Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL," FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1889.

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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

An Aged Morphine Eater flrains His Wife and Attempts to Kill His Daughter. Singular Actions of Franklin County CoramissionersW. T. C. U. Convention-A Brother's Crime Heroic Act of Charity. INDIANA. an Old Ulan Cleave Ills Wife' Skull and Sties to Injure III Daughter. fpocUl to Hie Indlanapoli JjarnaL RrsaviLLE, March 7. Perry Dennett, aged about seventy years, and who for a lon time has been a slave to morphine, beB'4n to abuse his family last night becauso tiieydid not procure him the drug. Ho continued his abuso until about 7 o'clock this morning, when ho made an attack upon - Lis wife and daughter, and, while pursuing ihem, he knocked his wife down and stmck ber on the top of the head with a hatchet, cutting through the skull to the brain. Leavin g her lying on the floor ho threw tho . hatchet after his daughter, but missed his mark. The woman is yet alive and may recover, but, owing to her advanced age, the chances are against her. Bennett is in jail. It is said he has already served one term in the southern prison. ' " Franklin County's Treasury Muddle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Brookville, March 7. Franklin county has no treasurer. The office has been closed for a week, and there is no knowing when it will bo otherwise. Anthony Bender was removed from office on Friday of last week, ' ty Judge F. S. Swift, because he failed to give a sufficient bond in the place of his original bond, which was broken by tho release of one of his sureties thereon. The Board of Commissioners convened on Monday of this week, and it was supposed that they would appoint a man who could give a bond to fill the vacancy, and that they would proceed to investigate the treasurer's office and see whether or not everything was all right. The commissioners . aDpointed a committee of three responsible men to investigate the matter, but before tne inquiry began one of Mr. Bender's attorneys appeared before the board of commissioners and informed them ' that they had no right or power v to make such an investigation as was contemplated, and the committee was recalled. No investigation has been - made. The commissioners then appointed Bender to fill his own vacancy, but as yet he has not succeeded in giving a bond that the board of commissioners will approve. This is but one chapter of Democratic rascality in Franklin county, and the people are growing very tired of it. Convention of W. C. T. U. lVorkers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . Columbus, March 7. A joint convention cf the Woman's Christian Temperance Unions of Switzerland, Jernlngs, Jeffertion, Bartholomew, Brown and Jackson - counties closed a two days . session at North Vernon this evening. The object , of the meeting was for the mutual help and training of the workers of the society: the education of tho people as to the methods of the organization, and the general revival of public interest in the temperance question and kindred reforms. There was .a . largo attendauce of the Sunday-school and church workers of tho State, and the session was very interesting and instructive. The convention, to-day, was addressed by Miss Leodi E. Reed, State secretary of tho W. C. T. U. There were also Bible readings and short talks by members and visitors present. A Brutal Brother's Crime. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March 7. In Reeve township, Daviess county, yesterday, Josiah Charnes committed a criminal assault upon the person of the wife of his brother, Martin Charnes. The woman was just recovering from a six-weeks' term of sickness, and could not offer much resistance to the brute's assaults. m Charnes escaped, but was followed all night by the husband and brother he had injured, and a party of neighbors, who would have lvnched tho liend had he been caught. Charnes was tracked to this city, whero he took a train for the West, but officers are after him with a warrant. The woman was badly injured in the struggle, and is in an alarming condition. Dropped Dead from Apoplexy. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. La Porte, March 7. L. O. Erb, cashier f the First National Bank, of this city, dropped dead of apoplexy at 5 o'clock this morning. He was oue of our best known - and most popular citizens, respected by all for his strict business integrity and moral and religious worth. Deceased leaves a wife and live children. Minor Notes. Walter D. Jones has been appointed justice of the peace at Linden, Montgomery county. Pratt KaufTman, sawyer at a Linwood mill, accidentally threw his hand against a circular sawt on Wednesday, and it was cut off at the wrist. Three farmers living near Knox were arrested, Wednesday, for systematically robbing freight cars. They have been carrying on their operations for some time. Mrs. Dr. Conway's residence and contents, at Madison, burned on Wednesday night. Loss, $1,500; insured for $l,iJ0O in the Farmers' and Manufacturers', of Madison. Herman H. Link, aged forty, died at Greensburg, yesterday, of Brighrs disease. He had been about town and attending to business until Wednesday. He leaves a family. While loading ico in a car at LaPorto, on Wednesday. William Witt slipped and fell ngainst a sharp iron pike. The point entered his stomach several inches, causing a . fatal injury. Kev. John Leppert, castor of the German Methodist Church at Sprayton, died very suddenly a few nights ago of heart disease. He was sixty years of ago and leaves a largo family. Dr. S. L. Ensmingcr, of Crawfordsville, has returned from Bay St. Louis, where ho was called to tho bedside of J. Maurice Thompson, who is reported to bo out of danger and recovering rapidly. Notwithstanding tho fact that at tho recent election at Gosport for the selection of a postmaster, Win. Tindolph was unanimously indorsed for the place, word was received there that Miss Celia Robinson had been appointed to the position. Dr. E. W. Smith, who was arrested a short time ago while attending medical college at Indianapolis and taken to Bloomfield and lodged in jail, was tried on Wednesday in the Greene county Circuit Court on a charge of perjury, and was acquitted. Tho general store of R. c. Newsom, at Elizabethtown, Bartholomew county, was entered by burglars Wednesday night, and a quantity of jewelry and other articles taken. The railroad office, located in tho same building, was also burglarized of a small amount of money; A four-year-old daughter of John Hendrickson. of Brownsburg. was bitten by a mad dog last December. A mad-stono was shortly afterwards applied, which adhered to the wound for several hours each day. Since then tho little girl has been in the best of health, with no indications of hydrophobia. United States Marshal Hawkins and Judge Claypool wero in Crawfordsville on Thursday, to argue for a new ruling in a case against J. N. Osborn, of Waynetown, and Mr. Hawkins, for tho false arrest of James Haas, llass recovered $400, and Mr. Hawkins wants to make Osborn pay all of the judgment. A sad example of youthful depravity is the case of Minnio Saunders, aged thirteen fears, who was sent to the liefonn School at Plainiield from Peru, on the charge of being a continued girl of the town. Her parents lived all last summer and part of the winter in a tent on the . bans; of the river, until ordered to the county asylum.At a meeting of the "Ben-Hur" Republican Club of Wiugate, last Monday evening, addresses were made by J. C. Wingate, president, and others. Resolutions wpm adopted declaring it tho sense of the club that the nuulvereary of Lincoln's birthdi should bo made a public holiday in ox

(lex that his life and acts might teach a lesson of patriotism to all future generations. A copy of the resolutions was forwarded to Hon. W. 1). Owen, Congressman from the Tenth district, with the request that a bill be introdnced in Congress providing for tho recommendations mentioned. Kev. M. H. Mcndcnhall, pastor of the Methodist Church at Decatur, has decided to retire from the active ministry at tho approaching session of the North Indiana Conference, on account of tho condition of his voice, which has troubled him 6o much during tho year now closing that a cessation from pulpit work has become imperative. Christopher Ground, a wealthy farmer living near Spencer, is bent on committing suicide. The other day his wife discovered him in the act of hanging himself, and when she interfered, was knocked down by her husband. Ho was overpowered by neighbors, but threatens to do away with himself at the first opportunity. He is a sullercr from acuto mania. ILLINOIS.

An Act of Christian Charity That Led to the Death of Two Aged Ladies. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bridgeport, March 7. Perhaps the most beautiful act of Christian charity ever enacted in this vicinity was that of Grandma Lamotte nd her step-daughter Miss Calvina, living near this place. Some four or rive weeks ago Mr. Samuel Seed, living two and a half miles east of here, had the misfortune to loose his house and contents by fire. Having a largo family and no place to shelter them from the inclemency of the winter weather. Grandma Lamotte and her stepdaughter Miss Calvina, the former about eighty-five years of age, and the latter nearly seventy, threw open their humble home to the unfortunate family of Mr. Seed. The home consisted of only two rooms, but Mr. Seed could do nothing more than accept the hospitality of tho generous aged Christian ladies. Tho crowded condition of the little home of the Lamottes, and the exposure and anxiety following tho loss of tho Seed dwelling, prostrated three of Mr. Seed's family with typhoid fever. The considerate and motherly attention to the sici soon wore Grandma Lamotto out, and 6he, fell sick of the same disease, and then Miss Lamotte took the fatal fever. The noble-hearted old lady was tho first to die, which was on Saturday. At tho urgent request of Miss Lamotte the corpse was brought to her sick bedside, and sho gazed in tearless silence upon her lifelong friend. From that moment she began to sink, and on Tuesday died. The remains of Grandma were interred Monday, at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, and yesterday the wasted body of the step-daughter was placed by her 6ide. They were both widely known hero for their pure, kind. Christian disposition, which has been amply demonstrated in this last act of their quiet but meritorious lives. These two people were among our oldest settlers, having lived in this little home of theirs for over fifty-two years. Two sons and one daughter are left behind, one son and daughter residing here, and a son in Kansas. Regulating the Telephone Companies. Springfield, March 7. The Senate this morning unanimously passed a bill to regulate telephone charges iri the State. This afternoon, at the end of a two-hours' contest, the Senate bill was ordered to be favorably reported by the House committee on judiciary. Large numbers of citizens, opposed to the exactions of the telephone companies, were present from various cities, particularly Chicago, to lend the friends of the measure aid in the bitter fight which all knew was coming. The triumph of tho regulators was largely due to a stirring speech by Representative Baker. Said he: "Tho Chicago Telephone Company organized with a capital stock of $500,000. One year later that company asked for an increase of capital stock from $500,000 to 82,000.000. The day before yesterday 285 cents was offered for that stock. We have said to tho telephono company time and again and I say to them once more: 'If you open your books and show to tho people that youcannot make, npon the basis of the rates fixed in this bill, a net profit of more than 30 percent, upon the capital 6tock, I will agree to tho rates in this bill being increased.' A few years ago, when there were two companies, these telephones wero making money at tho rate of $00 a year; but after they combined they began to go up and up, until the time has come when the people of Chicago come to this Legislature and ask for some restraint to the extortion." Notwithstanding desperate filibustering, the order for a favorable report was then finally obtained. Boy Accidentally Shot. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Paris, March 7. Albert Killgore, aged seventeen, residing at Chrisman, was instantly killed, yesterday, by the discharge of a gun while out hunting. His companion, a boy about thirteen years old, who was the only witness to the accident, said they were iu a log house eating hickory-nuts, and that tb gun was lying by Kulgore's side, and when Killgore picked up the gun it explode!, the charge entering his head. Both Legs Crashed by the Cars. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal, Paris, March 7. Walter Woods, a young man twenty-two years old, and a resident of Washington, Ind, while stealing a rido on the I. &, St. L. west-bound passenger train, fell under the wheels as the train was ncaring the station in this city last night and both lower limbs were crushed. Dr. Bell, tho railway surgeon, amputated one foot, and 6aid as soon as reaction set in he would amputate the other. Brief Mention. A two-story brick school, at Fidelity, was burned on W ednesday, the pupils narrowly escaping. Insured for $3,000. Robert Kennedy, a boy, was run over by the Peoria passenger train, at Galesburg, on Wednesday evening, and killed. The State Holstein Breeders' Association held its annual meeting at Elgin on Wednesday. H. W. Beldin was chosen president. While running to a train on the Ohio. Indiana &, Western road, yesterday, Mr. John Kinney, of Urbana, suddenly halted, fell and died instantly. While crossing the railway track on her way home from school, on Wednesday, Lizziellowo. of Cascyville, twelve years of age, was instantly killed by a freight train. Recent deaths: At Bloomington, Nathaniel Hulling, aged 6ixty-seven; at Wenona, Mrs. Tillie Cowan, a trod eighty-four; at Rock Island, Fred E. liand, a well-known railway conductor. On Wednesday August Stein, a workman on the Ohio, Indiana & Western railway bridge at Danville, fell a distance of sixtyrive feet, but was not killed. He received, however, a broken arm and leg. Plumber Sidewell, a farmer living near Toledo, has been adjudged insane from religions excitement. He oelicves that he ha9 a commission to kill a number of men. and that ho has been forbidden to eat apples. While Mrs. Chas. Adams was walking along the railway track near Eden, on Wednesday, she was assaulted by a negro, but after a desperate light succeeded in breaking away from hinu Within a half hour twenty-live men wero scouring the fields with shotguns, but at last accounts had not found hinu The Return of Randall to Power. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is a notable fact that as the Democratic party retires from power, its most Srominent and influential leader is Samuel . Randall, a man who has been more abused by Democratic newspapers and politicians than any other individual in the country, with the possible exception of James 0. Blaine. Consolation for the Faradcrs. Cleveland Leader. The heavens wept for joy over the inauguration of a Republican President m Woman's Suffrage League. New York, March 7. The Woman's Suffrage League to-night arranged for a national convention of woman's su fir ace leagues, to be held in New York Aprils and 2$. I haw reached the conclusion that American ladles are the bent vocalists. tSirakosch. It's no wonder; isn't Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup manufactured in this country f EvQry Sunday.

CURRENT MAGAZINES. The illustrations in March St, Nicholas mako the number unusually attractive. Among them the representations of Antinous deserve mention, and tho frontispiece, "Under the Mistletoe." Interesting contributions are Mrs. Burton Harrison's "Washington as an Athlete;" Lewis Frazicr's "Storm-bound Sparrows;" H. H. Clark's "Sailor Bov Dromios," and W. H. Gilder's "Downhill with a Vengeance." The two latter are stories of adventure that will pleaso boy readers. Airs. Catherwood's serial, The Bells of St. Anne," has .tho same sympathetic touch in its descriptions of Canadian life that rendered her recent story in tho Century so attractive. A new publication from Boston is "Tho Green Bag," which, as its sub-titlo explains, is "a useless but entertaining magazine for lawyers." The leading contribution is an account ot the Harvard Law School by Louis D, Brandeis. It is accompanied with portraits of somo of the distinguished instructors. Other articles are "Tho Whitechapel Tragedies," "Specific Performance of Contracts," "Canscs Cclebrcs'' and 'The Selden Society." A line portrait of Chief-justice Fuller forms the frontispiece. Tho magaziuo is edited by Horace W. Fuller, a Boston lawyer, and is typographically attractive. An etching of Fortuny's picture of "The Snake-Charmer" forms the frontispiece of tho March Magazine of Art. In "Art in tho Theater," Augustus Harris considers tho spectacular feature of stage representations. Mabel Robinson discourses of "Art Patrons the Begging Friars of Europe." A paper on "Current Art" is accompanied 11. Ill a. 11 I A1 'TV. .1 11

hhu illustrations arum iinmt A;mt-iuu, Al ism in England are the subjects of other papers. Recent numbers of Wide Awake have contained a somewhat smaller proportion of purely instructive literature than usual, and are consequently regarded as more enjoyable by juvenile readers, the fact7 however deplorable, being that stories without a trace of a "lesson" in them are far more entrancing to tho youthful mind than solid reading ot any sort, Susan Coolidge, J. T. Trowbridge, Margaret Sidney and Ernest Ingersoll are among the contributors to the February issue, these names of themselves insuring good entertainment. A fine portrait of Marion Harland forms the frontispieco of tho "Homo Maker" for February, of which magazine 6ho is editor. Among the contributors are Harriet Prescott SpoiFord, Olive Thorne Miller, Kate Upson Clark, Catherine Owen, Margaret Sangster and D. H. Goodale. This publication has many admirable features and a wider scope than tho ordinary "domestic" magazine. The following musio has been received from George Willig & Co., Baltimore: "Twilight Schottische." "May Festival March," "Mignonette Waltz," "American Patrol March," aii$ from "Lorraine," waltzes from "Mynheer Jan." "Lute, and Virginal." There is also an Inauguration March," to.be performed by tho Marine Band at Washington on March 4. "Modern iEstheticsof the Table,'; "Hygiene in the Homo," and "Dieting Versus Eating," are some of the practical subjects considered in the February number of "Dress," in addition to the usual space devoted to artistio garments. Jenness-Miller Publishing Company, West Ono-hundred-and-twenty-fifth street, New York. "Bella Demonia"is the curious titlo of tho complcto novel ir. March Lippincott It is written by Selina Delaro. Among other contributions to the number are "Reminiscences of Edgar Allen Poe, by JohnSartain; "How I Succeded in Literature" and tho "Apotheosis of Travel," by C. D. English. . Among tho inauguration musio received is "Inauguration Waltz" by Clara 'Vesey from Jordan Bros., Philadelphia. - 1 REArED HIS REWARD. A Young Yankee Newspaper Reporter's Clever Piece of Detective Work. New Haven (Conn.) Special. There was a quiet wedding mtholittlo village of Terryville, Litchfield county, this afternoon that ends a pleasing love story and begins a new chapter in the romantic life of a Connecticut girl. Miss Jennie Hart, the adopted daughter of a wealthy manufacturer of Kensington, was tho bride, and tho man she married is Thomas E. Nunenan, a reporter for tho New Haven Morning News. Nunenan did not get his wife until he had put in some good work in the detectivolino in search of the young lady's parents. Sho ref used to marry him until sho knew the history of her early life. The only clew with which tho ardent lover began the search was the knowledge that tho girl had been adopted from some Boston orphan asylum and she had heard that her real name was Hay den. Nunean hunted for along time amongtho records of the many institutions in Boston without any success. Finally, at the Little Wanderers' Home, on Baldwin place, the reporter learned that the girl whose history he was in search of had been taken in when six years old, at the request of her grandparents. Her father had died within a few years after sho was born, and tho widow was supported by tho town. The mother ot the child would bo only thirty-eight years old if she were alive, but the superintendent reasoned that she must have been ill then, as the town of South Coventry, Conn., was obliged to support her, and as they had never heard from her, not even a letter of inquiry having been received, she was undoubtedly dead. Mr. Hart had taken the girl immediately after she was received from South Coventry in 1870. For weeks the young man hunted for some trace of his loved one's mother, but the fates seemed to be against him. He returned to his work at the oilice of the News, and after awhile again started out. This time ho was successful. Ho found the mother living in Rockville, married a second time, and with several children by her second husband. Tho sequel was as interesting as the original search. The little girl had been torn from her mother, fourteen years ago, by a grandfather, who, in order to be relieved of tho expense of caring for tho littlo one, travo her to tho Little Wanderers' Home. Ho refused to tell the mother where her child was, and died without revealing the secret. Soon after that 6ho married Mr. Eldridge. Some time ago she saw a young lady in Putnam who resembled the lost one, anci endeavored to find some trace of her daughter there. Sho had a little photograph of the girl, taken a short time before she went away, and in tears she showed it to Nunenan. lie had a later photo in his pocket, with the exact features of the smaller one, but he kept it there. Tho time for disclosure had not come. Ho suggested that, twelvo years having passed, it would be impossible to recognize the littlo girl in the person of tho young lady, and besides, she had in all probability been given another name. But the mother believed that sho would recognize her at sight, and gave proof that she could identify her. Nuneuan's next interview was in executive session, and the public were not admitted. Two days later Miss Hart and her f uardian, Mr. Woodruff, went toRockville. Irs. Eldridge was busy sewing in the mill where she was employed, when her attention was attracted to a young ladv who was being shown about the room. 'I wonder who that yonng beauty is!" Mrs. Eldridge said to a companion. The young lady passed through with tho attendant, and was for tho time forgotten. A few minutes later Mrs. Eldridge was called to the office and greeted with tho affectioriato name of "Mother." Soon the Eldridge children were caressed by the sister whom they knew, but had never seen, and the sister found relatives of whoso existeuco she had newly learned. To-day Miss Hart, of Haydcn, rewarded the tireless wooer at the altar. Advice to the President. Minneapolis Tribune. .Well Benjamin, you aro President of the grandest nation of the world. You realize your responsibility! Of course you do. The eyes of all the nations of the earth are turned upon you, more or less intently. But don't mind that. Satisfy Americana

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and you will have done well. You are expected to protect our home industries; to build us a navy that will not cause us tho sense of shame we now feci; to give us adequate coast defenses, that will make it impossible for some petty foreign power to destroy our sea-board cities; to give us an honest, economical form of government. All this is exacted of you. and we are confident that you will meet our expectations. You are known to be a patriotic. Christian man, and we anticipate great things of you. The Nation will treat you with uniform consideration; your bitter partisan opponents thoroughly respect yon; they could not do otherwise. Then let your administration be wise, and all will be welh A BONANZA IN OIL.

The Death or J. 8. McCray Recalls a Romance of Long Ago. Franklin (Pa.) Special to St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The death in this city of Mr. James S.J McCray recalls a remarkable incident in 1 the petroleum romance. Iranklin is tho county-scat of Venango count v, through which ilows Oil creek, along whoso banks occurred the great oil excitement. James S. McCray was a Venango county farmer, whoso farm. 150 acres, was situated on tho top of a hill near Petroleum Center. He had been a woodchopner and a millhand, and after a time bought a team of horses. With his team he made some money hauling in the lumber woods, and then bought tho farm referred to. He was to pay $2,000 for it, but it was several years before ho had it free of incumbrances. During the first oil excitement on the creek no ono thought of going on tho hills to find oil, and the McCrav farm was passed by unnoticed. In 180 the seekers after oil began to double on their track, and Keefer &. Watson struck a well on tho Dalzell lands, adioiuing McCray's, that flowed 400 barrels a day. Oil was worth nearly $3 a barrel, and later the price advanced to $5 a barrel. Big wells were soon opened up on the McCray farm, and for the acreage it proved to be the most prolific oil farm ever developed. For the privilege of welling on his farm McCray received 1,000 an acre bonus and half the oil. Wells were put down in rapid succession, until tho output of the farm was 2,700 barrels a day. Oil was then $5 a barrel, and as half the production of the farm belonged to McCray it made his income nearly $5 a minute night and day. For the farm, for which he paid $2,000, he was offered 500,000. but would not take it. Operators and sight-seers Hocked to the farmby hundreds, and McCray's children, with a keen commercial instinct, set up an apple stand on tho road leading up tho hillside to the farm, to turn an honest penny in the traffic of fruit, gathered from the orchard. At tho time of this wonderful development, McCray's hilltop farm yielded tho largest revenue ever received by a singlo firm from the production of petroleum. Froni a humble farmer 3IcCray became one of the bonanza kings of the oil regions. Ho did not sell his oil as fast as produced, but erected immense iron tanks in which to hold it for a still higher price. He built and filled tanks until he had 150,000 barrels 6tored. For this oil he was offered 500,000 cash, but would not accept it. lie was holding it, he said, for an even $5 a barrel. There came a panio in the market, and oil dropped to $3 a barrel, then to $2, His tanks got to leaking, and a large amount of the oil ran into the creek. Lightning struck some of the tanks, and they burned, with their contents. He held what was left of his oil for years, and finally closed out the mere remnant that was left of his rich holdings at $1 a barrel, realizing a few thousand dollars instead of $500,000. McCray was the victim of many sharpers. He was taken to New York one time in a f orgeous car, as tho guest of the lato Jim 'isk, of the Erie road, and i9 reputed to have dropped a big roll before he got home. In one way and another his bonanza fortune was reduced to only a moderate amount. While he still had plenty he bought a fine home in Franklin, in which he lived several years, abandoning the old farm on the creek. m m Republicans and Finance. Philadelphia Press. It is not likely that the change in administration will immediately affect stock quotations. That President Harrison's policy will bo advantageous to the business interests of the country is certain, because be will not alter the traditions of his party. No nation ever prospered as the United States while the finances were under tho management of the Republican party. In the quarter of a century from 1601 to lbS5 the largest and gravest questions of finance and economics arose and were adjusted promptly and admirably. Tho cost of the most expensive war in the history of nations was raised and disbursed, a safe and inexpensive banking system was put in operation, the huge debt of tho war was reduced rapidly without injury to commercial interests, and the balance was funded successfully at a low rate of interest. Specie payments wero resumed at the earliest practicable moment, and generally tho finances were directed ably and in tho interest of tho wholo people. With this record the business community can safely trust the new administration. Terry Cullen's Appointment. Lafayette Call. Terry Culhn wUl make a splendid trustee for the Blind Asylum. Ho has for years been head cleric at t he Grand Hotel at Indianapolis. He is without doubt the best acquainted man in the State. He has a wonderful memory of names and faces. A man once registered at the Grand is never forgotten by him. Ever after he can Instantly call the name upon seeing the person. His popularity Is as general as his acquaintance. Michigan City Dispatch. Is the State going to open a hotel at the Blind Asylum! And if not, then what connection is there between these qualifications and the question of fitness for a trustee fdr the Blind Asylum? A model hotel clerk may indeed be just the very model of a man for trustee to manage the affairs of one of the State benevolent institutions, but wo confess it never struck us that tho qualifications of tho two lay exactly in the same lino. Confidence In Wanamaker. Philadelphia Times (Dcra.) The Postofflce Department in the hands of Mr. Wanamaker will surely receive a new impetus in tho line of progress. Ho is nothing if not practical; he is clear-headed and aggressive; and he is tireless as ho is faithful in any accented dnty. Wo may confidently look for an early and earnest battle for universal penny postage; for enlarged and improved package postage; for a postal telegraph system for tne masses of the people; and Avitfi tho power of the government to aid him, he will not bo likely to fail in his efforts. The political duties involved in the office ho accepts will bo his cross and his peril, but they will not hinder him in systematic and positive efforts for general postal reform. i . Kind Words from the South. Atlanta Constitution (Dem.) Mr. Harrison comes to tho White House with a clean record. His personal and official lifo has been always above reproach. He was a bravo soldier, and less than many of his fellows, has he drowned his soldierly record 1 y prejudice that survived the generous heat ot battle. While he was not brilliant as a Senator, he developed a surprising ability during the presidential campaign. He is entitled to all the respect that his clean life and his highposition demand, aud that respect the Constitution heartily yields him. Mr. Harrison will give the country an administration under which it will not sull'er seriously. Truthful James. Boston Herald. James Whitcomb Riley is authority for the statement that private secretary Elijah Halford was never Known to whistle in nis life. Mr. Riley and Mr. Halford were brought up together in tho same newspaper office, and it may, therefore, be assumed that Mr. Riley knows whereof he speaks. The widely circulated reports that Elijah is addicted to this vulgar habit deserve to be corrected, therefore. The American people are lnmnd to 6ee that Elijah has a fair start in his official career. ' The Iland-Shaklc-Kaisance. Chicago Trioune, It is about time that President Harrison put a stop to the hand-shaking with tho rabble seeking office. He has no right to waste his time an1 strcngtht both of which belong to the country, in this wigwag sort of business and the otfice-grabbing mob has no right to expect it. It Will De a Harrison Administration. Nebraska State Journal. To settle a dispute, it may bo positively stated that General Harrison will be the chief Imss of the new Cabinet, He will run the thing to suit himself certainly, of course, seeking advice from thoso whom he has called around him.

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No Appetite. InaTe msed Paine's Celery ompoundand it has had a salutary effect, it invigorated the system and I feel lite a new Facilitates man. It Improves the appetite and facilitates digestion. I am O ifiestlon; seventy years old, and last week I ploughed la nve toushel3 of oats, and then was not tired. Paine's Celery Compound Is the ' best nerve tonlo I ever tried. J. T. Cofeulnd, Primus, S. a Sleepleao High to. I have taken only a part of a bottle of Paine's Celery com- , Entirely pound, and it has entirely re- . Ileved me ot sleeplessness from Relieved which I have suffered greatly. It is a good medldno.'' Krs. EL AuTCLirr, Peoria, DL Without Energy. "I was afflicted In several way 8 could not sleep, liad no appet4te.no courage, low spirits. I wltreUef from tho third day after using Paine's Celery ComFull of Vigor pound, I cow have a good appetite and can sleep wen. and my spirits and courage are aU most me those ot a young man.' ' S. a Klvkaip, v. I)., Gonzales, La, Paine's Celery Compound lias performed many other cures as marvelous as these copies of letters sent to any address. Pleasant to take, does not disturb but alia digestion, and entirely vegetable, a child can use it. What's the use of sufrerinj? with Spring Debility? $loo. Six for $i. Druggists. WELLS, RICHARDSON, & CO., Burlington, Vt. FnsiCntinn f)ei!nri0f P? ,w I BUX NYE'S APPREHENSIONS. He Feared He Was to Be Sacrificed for the Death-Rate Average. New York Evening World. Bill Nye was lecturing in Pennsylvania, a short timo ago, with James Whitcomb Riley. At one of his appointments Mr. Nyc, 60 it is said, felt very much depressed. It is a peculiarity of humorists to bo nielancholv at times, and he was in this mood at the time. One of the committee went back of the scene to see him, and the depressed humorist welcomed him as a scene of unusual cood sunshine. They shook hands Nyo earnestly, the committeeman deco rously. "Mr. Nye," ho said, gravely, "you will find this an unusually healthy city." "Ah!" said the humorist. "Yes, the death rate is only one a day." At this juncture Nyc took the committeeman by the arm, and hurriedly asked: "Is ho dead!" "Dead!" ejaculated "the committeeman. "Who dead! ' "Why, the man for to-day," was the grave f Tne committeeman stared with all his might into the immovable face of the lecturer. "Isn't there a clerk, or register, or coroner, or something like that, of whom you could find out whether a man for to-day has died!" 'Why, yes; I suppose so," slowly replied the committeeman. "Would you be so good, then, as to find out, and before I commence the lectuTo if possible, whether tho man is dead? If ho is dead l am all right, for we are to leave the city early to-morrow morning; but if ho is not dead I cannot but feel uneasy about myself, as I am not well to-night. The kind-hearted committeeman hurried away to get the information. When Nye and liiley were in their room that night a bell-boy told Nve that a gentleman wished to see him. Ho went down into the parlor of the hotel, and there met the committeeman. "I am sorry to disturb you, Mr. Nyo," ho said, "but I could not find tho imformation any earlier. It is all right. The death rate I spoke of was only an average, and a man died this morning.' , Is Not Known Here as "Bill." WashinKton post. Mr. W. IL H. Miller, of Indianapolis, Gen. Harrison's law partner, is becoming a familiar ligure about lie?idouarters. lie is known is his State as "Bill" Miller, but ho is not that kind of a man "by no means." On the contrary, ho is an austere man and congenial to his law partner by no allinity of contrast. It is 6aid that when either Sartner comes into the office to begin his ay's labor he finds the other hard at work aud without a "good morning" or any sign of recognition he drops down at his desk and dashes into whatever needs first attention. There are no "swapping of lies," smoking of mutual matutinal cigars, and such other incidental divertissements as mako lifo worth living to the average man. These two liko it, however, and it is nobodv's business. Mr. Miller is recognized by his fellow-members of the bar, irrespective of politics, as a great lawyer and an ablo man. Si Two Little Indians. Philadelphia Record. WThen Miss Ellen Terry was last in Philadelphia she became deeply interested in the Indian children at the Lincoln Institutes on South Eleventh street, and paid them several visits. While 6he was very generous in her gifts to them, her curious mannerisms made a deep impression upon their unsophisticated minds, and one girl remarked to a lady connected with tho management: "How nice Miss Terry is! But isn't it a pity she is always drunk when 6he comes to see us?' Another story, not a whit less natural, relates to an evening which some of the young redskins spent at the Academy of Musio when many of tho ladies present were in full evening dress. After the little Indians had reached home that night one of them said very plaintively "it was beautiful; but I wonder if we couldn't get to work and make some clothes for thoso ladies." Confusing and Perplexing. New York Graphic. Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler must be ubiquitous or else have a . double, for the paratrraphers locate her in various places simultaneously. Six weeks or raoro ago her name, with that of her husband, appeared in the list of passengers of one of the French steamers sailing for Europe. A

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As a penerul tonic and sprlnjr medicine I do not Know cf lta cquaL" i;rladier-C;cneral w. L. G&eexizat, Burlington, Vt. Paints Celery Coraround Isaunlquemealclno, lor it a.ts at tho sacvi time on nerves, Uver, kl&ttr,& and bowels, givl Ing healthy action to all tl loi7 runctloiT It la unique In Its power cv.t earing dewing and Is the Ideal lnvlgorat-.v. 'j '.A tonic for this season. To use It Is to pra'-je It. Don't you need it? $loo. slxfor$5.vV. Druggists. WELLS, RICHARDSON Co., Burlington, Vt, p MDtco n5r Lactal fd Jo not need few days thereafter it whs stated that sho had not sailed; later . it vv affirmed sho had and was with Mr. Ouiihir in Paris. Now comes word that bother Virgiuia homo writing the las chapters of a new novel. All this is coiifi:;iag tnd perplexing; but if the katy-'iid aud katy-didn't business is a new feature incident to publicity of the kind that advertises women and books it is entirely successful. All Explained. Philadelphia Record. Citizen Mr. Grcatm:.r.. 1 am surprised that you aro not in the Cabinet. All tho papers 6aid you would be. Mr. Greatman My dear sir, I had no desiro to enter the Cabinet, no desire at nlL "But you made a dozen trips to Indianapolis and " "Merely a personal matter, I assure vou. A man that I owe a littlo money to fives somewhere in Indianapolis and I was trying to find him." Ills First omdal Joke. Chicago MaU. President Harrison Li go, I have a conundrum for you. What kind of shake is most injurious to the physical man! Ligo (promptly) Tho cold shake, j-our Excellency. President Harrison Very good, Lige, but you aro not correct Guess agaii. Ligo (brightly)-The milk hako President Harrison Ligo, you aro not in it at all. Its tho hand-shaKc lirin mo tho arnica bottle. The Reasonable Explanation. Chicago MaiL A crank kept sidling up to President Harrison at the inaugural ball and was several times repulsed before ho was finally ejected from tho room. Of course it is suspectod that ho carried a cheoe-knifo or a dynamite bomb, but the chai.ces aro that he only wanted to touch thJ lresident's sleeve with a rabbit's foot, so as to tret a little of thn Indiana man's tr rc.it cood Muck. Will They Heed It? Chicago Journal. If tho South will accept and follow President Harrison's advice, terrorism and fraud at tho polls, as everywhere at tho South, lawless neglect of duty in refusing to count tho votes, as in West Virginia. and the murder of candidates defrauded out of their election, as in Arkansas, would ceaso to be recognized political methods la that section of tho country. Harrison's Dilemma. Texas Sittings. Brown Harrison seems to have a hard timo trying to pleaso everybody. Thompson Yes, he reminds mo of tho poor hall boy who gets kicks and cxitls because he don't answer the bell of Room 520 on the seventh lloor and of Kooin 42 on tho second fioor at the same instant. The Fool-ILlller Needed Badly. Chicago Journal. With tho chanpo in administration, tho fool-killer ought to be around discharging his duty as regards tho who nse tho phrase, "Tho first lady of tho land" His second job oueht to be on tho idiot who uses the word "Premier." Uncle Sam Feels lletter. Detroit Tribune. Uncle Sam will now feel better. The old gentleman has had to go around picking up things for four straight years, and he U mighty glad to havo a foreman now who will keep the 6hop in good order. A Harrison Administration. 6L Louis Globe-Democrat. The inangnral was a Harrison address, the Cabinet is a HarfisorvCabinet, and tho administration will bo a Harrison administration. All lrcsent and Accounted For. On Tuesday a tightly-corked pint bottle was found in White river, near Waverly, Morgan county, containing a 6crap of paper, n which was written tho following: Ilt bridge. I tumpped la Sunday. April , 18S. Tired of life. So money and no work. John Jackson. There is no record of a suicide by that name or at that time, and tho police in this city are ineiiued to believe that the note is but tho outcome of some practical joker' whims. There were four John Jacksons in this city in lsss, but they are all reported alive at the nicscnt LJ.

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