Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 188S.

IIAXGED FOR PARRICIDE. Eolcrt Elder Executed at Mays Landing, N. J., lor the Murder of Hi.? Aged Father.

May's Landing, N. J., Jan. 3. Robert Elder, jr., was hanged in the jail-yard hero at Y2:(i7 o'clock this afternoon, for the murder Of his father. Death was. almost instantaneous pulsation ceasing within bevn minutes truni tha time the drop fell. The crime for which Robert Elder suffered the- death penalty was the murder of Iiis father, William John Elder, on the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 4, 1SS8. Young Elder was about twenty-seven and his father about sixty years of age. The mother of young Elder had not lived with her husband for nearly livo years, their companionship in all the years of their married life bringing forth nothing but quarrels and "unpleasant feelings, which continued even after the separation, when Mrs. Elder lhad gone to livo with one or the other of 3ier two married daughters, who lived in -the same county. Before the separation the family lived on a small farm near 11ammondton, and directly across the road from them lived John Elder's ninety-year-old father, who was an eye-witness of the killing of his son by his grand-son. When "the separation between John and his "wife took place, John remained on the farm and his son Robert also remained in tho neighborhood, living near his father and sometimes assisting him in his work, but they did not get along together, for Robert fjad always espoused his mother's cause yrnd was at times rather loud in his denuuviatious of his father's conduct toward ber. On tho Saturday before tho muyder Mrs. Elder had her husband placed unjder arrest on a chargo of cruelty to her Vjrclve-y ear-old son, a brother of Robert, vrho lived with tho father, but the justice before whom the case was heard discharged the defendant upon tho ground of insufficient evidence. John Elder, at that time. 5 1 is said, inadcuso of objectionable language in referring to his wife, which still further nngered Robert. The son afterward purchased a revolver, and on Saturday, Aug. 4, went to his father's house for the purpose of removing his little brother's clothes, "which ho intended taking to his grandfather's, across the way, because, he aiii tho littlo fellow should not Jive with the father any longer. When Robert came out of- the house, ho and his father were having hot words, and the father was following the son into the road. Robert turned around suddenly and tired four shots at his father, the third and fourth taking effect, and tho old man fell dead. . Robert made his escape that night, but gave himself up the following day, claiming that tho shooting was dono in self-defense. He was tried and found guilty of murder in tho first degree. Elder's last night was spent in listening to hymns which were sung by a few friends who remained with him tho greater part of tho night. Nearly all of tho immediate relativestook their lr.st leave of the condemned man yesterday afternoon. To all of them j'oung Elder preBentetl a buoyant appearance, declaring himself not only ready out anxious to die, Since ho believed, as ho said, that his crime tva committed in self-tletense and that fok lUier the real or fancied wrongs which he ia1 suffered at his father's hands ho felt that he had inflicted a just punishment on his parent. DAILY WEATUEIl BULLETIN. Indications. Washington, Jan. 3. For Indiana Fair; elightly warmer, followed on Friday night along the lakes by falling temperature. For Illinois Fair; nearly stationary temperature in southern portions, colder in northern portions; winda varying to northwesterly. For Wisconsin, Michigan. Iowa and MinnesotaGenerally fair; cold; winds becoming colder. Local 'Weather Report. lNDiAAroLi3, Jan. 3.

Time. Bar. Ther. R. II. Wlndl Weather. Pro. 7a.m. 30.12 32 75 Sw'etlCloudless. Tp.m. 30.12 44 49 S Wat1, Cloudless.

Maximum mometer, 30 Following condition ot thermometer, 53; minimum theris a comparative statement of the temperaluvo anil precipitation on Jan. 2, 1830: Normal Mean........ Departure fr Total excess Tern. Prccip. 28 0.10 38 0.00 10 0.10 . 17 0.29 om normal , ov tie tic. feince Jan. 1. General Obseivatlons. Indianapolis. Jan. 37 p. m. ThcrmomeCr Station, Weather. 5 'ew York city. se.ie Buffalo. N. Y... 30.04 42 36 46 Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. 36 40 SO 40 46 Phirdelphia.Pa S0.20 32 34 28 Tittsburg, Pa... 30.12 44 52 wash'ton. D. C. 30.20 . -Charleston, 8. C so.20 Atlanta, Ga.... C0.32 Jaeks'nv'le. Fla 20.12 40 48 2C 56 to 68 50 61 60 ft) CO 66 43 48 62 40 26 44 42 36 34 44 2S 46 I'ensacola. Fla. 30.03 51 .01 .01 Rain. 3tIonti?mry,Ala!C0.lc 5C Ft. Cloudy. Vicksburjr, Miss 30.0S 2C. Orleans, La. 29.98 46 Cloudy. CO .23 .CC .10 liain. little Rock, Ark 30.li 4S Cloudless. Jalveston. Tex.f30.oc 46 Cloudy. Cloudless. S'nAntonio.Tex 30.14 IMeiuphis.Tcnn. 30.12 43 40 32 41 60 Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless Cloudless. Cloudless. Nashville. Term ... 24 Louisville. Ky.. 30.14 4S 44 44 no 54 52 54 Jndianr'li.lnd 130.12 30 30 2S jo 2S Cincinaatl.O... so.14 Cleveland. O... 30.0 40 40 50 40 Toledo, O 30.0G Mhniuette.M'ch ... S.t.Marie.M'cli!23.96 uhjcao. IlL ijo.oo 34 22 S3 Cloudy. as 30 30 30 Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. lU Cloudy. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudless. Cloudy. Cloudless. ('loiulless. Cloudless. Cloudy. Cloudless. Cloudv. Cairo, 111 30.U 4C 54 frnrinstfield,!!!.. 30.10 MUwutikeeAVU. 30.00 40 GO 30 40 35 26 42 42 42 34 JHilnth. Minn.. -'9.8i 28 frt.Faul, Minn.. 30.04 22 2S 16 24 Moorea'd, Minn!30.li 2 26 so 22 f?t.Vinc'Et.Minn30.is Davenport, la.. 30.06 Dubuqu;, la.... 30.03 DcsMoine-, la.- 30.03 ft. Louis. Mo... 30.12 Kansas Citv.Mo 30.12 'Ft. Sill. Inu.T.. 30.1 G Dod ire Cit v, K's. 30.2o Oicaha,Neb.... 30.12 N. Platte. Neb.. 30.21 Valentine, Neb. yo.22 Yankton, D. T.. 30.14 Ft. Sully. D.T.. 30.22 Uijimarck.D.T.. 30.2 Ft. Bu ford. D.T.I30.S1 'P-Arth'rLM'ir.teWl qu'Ap'elle. N.w 30.34 1- LAs'uab'ne, Mhjo.33 Helena. M.T... 30.54 Boise City. I. T. 30.44 46 40 42 62 ro 20 43 45 32 3-2 30 0-1.... 54.... 48;.... 421.... 42 .... 42!.... 44 34 16! 20 26i 2S 32 34 32 29 IS 20 2S 44 36 3r, SO .03 I Pt. Cloudy. m.Clondr. Pt.Cloiidy. Cloud Itts. (Houdlcrs. CloudlgbS. Cloudy Clouiucss. Cloufljess." Cloiuly. Cloudless. Cloncllcss.. lt. Cloudy. 30, 22 lfi 4 16 18 0 20 101 4 16 14 24 3d .ueyemie, .T.. 30.2C 26 Ft.AI'Kn'r.VT . FtAVahak'e,Av!3O.40! ' 2 S2 24 uenver, Cu....!3P.2S Pueblo. Col jso.ao 42 48 34 24 31 10 Santa 1- e, N. M.. 30.24 2H 22 12 e salt JLake City.. (30.46 T Trace of precipitation. Note One -Inch of melted snow equals ten inches of suow. "Wlilte-Cappery In Pennsylvaxxla. 'VYilijamspokt, Pa., Jan. aThe seventh division of Pennsylvania White Caps has been organized and established in the vicinity of Lockhaven, and sovcvul gentlemen of that city have receved warning notices. Ono gentleman says that he has received two of them the second ono informing him that a visit from the band might be expected nt any tiae. lie is not terrorized, however, by tho -warning, and will giv them a warm reception when they com. Tho probability is thai, the- warnings re tho work of practical julieis, and that there aro no YVhito Cap3 in ibis vicinity. my Incendiarism at ClovrlantL Cleveland. O.. Jan. 3. Several incendiary tires in tho Cleveland stockyards and VroodsJenkj fc Co.'.s lamber-yard have destroyed about $.V).0iX) worth of property. A watch was placed to detect the incendiary, and on Monday a woman dressed in man's clothes was arrested while hurrying awav just as a biazo was discovered. Her namo is Mary Dcute, and to-!iy she wrs bound over for trial, ho ha' lieen compelled to vacate land on whir'a. lumber had been piled, and in tmppo-td to have started the nres for re venire. Kan City' I'o itinastor ItrinottHl. Kansas City. Mo, Jan. S.rostmastcr Geo. M. Shelly received otiieial notice of his removal, thi-5 morning, from President Cleveland and l'osiater-eencral Dickiuhon. fchelly has wrvetl Kansas Cltv as 3Iayor for two teniw, and lias always been prominent in tht local Democracy as n practical politician. Ho was a prominent

merchant before entering the postoflica. Ho will turn tho office over to Inspector John

son this evening. CHRISTY LONG'S GRANDDAUGHTER. Throwing Away Great "Wealth, Strangely Gained, by a Hadcap Marriage. Harrisbarg (Pa.) Letter in New York Sun. Florence Long, of Shippensburg, aged seventeen, pretty, bright and vivacious, has by a madcap marriage, thrown away her opportunity for brilliant social alliances, and destroyed her prospects for an inheritance of at least halt a million dollars, liy pedigree Miss Long has no special claim to social distinction. .She is the onlv daughter of "Old Christy" Long's son. "Old Christy" Long is one of the wealthiest men in tho rich Cumberland valley, but ho is a miser, and aft'ects the garb, and money, and characteristics of the tramp. He owns almost suthcient stock in tho Cumberland Valley rai'road to control it, and quite sufiicient to k.!3p the Pennsylvania railroad out of long-coveted possession of that line, the stock of which is worth nearly double its par value, and pays enormous dividends. Besides his large holding of this fctock, Christy Loog holds 0,000 acres of tho fertile Cumberland county farming country, and thousands of acrcss of mining, timber and farm land in other counties ami various states. Valuable as is his railroad stock, he obtained ownership of the bull: of it without investing a dollar. When he get possession of it, in fact, he did not have a dollar. It was in tho early days of tho Cumberland Valley railroad. The stock on which the money was raised to pay for building tho road was mainly taken by the farmers along the route, between liarrisburg and tho Maryland line. For years after it was built the road did not pay. Many of the farmers who had put their money in it camo to look upon their stock as so much waste-paper. Christy Long was then a tramp clock-vender and tinker. Ho traveled occasionally through the Cumberland valley, Reeking a livelihood among tho farmers. They regarded him as a halt-witted, harmless vagrant, and "he was a general butt for the juvenile rural population. It was not until ho began to accept from the former their almost forgotten and entirely despised certificates of stock in the Cumberland Valley railroad in payment for odd jobs in clock-mending and kettle-tinkering that they came to look on Christy Long as a downright lunatic. A well-known farmer still living in the Cumberland valley has to-day a clock which Christv Long put a new hand on a job worth in those days perhaps Zj cents for which the fanner tossed him a stock certificate which is now worth 2,000, and on which Christy Long has drawn double that in dividends. That was only one instance among scores in which the tramp clock-mender took stock certificates for trilling jobs, while the farmers laughed at him for a fool. These little jobs to-day represent over &300.000 as tho price Christy Long received for doing them. He gathered up in that way nearly all the available stock there was in the Cumberland valley and put it securely away. He did not hold it many years before tho farmers woke up to tho fact that the tramp clock-mender had suddenly become tho richest man in the valley, and that they had been tho fools. He is worth at least a million dollars today, but ho clings to his habits as a tramp, and will nov. although seventy years old, and palsied, walk any distance rather than nay railroad fare. He carries his own luncheon with him, and it usually consists of a pocketful of pretzels. Tho work he did in clock-mending and tinkering for the farmers in return for the stock that makes him more powerful than the great Pennsylvania railroad in tho Cumberland yalley railroad management, would not .have brought him S0 if paid for in cash. It was to the great wealth of this eccentric old man that tho girl Florence Long was the prospective heir until a few days ago. Then sue ran away with and married a young man of questionable reputation, after her mother had forbidden her to receive his attentions. The young man's nameisHoraco Schreiner. He is in the employ of the Western 31 ary land railroad at bhippensburg. Miss fcitono had refused to encourage the attentions of young menof good familyand high social standing. On Thursday she told her mother she was going out to make some calls. She went to tho railroad station and boarded a train going south. Young Schreiner joined her. They went to fcmithsburg, Md., where they were married. The elopement became known in Shippensburg half an hour after the train left. Schreiner s character was so well known and he was so generally unpopular that an excited crowd of over three hundred people assembled at the depot in the evening determined to mob Schreiner on the arrival of tho train from Smithsburg, on which the runaway couplo wero returning home. A brother of Schrcincr's managed to inform him by telegraph of his danger, and the couplo left the train at Waynesboro, where they tarried untilthe next day. Before they reached Shippcnburg wiser counsel prevailed there, and Schreiner was simply greeted with hoots and groans as he hurried with his bride to his brother's house, where the couple have still remained. Upon hearing of his granddaughter's runaway marriage with young Schreiner old Christy Long at onco declared that the Schreiners' scheme in enticing tho girl away would fail utterly, and he then and thero disinherited his granddaughter, declaring that her nam would not appear in his will. A KIND OF KKNO GAME. now Representatives Choose Seats Compared rith the Custom of Courteous Senators. "Washington Special to Boston Globe. Tho manner of choosing seats in the United States Senate is somewhat different from tho plan followed in the House of Representatives. Every two years thero is only one-tnirct 01 tno senators wnoso terms expire, while the terms of the Representatives all expire on one day, tho 4th of March. In the House, as soon as tho Speaker and other officers aro elected, the first proceeding is the choosing of seats. This is done by every member retiring behind the railing in the rear of tho 825 seats, and then tho seats aro drawn for. Lach member is given a number, and numbered bails corresponding are placed in a regular keno goose, shaken up and a page blindfo.'ded and the numbers drawn. As tho n urn her of a member is called out, he is permitted to enter the iuclosuro containing the seats and select one that suits him best. The first number drawn gives the member holding that number the first choice, and so on through until the S25 members are seated. Often the most prominent and distinguished members are among the very last drawn, and, of course, they get very poor seats. Over in the Senate, however, there is a courtesy which governs the choosing of seats in that body, as there is which governs other things. The venerablo Captain Uassett, assistant door-keeper of theSenato, keeps a little book, in which Senators have to record their selections in writing before they can secure a scat. When a Senator has been assigned a seat onco he is entitled to retain it if he likes its location untilhis sixyear term expires, and if he is re-elected he can still retain it until his service in the Senate has ended. If he should not bo Jileased with his seat, tho Senator can go to Japtain Uassett and write in tho littlo book referred to, saying that ho chooses Mr. Ko-and-so's seat when vacant. Should Mr. Edmunds havoa better seat than Mr. Sherman, and Mr. Sherman think that Mr. Edmunds was in danger of being defeated for a re-election, senatorial courtesy would permit Mr. Sherman to go to Captain Uassett and write in his littlo book that ho chose Mr. Edmunds's seat when vacant. Tho book is kept as ono of the secret archives of tho Senate, as the choosing of tho scat of a Senator whoso term is about to expire is regarded by others as an expression from tho chooser that the retiring Senator will not bo ablo to secure his return, although ho may bo an open candidato for re-election. Ills Nerro Was Sufficient. 3Ilnneapolia Tribune. "Young man," said the managing editor, 'this will be a very perilous undertaking. You must confront desperate men if yon has red hair, asked mo to trot the baby, I thoiild start a paper in Arizona."' Cool Advice. rhilnlclpMa Tress. Let us swear off on asking our friends if they have read "Robert Elsmere." We should do what wo can to make others happy.

woum succeed, nave yon tno nerve 41 Yes, sir," replied tho new reporter, 'I know I have." "Know you havu? Why!" "Because, last nicht when mv wife, -who

lom ner siie oiusi uo ic nerseii." jiy oravo young man," replied tho managing editor frlowly. "the East is no nlnce for vou. Yon

A FAMOUS TEXAS RANGER.

The Little Incident That Gave Jack liars to the Lone Star State. Tioney Grove (Tex.) Letter in 6L Louis Globo-Denio-crat. Thero have been a great many 6tories written and published of tho famous Jack Hays, tho Texas ranger, whoso name and fame is as well known in Texas as in California, but I have never yet seen anything, in print in regard to the life or history ot Hays before he camo to Texas. Most of tho stories about. Jack Hays say ho wasa stranger when he came to Texas, in 1806, and that but little was known of his history before that time. I have recently had tho : Ideasuro of meeting an old Tennessean, 'apt. Frank Bishop, who gave mo a littlo piece of Jack Hays's history, which ho says accounts for Hays's appearance in Texas, and which will no doubt be interesting to the manv friends and admirers of tho memory of tno redoubtable Texas ranger, for there are few left now of those who loved and honored him in life. - Haj-8 was born near tho Hermitage, Old Hickory's place, in Tennessee, and Captain Bishop was born and raised on tho adjoining farm. His father served under General ColTee, for whom Jack Hays was partlv named (John Collee Hays was his full name) and Frank Bishop and Jack Hays wero boys together, sharing in tho 6amo sports, attending the same school in winter, hunting squirrels, coons and 'possums together, and growing up to manhood in close companionship, and entertaining for each other tho wannest friendship, which was only broken by tho death of Colonel Havs. When Hays was about twenty-two years old he fell in love with Miss Bettie Donaldeon, the daughter of a neighboring farmer, and for a time tho young lady seemed to return his ardent attachment. For a year or more she received his attentions and plighted him her troth. Preparations for their marriage were being made, when there appeared in tho neighborhood a young man named Talbot, from Mount Vernon, Ky., who was reputed to bo immensely wealthy, and who, besides being well educated, was a handsome and accomplished gentleman of pleasing address and polished manners, well-schooled in all those arts which go so far in helping a man to win the good opinion of the fair sex. Now, although Hays was a handsome young fellow, and was considered the best rider, the best dancer and the best shot among tho youth of the country. Miss Donaldson took a great pleasureinshowinghim that tho attentions of Mr. Talbott were not distasteful to her in fact, that she rather preferred them to those of young Hays. Now, Jack Hays was not tho man, even at that early age, to tamely submit to a slight or a wrong from either man or woman. Tie was a man of ardent temperament, and could not brook tho idea of being second in anything. As was said of him a good many years later, "He never failed a friend or foe." and he quickly informed Miss Betty that he would have no double dealing; sho must either remember her plighted word to him and cease to receive attentions from Mr. Talbot, or she must recall her vows, and coquette with and marry whom sho pleased. Miss Donaldson was a young lady of spirit, and besides being piqued at being taken to task by her lover, was, after the manner of women, much taken with the handsome face, fine words and pleasant manners of young Talbot, and so it only required a few moments and a few sharp words to give Mr. Jack Hayes his conge and to announce her determination of marrying Mr. Talbot. Hays recognized her right to do as she pleased in this matter, and there would have been no trouble about it had not Mr. Talbot, elated by his success in winning the aftections of Hays's sweetheart away from him, boasted of nis conquest on every occasion. At a party in the neighborhood, shortly after tno rupture of tno engagement between Hays and Miss Donaldson, Talbot taunted Hays with his defeat, and tho result was Talpot was knocked down and soundly whipped by the disappointed lover, who, though much smaller than his successful rivalr was more than a match for him in agility and grit two characteristics which afterward rendered him famous. ; Smarting under his chastisement, Talbot sent a challenge to Hays, which was, of course, promptly accepted, and the preliminaries of the meeting wero quickly arranged. Hays selected rifles as tho weap-' ons, and Capt. Frank Bishoo, my informant, acted as his second. The duel took placo at sunrise on ftlrJrH Jnne morning, about two miles from the Hermitage, in a - 6eclnded spot. Tho distance was twenty paces, and Talbot was shot through the heart, never sneaking after the crack of Hays's rifle, and dying almost instantly. Hays and his second, Bishop, left the country immediately, and after a great deal of wandering finally landed in New Orleans, where they remained for nearly a year, and, as Bishop says, had "lots of fun." They wero well supplied with mone3', and they won a great deal while in the Crescent City, both at cards and horse-racing, a penchant for tho latter sport being always a noted characteristic of Jack llayg. though he foreswore cards, and it is said he was never known to hazard a cent at any game of cards during his career in Texas. After remaining nearly a year in New Or-' leans, Hays and his companion went home. Hays remained thero a little over a year, and was never indicted or arrested for tho killing of Talbot. It seemed to be the im-, pression of the people of the community that he had done tho fair thing in the matter, and he was not molested. Captain Bishop says that Miss Donaldson and her family made overtures to Hays for a reconciliation, but that the latter would not hear of it, saying that Miss Betsy had been the cause of his killing a feilow-man, and that he could never bo happy with her or make her happy. Captain Bishop says that Hays suffered keenly from remorso for the killing ot laioot; a 6pint of unrest seemed to take possession of him, and ho finally decided to come to Texas, and seek in this new country forgetfulness of his early troubles in the home of his youth. Whether he eve rfound "surcease of sorrow" is not known, but that he found adventuro in plenty and went through enough to make any ono almost "ceaso to remember" is a matter of history. Certain it is that tho unerring aim that enabled him to kill his first antagonist never failed him in his hour of need, and that he sent many an Indian to the happy huntingjrrounds; and many a Mexican went into tho presence of his Maker without the ben etit of clergy when Jack Hays drew a bead on him and his finger pressed tho trigger: though he never, so far as is known, slew a man save in fair and manly battlo. Capt. Bishop, who furnishes this scrap of history in the life of Jack Hays, camo to Texas with him, but did not follow him through his adventurous career in Texas, thoncn he served in Hays's regiment during tho Mexican war. at the close of which ho returned to his old old home in Tennessee, and now resides near Chattanooga, that State. Ho camo to Texas on business, and while here attended tho Dallas fair and exposition, and it was there your correspondent met him, and he furnished me the particulars above recited. An Infant Monstrosity. Jolinstown (Pa.) Special. Mr. and Mrs. Ross, of Morrellville, are the parents of a son with a remarkable head. Tho child was born two years ago. At its birth it was apparently sound and healthy. Some time after the child was born its head began to grow out of all proportions to tho rest of its anatomy. Doctors were consulted, and everything that medical science suggested was applied to stay the unnatural development. All cflbrts proved futile, however, and the growth of its head continues. It is now 36 inches in circumference, or almost as big as a half-bushel measure. The body is about the right proportion for a two-year-old child. The littlo one cannot stand, owing to tho weight of its head: neither can it speak, but it seems to understand what is said to it, and to have all its mental facul ties unimpaired. -The cause of the nnnatural growth of tho child s head is called by the doctors "hydrocephalus," or in plain Enclisb it is tho accumulation of fluid in and about the brain. Medical scienco has no cure for the malady, and death is liablo to occur to the sunerer at any time. In Love with Ills Wife. Memptds Avalanche. There is a certain bureau officer in the Treasury who is accused of being in lovo with his wile, and all the men and womrn m the department aro talking about it. Every morning, except when tho weather is very bad. file walks down to the department with him, and they pare at, xne noor iiko young lovers, although they havo been married for ton years. Then, at 12;0, as regularlv as the ciock, sue manes ner appeaiance wnn a little lunch basket in her hand, and tits beside him while he eats a couplo of sand wiches and a piece of pie, both made by her own hands. If ho has any time left after eating his luncheon they take a short walk

through the White Honse grounds, or down Fifteenth street, south of tho Treasury. Then, at 4 o'clock in tho afternoon, when

business hours aro over, sho is always at the door to meet him, and they take a walk together, arm in arm. before they go home. This couplo are childless. and tho women of the department say tno reason of their devotion is that they havo no ono elso to lavish their affections on. "MAMMA'S PET. A Reptile Lives in a Woman's Stomach for Seventeen Years. Philadelphia Times. Mrs. Goortre Snvder. of No. 2013 Parrish street, wife of noliceman Snvder. of the Ninth district, recently vomited a Tcptile over two feet long, which resembled a lizard. She has been snflering for over ten years, and physicians have been unable to anord her any relief. During the summer of 1S71 she came home from a party one oveninc almost overcome with the heat and feclinc verv thirstv. Sho went to the hydrant in tho yard and drew a cupful of water and began to drink, when suddenly she became aware that something other than water was passing down her throat. As no bad results followed, the incident was almost forsotten until about January, 1878. Ono night sho awoke with her mouth wide open and something creeping out of it, but before her husband, who had been awakened by her struggles, could seize tho reptile, it had drawn itself back into tho throat and out of sight. Mrs. Snyder at this time was a healthy woman and weighed nearly 140 pounds. She soon began to decline in health and lost daily until her weight was reduced to ninety ponnus. ene nau an enormous appetite, and no amount of food, however creat. could satisfy her cravings for food. To eat bread or any doughy 6ubstanco would make her deathly sick for several days. For months she tasted nothing but meat anu milk. Her family physician, Dr. Miller, thought that dyspepsia was the cause of her sickness, and nreseribed accordingly. This state of alfairs continued for ten years. The reptile had grown to considerable 6izo and strength, and was still growing, and her death was soon expected. She had never tastea beer until tho eariv part of last month, when an uncontrollable desiro for that beverage- seized her. Officer Snv der was surprised when ho came homo at H nignrana nis wne uskcq mac ocer do procured for her. Ho granted tho request and with happy results. The sight of the liquor made her sick, but, nevertheless, believing that it should bo taken, sho drank several glasses f nil, and in a few minutes was seized with violent fits of vomiting. Feeling faint, sho turned very white and fainted Mr. Snyder placed her in bed and in the morning she felt wonderfully improved. On looking into tho bowl in which sho had vomited tho night before she discovered a curious creature with the head of a lizard and a body not unlike that of a snake. She rapidly recovered and soon regained her former weight and strength. The repi ii-i i i . i i no is preserved in nicnonoi, ana mo liiiio Snyders now bring in their friends to show 4tmamma'8 pet." Dr. Miller said that in all his experience he has never met with a parallel case. He has known of snakes living in persons for months and even years, but never for such a long period. THEOLOGY IN FICTION. Mrs. Ward's Book Attacked and Defended by Two Prominent Ministers. Syracuse (N. Y) Special. "Robert Elsmero" has stirred no community more deeply than it hag Syracuse. Educated people were reading tho book, much as they do other works, until Rev. S. R. Calthorp, D. D.. pastor of the Unitarian Church, announced that he would make the doctrine it upheld tho subject of a series of three sermons. The last of these was delivered yesterday before a congregation swelled to unwonted proportion by accessions from tho evangelical churches of tho city. Dr. Calthorp, who is an English-born and Oxford-bred man, studied originally for tho ministry of the Church of England. but unable to accept its teachings, rouounceu ii anu Decame a unitarian. His experience was wonderfully like that of Robert Elsmere, and from that point of view tho real clergyman discussed his brother in fiction. The commotion these sermons wero creating in orthodox circles aroused the Rt. Rev. T. D. Huntington, Bishop of Central New York, who a week ago entered the pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral here, and, without speaking Dr. Calthorps name, probed his theory and that of Mrs. Ward's story and defended the tenets of tho church. The conflict of Bishop Huntington, and Dr. Calthorp is a battle of giants. Tho Bishop, it will be recalled, was a convert from the Unitarian Church to tho EpiscoSal Church, while Dr.Calthorn turned a octrinal somersault in exactly the opposite direction. It is an open secret that Dr. Calthorp has won over two or three notable converts on tho basis of "Robert Elsmere" and that several local orthodox clergymen aro being pushed to the extent of their learning by communicants who prefer personal consultation to pulpit eloquenco in the unsettled state of their minds. One of tho clergymen said to the correspondent to-day: Thi3 bock is the most vexatious thing tho church has encountered in a century. The blasphemies of Robert Ingcrsoll palo before the sophistries of 'Robert Elsmere., " Dr. Calthorp is the successor of tho late Samuel J. Mav, tho abolitionist, in the pulpit ho fills. Ho is an astronomer, geologist, and linguistic scholar of profound accomplishments. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S TEETH. They Were False and Stade by Dentist Greenwood, of New York. New York Special to Chicago Times. George Washington used false ieeth, and was minus.; several molars when he became the first tfrjtlenk v Isaac J. Greenwood, of this city, is in possession of indisputable evidence that such was tho case, flo now has as heirlooms the'last tooth left in Gen. Washington's jaw. and ho also claims to own the first set of false teeth ever made for the Father of his Country. Mr. Greenwood showed tho treasures to a reporter to-day. Tho specimen was originally used on tho lower jaw. It was carved from a portion of a hippopotamus tusk and originally contained eight teeth. Only 6ix are in place. Tho teeth set into tho sea-horse plate were human ones. Mr. Greenwood -wfes of tho opinion that they were teeth that Gen. Washington had had extracted. ThQjteeth were fastened in position by rivets of gold. At tho time this set wras made General Washington had but ono tooth left in his mouth, and this was located in the lower jaw on the left 6ide. It was firmly imbedded in tho jaw. He wore the false set of teeth for nearly six years. They did not fit niugly, and the irritation compelled General A ashington to have tho last tooth in his head extracted. Tho tooth, together with another plate, ho 6ent to dentist Greenwood, great-grandfather of the present owner of the teeth, dentist Greenwood made anew set of teeth, but placed an imitation in place of the "last" tooth, which ho preserved and treasured until the day of his death, in 1819. He made a will leaving both tho tooth and the original set of false tfceth to his son. The original dentist Greenwood made several sets of teeth for General Washington, one of which was buried with the General at Mount Vernon. The Dlamond-Mininar Industry. Jowelers Review. At the Kiraberley diamond mines in South Africa wonderful progress has been made in the last decade. In addition to many miles of aerial tramways, there are over 170 miles of tramway around the four Kimberley mines, 2,500 horses, mules arid oxen, and 350 steam engines, representing 4,000-horse-powcr, aro employed in tho works. For labor 1,000,000 are annually expended and over 1,000,000 for fuel and other supplies. The gross capital of the companies is near ly 10,000,000. Over 10,000 natives, each receiving 1 per week, ana 1,200 European overseers at an average wage of 5 aro employed. It is now proposed to consolidate ail the companies into an enor mous diamond trust, with a capital of i.10,000,000, but at the present quotations of ultimately be accomplished is partly confirmed by the report this spring that the honso of the Rothschilds, of London, is about to put in operation a project for tno consolidation of the diamond mines into ono gigantic trust for tho regulation of prices and production. The South Africa mines yielded during the last ten years 27,878,5S7 Karats, valued tftf karats, worth 4,033,582, at a valuation of 1 2s 1 l-2d a karat. In Decemblr, 1SS7, a single sale of rough diamonds was recorded of 150.000. and in Febrnary. 18SS. of 250,000, or 750,000 and $1,250,000, respect ively.

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V. mr AsHcnr E:;:;:f:;il THE SWEETEST AND THE LOGAN MEMORIAL ILALL rians the General's Widow Is Devising to Perpetuate Ills Memory Washington Special to New York Sun. The recent reinterment of General Logan's remains lias revived interest in the plans which Mrs. Logan is constantly devising for the perpetuation of the memory of her husband, fhe memorial hall, which was planned soon after the General's death, is rapidly neariug completion, and will be ready for inspection by the time Mrs. Logan returns lrom Europe. The plans are all ner own, and the wort is being carried on in strict accordance with her designs. The homestead is ono of tho oldest houses in Washington, and was formerly the property of a student and artist, who built a wing from the main building, in which was an inclosed court with brick walls and floor, where he took his exercise. This room, or court, 40 feet by 25, has since been used as a storage and lumber room, but when General Logan died his widow conceived the idea of tranforming this bare apartment into a memorial hall, in which 6hall be placed the interesting collection of relics which the General had accumulated in his long career of public service. Tho room is beautifully situated for the purpose for which it is devised. It is reached from the house by means of a door leading from the back hall, and communicates with tho parlor through two long windows. At the end of the rooms aro large folding doors leading into a magnificent conservatory, light and roomy. The walls of the hall have been plastered and painted a dark Pompeian red, and around the upper border is an elaborate frieze representing an eagle with outstretched wingst bearing in his beak a scroll on which .are inscribed the names of all the battles in which Logan participated. This is intertwined with laurel wreaths and memorial palms. In the roof has been placed a skylight of 6tained glass, through which the light streams in softened rays. Facing the south is the memorial window, beautifully designed and bearing in the center a striking likeness of the General. This is the hall as at present completed. Around the four walls are to be built low cases, in which are to bo placed the extensive and otiieial library in which General Logan took much pleasure. Among all his books Mrs. Logan treasures most the scrap books, which are the result of her labors for thirty years, and trace through newspaper clippings her hero's life, his triumphs, his military and political victories, and his speeches. These clippings, gathered, assorted and pasted by Mrs. Logan, have proved an invaluable aid to his biographer, and tell the story of the General's life from all points of view as seen and recorded by many men. Another interesting feature of this collection is a bound set of parts of the Congressional Record, containing only tho speeches and work of Logan in Congress. This forms a complete record of his civil career in convenient form, with index. After Gen. Logan's death his widow received from G. A. R. posts and civil and military organizations a number of memorial tablets and resolutions of condolence, a great many of them handsomely engrossed and framed. Theso will form a conspicuous part of tho decoration of the hall, and are held by the family in the highest regard as evidences of the deep love and veneration in which the memory of their idol is held all over the land. These memorials come from Maine and California, Michigan and Florida, echoing the love and gratitude of the Union soldiers for theirleader and faithful friend, and the respect in which the confederate soldiers held an honorable foe, brave in war and magnanimous in peace. Hero also will be placed the flags borne by his command during the war, and through which may be traced his rapid mililtary promotion. Among them are tho battie-torn colors of his regiment, the old Thirty-tirst Illinois, following which he was cut down at Donelson andlay all night on the frozen field, counted as dead, where he contracted thegsrmsof that dread disease which finally cost him his life; the flag ho bore as commander of a division, when he marched proudly into Vicksbnrg, leading the van of Grant's victorious army; tho emblem of the gallant old Fifteenth Corps, with its four colors representing the four divisions, and the cartridgo-box in the center emblazoned with the mystic "forty rounds," and the headquarter's llag of tho Army of the Tennessee, at whose head Logan rode at the grand review in 1SG5. Near the flags will be liung the swords he used in their defense, from tbe slender blade of the stripling second lieutenant of the Mexican war to the major-general's sword An interesting relic to be placed not far from the swords is the gun he carried at tho first battlo of Bull Run, when he left tho halls of Congress to take his place in the ranks of a Michigan regiment, and a Sair of fine dueling pistob which he won uring the war from Captain Whitehead, tho crack shot of the army, who had won them in his turn from a professional champion pistol shot. In a conspicuous corner will be placed the marble bust of Logan, begun during tho war. but which has been latelv finished. The old army chest in which General Logan in his later life kept his important papers is a valued relic. These are but a few of the manv relics to be placed in the memorial halh When completed the hall will be thrown open to the Eublic. It will not be dedicated until Mrs. lOgan's return, when modest and appropriate ceremonies will be held. How to Reat the Slot-Machine. New York Evening World. A way has been found to "beat" the drop-a-penney-in-the-slot machine. A young man wno has one of the electric machines in his 6tore has puzzled over the thing for some time and has at last succeeded in solving theproblem. The wav he beats the machine is very simple. He ha3 a penny with a hole boreil near the edge. Through this a piece of tine wire is run and fastened. Tho young man drops the cent in the slot and lets it down through the cylinder until the current is started. As soon as he gets his "shock" ho pulls tho cent up and repeats tho performance. The Desire for Mosele and lTealth. Boston AdTertiser. There have been times in Boston when an athlete, or a man who showed interest in athletic sports, was rather frowned upon by his blue-blooded fellows, and considered as having too coarse and brutal tastes to

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Organic union, which conference commit tees of the Northern and Southern assemblies of tho Presbyterian Church have for week been trying to effect, has again beca found impossible. Over all the diflicultiea of religious and political opinion, mission ary organizations and church governing bodies, the joint committee, alter an extended exchange of views felt that there was a way. But the project again went to wreck upon the negro question. The committee of the Northern Assembly insisted upon the admission of the coloredman upon full terms of equality in matters of church membership and govornment, and the committee of the Southern Assembly absolute rejected the proposition. They were willing thatthere should be a separate organization, similar to that of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, but with no right to representation in the General Assembly of thePresbyteriau Church united. This matter was debated at greater length than any other proposition before the conference committee, and an effort was made to ascertain how any proposed African Presbyterian Church snould be supported, it being admitted that there was not the slightest probabilitv of its ever becoming self-supporting. The only answer that could be made was that such an organization would havo to take its chances with the liberality of the white man's church. No definite assurances of support could be given by the representatives of the Southern Assembly and the Northerners being unwilling to leave the matter in any such sliape the effort at organic union was given up by common consent. B ut it was resolved to find and report denniteplans for united action inthehome and foreign mission fields and in the mission work among the negroes in tho South, and as tho commit tes found themselves without necessary information upon which to base their proposd action they agreed at Monday's meeting to adjourn, to meet again April 17 at Atlanta, Ga. An informal meeting of the Southern Assembly committee was held at the Park-avenue Hotel this morning, at which sub-committees were appointed to ascertain and report tho farticular information desired, to a preiminary meeting of the Southern committee to be called by the chairman some time in advance of the meeting at Atlanta. The final reports of the committees will be made to their respective assemblies, whiclj will meet in May at Chattanooga and New York. A Mysterious Mr. Harris. Labouchere's Letter. Lawrence Oliphant, who was buried last week at Wickeuhaui, was ono of the most charming companions it is possiblo to conceive, lleecluoin intruded his strange religious theories on his friends. Once onlv he snoko to mo about them. So far ast couid make them out at the time, if any two persons of opposite sex fell in love with each other, they were bound not to marry until thy felt that they wero no longer in love. Sir. Harris, tho nigh priest of this sect lived, and I presume still lives, somewhere in the United States. Implicit obedience was due to him by disciples who were allowed to engage in tho ordinary vocations of life, but when ordered to return home they were bound to do so. When Oliphant first went there he was accompanied by his mother. Lady Oliphant. Harris thought them proud, 'and the 6on was ordered to work in a garden and the mother to go every day to a neighboring railway station to sell fruit to the passing trains. Each disciple who had money spent any Cortion of nis income that ho required for is personal use, and handed the surplus over to Harris, it is wonderful that a man of such sound ami strong intellect upon every other subject should havo surrendered himself in the matter of religion to a creaturo like this Harris. The Origin of a Celebrated Fhraae. New York Sun. An esteemed friend wants to know when and where President Cleveland first formulated the maxim that "Public olh'ce is a public trust," We are not snro that he ever formulated it. Perhaps ho has usel theso words. Tho idea may be traced back to Tilden, and even to the writings of earlier philosophers of tho Democracy. Mr. Cleveland' speeches and letters have more than once contained the truism, more diffusely expressed, that the public servant is or should bo a trustee, and he has generally employed the adjectives sacred ami solemn, or tho idea of consecration, in connection with tho noun trut. If Mr. Cleveland ever used the idea in the epigrammatic form commonly attributed tohiui, h robably borrowed th3 yftinio from Mr. .aWs useful Cyclopedia of Political Science and Political Economy, published iu 18S2. The maxim "Public office is a public trust' occurs on page 4TJ of the first volume of that cyclopedia, in the course an article contributed by Mr. Cleveland's old friend and former Mentor, Mr. Donuau B. Eaton. A riace for Reform Philadelphia Ileoord. Tho Xew Year ought to have witnessed the introduction of tho automatic coupler on every railroad train in the CnitcdStates. It does not comport with our ideas either cf humanity or of mechanical pvosnrcss to know that, in the face of the existence of the improved coupler, more than live huudred railroad employes should be killed every year and ten times as many severely injured by the old primitive and cruelly Inadequate dovico of couylins.