Indianapolis Leader, Volume 3, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1882 — Page 2

leide, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT OFFICE. 11 31IIXE1VS BLOCK Corner Illinois and Harket him. CaUi4 m Mcs4-claM natter - . mt Iadiaaapolts,Ind. at th. Fo.ioffl TEBMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Kofi Copy, 1 yr,.--.-.---....-....--..--.t,-.00 - " month . 1.00 - Z loatlii .60 -l onth 20 Olak ( als 1 7r, ach copy-..- .. 1.74 Ub, 1 jear, ach copy- 1.50 WIHO Dl DfU X found on Ms at llllu rArTjliGeo. P. Kowall A Co.'i Kawtpapar Advertising Bareaa (10 Sprue St ) where a4vrMlac contracts may If mUa Ior it In B lW tout fluavierlfe lor lh LeaUer. Let erery colored man who favors the erieTation of hU race subscribe for the Leadr; And let every white man who believea A UUM aiTrT wm icrm agiu uuuisuhy i , and that it is the duty of the ruling race to . . . . aid the Negro in hia trugglefor moral, social ana in teuectuai eievauon ao likewise. - 1 f . 11 . t 1 1M 1 ly our next issue we hope to be able tO annOUQCe positively the exact time of C. J. Guiteau s last appearance before the American public. If Manager Cox consults the wishes of the public, the time will not be later than high noon on next Friday. J. R. Chalmers, the shoestring Pirate continues to draw Hon. John R. Lynch's salary from the United States Treas" ury. This thing is getting to be almost as monotonous as the Guiteau trial. Mr. Calkins, chairman of the committee on elections, will win the applause of would shame an Italian bandit. Ins Cincinnati Commercial nas a correspondent ia this city who is worrvinir himself unnecessarily with a a political matters. TV a a a a We predicts a breaking up ana reorganization ot political parties, it is just possible that a few politicians who forget their pledges and obligations to their constituents as soon as they get into office will be badly "broken up' within the next twelvemonth. This will be about the extent of the reorgan ization, the C. C. to the contrary nota withstanding. It now seems probable that Congress will at an early date make an appropri ation for the benefit of the widow of President Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln is a ereat sufferer from a complication of diseases and her expenses are so heavy that the annual allowauce of 83,000 per annum which Congress voted her some years aero is entirely inadequate. A a f liberal appropriation should be imme diately made. Let not pecuniary em barrassment be added to the woes of vv.w w6vv v v the wife of our murdered Liberator. The occasions have been extremely rare when we have been able to make favorable mention of the Hon. D. W. Voorhees. It affords us pleasure how ever to say that his opposition to the repeal of the arrears of pension act is worthy of high commendation. It may do for old slave drivers like Beck of Kentucky to denounce this act of tardy justice to the Nation's defenders. Mr. Y .1 ..an .BecK pursues tne course tnat will win a a .a. a toe lavor ot nis constituents, a proposition to repeal all pension laws and repudiate the National debt, would i.i .i .i ... aonDtiess receive the entiiusiastic sup port of Mr. Beck's constituents, but triroimrtmir tho oroit "Vi.rth u-hnrA omn. . 0 J b 7 . V K y Bieeve an woouen iimi are iamuiar sights, the Senator or Represents. live wno votes to repeal this measure will receive a rebuke that will convince Lim that the people are not yet ready to repudiate the pledges made to the men who placed their lives between the Nation and her foes. Senator Ingalls of Kansas, voiced the sentiment of every patriot when he said: "I would have voted for it if it had cost $500,000,000. I will to-day vote to allow any claim of a soldier that is established to run back to the time hi disability was incurred, whether it costa $500 or $1,000,000, 000." It is safe to say that the measure will not be repealed. There b probably no race or class of people on the globe without iU intellectuaTas well as other cranks. Dr. Blyden of the College of Liberia, Af- , rica, b probably the most notable proof that the Negro race b no exception to thb rule. The Doctor's most recent idiosyncrasy has appeared in the form of a pronunciaraento against the English language. He wants the English language excluded from the schools of Liberia. In the reason for the Doctor's fierce onslaught upon the noblest language among men, appears the ludicrous crank element in his nature. He would ;;j&itne language of Shakespeare and 1 ßccitsd Dickens and TVhittier and ' Xsrfelldw and Sumner under a ban because forsooth ifj contains words degrading to tbe-NeTSce.'' The mere

iiiDiioeroLis

-ii u t, l u xr i ThA spnafp unmmittee on uommerce nas i

au uuuwiuieuujrgiuugu.c nuuuu -""j -the passage of McMil- The proper time for experts to bandy The "8100 importer's tea company," immediate opportunity to kick this bra- Un's bill to reduce the fees of inspectors for words and opinions as to his sanity or which "did Indianapolis so successfulren, impudent scoundrel out of the seat MPiloÄ insanity is alter he is dead Their opin- ly last winter is now doing a land office ! KroJni fiinrrK illmnJoa tVint cphLh arh. instead of3 and 1 10 respectively. i ns, then, may be considered in the business in this city. Zinc watches,

statement of such a reason brands Bidden as a shallow pated mountebank.

If any back-woods pedagogue in this country were to make such a statement about any of the great languages of the earth, he would be considered a fit sub ject for a commission of lunacy. Dr. Blyden has held the position of Liberian minister to England and has mas queraded before the world as the most intellectual man the Negro race lmsprorlnced.. Own.? to this undue notoriety ,-e made him the laughing stock and butt of ridicule throughout the newspaper world, lhe fact is there is a treat poverty of intellectual men in Iileria, and a mouutei i u uulik. Willi it Miuiiiriiu" ui ctiumuvu i I ami a gooi siock i ra.-8 ami cm.-, i l a . l- r 1 1 1 1. I and finds it easy to become a recognized literateur anions' the benighted novices by whom he is surrounded. If Dr. Blyden may be taken as a type of the Professors of Lil)eria College, peo ple will risrhtlv conclude that she has nothinff that deserves the name of col- . i . :ki I luiru ill a f a um a i I I ii'in i v h." " " "fa"".' SUme the title of literary or even intel- ): . lliiCUl, ItlCIl. We advise Dr. Blyden to join a ear avan to tne Ethiopian interior where k;g intellectual gymnastics if not so amusing to himself, will be less dis creditable to hia country, and less annoying to the Negro race of which is an alleged member. he Washington Laconics. Washington. Jan. 19. In the Police Court to-dav the counsel for the defense in the straw bond Star Route cases, not being ready to proceed, the hearing was postponed until to-morrow. There is some doubt as to the President sieving the census deficiency bill, which has been before him for tne past two days. J ne President is desirous of making t le bill a law. but is restrained by a point raised in objeon thereto by the first Comptroller. as authorized by the existing law Senator Coke's bill to regulate inter-State commerce and probable unjust uiscnmlna' tion by common carriers, was to day unten a t .J aA a ft. fX . I a aa avn. . . . . . . UP nun rtrifrrru iu iur öuirvuiummcg 11sisting of tX)ke, 3liller of -ew lorK, ana Kellogg. Senator Ingalls will take the nrst oppor tunity when he can get the floor to reply to l .wwaw - "r m " tion declaring against the repeal ofthat act. He has received numbers oi letters ironi on-1 fprpnt .prtions of the country, thankine him I r hi. defense ot the m-nsions act. and also engrossed copies of lutions adopted by various Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic approving the piiion he ha taken. 'aA u.ki.-ii Afvj' Mai i 1 1 pj' -vaTinnui .nu iriin i condemned the attacks recently made in Uona. press and in the newspapers upon the arrears : . ' J JI. ,f 11 I efforts toward brineiiiL about its repeal. and thanked Senators Voo"rheea and Inalls for their defense of the measuie and their advocacy in the interests of the soldiers and Ä i sailors of the Kepublic Three Murderers Lynched. Sak Francisco. Jan. 19. A Seattle (W. T.) dispatch says: "Jaiue-i Sullivan and William Howard were arrested here yester day on a charge of the murder ot Oeortre K. Reynolds', a yount? man whom they wayiaia and snot last mem. jue prisoners were taken before a matnstrate for preliminary examination to-uay. iue evidence oi men .- . a ra I l f euilt was most conclusive. I he feeline be came intense, and at the close of the exam ination a Committee of Safety forced 1U way into the Court room. and. overpowerine the officers, took the prisoners a short distance and hanged them. Ilieir bodies were leu suspended, and the crowd, numbering 400, then ptoceeded to the county Jan. ana. . -m . a n t a m- n h. . a A rtnn i n ew firiTwn the doors 01 tne ceu, tooK cui uen i ayne, who was conhned fo. the murder of Police umcer oears. aie was ut&eii w me piaie hpro th horlies of Sullivan and Howard . . . . rr i were suspended ana nung. i ne Doaies were left hanging some time and then gave over li th I nrnnor Ith I ;im m t ltpp nr aiPtV n.on;a;.r. .ml Via va laotiAil a notice that persons guilty of highway robpenalty of death in a similar manner. WI: " " "-. Garfield od Fitx John Potter. Cisciwsati. Jan. 19. General Jacob D. Cox has furnished the following answer to his Fitz John Porter letter for publication: IIocse of Representatives. WASHINGTON, V. t,., reD. 18, lflSU. ) My Peak Cox In our twenty-five years' ac qu&loUuce and friendship you have never done a creater service to the truth, nor given me so vaiuable a help in your letter of the 14th Inst., which I have lust received. bv the decision of the Scofleld Board that It is very hard to trust my own mina to speai oi it as it appears to me. 1 bave made a strong effort to tsep&rate myself from the case and to look at it in tellectually, as inougi lectually, as though it related only to the pieces and chessboard, and not to living men, or men who ever bad llTed, aud all ray bebt efforts bave brought me out precisely to the conclusions of your letter. Still I bat not yet made, in the light &Ji'X?

, , ?, , ,.

i;f;;rou.T.h'e exacY lcVure of the field au'd Porter's conduct upon It whlcb slowed In ntrong colore in the roiuu oi toe vom Martial seventeen vears seo. And now. mr dear friend. I need your helD still further, aud need It more than ever be fore In our aconaiuU'iep. Overwhelmed aa I am with the current daily work of the House, It Is almost imixisUble for me to get the time to go minutelv thronen all the mass of thla new evl deoce as I ought to do. With kind regards, lam as ever yours. J. A. o ARN eld. Wlaeat Living. IThe Methodist. To make the best of our own lives is the best way to happiness. Tbat does not mean a sullen content, but rather aa uncreasing strueelo to rise and improve. It does not mean no change; but rather thoughtful and wiiech&nere. we cannot train in uauDiness hv rerjinincr. It wastes and weakens. Ve D CI M M nonnot cam bv envv of ethers: we mav rain by emulation of them. Lvcry nerve strained by repining or envy a nerve .bnn. for work or endurance W shall have to bear a yoke; happy for us, if w have learned to bear it in our voutb: . m and harrier still if it be Christ's yoke tbat we Dear in an our uuty or nuurauo. j uib or that might have been: but we were n t " j... J rri, wise as we are now. The opportunity that a miMpH haa no riirht tn shadow our nresent content. All beyond us nay, all that was near, and is near no longerwht do we gain by regret? e have onr life to live Tunder conditions that we cannot change except by thought, labor and self-denial. Wiaput livini? i to take what we have with thankfulness, improve it with industry and bless it with devotion. The less time we spend in pondering over our special rriev. aVces Providence, Zr the supposed fcTicites ofi.ther the more we shall have for imnrnvinif our own nutate. After all. v. u mignt preier 10 1 yourseu 11 you mow n - a a i 11 - atout your lenows; dui you cannot w mr; body else, and wisom Eere is a useful selfes teem. It is a great mystery to bachlors why married men seem tobe so afraid of their wives and bear themselves with sch an air of subjugation. The only answer to the conundrum is that given by the Quaker: "Friend, when thee is married thee will know." New Tork Herald.

WASHINGTON LETTER,

Washington D. C, Jan., 19, 1882. Congress Guitcau Diamond Lottery M ixed Schools Again Miscellaneous Personal Etc,, Ktc, Ktc. From Our Special Correspondent. Congress is gradually beginning to get ready to do a little work. -The truism that large bodies move slowly is ll.. t ..1 1 .1 1 1! "e"er remonstrated nowuere mau uy .ur anfe'u Senators and ltepresentuI ti'ra I htkr moot tha hrat Ahiniliiv elect üfficerg arrangc the 1)1 committees, and adjourn for the noli days without doinir anvthinjr else. Reassembling early in January, they grad uaiiy worK meniseives miosnape to oe . - t . . . , om work en.rnp.st.lv nltout the middle ot ry j " . February or tirst of March. ry or nrst 01 uarcn. But Congressional dallying is a true exemplification of Washington life. I ew people are ever found m a hurry here except office seekers. Office hold ers are neyer known anywhere to be in a hurry to go out, and as Washing ton is largely made up ol people in oth cial life, we arrive immediately at the reiusou wuy mere is o iiiu c ui uic ar cno oni -iau onorlK. nl,orntor;at 1 e i .JL.." : wi, e a fLo nnroT, n Woct,. ington. The city, of course, being the creature of Congressional action, partoUvcrv 9rm v in ifa arvMfl I or.fl hlll. I ness life, of the body which created it I hence the tameness, languor, and manifcef diillnPM with whiMi it nt .first. Jm. ' ureases sunugci. Today the defense in the uuiteau trial are makiner their closing arcrument. and it is supposed that the prosecution will close the case in a day or two. It therefore seems reasonable to mdulere

the hope that this city, the Nation and stitutional. The decision was a reversthe whole world, will not much longer al of a decision of the lower court at

he disgusted with the living presence of this most horrible and cowardly of a!! murderers. A week or two at most should see him danclinir from the end of a rope in expiation of his most infamously sneaking and villainous crime, light of calmness and reason, for they can of course do no harm. .bishop Keane, Catholic, ot Ivichmond Va., has presented a $600, d aruond pin to rft. Augustine Colored Catholic Church ot this city, which is to be ralHecl ja a a a .wm a I a a a f a a oil at a church Jair shortly. N hen we average human mind for a diamond ornament, we can gam some luiiii iuea oi me ranMiiir uKInli tiolroto fin Kia lntrVi i 'VV1 , t! mi ? uiamonu lottery .sen. liwiu aitance the Louisiana scheme for the rea90n prices will doubtless be lower. . - m I a t i a tft a- ill nil n;i i Bytheway,it seems to me that

"v " ;y - - ""lawyer ot Kichmond, is being urged by

churches are trenchincr a little bit too . . 1 T U TT A, . n' . i ano ew wneaus piaus ior ei-ciugiiie unwary, wnen uiey go into uie mmiug II Ol l i at w business. Such schemes for money can have no other legitimate effect than to stimulate a spirit of lot tery and policy camblinc, which ot course results greatly to the financial acrerandizement of the managers of these robberies. Churches generally are falling into this plan of money getting, which some people take as a Fign ot the uecauence oi siraigm laced puonc mor als of the old-iashioncd stripe. To a man up a tree, however, when church noses are being counted, such action looks very much as though the churches were following in the foot-steps I nhtimhna u'nia in nivinfp l t i ina Trirona - ' - 7 V "J"?; Z?" .it rnnoi ti ira in i 11 1 rr ri nriaa tu .it f i i 11 r 1,. nnd iimrinrnl nnvt rw for nur- , . ' lottpr t:Pi-pts :n mflnv ;nstan- . J .. " 1 ' ; cos leads to stealing and the adoption ces icaus to stealing and me aaopuon on the part of young people of the resolution to make a living by gambling, I . . . I - "r I il orrTt irT nnrl rnciiprv T T n v nimm h es an( professing Christians can consist nt v nflnn to f istpr nnd st mil fltA hv -r . j their own action such a leeling, is, in . a .a a a a the language of Lord Dundreary, one of the thin'ra that no fellah can find out. The mixed school question was dis cussed pro and con by members of a prominent literary society here last a w m Tuesday evenincr, and has since been tt, cnu:nnt f onnciMmV.lo -nmmpnt It will probably be a long time before the schools are mixed in any .a a a -a a of the Southern or semi-southern Suite, but, of course, that will be the ultimate end of the matter all over the country. Colored neonle should always insist, howPVP, in t , n.T v. nf hnnU thnt onU ? WäCne BnOUlu De employed in a just proportion to white teachers. 1 his question has come to the front apiin in Brooklyn, N. Y. where a Mr. King, colored, sent his daughter to a so-called white school. She was refus ed admission by the principal on the ... - . . - . iuuuus uiut ii, nuuiu uu uuiueusuui, tu her. and that there was a colored school in tne neigtibornood. sir. King appealed to the courts, and the matter was refered to the school board for their decision first. It is to be hoped that Mr. K. will carry the case to the hicrh.i v - ar I est courts. n neea ne. in oraer to vinaii j I not tl,n rJrrl xvl.JnK ovr Am;.on i i 1 "i j . i MJ ... "f w"uu,,,u l,uuuI schools OI niS native country. The Democratic .Legislature of MissI - - JcaJr.. if ia snid hna tUrte .n ,r mm tuvl k ' s mW mu uiva lltvtj vivVj LU t.if 1W1 1,11 n,an ,w,v0örM :n Mni, i rni j - i , i P1? Psume, may be taken as an ,uu,Uttllw" ,'ua,' luo umwwicis uu tissue ballot reformers feel that the end 0f their reign is approaching, hence they deire to mollify the voters whom uukw .j: "J uiwicu ivcu mwuuuujk. M e enort to permanently suppress me Necrro as a nolitical factor in the South i3 a failure, and bulldozing and countn out 1- ist davs- and out nae seen tneir Dest (lays, and henceforward, by reason of differences and disappointments among white pollI tieiiins. tnpre is rrround for hone that . -111 1 .1 t trwi justice will De oone tne iegro. lis eyer thus whcn eg m Qut Jt ig 8aidthat abneVspaper 1q paper in tne in terest of the colored people of Maryland to be called the "Beacon, "will at an early date be launched upon the sea of life at Baltimore. My hope ia that it may see more of life, and live longer and better than colored newspapers generally do, and at the same time be

a brilliant "Beacon" light for the benighted people of "My Maryland." Al. Wall, trstwhile a genial, turbulent, roystering, whole-souled, happ

hearted bon vivaia ot lerre llaute, is a prosperous dairy merchant near this city- Notwithstanding and contrary to my well known temperance proclivities, 1 had the pleasure, in company with George Arnold, oi Lynchburg, J. W. Patterson of Helena Ark. , and the iovial Al.. to sip a delicious milk punch made from his own pure AlderA uev mi k at a hote one (lav last week - Al is doing well here, and as usual is a hard man to handle. R. II. Herbert, Esq., of the Trenton (N. J.)Sentinel, has been appointed one of the doorkeepers in the legislature of his state. Lets see; 1 believe it has been ireviously remarked that it is better to e a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of the unright eous, or words to that effect. Now. if wri Vi nv TTilöff ton rr 1 imanina Vtiiv). -m the house of tiord", ;9 all. right, but what a fearful expansion of the imaginative powers would such a thousrht imply! I pause upon the brink. 0, M. Stewar.1, Esq., of the T orar, nas Deen appomieu msjiecior oi t-. l l i ? x .. f i customs at Richmond. It is certainly encourajr l li to see the party managers recognizing in some degree at least the frvlces of 4our newspaper men I observe lru,u WCUI. I.NSUU3 Ul UIC Oiur mal ll as changed it tune with reference to i rrin funiiiicrniH 1 1 f . a." m aaa-u t rmii tii "c '"r1"" convert Dicwaru last summer, out at that time he was incorricrible. He has Iiiii ! "uuu"taailvcl'cuuc" gm. uuwj. I e since this letter was becrun that the Supreme court of Illinois has (lecidea tnai separate scnoois lor wnite ana colored children m that state are unconuincy. l he appellants were represented by ex-Ooveruor Palmer, who it Will be remembered entertained the Jubilee Singers at his private residence after the Springfield hotels had turned mem away. brass jewelry ond an occasional coin are sellincr countless cans of pulverized hay and crushed parched potatoes yclept tea and coffee. Such is life, and such is gullibility. The many friends of Hale G. Parker. I J r 0f gt Louis, will be clad to know that heig pr0sperinff in that city of "future" mark, you future g Uesides being principal of one of the I iv. . i i c A . i . i . Tu? ic !c.noois ne is aiso a law siuaeni at Washington University, one of the leading law colleges of the West. Hon. R. P. Brooks, a prominent i Aar.aa mm a his friends for U. S. District Attorney Virginia. 31r. Brooks was quite prominent as a Republican RcadjOster ' fi.p pnmra;rrn :n tfrnt ftratn orTA hJo 1 - .. v 4 fc. w LV. , liny ill.; b nnrwintmnt wonlil noiimln mvA pmi. nent satisfaction in the Old Dominion. George W. Arnold, of Lynchburg, Va., is in the city on public business. .Not withstanding Mr. Arnold s dismiss al from the public service last year for opposition to henator Mahone, he is still an enthusiastic Republican, and will doubtless be restored to his former posi tion shortly. MissChanie Patterson, an Oberlin alumnus, read an interestiner paper on 44 Colored Men in the Trades and Professions, last luesday evening, belore a a rn 1 a as i j " rs Bethel Literary Society, of thiseitv. . - - . t ' - Y ednesday tue lötn, was the onehundredth anniversary of the birthdav e rv i r i ' Ot Daniel Webster. A commemorative w"' mw.u. .uiuuiciiioiaiiv meeting was held here, presided over by ex-Secretary Blaine. E. R. B. I t.l 1 Josh Billing' Philosophy. I Shucks. I If you will sit down and wait, yung man, at least one-haff ov the eood things ov life win at sum lime eaay around near yu, while the more yu chase them the more they will break into a run. All ov natur's works are a part ov a perJa .l r a . ieasnun ov a pian. cne mates no mistakes, kreates no vacancys, and guesses at nothing. Ideas are what wins, but if a man hain't got but one, he iz very apt to run that one into the ground, and take himself along with ll. Laffter proves nothing. Wize men laff. an.d,idet8 ?rin a11 time Cunning iz a weak imitashun or wisdum. and iz liable at enny time, to merge into iraua. Happiness haz no abiding place, but often is verv near at hand, like the old woman's nect cW After hunting for th Am h .ml foJnd them n G-ayity iz hekuming toaphool at all times, but only to a wize man on state ock shuns. TV 1 v ery menny sees Knowledge, not so mutch for the truth, az for the speckulatlon mare z, in it. lleroizm z simple, and yet it is rare. I r ' j vw o i ji,very one wno auz the best ne kan iz a hero. iJnty is a dangerous gift. The vanity it inspires, ana the baee flattery it attrakts, its possessors are not to be envyed. Charity makes no mistakes that she kan be charged with. Cood breeding iz the only thing that kan liaW cuumauw. I r '...I. I . I oervwuae iz bo unnatural tnai an Honest rri ov an wings. mere iz greai an in Knowing now to giva wunoui creating an ODiigation. As selflah and ill-bred as the mass of man Klwa u f preier w live with them, rather lKkAK..KA.MAlma. -M A A I: . TAI 8" ,u umue, na wy w nve wun a myself. Gratitude is a word that you will find in - J!.l! 1 A 4 . i . j n,w uuu .u the dictionaries, but you will not find much i i. u;wucm cieo. If a roan haz got thi rieht kind ov relic UM1h5.15f R Pick UP ft lreed enny whare that A true'friend iz one whom v Van MA . A. -one whom yukan chide ior mz lauits. without eivlng offense, and wno, wunout giving olense can chido yu, Nature haz never nude enny thin per fekt ft?d sho luvs variaty 80 wel1 that she n6T e , 6 enny ,wo things Just alike, Indolence iz a quiet ualady, but it haz eat up more foundashuis and tipt over more superstruktures than wild arabishun ever haz. Abstinence should bo the eicepsun, and temperance the rule. , Foremcst ov all, let ni child have pride I dont mean vanity, I; mean pride honesty and energy are almost sure to follow. A gentleman on' getting a soda and brandy, was' retting from the refreshment bar. "Recollct, sir." said the polite Miss Horn, "if you le your purse, you didn't pull It out here,"-lasgow Evening Times.

LIEUTENANT O. W. DE LONG, Commander of the Jeannette. ABOUT 'A CELEBRATED CASK." The L.at 'Witness Deafl Who rigureu Hlghty.tlve Years Ago In the Most Remarkable of Marder Trials. Madam Elise Denise Marguerite Merner Aliroy, a idow.died t M.elun, in Fr.,co. inn rr thron wnpkR ncoat me &av&iicea aire i . . . . . of ninety-six. She was ot humble circum'l ..... . ..! o . . l stances, and it might in one sense De said oi rfc 7.. ..6 - .v.. .uher. as ot the cottager in the poem, that she l j it v . i :i r l, was "never uearu oi uauaiuuu nom uumo. vet many thousands of the readers ol tne NVorld are familiar with her. She was the daughter of the Mereiers who kept a tavern at Lieunaint in 179G, and the la8t surviving witness in the famous case of Lesurques and The Lyons Mail," which was dramatized in 1850 under the t tie ot tne "Courier ae Lvons" and "adapted" for the benefit of Anglo-Saxon play-goers as "A Celebrated Case."Early on the morning of April 28, 1796, the peasants of Melun found abandoned the mail-coach running irom jraris to ijyons, the package and mails having been cut open and rifled; the waybill, which lay near by, WW that thev had contained iome hundreds of letters, 1,000 frances in cash and th rtm;n.i Voi,,0 f Atrrl millions. Is ear it was found the corpse of . ?5 .. ... Etienne Audebert, the postilion, one hand hewn off, the skull split open, three deep wounds in his chest, and the whole body well Leigh hacked to pieces. Further on lav that of the courier. Excoffon. with the throat cut and pierced by several ghastly a. r v vi i t l AU wounds. Un tho bloody ground were aiso found a gray overcoat, with a deep blue border, a broken sword and its scabbard. with one side of the blade, "lionor guide me. and on tne other, or my country s weal." and a silver spur, the link of which had been mended with apiece of string. The 31erciers remembered that four men had dined at their tavern the day before; tho woman described their dress and looks, dwelling especiallv on those of a tall and handsome blonde irentleman, whom she par ticularlv remembered because he had mended his spur with a piece of string The woman who has just died, then a girl of eleven, was in the tavern and gave him the cord, and her unwavering identification pro ei of the first importance at the trial There had been but one passenger in the coach, who had paid for his seat in assi-rnats 2,737 livers, and had no bageace, but car ried a saber. He had dined with Excoffon, from whom he had learned tbat" besides the money, the coach carritd a valuable stock of jewelry and other wares. 1 his travel' r had disappeared, as had one of the bores of the coach, and some people along the road had seen four horsemen riding toward Mclun in the evening, while others had mt them re turning in the morning, accompanied by a fifth, bubicquently the riderless coach honse was found straying in the streets of Paris, while four other animals, covered with foam, were left at a stable at 5 p. m. by ono Etienne Courriol, and taken away at by Courriol and one David Barnard, the lattt r of whom was thought to be the trav eler by the Lyons mtil. There was then living in Paris, to which he had removed in 1789, a well-to-do native of Douai by name Joseph Lesurques, who was married and had two children. He was especially hospitable to folks from Douai, and when one Quesno went up to Paris to pay him a debt of 2.000 francs, Losurques invited him to dinner. Guesno accepted .the invitation and went, accom panied by one Kichard. It was with Kichard that the police found Courriol lodging. in company with a woman named 3iaae leine Breban, andhaving in his posessionone fifth of the booty of the Lvons mails. Guesno was arrested but discharged, though the police kept him under surveillance, and was on his way to the profecture of police to obtain his papers when he mot Lesurques who he indited should accompany him, A hey entered the room just as the magis trate, Daubenton, was examining the wit nesses in tne case of the Lyons mail. Im mediately two 01 tne peasatt women hurried to the Judge and whispered that Guesno and Lesurques were two of the party that had dined at the tavern, persist ing in their identification, especially of Lesurques, notwithstanding strenuous de nials by the men accused. Lesurques proved an alibi by three witnesses, one of thorn, Legrand, being a jeweler with whom he had left an order for iewelery, -which Legrand had noted in his book, but when the volume was produced the date was found changed from the 9th ot Floreal April 29 in the Gregorian calender to the Stn. For this Legrand accounted by saying that when he was summoned as a witness he found that he had made an error in the entry, and changed the book to make it correspond with the truth. As he was a friend to Lesurques, this, naturally, told against the accused, as did Lesurques' slight acquaintance through Guesno with Richard, at whose house the robbers had lodged. At the trial, when the Jury had retired, Madeleine Breban declared, 4,Of the five persons accused only one my lover, Courriol is guilty, and for his crime tour innocent men are placed in peril. Guesno has been mistaken for one of the real murderers, Vidal whom he resembles, and Lesurques for another, one Dubosc, whom he is strikingly like, especially as Dubosc at the time of the murder wore a flaxen wig." The Court, however, refuted to receive her statement at that stage of the case. Guesno was acquitted, having proven an alibi beyond all question; Richard was sentenced to tweaty-fcur years at hard labor for receiving stolen goods, and ßernard.Courriol and Lesurquea were sent. to the guillotine on the SOth of October, the considerable fortune of the last-named being confiscated. He died calmly, protesting his innocence, which he declared time would reveal. His mother went mad and died a maniac; his friend Legrand died in a madhouse, and his widow's reason was only restored after seven years, when she and her children lived in abject poverty. Before Courriol's execution, he confessed that the real assassins were Dubosc, Vidal, Roussy and Durochat, the last having taken passage in the coach under the name of Laborde. The others followed on horses he had hired from Bernaro, who was innocent of any connection with the plot. The spur and one saber, he declared, belonged to Dubosc, and he swore solemnly that he had nevor seen Lesurques until he was placed on trial. The case, it need not be said, made a great sensation, and it was even murmured that the Government had let Lesurques be convicted to lay hands on his fortune. Only four months later Joseph Durochat ('"Laborde") was arrested for a petty thaft and was identified as the passenger of the Lyons mail by a girl from whom he had snatched a kiss

before entering the vehicle. He broke down and confessed, corroborating Courriol's statement. Roussy, he said, cut down the courier, by whom he (Darochat) was sitting. Durocbht trid to defend him, receiving a cut on the hand, and then tried to escape from the scene of butchery, insisting that he had bargained for highwav robbery, but not for murder, but Courriol held him, laying the deed to Ilou&sy's hot temper, but insisting that as it had been done they all must sink or swim together. Dubosc, he id, wore a ftaxen wig for disguise and the silver spurs. Durojtmt was condemned to denth, but ere his execution was confronted with Dubosc, who had been arrested. So com

pletely, however, was Dabosc disguised that Durochat declared tnat it was not he but another Pubosc tbat had been concerned in the affair. Madeleine Breban swore to his identity, but only one of the f witnesses a gm net Liceurques declared that )ubosc was the man of the broken spur, though all admitted the striking resem blance. Kichard, however, was brought up from tho eallevs. and on his testimony Dubosc was held. Twice be broke jail, and it was not until 1800 that he was brought to the scatfold. In the interim Vidal, for whom Guesno had been mistaken, had been taken and guPlotined, exculpatirg Guesno and Lesurques. And finally Roussy was run down, and died attesting Lesurques innocence. Since 1804 the heirs of the "C" "TD II A nl hava riann mnvnrr T r nova hia z : . . 1 . . r - Vi 0 a v" innnNmpa i(i,iuro(i lnHiialltr nnn hia fory - tune restored, with interest, but hitherto without success, the woman who has just died invariably swearing that Lesurques was '-the man with the broken spur, though she admitted the striking resemblance of Dubosc. The Veteran Novelist' View on Plays, Magazlnea and 111a Own Work. I London Letter In New York Times. 1 I called on the veteran novelist and playwncht. Mr. Charleä Keade, last night. lie has let his house atknightsbridgeforayear. lie wanted changs of scene from the dwelling-place where ne has been "so happy and 1 1 TI- V ..I iL. "nW& " . t a Yluai'rarriCB Uxbridge Road . between London and Ham. mersmith, and there.l found him, surroundef bJ Vr b19 ,llousD0!? 6txIv 6Uf plemented by some new furniture, and readI in tVia f hrictmna (titiihU and tV.o mnnthlv "" " ' j magazines by candle-light. lie looked much better than 1 expected to find him. He is not well enough to go out at night, as he is suffering from something very much resembling chronic bronchitis. He made all kinds of inquiries about America expressed great interest in the progress of the international copyright movement, though he said M sirs. Harper had always paid him hv dsmely for his work, and thereforo bio interest is not personal, but covers the ground of justice to others, both American and English. The two great American magazines Harperand Scribner, now the Century were, he thought, marvelously cheap. ''Their contents are so varied," he said "and they do not depend upon a leading story for their attraction; the last few numbers of Harperare simply admirable." I asked him if he would not soon begin a new novel. He shook his head and smiled sadly. He has no longer any inducement to write, certainly not a work of any great length. Once or twice lately he had thought of continuing the s ries of short stories which he began some time ago. But ho had not the heart to undertake a great work. He reminded me of the great reading and research which had always been involved in his novel-writing, and now his method made fictiento him serious and very hard work. He talked benevolently of men and events in general, and not regretfully of anything except once to refer to tho loss which shadowa his life in these latter days. He was sorry he could not go to the theater and see 'The Lights o' London,' which he gathered from the papers as really a bona fide success. He is greatly surprised at the latest profitable revival of his own piny, "It is Never Too Late to Mend," which has replenished the coffer of the delphi Theator, where I believe "Drink"' is to follow, Mr. Charles Warner being the lcadirg man at this old home of melodrama. Mr. Keade evidently thinks his forte is the drama. He spoke with great mcdesty of his novels almoet deprecatingly of himself as a novelist. His heart ia more in dramatic work than novel-writing. Many of my readers who form their opinions of Mr. Keade, from his strong epistolary contributions to public controversy would be surprised at his gentle'and unassuming manners. lie has in company something of that self abnegation wnich makes men so much at home with Mr. Gladstone. The Premier listens as if he valued your opinion and accepts information with a sort of pleasure tbat is eminently flattering to mot people. Charles Keade i3 an equally good listener, and always seems to find instruction in any thing you have to tell him. I asked him about the prospect of the reproduction of his idyllic play of "Dora," and found that l; bad been under consideration at the Court Theater, the management, however, taking "Miami" in preference. TVithoutJany breach of cotfidence or departure from good, taste I send you these few notes about Mr. Keade, concerning whose health and whose retirement many inquiries are made and many suggestions are ofiered. He may sit down to his desk again, and with great result?, but at present he appears to consider that his mission in life has had its chief fulfillment; though his intellect is still fresh and vigorous. Oueer 1I heu. iChamber's Journal.l What marvelous variety of tastes, of likes and dislikes with regard to special forms of food, from cannibalism to currant-cake, we find among people physically constituted alike in every respect. This person eats his meat burned to a cinder; that will touch only what is rawly undone. George III. preferred fish when it was semi-putrid; his successor's weakness was for hot plum bread crumpled up in quart of cream. Lord Bacon is said to have lived whole weeks at intervals on nothing but oranges; while the elder Fit could not endure the 6ight of fruit, and never suffered any to be brought into the room where he was. It seems an extraordinary thing to speak of eating a skunk, and that, too, in a part of the world where beef and mutton are infinitely more plentiful than bread; yet, it is a fact that the Guachos of the Banda Oriental are in the habit of hunting this creature for the sake of its flesh nor is this incomprehensible to anyone who is acquainted with the true nature of the skunk. The disgusting liquid which it ejects is contained in a gland on the back, and constitutes its weapon of defence. Certainly, the effluvium is the most horrible and enduring that may be conceived, and man and beast will fly from it; but if it be surprised and killed before it has time to use this, and the gland be afterward extirpated with care, the rest of the body is destitute of all o3enco. Skunkskins are largely used by furriers, and beautiful skins they are and the animal is capable of being domosticated, as it never emits the secretion except when in danger or alarmed. I never ate a skunk, but I have handled a tame one without any olfactory disturbance. I see that tinned pepper-pot is now to be obtained in London, but can not fancy that it would bo much like the real article. Pepper-pot is a favorite' relish for breakfast out West, and is eaten with rice like curry; in some of the old families in Demarara it is made to perfection. An iron crock is filled up daily with scraps of meat, fish, almost anything, and various spices, peppers, chillies and other condiments added, the essential one being casaripe, a thick, black, treacly fluid extracted from the cassava root. The crock itself is brought to the breakfast table, and the contents served with a wooden spoon. The mixture is black

and fibrous in appearance, anJ in.enely hot to the palate; but the eine que non o. excellence in a pepper-pot is that it shall never bo allowed to become empty. The quantity it holds is immensely disproportionate to that required for daiiy nsumption; nevertheless, it is tilled up every morning, and kept perpetually Hrumerins:. Rats, for instance, 1 firmly believe, would be not only wholesome, but very nice if properly prepared not common Fewer rats, ut such as 1 ate, barn-fed animals mated in a hop-garden. The flesh, though perfectly white, was dry and tastelesS; but theu they were only skinnned, cleaned and submitted to the tire without any of the etceteras which make other meats favory. Dr. Kane, Kear Admiral Beauforu Captain IngUtield, and other Arctic eiplorers speak

highly of rats a a welcome addition to their supply of food in those dreary latitudes. A Very Smart Girt. The smartest girl I've met in Iowa I met yesterday at Nevada, Strry County, Northwestern Iowa Miss Belle Clinton. Miss Clinton is a bright--yed, roey-cheeked girl of about twenty, a full of fun and health and visor as a good girl can le. Two years ago Miss Clinton was a school teacher. Saving up by her teaching about 100, she last spring borrowed a span of horses from her father, rigged up a "prairie schooner," and, taking her little brother, started for Dakota. Mi-s Clinton says laughingly to-day, speaking of her trip: "Why, I never lived so nicely in ray life, and I never had such an appetite, and such courtesy received everywhere. Kougb, rude men would come to our camp, and, after I had talked to them awhile, offer to build my fire and actually bring water to me. "YYfl weht up through the wheat country, which they cad the "Big Jim country;" it is about 100 miles eatt from the Missouri at Fort Sully. I homesteaded 1C0 acres ol land. Then I took up a timber claim of 120 ac res more." "What is a timber claimT'' "Why, I hired a man and we set out ten acres of trees. This gave me 1C0 act es more. So 1 have S"J0 acres now. But I muht tell you about those trees. They were yourg locust, applo and black walnut sprouts. I sowed a peck ot locust beans, a pint of apple-.eed, and two bushels of black walnuts in our garden in Iowa a year ago. These sprouts were little fellows and we could set them out fast just go along and stick them in the ground. But they arc just as good, I believe my 3,000 little black walnut sprouts will be worth $15 apuee in ten years and $20 apiece in filteen. My locust trees will some time fence the whole conntry." 'Then what did you do?" uWe built a shanty and broke up five acres of land, and this fall we came back to Iowa to spend the winter, and here we are. In the spring I'll go back with more black walnuts and locust sprouts and take up 100 aores more. The trees are just what I want to plant, anyway, and they'll pay better than any wheat crop that could be raised, only I've got to wait on them ten or twelve years; but I can wait." SOCIETY DIRECTORY. United Brothers of Friendship. Sumner Lodge No. 11, regular communication every first and third Monday of each month. Hall north-east corner of Meridian aud Washington streets. All members requested to be pre3ert, also members of other lodges of the same faith ae invited. II. TV. Jackson, TVorthy Master. TV. S. Lock financial Secretary. PAT We continue to act as Solicitors for ratrnts. Caveat. Trade Marks. Copyrights, etc., for the United States, Canada, Cuba, England, France, Gennanv, etc. We have had thirty-five years' experience. Patents obtained through us are noticed In the P"TiNTinc American; This larpe and splendid Illustrated week ly paper. $ 3 . 2 O a year,sbows the Progress ol Science, is very Interesting, and has an enormous circulation. Address MUNN A CO., Patent Solidtors, Pub's, of Scientific American, 87 Park Row, New York. Hand book about Iltents free. GLORIOUS .SEWS ?0 THOSE who contemplate going to üot Pprlt f for the treatment of fjpbltii, tile', 8crofuU,an4 all cutaneous or blood diecaxw, co becarvd j ooe-thlrd the coit cfiach a trip at the eld reliable stand. X have been located here for 33 years, and with tbe adtan tage ot ach m long aoJ succMfnl experience, cast cocfidently warr.nt a cure in 11 ernte. Ldlea tie ding a periodic 1 pill can get liem at my off ce ot by Mail at $1.00 p r box. Office, 41 Virgin in ,noe, I tdianapolls , I nd . . , DR. BENNETT, nccesaorto Dr. I). B. Eving RAILROAD TIMG TABLE. Oa and after Sunday, Der. 1, 1SS1. Indian iill A tit. Lonla. Popart.! Arrive. Day Express rc. 7:25 am N. Y. Ex. 4:25 am Local Express... 7:00 pm lndianapTs Acll:(X)am N. Y. Ex 11:10 pm Day Express 7:00 pm Indlann, Ulooiiiiii gtou &r tVem.rn. Pcpart.l Arrive. Pacific Ex. 7:4-'. am. East LS Ex 4:10 am B. & R. I. Ex 11 :00 pm Cincinnati pec.l0:30 am Crawford'vle Ac 3:50 pm Atlantic Lx.&M. 5:40 pin K. & T. F. Line, 1:15 pm) PlttMbnra;, Cincinnati A St. Iontn. (PAN HANDLE AND rF.XJ SVLVAMA LINE.) Depart. New York. Philadelphia,' WasbinKton.Haltimorc, Pittsburg fc Columbus Arrive. Exprens. 4:20 am 4:20 am 8Hl2:20 pm 12:20 pra 5:40 pm Pay Urn Express ........ CO Richmond. Dayton k Colnmbui Expre... Richmond fc Dayton Accommodation Richmond Accommoda11:00 am 3:25 pm tlon ..m mm 111111111 New York. Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburg. Columbus fc Dayton Express h 5:45 pm 9:55 am sl0:45pm Daily. Daily except ; lioUl car. :unday. s Sleeping car. Indlanapollft, Deratnr A NprlDKfield Depirt. Arrive. More field Ac.- 6:30 am Mail A Day Ex.- 8:20 am Montezuma Ac 3:30 pm Night Ex 1 1 :05 pm Night Ex 4:10am Montezuma Ac. 11 :40 am Mall V Day Ex.. 5:37 pm Vorelield Ac fi:2.Spm Cincinnati, Jndltn-i.llM, tsl. Ionla and ChtriMK CINCINNATI DIVISION. Depart.l Arrive. Ct St L Fl 4:15am Indianap. Ac 10:35 am Cincinnati Ac.- 6:35 ac C A .St L Mail.p.l2:20 pm Chi Mail, p c . 3:05 pm Western Ex . 6:15 pm Cincinnati Ac 6:05 pm C A 61 L f L .-...10:55 pm Lafayette nivisios. Pen. A Bur. Ex- 7:3am:Chicago r. U ... 3:50 am Chicago Mail.p 12:40 m 1-afHjette Ac 11:00am Western Ex. 6:35 pra Chicago MaU. . 2:45 pm C fc b. r. L. 11 :20 pm Cincinnati Ac 5:40 pm Cleveland, Celainbos, Claclnuntl -Mm - nd muinnni oi-n. (BEE LINE.1 Depart! Arrive. 4:H5 am L A St L Ex 6:55 am fi:10 am V. 11 M A I Ft 1 -ii rm N Y A BoExUnion Acc uaia ioi X...J1 :w am i nion Arc - S:45pm N Y&BEx . 7:15 pm;B., 1 ASL Ex.- 6:05pm X Y A 8 LEx 10:55 pm Cincinnati, Hamilton 4fc Indianapolis. Depart) Arrive. Mall &Cin. Ex.- 4:15 amMail 11:45 pra Accom........... 4:45 pmj Western Ex 10:45 pm IntilannpnlU A Vlo renne. Depart.! Arrive. Ml. A Cairo Ex- 7:15 am Vlncennes Ac-..10:45 am Vlncennes Ac-. 4:00 pmiML A Cairo Ex.- 5:35 pm Indianap! im. Pern A Clileag-a. Depart. I Arrive. C.,FtV.A;C.Mall 8:3!) am O. AG. R. Ex 3.45 am T A. 0 A - T" m m . . T.. T. A I). Ex -.12:28 cm FLW.AP. Ex ...11 :00 am C. A Mich. Ex. 6:25 pm T..FI.W..CC.M1 5:20 pm C T. A D. Ex -.11:00 piniD.. T. A Ft. W -18:20 pm Jefferson ville. nilout Indianapolis Den art Arrive. Southern Ex 4:05 am L. A Mad. Ac.. 7:10 am Ind. A M. Mail.10:00 am Ind. & Chi. Ex12:10 pm X.Y.&N'.FLEx. 6: 0 pm Ind. & M. MaiU 2:50 pm EreRlng Ex. 6:10 pmjSt. L A U. L. L-10:50 pm Ter rellante. VandMlla aud SC. Loots. Depart. Arrtva. Mall 7:30 am Day Express, p-12:40 pm Terr Haute Ac. 4:00 pm Pacific Expresa-11 :00 pm L & C Express-11:40 pm

LAC Express.. 8:30 am Fast Line 4:00 am Mall and Ac .10:00 am Day Express . 6:86 pm Mall sad Ac-. .. 6:40 pa

7'

t