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mated that during the session of Congress the terms of at least 600 postmasters will expire, so that the nominations of over 1,000 postmasters will tome before the Senate during the next session. There are 2.335 presidential postmasters in the country, and. at the rate observed during the past six months, all presidential postmasters will be changed in two years. Appointments by the President. Washington, Oct 6.—The President to-day appointed the following-named presidential postmasters: Wm. C. Butts, at Valley Forge, Kan., vice Albert G. Patrick, resigned; Wm. Milner, at Cartersville, Ga.; Alfred R. Storey, at Dixon, Cal.; Charles Doerr, at Fort Madison, la.; Wm. H. Tatum, at Glasgow, Mo., vice Wm. Dewee, resigned; Thomas J. Lane, at Greenville, Tenn.; Alonzo P. P. Sharp, at McCook, Neb.; George W. Sain, atrNickerson, Kan.; Jas. P. Alcorn, at Kinsley, Kan.; Robert Burns, at Houston, Tex., vice H. J. Johnson, commission expired; J. B. Fugate, at Newton, Kan., vice H. C. Ashbaugh, suspended; Harrison W. Clark, at Jacksonville, Fla., vice Wm. W. Ledwith, suspended; Robert Simpson, at Wheeling, W. Va., vice Hugh Sterling, suspended. The President to day made the following appointments: To be Receivers of Public Moneys—Samuel S. Gilbert at Wichita, Kan ; Wm. C. Jordan, at Montgomery, Ala.; Oliver Thomson, at North Platte, Neb.; Samuel G. Glover, at Valentine, Neb. To be Registers of Land Offices—Wm. Neville, at North Platte; S. F. Burtcb, at Valentine, Neb. Patents for Indianians. Special to the Indianaoolis Journal. Washington, Oct. 6.—Patents were issued to Indianians to-day as follows: George G. F. Boswell, Indianapolis, stalk harvester; W. Scott Canadav, assignor of one-half to R. B. Carson, New Castle, roller skate; John D. Cohee and G. R. Gamble. Frankfort, washing machine: W. N. Ford, Indianapolis, cc or for tobacco pails; James J. Gilliland, assig. - to J. B. Bennett, Indianapolis, line wire fo.* mechanical telephones; G. W. Barney, Warsaw, weatherstrip; Hugh T. Reed, Richmond, shelving; Jacob V. Rowlett. Richmond, roller skate; Henry S. Simpson, Connersville, double bed; Granville E. Sowder. North Salem, two-wheeled vehicle; Fred C. Storrs, Hudson, drag saw; William Strong, assignor of one-half to C. Aneshaensel, Indianapolis, pipe or hose coupling: William W. Wallace, assignor to Wallace Manufacturing Company. Frankfort, mold for casting rolls; Stephen D. Willis, Terre Haute, medical compound. A Forgery on the President. Washington. Oct. G.—At the White House, to-day, it is declared that the letter printed by a number of papers this morning upon the New York State election, purported to have been written by the President to a friend in Buffalo, is a forgery. The only utterance the President has made on the subject was an answer which he dictated to Colonel Lamont, his private secretary, to be made to an inquiry sent him by a correspondent, and was as follows: “The President is a Democrat, and it is strange that any person should question his position. He earnestly desires the success of his party in the pending election in New York State, as well as elsewhere, and any assertion to the contrary is utterly and maliciously false. 1 ' Flight of Congressmen. Special :o the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Oct. 6.—The influx of officeseekers has caused a decrease in the ranks of Democratic congressmen here. The office dispensers are already running away from their friends who come to see them. They cannot face the music. They cannot and will not fulfill their promises. The taik about rewarding the faithful, made on the stump a year ago, is coming back in mocking echoes. War on the Land-Grant Railways. Washington, Oct. 6.—Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land-office, in his annual report, will make sweeping recommendations as to the land-grant roads. It is said he is of the opinion that all of the land grant roads have received land in excess of the amount earned. One road, land officials maintain, has obtained 5,000,000 acres in excess of its rights. Suits will probably be commenced againt several of the roads to recover the amount claimed to be duo the government. The Oregon Senatorahip. Washington, Oct. 6. —An Oregon Republican, who has just arrived, says that the Governor of that State has not yet determined to call an extra session of the Legislature to elect a United States senator, and that it is the impression in Oregon that if the Governor is convinced that no successful objection will be made to the admission of a senator appointed by him, he will not convene the Legislature, but will make an ad interim appointment General and Personal. •'’pedal to the Indianacoii? Journal. Washington, Oct. 6.—Preston Hussey, of Terre Haute, is at the Ebbitt Congressman elect Owen, of Logansport, has nformed friends here that he will be in Washington for the session early next month. Being in the minority now he does not think he can spend much time at the capital advantageously before Congress meets. • The Treasury Department to-day purchased 290,000 ounces of silver for delivery at the New Orleans and Philadelphia mints for coinage into standard dollars. The Comptroller of the Currency to day extended the corporate existence of the First National Bank of Paducah, Ky., and of the National Bank of Neenah, Wis., to Sept. 12, 1905. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The explosion of the mines at Flood Rock, in the East river. New York harbor, has been fixed for Saturday next.at 11a. m. The sheriff of Hardin county, Tennessee, captured four moonshiners on Saturday night, and placed them in jail to await trial before the federal court. The contract for the cut-stone and mason work on the Gartield monument at Cleveland was awarded to Thomas Simmons, of that city, yesterday. The work will be commenced at once. The nail mill of Kimberly & Cos., at Sharon, Pa., lias resumed operations at last year's wages, giving employment to several hundred persons. The striking nailers regard tho break as the entering wedge to a complete victory. A colored prpaeher in Madison county, Tenwas stabbed by another negro in several places, on Monday, and tho preacher, seizing a chib, felled his assailant, crushing his nose. Both combatant are in a serious condition. William Orth, the fifth victim to surrender to the teriible effects of the recent boiler explosion at the Solar iron works, Pittsburg, died on Monday night. At least two more are believed to have received injuries from which they cannot recover. The opinion of Judge Jackson Temple, in the celebrated case of Mrs. Ellen M. Colton vs. Leland Stanford and other directors of the Central Pacific Railroad, was filed yesterday at Santa Rosa, Cal. Judgment wa3 ordered for the defendants. George Thompson, the razor fiend who cut Lucy Lawton, a beautiful young lady of Cleveland, nearly to death, a few months ago, and tisfigured her for life, was yesterday senteuced to twenty years in the penitentiary. He was given the full extent of the law. C. D. Lester, a stock dealer, committed suicide on Monday, at Burlington Junction Springs, Pennsylvania. He was a well-known man, and an old friend of President Cleveland, having been deputy sheriff of Erie county. New V ork, when Cleveland was sheriff. No cause is assigned for the deed. Date for Ward’s Trial Fixed. New York, Oct. 6.— Judge Barrett to day, in ♦he court of Oyer and Terminer, fixed the trial pi Ferdinand Ward for tho 29th inst.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. Killed by Falling Down an Elevator WellSuicide by Morphine—Double Murder - Caused by Domestic Trouble. INDIANA. An Evansville Painter Killed by Falling Down an Elevator Well. ♦pedal to tue iridianauoUs Journal. Evansville, Oct 6.—The first fatal accident attending tho construction of the new Miller building occurred to-night at 8:15. The proprietors have a night force of men rushing the work through. A number of painters were at work on the ceiling of the second story, and while changing scaffold boards, one of them, Charles Davidson, walked backwards and fell through a passenger elevator, a distance of thirty-five feet, to the cellar, striking headforemost on a bunch of heating pipes, breaking his neck and crushing in his skull. Death was instantaneous. He was thirty years old and unmarried. He leaves a widowed mother. * The Orthodox Friends. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, Oct. G.— This was the last day of the Yearly Meeting of Orthodox Friends, and the devotional meeting was brief and the attendance slim. The report of the representatives suggested appropriations aggregating $8,500 for various committees and special work which were made. Warm expressions of approval were made of the peace committee’s labors when they reported, and a few even deprecated the influence of decorating soldiers’ graves. The report was enthusiastic on the spirit of international arbitration throughout the world. Epistles indicted to yearly meetings in correspondence evinced warm Christian fellowship. The trustees suggested a six years’ loan to meet any deficiencies resulting from the deposit in the defunct Richmond National Bank, which promises fifty cents on the dollar. Concurred in. The proposed committee was appointed on the question of changing the time of holding the yearly meeting, and much other unfinished business was disposed of. Barber-Sliop Burglarized. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Union City, Oct. G.—The barber shop of W. 11. Clevenger, of this place, was burglarized last night. The thief gained admission through a back door, and carried off an outfit of razors valued at S6O and anew suit of clothes belonging to one of Mr. Clevenger’s workmen. No arrest has been made, but a dew has been obtained to the burglar. Suicide Caused by Despondency. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Peru, Oct. 6. Mrs. Louisa Chandler committed suicide by taking morphine this afternoon, at the .American House, North Manchester. An inquest will be held to-morrow. She was a stranger, and had been in town about a week. She was thirty-five years old. Death of Professor Mowrer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Shelbyville, Oct. 6. A telegram was received to-day by the worthy master of the Masonic lodge announcing that Prof. A. E. Mowrer died at Springfield, 111. No particulars of the sad event are given. He was, until recently, principal of the higli-schooi. Minor Notes. William Moody, of Shelbyville, who suffered a paralytic stroke a few days ago, died at 8 o’clock yesterday morning, at the age of seventy-eight years. At Shelbyville, yesterday, Alonzo Barrett was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for forgery, and Charles Harris w r as given a similar term for pocket-picking. Lon Mefford, for tilltapping, was sent up for one year. William Miller has been arrested at Stendale, near Huntingburg, on the charge of murder. Wesley Richardson, a young man, was found in his corn-field in an unconscious condition, with his head badly battered. He died from the wounds. Miller and Richardson quarreled over the latter’s hogs getting into Miller's field. They were brothers-in-iaw. ILLINOIS. Double Murder Growing Out of Domestic Trouble—Escape of the Murderer. Compton, Oct. 6.—Albert Cook, who for some offense had been sent to jail, was released yesterday. He wentjhome, early this morning, shot his mother-in law, killing her instantly, and then shot and killed his wife. He then disappeared and has not yet been found. Domestic trouble occasioned the tragedy. Mysterious Death at Bloomington. Bloomington, Oct. 6. —This morning the dead body of Fred Smith, a well-to-do German tailor, was found under the trestle-bridge, near tho Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western railroad depot. It is thought that Smith was either under the influence of liquor or else was robbed and afterward thrown from the bridge. A Poor Man Robbed of His Savings. Special to the IndianapoUs Journal. Marshall, Oct, 6.—John Forsythe, & farmer of Douglas township, had $l3O stolen from him last night. He had it hidden between the ticks of his bed, and it was stolen while he slept above it. He is a poor man, this being the saviugs of many months. A Woman Sentenced To Be^Hanged. Utica, N. Y., Oct. 6. —Mrs. Druse, who mur dered her husband, with the aid of her son, daughter and nephew, in Warren, Herkimer county, last December, and cut up and burned the remains, was to-day sentenced by Judge Williams to be executed on Nov. 25. No woman has been executed m central New York for over forty years. The court-house was crowded by people of both sexes and all ages. At 9 o’clock Mrs. Druse was escorted into the courtroom by officer Wilson. She looked haggard and worn. On the opening of court Counselor Luce made a motion for'a new trial, which was denied by Judge Williams. The prisoner was then told to stand up. She arose, and Judge Williams pronounced sentence. Mrs. Druse never flinched nor showed any emotion, until she was passing out of the court room, when she burst into tears. Counselor Luce will secure a stay of proceedings, and appeal tho case on a motion for anew trial. Injunction Against Heath & Cos. New York, Oct. 6.— Giovanni P. Morosinihas begun an action in the Supreme Court against Wm. Heath & Cos., and their assignee, Adamson R. McCanless, and obtained an injunction restraining the defendants and their agents from making any transfer, payment or delivery, or other disposition of 2,380 shares of the capital stock of the Manhattan Railway Company, and twenty-five second mortgage bonds of the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad Company, except so far as the same may restrain any officer or committee of the Stock Exchange from performing its or his duties under the constitution or by-laws of the Exchange. Morosini claims that these stocks were purchased for him, and that if they ate disposed of during the pendency of this suit, his rights would not be protected aud he be irre parably injured. - • ■ ■■■■ Ireland Not Suffering for Oratory. Buffalo., N. Y., Oct. 6.— Rev. Father Cronin and James Mooney, of this city, who are among those named by tho meeting last night in New York to proceed to Ireland for the purpose of assisting in the parliamentary canvass there, express, this morning, their disapproval of such a course. They agree with Alexander Sullivan

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that the Irish people need fends, not oratory, and they favor the policy of aiding Ireland in the direction where she is poor. THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR. • Annual Meeting at Hamilton, Ont. —Points from Master Workman Powderly’s Address. Hamilton, Ont., Oct 6.—The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor reconvened this morning. Master Workman Powderly, in his address, said he had prepared a draft of a bill to be presented to Congress which will, if adopted, prohibit the employment of inmates of State or county prisons on government work of any kind. He recommends that Congress should be asked to incorporate all the trade and labor associations in the District of Columbia, and in the Territories of the United States; also, to amend the bill passed last session to prohibit employment of foreign labor under contract He discountenanced the proposition to inaugurate a strike for the establishment of the short-hour plan on May 1, 18SG. He believed an annual convention should beheld in every State, Territory and province, to be composed of representatives from all labor organizations within the boundaries of the State, Territory or province, to discuss all matters pertaining to labor interests. Boards of industry should also be organized in every municipality, which should keep watch over the interests of workers. Workingmen on the continent of North America, he said, must take some action looking to the prevention of immigration during periods of depression. This country can no longer be called the work-shop of the world. Every step to make it the poor-house of the world should be resisted. He then touched on boycotting, and said that when the end sought for had been accomplished it should be discontinued. Drunkenness, which was prevalent during strikes, should be punished with expulsion. He pointed out the weak spots in co-operation aud the mutual benefit organizations. He suggested that a similar co-operative movement to the one located in Covington, Ky., be inaugurated in every locality where there is an assembly. This plan, he said, binds the workingman and his employer together in a movement in which their interests are identical. The assistance fund should be abolished and another plan substituted. Workmen had come to look on it as a fund to support strikes. This was not true. No strike should be ordered without tho sanction of the general executive board, and then only after every other effort had failed. The executive board should act as a national board of conciliation and arbitration. He thought it time for the Knights of Labor to be more careful about championing the strikes of other organizations. It had brought odium upon itself in the past. Before taking side3 hereafter it should be fully convinced that there was right on the side of the laborers. He hoped that the statement that the Brotherhood of Engineers was opposed to the Knights of Labor was not true. He discouraged the formation of any more national trades assemblies as a step backwards. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN* Indications. War Department, ) Office of the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, Oct. 7, la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four hours from 7 A. m. for Indianapolis and* Vicinity— Warmer, fair weather. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Slightly warmer fair weather, variable winds, generally from south to west in the Ohio Valley, lower barometer. For the Lower Lake Region—Slightly warmer, generally fair weather, generally preceded by local showers, winds shifting to west and south, lower barometer. For the Upper Mississippi warmer, generally fair weather, southerly winds, lower barometer. For the Missouri Vailoy—Generally fair weather, slightly warmer in the southern portion, stationary temperature in the northern portion, variable winds. For the Upper Lake Region—Slightly warmer, fair weather, winds generally from south to west, lower barometer. Local OusLTVHtions. Indianapolis, Oct. 6. Time. Bar. | Ther. Hum. Wind, j Weather Rain. 6 a.m.. 30.22 38.8 83 Nwest Clear. lOa. m.. 30.241 46.2 50 NwestiClear 2p. M-. 30.18 53.0 39 Nwest Clear6P. M-. 30.18 50.1 56 West jCiear 10P.M.. 30.18 44.0 68 West |Clear. Maximum temperature. 54 2; Minimum temperature. 37.8. too small to measure. General Observations. War Department, ? Washington, Oct. 6, 9 p. m. j Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. w ti 3 w • 3 r i *§• i B 3 * ? STATIONS. ® B • 2 t* r* %. . • 3 . ! r* I Ik* I • • SB ' • • • 05 • • 1 ■ tt * Now York City 30.12 45|North .05 Clear. Washington City.... 30.15 40 Nwest Clear. Vicksburg, Miss 30.15 64iN'east Cloudy. New Orleans, La... 30.11 70 North Cloudy. Shreveport, La 30.14 60 N’east Cloudy. Fort Smith. Ark. 30.13 57 Fast (Hear. Little Rock, Ark... 30.15 60 N'east Cloudy. Galveston, Tex (30.08 75 Fast Cloudy. Memphis, Tenn— 130.19 53 N'east Clear. Nashvi le, Tenn (30. 18 48 Nwest j Clear. Louisville. Ky 30.22 51 N west ..... I Clear. Indianapolis, ind... 30.19 45 West 'Clear. Cincinnati, O (30.19 46 Calm lOlear. Pittsburg. Pa 30.18 42 Calm .041 Fair. Oswego, N. Y 30.12 42 Nwest Cloudy. Toledo, 0 30.19 47 Nwest Clear. Escanaba, Mich 30.12 41 West Fair. Marquette, Mich— 30.08 37 Swest Clear. Chicago, 111. 30.20 49 West Hazy. Milwaukee. Wis '30.12 40 Swest Clear. Duluth, Minn 130.02 43 Swest C lear. St. Paul, Minn 30.03 42 S’east Clear. LaCrosse, Wis 30.07 46 South Clear. Davenport, la 30.17 43 Fast Hazy. Dos Moines, la 30.07 49 South Clear. Keokuk, la 30.16 45|Sout’n Clear. Cairo, 111 30.21 50 North Clear. Springfield. 11l 30.17 47 Calm Clear. St. Louis, Mo 30.19 53 Swest Clear. Lamar, Mo 30.17 47iS'east Clear. Leavenworth, Kan.. i30.15 48 South Clear. Omaha, Neb 30.04 52jSouth Clear. Yankton, Dak 29.96 53 Nwest Clear. Moorehead, Minn... 29.95 48jSouth Fair. Bismarck, Dak (30.00 48 S’east Fair. Fort Buford, Dak..‘30.01 57;West Cloudy. Ft. Assinibotne,M.Tj3o.2l 51 Ka-t Ciear. Fort Custer, Mont. . 30.12 54;North Clear. Deadwood. Dak. ... 30.06 48'N’east Clear. North Platte, Neb..(29.98, 55 South Clear. Denver, Col (30.04 S3;Sweat Clear. W. Las Animas, C01|29.93 54;N‘east Clear. Dodge City, Kan... 39.05 48|S’e*st Clear. Fort Elliott, Tex j3O. 11 50(Calm Clear. Fort Sill. Ind. Ter.. I j Fort Stockton, Tex. (30.14 56 East .02 Lt. rain. El Paso, Tex 30.07 63 S’east Cloudy, Salt Lake City, U.T.!30.0i 66| N’east Clear. Snow in the Far Northwest. Pierre, D. T m Oct. 6.—A heavy snow-storm prevailed yesterday. Reports from the North indicate a cold wave and a heavy snow fall. More Rioting at Montreal. Montreal, Oct 6.—About 300 rioters attacked the guard at the Exposition- grounds, to night, and threw stones at the cavalry, when a full guard of the mounted garrison artillery turned out, and the mob soon dispersed. Two cavalrymen were injured, as was also Lieutenant Howard, of the garrison artillery. At midnight everything was quiet Steamship News. Glasgow, Oct. 6.—Arrived: State of Alabama, from New York. Queenstown, Oct 6. Arrived: |Republic, from New York, for Liverpool. Queenstown. Oct. 6.—Arrived: City of Chester, from New York, for Liverpool.

THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO. Ex-Senator Thnrman Mounts the Stump and Replies to the Statements of Sherman. Toledo, Oct. 6. —Ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman was greeted, at Wheeler’s Opera house, tonight. with a crowd that was only limited by the capacity of the house. He appeared in good voice, though frequently interrupted by coughing, and, after apologizing for writing his speech, read from a printed copy, frequently stopping to add an extemporaneous remark. He was listened to with the greatest attention. Judge Thurman, on being introduced, began his speech by a reference to the Mt Gilead speech of Senator Sherman, at the opening of the campaign, which, he said, was an indictment of the South and a revival of the charges of crime and outrages made in years gone by. He quoted the words of Garfield in opposition to the revival of sectional hatred, and said the last presidential campaign was opened by the Republican candidate with the tariff as the chief issue, but before the campaign closed this was dropped and the bloody shirt raised as the banner of certain Republican victory; but when the votes were counted the banner was found trailing in the dust. Particular stress was laid upon the sentiments of Grant that the passions of the war were at an end, and amazement expressed that the man speaking over his tomb would be so audacious as to say that there is no reconciliation, that the rebellion is not at an end, that the only effective way to suppress it is again to send the boys in blue to the South. Quoting from Sherman’s speech, the speaker, in replying thereto, said: “Now, it is impossible, as it seems to me, to misunderstand these utterances. They are either vain and empty declaraatious or disgusting bravado, such as no man of the ability of Senator Sherman, or in his high station, could indulge in without disgrace, or they are his real sentiments, and mean, when thoroughly analyzed, that if the Republican party cannot obtain power in any other way, it shall obtain and hold it by the sword. 1 know that such an idea, if you do not reflect upon it, is calculated to excite your derision. But stop and reflect If the great State of Ohio can be carried by such appeals to passion and prejudice as Sherman is making, if his weapons shall be sufficient to thrust from office the men whom, two years ago, you elected; if they shall hew the way to a fifth term in the Senate for their author, they will become the creed of the Republican party in 1888, and the doctrine of hate will be strongly if not permanently established in the land.” Judge Thurman then considered the assertions made in Senator Sherman's Mount Gilead speech, his effort being to show that the colored men of the South were not all Republicans, that they were not intimidated, and that what are now known as the carpet-bag governments were rascally in the extreme, and were responsible for the heavy debts contracted by a number of the Southern States. Tho speaker then read General Grant’s last message as read to his old companions in arms, at Neoga, 111., by Col. Fred Grant, and closed his speech by saying: “I have no time to speak of State politics, except to say that I believe a good license would be the best solution of the liquor question. In 1851 I voted against the provision in the Constitution forbidding license, and I have not changed my opinion since. A word more: You have a State ticket composed of competent men, and that was fairly nominated. I earnestly appeal to you to give it your warmest support, and I think it is your duty to show by your vote that you have confi dence in the existing administration of the federal government. In a word, do your duty, and your whole duty, and never despair of success.” TRAIN ROBBERS IN THE EAST. Conflicting Reports Concerning the Alleged Plundering of Passengers on a Train. Train Robbery in Pennsylvania. Altoona, Pa., Oct. 6.—As the regular train from Hollidaysburg was nearing Allegheny Furnace this morning four men took possession of one of the crowded cars, and while three of them intimidated the passengers with revolvers tho fourth yrent through the car and deliberately robbed such of the occupants as he chos% to select. One of the passengers made a show of resistance, but he was attacked with a knife and cut through the hand. The conductor next grappled with one of the robbers, and was dragged to the platform of the car and beaten with a revolver-handle. The robbers then pulled the bell-rope and jumped off, escaping to the woods. The Pennsylvania Railway Company has sent out officers in all directions. An Altoona special gives the following account of the fight with robbers on the train near Allegheny Furnace this morning: An unknown lady was robbed at the Hollidaysburg depot this morning of her pocket-book, containing a small amount of money and her ticket. The lady was on her way to Altoona, and the discovery of her loss was made when the conductor asked for her ticket. A young man on the train told a companion, Peter Bradley, that he know who picked her pocket. Bradley informed Conductor Knepper, and they started back to find the supposed robber. The man was found in a rear car, and accused of the theft. A fight ensued, and in the struggle which followed, Bradley was stabbed in the hand by the supposed thief. The fellow then called on his companions, three in number, who came to his rescue with drawn revolvers. The conductor desisted in his attempts to arrest the man, and one of the outlaws pulled the bell-rope, stopped the train, and, getting off, beat a rapid retreat. The train came on to Altoona, and a posse was sent out immediately afterwards, but no traces of the gang could be found. The Row iu the Greenback Camp. St. Louis, Oct. 6.— lt appears that a very small meeting of gentlemen representing the anti-fusion wing of the Greenback party was held very privately here yesterday. The object of the meeting was to settle the differences between the fusion and the anti-fusion wings of the party, but the number of persons present was so small that nothing was done except to call another meeting, to be held at the Grand Hotel in Indianapolis, on the 30th of November. The Mutinous Convicts. Rusk, Tex., Oct. 6.—The report that sixty convicts in camp near Lafkin had escaped, and that twenty-five of the fngitives had been killed by officers in pursuit, proves to have been greatly exaggerated. There were sixty convicts in camp, all of whom made mutinous demonstra-’ tions, but only fifteen had the courage to break through the lines and run. One of the latter was instantly killed; seven were severely wounded and seven escaped. Return of Mary Anderson. New Yokk. Oct. 6. — Miss Mary Anderson arrived this mornine on the steamer Gallia. The Gallia was met at quarantine by the steamship Cygnus, on which were fifty* friends of the actress. Miss Anderson received her friends in the cabin, and was escorted to the Cygnus, which brought the party up to the city. Jonathan Edwards’s Rim Uprooted. Springfield, Mass., Oct. G.—A tornado swept over Northampton this afternoon, uprooting a number of elms in the heart of the city, includ ing the one on King street, twenty-six feet in circumference, Which Jonathan Edwards planted. The damage to dwellings was alight, and no person was hurt Steam Barge Burned. Manistee. Mich., Oct 6.—The steam barge R. G. lngersoll burned to the water’s edge, off Point au Sable, yesterday. The crew escaped in a boat, and were picked up by a passing vessel. The barge is a total loss. She was valued at $10,000; insurance, $7,000. Obituary. Lowell, Mass. , Oct. G.— Ex-Governor Talbot died at 1:30 o’clock to-day.

PREDICTED FAILURE Os the Special Delivery System in Cities with Telegraph Facilities. Washington Special. A prominent postoffice official is of the opinion that the new special delivery system will early prove a failure. He thinks the scheme was undertaken 100 late. “There are several reasons,” he says, “why it is not likely to succeed. The first is the general use of the telephone between business men and private individuals. In every city where a few years ago the special delivery would have been hailed with satisfaction, the telephone system is new established and used to such an extent that nothing can compete with it. In Washington,as in other cities, the telephone is supplemented by the telegraph and messenger service, and between the three there is no room for government competition. Branch telegraph offices abound in business portions of the city, and for ten cents you can send a message not only anywhere within city limits, to bb delivered immediately, but for a trifle more you can reach near adjacent cities. By the special delivery you must go or send to the nearest branch postoffice or take your chances on the rounds of the carrier at the letter boxes. It is a telegraphic age, and the mail and postman cannot successfully compete with the improvements and general use of electricity. If the government wants to do business on this it must use the wire and the telegraph key. We will not have business enough to keep messengers, in my opinion. Boys who were anxious to become messengers in the special delivery service already find they can pick up more money in anything else, and are resigning their places before a week’s triai. When the number of mes sengers are reduced to keep them we shall not have enough to insure prompt delivery. Business men may try it a few times for the novelty, but they will go back to electricity whenever they are in a hurry or the matter is important. They will not carry ten-cent stamps around and pay a messenger to put a lAter in the office when they can ring up a telegraph boy at any moment for nothing, and get a reply from any person in any city within an hour, or before they leave their desks. I will not say the special delivery is wholly useless, but that its usefulness is so limited that it must prove a failure as % popular means of rapid and certain communication.” The Cost of Producing Meat. Philadelphia Record. When, with the aid of science, the farmer can so govern his operations as to regulate the cost of production, and adapt his pastures and crops to special objects, he will not only he enabled to convert his produce into the most salable commodities, but understand how to secure the greatest amount at the lowest cost. In order to determine the relative value of different feeding materials, Professor Brown, of the Ontario experimental farm, devoted nine years to careful experiments for that purpose, and his results show that while a greater and more rapid increase of flesh is secured from certain feeding materials, yet they are not always the cheapest. The heaviest weight per day was obtained by feeding sugar beet, assisted with hay and a mixture of grain, which gave 2.70 pounds at a cost of 12* cents per pound, while permanent pasture produced 2.05 pounds at a cost of only 2 cents per pound. No doubt the difference in cost was the labor of preparing the food, the pastures being ready for the stock, while the mixed diet was prepared. There was alsok difference in the quality of the pasture. Permanent grass gave better results than pasture from which a crop of hay had been taken, as the hay pastures produced only 1.15 pounds, at a cost of 5 cents per pound. Even when using hay its value depends upon its preparation and quality. Hay, roots and bran, without grain, gave a daily gain of 2.14 pounds, at a cost of 9 cents per pound; but the most costly food, though apparently the cheapest, was uncut hay and roots, with bran and corn, which produced 1.76 pounds, at a cost 14 cents per pound, while cooked hay, roots and bran, with uncooked grain, gave 1.80 pounds, at a cost of only 9 cents per pound. Thus it appears that cutting the hay and using grain gave a larger profit than the uncut hay, roots and corn, the difference being so great as to be easily noticeable. Simply cutting the lmv added to the profit and lessened the cost; for while the uncut hay and roots, with bran and corn, gave 1.7 G pounds, at a cost of 14 cents per pound, the same food, excepting that the hay was cut, gave a gain of 2.10 pounds, at a cost of a fraction over eleven cents a pound. Here we have more labor employed in order to cut the hay, but the daily gain was sufficiently large to more than compensate for the labor and lessen the cost of production. Although turnips and mangolds are considered cheap feeding materials, and gave large daily gains when used in connection with other foods, yet they did not lessen the cost to the extent expected, for when mangolds were led with hay and a mixture of grain, although the daily gain was 2.38 pounds, yet the cost per pound was I<H cents. Turnips fed in the same manner gave nearly equal results. The concentrated foods gave good results on the gain, and in some cases were cheaper than was supposed, but much depended upon the manner in which they were fed. Corn, with hay, roots and bran, produced two pounds daily, at a cost of 9j cents per pound. As this is almost the same food that gave l. 7G pounds, at 14 cents per pound, it is owing to the difference in proportions that the cost varied. Oats, fed in the same manner as corn, gave 1.64 pounds, at a cost of 10 cents per pound. From the above it is deduced that profit does not depend unon the rapidity of gain in weight daily, but upon the cost ner pound, and that the cost is regulated not only by the labor required and the value of the food, but upon the mode of feeding and the preparation of the food. It must bo so varied as to attain the best results in the cheapest manner, and tho kind of food does not affect the result so much as improperly mixing them or giving an excess of something not required, while omitting that which may be very important. The value of feeding materials should be studied by all farmers. The experiments mentioned above show that a farmer may have a valuable amount of feeding material that might be converted into beef, and yet such beef would be costly unless the materials were fed in such manner as to cause rapid increase at the least expense. The addition of a single material may alter the result, and even the character and quality of the stock are important factors in the matter. The Deterioration of Soil. CorresDondence Country Gentleman. For forty years I have traveled once a year, or more, over the same road, which passes along the border of between one ana two hundred farms, so that in traveling over this route I get a close view of about 10.000 acres of land under cultivation. These lands comprise creek and river bottom, flat clays (originally called beech flats), rolling lands along the creeks, some black loamy lands, which were originally swampy, and second bottom on a gravelly foundation. All these farms are limestone lands, and in all their variety can he classed as good farming, and what we call “lasting” lands. My own experience as a farmer for forty years has been on lands of this kind, and I know little by observation, and nothing by practical experience, of leachv lands, such as I have seen in Massachusetts, on which manures show their effect but a year or two. Careful comparison of the crops on the farms all through the localities above referred to, leads me to believe there has been little if any deterioration of soil on these farms, except where, by bad management, the soil has been all owed to wash away, and I was confirmed in this opinion by conversation with the old farmers who have lived on their farms since pioneer davs. Many of them said: “Our farms are producing more grain than they did a quarter Os a century ago, for now we clover more and have better implements with which to work the soil and cultivate our crops. I remember when h bey in New England, that in my neighborhood there was an eccentric old deacon who had a yoke of runaway oxen. One day on the road they started to run with only a log chain attached to the yoke, anil as the deacon tried to stop them ho became tangled in the chain, and wa3 thrown down, aud away went the team, dragging him by the legs. After running about fifty rods, they stopped, and —to the surprise of those who witnessed it—up jumped the old deacon, and declared he was not hurt For a generation or more the following mathematical problem was frequently propounded in that neighborhood: *lf a yoke of oxen can drag the deacon fifty rods, and not hurt him, how far must they drag him to kill ♦him?”’ Now, I do not believe that God ever created the human family and placed them on the earth to starve, and 1 have no sympathy with the croakers who think that there is just so much plant food in the soil, and that the better the crops we grow the more rapidly the fertility is exhausted, and to such 1 propose this problem iu agricultural arithmetic: “if lauds which have

been under cultivation for forty years show no signs of exhaustion, how long will it take them to become barren?” Auoiher thine on these farms 5s noteworthy, that is, that those which have been the best cultivated are producing the heaviest crops, while lands equally rich—separated in some) cases by only a fence—which have been managed without intelligence, do show deterioration. On my own farm there are fields which, when I first saw it. thirty-eight years ago, had tho appearance of having been long under cultivation, and I know that these fields now produce as heavy crops as they did then. Through all this region with which I am so familiar, clover is the great reliance in keepine up the soil, for practically. commercial fertilizers are not worth considering. as not one farmer in twenty has ever used a pound of them, and a large per cent, of the land has never had stable manure applied to it. From observation and experience on these lands I believe that they can be kept nt maximum fertility without purchasing manure of any kind, if a wise rotation is observed, and a fair proportion of the crops consumed on the farm. Some of these lands have wonderful fertility. A Remarkable Pig. Texas Siftings. A newly-married lady, who was’recentlv graduated from Yassar College, is not very well posted about household matters. She said to her grocer not long since: "I bought three or four haras here a couple of mouths ago, and they were very fine. Have you got any more like them?” Grocer—“ Yes. ma’am; there are ten of those hams hanging up there.” “Are you sure they are all off tho same pig?” “Yes, ma'am.'' “Then I’ll take three of them.” Not Commendable. Boston Herald. The item setting forth that the late Emery A.Storrs “never wore a neokt’e a second time” is still doing duty for the delight of the dudes; but when it is known that Mr. Storrs did not leave his widow money enough to bury him with, his fastidiousness in the matter of neckties is uot particularly commendable. In a Quaudary. Boston Herald. At a sale of rare orchids in New York, last week, a Boston gentleman bought a dendrobium epidendrum prismatocarpum spiendens for SIOO. He is undecided whether to change the name or enlarge his conservatory. Frank, if Not Flattering. Atlanta (’onstitution. It is said that President Cleveland is very much interested in a young and pretty widow. We are glad to hear this, for there is no spectacle more sickening than a bald-headed bachelor. • More Certaiu Ways. Philadelphia Record. It is a comfort to know that there are better ways of keeping the memory of good people green than by inscribing their virtues upon tombstones or cenotaphs. Hendricks Can Do It. Philadelphia Press. Perhaps Mr. Cleveland is waiting for Brother Hendricks to name a couple of men for Civilservice Commissioners. mmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmammwmmm/mmmmam THE CITY IN BRIEF. Jerry Conners, employed at Haugh's iron works, had his right hand cut to pieces by a saw yesterday afternoon. The Citizens’ Savings and Loan Association, of Jeffersonville, the capital stock of which is SIOO,OOO was incorporated yesterday. Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Joseph Eggert and Bertha lieifers, Bird P. Ebert and Fannie M. Manning, Richard Peellow and Mary L. Cook. A meeting of the Tippecanoe Club will be held to-day at 2r. M., mayor’s court-room, at which time Rev. L. H. Jameson will deliver a lecture on his early recollections of Indiana. Mr. Kingsley’s Position. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal*. I have Gfeen informed I have been named as a candidate for councilman in the Thirteenth ward. I wish to say that lam with the law and order party, as against Tom Cottrell and the Liquor League in the coming city election; believing I can strike a heavier blow in this way, at this time, for future prohibition, than in supporting the present Prohibition ticket for city officers. I believe our present contest is on the skirmish line of the great battle, inevitable in the future, between the liquor power and the people for their protection against that traffic. It is not a matter of national politics; but as the Republicans have espoused the cause of the people against the Liquor League, Democrats who are opposed to' its supremacy, in common with Republicans, should vote for the Republican nominees. lam free to advise this course to all Democrats, as it has beer, the rule of my own life, and as a proof, 1 can say to them, truly, that I voted for Mr. Smart, wheu he was a candidate for mayor, believing he was the Basest to trust to punish violators of the liquor law3. A. S. 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