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THJE INDIAISrAPOIilS JOURNAL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, .1887,

tho profits of the business. The company, in

there, nets as middleman in almost every species of errand and exchange. "'At this poiot the question arises whether the interstate-commerce act is directed only at the owners and managers of vehicles or instru mentalities of transportation, and intended to teach only their charges to the public, or whether secondary charees made by others charges not alone, or even chiefly, for any serv Ice procured from such owners or managers can also be swept in the reach of the act. .All puzzling inquiries disappear in thepreseuce of a single consideration. Ihe commerce act regu lates those whose compensation and whose right to exact it has been created or authorized by law on behalf of the public, and the object of the act is to protect the public. The common Jaw cave the power to exact toll, in a re public the power to exact toll resides in the legislature, which personates the people, to control Us use. It was in the exercise of this power, and in no other domain of legislative power that Congress enacted the interstate commerce bill, and it is believed that the act is plainly confined to this purpose and domain It results, of course, as the conclusion of this opinion, that the Adams Express Company is not. in any sense, one of the common carriers to which the interstate-commerce art in any way relates. The matter is so grave, and considera tions so large'enter in an assertion by the com mission of jurisdiction over the hundreds of express eompanies existing in the country, with their vast capital and relationships, that all will agree that no instance could readily be sup posed more appropriate for judicial action and construction." THE runLIC DEBT. A Decrease of Nearly S5, 000,000 During; Au guit Receipts and Expenditures. Washington, Sept. 1. The reduction of the publio debt during the month of August amounted to $4,809,475. The total debt now, less cash in the Treasury, is $1,2C9, 774,336. and of this amount $1,000,853,712 is interest-bearing debt. The net cash in the Treasnry is to-day $44,760,908, or about $1,000,000 less than a mouth ago. The gold coin and bullion fund in the Treasury to-day is $281!, 039, 533. with liabilities of gold certificates outstanding amounting to $88,765,340, thus leaving a gold fund balance of $193,274,193, against $18G.30C,330 a month ago. The silver coin and bullion fund to-day is $218, 236,868. which, with certificates outstanding amounting to $147.8G. Jsj. leaves a silver fond balance amounting to $70,360,433, against $72,455,100 on the 1st of last August. In addition to this silver fund balance, there is in the treasury assets $515,709 in trade dollars and $6,637,495 in trade dollar bullion, which have been redeemed under the recent law of Congress, and which cost the government $7,253,204. The tore of standard silver dollars now in the treasury amounts to $213,212,448, an increase of $1,783,000 during the past month. It appears from a statement prepared in the Treasurer's office that tip to date the total coinage of standard siiver dollars amonnts to $270,200,117, and Ihft of this amount $56,987,669 are in circulat'on, against $56,692,829 on Sept 1, 1886. Government receipts during August were heavy, aggregating $35,619, 115, against $32,195,826 in August last year. Customs receipts were $22,686,768, or fully two millions more than in August a vear ago; internal revenue receipts were $10,850,398. against $9,697,934 in Aueust, 1886: and receipts from miscellaneous sources were nearly half a million more than in August a year ago. The expenditures during AuguBt were $28,717,162, about $200,000 less than in August last year. RECLASSIFICATION OF POSTOFFICES. How It Is Proposed to Kemedy tbe Inequalities Now Existing:. Washington Special. Messrs. Ryan, Metcalf and Alexander, postoffiee inspectors, who were specially detailed by Postmaster general Vilas to make an examination of all the second and third-class postoffices la the United States with a view to their reclassification in regard to the allowances for clerk hire, have returned to the city from their extended tour and are cow engaged in the preparation of a report which will be presented to the Postmaster-general on his return from his vacation. The inequalities which their report is expected to remedy are this way: Postmasters whose receipts entitle them to a salary of from $2,000 to $3,000 are second-class postmasters and have their clerk hire, rent and fuel allowed by the government. Postmasters whose receipts entitle them to a salary of from $1,000 to $2,000 are third-class postmasters, and are required to provide their clerk hire and to pay their rent themselves. Thus It may happen in actual practice that a postmaster whose business entitles him to claim a salary of $1,900 has to pay out of his own pocket $1,000 for clerical assitance, rent and fuel. Ue is a third-class postmaster. The business of a neighboring postmaster, it may be, runs oniy $200 a year higher, but that brings htm into the list of second class postmasters, and entitles him to an allowance for clerk hire, rent and fuel equal, perhaps, to the whole amount of his salary, or even more. The appropriations for clerical assistance to postmasters below the grade of first-class are made in bulk by Congress, and the distribution of this amount is left discretionary with the postoffice department. Under the present classification of second and third-class offices it is impossible to avoid instances of great injustice and undue preference. Congress has repeatedly been asked to apply a remedy byjlegislation, but has failed to act. Postmaster-general Vilas is now attempting to correct the inequalities, as far as possible, by a revision of the classification of the department itself. It is for that purpose he sent out the commission, whose report and the detailed examinations upon which it is based will await bis action on his return. The leading features the commissioners were instructed to hold in view were expressed in a report prepared by a subcommittee of Congress, but never acted upon, which reads ns follows: "It seems that a division of postoffices into elabsee. based upon the amount of business done, with allowances accordingly, and with salaries graduated to the duties and burdens imposed on the postmaster, would be more natural and just than the present classification, which proceeds on the number of thousands paid to the postmaster, computed upon an arbitrarily graduated scale of commissions. Doubtless a perfect proportion between compensation on the one hand and duty and responsibility on the other cannot be maintained through the entire range. But it appears possible to approximate it more nearly than by the present method. Reduction in som salaries, as now fixed, is as justly due as as are allowances to some officers who now pay from their salaries expenses fairly belonging to the government. " Action upon the report made to the Postmaster-general will be awaited with great interest by a large number of second-class postmasters verging on the third-class line, whose allowance for clerk hire, etc.. will probably be reduced thereunder, and with much hopefulness by postmasters of the third-class, versing on the second-class line, who anticipate that under the new classification they will receive allowance for rent and clerk hire which are not now accorded them. THE MEDICAL. CONGRESS. The Preliminary Work of the Arrangements Committee Almost Completed. Washington Special. Dr. N. S. Davis, who will preside over the coming International Medical Congress, and Doctors Parkes and Jones, of Chicago, arrived to-day, as did a number of medical men from other cities, to attend the great meeting next week. The preliminary work under the management of Doctor Hamilton has nearly all been completed, and the local managers now feel bappy over the fact that the financial arrangements are in proper shape, notwithstanding the niggardliness of Congress in appropriating only $lO,C00 for the work. At no other meeting has there been any trouble about finances, because when the session was heid in foreign countries the governments where they were held footed nearly all the bills. The attitude of Surgeongeneral Gunnell of the United States navy, however, seems to be even worse than that of Congress. Although it is known throughout the world that this government has no navy, it has been supposed that there was a large and valuable corps of physicians in that branch of the public service. Through the hostile attitude of Surgeon-general Gunneil very few doctors cpnnected with the navy will take part in the congress. He is charged with having used his influence agaiort the congress until a week ago, when he found that it would be a success in spite of bim. Since then ne has given it more recognition. When the programme was being arrnged Dr. Gihon, medical director of the riavy, was stationed here, acd he was requested to take charge of one of the sections. lie consented, but a few days afterwards was sent to Han Francisco by Surgeon-gneral Gunnell. His friends here Insisted that be should still have charge of the section, and promised to help him with the work. They and Dr. Gihon asked that lie be detailed as the representative of the government, as all European governments were feuding official representatives. This was re

fused, and the Doctor had to content himself with simply obtaining his leave of absence, which was also hard to get. Another indication of Surgeon-general Gunnell's hositility is shown by the fact that co representative of the navy will read in the section devoted to army and navy surgery and medicine. A number of naval surgeons were asked to read papers, but none accepted, on the ground that it was not popular. In this section fifty-one papers will be read. The army will be represented by eleven surgeons, Ireland by three, England by seven, American colleges by twelve, Austria by three. Germany two, Holland one, India one, and twelve ex army surgeons will read addresses, but no naval sureeon is down on the list of th:s, to them, most important branch of the, cor gress. One ex-naval surgeon, upon whom Dr. Gunnell seems to have no influence, will read a paper, but this is the nearest the American navy will come to being represented. The reason of Dr. Gunnell's hostility is not known. Word was received to-day that Dr. Mariano Semtnola. professor of materia medica in the University of Naples, had landed in New York and would arrive here to-morrow. He is the representative of the Italian government. He is a member of the Italian Senate and will read a paper on bacteriology, in which he will combat some of Dr. Koch's views.

THE WHEELING EPISODE. An Obsterperous Editor Caused the Trouble at the G. A. R. Reunion. Special to the Philadelphia Press. There is still much feeling among Grand Army men over the Wheeling episode and the passage by an Erie post of resolutions denouncing those members who refused to march under the Cleveland banner, induced one prominent Pittsburg member to explain matters more fully. lie said: "It appears that a sub-committee of the Wheeling committee on arrangements, consisting of three Democrats and three Republicans, went to this Democratic editor of the Register and told him exception had been taken to the banner. He refused to take it in. The committee, disgusted with his action, went to the head of the column as it approached the banner, and it was halted. This story of the obstreperous editor was told to them, and the sub committee said: 'We are three Democrats and three Republicans. There is no politics in the request. We do not want to be defied by this editor; we don't want you to march under this banner.' The sub-committee next visited, in going back over the lice, a Pittsburg post. The same story was told by the sub-committee to the commander. He never said a word, but when the order to move was given the men at the head of the command obliqued to the opposite curbstone and thus marched around the banner." MINOR MATTERS. Importance of the Concessions Obtained In China by the American Syndicate. Washington, Sept. 1. The concessions which Count Mitkiewicz has obtained from the Chinese government are much more important than they are generally supposed to be, if the gentlemen who are associated with the Count are to be believed. It seems from the statements which these gentlemen make that he went to China for the purpose of securing the telegraph and railroad rights of the empire. While there the project of the bank, of which so much has been said, was developed, and he saw his opportunity and seized it. Count Mitkiewicz is one of the shrewdest financiers in the United States, but he lacks the necessary secretiveness which is so essential to a good diplomate. It is said that tho Chinese government has appointed seven commissioners to represent the empire in America, and that the Count has been appointed one of the seven. It is said to be the purpose of the envoys to make a thorough study of the American system of banking and coinage, as well as the postal system in the United States. Some years ago Japan sent a similar commission to this country, and the result has been the adoption of many of the American customs in the Japanese empire. An Explanation Demanded. Washington, Sept. 1. The Civil-service Commission has requested the Secretary . of the Interior to explain why certain draughtsmen and assistant topographers have been appointed in the geological survey without being required to pass a civil-service examination, as required by law. It is understood that Director Powell claims that he has the power to appoint scientific employes without applying to the commission. The latter is of the opinion that the t wo classes named do not come under this designation. The commissioners have under consideration a plan for a more uniform classification of the clerical force in the government departments, so that, for instance, a copyist whose salary is $600 per annum shall be subjected to examination in the same way as the copyist whose salary is $900 per annum. The commissioners desire to remove the discrimination that now exists by which positions in one department are exempted from the civil-service rules, while exactly similar positions in another department come under the rules. Their purpose is to make a classification upon the duties required rather than upon the compensation paid. Indiana Pensions. Washington Special. Pensions have been granted the followingnamed Indianians: ' Sarah A. Talore. widow of Calvan Cravstal. Terre Haute; Henrietta, widow of Thomas J. Reed, Noblesville: Eliza, mother of John W. Doney, Scotland; Sarah J., mother of Caleb J. icker8ham, Carthage: Wm. Baugham, Andersou; Henry Darstock.Millhousen; Allen E. Eastjack, Crawfordsville; Andrew J. Welsh, Terre Haute; Leslie (J. J rotter, Valley City; Calvin Crystal, deceased, Terre Haute. Increase Jacob Schuler, Madison; David S. Bender. Logansport; Henry Zeigler, St. Maurice; Henry T. Swanger, Indianapolis; John M. Hammond. Petersburg; Volney M. Braffett. Indian apolis; Ziba Darlington, Pendleton; Lewis Kohler, Evansville; Jos. Fry, Perce; Samuel W. IJoldeman, boutb 15 end. Reissues, etc. Henry Lehman, BloomEeld; Horatio Williamson, Wabath: Sysvester. Nation. Trafalgar. General Notes. Washington, Sept. 1. The President this af ternoon appointed Char'.es O. Stockslager receiver of public money at Hailoy, Idaho. The Secretary of War has approved the request of the Ex-confederate Association at Chicago to erect a memorial to the confederate dead buried in the government lot in Oakland Cemetery, near the city, under such regulations or in structions as the Quartermaster-general may deem proper. Tho President has issued an order placing Lieutenant-general Sheridan in command of the United States troops participating in the consti tution centennial at Philadelphia. The Cabinet held its regular meeting at the White House to day. Secretary Bayard was the only member present. All the other depart ments, excepting the navy, were represented, however, by the acting heads. The six months allowed for the redemption of trade dollars will expire with the clove of busi ness Saturday. The redemptions to date amount to $i,l.).!,000, and it is believed there are ouly a few more of these coins outstanding. Losses by Fire. Washington. Ind.. Sept 1. The parsonage and church belonging to the African Methodist congregation of this city were burned this morning. The parsonage was a wooden build ing and the church a brick. Both were totally destroyed. Loss, $1,500; partly insured. The cause of the fire is unknown. Watekvillk. Me.. Sept. 1. Oak Grove Seminary, at Vassalboro. was burned to the ground early this morning. A son of Stephen Jones, aged sixteen, perished in the flames. The building was occupied as a school by the Society of Friends. The school was burned a few years ago. and the present buildings were completed last year. Obituary. Brighton, Ma, Sept 1. Prof. Jno. Avery, late professor of Greek in Bowdoin College, died suddenly this morning at North Bridgeton. Professor Avery has been connected with Bowdoin College many years, and was widely known among the alumni of the college. He was a recognized authority in ancient languages, being mas tor of fifteen, and a frequent contributor to magazines. He resigned his position at Bowdoin that he might give more time to the study of science. Iowa Democrats. Des Moines. Sept. 1. The Democratic State convention assembled here to-day and nominated Major T. J. Anderson for Governor. J. M. Elder for Lieutenant governor, Charles S. Fogg for Judge of the Supreme Court, and H. W. Sawyer for Superintendent of Publio Instruction. Scrofula, salt rheum, all humors, boils, pimples and diseases of the blood, general debility, dyspepsia, biliousness, sick headache, kidney and liver complaints, catarrh and rheumatism, are cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Take it now. 100 doses one dollar.

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Bayard S. Gray Acquitted on the Charge Preferred by Miss 2sora D. Rogers. A Banker Hill Lumber Dealer Charged with Forgery Lover Charged with Snbornation.of Perjury Xotes and Gleanings. INDIANA. IJ. S. Gray Triumphantly Acqnitted of the Serious Charge Against Him. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Portland. Sept. L The case of Nora D. Rogers, an itinerant peddler, against Postmaster B. S. Gray, alleging assault and battery, to which considerable newspaper notoriety has been given, was called to-day before Esquire Simmoas and a crowded court-room. A number of witnesses were examined. The main features of the testimony, and which proved most favor able to the defendant, were elicited on cross-examination of the prosecuting witness. She testified that Gray rudely caught hold of her while out buggy-riding. Gray positively denied the charge. The prosecuting witness testified that she returned from Ohio at the instance of Frank Snyder, an attorney here, to prosecute Gray, and that Snyder was paying her hotel bill. Snyder was put on the stand, and admitted that he visited the woman in Ohio to arrange for her return the day before Gray's arrest, accompanied by John D. Neeley, who is defendant to a slander suit brought by Gray and others. The defense introduced a damaging black-mailing letter written by Miss Rogers from Geneva, Ind. The defendant was promptly acquitted, and filed papers against Miss Rogers for blackmail, but she escaped arrest by taking the L. E. & W. train for Ft. Recovery, Ohio. County Fairs. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greensburg, Sept. 1. The Decatur county fair opened on T uesday. crowded, much of the stock quarters by private citizens, awarded on Wednesday were: Everything is being provided The premiums Stallions, four years old and over, to J. G. Graham, first; W. M. Newbold, second. Mares, J. A. Cunningham, first: W. M. Newbold, second. Geldings, J. W. Stout, first: Samuel Jackson, second. Jacks, S. Pleak. The three-minute trot was won by Flora, John Henrv And Richwood in the order na med. Time. 2:32 i. 2:371-. 2:35. Corydon, Aug. 31. The Corydon fair is a great success. Three thousand entri es have been made, and oorae of the finest stock in the State is on exhibition, norses, cattle, hogs and sheep come by the car-load from Jennings, Washington, Crawford and other counties. The exhibition began in the stock ring to-day, and the following are some of the premiums awarded on draft horses: Stallions, four years old and over, Wm. Harman, of Crawford county, first premium: Thomas Winn, Harrison county, second. Stallions, three years old and under four, John Spigier, of Washington county, first; Stevens & Barksdale, Harrison county, second. Stallions, two years old and under three, Stanth Bros., Harrison county, first; A. Horn. Harrison, second. Stallions, one year old and nnder two, James Seig. Harrison, first; Alfred Taylor, Harrison, second. Winchester, Sept. 1. The attendance at the fair here to-day was the greatest in the history of the association. At 1 o'clock ex-Governor Porter was introduced by Hon. Tom Browne, and delivered a fine address upon "The Future of Agriculture." The racing was unusually eood. To-morrow the free-for-all trotting races will take place. Premiums are quite liberal in this department, and local horsemen have several strong competitors to meet An interesting feature of the exhibition is the celebrated Charged with Subornation of Perjury. Special to the Indianacolfs Journal. Washington, Sept. 1. Charles Lawrence, of Edwardeport, Knox county, was placed in jail here yesterday to await the Circuit Court's action on a charge of subornation of perjury. Three weeks ago Lawrence secured a licenser frcm the clerk of this county to marry Rachel naddan, the young daughter of J. R. Haddan, a prominent Knox county farmer. In order to get the license he had to furnish an affidavit to the effect that the girl was eighteen years of age that is, of lawful age to marry without her parents' consent. This affidavit was made by a young womau named Anderson, of this place. Lawrence got the license, but before he could marry the girl old man Haddan discovered the situation and locked Miss Rachel up, and threatened to kill Lawrence if he attempted to steal her out. Rachel is only sixteen years of age. When Haddan ascertained the manner in which the license was procured, he caused a warrant to be issued for Lawrence for subornation of perjury, and the young man was arrested and placed in jail. Injured In a Kunaway Accident. Special to the Indianapolis Journal RocKViLLE, Sept. 1. Yesterday evening, while Miss Kate Maris and Miss Ella Burke were driving by the residence of Patrick Riordan, on Erie street, a dog ran out and barked and frightened their horse, which ran off. Both were thrown out, and when Miss Maris was picked up she was unconcious and carried to the home of Charles Stryker. It was four hours before she recognized anyone. One of her ribs was broken and she was seriously bruised and injured in the back. It will be many days before she can recover as her wounds are more serious than found at first. Miss Burke was considerably shaken up, but escaped with only some slight bruises. Both ladies are teachers in the Rockville public schools. J. C. Ranltin Charged with Forgery. Special to the Indianasolls Jonrnau Peru, Sept. 1. J. C. Rankin, a lumber dealer of Bunker Hill, is wanted by the officers on the charge of forging the name of Wm. Blue to five $200 notes. Rankin has been getting money at the First National Bank of this city, with his mother as indorser. He was notified to procure additional security, and presented the same of Blue, which was accepted. A few days ago the notes became due; investigation showed that Rankin had fled, and Blue denied the signature as being bis. Cashier Edwards secured the bank last night by a mortgage upon Mrs. Rankin's property. Rankin has always borne a good name. District Missionary Meeting. Ligonier, Sept. L The annual convention of the Northeastern Indiana Missionary Society of the Christian Church was held in this city on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, and was a most' successful one. Rev. L. L. Carpenter, district evangelist, presented a report of work that was most gratifying to the convenvention. Rev. A. S. Hale, of Angola, was elected president, and the prospects of the society for the future are roost gratifying. On Tuesday night Rev. Mr. Carpenter delivered one of the ablest sermons ever preached in this place, and Iat night Rey. Hale delivered a lecture of great power. Will Pipe Natural Gas. Fort Wayne, Sept. 1. A very large massmeeting was heid at the Circuit Court room last night to organize a stock company among citizens to pipe natural gas here from the Redkey territory in Blackrord county, this State, forty miles south of here. Four hundred thousand dollars are required. One hundred thousand was raised at once, and the rest is being rapidly subscribed by the citizens, who are being waited upon by committees. By Saturday night the entire amount will be raised, and inside of two weeks it is expected operations will be commenced. The affair is in the hands of the business men's exchange. Died from a Nail-Wound. Greencastle, Sept. L Col. William L. Farrow died of lockjaw this afternoon, at 5 o'clock. A few days ago he ran a nail into his thumb, but thought nothing of it until yesterday, when he called on a surgeon, and while there grew worse, and was taken to his home. He was elected sheriff of Putnam county in 1856. was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-third Indiana Regiment in 1861, and afterward colonel of the Seventy eighth Regiment. He leaves a wife and four daughters, one of them being Mrs. C. C. Matson, wife of the Congressman from the district. He was sixty-five years old. Suit for 10,000 Damages. Special tp the Indianapolis JoprnaL Wahasii, Sept 1. Eli Carver, administrator of the estate of Joseph Carver, an aged farmer, who was killed a few weeks ago, by the

breaking down of a canal bridge in this city, over which he waa riding on a traction engine, this evening filed suit against the city for $10,000. The complaint declares that the bridge was in an unsafe condition, and that by reason of the negligence of the authorities needed repairs were not made. The city will fight the case to the last resort. Fatally Inj ored by a Fall. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Logansport, Sept. L Dr. Fiber, ah old and prominent physician of this city, met with a serious accident at an early hour this morning while superintending some work about his residence. " While climbing a ladder to reach a high scaffold, a step broke and precipitated the Doctor to the ground below, a distance of twenty feet. His body was badly bruised, and it is found that he received internal injuries of a fatal character.

The Harrison County Regulators. Special to the Indiarpolis Journal. Corydon, Aug. 3L A report was sent from this place to the Louisville papers that the "regulators" had -called upon John Hildebrand, at DePauw, Tuesday night, and whipped him in a brutal manner. The Journal correspondent has made diligent inquiry, and can find no one who heard of the affair until it was published in the papers. Like a great many other reports of the raids made by the ''regulators," it is wholly untrue. . Minor Notes. The fifth annual reunion of the Fifth Indiana Cavalry Association will be held at Greenfield on Oct. 12 and 13. Miss Mattie Jones, the fifteen-year-old adopted daughter of Geo. Jones, of Philadelphia, and formerly a resident of Indianapolis, walked to Greenfield, Wednesday night, and left on the west-bound train for parts unknown. Much preparation has been made and all things are now ready for the annual convention of the Christian churches of Hendricks county, which will be held at Liztou, beginning to-day and continuing over Saturday and Sunday. A number of prominent ministers will be present and engage in the services. Elizabeth J. Myers, a maiden lady aged thirtyone years, residing with her father in Marion township, Boone county, was found near an out-building on Wednesday morning about 3 o'clock with her throat cut. It was evidently a suicide, as the razor with which it was done was found lying near her. No reason for the act is known. Gas was struck on Wednesday at the Emmert Mills well, Greensburg, after penetrating the Trenton limestone but a few feet. This is the fifth well drilled at Greensburg, and everyone produces a good supply of gas, and in about equal quantities. No failure has been made, and eventually there will be enough wells to supply all needs. J. H. Ellis & Co., of Kokomo, dealers in hardware and agricultural implements, have made an assignment to William Trublood in favor of creditors. The liabilities are estimated at $20,000, with assets probably equal in amount, but most of which are accounts and notes. This was one of the oldest business- firms in the city, but part of the firm bad been recently changed. ILLINOIS. Attempted Wrecking of au Indiana, BloomIngton & Western Passenger Train. Pekin, Sept. 1. A bold attempt was made, last evening, to wreck the Indiana, Bloomington & Western east-bound passenger train that left Pekin at 8 o'clock, at Leslie Station, six miles east of this city.' The east and west-bound passenger trains are due here at 8 o'clock, arriving and passing at this point. The west-bound passenger passed Leslie all right. It was between this time and 8:15 that some person or persons carried a large stone, weighing a couple of hundred pounds, twenty-five feet from the north of the switch track, and placed it between the rails of the main track. The east-bound passenger train left here and very fortunately had a passenger for Leslie Station. .The engineer was notified and had slowed cp when his engine struck the large stone, throwing over the stone, and the forward trucks left the track. The train was delayed nearly an hour. Had it not been for this one passenger, a young lady, there would have been a smash-up, as the train would have dashed into this rock at full speed. The only theory given for this devilish work is that of robbery. The officials of the Indiana, Bloomington & Western will investigate the matter. Soldiers Reunion at Neoga. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . Mattoon, Sept. L The annual regimental reunion of the One-hundred-and-twenty-third Illinois Volunteers is now in progress at Neoga. A large number of the surviving members are on the ground this evening, and more, with hundred of friends, will arrive to-morrow. Chaplain Sandol will deliver the address of welcome, to be responded to by Capt. T. E. Woods, of this city, to-morrow forenoon, and Hon. H. S. Clark, of this city, will follow with an address. Major James A. Connolly, of Springfield, will address the people and comrades in the afternoc j, when a large crowd is expected. A Joint Family Reunion, Ececlal to the lndiana&olii Journak. Bloomington, Sept. 1. To-day, at the Funk's Grove Church, near this city, was held the annual reunion of the Funks and StubDlefields, two kindred families, whose members in this region alone are immense. No less than 250 were present, representing all ages. The meeting was one of the most interesting character. Hon. George W. Funk and Hon. B. F. Funk are members of this Funk family, of whom the late Isaac Funk, their father, a princely land-owner, was one of the founders. Brief Mention. Mendota has a gas well only ninety feet deep, with a pressure of twenty-four pounds to the inch. At Wyoming, on Tuesday, Miss Rose Coffey, of Elgin, a school-teacher, became insane, jumped from a culvert, and fractured her skull. It is expected she will die. The elevator of Mnrdock & Son. at Murdock, together with 18,000 bushels of grain, was destroyed on Wednesday by fire which origin ated from a spark from a passing train. Loss, $12,000; insurance $4,800. Two barns were also burned and a horce perished. A most remarkable yield of oats has just been threshed by Martin Brownfield near Tolono. On eight acres of ground he had G72 bushels, machine measure, being eighty-four bushels per acre. The oats were extremely fine and heavy, weighing out 110 bushels per acre. The ground was carefully prepared and seeded at the rate of three bushels per acre. ' David T. Littler, ex-State Representative, was sued on Tuesday for $2,500 in the Sangamon county Circuit Court by the State-house Commissioners. The case grows out of the injunction taken out by Mr. Littler, restraining the complainants from erecting historic 6tatues in the rostrum of the State-house. The defendant expects to open the caee again for judicial investigation. White Man Murdered by a Negro. Louisville, Sept. 1. A special to the Courier-Journal from Hopkinsville, Ky.. to-night, says: "George Taylor, a young white man, twenty-three years of age, employed upou the farm of Horace Buckner, near Longview; ten miles south of Hopkinsville, wa stabbed to death this morning, while at work in a tobacco field, by Ike Parrish, a negro laborer on the Buckner farm. Taylor was hauling tobacco from the field where Parrish's mistress and children were engaged, and reproved the children for idling. The mother took sides with her children, and abused Taylor, who struck her, whereupon Ike jumped from his wagon, and rushing on Taylor, stabbed him to the heat:5 with his tobacco knife. Ike made his escape. Taylor bore a good character." Fatal Fall from a ISalloon. Princeton, Mo., Sept 1. At the Mercer county fair, yesterday afternoon, Randall Blakeslee, a haif breed York Indian, made a balloon ascension, hanging to a trapeze bar. In the ascent the balloon shot up suddenly, giving Biakeslee a severe wrench, and he was unable to pull himself on the bar, but managed to hold himself up by a loop which he had drawn around his waist. After traveling abont a mile and a half, reaching the attitude of 2,000 feet, the balloon began to descend, but the poor fellow's strength gave out, and when within five hundred feet of the earth his grip relaxed and he fell, lighting on bis feet in a corn-field, his thighs being broken and driven into the trunk of his body. The Grand Army Chieftainship. St. Louis, Sept. L It is freely asserted in Grand Army circles here that the question who shall be commander-in-chief of the order is an all-absorbing one, and is exciting great interest everywhere, and has become the burden of voluminous correspondence. It is said that there are now practically but two candidates in the field for the office Gen. Slocum, of New York,

representing the East, and Gen. Grier, of St Louis, representing the West. It is claimed that all the Western Stages, with the possible exception of one, will give Gen. Grier their undivided support, and that gentleman's friends here feel quite assured that he will have more than sufficient strength in the encampment to effect his election. . TELEGEAPIIIC BREVITIES.

Miss Mollie Hussey, of Rochester, N. Y., who has been missing since Monday, was found yesterday all right, at Wellesley. The authorities. of Augusta, Ga., prohibited as sacrilegious the representation of Christ and the virgins in in a passion play by the colored people. Samuel Eisendrath, of New York, was arrested at Baltimore last evening and locked up on the charge of passing forged checKs cpon shop-keepers. Very heavy rains have flooded the streams and caused great damage in Texas along the lines of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and Texas Central railways. s The two convicts who escaped in the steam yacht Juno, from theKingston,Ont., penitentiary, landed near Oswego. N. Y. They sunk the yacht on Sandy Beach. No trace of the men can be found, The collector of customs at Suspension Bridge, N. Y.,has seized the Canadian steamer Hastings at Lewiston, for violation of the navigation laws in carrying passengers between Lewiston and Olcott, two American ports, . Dr. McDonald, a cancer specialist, committed suicide in the Lawrence Building jail, at Nashville, Tenn. , yesterday, where he had been sent for obtaining money under false pretences. McDonald, who is supposed to be from Michigan, took laudanum. In the Rowan county, Kentucky, Circuit Court, at Morehead, yesterday,. Pigman and Perry, charged with the murder of Craig Tolliver, were cleared, after two hours' deliberation by the jury. Everything at Morehead is auiet, and no danger is apprehended from an outbreak. Michael Butler, recently discharged from the position of keeper in the Insane Asylum on Ward's island, New York, has petitioned the Supreme Court for the release of a number of patients as sane. He declares that of the 1,750 inmates, no less than 300 are perfectly sane, and that 1,000 more are perfectly harmless lunatics. On Wednesday,' Henry King, a prominent merchant of Georgetown. Ohio, visited Cincinnati, on business, and spent the night with Mr. George Straub, his brother-in-law. Early yesterday morning Mr. Straub was awakened by a noise, and found that Mr. King had in some way fallen from a window of the secondstory room to the side-walk, and received fatal injuries. A man about thirty-three years old, supposed from papers found in his pockets to be Derby G. Brach. of 1013 North Boundary 6treet, Burlington, la. , committed suicide on Boston Common Wednesday, by shooting. The ball took effect in the left breast, causing almost instant death. The man was about five feet eight inches in height, dark complexion, and had evidently been sick with consumption. The body lias at an undertaker's, awaiting identification. Execution of Josiah TerrllL Columbus, O.. Sept. 2. Josiah Terrill was executed at half past 12 this morning, and proclaimed his innocence after he had been brought upon the scaffold. The execution took place in the annex at the penitentiary, and about fifty persons witnessed the tsame. He slept up to 11 p. m , and then ate a lunch, and after smoking was ready to proceed to the scaffold. His exhibition of nerve was something wonderful, and those who had seen many men hanged before stated that they had never witnessed one in which there was so much quiet determination exhibited. The body will be sent to Pomeroy for burial. The crime was the murder of Charles Phelps, about sixty years of age, who lived near Pomeroy. Meigs county. Shortage in a Dead Man's Accounts. Hudson, Wis., Sept. 1. The officers of the Hudson Building and Loan Association have just discovered a shortaee of nearly $10,000 in the accounts of the late T. H. Harvey, who was secretary of the association. The books and papers are in bad shape, and it will be some time before the real situation can be determined. As the stockholders are for the most part working people, clerks, teachers and others, who secured their shares by small monthly savings, the loss will be a serious blow. Mr. Harvey stood very high as an accountant and business man during his lifetime. Mrs. McGarigte Depnrte by the Lake Routi.' Chicago, Sept. 1. Mr3. IIcGarigle. the wife of the noted boodler, followed her husband's example and left the city to-day by the La&e Michigan route, without making public her destination. There is a suspicion to-night that she has gone to join McGarigle, but it is quite possible her absence means only a vi.it to relatives in Milwaukee. Nothing further is known definitely than the fact that, accompanied by all three of her children, Mrs. McGarigle boarded a lake steamer this afternoon just as it waa leaving the dock, bound north. J. Davis as a Fair Attraction. Macon, Ga., Sept 1. Ex-President Jefferson Davis has accepted the invitation to attend the State fair in Macon, on Oct 26. On that day there will be a reunion of all the surviving exconfederate soldiers who can get there. THE SCENE AT LINCOLN'S NOMINATION. Graphic Description of an Important Historical Event. Life of Lincoln, in September Century. Though it was not expected to be decisive, the very first ballot foreshadowed accurately the final result The ''complimentary" candidates received the tribute of admiration from their respective States. Vermont voted for Collamer, and New Jerbey for Dayton, each solid. Pennsylvania's compliment to Cameron was shorn of six votes, four of which went at once for Lincoln. Ohio divided her compliment, 34 for Chase, 4 for McLean, and at once gave Lincoln her 8 remaining votes. Missouri voted solid for her candidate, Bates, who also received a scattering tribute from other delegations. But all these compliments were of little avail to their recipients, for far above each towered the a??regates of the leading candidates: Seward, 173J; Lincoln, 102. "In the ground-swell of suppressed excitement which pervaded the convention there was no time to analyze this vote; nevertheless, delegates and spectators felt the full force of its premonition; to all who desired the defeat of Seward it pointed out the winning man with unerring certainty. Another little wrangle over some disputed and protesting deleeate made the audience almost furious at the delay, and 'Call the roll!' sounded from a thousand throats. "A second ballot was beeun at last, and, obeying a force as sure as the law of gravitation, the former complimentary votes came -rushing to Lincoln. The whole 10 votes of Collamer, 4-4 from Cameron, C from Chase and McLean, wero now cast for him, followed by a scatter of additions along the whole roll-call. In this ballot Lincoln gained 79 votes, Seward only 11. The faces of the New York delegation whitened as the balloting progressed and as the torrent of Lincoln's popularity became a river. The result of the second ballot was: Seward. 184; Liocoin. 181; scattering, 09.J. When the vote of Lincoln was announced, there was a tremendous burst of applause, which the chairman prudently but with difficulty controlled and silenced. "The third ballot was beeun amid a breathless suspense; hundreds of pencils kept pace with the roll-call and nervouslv marked the changes on their tally-sheets. The Lincoln figures steadily swelled and grew. Votes came to him from all the other candidates 4 from Seward, 2 from Cameron, 13 from Bates, 18 from Chase, 9 from Dayton, 8 from McLean, 1 from Clay. Lincoln had gained 50, Seward bad lost 4 J. Long before the official tellers had footed up their columns, spectators and delegates rapidly made the reckoning and knew the result: Lincoln, 231J; Seward, 180. Counting the scattering votes, 4C5 ballots had been cast, and 233 were necessary to a choice. Only votes more were needed to make a nomination. "A profound stillness suddenly fell upon the wigwam; the men ceased to talk and the ladios to flutter their fans; one could distinctly hear the scratching of pencils and the ticking of telegraph instruments on the reporters' tables. No announcement had been made by the chair; changes were in order, and it was only a question of seconds who should speak first While every one was leaning forward in intense expectancy, Mr. Canter sprang upon his chair and reported a change of four Ohio votes from Chase to Lincoln. There was a moment's pause. a teller waved his tally-sheet toward the skylight and shouted a name, and theu the boom of a cannon on the roof of the wigwam announced the nomination to the crowds iu the streets, where shouts and salutes took up and spread the news. In the convention the Lincoln river now became an inundation. Amid the wildest hurrahs, delegation after delegation changed its vote to the victor. "A graceful custom prevails in orderly American conventions that the chairman of the vanquished delegation is the first to greet the nominee with a short address of party fealty and promise of party support Mr. Evarts, the spokesman from New York, essayed promptly to perform this courteous office, but was delaved awhile by the enthusiasm and confusion. The din at last subsided, and the presiding officer

announced that on the third ballot Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, received 364 votes, and 'is selected as your candidate for President of the United States.' Then Mr. Evarts, in a voice cf unconcealed emotion, but with admirable dignity and touching eloquenc-, speaking for Seward and for New York, moved to make the nomination unanimous. 0

ROCKY MOUNTAIN REARS. A Dispute Among; Hunters as to the Varieties) Found There. W. 8. Ramsford, In September Scrtbner. There i3 among Western men much contro verey as to the various kinds of bear inhabiting our Western Alps; but the number of those who, from personal observation, are capable of forming an opinion, is very small. In the first place, for all the sanguinary talk around tha stove, there are not a great many men who have made a practice of hunting bear at all. Ona such incident as that which occurred, two years ago, in the Big Horn scares a good many. A poor fellow there cama on a bear, a small cinnamon, feeding on an elk he had killed. He fired and wounded it, tha bear retreated, and he followed. Coming up with it again he fired, when the boar charged him. Trying to reload (he used, I heard, a single-shot Sharp rifle), the extractor came off the empty shell, and. of course he was defenseless. He evidently drew his knife and U3ei it desparately, for when they found him the bear lay near him. dead, with many knife wounds in it but it had killed him first In short, both -on account of the danger and by reason of tha great difficulty of seeing them, it scarcely pays to hunt bear alone. There are compartively few men, I say. whesa opinion is worth much; and some of these seem to have an idea that, for the credit of the mountain land they love so well, they are bound to people it with as many different species of bear as they can. Now, as a matter of fact I beheva that almost all the bears ranging in the Rocky mountains,' occasionally breed together; certainly, brown and black sometimes do. Our party once shot a black bear with a large brown cross, extending from the tail to tha back of the head and down each shoulder. Just as certainly the brown and grizzly on occasions intermarry. My hunter assures me be has shot gray cubs with a brown sow. I may bo wrong, but I cannot myself eee any difference sufficiently marked. to warrant the idea that the cinnamon bear of the Rockies is not the coarser, larger brown bear, the result of soma crossing; between the grizzly and the brown. Then, some men insist that among the gray bear there are no less than three distinct varieties silvertip. roachback and grizzlv. . As 1 have said before, I cannot say anything about tha California grizzly, though i do not think, from, the skins I have examined, he differs materially from his brother of the mountains; but as to these differences of color indicating a distinct variety, I cannot believe it THE SAME EVERYWHERE. Seven Men Out of Ten Read Base-Rail New First. Boston Transcript , On a suburban train which the Listener frequently takes, which, in the morning,. Is filled with business men and alert youths, he has taken pains to note what the people around him seem to be thinking and talking about, and ha is convinced, without making an actual count, that the minds of at least seven out of the ten men and boys are upon the sports of the day before, as reported in the newspapers. The questions talked abont are not Mr. Gladstone's greet struggle in England, not the labor or the prohibition issue, not the state of trade, but "What is tnre in this story about the Thistle's keell" "Why did the Bostons bat so abominably yesterday" "What eort of a show will Hosmer have against Teemer and Haulanl" There is a party of four youths, stalwart young men, who look as if they were "well brought up," ' who always sit together and talk together. Tha Listener does not believe tat, in all the time ha has traveled their way, is ever beard those young men talk about snyn. jg else than baseball. There talk is of Radbourn, and Stemrayer, and Getzein, and O'Rourke, and O'Day, and they echo the fine talk of the base-ball critics as if it were their own. A sharp discussion as to who is the best pitcher leaves -' hadow of a heartache over the party. "I x knew half as much about ba-e ball as think you do," the Listener heard one . ing man' Bay bitterly to another; and yet it was apparent that the other was the best friend he had in the world. The Listener has studied tha party enough. to observe that the one who seems to be tha most formidable antagonist it tha discussion is one who never reads more than ona newspaper's account of the games. Every morning he buys a Globe, and having come early and eagerly read the whole baso-ball column while ha is waiting for the train, he sits down in the train and plays the oracle for the rest of the party. Tne rest are not content, apparently, with one account of the matter,' but read too discursively to form solid convictions. "Beware of the man of ona book," and beware, boys, of the man of ona base ball reporter! But what are we to expect, looking at the matter seriously, of a generation that reads nothing but the base ball columns of the newspapers, except for an occasional excursion into the "aquatic department," and now and then an interested glance at the horss news. Beware of the Bustle, Philadelphia Times. There is a case in the Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, court, in whieh the fact that woman wore a bustle in front is adduced as ad evidence of insanity. It is hard to see why wearing a bustle in front should be thought stronger proof of insanity than wearing a bustls behind. Prayers for the Absent Ones. Cbambersburg Valley Spirit. A brother in prayer meeting in a neighboring' town the other night prayed for the absent "whd were prostrated on beds of sickness and sofas ol wellness." 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