Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1880 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 1880.

We Invite Inspection OF OUB DOISIBE BIOOX OF Carpets, And guarantee the Lowest Prioesln tbeoK#.

A. 1m WEIGHT & OO., 47 and 49 South Meridian St, 8U00E880B8 10 iOiXB, MiXSUl * 00.

A little boy reading in a newspaper about “several missing whales,” mid be hoped they wouldn’t turn up again as soon as school commenced in the fall. Fall underwear in best red flannel, heavy allwool fllet knitted, canton flannel, extra heavy merino, etc., is now on the tapis, and we take delight in showing these goods on cold mornings. B. R. PARKER, No. 14 East Washington street.

NEWJOOKS. My Marriage SI 00 A Silver Key to a Golden Palace 1 00 We and the World 1 25 A Popular History of Science t SO Many Thoughts of Many Minds, 2 vola, 10 00 Merrill, HubbardITco.'s Bookstore, 5 EAST WA8HDTGT0H ST.

The Indianapolis News is published every afternoon, except Sunday, at the offloe, No. 30 West winhington street Price—Two cents a copy. Served by carriers in any part of the city, ten cents a week; by mail, postage prepaid, fifty cents a month; 90 a year. The Weekly News is published every Wednesday. Price 90 cents a year, postage paid. Advertisements, first page, five cents a line for each insertion. Display advertisements vary in price according to time and position. NO ADVKETISXMKSTS UJ8KBTXD AS EDITORIAL OR JTXWS MATTER. Specimen numbers sent free on application. Terms—Cash, invariably in advance. All communications should be addressed to Johw H. Holliday, proprietor. THE DAILY NEWS. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1880. The News has a larger bona tide ctrculatioa than any other two dailies in Indiana combined. Any announcements of additional candidates for the senate wiU hare to be paid for at regular rates. The great state of Ohio seems to be badly torn up over the senatorship. Sherman and Foster are the leading candidates. The country wants Gen. Garfield to keep Sherman where he is. DON Piatt warns General Garfield that a knot of political conspirators are trying to change the form of this government. The people have shown what they thought about that sort of thing. The explosion in the Foord mine at St$llarton, Nova Scotia, has been followed by a fire, and the mine being flooded to put it out, several other explosions have taken place. It is feared the - whole mine will be wrecked, and in any event it can not be wW’hed for months. There are at least forty four dead unrecorered, and the bodies probably never will be seen again. Bradstreet makes the wheat yield of this state for 1880 63,000,000 bushels, which which would be an increase of over 40 per cent, on the almost phenomenal crop of 1879, which the bureau of statistics makes 44,753,208 bushels. Such an increase on such a crop is simply impossible. If '79 had been a bad year and a light yield a 40 per cent addition would not be whoUy incredible, but ’79 was a remarkable year, and we doubt very much if this year’s crop wiU surpass it at aU. We have seen these big estimates before. The Sentinel made the crop of ’79, 55,000,000. The News took the trouble to examine the reports of former crops and average, and predicted that accurate returns would not run above 45,000,* 000. The bureau of statistics, after careful collections of reports and estimates, made it 300,000 bushels less than our estimate. The supreme court has not been adding to its good reputation of late with any remarkable degree of rigor. The latest exhibition is in the case of Mrs. Brown. The court ordered her a new trial on the ground that two jurors, Tyner and Dawson, were imeompetent It happens that these gentlemen were not on the jury at all, having been excused for the very reasons the supreme court puts. It looks as if the court had had a hard time finding some point upon which to reverse the case. We suggest that the judges have themselves arraigned and fined for contempt The people are fast reaching that condition of mind voiced by the late Judge Pettit, who pictured a little orphan two years old, defrauded out of her property by the laws and supreme court of Indiana, as raising her hands in just wrath before the great white throne on the day of judgment and exclaiming, “Damn such a court!” Horace Greeley once remarked to a Journalist of this city* who asked him why he had taken ground on some question of that day—about 1857—which had brought him in collision with some prominent republicans, “I don’t wanl the Tribune to be a party organ, and it never will be again. It doesn’t depend on the party for its support. We are just as independent as a hog on ice.” Why a hog on the ice is more independent than a hog anywhere else he didn’t explain, but the odd comparison kept the significant declaration in the heem’s mind. The Tribune, as every body knows, eeaeed to “swear the words of any master.” It stood by the party mainly, bnt it never hesitated to differ when it sew good zeeaeas for difference. There were few in-

dependent papers then, though there were neutrals enough. With the reform he began, or largely propagated, has come a complete reversal of the old conditions. Now there are very few neutral papers, and many independent. The mere party journal is steadily sliding down the scale of consequence and civilisation. Not a few ardent republican papers assert that thia last defeat will be the death of the democratic party. The predi4ion has been made end falsified more than once. The democracy was bound to die after the defeat of 1860, said a large portion of the republican press. It didn’t though, and as if with an eye single to suicide it allied itself with the rebellion in 1862, and carried this state and others, and came within very little of carrying congress. When the vengeance it solicited by such general disaffection and frequent treason fell against it in 1864, the prediction was universal that death would come with the end of the rebellion. But it didn’t. Six years afterwards it took this state from the republicans and has kept it in almost unbroken •abjection ever since till to-day. There were many sanguine enough to expect its dissolution after the defeat of 1864 by the heterogeneous* mass of hostiles that subsequently solidified into the republican party. The whig party had just breathed its last, and it seemed probable that the opposing party would go to pieces with no organized antagonism to hold it together. It lived though, and lived through worse * straits, too. The truth is, and it may just as well be recognized at once, that there must'always |bc a party of mere resistance in this country, a party living on the errors and mischances of a party of action, a negative party against a positive party, and since 1852, that has been the democratic party. The napie is as good as another, and likely to stick, and there will always be a party for it to stick to. Let no one fool himself with the notion that the democracy is going to die.

Mr. Hewitt’s Defense,

Mr. Abram S. Hewitt attempts to defend himself againsVJudge Davis’s cauterization for his course in the Morey letter infamy by saying that— “The simple and unanswerable reply to all this statement, and to the extraordinary comments in which Judge Noah Davis has seen tit to indulge, is, that the letter had already been published in the Truth before I had seen Mr. Hart, or the original letter, or any copy of iL. This fact Judge Davis must have known.” And also—

•‘While writing this statement I sent a messenger to Mr. Hart to ascertain whether he had ever made any declaration at variance with facts as I have stated them. Mr. Hart replies that he never said, testified or thought that Mr. Hewitt, or any one connected with the national committee, saw the letter in advance of the publication of the text of the letter in the Truth on the 20th of October. I never pronounced the body and signature of the letter to be in the handwriting of General Garfield.” And again— •T did not tell Mr. Hart that I would have made it a forgery if I could, nor has he or anyone else testified that I ever made use of such an expression.” # Now to the testimony: On the 1st of November Mr. Hewitt was placed on the stand in the trial of Kenward Philp. He was handed the “Morey letter,” and he made a critical examination of it in com-

parison with three letters placed in his possession written by Gen. Garfield, the snthenticity of which was undoubted. After a long examination he testified: “The Morey letter is, in my opinion, in the handwriting of Gen. Garfield.” “I am more confident of the genuineness of the Morey letter than I am of the ‘O’Neil better,’ (one of the three.) Mr. Hewitt expressed himself more certainly as to the signature than as to the body of the letter; but wheif the prosecution pointed to the misspelling of the word “companys” as aprobability of its spuriousness, Mr. Hewitt eagerly produced a letter written by Gen. Garfield to himself in which the word “pedigree” was spelled “pedidree,” purposely to show that the orthographical error might have been committed by Gen. Garfield. So much for Mr. Hewitt’s own evidence.

On the 4th of November Josh Hart, the publisher of the Truth, took the stand. In the course of his testimony, he said: ‘‘We became satisfied among ouselves (the editorial stsfT) that the letter was a genuine one, but we were not prepared to publish it until the handwriting had been examined by someone familiar with Garfield’s handwriting. We communicated with the democratic national committee. There were then at its rooms Speaker Randall, Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Bamum, and about ten others. In consequence of what was said by persons representing themselves as familiar with Mr. Garfield’s handwriting we decided to publish it I showed both letter and envelope to gentlemen connected with the committee." The following testimony was then given: Mr. Bliss—Did Mr. Hewitt pronounce it genuine at first? Mr. Hart—No, Mr; he took at least half an hour to examine it before he decided the signature genuine. Mr. Bliss—Did yon say to Mr. Davenport that you had great trouble to get Mr. Abram S. Hewitt to say the letter was genuine? Mr, Hart—When Mr. Davenport said the letter was a forgery, I said: “No; if Mr. Hewitt could have made ft one he would, I believe, but after a thorough examination he pronounced itgenuMr. Hart also testified that “after the fac simile had been published in the Truth the democratic-national committee took pains to circulate plates of the letter.” This is quite sufficient to dispose of Mr. Hewitt. The testimony fully sustains every word Judge Davis said, and Mr. Hewitt can neither quibble nor lie out of his responsibility. He says the national committee only circulated the first plates, Rot the amended ones ;but the fact is that The News, for one, received from the committee, expressage prepaid, * set of the amended plates (the ones in which the post stamp on the envelope had been defaced so as to obliterate the date,) and the amended lithographs were the ones published in all the democratic papers in this section of the country. ,/The forged letter would have fallen still born, considering its paternity, had not Mr. Hewitt and the national committee stood as sponsors and vouched for its authenticity. It circulated, and did what was expected of it, almost entirely upon the supposed repute of Mr. Hewitt; and it may be said that on the witness stand, on . his oath, after the repeated denials from Oeneral Garfield, Mr. Hewitt Iterated his entire confidence in the genuineness of the letter. Mr. Hewitt was the chairman of the national committee during the campaign of 1876,

which was disgraced by the cipher

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A LIBBY STORY.

patches and the Oregon fraud; but the public, considering his respectability, held him to only a very slight and indirect responsibility; but with this Morey letter disgrace sticking to his fingers, Mr. Hewitt must be content to take his place with the

Mow the Yankees Got Away with the Yams

of the Rebels.

(Richmond correspondence New York Sun.] To-day, in speaking of the sale of the Libbv, Ur. Joseph Wingfield, an ex-guar I, told his experience on a memorable night while standing sentinel over the prisoners

there.

other democratic managers, who, when they assume the direction of a political canvass, appear to consider it necessary to take on thef practices of common felons.

Philadelphia’s Gas Trust. Philadelphia is considerably worked up over the exposure of a ring in the “Gas trust” of that city. The Gas trust was a stock company for the manufacture and supply of gas. It was organized by an ordinance of councils, then called aldermen, March 21, 1835, with 1,000 shares of $100 each. The subscribers paid $10 on each share when their names were entered, and the remaining $90 when the allotment of certificates was made. The ordinance which incorporated the company provideJ that within ten days the common councils should have power to select twelve trustees to guard the interests of the stockholders. The recent board of trustees are alleged to have defrauded the stockholders out of large sums. It is alleged that great quantities of coal bought at a certain price were charged up in the expenses as having been purchased at a very much higher figure. On this item alone there is a “leakage’’ of over $3,000,000.

The 8t. Ellerton Horror. Severe explosions continue to take place in the St. Ellerton mine, throwing up immense volumes of smoke and debris. Buildings in the vicinity are riddled by falling timbers. Workmen are busy digging a trench from the river which runs near to the mine for the purpose of flooding it. It is hoped that the fire may be confined to the Foord pit, and be prevented from extending towards the workings of the Cage pit, situated half a mile west. The former is connected with the latter by a tunnel. Should these works be destroyed the effect on the working classes connected with the mine will be terrible. Great misery must result. The employes af the company number over 500. Other and more serious explosions may occur at any time, and the greatest excitement exists.

Speed the Day. [Warsaw Republican.] The day is rapidly passing away when men will vote the party ticket simply becauseAeir fathers and grandfathers voted it; or when men can be induced to support anv man or measure at the nod of a ward politician. Parties will hereafter have to come before the country on living issues supported by honest argument, recognizing the fact that every issue will be closely scrutinized, and every argument weighed by men who are capable of thinking and judging for themselves. Mr. Gladstone’* Good Sense. Since Mr. Gladstone’s Guildhall speech, the Irish situation has -considerably improved. That speech surprised alike friends and foes. Mr. Gladstone’s deciaring with reiterated emphasis that order must precede reform, threw* over not only certain colleagues in cabinet representing a-powerful radical faction of the party, but also antagonized his own former position. Events had converted him. His political good sense and sure perception of English opinion finally overruled all these mistaken opinions. Partial Paralysis Probably. James Paul, resident of Oxford Furnace, N. S., while working in a field some time ago, suddenly lost his power of speech. Physicians were unable to render him any assistance, and he grieved over the prospect of being speechless for life. Recently in a dream he thought he recovered his speech and conversed with his wife. Upon awakening he found his dream literally fulfilled. He could talk as well as ever, and he has since retained the power of speech.

Anti-Tobacco War in^England. The war in England against the use of tobacco is now waged with an earnestness that Rev. George Trask, the American pioneer in the movement against “the filthy weed,” was never permitted to witness. Dr. Emoys-Jones, of the Royal eye hospital st Birmingham, says its use in large quantities has an injurious influence upon the eyes, and sometimes causes absolute blindness.

Flowers at Funerals Denounced. Bishop Mullin, of Erie, Pa., has publicly denounced the custom of extravagant floral decorations at funerals. Hereafter a black pall is to be thrown over the casket or coffin, which will effectually hide from view all floral offerings that may be placed there. The onlv way in which the florists can get ahead ol the bishop is to fasten tjie flowers by hooks or pins on the outside of this pall.

Remarkable Force of Wind. When a strong east wind blows over the sea of Azov the water retires in a remarkable manner, and the people living on one shore can cross to the other dry-shod. But this hazardous journey sometimes involves the fate of Pharaoh, for a sudden change of wind will bring the water quickly back to its usual place, and travelers are frequently swallowed up by the fickle waves.

Feeling Against the Christians in Persia.

“So, the old prison is sold, is it?’ he said. “Well, gentleman, I never go by that place without laughing now. I can’t help thinking of the cute trick played by a lot of Yankees there. The fact is it was so good that, although I had been ordered to shoot

prisoners, so they put a large lot of them in the second story of the building across the street. Soon after these prisoners

first floor of the building in which those prisoners were confined. Big sweet potatoes were luxuries in those days, and Turner and those fellows kept a strict watch over the building, I can tell you. The third day after they had been stowed away it was noticed that they were disappearing at the rate of about a bushel a day. At first it was thought that the rats took them, but a second thought showed that the idea was absurd. Sentinels were posted all around the building with orders to shoot any man they caught stealing those yams, but they didn’t see anybody to shoot, and althougn they were posted day and night, and no one was allowed to enter the room in which the potatoes were kept, they continued to disappear at the rate of a bushel a day. The confederates saw their yams disappearing in this way, and were furious. The thing was an unaccountable mystery. The doors and windows of the room were sealed, and private marks were put on the wax, so that if any one of them was opened it would be known. The next morning the officers went into the room. The wax was all right, but another bushel of potatoes had vanished. Well, sir, it was the maddest crowd you ever saw. They came after me, and ordered me to take my stand in the room. They locked me in, and a lighted candle was put at each end of the room so that I could see. I was ordered to shoot on sight anybody I saw stealing those yams. It was terribly lonesome in that room. Just as fast as I would light one candle and go to the other ead of the room to light the other the rats would cut the first one down. They were regular confederate rats, and a candle was a godsend to them. After a lot of worry I got the rats out of the way, and sat down near the door waiting for developments. There I stayed till 12 o’clock; but though I kept my eyes on the potatoes all the time, I couldn’t see any of them goin». Shortly after 12 I heard a creaking, grating sound, which seemed to be all over the room at once. I cocked my gun and held my breath, but still I couldn’t see any sign of life except the rats creeping about the floor. ‘By George!’ I thought, ‘this darned place is haunted, if there is any such thing as a place being haunted.’ The sound stopped, but about ten minutes after it began again. I looked at the pile of potatoes, and presently saw something shoot from the ceiling and fall on them. I saw it was a brick, and could distinguish a rope tied to it. I crept a little nearer to get a good look at the thing, but before I could examine it it was drawn slowly up, and there was about a peck of yams sticking to it It went up through a hole which had been cut in the floor above, and presently came down again with a thump right among the potatoes. It was the most artful arrangement you ever saw.

rang

brick had about fifty holes drilled

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in

it, and through each hole a sharpened tenpenny nail had been run, so that when the brick fell among the yams these nails struck into every one they fell on. I couldn’t help laughing at the smart dodge those Yankees had taken to get at the yams. I gently put my hand forward and caught hold of the rope. Pretty soon they began to draw on it, and when it did not move I heard one fellow say: ‘Steady, boys; the brick's hung in something. Pull her steadily without jerking.' They did pull steadily, and fairly lifted me from the floor. ‘No jerk; easy, boys, easy,’the director said, and they tugged’ away. I got pretty red in the face holding to the rope. I was afraid to let go, because I thought some of those spiked nails might strike me in passing. I thought of my pocket knife, and hauled it out just as they were putting all their weight on the other end of the rope. I cut it in two, and the end shot back through the hole in the ceiling, and I could hear a rolling and tumbling on the floor above, showing that the sudden giving way of the rope had had a disastrous effect. Ii heard another voice say: ‘There, now, I told you so. You’ve broken the rope. We’ve lost our brick, and tomorrow we’ll be found out.’ Then another voice called out: ‘Can’t you see it? We might hook it up.’ Next I saw a long neck protruding through the hole, and a fellow peering down. Then I called out: ‘If you trouble any more of those potatoes I’ll, shoot. That fellow’s heau shot back through that hole just like a terrapin, and it was as still as death up there. I bated to tell on them, because it was such a sharp sheme of foraging on the enemy, but I had to. When the officers' went up the next morning to examine the room it took a long time to find the hole. Those Yankees had cut a hole about a foot square through the floor, and it was done so neatly that it took good eyes to discover it. That was where

the officers’ yams went to.”

A dispatch from Teheran says the excitement among the inhabitants of Ooroomiah against the Christians, especially the American missionaries, for their supposed complicity with the Kurds, is increasing. The Christians, however, have cftnvinced the Persian authorities that the suspicions of

complicity are baseless.

Relics of the First Locomotive.

Couldn’t Slip By. [Cloverdale Courier.] The Indianapolis News has quietly slipped into a handsome new dress and goes bravely on as though nothing had happened, 'fhe News has too many eager readers to allow such occurrences to escape the public eye, no matter, if it does fail to call attention to it.

Andrew Simpson, of Carbondale.Pa., is in possession of tne boiler, cab, and several other pieces of the locomotive purchased in England by the Delaware and Hudson canal company, Jane 11, 1829. This locomotive made the first trip in this country, between Honesdale and what is now known t s Old No. 4, on the Delaware and Hudson gravity road in 1830. Broken Out Again. Riley Kittridge, of Belfast, Me., has a postal card upon one side of which he has written clearly 4,008 words, oonprising the entire books of Jonah and Malachi and the fifth, sixth, and a part of the seventh Psalm. Mr. Kittridge recently sent a postal-card to each candidate for president and vice president, the six cards containing almost 15,000 words. Converts to Improved Mormon ism. During the last three years nearly 400 people from north Georgia have been converted to Mormonism, and emigrated to Alamaso, Col. The people of the colony oppose polygamy, and there is only one polygamist among them. The colony is steadily growing, a party of fifty being ready at present to start from Virginia to

join it.

Boycott Must Go. A dispatch from Ballinrobe says the general opinion is that it will be absolutely necessary for Boycott to leave the country, as he will always have to be protected if he remains in Ireland. It is reported that great preparations are being made for the departure of the Orangemen from Lough Mask, when their task is completed.

The Death Penalty in France. During the last fifty years. 2,400people have been sentenced to death in France; and of this number, 1,461 have been executed, while 839 have either been pardoned or have obtained a commutation of their sentence. Early Snow In England. The first snow in England came unusually early this year—during the third week in October. Ought to bo True. It is said the Roman Catholic church will officially condemn the Passion play in New

How Much did They Count For. In Hamilton county, Fla., a man rode six miles to the polls and voted an order on another man for $9. Another voted a $26 account. Tehy did not look at their ballots before voting.

Any Reference to Allusions? Over the door of a Divinity School in Breslau, dating from the seventeenth century, is the image in relief of a young ass, with the quaint inscription: ‘The Lora hath need of him.” Beginning of Cotton Here. Cotton seed was first planted in the United States in 1621, in Virginia, as an experiment. It was first planted in Georgia ana the Carolines in 1773-74, and in Louisiana in 1742. Keeping up Prices. * The national lamp chimney association has resolved that all the factories in the United States should stop the production of chimneys four weeks prior to January 10,1881. Trying to Get up An Interest. The Universalist ministers of Connecicut, in order to awaken interest in their denomination, have resolved to hold protracted meetings throughout the state.

Some will Get Away Then. ]New York Tribune.] President Garfield will have to enlarge his cabinet to at least thirty-eight men to make everybody happy. Spread of Diphtheria In Breoklyn. Diphtheria is increasing in Brooklyn, and tears are entertained that its preralenoe will compel the closing of the public schools.

Nor Himself Either. No man can become thoroughly acquainted with his family history without running for office.

The Usufruct of the Campaign. During the campaign Hancock received •even gmd-headed canes.

Immense Profits. The Third avenue N. Y. horse railway made $400,000. last year.

Relic on the Rocks. The lustrous moon through the winterly night

The gleam of her robe is reflected there, And lights up her path like a mermaid’s hair; Sheds over the tremulous sleeping sea A vision of beauty and pure delight; And softens with Angers Of fan tasks The grim gray diff’s inaccessible bight. Till the soul is lost in a dreary mist. And all seemeth lovely the moon hath kissed. But roiretblng hides in a rift of the rock, , a yawning cavern’s ominous gloom, Which the shimmering moonbeams dare not mock With their lightsome touch, tor It tellsof doom; In its sil» nee filling the air with sound. And the twirl of a tempest all around. A something with ribs, and a broken back, iske.etOn ribs that are gaunt and grim. Lying alone in the shadow so black, A wreck, nevermore to be tanght and trim; Nevermore answer to breese or to blast. With a floating pennon, or straining mast. lying there, rotting, by night and by day, Under that cruel and pitiless crag; Only the curlew to watch its decay. Only the seaweed for pennon and flag:— Nothing but timber and cordage, ’tis true; Only a boat—but the boat had a crew. —{All the Year Round.

SCRAPS.

The new mayor of New Orleans is named Shakespeare. Many red umbrellas are seen in the streets of New York. A singular new tomato is called the turban, from its shape. Those English names! Lyon Playfair is pronounced “Lyon Pluffer.” A woman asked a New York waiter for an egg novelette; she meant omelet. A colored drayman at Little Rock died of ’ockjaw, caused by stepping on a nail. London Truth desires that England should have a few thousand Chinamen as domestic servants. The happiest men in the country to-day are Garfield’s eleven biographers.—[Atlanta Constitution. The cupola of the court house at Clarksville, Tennessee, is surmounted by a braZt n eagle measuring twelve feet from tip to tip. It was evidently a mistake setting Italians to work on the Cape Cod canal. These fellows might dig a canal for sardines, but not for codfish.—[Boston Commercial Bulletin. Harvard freshmen must now by the rules of the faculty get forty per cent in every ‘course, or be conditioned. Only 83% per cent, has been required of them heretofore.

A bright little girl who had successfully spelled the word “that,” was asked by her governess what would remain after the “t” had been taken away. “The dirty cups and saucers,” was the reply.—[Potter's Gazette. An eccentric gentleman in New York has promised his danghter a pair of diamond ear-rings when sne will cook for him with her own hands a first-class dinner. She has joined a young ladies’ class in cooking under the tuition of Miss Carson. James Monroe did not consider it beneath the dignity of an ex-president to serve as justice of the peace. He retired from the presidency in 1825, and was very soon after elected one of the magistrates of his county in Virginia. Non Ben (Lomond) Trovato. Rory (fresh from the hills, seeing water cart for the first time)—Hech, mon! Ye’re loassin* a’ yer waiter!” Aungus—Hand yer tongue, ve feul I Ett’s lari oot to stoap the laddies fra* ridin’ ahint!”—[London Punch. “Sharp child—‘And so you are very poor, marm? Aged party—‘I’a be ^lad of a copper from anybody.’ Sharp child—‘I’ve g(4 a bad shilling; will you have it? Aged party—‘A bad shilling ain’t no use.’ Sharp child—‘Oh, ain't it? That shows you don’t go to church and never puts money in the plate.’ ”—[London Fun. General Fairchild, the United States minister at Madrid, speaks in the highest terms of King Alfonso. It would be difficult, he says, for a sovereign to conduct himself with more judgment and tact in his trying position. Minister Fairehikl has been treated with the greatestatteutiop and kindness at the Spanish court.

A “young naturalist” writes up to Mara ‘how he can catch a live wasp, for scientific purposes, without injuring it?” Right by the tail, son; right by the tip end of the tail. Squeeze hard, the wasp won’t mind it a particle, and if it seems to be injured any that you can sec, send us the bill and we’ll pay for a new wasp.—[Burlington Hawkeye. Policeman Ego t of Phildelphia is usually accompanied on Ids rounds by a big hound. Egolf went into a house to arrest a man who was whipping his wife, and was set upon by a number of roughs, knocked down, kicked and dragged about. Then the dog went into the fight, and enabled his master to win. But it was a hard struggle. The officer’s skull was fractured and the dog had three ribs broken. A frisky old widow by the name of Butler, who had been married several times, usually with disastrous results to her husbands, having obtained a divorce from her last husband, who was a republican, immediately married a new husband, who was a rising young man and a democrat. The friends of the widow congratulated her upon the aquisition of a new husband. Tne widow blushed violently, and, chewing the seam of her apron, replied: “Why, he is not a new husband at all. He is the same one I used to have before the war.”— [Galveston News. Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, in a sermon at New York, on Sunday, told a story of Abraham Lincoln, as follows: “At the close of a scientific convention in Washington, the members called in a body at the White house to see Mr. Lincoln. As they were waiting the in east room the president entered. A member addressed him, and after making some rather fulsome remarks, said: ‘Mr. President, we trust during this time in which the nation 4s engaged, God is on our side, and will give us victory.' To this Mr. Lincoln replied: ‘Sir, my concern is not whether God is our side. My great concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.’ ”

recently examined before the students of the medico-surgical academy of St. Petersburg. He is twenty-seven years old. In his youth he was noted for his brilliant ability, out was addicted to the immoderate use of

liquors, and led a dissipated life. He was attacked by an acute disease. When he recovered he was found to have lost all his

mental faculties except memory and the power of mathematical calculation. These increased proportionately as his understanding and power of logical thinking vanished. Now he is a living phonograph and calculating apparatus. In the lecture room* Prof. Merjevsky requested him to square numbers containing five or six figures, to extract the square roots of like numbers, and so on. All the questions were correctly answered by the patient in a few seconds. No mathematician present coaid do anything like it. Then the professor requested some one to read poetry aloud for several minutes, and the patient repeated it as correctly as a phonograph. The professor declared to the audience that he was unable to explain this physical phenomenon. The memory and the calculating capacity of the patient are still growing, while in other respects he is becoming a

more hopeless idiot

About Trotting Horses. The standard trotter b one that can cover a mile in 2.30. It b said that less than 600 of all the horses raised and trained in the United States have this record. The number that can trot in 2.60 bear the ratio of 1 to 2,383 horses raised.

For twenty-two years Mrs. Susanna Asm us, No. 11 Bartlett street, Baltimore, Md., was a sufferer from sores and pains in her limbs. She tried many remedies without any favorable results. Happening to hear of St. Jacobs Oil, she concluded at last to tir it The result was wonderful. The sore healed, the pains v&nbhed, and she b now well again.

STATE NEWS. John Carney, auditor-elect of Jennings county, died at Vernon Saturday morning. United States engineers pronounce the water supply ample for the proposed enlargement of the \J^abash and Erie canal. The dwelling-house of John Matthews, located a short distance south of Nebraska, was burned U the ground on Saturday. No insurance. A young man named McKinney while handling lumber at the ship-yard at Madison had both of his feet badly mashed by falling timber. William Smith, living at Shelburn, was killed Saturday while hunting. His gun was accidentally discharged while he was climbing a fence. The post-office and drug-store of Fillmore DorsettatMt Meridian, burned Saturday night Supposed robbery and incendiarism, as the rear door was found open. John Cable, a carpenter of Brooklyn, fell from a barn Saturday evening, a distance of twenty-six feet, ana had three ribs broken and received internal injuries. He is in a critical condition. The ticket office of the B., S., O. andBrailroad, in the depot at Bloomfield, was broken into Saturday night by thieves. A lot of tickets and a small amount of money were taken by the burglars. Scarlet fever in its most virulent form has broken out among the children in the eastern part of Richmond, and is spreading rapidly. The death rate has increased largely within a few days, and precautionary measures are being adopted. Lewis Moshler, cashier of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road at Lafayette is unaccountably short in his cash $2,000. Moshler has been in his present position for years, is a young man of good habits and associations, and above suspicion. A young man named Stewart, was accidentally snot at a party eight miles below Vincennes, Saturday night. In some manner not yet explained a shot-gun which stood in the corner of the room went off, and the load struck Stewart under the chin. The residence of Mrs. Lardreville, in St. Paul, burned Saturday. Everything in the building was saved, but, although there was $800 insurance on the property destroyed, the owner will sustain considerable loss over and above the amount of the policy. Cause, defective flue. Hon. Wm. H. Weaver, representative elect on the democratic ticket for Carroll county, died early Saturday morning, at his home near Cutler. The republican nominee in the October fight, William R. Stewart, will again be a candidate in the special election made necessary by Mr. Weaver’s death. The democratic majority in this county, in the November election, was but ten.

Political Points. M. E. Post (democrat) is elected delegate to congress from Wyoming, by 150 ma-

considers

it important that the democratic party should retain its organization in the south, end that he regards the presidential election

as settled.

With eighteen counties to hear from, the vote in Kentucky stand: Hancock, 135,241; Garfield, 94,940; Hancock’s majority, 40,301. The Irving Hall democracy have split in twain, with John Fox and James O’Brien as leaders of one faction, and Mayor Cooper of the other. At the late election in the state of Nevada the question of Chinese immigration was submitted to the voters. The result is foreshadowed by the official returns from Storey <*>unty, which shows 5,114 against and

13 in favor.

Official returns of the late election from all the counties in Missouri and St. Louis city, show the following result: Hancock, 208,589; Garfield, 153,587; Weaver, 35,135; Hancock’s plurality, 55,002; majority, 19,-

867.

jority.

Wade Hampton writes that he

Lay in a Stock of Vigor. Bodily decay is greatly hastened by causes scarcely perceptible in the beginning, but which prey upon and undermine the constitution proportionately to the degree of neglect with which they are disregarded. A diminution of vital energy, the proximate cause of which is a failing of digestive power, is dangerously subversive of regularity in every function of the body. To lay in a stock of vigor is the only philosophic way to restore health on a permanent basis. The nation’s favorite tonic. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, is specially adapted to the use of debilitated invalids, whose stomachs fail in duty, or whose liver or bowels are inactive. A steadily pursued course of this regulating Jnvlgorant, protects those wise enough to adopt it from the consequences sure to ensue from a disregard of the causes of failing strength. The bitters moreover, not only enriches the blood, but purifies it. • ua o-w,f,m . Kidney-Wort cures piles. It has a soothing and healing action that is very potent.

I have suffered from a kidney difficulty for the past ten years, accompanied with nervous spasms. Physicians gave me but temporary relief, but after using three and one-half bottles of Warner’s Safe Kidney afid Liver Cure, my nervous spasms were entirely relieved. My age is 77 years. I recommend this great remedy to all suffering from nervous troubles. Mbs. Mary Reesb. EAsroif, Pa. (8)d<&w

RETURNS ALL IN! And show conclusively that we have the best assortment Brass and Steel Fire Sets in the city. New lot just received. Coal Vases, Coal Hods, Ash Sifters. New lot Muzzle-loading Shot Guns. Hildebrand & Fugatk, Hardware Headquarters, 35 S. Meridian st.

44 Years before the Public, THE GENUINE LiyER^iLLS are not recommended as a remedy “for all the ills that flesh is heir to,’’nut in affections of the Liver, and in all Bilious Complaints, Dyspepsia, and Sick Headache, or diseases of that clumcter, they stand without a rival. AGUE AND FEVER. No better cathartic can be used preparatory to, or after taking quinine. As a simple purgative they are unequaled. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. The genuine are never sugar-coated. Each box has a red-wax seal on the lid, with the impression, McLANE’S LIVER PILL. Each wrapper boars the signatures of C. McLank and Fleming Bros. Insist upon having the genuine DmC. McLANE’S LIVER PILLS, pre‘fLEMING BROS., Pittsburgh, Pa., the market being full of imitations of the name MeL*n* f spelled differently but same pronunciation. dAW-xx i

THE HOLMAN

“Nature’s" Great Tonic and Blood * X*

The Best Liver, Stomach and Kidney Doctor in the World. It is a certain cure for EVERY species of Liver and STOMACH trouble, the seat of most all diseases. It eradicates every particle ofbjoodposion—bilious, malarial, or medicinal —and leaves the wearer in Perfect Health. Isa Sure preventive of Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever.

The HOLMAN Liver and Stomach Pad will do all that is claimed for it. The thousands of suffterere who have tried it SAY SO. Call or send for pamphlet containing few Testimonials, and learn how lives have been saved and Health restored without dosing—aim- “ AU^nRP'rTfW” “Vafure 1 .*’ urav

PRESS TESTIMONIAL. [From the Chicago Journal.]

A certain safeguard against malarial and contagious diseases in their most malignant form is the Holman Liver and Stomach Pad, being recoginzed as such by the leading physicians of

this and other countries.

INDIVIDUAL TESTIMONIAL.

Stock Yards, Indianapolis, Dec. 10,1878, Gates & Hanley, Agents Holman Liver Pad: Gentleman— Grateful for the benefit, have derived from the Holman Liver Pad. I am impelled by what I consider a sense of duty, to make a state-

ment of my case for the benefit of others who may be similarly afflicted. I had been suffering for

vith indigestion and liver troubles.

long time with indigestion

with all the distress igrf misery usually attending tliose complaints.'Wy complexion was extremely sallow, my skin having more the appear-

ance of leather than anything else.

After two months’ use of your remedies (onftr one Pad being employed], I am restored to perfect health; my complexion is cleared up, and I feel that I can not say too much in favor of the Pad. Mrs. George W. Jenks. Mrs. Jenks is the wife of the efficient Superin-

tendent of the Stock Yards.

Address Holman Liver Pad Office.

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEPOT. ROOM 4*2 FLETCHER & SHARPE’S BLOCK, Indianapolis. w.f.m x

300 Dozen 3-BUTTON KID GLOVES, AH razes from to 8, all colors and Opera, At 35c; worth 75c.

JUST RECEIVED, A full line of Ladies’ and Gents’ Real Kid Gloves, at 75c. $1, $1.25 and $1.50. in all. colors, fitted to the hand ana warranted. Ladies’ Mosquetiere, undresssed and fancy lined Gloves. Lace Insertion, Satin Puffing, in 2, 8 and 4 rows, also Embroidered. A foil line jnst received in Ladies* and Gents’ Driving, Dogskin, lined in Silk or Wool, Gauntlet, Cotton, Wool; town-made, new Silk Bnttonlcss Glove, fnr top, and 22 styles of MITTENS for Ladies and Gents.

Special Notice. A. DICKSON & CO. ▲re now opening late purchases of

C. W. PARDRIDSE, No. 2 W. Washington, OOBHEB MERIDIAN. m.th.s

Particular attention Is asked to the value we

now offer in Dress Goods, Black Cashmeres, Black Silks, Satins, Colored Cashmeres, Dress Plaids, Felt Skirts, Flannel Skirts, Flannels, Underwear, Table Damask, Dolmans, Ulsters and Shawls.

WE HATE IN STOCK 150 BRLSHand made Sour Mash Whisky of 1874, 1874and 1877. Also, free and In bond,

A. DICKSON & CO., 26 and 28 West Washington Street,

850 IBrls. 1878, >79 and >80 Sour and Sweet Mash WHISKY.

OLD TRADE PALACE STORE. 11 1 'I ■ ■ ■ ■ ~ ■ • . ROBERTSON & PERRY, ' WHOLESALE Grocers.

We control in this market the following brand*, included in above: NEW HOPE, Glendale and Glencoe tour Mafh and Melrose Sweet Mash. A 1 so. tha 'dd established private brand,” I. H. Cutter, O. K.,“ of 1872 and 1873. Our stock was purchased before the greet advance in whisky. See us before buyingimported SL Mareeaux Champagne. Hat* Mountain and Sellers Water, Ginger Ale, Bitter Cordial, etc. CALIFORNIA BRANDY. JAS R. ROSS & CO. uasffl '

Having moved Into our new and extensive building. Hot. 26,28 and 30 fW. GEORGIA 8T With a largely Increased stock of Staple and Fancy Goods, We offer special Inducements to the trade. • 3 "f* V

PJ TPVTi'T A MD uim V EjJjAMJ Paper Gonpany. Wm. 0. DEV AY, Res. Agt. OFFICE 69 and 60 N. Penn. 81. The paper on which the Indiana«>olia News Ig printed is furnished by thlr company.