occasion of the religious services conducted by Moody and Sankey. The ministers of the Methodist, Baptist and Congregational churches were present and participated in the services. A trained choir of fifty voices sang several popular hymns, in the last of which the congregation joined. This afternoon and evening Mr. Sankey sang several hymns, and Mr. Moody preached. Three thousand persons were present. Steamer Ashore in a Dangerous Position. Washington, Aug. 30.— The United States Signal Service station at Smithville. N. C.. reports that tho steamer Beuefactor, of the New York and Wilmington line. Captain Tebon, outward bound from Wilmington, with a general cargo, went ashore on iuner Cape Fear bar at 12:30 P. M. The vessel's position is conside T - dangerous. A revenue cutter and tugs have gone to her assistance. The 6ea is moderate, but the weather is threatening. Killed the Wrong Man. Chicago, Aug. 30.—Two young men, names unknown, got into a fight near Van Buren and Halstead streets this morning. One discharged a pistol at his opponent, but instead struck Win. Mott, aged thirty-two. Mott died to night. The two young meu have not yet been arrested Shot Down While Resisting Arrest. Louisvi L.I.E, Aug. 39. —Constable William Thompson shot and killed Louis Raiusbrook, a farmer living near St Matthews, to-night. RauihhrooVt bad been ting, and resisted arrest.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1885.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Insurance Losses by Saturday Night's Fire at Vincennes—Gov. Oglesby Completes the List of Revenue Commissioners. INDIANA. Details of Losses and Insurance by the Saturday Night Fire at Vincennes. Special to the Indiai.at>olia Journal Vincennes, Aug. 30.—The latest reports of the losses at the fire at midnight last night are as follows: Moore & Harris, *drug store and three-story building, loss, $20,000 to $25,000; insurance, $16,009 in the Royal, of London; $3,590 in the Fire Association, of Philadelphia; $2,500 in the London, Liverpool and Globe, of London: $2,009 in the Phenix, of Brooklyn: $2,000 in the Underwriters’, of New York: $5,000 in the Home, of New York; $5,100 in the Hartford, of Hartford. 11. F. Thuis, restaurant and mineral water factory, loss, $15,000; insured in the JEtna and Home, of New York. Dr. Phillips, dentist, loss, $800; insured in the German, of Freeport, 111., for SOOO The buildings of P. Tindolph, jeweler, and Jno. Vickery, grocer, were also damaged. Minor Notes, Freddy Force, son of I. F. Force, of New Albany, fell into the river while at play with other boys and was drowned. As Sells’s show was on its way over the L., N. A. & C., an unknown man fell from one of the cars, near Orleans, and was killed. Ida Dingmau, a young girl, committed suicide at Seymour on Saturday by taking a "ratpoison” preparation. She was employed as a domestic. New Albany Ledger. The orders for goods from the New Albany woolen and cottou mills up t.o last Monday were $271,000 iu excess of the goods on hand. There will be a reunion of the brigade composed of the Eighth and Eighteenth Indiana regiments and First Indiana Battery at Franklin on Friday, Sept. 18. Postmaster Thomas Hicks, of Salem, after sixteen years’ service in the office, has been superseded by John A'.vis. During the sixteen years Hicks was never out of town or away from bis post of duty. Michigan City fishing interests are alarmed at the decrease in the supply of wbitefish from year to year. The spawn and young fish are destroyed by the big mouthed perch, which are becoming more plentiful all the time. Aaron Bowman was badly powder burned by the flash of a canr.on at the sham battle, at Marengo, on Friday. His eves are seriously injured. He is an ex-member of the Twentythird Indiana, and lives nine miles from Marengo. Elmer Tichenor, an eight-year-old boy living three miles southeast of Princeton, was thrown from a pony, and. his foot catching in a stirrup, was dragged about 300 yards. He was almost scalped and his body is covered with bruises. He will probably gei. well. balem Leader: The four persons wounded by the pistol shots of Fred Berkey are all doing well. Miss Klerner and \V S. Persise were but slightly wounded; Wm. McClanahau’s hand is very painful but is getting better; Jordan Payne is not seriously hurt anu is getting well. Charles Nornmn. of New Albany, a reporter on the Louisville Courier Journal, in trying to pass between cars in a freight train, had ii is left foot caught between the bumpers and crushed so that it was necessary to amputate the toes. The accident will render him a crude for life. William Schopstall, a farmer who lived ten miles from Seymour, took a horse and buck board belonging to M. W. Shields from a liitelling- post here, and drove home, turnine the horse 'loose. On Friday he pleaded guilty to larceny, and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary and disfranchised tor five years. Louisville Commercial: "Mrs. William Willis, of Jeffersonville, left last Tuesday to travel with her husband’s show. After overtaking the caravan she fell out with Miss Carrie Ewing, one of the actresses, who had been the cause of the contention, and pounded her severely, blacking both eyes, compelling her to abandon the show." A calf belonging to Mrs. L. Rosetnan, of Greensboro, 101 l into a dry well twenty five feet deep. A negro was in the well at the time with a lantern, and strange to say, neither the negro nor calf was hurt—though the lantern was smashed. It is supposed that the calf saw the light, and looking over to investigate the cause, leaned too far over and tumbled in. Rafcph A. Brown, proprietor of a drug store at Terre Haute, has disappeared. It is said that he has eloped with a "grass widow," deserting his wife and children. Before he left he made his property over to his wife’s mother. He came to Terre Haute from Indianapolis last winter. He is a son of ex President Brown, of the State Normal School. The woman with whom he left is said to be an old flame who lived in Indiauapolis and recently followed him to Terro Haute. ILLINOIS. Governor Oglesby Completes the List of the Revenue Commission. SPRINGKiKi.n, Aug. 29.—The Governor to-day officially announced tho list of revenue commissioners. As he handed tho list to tho corre spomlent he said: "I don't suppose everybody will be pleased with that selection, but, in my judgment, it was the best I could do. Some may think that the personnel of the commission is not heavy enough, or that it is too heavy. No one could satisfy everybody. I wish that some one else had had the selection of this special commission. It was no easy nor pleasant task. The list is as follows: The Hon. Milton Hay, Republican, Sangamon county. The Hon. Horatio C. Bnrchard, Republican, Freeport. Frank P. Crandon, Republican, Evanston. Marshal Field, Democrat, Chicago. Andrew D. Duff, Democrat, Carbondale, \V. Seldon Gale. Republican. Galesburg. E. D. Green. Republican. Mount CarraeL Charles S Waller, Democrat, Chicago. Charles A. Ewing, Democrat. Decatur. William C. Wilson, Democrat. Robinson. Charles W. Thomas, Republican, Belleville. Benjamin Warren, jr., Democrat. La Harpe, Hancock county. Several men of considerable prominence have been placed on tlrs commission, and none can question tbe respectability of its make-up. It is chiefly composed of ol£ men. the majority of whom are lawyers. The personnel of the commission has furnished a theme for considerable discussion among home and visiting politicians here. The general criticism is on the score of the majority of the members composing it. It is averred that they belong to a past age. The name of Judge Andrew D. Duff, the member from Carbondale, is pointed to with a good deal of gratification and pride by the Democrats as a man of unyielding tenacity of opinion and fearless of his convictions. Judge Duff was thrown into the old Capitol prison at Washington on the information of Governor Richard Yates for disloyalty. Duff was a very active member of the Knights of the Goldon Circle, lie was incarcerated in 18G2, and when he was pardoned he gave utterance to the following remarks: "When 1 die 1 ask no prouder inscription upon my humble tomb than ’Here lies Andrew D. Duff, one of the tyrant’s prisoners in the old Capitol during the great moral struggle between freedom and despotism.”’ It is not fair to suppose that Judge Duff has been reconstructed since that time. Parties here from Hancock county speak in disparaging terms of Mr Benjamin Warren, the Bourbon member for Hancock county, because he built u palatial

residence immediately after his return from the State Senate. They allege that previous to his entering the Senate he was exceedingly poor. Killed by Falling from the Cars. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Mattoon, Aug. 30.—Will A. Dora, a prominent young man of this city, was killed at Windsor, this morning, by falling from the cars. Brief Mention. On Saturday night, fire at Carlyle destroyed the Robinson flounng-mill, operated by Friend & Kennedy. Loss estimated at $10,000; no insurance. Sadie Ray, the pantry girl of the Riggs House, Chicago, who shot and killed Patrick Kintrsley, the steward of that hotel, two years ago, for slandering her good name, has been released from tho penitentiary, her term having expired. The examination of James Thompson, the negro ravisher of Mrs. Bianca Warren, seventyeight years old, of Harrison, was had before a justice at Rockford. The old lady was in court, and positively identified Thompson as her assailant A physician testified as to her physical condition. Thompson was held in SI,OOO bail to the grand jury. J. M. Myer, a washing machine agent, supposed to be from Terre Haute, is wanted at Olney for altering a $3 note given him by O. W. Gray, a farmer, to S3OO. The note was traded to one Morris, agent for a patent street-scraper, whose home is in Lincoln. Morris in turn traded it to F. Landenberger, a grocer at Gluey, for a fine team of horses. MINOR WASHINGTON TOPICS. [Concluded from First Page.] dollar has been paid to any of these people the Commissioner claims are carried on the rolls, and not a cent has been lost It has been shown, too, that Miss Sweet has obeyed both the spirit and the letter of the law and her instructions. It is not her duty to ascertain who are entitled to pensions and who are not. and if she presumed to do so would be informed that she was usurping the functions of her superior officers. She is simply a disbursing officer; is given a list of pensioners in her district and money to pay them. There is a detective force employed at the Pension Bureau to detect frauds and report whoso names should be dropped from the rolls. McSweeney Still Looking for a Place* special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 30.—"And still the party doesn't provide for Daniel McSweeney, the Irish suspect,” observed a politician to day. "I see him around here yet, looking as careworn as can be. lam told that the men he served so faithfully have had the hardihood to offer him some positions which pay but a hundred dollars a month, and the best one placed before him was worth $2,000 a year, and the holder’s expenses would be so heavy he would have nothing left McSweeney is disgusted, and says if he doesn’t get a place that is decently worth $2,000 a year he won’t take any. He will never again play ‘suspect’ for the DemocraMc party, I cau tell you. He is tired of the ingratitude shown him.” Why Republicans Are Kept in Office. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 30.—Democratic officeseekers claim that the men who are in office now are kept there more by influential Democrats than civil-service reform. They say that nearly every clerk who is retained iu the departments, for instance, is indorsed by a Democratic congressman or other prominent man in their party. Under this way of doing it they say it will be impossible to vacate the positions, and it will not be possible to give Democrats places. It is found that a very large percentage of the Republicans in federal positions are so efficient that they are kept there through Democratic influence. How a Disbarred Lawyer Got Even. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 30. —It appears to have been an unfortunate day for the judges of the Court of Alabama Claims when they disbarred Manning, the Boston lawyer, a few weeks ago, for unwittingly going into their private room one day to see one of them. Manning brought about the ruling of Comptroller Durham which cut down their annual allowance for running expenses from $75,000 to $32,000, and which will likely result in winding up the existence of the court, so far as tho judges now on the bench are concerned. Growth of Dakota and Nebraska. Washington, Aug. 29.—The full returns of the census just taken in Dakota, show that the population of the entire Territory has increased from 135,177 in 1880, to 263.465, while the number of farms lias increased from 17,435 to 82,767, and the manufacturing establishments from 251 to 1.054. The returns of the Nebraska census were also received to day. They show that the population has increased from 452.402 in 1880, to 740.000 at the present time. The farms have increased from 03.378 to 100,000 (approximated.) The-cost to tho government of tge Nebraska census was $34,759. General am* Personal. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 30. —James F. Canfield, of Indiana, recently suspended for absence on extended leave, has been allowed to resign. Major Joseph H. Hunter, of this city, and his charming bride, are in Bloomington, lnd., visiting his parents. The chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total number of immigrants who arrived at the seven principal ports of this country during July was 28,304; for July, 1884, the number was 32.772; fur the seven months ending July 31 last. 218.178; for the corresponding period last year, 276,690. THE RAILWAY STRIKE IN TEXAS. An Exciting: Day at Galveston—The 3latter To He Settled by Arbitration. Gahveston, Aug. 30 —The strike on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railroad reached a crisis here to day, and resulted, this evening, in both sides agreeing to arbitrate the matter. At noon Sheriff Stevens, with a posse oomitatus of fifty leading citizens, armed with Winchester rifles and revolvers, proceeded to the round house, where the strikers and their supporters were congregated. Two companies of infantry and two twelve pound cannon accompanied the posse. Arriving at the roundhouse. the sheriff and militia entered the building and turned out of it 300 Knights of Labor. Several times a conflict seemed imminent. but the day was bloodless. Several thousand people were present. Two strikers were arrested for interfering with trains. Finallv. about 5 o’clock, a dolayed freight from Alvin Station came iu, guarded by twenty five of the sheriff’s posse. When the train was observed by the strikers they gave vent to vociferous cheers, and a bloody conflict seemed imminent. During this time the leading members of the Knights of Labor were in consultation with members of the Santa Fe directory, who formed a portion of the sheriff’s posse, and an agreement to arbitrate was finally reached. Fending such arbitration the men will resume work nt once. Asa consequence, tho yards present a very busy Rceno to night, and trains are moving as fast as they can be loaded. Steamship News. Philadelphia. Aug. 30.—Arrived: British Crown, from Liverpool. Queenstown. Aug. 30.—Arrived: Indiana, from Philadelphia; Aurania, Suavia, from New York. New York. Aug. 30.—Arrived: Denmark, from London: Lessing, from Hamburg; Servia, from Liverpool

SUNDAY BASE BA EL. Scores of Games Flayed Yesterday by Clubs of the American Association. Loosp Fielding; and Hard Batting;. Louisville, Aug. nO.—The last game of the season on the Louisville grounds was won this afternoon from the St. Louis club, in the presence of 5,000 excited and eager people. The Louisville club had no trouble in hitting Caruthers, who got badly rattled, making a costly balk and an error in the sixth inning. Both clubs played a loose fielding game, and both hit hard. The features of the game were the batting of Reccius and Maskrey, who made three hits each, the former scoring five times, and McLaughlin’s three-bagger, which brought in three men. Following is the score: LOCISVILIJC. I 6T. LOUIS. rboae! kboak Browning, cf. 0 1 1 0 0 Latham. 3b... 1 2 12 0 Heeker, p.,.. 0 2 0 3 OOle&son. as... 0 0 0 7 1 Kerins, 1b.... 0 113 1 1 Barkley, 2b.. 0 2 6 4 0 Wolf, rs 1 1 2 2 1 Sullivan, lb.. 0 013 1 2 Keccius. 3b... 5 3 1 1 0 Welch, cf 2 2 l 0 0 Maskrey, 1f... 1 3 0 0 O Nicol.rf 0 12 10 Crot ty, c. 1 1 5 0 0 Foutz, If 2 2 10 1 M'LaugTn, ss 1 113 2 Caruthers, p.. 0 1 l 0 1 Miller, 2b 0 0 4 5 1 Buahoug, c.... 0 12 4 0 Total 01327 15 5 Total 5 1127 10 5 Score by innings: Louisville O 1 0 1 0 4 1 0 2—9 St. Louis O 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 2—5 Earned Runs—Louisville, 4; St. Louis, 1. Two-base Hit—Browning. > Three base Hit—McLaughlin. Passed Balls—Grotty, l; Bushong, 2. Wild Pitches—Caruthers. 1; Heeker, 1. First Base on Balls—Off Heeker, 1; off Caruthers, 1. First Base on Krrora—Louisville. 5: St. Louis, 3. Struck < <ut—By Heeker, 3; by Caruthers, 2. Double Plays—St. Louis, 2. Umpire—Tunison. Pittsburg Shut Out by Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Aug. 30.—Today’s game ended the championship season in this city, and the home team celebrated the occasion by administering a heavy defeat to the Pittsburgs. The visitors made but six hits off of McKeon’s pitching, and this, with the good fieldings of the Cincinnatis, prevented their scoriug at all. Following is the score: CINCINNATI. I PITTSBURG. RBOAK' RBOAG Jones, If 2 3 1 0 0; Whitney, ss.. 0 114 0 Reillv. 1b.... I 213 0 0 Brown, rs 0 0 3 0 0 Fennelly, as.. 1 0 0 5 0 Smith, 2b.... 0 12 0 2 Carpenter. 3b. 1112 o[Mann. cf 0 0 5 0 0 McPhee. 2b... 2 3 1 4 o|Eden. If 0 12 0 1 Corkhill. rs... 12 32 0 j Carroll, c 00 5 1 0 Keenan, c 0 0 5 2 2 Kuehne. 3b... 0 10 2 2 Clinton, cf.... 1 0 1 0 o‘Scott, lb 0 1 9 0 0 McKeon, p— 112 1 0 Morris, p 0 10 1 0 Total 10 12 27 16 2| Total 0 627 8 5 Score by innings: Cincinnati O 7 2 O O O O 1 O—lo Pittsburg 0 0000000 o—o Earned Runs—Cincinnati, 3. Two-base Hits—McKeon and Eden. Three-base Hits—Carpenter and CorkhilL Passed Bails —Carroll, 2. Wild Pitch—Morris. 1. First Base on Bads—Off Morris. 3. First Base on Errors—Cincinnati. 2. Struck Oat—By Morris, 4; by McKeon, 2. Umpire—Daniels. THE WALK UP POISONING CASE. Great Anxiety at Emporia to Learn the Piesnlt of the Analysis Made at Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 29 —The Times’s Emporia, Kan., special says: ‘'The community has been in suspense all day, awaiting the announcement of the result of the chemical analysis by Professor .Tones, cf Kansas City, in the Walkup case. The report has been forwarded by registered letter, and is now in the postoffice here. It will be delivered to the coroner to morrow. Nothing can bo learned as to the contents of the document Mrs. Wa’kup remains in the sheriff’s quarters at the courthouse. She is not in confinement, but, as a relative expressed it, is “simply residing with the sheriff’s family." Her mother, Mrs. Wallace, who has been with her for several days, will return soon to New Orleans, being called there by the illness of another daughter, and having become convinced that Mrs. Walkup is being well provided for. Judge Houston and Mr. Finley, of New Orleans, relatives of Mrs. Walkup. will remain here. The sheriff states that-her cousin, Young Willis, who is under arrest, will be released to-morrow. To satisfy themselves and the public generally regarding the theory that the deceased might have been poisoned by arsenic in the sub-nitrate of bismuth that was ad ministered him. Dr Jacobs, the attending physician. and County Attorney Feignan last evening took sixty grains of the compound from the same package as that given the patient, and have felt uo ill effects to-day from the doses.” GROWTH OF TUB SOUTH. Rapid Industrial Development During tlie Last Six Months. Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record. The industrial growth of the South during the last six months has been very marked, notwithstanding the general depression in nearly all business throughout the world. From Maryland to Texas there has been great activity in the organization of new enterprises, and with the return of better times, which arc now so confidently anticipated, there will be a still more rapid development of the manufacturing, mining and railroad interests of the South. The growth of Southern industries is not confined to any one line, but covers a wide diversity of enterprises. * * * In the list of new enterprises organized or established in the South during the first six months of 1885 there will be found furnace companies to make pig iron, foundries and machine shops, steel works, cotton seed oil mills, cotton compresses, fruit-canning factories, carriage and wagon factories, agncultural implement factories. flour mills, grist-mills, saw-mills, planing mills, sash, door and blind factories, shuttle factories, tobacco factories, brick yards, ice factories. fertilizer factories, furniture factories, stove foundries, wire-fence factories, lime works, soap factories, tanneries, glass works, gas works, whiting factories, distilleries, potteries, marble and slate quarrying companies, and companies to mine coal, iron ore, gold, silver,* mica, natural gas, oil, etc., showing that the South's progress is a steady advance in all lines, and not an unhealthy, because overestimated, growth of any one industry. * * * During the first six months of 1885 tho amount of capital, including capital stock of incorporated companies, invest ed in new manufacturing and mining .enterprises at the South, and the enlargement of old plants and rebuilding of mills after being destroyed by fire, aggregates about $36,534,000. It is of course true that with some of these companies the actual cash investment is not so large as the amount of their capital stock, but there are hundreds of small manufacturing enterprises, portablesfiw-ruiils.small grist-mills. ginneries and similar small industries, costing from a few hundred to a thousand dollars, are not included in this list. Tho aggregate cost of these would Ik? very considerable and would help to offset the too great capitalization of some incorporated companies. In addition to this every manufacturing enterprise is constantly adding here and there anew piece of machinery, which in the aggregate is very great, but we take no account of that, only including cases where a mill is greatly enlarged, remodeled, or other extensive irnoroveinents made. Summing up the amount of capital stock represented by our list of new enterprises for the first six months of 1885, we have: Alabama.... $3,580,000 Mississippi.. $416,000 Arkansas... 375,000|N. Carolina.. 1,535.000 Florida..... 479,000, S. Carolina.. 427 000 Oeorgia ..!.. 1,580,000 Tennessee... 1.802.000 Kentucky... 10.01 000 Texas 1,319.000 Louisiana .. 1 407.000 Virginia 2,008.000 Maryland... 4,033,000 t W. Virginia. 0.352.000 Total $30,534,000 The outlook for the future is now very promising. Rarely, if ever, have the prospects for the growing cr<'ps been more encouraging at the South than at present. Every indication points to magnificent corn and cotton crops—the largest ever produced—while for rice, sugar, fruit aud

vegetables tho outlook ia almost if not quite as gratifying. With abundant crops, produced at a low cost, with railroad, manufacturing and mineral interests steadily improving, the South bids fair to enter upon an era of great prosperity this fall. A PARROT’S TRAGIC DEATH. Falling from a Window and Telling It* Owner, “Polly’s Sick.’* Philadelphia Time*. Thomas Green, the proprietor of Oreen’g Hotel, allowed his poll parrot to walk about on tho window ledge of ono of the second-story win dows lst night. The window was open aud pollv lost her balance and fell on her head on the Chestnut street pavement. As she fell she uttered a shriek which attracted the attention of Reserve Officer Dougherty, who was standing on the corner of Eighth street Ho ran and picked the parrot up. As he carried it into the hotel the parrot said: “Polly’s sick.” Blood trickled from its green feathered head as the officer handed it to Chief Clerk Diamond, and the bird said again, as it closed its eyes: “Polly’s sick.” The wife of the hotel proprietor, who thought a great deal of the bird, soothed it in her hands and stroked the wounded head. “Polly’s sick.” said tho parrot again, and then, as the blood flowed down into its eyes, it tried to brush it away with its claws. While its bleeding head was being washed it repeated a number of times: “Polly’s sick.” For an hour it lay perfectly quiet, with its eyes closed, and then suddenly repeated again: “Polly’s sick." A moment later the parrot fell over dead. A Specimen Art Critic. Sun Francisco Chronicle. But this local oracle was walking through a gallery w ith one of those large-eyed, artless, simple, modest girls the other day. He was enlarging upon the different schools of painting. He appreciated everything; ho knew everything. They came to a picture. He saw w ithout looking a name in the corner. “Now, there,” he sai'L “I can tell the Dutch school at a glance. This is by Edboker. Edboker is a favorite of mine. There is something so genuine in his painting, something so natural and strong in his handling of a subject I think nothing is more marked or curious than the distinction between painters in the way they treat the same theme. The strong Dutch individuality of Edboker ” “I beg your pardon, but it appears to me this picture is painted by E. A. Baker.” ‘ £aker! Ah, dear me! so it is. How very Dutch he is.” The Shortage in the Virgiuia Treasury. Richmond, Va., Aug. 29 —The legislative committee, which has been investigating affairs in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, made necessary by the defalcation of first clerk William R. Smith, have concluded their labors. Tho report shows that the general investigation covers the period of seven years past, but the investigation of the indebtedness of the banks goes back fifteen years. During that time tha shortage foots up over $141,006, and the State has recovered SBI,OOO from delinquents, besides $30,000 given up by Smith, who is now in jail awaiting the decision of a motion for anew trial, he having been convicted under an indictment and given two years in the penitentiary. There are thirteen other iudictments against him. A "Woulil-Re Robber Identified. Milwaukee. Aug 30.—The would-be express robber captured at Elroy, July 25. in a cunningly arranged box of his own manufacture, and which he had caused to be shipped, with himself secreted inside, from Black River Falls for Chicago, has been identified as Robert (!. Niccols. a member of a respectable and well-to-do family. Two years ago Niecols was a student at the Orchard Lake, Mich., military academy. He left his home early in July, having SI,OOO or more in his possession, to engage in the cattle business in Dakota. It is supposed he lost nis money at gambling, and resorted to this shrewd, but unsuccessful scheme to rob the express company. He is now in jail at Mauston, this State. A Petition in Helialf of Riel. Rochester, N Y., Aug. 30.—A largely attended and enthusiastic meeting of the French Canadians of this city was held this afternoon in behalf of Riel. Addresses were made by prominent Frenchmen of this city, and a petition addressed to Secretary Bay aid, asking for the interposition of the United States government, was unanimously adopted. The petition, which is signed by all the French residents, states that Riel is a citizen of the United States, and that his trial was not a fair one. Tho Wabash Boycott Not Raised. St. Louis. Aug. 30. —A dispatch from Sedalia, Mo., contradicts the report sent out from there last nigiit, that a telegram had been received from Secretary Turner, of the national committee of the Knights of Labor, directing Ghafrmnn Drew to “raise the boycott on the Wabash and Missouri roads. ” Stabbed to the Heart. Pittsbtjru, Aug. 30.—A Kearnoysville.W. Va., special says: “Yesterday John Musgrove, who was guarding a fruit orchard of B. S. Mdntire, accused Frank Nutter of stealing some nenches. This so enraged Nutter that he drew a knife and stabbed his accuser to the heart.'’ A Valuable Cargo. San Francisco, Aug. 30.—The Alaska Commercial Company's steamer St. Paul, which arrived last night from Ounalaska. brought 99.996 sealskins, valued at over $1,000,000. Dr. Willis Everette, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, was among the passengers. Mr. Kelley’a Useful ness. New York Sun. 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