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THE DAILY NEWS. TVBSDA Y, SEPTEMBER 9, U7*.

The Indianapolis News has a bona fide circulation more than one-half larger than that of any Other dally paper in Indiana.

Thx “Maine” question to the greenbackera: “Bauve qai peat.” MAtini and California have pat a large amount of “stiffening" into Ohio. If Charley Foster doesn’t sweep Ewing and Ewingixm clear oat of eight, it will be a wonder. His election seems to be about as certain as any such uncertain thing can be. The Chisholm trial has at last begun. It is high time. Justice may be done and a precedent established for use in the trial of Capt. Dixon’s murderer—if there ever is a real trial for that crime. Both murders sprang from the same devilish spirit of intollerance. It has been nearly two years since the Cl^holm murder, and at this late day it will be a . aurprise if any punishment at all is meted out to the criminals. They need in Mississippi a return to first principles and an administration of justice as it was assured by the Magna Charta—in the words of later historians, “promptly and without delay; freely and without sale; completely and without denial." As shown in The News yesterday, De La Matyr, by reason of California electing republican congressmen, begins to loom up as an individual of importance. In case of the presidential election going into the house he will cast the vote of Indiana, the delegation remaining as at present. There are six on each side, with He La Matyr as the odd man. Undoubtedly there will be an effort at the next ■ession to oust Orth in favar of McCabe, indecent as such an attempt at this day would be. But that will be no bar. If the democrats can raise the slightest shade of * a shadow of a claim they will push it through. Supposing they fail, it will leave De La Matyr to throw the vote of Indiana into the republican scale and elect their candidate or throw it to the democrats and tie the vote, leaving it to the democratic senate for decision. It isn't' a pleasant situation for any one man. Should it fall to the reverend congressman, however he votes, it will lie in his power to have himself named as his own successor in this distrjct. Congressional aspirants for the Seventh Indiana district are quite as much interested in the situation as a presidential candidate may be. Maine answers California. There is a • substantial republican victory gained in the Pine Tree state whether it turns out to be real in the number of offices gained or not. At this writing the republican candidate for governor has a plurality over his two competitors, bat fails of a majority. No party expected to carry this office at the polls, as by the Maine law the winning candidate must have a majority. The real fight was for the legislature, which elects in ease of failure to choose at the polls. The lower house of this body is claimed by the republieans beyond question, and the upper house not conceded U * the opposition. Senator Blaine claims a - large majority on joint ballot It is prebMe an official count will have to determine this. In any event it is a decided republican victory. Last year that party caet 56,554 votee, while the democrats oast 28,208, and the greenbackers 41,871. This left the republicans IS,025 short ef a majority. That they have about regained this is a solid victory. It ie doubtless due a to the falling away in the greenback vote. That craze is subsiding beyond ' question, and as it subsides the result is to the direct advantage of the republican*. At this rate wo may expect the republican party by next year to come out boldly and unqualifiedly for the maintenance of specie payments, which means a modification oi the silver law and the repeal ef the law prohibiting the retirement of redeemed greenbacks. Ex-Mabshai, Pitkin, of Louisiana, thinks that there are elements of opposition to the bourbon democracy in that state strong enough, if they could be brought into any sort of co-operation, to carry the state. The victory would not bo in the interest of republicanism, pure * * and simple, but it would be in the interest of business developseont and a better assertion of political rights, end therefore a desirable result to all but those who want the federal offices. These, like the old time democrats in Massachusetts, want the party “conveniently small,” eo as to have offices enough to go round when their party has the national government in hand. They teem to be the chief obstacle to a combination that would work a healthful change, not only in that state, but indirectly through the whole south. There are plenty of democrats who feel no sympathy with the

controlling faction, and plenty of republicans who have no hankering for office, and plenty of colored Voter* who would be assured a fair chance at the polls by a coalition, even of the most •temporary character, between the dissatisfied elements of the two parties. The compound of these three forces would bo formidable, even If not •ncoeeefuL It would call a halt to some of the abuse# that strengthen the disposition of the freedmen to emigrate, and check the violenee that too often has corrupted the elections. But will the comfortable possessors of federal offices co-operate, or will the disinterested republicans bo able to make an organization even as auxiliary to domocratic division. There is no doubt that a rough handling of the ruling democracy in Louisiana, by the other elements opposed to it, would make a healthful opening in that “aolid south” which ie not the least serious feature of the political aituation. No one wants to see a “aolid south” confronted by a “solid north” again, for the army is dangerous even when it is peaceful, and the most promising action for the general peace is that which shows a break in this solidity of sectional feeling. We have little hopes of it, however, so far as it is dependent on the help of a ring of office holders.

CURUJLNT UOMMJCKT. Somebody has been speaking for Senator Lamar to the effect that he upholds Barksdale in the assassination of Dixon at Yazoo, and will so declare himself. We don’t believe Senator Lamar has ever so expressed himself whatever he thinks about it, orthat he will so express himself. To have such a crime defended by the Lamars of the south, would be a last proof that no good could come out of that Nazareth. Says the Columbua Democrat: “It ia the prospect of a democratic victory in 1880 thatiscausing real estate to advance and times to Improve generally.” Fact.—[Logansport Pharos. | What calamities are in store for us, now that California and Maine have gone republican? The Boston Herald says the tar rate there is only $12 50, and save in four instances, never was so large as the present rate ia Indianapolis. We may not be able to crow over Boston, but if there is another exception in a city as large or larger, we should like to know it. Tammany baa said “never" three times. The “hardly ever’’ will come next—[New York Tribune. Said Gen. Butler in 1876: “If it is possible for it to succeed, and if business shall be thereby revived and the country once more put upon its great career of prosperity and happiness to all its people, may God speed thf day of resumption.'’—[Boston Herald. The most careful observers of the political situation in this state, without regard to party afflictions, are very free to say that Gen. Butler baa a better chance to becoming gov. ernor of Maseachusetts then ever before; that he will be the next governor, unless the republicans present a united front, bring out their best men for candidates, and are prepared for a campaign of hard work.—[Springfield Union. Look the world over and there is no land more blessed than this: in this nation no section is more favored than New England. With September culminates the growth of the luxuries of garden; durine September, with health, there should be as perfect happiness as is vouchsafed to man.—[Providence Journal. • The opening election of 1879 is a victory, for the republicans of Caifornia has elected a republican governor by a handsome majority, at least three out of four of the congressmen, And most of the state officers. Next week Maine will cast her vote on the same side, and there are hopes that a united north will confront a solid south in 1880. For this feeling of sectionalism the south is alone to blame. Southern republicans have been driven from their homes or murdered, and even democrats who have exhibited independence have been murdered. The north can not be blamed that it is indignant. The president has done his utmost to conciliate the south, to restore kindness of feeling between the settiois, and the return the south has made has been to revile him and the north. They must take the consequences of their own ingratitude and want of wisdom.—[N. Y. Sunday Dispatch. The Hera* and Mol* Trad*. [Atlanta Constitution.] It is held by some of the drovers that have already arrived that prices will be high this year. This, it is said, is occasioned by a scarcity in the western markets of the class of animals that are suitable for this trade. The fanners of the south, and especially Georgia, hare become so indepeudent daring the past few years that they will not buy anything but a^rst-class horse or mule. The animals have got to be of good size, well shaped and serviceable before a sale can be maoe to the proerressire and well-to-do farmer of the present day, and Georgia is getting full of th6m.

The Chisholm Murder. The hearing of the evidence in the trial of Henry J. Gully for the murder of Cornelia Chisholm, April 29, 1877, began yesterday at DeKalb, Miss. Seventy witnesses, thirty-two for the state aud thirty-eight for the defense, were sworn and excluded from the court room. Mrs. Chisholm, the first witness, testified to the hilling of her husband, son and daughter by Gully and Rosser, substantially as heretofore published. Dr. Chamberlain testified that Cornelia Chisholm died from the effects of her wounds, and that no treatment could have saved her life. Charles Rosenbaum testified to the shooting of Gilmer by Tirgil Gully. «

Two Fools Saved.

The miniature boat Uncle Sam, in which Captain Goldsmith and his wife attempted to go from Boston to Enrope, was wrecked off Newfoundland on the 19th of August. Mrs. Goldsmith suffered greatly from seasickness, and they encountered a furious gale, which lasted four days. They were picked up by a passing vessel and taken to Liver-

ness, and they an count

An Indian Raid. A dispatch from Jocaliente, New Mexico, reports that about forty Indians sopnosed to be under Victoria, last Friday, attacked the government guard herding cavalry horse I

Another Evidence *f Improrliiff Times. [Evansville Courier.] The marriage of so many old bachelors makes a young man begin to inquire the time Of day with some misgivings that It may soon be getting on toward tea time with himself, if he is not uncommonly agile. Obituary. Blore, formerly architect to Buckingham palace and Westminster abbey, is dead. Ex-Lieutenant Governor John Dougherty died at Jonesboro, Illinois, Sunday, aged Seventy-three. Folly eo Kxpoet It. [New Orlmna Picayune] All of the lay Breaching in the world will not make eggs cheap in cold weather. Wm. M. Hunt, a well known artist of Besion^drowned himself yesterday at the Isle

[Wayne CUbma.] We will hear a voice from Maine next week.

A SUMMBW fftAMP. Protoeaor Jordan’* Party lath* Old WM** [DelayMsorTeepoodsnaeof The Indianapolis News.] Born AcaotA, Venice, July 24,1879. Since I last wrote from Lens, four weeks of tramping and gondoling has brought the “summer tramp” to an agreeable halt at Geneva. From Leo* we started out bright and early to walk over the Albula pass into the Engadin. For the first day all was ■areae and clear, aod at night we reached the inn Zum Weissenstein, beautifully situated at the summit of the pass, an inn which has but two faults, the stupidity of its proprietor* and the tendency of the goats to push open the doors at night for the purpose of aharieg the beds, already too well filled. A real Swias chalet is a kitchen, bedroom, eheese-factory, dog-kennel, barn, goat and eow-stable combined, and the inn Zorn \tbi»senstein is a genuine chalet In the morning we awoke to find it snowing furiously. In two hour* the snow was everywhere three inches deep, and floundering in the snow on our way over to the Engadin, on the 15th of July—the midwinter of oar discontent We thought of Indianapolis aud its ever-recur-ring tropical waves with something like regret, and wondered if we should ever need

a fan again.

But the darkest cloud comes just before, etc. When we came in sight of the Engadin the clouds lifted, and every day since then when there was anything to see has been clear and bright. Ever since our first week good luck has followed everywhere. The old lady’s wish that it might “rain nights and Sundays that thewhired man might rest’’ has been granted for us, and finally the clouds have settled over Cbamouny just as we took our last look of the calmest of European

mountains and the greatest.

The Engadin, the land inhabited by the “retired cooks and confectioners of Europe grown rich,” is one of the most interesting parts of Switzerland. Like the Bernese Oberland, Zermatt and Chamouny, it is now visited by great numbers of tourists, and it has been often described. In Switzerland, however, the places most visited are often those best worth seeing. Chamouny is not vulgar because so many vulgar people go there. The Engadin is one of the highest valleys permanently inhabited. Its towns are as high up as the summit of Mount Washington; too high for the growth of any t rees but scattered and stunted evergreens. Its climate of “nine months winter and three months cold, under a blue Italian sky,” was illustrated by the freezing of a tnb of. water under our windows on the night of the 17th of July. The charm of the Engadin is in its lakes. From the very head of the valley the river Inn flows through a succession of small lakes, pale green and clear, and surrounded by snowy mountains, dark fir |trees and pasture, covered like a carpet with short, bright green grass and the greatest profusion of fiovrers, yellow, red and blue, of the most intense and brilliant colors. Nowhere are flowers so numerous and bright as on the

edges of the eternal snow.

It is in these high pastures, or “alps”—for an “alp” with the peasants is not a mountain bat a mountain meadow—that the blueness of flowers reaches its greatest intensity. Che forget-me-not, the gentian, the speedwell, the violets, the sage, all ha/e a depth of color which the same flowers do not have in the valleys. On Riz Languard, in the Val For,; mazza, on the flowery Ebenalp, everywhere^ the nearer the snow line, the bluer the gen-

tians and forget-me-nots.

The wonderful abundance of flowers everywhere is one of the characteristic features of Switzerland, but as one goes towards Italy, the flowers disappear, it is said that nature is a mother to Italy and only a stepmother to Switzerland, but if so the stepmother hdl the kindlier if not the warmer hand. All along the edge of the snow, and even under it, grow little plants with large, bright, happy flowers, their roots in the rocks ,and without stems at all. You can not pick them. For they are as bodiless as

the traditional cherub.

From the Engadin we entered Italy by the Maloia pass, and by a succession of steep zigzags, we passed from a people rich on a sterile soil^.through industry and freedom, to a land of squalid laziness. Our first intimation of Italy was the ever-recurring wayside shrine. Next the troop of begging children, whom we finally learned to keep at bay by the epithet “figure of a pig,” (“figura* d’nn porco”) an opprobrious expression supremely distasteful to the Italian. Next came the sight, since grown familiar, but then disagreeably novel, of old women with swollen necks, (goitre or “Kropf”) painfully carrying in large baskets on their backs loads of stable manure from the chalet to the field of “gran turco,” or Turkish corn as they call our Indian com. Later, we have seen women along the Italian roads, bareheaded in the' hot sun, gleaning the droppings of the horses and throwing them over their heads into the baskets with great dexterity. It must have been an Italian who discovered that for “carrying burdens, a woman is better than a dog

but not so good as a donkey.”

With every step downward into Italy the iritual barometer of the pedestrian falls, ne can see that Switzerland must ever be a land of freedom and the Italian must ba ruled by the despot. No one can lord it over , ths Matterhorn. There is something about the Latin races that causes the Saxon to hats them spontaneously, individually and collect

lively.

“I lore their language, that soft bastard Latin, That tails like kisses from a woman's mouth,” but something depends on the woman and the mouth, and the average Italian voice is less musical than the German. In Italy you can hardly venture to ask your way of a man on the street without his asking you in turn for drink-money. We went from the Maloia pass over the lake of Como to Milan, gradually exchanging the cool mountains for ths hot and dusty plaines of Lombardy. Milan ia a stately and handsome city, a sort of Italian Paris, but more Parisian and less Italian than any other of the towns of Italy which we hare seen. In Milan, at least some of the people seem to have something to do. Next we came to Verona. In truth “no city has a fairer seat than hers noon the eager Adige.” Her walls and citadels built by the Austrians, and now swarming with the soldiers of La Patria, give her an imoosing appearance from a distance. Within the city the impression is made that everything was built in the times of the Scaligers, and has been slowly dry-rotting ever since. A soldier selemnly paces along each section of the ancient walls and keeps his weather eye sharply fixed to guard against another Austrian invasion, and the women still wash their clothes by beating them iu the river, ranged in long rows on the bank as they did in Theodore’s time, before the invention of soap and washing machines. The great amoitheater, built by Diocletian, ’ still stands by the place of Victor Emanuel, (then perhaps the Place of Diocletian)but the lions are dead and the gladiator shows you their cages in mixed Italian and German at a franc a head. The house of theOapulets is now a shop for the sale of “vino, biere ed alter! generi con allogio,” and the glory of Verona is departed. Next we came to Venice. In the little space I hare here, and especially in the little uae which the intervals between tramps

give

anything the city a

Howells, and I shall not attempt it now. More in my Uae is the fish market just above the Rialto. The fishee of the Adriatic are classic, being those known to the ancient Romans and Greek?. Aristotle called one of them gobioa, and the fishermen still call it gobe. The mackerel, akombros of the Greeks, is still “sgomhro,” and sole* is

sp Ui

‘‘sfoglta.” In the interest of sdanoe and the Tndiaaa University we got ready oar caa of alcohol and weal in our gondola for fish. On our-way through the narrow canals wa attest'd ourselves by catching sea-crabs alone the doorsteps, for every Y enetian hearthstone is, at low tide, an aquarium, and on the stairs tbe-sea crab is abundant as a similarly formed but humbler animal is higher op. Arrived at Peecheria, we bought the standard varietiea of fish for a few minutes by the ponnd. Soon, however, our need of odd fishes became known, and the four members of oar party were at once bent by slimy Venetians holding every imaginable kind of marine animal np in our faces, thrusting it into our packets, ear baskets, and bowling oat an extravaxtuit price ia the most variegated Italian, if the Animal seemed really worthy to ornament the university cabinet, we said, laconically, “dieci centesimi" (two cents). At this another fish would ■su&lly be added and half the former price asked for the two. Finally, after a certain amount of talk, the tender of the money end the magical word “baata” (enough) always served to clinch matters. Let the traveler in Italy cut out this word “babta” and paste it in hia hat, for it is the most useful word in any language. It means “enough.” It implies “enough,” “dry up,” “avast,” “get out, “vanish,” and its effect is simply magical. Beggars, hackmen, guides, porters, flower girls, gondoliers, dealers in ^souvenirs,” glass bead fiends, all disappear before it leaving scarcely a trace behind. If the reformers of our language could introduce basta into English it would supply a “want long felt." The resemblance in climate, location and every physical feature between Venice and Beaufort, North Carolina, is worth noting. The low sandy island-shore, the warm and shallow bay bounded by long sand-reaches brought down by the rivers is the same. Bogue banks are the Lido, and Bird Island shoals will do for the San Lazzaro and the other saints. Even the population seems the same. The beets of idlers on the docks, willing to work for almost nothing, if not too hard; the fishermen, rough, quarrelsome and languidly interested in views of fish which had not before occurred to them and willing to make the most of it; the warm, damp languid air, with the deco purple evening lights and the clear cut hues of the sunrise are the same in Beaufort as in Venice. Even the fish of the Adriatic and of Pimlico sound are wonderfully alike. The contents of a Venice and a Beaufort stall are far more alike then those of Beaufort and New England, or of Venice and Old England. Climate has done more then we think to shape the lines of men and fishes. David S. Jordan. * A THIRTY YEARS’ SEARCH. A Faintly Scattered by the Cholera In 183S Is Reunited by a Newspaper Advertisernent. [Philadelphia Record.] Am6n£ the victims of the cholera which raged in New York city durlug the year 1838, was one Richard Pritchard, leaving a wife and three children, Richard H. and William, who were twins, and a daughter named Ellen. Two years later the mother of the children died, leaving the orphaned ones unprotected. Richard and William came to this city, and Ellen was taken in charge by an uncle living in Centrebury, Ohio, which at that time was little more than a wilderness. At the time of their separation the boys were twelve ahd the girl nine years of age. Two years after parting with their sister the boys became anxious , to learn of her whereabouts. Not knowing where to write they advertised for her in Ohio papers, but no answer came in response to their inquiries. Then they applied through similar channels of informatiou furnished by Phiiadelohia, New York, and Boston papers, but still no tidings came from the lost sister. In the meantime William died, and then Richard continued the search alone. The experiment of advertising was repeated at frequent intervals until weeks were lengthened into months, and months into years, and the years were multiplied hntil thirty of them had dragged away their weary length without bringing a ray of intelligence to cheer the heart of the persistent and devoted brother. At last a friend of the ancle who took Ellen to live with him saw the advertisement in a Ecrap of an Ohio paper. He did sot know the sister, but he did know her uncle, a Mr. George Sk e U en i an d so, although he lived forty miles distant, the kind hearted friend immediately stowed the advertisement away in his pocket and started forthwith on his forty miles journey to give it to Mr. Skellen. As soon as the latter had read the advertisement he exclaimed: “Why, yes; that is my niece, married and living only two and a half miles from here.” But little time was lost iu making her acquainted with the facts. A letter was dispatched to her faithful brother, in Philadelphia, whose joy at its reception was only excelled by the ecstacy he realized when he looked again on the face of one who had been lost to him for thirty years.

daughters, can obtain, was equally anxious to be restored to her brother, and the meeting between the two was one which can be realized only by those who have endured sjprilar trials. YANKRB WIT.

How m Now York Drummer Pat American Honey on <Jueen Victoria's Table. [New York correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.] It is a curious commercial fact that whereas a year asro no American honey in the comb was exported to England not lees than half a million pounds will be sent in the next twelve months. The trouble was hemey could not be sent strained and canned for the reason that it would candy. American honey is by far the best in the world as regards flavor and purity of appearance. Knowing that a New York firm hired Mr. Hodge, a wellknown honey expert to try to introduce it in England. Over the water went Hodge, witB a big lot of the sweet stuff in the comb. It required skill to pack it and to load and unload, but it arrived all right, not a cell being burst. The English dealers in honey gave him the cold shoulder. They had the editors of the British Bee Journal give him a raking down, and they, themselves, added all the

mean things they could say.

Mr. Hodge made little headway. He was about to give it up for a bad job when a brilliant thought struck him. He must get the honey on the queen’s table. How was he to do this ? While picking his teeth after dinner and ruminating upon the subject his eye alighted on the pickle jar. It bore the name of a man who had been high steward in Windsor Castle. “He’s my man,” said Mr. Hodge to himself, and away he went for the pickle man. Did he rush up to him and blurt out: “I want to put my American honey on Victoria’s table?” Not a bit of it.“He began to talk pickles with the man—asked a thousand questions about how they were made, ate a score or more of them, and ended by proposing that the pickle-man furnish

piczlesto the American h<

resented.

The pickle man was delighted. The New York man gave him an order. They had a bottle of wise together, and then the American said: “Now I have helped you, you must help me. Can’t yon put American honey on the qneen’s table?” “Of coarse I can, was the reply, and in no time the arrangements were made. A case of honey was given to the pickle man, and another was sent to the high steward, and In a short time some of it was before the royal family. The young folks liked it so well that Victoria gave orders that it be kept in the castle. That was enough. American honey was from the moment in demand, and Mr. Hodge baa just sent orders for the shipment of 500,000 pounds of this year’s crop. The BritWh Bee Journal flopped over to the other side and was loud in praising the American article. Every fashionable person’s table must have American honey. The California Election. The official count of votee in San Francisco differs in some cases widely from the figures published in the city journals and is likely to change the result in some instances. Returns from all the counties in the third congressional district give McKenna, repub. lican, 271 majority over Berry,^democrat. Some of the counties are partially estimated, aniT/nil returns are expected to increase McKenna's majority.

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••Never despair.'* Verily, verily'’,

Judge as you may, He who toils merrily

Carries the day.

—[Catholic Herald.

MCRAJPS.

Mr. John E. Owens is going to travel in

Australis.

The pale horse sad the dork horse are the only very notable animals that Bonner has not yet purchased. The greatest Ion of life daring the Afghan war was in camels. It is said that sixty thousand of the poor, patient animals perished. KingTheibo, of Bntmah, disgusted with the scarcity and cost of liquor at Mandalay, has sent to Rangoon to inquire the cost of a still, and thinks of having a distillery in his palace. Gin is his pecnliax vanity. . At a recent liquor trial in Winsted, Conn, an irate dealer broke out as follows: “Judge, there’s no use of trying to stop liquor selling. Just as long as there is eight cents profit on a ten cent drink, rum will be sold, and no one

can stop it.”

The Fiji islanders were very much disgusted by the corsets worn by the last lot of female missionaries sent there. The hungry but ingenious natives say that if white women are to have as many bones as a shad it really doesn’t pay to import them.—[San

Francisco Post.

The late war with Russia has apparently

not diminished the gross luxury of ‘h'sullan and tii pashas in Constantinople. Their extravagancy is as notorious as ever, their harems oeing crowded with slaves. There is much suffering among the lower classes of

the people and the inferior officers. The success of Byron’s comedy, “Our

Boys,” was wonderful* in London, where it Was played three years continuously. Byrou wrote “Our Girls’" to succeed it, and, as the new piece was kept in waiting for a long time, he made many and frequent changes. On production, however, it has decisively failed, and the author says that he spoiled it

by over elaboration.

A small ragged boy entered an oyster house in Salem, Mass, and asked: “Willyou sell me an oyster for a cent? I want it for my sick mother.” “What is the matter with your mother?” asked the man. as he pro’cee<!?d to fill a can with oysters, thinking he would help to relieve a case of suffering. “She’s got a black eye,'” was the reply. The benevolence rapidly faded from the mind of the oyster man as he put one oyster in a paper

bag.

The Constantine, Michigan, Mercury says that fourteen years ago a White Pigeon man gave bis son a sheep for a birthday present Itwasputout on shares and the wool applied to increasing the flock up to last spring, when the money realized from the sale of wool was put on interest The flock bow numbers 233, and the boy is old enough to look after it himself. The increase from that sheep now amounts to about $800. The

original cost was $3.

Leontine Nicollc, the Frenchwoman who takes the prize for virtue this year at the Academic, has been a nurse in a lunatic asylum for twenty years. She went there when a young girl in order to watch her mother, wno had lost her reason, and has been devoted to the work ever since. M. Jules Simon, in his adrees, stated that through the devotion of this living martyr no less than five hundred insane men and women had regained

their senses and their liberty.

During a reeent storm the gas and water pines of a dwelling were connected with an ordinary Bell telephone, and it was found the electrical discharges were plainly indicated, either by a sharp crack or a succession of taps. This occurrea when the discharge was so distant that the thunder was inaudible. The sound also seemed to be perceived by the ear before the lightning could be seen. There is some danger in conducting this experiment if not done with suitable

apparatus. ^

George 0. Perkins, the governor elect of California, is a native«of Maine, and his age is forty. Not liking life on his father’s farm he made several voyages as a cabin boy. In his eighteenth year he landed in California and settled in Butte county, Orrorille, where he found employment at farming, mining and clerking in a store, tfye latter ultimately falling into his possession. He erected and for several years conducted the flouring mills in Orroviile and gradually amassed a fortune. For two years he represented Butte county in the state senate. He is still in business and considered a representative merchant. Quong Wong, a Chinese laborer on a Plaquemine parish plantation, killed a fellow Chinaman and fled, but was captured aud pat in jail. The New Orleans Times says: In the meantime Quong Wong ; the murderer, had been visited by some of his countrymen, who had tendered him three pills. He took them ia bis hand, looked carefully at them, then shook his Mead and said* “Me no takee; me stand my trial." The pills, it is supposed, contained poison, and were undoubtedly intended to enable the murderer to commit suicide to escape the rope, ner of death which is greatly abho

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Senator Blaine was asked recently how it came about that he, a western Pennsylvanian bjjr birth and education, made his start in business and politic* in the far east. He said it was all owing to his wife. Her mother, who lived in Augusta, fell dangerously ill, and Mr. and Mrs. Blaine made a journey to be at her bedside. While in Augusta Mr. Blaine, then quite a youag xaan, learned that the Kennebec Journal, an old established

eekly paper, was for sale. He formed a partnership with one of the old editors of the paper, bought out the principal owner, and thus obtained a foothold ia Maine. The

the paper, bought out the i

paper was prosperous, and the foundation of Blaine’s success. When he left it he did so because he was convinced that the ownership of the state organ of the republican party was an obstacle instead of a help to him in

his political career.

The death of the actor Fechter recalls a number of stories about him iu London, one of which shows a rather original way of getting ont of a difficulty of refusing a drama which had, to some extent, been oommiasioa•d. A young writer had at Fechter’s request, written a drama on tha subject of the “Huguenots.” One day the actor sent for him and showed him a paragraph in The Era, relatingjthat lordjchamberlam bad declared that he would not license any play dealing with tne massacre of the Huguenots. That ended the business. The author went his way, and is still an unacted dramatist. Bat Fechter wrote that paragraph himself.

A Proeperoos Era. [New York dispatch.] Careful business men say this country is entering upon an era of prosperity unparalleled in its history. The streets, docks, warehouses and stores give every sign of activity in the trade. A Bad Foreboding. [New Albany Ledger-Standard.] We very much fear that the democratic ticket in Ohio will be badly defeated by each fellows as Sam Cary, Dave Gooding and •Frank Lander*.

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• Beot to ttarlMW Ooehleeal and Indigo. A New* reporter had a talk yesterday evenlag with Henry S. Welcome, who is in attendance at the national pharmaceutical convention, and in charge of the drag and chemical display of McKesren & Bobbins, of New York, one of the largest, if not toe largest, drug houses in the United States. Mr. Welcome has but recently returned from a tour through the Central American states of Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica and the South American countries of Columbia* Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. This tour wa* undertaken for toe purpose of a trade between his house and the drag dealers of the construe visited,and to obtain information in regard to the production of several drag staples, with a view to opening up a direct trade with the producers. The firm had recently undertaken toe manufacture of quinine, and was particularly interested in the matter of cinchona bark. McKesson k Bobbins, by ths way, are free traders, and favored the abolition of the protective tariff on quinine. “1 visited the cinchona forests of Sacramento and andGnaraada in Ecuador” said Mr. Welcome. “Both furnish the high grade bark known as the Loxa bark. I have with me on exhibition a young cinchona trea, six year* old, nearly twenty-five feet hUrh. They grow to bq^sixty or seventy feet in bight and are only found at great altitudes, from 2,000 to 8,00# feet above the sea level. The old and famous Peruvian Dark forests are entirely extinct. To get the berk a tree is cat down to within a foot of the ground, and even the root is dag up. This you see entirely extirpates the tree. To supply this loss new forests have appeared, but they are of limited extent. I have some specimens of cultivated bark. The cultivation of the bark might be made to pay if anybody would put money into it, and went into the trade with

North American energy.”

“How is the gathering of the- bark con-

ducted?”

“Well, a man goes into the forest hunting cinchona trees. He discovers a forest that he thinks will pay. He condemns it, that is make* a claim ’ on it, something like a miner staking a claim, '.hen • borrows money on his exexpectations to pay his peons, andw^h jqq or more .of these Dative laborer work cutting down trees, the way the axes used in ^hls work arc &11 of United States manufacture and of the broad-ax pattern. After felling, the tree is denuded of its bark by means ot long knives like bowie knives, and after this is done the bark is piled up and dried. The cutting season opens on the first of August and ends early in November. The drving is usually done by the sun though sometimes artificial heat is used. When dried, it is made into bales, Indians carrying from 150 to 200 pounds on their backs over the mountains, distances of from 100 to 300 miles, when it is put on the hurricane deck of a mule and taken to the nearest port, which is usually from 150 to 400 miles farther. D is then thrown into heaps and garbled, so that from one tree several qualities of bark are selected. There’s the bark of the root, the trunk, limbs, branches and twigs. The high grade quill barks come from the best varieties of young trees and the quill bark yields the largest per centage of alkaloids, quinia, cinchona, cinchonidia and quinimia. No quinine manufacturer in the world burs bark direct in South America. The bark is sent to Europe and the United States, chiefly to Liveroool and New York,where it ia assayed and valued. Formerly, Callao was the greatest shipping port of the bark, now the New Granada barks are sent from San Buenaventure, the Ecudor barks from Guayagent, the Bolivia aud Peru barks from Iquique. The outlook for bark in the future is a bad one. The trees are of course completely destroyed to get the bark, and the governments take no interest in the matter of supplying their loss. Private enterprise in South America amounts to nothing. Two or three commission merchants in each port absorb the bark business, though there are numerous small dealers who dabble in it Probably 20,000 peons are

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engaged each season in cutting, gathering, and transporting this bark. These natives are much troubled with chills and fever, which prevail right in the air that twirls the leaf of the anti-malaria tree. The worst attack of chills and fever I ever had was right in the heart of the Andes. Ague is a great detriment to gathering the bark. This is particularly true in Bolivia. The malaria is in the valleys of the Andes, but these valleys are elevated from 2,000 to 8,000 feet You know the first name given the wonderful bark was ‘Jesuit’s bark,’ Spanish priests of that order claiming to have discovered its valuable properties. Another legend is to the effect that an ague-smitten Spanish soldier, left behind by his comrades while burning with fever, drauk from a brook, the water of which ran over the roots of a quinine tree. He was cured. Quinine isn’t given so highly diluted now even by homoeopaths. The truth is the value of the bark as a remedy for malarial disorders was known by the natives, probably hundreds of year* before the invasion of the Spaniards. The Incas considered that and the coca leaf their two prime remedies. Specimens of both have been found in tombs over 1,000 years old. The persons who gather the bark are paid but little, from five to twenty-five cents a day, and bark is worth after assay (before assaying nothing can be told of its quality) from ten cants to $1, and even $1.50 a pound. An old tree will furnish from 50 to 125 pounds of bark, a tree 10 years old will yield only four or five pounds, a six year old tree only two or three pounds. These young trees are not cut for bark. When I say cinchona forests 1 mean forests where groups of cinchtiaa trees are found. Even in cinchona countries you may travel days together and

not find a quinine tree.

I spoke of the coca leaf being considered valuable by the Indiana. They chew it with

to carry heavy burdens on their backs up the steep mountains at great altitudes, where the air is exceedingly rarified. I have used it myself and have much faith in its strength giving properties. It makes me wakeful though it has no such effect on the natives, who can use vfter a hard dayj work and go to sleep immediately. It has the effect of brightening them up. They would be a very stupid lot without it. Recent discoveries in chemistry have seriously interfered with several industries in the countries I visited. The cochineal gardens of Amatitlan in Guatemala made that a city of great wealtn. The introduction of aniline has reduced the demand for cochineal, and its' price, and seriously interfered with the prosperity of the city. Aniline blue has interferred with the profit in mising indigo. The city of San Miguel, in San Salvador, held the most extensive manufactoriee of indigo. Now the price for that article has been so broken that its manur factors is hardly remunerative.” *

The Pope and the Cnaperer. The pope has written an autograph letter to the emperor of Germany, summing np the results of the late negotiations, and suggesting the emperor’s direct intervention in the way of clemency as the only way to reestablish harmony. It is reported that Bismark knew and approved of this step beforehand. Hell Arrested. w. K. Bell, in the employ of the Adams Express company, at Kansas City, and who absconded, Aueurt 20, With $7,500 of the company’s money, was arrested on St Johns river, Florida, yesterday, Mid $2,500 recovered. Bell has started for Kansas City. Troops (or Cafca» The report that 20,000 trooos would be sent to Cuba is contradicted. The Spanish government will only replace troops whose term of service in Cuba has expired. Jk .j xlp tl j ase . England, who Is eompiatning of hard times, had better come over here and grow up with the country. •

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liucu * me, a. ii. .narian; uieuwooa, K. A. W h a /’ W. C T«n»r; iSSSt burr, J. Turner; Liberty and College Corner, R. R. Baldwin, Brownsville, Evvton, S. H, Whitmore: Brownsville, Boston, tone supplied; Abington, O. W. Hargitt: Milton, JT. S. Hamlin; Carthage, G. L. Alden; Laurel, B. F. Morgan; Metamora. G. E. Neville; Milford, J. W. Dashiel: St. PanI, James McGaw; Manilla, W. B. Clancy; Arlington, 8. O. Noble. Madison district—L,G.Adkiusou, presiding elder. Madison, Trinity, R. Roberts; Madison, Wesley, O. C. Edwards; Madison circuit, J. W. Mellender; Canaan, A Scott; Moorefield, S. A. Bright: Vevay. S.S. McMahan; SngarBrencb,J.W. Allen; Patriot, B. W. Cooper; Manchester, H. Harris; Lawrenceburg, M. L. Wells: Lawrenceburg circuit, C. W. Lee: Rising feun. W. Harrison: Hartford, J. D. Pierce; Hillsborough, George Cochran; Versailles and Osgood, W. R. Latbrop; Delaware, E. G. Wood; Moore’s Hill, A. W. Adkinson; Wilmington, B. B. Rawls• Aurora, D. A. Robertson; Greensbnrg, First church, S. Tincher; Greenaburg Centenary, W. S. Falkensbnrg; .Greensburg circuit, A. M. Low den. J. H. Dodridge, president of Moore’s Hill college and member of Moore’s Hill quvte^- ^ Jeffereonv^ a. Heater, pre—uing elder. Jeffersonville, naU street, J. S. Tevis; Utica, G. P. Jenkins] ?Crt Fulton, supply; Charlestown, J. A. Sargent; New Washington, D. 0. Benjamin; Edinburg, B. H. Wood; Flat Rock, H. Morrow; Tayiorsville. L. T. Fisher ^Columbus, 0. Tinsley; Soutn Bethany, J. W. Mendell; Asbury, A, B. Cluckner; Henryville, J. T. O’Neal: Vernon, W. W. Reynolds: Butlerville, T. W. Conner; Seymour, J. Cotton; Crothersville, R. L. Kinnear; Vienna, 8. Tinker; Holman, J. It. T. Lathrop; Kent, W.*W. Snjder; Paris, W. H. Burton; Brownstown, TC F. Owens, Freetown, to be supplied by T. 8. Brooks and B. Weakley; Elizabethtown, A. * Z. Wade; Hardenburg, supply. J. H. Bay lies transferred to Detroit Conference. R. F. Brewington transferred to North Indiana Conference. < M. Y. Borard transferred to South Indiana Conference. C. W. Gullett transferred to South Kansas Conference.

FASHION NOTES.

Colored petticoats are again worn. Basques have not gone out of fashion. v Striped hosiery is revived in new forms. Red stockings will be worn more than ever. Children’s dresses entirely of red are revived. False fronts ve worn to greater excess than ever. Medium sizes only in any kind of button are fashionable. Variegated bend broideries and seedings are again in vogue. Caps and turbans will be as fashionable as ever this season. More of the front hair is used in making the bang locks than ever. The straight bang across the forehead is still the most fashionable style of cat and arrangement for young girls’ hair. The most fashionable arrangement of the back hair is narrow, in braids or torsades falling to the nape of the neck. Fancy and plain ribbons are both used for loops, and in some cases forma complete cascade down the front of tbe^ffis*. Little children whose hair is not shingled very short, wear it long and curled in the back, and banged square across the forehead and temples. A Tumble In Qatntn*. [Philadelphia North America a.) It now looks as if there to be some little trouble in the quinine market In fact there has been a break already. Before noon on Monday the prices of the wholesale firms to druggists was $3 50 per ounce, as it bad been for a long time. In the afternoon a druggist entered a large wholesale house, and inquired as to the price, desiring to make a purchase. Much to his surprise he was told hs could have the article at $3 30 per ounce, and if ha took a large quantity, at $3 25 only wonld be required. He then went to another boose and asked the price, which was given at $3 50 the old rate. He then said he could get the drug for $3 30, when he was told that he could get it at the same figure, although the lower price seemed to hurt the wholesaler very much when he made the propoeition. Yeatreday the lowest prices were still maintained, all the dealers being willing to dispose of it at those rates. It is said that considerable money has already been lost iu toil article. Human Nature the World Over. [Fort Wayne News.] Yesterday a farmer with his wife and about seventeen children came straying into Attorney Kerr’s office “on business.” “Well,” said Kerr, “You’ve come down to the circus, I suppose.” “Well, I didn’tsaid the farmer; “but the old woman aod young uns her ben ding dongin’ at me fur two weeks to cum in ter day, aad I tbot I’d ennf jeet to ‘blege ’em.” Just then the circus band struck up in front of the office, and grabbing a child in each arm, the farmer who had i si Jil_ _ J A t If

had had dropped when they first came in. An R»rly Court laekUat, i Vincennes gua.l The first court held in Vincennes was presided over by bis honor, Judge Colter. The judge was seated, not as now-a-days, bat oe a log, and the jury also. In the back part oi the court assembly was one old gentlemap who bad imbibed too freely of corn juice, and like a great many men of these days, when filled up with liquor, made a great deal of noise. Judge Colter said to him: “Sir, I fin. to» tuT-Wto jr. tmT ttjnld gentleman queried. I a® '*"*••* responded the judge. “Well, Mr, eaid the oldgentlemap, “I think yon set your colter a little too deep for new ground.’

Bee* Ball Yesterday. Boston—Boston 10, Chicago 0; Troy—Cincinnati 11, Troy 6: Providencw-Provideace '7, Buffalo 4; Holydke—Holyoke 7, New Bedford 3. ' . Success la tfca Stock Market. Pew people undentaad hew large fortunes «re ■uisesea so rwpktly In steak operations- Messrs. Lawrence A Co., banker*, H. hiked “two nnailngralM far success, «d Ml details, eo tost any one caa oporM.M»OM tnysands of orders, in vartc mSdv are dolngv **U or bettor. Ivy sc TmJ emowrts cmTVs un« with equal vopwrUoiut* socaess tils systaca. All kinds « .locks and bonds wanted. Oovcrnaoent beads SHisffi&sr* "•"“p,