Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1885 — Page 3

THE SPORTING RECORD. Oelightfnl Weather, a Stiff Track, and Fair Attendance at Latonla. Cincinnati, Oct. 6.—The weather to-day was delightful, and the track at Latonia was fair, being stiff only in spots. The attendance was Yery good. First Race—Purse $300; one mile. Doubt. Bangle and Gallatin raced even for a quarter of a mile; then Gallatin showed in front, with Doubt| second, Mocking-bird third. At the lower turn Doubt went to the head, increasing his lead, and won by three lengths, Mcßowhng second, Mocking Bird a poor third. Time, 1:51|. Second Race—Purse $300; one and one sixteenth mile. Phillip S. led, followed by Nodaway and Ilermine. On the first torn Phillip S. fell aud was out of the race. Hermine took tho lead. There was uo change to the end, and Hermine won by one length; Madison second, Nodaway third. Time. 1:56. Third Race —Purse $500; one and one-eighth mile. Chance held his lead to the quarter, where Kosciusko went to the front, with Chance and Lady Wayward close together. Kosciusko Was never headed, and won easily by four lengths; Lady Wayward second, Emma Manley a poor third. Time, 2.01. Fourth Race—The Kimball stakes; three quarters of a mile. Fabius and Silver Cloud were the first to show in front. At the end of threeeighths of a mile Silver Cloud took the lead with Felieiter second, Waddell Bryant third. In the stretch, Waddell Bryant went to the front and won by a length; Silver Cloud second, Grimaldi third. Time, I:HHFifth Race—Purse $300; one and a quarter jnilo. over five hurdles. At the start Walter A. .led, with Judge Jackson second. Guy and King Dutchman were at once, to all appearances, taken out of the race. Judge Jackson went to the front at the half, was never headed, and won by three lengths. Guy, who came with apparent determination at the finish, after being a sixteenth of a mile behind, finished second, King Dutchman third. Time, 2:25. Trotting at St. Louis. St. Louis, Oct. 6.—The weather to-day was juite cold, but it was sunshiny and pleasant, and ibe attendance at the fair was very large. There was also a great crowd at the course. The first race was unfinished, thedeciding heat going over until to-morrow, when Sister Wilkes Victor and Endymion will contest. Summary of the] 2:25 class: •Sister Wilkes 1 2 13 4 3 Victor 4 1 7 5 2 1 Endvmion 2 6 2 1 1 2 Tom Allen 8 4 5 2 6 ro Mollis Middleton 6 3 4 4 3 ro Harry 0 3 7 3 6 5 ro Bertha 7 5 6 7 dr Sentry 5 dr Tuque 9 dr Time—2.22*4. 2:26*4, 2:263.4, 2:20*3, 2:26*4, 2:28. Before the sixth heat the driver of Victor was changed for James Dustin, and the latter won the heat easily. Second Race—Osage stakes, for two-year-olds; <SO entrance, SSOO added; mile heats, two best in h ea. Summary: - 2 1 1 ?phinz - 1 2 2 diatonic 33 3 Pvthias 4 4 4 Time—2:3s, 2:34%, 2:3 1*3 The National Base Base League. CHICAGO. 9; PHILADELPHIA, 4. Chicago, Oct. 6.—Owing to the cold weather and the general lack of interest in the closing games for the League championship, the attendance at the game between the Chicagos and Philadelphias to-day was very small, there being not more than 700 people present. The game was without interest, the home team taking the lead in the first few innings, and maintaining it throughout. Following is tho score by innings: Chicago O 2 3 1 0 0 0 3 —9 Philadelphia. O 001000 3—4 Base-hits—Chicago, 11; Philadelphia, 5. Errors—Chicago. 9; Philadelphia, 8. Earned Runs—Chic go 5; Philadelphia, 0. Home Runs- Burts, 2. Two base Hits—Pfeifer, Williamson. Passed Ball-Kelly, 1. Wild Pitch—Daily, 1. First Base on Bails—Chicago, 1; Philadelphia, 1. First Base on Errors—Chicago, 2: Philadelphia, 6. Struck Out—By McCormick, 12; by Daily, 4. Umpire—Gaffney. ST. LOUIS, 7; NEW YORK, 4. St. Louis, Oct. 6.—The St. Louis club won to-days game from New York by phenomenal fielding, and by hitting Keefe hard. The feature of the game was the fielding of Glasscock and Seerey. The weak point on the New York Aide was the pitching of Keefe. Two thousand persons witnessed the game. Following is the icore by innings: it. Louis O 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 2—7 New York O 1 0 O 3 O 0 0 o—4 Base Hits —St. Louis. 12; New York, 4. Errors—St. Louis, 6; New York, 15. Earned Runs—New York, 2; St. Louis. 1. wo base Hits—Richardson, Ward, McSorley and Sillespie. Passed Balls—Briody, 1; Ewing, 1. Wild Pitches—Ke**fe, 4. First Base on Balls—St. Louis, 5; New York. 3. First base on Errors—St. Lends, 7; New York, 2. Struck Out—By Keefe 7; by Kirby. 3. Double Play—Dunlap, Glasscock aud McKinnon, Umpire—Curry. BOSTON, 3; DETROIT, 2. Detroit, Oct, 6.—The cold weather spoiled the game, but nevertheless some very good work was done. Baldwin pitched for the home team, and an even dozen batters went down before him. Tho victory was due to a combination of Boston hits with Michigan errors. Darkness joined the cold, and only eight innings were played. Following is the score by innings: Detroit 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 o—2 Boston .0 0 0 0 0 3 0 O—3 Base Hits —Detroit, 5; Boston. 3. Errors—Detroit, 1); Boston. 0. Three base Hit—Thompson, 1. Pan.sod Balls—McGuire. 3. First Base on Balls—Detroit, 5; Boston, 2. Struck Gut —By Baldwin, 12; by Bufiicton, 9. Umpire—Ferguson. A FASCINATING BOSTON GIRL. llexander Ybarra’s Love for Her, and the Trouble It Brought Him. Washington Special. The cable announces that Gen. Alexander Ybarra has been nominated as the people’s can didate for President of Venezuela, and therebv hangs a romantic tale. When Judge Thomas Russell, of Boston, was United States minister to Venezuela, Mr. Evarts. then Secretary of State, sent him a sharp dispatch dirfeting the immediate collection of a claim against, that government, which had been allowed by arbitration. Mr. Russell replied that there were only two ways by which the claim could be collected: one was to send an army and fleet down to enforce its nayment. and another to give half to Guzman Blanco, the President of the Republic, as a bribe. the carelessness of a clerk in the Department of State, Judge Russell’s dispatch got viito print, and a copy was forwarded to Guzman Blanco by the Venezuelan minister here. Asa consequence ot his candor, the Judge received his passport and an intimation that it would he well for him to leave Venezuela by the nexi •teamer. Judge Russell had a daughter of remarkable beauty and social attractions,with whom Yb,rrn was in love. Ybarra was the nephew and pet o Guzman Blanco, and the latter, who rules Ven ezuela with a hand of iron and blood, was edu eating him to become his successor at the head of the government At the age of twenty-four. Ybarra was com minder in chief of the army, with the rank of 4ren u ral, a member of the Cabinet, and a sort of depu.’y dictator, with authority second only t< thi. tof the autocrat himself. His love for tb* girl caused him to resent the insult to her father, and he strode into the presence of Gnzmai Bianco,to angrily protest against the banishraerr of Judge Russell. Guzman tried to remonstrate with him, but the uncle soon became as angry a> the nephew, and told the young man that h must choose between the girl and his preseir position and political prospects. Ybarra in •tar.tly replied that if he must make such t choice he would take the girl, and. breaking hi •word over his knee, threw the fragments at th bead of his uncle. That afternoon a decree was published an

nonneing the dishonorable dismissal of Ybarra from the army, and his removal from the Cabinet for insulting “that illustrious American, Guzman Blanco, the pacificator and regenerator of Venezuela,” and there was a sensation in the city of Caraccas more profound than had been known for many a day. The steamer for New York was to sail the following morning from Laguavra, a seaport twenty miles away, and Judge Russell, with his family, was already on board. When morning came the four statues which Gnzman Blanco had erected iu his * own honor were found removed from their pedestals and half buried in the earth, heads downward, and Ybarra was missing. With some of his friends he had worked all night in a rain-storm to inflict this humiliation upon his uncle, and when the vengeance was complete had mourned his horse and ridden to Laguavra. where he boarded the steamer and sailed for New York before the act was discovered. No Boston girl could resist this sort of devotion, and, upon the arrival of the party at her home, Miss Russell became Mrs. Ybarra. For five years the General remained in the United States, teaching Spanish in Harvard at first, and then encaging in business with a chocolate establishment, for which he returned to Venezuela, two years ago, to look after the purchase of cocoa. As long as he remained quiet, and let politics alone, his uncle tolerated his presence at Caraccas, but has never forgiven him. Now that lie nas become a candidate for the presidency against Guzman, there can be no doubt tha£ the old feud will be revived, for Venezuelan politics are of the most hysterical order. The next news will probably be that Ybarra has been killed, imprisoned or banished. WATCHES* AND STORMS. Effects of the Equinoctial Season Upon TimeKeepers—What the Watch-Makers Say. Philadelphia Times, The season of the autnmnal equinox have been gala days for the watch-repairing establishments. About the 21st of March and September, or as soon thereafter or before as the sun crosses the line, watch springs begin to break in great numbers. This fact is axiomatic and is discounted by watch-makers. Promises of speedy repairing are not made so readily then as at other times. “Electrical disturbances of the atmosphere” is the cause assigned for this phenomena, but just why electricity in or out of tne atmosphere should have this effect none of the craft can explain. Neither can they give conclusive evidence of the fact. All the testimony is circumstantial in its character, but all clock and watch-repairers assert and vigorously maintain the theory. “We sometimes have.” said a Chestnut street jeweler yesterday, “such a pile of watches come in upon us when the equinoctial storms make their appearance that we are compelled to send around to the smaller shops and pay premiums —and big premiums, at that —for a journeyman or so for a couple of days. It only takes about forty-eight hours to do the business. “And it is not the equinoctial storm alone that plays havoc v.-ith the delicate spring mechanism of clocks and watches,” said he. “I have noticed that northeasters at all seasons of the year will have the same devastating effect. Sometimes, also, in April, when thunder showers are so frequent and when lightning is peculiarly vivid, watch main-springs break; but this sort is of rarer occurrence than the other two. On Monday and Tuesday I took in more broken springs than, I guess, during the balance of September.” But the most remarkable, and, at the same time, most unexplainable part of the phenomena is yet to come. A large percentage of watch springs that break during the prevalence of an equinoctial storm do not fall in two piedes, but sustain a clean-cut fracture across the entire barrel of the spring, dividing the spring into as many fragments as there are concentrics in the coil. And, more remarkable still, if that were possible, the line of the fracture or cut is perfectly straight, and, as nearly as can be ascertained, passes directly through the point which would be the centre of the spring coil. Mr. Frank Sutton, a prominent Camden dealer, who was in the Chestnut street establishment at the time, said: “I had a wonderful illustration of that character a year or so ago, and caused a mechanical artist to photograph it. If a break occurs in a watch spring it instantly uncoils, of course. It would lie impossible with the finest adjusted tools to strike a blow that would cut a watch spring into twenty or thirty fragments, leaving no rough edges to indicate the manner of fracture; yet in this photograph the ends are as sharp and as clearly defined as though made by a razor edge, and when the skilful mechanic had placed the tiny pieces of steel in order the line of fracture was found to be straight and cutting the centre. “I always,” continued Mr. Sutton, “expect a great deal of main-spring work about the time of an equinoctial storm and prepare accordingly. Monday night I said to my journeyman: ‘John, it is about time for broken main springs; the sun is crossing the line/ and as I spoke in came a new Elgin stem-winder and setter. While examining the watch in cameanotner, both having recently broken main-springs and having the equinoctial trade mark of a straight cut across the centre.” This experience is common. Mr. Valentine, with Mulir’s establishment, declares that the electrical disturbances that occur on the 21st of March and September invaribly produce a huge crop of broken main-springs. His experience, contrary to that of several others, among whom inquiries were made, was that this year was not up to tne average, or, at least, if there had been many, he had not received his usuai share. He corroborated the statement of the peculiar breakage across the spring coil and said he Lad seen many illustrations of the peculiar phenomena. “I cannot explain it," said he, “but by recourse to the hackneyed reason assigned by watch-makers all over the country, which is electricity in the atmosphere. I once heard an electrician, to whom the subject was referred, explain that the polarity of the metal was unified —whatever that means —but how unified polarity can accomplish such work I am at a loss to understand. And why isn’t the same effect produced on the balance-springs? It is seldom that balance-springs are broken in larger numbers during an equinox than at other times, and I never saw one with the clean cut across the entire coil.” In reply a query as to whether April thunderstorms ever broke springs Mr. Valentine said he had not noticed that to be the case. “Long, set in rain-storms,” said he, “which are usually from the east with us near the At lantic seaboard, fetches them, however, in good style, particularly if there is a noticeable change in the temperature of the atmosphere. ” All watch movements suffer alike from this cause, whether American, English or Swiss. Legislation for the Indian. Philadelphia Am rican The late Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm used to maintain that the war still left one class of slave-hold ers in the United States—the pensioned and over-fed Indian, who sits on the fence and watches the white settler working for' him. "Cheerful JaneV’ view of the Indian finds some support in tho observations made by Mr. Joseph P. Nimmo. in his recent tour through the Indian reservations. He fiuids the tribes generally have more land than they know what to do with, and that some of them are in receipt of rations much in excess of their power of consumption. It must be remembered that the best friends of the Indians are not in favor of any such pampering. They generally desire the passage of Mr. Dawes’s bill, which provides that a part of their land be sold to white settlers, ind that The proceeds be spent in educating the voung Indians into self supporting and civilized ways. This hill passed tile Senate but failed to nuas the House at the last session. They also favor the abolition of tribal relations, the distri button of lands to private owners, and the admission of the Indians to the rights and respon--lhilities of American citizenship. An English Opinion of Americans. \ rc hi bald Forties. Human nature is human nature all the world •ver; and there is no greater error than the •revalent one among us, that domesticity is not i leading virtue of American married couples. That there is too much hotel life for American amtlies I concede, and I am fully conscious of he faults and evils of the system; but that it ntai's xnv impairment of tbe higher domestic virtues I have failed to discover. It is not easy o see how a woman is deteriorated as the com •anion and friend of a man—as the participator it his aspirations, his troubles, his studies, his ligherlife—because her conditions release her rom the duty of devising the details of a dinner, rom the irritation of demoniacal domestics rom the drudgery of checking the grocer’s pass • >ok, and the sad realization that ail bakers are liars, and mostly rubbers us well

THU INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1885.

A VEST YOUNG SOLDIER. An Indianapolis Boy Who Enlisted When Only Eleven Years Old. Washington Post. Who was the youngest soldier in the Union army during the late war! A Columbus press dispatch says that Mr. Herbert Fov, of Ohio, has been notified by the War Department that he was the youngest soldier enlisted during the war, having been enrolled in Company A, One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Volunteers, at the age of thirteen years, eleven months and nine days. There is no knowledge at the War Department of any such letter having been sent, and it would be an enormous task to search the old records for such a result. The records show, however, that Mr. A. F. Springsteen, who is now employed in the Ordinance Bureau, was enrolled in Company A. Thirty-fifth Indiana Volunteers, Nov. 24, 1861, being at the time only eleven years and four months oid. “Indianapolis was a center for the Western troops,” said Mr. Springsteen to a Post reporter, “and when the soldiers marched into the city, after passing my father’s house, I was seized with an uncontrollable desire to get out and march with them. Often I disappeared from the house, leaving my breakfast unfinished, and was not seen again for several days. I would get among the soldiers and play the drum for them, which made me a great favorite, and they would keep me two or three days at a time. Captain Conklin, Company A, Thirty-fifth Indiana volunteers, who was a friend of my father, wanted me to drum for his company, and on Nov. 24, 1861, I was regularly enlisted and attached to his command.” “How old were you at that time?” “Eleven years, four months and some days. I lived in barracks with the regiment at Camp Morton, perfectly contented, until Dec. 13, when we were ordered to move. I had not mentioned the subject at home, but packed my knapsack and marched with the regi ment to the depot, but here, from some unknown cause our start was delayed. I w,i3 sitting on the curbstone, the center of a crowd of newsboys and bootblacks, who were my subjects, and who listened with glistening eyes to how I intended to scatter the Johnnies, when suddenly my parents, who had been apprised of the intended departure of the regiment, appeared close at hand. My father captured my drum, and mother, who came prepared, hustled me under a long cloak she wore, and I don’t think my feet touched the ground until I was landed safely at home. The next day 1 was bundled off to an uncle, who lived in the country, six miles from Noblesville, for safe keeping. I kept pretty quiet for two or three weeks, until I had allayed all suspicion of intended surreptitious departure, when I was allowed the freedom of tho place. This was my chance, and the next day I met a farmer on his way to Noblesville, and got him to let me ride with him to town. There I took the train to Indianapolis, and on my arrival went straight to my home, where I supposed they would be glad to see me. Such was not the case, for the next day I found myself on the road to Buck Creek, a place about forty-five miles from Indianapolis, and twenty from a railroad station. I didn’t know the road to any town, so I concluded they had me, and tried to content myself by working around my uncle’s farm. “In May, 1862, my baby brother died, and I was brought home. About this time the Indianapolis arsenal advertised for a number of boys, and I went down and got a job greasing bullets, but was cautioned by my mother not to mention mv previous enlistment. I was in paradise for awhile, preparing the munitions of war; but the associations of the place brought back ray old desire to play the drum, aud when, one day, Superintendent Tindall, who was recruiting a company for the Sixty third Indiana Volunteers, mentioned the fact of having no drummer, I couldn’t be silent any longer, and told him my whole storv, and told him if he would get me a drum I would help him in his recruiting work. He readily consented, and I was stationed in the State-house square. where the music of my drum attracted the countrymen who came to town, and our company was soon complete. The company was then marched to the office of the examining surgeon. When I appeared, stripped, before the officer he laughed and said: ‘What do you want? I can’t pass you.’ ’But I am the drummer of Company I, Sixtythird Indiana Volunteers, and I have been in the army before/ I said, as the tears of indignation and disappointment began to ooze to my eyes. ‘Can’t help it/said the surgeon, ‘you are under age. and I can’t pass you/ Captain Tindall found me sitting on the fence and sobbing hopelessly. aud asked why l cried. I told him how 1 had been treated, and urged him to see the surgeon and represent mv case properly. He did so, telling the officer that I had been enlisted before and could stand the work. This had the desired effect, and, to my great joy, I was passed and became a full soldier. To gain the consent of ray parents to my second enlistment I had told them I would never have to leave town except for a few days at a time, when we were sent out to quiet any disturbances in our neighborhood., W T hen at length we received orders to take the field, I prepared my mother by teiling her we were goiug on one of these excursions, but should be gone longer than usual. She believed me, and insisted that I should sleep in the house the night before wo left. I complied, and we all went to bed about 10 o clock. I didn’t sleep well for thinking of the morrow, and suddenly the horrible idea struck me that perhaps this sleeping in the house was only a scheme to keep me again at home. I rose noiselessly at midnight, when all was perfectly still, and climbed out my window to a little porch, and thence to the ground. In half an hour I was curled up in rny bunk at the barracks, sound asleep. We were to start at 5 o’clock next morning, and when we reached the depot 1 watched my chance and ensconced myself in the far end of a freight car, behind some cracker boxes. Here I awaited breathlessly the starting of ths train; but before the time I heard a voice calling, ‘Abe! Abe!’ and Captain Tindall stuck his head in the door. ‘Sh —h! What's the matter?’ 1 said, peeping cautiously out from my barrier, ‘Come out here, you young rascal/ said the Captain, langhing. ‘Here are your father and mother and sisters all crying themselves to death because you didn’t say good-bye/ ‘Tell ’em I ain’t here,’ I said, still fearing another conspiracy to kidnap me. ‘Oh. that won’t do/ said Captain Tindall. ‘Come out and say good-bye; it’s all right.’ 1 went out and kissed them all, telling mother we would soon be back, and then the train moved oat and we were off for the war.” The Sixty third Indiana Volunteers, with which Mr. Springsteen remained until the end of the war, has a gallant record on file in the War Department. After garrison and guard duty at Camp Nelson, Knoxville and other points, it was with Sherman in his Atlanta campaign and was engaged in some of the hottest fights of the war. among them Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville and Fort An dersou. PRESBYTERIANISM RENOUNCED. A Philadelphia Pastor Resigns His Pulpit and Gives Reasons for His Action. Philadelphia Special. Rt-v. Mangasar M. Mangasarian, who has been pastor of the Spring Garden Presbyterian Church, ODe of the most influential in this city, for three years, publicly renounced the doctrines of Presbyterianism to night, and tendered his resignation to a great congregation, which listened breathlessly as he spoke. The minister said: “I have ceased to be a Calvinist. I have decided to renounce the doctrines of orthodox Presbyterianism. If Calvin. Wesley and Ed wards had the right to make articles of faith and differ with good and holy men who went before them, have I not the same right to make articles of faith, and differ with Calvin, Wesley and Edwards? I have outgrown the creed of Calvin. I will continue to prearh the gospel, but will not be held within the limits of sect or denomination. I shall have no creed save the words of Christ. My sympathies are with all sects having liberal views. My future church shall be a church governed by the people. A people’s church —a Congregational church essentially, where no authority comes between the minister aud his flock. By my act I subscribe myself to the Congregational doctrine. I indorse the new’ creed of that church in place of the Westminster catechism, which, as pastor in the Presbyterian church, I was bound to teach. Ministers in Boston and other cities have sent me letters promising to help me in this stroke for candor iri the pulpit Ido not disfeilowehip the Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Church disfellowships me. Your creed says that mankind is Itorn and lives under the enrse of God; that in Adam’s sin all mankind tell, and lor liis trails gression Gd sentenced his children to unending sonow. Your creed shows me a heaven thinly

settled, a hell peopled; few saints, many sinners. Your creed tells me that under the eternal law of predestination nothing can change the number of souls ransomed. This is fatal ism. What need, then, of preaching the gospel? If a father decides to save three of his six children and consign the other three to an eternal hell, what can we do? I ridicule the idea of a personal devil, absolute, and forever existing. God alone is absolute. , How, then, can there be an absolute devil? Heaven will swallow up all hell, and there will be no more devil to tempt us. Man takes his heaven or hell with him to the. grave. There is no escaping tho punishment for the violation of God’s laws, but the purpose of that punishment is the reformation of the sufferer. God delights not in the writhings of a punished soul. Heaven and hell are states, and not localities; they are conditions into which we enter. The doctrine of total depravity is a black-mailing of human nature. Sooner would 1 nurse an asp in my bosom or a viper in my arms than believe the horrible dogma that my dear God exposes to unending wrath all his children for the sins of one Adam.” After service there was a half-hour of handshaking and many tearful eyes. The Flight of the Wumps. Chicago News. The mugwump sat on a hickory limb—-“Too-hoo.” In the autumn twilight, dank and dim—-“Too-hoo;” When coming along, a Democrat heard, The doleful voice of the curious bird Badly moaning this wild, weird word. “Too-hoo!” “Oh, why do you sit on that limb and cry ‘Too-hoo?’ Does it mean a lingering, last good-by— Adieu? You’ve been our gtiest a paltry year And now you’re going to disappear With a parting flip-flop, sad and soar—--800-hoo!” But the mugwump scorned the Democrat’s wail—-“Too-hoo’’— And flirting its false, fantastic tail—-“Too-hoo.” It spread its wings and it soared away Ana left the Democrat in dismay With, no pitch hot and the devil to pay— Too-hoo! MILLIONS IN IT. A Queer Treasury Bureau that Holds Secrets as Well as Lost Fortunes. Washington Special. “Some of the finest material for tho novelist that can be imagined is to be found in the United States Treasury,” said a gentleman who had been in that department of the government for a quarter of a century. “Where is it?” ho replied, in answer to my question. “Why. everywhere. There is a bureau called the Division of Abandoned Lands and Property that in itself is one great romance. Its history is fuller of the marvelous than anything ever written. Why, there are $13,000,000 in its charge belonging to people in the South alone. You see, during and at the close of the war there was valuable property of all sorts which fell into the hands of army officers and was turned over to the Treasury. Over $12,000,000 of the money charged to that bureau is the proceeds of cotton taken from plantations all over the South and sold. The money it brought was turned in as I have told you. The amounts finally became so great that Mr. Chase, then Secretary, created a division that should have especial charge of all this sort of thing. Why, there is one instance were $175,000 worth of cotton was taken from a far South estate, when cotton was worth about SSOO a bale, and sold. The persons to whom it belonged were not rebels, but loyalists. They haven’t an idea of where their cotton went to. Their names were on the bales, and it would not be difficult for them to make a case if they knew what to do. But it has been nearly twenty three years since the money was deposited. I don’t know whether any of them are living or not, and it is hardly probable that they will ever get what is really theirs. All the testimony relating to the case is in the possession of the government. The agent who took the cotton and the one who sold it are both dead, and the owners would not be abie to make their case without some proof, which they haven’t got.” The Deepest Well in the World. Oil, PSTnTand Drug Reporter. The deepest well in the world is located at Homewood, Pa. It is owned by George Westinghouse, jr. The average depth of the Homewood wells is about 1,850 feet. In the well now drilling everything found of the nature of gas or water at a depth of 2,000 feet was cased off as unimportant, and the drill at present is said to be a little over 6,000 feet below the surface, which would make it by all odds the deepest well in the world. A careful record is being kept, and portions of each formation encountered preserved. Since it would necessarily have to be a very prolific gas vein to justify such deep drilling, it is a difficult matter to conjecture the object that prompts such a work, unless it, be purely to satisfy a morbid curiosity. There are in Washington county some weils drilled to a depth of 4.000 feet, and the only others, so far as known, approaching the depth reached by Mr. Westinghouse, is an artesian well in France, at which a depth of 5.000 feet was reached. A Base Ball Reform. Pittsburg f’hronicle. “Well, I’m glad to see that at least one base ball club has gone into a useful business, for of all foolishness I think this thing of going around over the country playing ball is tho most foolish of all/’ was the remark which greeted Mr. Squildig as he appeared at tho breakfast-table this morning. “Gone into a useful business?’’ queried Squildig. “Yes, and I hope the other clubs will follow the example. It may take a little business away from the colored men, but it will be a benefit after all.” “What do you mean?” asked Squildig, mystified. “Why, the paper this morning says the Metropolitans whitewashed Brooklyn, and I think all the clubs had better go into the whitewashing business.” am Why the Sapper Tarried. Merchant Traveler. “When we were all down at Milledgeville,” said General Toombs, “passing the ordinance of secession, the excitement was most intense, and when the ordinance finally passed, the people had a big impromptu jubilee, lasting late into the night Some of the members grew hungry at last, and went to the hotel to get supper, but found that the cook was later than usual in getting it ready. They took occasion to ‘damn him’ for the delay, when the sable humorist coolly remarked: ‘Well, gemmen. you all said that you all was gwine outer de United States 'fore 3 o’clock dis ebenin’, an’ darfo’ I thought that mebbe you alt ud be party late a-gettin' back! Dat’s de reason I warn't in no gret hurry/ And, with one consent, tho crowd excused him.” A Presuming Chinaman. New York Commercial Advertiser. Wong Chin Foo is a heathen Chinee living in this country. He asks: “Did all your Sum ners, Lincolns, Phillipses and Beechers—did all all such spirits die in freeing the negro, or have they also been blinded by race prejudice to think the torturing of Chinamen no inhumanity? In no place in China or any other heathen nation.” he says, “would the inbabitauts he allowed by popular consent of law abiding citizens to butcher gangs of defenseless men, no matter who or what they were.” it won’t do to have the Chinese talk liko that in this country. We must send more missionaries to China. The Real Mystery To Be Solved. Lew York Evening Post. The relations of General Grant to tho firm are as well known now as they can ever he. He was cheated out of all the money he had and his sons likewise, and his name was used to cheat other people. What is wanted to he known chiefly is the disposition made by Warner of the $1,300,000 that went into his pocket plus the property that he and Work got from Ward ;•* the midnight meeting in Brooklyn. When thi.mystery is Bo*veu it will be time to consider tie lesser gains of others. Memorandum for the Ladies. St. Lonis Post-Dispatch. We request our lady readers, after careful', v perusing the advertisements in this paper, and noting down their shopping items for to-morrow, to add a memorandum as follows: “N B.—Not to forget to tell the old man that he must vote for something or other at the polls. n

SOME CURIOUS OLD PEOPLE. Three Ag-etl Hermits of Ohio and Their Queer Way of Living. Delaware, 0., Correspondence of Philadelphia Times Near the outskirts of this town, in a small house of two rooms, an eccentric family of three persons lead the lives of hermits. Their names are Benjamin Vaughn, aged seventy-seven; Joshua Vaughn, aged seventy-five, and Sarah Vaughn, aged seventy two. The other evening, shortly before dusk, I journeyed out to the dwelling. The door was opened by Joshua in response to my knock, and I was invited into the dingiest room I ever saw inhabited by three white people. The emaciated faces of the three inmates were plainlv visible by the light of a bright fire, which was burning in the wide, oldfashioned fire-place. The room was without furniture of any kind, except a heap of bedding in one corner. An old-fashioned crane in the fire-place supported a tea-kettle of ancient pattern, while on the hearth-stone stood an old pewter tea-pot and three tea cups. This constituted the entire housekeeping effects of these three strange people. Neither chairs, table, stool nor any article of furniture whatever was visible. Benjamin informed me that the last time he was away from the house, until last summer, was forty-three years ago, when he, as a fifer, attended a general muster at Delaware. About eighteen years ago a nephew named Robinson, then quite a lad, came to live with them and look after their out door interests. Over a year ago he was married, and the hermits deeded to him their entire property, taking life leases on the land and its products that they might be assured a living. The recording of these papers came to the knowledge of other nephews and kinspeople, some of whom began a suit to have a guardian appointed for them on the ground of imbecility. The sheriff served the proper summons, but they failed to respond, and the judge issued attachments for them: but so determined were they not to obey that the officer had to force them into the carriage. The judicial inquiry lasted several weeks, during which over three hundred witnesses were examined. Seven of the leading physicians pronounced the old people of sound mind, and the court decided that they were not imbeciles. Up to the trial Sarah Vaugh had not been outside of the yard within sixty years, and had, in all that time, never seen the land which she owned, and had never been in tho town of Delaware, although it was only a mile or two distant Neither of them had ever seen a railroad or a steam engine, though for twenty odd years a railroad was run within a few miles of their house. For years they cooked their own meals, the provisions being purchased for them by hired men and neighbors; but after their nephew came to live with them he did all their marketing, and finally the cooking. Their neighbors testify that they are unusually sharp at a trade. Sarah once knew how to read and write, but had forgotten even the letters of the aluhabet. ■ They are extremely sociable, and take great pleasure in the society of visitors and are always liberal with their tea and pipes. What He Would Do. Detroit Free Press. A telegram dated from Chicago said to a Detroiter yesterday: “What would you do if you were here and out of money?” The reply went back: “I'd wait awhile and shovel snow.” Things Worth Knowing. That Allcock’s are the only genuine porous plasters. That all other so-called porous plasters are imitations. That their makers only get them up to sell on the reputation of Allcock’s. That all so-called improvements and new ingredients aro humbugs. That no one has ever made an improvement on Allcock's Porous Plasters. That when you buy Allcock’s Porous Plasters you obtain the best plasters made. Mil! IRON PIPE iggjl FITTINGS. Selling Agents for National tube works co. ■y S\ Glob* Valves, Stop Cocks, EnAts Ula Igiue Trimmings. PI PE TONGS. j Jp||f Ipgl CUTTERS. VISE S. TAP S. Stocks and Dies. Wrenches, t-fiSHS Steam Traps, Pumps, Sinks, HU HOSE, BELTING, BABBIT | £s -j METALS (25 pound boxes), I'raH Cotton Wiping Waste, white fAfeO ant * c °lore<l (100-pound bales), *3ll PfcH other supplies used in SSB Ew|R connection with STEAM, VVAHf iSi TER and GAS, in JOB or RE--1 frjpU TAIL LOTS. Do a regular steam-fitting business. Estirifs kUv; 1 mate and contract to heat Mills, i|Si UPt Shops. Factories and Lumber sE* Dry- houses wiln live or exhaust Ml steam. Pipe cut to order by r 5 steam power. I 1 ran Tim, |Ejj 75 aud 77 S. Penn. St. CHARLES E. KREGELO, TELEPHONE 564. FREE AMBULANCE. ANNOUNCEMENTS.^ DR. A. W. BRAYTON. 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