Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1877 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1877.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28. The wife of Avery, the whisky thief, has an appointment in the department of the Interior at a salary of $1,200 a year. Schüre understands civil service reform.

The distributing clerk in the Chicago post office has been caught stealing money letters. The amount is but $500, and he doesn't own an iron foundry, so he will probably go to jail forth with. A Washington special says Morton is receiving numerous invitations to visit the gulf states. We presume to examine return- . ing board machinery and give the necessary directions for keeping it in order. The hereditary right of succession of the Cameron clan to the good things i the gift of the Pennsylvania radicals has been recognized, and Don sits in the seat of his father, while the ancient Simon retires to put his defenses in order against the aggressions of the terrible widow. Postmaster General Key seems to be a figure-head in his department. Theysay Tyner has gone to work with a will, and that he really does all the work. This suits all around. Hayes was so overjoyed to have a live southern democrat In his cabinet that it really makes no difference whether he attends to the duties of the position or not; consequently Tyner can be worked in to great ad ran tage, which we notice is being done. Packard has qnit recruiting his militia from the field hands of Louisiana who were induced for various reasons to go to New Orleans. lie was Riven to understand Xhat he was not preserving the status quo. Hayes would like to have things just as they are during his terra of office. It would relieve him of an immense responsibility, and if Fackard would go on playing governor on his half acre of soil' he would be in good condition to have a returning board ready in time for the next presidential election. A CA BIX LT MEETING. It will appear after awhile that the presidential fraud is finding his stolen honors anything but comfortable. The day of retribution is hastening on. Washington society may be brilliant and thousands may fawn aronnd the usurper, bat he will not be able to obscure the fact that he is the presidential fraud, an official lie, a standing disgrace of the country and of the century. Everything around hira is fraud, everything is tainted with crime. It will not be long until Hayes will realize his situation. The soul damning perjuries which forced him into the white house will take tangible and horrid shapes in his diseased mind, thsn they will hop about his room like toads, fly around like verminous insectj, hiss like serpents, write his doom like the fingers of a man's hand on the walls; they will haunt him like ghosts, and play the devil with him generally Under such circumstances the mind of the presidential fraud will. weaken. Drunk with power, drugged with crime, he will give his cabinet and. the country exhibitions of delirium result ing from the willingness of a weak intellect to receive an overload of power from the hands of men who obtained it by villainy. The performance is even now anticipated, and intimations of what is in store for the curious given. Hayes, for instance, calls a cabinet meeting all hands present. Hayes enters with measured step, and before taking "his seat aays, "Brother Evarts will open the meeting with prayer." "With what?" asks Evarta. "Prayer!" thunders Hayta. "Prayer! I will have you understand 'that I am going to run the machine 4with prayer." "Ha! ha! ha! that's a good 'joke, by Jove." As a matter of course the cabinet is astonished. Hayes subsides and matters: "Evarts, secretary of state, and 'don't pray, don't know how to pray; as for 'Schurxheis an infidel." At this, Schurr says: "Mr. Prosedont Vot vas dat remark? Py shimeny I don't like dot bery mooch.'' Hayes mutters on : "I'm no president; I am 'a fraud. All these men are frauds. Tilden 'ought to be here," and then suddenly jumps up and cries oat: "Kill it, kill it." "Kill what?" chimes In the constitutional advisers of the fraud. "Kill that returning 'board snake; its around my legs; at my 'throat; great God it is in my hair kill it!" Out of- breath, pale and haggard, the fraud subsides, closes his eyes and soliloquises: "Tilden and Hendricks and reform. 'Ha! ha! Wells and Morton played it laharp. I am president. 1 ehall reform the party bah! I wish I was "in Ohio. Yes, I 'have the prayers of the people ha! ha! 'Prayers! that's good. Troops? Who said 'troops? Are they fighting? Yes, I hear 'them now. See them falling. Blood! Mur'der! Packard flying! Hampton triumph'ant, and I fighting toads and snakes! Look 'at the spots; every thing is spottedl" Counts: "One, two, three, four! five, six. 'seven, eight epota." Ilis-s-ss-s. "What's 'that? Hell's blazes, gentlemen, what are 'these things crawling, biting, flying, hiss 'ing," croaking: 'Perjuries! ' perjuries!' 'Great God! see Ueru! Everything is 'perjury! Look on the wall; "in letters 'of fire. P-e-r j u-r-y.. See them! Every 'letter has a head, mouth, eye, , fang, 'tongne. Tbey are trawling; coining down 'apou us."' Hie cabinet is supposed to be dumb with amazeemenr. Schurz, at last plucking up courage, ventures to remark: "Suenlini4n., vat dos doxa dingi mean? 'Mine Colt! dis is very sträng. Dere is i 0 'bolicy in dese tings. Dat bresident it.li 'gone tuad rhure. His mind is ünaed.lled." Evarts is of the opinion that the inte llectual faculties of the- president, over-taxed with questions of ponderous magnitude requires profound rest, That hi conscience

which in Ohio was known to be exceedingly sentative, has been effected by returning board stories of fraud and perjury, and that a trip to some secluded place will do him good. Thompson is of the opinion that as soon as the president can be assured of the support of the old whig element he will be mre composed. McCrary expresses the opinion that the troops question has unsettled his understanding. Sherman says he will come out all right after a while as soon as he draws his first quarter's salary; the money will set him up; that money always did have a good effect on Hayes. Devens expresses the opinion that as soon as Hayes can be made to believe that Justice Bradley is not a Judas and understands just how the law was interpreted by the commission that all idea of fraud will vanish; and Key gives assurances that he can manipulate the south so that fraud will pass current in that section. At this juncture Hayes rouses up and says, "Now boys, for 'business. How many rounds have you got? 'We must take that battery. I will lead 'the charge march!" This is too much for 'Schurz, who exclaims: "By tarn, I leaves dis house, de president ish crazy as de ped pug." Hayes hears the last remark, and bouncing into the middle of the room, crys out, "I will have no cabinet, no policy, no troops. I will run this machine with lies, with frauds, with perjuries, with returning 'boards; these shall be my advisers, these my 'constitution. The country has indorsed 'iraud. I will give the people enough of it. Perjuries shajl be a legalender for all debts 'due my government. I will coin lies, establish more mints, make times 'easy, ha! ha! This is a new departure, the dawn of a new era, the 'age of perjury, the millennium of crime. 'Now leave. Away to your departments; send 'out your ordere; let fraud have free course; 'everybody steal as under Grant I am the great fraud, the eight spot of history and 'the king of knaves." The cabinet meeting adjourns, Schurz soliloquizing "Val, val; 'vat a bolicy, yat a bolicy."

THE PROPONED SOUTHERN COM. HISSIOX. , 'What would be thought of the wisdom of the British government were it to appoint a commission to go to Newcastle and investigate as to whether or not coal was there to be found? Suppose Governor Williams was to appoint a commission of learned men to analyze the soil of the Wabash and Miami bottoms and see if it would grow corn. What would be thought of judgment or common sense were he to do such a thing? There is the same propriety for the appointment of a committee to go to Louisiana and investigate who hid been elected governor of that state as there would be to see if coal could be found at Newcastle or corn be grown oh the bottom lands of the Wabash or the Miami. With all the election machinery in the hands of Kellogg at d his thieving gang, Louisiana gave a majority ot ten thousand in favor of NichoWs. This is as certain as that Louisiana is a state, and that thieves and scoundrels have ruled her for these many years. It is as certain as that two and two make four, or that Hayes is a fraudulent president, and yet that fraudulent president and his cabinet have determined to send a commission to New Orleans to investigate the ouestion as to who was elected governor of Louisiana last November. The creation of this commission is a false pretense. It is for the purpose of deceiving the public and making it believe that Hayes and his advisors want to get at the bottom facta before deciding. whom to recognize as governor of Louisiana. It is to hoodwink the people of the south and have them believe that the presidential fraud intends to do them justice. Since the 5th of the present month the people of the country have been hoping that Hayes would make good the promises of those supposed to be nparhimand call off the troops from Louisiana and South Carolina. But "hope de'ferred ruaketh the heart sick," and the great heart of the nation is now sick almost unto death. Knowing that if the federal troops were removed from the capitals of Louisiana and South Carolina the carpet-bad governments of these states would not last a day, and his own fraudulent title to the pre idency thus be made manifest, the incumbent of the wbite house declines to give the order which would make his usurpation apparent to the country. Instead of this he trims and shuffles and tries to find a way out of his embarrassments by sending south a lot of men charged with a duty more dim cult than the discovery of the northwest ptssage. It is to satisfy the country that Packard was elected governor of Louisiana and Chamberlain governor of South Carolina, and that it would be proper to maintain them in their otflres by federal bayonets. If these men were not elected to the offices they seek to fill, it follows as a logical sequence that Hayes id a frand and a usurper", for his right to the electoral vote of these states stand upon the same foundation as that of Packard and ChaniVrlaln to the offices they claim. Therefore, the presidential fraud will be forced to eventually recognize these car)et-baggrs to bet the governors of the ' states ' cursed by their presence, for to do otherwise would be to confess himself a political bastard and framd. Many good men have been deluded into the belief that the creation of Wells and Bradley and their gangs would so demean himself officially as to give the people of the south caue to blesi hirri, but the creation of the southern comruis-tiorj must dispel all such delmive hopes. Military courts during the late war were organized to convict, and the commission to investigate southern affairs will ba created to fin I an excuse for Hayes to use the btyonetsof federal soldiers uphold the rotten governments of the south. Hayes is a frau luleut president; his legitimacy to office is a lie, and nothing good can come of frauds and bastards.

VACILLATING HATES. When Hayes was first nominated for the presidency in Cincinnati, we, in common with observing people who had watched his career, gave expression to the facte that Mr. Hayes was not a positive character, and that he lacked decision and boldness. In his letter of acceptance, which his radicul admirers eulogized so much, and which the party organs still refer to in terms of praise and admiration, Mr. Hayes revealed the inherent weakness of his character, which is making trouble for him and the country today, Jle spoke of "approving" certain policies and ideas. An approver of other men's ideas is not a bold, original thinker and creator of winning theories and policies. We all understood, during thje campaign, that our financial system, as also the southern question, were suffering solely for the want of an able, energetic, creative, originating brain to take hold of them, and after thoroughly mastering them, to originate, yea, almost create some practical, winning scheme, that would lead us through the darkness and mist that have overshad-

f owed the country ever since the radical vis ionaries have had the administration of the government. Those who knew Mr. Tilden were certain that he was the man for the times. He did not propose to "approve" of anything in his letter of acceptance. Tt foreshadowed an original, bold administration if he was successful. Now we say that every movement of Hayes, since he has been in the presidential chair, shows a vacillating, undecided mind. His leading idea seems to be to buy np or offer bribes for southern influence, or to secure it by truckling to it. This was secured, as he thought, by appointing Key, of Tennessee, to his cabinet By this time he had whispered to Stanley Matthews to drop a line on the sly to Chamberlain and Packard, hinting in a qaiet way that if they would slip out of the back door there was something handsome ready for them. They refused. Then Jim Blaine heard of it and he made up his mind to raise a row in the senate, so he commenced a series of gymnastic performances over, under and on top of his senatorial desk, until he scared Hayes, Stanley Matthews and Evarts, who greeted him one Sunday by inviting him to dinner. How it was done no one has been able to find out, but ever since that dinner Jim has been unusually quiet. We think it was Fred Douglass's appointment to the marshalship of the District that settled Blaine.which, of course, raised a tempest in another quarter among the lawyers, judges and ton of Washington and Georgetown. Hayes then had to rush after Gordon, Hill and other southerners and beg them to confirm Fred Douglass's nomination. They agreed to this, as well as some other matters, provided he would withdraw the troops from the south. This was the understanding until yesterday. Now the announcement is made that he will do nothing until a commission is sent south and it makes a report advising what is best to be done. He is no further along in his southern policy than he was when he began. Everybody is dissatisfied with hira so far. Packard is more belligerent than ever; in truth, he is literally "spoiling" for a fight. The radical negroes threaten to burn New Orleans if the troops are taken away, and altogether everything seems to be in a terrible state of uncertainty. The club house of the Washington ring was sold out bag and baggage on Monday at public auction in Washington city. Here was the resort of the festive gentlemen who made their money quite as easily and as reputably as the runners of faro banks. The good times that were to come with Hayes's election to the presidency somehow didn't come to them, even if it came anywhere else, which at this writing seems exceedingly doubtful. The ring did not like the idea of a plain sheriffs sale, and the members tried veiy hard to hedge against it, but all to no purpose. Attempts were made to transfer gracefully the house to some other club, but all devices failed. The red flag of the auctioneer floated beautifully over the building on Monday last. Here is the shape in which Dorm Piatt, in his paper, the Washington Capital, charges Mr. Dawes, the senator from Massachusetts, with levying blackmail. He also makes the same charge against Senator.Spencer, of Alabama. We do not wonder so much at Spencer, the Alabama carpet-bagger, being being charged with it, but we confess our surprise to hear of such a charge against Mr. Dawes. Hereitis: We here charee that Senators Spencer and Dawes attempted to levy blact mail upon Chorpenninit. and 'lim, defeat-d nts claim. We täte huh aavieaiy, nnvine at, onr imcKine ab est legal advice in the United StAtes; and what U more, a record that can not be denied, explained or Impeached. Exhausted and worn out by the vigorous but fruitless struggles he has made to escape the official honors thrust upon him by a grateful country, Jim Tyner finally gave np the unequal contest and entered upon his duties as first assistant postmaster yester day, with a meek and Christian resignation most edifying to behold. It has been decided to have an extra ses sion of congress. Some say May, some say June, some say July. Like everything else about the new administration, it is in a state of uncertainty. Hayes says he don't know when it will be. The Louisiana peof le and the tfouth Carolinians have made up their minds to hive no m re of Packard or of Chamberlain. It is Nicholls and Wade Hampton or a niliary government Take your choice MY. Hayes. The army of B 's seem to have grown quiet of late. Let us Bee. There's Bdbctfk, Belknap, Bradley, Blaine and Butler. Perhaps Blaine and Butler will need a few sore raps over the, bead, but the other B.'s have gone into history. Ta-ta! '

HOME INSURANCE.

A Local Company Commended By An Ev ening Sheet. Indianapolis News. In the last few months, people in reading the daily papers, have been astonished and bewildered (particularly those who read the insurance journals) at the changes announced as taking place in many of the insurance companies located all over the country. Companies which have been in operation for years, which have, to all outward appearancs, done an immense and profitable business, and have been officerea by men who were looked upon as masters of all the intricacies of the business, and to day well, how are they? Some have curtailed their risks, others have gone into bankruptcy, and others still are leading a sickly life, dragging out a miserable existence from day to day, trying to ward off the day of their doom, which is rapidly advancing to meet them and bury them in failure and destruction. Those companies which have been careful as to the bazardousness of the risks they have taken, not taking any and everything offered them simply for the sake of the few dollars they might obtain, and in order to swell their aggregate of business done, which in their published statements would make such a fine showing, and at the same time depress the hearts of their rivals and sadden them with the knowledge that they could not' get all the insurance to be had for their companies. These companies which have practiced this carefulness are now reaping the reward of their foresight in an increased business of a first-class character. The companies which have recognized the great ana important fact that no matter if one company can show more risks taken than another, it is not necessarily prima facie evidence of its greater strength. Companies which have demanded not an exorbitant, but a fair rate for their policies, these are they, which, like gold passed through the crucible, has become refined and more valuable, are today on a firmer foundation, and their hold on the confidence and affections of the people will grow stronger as days are succeeded by niontlis.and these in their turn by years. 1 rom what can be gathered from public opinion, the Franklin Fire insurance company of this city is an example of this class of companies. Started but a few years ago, her progress has been upward and onward, and to-day she stands firmly on a strong financial foundation, and has a business which can not be taken away from her. She is officered by men of thorough business experience and training. Her board of directors is mads up from citizens whose ability, wealth and social standing qualify them to manage the affairs of the largest monetary institution. Besides this s ie is a home institution. The money she receives is kept at home, thereby directly benefitting the citizens of Indianapolis. The agents of other companies ini'r"diately send the largest part of their premiums home to their companies, wl. jte headquarters are outside of the state. The managers of the Franklin have in H last few weeks determined on withdrawi'g their agencies from all points outside the state, and are rapidly settling up the business of these agencies in order to wind them up. This change will benefit the company in several different ways, and its officers and directors have shown much wisdom and clear headed n ess in determining upon this oourse. The simple fact of this action of the company to confine its action within the bounds of the state at once makes a strong appeal to Hie sympathies and pride of its people to extend to it their full and hearty support. One other benefit gained might be alluded to the less territory occupied by a company, the risks offered to it, as well as those already written, can be more strictly examined and kept under close scrutiny. To those contemplating insurance this company can certainly offer as great if not greater inducements than any other in the state. THE GAME LAW. The Act Passed by the Late Legislature in Reference to the Killing of Wild Game. To ohligesportsmen the Sentinel herewith presents the law in reference to the killing of wild game, passed by the late legislature. Section I. Be it enacted by the general assembly cf Indiana that it shall be unlaw ful to shoot, trap or kill in any manner deer, buck, doe or fawn within this state between the 1st da; of January and the 1st day of October in each year, and for each deer, buck, doe or fawn so shot, trapped or killed in any manner the person or persons so offending slKk.ll on conviction thereof be fined in the sum of $10. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to net or trap quails at aiy time, and it shall be unlawful to shoot, trap or destroy quails or pheasants from the first day of January to the first day of NovemWr in each year; any person or persons vitiating the provisions of this section shall upon conviction thereof be fined the sum of $2 for each quail or pheasant shot, trappsd or netted. Sec. 3. .1 shall be unlawful to shoot or trap prairis hens or chickens between the first day o! February and the' first day of October in each year, and it shall be unlawful to ret prairie chickens at any time: and any peraon or persons violating the provisona of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sura of $2 for eact prairie hen or chicken so shot, trapped or netted, provided nothing herein contained thall be so construed as to authorize any peson to enter upon the farm or premises o' another without permission of the owner hereof ; that any rson or persons who slall be guilty of hunting with a dog or dogs; or hunting or shooting with any kind of firearms in enclosed lands, wiihout first having obtained consent of the owner or occupant thereof, shall be g ilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined Li any sum not l,ess than $5 nor more than $50, provided no prosecution shall be ins.it uted under this act without the consentof the owner or occupant of the land enterel. Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill or injure or pursue with intent so to do, anp turtle dove, meadow lark, robin, mocking bird, blue bird, wren, sparrow, red bird, p;ewee, martin, thrush, swallow, orule, yellow hammer, cat bird, or to wantonly destroy or disturb the egs or young of th birdi protected by this act, and any person violating the provisions of this act, shall, uion conviction thereof, be fined the sum o. not less than $1 nor more than $10. Sec. 5. It hall be unlawful for sny person tonet, trap, kill or injure, or to pursue with intent so todo. any woodcock between the first days of Jan uary and J uly of each year, or to net or trap at any time, or kilt any duck between the 15th day of April and the 1st day of September in each year, ar.d any person violating the provifions of th's act shall uon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of $' for each wild duck or woodcock so unlawfully trapped, or netted, or hU Sec Ö. That it shall be .unlawful for sny agent or officer of any expres company

or railroad company, or any other person or persons to receive or transport any game whether deer, quails, pheasants, woodeock, wild duck or prairie chickens, which shall have been tilled, taken or captured in violation ot any of the provisions of this act; and any agent, officer or any other person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in the sum of $10 for each deer, buck, doe or fawn so received or transported, and the sum of $2 for each quail, pheasant or prairie chicken so received or transported. Sec. 7. All acts and parts of acta in contact with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. OAKEY HALL GÖXE.

The Ex-lf ayor Ends a Checkered Career by a Dramatic Disappearance. - New York Special to the Chicago Tribnne.J A. Oakey Hall, ex-mayor, and for many years one of the most noted ruen of New York, has not been seen or heard of here since Friday night. His most intimate friends fear that he has either been murdered or committed suicide. From what is known of bis mental condition for some months past, the latter supposition is the stronger. A short time since Mr.. Hall was counsel in a murder case. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, whereupon Mr. Hall made a very singular speech, denouncing the jury, and declaring that he would never again appear as attorney in such a court The judge passed the action, seeing that the lawyer was not in his senses. Friday morning Mr. Hall left his office, saying nothing as to the time of his return. By Sunday hit family and friends were much worried, and detectives were employed to search for him. As yet no clue has been found. Since his stage venture and failure Mr. Hall has not been himself. At the club and other places he expressed himself strangely on various occasions so strangely as to keep bis special friends on the watch for a more marked development of mental 'aberration. It is said that his troubles were increased by financial embarrassment; that he had repeatedly attempted to raise money on his note without success. Others deny this, and assign the ruin of his political aspirations as the sole cause. There are social considerations, however, which also enter into the story. For something like two years he has been irregular in his family relations, sleeping frequently at the club hotels, or in his office. It is well known that he was a particular friend to Miss Ada Dyas, upon whom he has lavished presents, and for whom he has done much. Of course it is held by some that Mr. Hall had fled to avoid the exposure that might come if Sweeney should open his mouth. This is the argument of political enemies. Mr. Hall had nothing to fear from his old comrades, and knew it. He was a passive tool in their hands, because he saw through them the path to the governorship of New York, and this he would have had, no doubt, but for the general ruin which swept away his party and his hopes. He did not get a fortune from the spoils, and the city left hira without other damage than a stained reputation. Recorder Hackett and Sheridan Shook, two of Mr. Hall's most intimate friends, are pushing the search for him. They admit grave doubts of his sanity, and fear that he deliberately walked off a pier into the river. Another theory is thaf he has gone to Europe and that Süss Dyas will follow him. The affair creates an excitement proportionate to the ex-mayor's reputation and position. He was last Saturday night elected as a director of the Lotos club, of which he is an old and favorite member. Mr. Hall's career has ben no less conspicuou than exceptional. He has familiaiized himself to the public of New York in well nigh every capacity in which a man of education and mental acumen could distinguish himself, lie has always carried with him, in whatever position he occupied, a certain fascination, which has attached to him a vast number of friends and admirers and shielded him from criticisms under which greater and less pregnable men have quickly succumbed. Mr. Hall has been a lawyer since he was old enough to practice, a politician since he acquired any local name. He has done literary work of a varied assortment and character, engaged in newspaper work sufficiently to be called an editor, tried his luck with fair success on the rostrum, and finally essayed to make a name on the stage. In this he failed and returned to the practice of his profession. While his public life includes all these diverse occupations, bis social life vas scarcely less varied and no ticeable. He was born in Albany in the summer of 1S26. The death of his father three years later left his mother to support herself, which she did by taking boarders. At the age of 14 Oakey entered college, working his way through by writing for various country and city papers, such as the Mirror, Nichols's Aurora, the Signaland the Tatler. which Park Benjamin started. He studied law at Harvard and in New Orleans, then returned to New York and btgtn an eventful life. Till he got clients he kept at newspaper work, and was the author of a book composed of letters written from New Orleans to New York before he had anything practical to do with law. He soon became a favorite with the New York bar, and was made assistant oistrict attorney after two years connection with it, being picked out by Attorney Blunt as the most promising attorney, and was from that day a politician until his downfall, which was involved in that of the Tweed ring. After such a past it is no marvel that the future looked black, and that the lawyer should fall a prey to gloomy spirits. . That Nontheru Commission. Washington D.spatch. After the cabinet adjourned, Hayes sent for Vice President Wheeler, and told him that a southern commission would probably be decided upon, to go at once and report upon the situation, and that he wanted him to head it. Mr. Wheeler said his health was such that he could not give the matter that attention which its importance demanded. Hayes insisted that he should head the commission, and gave Wheeler until to-morrow to make up his mind. If the commission's plan is agreed upon, which is now almost certain, the slate has been made up A4 fallows: Vice President Wheeler. Seiiau-rs David Davis and E. Rockwood Hoai; ex-Gov-ernor Brown, of Texas, and Kenneth Kaynor, of North Carolina. Tbey are to start on Monday next. The main objective point will be New Orleans, but South Carolina is also to be visited. There will be no difficulty in settling the troubles in the latter state as Chamberlain has already been bought up. Drowned la Ale. ' Pittsburgh Post. Patrick olan, an employe at the brewery of Messrs Spencer, McKay & Co., located on the corner of Twenty-fourth and'Sniallman streets, met a singular death last evening. While at work at one of the ale va's he was overpowered by the gasses arising therefrom, and toppling over into .the vat, was drowned before hi was discovered. The deCeased was a man of about 50 year, lived on Twenty-idxth street, and leaves a wife' and beveral grown up children. ! Iltrvard college liurary h4 00,000 roluniea. . . . ,

THE STATE.

The Black Hills fever has struck South Bend. There is not a licensed saloon in Orange county. The clerk of Scott county is contemplatingmatrimony. Evansville and Richmond are enforcing the new "vag" law. , 5 The young folks of South Bend are enjoying good sleighing. A new and fatal disease is carrying off the sheep in Allen county. The revival at Michigan City set 600 people to thinking seriously. Fountain county orders are selling at from 90 to 95 cen ts on the dollar. Two saloon keepers of Jeffersonville have "set 'em up" for the last time. It requires over forty hours' pumping to fill the Lafayette reservoir with water. Bethuel Reed, a soldier of the wer of 1812. died in Mishawaka last week, aged 85 years. Jefferson Lafever was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment, last week, at Sj-encer Owen county, for the murder of his cousin! James Weaver. Application has been made for a new trial. New Albany Ledger Standard : There are fifty-seven paupers in the Clark county poor asylum, and tne avenge expense for maintaining each one during the past three months has been eightv-six rents per week and the total expense $572.41. Martinsville Gazette: A grand wolf chase is announced for next Wednesday. The wolf is to be turned loose in the woods near town and the dogs put upon its trail. The chase is to be free for all, and evervbody and their dogs are invited to participate. It is proposed to have a fox hunt after the wolf has been captured. New Albany correspondent Louisville News: Because ex-Sheriff Charley Frederick is 69 years old. and has just become the father of one of the finest boy babies in the county, there is no real cause for wonder. The boy is growing finely, and his name will probably be Hendricks Tilden Frederick, because his father says he will grow up to be able to overcome all returning boards, and make his mark as a thoroughbred democrat. New Albany correspondent Louisville News: No steps have yet been taken to or? ganize the proposed New Albany and Charleston narrow-gauge railroad company. We understand, however, the necessary legislation is complete, and if Charlestown and the townships in Clark county through which the road would pass, want the road, all they have to do is to show their faith by their works, and New Albany will do her full share in completing the work. The project is one that would prove of great advantage to Charlestown. A New Albany exchange says: Jeffersonville and Clark county having given the cold shoulder to the 'proposed Ohio Falls and Northwestern' narrow gauge railroad project, it is row desired to know what New Albany and Floyd county will do for it, provided New Albany is made the southern terminus. The road would run through Galena, Greenville, Fredericksburg, Hardingsburg, Paoli and other towns that now possess no railroad facilities. The enterprise is one well worthy the consideration of the people of Floyd, Orange, Washington, Lawrence and other counties along the proposed line. Lcgansport News: It is understood that the parties claiming to be the owners of the Wabash and Erie canal, under a purchase from some of the bondholders, agreed to pay $103,000 for the canal and its perquisiUi from Lafayette east to the Ohio state line. Of this sum only $5,000 was paid. For the reaiaining $93.000 non-commercial paper was given, against which a plea of "want of consideration" will hold good in the event of their failure to hold the canal property. The amount expended $5,000 has already been nore than realized from the sale of stone taken from the locks, water rents, etc., so that these would-be purchasers are not likely to lose anything in case the canal is declared to be abandoned, and they deprived of ita rights and privileges. Among the privileges which they claim is that of erecting buildings on the line of the canal bed, at its intersection with our principal streets, and already we hear talk of a magnificent hardware store in the center of Broadway. The sites on Market, North and High are to be for sale. Who bids? IIIS TOR Y OF A PICTURE. Two of the most ' celebrated artists the world has ever known dwelt in the same city. One delighted in delineating beauty in all its graces of tint, form and motion. His portraits were instinct with the charm of physical vigor. The graceful, half-voluptuous outline of form and feature harmonized with delicately blended tints. On his canvas the homeliest faces had an almost irresistible charm. The other found pleasure only in depicting weird and gloomy subjects. Above all did he excel in painting theportraits of the dying. The agonizing death throe, the ghastly face and form were all depicted, with marvelous fidelity. There existed between these artists the most intense dislike. At length this dislike culminated. The beauty loving artNt had been engaged in painting the )Hr trait of a beautiful woman. Conno'sseurs pronounced it the most wonderful piece of art that had ever been produced. His brother artist was jealous of his fame and -songht revenge. By bribing the keeper of the studio he gained access to the picture each night. At liit he was content to only deaden the brilliancy of the complexion and eyes, efface the bloom from cheek and lip and paint a shadow on either cheek. Later, his strokes grew bolder and freer, and one morning the artist awoke to rind the entire outline of the portrait changed. He could scarcely recognize in the emaciated and hngard countenance the glowing conception he had embodied. The pallid lace and expression es eyes he had a tributed to a lack of gfiiunies-s in his materials; but when the outlines were changed he suspected the cau.se and indignantly dismissed the keeper.; What the revengeful artist ' marred by a few rapid stroke of his bki'lful brush was only restored by years ofpalient industry. Reader, need we nam the artists Health, who paints the flowers and "grans carpet," no less than the human form divine; Disease, the dreaded artiot, who revels among the ruins of both nature and humanity, and Carelessness, the keeper,, to whom Health often intrusts his portraits. And is it not the beauty of woman, the most admired of all the works which adorn the studio of lletl'h, that Disease oftenest feeks to mar? Th slightest stroke of his brush ujon the delicate organization leavei an imprint that requires much fckill and putiriice to elface. Rentoration must be prompt. Careh'fsnes muct be dismissed. Let suff. ring woman heed the warning er Disease, has ni.tr red their chief beauty r Health beyond rearatiou. Drf Piere ' , Favorit Prescription tins been used by thousand of the sutfereH, and tbey are iiiiMiiiiuoos in iheir praise if it.i excellence. If . you would be trn-f nned from, the imlfid, nt-rvom i ti valid iuto a happy, vigorous woman, try it.