Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1880 — Page 2

IUUNUS LE&OER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY -BT-; BAGBY Ac CO., OFFICE, 12 HILLGIlS BLOCK Corner Illinois and Harket Sin. J. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter at at Indianapolis, lud. the Foatoflflce TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION Single Copy, 1 year...... ..... .. ' montht. ..... .?2.(K) - 1.00 .50 .. .20 .. 1.75 .. 1.50 3 months.. 1 months. Clubs of ilzl year, each copy...... ten, 1 year, each copy...THIS PAPER SS . K.ODM Nwpapr Advertising Barean (10 Spruce St.) where advertising contract maybe made for it in NEW YORK HntHterlbe for the Leader. Let ever j colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the Leader; and let every white man who believes that slavery was a crme against humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. Hon. R. W. Thompson ha3 re signed the navy portfolio, and ac cepted the Presidency of the Ameri nan branch of De Lessco's Panama Canal scheme. Elsewhere we publish a call for a National Convention of colored men. By publishing the call we do not give the movement our approval, and neither do we condemn it. We shall have something to say about it hereafter. A consultation of Ilepublican State Senators was held at the Grand Hotel in this' city, Wednesday, relative to the organization of the body to which they belong, at the approaching session of tho Legislature. It is under stood that no definite conclusion was arrived at. ' The North Carolina exodustersmet in convention at Grcencastle Friday, of last .week, and passed some very interesting resolutions with reference . to the increased happiness they enjoy since they ceased to be tarhoels and became Hoosiers. We publish the resolutions elsewhere. As we predicted last week, Jno. the intimate (?) friend of , x j Sarauel Tilden, and the foremost Democrat'of New York City, received the grand bounce at the hands of Mayor Cooper and the Aldermen of hia bailiwick. John went out with

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his paint on and his feathers in the villainy, we can give it no apology air. He will call again at an early for what we have said. In the meandate, and,it is hinted, will bounce his time we hold ourselves " pus'naily

bouncers. Thero is much agitation in Wash ington about the various Isthmus CAnai BcuemcB, wuiui vo mvv number. Do Lessep s is artagonizea by the Monroe doctrinaires. Capt. Eads, of Mississippi jett' fame, has a plan to move vessels overland across the Isthmus by means oi nyaraunc power. The Nicaurauguan is par excellence the American plan. General Grant is interested in it. General O. O. Howard has been appointed Commandant at West Point bv President Haves, lhis is j " a. atari in the rieht direction. Gen1 e eral Howard is a brave and honor able man, and, and believes in tho equality of one man with another re gardless of complexion. We shall expect him to discipline a number of the congregated young pauper ruflians at the Point, in a mauner that will send some home and others to the Rip-Raps, affectionately attached to a ball and chain. A body of settlers are encamped in Kansas near the line of Indian Territory, intent upon locating themselves on the unoccupied land within its bounds. They are only prevented from doing this by the presence of a

battalion of United States soldiers, show that we arc entitled to more The railroad interests are at the bot- consideration at the hands of a Rebottom of tho movement, and it is publican President than the brigadifficult to say what the outcome will diers and their confreres a fact

be. The Indians are opposed to the new would-be settlers, ana propose to fight rather than to allow them to peaceably settle in tho Territory. THE BOLID BOOTH A special dispatch to the Indian apolis Journal, of Thursday, states that prominent Republicans now in Washington, have under consideration a plan to break the solidity of the South, by filling the offices with conservative men and giving the car-

pet-baggers the shake. By conserv- fruits of our victory. Such a spec all. .

.tive merr.we presume, is meant nungry Democrats who are willing to play Republican for the sake of the money they can make out ot the Federal offices. This smells very much like Mr. Hayes' recent Southrn policy, and it is safe to say it fyill find no countenance with Gen-

eral Garfield's administration. Its I

adoption would do the llepublicm nariv no food, either in tbe North I J o or South. By carpet-baggers is meant Northern men, white and black, who have gone South and identified themselves with the interests of tho Negro and the Republican party. They and the nr.tivo Negroes are the only it real friebi.s of the Republican party and the National Government in the South. The so-called conservative men are'gcnerally disappointed politicians who have failed to get office at tho bauds of the Democratic party, and who are now attempting to foist

themselves upon President Garfield dorn. We do not believe ho will by placing themselves in apparent prefer enemies to friends. We beopposition to the Democrats. They lievo ho understands tho gravity of

are conservatives for office and office only. Any scheme which involves the ignoring of the Southern Repub licans and the preference ot Hancock aDemocrats for office, is a corrupt bar gain, and we know that the honor and integrity of General Garfield would not allow him to necoine a party to it. WANTS AN APOLOGY. "Humor," the New York paper we recently took to task for defending the Liberiau emigration villainy, comes to us in a recent issue demand in" an apology for our remarks concerning it. It 1 i as ih frrMf.In.mnPS to -style us "the Western Journal," cleverly edited which we arc happy to state we consider quite a , . ,. , j crushing little compliment in its way. m . -a a . a . . Isut tlesmse the ircntle ana winnin: language, in which our youthful contemporary clothes its demand for reparation, we can not find it in our lire its wounded sensibilities by a tender and tearful entreaty for pardon for our former re marks. c have neither time.space, nor inclination to reproduce the lan guage of "our metropolitan plaintiff, which called forth tho remarks from us for which it is seeking an apology. bulhcc it to say, However, that in a recent issue, it contained a denuncia tory article on the Xew York Times, because that paper discouraged Negro emigration to Liberia. After re-ex-amining its remarks, wo can not view them in any other light than as , ij xxT an apology and defense of egro emigration to Liberia. .Now, we are uncompromisingly opposed to this scheme. We regard it as a villain ous crime, and the spectacle of an American Neuro detenüinr it, tias tho same effect upon us as the wav ing of a red flag, in his face, has upon a mau ouii in tne opanisn arena. Until "Kumor" proves to us, which ,t has not yet done, that its remarks wPfl not a defonso of the Liherian 'sponsible, Sah," for our previous ob servations. Our address is Indian apolis, Indiana. WE shall bee. Speaking ofthe proposition to make Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, the Southern representative in President Garfield's Cabinet, the Chicago Times has this to say : There U no chance for Bruce. The Re publicans damn the brigadiers for not sending colored delegations to Congress, but when they hold power they never dream of giving way to the darkey. Mr. Bruce ha3 no chance. There is too much truth in this assertion of tho Times for it to bo cast aside as a weak invention of tho enemy. From the brigadiers we expect little ; but from the Republican party, which is our party, and which we have so materially aided by our votes in tho recent past, wo do expect a manly, friendly, and to us very useful, recognition. In the South, but for our votes, thero would bo no more signs of a Republican party than there are on the Northern shores of Alaska. In the North, but for our votes, the Republican party would have been defeated in Indiana and New York, the two privatal States upon which hinged tho mighty results ot the recently ciosou iresidential struggle. These incidents) which President Ilayas did not rec ognize in the selection of his official advisers. We are Republican to tho core, as the world well knows, but when tho dangers and uncertainties of an election arc passed, and our party rests triumphant in the citadel of power at Washington, we do not wish to be relejratcd to back seats in tho part', and at the same time seo our brigadier enemies, thoso who have striven hardest to defeat the Republican party, enjoy the tacle wouiu not De productive oi a feeling of overwhelming confidence in the wisdom, good faith, and good intentions ot the leaders of our party. The Negro vote is an important factor in any division of political parties in this country, but more especially is it a potent factor of Re

publican success, a9 parties are at

present divided. The recognition of this element in the party by the appointraenf of Senator Bruce as the Southern representative in General Garfield's Cabinet, would go far toward completely solidifying the Negro vote of the South, and holding in the party for an indefinite period yet to come. But the failure to do this, and the selection of some half horse and half alligator ex-Rebel brigadier, would do no good, and would only verify the truth of the above quotation. We have faith, however, in General Garfield's wisthe situation, and that he will act with the foresight that has hitherto marked his political career. LAND FOR THE LANDLESS. Those who have indulged the idea that the public lands of the United States would remain unoccupied for centuries, and that they could he given away or thrown away with impunity, are likely to change their views upon the subject. The public lands are going, going, and will soon be gone, and we conclude that no more public lands will be given away by Congress, by and with the consent of the people. Statements concern ing the public lands are becoming more exact than formerly, and the people are, therefore, better able to comprehend the vieiousness of the policy that has hitherto prevaueu in uiaiug ui u.e imuuc in uuinain, It i now stated that "the surveys have been north of completed in the the Ohio River, States i" Alabama, Mississippi, and in all the States iust west of the Mississippi River, except Minnesota. In these States immense lxxlies of land are reported unoccupied: 3JG,000 acres in Alabama, 112,000 acres in Mississippi, 227,000 in Florida (where over 7,0)0,(X'0 acres yet remain unsurveyed). 150,000 in Louisiana (where 1,300,000 acres are unsurveyed), 409,000 acres in Arkansas, where the public surveys have all been made. The Southern States, it Is estimated. now contain nearly 2o,0o0, 000 acres of United States land open to settlers by purchase, pre eruption, and homestead titles. In the North ern States the Government titles have been nearly extinguished, except in some few tracts in 'Viscoribin. There are, perhaps, all told, not more than 5,fi00,000 acres In these States uncovered by private titles. Iowa, Missouri and Kansai. have completed their surveys, which, together with the 67,88-1,000 acres of unsurveyed lands in Minnesota, Nebraska and Colorado, make 2.i0,000,000 acresfy-en tosettlementinthesesixStates. In theTerritoriesofVyoming,Dakota,NewMex ico Idaho- UtAh and Montana six-sevenths oftheltnd is still unsurveyed; but when the slice which wilI iUre to the railroads is deducted, probably not more than 2ö0, 000,000 acres fit for agricultural purposes will be at the Government's disposal. On the Pacific Slope, California, Oregon and Nevada, together with the Territories of Arizona and AVashington, about fivesevenths, or 250,000,000 acres, are yet unsurveyed. Individual or corporate title has attached to an area about equal to the surveyed land , but a large proportion of the remain der bing covered with mountain ranges is rendered unfit for anything but sheep farm The lands at the disposal of the difterent States are almost insiguificant. There are none whatever in the New England and Middle States. By the terms of the annexation of Texas, that State reserved her own lands, and all grants and titles vest in her. Arkansas, of the Southern inland States, Is the only one known as a public land State, and reports show that immigration is fast seizing hold of her large tracts. The unoccupied lands in Tennessee were ceded to the General Government by North Carolina, but were so covered by contradictory titles that the Government gave back the gift to Tennessee, and the great bulk has now passed into private hands. In the Northern States the amount of these lands is trifling and comparatively so in the inland States of the West. The lands granted for rail and wagon road construction foot up 195,185,794 acres, of which the Pacific Roads have secured the respectable slice of 13.5,000,000." At no previous period in the bistoy of the United State has the question of land assumed so much importance as at present. It is being discussed in Europe with quite as much interest as it is in the United States. Private corporations are being formed for the purpose of purchasing extensive tracts for colonists. Immigrants are urged to avoid the cities and press 'forward to the West, and efforts are made to induce thousands in over-crowded cities to remove to localities where they can purchase land cheap and secure Independence. The tide of immigration from Europe was never so deep and strong as now, and it is steadily increasing in volume. In less than a hundred years every foot of available land in the United States will be owned by individuals or corporations. The United States will be landless. Those who take an Interest in the land question, and it is of universal interest, may see by the following table the value of farm lauds, cleared and timbered, for 1880, in the various States, and the per cent, of

tl 1 -ff 8 . . Ip STATES. Z Z . VO -0 S3 -h k c e:?: iiJü Maine...- J12 87 12 0) 10 New Hampshire - 15 00, s 00! JO Vermont 1" 2S 17 73. 6 MatachusetU 85 X), 43 251 8 Connecticut 29 00 24 50 7 New York 5 4H. 40 Mi 4.7 New Jersey 82 42 Srt S2( 5.2 Pennsylvania......... 45 75 jo 7v 7 Delaware 19 U 15 U0 7.5 Maryland 21 65, 35 50 6.3 Virginia- 9 42 7 48 1.4 North Carolina. 9 77j 5 53 6 South Carolina- 8 64) 6 2 1! 9 Georgia 6 ft; 5 4.1j 10 Florida. 9 48 3 03 28 Alabama - 9 53 4 08 9 Mississippi 7 KS 3 78 Louisiana . 14 36 3 53 9 Texas 8 9s 4 go 4.8 Arkansaa. 11 78 3 48 7.3 Tennessee - 1 00 7 28 8.7 West Virginia 21 05 9 39 8 Kentucky 18 Rfi 12 82 8.2 Ohio - 47 53 41 87 8.5 Michigan-...... 34 39 20 27 8 Indiana 30 46 26 90 8.7 Illinois 39 03' 23 68 11 Wisconsin . 26 07j 19 55 7 Minnesota 14 45 12 25 5 low ft. h nw miM wMnit 27 30 39 3t) 75 Missouri -.. 14 55 8 25 12.5 Kansas 11 82 19 12 10.3 Nebraska 8 93 25 85 15.3 California 27 16 8 55 8.2 Oregon 21 71 4 50 2.6

Such figures demonstrate pretty conclusively that cheap lands are toj be obtained

only from the Oovernment, and from some of the great railroad corporations, who, In numerous instances, as Judge Black says, have secured the lands without any e.st whatever.

GOLD AND SILVER OF DOMESTIC PRODUCTION. The following table gives the deposits of. gold and silver of domestic production at the mints and assay oflices from their organ ization to the close of the ticul year ended

June, UO, 1830: Locality. Gold. Silver, i Total. ( I ; Alabama-....' 21j.S7-2$ ;$ 219,872 Alaska I "W I ',07 Arizona ! 2.2-V 7J2 2,llß.77 1. 37.1, !"'. California-....! 7iVJ,ariS.'j:o. 1.677.iV0 Tttt.ToG.'vJO Colorado i .Y..417.Ö17; 20.1MS'.t; .Vi.ti0l.407 Dakota. ! 7.2:. 112; 22.121 1 7.2.V..2SI Georgia- T 7,tW,os2 r,s 7.fi'.8.510 Idaho j 24,137.417 727.-'. 21.861,712 Maryland i 102 ! 402 Maesaeh's'tsi j 0171 917 Mich. (Lake: Superior...! IF. .1.4:CVf7l 3.433.799 Montana I 4S.GW.oih. 4.371 ,3M M.OCO.äki Nevada j 14.432.322! 72,107,o;Wj Ki.ö;!),::! N. Ham ll.o:'.ti; 11,020 New Mexico l..VW,472i 2.221 .4M. S,79l).'AV North Car...; lo,C13,3Mi 4.,5Kl 10,Ws,932 Oregon ; 15.41 l,50y 4,40ß. 15.418.M5 South Car...' 1,101,IV :uv 1,101.875 Tennessseo...! SlJt ... ' M.'ißS Utah I 455.1:. y.tKV..', 9.482.0H0 Vermont ! W.ysl1 10.W1 Virginia ! 1,ö;2,V7 ; 1,672.607 Wash. Ter!...' -jfts. :'. 20h,it Wyoming ...1 71..hV. ll.T:- 7."0 RTd bullion 201.P55.VU5 I2j'.'",tl2 2:t;.M5,928 I't'd from Sil; 1.VJ74.771' ; H.074.771 (Vt'clin sil ...I 9,322,2(V 9,322,2is P'tdfmgd i 6H.4; 6.M3.4SS C't d in KM; ; 520.623 Oth'r sonrcs! 10,242,7::i 31,:u;7.-Js- l..r7U.y:i5

Total $1,108,920, 1i5 $!'.7.4l2.Cl2ll.."OÖ.342 U GKXERAL NOTKS. Kepkf.sentativk Newbcrv, of Michigan, U said to be the richest man In the House. A itACGUTER of General Worth has juht been ap pointed to a clerkship in the Pension Ofllce. Senator Waoe Hamttox is in Mll.-sippl on business and will not mich Was! ington until after the holidays. Mr. G korke Merriman and wife, of Litchfield, .mm.. c:!invtel the sixtieth anniversary oi - - ... p their marriage o: the 0lh ult. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald. Is a wild fellow, hut ha iven away half a million dollars in three year. Three school teachers have been elected Presi dent of the United States Millard Fillmore, Franklin Tierce, and J;um- A. Garfield. Senator Blaise ha. prepared a bill to reduce letter posUire from three totwocuit. He will Introduce it in the Sen ite in a day or two. General (KANT and hU family are much en tertained In New Y.nk. and often seen at the opera, where they always receive an ovation. Mr. Jouk H. Parnet- a brother of the agitator, who owns a pUntitlon lu Georria, announces his intention of starting land leagued in that State. A CiNCiKy ati an cays that Mamie Anderson's cherry red lips are the prett!t in America. Bah ! we'll tut our lips against hers any day. Boston Post. The gifts of the 1st? Samuel Willision to the Wllllston Seminary, at Easthampton, Mass., will amount to $850,000 when the provisions of his will are fully carried out. Mrs. Davis, the widow of General Jefferson C. Davis, has contracted with, the New England Granite Works, at Hartford, for an elaborate monument to her late hubbaud. Senator McDonald thinks that General Den Harrison will succeed him. but is of opinion that as Geueral Harrison is merely a good lawyer and not a good politician, he w ill disappoint the Re publicans. According to ;he Hartford On rant an existing law of Connecticut declares that "every horse used in any hore race, and on which any wager is laid, or any p'irse or srake made, shall he for feited to the Sta.e." "I heard Albert Gallatin say," w rites a corres pondent of the Albany Journal, "in a conversation which he did me the honor of holding with me, in his old ape, that he thought that Washing ton loved ouly one man, and that was Lafayette." Mr. Talmaoe tells young men if they will stay at home evenings and learn to play the flute they will hesafe from many temptatious. He forgets, however, that the young man living next door may be tempted to go in and kill the llute player. New Orleans Picayune. An old lady in Chicago has seen almost all of our Preiddents, and yet she does not wear spec tacles when she reads. She thought that Wash ington, on his white horse, looked kind and good. She thinks that Grant's looks pleased her better than Jackson's did. Now she desires to see Garfield. General Nelson A. Miles, who has just re ceived his Brigadier ( Jeneralship, is a handsome, soldierly man, with curly brown hair and a ruddybronzed face. His first American ancestor, Rev. John Miles, was a Puritan minister who fought Indians in the intervals of preaching. He com manded a company In the war with Kin? Philip. One hundred years ago from Thursday last the following marriage notice appeared in an Albany (N. Y.) newspaper: "Married On December 9, at the residence of the brl-le's father, by Rev. Eliardus Westerlo, D. D.. Alexander Hamilton, Lieutenant Colonel in the Revolutionary Army and Alde-de-Camp to General Washington, to Elizabeth, daughter of Major General Philip Schuyler." Nearly all of the pem.le who belonged to Alexander H. Stevens as slaves remain on his plantation. His house is always full of visitors; for, although te -ts almost nothing himself, he likes tobe known as a haspitAble bachelor. He is passionately fond of whist He keeps on his place an old gentleman of ninety years, with whom he plays cards. Mr. Stephens has an accurate memory. While Governor Foster was visiting the Presi-" dent-elect at Mentor, one of the chubby, curlyheaded sonsof Garfield took a piece of chalk and wrote "329" all over the house, against the porch, the gable of the bam and the fences. Garfield looked at the performance, turned to Foster, and said: "Charley, did you ever see the ingratitude of sons exemplified like that?" The Sentinel expresses its wonder that the younger Garfield did not chalk .T2'J" on the old man's back. A resident of Baltimore has brought suit for $10,000 damages against the Western Tnion Telegraph Company for the death of his son, and another resident has brought suit against the same Company for $2,000 for injuries to his son. The somewhat suiprising grounds are that the Company had left a telegiAph pole unguarded on a truck in a public street, tnd these boys and others attempted to play see-saw npon it, and It toppled over, killing one of the boys and injuring the other. A jolly-looking German was quietly walking down Third avenue, looking up occasionally at an elevated railway locomotive, and perhaps wishing that he could smoke as much as it could, when he was familiarly approached by a man who said, "Halloo, Joel What are you doing here?" The old man looked up and said, "But I am not here at all." "Not here?" said the man. "What do you mean by that?" "Veil, now, you see my name is not Joe, and so how could 1 be here? You must mean some other man." New York Herald. Several tons of fair hair are annually exported from France to England and Germany. The most luxuriant heads of hair In France arc to be found among the peasant women of Normandy. Brittany yields plentiful crops, but of coarse quality and lacking in lustre. Limoges and its neighborhood are productive of exceptionally long and glossy black hair. Throughout the north of France dull hues characterize the growths, a fact wuich the dealers attribute to the influence of the sea air upon the human hair, which, In inland mountainous districts, is generally found to be dark and bright in color, an J to grow with great rapidty to abnormal length and weight. The French hair dealer's chief customer is America, whither Is annually exported as much of the commodity In question as is sent to Great Britain and Germany toftar.

TDK BBAÜ flFUL I'OTOCKI.

And Some of the Matrimonial Diftirultle That Strewed Herrath. lNw York Graphic Those who have visited the Berlin Museum are familiar with the sweet and childlike face of the Counters Potocki, and even those who have not seen the original portrait are well acquainted with the features represented in the engravings and photocraph?. liut a history of her adventurous life, shorn of lit tle known, that a sketch taken from a late work of the Baron von dor liruggen ''The Dissolution of Poland" will doubtless be acceptable. Sophie, the subsequent Uounte.-s, was horn in Peru. Her parents wero of Greek extrac tion, and closely allied to the distinguished famine of uhika and Jlaurokordalo. Hut they wore then greatly impove rished, and Sophie was earning a livelihood in a coffee house. Here sho nrst attracted trie attention of Bc&kanip, the Polish Embassador. Swine writes say that Boskanip had received private orders from Stanislaus Augustus to bring Lome with him a beautiful dreekcrirl; others assert that it was his own conception to take her to Mamslius, knowing well how 11 1 f. aav acceptable buch a gut wi uia lc. However that may le, he purchased the young (Jretk girl of her parents for 1.500 pijuneis iquiva lent to fto and started with her for Poland. For some reason he was obliged to leave Sophie in (Jhozim, u frontier town, while he hurried to "Warsaw. Her picture, however, he carried with him. Young men quickly learn of the arrival in their neighborhood of a pretty girl. Do Wut, ton of the Commander of Kamitnec, was among the tir?tto viMtlb young beau ty. Their acquaintance ripened into love, and love led to a secret marriage. The father of Do Witt, learning ofthe marriage, hastened after his son, arretted him, and put him in iron?, s.vearing he would cot release him until he had promised totive up Sophie. tlereuion the voung wifo threw herself at the feet ofthe angry father, v,ho wori by her Iooks ttnd tears, finally relented. Sophie now fought to fit herself for her new position in life. She became a go( d linguist, and was accomplished in many ways. In rans, which city th- often visited with her husband, the was greatly admired, counting among Lor conquests the subsequent King LniU XVIII. At la.t her hus band became jealous, and treated her with such harshness and severity thnt she fit.! to Constantinople. After a tiaic, however, a reconciliation was brought abjut, and she con. rented to return to l'oland. There fhe passed Ave or six uneventful years. In 1788 she went with her husband to Warsaw. Years had only added to her charms. In Warsaw every one .was intoxicated with her beauty. Whenever fche appeared in society the guests mounted ohairs and thbles to gaze upon her. She was called the '-Goddess cf Beauly'' and the ''Grecian Venus." The intimacy between her and Count Potocki dates fn. m this visit. Felix Potocki was born in 1753, at Krystynopol, one of the many estates of his father. He grew up under the supervision of his mother and the instruction ot tho pianist, Wolff. In 1770 the Turks, then waging war in Europe, threatened to destroy Krystynopol. Felix, a lad of seventeen years, under the plea of a necessity for bodily exercise, obtained permission of his father to oversee tho frontier guard. His youthful fancy had been caught by the pretty face and graceful figure of the daughter of a neighboring Castellan. The war, however, had interrupted their intercourse. His new military duty would give the young man frequent opportunities ot meeting this girl, and of arranging a secret marriage without the knowledge of either parents. The Castellan belonged to the middle order of nobility ; consequently, a txarriage between two families could not but be regarded by the Potockis as most derogatory to their pride and position. Count Potocki had also other views for his son. A distinguished lady, Castellanin Mniszech, had proposed a betrothal between her daughter, Josephine, and the young Count. "When, a few months later, Count Potocki learned of the marriage of his son, his indignation knew no bounds. Threats of violence to himself and his wife led Felix, in a moment of weakness, to consent to a separation. lie hoped thereby to ward off a greater danger to his wife. Iiis submission was, however, of no avail. Count Potocki ordered his Cossacks to make a night assault on the house of the Castellan and carry off the daughter. The young wife was torn from her bed at midnight, hurried into a sledge, and driven towards Krystynopol. A long train of heavily-laden carts barred the way, and compelled a halt. The Cossacks, fearing their prisoner's call for help would betray them, sought to suppress her cries by stifling them with wraps and cushions. When, finally, the road was clear, and they had removed the wrappings which they had wound about the head, tho young wife was found to be dead. To remove all trace of their guilt, the Cossacks cut a hole in the ice of a near stream, into w hich they thrust the body of their victim. '1 he blow fell heavily on Felix. In the first moment of despair he sought to take his own life. Frustrated in this, he sank into a 6tate of profound melanchol' lie never recovered entirely from the shock. His character changed, lie grew moody, unsccial and gloomy. lie married the same Josephine whom his father had chosen as a bride for him. This marriage, entered into with little love or inclination, proved far from happy. Josephine was gifted with bodily and mental charms, which kept her husband faithful to her for a time. She. however, was not equally faithful to him. Still their life was outwardly calm and peaceful until 1782, when political business drew Count Potocki to Jassy. Here ho again met Sophie, at that time a visitor of Potemkin, and here matters came to a crisis. Although Potocki was over forty years and the father of a large family, he became so infatuated with Sophie that be resolved, for her sake, to seek a separation from his wife. Negotiations were entered into with Do Witt, who readily consented, for a stipulation, to give up Sophie. Once more tho beautiful woman was pold. We are not this timefmade acquainted with the terms of agreement. Apparently the lovely Greek was not adverse to an arrangement which gave to her for a husband one of the wealthiest noblemen of Poland. The marriage, however, was not consummated until the year follow ing. The Bishop, Sierakowski, influenced, it is said, by bribes, dissolved the tie which bound him to Josephine. Sophie was likewise freed from obligations to her husband. The newly married pair departed for Hamburg, where they remaintd several years. On his return to his native land Potocki devoted hirmelf to the creation of that bit of fairy land, that lasting monument of his infatuation forthe beautiful woman, then his wife, that celebrated spot that bears her name, 'Sonjowka." Out of a barren waste, upon which 10,000 laborers wero employed, grew this beautiful country seat, which even to this day is the admiration of all visitors. The immense parks, the artificial lakes, rocks, streams and woods have often been described by travelers, and immortalized by the Polish poet Trembecki, in his poems entitled ''Sofijowka." In this spot, absorbed in his love for his wife, Potocki passed the last ten years of his life. Here his Nemesis met him. Potocki'a eldest son, likewise called Felix, had been banished by the Czar from St. Petersburg on account of his enormous debts. His father not only paid these debts, amounting to $2,000,000, but gave his son the control of two large estates. In return, Felix, the younger, rewarded his father by winning the affections of his stepmother. The criminal connection between the' two lasted many jears. When at last discovered by Count Potocki, it is said to have hastened

his death, which took place at Sofijowka in 1805. Sophie inherited one-half of ner husband's estates and continued to live at Sofijowki with her five children, leading an active hospitable, and apparently respectable life,

Her house was tlircnged with guests and admirers. She died in Berlin in 1823. The .Han Who Made the Standard Oil Company. L'hieigo Tribune. John 1). Rockefeller, the moving ppirit in the Standard and the man to whose indomitablo will it success is largelv due, was poor twenty years ago. He evidently studica the tactics ot waue in making the Western Union Telegraph Company, and Vanderbilt in organizing his great systems of railroads. At any rate, he pursued to a certain extent the eamo plan that these men employed, and the same that Gould is now operating so largely upon in forming his railroad schemes. He saw the oil business divided into a score or more of bands here, and none of them making anything to speak of. He organized and ; ns lidated, and the Standard with us far- reaching power is the result. Mr. Kf-ckefoiler s wealth is van ously estimnti-d. but no one kn-ws anything about it? extent except t nat it is counted by the millions. Recently he conceived that bis children fhniM have a larger play-yard about his hue. id svenue home. Next to him on the right tnod a bouse as elegant as his own. He purchased it arid moved it to a vacant lot which ho had purchased a block or two away, and is fining it up for a seminary, while Lu children revel in their greater freedom. Mr, Rockefeller is the di recti ng head of the Standard. He is a man of few words, if very short office hours, and does most f his work at his residence, which h con meted with all parts of the world by telegraph. He is devctid tp his family and his Church (Close-Uommunion Haptist), and gives liber ally for all church purposes and tho endow ment of colleges. A few 3 ears since an or gat) iza ion nuiii a une water-cure hotel on one of the delightful tummit3 which verlook the lake from a distmee of a few miles beyond the citv limits. Their venture plete failure, and the owners were glad to Mr. Rockefeller for a very small was a com to sei1 to ur. liocKciener lor a very 1 percentage of the first cost. This building, with its tiftv rooms, the new owner has fit ted up and furnished with lavish outlay, and from his mountain height is more like a mediaeval Puke than anything else. Croakers hve prophesied until they are tired of doing so that the day? of the Standard would be numbered sooner or later. But it still lives, and the in-mbers get richer and richer as the da go ly. The ability displayed in warding oti attacks and passing on to new conquests is no less than that possessed by v anderbut or (jould. With the Sprlur, The ftutnroii win-Is ftr ?o!, and brown, Thwau-u-i ti winJa are chill. And the rurpic flu-u of summer Had ta:lii from the hill. O autumn 1'av. fall thick and fatt; O autumn lml, blow fit-, And cp-ed tbe bitter months along That ke j) my tore from me. The tree are bleak and bare, the lake With criupy frost U enrh-d, Kod the wh;te lo-p of the winter llasttillen on the world. Ü'wi nter nun ic winter sky, Sink swiftly in the sea. And haste to drown the gloomy day Thai bide mj love from me, The asphodel slid violet Arc peeping through the plaiu, And th? flame f gedden crocua lias lit the land again, O I ud aud bh.sHum, quicken fut. Bedeck the barren tree. Aid bring the spring, fur with the spring My love conies Lack to me. London World. I'oUuii Kings. London Globe.J Poison rings still exist in many antiquarian collections. They are generally of two kinds, one intended as an engine of destruction to its wearer, the other 6imply as a convenient receptacle or hiding-place for poison. Some years ago a ring of the furnier description was purchased at a sale of curiosities. Its device was two sharppointed claws holding a stone. The purchaser, slipping it on his finger, received a slight scratch from these claws, the points of which bent inward. His hand and arm very shortly became swelled and painful; a doctor was sent for, who pronounced the slight scratch poisoned. Examination of the ring showed that the claws were hollow, and that a poisonous matter had been contained in them; doubtless when first made, the ring would have caused death, instead of merely inconvenience, to its wearer. Rings intended to contain poison are frequently mentioned in ancient history; it was common to carry one as a convenient means of suicide. By such a ring Demosthenes probably destroyed himself, and some historians say Hannibal likewise. M Crassus, the overseer of the Temple of the Capitolino Jupiter, being arrested on a charge of purloining some of the gold deposited there, broke a hollow receptacle of his ring with his teeth, and fell dead on the spot. The Emperor Heliogabalus is said to have had a collection of these poison rings among his jewels. A Manly Lover, lion. L. S. Foster, who recently died at a ripe old age in Norwich, Conn., rose rapidly in his profession, the law, and waa frequently called to serve in the councils of the btate ana the Nation. He was a scholar and an orator, and endowed with a manly, inucpenaent spirit, ineiioston rost tells an anecdote which illustrates this trait of his character: When the late Hon. Lafayette S. Foster waa a young and rising lawyer, he wooed and was engaged to a young lady whose family enjoyed a larger social prominence than hie own. The weddingday had been fixed, and the couple were talking over the prospective tour, as a part of which young Foster proposed that they should spend a few days with his parents, who resided in a town some distance away. The lady rather reluctantly consented, but said, ''I will go with you this time, but in future you must not expect my visits to your parents to be very frequent. You must remember that our associations have been very different.' Surprised and shocked by this cold blooded deprecation of the father and mother whom he loved and honored, theyoung man paced the floor, troubled by conflicting emotions. Finally, taking his hat ht! turned to the lady and said, "I am glad I found you out in time! Our engagement is broken I" Thenceforth their ways lay apart, and she was not the gainer. I'heMate Lovers on the Railway Journey. They bade farewell; but neither spoke of love. The railway bore him off with rapid pace, lie gnz-d awhile on Edith's garden grove. Till Alien woodland overlapp'd the p'ace Almt he cried, bow mutely did we part! 1 fear'd to text the truth I seem'd to see. Oh! that th love dream in her timid heart Had sirfh'd itM-lf awake, and called fur me! I conl J havvauawer'd with a ready mouth, Aud told a sweater dream but each fort-bore, lie saw the hederowa nVetinK to the north On either aide, whilst he looked sadlv forth; Then set himxelf to face the varant south, While fields and woods ran back to Edith More. CUa.lt Tennvson Turner. How did we come to possess our present form of dress is answered by a reviewer- in Nature. Clothing at first was almost entirely ornamental. The simple cincture waa the germ, so to speak, of the clothing we wear. After some time a bunch of pandanus slips wis added in front, and this waa gradually extended until it made a complete fringe around the body. When the arts became so tar advanced that man could make paper cloth or some woven material, these latter were substituted for the primitive fringe, and the kilt was thus developed. Curiously enough, the dress of the Scottish Highlanders embodies these two stages of progress in the kilt and the sporran. As man advanced there were inconveniencei attending the use of the kilt, which were abated by fastening that jrarmtnt at on

point between the legs, and the human mind was then fairly set upon the path to arrive at the attainment of a pair of trouaers. When the hack and shoulders needed protection the savages used the skin of some animal, and it is from th9 sort of covering

for the upper part ot the body that we have deiived our coat, vests, shirts, etc. But the ancient coat iorra is even jet retained, not only by such people a9 Zulu chiefs, but in all robes of ceremony by dignitaries of court and college of the moat highly civil ized Nations on the face ofthe carta. J.he elaborate and varied head-covering of the present day all sprang from a very simple original type. When vou have boen writing to a stranger on a formal matter of business, have you ever thought how hypocritical, false, and absurd you were when you sa above yotl signature, "very respectfully, your obedienr servant? Pwsiblv vu had occasion to write a 6harp, sarcastic, unfriendly letter, but you added the same unmeaning falsehood. You said vou were "respettfallv" his, when you expressed contempt for him. . l ... si- . iou were nis "ooeuiem servant, wnen you would not etoop to comply with a request. much less an order. The custom, doubtlessly, has come down from those good old days when letter-writing was such a very formal affair that it was thought neewsary to surround u with cerenuniou verbiage, As we have abolished slavery, and one man is as god as another and a great dca' better sometimes it would be the neans of elevating the moral tone of the community if conespondents would cease to make use ofthat meaningless, submissive admission, "I have the hon t to. b, very respectfully, your obedient servant." DB. T. N. WATSON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, 458 East North Street JAMES T- HI LI, Attorney at Law and Not&ry PllbliCj OFFICE, WESLEY BLOCK, Rear No. 28 Indiana Av. FiieHILUHEHTESTIBUSHDEDT The Best and Cheapest place in this City to buy Millinery Goods of every description, at 52 NORTH ILLINOIS STREET. JAMES BO GABT, pi 14 o -3 TRUNK MANUFACTURER 53 W. Washington St., Batest Hotel, lSD'AX.tl'CJLIS. Largeot and best eortment f Traveling BafS, Trunks, English Sule-leathr Tit nka, VaIifS, Carpet Bags, Ladies Irea Trunks, Traveling Trunks, Etc. REPAlHXKa NEATLY LONE. II. W. WHITE, MERCHANT TAILOR 7 WEST MARKET ST. aUrGooda Made and Ti iaiturd to order a Specialty 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE! SE. TUE Indian Botanic Physician LATE OF LOM10X, ENGLAND, The most urreafnl ratarrh, lun aud throat doe tor in America, ia permanently located at the corner of Illinois and LooWiana etrtets, Indianapolis, Indiana, where he will i xamine all dieeases, and t'-ll the complaint without axking a single question. VConmiltatioo Free, In either German or English. FE8MAXFXT C CR EN I Dr. Keevee warrants a j rmam ut cure of the following diftr a !!: Piles end tumors, itching and protruding, cured without puin it instruments; cancers cured in all their forms without the kuif. or sickness of tbe patient. The Doctor has cured hundreds of this ritearifnl ranker of the human body, which has baffled the accumulated skill of ages. Uis remedies excel anything known to medical science, lie defies the world to brii g him a case where there is sufficient vitality to sustain the system, that he ran not cure. Any person winning further information or treatmeut, should give him a call. Rheumatism cured aud warranted to stay cured in every case. AU forma of Blood and Skin Dlneaae are Permanently Cured I Such as tetter, salt rhenm, scrofula or syphilitic sores, strictures, seminal weakness or spermatorhoea, primary aud secondary s)philis, gouorrhuea, or chronic venereal, kidney or urinary diseases of either ex, young or old, no matter how bad. He challenges a comparison with any physician in America in curing these diseases. Loss of manLood restored. Tbe Doctor can refer to hundreds thus affected who credit their present existence to being cured by him. All moles, birth-marks and freckle removed. Also, all the various diseases of the eye and ear. FOB TOE LADIES OH LT! A lady, at any period of life, from childhood to the grave, may, if ill, uff- r T ni one or more of the following diseases, whi. hjne Doctor witl positively cn-e: Liver complaint, indigrstion of the stomach, nervous weaknesses, lung diseases, etc., prolapsus of the vagina or womb, leucorrhoea or whites, anteverion, retroversion, antiplexion, retropleiion.tr ulceration of this organ, sick headache, rheumatism and sciatic pains. Dropsy permanently cured Id a short time without tapping. Call or write to tne office, ear. Illinois and Louisiana street's Indianapolis. Indian a. Private medical aid. All diseases of a secret nature speedily cured. If in trouble call or write perfectly confidential. AMT CASE Or WHISKY HABIT CURED IN TEN DAY.

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