Indianapolis Leader, Volume 1, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1879 — Page 2

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(V(""""7 BAGliY & CO , PUBLISHERS. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. ODDS AND ENDS Senator Blaine has six children. Heavy floods are reported in New South Wales. , The. United States has issued more than 4,500 patents on seed planters, j : The runningexpense of an ordinary passenger train, exclusive of taxes and Interest, is about $1 a mile. A FiiOiUDA recluse owns 150,000 head of cattle, and buries his hoarded wealth in cans on his farm. The New York Sun tends up a bitter wail at the high price of lager beer, and stigmatizes it as an outrage. M Miixicr Pinafore Company is on the road, the tallest member of which is under thirty inches high. The Germans are becoming very nu merous in Jerusalem, and they are about to establish a quarterly magazine there. All the teachers who accepted appointments under the new educational laws ol Belgium have been excommunicated. The receipts at the New Orleans custom house are increasing on account. it is believed, of the jetties at the uioutof the Mississippi. The Panama canal scheme has been so poorly patronized in New York that the managers will not allow the subhead be found his hearing restored. Adolph Richard, of Staten Island, New York, left a bakeshop heated to 12) degrees, and entered a refrigerator where he died in ten minutes. Catt. Stone, of Mouudsville, V7. Va., was buried a few days ago in a coffin of mahogany grown from seed planted by himself on his own farm Lightning does strike twice in the tame place sometimes. A large walnut tree on the farm of Alex. Loucke, of York, Pa., lias been struck no less than five times in one season. Mrs. Zimmer, of Gloversville, N. Y., was savagely attacktd in her carriage by a tame monkey, who bit her arms and face, and on her return she died of nervous prostration, caused by her fright. Bonnek's Edwin Forest trotted a full mile last Saturday, in 2:11 on a private track, and Mr. Bonner has promised to giv? a public exhibition of his powers soon, when a record will be given the wondcful horse. A G korq I A man retired as usual one night near tbeend of July and dreamed that he was fishing, and on waking up found himself fitting on a stump beside the river with a baited line in his band, and two fish beside him. A convict Las been pardoned from the Illinois penitentiary that he might be able to attend a meeting of heirs in Sweden, September 1st, when a large estate will be divided. His presence will secure him a comfortable fortune. An oil well which had been torpedoed at Kendal Creek, New York, gave out a rumbling sound, followed by a shower of pumice stone and clouds of smoke and steam. A little later oil began to ' flow, and an abundant yield has procured out since. A Hakriskukcj, Pennsylvania, sol dier, whose hearing was destroyed in one of the encasements during the war, went bathing a few evenings ago, and on dipping his head under the wa terhearda loud rert. Itaising his thought to be imnnnent,as the Russians are about to cross the Chinese frontier. The main part of the 12,000,000 acres granted to the Union Pacific are in Ne braska. The rapid Increase of thecul tivation along the road has extended the rain belt, and added one-third 'to the arable land of the grant. TiiEfollowiuc items appear in the accounts of the Russian burgeon Gen eral during the Turko-Russian war: 7,445 pounds of quinine; 5,000 pounds of Peruvian bark; 8,000 pound of cas tor oil, and 3,000 pounds of chloroform. The quinine cost 130.00 per pound "Mother Khipton'H Prophecy "i that has kept the faint hearted in torment for the past decide was written by an English student only thhty years ago, who afterward confessed the fraud, i It was one of the cleverest deceptions of the times. Great clumsy iron war ships, like he British Thunderer, are fast giving place to light, wieldy little monitors, armed with single guns, and providec with engines capable of driving them at a high rate of sw-ed. The German and Chinese Governments have adopt ed the small vessels. NEWSLETS Incendiary fires continue in vari ous parts of Bussia, supposed to be the work of Nihilists. The city of Ba toum is the last victim. The total fire losses of the Empire during July, are estimated at over $0,000,000. At Mississippi City, Miss., the other day, in a quarrel about payment for a drink of whisky, R. II. Pierson, Su perintendent of Public Instruction o Harrison county, shot and kiUr-d John G. Conkerton, of New Orleans. The Commissioners of England and Russia, appointed to ascertain and fix definitely the new boundary line be tween Russia and Turkey in Asia have failed to agree, berious conse quences may grow out of this contro- ' versy, sooner or later. The Province of Para, in Brazil, is sorely afflicted. There has been a fam ine for two vears, and, receiving no supplies, the people to the number of M. Mi 9 m. . 14,000 have revolted, and all the excesses of anarchy and lawlessness are feared. The Pope has received an anonymous letter from Baltimore, warning him against attempts to poison him. The letter contains no many reference

to the Pope's private life that it i3 believed It was posted In America merely as a blind. An investigation is in pro

gress Tha opening of the national temperance camp-meeting at Bismarck, Kan., last Sunday, is described as the most Tvmrooeivft nnrmljir demonstration ever AAA Lfi aajv - f-'v F - I - I seen in Kansas. Addresses were made bv Governor St. John. Francis Murphy, J . - I and others, and ten thousand people I were present. I . .1 A Washington dispatch . reports that advices from diplomatic representatives and special agents in Europe continue to favor the opinion that the

eflorts of this government tobring ticulars of a sad double suicide that ocabout the joint reconsideration by curred at Goshen some days ago, as fol-

America and leading European Powers ... ..I of the bi-nietalllc standard question will prove successful. The cultivation of the flg in the vsiprn Michigan fruit reirion ha proved to be a success. Specimens have been received In Chicago from a St. Joe nursery, including a branch four and three-fourths inches in length, bearing seven ripe figs. The, crop of the tree from which this lrnnr h was taken is estimated at two bushels. Locked up in the jail at St. Louis, t is stated, are ten murderers, six of whom destroyed the lives of women, und snmi of them have becu there so ong that "the names of their victim and the history of the murders are for gotten by the public and the officers, and are only to be discovered by go ing through old files of newspapers.", Between mawkish sensibility, legal hindrances, and possibly a corrupt use of money, the ends of justice are defeated, and murderers go unpunished. INDIANA INKLINS Horse thieves are active in many rart of the iState. HON. W. II. .ENGLISH, or imuanap olis, owns over 300 tenement houses. Mishawaukee is soou to have sev eral new manufacturing establish ments. The next session of the American Poultry Association will be held at In dianapolis. Jacob Heath is in jail at Salem for brutally beating his eighteen-year-old daughter. The J Angola papers both have libel suits on their hands, brought by offended women. The artesian bore at Rochester has been stopped for want of funds, at a depth of 245 feet. M. A. ' A woman with a full blonde beard recentlv created a sensation on the - streets of South Bend. Wm. Hudler, of New Point, had a fit while fishing, the other day, and fell into a shallow pool ol water and was drowned. Whitley county supports opulent a a . A paupers. A young man, m iw county asvlum recently had $40 stolen from his trunk. . ' The State House commenced laying 2,000,000 bricks, a few days ago. They employ about 300 men on the building and in the quarries. A' locomotive caught a horse at Larwell, a few days ago, carried it one hundred vards on the nilot and droiv ped it off uninjured. A horse at Turkey Creek, Steuben county, which was left standing in its stable perfectly sound in themorniug, was found to be stoue blind at noon. Mail Agent Chabls Patterson, whose arm was broken by an accident on the Vandalia road last March, lias sued the company for $25,000 dam ages. Edward Fishback, an old negro slave, lying at the City Hospital, of In dianapolis, is literally covered with welts from 'whipping received while In slavery. 1 A band of fifteen men visited the negroes in the vicinity of Bloomington a few nights aero and ordered them to leave the county. Some of the men upon whom notices! were served are well-to-do land holders. A young man from Ada, Ohio, took an active part In the camp meeting at Warsaw, hi the beginning, but was ar rested a few days afterward for stealing books from the stand. It was finally decided that he was of unsound mind and he was released. At Vijcennes, Knox county, a fiendish attempt wa9 made recently to ab-1 duct two young girls, which was frus trated by an alarm being given, when the men, discovering they were follow ed, loosened their -hold: upon their in-j nocent prey and fled to the woods The Courier states that during the j past year $2,000 worth of opium, In its I different forms, has been sold in Wabash county. One drug store in Wabash sold 500 bottles of morphine from May 1st to August 20th, sixteen of ...u7k 1 1,.. ' ' uu;uerei.uicuaseu uucuuu.m oue weeK. ........ The celebrated Huckleberry Queen was married to a boy sixteen vears old. the other night, at Tyner City. The 'Squire who performed ' the ceremony was called up out. of bed by the loving couple, and said the solemn words that made twain one flesh, standing in his door clad in his sleeping clothes. ' Miss Anna ' Kino, of Acton, lived last winter and spring for thirty-five days without food or drink. , At the end of that time she.rallied and recovered her appetite; recently she relap??d into her former abnormal condition. On Tuesday)rAugust 19th, she died, after living twenty-one days without a particle of nourishment of any kind. When thenew additions to the State Insane Asyluni are completed , there will be accommodations for 1,100 per sons, and the superintendent is issuing circulars to county officers for the pur pose of ascertaining how many incurables are confined In the alms houses, poor houses and private asylums cf the State, for the purpose of seeing wThat will be required of the State Asylum.

While passing through a strip of woods a quarter of a mile west of Palestine, a few days ago, John Hogers

discovered the body of a man hanging to a tree. He went back to town and returned to the place with a crowd of men. upon examining me uoay it was round to be mat oi a wniteman auoui A J 11 1 11 1 1 lorty - nve years oia, anu weil uresseu. The body, was greatly swollen and de1 II .1 A. 1 I. composed, anu is supposeu 10 nave ueeu ... a at -W ganging mree or lour uays. it was .A A 1 II. A hanging by a piece or cioincs-ime io a small hickory tree, the feet touching the ground. The Goshen Review gives the parlows: "Two well known residents of 11 I - t TT M-. f 11- -. . - 11 1 uns piace, navuau craau, en huun a as captain emun, ana iui. nuooen, son of A. I. Hubbell, were found lying in each other's arms at an early hour this morning. Both were stone dead. The two men had evidently committed suicide. The two men were well known as addicted to the use of liquor, and had often been in company in driuking bouts. Last night eacli went into a drug store and purchased ten grains of morphine, and then they met outside on the street. No one thought anything of their purchasing mor phine, as it is a common custom with drinkhg men to use it in small quan tities. As they met, some one remem bers that one said to the other, "Well, r-i i . . . are you ready " sucii a carejess re mark was hardly noticed at the time, but all these things were brought to mind as they were found stretched cold in death, near main street, in the ' - court house yard. They had lain down together, one folding the other in his arms, anu tnus mey siepi m ueaiu. Smith leaves a wife and child, but . 1 it 1 At I it Hubbell left no family. The sad occurrence casts a cloud over our city. Both men were well known through out the county, and the news of their tragic ending will occasion great sur prise." SOME OLD PEOPLE, Who Shame the Rising Generation by Their Exhibitions of Strength and Energy. Philadelphia Record. The tramp of the old lady from Maine to this city, on her way to her children in Chester, shows what pluck can accompnsn in spue or ine innr A t At A mities of age. From different parts of the State come stories of other old peo ple's achievements, the reading of which is calculated to put the indolent young people to the blush. There is the old man wno is lond or enorming Deaestnan ieats. ills name s John Steinmetz and his age is 74 years. He is the oldest and most active person in the neighborhood of Beckersville, Bucks county. A short time ago he visited his daughter who lives near Springfield, Chester county. He traveled on foot and returned the same day, making a total distance or eighteen miles. He thinks nothing of walking to Reading and returning the same day. Then there is the Industrious old man the man who rises with the lark, saws wood before breakfast, and cares nothing for rain or storm. In Robeson township, Berks county, John Robinson, 83 vqars old, recently raked and bound the cutting of a rye field. His only assistance was a young woman, and the yield made 183 shocks. Another who has distinguished himself in the field is William Lauck, living near Friedeusburg, Berks county. He is a remarkably healthy aud active old gentleman. During harvest he went into the field and commenced binding grain, and in less than half a day he bound two hundred large sheaves. He is a tailor by trade and Is not used to working in the sun. A hard-working old couple live in Dorrence township, Luzerne county. William McDermott Is 82 years of age and his wife is 77.' This old couple worked in the harvest field all the past week, the old gentleman cradling and his wife binding up the sheaves. It is doubted if there is another counle of such age in the country capable of doing this Kind or work. comes the story of a pugnacious old lady Elizabeth Bard, 79 years old. An attempt was recently made to survey a line between the property of Josiah Dingier and Mrs. Bard. As soon as the surveyor drove his stakes Mrs. Bard pulled them out of the ground and threw them over the fence until he was compelled to relinquish the survey., Several criminal prosecutions nave arisen out ot the disputed line fence between the properties, and Mrs. Bard recentlty spent several days in all until she was released on bail. Henrv Maurer and his wife Catha rine, of New Berlin, B.;rks County, have shared each other's joys and sor rows for foity-two years, aud are now poor and needy. There life has been one of hard work, with no luxuries. The husband is 70 years old. From early boyhood to decrepit old age he has performed hard labor. 4 Alibis life he has been working on a farm as hired hand or employed as a laborer. An old lady, with pride of ancestry j Is Mrs. Mary li. llimby, who is the old est resident of South Coventry township, Cheater county. She waa 92 years of age on the 1st of May, and is sprigmiy, going about the house andviUiage, and occasionally attend- , church. She is the daughter of Judire Jobn Kalstou. who served In the revolutionary war with distinction niisung in me army as uaptajn and I I I H . 1 I .a returning nome as uoionei. lie was afterwards Associate Judge for a long time. Abraham Darlington, who lives in Thornbury township; Chester county; entered upon his 91st year yesterday. He has lived upon the farm which he now occupies during the entire course of his life. He is the oldest surviving member ol ine uarungton family. Camden's old man must not be omit ted. The most venerable relic of antiquity in that town is old Father Evans, a colored preacher. On the 24th of last March he celebrated his 102d anniversary by preparing a large patch of ground forfbis garden, digging the earth up with his spade and putting it into condition to receive the seed. He takes his regular walks of ten or fifteen miles into the country "to call on his friends," as he says, and walks home again when he has completed his round of visit. In the Summer time he is able to do light work around the farm, and in the Fall can husk as many bushels of corn in a day as many who are more boastful of - their youth and strtngtlu Cicero: Economy is of itself a great revenue.

GAME TO THE LAST.

An Alleged Horse Thief and Burglar Hanged Three Times His Dying Prayer-'Hallelujah ! Pull Away, Boys !" Leadvllle Chroulole. Daniel McDow is a freighter. Last night he encamped with his teams and wagons Dn the hlra stieet commons, lelow Grant's smelter. Fearing a visit from horsf and mule pilferers, he secured his stoPk to the wagon by a patent fastener, and then went to sleep. A dog disturled his slumbers about 4 o'clock tlds morning, and, remembering his stock, he pulled up the bottom of his tent and peeped out. One horse was missing, lie aroused one of his men nd some neighboring freighters, and they hurriedly mounted and started in hot pursuit of the missing hor.se. A trail was struck, and at a point about half way to Malta the horse was spied. On it was a middle aged man, and also a bag of table-ware which had been stolen last night from the Urand hotel. The rider made no resistance when he saw the muzzles of several pistols looking him in the face. He turned the stolen horse right round and rode leisurely back to town. In the city a crowd of men, boys and some women quickly assembled, and the decision that the thief should hang was arrived at without a dissenting voice. Some rope halters were taken from the rfiules at the corral and spliced, the supposed thief was led to the little grove nearly in front of Grant's new mansion, the halters fixed around Iiis neck, wiüithe long end looped over a crooked limb, and then the culprit was told to pray. His face turned toward those who were about to take away his life, and to them he prayed most piteously. He denied that he was a horse or any other kind of thief. The stolen propertyfound in Iiis possession was intrusted to him by a man whom he supposed to be its lawful owner, and lie, the man in the halter, was merely to ride the horse to Malta, where be was to be joined by the owner. xlhe executioners listened to the prayer patiently, and, after laying their beads together a lew seconds, concluded to let the petitioner live, providing he would give the name of the man from whom the stolen property was obtained. The man in the halter re fused to save his life by any such cow ardly means, and word was given to hoist him up. He went about four teet from the earth, and was almost in the death throes customary on similar oc casions, when he was lowered and giv en a second opportuuity to live by di vulciug a secret, "rso, sir, I'll die a dozen deaths," was the response, and up went the culprit a second time. The crowd now began to cheer, a vro man fainted, and a dozen voices cried out for another chance, lue man was let down a second time and asked whci'.ier he still persisted in wantiug to die at the end of a rope. He said he wished to prepare himself for death. The boys at the other end of the halter let up ent)ugh to allow the doomed man to kneel, and thus he prayed: '0 Thou merciful Most High, I thank thee for all that I have received from thee since I came to this country. I wish I had prayed oftener. Now I need your Eartlug blessing. Let me come into eaven after I'm hung, r-fend down an angel to take my soul to Jesus as quick asit leaves my body. Don't let the devil get hold of me after I'm dead. I kno'W that I've been a big sinner, but Lord, you know I didn't steal this horse and things for which 1 am about to diel so vou will foreive me. won't youf won't ybu", good Lord, and let one of your angels come down and take me up to neaven. uu, ir you win, it won't hurt me to die. I would a thousand times rather be with you and Jesus in heaven than to stay in Leadville any longer. Let me know, Lord, that I can come, and I'll die like a Christian. Oh, yes, I know you will. All right. All right. Bless His holy name. Hallelujah! Victory is mine at last. Bless His holy name. Pull away, boys, pull away.' Pu-ul!" and up went the accused horse pilferer on his way to heaven. Just then a big, burly miner named Cronau rushed in the midst of the throng of executioners, and, leveling a seven-shooter on the party pulling down the rope, commanded them . to let up. or their brains would be scatter ed. The wild and fierce flashing' of Cronan's large black eyes convinced them that he was not the one to bo trifled with, and the dying man coino back to earth with a thud. He was totally unconscious, and rolled over on the ground as limp as any fresh corpse. He was the only one in the crowd free from a fever of excitement. A number of pistols were drawn, everybody was shouting, and itwasexpected that every minute some one would shoot. The burly Cronan, still flourishing his revolver and gesticulating like a mad man, and roaring like a mountain lion, gave notice that the first man who made , a movo toward the half-hung' man on the ground would die. He was a stranger to him, and, by G , he should have fair play. No d män, whether he be a horse-theif or not, should be hung like a dog wi hout some opportunity to prove his innocence. The culprit did not look to him like a thief, and, even if he was, the speaker would take his part, and shoot down the first man that attempted r to touch the rope over his head again. Hearing which, the would-be executioners showed signs of cooling. The fiery Cronan loosed the rope from the man's neck; ordered a cup of water, bathed his face and head, and as soou as lie had "revived sufficiently to walk led him to the otflce of Sherilt Tucker, on State street, closely followed by the mob. It was about 8 o'clock when the office was reached, and the supposed thief pros handed over to the civil authorities for safe keeping. He was taken to the city, jail, where the reiorter found, him bathing his rope-bruised and lacerated neck an hour later. He is about fifty years, with not a very intelligent lace, but his hands show hours of honest toil. 'Were you ever hung before?"' inquired the reporter. "No, sir; I never was in such a mob in all my life." "Why did they make the attempt." "Jsecause they thought 1 whs a horse thief. They said I stole the horse I was riding, but I didn't." "Suppose you tell me all about this little transaction, and I will write it down in your own words. Now, go ahead." "My name is Charles Wheeler. T am a miner and prospector by trade. Have been down in New Mexico about a year. Came up to Leadville about a week ago. Stopped at Silver ClifiT on the way. I made considerable money in 'New Mexico, but lost it all. aud when I got here I did not have a nickel. I tried for work and got a chance to work for my board. Never mind about that. You want to know about the horse and silverware scrape. Well, last night I met a young fellow who said he was looking for an old miner to go with him on a prospecting tour. He said he had enough money to pay for a pack-horse and an outfit, and that he would set that against my experience. I consented, and agreed to

at an early hour this morning, that we might make a good start, jl met him as agreed. He told me to get on the horse and ride down as" far ,as Malta, where he would overtake me. He had to go back to his hotel to see about

something. I did as requested, not thinking- but every thins: was all right. Had jogged on altout a mile when the men came up and commanded me to turn back. They followed me up the point of it pi.itol to the little grov down there, f didn't know hist where I was. but thought of course I should be killed. They put a rope around my neck and told lue to either tell the name of the man that stole that horse or I must hang. I couldn't tell his name and they hung me four times. The last time I was the same as dead, but I came to and ; they brought me here. My neck is 'pretty sore and I feel kind of lame all through my body, but 1 'guess I'm all right." "Were you willing to die?;' i "No; but I thought, of course, there was no escape.'? . ." - ...'.. ; "Never saw the party till yebterdaj ?" i "Never.". 7 -j ! "Didn't know thai he -or some other partner of his had planned to rob the G rand Hotel lat night?"- - "Never,, heard 'uuything about, robbing any place." ' The bag found with the prisoner at the station house contained nothing except the nilver and table ware stolen from, lhe Grand. Of;tliis lot; not an article was missing. - -:' ' ". j Betting on a Dead Tiling. San Fru no I sco Stock ltaport. , , - I One of the frequenters of a broker's Office is a man .who will bet on any kind of a proposition. When he enters the oillc'H in the morning he greets the gentlemen present by saying, "Mornin boys! Is there anything any of ye want to beton thismornin'?" And he haugs around all day watching for a chance to bet, and il a man ventures an opinion about the stock market, hints perhaps that Sierra Nevada may sell for 40 next week, he will pounce on him like a hawk on a June-bug, and oiler to let him a hundred that it don't sell for 40 in six years. , The other day the boys put up a job on him. . They got a fiy, dipped its feet in. mucilage, and stuck.it in a: sashframe in the office. Of course, there's not much for a fly to eat in a broker's ofiice; but between ink and mucilage, and the breath of the clerks, they manage to eke out a subsistence. Pretty soon another fiy sailed in through the lroit door from a restaurant around the corner, and settled down on the sash near the fiy that the boys had fix ed, and in a few moments the betting man dropped in with his usual saluta turn about betting. After some pre liminary skirmishing about not being on the gamble, feeing busted in stocKs, and other little by-plays to make the betting man think they were not anx ious for a wager, one of the boys epoke up ana smu : "Pard, I'll tell vou what I will do; I'll bet you that'lhat fly In the corner of that sash moves lefore that other fiy about ix inches from him does." ' The 11 v in the corner was tiny fly from the restaurant, and the other was the fly with the mucilage on it? feet. : "Its a whack '."said the betting man. VBet you a hundred my lly moves first," , .. ; The money was put up,- and all eyes were intently bent on the window. Pretty soon the mucilage made a strug gle to free . itself, ami succeeded 111 dragging itself about half its length on the sash frame. "My money!" exclaimed the betting man. The others did not want to give it up, as the movement had only been barely perceptible. i "Do you want to keep me here all day betting against a dead fly!" said the betting man. The boys rushed to the window, to examine their fiy. ! It was dead! j A Sad Story. ' liittie isenny JiawKins, nine years old, died last Sunday at his father's home in Chicago of hydrophobia. He was playing with some companions in his father's yard, when a large Newfoundland bounded in, and jumped up on Denny's shoulders. He tried to push it oft with his hand, and by chance struck it in the mouth. He had cut .his fingers the day before, and it is sup posed; the -saliva or the dog touched '.1 1 -W A A. a, a uie wouuu. in ine auernoon 01 tue same day he was sent out for some water," but went back crying "Mamma, I can't get the water. I can't see it. It hurts me." He complained of earache and of being tired. He was put to ueu, wnen ne soon became very nervous and restless. The next day developed unmistakable symptoms of ivydropnouia. He begged his father and mother to go away from him, saying that he was afraid he would bite them. The least sound threw him into a paroxysm, and ho would " get wp and run out of the room, crying out that that awful dog was after him.; ! "Water hurt me," he moaned continually. Dr. Hall was called, and after his first vis-it he brought in for consultation five other physicians, but their united skill was of no avail. Sunday evening the poor little lad asked his father to come to his side. "Sit' down, papa," he said. "1 am going to die pretty soon and shan't ever see the big bright sun, or the, green grass, or play with the other boys any more. I know I've been a naughty boy, " sometimes, papa, but please 1 forgive Benny, won't you, and prav.to tno dear Jesus to take care o your little son." As the heart-broken lather kuelt by the bedside, the tiny hands folded in supplication, the tired, woru features took on the expression that angels wear, and Jieuny passed the portal of sintering. Killed for His Folly. Cooper, Bailey & Co.. proprietors o the Urtat Dondon and Internationa A . I I L I. . ivusxrauau onow, nave sustained a heavy loss in the death of the elephant a . a a a . "Komeo," wincn tooK place under tie caharly horrible circumstances, in DooLville, Mo., last Tuesday. "Romeo" was one of the ten trained elephants whose performances have to far been one of the most attractive of the many interesting features of this monster combination, Rud was valued at $35,000. He was a great favorite with the circus attaches, and was a noble beast, whose loss is deplored as much on account of the sympathy that existed between himself and the people with whom he was In contact as for the money value which1 he represented. The showmen had heard of the terrible accident on the day of its occurrence, but no details were received until yesterday, when the manner of the beast's death was learned. One of the apptitenances of the Great London Show is au immense electric apparatus, which is used in connection with the electric light that supplies illumination for the entire canvas of tbe circus. This machine consists of a large magnet and an immense armature, which is made to revolve 250 times In a minute bv means of a thirtv-five-horse power engine. The appar atus is of intense electrical nowcr. r knife blade held within two feet of it

becoming so heavily charged with the 1 current that it can be used thereafter as a loadstone. Well, last Wednesday Professor Sherman was getting his lottery in readiness for the afternoon performance, had "tired up," set the machine In motion, and click, click, went the light, one after the other, as the electrictity fie v along the insulated cables. When all was in working shape the Professor sauntered olf leisurely, and had not his attention called to the

macmue again until lie neard an unearthly roar, and a crash coming from the direction ol the battery. He was startled, as was also the small army of workmen inside the tents, and the large army- f boys and idlers on the outside. Everybody rushed to the spot. The roars con tinued to resound through the canvas, and for a while the greatest consternation held the crowd. On approaching the vicinity of the electric machine, the great , elephant "Komeo," was foufld, in the throes of tue death agony, and-wlth his trnnK torn away by the roots fm its base. The poor beast lay there shorn of its strength, and presenting a horrible, mutilated appearance. Everything was done that it was possible to dp for the dying animal, but its agonies tf ere terrible, and when at lentrth it trapea its last, there was a feeline of rehet among tuose wno surrounded its mountainous corpse. Joseph KInslow, the leader of the band, who witnessed the accident, says that "Itomeo," who was roaming around In the tent with his nine giant companions, shambled up to the machine and was sniffing at the armature. When its trunK was caught in the revolving apparatus, and the animal was thrown violently to the ground and the trunk carried away by the whirling machinery. Pro fessor feherman righted his apparatus in a short time, aud the .few necessary repairs were immediately maae. "ltomeo" was buried in a spot within the show grounds, where a mound of earth new marks the last resting place of the "noblest Roman of them all," and the proprietors of the show have telegraphed Mr. Charles Reiche, the great animal Importer of Nework, lor another elephant to supply the un fortunate "Romeo's" place. Encouragemon f Mattoa 1 . 1 ; The Chicago Live 'Stock Journal thinks that mutton is too much neg lected as an article of rood, saying; 'Americans are not mutton eaters to anv such decree as thev are beef and pork eaters. I here Is often a good de 7 - - j - - y mand for mutton or lamb, but it is a comparatively limited one. At the great live stock markets, as Chicago, where there are receipts of thousands of cattle and of hogs, there are but hundreds of sheep. In many a village meat market mutton is rarely to be found. There has been gain in thisdi rectiou; mutton is eaten more com monly than was the case a few'years aeo: there is an increasintr annreciatiou of good quality In the fiesh of the sheep, as there has been in the fiesh of the ox. Hut the best interests of American sheep rearing would be much advanced if the mass of the people could be induced to become habitual mutton eaters, as they now are beef or pork consumers. Itehance ulxui wool as the only source .of profit in sheep rearing is to become" a thing of the past in all the older-settled portions of the country. JNo rapid change of habit In such matters is to be expected; but sheep growers can help first, by hav ing sheep of good quality with which to supply whatever demand exists; sec oud, by themselves practicing what they preach, and by encouraging the butchers in the neighboring town or village to keep mutton in their shops and call the attention of their custo mers to it. "The export demand for American the United States and Canada shipped 84,000 sheep to Great Britain almost as large a number as was that of the cattle exported. Since the restrictions placed on the exportation of live fat cattle to Great Britain, the number of sheep sent over Is much greater than that of cattle. Thus the arrivals at Liverpool, the first week in May. were Si 0 cattle, 2,3ba sheep, and l.OoOpigs. The same week 1,529 carcasses of mut ton were landed at Liverpool." John Henry. Exchange. About a week ago some young ladies got up a party to go on a moonheht excursion up the Passaic river. ' The night finally arrived, and the moon Hooded field and river with a glow of pearly richness. When the party was ready to leave the house which had been appointed as the rendezvous, V . was noticed that one of the y- i j charming young ladies of the c v. j had a shawl on. . ; ; What's the matter, Luc.-" ..-.-: quired one young lad3T; .'"are youar;tt j of taking cold?" . ' .' : j j "No, no," she replied. ! j "Perhaps you are troubled with m i laria?" suggested a young man, 'hc was struggling to direct all his vitality into a mustache. ' " " j "I never have malaria," replied the pretty creature, with a smile of gum dropatlveness. J "The thermometer is up at 86. You'll roast if you wear that shawl." i "I'm, willing to roast," she said, rather pettishly. i "Don't you know why she wears that shawl?" laughed her little brother, as he wiped some taffy off his mouth with his jacket sleeve. ; "You keep still, you John Henry," screamed the dear angel, as she turned a trifle red. j The boy then got out of reach and yelled, "I'll tell you why she wears that shawl. When she gets out on the river Bob puts his arm under it and hugs her, aud nobody can see through the game." Then there was a scene. John Henry was driven summarily to bed, and the party started for the scene of the fes tivity. -4a Grasshopper Gruol. In Sierra and Marti". Valleys the Indian huts can be 1 seen and in and around them are congregated the war riors and squaws of the tribe, their sisters and their cousins and their aunts. all intent upon the accomplishment of the grand result. As usual, the squaws do the work, while their noble lords loll upon the greensward, smoke their pipes, and dreamily and lazily gaze upon the countless myriads of buzzing hoppers that fill the air and devour vegetation. The squaws, carrying cone-shaped baskets of great capacity, scoop the grasshoppers with a fan-shaped instrument into their baskets, and when loaded carry the wiggling mass of insects to camp, and then prepare them for food. The grasshoppers, killed and subsequently dried, ; are mixed with mashed pine nuts or cracked wheat and made into a kind' of flour, which is afterward made into a bread, most delicious to the palate of the Washoe. While visitors to the camp are always invited, in accordance with Indian hospitality, to partake of the compound, aud great is the astonishment of poor Lo at the disgust expressed by the whiteMnan for this kind of food. To the limited mind of'the Indian it is incomprehensible that any should reject food which in his vernacular is defined as beiu "muchee good."

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H T T ..rt T 1 . r . aieiiersoii uavis. in reierriniz u me ueiunct airs, uorsev. remarks: "There was u woman! what grace! what mental power! what a will!" A Pulaski boy recently swallowed a penknife... Although not quite out of danger, he finds some consolation in the fact that the knife belonged to all ot ner boy. Now Wie well In Myle arrayed lioein iorin 10 promenade, But wtlta 'neat it the fervor of the ftunbeum' glance, tun a ( M .11 And so no his collar Ami his Jacket an pants. More dried appies are consumed St. Louis than in any other city of iti u.ti r ii. . 11 prouunjy ior me purpose 01 sweiif ing the population before a new direc tory is published.One littl persistent fly, one that evades every attempt to be knocked oft your face with a pillow, jull stick closer and learn a stuttering man to talk plain quicker than anything yet invented. . Chesterfield said, and thousands reecho the cry, that no one Is excusable tor leing out of the fashion, but we'd like to know what the deuce a man Is to do who has married when blondes were the siyl. v An Oswego woman fell our of a fourth story window the other day, ami the first thing she did after Lx'ing brought to her senses was to wish she had on her new silk' hose instead ol those old cotton stockings. oomuiiu 1 iuai w in fn iuiua y O 1. t- il .i 1 1.. i ... 1 a man hankers after when uer himself adjusting a swing in a til a, t a - - A !Kir reciiy over sixteen exiieciaui ku four Inches of his pants stieKing the limb he has just vacated . Sort as silk with golden hair, x , liriRht as Htars were her eyes or w Truly l loved my lady fair; Truly my lady loved me, loo. Did it break my heart when my love dead? Why. bless your soul. Khe didn't die. Time wrought change an it ouward sped; ne love notner no an i. The following testimonial of a certain patent medicine siaks for itsell: "Dear Sir: Two months ago my wife could scarcely speak. She has taken two bottles of your "Life Itenewer and now she can't speak at all. Please Fend me two more bottles. I wouldn't be without it." A little rirl about 4 years old and a little boy about six had been cautioned not to take away the nest egg: but one morning when they went for the egg the little girl took It and started for the house. Her disappointed brother fol lowed, crying: "Mother, mother, Susey's got the egg the old hen measure by!" There are no swear words in the Sioux language, It is said. But don't let your sympathy go out to the poor .ed man on that account. He doesn't feel the loss of them. When anything doesn't please him when, after carefully sharpening his lead pencil the point snaps oil' Instead of relieving himself with a string of oaths, he mutters two or three terrible looking fivestory words with bay windows and mansard roofs, and rushes out and scalps . a pale-face. This soothes his angry feelings just as effectually as if he had all the profanity in the Knglish language at hi command. ' AGRICULTURAL. A breeder of poultry says: "Every 8pring I procure a quantity of cedar boughs and scatter them plentifully in and around th ben house. This is all that Is necessary, as the odor of cedar keeps away the lice." Growers of fjuit should bear in mind that now is the time to look after their fruit. If the trees are crowded the imperfect fruit should be pulled or knocked oft to Insure a crop of sound, wellmatured fruit in August or September. Gardening is regularly and practically taught in iM.OOO primary schools in France. Every school house has its garden, and teachers must not only V good gardeners, but .qualified to a orticulture, or they cau not .-- -aminatlon. V a . a. ianu wmcn wunout a- -.r mm . 'in i" f v - of manure will give a bushels of wheat per . craddition of eighty in a favorable r. v five to forty proportion.: i'.yr .ri v . . e v i L?.- - The .u: Journal .'id oats, ts, with a sa r. u' -V,: . t : ' 1 Iii :i.i '..u i -I t' . . ;i j.i-rd ri..' kes the best uckling to inf it(.i-" I hfv ,.t ir. iK; and this, with .'! ; j . n-id plenty of soaked c--r.i. '!!;jr;.c tbo summer, will promote a r.p:;l and Leal thy growth of pigs. I'f'tf. larrlngton, in a summary of - . o-ieriments begun in 1870 by the V; iue Agricultural College, to ascertain which has the greatest value as a food for swine, cooked or uncooked meal, says: "We have by an experiment which has been continued from three to four months of each of the nine years dnceits beginning, obtained evidence that all the money and labor expended in cooking meal for swine is more than thrown away." The Agriculturist says: "When hog are put up to fatten and fed on dry corn, it is the practice to give them but little water; but thev require some. It would not be possible for a ho to 'Jive for weeks' without water or other drink when feeding on dry corn, although when fed on new 'soft' corn, verv small quantity of water will be sufficient, aud possibly, if the corn is very soft and unripe, water might not be indispensable." A correspondent, speaking of crops, says that farmers should have a diversity of crops, so that if there is a failure in one there may be a hit in another. The intelligent farmer lays his plans as much as the leaderof military. He looks ahead to see what will make him money, and lie don't put all his eggs under one hen, for she might leave the nest and all would be addled. Farmers should plan wisely and carry out the plans to the bes-t of their ability. A French Veterinär' surgeon sajs that a simple method of preventing flies from annoyine horses consists in painting the inside of the ears or any other part especially troubled with a few drops of erapreumatic oil of juniper. It is said that the odor of this substance Is unendurable to flies, and that they will keep at a distance from the parts anointed. If this treatment should accomplish the alleged result, it will be a great blessing to introduce into the sick room. Much has been said about getting down to "hard pan" in financial matters. The farming of the country needs to gej on this basis as well, and this will not be until crops are grown with the distinct understanding that their growth has taken from the soil something that must be replaced before we can know whether the crop is a profit or a loss. Selling crops year after year without manuring is quite as bad in farmine as doine buiuess on a fluctuating and depreciated currency

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