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RAILWAY GOSSIP. Vice-president T. J. Potter, of the Barling (ton, in expeated back from California to-day. H. W. Hibbard, general freight agent of the 'V’andalia, will spend the Sabbath in the city. T- A. Lewis, general agent of the Erie fastfreight linee, left for New York last evening, Charles Conkling succeeds L. Rupu as a representative of the Pennsylvania line., at Denver, CoL J. M. Ferris, formerly general superintendent of the Nypano, Jan. 1 became general manager of the Ohio Central & Hocking Valley. Chief Eugineer Gibbons, of theYandalia, and his cleiical force, five in number, yesterday left for Terre Haute, their new headquarters. Ex President R. B. Hayes, of Ohio, traded $3,800 worth of Northern Pacific bonds, in 1877, for a Dakota farm which he has just sold for $20,•000. W. J. Br3 r an. train baegage-master on the L, P. A C. road, in the year 1885 handled, between Indianapolis and Michigan City, 9,472 pieces of baggage. T. Thon has been appointed Southwestern passenger agent of theYandalia, with headquarters at Dallas, Tex., in place of George A. Knight, resigned. J. H. Steiner, general agent of the Erie lines, at Memphis, Tenn., who has been spending the Itelid&ys in this city, returned to his head•qnarters yesterday. General Manager Harahan, of the L. & N., announces that the headquarters of Mr. W. M. Newbold, superintendent, have been removed from Owensboro to Russellville, Ky. E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, spent yesterday in the city. He is en route home from Florida. His family accompanied him. The total number of miles of railroad in Kentacky is 2,057, and the increased mileage for the last two years, 191. There are four projected reads in the State actually under construction. The meeting of the freight agents of the Southern roads, which was to have been held at !LeuisviHe, Jan. 1, under the recent pool agreement in New York, has been postponed till Jan. 15. West Shore passeneer trains will enter the New York Central depot at Buffalo hereafter, and the trains to the falls and suspension bridge will run over tho Central tracks instead of those 4>f the Erie. Mercer Slaughter, the retiring general passenger agent of the Richmond & Danville system, was the recipient of a gold-headed cane from the Southwestern passenger agents of the line on Christmas day. O. B. Skinner, traffic manager of the Bee-line, who is bow in California, writes that he is having a good time, aud that his health and that of liis family is excellent He will not return before May or June. Some idea of the great activity in the stock market of late may be obtained from the statement that the total sales for the past eleven weeks have been equal to the business of the ,ilrst six months of the year. H. S. Rich has been chosen acting commissioner of the Colorado pools, in place ©f George ijEL Daniels, who has been chosen commissioner *tt the central passenger committee. Mr. Rich |ias been Mr. Daniels’s chief clerk. The Dayton, 0., car works had been in operation thirty-five years, Jan. 1. Railways were then in their swaddling clothes. The canal-boat, the stage-coach, and the slow, plodding, creaking wagon enjoyed an absolute monopoly of tho transportation business. The total sales of all stocks dealt in on the ;,Hew York Stock Exchange for the year 1885 ,amounted to 92,141,056 shares, against about 95,000,000 during 1884. The railway bond market has sympathized with the improvement in the price of shares. The total sales for the year amounted to about $068,000,000. J. N. McCullough, vice-president of the Pennsylvania lines, one of the best preserved railroad ynen in the country, arises at 5 a. m., and is airways at his office by 7 a. m. ; leaves it for dinner P. M ; does not return, and retires at 8 p.m., invariably. He retires at theso hours, as well, when riding over the country in his special car. The engineers of the Chesapeake, Ohio & have formed an organization and pequest an increase in wages. They ask pay at /the rate of 4 cents per mile for the engineer while making a run, and 35 cent3 per hour for I all time over the stipulated time for the run, and 28 cents per hour for the anginoers of switch enJtfnes. The parlor cars being built for the Chicago & Northwestern road are to have anew feature in (the form of lattice-work and drapery instead of jKriid partition between the main saloon and the state-room, an ornamental gallery extending ground the latter near the roof having openings jjfop ornamental pots of natural or artificial plants 'and flowers. The Fitchburg road having recently lost about i520,000 through defaulting employes has issued an order requiring bonds of all employes who 'Slave the handling of money. One guaranty company furnishes all the bonds,.and the company pays all the expense attending the procuring of the same. This order will include ninety4iva station agents and forty-two conductors. The employes at the Bee-line shops, Brightwood, are more than pleased with William •Garstang, who a few months since was appointed master mechanic at these shops. The boys in speaking of him, say: “He has a big heart.” Under his supervision the equipments are very rapidly put in No. 1 condition. Freight engir*s .are now hauling five to eight more cars over the road as a result of the overhauling they have been subjected to. The foreclosure sales of the year 1885 numbered twenty-nine roads, their mileage being 12,126, and their capitalization $280,006,525, which exceeds by 454 miles and by a capitalization of |5130,001,C00 the combined records of the three years. The receivership record em•oraces fifty-one roads, 9,892 miles in length and representing a total capitalization of $591,690,i358, against forty-five roads, 7,492 miles inlecgth •and $562,924,167 capitalization in 1884. B. W. Taylor, who has been appointed engineer of maintenance of way of the I. & V. road, ▼ioe L. F. Loree, transferred, entered railroad service in June, 1883, fresh from DePauw University at Greencastle, as inspector of masonry. On Jau. 1,1884, ho was mado assistant engineer of the I. & V. railroad, and had charge of the construction of the coal branches of that road. Aft the competitive examination at Columbus, 0., he passed a very creditable examination. C. J. Ives, president and general superintendent of tho Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern road, has issued the following notice: “J. E. Hannegan, having conducted the passenger department of this railway since the death of Mr. 38. F. Mills to the entire satisfaction of the management, he is hereby appointed general ticket and passenger agent of this company, to take effect Jan. 1, 1886. Mr. Hannegan began railroad life on the C., 1., St. L. & C. as a curbstone passenger solicitor.” The English have a very good opinion of the president of the New York Central, as expressed m the following: “The strongest and best lieutenant whom Mr. Vanderbilt has had is Mr. Chauncey M. Depew. a lawyer of first-rate ability, who for years has been charged with the legal business of the New York Central, and who has also been his chief legal adviser in other matters. Upon Mr. Depew will rest, it may be presumed, the principal burden of administering the property of the deceased, who placed in Mr. Depew great and well-deserved confidence.” Thirty years ago William B. Strong, president of tho A., T. & S. F., was a poor boy, setting cut to earn his living by trying to become a teleSaph operator. To day, as for years he o been, he is the actual as well as legal head of a grand railway system of nearly 3,000 miles of lines, with iaree extensions of mileage in prospect, and is practically the controlling spirit in two other lines cousti tuting a transcontinental route more than 1,000 miles long, the three comprising, altogether, a system of nearly 4,000 miles, extending from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to the Mexican border at El Paso, with another line reaching into Mexico and terminating on tho Gulf of California. The railroad enthusiasm in China appears to hare root with a check, and a postponement of railroad building now seems to have been determined upon by the government of the Son of Haaven. The last mail advices from China contala a special dispatch from Tion-Tsin which says:

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‘There will be no railways in China this year, the oensors having objected to them as dangerous and likely to canae a rebellion in the country.” The reason for this sudden change of heart Is not difficult to comprehend, and is an apt illustration of the skillful diplomacy of the “heathen Chinee.” As soon as it became known that the imperial government was about to undertake the construction of railroads, Pekin was at once besieged by agents of rail-builders, contractors and capitalists from every quarter of the globe who wore anxious to secure the job. A railroad official who quite frequently met the late William H. Vanderbilt, and conversed with him concerning the depression of the last two or three years in railroad' interests, says his great losses, and those of his sons, in the falling of stocks depressed him very much. His vast pile of government bonds was lowered almost onehalf by their conversion into cash to meet his requirements in the stock market. He had securities pledged for loans made necessary by his business relations with corporations and individuals. When the securities declined in value they had to be increased in face-worth to keep the collateral good. Stocks sunk long after everybody supposed bottom had beeD reached, and as they did not stop sinking until people thought the bottom had dropped out entirely, Mr. Vanderbilt began to wonder if he himself might not be reduced to extremities, despite his almost fabulous wealth. The disastrous railroad war came oa in the worst of the financial depression, and threatened the strongest corporations with bankruptcy. Tho weaker concerns were going into receivers’ hands on all sides, and the outlook was dark for every holder of railroad securities. The Case of E. W. McKenna* Special to the Indian&polia Journal. Golumbus, Ind., Jan. 2.— The article contained in an Indianapolis paper yesterday morning, slipped from the Louisuille Truth, in regard to E. W. McKenna, late superintendent of the J„ M. & I. railroad, and his alleged financial troubles in Louisville, does that gentleman an irreparable injury because of itß falsity. While Mr. McKenna was somewhat financially involved, yet not anything like that pictured in the article, and from one conversant with the situation the amount is not one-tenth that stated. The story that Dick Condon indorsed for him to the amount of SBO,OOO puts a ludicrous aspect on the whole affair. The truth of the matter is that Mr. McKenna made some enemies in Louisville because he refused to be bled any longer by a set of vampires who had sunk their fatigs in him, and this is one of the means,of retaliation they have adopted. Important Railway Changes. New York, Jan. 2. —Commencing to-morrow, the through passenger trains of the New York, Lake Erie& Western, and New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroads, which have heretofore entered Cincinnati by way of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, will b® transferred to the Cleveland, Colnmbnß, Cincinnati & Indianapolis railway, using that company’s traeks from Dayton, and arriving at the new Central passenger station at Cincinnati, in which station are located the Ohio & Mississippi, the New Orleans & Pacific, the Cincinnati. Columbus, Cleveland & Indianapolis, the Cincinnati. Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago and the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore railroads, thus making connections in the union depot to all points West, South and Southwest without the necessary transfer through the city. The through-car service to St Louis, via the Ohio & Mississippi, continues as at present An interchange traffic arrangement has also been concluded between the Erie and the Indiana, Bloomington & Western roads, whereby, the through cars will be run between Kent, 0., and Peoria, 111., via Springfield, Indianapolis, Bloomington, etc. The Pacific express, leaving New York at 8 p. m., will make the connection at Kent. Pullman sleepingcoaches are run between New York and Kent, and the connecting cars from Kent are of the composite pattern, built especially for this service, one-half of the car being arranged as a sleeping-car and the other half with reclining chairs. The cars also have the latest conveniences, including the buffet

BIGAMIST AND THIEF. A Dashing Young Man Marries Three Girls While Being Hunted for Stealing Horses. Cumberland (Md.) Special, Dec. 29. Throughout the counties of Somerset, Pennsylvania, Preston, West Virginia, and Garrett, Maryland, inquiry is being made for Daniel Gasldll, a dashing and handsome young man who made his appearance at Oakland, Garrett county, not long ago, and at once became a prime favorite with the ladies. He represented himself to be a son of Justice Isaac Armstrong, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and in addition to his penchant for women, was an admirer of fine horses. Several good animals disappeared, but no one thought of Gaskill in this connection, as he seemed to be devoting most of his attentions to the lady. Finally, on his hiring a bnggj' to drive to Bruceton, Preston county, West Virginia, and not returning at the appointed time, a warrant was procured for his arrest, and the owner started to Bruceton. Gaskill was warned, and fled into Somerset county, Pennsylvania. The officers who wfere after him found he had married three girls along the route they passed in hunting him. A few days ago he again turned up along the West Virginia State line with a horse and buggy he had stolen in Somerset couuty, and was accompanied by a girl of fifteen, whom he had induced to leave her home and olope with him. The father of the girl, accompanied by eieht of his friends, was but a few hours behind Gaskill, and the latter abandoned the girl and buggy, and escaped on horseback. Since then other reports of his crookedness have come in. Mrs. Mackay’a Charities. Philadelphia Press. Mr. Bonanza Maokay is to sail for Europe from New Yoik on Saturday, to pass the winter with his wife abroad. A part of the season will be passed in Rome. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mackay are decidedly ultra in their views, and Mrs. Mackay's religious benefactions are munificent. Although Mrs. Mackay has supported a style of living so splendid as to dazzle the eyes of the Parisians, all her charities have been conducted on the scriptural principle of not letting the left hand know what the right hand doeth. An intimate friend was saying the other day that years ago, ju3t after Mr. Mackay had grown rich, he made an agreement with his wife by which she was allowed about a hundred thousand dollars a year for “pin" money. The money went largely in alms. Mr. Mackay never asked nor would listen to any accounting for it. To the poor and needy, and those temporarily in hard luck, for miles around Virginia City, the silver queen was a Lady Bountiful every day in the week. This role, it is said, she has always continued to play. —■ ——■ Some Astonishing News About Vanderbilt. Paris Gauloia. Vanderbilt, whose sudden death has just been announced, was the richest man in the United States. His beginning in life was difficult Gifted with a genius for business, he soon amassed a considerable fortune in several bold enterprises. These consisted in oil wells, which he was one of the first to exploit, then mines, and lastly, a vast network of railways that he succeeded in building and manipulating. He made ample amends, however, for his incalculable fortune by erecting schools, libraries and benevolent establishments in all the principal American towns. Tennyson and His Correspondents. Letter from .Macmillan & Go. to London Times. We are requested by Lord Tennyson to inform his correspondents, through the Times, that he is wholly unable to answer the innumerable letters which he daily receives, nor can he undertake to return or criticise the manuscripts sent to him. A similar statement was published two years ago, but its repetition now seems necessary in consequence of the mass of correspondence which has reached Lord Tennyson since the publication of his new volume of poems. Suffering from tbeumatism I took a dose of Athlophoros, which, it seemed to me, I could feel go through ray system until it came directiy to the sore spot. The relief was almost instantaneous. Mas. Francis Heath, 79 Ferry street, Lafayette, lad.

ran I. IL C. ASSOCIATION. Its Work Aiiiong the Young Men, and Its Claims to Popular Encouragement Rev. Dr. Talmage, at the opening of the Brooklyn Y. M. CL Association Building, spoke as follows: “This feast reminds me of the olden feasts of Jerusalem. That feast lasted eight days, and on the evenings of those days the city was illuminated. This feast has lasted three days, and, like Jerusalem, the city has been illuminated, but by the gladness of tens of thousands of hearts. Ah, it is an excellent thmg to stand upon this broad platform of Christian brotherhood, where the spirit of catholicity is cultivated. In the dark days of Scotland, when it became necessary to battle, all the clans marched to the rendezvous, each bearing its special flag; but when the rendezvous was reached the old flag of Scotland was uplifted, and all the flags of clans went down as the ehont of ‘Scotland forever!’ rang out. So it is that Christians can have their denominations, each with its special ensign, but when the time of battle comes, the one "star of Bethlehem and the blood-stained stripes of the cross are unfurled, and all the others go down before the cry of ‘Jesus forever!’ But lam asked the meaning of this joyful celebration, and I will answer. It means to attempt to take Brooklyn for Christ, and by that I mean Brooklyn not only as it is now, but what it shall be. It means the capture of the twentieth century for God. Do you realize that we are only fifteen years from the gate of anew century? That young man of twenty will be but thirty-five when the twentieth century comes. Then the young men of to-day will be holding the positions of honor and trust in this city, and if they are brought to God, what a glorious thing for the city it will be. The nineteenth century was launched for infidelity. Voltaire was dead, indeed, but not so lone before but that this influence shaped the incomings of this hundred years. The twentieth centnry will be launched for God. This building means more. It means the evangelization of the masses. Ninety-nine out of one hundred people on this earth are of the masses. The rest, some by special favors of Providence, have gone into the upper olasees, I mean the people outside of the church, and there are myriads of them. Why, there are 300,600 people in this city who come not within the doors of the churches. But there is work which the church cannot do and that the Young Men’s Christian Associations of the country can accomplish. Go and preach the gospel where we can’t preach, where we can’t reach. The Young Men’s Christian Association is the right wing of the Lord’s army, and it is a part of the church. Further, I understand this building means the putting of kindly influence in the way of young men. A tremendous amount of good can be thus accomplished. There is one kind of young man whom I don’t care to have much to do with. He is the mean, sordid, selfish, sour young man, who will stand for an hour in a bar-room, too stiney to buy a drink, bnt waiting for someone to ask him: too mean to go to perdition unless somebody else pays his expenses. Such a young man would be a nuisance in the church if you couid get him; and even Satan does does not want him, for it would not be long before he would be disputing with his satanic majesty the throne of everlasting meanness. But Ido care for the young man who feels that he has noble aims to attain. There are thousands of such in the city. You will find them come from the country filled with good advice and good intentions. His first night in the city comes. He goes to his room, it’s on the fourth floor of a boarding-house. Not a picture on the walls: nothing but a box of matches on the mantel piece, and half of these won’t go. He sits down feeling homesick and thinks of his good advice. He does it for several nights, and then he says, I can’t stand this longer, I must go out and see something. He goes out Where does he go? Ah, there’s the question; a tremendous question. Does he fall into a good or evil tide? Then there’s his church going. His companion at the desk asked him Saturday where he will go Sunday He thinks he will go to church. ‘Go to chnrch! says the other. ‘Oh, come now, you don’t really mean that; you don’t believe that Jonah swallowed the whale, do you? T used to be just so, but I’ve got over it bravely.’ A few young men are strong enough to resist this, many more are not. It is for these you are to care, and although I am neither a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, I will prophesy that through the doors of this building alone a procession of thousands and tens of thousands wiil march to lives of usefulness and right up to the gates of heaven. Let your work be done in the spirit of kindness. Ah, what a power there is in the pleasant word! The first time I was ever in Boston I was a very green lad, I can tell you. I wanted to tiear Theodore Parker, and went to his church with a friend. We stood hesitating at the door when a man wearing a very bad straw hat passed in and asked our pleasure. He showed us seats and welcomed us most cordially, and when the period of waiting ended we saw, with amazement, the man with the shabby hat on the platform. It was Theodore Parker. While we did not adopt his principles of belief, we did adopt his spirit of universal kindness to all men. There are some things here that I wish to specially applaud. I want to applaud the swimming bath here. When the Lord made two-thirds of the earth water, I think it was a hint to attend to ablutions. Cleanliness is what we want, physically as well as morally. Why, at one time I was almost converted over to hydropathy, a science as old as the flood, although at that time it killed more than it cured. I want, also, to applaud the gymnasium. In twenty-nine years of professional life I have only missed one service through sickness, and I attribute it to the gymnasium, as for many years I regularly exercised. It used to be considered a wicked place for pugilists to get up muscle—a training school for manufacturing Heenans. Now what do you see there? College professors swinging dumb-bells; millionaires turning somersaults; lawyers upside down hanging by one foot; doctors of divinity with coats off punching a bag—sending out blows as if in a controversy and the bag was an opposing bishop; dyspeptics on a rope ladder; old age dancing itself young. Ah, it’s better than all the curatives on earth: better than all the plantation bitters, St. S. T. X.’s and U. Y. G.’s, and all the other board-fence literature in creation. I want, too, to apniaud your library. There is a world of power for good in the books upon its shelves, and in its other noble features. Use them and profit by them.” Dr. Talmage ended with telling the young gentlemen that they stood on the morning of the world’s greatest day, and should profit by their opportunity in doing woll for themselves aqd others.

CAME BACK TO LIFE. A Well-Known Citizen of Flatteville Has a Narrow Escape from Being Buried Alive. Galena (111.) Special. John F. Munger, a well-known citizen of Platteville, Wis., has suffered greatly from rheumatism in the feet. Two days ago, with the hope of relieving the pain, he bathed his feet freely with tincture of aconite and then thrust them into a pail of hot water. A tingling sensation followed, the pulse weakened, tho skin became moist and clammy, and violent vomiting and racking ensued. Dr. Gasser was called, but on his arrival found Mr. Munger apparently dead. The heart seemed to have stopped beating, and the doctor, with other medical men who were summoned, decided that Munger had died from aconite poisoning, having absorbed the drug through his feet. An undertaker set about preparing the body for burial, when Dr. Gasser, as an experiment, injected with a hypodermic syringe a mixture of brandy and digitalis near the heart. In a few minutes the supposed dead man began to gasp, and.there was a fainc sound of beating over the heart. More hypodermics were given; the death pallor was succeeded by a reddish glow, the muscles relaxed, perspiration broke out and Mr. Munger slowly returned to life. •He is now ontiroly out of danger. The doctors consider his resurrection a most remarkable one. Phenomenal Fecundity* Naples Letter in Paris Register. The most extraordinary case of fecundity that I ever heard of came to my knowledge last week. About twenty five miles from here, and by rail two or three stations beyond Pompeii, is the historical city of Nocera (the Nocera of the ancients). In the rione, or ward, of Liposta, lives Maddalena Granata, aged forty-seven, who was married at the age of twenty-eight to a peasant, just nineteen years ago. Maddalena Grnoata has given birth to, either dead or living, fiftytwo children, forty nine of whom were males.

She enjoys florid health, is robust, and twentyfour hours after her last accouchement was ready to go oat to her accustomed labor in the field. She has no hesitancy in conversing with any one about her extraordinary prolficness. Her physician, Dr. Raphael de Sanctis, of Nocera, says that there is not the least ex: ggertiou in these statements. Has any one ever heard of such phenomenal fecundity in the whole history of maternity—fifty-two children, alive or dead, in nineteen years! She has had triplets fifteen times. PROFITS OF SIN. The Sensational Sanborn Will Case on Trial at Exeter, N. H. Exeter (N. n.) Special. In the Probate Court of this city, yesterday, the sensational Sanborn will case was opened. The effort is mado on behalf of the trustees of Dartmouth College to break the will left by Edward S. Sanborn, which bears date of 1883, the claim being advanced that Sanborn at that time was of unsound mind. New England society has not for many years possessed a sensation which compares for contradictory features with the singular dual life history of Sanborn. His native town was Kingston, where his highly respected ancestors lived for many generations. One of his sisters married the late Dr. Bartlett, a grandson of Governor Bartlett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. In September last, at the age of Eixty-seven years, Sanborn died in Boston, and then, for the first time, the unknown side of his career leaked out. To the people of his native town he was known only as a most liberal philanthropist in educational and religious matters. Nothing of special public interest was broached which he did not heartily indorse and freely aid. On various occasions his purse had been liberally placed at the disposal of all the church organizations, and they naturally accepted his gifts with open arms. He made no pretensions whatever to Christianity, and was thought to be somewhat tinctured with infidelity. But he supported Sun-day-schools because he believed them necessary to Keep the boys and girls out of deviltry. In short, while he was regarded as somewhat eocentic in many ways, tho citizens highly esteemed him for his liberal public spirit, and felt grateful for his many benefactions. He had represented his township for a term in the New Hampshire Legislature. By the terms of his last will he leaves a handsome fund, the bulk of $250,000, to endow the Sanborn seminary. While Sanborn had nominally kept up his citizenship at Kingston, the greater part of his time was spent in Boston. On the death of his father, about twenty-five years ago, Sanbern fell heir to $37,000 as his share of the patrimony, and soon embarked in the business of running houses of prostitution for profit. His record in Boston for nearly twenty years has been that of a libertine of the most dangerous and unscrupulous character. The profits of the nefarious business, being large, enabled him to increase the attractions of these haunts of vice. For nearly all this length of time he had Julia Ann Hilton, who figures as the mistress of his career, for a partner. He met her seventeen years ago, when she was a handsome girl of eighteen, who came from the town of Wells, Me., to lead a life of prostitution. There seems to have grown up a genuine affection between them, and she was his intimate and trusted advsier in his nefarious money-getting enterprises. He was proprietor of” the v house, 20 Lyman street, of which she was the manager, and they lived long together, though never married, and here he died in September last. Their property interests, which had grown quite large, were kept separate. In 1878 she made a will whereby she left, after a few trifling bequests to her relatives, the bulk of her fortune, nearly SBO,OOO to her paramour, Sanborn. She died in April last. Her relatives in Maine propose to contest this will on the ground of undue influence by Sanborn, and this will bring out the same history as the trial which opened yesterday. About five years ago, it is understood, Sanborn began to consider plans for disposing of his wealth. At that time he made a will bequeathing $40,000 to Dartmouth College, and made his sisters, their children, and a son of ex-Governor Noyes of Ohio his residuary legatees. Not long after that Sanborn (teamed that his chosen heirs-at-law, including some of the Dartmouth authorities, had denounced the style of his life and expressed doubts about tho propriety of touching money obtained in such a business. The old man became furious, and announced that ail mention of them should be stricken from his will. The thought seemed to grow upon him, and a spirit of vindictiveness added to his extreme parsimony. Ho would avoid the most necessary outlay, such as car-fare, in order to leave a larger hoard for other beneficiaries to enjoy. His plans, as remodeled, became ripe in 1883. He deeded to found and handsomely endow a sem n iry at his native town of Kingston, which should perpetuate the memory of his beloved mistress as well as his own. It was his wish that they should be linked in fact, as well as in name, after death, for he had erected a tail white marble monument in the village cemetery, on one side of which appears his own name, with that of Julia Ann Hilton on the reverse. Miss Hilton, however, was buried by her relatives in Maine, during Sanborn’s last illness. Sanborn, in 1883, bought a fine site of several acres near the center of Kingston, and proceeded to build upon it a large brick and granite edifice for the purposes of a seminary. It is elaborately built, and far superior to any structure of the kind for many miles around. Over the arched gateway “Sanborn Seminary’’ is inscribed. It was finished about a year ago, but has not yet been occupied because of the contested will. On a tablet in the wall the library is set down as the gift of Julia Ann Hilton, and in the room designed for it is placed a life-sized bust of the mistress, which represents her as a woman of rare beauty and classical refinement. Sanborn’s bust reposes in a niche between the stairways. In case the last will should be set aside, Dartmouth will come in for the original bequest, and the now vacant seminary at Kingston will remain without a fund. A large number of Boston and Kingston witnesses were present at the hearing yesterday. Harrison M. Hutchinson and W. H. Greenleaf, of Boston, were the only witnesses examined. They testified to having seen Sanborn sign his last will, and considered him tc be of perfectly sound mind at the time.

Assassination in Illinois; Belleville, 111 , Jan. 2. —Win. Massaie, of the Gartside coal mine, on the Cairo Short-line, three miles west of this place, was shot and almost instantly killed by an unknown assassin at 6 o’clock this morning. There is no clew to the murderer. A Cure for Cranky New York Graphic. Some fine day we may have to take an anarchist and cultivate him under the Pasteur process for a mitigated virus with which to inoculate and cure kindred cranks. Flippant Advice. Milwaukee Sentinel. The Boston Herald asks: “How shall we protect our port?” Better increase the duty on the foreign article to seventy-five cents a gallon. The Skaters. Over the ice they glide, they glide! Youth and maiden are side by side, And fast fly the smile and the merry jest, For the air and the motion give life new zest And the parted lips of the graceful girls, Reveal the beauties of rows of pearls, Fo? the healthy girls, who can skate the best, Have always of teeth the handsomest. And those are the ones who, every night, Use SQZODONT on their teeth so white, Thus keeping them ever pure and sweet, And making their list of charms complete. One of the Brightest Charms Os a fait face is a fine set of teeth. The ladies being fully alive to this fact, patronize SOZODONT in preference to any other dentifrice, since they know by experience that it preserves like no other the pristine whiteness and cleanli ness of the teeth, and maki'S a naturally sweet breath additionally fragrant, it is one of the privileges of beaux sex to look lovelv, and that proportion of it which uses BOZODONT has learned that the article contributes in no small degree to the end in view. All druggists sell it

PERSONAL MENTION ELSEWHERE. [Concluded from Third Paft.l ent Misses Bose Morris, of Knightstown, Jennie Muchmore, of Modisonville, 0., Sne Roberts, Jessie Hamilton, Nellie Thayer and Miss Alma, and Messrs. Earnest Williams, of Indianapolis, Gant Cooper Warrum, Will and Clarence Gough. Numerous games and an abundance of refreshments were features of the evening. Ladoga. Mra G. H. Patterson, of Danville, visited Ladoga friends during the week. The ladies of the Christian Church gave a supper at Gill's Hall Thursday night. “Buff” Messick, who fell down the stairs at Gill’s Hall, on Christmas night, died without returning to consciousness, and was buried on Wednesday. Misses Anna Stover and Mollie Widdop, assisted by the Sunday-school children, gave an excellent fairy play, of their own production, at Gill’s Hall, on Saturday night, for the benefit of the Union Mission Sunday-school. The following officers of Ladoga Lodge, No. 54, K. of P., were installed on last Frida v night: C. M. Lemon, C. C.: P. M. Fudge, V. C.; Abe Havens, P.; Mart. Mills, M. of E.; A. M. Scott, M. of F.; J. N. Osborn, K. of R. and S.; E. C. Ashby, M. A. Mr. E. C. Ashby, of the Bank of Ladoga, and Miss Alice Gray bill, one of Ladoga’s most beautiful and accomplished young ladies, were married at the residence of the bride, last Wednesday evening. The young couple were leaders in society here, and both the wedding and reception. given next day at the home of Mr. S. F. Ashby, were attended by a large number of friends. Many costly presents were received, among them a check for SI,OOO from the groom’s father. Amoi.f the guests from a distance were Miss Kate B. Miller, of Brainbridge; Miss Emma Hague, of Thorntown; Mrs. Nelson and daughter, of Greencastle: Miss Laura Mahomey, Mr. Hugh Kelsey and Mr. John Constanzer, of Crawfordsville, and quite a number of the bride’s relations from Ohio and Kansas. Muncte. Miss Julia Linnel, of Cleveland, 0., is in the city, the guest of Mrs. Belle Gilbert. Rev. M. H. Phillips, of Hartford City, was the guest of friends here a day or two last week. Dr. Martin and wife visted friends and rein tives at Franklin, Ind., remaining a few dav6. Miss Lnla Benson, of Indianapolis, spent the week in the city, the guest of Mrs. C. L. Bender. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Williams have returned from a short visit with friends at Huntington, Ind. Miss Mollie Hackett, after a brief visit to her mother in this city, returned to Indianapolis on Wednesday. Miss Nettie Cohen, of Indianapolis, was in the city a few days last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leon. Miss Edith Staber entertained a number of her young friends at her pleasant home on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Nannie Gallahue, of Indianapolis, visited he.' lister, Mrs. M. James, of this city, a few days of the holiday week. Misses Ella and Josie Gray, of Daleville, are in the city, the guests of their sisters, Mrs. C, L. Bender and Mrs. Arthur Meeks. Misses Charline Cooper and Susie Ryan spent New Year’s day at Indianapolis, assisting Mrs. E. C. Rexford, of that city, in keeping open house. Miss Annie Hedrick, of Union City, spent the week in tho city, visiting her friends, Misses May Heath and Nellie Youse and Mrs. F. W. Heath. Mr. Charles Hockett, who has been at Detroit, Mich., undergoing treatment for paralysis, is now at home, somewhat improved. He is slowly gaining the proper use of his paralyzed arm. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Stander celebrated the fifth anniversary of their wedding on Tuesday evening. Quite a number of their younger friends assembled at their pleasant home, and with games and social conversation whiled away the hours in a delightful manner. The Year Year’s ball, given on Thursday evening, is conceded to have been the most enjoyable affair of she kind ever held in the city. It was highly fashionable, as well, and all who were in attendance remember the occasion with much delight. Among those attending were Harris Galbraeth, Albert Gall, jr., Ed Gall, Mr. Kahn, and Misses Lula Benson. Hallie Thompson, Mayne Gallahue, Mettie Cohen and Abbie and Florence Patterson, of Indianapolis; Mr. Harry Birt and Miss Annie Hedrick, of Union City; Misses Mary Whitmore, Daisy Howard, and Miss Hurst, and Messrs. Ben Feid and Bundy Williams, of Anderson; Mr. I ~rt Bonta, of Lima, O.; Misses Ella and Josie Gray, of Daleville; Mrs. B. Prins and Mr. Joe Leon, of Marion; Miss McFarland, of St. Louis, and Miss Greer, of Oxford, O. Supper was served near the hour of 12, by the ladies of tb© Universnlist Church, and tins is highly spoken of by all who partook of the excellent meal. Dancing was resumed, and so pleasant was the occasion that the party reluctantly dispersed—not until the new year bad been fully ushered in and was four hours old.

Peru. Miss Minnie Ellis is visiting friends at Wabash. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Raymond are visiting friends at Indianapolis to-day. Miss Mamie Fetter is visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles O’Donald, at Logansport Miss Anna O'Brian, a charming young lady of Rochester, is visiting Miss Jessie Cox. Miss Cora Lyons, of Elmira, N. Y., is visiting at the residence of Judge H. T. Shirk. Miss Frank Landis, of Logansport, is visiting her uncle, C, J. Kumler, on Third street. Mr. and Mrs. George Deibert and daughter returned, Friday, from a visit at Moberly, Mo. Milton Weist and wife, of Elkhart, are stopping with Mrs. Weist’s parents, in this city. Frank Stutesman, wife and son, are spending to-day in Logansport, visiting Airs. S.’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dodds. Mr. L. Ford, wife and son, wno formerly resided h we, now of Detroit, Mich., are visiting Mrs. W. W. Sullivan. J. Browne, manager Western Union telegraph, arrived in the city Friday, accompanied by his wife and children. Mr. B. intends making this his futnre home. The mother of Mrs. Ben Wallace is visiting her daughter ou West Main. Mrs. Skinner, of Rochester, also greeted her many friepds Wednesday and Thursday at Mrs. Wallace’s. Miss Nellie Pefferman entertained a few friends at her home, Thursday evening, in honor of her friend, Miss Hattie Seaborn, of London, Canada, a former schoolmate. Progressive euchre was the feature of the evening. William D. Taylor and wife celebrated their china wedding, at their residence on West Third street, Wednesday evening. A most enjoyable time was had by those present The presents were numerous and handsome. Hearty congratulations followed. The first dance of the second term of the Gatling Gun Squad, given on Thursday evening, was a social and financial success. It is composed of the best young people in the city. They will continue during the winter, and probably give a masquerade during January. New Year’s calls were received at Mrs. C. C. Emswiler’s, on West Sixth street. Miss Walker, of Indianapolis, Airs. John Hendricks, Misses Fannie Effinger, Emma Ekrhardt and others assisted. A few other houses received callers, but the custom was not generally observed. The officers elect of Peru Encampment, No. 58, I. O. O. F., for the ensuing term, consist of D. P. Newman, C. P.; W. T. Barber, S. W.; J. A. Deibert, H. P.; E. J. Jamison, J. W.; George Nelp, scribe. Unusual interest is being manifested by members of the camp, and indications point to a successful term. J. H. Fetter was appointed D. D. G. M. Airs. C. C. Emswiler, assisted by Mesdames L. B. Fttlwiler, Dr. C. B. Higgins, C. H. Brownell, J. E. Hendricks, W. Ems#iier and Misses Emma Erhardt, Farrar, Hattie Fannie Effinger, Anna Parsons, Maggie Henton, Clara Higgins. LuciaEffinger and Lizzie Walker, of Indianapolis, received callers Friday evening from 5 to 12 p. M. The house was tastily and elegantly decorated. Notwithstanding the inclement weather there were many callers present. Dancing was indulged in, and amongst the callers who remained for the dance the following were noted: Pern—C. A. Parsons, G. I. Reed, John Ream, Lyman Walker, James TANARUS, Henton, R. P. Effinger, George W. Stevens.

John Mitchell, Mr. Mitchell, of Loganeport; Wo, Sharp, of Indianapolis; Peru—William Stop necker, Shaw Stevens. L. B. Fulwiler, 0 HL. Brownell, James E Blythe, Dr. Higgins, J. E. Hendricks, Jeeee Foote, James Statesman, Clarence Jackson and George Quinby, Petersburg. Mikado caps and favors were the features of the evening. Tipton. Miss Lizzie Urmston visited at Indianapolis this week. Mrs. May Atkins, of Indianapolis, is visiting her parents. Mrs. Jake Haas, of Worthington, Ind., is visiting M. Haae and family. Miss Nellie Gilbert of Frankfort is visiting her parents at this place. Misses Jean and Kate Yan Nays visited at Lebanon on Wednesday. Miss Florence Anthony, of Noblesville, is visiting the McGuire family. Wm. Nicholson and wife, of Edmore, Mich., are in town, the guests of Len Nicholson. Wabash. Loren Benham returns to Crawfordsville, next Tuesday. James Bruner and family, of Kokomo, were in the city Sunday. Irvin Stratton, of Ft Wayne, is spending New Year’s with relatives. Gord Robertson, of Toledo, spent holiday time with friends in this city. Mr. Rome Depuy, of Indianapolis, spent Christmas time in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hilten and daughter, Annie, are visiting Elkhart this week. Miss Lucy Daugherty entertained a few of her young friends Wednesday evening. Miss Julia Curtis arrived in the city, on Monday, and is visiting parents and friends. Sherman King gave a large and pleasant teaparty to his many friends Tuesday evening. Bert Gray has returned from Kansas, for a short visit with parents and friends in this city. A number of young people watched the old year out, with Dun Sayre, of North Cass street Mrs. Dr. Blount went to Minonk, 111., Wednesday, to attend the funeral of her brother, William Taylor. Miss Clara Humphrey and Miss Eda Maier, of Fort Wayne, are the guests of Missea Alma Zeigler and Minn:? Amos. Miss Lillian Southard, of Greencastle; Missea Clara Humphrey and Eda Maur, of Ft. Wayne; Mrs. Fannie Arnold, of Manchester; Will Smith, of Marion, and Prof. Shackleford, of Manchester, attended the large reception given by Mrs. Nels Zeigler Wednesday evening. Mrs. Frank Meree, Miss Minnie Amoss, the Semper Idem Club, Miss Nellie King, Mrs. Annie Payne, Mrs. Dr. Dunn, the Shakspeare Club, at Mra. A- L. Rohboch’s, Mies Etta Barih and the Misses McCrea, each received calls, id fine style, at their different homes, New Yearns day.

TIIE FIRE RECORD. One YTlag of the New Jersey Insane Asylum Destroyed—The Patients Safely Removed* Newark, N. J., Jan. 2. — Shortly after 3 r. u. to-day fire was discovered in the easterly front wing of the Insane Asylum, which is situated about two miles from the center of the city. Tho flames shot up the chute to the attic, and in a few minutes it was a seething mass of flames. The wing was COO feet long, and as the interior fittings were of oiled pine, they ignited very readily, and burned fiercely. In this wing were 103 patients. The medical superintendent at once’ summoned his staff of assistants, and in a few minutes all the unfortunates were moved into-the yard without accident. Os the patients taken out thirty-two were women e-ad seventy-one men. Very little difficulty was experienced in controlling them. The entire fire department was sum mimed to the scene, hut could render little service, owing to a scaroity of water. The flames spread rapidly to the third floor and along the entire length of tho wing in both directions, At the west end it wa3 Stopped by a blank wall twenty-two inches thick, which prevented its spread to the center and other wings of the institution. By hard work the firemen kept the flames to the two floors, although the lower floors were badly damaged by water. The total loss will probably amount to $75,000, whieh is fully covered by insurance. The patients were sent temporarily to the City Hospital, but were this evening returned to the asylum, where arrangements had been made for their accommodation. The cause of the fire ie unknown, but it is supposed to have originated from tb© overheated steam pipe which surrounds the chute in the basement, which, like all tho rest of the interior fittings, was of the most in-' flammable material. The asylum is a now building and was erected at a cost of $350,000. It was first oooupied last 1 spring, and had nearly GOO inmates. The Cotton Fire at Opelika, Ala. Columbus, Ga., Jan. 2.—The warehouse burned in Opelika, yesterday, was tho property of Hudman Bros. & Cos., and was occupied by G., P. Cole & Cos. Between 1,500 and 2,000 bales of cotton were destroyed. The loss is placed at $75,000, with $51,000 insurance. Business Block Burned. Binghamton, N. Y., Jan. 2.—Fire early this mormng destroyed the Sheldon Block, consisting of four three-story frame buildings, a twostory frame building adjoining and a three-story brick building. Loss, $25,000. Church Damaged by Fire. New York, Jan. 2.— Fire occurred in Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, on Hudson street, near Grove street, to-night, and oaused a damage of $25,000. The church is one of the oldest in the city. _ Ohio Legislative Caucuses. Columbus, 0., Jan. 2.—The Ohio Legislature will convene Monday. The lower House is Republican and the Senate Democratic. The members of each body met to-night and held caucuses for the nomination of officers. John C. Entriken, of Ro3B connty, was selected by the Republicans for Speaker of the House, and Senator O’Neill,j of Zanesville, by the Democrats for president pro tern, of the Senate. Steamship News. New York, Jan. 2.—Arrived: Ths Queen, froaf’ London. Havre, Jan. 2.—Arrived: St Germain, from New York. Queenstown, Jan. 2.— Arrived: Oregon, from New York. There Are a Few Druggists Who care more to make a large profit on a worthies* article than to wait for the prosperity that ultimately results from honest dealing. These are the men who, J when asked for a Benson's Cancine Plaster, will ree-j ommeud some cheap and trashy substitute or imifca- 1 tation, saying it is “just as good.” Sometimes they will do up and sell the miserable imitation without re- 1 mark, allowing the customer to suppose he has Ben--son’s. If the valueless plaster is returned. Cheap! John will say he made a mistake;—if not he has done a good stroke of business. The public are cautioned! against John and all his ilk. Buy of respectable* druggists only. The genuine Benson’s plaster haw the “Three Seals” trade-mars and the word “Oapcinw cut in the center.

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