Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1889 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1889.

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AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. FeroivI, Local ami General Notes. When iu tho city Tnesday Col. Horace Scott, of Louisville, Ky., lost a leather pocket-book iu wliich ho carried his passes. Seldom in ImsinesH so quiet with tho roads a V'strday. Aside from a heavy Jovr-rato holiday travel little was doing; in freight circles practically nothing. Commissioner Fink, -who retires from his positiou with the Trunk-lino Association on tho 10th of this month, will on that date 6aii for Kurope. He expects to bo absent a year or more. Tho Atchison. Topeksi t Santa To havo already KOiil $7,000,000 of the issue of $10,CW.0OO of second inorte:if?o bonds. Eastern capitalists seem to still havo a ;ood deal of

confidence in the future or mis roau. Mnch fiigniiicance is attached to the advance in rates made by th Lake Superior lines. In freigot circle thero is a feeling that there should now bo no trouble in bringing about a settlement of the .Northwestern rate troubles. What is most puzzling tho editor of tho Eee-line Gazette is whether to continue to issue the monthly publication under that name or to christen it tho liijj Four Gazette. Under the circumstances the latter Haiffe would seem tho more appropriate. The promptness with which the new issue of stock of the Pennsylvania Company has been taken is one of the surprises in financial circles, the losses by llood which the company has recently experienced not checking the demand for twenty-four hours. It is believed that Judge Stevenson Burke has dropped his tight against the consolidation of the Bee-line and Uig Four. It was expected that on Monday last he would how his hand, but up to date he has remained quiet, and every day weakens his cause. The Erie is to build a piece of road through GriswoId gap, in the Moosio mountains, to an intersection with the "Wyoming; branch at Middlo Valley. Tho .construction of this road will shorten their route -to the best coal mines of Pennsylvania sixty-five miles. Those who are acquainted with the facts do not regard as serious tho differences alluded to recently between the Little Miami and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Lonis roads. This is one of the moves which tho Pennsylvania Company usually makes when it wants to get a little tinner grip on some ono of their leased lines. General Passenger Agent Martin and General Freight Agent Hill, of tho Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago fc St. Louis road, expect to havo their headquarters removed, and to be well settled at Cincinnati by the 1st of next month. It is quite an undertaking to move-the offices of these two ollicials from Cleveland to Cincinnati. The Ohio, Indiana &. "Western management is in trouble. They have plenty of business, but not enough cars to move it, and their competitors come iu and take the ltusiness they should get. One of the officials said yesterday that had the O., I. & "W. 1,000 large box-cars the earnings of the road the next thirty days would go far toward retrieving the lost ground of fivo months past. The fast freight-line agents will this morning doubtless roll up their sleeves and begin to hustle for business on the' reduced east-bound grain rates; but some will be disappointed, as those who had been apprised that there was to be a reduction secured the cream of the business in sight before the matter became public. Even the Pennsylvania people got left in the sharp move. It is stated that some of the bondholders will fight bitterly the issuing of receiver's certificates by receiver Malott, of tho Chicago fc Atlantic road. Tho opponents, however, must put up some money for equipments, or the receiver will bo obliged to issue certificate. The Brooks locomotive-works havo six engines all ready for them, on which $'2,500 has been paid, and the company will hardly , turn them over to the road until they are paid for. The Financial Chronicle, in its last issue, fcayQ "The Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis does not submit a halfyearly statement, but we aro able to say that the road has done unusually well, and occupies an exceptional position in being able to show important gains over last year in both ctoss and net. The .bulk of tho improvement has occurred in the later months, indicating that the arrangement with the Big Four is proving beneficial, though doubtless a heavier corn movement also has something to do with the improved results. We have the exact figures for the 4ive months ending May 31, according to which it appears there has been an increase Df 159.850 in the gross and of $1G,030 In tho net. Owing to this improvement there is a balance of net earnings abovo the charges of $57,910, against a deficit in other years. The company has, however, been spending much larger amounts for additions and betterments, the expenditures for this purpose in the five months having reached $500,060, against only $',075 in tho corresponding period of lSSS." A Chicago morning paper, speaking of the cut in grain rates to tho seaboard by the B. &, O. railway, says: "The Chicago committee of tho Central Traffic Association held a meeting to consider what action should be taken in the matter. After a long and animated discussion, it was decided not to act hastily, xit await further developments before meeting the rates announced by the B. & O. Most of the roads are strongly opposed to a reduction in rates, and will do their best to prevent the adoption of the B. &. O. new tariff. But it is hard to see how a general reduction can be avoided. While the B. & 0.new rates will not have the effect of diverting much business from Chicago east-bound roads, because the lake rates are so much lower that the lakes will continue to tako the traffic from Chicago to the seaboard.' the situation is quite different at St. Louis, from which point considerable business goes all-rail to tho seaboard, and for which the B. it O. mostly competes. Tho Bee-line, recently consolidated with the Big Four, is a direct competitor of the' B. & O. for east-bound 'traffic from St. Lonis, and will becompelled , to meet the new rates. The Wabash is also competing for tho east-bound tratlic from St. Louis to Hannibal, nnd as it is not a member of the Central Traffic Association, is certain to promptly meet the new rates." Hie New York World, of Sunday last, had extensive sketches of tho wealtliy men of New York, and in sneaking of Austin Corbin, said: "Austin Corbin has forged rapidly ahead into the ranks of million aires. He is the most tremendous worker from Maine to California. He swings the presidency of the Philadelphia fc .Beading, the Ohio, Indiana Jk Western, the Chicago fc Ohio Hiver. the Elmira, Cortlandt fc Northern, the Lone Isiand and tho Mariuo railroad companies of the Corbin Banking Company, and controls the Long Island Improvement Company, tho West Jamaica Land Company and the Shinnecook Inn nnd Cottage Company. His hand in the development of Long Island is known to every one. It turned 'two streaks of rnst and a right of way' to a dividend-paying railroad within less than two years, built xne uanDattan ISeach, Oriental, Long Beach. Point Lookout and Arervle bottds. and all this is simply a development of the line of activity in which he laid the louuuuuuu oi nisiortuue. When thero is so mucJi talk about certain nhases of West era farm mortgages investments nowadays it is interesting to know that Mr. Corbin got his start in life from loans upon mortgages in tho West. But it was on actual land and hrst-ciass, unincumbered security which w as always there." Freight men aim shippers aro a good deal interested m xue opinion ot Judge Cooler, as expressed m a leuer wLich he wrote to eorue Blancbard, chairman of t tho Central Traffic Association, the interpretation ho gives me law ueing a .very important point. . i l he interstate act is more clear and perempt ory m us prouiouion oi lower rates for a throuirh haul of freight than for a haul a shorter distance within tho two given points and in tho samo direction: but in this connection a puzzling question arises regarding tho division of tho rate of charges in cases where two or move roads are employed to make tho haul complete; as. for instance, between St. Paul and New York tho freight passes over tho tracks of three distinct companies. Tho question then nns?s, must the fit. Paul road receive as ito proportion for the haul from St. Paul to Chicagi an amount as great as any of its locai charges on east-bound freight carried a lens distance in the same direction, or has H a right to charge less for its through Jianl to Chicago than for certain of its local transportation, provided that the r:it for xn tun Haul to New 1 ork is not less than any tariff to intermediate points? lhe question is important from tho fact that it ath-cts heriotisly the relations and traffic arrangements of connect nig railroads. In this letter Judge Coolev frankly avs that the railroad has a right in sueh rases to charge le?s for its portion of tho through haul tuaii It charges for such local transportation. II ays that tho com

mission is fully impressed that tho pi0Per transaction of the business of tho country compels tho acceptance, in a great many cases, ar.d perhaps generally, of a less sum as thi proportiou oi a through rate than is chained as a local rate, and that any ruling that the two muit bo identical would be as unfortunate to the commercial interests of the country as it would be To tho railroads themselves. This expression from Judge Cooloy will go far toward settling a question which has puzzled for months the heads of freight departments. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S LAST NIGHT.

A LetUr Which All Americans Will Head with Interest and Emotion. Andrew James Symington, F, P.. S. N. A-, In New York Independent. Iu lb&j a sixtecn-paze letter, written that year by Miss Harris, who was in the thea ter-box with tho Lincoln party wnen tue President was shot, was given me by .1 friend who had just received it from Mrs. btowe. Of this letter Mrs. Stowe remarked that, under the circumstances, it would ono day bo regarded as historically valuable and of national interest. At all events, in it intelligent and reliable testimony isbomo to the domestic virtues of one of tho gentlestwiseet and best 01 men. It is sad to know that other tragic events followed tho party, for Miss Harris, who afterward married her step-brother, Major Kathbone. was killed by him in Germany. and Kathbone, I believe, is at present the inmate of a lunatic asylum. Although not written for publication, and touching toward the end on other matters. after the lapse 01 four-and-twenty years, I ventnre to give the whole letter in its integrity: WASHINGTON, April SSL My Dear M : I was very glad to hear from you again; your letter provln? that In all the events of your matronly life our old friendship Is not forgotten. You may well say that we have been passing throujrh ncenes sad indeed. That terrible Friday night is to me yet almost like oine dreadful vision. I have been very Intimate with Mrs. Lincoln and the family ever since our mutual residence in Washington, which began at tho same time, and we have been constantly in the habit of driving and goim? to tho opera and ttieater together. It was tho only amusement, with the ei cent ion of receiving at their own house. In which the President and Mrs. Lincoln were permitted, according to custom, to indulge. and to escape from the cro was who constantly thronged to see them, more than from any de cided taste for euch things. They were in the habit or going very often to hear Forrest, Uooth, Hackett and such actors, when playing in Washin trton. The night before the murder was tatof the general illumination here, and they drovo all through the streets to see it; a less calculating villain might havo taken that opportunity for his crime, or the night before, when ther White House alone was brilliantly illuminated, and the figure of the President stood out in full relief to the immense crowd below, who stood in the darkness to listen to his ieecb. He spoke from the center window of the executive mansion. I had been invited to pass the evening there, and stood at tho window of an adjoining room with Mrs. Llncoi. watching the crowd below as they listened and cheered. Of course Booth was there, waichiug his chance. I wonder that ho did not chose that occasion; but probably he knew a better opportunity would be ottered. After the stteech was over we went into Mr. Lincoln's room; he was lying on the sofa, quite exhausted; hut ho talked of the events of tho past fortuight, of his visit to Rich mond, of the enthusiasm everywhere felt through the country; and Mrs. Lincoln declared the past few days to have been the happiest of her life. Their prospects indeed seemed fair peace dawning upon our land, and four years of a happy and honored rule before ono of tho gentlest, best and lo vilest men I ever knew. I neer saw him out of temper the kindest husband, thetenderest father, the truest friend, as well a-) the wisest statesman. ,4Our Beloved President" when I think that I shall never again stand in his genial presence, that I have lost his friendship so tried and true, I feel like puttingon the robe of mourning which tho country wears. My own dear father was deeply attached to Mr. Lincoln; they thoroughly sympathized in many things, and Mr. Lincoln, perhaps being able to discern In him an honest, unselfish nature, in that akin to his own, was wont with him to throw of the restraints of the politician and talk over things as witli an old friend. The shock has been a terrible one to him; he feels his death to be a deep, personal affliction. You are right in supposing the Maior Rathbone who was with us to be the "Henry" you knew in Albany. We four composed tho party that evening. Thev drove to our door in the eavest spirits: chatting on our way and tho President was re ceived with the greatest enthmsiasm. They say we were watched by the assassin: aye, as we alighted from the carriage. Oh, how could anyone ie m cruel as to strike that dear. kind, honest facet And whn I think of that fiend barring himself in alone with us. my blood runs cola. My dress is saturated with blood; ray hands and face were covered. You mar imagine what a scene, and so. nil through that dreadful night when we tdood by that dying bed. Poor Mrs. Lincoln was and is almost crazy. Henry narrowly eoaped with his life. The knue was struck at his heart with all the force Of a Practiced and powerful arm: he fortu.n.telv parried the blow and received a wound in his arm, extending along the bone from the elbow nearly to the shoulder. He concealed it for some time, but was Anally carried home iu a swoon, the lofs of blood had been so great from an artery and veins severed. He is now getting quite well, but cannot yet use his arm. I hope you will pardon me this dreadfully long letter. 1 niu not renuze now mucn 1 was writing. 1 have been quite ill, and have as yet answered scarcely any of tho numerous letters I have re ceived in the last two weeks. Evervours sincerely, Clara II. IIarkis. Those Worthless Text-Books. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal; No doubt every one in the State of Indiana is more or less interested in the schoolbook question that is now occupying tho minds of our State Board of Education, and the mcst of Indiana's citizens are anxiously waiting the decision of that board upon tho proposition fnrnished to it by the Indiana School-book Company. For one. the writer of this hopes and belioves that tho text-book commissioners are men of too 60und judgment, and are too well acquainted with standard text-books, to saddle on the btato ot Indiana this nearly worthless series of books uronosetl to 1 f htm. trf...-. k. lf . - ---- v v MY tho men styling themselves tho Indiana School-book Company; and yet a littlo testimony as to how these books are valued where best known may be of some help to them in rendering their decision. In many counties in Illinois where tho publishers of tho series of books under consideration have snent innnptr nnrl nearly a year's time to get their books auopieu m xne scnoois, xney have been re peatedly rejected, as not being up to the standard renuired bv tho boards of ln na tion. And in one county, to my personal Knowieuge, wneio xney succeeded in getting them into tho schools, they were thrown out after about two months' trial, notwithstanding thev wpre rptnilorlr adopted for the number of years required by the law of the State. Indiana is surely as far advauced in educational matters asmiuuia, iwmit m xiiir iu assume in at what isnotgood enough for Illinois is not good enough for Indiana. I have no personal interest in wishing to influence the acts of our text-book commissioners, only in so far as I am interested in tho welfare of the school children of the State. I am not in the pay of, nor in any way inllnenced by any tirm of school-book publishers, but eimply 6tate the facts as I know them. . Indian u-ous, July 4. A Good Man Pained. San Francisco Chronicle. It was on the San Jose traiu, and two young ladies one as serious and good as a little nun, the other with a black eye with tho dovil's own glint in it sat behind the youngest minister in tovvu. The quiet ono held in her hand a purple pansy so large that it attracted the attention of the joung minister. While he was still looking at it the train rushed into a tunnel. The blackeyed 3oung woman grabbed tho pansy in the darkness from her companion and, leaning over, dropped it into tho lap of the godly man. When the train reached daylight again the younc; minister had tnrned, nnd, with the pansy in his hand, was glaring reprovingly at tho nun-like, girl between whose tingers he had seen the flower. Her face was blazing and her downcast eyes seemed to confess her guilt. The whole car snickered, and the malicious blackeyed girl read her book unconsciously. That is why the young minister preached on the iniquity of llirtiag yesterday. Th Champion Caher. New York Herald. The base-ball "catcher" is all very well in his way. and no doubt his reputation is well earned. Hut, after all. the champion ,eatchr', of this cold world is of tho ftminino geuder. idonde or brunette, according to taste, and just turned twenty. A good appetite is essential to good health, and loss of appetite indicates something wrong. Hood's Sarsanarilla creates and sharpens the appetite, assists tin? digestive organs and regulates tho kidneys and liver. Tako Hood's Maraaparilla this beasou. : Sold by druggist.

IGNOBLE NOBLEMEN.

Marlborough's Unsavory Record A Blackguard arl A Lordly Street Beggar. Blaxely Hall, in New York Sim. Here are aome facts about the pre-emi nently villainous characters among those who possess, or, in a few cases, will shortly possess the right to mako laws for Eng land. To the Duko of Marlborougn is always given the palm for immorality. He may be s iid to have wallowed in it. He is fortyfive years old. and was divorced from his late wife in 1S83, when he was Marquis of lilandford, anddiortly before he succeeded to the dukedom. His accomplice in crime was tho Countess of Aylesford, whose husband, a very tough specimen of a peer, had for a long number of years kept several thousand miles away from her. Marlborough and Lady Aylesford after the divorce lived iu Paris for some time, but ho treated her so badly that she was glad to throw herself on the charity of friends. She had the utmost difficulty in getting any money from him. and he never gave her more than 10 at a time. "Wherever Marl borough has lived or stayed he has left a record besmirched with mud. He was recently a co-respondent with Lady Colin Campbell, but nothiug camo of the suit. Ho is now snendinc his American wife's money very freely on lUenboim Palace and on a new bouse in London, but Lady Colin is not forgotten. Ueoree William Thomas BrndenellHrnce, Marquis of Ailesbury, Karl of Cardigan, Earl of Ailesbury, Viscount Savernake, etc.. has the reputation of being the most thoroughly blackguard member of the peer age, uenrett says that he married, in lb64, Dorothy Julia, eldest daughter of Thomas Hasely, Esquire of Brighton. As a matter of fact, the lady was a ballet girl known as Dolly Tester, wim iiiree illegitimate cnuuren. vneabury is the enfant terriblo of aristocratic society. His favorite attire is an exag geration of that of an English costermonger, corduroys and velvet . trimmed coats with pearl buttons. Ihus attired, he has not infrequently driven a donkey cart down rail Mall, noisily saluting fellowpeers as thev were comming out of their i..v . ti. it r t 1 - 1 ciuus. inn jiuuBU ui xjoiiis ism uiuiuiir tary dread that he will appear among them in velveteen and corduroys. Savernake forest belongs to him, and is proverbial as the only forest in England belonging to a subject. He is also the patron of eleven church livings. Iiecently his wife passed several weeks in tho society of one of the most famous English snorting men. His lordship threatened divorce proceedings, but forgave and forgot in consideration of a good dinner in the company of and at the expeuse of the most honorable the marchioness. . Few peers have had a more checkered matrimonial career than the present and fifth Marquis of Donegal. He succeeded this year to the marquisate, and is sixtyseven years old. His father, a brother of the third marquis, was born in 17W7, and succeeded in 18Si. The present Marquis was married in 1859 and divorced very soon afterward. He was then developing a tcrrilically wild career. In lSOS he married again, and his household is anything but a model one. A few weeks ago his wife applied for a divorce. Although she proved that her husband was living with a woman, it was also proved that she was living with about half a dozen men, including a stable boy. This laJy is frequently in the police courts charged with being druiik and disorderly. The Marquis nas just become bankrupt, with liabilities of three million dollars and no assests, because tho entail to his estates is barred, and will produco no income for six or seven years. After that it will produco very little. As tho Marquis and his wife had both ollended in tho name way, by the laws of England neither of them is entitled to a divorce. The Marquis is somewhat to be pitied, as it is understood he would marry his consort if he could. Viscount Mandeville is tho oldest son and heir of tho Duke of Manchester, the head of one of tho oldest and most magniiicent families in England. Tho Duke is poor and Mandeville when he was twenty-three married MissXJonsncloTznaga. dnuiihterof Senor Antonio Yznaga de Valle of Kavenswood, Louisiana and Cuba. Ho has-since shown himself a thorough-paced scoundrel. Lady Mandeville is a strikingly handsome brunette, with an aquiline nose, clear-cut features and a magnificent figure. People who knew her in No w. York society some j'ears ago would scarcely recognize her now. Her hair is thickly streaked with gray and her face sun ken and lined. Mandeville is now a drink-sodden man,-and lives with Bessie Belhvood, one of the lowest of English music-hall singers. He has spent most of his wife's money, and his affairs are now frequently tho subject of divorce court investigations. Lady Mandeville is still prominent in English society.. Mandeville is a specimen of the men who become allied to America by marriage. The Marquis of Anglesey is another. His, family namo is Paget, and probably moro Pagets hold and have held high oUices in the state than any other family. The family motto is "Per il euo contrario" (by, its opposite;, anu umigux oe suggested xuax the present Marquis represents nobility by, its opposite. Ho is usually in pecuniary ditliculties, and has been Known to assault with a riding whip a lawyer's clerk sent to serve a writ on him. He has been married, three times, although he is only iifty-four. His present wife was tho widow of the Hon. Henry Wodehonso and daughter of J.' P. King, ot ueorgia. Lord Anglesey's nephew, Arthur Paget, is married to a daughter of Mrs. Paran Stevens, of New York. Tho Earl of Lonsdale is too well known in America to need much description. He is tho fourth instance I have come to of tho connection of disreputable English peers with America. Previous to his recent and Munchanseu-liko jonrneyings in Alaska his most recent exploit was leading away from the paths of righteousness Violet Cameron, an actress who once had a preeminent reputation for propriet;. It is now some time since he threw her overboard, metaphorically. His wife, a very mild lady, never took any action, and has now gone after him to America to try what moral suasion can do. When one views the case of Henry James FitzHoy, Earl of Euston, one is reminded that history repeats itself. His father is tho Duke of Grafton and descendant of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of Charles II, of England, and of about ninety-nine other gentlemen, according to veracious historians. Charles bestowed dnkedomson all his illegitimate children and perpetual pensions to be paid by the nation. The families have taken care to adopt suitable mottoes. That of the Graftons is Et Decus et Prctimn Kecti. which being translated means "Tho ornament and recompense of virtue. lor arms they bear thoso of France, Lngland, Ireland and Scotland, "the whole debruised by a baton sinister.'' In 1871 the Earl of Euston, the heir to this splendid heritage, married Miss , Kate Walsh, whoso calling was an unprintable one. that is how history repeats itself. The Earl of Euston is one of the chief personates in Northamptonshire, and is looked nn to with reverence by the inhabitants of that county. His wife, whose former sta-. tioii was the pavement, presides at his hospitalities. The Earl has made two or three attempts to induce his wife to give him grounds for obtaining a divorce, but. without success. The Kizht Hon. Charles Mark Allansou Allanson-Winn, .fourth Baron Hcadley. is believed to have been rolling drunk every night for a number of years past.- He is an Irish peer, and one of those whom the Irish people are urged to look up to. He has mat. e his living for many years by serving on the directorate of small companies of doubtful character. Tho fact that he usually appears before tho other directors in a state of hopeless drunkenness may not be conducive to the despatch of business, but Lord Headry can bo had comparatively cheap, and the name of a peer is indispensable in enticing the British pnblic into a financial scheme. When one looks through a British peerage, it seems as if tho irony of family mottoes would never cease. Lord Hcadley makes his living by tignring on sham companies, and spends the money in drink. His motto is."Uv virtue and labor." Although no serious charge can be brought against Viscount Hinton, no is more typical than any oue of the degradation which a body of hereditary legislators can bring on a country. He will one day enter the House of Lonis as Earl Poulett and bo a British Senator. A wandering American investigating the street of London would be very likely to meet Viscount Hinton. In company with his wife, he

vorks a street organ, and carries a card on which is written: "I am Viscount Hinton eldest sou of Earl Poulett." To any one who gives him a few pence ho will tell the story of his life, not a very long nor a very edifying story. In 1849 Earl Poulett married Elizabeth Lavinia, daughter of William Newman, pilot, of Lanport, near Portsmouth. William Tumour Thomas, Viscount Hinton, made his appearance less thau five months after tho marriage, and the Earl was suro Hinton was not his son. Ho will have nothing to do with him as long as he lives, but caunot keep him from succeeding to the earldom at his death. The Earl hasleft all his money to his children by his third marriage. It may be remarked, by the way, that his second marriage was also a mesalliance, but by that he had no children. Hinton was at onetime

a clown at the Surrey, a lowest rate London theater, but he was not equal to his work. and has since been reduced to organ-grind ing, lie is married to a ballet-dancer, ana their children are entitled to tho prefix of "Honorable." A list ot tho peers whose claim to badness is only based on appearances in too bankruptcy and divorce courts would till tip an entire issue of the Sun. The pvrsoual appearance of tlio majority of noblemen in En island cannot bo pronounced impressive. They are as scaly, uudersized, and insig nificant a lot of men as can be lonnd in London, as a rule, though there are, of course, some notable exceptions. PATRICK HENRY'S GREAT SPEECH The Signing of the Declaration of Indet pendence. Copied from a Boston Paper, July, 1778. It is the old hall of Philadelphia, on July 4, 1770. There is silence in the hall. Every face is stamped with a deep and awful responsibility. Why turns every dance to the door? Why is it so terribly still f 1 he committee of three who nave Ueen out all night planning a parchment are about to appear. That parchment, with the signatures of these men, written with the pen lying on yonder table, may either make the world free or stretch these necks on tho gibbet yonder in potter's held, or nail these heads to the door-posts of theso halls. I hat was the time lor solemn laces and deep silence. At last, hark! The door opens and the committee anncar. Who are these men who come walking on to John Hancock's chairf This tall man with the sham features. the bold brow, and tho sandhued hair, holding tho parchment in his hand, is the Virginia farmer, Thomas Jeilerson. That stout-built man with resolute look and 8parklius: eve that is a lioston man. one John Adams. And the calm-faced man with hair dropping in thick curls to his shoulders, dressed in a plain coat and such odious homemade bhve stockings that is tho Philadelphia printer, one Benjamin Franklin. The three advanced to the table. The parchment is laid there. Shall it be signed or not! Then ensncs .s high debate: then all the faint-hearted cringe in corners, while Thomas J eflevson speaks out his few bold words and John Adams pours out his whole soul. The soft-toned voice of Charles Carroll is heard undulating in syllables of deep music. Uut still thero is doubt, and that palefaced man, cringing in ono corner speaks out something about axes, scanold, ana a gibbet. 'Gibbet!" echoes a fierce bold tone that startles men from their seats, and looic yonder! A tall, slender form rises, dressed. although it is summer time, in a laded-red cloak. Look how his white hand trembles as it is stretched slowly out; that dark eye burns as his words ring through, the hall: "Gibbet! They may stretch our necks on all the gibbets in the laud, they may turn every rock into a scallold, every tree into a gallows, every home into a grave, and yet tho words of that parchment can never die. "1 hey may pour our blood on a thousand scaffolds, and yet from every drop that dyes the ax or falls on the sawdust of tho block a new martjT to freedom will spring into birth. "Tho British King may blot the stars from his sky, but he cannot blot out His words on tho parchment thero. The work of God may perish, but His word never! "These words will go forth to the world when our homes are dust. To the slave in bondage they will speak hope; to the mechanic in his workshop freedom; to the coward kings these words shall speak, but not" in terms of flattery. They will speak like the flaming syllables on Belshazzar's wall: The days of your pride and glory are numbered! The day of judgment draws near! "Yes, that parchment will speak to kings in language sad and terriblo as the trumpet of an archangel. You have trampled on tho rights of mankind long enough. At last.the voice of human woe has pierced the ear of God and called His judgment down.- You have waded on to thrones through seas of blood; you have tramped on to power over the necks of millions; you have turned the poor man's sweat and blood into robes for your delicate forms, into crowns for your anointed brows. Now kings! Now purpled hangmen of the w orld! For you comes the days of axes and scaffolds ana gibbets; for you the wrath of man; for you the lightnings of God. "Look! How tho light of your palace on fire Hashes up in the midnight sky! Now, mrpled hangmen of the world, turn and jeg for mercv! Where will you find itf ! Tot from (iod, for you have blasphemed His '. aws! Not from tho people, for you stand baptized in their blood! There and a scaffold stares yon in the face! All around you death, but nowhere pity! Now, executioners of the human race, kneel down; yes, kneel down on the sawdust of the scaffold: lay your perfumed heads on the block: bless the ax as it falls tho ax sharpened for tho poor man's nead. " "Such is the message of the declaration of man to tho king of the world. And shall wo falter now! And shall we start back appalled when our feet press the very threshold of freedom! Do you see quailing faces around rou when our wives have been butchered, when tho hearth-stones of onr land are red with the blood of little children? What! are there shrinking hearts or faltennc voices hero when the very dead of our battle-fields arise and call upon us to sign that parchment or be accursed? "JSiirn! if the next moment the gibbet's rope is arouudyour neck. Sign! if the next moment this hall rings with the echo of the falling ax. cugn! by ail your hopes in life or death as fathers or husbands. Eternal eye. look over Kurope, Asia, Africa, aud behold evermore a terrible sight man trodden down beneath the onnressor's feet: na tions lost in blood, murder and superstition walking hand in baud over the graves of their victims and not a single voice to whisper hone to man. ' "lie stands there (the angel), his hands trembling with tho black record of human cuilt. But hark! The voice of Jehovah speaks out from the awful cloud: 'Let thero be hunt a train. Let there be a new world. Tell my people, the poor, down-trodden millions, to go out from the old world. Tell them to co out from wrong, oppression and blood. Tell them to go out from tho old world to build up my altar iu the new "As God lives, rnv friends, I believe that to be His voice. "1 es. were my soul tremb ling on the brink of eternity, were this hand freezing in death, were my voice choking with' tho last struggle, I would still with the last wave of this hand, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember the truth Hod has given Ameri ca to be free. Yes, as I sank down into the gloomy shadows of the grave, with my last gasp I would beg you to sign that parch ment in the name of the ono who made the Savior who redeemed you, in the name of the millions whoso very breath is now hushed in intense expectation as the' look up to you for the awful words yon aro free.77 Many years have gone 6ince that hour. The speaker, his brethren, all have crumb led into dust, but the records of that hour still exist, and they tell us that it would require an angel's pen to picture, the magic of that speaker's look, the deep, terrible emphasis of his voice, the prophet-liKe beckoning of his band, the magnetic Ha mo shootinir from his eyes that tired every heart through the halL He fell exhausted in his seat, but the work "was done, A mild murhiur thrills through the hall. Si en! Ha! there is no doubt now. Look! How they rush forward! Stout hearted John Hancock has hardly time to sign his bold name before thenen is crasped by another, and auother. Look how their names blaze on the parchment. Adams nnd Lee. and Jefferson and Carroll, and now Roger Sherman, the shoemaker. And here couies good old Stephen Hopkins: yes. trembling with palsy from head to foot, he totters forward. With his shaking hand be seizes the pen and scratches his patriot name. Then comes Benjamin Franklin, the printer. And now the parchment is signed: and now let the word go forth to the people in the streets, to the homes of America, to the 1 camp of Washington, to the palace of

.A. Healthy and Happy Combination.

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Sanford's Gineer The Delicious Summer Medicine, George, the idiot king; let the Tvord go out to all the earth. And the old man in the steeple, now bare your arm and let the bell speak out the great truth. Fifty-six farmers and mechanics havo this day struck at the shackles of the world. TRICKS OF THE LONDON FISH TRADE.' Codfish Made Flump with the Blowpipe and the Gills Fainted. Fish Trades Journal. Fishermen so fully realize the present difficulty of preserving some kinds of fresh fish that a familiar namo for the rockpouters, a sort of whiting, is the "stinkalives," while they call stale or decomposed fish "overday" (over a day) fish, showing that after twenty-four hours most fish decompose. About twenty-four kours after capture the herring is liable to tho pouring out of extravasation of blood about his ills and tins, which darkened and amaged or bruised appearance is quaintly caUed in the fisli trade "overday tarts." These, to their ignorant and unwary customers, unscrupulous costermongers actually audaciously recommend, because of being "bleeding new." Among the early signs of commencing fish decomposition is the pouring out and clotting of blood, either externally, as in the herring tribe, or internally along the spinal column, as in tho sole and many freshwater lish. This process should be known as "bleeding baa and stale." If before capture the nerring should have over-distended its stomaeh with undigested food, then, prior to tho fishing-smack reaching the shore, putrefaction sets in so rapidly that such herrings are useless, even to the professional lish-curer, which condition is technically termed "gut-pock." Drowned in the meshes of the net in the water, herrings decompose even too rapidly for the lish-curer. Owing to the pressure of the net, herrings are often hauled dead into the fisherman's boat In addition to passing off decomposed herrings as fresh ones, from among the many fish-trade tricks is imitating the butchers plan of blowing air into the veal to improve its appearance; so on the fishmonger's slabs codfish aro sometimes, by means of a plowpipe, inflated with air, or "blown" so as to make skinny, llabby fish look plump and fat. Small haddocks and rock pouters. cheap, common fish, are often skinned with their tails inserted in their mouths and sold as whiting. Painting and varnishing the gills and other parts of stale fish to make them look fresh is a dodge practiced at homo and abroad. "Filleted soles" are often "dressed" plaice; and halibut is passed off as turbat. "Turtle" soup is often made from tho conger eel and no turtle. Stale eel and skate are rubbed over with sand to appear as if recently caught. Old lobsters getting a lighter weight by age have been ingeniously filled up internally by bits of fresh haddock introduced just where the lobster's tail and body unite. Among the signs of fish decomposition, besides exter nal or internal bleeding aud clotting, are cloudy, opaque and sunken eyes, dry-looking gills, flabby or soft flesh, a fishy smell. loss of brightness or brilliancy about ' the scales and any phosphorescence. W hen cooked, a sour or acid taste, or any clotted blood, indicates partially decomposed fish; tne uiacKening oi a suver spoon muicaiea sulphur, a product of fish decomposition. In Italy enred fish is tested b the introduction of a skewer, which, on being subsequently smelled, indicates the condition of the fish. TREASURES OF THE SEA. Interesting Collection from the Coronado Islands. San Diego Son. Ihe marine collection at the light-house has been enlarged by a yacht-load of sea urchins. abalones? star-hsh, mosses, eggs and seal skins which Harry Israel, the son m a i . t a. a. . - a 3 oi tue Keeper, orougni in ine oiner uay from a cruise around the Coronado islands. He was accompanied by Henry Gerrol, of Ballast Point, and they remained away a week fishing, collecting and hunt ing. At tho east island they found a schooner with a party of Americans, who were fishing and scaling. There were two parties of Portugese at work at the western island. Israel said that he and Gerrul secured fifty hair seals in one day. They shot the largo ones, and killed the young ones with clubs, there are three seal rockeries on the rock points of the west 6ide of tho west island, aud two on the east island. Israel, who has observed their habits, says that they are clannish, and that the seals of one rookery never mix with tho others. The females arc covered with a hue hair, while that of the males is much coarser. The color of the young is a dark drab, but tho old oues are a brownish yellow, ihe breeding season is nearly over, then the sea bulls will disappear and not return nntil next spring. " here the go to is a mystery that has never been explained. They swallow a quantity of small stones for bal last, which remain m the false stomach or "ballast bag." as the sailors call it, until tbey return, when they spit them out. Mrs. Israel has a number of these greenish cobbles at her museum. A bucketful is about the quantity of stones required to ballast an ordinary seal. Mr. Israel said the west island was ot solid rock , with a coating of loam on the west side. It was there that they found tho "mutton" birds, whicb burrow like a mole in the ground and come out only at night. After it becamo dark tho explorers listened for the whirr of the birds, and when it came thej struck out at random with stones and sticks, and when they heard something flutter on the rockR would know that they nad been successf uL The bird is 9 trifle larger than a rjuail and has short stubby wings, resembling thoso of a penguin. They - are nearly black, with some white on the breast and toward the tail. Their legs are short and tho break is longer than the quail's. Their liefdi is said to be palatable, uut the eggs only were tried. They are pullet-sizo and white, and Israel said were the best sea-fowl eggs ho ever tasted. He brought a number of them, and also the eggs of the gull and shag. In a cave on the west island he found a new kind of sea urchin, very beautiful and numerous. Instead of the usual purple and black colors it was a brownish red, and was some four inches in diameter. He also found an abelone the size of a brown beau, which is much smaller than the least in the nest at the light-house. Mr. Israel's formula for tanning the skin of hair seals is to first soak them in a solution of alum and salt. They must then be tacked up against a flat surface with the inner side ont, and have to be scraped daily for ten days in order to get off all the blubber. Victim on the Altar of Patriotism. Boston Herald. "I believe that females are in the majority in the total census of the United States, are they not!" "Yes: and they are likely to continue to be, so long as American men and boys persist in celebrating the fourth of July." WILLIAMSON Ira O. Williamson, July 3. at 5:10 p. m.. aced H4, at the residence, 47 North ivnnarlvan la street. Knneral service at the house rrlrtar morning, at 9.) a. ra., to which friend vi family are Invited. Burial private. ANNOUNCEMENTS. TWIN BABIES ON ONE BODY. The frrotest llTln curiosities on earth. Photographs, cts., cabinet sue, forale bjr E. A. TIIATCHEK. Tipton. Ind. . ..-- " LOST Red silk purse, steol beads, c-.ntal niajs f 7, ou WashUiffton street. letwecn Htste-huuw sou TranatcT tar. Ketnrn to Journal; suitable reward. 1117SINKSS OFPOKTUNITinS. 'OR the best opening In the State for a general store. Address p. o. l5ox Ko. 71, aisbride, Ind.

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Wo sell to gas-consumers in this city only. On exhibition and for 6ale at the GAS COMFY 47 South Pennsylvania Si EDUCATIONAL. ATTEND THE SUMMER SCHOOL 0UttUih4 19C0.) 15DU51P0LIS (RrgnU4 IMS.", fo)USIt!ESS uillVEuSiTV? I O) I. Peaa. Et, Wlea Clock. Op?. PostoEee. J Sism EZZ3 ft CSCSff, rrtpili ui rrrUtei. Book-keeping. Bnslness Practice. Shorthand, Trps anting, Penmanship and English Branches, thor. oughly tantfht. Individual Instruction. 8tndenta enter any time. Morning writing classes taught by E. J. HEEB. the well-known Penman. For full Information call at University Office, or said for catalogue and circulars of Summer School. BOYS' CLASSICAL SCHOOL, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. The fourteenth year will begin September 16. Prepares boys for college, sciontilic schools, and for business. A few boys will be taken Into the family of the principal. L. 11. HAUGHEK. the principal, cut be aeen or addressed, for tho presoat, at 71 East Walput street. 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