Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1877 — Page 2

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The Daily New# haa the largeet circulation of any paper in Indiana, and i# read In nearly every town and Tillage tributary to Indianapolla. Th* peach crop of thia year la estimated at $3,420,000. Delaware and Maryland will get about $2 300,000 of thia, the actual ownera of the orchards making clear of all expense about $1,900,000.

Thxbe are three men the country could ▼pare: Naval Officer Cornell, who snaps his fingers at the president’s office-hold-ing order, the tuft-hunter, Pierrepont, who misrepresents us at the court of SL James, and a third rate poet named Boker, who performs the like service at St. Petersburg.

It is a drawn battle at Schipka pass. The most determined fighting and obstinate bravery on both sides have been unavailing to break the hold of either. The Bussians hold the pass, bnt the Turks have prjsession of a redoubt which sweeps Sb road in the Russian rear, from which all attempts to dis- . lodge them have thus far been unavailing. While they are here intrenched the Russian possession of the pass is precarious. Reinforcements for both sides were coming np on Saturday, which is the date of the last report, and by this time the straggle has probably been decided. North of the Balkans the Russians are concentrating around Plevna to give battle to Osman Pash^ who has also been reinforced, and at any time the decisive engagement of the campaign may be fought. Although one battle will not decide the fate of a nation of fighters like the Turks, a brilliant Russian success at Plevna and the retention of Schipka pass would be a result full of great promise for Russia. Indications point to the engagement of Servia in the present fconlest. This will not mske any difierence in the attitude of the powers in the present struggle, ,4t is said, but it of course ends their guaranty of Servia and the little principality will be abandoned to the Turks in case of a Russian defeat.

WHAT IS MOtTBY? Little Paul Dombey’s question put to liis purse-proud father, “What is •'money?" has been asked with a good deal more interest by a good deal older people many a time since inflation bunt and theorists thought to repair its mischief by mending the rip and inflating it worse. Some have concluded, like Ben Butler, and Senator Morton at the outset—though he unlearned the fantastic doctrine later—that the credit of the country was basis enough for a circulating medium, and specie might le put Iway forever as obsolete, a remnant of the barbarism of the past. A paper dollar was just as fully money as a specie dollar. It was, in fact, coined paper made money by the authoritative impress of the government as gold is. This was the gospel of the new financial dispensation. It made some headway, especially in the west, and some usually sensible papers accepted it and preached it with. as much ingenuity as Miller and Hines preached the interpretation of Daniel’s “time, “times and a half,” to the destruction of the world in April, 1843. But they never could wholly convince themselves or anybody else that a piece of gold without any mint stamp on it, was worth no more than a piece of paper without a government imprint on it That bothered them, as it would have bothered Solomon if he had inflated his currency as he did his harem. Clearly there was a big difference somewhere. “Government authority,” they said, “made both •‘paoney,” but one was just as much money, for all practical purposes, without government authority as with it, and the other, without that authority, was nothing bat a cigar lighter. It was manfest, therefore, that government authority did nothing for the value of one and made all the value of the other. They could not possibly be money in the same sense. The face of a paper dollar told the whole story, but the apostles of the new faith never read it. That said it was a “promise to pay," not pay itself. Money is pay—positive, and not a promise. The paper then was not money at all by its own explicit assertion, but the representative of money. It had no value in it* elf, but the government would give actual value for it, and that bo far as the government’s promise was trusted, made it serve the purpose of money, just as an individual promissory note may do Irhen the maker is believed

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31.1877.

to be sure to pay it All this is clear enough, but the “paper coin" man still insisted that gold was nothing till it passed under the mint die and that gave it all its value as a circulating medium. It was preposterous. Even the government itself will not take coin at its face value, by “tale,” as it would have to do, il the stamp was its only element of value, but weighs it, as if it had never been stamped at all. No government takes its own coin otherwise than by weight in large sums. The stamp goes for nothing, and is nothing, in fact, but a convenience in ascertaining exchangeable values. In small sums counting is easier than weighing, and the difference is too slight to be regarded. Coining is merely a way to make money handy, not to make it valuable. The plain gold discs, punched out of a piece of gold hoop-iron in the mint, will be taken at exactly the same value as when they are stamped, by any merchant for his goods or any packer for pork, or any • body for anything he is willing to s*ll. He may have a little trouble in weighing them, bnt that is all. The value is the same, plain or stamped, simply because a full dollar of labor goes to the getting of the gold, as it does to a dollar’s worth of com or lumber. Paper is nothing but a promise. Gold in any

form is value and money. tux hotmE BQVAnni,m.

The question at the Grand hotel in this city, in regard to U the admission of colored people into the dining room, is not one of expediency, but one of right. The receiver, Mr. Hunt, claims that the agent who made the contract declared that the troup would eat in the ordinary, which Mr. Hunt explains is a sort of privilege; large parties frequently occupying this room when they do not wish to be separated, and when they can not sit together in the main dining room on account of taking seats belonging to regular boarders. The receiver’s story does not consist. He says the reason for insisting on the removal of the company is not on account of their color (and not, it would seem, on account of the verbal assurance

I.oadcd Wains.

From the broad field#, their folden glory ■horn. And ranny uplanda of their be&aly reft, Throa#h the »UU gunlight of the autumn morn. And hedgerow#, with their limrering jewel# left By the brown river, through the leafy T»ne*. On to the iarmateaug move the loaded wain#.

The atalwart reaper bears his brightened

scythe.

Or tracks the course the great machine has

made, __

And bonnie laai and lad. snnbnrned anoTithe, Round whose straw hats woodbine and pop-

pies fade.

Wake all the meadow land with harvest

laughing round the loaded

strains.

Clustering and

’Tie soft September nature'* harvest yields, tint all through life our ripening fruit we

Now storing violets from sweet April fields, Now roses that bright duly sunshine* steep. Now garnering gray October's sober gains. Now Christmas hollies pile our loaded wains.

Ab mel how fast the fair spring flowers die, Ilow summer blossoms perish at the touch. Amt Lope and love in useless sympathy. Weep for the Jaith that gave and lost ao much! From half our sheaves drop out the golden grains; Small is our portion in the loaded wains.

Yet, ere the mighty Reaper takes it all. Fling out the seed, and tend it rood by rood;

One car is full, though bundreds round it One acre ’mid a mildewed upland good: Eternity wilt roar on heavenly plains The smallest treasure won from loaded wains.

—I All the Year Hound..

- “SCKATS.” Wool is not bred so fine es it was 20 years #go. The regular price of a program In a London theater is a sixpence. As our cities grow in populace and real estate shouldn't taxation be increased? It will take hia family three days in a processson to take a last sad leave of Brigham Young. Official lists show that 3,200 French officers were killed or received incapacitating wounds in the war of 1870-’71. The $47,500 supposed to have been stolen from the United States treasury by Halle ck * Co. still stands against exTreasurer Spinner. The “Charity Bangle” is the latest. It is a silver band linked with a chain, to which a bell is attached. The bell is constructed so as to hold small coins. The engineers of Marseilles have, It is said, discovered that since the opening of the Suez canal the level of the Mediterranean has sunk some eight centimetres, or say 3^ inches.;

of the agent), but because they interfere with the seats of the regular boarders. The receiver then must have known he had no room for them before he agreed no take them, and why he did not specify that they should take seats which would not interfere with regular seats, while he was making a contract as to the sort of rooms they should occupy and the price they should pay for their entertainment, will strike the average man as singular. The very fact of its omission is strong implication that they were to have the general accommodations in this particular, not special ones, whether they be better or worse than the general ones. A sleeping room is an individual matter. A traveller may be given one, good, bad or indifferent, and so the quality of the rooms became the subject of contract In the absence of contract usual prices would be charged, so thqpe became the subject of contract and a special rate is allowed. In the absence of specifications as to the place of eating, the general place is understood and the receiver in this case has no more right to insist on these guests eating in the ordinary than he has that they shall eat only cold victuals, or shall go no further down the bill of fare than soup or go no higher up than desert. It is not the province of this paper to write a brief on the law of contracts, and we only say this much in that direction to show the rights of these people under the special agreement they have entered into with this hotel. And we hope to see them insist on their rights or collect the penalty of their infringment to the fullest extent of the law. They have been treated worse than Judge Hilton treated the Jews at Saratoga. Hilton warned people of a certain race to keep away from his house, but the Grand hotel management takes the money belonging tb this troupe and then tries to give them certain special accommodations. Inferiority or superiority of these accommodations has nothing to do with the questiorf In the absence of special contract, and there is no special con--tract as to where they shall eat, this troupe has a right to the general accommodations tendered the guests of the hotel. The hotel authorities need not set the members at the same table. They can distribute them over the room wherever they have vacant seats,. and the pretense that it is simply on account of room that they are desired to eat in the ordinary is mere moonshine. If there is not room in the main eating hall for all the regular boarders and all the transients let some of the regulars and others of the transients who are willing, be put in the ordinary. It iseimply a question of choice with Ibis troupe whether they go there or not, and if they do not choose to go they can not be compelled. This is a miserable ante-bellum prejudice and we hope to see it “stepped on” right here and now. Explanation cannot do awa/with the fact written all over the face of the affair, that it is because this troop are negroes that there is such a sudden qrowding of the room. If they were a lot of tallow faced Russians or heavy eyed Turks, or olive colored Chinese, with stupidity and sensuality written all over them, there would be rather a scramble than otherwise to get near them. The News looks at the simple question of right in this matter. It is the right of this people to have the same accommodations at an inn that all

guests have.

The beautiful Alpine flower, the edelwei#, is disappearing and there is danger that it will be lost altogether. It is plucked in too great quantities for tourists, and the meu and boys who gather it are not careful, but pluck it up by the roots. A young San Francisco lover offered to pay a police jostle# $10 and vote for him at the next election if the worthy magistrate would go with him and be introduced to bis (the lover’s) sweetheart. He wished to impress her and her family with a realizing sense of his familiarity with the great ones of the earth. Secretary Evarts is amused by the newspaper statement that he rules eleven lovely daughters. He said the other day to a correspondent: “Tell your people that I don’(object to eleven daughters, but I do object to the summary manner in which they have killed off my six sons.” The secretary has a family of five daughters and six sons. A Pittsburg mechanic asks the following very proper question: “Having been a worker for 40 years, by industry and economy I have accumulated several thousand dollars, and wishing to provide for a rainy day I invested them in railroad, bank and insurance stocks, and a little in a bond, before it was considered criminal to own such documents. I ask am I a workingman, a capitalist, or a bleated bondholder?” Twenty-nine years ago Mr. M. H. Brown, of Adrian, Mich., went tp California, leaving his wife and property behind. After twenty-fly* years or so, not hearing from her husband, Mrs. Brown supposed he must have died, and secured letters of administration on the family estate. But now, within a few days, Brown has returned—an old man of 70—and demands his property back in his own name. Still, while he asms his estate, he says he does not want the wife, and so the case will be fought out in the court According to a Paris paper, a French lady of rank has just died, at the age of eighty four, who had been accustomed for the last thirty year# to smoke a pipe twice a day as a penance. In 1845 she married a wealthy sea captain, and obtained from him a promise to abandon smoking, of which he was ex tremely fond. He kept bis word, but died shortly after of regret—so it is al legfd. His widow ws« so overwhelmed with grief and remorse that from that time to the day of her death she smoked a couple of pipes a day, and desired at her death that her pipe should be buried with her. Anybody who don’t believe we ought to have a fonetic system ov spellin should read the letters a big kerosene company have received. These are a few of the variations: Caraciue, earecane carozine, carocine, cursene, carozyne, coriseen, caroeyne, earicien, carsine.caresene, carozine, carocene, carosean, carycene, careaien. carateen, caroeeene, crosen, caroene, carizaein ker scene, karoein, kerooeine, kereseesa, kerieeene. keraeene, kerosen, kereseen, kerison, kerriseene, kerricene, keroseen, kercsine, kertseue, karottina, keresene, kerrsein, keroscene, kerose, keraseen, kereeon, kerocene. kerozene, kerrisene. kerryaeeu, kerissien, kersien, keroseln, keriecene. Elizabeth Bray, cj Leominster, England, asked Mr. Watts to have her, but he decliiH^fthe offer of her heart and hand. She thereupon made three desperate attempts to drown herself. As they fished her out for the third time, happened along the practical Mr. Watts, who, upon being made acquainted with the facta, said: “If you eraat to drown yourself, miss, come this way and PH see you does it" Seizing her, he took her to another part of the stream, and dipped her overhead two or three times until she was nearly exhausted. Crying hard for mercy the promised not to repeat her foolish conduct and was then brought out of the river thoroughly drenched and thoroughly repentant

BBIGHAX YOUNG. HI# Last Sickness - Speculations About IllsSuccessor-He Died Wortk Seven or Eight HIlllone-HAs Ynueral to Take Place on Sunday; lChicago Times'* Salt Lake special.! Brigham Young was attacked with cholera morbus on last Thursday evening said to be the result of making a hearty dinner of green corn and peaches. The attack was regarded as serious, but on Friday his physician pronounced him convalescent He had a relanse on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by distended bowels and severe pain. The symptoms yielded to the use of morphine, but on Sunday a condition of semi-etupor set in, w bich continued throughout the day and night On Monday there was no change for the better. On Tuesday tt bacame difficult to arouse him, but he retained bia consciousness and recognized those about him, bnt experienced great difficulty in breathing, and artificial respiration was resorted to for about nine hours. His condition fiem this time until his death admits of no doubt a# to the result. HU last words, uttered on Tuesday night, were, “I feel better.” He was able to say but very little to the membars of bia family as they came to bid him farewell on Sunday night He then said: * Jt will make no differecce whether I live or die. I am resigned.” The immediate cause of death was inflammation of the bowels, cemplicated with a disease of the prostate gland. For the past few months he had enjoyed remarkable health; bad preached eermoDS an hour in length, and been engaged actively in the reorganization of the church in different settlements, and the appointment of new bishops preparatory, it was hinted, to the cutting off of the lukewarm or Immoral members. To day at 4 o’clock he passed quietly away, seemingly unconscious of all bis surroundings. The members of his family were generally gathered around bia bedside, and evinced deep emotion. His sons, John W. and Brigham, Junior, have constantly attended him since the commencement of bU illness. Most of the leading members of the priesthood, inclnding Bishop Sharp, were con stant in attendance, and the interest manifested by all classes of the community was evinced by the incessant inquiries for the prophet’s health. Daily since Sunday prayer-cir-cles hbve been held in the unfinuhed temple, and in the endowment house, as well as in the several wards, but prayer in this cake proved unavailing to save even one suppoeed to have special favor with heaven. His death however, was peaceful, and the cessation of his breathing .almost imperceptible. On the streets people of all classes breathlessly awaited the progress of the disease, and little else was ta'ked of. The probable result of the death of Brigham was much discussed. The chief ixtsrest rests in the question as to who will be his successor in the presidency of the church, and it is admitted that there is no leader sufficiently developed to stand above all others in point of ability, and ir fluence. It has been long known that it was Brigham's desire to place his son Brigham in his chair, but the attempt has always been arrested by the apostle ring, of which John Tayler and" Emerson Pratt are the leading spirits. Latterly John W. Young has been credited with aspirations for the leadership, but evidently the old gentleman has made little progress in paving the way for the sue cession to rest in his family, and the leading Mormons scout the idea of any of the Young family occupying the first position in cbnrch. John Taylor, it is also believed, might be an aspirant for Brigham’s shoes, bathe is aotgenerally popular with all classes. There are large numbers of Mormons called Joseph Smith men, and some think the son of the prophet, now president of the Josepbite branch, at Piano; III., may remove hers and set np his standard. A good many saints who have been diegusted with the Young family have at times favored this movement, but it is doubtful if it could ever reach grave proportions. When young Joseph was here a year ago he attempted no crusade against Brigham Young and the church authorities, aud refused to discuss polygamy to any serious extent,though he insisted that plural marriage was not a tenet of the church. When he came to years of understanding he a# : d he did not know whether his father received the revelation of polygamy or not. Joseph F. Smith, one of the twelve, now president of the Enropean branch, Isa son of Hiram Smith, the prophet's brother. He is a staunch Mormon, but there have existed differences between him aud Brigham. The former is quite popular, especially in southern Utah, and has been much talked of In connection with the leadership. He would get a large vote for president if a fair chance were given the Mormon people generally to express their opinion. The most common opinion of the future of the church current among the best informed Mormons is that the twelve will assume the leadership of the church, and that no president ia likely to be immediately chosen. Thia course is in harmony with the church theory, but it is doubtful how a machine which has been completely under the supervision of one man could manage to survive under the divided counsels likely to prevail in an apostolic government. There is no doubt that there will be plenty of pretenders, but it is conceded that no man living can hold the eceptre that Brigham has juat laid down with anything of his firm and antocratic grasp. The twelve apostles are John Taylor, Orson Pratt, Orson Hyde, Wilfred Woodruff, Erast us Snow, George Q Cannon, Lorenzo Snow, Charles C. Rich, Franklin D. Richards, Brigham Young, jr„ Joseph F. Smith, Albert Carrington. John W. Young and Daniel H. Wells are counselors to the first presidency, and their offices die with that of the first president. Daniel H. Wells has not been much canvassed in connection with the leadership, but there are some Mormons who think him the man for the place above all others. He ia an nnaalfieh man, a true churchman, and a man of ability and integrity. He has been a faithful servant of the church from the earliest days. He is poor, however, but the same thing ia true of most of the apostles. It ia somewhat remarkable that Brigham Young should have acquired vast wealth, while most of his hard-work-ing and faithfal associates have remained poor: bnt it must be remembered that he has been the temporal manager of the church and state, the sole director and manipulator of everything, while they have been simply spiritual lights under his direction. The estate of Brigham Young is estimated at from $6,000,000 to $7,000,000, but it would be difficult to place any approximate value upon it He owns large tracts of real estate in many of the settlements, and mills, buildings, live stock, and a great variety of improvements. He owns nearly all the stock in the street railroads in this city, and a large amount of Utah Central apd Utah Southern railroad bonds, ia a large owner in the Deseret bank, the Deseret telegraph company, the controling proprietor in the great Z:on’s co-operative mercantile institute, etc. In Ann Eliza’s bill for divorce abe estimated bis monthly Income at $60,000, jrhioh he denied in his reply, and stated tb at hia monthly income would not exceed $6,000. He had already distributed a considerable amount of property among hi# children, and a* he was very punctilious in regard to his af-

fairs it is probable that his will has been drawn to nrecluda if poaribla any legal complications. Throagh life ho was averse to lawyers and the settlement of disputes through the courts. It io doubtful whether it will be possible to avoid complications and lawsuits in the settlement of thia vast estate and it is more then likely that the lawyers may have many a fat fee before the will ia finally disposed of. A clause in the will directs that Brigham shall be buried in a rosewood coffin three inches wider than hi# body, so that if he had a dieposition to tarn ovei* he might do so; that he be laid on a cotton mattress: that bia body be borne to the grave on a bier, and be buried in a stone vault, s stone slab to be pieced over the top. He requests that none of the male members of the family should wear crape or emblem# of moorning, end that the females should not purchase mourning dresses, though they might wear such if they had them. The funeral services will be held in the great tabernacle on Sunday at noon, where hia body will be borne. A prayer will be previously said at the Lion house. There will be a great assemblage. Extra trains will be run on all the railroads, and the saints will come up from all peris of the territory within reach.

From

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NEW BOOKS.

VTENTA, THE PHANTOM CITY. _ the German of B. Werner. Boston: Estes Laoriat; Indianapolis; Bowen, Stowart <k

Co. #

Another of the Cabinet eeries of fiction, this like most of its predecessors, Is e foreign story, laid in foreign lands, the work of a foreign author. It has been well translated. Werner’s novels are pure in sentiment aud elevated in tone. This one is a story of German aud Polish life at the time of the great Polish revolution and aside from its merits as a novel possesses something of the attractiveness of

.a history or book of travels.

THAT HUSBAND OF MINE. BoatontLee* Shepard; Indianapolis: Bowen, Stewart A

Co.

An anonymous nonsensical story of the every day life of a luckless, blundering husband, the incarnation of good nature and absent mindedness. It is a well-told story, with the usual vein of love-making in it, ia addition to the adventares of the husband, which will afford amusement for

a couple of evenings.

BEAUTIFUL EDITH THE CHILD-WOMAN. TWO KISSES. Loring’s tales ot the day. In-

dianapolis: Bowen, Stewart A Co.

These are handy volume# for the pocket or traveling satchell. Love atorie# drawn from that fountain head of all novelists’ materia], English life. There are plenty of earls and barons and stars and garters, lords and ladies mixed up with untitled humanity and the torturous ways of the human he&rt are followed throagh all to

the nsnal felicitous ending.

G. T. T., or The Wonderful Adventure* of a

- E. E. Hah ~

Pullman. By IS. IS. Hale, boston: Koberts Brothers. Indianapolis: Bowen, Stewart &

Co.

When it is explained that G. T. |T. means gone to Texas, the scope ot thia story is told in its title. It is a trip from New Jersey to Texas, related in the shape of the fortunes and adventures of the heroine’s, who made the trip. It is a charm-

ing sketch.

FOUR IRREPRESSIBLES. Boston: Loring. Indianapolis: Bowen, Stewart A Co. The irrepressibles are of the tribe of Benjamin, some relation to Helen’s Babies. The record of their ways includes a wide range of child life. A love story ia the link that binds the sketch, a pleas-

ant piece of noneenee.

This Cobweb Skkies. JACK. From tho French of Alphonse Daudet. by Mary Neal Sherwood. Boston: Estes A Lauriat. In-

dianapolis: Bowen, Stewart A Co.

The admirers of Sidonie will probably be disappointed in this work, from the same author's pen. American readers will expect to be p'eased with Daudet as other works are in the vein and up to the standard of Bidonie. This one is not. It is taken up with the adventures of Jack. If it bad been Jack’s mother and her character had been elaborated with the same power which painted Bidonie, and her husband's character with the force which was expended on some of the male characters of that book, the result would probably have been a greater work than Bidonie. It is in the same deep moral vein of tbat book, and displays the deli v y

cate humor of Bret Harte’s style less^Jtular to their employee, declaring deftly wrought. Dismissing from view 4 ^ .

the other book of this author which the current series gave us, and “Jack” is a story tbat will please; compared with Sidonie it is unsatisfactory. One goes to

it for something he does not get.

STATE ITEMS.

Ida Morgan, aged 10, of Orleans, Orange county, built her last fire with coal oil

last Wednesday.

Riley Hinkle, Kaq., of Washington township, Carroll c: unty, threshed 1.3J9V* bushel# of wheat from fifty acre#, being almost twenty-four bushels to the acre. Lightning scooped np a big bowlder end flung it some distance, at Richmond the other day, bat didn’t hurt the three children of Mr. Hex ton. who were playing

near it.

The dump bodies and other works attached to Haines’s mine, at Sand Creek, Parke county, were destroyed by fire last Wednesday, with a lose of $5,000; insured. It was the work of incendiaries. A back with fourteen Inside passengers narrowly escaped demolition et Richmond the other day, by being run into by a locomotive. Mias Ida Dodd, of Lafayette, was the only person injnred, and she caught ber dreae on the step and fell. In attempting to jump out, cutting her hand and getting some severe bruises. A man named Tuttle was arrested the other day at Palestine, Hancock county, for the murder of an alleged hone thief In Texes several years ago. He begged the privilege of bidding adien to hie wife and child, near Greenfield. While so engaged the wife managed to get between him and the officers, when he made a dash into a corn field near by and es-

The Famine in India,

An official telegram from the viceroy of India snmmerizee the progress of the famine from Augnet 20 to the 28th. It saye In Madras we situation is not improved anywhere and is distinctly worse in Madura, Coimbatoon, Nellore end Belem, where 929.771 are on the relief worka and 1,326>,071 receiving gratuitous relief. In Mysore the crop prospect is worse and showers less frequent Two hundred and forty-three thousand two hundred and eighty-three are on the works or receiving gratuitous relief. More favorable accounts continue of the condition of the mops In Bombay presidency, owing to the recent rains in some of the north provinces. The autumn crop in the division ot Agra and Jhana is near-

ly lest, ariB in the Allahabad and Benares divisions it is critical. There have been — j -ains I_ “ * —* " ‘ •’

)D8 i The

good rains in Moerut aud Rohileund. The crope in Oude are suffering from hot wind. The condition of the Punjab ia critical and that of Gweller, Ray-Patana and Hyderabad bad. There Is much destruction south of Nisams Dominion. The Daccan is improved. Prospects are good in south Bengal, Barmah and in the central provinces of

Berar, Indore and Rutlam.

adelpbia: Porter A Coates. Indianapolis;

Bowen. Stewart A Co.

This is a story with a heroine. Her home ia in Pennsylvania. The time, at that age when the region there waajioted more lor beautiful scenery than for oil wells, Molly Maguires and railroads. It u a carefully written, well-told story of the regulation pattern. Nothing startling In fact or manner, but fulfilling well the end of a novel’s creation nowadays—the

passing of time.

MY BONNIE LASS. By Mr*. C. V. Hamilton. Boston: Esteg A Lauriat. Indianapo-

lis: Bowen, Stewart A Co.

In spite of the name this is not a story of Scotland, but of San Domingo, aud the question of whose bonny lase she is, or ought to be, is what makes all the trouble in the book. There is some very good character sketching, and some effective description of scenery. On these it rellea rather then on ingenuity of plot; this is sufficiently complicated however to make “intereetin’ readin’,” and finally satisfaction at the straight way it is unraveled

and adjusted.

THE INDIANA SCHOOL JOURNAL. Indianapolis: W. A. Bell editor ami publisher. Th* August number of this valuable publication is well up to the high standard it baa made for itself. Tbe special papers are varied and interesting, and tbe editorial# are forcible and pertinent. The improvement in methods of instruction, which bes been so marked of lata years, is profitably treated and the requirements that a better compensation of teaching has made in instructors are noted and elucidated, making altogether a valuable nnmber of this contribution to school

knowledge.

Settling for the Strike. The merchants suffering Joe# of freight at Pittabnrg during the late riot# held a meeting yesterday and appointed a committee to confer with the Pennsylvania railroad company, with power to make such term# a# they may deem advieible for tbe proeecution of suite in connection with the railroad company, against Allegheny county, provided that th# railroad company fnruiah said claimants with a guarantee for the payment of losses within a period of two years. Cornell ’Hast Yield. The president ia firm in his datennination to hold Naval Officer Cornell to th# strict letter of his civil service roles. He must retire from the republican committee or resign.

How He Startled Her.

fDetroit Free Pres*.]

A whoop bang sort of a boy, with feet as broad and flat as a pie tin, trotted through the central market yesterday till be reached a stall kept by a single woman about 30 years old. Halting there he

yelled out:

“SayIsay! Your little boy has been run over and killed, up by the city hall!” “Oh! oh! Heavens—oh! oh!” She screamed aa she mad* a dive under the counter, came up on the outaids and started to follow the boy. After going ten feet she halted, looked very foolish

all of a sudden, and remarked:

“What a goose I am. Why I ain’t even

married."

IHoro Indictment# in South Carolina. Tbe grand jury at Columbia yesterday returned true - Dills for breach of trust against ex-lieutenant-governor Gieaves, ex-president of the senate Montgomery, ex governor Moeee, ex-clerk of the house Jones, and ex treasurer Parker. Also against clerk of the senate Woodruff, for forging, to the amount of $4,000 Against one F. 8. Jacobs, for forgery for over $3,000. Against Bcott Parker and United States senator Patterson, for bribing of member# of the legislature in the matter of the Blue Ridge railroad, and other cases, and against Patterson, Parker and H. H. Kimptcn, of New York, for conspiracy

to bribe the legislature.

Cut of Wages on the C. U. A D. Rail-

road.

The authorities of the Cincinnati, Hamton & Dayton railroad Lave issued a cirular to their employes, declaring that on and after September 1 ninety miles shall constitute a day’s work. Heretofore sixty miles has counted as a full day. There is great dissatisfaction among the employes, and a strike is anticipated. Hie News is read In all parte of the state tributary to Indianapolis in trade. It has large lists of subscribers in all the towns

and villages.

That Insidious Foe to Health, An atmosphere impregnated with tbeaeeda of malaria, is rendered harmleii by the timely u«e of Hostetler’# Stomach Bitten, and if a reaort to this benign protective agent haa unwisely been deferred until tho fever At* have developed; it will bsve the effect of checking them and preventing their return. Tbii statement ii corroborated by thousand# who bave tried thia medicine for fever and ague and bilious remittent fever, beside* affections of tbe Htomsob, liver and bowel* peculiarly riie in malarieua iocaiitiea. Throughout the we*t, indeou in every part ef the American continent where malaria prevail*, it i* th* accepted ipecific. Nor i* the area of it* u*efulne*F circumscribed by the limit* of the United State*, aince it ia widely uaed in South Amori* ica. Mexico, Auatraiia and alaewhere.

Those moons of man* A third satellite of mars was discovered by Dr Henry Draper, of New York, and Prof. E. 8. Holden, of Washington, jointly, on August 26, at Dr. Drapersjprivate observatory, at Hastings, on the Hudson.

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