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rnisrioner of Patent*, who shall determine the same upon testimony, and if, in his judgment, the petitioner has cot been compensated for her time and ingenuity in perfecting her patent, he ■hall hare authority to extend it for seven years flora the I2th day of June, 1883, provided the patent is not an infringement, When the bill was called up Miss Cole was in the gallery. Miss Cole looked down from the gallery with the utmost anxisty, contemplating the fate of the bill, though at no time had she or her friends supposed there would be the least objection to it, to consider it, or that it was necessary to get the traditional unanimous consent This was asked for by Mr. Lehlbach, but objection was made by Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas, in his not overpleasant voice. Miss Cole, the occnpsnt of the gallery, flew into a rage, which made the woman conspicuous from the House floor by her frequent hisses and repeated stamping of feet oa the floor and against the benches. All eyes were turned on her. She left the gallery and went hurrying down stairs to the lobby, at the rear of the Speaker. She was determined to go past the door-keepers and into the House, saying she wanted to carve the heart out of the man who objected to her bill. The single door-keeper on duty was anything but equal to the emergency. He had to call the assistant Sergeant-at-arms to force her back to the corridors. The able-bodied attaches finally succeeded, though all the time Miss Cole kept saying: “I want to punish the roan who thus seeks to deprive me of roy rights; be is a villain and a scoundrel, and I will satisfy my vengeance if 1 bava to murder him." She talked long and loud, attracting a great deal of attention from the members who had been trying to quiet her. She was told she could send in for Mr. Dunn, and if he chose to come out she could see him. She did so, but Mr. Dunn refused to Ipave his seat. A few moments later auother card was sent io, upon which was written tbo following: “If you are a gentleman, and want to aid a hard-work-ing woman, you will grant me an interview." This, like the former, met with no respouse. Twenty mimites bad expired when she sent Mr. Dunn another message, saying if he did not withdraw the objection she would wait for him in the hall as he came out and fill his eyes with pepper. This had the desired effect, for no sooner had he received the last word from the indignant woman than he arose in his place and, with trembling voice, said he wished to withdraw his objection to the consideration of the bill. Jdiss Cole was at once informed of his action, and it so filled her with joy that she fainted in the ladies' reception-room, where she bad been under police surveillance during the time she was worrying the Arkansas statesman. MINOR MATTERS. Reiteration of the Statement that Mrs. Sartorls Will Leave Her Husband. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, July 31.—1n spite of the halfdenials by persons pretending to be intimate with the Grant family, it is authoritatively stated here, by one who knows, that Mrs. Bartoris will return next year without her hosband, in event he does not work a reformation. Sartoris has not, for several years, contributed a cent towards his wife’s support, and she has lived entirely on the remittances sent from home, and he ha& often borrowed half of that. She has had the matter under consideration for some time, and has been repeatedly urged to return home. Further than this nothing can be learned. Miscellaneous Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. I—W. P. Dumble, formerly of Mancie, now of the PostofSce Department, will go with Mrs. Domble to the seashore the latter part of this week, on a health trip. Mr. Dumble has been affected with malaria for some time. Indianians here are wonderiog why the nomination of Judge Turpie, to be United States district attorney for Indiana, is not confirmed. It has been favorably reported by the committee, and will receive action by the Senate soon. Mrs. Sparks, wife of General Sparks, of the Land Offic?, will leave on the 10th inst. for her home in Illinois. Mrs. Cleveland and her mother attended communion service at the First Presbyterian Church this morning. Dr. Sunderland, the pastor, proclaimed the names of persons who were admitted to the membership of the church. The announcement in which all interest was centered was that of “Frank Folsom Cleveland has been admitted upon certificate from the Central Presbyterian Church, of Buffalo. * The President did uot attend divine service to-day. CHINESE GORDON’S WIDOVT* The Claim Set Up by a Woman Imprisoned in Chicago for Theft. Chicago, July 31.—Some six weeks ago a woman nearly seventy years old went to Mrs. Whittaker’s, at Graeeland, and engaged board and lodging for a few days, while she was attending to the erection of a monument of a relative buried there. The next morning Mrs. Whittaker missed $7 from the cash-box and aocused her lodger of having taken it The old lady admitted the theft and restored the money. The police were called in and she was arrested. On t trial she gave her name as Mary Gordon. She ' said she was the widow of General Gordon, of the British army, and formerly lived in Glasgow, Scotland, and was on her way from San Francisco to New York, where she had relatives, apd was going from that point to England. She refused to give any name or addresses of any of her friends or relatives, and the police set her down as a shop lifter. The charge was finally changed to disorderly conduct, and she was sent to Bridewoil on a $75 fine. It seems that the woman told the truth in regard to herself. Her trunks went to New York and were found by her friends, who after some difficulty learned that 3he was detained in Chicago by some trouble. Yesterday au attorney received ft letter from bsr son-in law, Mr. Millwood, of New York, asking him to investigate the matter. The attorney came to Lakevierr, and, after explaining matters to the supervisor, received from him an order for her release. She was discharged last night and will leave for the East this morning. THE GRAND ARMY. Arrival of the Commander-in-chief and Staff —Sail Francisco Elaborately Decorated. San Francisco, Aug. I.—Commander-in-chief Burdette, of the G. A. It, and staff arrived this afternoon. The reception tendered him was in all respects worthy of the occasion. He was met at the ferry landing by the reception committee and escorted by delegations from George H. Thomas and Lincoln posts to the headquarters at the Occidental Hotel. A dispatch received to-night states that General Logan and party passed Winnemucca, Nev., this afternoon, and will arrive to-morrow. Nearly two thousand G. A. R. members arrived to-day, and to-morrow's trains will bring in the remainder of those expected. The Arrangements made by the reception committee are working admirably, and everything indicates that the encampment, so far os the comfort of visiting members is concerned, will be a complete success. The decorations of buildings and streets, with the exceptions of the grand arch on Market street, which will be finished to-morrow, are completed, and present a very fine appearance. Although the official festivities do not begin until Tuesday, the city is to-night enfete, and gayety on all sides prevails. Bodies of tlie Craig's Passengers Recovered. Long Branch, N. J., Aug. I.—The body of Miss Bessie Merritt was recovered from the schooner yacht Sarah Crnie, at about noon today. The bodies of Mrs. Stevens. Miss Mamie F. Stevens, Miss Emma Merritt, Miss Maud E. Rettew, Mrs. Cora E. Askin and Mr. Chester Clarke were taken to Philadelphia this morning. Messrs. Hall, Jordan and Bulkley accompanied the remains of their unfortunnte friends. Toe bodies were taken to Elizabeth, aud were then transferred to a Philadelphia express train on the Pennsylvania railroad.

DEATH OF A GREAT MUSICIAN Termination of Abbe Franz Liszt’s Long and Distinguished Career. Sketch of His Life—His Home at Weimar— Treatment of His Pupils—Bringing Out an Opera When but Fourteen Years of Aye. Bayreuth, Aug. I.—Abbe Liszt died at midnight last night. Franz Liszt, the great pianist, was born at Szegszard, in Hungary, Oct 22, 1811, and made his first public appearance in a concert in his ninth year, and was afterwards placed, under Czerny, Salieri giving him lessons in harmony. After eighteen months of zealous study he played in a concert with success, aud was taken to Paris, where he performed before the Duke of Orleans, and soon became a great favorite in that capital. , Having made several successful tours through France and England he, in 1825, produced an opera, “Don Sancbe ou 1© Chateau des Armours," which did not command success. Ho at last heard Paganini and resolved that he would become the Paganini of the piano forte. > His compositions are chiefly valuable for having contributed to raise the art of piano-playing to a height of brilliancy before unattained, whilst his own creative powers on that instrument were so marvelous as to place him in the highest rank of great composers. He was made commander of the Legion of Honor in 1861. Although in June, 1864, be wrote a letter contradicting the report that he had entered a convent, he took orders and received the tonsure April 25, 1865, from his friend Monsignor De HoheuLohe in the chapel of the Vatican. Since that period he has chiefly devoted his attention to religious music and has organized numerous concerts and musical entertainments, the proceeds of which were devoted to works of Catholic charity. At the close of the year 1871 he removed from Rome and returned to his native country, which generonsly granted him a pension of £6OO a year, with a nobility title. He was made director of the Hungarian Academy of Music, April, 1875. Among other productions he published the “Mephisto Waltz” aud “Valse Onbliee.’’ One of his daughters was the wife of Richard Wagner. Liszt also wrote a life of Chopin, the pianist His Domestic Life at Weimar, Berlin Letter, May Ift. After all that has been written of this great musician’s earlier life, surrounded as he was by the first society of Europe, his home of to day ia Weimar is apt to surprise visitors by its extreme unpretentiousness. The residence is a plain, two-story brick, almost square, plastered over to represent stone and painted a light brown. The thoroughfare at this spot broadens out into the magnificent Belvedere Alice, which leads to a summer residence of the Grand Duke of SaxeWeimar, about one and a half mile beyond. The ducal palace is nearer the cootre of the town. Liszt’s bov.se is really the residence of the court gardener, who only occupies the first floor, as the Grand Duke has placed the apartments on the second floor at Liszt’s disposal during the remainder of his lifetime. There is no street entrance to the house itself. “Entrance forbidden" is the welcome on the same in black and white. The three front windows in the second story belong to “the master.” A little dormer window, usually filled with flowers, peeps out of the low, sloping roof. The hall is about fourteen feet square, paved with brick and covered with a rough matting. On the south and east sides doors open into the gardener's rooms, while on the north and right-hand side are two doors for Liszt's use. They both open into a very narrow corner corridor, the first facing the winding stairway which leads to the floor above, while the second leads to the kitchen door just at the left. This kitchen ia short and uarrow like the corridor. Ascending to the next floor a door leads from the small landing into a narrow anteroom, the size of the kitchen, just beneath it. Immediately at the left a door connects with the dining-room, carpeted with thick ingrain of subdued color and furnished with cherry. In the center of the floor stands a square extension • table. „ A few cushioned chairs stand about the room, and some large steel engravings adorn the wall. A door in the south partition wall leads into a still plainer bed-chamber, about Bxl4. To the right, behind the door, is a narrow single bed, provided with a soft mattress and large pillows. Above it, on the wall, where the “Master" can see them when reclining, are two tiny framed pictures, one above the other. The upper is the “Heilipe Schweiss Tuch” (Holy Sweat Cloth), from the famous picture of that name (Christ’s agonized dying face imprinted on a handkerchief), the lower a picture of one of the saints. Below the*~ bangs an ebony and mother-of-pearl rosary, wL is in the owner’s hands every day. At the east end a door opens into thd saloD, which is about 24x14. The carpet, of a darkgreenish hue, corresponds with the one in the bed-chamber. The room is quite full of furniture. At the left of the entrance door, against the west wall, a little ottoman-like sofa and an upright piano, only used to supply the orchestral part for concertos, etc , and a long easy sofa reaching to the window, which completely fills that side of the room. In front of the sofa is a Bechstein grand piano. A chair for the pupil, and another at the right of it for the master, stand in front of the key board, with the backs tnrned to the sofa. In front of the south window stand the master’s writing-table and leather-cushioned chair with low back and sides that come up under the arms only. Tbo top of the table or desk usually holds au ink-stank,pens, pencils,a portfolio blotter and a flat bronze dish, in which Liszt saves np the cigar ends that he cuts off. (It is a great industry in Germany to collect these. Snuff is made from the tobacco, and the proceeds go to an orphan charity or something of the sort.) A dish holding some long, strong, slender cigars, a cabinet photogranh of Hans von Bulow in an easei frame at the right, and a similar one of the Princess Wittgenstein (an interesting though not pretty face), with whom Liszt lived so many years at the Altenburg, an old castle on a hill in Weimar, on the left. A slender bottle of Cognac occupies a sliding shelf at the right, and at the left of the chair is a high waste-basket. By the writing-table, and beyond it, is a tall book-case filled with volumes, many handsomely bound, of every sort, in German, French, English, eto. Os coarse works relating to musio predominate. The general effect of the room is attractive and home like. At any rate, it is very comfortable, and Liszt has all be cares for. All the costly gifts that have been showered upon him in past years are mostly packed away in a house not far distant with the household effects and works of art'that formerly belonged in the Altenburg, and are still the property of the Princess Wittgenstein, who has resided for fourteen or fifteen years in Rome. These valuables will eventually find their way to a museum. The master arises at 6:30 in the morning, drinks some cognac and writes until 7:30, when a breakfast of tea, bread, butter and soft-boiled eggs is served. At 8 o'clock he lies down until 9:30 or 10. Arising then, he continues his work or receives callers, as it chancea At 1 o’clock regularly every afternoon he crosses the allee and chats with the Baroness von Mayendorf for half an hour. Then he returns for dinner, and after it is over again lies down until 3:30 p. m. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday he has the lessons from 3:30 to 6 o'clock, after which some of his favorite pupils remain and play whist, for which he has a passion. On the days between the lessons Liszt plays whist .every afternoon. About 7:30 or 8 o’clock he again crosses to the Baroness’s, where he takes supper and spends the evening. At 10:30 ho returns and goes to bed. _ Anecdotes of the Great Musician. Collated from Various Sources. At the age of fourteen Liszt brought out an opera entitled “Don Sancho," at the Academy of Music. It was his first failure. Soon the child, overworked and overrated, began to experience premature weariness of life. His father was obliged to prevent him by force from entering a convent. During the feverish hours of his twentieth year Liszt wandered through life with the far-off fixed look of a somnambulist in his •yes, following a vision seen by him alone. It was, he said, the muse of his genius. When he extended his arms toward it the vision vanished.

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But, O miracle! a day came at last when the vision no longer fled the hand that sought it. It suddenly took the bodily form of a woman. Liszt touched her forehead, her long blonde hair, her adorable blue eyes! He whispered to her, “Come!” She said to him, “Let us flyl" And Liszt and she fled from the aged husband, the Count d’Agout, to a pretty little villa hidden io some mysterious spot along the <ibores of Lake Geneva. -For a long time Liszt loved to say: “When you visit Geneva just take a pedp at the little white house. It is the place of my second birth. * * * There my soul was born into the larger and grander life.” Alas! from that stand-point it most be confessed that Liszt has been born again many times. Nevertheless, the influence of the Countess d’Agout (“Daniel Stern”) was very fruitful A most remarkable woman herself, she imparted to Liszt all her own physical energy—but not security, a state of soul never enjoyed by either of them. A fair contemporary of that period tells me that she was present when Liszt was first introduced by Count d’Agout to his wife in that well known parlor on the ground floor of the Hdtel de Nesle, which all fashionable Paris visited from time to time. Liszt already looked like that engraved portrait of him which everybody now knows. But he had also that Byronic air which he lost so early in life, and which can be found again only in the beautiful portrait of him painted by Ary Scheffer. * * * Daniel Stern said of Liszt: ‘ Thirst for the impossible devoured bis heart, and thirst for the beautiful in every form consumed him. He lacked force of concentration; his was the force of expansion only.” And ono day this insatiable thirst Rd Liszt to the Grande Chartreuse Monastery. I have been assured that the general of the Chartreux was very proud of such aeon-* quest, just as Piux IX must here been afterward. He wished to keep what he had won. He gave Liszt a private call. He allowed him to wear a Chartreux robe. Like Charles V, Liszt wished to see himself in the tomb. At the end of four days he grew weary of it. The general of the Chartreux made a mistake in not giving him at least an organ—if not a piano. That vast and complicated instrument would seem to be the veritable instrument of Liszt. The great virtuoso knew sowell how to transcribe a whole orchestra upon the piano. What a spectacle it would have been—what effects! Liszt ud there playing the organ, aud from the chapel of the great monastery answering the music that nature plays among the firs and the mountain peaks! Liszt—the choir-organ! Alpestrine nights—the mighty organ of the mountain forest!” What do yon think of a man who, already an abbe, and while in a ballroom one evening, stared with motionless gaze at the bare shoulders of an adorable creature until she felt obliged to expostulate: “Now, M. I'Abbe! — now, miestro, you ought not" Lizst replied without the least embarrassment: “I was only looking to see if your wings wore growing.” Anew player generally had a hard time of it Many never attempted a second performance for him. If one had come to learn he put up with slight mortifications for the benefit of the instructions and associations. Liszt’s criticisms were kindly meant, if roughly uttered, and when he saw that anyone was hurt he took the first opportunity to heal the wound. For example: One day a young man who had had a sad experience of it took a seat in the further end of the room looking the personification of mortification. The master, who observed everything, though he did not always show it, soon called out to him: “Here, , come and tarn the leaves for Fraulein .’’ The young man saw the motive of the act and jumped up all smiles to do his bidding. When a pnpil fell short of his standard Liszt’s favorite expression was, “Ugh! ugh! conservatory style!" He hated conservatories. Sometimes he added: “There is a very good conservatory at Riesa (a junction station between Dresden and Leipsic) the other side of Leipsic. that I can recommend yon. Better go there. Good place." THE “BROOM-CORN CITC/ Mattoon, 111 , Claims the Title—Enormous Profits Made in Broom-Corn Farming^ Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Mattoon, 111., July 31.— 1 tis no empty boast that Mattoon makes wUen it claims to merit the title of the “Broom-corn City," and to be the greatest market of broom-corn in the costnytry. There are but few favorable localities in the United States adapted by soil and climate to broom-corn culture. There are a few counties in Tennessee, New York and Kansas that raise broom-corn, but none of these localities are so well adapted to the culture ns Coles and Douglas counties, iu Illinois. Statistics just compiled by New York brokers place Illinois at the head of the States, and Mattoon as the center of the greatest broom corn region in the United States. Sixteen thousand acres in Coles county alone are almost ready for the cutters. The crop is fine in quality, and will yield a tou to every three acres. Producers confidently expect $l5O a ton, making the value of the product $750,000. Considering the scarcity of the old brush, and tbe failure of the crop in Kansas and Tennessee, the price will be above rather than below this figure. The profits made by farmers are enormous. An extensive raiser, making liberal allowances for labor, and paying $4 an acre laud rent, places the actual cost of a ton of brush ready for mnrket at SSO. Last year a farmer living near this city sold his brush for S2OO a ton, clearing enough in the one season to buy the farm outright that be had rented to raise the crop. Where profits are so large it would seem that competition would soon crow<k.down the prices. But the narro.v belt of territory adapted to broom-corn culture, and the superior knowledge of the business necessary for success shuts out any great competition. A few years ago Douglas county, to the north of Coles, was the great producer, but several years of continuous production have impoverished the soil, and compelled many farmers to “rotate" their .crops, and to go back to corn, wheat and oats. The broom-corn plant soon exhausts tbe soil, and farmers must necessarily have large profits. Yesterday the first broom-corn of the season was cut in this county. TLe harvest will continue to frost, and farmers will he lucky if they get it all in their sheds before frost comes. With the exception of the early verities, the harvest will not be in full headway until the middle of August. Buyers are in Mattoon from New York, Cincinnati, Boston and other large cities, making contracts for tbe broom factories they represent. u. Base-Ball. New York. Aug. I.— The Pittsburg team defeated the Brooklvns at Ridgewood to-day by safe batting at cVitical points. Score: Brooklyn . ....O O t) 4 10040 9 Pittsburg 0 0 3 0 5 0 0 O 2 —lo Earned runs—Brooklyn, 4: Pittsburg, 3. First base on balls—Brooklyn, 2; Pittsburg, 4. Left on bases—Brooklyn 3; Pittsburg, 4. Total base hits —Brooklyn, 14; Pittsburg, 12 Two-base bits —Phillips, Smith, Bnrch. Terry, Clark. Barkley (21, Morris, Brown. Wild pitches—Toole, I; Morris, 2. Four Men Drowned. New York, Aug. 1. — A party of young men belonging in New York who had spent the afternoon in Guttenbnrg, N. J., started for home in their row-boat, about 8 o’clock this evening. Their natives were Louis Kaiser, Louis Martin, Thomas Whitteker and John and William Regan. Ther had rowed more than half way across the North river, when the swells of a steamboat caused the boat to cansize. All were thrown into the water. Kaiser, Louis, Martin and Whitteker were drowned. Sad End of a Celebrated Explorer, Paris Letter. Mr. Marius Moustier, the celebrated explorer, who discovered the sources of the great African river Niger, committed suicide last week by drowning himself in a small pond in tbe neighborhood of Marseilles. His body was found after four days’ immersion, and a letter in one of the pockets stated that he had boeu driven thereto by absolute want and starvation. He was still in the prime of life, and during the past six months bad been seeking in vain for any kind of employment, no matter how humble. The Geographical Society of France have now arranged to give him a magnificent funeral, which will almost appear a mockery when his friendless death is taken into consideration. “I was all ran down, and Hood’s Sarsaparilla proved just the medicine I needed," write hundreds of people. Take it now.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS.NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings All Kinds in the Two States. The Bhootinfr of Condo by Harrall—Singular Shooting Accident Near Peru—Attempted Outrage Near Marshall, lll—Notes. INDIANA. Particulars of the Shooting of David Condo by Willard Harrall. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal Peru, Aug. L—The shooting of David Condo, an old and respected farmer, by Willard Harrall, yesterday afternoon, at Bennett’s Switch, this county, was, according to the dying statement of Condo, a wholly unprovoked murder. A few days ago a flock of Harrall's turkeys were driven from Condo’s yard, and one of the fowls was killed by Condo. Hot words passed between the two men, but nothing further occurred until yesterday afternoon. The men met on the way to asßist a neighbor in thrashing his grain. Condo offered to pay for the turkey he'h&d killed, and getting out of his wagon, tendered the money to Harrall. Some words followed, when Harrall, drawing a revolver, ftrod, the ball striking Conde in the abdomen. Conde reeled, when Harrall fired again, the bullet striking his victim in the back, in the region of the heart. Either shot would have proved fatal. Deputy Sheriff Butler arrested Harrall and lodged him in jail here last night. He in a single man and respectably connected. Conde is a married man and highly thought of by the community. He will die. _ A Sad Day at the Militia Camp, Special to tLe Indianapolis Journal Lafaybttb, Aug. I.—To-day was a dampener on both the military encampment and the campmeeting in this city. John S. Schroyer, of the Andrews company, who was overcome by heat in the sham battle yesterday, died at 4 o'clock this morning, and his death caused a gloomy feeling in the whole camp. The deceased was town marshal of Androws, and was a general favorite io his company. His comrades returned home with the body this afternoon, marching to the depot with reversed arms. At about 10 o’clock this morning it began to rain, and frequent hard rains continued during the afternoon, making it impossible to carry out the proposed programme. A small crowd was in attendance. The prizes will be awarded tomorrow. Early this morning a freight wreck occurred at the Wabash river - crossing of the Monon route, making it impossible for excursionists for the camp-meeting to leave the city until noon, and by that time rain had driven them into shelter. The day at the camp ground was, therefore, also a failure. Improvement in Dr. Hoover's Condition. Louisville Courier-Journal. Dr. Charles L. Hoover, who was so seriously wounded, on last Tuesday, by Prof. Ira G. Strunk, is improving, and there is now a belief that he will recover. That he may Boon be about his business is greatly desired by every citizen in New Albany. Professor Shrunk ex- . pressed great pleasure when he heard that the venerable Doctor was coming round, and said there was nothing else that he desired so much as that he might get well at once. Strangely enough, it did not leak out until yesterday that Professor Strunk and his wife bad become reconciled on the day before the tragedy, and had spent most of the day in each other's* company. The reconciliation was secured through tho earnest endeavors of a mutual friend, who says that on Monday both were as happy as two young lovers. It is supposed that the* gossips renewed their venomous stories, which came to the ears of Professor Strunk. He is resting quietly in jail, constantly surrounded by sympathizing friends. Accidental Shooting. Special to the Indianapolie Journal. Peru. Aug. I.— A singular and possibly fatal accident occurred last evening. Thomas Rhodes and Fielding Jackson, while driving towards this cits, spied a turtle in the river. Rhodes jumped out to shoot it, and Jackson, in following him. struck the hammer of the cun on the wheel of the wagon, discharging the weapon, the ball passing into Rhodes’s side. He was brought to his home in this city. The ball was probed for and found. Minor Motes. The Hebrew residents of South Bend are agitating the question of building a synagogue in that city. Hon. Robert Wilson, a former resident of Jonesboro. Grant county, died at Des Moines, la., reoeni'y. Alfred A. Hubbell, one of Huntington’s oldest and best-known business men, died last week, at the age of seventy. Yesterdav closed the twentieth year of the pastorate of Rev. L. B Smith of the Christian Church in Huntington. John H. Milton, runner for the Tremont House, at Muncie, was killed by a train near Lognnsport on Friday morning. Two old residents of Seymour died on Saturday, Thomas McCollum, aged seventy-eight, and John H. Blish, aged sixty-four years. William Loehr, a farm hand, living near Haubstadt, Var.derburg county, was thrown from his horse, on Saturday, and instantly killed. John Y. Dunlavy, aged eighty-two years, and his wife, aged seventy six, of Bedford. Lawrence county, both died ou the same day last week. On Friday morning the hotel and beer-garden of the Terre Haute Brewing Company, at Lake Maxinkuckee, was entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $5,000; fully insured. Eugene Adams climbed to the top of a barn at Seymour, when he lost his balance and fell to the ground, and ou some timbers. He i3 paralyzed, and his injuries may prove fatal. Louis Euler, aged seventy-six, employed at the Werule Opera-house, at Richmond, was thrown from a buggy by a runaway, and suffered a fractured skull ana other injuries. The Evangelical Church wilt hold a campmeeting, four miles northwest of Lima, LaGrange oounty. commencing Aug. 10 and continuing one week. Eminent divines from abroad will be present. A spark from an engine oa the Lake Shore road caused a fire on J. W. Ellis’s and N. Markel’s farms, near Eikhart, on Friday morning, destroying property to tho amount of over a thousand dollars. The annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstainers’ Union of America will be held at Notre Dame, near South Bend, on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Delegates from all parts of the country will be present. A well 200 feet deep has been bored on the farm of Mr. Thornton, two miles west of Elkhart At that depth a vein of very salt water was struck, and operations ceased. Mr. Thornton was endeavoring to find flowing water. The wives of Henry Hough too and John Igert, of Leavenworth, became involved in a fight, and during the melee a fourteen-year-old son of Ipert interfered, and was shot by Houghton. The boy will die. Houghton was arrested and placed in jail. Superintendent Lawlor and Captain Vandever, of the Terre Haute police, arrested Wm. Burke, a Missouri wife murderer, near Carbon, on Saturday. A reward of SBOO had been offered for bis arrest, to which these officers will be entitled. During the storm which passed over Bartholomew oounty last Friday, considerable damage was done by lightening, the most serious of which was the burning of a barn belonging to George W. Stewart, at St. Louis Crossing. It contained 750 bushels of wheat, 500 bushels of corn, 350 bushels of oats, several tons of hay and

nearly all his farming utensils. The barn war new and of large proportions and was insured for $730. Mr. Jane Wilson, of Greenwood, celebrated h®v seventy first birthday on last Sunday. A large number of relatives and friends from all parts of the State were present, and she was the recipient of several very handsome and valuable presents. A little child of Mr. Nnttermany, of Jeffersonville, was dangerously and perhaps fatally Soisoned a few days ago by eating a handful of amesiown weed seeds (stramonium). The seed in quantities is a deadly poison and its effects act like strychnine. Anew and fatal disease has broken out among the horses of Harrison county. The farmers are somewhat excited over it, as the diseaAe is spreading, and no remedy as yet has been found. The symptoms are a sore neck or throat and a running at the nose. William Lewis, colored, aped sixteen years, was struck by lightning and instantly killed on the farm of John McCulloch, near New Albany, on Friday. The lad had taken shelter under a tree during a storm, and the bolt descended the tree and split his back open. Henry Leeerlv, of Yountsville, Montgomery county, was frightfully injured by the accidental discharge of his shotgun, on Friday, the entire load passing obliquely through the arm below the elbow, shattering the bones into a thousand fragments and tearing the muscles away. The colored people of Greensburg will celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of their freedom at that place tomorrow on a grand scale. Large delegations from Louisville. Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Muncie, Madison, Sbelbyville, Connersville and other places will attend. Union county's thirty-second annual temperance rally will be held in Brown’s Grove, two and a half miles south of Liberty, on Saturday, Aug. 7. Among the speakers who will be present are Sam Small, evangelist H. O. Wills, J. N. Huston, E. B. Reynolds, J. B. Doddridge and others. Tons of coal stored in the shed at the Michigan City glass works took fire spontaneously early last week, and has been smoldering ever since, though a large amount of water has been thrown on the burning heap by the fire department. It is thought that the whole bulk of cr al will have to be transferred before the fire can be extinguished. , Plymouth Republican: Dr. C. M. Richmond, of Walkerton, states that his oldest brother, now deceased, lived to the age of seventy-seven years, and never swallowed oue drop of intoxicating drink, never used a particle of tobacco in any way, never swore an oath in his life, and never had the'care of a physician from the day of his birth until the day he expired. Columbia City Post: There is s willow tree growing on Henry Egolfs farm, in Thorncreek township, that is now twelve feet and ten inches In circumference, or a trifle over four feet in diameter. Thirty-five years ago John. Born, of the same township, carried what has now grown to.such an immense tree, a yellow-willow whip, a distance of a mile and a half and used it upon two of the Egolf boys playing ‘‘whip-jacket. n ILLINOIS. A Scoundrel Attempts to Outrage a Young Woman, Temporarily Under His Protection. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Marshall, Aug. I.—Last night Frank Tingley was taking Miss Kate Lowry, an estimable young lady, to her home, near Auburn, in a bugey. On enterine a covered bridge over Mill creek, two miles west of the city, he made indecent proposals to her. She indignantly repnlsed him, whereupon he commenced an attack upon her, trying to tear her clothing from her person. She finally managed to jump from the buggy and ran, crying for help, He soon overtook her and was fast overpowering her, when help arrived. Tingley fled at Once, but was arrested this morning. Miss Lowry was found in a pitiable condition by her rescuers, her clothine having been nearly all torn from her, and she was nearly exhausted. Tingley was brought here this afternoon on a change of venue from ’Squire Lowell, of Auburn. The evidence against him was very plain, and he was bound over. While some of bis friends were trying to get bail for him he escaped from the officer who had him in charge. He is still at large, but his recapture is almost certain, as officers are on his track. A Corpse Turns to Stone. Vandalla Special. There has just been exhumed, near St Elmo, in the eastern part of this county, the petrified body of a Miss Fulton, who died fourteen years ago. The remains, which were disintered at the request of some relatives and placed beside another deceased relative, were found to be unusually heavy. The coffin was opened, revealing the fact that the body bad been transformed into stone, everything remaining intact and the form and features being as perfect as the day it was placed in the ground. The body, after being exposed several hours to the light and atmosphere, remained perfectly solid and intact The weieht, aa nearly as could be guessed, is some 300 or 250 pounds. This statement is on the authority of Mr. Lorenzo Lovett and Mr. Chas. Stein, two responsible farmers, who were present and assisted in taking the body up. One of Barnura’i Arabs Fatally Shot. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, Aug. I.— Abdallah Ben Said, who has charge of tho tribe of Arabs with Barnum’s circus, which was in this city yesterday, was accidentally shot, and it is thought he is fatally wounded. The person who did the shootiug was Orrin Hallis, champion bareback rider. Hallis was at the fair grounds, practicing shooting at a board that Ben Said cast in the air. The gun was discharged prematurely and the bullet took effect in the neck. He is here in the hospital. . Brief Mention. R. B. Clark, aged seventy-three, s pioneer miller of Oakland, died on Saturday from paralysis. John Johns, the oldest pioneer of that section, died at Danville last Friday morning, aged eighty-one. Rudolnh Scholtze, sixty years old, was found drowned in the river at Peoria. He had been missing two weeks. The body was badly decomposed. A farmer near Aledo set fire to some old hay in a corner of a field. The fire was pat out after It had burned sixty acres of meadow and eighty rods of hedge. A farm hand near Quincy killed a bull-suake one day last week which measured six feet seven and a half inches in length and weighed fortyone and a half pounds. J. G. Willard’s barn, near Harristown, containing hay, grain, farming utensils, etc., was wholly destroyed by fire oa Friday night. Loss, $7,000; insurance, $2,200. Kaskitskia, which was onee the capital of the State, was two hundred years old on Tuesday of last week. It has a population of only 150 now, although it once had 7.000. Grandmother Chronic is the name of a woman of ninety-two. who lives near Kansas Village, Edgar county, and who for forty years has suffered from a form of erysipelas. Her youngest child is sixty-two years of age. Joseph Lindsey, a fourteen-year-old boy at Bushton, found a rat in his steel trap, and while trying to take it out alive, he was bitten twice on the arm, which began swelling, and the boy became dangerously ill. His recovery is considered improbable. Fulton county supervisors have been accustomed to issue cash orders to paupers who were receiving partial support It has* been discovered that the money was frequently spent for ribbons, tobacco and other luxuries, and now cash orders are no longer issued. An illicit whisky still has been discovered in the hills in the rear of Wesley City, Tazewell eonnty, and Frank Kepman. a moonshiner, was caught while iu the act of making liquor. His shanty contained half a barrel of spirits, with a still of about a barrel a day capacity. Christian Kaftnk, a Peoria baker lately from Germany, died on Saturday from a combination of homo-eickneas and ice-water. A few weeks ago he became home-sick, and could find no comfort except when talking with some of his fellow-work-men about their old home in the Fatherland. At

last he became so despondent that he refused to partake of any food, and drank nothing but icewater, which in dne time killed him. The old Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterain Church, at Decatur, is to be rededieated on Sonday, Aug. 22. by Rev. W. J. Darby, D. D, of Evansville, Ind. The old church has stood on its present site for the past thirty five years, and teoA C^ cou S re f? a tion was organized June 15, lo.iO. State Auditor Swieer and State Treasurer Gross were served, last week, with an injunction forbidding the levy of any taxes to provide for the payment of the principal or interest on $51,000 worth of bonds, issued by the city of Beardstown in aid of the Rockford, Rock Island & 3t. Lonis railroad. A mortgage of $9 000.000 is being recorded in the counties touched by the reorganized Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City railroad, in favor of the American Trust Company and Joseph E. McDonald, of Indianapolis. The money is to be used for altering the road to standard gauge and paying pressing debts. Jack Brading, aged twentv-one, was sitting on a fence at the residence of Mr. Milburn, ten miles northeast of Charleston, in company with a four-teen-year old boy of Milbnrn’s. They bad a revolver and were footing with it, when it was accidentally discharged in the hand of Milbnrn, a twenty-two caliber ball entering Brading*s side. . Brown Ervin, of Hayes, bad a stock well which furnished an abundant supply of water. Fearing that the dry weather would limit the supply, he bored down fifty feet deeper, hoping to strike a stroneer stream. At, that depth, however, he struck a sand bed and the water all ran out. He plugged up the bole bored and the water again filled up his well A church at Cornwall has long been inhabited by swarms of bees. They Anally became so plentiful that they drove pa6tor and conereeation out of the church. Last week a party of men ripped open the side of the church and found that the bees had piled up honey in the wall to the height of sixteeu feet. The honey was confiscated and the bees driven out. The Galesburg Republican Register has the following: “A strange and peculiar phenomenon occurred at the home of Judge Lamphere the other night, a phenomenon unexplainable by the ordinary canons of science. In the room where the Judge was lying, previous to his death, a large lamp, a present to him from bis daughters, was burning. His family was seated around the bedside anxiously watching him. Suddenly be became unsconscious. At that very instant the lamp went out quickly, leaving all in darkness as well as in great doubt. When the lamp was lighted the Judge’s watch was songht for. It had stopped. The clock was consulted and it was ascertained that the watch must have ceased running at the very moment when the light was so mysteriously extinguished. The lamp was full of oil; the watch was found to be wound up properly. Thus the two incidents were nbt the result of negligence or of accident.' ’ A CHINESE PICNIC. A Party of Celestials Enjoy a Few Hours of Hilarious Happiness in a Cemetery. Chicago, Aug. I. —Ten carriage-loads of Chi* namen went to Rose Hill Cemetery to-day to hold a picnic over the graves of their few deceased friends And relatives who are buried there, in the samo grave yard with thousands of Caucasian corpses of high and low degree. The Ist day of August each year has been set apart as a sort of anniversary by the Chicago Chinamen, and is rigorously observed. The ten carriages were in line early in the afternoon, in front of Hip Long’s store, on Madison street, pear Fifth-avenue. In front of the store was a crowd of chattering Chinaman. Around on Lasalie street, two Chinamen in a buggy, with the lines wrong side to, pulled up near a red express wagon to which was attached a white horse. The wagon was loaded with delicacies which were to be left on the graves of the dead at Rose Hill. There was everything that the live Chinaman dotes on—roast ducks, a roast pig, fruits, * nuts, cakes, candies and any number of bright-colored tapers and joss-sticks. The two Chinamen in the buggy led the way, and the driver of the red express wagon followed them to Rose Hill. After them came ten carriages, led by a hack drawn by two snow-white horses driven by a red-headed haekman wearing a gorgeous livery suit with brass buttons, and a silk hat ornamented by a coachman’s rosette on the side. At the cemetery the ceremonies were very short. The dainties were spread in little beapu on the graves, joss-sticks were planted in the sod, a few supplications to the deities were muttered, and then the Chinamen proceeded to enjoy themselves. They smoked, told stories and disported themselves generally. Tho Oleomargarine BUL Indianapolis Independent. If the President signs the bill, as it is nos% bill to pension some poor devil of a soldier, he probably will sign it, any man who can get up a mixture of axle grease and butter color, and pay a taabof two cents a pound, may go into the market with what he eails oleomargarine, and sell it whether be labels it or not. This is a great country, and constantly growing, in cheats and frauds. Chance for Another Prohibition Amendment. St. Louts Post-Dispatch. Tho F ’ohibitionists might lighten their labors by extirpating mint from the country. There are some people who would give up strong drink but for the aromatic seductiveness of juleps. Ayer’s Hair Vigor imparts vitality, gloss and freshness to the hair, and restores its original beauty.

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