Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1877 — Page 6

V THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, rNESDAY-MOKNGr Jl 20. 1877.

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REST. BT LEE O. HARRIS. Kow willows dream beside the stream. Where whip-poor-will repeats his story ; The shadows fly along the ky. And westward sweeps the sunset glory. Oh! Weary day. Burned ourt at Inst and dying! Oh !Mri (hit glide away, Among the shadows Hying. Now comes the night with footsteps fght, Hid in her wealth of suhle tresses; The flower. 4 weep themselves asleep. With grateful tears at her CMrresses, Oh! wary breast. That flu I a hnlm In weeping! " Oh! bllvful hour of rest. When sorrow, to, is sleeping. Now sweet and low the breeze blow. Among the shadow-cm taitied bowers. And gain by stealth their fragrant wealth In kisses from the sleeping flower. Oh ! weary mind. That flower-like reposes; Oh ! heart, that like the wind, Steals fragrance from its roses. Now solitude sits In the wood. Enthroned among her dusky shadows ; The fireflies glow, as to and fro, They drift like sparks across the meadows. Oh ! weary heart, What firefly hopes have found thee; Oh t soul, that sits apart With fancy's shadows round thee. LewLsville, Ind., June 12, 1877. FOR HIS SAKE. When the Flying Scud discharged her cargo and passengers at the London dock, there landed among them a gentleman who had been absent from England nine years. All that while he had passed under the burning sun of India. He had suffered as soldiers do. He had fought as soldiers fight. He had met the soldier's fate of scars and wounds, and one of them had invalided him home to England. It was the first time be trod her shores for nine years, as we have said, and for the first time in any year he was going to see his son, the little boy born after he left home, and whose birth had been his mother's death. Captain Penryn had only been married a year when he was ordered abroad with his regiment. Six months from that day a letter had reached him, telling him his wife was dead. The letter was written by an old nurse, the only friend who had been with her. It ended thus: The baby, as fine a child as I ever saw, is thriving. I ve done my best for it. Its mother's last wish was I should keep it, and perhaps, s r. as some one must, you'd as leave I as any other. I shan't be unreasonable in my charges, and I'm very fond of him already. Wiih my duty to you in this dreadful trouble, your servant, Aitx Golden. The poor, broken-hearted man almost sank under the awful news. He had loved his wife passionately: and when the baby was old enough to travel she would have come to him in India, braving its terrible climate and the life of a soldier's wife abroad, because they could not live apart. Now he did not want a little baby on his hands, and he wrote to Ann as soon as he could command himself to do so, appointing her his nune. ' Every quarter since that time he had sent money to her for the child's board and clothes. A receipt was always returned with "her duty, and the young gentleman was doing well;"' and this was all he knew of his Ellen's boy, the child of a love that had been as strong as it was tender. . Now that his foot was upon England's shores again, and the meeting was very near, Captain Penryn felt new thrills of father love through his soldier s heart, and longed for his boy's presence. "He would take him to himself," he said. "They would live together, sharing each other's joy" and sorrows. He would make a man of the boy, not a soldier, for he knew the trial of a soldier's life too well; but something very honorable and creditable He should be prou'I of him, and he hoped ah, how he hoped that Ellen s child would bave Ellen's face." 4-My beautiful girl," he said to himself with the tears standing in his eyes, "how little I thought of this hour when I kissed her good bye! And then his heart grew even warmer to tb pledge of their mutual love. He had the address that Mrs. Golden had g yen him in his pocket. He glanced at it now to renresh his memory as to the number. A plain, respectable street in one of Lon don'a suburbs; he remembered it well. "But my boy shall see better things, now that I am here," he said to himself. "I am n;it rich, but I can deny myself many things to make him happy. Will he love me, i wonderr Then he thought how his own heart had been won by toys and sweetmeats, and com ine to a shop where the former were sold. paused before the gay window, and began to make a mental choice between a red and ilt stage coach and horses and a train of right blue carnages. He had discarded both for a box of scarlet-coated soldiers. when suddenly he felt a tug at his coat tail, and turning round he found a grimy little hand half in, hall out, of bis pocket. He caught it at once, with his handkerchief in it. and gripped it tight. He was a soldier, and to a soldier the keeping of law and rule is a great thing. To give the little thief to a policeman and appear arainst bim next day was bis first thought; but as the creature stood there ahaking and whining, the tact 01 his diminutive size struck the captain forcibly. He perceived his youth, which was extreme; and he saw that, besides being young and small, and wan. and dirty, and ragged, he was deformed Hii queer little shoulders were heaped up to his ears, and his hands were like talons. so long and bony were they. The captain held the wrist of this manikin firmly still, but not angnly. "What did you mean by that, sir?" he growled slowly, stooping down to look into the hoy a eyes. 'I'm to hook it," said the boy with perfect candor. ' Oh, please let me be! Oh, please let me go! Oh, please, sir, I won't do it no more never, oh, please: "I've a mind to have you sent to goal," said the captain. 4,Xo, please, sir!" said the waif. "Please, sir " "Who taught you to steal?" asked the captain. the boy made no answer. Grimy tears were pouring from bis eyes. Answer me." said the captain. If I don't steal. I don't get no victuals," aid the boy, "and my stomach is as hollerfeel it, muter its as boiler as a drum She's been a begrfn' to-day. and we'll hve atew. I won't have none, if I don't fetch nothin. Oh -' "Who is she?" asked the captain. MMv mother." said the bov. "I're been hungry myself," said the cap- . t iu: - m . : t j : . : tain, inuiJLing oi a ceriaiu juuiau juiwjii k. perience. "It isn't pleasant." Then he thought of his own boy. "God knows I ought to be tender to the little ones, for the sake of Nellie's child." he

said softly; then aloud, "Laddie, I'll not send tou to prison."

"Thankee, sir," said the urchin. "And I'll give yon a breakfast," said the captain. ..... The dirty elf executed a sort of joyous war dance. - "Do you know why I forgive you?" said the captain. ' ' 1 The child shook bis head. "I have a little bov." said the captain. "He's very different) from you, poor child! II would not steal , anything. He washes himself. My lad, you must wash yourself as soon as you can find water. But I couldn't think of his being hungry; ana tor nis sake I can't bear to see other little fellows hun gry. It s for his sake that 1 aon I can a constable and tell him all about it. Remember that, and try to be like like my little fellow, poor laddie, clean and good. Don't steal; try to get work. Will you promise?" The waif said "yes, sir." of course. Then the captain led him into a cheap eat ing house, and watched him eat nntil his lit tle stomach was no longer "holier." "You little wretch!" he thought, as he looked at him. "If I could see my boy and him together now, what a contrast!" And he fancied his boy round and white pink, and fair of hair, like his poor lost Ellen, and I know he said that he would pity this poor fellow and be kind to him. The meal was over, ine captain paia ior it, and then drew the boy between his knees and lectured him. To be good was to be happy. Honesty was the best policy. Cleanliness came next to godliness. These were the heads of his discourse. Then he gave him half a crown, and bade him go and be good and clean. And the boy was on like a nash. "Thousands just such as he in this great city;" sighed the good captain, and he walked along. "Ah me!" Then he went in search of Mrs. Ann Gol den and his own fair darling. But Mrs. Golden was not as easily found as be had hoped. There was a little shop in the house he had been directed to, and the keeper thereof said that she had bought it of Ann Golden; "but I haven't seen her since," she said; "only there's a bit of card with her number on ti that is, 1 can una it" After a search she did find it; and the cap tain, thanking her, hurried away. But an other disappointment awaited him. Mrs. Golden had not lived in this second place for years. She had moved into Clumber row, but what number no one could remember. At Clumber row. whither the captain drove in a cab, a woman owned to having had her for a lodger. "She had a child staying with her, too," she sid. "Little Ned she called him; but, to tell the truth, she drank so that I turned her out. I couldn t abide such doings. She went to Fossil lane, No. 9." To Fossu lane the captain went.- It was a filthy place, and there was a drunken woman at No. 9, who was not Ann Golden, and who threw a piece of wood at him for asking tor that lady. And now every clue was lost, and the captain, nearly beside himself for anxiety, applied to the authorities for help; and alter many days of great un happiness he heard of an Ann Golden who lived in a quarter of London so low and dangerous that all decent people shunned it. "No wonder," the captain thought, "if she lived there, that she should have had his remittances sent to the post office, and left him to believe that bis child was still in the de cent home to which she had at first taken him." Almost ill with excitement, the poor cap tain drove, with a policeman as a protector, into the maze of hideous lanes and courts that led to Ann Golden's dwelling, and following his conductor, dropped into a filthy cellar, where, among the horrible leakage of drain pipes and almost in utter darkness, sat an old woman with a bottle beside her, who started up when the captain and his guard entered, and cried: "What now? wi,at a the perlice here for? Is it one of the boys again?" And, altered as she was with years and drink, the captain knew his wife's old nurse, Ann Golden. He gave a cry of rage and d3rted toward her. "My boy!" he cried. And she screamed, "It's the captain!" "Is my boy living?" he asked. "Yes," said the woman, shaking all over; "he's alive and veil." "How dare you keep him here?" cried the captain. "How can I help being poor?" whined the old woman. "I couldn't give up the bit you pay for him. Im very old; Im very ill. Don't be hard on me." 1 Good heaveas!" cried the captain, "my Ellen's baby in a place like this!" He dropped his head on his hands; then he lifted it and clasped them. "I'll have him away from here now!" he gasped. "It's over and he's young and will forget iL Where is he? Have you lied? Is he dead?" "No, no," said the old woman, "He'll be here soon. I bear him now; that's him. He'll be here in a minute. Don't kill a poor clJ body captain; don t. "I culd do it," cried the captain. "Lis ten! There is some one coming. My child! my child!" The door opened softly, a -head peeded in low down, then drew back. "Come in," piped the old woman. "The perlice ain't after you leastways for harm. Captain, that's him your boy, Ned." And as the captain stood with outstretched arms there crept in at the door who? what? The wan, deformed and dirty creature who bad mcked his pocket whom be bad fed for the sake of his beautiful dream-chiid the wretched waif, forgotten utterly in the last few days of anxiety. "That's him," croaked the old crone again. "That's your boy that's Ned." The captain gave a cry; he sank down on an old box close at hand, and hid his face and wept His sobs shook him terribly; they almost shook the crazy building. They frightened the old woman, and set the policeman to rubbing bis eyes with his cutis. The boy stood and stared for a moment, and then vanished. And what was the wretched father think ing? So many thoughts that there are no words for them; but, first of all. this horrible one that that vile little object that wretched child of the streets, was the dar ling for whom he had searched so long. 'Better I had never found him," moaned the captain, "or found him dead! And just then a little baud crept over his knee. The thrill of bair was against his hand and a piping voice said meekly, "Please, I'm clean now. I've washed myself." The captain's swollen eyes unclosed. They turned upon the child. Some aueer knowledge of his father's feel ings had crept into bis mind, and he had tried to clean his face. A round white spot appeared amidst the grime, and out of it shown two beautiful eyes, that looked wist fully up into the captain a. - All of a sudden, a flood of such pitiful tenderness aa he had never felt before awept over Captain Penryn'a heart All the rne and shame and wounded pride left It, to come back no more. "Ellen'e eyes." he sobbed; "Ellen's boy!" and be took hia aon to his heart. "For bla oake," he said softly, as though he stood by the grave of the beautiful dream-child he had just buried "for bis sake and Alien's!" And then he led the chua witn mm.

OX A NAUGHTY LITTLE BOT,8LEEP.

BT BRR HAKTE. From Harper's Magazine. Jost now I mimed from hall and stair A Joyful treble that had grown As dear to me as that grave tone That tells the world my older care. And little footsteps on the floor Were stayed. I lakl aside my pen, Forgot my theme and listened then Stole softly to the library door. No sight I no sound! a moment's freak or rancv thrilled my pulses in rough: "If no" and yet that fancy drew A father's blood from heart and cheek. And then I found him. There he lay, Surprised by sleep, caught in ths act. The rosy Vandal who had sacked His little town, and thought it play. The shattered vase, the broken Jar, A match still smouldering on the floor; The inkstand's purple pool of gore: The chessmen scattered near and far. Strewn leaves of albums lightly pressed This wicked mby or the woods; In fact, of half the household goods This son and heir was seized possessed. Yet all in vain, for sleep had caught rne nana mat reacneu, tne ieet mat strayea; And fallen in that ambuscade The victor was himself o'erwrought. What though torn leaves and tattered book Still testified his deep disgrace ! I stooped and kissed the inky face. With Its demure and calm outlook. Then back I stole, and half beguiled iy guilt, in trust tnat wnen my sleep Sboald come, there might be One who'd keen An equal mercy for His child. FCW. The widow sits by the vacant chair, A combing her strands of yellow ha r, Wime her soul witn a tnougnt is vexed Not of the man who sat there last. Not of the Joys of the buried past. iiut or who would sit mere next. "Women," remarked the contemplative man, "are as deep as the blue waters of yon bay." Aye, sir " rejoined the disappointed man, "and as full ot craft" Attending the funeral of his fourth wife, a cockney tainted at the grave. "What shall we do with him?" eagerly asked a bystander. "Leave him alone," answered a sympathetic mourner: "he'll soon rewive." Two interesting children were amusing themselves in childish fashion by "playing railways." "What do you call your locomotive?" says Tom. "Carelessness, replies Harry. "What's the name of yours?" "Collision." The currant crop promises to be large this season, but it isn't likely that the amount of domestic wine squeezed from them will be so great that a woman will not be able to tote it off to some new place' as soon as a fellow finds out where it's hid. A negro having been brought up before a magistrate, and convicted of pilfering, the magistrate began to remonstrate, "Do you know how to read? "les, roassa little. "Well, don't ou ever make use of the Bible?" "Yes, massa, strap him razor on him sometimes." "An old club fogy" reminds the London Truth when Puckler Muskau was in England some 40 years since, being one night at Almack b, he personally complimented Lady Jersey, who was pardonably vain of the clearness of her complexion, on "her beaUtif,,! U.)ka " Tk. f .i . fi.K otarat don," resumed Puckler Muskau, "I did mean your ladyship's peautiful hide." "Skin, your highness, skin," whispered a friend to the prince. "I did not zay shin," retorted the prince in a most dignified manner; "shentlemans do not look at ladies' shins," It is paid that "children and fools speak the truth." An unfortunate widower in Southington has found that this is true. Freparing not long since for a ride with his lady, and desiring to blind the eyes of his housekeeper respecting his errand, he very politely i a formed his little son he could go too. "No, I guess not," answered the small man in roundabouts. "Why, yes, wash your face and come along." persisted the father. "Shan't do it," replied the urchin. "Why didn't you go?" questioned the lady in charge, after the father had left, "he wished it I think." "Didn't either," retorted the boy, "he said in the bedroom he'd give me ten cents if I'd stay at home." Ah, well; "The best laid schemes of mice and men, gsng aft agla." EDUCATIONAL. The total amount of the public school fund ready for apportionment in Indiana is $1,070.820.10. Columbia college has a library of 18.185 volumes. The students do not appear to use it very much; more than half do not use it at all. The Rev. Dr. Curry, the editor of the National Repository (Methodist Episcopal) will deliver the annual address before the Indiana Asbury university at the approaching commencement Mr. G. B. Northrop, secretary ot the Connecticut state board of education, has been requested by that body to inspect the schools of forestry and the industrial schools of Europe, and give the results of his investigation in his next report. He will sail for Europe on the 16th of June. Mr. Yatabe, of Cornell, class 76, recently delivered an address in Japan on "Buddhism," in which he ranked Christianity as an inferior religion, and urged upon his hearers a higher and more spiritual religion than any now known. The American missionaries present replied to his arguments against Christianity. Rhode Islanders are endeavoring to estab lish a state educational home for the support and education of a large and constantly in creasing class of children left without natu ral protectors through the poverty, Intemperance, crime or death of their parents. A bill providing for such a home and placing it nearly on the footing of a free public school was adopted during the recent session of the senate, but was defeated in the bouse. The Cherokee, who number about 18.000, have 74 neighborhood schools, one high school for boys and one for girls, costing about $75,000 each, with accommodations for 250 pupils, and an orphan asylum, where 150 of the 200 orphans are clothed, fed and educated. There ia also a manual labor school, and it haa a fine farm attached. The Cherokees expend nearly $74,000 per annum for education. Most of their teachers are natives, graduates of their high schools or of schools in the states. There are many suggestive paragraphs in the last number of the National Teachers' Monthly. One of these demands normal schools for college professors and principals ot hig'i schools, and anw: "it does not fol low, by any means, tnat because a man knows the Greek verb, he knows bow to tea.Ab the Greek verb; nor is it always true that a learned geologist can instruct others in that science. Do our best scholars make

our best text-books? Are our most learned

treatises the best for school room work? Be ing a profound thinker, and teaching others how to think profoundly, are two entirely different things." Another paragraph aptly says: "We know by long experience, that It is because the school girl, who ha? received no instruction, except from another girl aa uneducated aa she, is willing to teach for a pittance, many eicellent normal graduates are compelled to abandon the profession for wH. h they have prepared themselves, or su : .it to poverty prices. Educated teachers are driven away from the school room, oecause the people do not discriminate between a good and a poor school, and are willing to take almost any one who holds a commissioner's certificate, and is willing to teach for the small amount the district votes to psy There is not one among our honest professional teachers who does not feel de graded because so many are admitted by the law to De tneir peers who know nothing of the science and art of education, and never intend to teach but for a few months. There is not a school officer in the union, especially in the country, who will not express his great desire to incre&ie the price, and there by the quality and permanency, of school room "work." SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Professor Kohlrausch has tested the con ductivity of alcohol, and be finds that it, in several instances, conducted better than pure water, lhis Is contrary to the general belief that water conducts much better than alco hol. In the books both alcohol and ether have been set down as non-conductors, or as emi-conductori. Professor Kawall, the Russian naturalist, has found enclosed in a specimen of quartz taken from Ufales, Siberia, fragments and complete remains of a pale green caterpillar which be thinks is the larva of the lineid. moth. In another crystal he discovered filamentous inclosures which he takes to be confervas. Father Secchi, writing to a friend in Belgium, alludes in striking terms to the remarkable connection between the magnetism of the earth and the changes of the weather. He says that the variations shown by the magnetic instruments are themselves sufficient to indicate the state of the sky. Even where there is no great movement of the barometer, following such magnetic disturbances, there are, especially in summer, changes of the wind and sometimes storms. Preserved peas are, far more commonly than people think, covered with salts of coper, to counterfeit the fresh, natural tint f they are put up without being artificially colored they have a yellowish hue, and this suggests an easy test of their purity by simple inspection. Pasteur has found that out of 14 cases of peas which he analyzed 10 had been treated with copper to such an amount in some instances that this poisonous adulterant was equal to one ten-thousandth of the entire mass minus the water. The next annual meeting of the American Philological association will be held at Baltimore, in the hall of the Jonas Hopkins university, beginning July 10 at 4 p. m. The committee of arrangements and reception includes the mayor of Baltimore, the superintendent cf public schools of that city and the president of its school board, the superintendent of public schools of Maryland, the president of the Johns Hopkins university and several other Baltimoreans of eminence. New evidences are now quite numerous of the connection between disturbances in the solar atmosphere and in the earth's magnetism. For the last year or two there bave been few remarkable displays of the aurora; and that period has been also one of singularly few sun spots. On the morning after the great auroral display at the beginning of this week Professor C. Ä. Toung made an examination of the sun's surface, and found the protuberances "in the chromosphere more active than they had been previously for four years. It is difficult to procure an India ink which will serve for half-shades, and the following recipe from the Papier Zeitung may be of service to artists and others: Take eight parts lampblack, 64 parts water, and four parts of finely pulverized indigo, and having rubbed the whole thoroughly, boil the mixture until most of the water is evaporated; add five parts gum aräbic, two Earts glue, and one part extract of chicory, astly. boil the composition again until it is thickened to a paste, which can be shaped in molds to any desired form. Frcyn time to time stories have been brought from certain tropical islands in the Pacific that there were races of men somewhere in the unknown interior who possessed veritable tails. But no trustworthy traveler has yet certified to the statement. Latterly the locality of these men with tails has been shifted in vague rumors to New Guinea. The announcements have been rarely more than a brief sentence in some of the foreign journals, and no authority has hitherto been given. But at last they take more definite form. The Rev. W. G. Lawes, of the London missionary society, acknowledges having received "circumstantial reports" of men "with not very flexible tails," said to live in the interior of New Guinea. The men of science must look to this. It will never do to let the missionaries discover the "missing liak," and compel Messrs. Darwin and Huxley to ask odds of the patrons of Exeter ball. Phoebe Conient and Ine Preacher. The Rev. Mr. Boyd, a young minister who has recently left Boston to assume tho pastorate of the Second Baptist church in St. Louis, conducted a prayer meeting last Wednesday evening and found himself face to face with a large number of young ladies. After the opening prayer had been offered, he expressed the hope that the brethren would take part in the meeting, and, after an awkward pause and some hesitation, add ed: "If any sister feels it ner auty to say anything at this meeting she should say it' Up rose Miss Phoebe Couzens, determined in mien and "readv with the oral." "Before vou sit down. Mr. Boyd, I would like to make a few remarks." The "few remarks" developed into a formidable appeal for woman's rights. She started in at the sixth century. "A council of bishops spent a whole dav deciding whether or not women had souls, and the Presbyterian synod of this city a year or two ago spent more time than that discussing the question whether women should be permitted to speak at praer meetings: but I don't know to what conclusion tbey came. But now you have decided that womn might speak at prayer meeting if they think ittheirduty. and that is encouraging." Then she spoke of woman's place in the Gospel system and history. "Woman," she exclaimed, ."never denied the blessed Master as man did, and woman never betrayed him for sordid gain as man did. All through the ages woman has been the support of the church of Christ, but vet that church which she had so served baa closed her lips." " The new minister was taken aback bv this impassioned appeal The ladie who had at tended his prayer meetings in Boston had always respected the r Lgious proprieties, and he was unprepared for this outburst. But he bad to say somethin, and the brightest thing that occurred to him was the sage observation that Adam was created before ire. t

THE GATLING GUN.

Where They Are Made Their History, Effectiveness, Etc An Indiana Invention. The Commercial Pathfinder, of May 10, 1877, contains a very interesting article relating to the great "gun factories" of Hartford, Connecticut, among which Colt's patent fire arms company is justly conspicuous. "The "buildings of the factories proper at Hartford, Connecticut" says the Pathfinder, "cover an 'area of 500 feet square, or 250,000 square feet 'of ground, employ about 500 men, and in them are produced revolving pistols and rifiles, breech-loading i muskets. Catling guns, Baxter steam engines, Gally's Uniyersal printing presses, sewing machines, can'celler punches, etc., etc. All these are sne'cialtiesof this concern, but the great special ty, covering all of these, is that this es'tablishment produces nothing but first-class 'work. "The annual sales vary greatly. In some 'years they have exceeded $1,500,000. Dur'ing the American civil war this company furnished the United States government with 100,000 army and navy pistols and '100,000 Springfield muskets. Since then they have supplied Russia with 30,000 'breech loading muskets and France with 6,000. They also furnished Russia with be'tween 200 and 300 Gatling guns, and Egypt 'with about as many, besides large supplies 'of various arms to nearly every important 'nation in the world." THK GATLIXO BATTERY GCIt is made-only by the Colt's patent fire arms manufacturing company. It was invented by 11. J. Gatling, of Indiana, in 1861, and the first Gatling gun was made in Indianapolis in 1862. It was formally brought to the notice of the French government in 1863, and was the first practical military machine gun. Trials of this gun have been made by United States military authorities, by Mexico, near ly every nation of Europe, by Egypt, China, Japan and several South American states. It was first introduced to European governments in 1867, and has been formally adopt ed as an auxiliary service arm in many of the above countries. The new model gun and cartridges, as now improved, work perfectly, and should and doubtless will receive the early critical examination and highest consideration of European and other nations. The Gatling gun consists of a number of very simple breech loading rifled barrels, grouped around and revolving about a shaft to which they are parallel. These barrels are loaded and fired while revolving, the empty cartridge shells being ejected in continuous succession. Each barrel is fired only once in a revolution; but as many shots are delivered during that time as there are barrels, so that the 10 barrel Gatling gun fires 10 times in one revolution of the group of barrels. The working of the gun is simple, viz. : One man places one end of a feed case full of cartridges into a hopper at the top of the gun, while another turns a crank which revolves the gun. As fast as exhausted feed cases are substituted, without interrupting the revolutions or the succession of discharges. The usual number of barrels composing the gun is 10. The weight of the Gallin 10 barrel gnns varies from 135 to65 pounds, and of the carriages from 300 to 793 pounds. . AMOSO THE GATLINO'S POINTS of superiority over the Montignv (French) gun are the "following: Greater destructive effect, owing to rapidity; greater command of range, being adapted to large and small calibers; capacity of being worked by fewer men; greater facility of repair, disordered locks being easily replaced in a few minutes; greater demoralizing effect produced by its continuity of tire; better means of carrying ammunition uninjured. English military reports have declared in substance that besides being employed on ships of war, a Gatling gun would be exceedingly useful for defense of coast batteries against attacks of boats, or to keep down the fire of ships upon forts, or when attempting to force a passage by incessant fire into their port holes, and would utterly stop all attempts at landing. The smaller Gatling guns would be an effectual defense of intrenched positions and villages, or for covering roads, defiles, bridges, and other narrow place where an enemy might attempt to pass. A body of troops advancing to attack an intrenched position over any distance within 1,200 yards would suffer far more from Gatling guns, delivering an incessant and widespread fire of the deadliest mi trail le, than from field guns. English experiments in 1S71 demonstrated that, in proportion to the weigut of ammunition to be carried, the destructive effect of the small Gatling gun against troops in an open field, at ranges within 1,400 yards, is nearly three times that of a pine-pounder rifled M. L. field gun, and also that if decreased in weight (as it has been, without lessening its efficiency the gun, carriage and ammunition could be drawn by a single English cart horse. Either kind of Gatling gun has been recommended as invaluable at a siege for purposes of defense on both sides; for the besiegers in repelling sorties, protecting advanced works or keeping down the fire of the fort, and to the garrison for sweeping the ditches, defending a breach or for close fighting of any kind. 15 1874 a board or united states army engineers conceded the following claims for the Gatling gun: Ita peculiar power for the defense of intrenched positions and villages, roads, defiles, bridges; for covering the embarkation or debarkation of troops, or crossing streams; for silencing batteries; for increasing the infantry fire at the critical moment cf a battle; for supporting field batteries and protecting them against cavalnr or infantry charges; for covering the retreat of a repulsed column; for the accuracy, continuity and intensity of its fire, and for its economy of men for serving and animals for transporting it TRIALS. After a most careful and exhaustiveinvestigatloa and trial the Gatling gun was adopted in March, 1874, as an auxiliary arm for all branches of the United States service, as it had previously been adopted, in 1866, as a field arm. It haa also been adopted as an auxiliary arm by Great Britain. In 1867 it was adopted by Russia, and in 1871 by Turkey and Egypt In 1872 the United 8tates navy adopted it for shore service, and in 1873 for use in ships' tops and on launches; and in the same year the United States war department adopted a model adapted for use with the cavalry (short camel gun). On account ot the lightness and convenience of having the fame amunition for the Galling gun and" the musket, most of the Gatling gnns hitherto told have been of the musket "caliber. The United 8tates, Great Britain and other nations, however, have adopted guns of the largar caliber, which

are to some extent destined to tke the place of field artillery. EXPERIMENTS. Experiments bave proved the deadly effect of the fire of the smaller Gatlh'g at ranges up to 1,400 yards, while the larger and medium guns gave good results up to 2,070 yards. A range of 1,400 yards approxJmates the efficient range of the best field artillery of the present dav, and a Gatling battery well managed could prevent a field battery from firing a shot if both arms attempted to get into battery at the same time at 1.200 to 1,400 yards from each other. Targets have shown that the fire of the smaller Gatling is capable of striking a battery front at every 8hot, and tix gnns would Eur a continuous stream of 3,000 musket lis per minuet into a hostile battery. Any artilleriest will admit that no field battery could come into action under such a fire. From the foregoing summary of the tried merits of the Gatling gun it will be seen

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Kerr .Christian name unknown) the sum of eleven dollars and twenty cent (ll.&), amount of assessment charged against lot No. eighty-four (M) in Alvord & Company's subdivision lo the city of Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, Now, the said defendant la hereby notified, that unless within (2U) daya after the publication for three weeks of this notice, the amount so assessed against the above described lot or parcel of land is paid, I will proceed to collect the amount so assessed by levy and sale of said lot or parcel of land or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the above claim, and ail costs that may accrue. HENRY W. TUTEW1LER, City Treasurer. Indianapolls, Ind., Jnue 6, 1877. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT. Whereas, a certain precept has been duly Issued to me by the mayor of the city of Indianapolis, under the corporate seal of said city, dated June 1, 1877, showing that there la due the following named contractor tne amount hereinafter specified for street Improvement in the city of Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana. Due Samuel J. SmocV .for grading and gravellug the alley east of Belle fontaine street between Home avenue and the first alley north of Christian avenue, from II. C. Ilopkins (Christian name unknown), the sum of eleven dollars and twenty cents (JUJt), amount of assessment charged against lot No. fifty-three (53) in Alvord i Company's subdivision of Butler and Fletcher's addition tn the city of Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, New, the said defendant is hereby notified, that unless within (20) days after the publication for three weeks of this notice, the amount so assessed aeainst the above described lot or parcel of land is paid. 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