Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1886 — Page 3

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. A Prominent Citizen Charged with Forgery— Driven Insane by Regions Excitement 11 —Horribly Crashed in a Hay Press. INDIANA. A Well-Known Randolph County Man Charged with Forgery. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, Nov 26. —Cash Herron, a member of one of the best families in Randolph county, his wife being a (laughter of John Connor, was arraigned here, to-day, charged with fore ictg the name of Peter Wrieht, a very rich farmer living adjoining him in thi3 county, to a $225 note. Herron says it is a set-up job on him, in anticipation of a slander suit he was to institute against Wright, and he establishes that Wright did give him a note for that sum; but Wright says it was not this note. Herrou gave bond and reserved his defense for the final trial. Crazerl by Religious Fxeitement. spoc*rl to the ludlanapolis Journal Muncib. Nov. 26. —Robert Adams, who lives just north of this city, created a good (leal of excitement in his neighborhood, this morning, by threatening to kill his wife and children. He took down his double barreled shotgun, and would have shot them had they not taken refuge in the house of a neighbor. He had been acting straneeiy for a few days, and it was at once concluded that he had become violently insane. Officers of this city, being notified, went to his home to secure him. Ho met them at the door armed with his gun, a hatchet and a spade. He fought desperately, and it was with the greatest difficulty and at much risk of injury that he was finally subdued and brought to this citv and confined in jail. In his ravings he shouts “Glory to God!” and by other statements indicates that bis insanity is due to religious excitement. He has been an occasional attendant upon Mrs. Woodworth’s revival meetings now being held here. Arrangements wi Ibe made to have him taken to the asylum at Indianapolis soon. Fountain County Teachers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Covington, Nov. 26.—The third annual meeting of the Teachers’ Association of this county was held in this place yesterday and to-dav The attendance was large, aud the addresses and responses were both instructive and well calculated for the elevation of the profession. Last evening the second annua) contest occurred at the court fami-e, and twelve teachers contested for the different prizes offered for the best oration, essay and declamation. Charles F. Miller, subject, “The Age of Reason,” secured the prize for the best oration; Miss Millie J. Hays and Julius Ganibold. subjects, “What is Education.” both received the same per cent. (92) on their essays, and the prize was divided between them: Miss Mollie McMahon received the prize for the best declamation; subject, “The Fall of Pemberton Mills.” Gen. Samuel F. Carr, this evening, spoke to a large audience on “The Mistakes of Mosesor Ingersoll, Which!” An Interesting Arson Case. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Norlesville. Nov. 26.— -This was the fourth day of the Ford-Cottrell arson case. Interest in the case grows as the trial progresses. The court room was densely crowded throughout, today’s proceedings. The defense introduced several witnesses, the testimony of all tending fcti-ongly to show that the Fords did not participate in the burning of the mill. There was an increased manifestation of interest, when the Ford* came to the witness-stand. They acquitted themselves creditably. They were rigidly cross-examined by Co], Robinson, for the State, but were not confused in their evidence. The termination of the case is awaited with much interest lv a large number of witnesses from this and Mad<son county. R. J. Woulfe, one of the guards at the State's prison at Michigan City, is here with four convicts from the prison, whom he brought as witnesses in the case.

JJlontjjomery County Teachers’ Institute. Bt:*iai to tli* 1 ndianapolU Journal. Crawfordsville. Nov. 26.—The Montgomery County Teachers’ Institute met this morning at the south Hall of Wabash College. An organization was affected with Prof. T. H. Dunn as president; J. H Elwell, vice president; De Lon Burke, secretary, and S. H. Gilkey, treasurer. The Attendance is good. This afternoon Prof. J. L. Campbell, of Wabash College, spoke upon “Astronomy.” Professor Ytcum. of the Fort Wayne College, had for his subject “Pro and Con of a Teacher's Life.” Prof. W. W. Parsons, of the State Normal, spoke this evening at the court-house upon “Some Thought on Shakspearian Literature.” To morrow addresses will be de;ivered by Prof. W. W. Parsons, Prof. S S. Parr, of De Pauw University, and Prof. A. B. Milford, of VYabash College. Boy Accidentally Killed. Special to tlie Indianapolis Journ> Richmond. Nov 26.—About 4:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon a party of boys were playing about the remains of the Bushe mills, recently burned, near the city, when one of them. Charley Cowel, aged sixteen, was so badly hurt that he died during the evening Pulling up the gate at the race he let a flood of water down on the turbine wheel, and mounted the large rotary pulley on the shaft attached to the wheel, which got to going so fast he could not get off, until bis bead swam out against a post and he was knocked off. with his skull mashed in so badly that he never knew what hurt him. A Protest Against Democratic Methods. Bpocial to th* Indianapolis Journal. Rushvii.le, Nov 25 —There will be a massmeeting at the court bouse to-morrow, at 2 o’clock P M., to protest against the action of certain Democratic ringleaders in the contest against Hon. A. M. Kennedy, who was elected joint Senator for Rush and Hancock counties bv a majority of 112. The meeting is called as a non partisan maes-meeting to express the sentiments of our people against all such proceedings, and to urge that trie ballot-box must be protected. The speakers for this meeting will be Hon. J. J. Spann, Judge W. A. Culleu, George Puntcnney and B. L. Smith. The Hancock County Amlitorsh’.p, Special to the lndlanaDoila Journal Greenfield, Nov. 26 —The County Commistioners, by a vote of 2 to 1, decided that James Mannix. Democrat, is elected auditor. Mitchell, Republican, promptly gave bond and will appeal to the Circuit Court. Minor Notes. Kale school-house, situated in Harrison townlhlr>, Blackford county, was totally destroyed by Sr* on Wednesday night. Loss, about $1,200. with no insurance. Origin, defective flue. A disease termed “black tongue” is prevailing to an alarming extent among the cattle in the eastern part of Miami county and in the southern part of Wabash county. Much valuable stock has been lost. The disease generally re suits fatally within five minutes after contracting it Mrs. Laura SntfonfMd, the oldest resident of Fort Wayne, died on Thursday, aged ninety-one. Mrs. Suttonfield was th® wife of Col. Wm Sattonfleld. who was attached to the garrison of the old stockrtde fort, and with her husband made frequent journeys through the forests to Fort Dearborn, now Chicago. The Ladles' Brass Band, of Ar.drews, Huntington county, after an organization of five fears, disbanded a few days ago. It originally contained fifteen members, but weddings and re■tevaia reduced the number u sax. The band

had a State reputation, and has visited many cities. The ladies had th honor of leading the Blaine processions at Foil Wayne and Lafayette in 1884, where they made a decided sensation in gaudy uniforms. Reports from Denver, Miami county, state that a mound of iron paint has been discovered in close proximity to the deposit of iron-ore in that neighborhood The material is in the form of a powder of a redish tinge, and is thought to be of excellent quality. Samples have been sent East for analysis. Some two months aeo John Porter, of LaGro, was ejected from a Wabash passenger train because he presented a ticket to a point at which the train did not stop, and declined to pay full fare to the next station. Mr. Porter consulted an attorney, with the intention of beginning a suit for damages. Claim Agent Lloyd, of the Wabash, yesterday called on him and induced him to forego litigation by paying him $125. John Fry, a farmer living near Columbus, three years ago purchased seven German carp, placed them in a large pond on his farm, aVthe same time putting in about twenty snnfish of the common variety, taken from the streams in the vicinity. On Thursday the pond wa3 drained, and the seven carpfound to have grown nicely, but not increased a Single one in number. Tnree bushels of the snnb*h were found, showing plainly that they and their increase devoured and destroyed the carp eggs as fast as spawned. The missionary meeting of the Christian churches of Montgomery county was held in Crawfordsville on Thursday. Representatives were in attendance from five churches, and a collection of sls 50 was reported as being made by the different churche* to aid in carrying on the evangelical work. The sum of S3OO has been subscribed for this purpose by the several churches of the county. Sixteen persons have united with this denomination in the county since the last report, the direct result of the labors of an evangelist. ILLINOIS. John Potter Instantly Killed by a BayPress Falling Upon Him. 6pecial to tbo Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, Nov. 26.—John Potter, of Anchor, this county, met a terrible death last evening while operating a portable bay-press. He crawled under the machine to adjust some part of it, when a weight of 2,500 pounds dropped upon him, crushing his head aud shoulders and producing instant death. Brief Mention. The Methodists of Arrowsmith are to hold a revival. A slough in Henry county, nineteen miles long and one-fourth of a mile wide, is said to have an underlying bed of iron ore four inches in thickness. Richard Shefferd, a workingman with a wife and children, died at Peoria from the effects of drinking a quart of whisky. The whisky was drunk on a vvager.of sl, made with his brother, and the liquor was consumed in the presence of both families. When S. B. Dray, of Schuvler county, was defeated in an attempt to become a member of the State Board of Equalization Congressman Neece sent him a large package of beet-seed. When Mr. Neece was left behind in his race for Congress this fall Mr. Dray sent him an enormous beet raised from his packago of seed. A five-year-old son of J. P. Smith, of McLean, found an ol 1 musket standing in one corner of a room in his father’s house. It was partially concealed by an overcoat which was hung on it. The boy pounded with a stick on the hammer of the cun. The load was discharged, and tore away one corner of the house and some of the shingles of the roof. It also destroyed tho coat.

THE BUSINESS SITUATION. Less Activity in the Movement of General Merchandise from Eastern Trado Centers. New York, Nov. 26.—Special telegrams to Bradstreet’s record rather less activity in the movement of general merchandise, although at Chicago there has been an increasing volume of sales, particularly of dry goods, and in a less noteworthy degree at St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Burlington. The aggregate of sales in staple lines has been curtailed, of course, by an intervening holiday. The restricted trading has been more conspicuous at Eastern centers, owing to the decline in the number of mail orders received, aod to the notable absence of interior merchants. At Chicago there is less demand for funds for manufacturing and commercial enterprises, but a larger demand for grain and other speculative ventures. At Cincinnati funds are flowing back from the country, and at Milwaukee they continue to go westward, but in diminished volume. At Eastern centers the move roent of dry goods has been disappointing. Prices in most lines are sustained, and the outlook for heavy weight woolens continues bright. Prints, however, have declined £e, from 3jc for 645. after a month of extreme firmness. Stocks have increased of late. The special tobacco crop report to Bradstreet’s indicates that the Western leaf crop will aggregate about 235.000 hogsheads, against 250,000 hogsheads in 1885; that there has been a decline of about 30 per cent, in the yield of bright Virginia and North Carolina.leaf, and of about 16,000.000 pounds, or nearly 16 per cent., in the seed-leaf crop, mainly throueh the falling off in Wisconsin, against the output of last year. The speculative traders are realizing more fully the long-claimed strength of the statistical position of wheat, but thus far, in spite of that fact and continued heavy exports, the price of the cereal does not advance much. The business failures for the last seven days throughout the conntry, as reported to R. G. Dun & Cos., number, for the United States, 189, and for Canada, 37, or a total of 216, as compared with 242 last week and 231 the week previous to the last Casualties are more numerous in the South this week than in any other section of the country, 67 being reported. A Disastrous Season on the Lalces. Chicago, Nov. 25—The recent storms have practically put a stop to navigation for the season of 1886. As fast as the lumber fleet arrives the vessels are being stripped and sent into winter quarters in the various slips. Few of the lower lake vessels will leave port, and none but propellers will make any attempt to do so. The season has been a good one as far as freights were concerned, but the underwriters have suffered severely and the loss of human life has been great. So far this season thirty-three ves sels have been driven on shore or foundered, with more or less loss. The schooners L. J. Conway, Belle Wallbridge, South Haven, Pathfinder, Lucerne, Florida, Helen, Menekaunee, Marinette. Dickenson and Emerald, and the fine propeller. Robert Wallace, are a total loss and represent a money value of nearly $500,000 in vessel property. What the values of the cargoes was cannot be accurately computed, but will probably double that amount. In all, forty-one sailors lost their lives by the wrecking of vessels on the lakes this season. Convention of Carbon Manufacturers, Cleveland, 0., Nov. 26.—Since the general introduction of electric lighting apparatus, the carbon industry has gradually risen until it. has taken a strong position among the leading industries o! this city. Cleveland id the central and largest manufacturing city for carbon goods, havine four factories. To day the carbon manufacturers of the United States held a meeting at the Forest City House. Every company in the United States but two was represented, and thev are expected to-morrow. The meeting was devoted to an interchange of views on the state of trade and prices. The members were reticent regarding any action that may have been taken, but it is learned that an attempt will be made to organize a national association or pool of the manufacturers. A Whole Family Murdered. Louisville, Nov. 26.—A report has reached Williamsburg, Ky. t that the Poe family, thought to have been destroyed by fire io Knox county, a month ago, were in reality murdered by a neighbor and bis concubine, whom the Poes had slighted socially, A mother and five children and two visiting young ladies were found bnrned in the ashes of the destroyed hut. The story of

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. At Meadville, Pa., yesterday, Mrs. Mary Byllesbv, aged eighty-seven, was burned to death while alone in her room. While Mrs. Charles Smith, of Charlotte, Mich., was at work about her house her clothing caught fire and she was burned to a crisp. At Akron, 0., yesterday, Alice Gridley, aged four years, fell upon a stove, during the absence of her mother, and was so severely burned that death ensued shortly. At Atlanta, Ga., yesterday, Robert Hill shot and killed bis brother Tony, and, then, placing the pistol to his own temple, killed himself. The trouble was caused by whisky. Montana is anxious for statehood. A committee of citizens at Helena are getting up a strong memorial to Congress, and will go to Washington in person to press the claim. At Philadelphia, yesterday, the will of the late Margaretta S. Lewis, which bequeaths over $200,000 to religious and philanthropic purposes, was admitted to probate. At New York yesterday, the Wholesale Cheese, Butter and Egg Association indorsed Senator Warner Miller for re-election, on account of his work in behalf of the oleomargarine bill. James C. Miller, cashier of the Bank of North Minneapolis, was killed on Thursday by jumping from a train at the Union Denot, at Minneapolis. He made a misstep, fell under the wheels, and was terribly mangled. The jewelry store of E. J. Courtcamp, at St. Louis, was entered by burglars Thursday night, who got away with about three thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds, watches and gold and silver ornaments. The burglars have not been arrested. Three Russians living near Roscoe, D. TANARUS., while going home, found a bottle by the roadside which they supposed to contain alcohol, ana drank it. It proved to be aconite, and two of the Russians died the same night from the effects. The third died yesterday. The Republican members of the Pennsylvania Legislature from the counties of Butler. Beaver, Fayette, Lawrence, Westmoreland, Washington, Indiana and Armstrong met at Pittsburg yesterday and indorsed Hon. Matthew S. Quay for United States Senator, to succeed Senator Mitchell. While a Missouri Pacific passenger train was standing at a small station, near San Antonio, Tex., on Thursday night, two men entered the express car, and attempted to ovepower the messenger and rob the car. The messenger summoned the conductor to his aid, and, together, they succeeded in arresting the thieves. Two men, named A. Hungerford and Charles Bickle, were arrested at Holton. Kan., by government detectives, on Thursday, on the charge of making counterfeit coin. In their house dies and other implements and 163 counterfeit halfdollars were found. The metal was found in a bed, where the wife of one of the men was lying ill. At a general convention of the Fenian brotherhood, held m New ( York on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, all official connection of O’Donovan Rossa with the brotherhood dissolved. The government of the order was thereupon reorganized. There are various rumors as to the causes of Rossa’s relegation to individuality in Irish matters, but the facts are closely guarded by those who know them. Dalrymple, the left fielder of the Chicago Base ball Club, was released by President Spalding yesterday, s.nd at once signed a contract to play with the Pittsburg team for the season of 1887, Mr. Spalding had a good deal of hesitancy about giving up Dalrymple, but the latter felt that a change would be beneficial, and his wish to withdraw was granted. The Pittsburg management are also endeavoring to secure the services of Flint. A private letter from Oklahoma, L TANARUS., says that the excitement following the report of the discovery of gold in that country is increasing. A party of prospecters has been out for some weeks, prospecting along the streams of the interior, and are well pleased with the outlook. About three hundred claims have been staked off. Samuel Robertson, an experienced Colorado miner, reports having found gold on his claim in paying quantities. Several miners have elaims, and from the indications expect to realize largely. The weather is very cold, and work is progressing slowly.

the murder is told as follows by an illegitimate son of the concubine, aged ten years, whom the reputed father had threatened aod made mad. This boy says the man cut. from ear to ear the throat of each of the eight persons while they slept, and that bis mother then dragged the bodies to the middle of the room and set them on fire. They also fired the hoose, took some bed clothing and other articles, and departed. On the boy’s statement arrests and investigation followed, and the Poe articles were found in the cellar of the suspected man’s house. They refuse to be interviewed, and are now in the Br&rbourville jail awaiting an examination. TIIE GAME OF FOOT-BALB. A Disagreement Over the Yale-Princeton Con-test-Fights Between Drnnken Students. New York, Nov. 26.—The trains from Princeton last night brought to. this city hundreds of Yale and Princeton men, all in a more or less excited condition. The Yale men claimed the foot ball game by a score of four to nothing, but the Princeton sympathizers insisted that the game had been decided a draw by the referee. The matter has been referred to the Intercollegiate Association, which meets in this city on Saturday. Whatever the decision may be, it is certain that Yale had the best of the game. It was an extremely rough game, hard slugging being the rule. The papers suggest, this morning, that the college authorities should insist that hereafter the game be played with soft gloves. During the evening the restaurants and saloons of Princeton were filled with fighting students. A son of Gov-ernor-elect Green, of New Jersey, had his arm broken in two places in one scrimmage, and the l’st of casualties is a long one. L. F. Robinson, who umpired the game at Hartford, on Saturday, between Wesleyan and Princeton, said: “On that occasion I called the game, on account of darkness, before time was up. The score there was in favor of Princeton, and at their request I gave them the game. The case here is exactly similar. If Princeton earned the game on Saturday they lost it to-day. If to day’s event is to be called no game, should the one on Saturday? Either decision will virtually put Yale ahead for the season, although the purely technical rulings may influence the decision of the Intercollegiate Association, on Saturday, when the matter comes before them.”

Horrible Deed of an Insane Man. Leavenworth, Kan., Nov. 26.—A dispatch from Haveusville, a small town in Jackson county, eighty five miles west of here, tells of a revolting crime committed near that place last Wednesday night. A young farmer named Rhodes Clements, while roing home irora prayer-meeting with another farmer named Samuel Gordon, suddenly became insane and killed the latter with a club. Not returning home, a search was made for Clements, and he was found some distance from the road, sitting beside the body of the man he had murdered, eating his heart. He had cut off the head of Gordon’s body and had torn oat the heart, lungs and liver, and was devouring them. Clements was secured, and is now in jail, a raving maniac. A Glass Company Suspends Work. St. Louis, Nov. 26.—The Great Western Glass Company discharged all their men to-day and closed their works. Mr. Cordova, the sec retary and treasurer of the company, savs they were obliged to take this action in consequence of the drinking habits of most of their men rendering them so unreliable that the works could not be operated in a proper manner. The meifpronounce the statement a deliberate falsehood, and assert that the real cause was the employment of apprentices to do men’s work, and that had the men not been discharged there would have been a strike in the factory in a few hours. My child was cured of bronchitis by Rad Star Cough Cure.—Mr. J. Hickson, Toronto.

INDIANA IN ITS EAELY DAYS. Dr. Ryland T. Brown’s Entertaining Description of the Pioneer Hoosier’s Life. The Frolics and the Courtships of Backwoods Youths—A Pen Picture of the Pioneer School and Its Master. Dr. Ryland T. Brown, thongb in his eightieth year, has not lost the art of amusing and instructing the young, as his lecture to the school children at Plymouth Church yesterday afternoon plainly proved. His subject was “The Pioneer Girl of Indiana,” which naturally enough included the contemporaneous Indiana boy. He described the pioneer houses, the log cabins of rude exterior, but interiorly rife with coarse but health-giving comforts and host and hostess ever ready to welcome the guest with hearty hospitality. His description of the broad fire-places, high-post and trundle beds, and the primitive manner of retiring where one room and the loft furnished all the accommodations for family and guests, was very amusing. He told of spinning flax and woo), of coru-buskings, quilting bees and other ancient frolics, of oldfashioned courtships and the way the young men and damsels rode to meeting both on one horse, the damsel behind, with her arras round the gallant, who, to make her squeeze him tighter, would frequently tickle the horse to make him skittish. Sometimes the damsel herself would slyly touch the horse in the flank with her dainty heel to get an excuse to hold on tighter. When “corn-tending” wasover about the Ist of July, the pioneers went to work to clear up more ground. Six or seven acres would be the amount usually cleared before the time for gathering corn came on. “The brush was dried with the leaves on,” said the Doctor, “and when we got out to burn it, before a brush heap was lighted, the news was all over the neighborhood, and the girls and boys were there. And then up into the air would shoot a hundred pyramids of flame. A brush fire! I tell you no Brush electric light of to-day can compare with that light And then the girls had to be taken home afterwards, every* one of them, and the boys with hickory torches took them one by one along the nariow paths beneath the tall old trees of the forest.” The Doctor concluded with a description of pioneer schools. “In the Western States, at the beginning of the present -century,” he said, “the business of school teaching was monopolized, almost exclusively, by the Irish schoolmaster. lam sorry that some genius has not photographed him for the instruction and amusement of future generations, as Washington Irving has delineated the Yankee schoolmaster in his inimitable portrait of lehabod Crane. Though nearly three-quarters of a century intervenes, yet to-day I have a most vivid recollection of Master Samson and bis school. Whether he was a descendant of Dominie Sampson, or of some less noted family, I never learned, for as yet the Dominie had not sat before the great Scotchman for his portrait. The Dominie was a myth—the mere embodiment of an idea: but Michael Samson was a reality—to me a stern reality. There was an atmosphere of awe about the very name; perhaps because it was associated in my mind with the first Bible character that ever won its way to my admire tion. “Early in the morning Master Samson made his advent into the humble cabin where we dwelt. A pen was stuck in one side of his hat, and an uncut goose-quill in the other. From a buttonhole of his vest was suspended a mysterious inkstand made of the point of a cow’s horn, and from an ample side-pocket protruded his school article,.illuminated with many a flourish in chirographv. Its chief merit, however, consisted in a proposal to teach the mysteries of reading, writing and arithmetic for the term of thirteen weeks of five days each, for tho sum of $1.50 per scholar, provided, however, that Master Samson should ‘board round among the scholars,’ and should be secured in the peaceable possession of a comfortable school-house and fuel sufficient to warm it. This last provision was a flank movement in anticipation of a raid of the big hoys to turn the master out at the holidays. The requisite twentv-flve scholars are obtained, and Master Samson is duly installed, the absolute monarch of his little kingdom. Behind the throne (an unpaioted split-bottom chair), on two pins driven into the wall, reposed in solemn grandeur the scepter of his power —the traditional birch—which, in plain prose. was nothing but a beech limb, half an inch in diameter and some five feet iong. If in Goldsmith’sscbool-master,

“You could trace The day’s disaster in his morning face,” in Master Samson’s scowling countenance were delineated a whole week’s disasters, and woe betide the lackless wight who fell within the orbit of his wrath. The administration of his government was conducted with great energy, promptness and decision. If it lacked the element of justice, he consoled himself with the reflection that if the culprit did not deserve the flogging then, he certainly would deserve it at some future time. His mode of teaching was as absolute and as energetic as his government. Before him on his desk lay a ponderous foolscap folio, in which were all the examples of Dilworth’s and Pike’s arithmetics fully worked out according to rule; and should any rebellious subject.of his presume to venture on a more simple analysis, or by a more direct route reach the solution of the problem, he would soon be taught the folly of assuming to know more than the man that made the ‘arithmetic.’ “His school was literally a loud one. Reading, spelling and arithmetic, in one swelling volume of sound, rose with the early morning sun and rolled away through the dark aisles of the old forest that surrounded the little log school house. But intensity is never compatible with persistence; so as the day advanced the clamor of the morning would sink down into a drowsy hum. Then Master Samson would erect his majestic form and. with the voice of a Stentor, issue the command, “Mind your buks,” enforcing the mandate with a crashing blow of his ferule on bis dpsk. But as the ten hoars of his daily task rolled on, there came a period when even this would no longer wake the low murmur into a full chorus, and sterner measures had to be resorted to. Tho scholars sat on backless benches, arranged far enough apart to allow an easy passage for the master, who. ever and anon, rod in hand, passed around on tours of inspection. Occasionally he would make brisk application of the rod to the backs of whole ranks of drowsy lads and lasses, which fell with the impartiality of the sunshine and the shower on the good and the bad—the industrious and the lazy. “However defective these schools may have been as instruments of mental culture, they were certainly very efficient in developing the vocal organs. These were the pioneer schools of the West, and, strange as it appears now. yet it is true, that shrewd men and lovely misses were schooled iu such a way as this is.” A Pointer on the Market. Boston Herald. Speculators who are anxious to find out what Jay Go“M is doing in the market may be interested to learn that he has just bought a pew in a Presbyterian church in New York. They are good things to be long of. Get aboard! Sam Beasely’e Thoughtful Second Wife. Crosby County (Tex.) Clarion. Sam Beasely’s second wife, whom he married last month, is knitting him a pair of warm woolen stockings for the winter. A Desperate Crowd. Boston Advertiser. The Democrats of Indiana are getting desperate, if ex-Senator McDonald does not misrepresent their purposes. Jot comes with each and every application of St. Jaoobs Oil. DIED. PEARCE—On Thursday, Nov. 25, 1886, at 3 o’clock P. u„ at the residence, No. 173 Daugherty street, Mrs. Margaret, wife of Samuel J. P&arce, agedl forty-three years and four months!* Funeral at St. Patrick’s Church, to-day, at 9 o’clock A JH. Friends are invited.

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__ ANNOUNCEMENTS. Bolted corn-meal—white or yellow -fresh, daily, at VAN PELT’S, 125 North Delaware street, CLOSING OUT~FOR E~ LION SHOE Store, 64 North Pennsylvania street. Great bargains in fine goods. SANITARY Indianapolis, Ind. Chronic diseases and diseases of women a specialty. The methods emploved are electricity, Swedish movements, baths and other hygienic agents. RACHEL SW (IN, M. D. MARTYN’S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. 313 Sixth street, Washington, D. C., provides practically useful business education. No terms nor vacations. Students enter at any time. Terms: Life scholarship, S4O. Twelve weeks’ course, board, etc., $75. Send for circular. <2>Q r PER MONTH—SALARY AND COMmission, to competent manager for this city or State agency. A splendid combination. Our Automatic Gas Governors save 33 per cent, in gas bills. Our Silver Gas Lights can be attached to any fixture, instantly changing the dull, sickly, yellow flame of any gas to a soft, mellow, luminous white, increasing brilliancy 50 t>er cent. Over 8.000 in service. Address THE UNION NATIONAL GAS SAVING CO.. 21 East Fourteenth st., New York. FOR SALE. __ _ _ FOR SALE—A DESIRABLE STABLE, LEASE and stock; will invoice about $1,200: in a good location—for cash only. Address STABLE, this office. FORSALE— BARGAINS IN ENGINES, sawmill and other machinery, ('all on or address HADLEi', WRIGHT & CO., li3 S. Tennessee st., Indianapolis. FOR SALE—CHEAP—A LARGE MOORE COMbination desk; very complete; cost $155; can be bought for SBO cash. Call and see it at Journal office counting-room. FORSALE— HOTEL LEASE AND FURNITURE —in Indianapolis, at a bargain: also, a farm of 600 acres to trade for Indianapolis property. HAMLIN & CO., 36 North Delaware street. For sat.e-owing to" the death of Franklin Talbert, the undersigned has for sale two saw mills, one band mill, one planing-mill and wagon shop, situate in Shelbyville, Ind. A groat number of logs are now in the miil yard; also, a large number purchased and in the wuods. and these can be sold along with the mills: also, he has for sale thirty horses, log wagons and harness. The above is very desirable property, and during the life of Mr. Talbert he was very successful, the invoice of his personal estate amounting to near $60,000. By communicating with the undersigned full particulars will be given. JOHN BLESSING, Administrator, Shelbyville, Ind. J OOK! ENGINES! READ! Don’t buy an Engine until you have examined ours. A2O H. P. Portable, on wheels, $1,150; on skids, $950. A 30 H. P. Portable, on wheels, $1,575; on skids, $1,130. A 20 H. P. Stationary Automatic Engine, $427. A 50 H. P. Stationary Automatic Engine, SBOO. A 20 H. P. Slide-valve Engine, $3 15. A 40 H. P. Slide-valve Engine. $555. We have in stock Engines ready for immediate delivery, and can furnish Automatic and Slide-vaWe Stationary Engines from 6 to 500 H. P.; Vertical Automatic and Slide-valve Stationary Engines from 1 to 25 H. P. Also. Saw Mills. Siws. Belting. Inspirators, Governors and Steam Fittings. W. B. DePOY & CO., 100 Kentucky Avenue. Indianapolis. Ind. FINANCIAL Money to loan—o per cent. Horace McKAY, Room 11, I'albot & New’s Block. 17 INAN Cl AL—MONEY ONMORTGAGE—FARMS and city property. C. E. COFFIN & CO. SIX PER CENT.ON CITY PROPERTY IN INdiana. Isaac H. Kiersted, 13 Martindale Block. 500 TO' $5,000 TO LOAN - ON FA RM AND © city property. HENRY F. THOMPSON. Room 2. 86*3 East Market street. WANTED. \TT ANTED—THE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER IN Yt the West, the Weekly Indiana State Journal. One dollar oer vear. WANTED^-TR AVF.LTNO SALESMAN ON COMmission for hosiery, gloves, collars and cuffs, etc. WINCKLER & BURNHAM, 95 West Broadway, New York, N. Y. ANTED!—TCPHIRE A YOUNG iOR ~MIDDLE! aged man in every State, on salary or commission. to seh goods to dealers. Send stamp for reply, and address H. E. MAINES, Oakland, Me. FOR RENT. FOR RENT-ONE LARGE AND ONE SMALL room with power. Apply at Bryce’s Bakerv. For RENT-D W KLLINCL-37 CENTRAL AVEnue; 9 rooms; all in good order. JAMES 0. \ OHN. Illinois street. 11 rooms and bath-room. Inquire of MRS. W. H. PORTER, Pyle House.

J| 19 IRON Mpipe UtjStk FITTINGS. JttPgSfpSgi Selling Agent* for Natiohai* 4 Tubs Wobks Cos. i j) H .iff lKSfij Globe Valves, Stop Cocks. Er vine Trimmings. PIPE TONGS, WM CUTTERS, VISES TAPS, f A=j t tStJ Stocks and Dies, Wrenches, t rjg Steam Traps, Pomps, Sinks, rial \m HOSE, belting, babbit fE : METALS (25-pound boxes), rgF Cotton Wiping Waste, white [g and colored (100-pound bales), ffrajj f M and all other supplies used in p| connection with STEAM, WAfgS TER and GAS, in JOB or REtp; TAIL LOTS. Do a regular t" steam-fitting business. Esti|tf mate and contract to heat Mills, | P Shops. Factories and Lumber fjj Dry -houses with live or exhaust sii p steam. Pipe cut to order by Y steam power. M I Knight & Jillson, * 75 and 77 S. Penn. St. Anchor Line! U. S. MAIL STEAMERS Sail every SATURDAY from NEW YORK to GLASGOW AND LONDONDERRY. Rates of Passage to or from NewYork.Glasgow,Liveroool,Lon londerry or Belfast CABINS. #45 and #55. SECOND CLASS, #3O. Steerage outward or prepaid. #2O. Anchor Line drafts, issued at Lowest Rates, are paid free of charge in England. Scotland and Ireland. For Book* of Tours; Tickets, or other information, applv to HENDERSON* BROTHERS. New York, or A. METZGER, 5 Odd fellows’ Hall, or FRENZEL BROTHERS. Merchants’ National Bank,lndianapolis. BRIDGE RODS, TRUSS .RODS, Bolts, Stirrups, Plates, Washers And CONSTRUCTION WORK STEEL POLLEY AND MACHINE WORKS (Successors to Machine and Bolt Works), 79 to 85 South Pennsylvania St., INDIANAPOLIS.

'BEST INTHE CITY. As the cool season has arrived, the appetite usually Increases, and there is a Greater demand for meats. In orderto supply any demand I carry a full line of the best quality of Beef, Pork. Lamb, Veal and Smoked Meats and Lard. I call special attention to my Sausage manufactory, which has no superior in the city. Wiener-wurst fresh every day. i THEO. DIETZ, No. 147 East Washington St., opp. Court-house. PUTS AND CAULS On Grain, Provisions and Stocks; for long and short time. Send for price circular. H. P. HART & CO., 116 Dearl*>rn st.. Chicaeo. 111. Refer by permission American Exchange National Bank. CHURCH SERVICES. Baptist. First baptist church-northeast corner of New York and Pennsylvania streets. Rev Reuben Jeffery, D. I)., pastor. Peaching by Rev. O. T. Conger. D. D., at 10:30 a. m. Sunday-school at 2p. m. No service in evening. Christian. CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH-CORNER OF Delaware and Ohio streets. Rev. E. J. Gaqts, pastor. Services to-morrow at 10:30 a. m. Subject: “The Flesh and the Spirit." No evening serv- ; ices. Sunday-school at 2:30 n. m. -meeting j on Thursday at 7:30 p. m. All are cordially invited , to attend these services. Congregational. M A YFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH— St. Clair street, near East. Rev. N. A Hyde, D. D., pastor. Rev. Henry Day. D. D., will preach for the pastor to-morrow at the morning service at i 10:30 o’clock. Sunday-school at 2 p.m. Strangers cordially inited. Methodist Episcopal. CENTRAL-AVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL Church—Corner of Central avenue and Butler street. Rev. A. W. Lamport, pastor. Preaching by the pastor to-morrow at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Class-meeting at 9:30 a. m. Sunday-school at 2:15 p.m.; O. H. Pa raer, superintendent. Young people’s meeting at 6:30 p. m. Strangers cordially invited. Roberts park methodist episcopal Church—Corner of Delaware and Vermont streets. Rev. I. H. McConnell, pastor. Class at 9 a.m. and ! 6:30 p. m. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by the pastor. Sunday-school at 2 p. m. Youngpeople's prayer-meeting on Monday, at 7:30 p. m. Regular prayer-meeting on Thursday at 7 p. m. MERIDIAN-STREET METHODIST EPISCOPALChurch—Corner New York and Meridian streets. Rev. J. E. Gilbert. D. D., pastor. Classes at 9:30 a ; m. and at 6:30 p. m. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. by the pastor. Sunday-school at 2:15 p. m. In the evening the congregation will unite in divine song exercises of Charity 7 Organization, at. Tomlinson Hall. Presbyterian. First Presbyterian church - southwest corner Pennsylvania and New York streets. The pastor, Rev. M. L. Haires, will preach to-morrow at 10:45 a. m. No evening service, the congregation uniting in the annual meeting of the Benevolent j Societies, at Tomlinson Hall. Sunday-school at 9:30 | a. m. The public cordially invited. f I TABERNACLE CHIT ROH—CORN ERM E RIDIAN j J and Second streets—Rev. J. Albert Rondtnaler, pas- ! tor. Preaching to-morrow morning by the paster, at ; 10:30 o’clock. Sabbath-school and Bible classes at j 2:15 p. m Young people’s prayer meeting at 3:45 ,p. m. No evening service on aecouut of the anniversary of the Benevolent Society. __ AUCTION __ L. HUNT, AUCTIONEER, 74 E. COURT ST. N. PERRY, GENERAL AUCTIONEER, 63 • East Market. M ’CURDY * JENISON, GENERAL AUCTIONeers. No. 78 East Washington street. Auction sale-entire stock of furniture, stoves, carnet*, queenware, etc , at 287 East Washington street, commencing at 10:30 a. m on Saturday. Nov. 27. Assortment of new and sec ond-hand goods, Sold to the highest bidder, without reserve. G. W. SMOCK, Auctioneer. THE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER IN THE WEST, THE * Weekly Main State Ml (TWELVE PAGES.) ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. >

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