Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1878 — Page 1

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AH VOL. XXYII. NO GO. ESTDIANaVPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MOHNING, OCTOBER 9, 1878. WHOLE NO. 251.

YWYE GOT 'EM!

A Complete Triumph for the Democracy In the Grand Old lloosier State. The Entire Democratic State Ticket Elected fcy Fully Fifteen Thousand Majority. A Gain of Four Congressional RepresentativesThe Defeat of Orth Extremely Probable. A Clear Democratic Legislates Majority Senator Voorhaes Will be Returned Beyond Doubt. A Majority of Ten on Joint Ballot Certain and Probably More Gratifying Beporta Prom all Parts of the State. INDIANA. Sentinel Oftice, 3 a. mM Oct. 10. The democratic state ticket has been undoubtedly elected by 15,000 majority. The democrats will Lave a big working majority in the hall of representatives, and a majority of two (2) in the senate, which insures the return of the Hon. Daniel W. Voor hees to the United States senate. The most gratifying features of the election are the enormous democratic gains in previous republican strongholds. The democrats gain two representatives in Vigo county, one representative in Lake, one representative in Parke and Montgomery, one representative in Monroe, one representative in Lawrence, one representative in Boone, one representative in Ripley, Decatur and Rush, one representative in Hamilton and Tipton, one representative in Switzerland and Ohio, one representative in -Morgan and one representative in White and Jasper; total gain, 12. The democrats also gain one senator in Lake and Porter; one senator in Newton, Jasper, Benton and White; one senator in Parke and Vermilion, and one senator In Grant, Blackford and Jay; total gain, 4. The democrats probably lose four representatives in Cas3, Floyd and Clark counties. We have certainly, gained four congressmen, as follows: Judge New, of the Fourth district, who represented it in 1874, Captain Myers, in the Sixth district, who has defeated General Grose, Dr. De La Matyr, of the Seventh district, who will have at least 400 majority. IIpstettler, the honest farmer of the Eighth district, who has defeated Morton C. Hunter, the advocate of the national banks. Orth, of the Ninth disdrict, is no doubt defeated, which will make a gain of five congressmen. Orth claims 24 majority in his district, outside of Boone county which has not at 3 a. m. reported on congressman. The democrats have certainly gained the representative in Boone county, which indicates Orth's certain defeat. lleilman, in the First district, has defeated Garvin (democrat) by a small majority, the first time a republican congressman has ever succeeded In carrying that district. Money did not do it Judge Ilolman, the red "watch dog of the treasury," is defeated by General Tom Browne by about 1,000 msjority in the Fifth district Representative Elected. J). I'ocy... ...... A liibnon ... 1 It. D'l. Vanderburg ........ Warrick ..... like. Hpcncfcr.. 11 1 AD . ....... K DOX v lews Martin and Dubois....... Crawford and Orange..., Harrison- .......

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lAwrence ............... Monroe ...................

lirovn and Bartholomew Jennings............ Scott, Jennings and Jeffersonltipley, Decatur and Rush JelTerson ..... - liljlOy ......... Switzerland and Ohio......... .- 1 Decatur, Rush VicoOwen... t 'lay. .. Morgan-....-JohnKon ....... PutnamHendricks... - - Parke M .............. . Vlrralllion . Parke and Montgomery - "wai r'D Fountain. Tippecanoe.. .................. Ronton and Newton Jas(erand Vhlte....-. XaIlo . 1 ort6 r.. " 1 J&pOrtt m mM J oseph . ...... Marshal and St. Joseph.. Kosciusko and Knlton Fulton, Pulaski and Hiurkc Kosciusko.,..........Whltlev. Klkhart.. Noble...-....-. Lagrange............. Steolen De Kalt . Allen Adams and Wells, Hnntlogton . Wabash 1 2 1 1 Huntington and Wabash. (irant and Blackford.. Grant..., MiamiHoward Carroll H am 1 1 ton ...'. .... Hamilton and Tipton. Boone... ... Montgomery Madison Iielaware Jay and Itelaware . Randolph W ay ne...... . ........ ......... ... 1 1 en ry Hancock. -.. 1 Henry and Madison...... Fayette and Union... Marion Shelby - Dearborn .............. Fran kll n - Noble and Klkhart 16 ll &W .. Miami and Howard Putnam ana Hendricks Marion and Shelby . Clinton..... Total. 59 35 Senate. D. 10 1 I R. 14 1 Senators holding over...... Klkhart Knox and SullivanJay, Blackford and Grant . Miami and Howard - Allen ......... .................. , Jefferson. Switzerland, Ripley aud Ohio liibson and Pout y Madison and Delaware- .. - Cass and Carroll-......... Dearborn ana franklin Bartholomew and Hrown , Huntington and Wabash. ....... Daviess and Greene- ..-. St. Joseph and Starke ............ PI k And W & nrlc 4c Floyd and Clarke- . ... Parke and Vermillion -..-..... Ti ppecunoe White, Jasper, Benton and Newton.. Morgan aud Marlon Martin, Dubois and Orange.... Iake and Porter......-.. Harrison and L'rawlord..-.. . ... Sp-ncer and Perry -. ......... 25 Note. The democrat have a chance to carry MadlHon and Delaware. This district Is given to the lepubllc .ns In the above table. If carried by the democrats it will make the senate 2J democrat and 74 republicans, and the chances are favorable for the national senator from Parke and Vermillion, which Is counted to the republicans in the aoove table. Tbe Kettalt In tbe County. The vote of Marion county, as determined by tbe canvassers, will be published next week. Suffice it to say now that Dan Ransdell, the republican candidate for county clerk will probably have a majority of 1,500, and that Paff, republican, has been elected auditor, Elam and PresMy are also elected, their respective majorities being from 30") to 600. The race between Judges ilolman. Newcomb and Howe for the superior ourt j tdgeships, long term, is so close that it will not be decided until the official count is made. Loftin is elected over Schooley, and Buskirk's election as criminal court judge is very probable ' OHIO. Columbus, Oct 9. The following are the congressmen elected: Butterwortb, Young, McMahon, Kiefer, Lefevre, Hill, Hurd, Finley, Converse, Ewing, Dickey, Neal, Atherton, Geddes, McKinley, Monroe, Updegraff, Garfield and Townsend. The result in the Thirteenth district is In doubt. The republicans claim Van Voorhees' election, while the democrats claim Warner's. There are tea democrats and nine republicans. The republicans claim the state by from 8,000 to 10,000. while the democrats concede 5,000. Cincinnati, Oct 9 The Ohio delegation in the next congress will probably stand as follows: First district, Butterwortb., republican; Second. Young, republican; Third, McMahon, democrat; Fourth, Kiefer, repuolican; Fifth, Lefevre, democrat; Sixth, Hill, democrat; Seventh, Hurd, democrat; Eighth, Finley, democrat; Ninth, Converse, democrat; Tenth, Awing, demouat; Eleventh, Dickey, democrat; Twelfth, Neal, republican; Thirteenth, Warner, democrat; Fourteenth, Atherton, democrat; Fifteenth, Geddes, democrat; Sixteenth, McKinley republican; Seventeenth, Monroe, republican; Eighteenth, Updegraff, republican; Nineteenth, Garfield, republican; Twentieth, Townsend, republican. IOWA. Chicago, Oct 9. Tbe following are the latest returns from the Iowa election, and 110 towns and six counties give Hull, republican candidate for secretary of state, 8,457 majority. Fifty-two towns and one county give Roth rock, republican candidate for supreme judge, 2,481 majority. Six towns in the First district give McCord, republican, for congress, 773 majority. Twenty-seven towns and onejeounty in the Second district, give Price, republican, 1,752 majority over Brennan, democrat Fifty towns in the Fifth district give Clark, republican, for congress, 1,111 majority. Eighteen towns and one county in the Seventh district give Gilletts, greenback-democrat for congress, 13T maiority. Nine towns and two counties in the Eighth district give Sapp, republican, for congress, 1.492 majority over Keatley, democrat Thirty-nine towns and two counties in the Ninth district pive Carpenter, republican, for congress, 1,702 majority. Somebody says that the woman who runs into a neighbor's because it thunders, and screams at every Cash, will, when she goes home and finds the fire low, hurry it up with kerosene turned on from a gallon can as calmly as a doctor giring a baby spoonful of narcotic soothing ymp.

AN EARNEST PRATER.

In vanished days 1 said : "If God shall give To me conteutment, cause my path to lie Through ways of plea-santnesa, X then may live A peaceful life and peacefully may die; Ana joy shall surely through these channels now, If God (hall ble?s me so." BatnowlRfly: "If God Khali give me thee!" So ends my prayer. If I at last may bend Before the, loved one, who art more to me Than all that life holds dear, tnat hour shall end All, save the dearest ioy that man may know, If God shall bless me so. We walk through life In devious waya; no light Illumes the distant future's shadowy mist; But like some phantom of the lonely night, Come yearning thoughts my soul can not resist : I long to share the Joys my fancies know. Kind Lord, O bless me so! THE CONDEMNED SENTINEL A cold, stormy night in the month of March, 1S07, Marshal Lefebvre, with 27,000 French troops, had invested Dantzic. The city was garrisoned by 17,000 Russian and Prussian soldiers, and these, together with 20.000 or 30,000 well armed citizens, presented nearly double the force which could be brought to the assault So there was need of the utmost vigilance on the part of the sentinels, for a desperate sortie from tbe garrison, made unawares, might prove calamitous. Atmidnight Jerome Dubois was placed upon one of tbe most important posts in the advance line of pickets, it being upon a nar row strip of land raised above the marshy flat called the peninsula of Nehrung. For more than an hour be paced his lonesome beat without hearing more than the moaning of the wind and the driving of the rain. At length, however, another sound broke upon hh ear. lie Stopped and listened, and presently he called: "Who's there?" The only answer was a moaning sound. - He called again, and this time he heard something like the cry of a child, and pretty soon an object came toward him out of the darkness. With a quick, emphatic movement he brought his musket to the charge, end ordered the intruder to halt "Mercy!" exclaimed a childish voice; "don't shoot me! I am Natalie. Don't you know me?" "Heaverjs!" cried Jerome, elevating the' muzzle of his piece. "Is it you, dear child?" "Yes; and you are good. Jerome. Oh, you will come and help mamma! Come, the is dying!" It was certainly Natalie, a little girl only eight years old, daughter of Lisette Vaillant Lisette was the wife of Pierre Vaillant, a sergeant in Jerome's own regiment, and was with the army in capacity of nurse. "Why, how is this, my child?" said Jerome, taking the little one by the arm. "What is it about your mother?" "Oh. good Jerome, you can hear her now. Hark!" The sentinel bent his ear, but could hear only tbe wind and the rain. "Mamma is in the dreadful mud," said the child, "and is dying. She is not far away. Oh, I can hear her crying." By degrees Jerome gathered from Natalie that her father had taken her out with him in the morning, and that in the evening when tbe storm came on her mother came after her. The sergeant had offered to send a man back to tbe camp with his wife; but she preferred to return alone, feeling sure that she should meet with no trouble. Tbe way, however, had become dark and uncertain, and she had lost the path and wandered off to the edge of the morass, where she had sunk into tbe soft mud. "Oh, good Jerome," cried the little one, seizing the man's hand, "can't you hear her? She will die if you do not come and help her!" At that moment the sentinel fancied he heard the wail of the unf irtunate woman. What should he do? Lisette, the good, the beautifal, the tender-hearted Liset;e was in mortal danger, and it was in his power to save her. It was not in his heart to withstand the pleadings of the child. He could go and rescue the nurse and return to his post without detection. At all events, he could not refuse tbe childish pleader. "Give me your hand, Natalie. I'll go with you." With a cry of joy the child sprang to the soldier's side, and, when she bad secured his hand, she hurried him along toward tbe place where she had left her mother. It s :emed a long distance to Jerome, and once he stopped as though he would turn back. He did not fear death, but he feared dishonor. Hark!" uttered the child. The soldier listened and plainly heard tbe voice of the suffering woman calling for help. He hesitated no longer. On be hastened through the stormk and found Lisetto sunk to her armpits in the sort morass. Fortunately, a tuft of long grass had been within her reach by which means she had held her head above the fatal mud. It was no easy matter to ex tricate her from the miry pit, as the workj man bad to be very careful that he himself did not lose his footing. At length, how ever, she was drawn forth, and Jerome led her toward his post ( "Who comes there?" cried a voice front the gloom. i "Heavens!" gasped Jerome, stopping and trembling from head to foot ? "Who comes there?" repeated the voice. 1 Jerome heard the click of a musket lock, and be knew that another sentinel had been stationed at the post he had left The relief had come while he hai been absent! ' "Friends with the countersign! ' he an swered to the last call of the new sentinel. ; He was ordered to advance, and wten he had given the countersign be found himself in the presence of the officer of the guard. In a few hurried words he told his story, and had the officer been, alone he might have al , lowed the matter to rest where it was, but there were others present, and when ordered to give ud his musket be obeyed without a murmur, and silently accompanied the officer to the camp, where he was put in irons. On the following morning Jerome Dubois was brought before a court martial, under charge of having deserted his post He confessed that he was guilty, and then permission was granted him to tell his own story. This be did in a few words, but the court could do nothing but pass sentence of death; but the members thereof all signed a petition praying that Jerome Dubois miht be pardoned; and this petition was sent to the general of the brigade, and through him to the general of division, by whom it was indorsed, and sent up to tbe marshal. Lvfebvre was kind and generous to his soldiers almost to a fault, but he could not overlook so grave an error as that which had been committed by Dubois. The orders given to the sentinel had been very simp'e, and foremost of very necessity was the order forbidding him to leave his post until properly relieved. To a cerrain extant the safe ty or the whole army res'ed upon the shoulders of each individual sentioel, and especially upon those who at night were posted nearest the lines of the enemy. "I am sorry," said the gray haired o'd warrior, as he folded up the petition and handed It bck to the officer who had presented it. "I am sure that man meant no wrong, and yet a great wiong was done. He knew what be was doing ha ran the riskhe was detected he hai been tried and condemned. He must sutler !" They atked Lefebvre if he would see tbe condemned. "No, no!" the marshal cried, quickly. -

"Should I see him, and listen to one-half his story, I might pardon him, and that must not be done. Let him die, that thousands may be saved." The time fixed for the execution of Dubois was the morning succeeding the day of his trial. Tbe result of the interview with Marshal Lefebvre was made known to him, and he was not at all disappointed. He blamed no one, and was only sorry that he had not died os tbe battle field. "I have tried to be a good soldier," he said to his captain. "I feel that I have done no crime that should leave a stain upon my name." The captain took his hand, and assured him that his name should be held in respect Toward evening Pierre Vaillant with his wife and child, were admitted to see the prisoner. This was a visit which Jerome would gladly have dispensed with, as his feelings were already wrought up to a pitch that almost unmanned him; but he braced himself for the interview, and would have stood it like a hero had not little Natalie, in the eagerness of her love and gratitude, thrown herself upon his bosom and offered to die in his stead. This tipped the brimming cup, and his tears flowed frealy. Pierre and Lisette knew not what to say. They wept and they prayed, and they would have willingly died for the noble fellow who had been thus condemned. Later in the evening came a companion, who, if he lived, would at some time return to Jerome's boyhood's home. First the condemned thought of his widowed mother, and he sent her a message of love and devotion. Then he thought of a brother and sister. And, finally, be thought of one a brighteyed maid whose vine clad cot stood upon the banks ot the Seine one whom he had loved with a love such as only ' great hearts can feel. "Oh, ray dear friend!" he cried, bowing his bead upon his clasped hands, "you need not tell them a falsehood; but if the thing is possible, let them believe that I fell in battle!" His companion promised that he would do all he could; and, if the truth could not be kept back, it should be so faithfully told that the name of Jerome Dubois should not bear dishonor In the minddof those who hai loved him in other days. Morning came, dull and gloomy, with driving sleet and snow; and, at an early hour, Jerome Dubois was led forth to meet his fate. The- place of execution had been fixed upon a low, barren spot toward the sea; and thither his division was being marched to witness the fearful punishment They had gained not more than half the distance when the sound of some strange commotion broke upon the wintry air, and very shortly an aid de-camp came dashing to the side of the general of the brigade with the cry "A sortie! A sortie 1 The enemy are out in force. Let this thing be stayed. The marshal directs that you face about and advance upon the peninsula!" In an instant all was changed in that division; and the brigadier general, who had temporary command, thundered forth his orders for his countermarch. The gloom was dissipated; and with glad hearts tbe soldiers turned from the thoughts of the execution of a brave comrade to thoughts of meeting the enemy. "What shall we do with the prisoner?" asked the sergeant who had charge of the guard. "Lead him back to the camp," replied the cajain.- - , . . The direction was very simple, but the execution thereof was not to be so easy, for hardly had the words escaped the captain's Hps when a squadron of Prussian cavalry came dashing directly toward them. The division was quickly formed into four hollow squares, while the guard that held charge of the prisoner found themselves obliged to flee. "In heaveu'd name," cried Jf rome, "cut my bonds and let me die like a soldier!" The sergeant quickly cut the cord that bound his elbows behind him, and then dashed toward the point where his own company was stationed. The rattle of musketry had commenced, and the Prussians were vainly endeavoring to break tbe squares of French troops. Jerome Dubois looked about him for some weapon wit a which to arm himself, and presently he saw a Prussian officer not far off ret ling in his saddle as though he had been wounded. With a quick bound he reached the spot, pulled the dying officer from bis seat, and leaped into the empty saddle. Dubois wa3 fully resolved that he would sail hU life on that day dell it in behalf of France and sell it as dearly as possible. But he was not needed where he wa.j. He knew that tbe Prussians could not break those hollow squares; so he rode away thinking to join the French cavalry, wkh whom he would rush into the deepest danger. Supposing that the heaviest fighting must be upon tbe Nehrung, he rode his horse in that direction, and when he reached it he found that he had not been mistaken.. Upon a slight eminence toward Hagelsburg the enemy bad planted a ba'teryof heavy guns, suppoited by two regiments of infantry; and already with shot and shell immense damage had been done. Marjhal Lefebvre rode up shortly after this battery bad opened, and very quickly made up his mind that it must bo taken at all hazirds. "Take that battery," he said to a colonel of the cavalry, "and the battle is ours." Dubois heard the order and saw the necessity. Here was danger enough, surely; and, determined to be the first at the fatal battery, he kept as near to the leader as he dared. Half tbo distance he had gained, when from the hill came a storm of iron tbat plowed into the ranks of the French. The colonel fell, his body literally torn in pieces by a shell that exploded against' his bosom. The point upon the peninsula now reached by the head of the assaulting column was not more than 100 yards wide; and it was literally a path of death, as the fire of twelve heavy guns was turned upon it. The colonel had fallen, and very soon three other officers went down, leaving the advance without a commissioned leader. The way was becoming blocked up with dead men and dead horses, and the head of the column stepped aod wavered. Marshal Lefebvre, from his elevated place, saw this, and his heart throbbed painfully. It that column were routed, and tbe Russian infantry charged over tbe peninsula, the result might be calamitous. But see! A man in the uniform of a French private, mounted upon a powerful horee, caparisoned in the trappings of a Prussian surf officer, with his hejd bare, and a bright saber swinging in bis hand, rushes to the front and urges the column forward. His words are fiery and his look is dauntless. "For France and for Lvfebvre!" the strange horeraan cries, waving his sword aloft, and pointing toward the ba?try. "The marshal will weep if we lose this day!" The bravo troopers, tbuj led by one who f ared not to dash forward where the shot fell thickest gave an answering shout and pressed on, caring little for tbe rain of death bo Ion as they bad a living leader to follow. Hoping tbat he might take the battery, and yet courting death, Jerome Dubois spurred on, and finally tbe troop came upon the battery with irresistible force. It was not In the power of the cannoneers to withstaud the shock, and the Russian infantry tbat came to their support were swept away like chaff. The battery was quickly captured, and when - the guns bad been

turned upon those who had shortly before been their masters tbe fortune of the day was decided. The Russians and the Prussians horse, foot and dragoons sach as were not taken prisoners, made the best of their way back into Dantzic, having lost much more than they bad gained. Jerome Dubois returned to the guard house, and gave himself -up to the officer in charge. First a surgeon was called to dress several alight wounJs which he had received. Next his colonel was called to see what should be done with him. The colonel applied to the general of brigade, and the general of brigade applied to the general of division, and the general of division applied to Marshal Lefebvre. "What shall we do with Jerome Dubois?" "God bless him!" cried the general veteran, who had heard . the whole 6tory; "I'll pardon him to-day, and to-morrow I'll promote him!" And Jerome Dubois, in time, went himself to see the loved ones in France, and when he went he wore the uniform of a captain. FOR THE EA.DIES.

Detroit girls say gosh darn it When time spares beauty he completes it. Women do not read; they listen with the eye. Women wear corsets simply corsets fashionable. A woman would sooner rule a heart than fill it; not so a man. Friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities. " A woman need not always recall her age, but she should never forget it. It takes as much wit not to displease a woman as it takes to please her. Heaven gave women tongue to ask questions with and eyes to give answers with. A woman a friendship is, as a rule, tbe legacy of love or the alms of indifference. It is surprising Low near age brings a woman to death and how little it prepares her for it She "What age do you think I am?" He (gallantly) "I don't know, but you don't look it" Nobody who goes to France can afford to return home before he has seen Rosa Bonheurinher blouse. Massachusetts married over 6,000 bachelors last year and only 103 old maids. Susan B. Anthony, where are you? The queen of Italy is called the handsomest woman in K a rope. Ooein her position needs all possible encouragement A smart woman suggests to us that what is needed in our public schools are principals, not men. Keokuk Constitution. A bride at Salem. Ind., said she was driven crazy by the sound of a dinner horn. She couldn't have been very hungry. Two Japanese balles are hitched together at the shoulders. The mother rejoices to see them so highly connected. Graphic One of the singular features at the great baby show is a red-haired white mother who exhibits a black baoy with black woolly hair. ...... . v A r . A misapplication of terms: To call a young lady who sedulously, selects the dances in which he will take a part a hop picker. A French woman who can't make her foot fit a shoe, never thinks of trying a sho) to fit her foot She wears slippers or goes bare footed. A young lady in Illinois, skilled in archery, disabled two tramps who were trying to break into the house. She struck 'em with a poker. Light blue stockings are going to be the favorite color this fill, but a lady who doesn't intend to fall out of a cutter is not obliged to invest In church, women think that they receive because they observe, and that they are meditating when they are only holding their tongues. Women attain perfection in but two departments of. literature letters and memoirs. They only write well when they imagine that they are talking. Those women nre to be pitied who pass their lives between the world and the theater; poor souls who have only fiction as a re lief from falsehood. First lady: "Why do they call those balls foul?" Second lady: "Don't know, unless because the pesky things are continually flying over the fenc " Friend: "But why, dear, did you throw over Percy for Harold?' "Well, you see, II blends with my initials, and makes a much nicer monogram." A woman's fall is something like that of a child. Tbe first Intimation that a child has that it has tumbled down is conveyed in the fact of its being picked up. Friendship is a picnic to which all parties contribute, and therefore is something women can not understand. With them one party or the other must stand treat Those dark eye I. velvet skinned Italian beauties you rend of the magnificent creatures with midnight hair can not, as a rule, write their own names or spell them. Tatti makes her $2,000 per night with her voice, just as easy as other women sit and retail fifteen centi worth of neighborhood gossip, but she doesn't feel as good over it Vassar college has two Japanese girls, and the Philadelphia Chronicle says it is an affecting sight to see the American girls teaching them how to slide down tbe balustrade. A Long Hill man went to Coney island the other day with two red headed "Waterbury girls, and every body thought that he was the agent for an electric light manufactory traveling with samples. Women who would hesitate about crying before a husband or a lover have no scruples about shedding tears before an audience. It is with their emotions as with their shoulders they are only displayed In public. A cautious man may seek recreation in toying with the hind hoofs of the abrupt mule, but only the most recklesa will follow within a couple of rods of the agile young woman who kicks her train into the air and catches it on the fly. According to one of the Boston correspondents, a young lady at the White mountains has made and broken five engagements this summer. It is a nice question whether to speak of her as an engagingor disengaging young person.' It is the custom in France for the bridegroom to present the bride with three dresses a visiting dress, u traveling dress, and a reception dress. According to existing fashions the visiting dress is usually of faille or faille and cashment, the reception dress of Indian cashmere a id the traveling dress of the same material, only a coarser texture. J

ROCK A.KY BABY.

"Rock-a-by, baby, in the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock: When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down tumbles baby and cradle and all." Rock-a-by, baby, the meadows in bloom, Laugh at the un beams that dance la the room, Echo the words with your baby tune. Coo at the sunshine end flowers of June. Bock-a-by, baby; as softly it swing. Over thy cradle the mother love sings ; Brooding or cooing at even or dawn, What will It do when the mo' her is gone? Rock-a-by, baby; so cloudless the skit-. Blue as the depihn of your own laughing eyes; Hweet is the lullaby over your nest. That tenderly siDgs little baby to rest Rock-a-by, baby; the blue eyes will dream Sweetest when mamma's eyes over them beam; Never again will the world seem so fairSleep, little baby there are clouds in the a:rt Rock-a-by, baby; the blue eye.-, will burn And ache with that your manhood wiil learu; Swiftly the years come with sorrow and care,' With burdens the weedlmpled shoulders must bear. Roctt-a-by, baby; there's comlug a Azy Whose Borrows a motlier'ttlips can't ki-s away, Days when Hit socg shall be changed to a moan, Crosses that baby muKt bear all aloue. Rock-a-by, baby ; the niejidows in bloorn. May never the frost pall the beauty in bloom; Re thy world ever bright, as to-day it is wen, Rock-a-by, baby, "thy cradle Is green.' London Reader. STATE 1NTELLIOEXCE. Mrs. Albert Coleman, of Wabash, has given birth to a baby weighing just a pound and a half, but perfect in every respect. On her deathbed Mrs. Shaffer, oi Eikbart, confessed tbat she murdered her child, who was found, two years ago, shot through the head, with a revolver by its side, wih which it is supposed to have taken its own life. The woman kiL'ed the child because it was always in her way. An unusual number of firts have occurred in the vicinity or Winchester during the week past Tbe masonic hall and store room at New Pittsburg, the residence of Uriah Hinehaw, aio that of Fletcher Ross were consumed. None of the prope rty was covered by any insurance. The wife of Wm. Turner, residing a few miles north of Marion, fell dead while sitting in her chair, Saturday afternoon. Supposed heart disease. Captain Carlos M. Crawford, aged 53, living at Marion, diel suddenly in Smilej's saloon with an epileptic fit Lagrange Standard: B. F. Walters, a son of Paul Walters, living four miles nor:h of Wolcottville, is reported to us as having with one team plowed, harrowed twice, and drilled two and three-fourths acres of ground in thirteen hours. He is a workicgaian in whom there must be no laziness. Columbus Democrat:' The case of Newton M. Grant vs. Ann Eliza Grant, for divorce, was on trial yesterday before Colonel Stansifer. Hord was for the plaintiff and S wengel & Hacker for the defense. A divorce was granted to the plaintiff, and the court allowed tbe defendant tbe sum of $350 ali- ' raony.- - - - - Knightstown Banner: Adam Deem has on his farm near this city four head of Angora or cashmere goats, like those from whose fleece the noted shawls are made. Their coats are as fine as silk, and are exceedingly lustrous. Whether this class of stock can be made profitable or not remains to be seen. South Bend Register; Ed Neddo, veterinary Burgeon, yesterday successfully removed from one of the hind legs of a mule a cancerous tumor tbat was about tbe size of a man's hand. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that the poor creature was fastened down during tbe operation by means of guy lopes attached to tbe standpipe and wound around the patient's legs. Lafayette Journal : Lost evening a man called at the Washington house and inquired for a peddler who was stopping at the house. The peddler stepped outside, and was immediately assaulted, knocked down and kicked three or four times. The party who made the attack is unknown to tbe peddler, and he has not the slightest idea what was the cause of the unseemly conduct Hancock Democrat: A solitary canvas covered wagon passed through our streets on Monday evening last with the picture of sad despair and distress pictured on the faces of its occupants. They were from the far west and as fortune had frowned upon them they concluded to turn their backs to the setting sun and go, as they said, "to God's own country in the east" Such U life. Daviess County Democrat: Judge Pierce, while angling at Swan lake tbe other day, got out of live bait He saw a large water snake about 100 yards away spring from a log, seize a minnow and crawl back on tbe log. The judge immediately picked up his rifle and put a ball through the snake's head, got the minnow and caught a four pound pike with it The judge tells this story himself. Fort Wayne Sentinel: Eugene rhillips, a newsman on the Waash road, was arrested at Fort Wayne Friday evening on a charge of entering a store in Lafayette kept by a Mr. Hardesty, and stealing $71 in cuireucy from tbe cash drawer. He had an accomplice, who was supposed to have left Lafayette with him, but this man was not on the train whe;i it reached here. Phillips is also chaig'4 with attempting to play the knife trick game. He was taken back to Lafayette, South Bend Tribune: Horace Beals, foreman of the machine floor at Walworth Neville manufacturing company's shops met with a serious accident Wednesday. He got his left hand caught in the cylinder of a universal wood worker, and every finger oa. it was more or less mutilated. Tbe first was merely nipped at the end; the second was cut about half off, including the bone, between the first and second joints, and the third and fourth were completely severed at about the second joints, banging together by mere shreds of skin. The unfortunate man was taken to the office of Dra. Partridge it Myers, where the aeconJ, third and fourth fingers were amputated after placing him under the influence of chloroform. Fort Wayne Sentinel: On Thursday Mr. William Depew, a prominent fanner, of Cedar Creek' township, came to tbis city, and upon bis return home in the evening lound a crowd gathered about his house. Ho asked the cause of the excitement, and was informed that his wife was dead. It appears tbat Mrs. Depew had been suffering with lameness, arising from a peculiar disease In her feet. For some time she was a helpless cripple. Recently, however, she had appa rently regained ner neaita. un Thursday, when Mr. Depew left borne, his wife was apparently as well as usual. Daring the day she went to the water closet, where her body was shortly afterwards found. The immediate cause of her death is unknown.