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fiobody envies him up there on his borrowed vreslth worth 80 cents on the dollar. No mob of road agents would care to lne off a box of 275 £unda worth at par bnt $4,000. It takes four en to carry a single box, and they could never ret away with four days' start Still. I think the four-armed marines view of the business was a §W>d one, and would have greatly enhanced the Value of the silver dollar in the eyes of the frequenters of Pennsylvania avenue, if it hadn't given a boom to silver bullion. THE CIVIL-SERVICE COMMISSION. Views of Commissioner Eaton as to Reorganization by the President. Washington, Oct 4. —ln answer to a request ©f a reporter of the Associated Press for his ©pinion whether the President would soon reorganize the Civil-service Commission, and as to how he would reorganize it, Commissioner Eaton said: “I will give you my own views frankly, without in the least assuming to speak for the Pres ident. My successor will, I presume, be ready to enter upon his duties on the Ist of November. If the President, in view of the unreasonable jealousies which exist, shall deem it wise to aapersede one or both of the other Commissioners, I think he will do so deliberately, freely, and at the proper time. He will not be coerced, either as to the time or the persons to be selected by the impudent demands of noisy intermeddlers. Those who clamor most about reorganization are not friends of reform, and they have but to continue their clamor to make their feebleness as manifest as their hostility. If he shall place two members of bis own party upon the Commission, he will not allow any laxity of administration or favoritism on their part to open the way to patronage and spoils, which are the aim of so many of those most inxious to help him to bring about a speedy reorganization. He would, lam sure, deprecate the making of a precedent for treating the office of Civil-service Commissioner as political, and to be filled anew by every succeeding president. Yet something must be conceded, perhaps, to the exigency of a new experiment and to an unenlightened public opinion on the subject Knowing, as the President does, that the work of the Commission is both new and complicated, and that it is not like the work of other parts of the service, explained in familiar regulations, I think he fully appreciates that anew commissioner will gain much by serving for a time with one or more of those familiar with the work. No disguised enemy of reform could deal it a more disastrous blow than to bring about an immediate change of all the Commissioners.” General and Personal, Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Oct. 4.—lt is generally believed by Indianians here that the pension agency at Indianapolis will be filled this week, and that the place will go to General Mansion. Several other agencies are to be filled this week, and it is likely the one in Indiana will be considered and disposed off at the same time. To day’s Capital says: “The new Assistant Commissioner of the Land Office, Hon. S. M. Stockslager, of Indiana, is at Gl6 Fifteenth street. His family will be welcome residents of Washington, having won many warm friends during Mr. Stockslager’s sojourn here in Congress.” Senator Yoorhees, of Indiana, has accepted an invitation from the Virginia Democratic State committee to speak in Leesburg, Loudon county, Monday, Oct. 12. The rededication of the new Roman Catholic Church of St. Dominick, in this city, to-day, was an imposing ceremony. Bishop Watterson, of Columbus, 0., preached a sermon on the authenticity of the Catholic Church and the apostolic succession.

DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, ) Office of the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, Oct 5, la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four hours from 7 A. m. for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Local showers, slightly warmer. For the Ohio Valley aud Tennessee—Slightly warmer, generally fair weather, winds generally from south to west, lower barometer. For the Lower Lake Region—Local showers, south to west winds, becoming variable, slight rise in temperature. For the Upper Lake Region—Local showers, variable winds, generally from north to west; slight rise in temperature, generally higher barometer. For the UpperMissippi Valley—Local showers, followed by fair weather, variable winds, slight rise in temperature. For the Missouri Valley—Generally fair weather, preceded by local showers in southern portion, northerly winds, becoming variable, higher barometer, slight changes in temperature. Local Ooservationa. Indianapolis, Oct. 4. Time. Bar. j Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6a, m.. 29.88| 40.9 88 West Fair 10 a. M.. 29.95* 44.4 65 West Cloudy 2p.m.. 29.97 36.8 55 West Cloudy 6 p.m . 30.01 45.7 56 West [Fair 10 p. M.. 30.05 42.3 74 South|Cloudy Maximum temperature. 48.6; Minimum temperature, 39.9. General Observations. War Department, ) Washington, Oct. 4, 9 r. m. j Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. }T~@ | | p. e-g. t ® o • ° E, STATIONS. Z 3 | ~ H r* % • -5 '• : <t> ? • : ? : : t : New York Oily 29.90 52|Nwestj dear. Washington City.... 30.02; 50jNwest! Clear. Vicksburg. Miss 30.13 57; North Clear. New Orleans. La... 30.14; 64 Nwest Clear. Shreveport, La 30.12; 58(South Clear. Fort Smith. Ark j 30.00 55 East Ciear Little Rock, Ark... 1 30.04 59 j South Clear. Galveston, Tex 30.14) 68'Southj Clear. Memphis, Term... 30.08) 58 B’fcastj j Clear. Nash vile, Tenn ... 30.08, 49 Nwest j Clear. Louisville, Kv 30.09 j 49jSwest! .Iclear. Indianapolis, Ind... 30.00; 42.Swest! I Cloudy. Cincinnati. 0 30 08 43{Calm 'Clear. Pittsburg. Fa 30.00! 46tWest ... .iClear. Oswego. N. Y 129.781 40 West -...jCloudy. Toledo. 0 30.02 44 West .01 Cloudy. Kscanaba. Mich 129.97] 32 North I .02! Fair. Marquette, Mich—|29.94i 32|West j .17Ltsnow. Chicago, 111 129 99 46.u8.west Lt. rain. Milwaukee, Wis .. 29.90 41 Swest!... .Clear. Duluth, Minu 29.99] 35‘Nwest; iClear. St. Paul Minn <29.97! 35 Nwest Lt snow. LaCroese, Wis (29.91 44'Nwest! Cloudy. Davenport, la |29.89j 43!East Cloudy. Des Moines, la 29.8 4 44 North . ...(Clear. Keokuk, ia 129.841 52 S’east !Cloudy. Cairo. 11l <30.04 54 South ... . Clear. Springfield. 11l 29.93 51 (Seast .... ThreatV St. Louis. Mo 29.96 57;South (Cloudy, Lamar, Mo (29.97 56;South (Clear. Ijeavenworth, Kan.. 29.93 62 North ,04'Lt. -ain Omaha, Neb <29.92 53lNorth! |Clear. Yankton. Dak <29 98 47 Nwest (Clear. Moo rehead, Minn...(30.07 32<N’westj .07(01oudy. Bismarck, Dak (30.20 35;North Cloudy. Fort Buford, Dak . 30.20i 42 Nwest Cloudy. Ft. Assiniboine.M.T 30.43 40;Ea-t Fair. Fort Custer. Mont.. 30.27 40 North Clear. Deadwood Dak 30.17 39(Nwest Clear. North Platte, Neb..<30.02 51'North Clear. Denver, Col 30.03 55; North Clear. W. Las Animas, Col 29.92 57 Fast Clear. Dod-re City, Kan... 29 95 55 N’east ...." Clear. Fort Elliott, Tex... 29.92 58 South Clear. Fort Sill. lud. Ter | Fort Stockton, Tex. 30.02 70,S’ewt Clear. El Paso, Tex 29.93 70jWest Clear. Salt Lake City, U3\ 29.93 64|S'east Fair. Hotel and Other Buildings Burned. Marinette, Wis., Oct 4—Seven buildings, including the Commercial House and several jlaeß of business, were destroyed by fire here, early this morning. Loss between 825,000 And tUO'GOO; about one-half insured.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Large Attendance at the Tearly Meeting of Orthodox Friends—Tramp Burned to Death—Notes and Gleanings. INDIANA. Very Large Attendance at the Annual Meeting of Orthodox. Friends. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, Oct 4. —As on every Sunday of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Orthodox Friends, this has been an eventful day in Richmond. Vast crowds of people came by rail from distant cities, and in private conveyances from all the country round, and for those who came for the most laudable purpose the meeting furnished a season of profitable devotional meetings and commendable social intercourse, for in no religious sect or class of people is there any more genuine friendship than in the Society of Friends. Bqt the major part of those who came for this day only came for the pleasure of the trip and to see the vast multitude, and this time it was a “cold day” for them, the sudden frigid change of the weather making them wish for their overcoats. They were from Indianapolis, from whence there came fifteen cars; from Bradford Junction, sever, cars, while the regular train got three car-loads between there and Urbana; from Logansport, eleven cars; from Fort Wayne, nine cars; from Dayton, seven cars, and from Cincinnati, fourteen cars, making in all about four thousand excursionists. As usual, the ministers in most all the churches cave up their pulpits to Friends who were not appointed to preach at their own meeting-house, in which, and at the various stands on the grounds, meetings were in progress at almost all hours. Tramp Burned to Death. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, Oct. 4. —Late this evening some sheds and stables at the fair grounds were fired by some drunken tramps. Loss, 1,000; insured for S3OO. After the fire was extinguished a burned body, supposed to be that of one of the tramps, who was too drunk to escape, was found.

Minor Notes. The Floyd county poor-house has sixty-nine inmates. Thomas A.fßynum has assumed editorship of the Pike County Democrat. Andrew Kern, seventy-four years old, a wellknown wealthy farmer, who resided near Memphis, died on Saturday. The Sullivan Democrat has entered upon its thirty-second year. It has been from the first under the management of its founder, Murray Briggs. W. H. Dillard, whose foot was crushed in a railroad wieck, near Lafayette, in August last, and subsequently amputated, has been removed to his home in New Albany. A sand-bank six miles below Evansville caved in upon two laborers. One of them, Peter Carnegie, received fatal injuries. The other, Thomas Barry, was painfully hurt Satuiday afternoon a freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio road struck a broken frog at the gravel pit, three miles west of Milford Junction, and fourteen cars went into the ditch. The wreck was a bad one. During the month of September thirty-four prisoners have been received at the northern penitentiary, the largest number, eleven, being from Allen county. The combined sentences for the month amount to seventy-one years. The eighteen-months-old child of Charles Robinson, of New Albany, came very near getting poisoned. Its mother had placed poisoned pieces of cake to kill mice in the house, and the" child got hold of one of these pieces and ate it. It suffered terribly, but is considered out of danger. Yesterday afternoon an L., N. A. & C. freight train ran into the L, B. & W. freight that was backing over the crossing at Crawfordsville. Four freight cars were badly demolished, and the New Albany engine wrecked. Both claimed the right of way. The loss will not be over $1,500. In the celebrated gravel-road cases before the Wells county court, at the present term, Judge Saylor held that the curativo act of the Legislature passed last winter, by which it was sought to legalize the action of the commissioners, as applied to the case before the court, was unconstitutional. A large meeting of the citizens of Jennings county met at Vernon, on Saturday, to discuss the organization of a national bank. The project was received with favor, and a committee consisting of J. W. Hill, S. W. Storey, R. Leavitt and T. C. Batchelor was appointed to make application to the Comptroller of the Currency for the necessary papers. While Mr. Redding, of Van Buren, Grant county, was engaged in operating bis steam thrashing machine upon the farm of Patrick Bartmau, the boiler exploded from a scarcity of water, completely wrecking the boiler and engine. Fortunately there were no persons near when the explosion took place except Mr. Red ding, who was acting as engineer. He was severely scalded on the legs and body. The Twenty-third Regiment, Indiana volunteer Infantry, will hold their first reunion at Salem, on Oct 15 and 16. The followine-named persons have been requested to deliver addresses on that occasion: W. R. Burton, of Columbus, Ind., address of welcome; Col. D. C. Anthony, “Battle of Shiloh;” S. W. Stratton, of Kansas, “Running Blockade at Vicksburg;” Col. W. P. Davis and Major Ferguson, on “Siege of Vicksburg;” Capt. Thomas Clark, “Battle of Raymond:” Capt. W. L. Purcell, “Siege of Atlanta.” ILLINOIS. Mr. Lounsberry Relieves Clark County Farmers by Killing a Wolf. Special to the Indian&eoiis Journal. Marshall, Oct 4. —For several months farmers in Johnson township have suffered greatly from depredation' committed on their hogs and young cattle by some unknown animal. It was suggested that it was a wolf, but the idea was scouted by nearly all, from the fact that none of these animals have been seen in the countv for years. But on Friday James Lounsberry, a young man, was out hunting, when he suddenly came face to face with a large wolf. He at once shot it, and his dog finished the beast The farmers are much pleased over the solution of the mystery and the destruction of the animal. Vinegar Factory Damaged by Fire. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, Oct 4.—This afternoon and evening the vinegar factor r and feed mill of Augustus Gehlert was damaged by fire to the extent of $3,000 to $4,000; insurance, $2,000. Brief Mention. A serious cutting affray occurred at Areola on Saturday, in which John Ryan was seriously cut near the heart and in the abdomen by Andy Delozier. There had been a quarrel between these parties long ago, in which it seems Ryan was the aggressor. Ryan is lying in a precarious condition, and the physicians say he will die. The neighborhood about Bridgeport has been a favorite field for Mormon missionary work. Recently several of the most prominent residents of Lawrence county have embraced Mormonisra and will leave their old homes on Oct 12 and emigrate to Utah Since they joined the Saints they have received the contumely of their neighbors, and some of them have been covered with rotten egg g, and a boodle of hickory switches m recently left on the door step of one Ram

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sey As a warning. It is feared they will suffer further violence before their departure, and the advent of any more saintly apostles will probably provoke breaches of the peace. The missionaries have been very active in Richland county also. John Edmonds, editor of the' Lincoln Daily Journal, was asssulted by A. A. Fisher, State agent of a piano firm of Chicago. The trouble grew out of the publication of Fisher's recent arrest, charged with knocking down a Lincolnhouse waitress. Fisher whs arrested, and gave* bail to appear for trial. Edmonds is rather unfortunate. This is the fourth time he has been pummeled. Cnsiderable excitement exists in the neighborhood of Galena over a rich discovery of mineral in Apple River township, on the oid Squire McCarty farm. The lode bids fair to be one of the most valuable ever struck in this region. The Hewett and Pritchard mines in Benton and along Fever river are also very productive, yielding from six to eight carloads of black-jack and lead ore per week. At Tolono, Postmaster John Colvin, who has continued, since taking charge of the postoffice, to hold the office of police magistrate, has at last been compelled to resign the latter office. Colvin has assessed and collected several fines during the period which he has unlawfully administered the police magistrate's office, and the town ia threatened with prosecutions by the defendants in these cases for proceeding without legal authority. THE VALUED POLICY LAW. A Clear Statement of Its Objectionable Features—How It Works In New Hampshire. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle prints the following letter from the Insurance Commissioner of New Hampshire respecting that State’s re-cently-enacted valued policy law: Insurance Commissioner’s Office, ? Concord, N. H., Sept. 17, 1885. 5 The Hon. Martin V. Calvin, Member of Legislature, State of Georeie: Dear Sir—Yours of .the 14th duly received. As you suggest, the people of this State “are in an exceedingly bad wav.” Every licensed fire insurance company has canceled its agencies, called home supplies, and withdrawn from the State, and I am just informed that about seven-ty-five other companies are pledged not to write a policy for a citizen of this State. A few com panics are canceling policies, but this is not yet general. For home companies we are limited to one stock and a few small mutuals; consequently, manufacturers, traders, and business parties generally, including the banks, who hold heavy amounts of policies as collateral, are, or soon will be, almost literally without insurance. Strong men of wealth, the accumulation of years of industrious toil, are soon to be at the mercy of the devouring element. The situation may be partially imagined, but not easily described. It is in contemplation among business men to petition the Governor to convene the Legislature to repeal the law, while average citizens, who have onlv their shelters to insure, largely oppose the movement. The future, therefore, is in doubt. I inclose copies of the recent enactments. Ydu will notice that they are a compilation of the most offensive legislation touching insurance that exists in all the States, no single State, except this, having adopted the whole batch; still the valued policy is the chief bone of contention. Insurance capital is becoming very sensitive as to the introduction of this principle. Their experiences in States where it has been adopted confirm their worst fears in relation to it, and they feel compelled to make a stand against it in self-defense, and for tho protection of their customers.

The valued policy has been put forth as a remedy for over-insurance, which is unquestionably a great evil. This, however, is not the first instance where a proposed remedy has aggravated the disease. A little reflection must convince any one that such a law invites and facilitates the evil it is so desirable to abate; it provides that the sum named in the policy at a limit, no matter how many manipulations, misstatements, concealments, or subterfuges may have been devised to obtain it. shall be paid, although it may be twice the value of the property destroyed. I know it is often flippantly said a* person should have all the insurance he pays for, ignoring the idea of indemnity. With the unreflecting this phrase pasaes quite current, but will it bear a moment’s investigation? Primarily, m nine cases out of ten. the owner is the best judge as to the value of his property; if he pays for more insurance than it is worth he does so voluntarily, and for some purpose; there is no compulsion, however derelict as to his duty the agent may be. This over-insurance, when obtained, at once takes away his interest in tho preservation of hjs property; it makes it worth more to burn than to keep, and therefore invites him to apply the torch. To substitute the valued policy for the indemnity contract is to substitute carelessness] for care, incentive for precaution, knavery for virtue, and to increase the moral hazard without limit. Under this law dishonest agents and property-owners may connive together, and sell undesirable property to insurance companies for double its value, and the companies are practically estopped from exposing the fraud and protecting themselves as well as the public who eventually do all the paying, for every fraud even enters into the premiums wo nay for insurance. The valued policy proposes to change the simple indemnity contractagalnst loss, which has been the theory and practice of insurance ever since its origin, into a speculative contract, and is in direct opposition to the whole tenor of the decisions of courts iu this country aud in England, which have uniformly held that the possible recovery of more than the value of the property destroyed or lost is against public policy, and it jurious to public morals. This measure in effe*. * offers a premium for fraud. It furnishes thenonest portion of the community with increased burdens, and shields the rogues with their ill-got* en booty. It makes contracts arbitrary which have heretofore been opened to adjustment by disinterested neighbors, or on appeal to the courts, where insurance companies especially rarely obtain mercy. In tnis State, by the adoption of the amendment to Chapter 172 of the statutes, all the stipulations, covenants and ageeements on the part of the insured found in ordinary policy contracts are swept away, so that, with his valued policy, he stands complete master of the situation; if embarrassment presses him, or avarice allures him, or innate deviltry tempts him, he has the staff in his own hands. The poor boon of proving fraud before a prejudiced and therefore hostile jury, left the insurance companies, is simply a bold indignity. I regard the principle of the law as fraught with danger to the public weal, debauching the public morals, and as directly contravening the petition, “Lead us not into temptation.” Cases of injustice do occur through overzealous agents and adjusters, for which I would be the last to apologize, but these are the exceptions, and not the general rule. Thousands of losses may be and are liberally adjusted and promptly paid without exciting comment, while a single case of injustice creates a tempest that '’sweeps through the whole community with electric speed. While I deprecate these isolated cases, I do not thiak they justify the enactment of this sweeping and revolutionary measure, which would upset all former court decisions, changing the indemnity contract, so long tho rule, into a speculative wager, and opening a wide door for fraudulent operations that will inevitably increase the fire waste and greatly endanger and oppress honest people that vogues may thrive. I have thus hastily described tho situation in this State as you desired, and briefly given my views of the measure under consideration. I hope your honorable Legislature will arrive at wise and just conclusions whether I am in tho right or iu the wrong. Yours very truly, Oliver Pillsbury, Insurance Commissioner. Almost a Prize-Fight. Springfield, Mass. Oct 4.— At North Adams, last night Billy Frazier, of Boston, and Jimmy Carroll, of Holyoke, gave a sparring exhibition that was almost a prize-fight At the end of the fourth round, both men were badly knocked out and were not allowed to come together again. After Life’s Fitful Fever. Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks has been very quiet of late. After having been used alternately as a door-mat aud a cushion, he sleeps well. An open shed will be preferred by poultry in preference to a closed bouse, even in severe weather. Fowls are partial to fresh air, but equire shelter from rains and cold winds.

ONE OP LOVE’S TRAGEDIES. Balloting for Life or Death—A Pair of Lovers Take Their Lives in Central Park. I From Omr Second Edition of Namiay.i New York, Oct J. —At 8 o’clock this evening Policeman Dugan, of the Central Park police, on duty near Seventy-second street, heard a pistol shot A second and third in quick succession gave him the direction, and hurrying through' the shrubbery in the darkness, he found himself close by the statue of the “Pilgrim,” on the east drive, when he heard another shot. Then followed several deep groans and all was still. A light was struck, and this was what tho officer saw: A man and woman, both robed deeply in black, as if prepared for funeral, lying upon a horse blanket. The woman was dead, and a smile was upon her face, which, in life, had been pretty. The man was dying and soon was still. On the woman’s breast, which she had bared for the bullet, lay a lock of her lover’3 hair, and upon his a dead leaf and a rose. Each wore on the left hand a black glove, and between them lay a bulldog pistol. A drop of oil on the woman’s hands, and grime or smoke on her fingers, showed that there was no murder, but suicide. The man having died last, indicated that he had waited the woman’s death before taking his life. Two bullet holes were in her breast at the heart, and her companion’s aim had been as true. Between them was a box full of love letters. The two bodies were placed upon a stretcher by Dugan, the officer, and others who had arrived, and carried to the street, where a wagon was procured in which they were taken to the morgue. There the box of letters was opened. There was a mass of them. Part were written by George Bassendorf, of 19 Liberty street, Union, Hudson county, New Jersey, to Maria. Who "Maria” was or is, is not disclosed by any evidences found. Among the papers were ballots of destiny that had been taken by the two. They had clearly sat with each other and deliberated death, and left it to the chance of each, at the same time, writing the fatal words on paper. The slips were there, and on them the words, “Shall we die?" and “Shall we live?” The die had finally been cast fatally, and the two, it is reasoned, had repaired to the park together. The man was a compositor, working on the Freie Press, in Jersey City. Each was about thirty years old. The woman’s letters told of a wedded life that was a perfect hell, and of a husband who, to her, was a demon. The letters of each give the impression that their loves had been without sin. and only hopeless. They loved each other so much, and could be so little to each other, that they concluded to die. The woman left letters to her children and others, all in German. The man, Bassendorf, had boarded in her family, and thus she had come to love him more and her husband less. Identification of tbe Bodies. New York, Oct. 4.—The bodies of the man and woman who, last night, committed suicide in Central Park, have lain all day at the morgue. Both bodies have been identified, the man’s as that of Geo. Bessendorf, and the woman, “Maria,” as Maria Koch, wife of the editor of the Jersey City Freie Presse and Sontagsgast. The bodies, to-morrow, will be removed to an undertaker’s, aud there will be prepared for interment. The woman was thirty-eight years of age, and resided with her husband and four children on Pavonia avenue, Jersey City Heights. Bessendorf was twenty-two years of age, and until recently was employed in the composing rooms of the New Jersey Freie Presse. Dr. Koch states that Bessendorf came to his home, about four months ago, with a letter of introduction from Carl Seigoff, of No. 14 Liberty street. Bessendorf represented that he was in destitute circumstances, and would work hard if given a chance. Dr. Koch gave him employment and took him to his home to board. The intimacy which soon after arose between his wife and the boarder was discovered, and. while they insisted that it was not criminal, Bessendorf was compelled to seek another boarding-house. He visited Dr. Koch’s house while that gentleman was absent a short time since, and persuaded Mrs. Koch to elope. Though search was made for the wife, nothing was learned of her whereabouts until to-day, when the tragedy in the park became known.

ONE CHANCE IN A THOUSAND. A Very Rare Surgical Operation Successfully Performed at Washington, D. C. Washington Special. Avery rare surgical operation was performed successfully last Thursday by Dr. D. W. Bliss, in conjunction with Dr. Hammett, upon George R. |Fowler, son of Mr. E. C. Fowler, acting Firs* Assistant Postmaster-general. The young man was affected with a troublesome cough during the summer, and two weeks ago he was confined to his bed by a serious and oppressive illness, which was believed to be inflammation or congestion of the lungs or consumption. Gradually the chest became distended, and the lung space filled up, so that the patient was on the point of suffocation. Tuesday Dr. Hammett, applying his ear to the patient’s chest, thought he detected something like a breathing through water. Dr. Bliss was called into consultation, and it was agreed that there was an accumulation of water in the chest. A difficult and dangerous surgical operation was necessary, without which the patient could not live. The operation was performed with a kind of a pump known as Delfor’s aspirator. A large needle was inserted in one of the rib spaces under the left arm, and an entrance was made clear into the left lung, a small tube attached to the aspirator was put into this opening and the pump was set to work. In a short time fifty-two ounces, or about three and a half piuts, of water were drawn off, and the patient experienced immediate relief and could breathe freely. The accumulated water had crushed the heart from its usual seat on the left over to the patient’s right side, and had pushed the left lung up under his chin. Immediately after the operation the surgeons were able to pronounce the patient out of danger. Two days before he was thought to be beyond recovery. ■■ ' How He Lost Jay Gould’s Custom. New York Tribune. I stopped at the stand of a bootblack in Fortysecond street, near the Grand Central Depot, yesterday, to have my shoes polished. He was a shrewd faced, middle-aged roan. The polish on his own shoes shone until you could see the reflection of your face in it I remarked that he wore the sign of his business. *Tve done that for ten years." he replied. “I’ve never missed a morning except one. That time 1 lost the best customer I ever had. and a good stand besides. So I’m not likely to forget it. I had a stand in Sixth avenue then,” he ran on, as he rubbed away at ray shoes. “It was jnst where I caught a good bit of Fifth avenue trade, before men took the elevated road for down town. I had one customer, who was early, regular and punctual to a given time every morning. He would sit and read the paper while I blackened his shoes. Then he would hand me a quarter and walk away. One morning I overslept myself, and hadn’t time to get my own shoes blacked before I began work. It had rained the day before and my shoes were very dirty. My customer came trotting aloi^r—he was a little man with heavy whiskers—and was just about to pop into the chair when he saw my dirty shoes. ‘Hello,’he cried, ‘you’re not fit to black other men’s shoes till you get your own blacked.’ Then he walked off. I never got a chance at him again. Another fellow, who set up a stand on the opposite corner, got his quarter, and somehow the other customers followed. Do I know who he was? Yes, indeed. It was Jay Gould. It happened years ago. Igo up that way occasionally yet He gets his boots blacked at home now. But it makes me lonesome to think of how I lost his custom that time.” A Big Gold Bar. Halifax (N. S.'i Horning Chronicle, Sept. 29. The unupual scene waa witnessed yesterday of a gentleman earrying a large bar of gold on his shoulder through the streets to deposit it in one of the banks, and the astonishing size of the val-

tiftblo burden excited additional curiosity among observers The party in charge of it was Mr. T. N. Baker, superintendent of works at the New Albion Compcny's mines at Montagu, from which the gold had just been brought to the city. The bar weighed 1.054£ ounces, being the product of fourteen days crushing in the company s twelve-stamp mill, and was worth $20,018. After deducting the cost of producing the gold a profit of about $19,500 remains. The bar is the largest ever seen in Nova Scotia. TRUSTEE KITZ’S AFFAIRS. What a Democratic Paper Thinks of His Strange Conduct. Greenfield Democrat. Trustee Kitz, of Indianapolis, declines to go before a justice and make affidavit against Pollard for forging township orders. As Mr. Kitz some days ago made a voluntary affidavit that he never had any dealings with Pollard, his refusal to make the affidavit in the face of $21,000 of bogus orders, needs explanation. Mr. Kitz's strange conduct and vacillating course tends to make his frinnds believe that there is crookedness in his office. Has Not Followed the Path of Rectitude. Greenfield Democrat. Township Trustee Kitz is evidently in a bad condition in the minds of the intelligent people of Indianapolis. When first called on he made a report that seemed full nnd fair, beyond the high prices paid for work to a favored few. Afterward he made another report that materially increased the indebtedness of his township, aud beyond the limit allowed by law. Now several orders turn up. not included in either of his reports, for SIB,OOO to $20,000. Some of the orders are made payable to the order of the notorious Pollard, though Kitz had made a voluntary affidavit that be had never had any dealings with Pollard. Mr. Kitz says these orders are a forgery. The conduct of Mr. Kitz is peculiarly unfortunate to tho Democratic party, of which he is a member, and particularly so just preceding the municipal electic n, on which it will naturally have an unfavorable effect bo far as the Democratic party is concerned. In the opinion of a good many Democrats of the capital city Mr. Kitz has not followed the well-beaten path that usually brings to the retiring official the plaudit ‘‘Well done though good and faithful servant.” He Was a “Reformer. 0 Muncie News. Let's see, isn’t Mr. Kitz one of those fellows who wanted the books opened? Princesses Doigorouki. London World. Princess Dolgorouki. the widow of the late Czar, has left Aix-les-Bains, with her family, for Biarritz, where she intends to remain till the beginning of November, when she returns to Paris for the winter. A weekly theatrical paper has commented on some concerts which have recently be n given at German watering places by a Princess Doigorouki, under the impression that the performer is the Czar’s widow. Os course this is an absurd mistake. The princess who has been playing and singing in Germany for nearly a year past was originally a Spanish actress, and when engaged at St. Petersburg she married one of the numerous princes of the Doigorouki family, but her husband, who was never wealthy, has lately sustained serious reverses, and, with commendable pluck, she has returned to her former profession in order to earn a living, and she has deservedly obtained a considerable success. It is to tbe last degree improbable that, under any circumstances, the Princess Doigorouki would be singing and playing in public, seeing that she is one of the richest women in Europe, thanks to the prudence of her husband, who invested immense sums of money for her and their chilren in Germany, Holland and England.

The Fight with the Saloon Interest. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: A saloon-keeper in the city the other day, when discussing the question of a special tax on the business in which he is engaged, said that there was no more reason for a special tax on liquor-selling than on selling bread or potatoes, and that the property used in the traffic had the same right to be exempt from all taxes a3 churches or school-houses. Stranger things have happened than the open avowal of this doctrine, and an attempt to apply it. For generations slavery existed by mere sufferance and under many disabilities. Its most ardent friends claimed nothing else for it, but little by little it encroached upon its restrictive bounds, until it claimed everything. Not content to enjoy what had been conceded to it, it clamed the right not only to go into territories long consecrated to freedom, but to come into Indiana and be protected. And, strange to say, it found a political party ready to grant all this, through its party leaders. But the rank and file of that party would not consent to the contract, and that party was relegated to the rear for a quarter of a century, and slavery perished forever in its iusauo attempt to become absolute master. We cannot doubt the final result cf the conflict which the iiquor traffic is forcing upon this Nation, of which, according to their own theory, the contest now going on in Indianapolis, is a mere preliminary skirmish. Nothing important can be settled by the coming election beyond a verdict for or against the arrogant assumptions of the traffic. It may furnish an inkling to the readiness of the people to bow down to or to resist its authority, but little more. A fight on the skirmish line is never decisive, but is often prophetic. If the tax-payers are defeated next week, it will only lead to a more thorough organization and a more determined resistance. The liquor interest could hardly be bettor organized. It can gain encouragement by a success, but it will not abandon the field if defeated. We repeat, that we do not doubt the final result. To doubt would be to lose faith in the right. This land cannot go into the hauds. permanently. of such a business as the drink traffic. It is undoubtedly there now to a fearful extent, just as it was for a decade or more in the hands of slavery, only to be wrested from them forever; but the traffic cannot foreclose its claim without a struggla That struggle has begun. The. question of a hundred-dollars tax ia the immediate objective poiut in Indianapolis; but behind that lies the question which must be settled, and it is not difficult to foresee, from the violence and intimidation already developed, that the traffic intends to die in the last ditch. In less than a decade.from present indications, it will not be merely a question of a special tax, as now, but the saloon-keeper above quoted unwittingiy disclosed its probable demand to be placed by the side of churches and schools on the exempt list It has already become “a leading industry,” having “vested rights” and many similar things. In short, no election has ever been held in Indianapolis with more far-reaching results than the one which comes off on the 13th inst a. Oats and rye are much similar to each other in composition. To make a good feed for horses corn should be mixed with them. A bushel of rye, two bushels of oats and five of corn ground together, will make excellent food. Most perfect made Prepared by a physician with special regard to health. No Ammonia, Lime or Alum. PRICE BAXINfi POWDER C 0. 9 CHICAGO. (SOLO OUT U CiH.) BX. LOUIS

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