Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1879 — Page 2

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NEW BOOKS. In tho SekilliORGOurt, by Mrs.WUler, $1.50, Y !jOc+ Exploration of the World, by Jules Verne, $3.50. Lange’s Commentary on Numbers and Deuteronomy. $2 CO. Co view’s Shorter Eputlee, $2. -j - ■ Merrill, Hubbard & Co., Ko.SK. Waehingtoa it, Inditnspolls. THE DAILY HEWS. TUESDAY. OCTOBER tU i«W. Tke Iiidiait&poliE Hews has a bona fide eireulatiom more tkan •tte-kalf larger than that of any Other dally paper in Indiana. Deb greenbaekera hat a barty; wo is dot barty now? In tLe trouble ahead for Europe, England, Austria and Germany will “stand in” with one another, and on the other aide will be found Russia, France and Italy. Politics make strange bed-fellows. The Episcopal bishop of Manchester, England, has declared himself in farer of cremation. He repudiates the notion “that any Christian doctrine can be affected by the method in which this mortal body is disposed of.”

ness, of the crime was distorted into evidence* of the insanity of the criminal. “He wouldn’t have done so cruel and need Iras a deed if h* had been in his right mind,” is the way the esse was pat. And one acquittal for insanity eased the way for another, and that for a third, till at last we had such an excuse for murder as “emotional insanity,” an intensity of feeling that overpo#ered sense and perception, and made a maniac for a minute of a man as sound as President Hayes five minutes before and five minutes after. A federal general in the rebellion was acquitted of murder in Albany, New York, when his mental integrity a few minutes before and after was uncontested, and his insanity must have come and gonb nearly as rapidly as he could have taken off his coat and put it on rfgain. That, one would think, should have been the “redaction to absurdity,” as logicians call it, of the plea of insanity, and to have had the logical effect to discredit it afterwards, but it didn’t. It was introdneed into half the respectable murders, the pistol and knife work of respectable men who could pay good fees. And about the first decided backset it got in the west was the conviction of Guetig, for whom no other defense was attempted. His second conviction, in the face of the same defense, still more zealously and plausibly urged, was something like a restoration of the old healthy tone of feeling which held a man sane in whom no friend or acqaaintance had ever seen anything to excite the slightest sqppicion of insanity. Common sense was given a little show of authority, and sentimentalism retired to a little less conspicuous a . position as the bulwark of brutality and blood guiltiness. Now this New Jersey case comes like an assurance from the east of a similar convalescence. It is strange that insanity was never used to shield any ofiense but bloodshed, the most heinous of crimes. It was never set up to excuse a burglar or robber ar pickpocket or forger, and there is no discoverable reason why it might not have been used in each cases sometimes, as well as in murder so often.

The oldest living man of public life is Peleg Sprague, of * Maine, aged 88, /«nd stone blind. He was a member of\he house from 1825 to 1827, and a memberyf the senate from 1829 to 1835, when Webster, City, Calheun, Benton, et id genus omne, werethere. i

In Washington the^ result of the Ohio election is set down as hurting Grant’s presidential chances, and helping Bayard’s. Or in other words, the conservative influences of each party are strengthened, and will make themselves felt in favor of the beet men.

MACHnfBRY to spin seed cotton into thread has been pat to work in South Carolina, and is attracting general attention. It b simple and cheap, and b se arranged that it separates the seed from the cotton, and spins the latter into thread which brings 16} cento per pound in market. It is claimed this will add 100 per cent, to the planter's profits, as it saves the expense of ginning, baling, etc. Small factories of this sort are being erected throughout Georgia and South Carolina, and the local press predicts hundred* within a year.

The bankruptcy circular of Ri G. Dun and Co. for the third quarter of the present year, 1879, b a very cheerful document, It shows incontestably the solid basis on which ths business of the country now rests and gives fresh proof, if any were wanting, of the universal and rapid revival it now experiences. The number of failures for the first nine months of . 1878 were 8,678, liabilities $197,211,129. For the same time thb year the number was 5,320, liabilities $81,054,940. Thb is t a decrease of about three-eights in number and more than one-half in amount. For the third quarter alone of 1878 the fail- , uses were 2,853, liabilities $66,378,363. 1 For the third quarter of thb year the failures were 1,262, liabilities $15,275,550; a decrease in number of more than one*half and in amount three-fourths. Of course, the near approach of the end of the bankrupt act made the failures iu the • third quarter of last year larger than usual, but the average failures for the same quarter in the preceding four years was double in number and three times in *. amount.. So ‘ that the fast improvement shown this^ear is made the plainer. The report qualifies this gratifying outlook with a “perhaps” that it is due in part to prosperous speculation, and that possibly the recovery is too rapid to be permanent A Healthy Sign. A recent dispatch from Newton, New Jersey, announced the conviction in the court at that place of one Frederick Grill of murder in the first degree, for killing hb daughter. A plea of insanity was strongly urged, and so far as we can learn was the only defense attempted. The jury did not believe the insanity, or did not believe it was of a character to impair hb legal responsibility-for the act. Thb b a sign of a healthy reaction against a species of sentimentalism, mixed with crude physiology .that was hurrying our criminal judicature into a sort of de lunatic© investigation, in every case where there was no doubt of the homicide and no adeqnate motive. The atrocity, the very wanton-

Tbe Methodists and Ipeoial Evangelists The Illinois conference of the Methodbt Episcopal church, held recently, adopted resolutions, the temper and intent of which are indicated by the following extracts:

Webelieve that the so-called holiness associations and the peculiar and special methods, adopted by them, have tended in part to produce these special evangelists, and whils we have bo doubt but that a large majority of thtss beloaging to these associations are sincere and pure in their intentions and desires to accomplish the salvation and purification of men ; we at the same time believe that these ontside and separate organizations and their special methods are injurious to the church ana the spread of scriptural holiness. They necessarily come in contact with the organization aad machinery of the church, and thereby create disintegration and disunion in what ought to be unified and cemented in love. The doctrine of entire sanctification is and always has been a doctrine of the M, F. church, and the experience of thb grace has been and is enjoyea by many, and we would to God all were partakers of it. There is no doubt but that the church is all the organization that U needed, and contains all the methods that should be and cm be successfully used for its propagation, aad that our church economy is the best of all organizations for the work of human salvation ia all its stages. There is an incongruity in the logic of these declarations, but they oj en the doors to the contemplation of several things that of late yean have been at work in this great and powerful denomination, and which it were better for it if plainly stated and honestly reasoned upon. The inoongruity b in the assertion that the holiness associations within the chtfrch have tended

in part to prodace the special evangelbt. If they have it is by indirection and in a way no wise creditable to them. That b to say, the holiness associations have caused such a natural resentment among those who do not feel sufficiently holy for membership, as to produce a coldness or falling' away much like that which the church would term “back-slid/ng” and hence have been at once a eause and an opportunity to the special evangelbt. The conference seems to have dragged in the special evangelbt in order to beat the holiness associations over hb shoulders. For all of its resolutions are directed

with force at these separate organizations and special methods within the church, which they declare are injurious to it and the spread of scriptural holiness. They charge them with much more, but why among their bad effects they should enumerate the production of special evangelists, and why they call them “special” evangelists, b,hard to understand. An evargelist is a specialist. He is no evangelbt else; and the work he has done might be illustrated in citing the labors of Moody and Needham alone, which, so far as human eye can see, have been the salvation of more souls than the denomi-

nation can count for theirs in the same

time. Bat one of the most striking results of the evangelbt’s work b the breaking down of the denominational fences and the ere* tion of a more earnest purpose in every organization to make chrbtians rather than Methodbts, Presbyterians, Baptbts, Congregationalbto or what net. Never have the denominations which call themselves evangelical been so closely bound in essentials and so little separated by non-essentials as te-day. The time can not be beyond the recollection of men and women of middle age when the Methodists looked upon the Presbyterians who were dhbbed “bine,” as a set of grim inquisitors, who nnned the notion of the certain damnation of a portion of their fellow men, and that portion mostly those who were ontside the Presbyterian church; and the time when the Presbyterians looked upon the Methodbts as a set of enthusiasts who never got beyond the first stages of belief, which they manifested in a manner as much devoid of reason as the emotions of lunacy.. These things may bring the blush of shame to chrbtiens now, when these two great denominations and all are striving in concert to make chrbtians, but it b a true picture of what was, and nope, we think, has done more to bring about what b than the evangelbt. Evangelists are a divine ordEr, third in the line, after prophets and before pastors.

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21,1879.

“And He gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers.Ephesians iv., 11; and the Methodist conference has surely made an awkward brief of its case against the holiness associations by citing as one of their bad effects the production of what they call “these special evangelists.” Of all the denominations the Methodist u the most evangelical in its methods. If He gave some prophets and some pastors and teachers, He surely gave the Methodbts evangelbte. It b a great man-saving, soul-reviving religion, if we may nse the term, and the decay hinted at in the resolution of the Illinois conference, b because it has relaxed its soul-reviving man-saving, or evangelical efforts. When Wesley built thb wonderful structure it was for the perpetuation of the peculiar preaching he and Whitfield pre-eminently inaugurated. Parer evangelical work was never done. But itcouldn’t go hand in hand with the stately anthems and decorous form of the church of England, and Charles Weeley and those after him, came with what perhaps has been the better half —the wonderful songs which he put in the mouths of the multitude. Now the dumbest could speak, and so the music gf the people answered the exhortations of the preacher, who was not so much pastor and teacher as evangelist. In other words, the congregational singing of the Methodists clinched the nail that was driven home by the direct appeab of the pulpit, and so Methodism grew and, out-numbered its sister denominations. The conditions of its growth in the past are the conditions of its growth in the future. An abandonment of its methods means stagnation, if not death. It is a great religions democracy and can not be made an aristocracy. If its class-meetings for every one are abandoned for its holiness associations for a fe^; if its soulstirring songs from all the {>eople give way to the artistic deliverance of quartette or choir; if its voluntary pledges of support and community of place give way to the quid pro <pio of a pew and rent for it, it may still be a church and do good in the world, but it won’t be the Methodist church that Wesley founded and will cease to accomplbh the work he started it to do. To it may be given pastors and teachers, but from it will be taken evangelbt.*. Evidences of such a change in it as thb have been noted for years by thoughtful men of other denominations. It would seem to be indicative of the beginning of a sort of erbb when one of its own conferences speaks of such changes, and we trust the foreshadowing of return to ancient ways, when it b announced that the church organization contains all the methods that should be and can be successfully used for its propagation. In the future it may not be necessary to go to the suburbs .of a city or to a small town, to find a Methodist church brimming with Wesley’s zeal wrought with Wesley’s methods. CCKK1£MT COMJdttNr. A Ptri* urchin recently tomed • lighted cigarette into a cask of t etroh um and then pnt hi« eye to the bui g-bole to watch the eflect. It was bis last experiment—[New York Tribune There is Thurman in minbture. He tossed tbe “Ohio idee” into hb record and put hb eye to the elective bung-hole, and where is he?” Sharon’s reception to Grant cost $40,000. Twenty-five hundred people were invited and twice that many went. An oversight made us say of the Franklin Democrat Saturday, “We never expected better things.” “We have expected better things” was meant Thurlow Weed b predicting again. Thb time he declares Tilden b ciphered out as a presidential candidate, and that the democratic choice lies between Hancock and Bayard. According to the New Orleans Picayun* the managers of the republican party are taking advantage of democratic dissensions there, and from national headquarters bare ordered their Louisiana managers to fix up state and parish tickets. The prograin b to present only white men of unblemished integrity as candidates, and give the peole in the words of the Picayune, “tbe choice between good republicans and bad democrats.” . Edison is still hard at work on the electric light. He to reported as still confident that it can be used for common illuminating purposes, and he to carrying 6n experiments in a who\esale fashion. Dm reed from inflation, purified from Tammany, and freed from the incubus of its old man of the sea and the cipher dispatches, the democratic party may, even next year, present a formidable front to its political adversaries.—[New York Herald. We ask the stalwart republicans to remember that their party has grown strong on moderate and constitutional measures, and, if they would have it remain strong, such measures must be the rule in the future. And we wars the democrats that they can never get into power in this country until they fully accept the results of the war, and look forward instead of backward.—[Boston Herald. Tbe cry steadily goes up for “the strong man,” who to to bring back the methods and tbe shames of 1668 and of every subsequent year down to 1877! That cry simply implies a willingness to see an end made in this fair land, of liberty protected by law.—New York World. Why not burn the garbegeand other refuse which to now left to breed pettilence in streets and houses or thrown into the rivers and bay to obstruct the channels and pollute the waters? We do not believe that “the crematory” will take the place of the cemetery, but it may by and by help to solve the sewerage problem.— [New York Evening Post. There is another force at work against the woman suffragists besides the inertness and indifference of those in whose behalf they plead; and that to the growing conviction among thoughtful Americans, both male and female, that we already have rather more suffrage than we need.—[Philadelphia Bulletin.

Attempted Murder wad Satelde. William Hogg, of Bloomington, Illinois, insane from financial troubles, returning home at noon shot his daughter Mary, aged eighteen, in the parlor; called his son William, aged twelve, who was playing in the yard, and fired a pistol shot through his head; then stepping into the wood shed, placed tbe weapon to his own bead and fired. The ball lodged in hto brain aad proved fatal. The children are alive bat in a critical condition. Hto wife was abseut^at the time. -

Yakoob’s gaeowor. Yakoob Khan’s too, who is five rear’s old, will be recognized as the successor to the throne.

FAPJEK OAK-WHEELS. A lull Cor a Life that was Lost by aa Aoeldoat Oecarrtnc to Om. [Philadelphia Record. 1 In tbe United States circuit court, before Judges McKernan and Butler, the trial of the case of George W. Holloway and wife against the Pullman Palace Car company was resumed. The plaintifl sought to recover damages for the death of their son, caused by an accident on one of the Pullman cars On the night of November 1, lfi76, on the Niagara expresa train. The accident was caused by the breaking of one of ths wheels nader the forward truck of the palace car Woodbine, several persona being killed and manv wounded. The broken wheel, as well as aU the wheels of tbe palace car on that train, wert made of paper, and the plaintiff* contended that the wheels made of that material were unfit for use and not as good as firstclass chilled iron wheels, and that the use of such paper wheels was such gross negligence on the part of the Pullman Palace Oar company aa made the latter liable for damages. Tbe plaintiffs called a large number of engineers and experts, who testified that in their opinion paper wheels were not fit for use and that it was unsafe to place them under the company’s cars, and that only wheels solidly cast were safe. Upon the cross-examination of these experts, however, by P. X. Hansford and Christian Kneass, Esq., for the Pullman Palace Car company, it turned out that the experts either knew nothing of the construction, manufacture Or qualities of tbe paper wheels, or else were interested in the manufacture and use of iron wheels, which latter class it to alleged are being rapidly replaced by paper wheels. Numerous models of the paper wheels were exhibited -to the jury by Messrs. Kneass and Hansford, and they contended that they were not only more safe and durable than the cast iron wheels, but were far more expensive, and one of them wocld last as long as ten of the other kind. It was sought to be established that iron wheels were liable to break at any moment, were subject to contraction and expansion by the action of cold and heat, and were not strong enough for the heavy Pullman cars, but that the paper wheels were not liable to be affected by either heat or cold, were capable of sustaining any weight, supported the cars without jarring, and were practicably indestructible. It was also shown that the North Pennsylvania railroad company had agreed to keep the cars in good order and rebair. The case excited a great deal of interest among members of the bar, railroad men and mechanical engineers, on account of the important and novel questions involved. It to stated that a verdict which would condemn tbe wheels would involve a loss of over $1,000,000 to the Pullman company alone. After the plaintiffs had closed their evidence, Messrs. Kneass and Hansford moved for a judgment of non-suit, on the ground that the plaintiffs had failed to make out their case, and tnat their testimony did not show any liability whatever on the part of the Pullman company. After argument by the counsel, the court granted tbe non-suit, sustaining the Pullman company’s view of the case.

The Pacific Railroad Acts Constitutional Chief Justice Waite, in behalf of the majority of the supreme court, yesterday, decided the Igw known as the “Thurman act” to be constitutional. Under its terms the Pacific railroad company is compelled to set aside a certain per cent of its earnings to create a sinking fund for the payment of the bonds and interest that will be due the government in less than twenty years, amounting to $116,000,000. The court hold that such an act is a proper and constitutional use of the legislative oower. Justices Strong, Bradley and Field dissent. Strong holds that the Thurman act is a new contract, changing the old one, into which the United States entered, not in its sovereign, but in its corporate, capacity, and with no more rights than a private person. Justice Field attacks the act on the ground of state rights, as the Central Pacific is a creature of the state of California. He says: “The doctrines announced in the opinion of the majority of tbe court go further than any heretofore advanced, and any ever thought possible in tbe history of the coun.try r to destroy the independence of states and establish their helplessness even in maty ters of local concern as against the will Oft congress: He must be dull indeed who does not see that under the legislation and course of decision of late years our government is fast drifting from its ancient moorings, from the system established by our fathers, into a vast centralized and consolidated government.”

Why the Hoes Dealer Left Texas, '[Washington letter to Chicago Times.] One of the most interesting cases of American swelldom that ever visited Washington was a man by the n&me of Bridgelaad, who, discovered in the wilds of Indiana by O. P. Morton, was made consul at Havre, a post he still holds. In some congressional investigation Bridgeland was summoned home as a witness. He had formerly been an internal revenue officer in Texas. Bridgeland has long whi*e hands and long gray curls. He had the fine gestures of a French saltimbanque. During hto forced detention in this country, its coarse manners rather jarred upon him. The American press completely used him up. “Ob,” said he with a wave of his long hands and an imported sbrag, “if the American press wohid only seek to find the good and true in its public men instead of the dishonest and bad, bow much nobler would be its mission!” Before the committee he was asked bluntly: “Why did you leave Texas? Was it because your accounts were short?”

Mrs. Bridgeland, my wife, was European bred; so were my children. After a short stay in Texas my wife came to me and said, ‘Dailing, we must go away from here. There to no society here. Everything to so rude and o arse.’ And before God, gentlemen, that is the reason why I left Texas/’

The Southern Utea. A runner has arrived at Los Pinos, from the southern Ute agency with a letter from Psge to Stanley, dated the 1-fth inst., with information that another all-day council was held by the chiefs of the southern Utes. All are united and desirous of peace, and request that a runner be sent, renewing the assurances already given. Twenty-four chiefs and head men were present. The Indians of this agency are all encamped aronnd Ouray’s house. Not one report in fifty has a particle of troth, and the facts are exaggerated beyond reason. The women and children are safe, but probably will not be given up until after matters are arranged by the peace commissioner, who is expected here in a week from Washington.

- A. Fteudlah Outrage. Miss Martin, a daughter of a stock dealer residing south of Minonk, 111., was found in a senseless condition near the railroad, half a mile from her home, yesterday morning, terribly mutilated from an attempt of rape. She had lain there twenty hours, having been assaulted by a young villain named Harris Debore, while going home from church on Sunday. Debore was arrested, identified by the young lady, and jailed. He had cut her on the forehead and in tbe throat, one stab nearly severing her windpipe, and he returned to his work this morning, evidently believing ber dead and a 1 trace of his crime removed. He to stolidly indifferent, neither denying nor owning hto authorship in the matter.

Blockade at Khjbor Pom.

transportation in K by ber pass, supply trains are completely blocked up. Three attacks have been made on the British by the tribes in Kburum valley since the 12th inst. The Ghitoia, who were defeated October 14, are reported to be again preparing for hostilities.

A Cincinnati Strike. The striking furniture makers of Cincinnati, to the nnmber of 1,500 resolved to eject the men who remained at work at Mitchell ft Ranunetoburg’s, but afterwards thought better of it and resolved to content themselves with drawing up a statement for the prees.

Per Tke IndieeepelU News. To a YouOg Man. "l” From tee pleasant vole of childhood, You have paaoed the rebleoa: Summon forward all your forces, For tee tattle it begunNever lay addayour armor TUI tea victory la won. Stronger than the Koman legions Are the foe* von needs must meet; The foes teat lie In ambush For unwary hands end feet— Compmard by s cloud of witnesses. Ignore the word retreat. IL Bold no parley with temptation, Give no heed to syren's song, Do not sully hand or conscience By n compromise with wrong— And remember tnat the bottle Is not always to the strong. Take your.stand against Injustice, Grim misrule sad law leas might;Give old bigotry no quarter — Battle bravely for the right. For the true, the food, the human, As in the eternal right. m. No man, however selfish, Liveth for himself alone; In s certain sense he fashions, - Gives a color, shape end tone To the chsmeter of others Just as far as he is known.

If the atmosphere around him Is lurchsrgsd with blight and bane It may dwarf his neighbor’s conscience. Warp or tarnish it with stain. But if nealtnfal it may hit him To a higher, better plane.

IV.

Guard the lamp that God has given, Trim it with unceasing care; Let It never be extinguised, Feebly flicker, wildly flare, Nor emit unbenlthful vapor TO attaint the blessed air.

Waste notime in self-indulgence— Help the helpless at your door, Speak a kind word for the erring, And, If you can do no more, Give a cup of God’s free water To the tick and suffering poor. V. Work, but not for lust or lucre, „ Nor for gain of power sad place; By the human needs around you, By God’s bounty, by his grace. Do something to encourage, Strengthen, elevate your your race.

And, when evening shadows lengthen,

In the low, declining sun,

Looking backward on your journey,

To the morning It begun.

May you tee some flower you planted Some good work your hands have a«

Beech Bake, October. 1879.

rea«ne.

Ssjua T. Boltox.

SCRAPS*

Wendell Phillips to getting along in years. He to now 68. The late Sir Rowland Hill dictated the invitations to his own funeral, encouraging the penny poet to the end. The colored brother, Jasper, of Richmond, Virginia, says that “the moon am a disquieted mass of opaque conflugarity.” At the recent review at Strassburg many of tbe soldiers left their booti behind in the mud as they marched past before the emperor. The Rothschilds are going to give 2,*00,000 francs to the fund for prosecuting the experiments for constructing the channel tunneL

Ben. Lowe, a circus acrobat, stood on bis head for two hours in a Texas barroom, on a wager, and the feat brought on a brain fever, from which he died.

Conscience impelled somebody to send $2,5o0 anonymously to Isaac G. Menkins, a Syracuse merchant, with the words, “I robbed you of this years ago.” Every hotel in Brattleboro, Vermont, to closed, and travelers are compelled to find accommodations in private bouses. This to in pursuance of a plan to make tbe prohibitory liquor law unpopular. In\a new melodrama at the Surrey theater Londds, a Thames boatman rows into-aight and uncovers a man painted to represent a corpse just taken from the river. The audience goes wild with delight. Mr. Henry Jackson to a colored man who has just begun the study of law at Winthrop, Me. By industry and frugality he has acquired a good education and considerable property. He was a slave for fifteen years, and was three times sold at the auction block. Sig.Fiorelli; in charge of the excavations at Pompeii, estimates that it will require 70 years and $1,000,000 to complet) the work. The state votes a yearly subvention of 60,000 francs to carry it on, and half as much more is realized from the entrance fees of visitors. Sir Garnet Wolseley to a little more than forty years old, and after the Ashanteecampaign he might have had a baronetcy but he refused. He did not, however,decline tbe $100,600 which were offered to him. He was badly wounded in the Crimean war. He hates newspaper men, whom he calls “drones.” He tries to be very just, and he believes in books.

Two grammarians were wrangling the other day, one contending that it was only proper to say “My wages is high,” while the other noisily insisted that the correct thing was “My wages are high.” Fn&llr they stopped a day laborer, and submitted the question to him. “Which do yon say, ‘Your wages to high,’ or ‘Your wages are high?’” "Ohj oft wid your nonsense,” he said, resuming his pick, “yer nayther ov yer right; me wages to low, bad luck to it.”

When the Scotch Professor Aytonn was courting the daughter of Professor Wilson, “Christopher Nortn,” he told her he disliked to mention the subject to her father. She therefore went to the old man herself asking, “Shall I accept hto offer, papa? He says he is too diffident to name the subject to you himself.” “Then,” said old Christopher, "I had better write my reply and pin It to your back.” He did so, aad the answet was: “With the author’s compliments.”

“I think if Napoleon,” General Grant said on one occasion, “had been a thoroughly unselfish man, a patriot, and one who cared about bis country, not about the advancement Of bis family and bis personal power, he would have been without comparison the greatest man in history, but as it turned out he was one of the worst I never had any sympathy with him, nor respect for his achievements, although of course I can not but wonder at hto marvelous genius.” A terror remembered to sometimes more dangerous than tbe same terror actually experienced. One recent Sunday as a young woman was crossing the Rue St Honnore, Paris, she was suddenly knocked down by a high wheeled cart known a* a spider. Her peri was imminent, but she retained her self-possession and relieved the anxiety of the spectators by regaining her feet and reaching the sidewalk very little the worse for her mishap. As soon as she reached home she began to relate the incident to her friends, and while doing so was seized with a violent attack of nervous agitation, and sank fainting on the floor. She never spoke again. The statistics gathered by the Carriage builders’ national association, which held its annual convention in New York Last week, show that upward of a million carriages are made annually for the use of persons rending in the United States, employing over 75,000 persons, and aggregating in value $100,000,000 per annum. This gives one carriage to every 40 persons in the United States, aad does not include sleighs and thousands of other vehicles. It is proposed by the national association to organize a technical school for carriage mechanics similar to those adopted in England and France, and one extensive manufacturer has already pledged $1,000 for this purpose. *

A Titled Grim teal. Tbe trial of Sir Freuds Hincks, one of the directors of the consolidated Bonk of Montreal, charged with signing false returns to the government, concluded yesterday, with a verdict of guilty. The Reaa-KUey MatchRiley won the match at Morwiclfr Connecticut, yesterday* R®® R* 4 match ky two boat lengths by a want of knowledge of the course.

«TBE CATHOLICS.’ •Their First Berrteee Her#— A Missionary Oeanfag from BhellervlUe—Tkelr First CbturcA'*—Errata Thereia—Sema New

Ta the Editor of Tbs Indianapolis Vows: Tbs article under tbe vordaquated above, appeared inTbelndianapoIl* Newsaomatinu a otiuds In mistakes; aid as It was (teemed i

which

„ Mil was *w—iwsrthy of publication, d.eervft correction by aomaoaa penonallr cofnicaatof tea tecta, foot its flaring It erroneous stateaaaals should bo icoopta* as OSthen tie, and becemo incorporated Into “oar oarijr btetory.” No *ach correction haring appeared, yoar corwopaodent compiles with oft-repeated regut at* of old-time oontamporanuoua Meade in contradicting tea mom coaopteaeas misstatement*

of that “oketch.”

1 he first celebration *t tea sacrifice of tbs ami to which tbs writer will refor took place in ths tell of 18*6, in “Power*’* tavern,” subeeqaanUy known a*“Jim Wilson’• Pigs Foot tavera,” on West Washington street. Among those present In the room of tbe “Uvera”

ring . ble home, seuth oi the city, the writer and tome of hi* youthful companions often refreshed tbe ioaiptent “inner man/’ while bunting aquatic gome in its neighborhood. The officiating ••miarionmy ” on that and later occasion*, was Bev. Fatter Fronool*, who inquired fer soma one capable of eervins at the »H*r “itirJimmy,” replied: “The iutfa chan over there, la a ‘latent’ scholar, and woe Id serve. ’

among whom on remembered Dr*. Stipp aid Richmond. Douglas was afterward frequently required to repeat tee altar service. Dr. Stipp became particularly interested te the bey, whom evident aptitude prompted the doctor to etteehim Mm, asking among other questions, if he oouM write. Douglas, though recently “over,” with Yankee directness, answered interrog*lively, but sigslflcantiy: “Can a duck swim, your honorT” The doctor “tumbled,’’ and urged him to learn a trade, finally Inducing tbe “latent” artisan to beet me an apprentice to Sam Hall, a bulkier and plasterer, who had “emigrated” from “old Kalntuck,” and then lived near and north of the lately demolished state house. En peasant, it may be mentioned that Mr. O’Reilly, with a numerous frmily. now resides on Delos* street, ti active end vivacious, hospitable and entertaining, with an endless store of latent humor and amusing anecdote, ready to be liberated on all proper occasions, ■ d for the edification of visiting friend*, for whom tugla*’* “latch-siring always hatg* out.’* its surroundings ore

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by means of tbe Insatiable iron hone, a short time since, will be rent stub, red by your reader*. The plastering was executed by Mr. O'Reilly, who, with Mr. John Butsch, father of Valentine, mentioned in the article under comideratioa, were appointed Uusteee, Mr. Reck, the watchmaker, being treasurer, and from whom Rev. Father Racquet la received his irtt salary—an amount about sufficient

to defray the expense of altar wise, and a certain “luxury” In which the reverend “mlorionary” Indulged, and lor which year humble servant was credited with having a very “strong weakness”— prlndpe cigars. A* Els exchequer became depleted, retrenchment neceamry and cigars scarce, any

“shiink

natured | writer being the pure basing agent or commissioner, at well aagtneral “coparcener," and roommate, tbe priest naturally supposed hi* factotum couid cast light on tbe cigar question, and sometimes would reflect accordingly; but the matter

ought he

discovered a shortage ordeakage in his scanty supply of wine, usuaby kept in a stone jug in the clipboard, but as it was thought impossible for the ' ‘ “ — - - ‘the jug. and as

sour wine, and

viu i, the little prleet was

as much periled aa the reader can be regarding the evident evaporation and diminution. In fact, it was never satisfactorily accounted for. But tbe amount of hi* “salary ” could not hare been ecormoa*, a* he waa compelled to get hi* clothe* from France, and ash# had no “board" to pay while the writer knew him “at bom*,’’ a* the loved and honored guest of hi* parents. At tbe lime referred to the priest officiated alternately in Indianapolis and near BhelOrvUle, et first, accord lag to recollection, three Hundsys each month In the latter place and one in this, and this continued until, through Bishop Purcell, to whom he waa wellfond favorably known,Mr. P. Barrett secured from the bishop of Vlacennes a reversal of the arrangement and the domiciliary location of

the clergyman here.

Father Boequelin, although “Frenchy" in his accent, could sod did pronounce the words “my Christian brethren,” and oil ether words, as distinctly and intelligently as can your enlightened informant, and not as the Utter alleges, “like •mikriBhernpretren,’ all one word, with the emphasis on the last syllable." • a * “And later,” say a yvur historian, “ Valentine Butsch was one of the ohoriaters, and a blacksmith named “Fred,” etc. The Utter was a myth. There were several boys and girls who were “choriatera," ictluding Andrew Cramer, brother of Mrs. Wiu. (and mother of Mr. Charles) Worland, Jact Wlncbell at d othera; and, when not serving at the altar, Thomas K. Bsrrett, at whose father’s house, nearly opposite the Bute house on Washington street. Father Bacquelia lived (after tbe death of Mrs. John Gallagher, with whom he made bii first home) until Mr. Barrett moved to tbe southeaatern corner of tbe eitv upon property nurebared from the beira of Mr. Charles Smith and Douglas O’Reilly and wife. He then boarded for a short time at Drake's hotel, and just previous to b.s death st Dr. George Negley’s, because there was no stable for his horse on the premises of Mr. Barrett. There was no "Father Mahoney,” but there waa at a later date a Father Maloney, whose remains lie interred in the church-yard of St. Catherine’*, about three mile* west of North Vernon, In an adjacent county. Rev. Father McDermott, broth*r to the distinguished and venerable cleegjman of that name now located in thU city, waa stationed here for some time. Be was a most estimable prleet and an eloquent preacher, but being feeble and in bad health, even at that time, died greatly lamented, soma

years sines.

“Here,’’ says the writer, Father Bacquelln held services every lew weecs, till be wee silled by being thrown from hi* buggy In l&fS, while driving between here and Sbelbj vtlle, etc. Poor Father B. never owned and very seldom rode in a buggy. That would have bem to him a rare “luxury,” bring obliged to ride on horseback, across streams and over roods often olmoet, and at time* quite impaepable. He suffered fearfully at times, between tbe Urmlni of hto route and in visiting Catholics remote therefrom, In their Illness. Ha seldom ate a morsel on bis dreary trips (although never allowed to ga unprovided) a* he could not eat cold food, and aa many of the curious. Inquisitive and superstitious people along the routes regarded him with awe,having been taught that a priest waa a kind of nondescript to be shunned, often expressing their surprise on failing to discover hto fabulous horns. He would tell of tbe anxiety and sns-

IJ

se sometimes excited by hto purposely wearing in the housce ss If to conceal those anpend1 bey would ask him the moat singular and

jiwrUnent^querlions, sJwys maxtifeating a^ hvriy > the residence of^l# wife he would reply that he

bis hat in the houses as If to conceal thoae

Interest in

to tbe reeldenceof hi* wife be would reply that he carried her with him- in hto saddlebags, which contained hto sacerdotal vesUnenu, altar-ves-

sel a, etc.

Being, a* described, “a very modest, v unpretending and amiable mae,” hto diffidence often subjected him to needles* privation when abroad, and, except from the members of his own faith, who were few and far between, and generally poor, he was seldom the recipient of cordial hospitality, for the mesons mentioned. He frequently reached hto besse, at Mr. Barrett's, in mid winter, at tote hours, wet, cold, hungry and weary, his little * aorrol” more cevered with Irocen mud, but be was never known to murmur, or to complain. On the contrary, be was at all such times gay and joyous, producing mirth and happiness in the family, who were fervidly attached to him, and whose pleasure it was to anticipate and minister to his few and simple wants. Mrs. Barrett today delights to hear and speak of the beloved little priest, end of his quaint, droll sayings; and the writer recoil * many an amusing scene in which he was himself a participant, aoma times having "had lou of fun” at tbe expeuae of hi* kite-hearted, Indulgvnt friend, who waa Invulnerable to afiy harmless attack, or evoked repartee from his friends. Petilshnee* h# seldom exhibited—ill temper or eager never; and be would give to any one in need his last “fip” and smoke the remaining cigar stump*. He was allied while riding hie tittle “sorrel,” bought of the late William Worland, la a wood mar Shelby villa. The animal had to leap over a leg that creeaed hto pate, at right angle with a tree agairat which Its waa violently thrown, with no eye but that of the Almighty, whom he so faithfully served, to witness the casualty. The body was discovered some boure after deotn. On consultation, It is concluded that the death occurred in 1844. On receipt of the startling intelligence in this city, a company ,bf five person* storied on horseback to the little choreh, about five mlka below bhelbyvlUe, where the body lay. Tke party consisted of Douglem O’Reilly, Thomas K. Barrett, Valentine Butsch, Michael Barrett, and Dr. George Neglsy, the two latter being now deed. Starting at a late hour 1b Ute eventag the party rode as rapidly as possible. The nlsht was exceedingly dark and Inclement, and the journey sad and eomfortkee. Tne streams wire swollen to overflowing, but were safely passed until a larger on* was reached, which it would have boon madnee* to attempt to enter. It was deep, brood aad rapid, but woe spanned by a frail, rickety old -Bridge long condemned and unused. Tbe support bad been entirely washed front under its western and. it qotvwwd and trembled by the action of the rushins torrent beneath. An open chasm of some four or a ye feet intervened. There bring no house or friendly light visible, the "excursionists” found tbsmselm tn * trying dilemma. While Ute majority were solemnly oiwiisrin* the f* relaxing situation, Tom Barrett cl-ared the horrid opening, stretching nemo of the Jonee piask of the old floor acroo* It, and enabling his companions to follow. Their suoceas seemed marvelous. MS great many of the plank bid bee* previously removed from Ute old fl

i bridge haring been a walled

•nd i be bridge haring been m walled and roofed one, tbe dor knee* wo* extreme. In day time no •on* person would have attempted to pom over It. On arririrg in tbe town the p-x.ple were astonished and elated at the mad feat and almost miraculous safety uf the party, saying Ute bridge had not been creased lor year* before. At oil events tbe devoted Indianapolis friends assisted at tbe burial of tbrir beloved Driest and friend. At Shribyriti# -they “put up” at tbe “invent” of Mr*. Woollen, whose livery man was Fred Brinkman, knows here. They were advised that “wmsfotloira” were in tea

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