Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1879 — Page 2

LUE mDIATATii SENTINEXi, WEDNESDAY MORNING, .APRIL 9, 1879.

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WEDNESDAY. APRIL-9. , HOT GUILTY. Warren Tate goes free a jury of his peers have so declared and, therefore, for killing "Win. Lore in the "Temple of Justice,". n

guilt attaches.' The case is one of the most extraordinary on record. Two men, - each mora than 50 years of age, meet, - become exasperated, a slight - altercation ensues, the quick reports of a pistol follow, and good citizen lies weltering in his blood.- A few words are spoken and he is dead. ' A member of the church, a professed disciple of Christ, whose voice had often been heard In prayer; fallible, erring sometimes, but still struggling for a better life; in the ' full vigor of matured manhood;, a kind father, with an affectionate - family dependent upon him, he falls a victim to death-dealing bullets, and with scarcely an ir stent to commend his soul to God he is summoned to anpear at the judgment seat ot the Infinite Disposer of events, and this transaction, says the verdict, . bears the impress of innocence; no trace of guilt is found; the law makes a way of ' " escape, and 12 men declare "we find the defendant 'not guilty." There is no appeal. The case is out of court. The law has been exhaust ed, and Warren Tate goes free. The case is, altogether, a sad one. It is terribly suggestive. Hen and women wonder; society shudders. Good men bow their heads in silence; Religion weeps and truth sits dumb before the spectacle. There is the verdict "Not guilty." William Love was not murdered. He was killed according to law, and the law has no rebuke for the act no penalty whatever. It views the case with placid composure and says "all right." The pistol was necessity. Blood flowed in response to law. William Love ought to have been killed, and to all the world the verdict says, Go thou and do likewise; treasure up old quarrels, remember every unkind word; be ready with the deadly weapon, and upon any ' pretext, blaza away. We hope William Love was prepared to - go. If he ' sinned. ' most terrible was the penalty he paid. We hope he sleeps well, for life went out while passing through an awful ordeal. May the flowers bloom in beauty above his silent grave, and may the winds be attuned to soothing melodies as they wave the green grass that decks the mound. Warren Tate goes free. As we write the high noon of the Christian Sab bath we contrast the situations of Wm. Love and Warren Tate, and we doubt if there can be found on Gee's green earth an enlightened individual who would prefer Tate's known surrounding! to those . which Christian, or even heathen, faith assigns to William Love. There is a great public heart pulsating to-day with astonishment; a ere&t public conscience preparing a verdict. Good men, upon whose hands there are no blood stains, are repeating it, "We, the jury, find 'that the killing of William Love was unnecessary." " " REPUBLICAN VTKDICTIVENES3. From Maine to Oregon, wherever there is to be found a Republican organ, a stream of vile and vulgar vituperation of the South is ceaselet sly flowing. Thete Republican newspaper establishments are political pest houses, to which Republican lepers are ". forever flocking, going in for a scab or drop of poisonous pus, and going out with the virus to spread far and wide political diseases. They . are . sink-holes filled with . death-dealing damps, un covered vaults from ' which proceed noisome stenchs which ' defy classification, and which can not be named; rilled with the filth of Republicanism, into which Republican conspirators wallow and wriggle . like reptiles, for vitalizing pabulum to coma forth at short intervals for the purpose of spewing the contents of their swollen stomachs upon the South and the Democratic "party. The. ".''New York Tribune , has gained . for itself an infamous notoriety for all that is mean and vindictive in politics, and is all the more despicable from the fact that it often seeks to obscure its hates by mock sympathy for those whom it stabs. In a recent issue the Tribune captions an article "Southern 'Poverty," and proceeds, with' evident gusto to depict the ruined condition of portions of our common country, where for years Republican hate had full play, and where its only monuments are desolation.'It says: . All observant travelers In the Cotton States are impressed with the appearance of thrift lessness that characterizes the whole country, from North Carolina to Texas. With few ex ceptions the towns have evidently seen better days; the planters' houses are sadly in need ot paint and repairs; new dwellings are rarely met with ; the negroes live In the old cabins constructed In tbe days of slavery, now much dilapidated by age and want of care, or have built for themselves wretched huts ' less spacious and comfortable than their' old quarters. There . are ' Tew ' bridges across . the rivers, and '. almost none across the - creeks, "branches" , and mailer streams. Tne wagon roads are in shocking: condition, and the railroads, save - a few through lines operated by Northern capi. talists, are barely passable for trains running 10 or 15 miles an hour. No important new manufacturing enterprises have been under taken in recent years. The old cotton mills at Augusta, Granltevllle and Colum bus are doing well, but there seems to be no disposition . to establish others. Com merce at the seaports is not increasing, and at some places nas fallen oil. , Charleston ' has not - rebuilt the district in the heart of the city burned over at the close of the war; Mobile has gone backward, and Galveston Is said to have lost 6,000 of her popula tion. Trade in town and country has largely passed out of the hands of natives into those of Jews from Northern cities. Everywhere the people show by their dress and manner of livlnit that they are poor. Even the owners of large plantations wear coarse clothing, live on plainer fare than ordinary mechanics in the North, and are oppressed with debts accumu lated from year to year to meet their living expenses. Here is s picture of desolation, in the con temptation of which Republican conspirators and fiends, only can take pleasure, If true, every word is a terrible arraignment of the Republican party. Its darkest lines map the roads which Republican hates have traveled on their errands of vengeance. Desolated homes, plantations going back to the wilderness, dilapidated and deserted towns, tell not only where armies fought and

bivouacked, bat where carpet bsira plundered and rioted and? inaugurated anarchy and hell, in the . interest of the RapubUoan. party. After telling of the widespread ruin and devastation, poverty and wretchedness that afflicts the South, the Tribune says: "Manifestly something is wrong. Economic laws are violated in some way. Plant a new community on the bare prairies of the West,

without resources, save a fertile soil and Industrious hands to till it, and In a few years there will appear substantial evidence on every hand of accumulated wealth. Tet here are these old Southern communities inheriting the advantages of railroads, seaports, navigable rivers and cities, and possessing a virtual monopoly ef a product which all the world wants and comes to their very doors to seek, making no progress, and living in a mere hand-to-mouth way.,' Undoubtedly "something is wrong," and the Democratic party, has been trying for years to remedy the wrongs. The South has been crushed, wasted, robbed, plundered and pillaged by Republican carpetbaggers, knaves and thieves, and now when the infernal malevolence of tbe Republican party has accomplished the largest measure of misfortune its policy could have antici pated, the Tribune and organs of its ilk point to the trophies of partisan vindictiveness. and charge that the poverty of the South is owing to the viola' tion of economic laws. Admitting that the South is burdened with debt, and that its industries are not as prosperous as could be wished by men who, in the spirit of enlightened statesmanship, have sought to remove every obstacle- to Southern prosperity, the charge or intimation that the Southern people have not manifested from the Erst a heroic spirit to im prove their condition, and have wisely used every means at their command ' to rebuild the prosperity of their section, is an atrocious slander, which facts abundantly estab lish. Leaving out of the question such Southern products as rice, sugar, tobacco, naval stores and lumber, we find that in 1878 the raw cotton exported amounted to $182,931,332, out of a sum total ot exports amounting to $718,048,622, about 25 per cent, of the whole; while this vast amount went abroad, the cotton product . kept the spindles of every factory in America employed. During the same period the exports of Northern agricultural products, unmanufactured, were: Barley, $1,170,000; corn, $14,&i3,000; oats, $2,303,000; rye, $3,323,000; wheat, $75,571,000; bacon and hams, $54,827, giving a sum total of $181,832,000, showing an excess In favor of cotton of $1,098,000. In view of such official figures it must be admitted by all fair minded men that the South has been alive to Its great necessities, and has struggled with commendable heroism against adversities such as were never visited upon any country under Heaven. Every consideration of public policy should have impelled tbe Republican party, when in power, to have aided the South to regain its pros perity. Instead of this. Southern people were pursued with the most implacable hostility. We are glad to believe that the great heart of the North no longer responds to the devilish spirit of Republicanism, and that the curse is well nigh played out. It Is He. . . Brown County (O.) News. Garfield is looming up as a candidate for governor on the Republican aide. It seems to ns we have heard of General Garfield before. Once, in connection with a trial of a certain Mrs. Surratt, who was found gnilty and hanged because she once boarded Wilkes .Booth. Again, he figured as a taker of a fee of $5,000 for his "inliuence" as congressman in a certain De Golyer paying swindle in Washington. Is it the same Garfield? t r A Leading Queatlon. Atlanta Constitution. We feel inclined to repeat, at stated Inter vals, the suggestive tuery: Why is it that no Northern Republican constituency has, up to this time, sent a colored man to Congress or as a Legislative Representative? They seem exceedingly anxious that ' the negro should hold ofllce in the South, but when it comes to recognizing his political claims at the North that is another and a very different matter. ' " ' Lobor "Revolution." - New York Bun. Whenever a Republican thief is ceught and stopped from stealing, he cries revolution. It the army is forbidden to interfere with elections, it is revolution. If barbarous testoaths are stricken from the statrtte book, it is revolution. If free elections ue demanded and hired creatures to control them are abolished, again it is revolution. They are likely to get plenty of such revolution before Congress adjourns. . An Excellent Appointment. ' INew York Tribune. m General Walker's confirmation as superin tendent of tbe Federal census, is an event upon which the whole country may be congratulated. It places at the head of this important work the man whom the unanimous voice of public opinion has designated as most worthy of the place, and insures a census which will attain the greatest possible accuracy and completeness. The Party of Morality. J ' i i- i .'. Washington Post. " f,'; -: ' When ' reading the long list of criminals who were appointed to run the election in Philadelphia and while taking a cursory glance at the hideous catalogue of their varied crimes, one is profoundly impressed with the sledge-hammer force oi the Republican claim that "tbe morality and culture of the Nation" belong to that party. Going Endwise. Baltimore Gazete. " . The whole country seems to be going end wise. Murder and incendiarism in Texas, murders in Georgia, murders and mob-law in Kentucky, unparliamentary language in tbe Virginia Legislature, a howling Secess ionist in Mississippi, and a man named Boy ton floating down tbe Ohio river. , There must be reform. i , , . , Cooling off Slightly. . . ' , . Washington Post. ' . ,-. .' ' : It is observed that since the alleged negro exodus from the south began to change the political complexion of some of the strongest Republican parishes in . Louisiana, various Southern papers of the machine radical per suasion have altered their opinions as to the advisability of the move, i . .i . - Like a Pack of Wolves. 1 : ' 1 ' ' Boston Post. j "" ! ' The Republican press is just like a pack of wolves emerging front tne wooas upon a body of new settlers. It is one united howl, the hope being to frighten Hayes out of his sleep, or, if that fails, to make the people think it is the-"rebel yell." " A Marked Oversight. Boston Post.1 So far as it appears, it has not yet been charged that tbe felon who shot down Jtentucksy judge was iastigeted bf Tilaen.

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V A Town With Considerable of a History. Centreville, the Whilom County. Seat 'of - fTayne Special Correspondence of the Sentinel. CXSTRXVII.LK, April 5. Every person who for tbe first time passes over the railroad West from RicUmond Is quite likely to notice at the first station, five miles out, placed conspicuously upon a large building just opposite the depot a very large sign-board, on which is painted in massive letters, "The Home of Morton." "He Still Lives;" also a very, good portrait of that illustrious character, wreathed in faded evergreens. - That place is Centreville, once a place of considerable importance, on account of the court house and other head' Quarters of the county being there, but Richmond became so important and power ful that she took away from Centreville her trlorv and precipitated the famous court house war of Wayne county. That was in . the summer of 1S73, when, one dark night, seven citizens of Centreville rolled out tne oia piece ot can non. cbareed it heavily with powder, tilled it to the muzzle with nails, old scrap-iron of every kind, and a few gravel stones, and proceeded to make an attack upon the jail, then in possession of tbe Richmond party who were preparing to remove it to Ktcaniond. he possessors were asleep wnen tne cannon noiselessly rolled up close to the front door. turned toward it and discharged, it created a terrible commotion in mis county, it shattered the door and marked the casement on all sides, it woke up the Richmond gar rison who at once telegraphed to Kicnmond. A general call to arms was made there, two or three special trains chartered, and every male citizen with all the boys over six years of age invaded Centreville. The cannon was captured, but the artillerymen could not be found, and to this day it is uncertain who thev were. But tbe county seat was moved to Richmond without bloodshed or burning any more powder, and the old court house building is now occupied oya meatsnop ana cigar stand, while the laii ouiiaing is usea by Mr. Norris Jones, the popular hotel keener of Centreville. Centreville died soon alter and many ot her best citizens moved away, some to lcichmond. some to Indianapolis ami elsewhere. yet it is still a quiet, pleasant little place to live. A very. good school with an enroll men t of 300, under the care of Professor Walker and assistants, the former having been just retained by the board for the third year. There is but one saloon ana tew ot the vicious element. Borne or the coys, a few months since, attempted to wreck a passenger train but failed, being nov ices. - Tbe usual number of churches exist, the Christians congregation being engaged in building a new one. The merchants and business men are few, but as a rule, first class. The trade goes to Richmond mostly, which is con nected, in addition to the railroad, by semi daily 'bus line. The population is about 1.200. Centre township is from 25 to 30 Republic a", but owing to theureencacken drawing from the Republicans, and some local causes, the Democracy are feeling quite confident of winning the spring elec ion, now so near. But Centreville has known other men of note, besides Morton. The Julians formerly held forth here. Jacob and George now reside at Irvineton. and Isaac in Texas. General Buraside, it is claimed, came here as a boy and learned the tailoring trade. Sol Meredith, formerly ot considerable note as a county politician, nut in later years tin his death the great fine stock raiser of Eastern -Indiana, tor a long time lived in Centreville. and even Ex-Governor Ray was once a resident. But an these, once more or lees great, are gone from Centreville, some to the tomb and some to the retired list of politicians, and the town is resigned to its fate with as good a grace as possible. Many still feel bitter toward Uichmond and the Eastern part of the county for tbe court house affair, and, as the feeling Is shared with the Western part generally, it often plays a prominent part in the political matters o( Wayne. Mr. J. H. Gentry, the oracle of the town, expressed the general feeling when he said, "It did Richmond no good and killed centrevuie. What business is here comes principally from the farmers. There is a fine farming community about here, and tbe farmers are consequently prosperous. Tbe First National bank loans them money in the usual way, ond takes cure of their extra change. Tbe bank seems to feel better over this mutual arrangement than tbe farmers. The csshier is Mr. Jones, son of the late president. It was established in 18G3, and was No. 37. The cashier reports farmers paying np better, and borrowing less, and thinks that indicates better times with them, and that bus'neis generally is better than a year ago, considering the unusually late spring. Mr. Doughty, a prominent merchant, re ported as the result of his experience and observation that money was scarcer than ever, times harder, collections and margins closer, and business generally duller; silver was burdensome to handle and, therefore. did not circulate as readily as would paper money; prospects for the future not good. Mr. Leeson, another merchant, reports tbe opposite as to business. Being considered a ' pretty well posted man politi cally, J approached him upon tbe matter of Tom Browne's supposed waning popularity as expressed by Major Bennett, of Richmond, a tew days ago. Mr, Leeson dashed off into a eulogy of young Browne that was somewhat' startling in its vigor. He though there was no one in the district, new or old, that could "hold a can die" to Browne, and especially not Lou Sexton, of Richmond. Browne wonld be nominated to day, dr- any other day, by the Republicans, with little, if any, opposition, and even if he were not so well qualified, it was not policy to change horses while cross ing the stream; Browne knew how to watch tbe ."confederate brigadiers" and It wasn always the noiselest man in Congress that was doing the most goon lor nis consutu ents. Quite a number expressed similar views with less emphasis, and it is plain to be seen that Centre township either thinks a great deal of Tom Browne or sot very ' much of Tom Benn tt, bis probable opponent at tbe next convention lor tbe nomination. ' Rev. George Havens, candidate upon the Greenback and Temperance ticket for State senator at the late election, was found making soar) 30't soap, too. He is quite elderlv and. as bluff as Ben Wade. When last summer aumber who were especially anxious to beat the ' Republican countv ticket moved for a union of tbe Greenback ersand Democrats, they could get no help from Havens. He declared it bis sacred intention to fight tbe devil and all o'her hard-money people the balance of his life. Said 1: f'Still faithful to the Greenback party as ever?', "Yes. yes. every day I become more con vinced of the truth of the bible and the Greenback doctrine." ' - "Being so badly defeated in yonr race for State Senator I presume you feel like returnlne from polo tl car' "Yes, I am disgusted with the temperance party as to voiug ana tired of politics. The lemperanhe people of Wayne professed to have so much strength, and would use it, so urged me and omen to take the track, ana thau we&t aad

voted their old party tieketa, utterly regard-

leas of temperance principles. . Why, 1 tola Dr. Boyd (another temperance candidate),' before the election, that he would not carry nis own;- township, .and - it contains the strongest temperance community in this part ot the Bute." now is the Greenback party in Wayne now?" - - ''Growing stronger every day. It has come to stay In this country. It lacks pro per leaders here, but is gamier in good men all the time." Is the slitrht improvement In business due to the eflects of the resumption act?"; "No, the cities are all bankrupt and com. pelled to economize and the country in debt ana buying as little as posible and doing something toward paying out, the recent 1 g 1 . 1 n . guwu vrupa cuu itur pricea euauuug tuem uj do SO." The revernd and venerable Greenbacker pursued the subject at considerble length and then called up Mr. H. A. Deltz, a Democratic workingman,' who -.seemed - to be thoroughly posted in political affair local and general. He thought Tom Browne the strongest man the Republicans had in tbe district, and Holmen the great Democrat of that part of the State. The Greenback party in tne county and country has come to stay, ana in time win be a power, in Wayne it takes nearly all of lb strength from the Re publican party, and that influence with the prejudice ot the Western part of the county against Kicnmond growing out 01 the cour house affair of 1873, which even has taken some strength from tbe dominant party, will next year give the Democrats a fine chance to get control of the county o thee 3. 1 be backbone of the Republican party is broken, anyhow. 'bquire Wilson, another sound Democrat. thinks Tom Browne has lost but littla in the estimation of his party. The Greenback party is a fixture, but will grow slowly. Business is no better, because there is nothing to improve it. The Democracy will soon get control of the entire government. unless they make some great blunder, just as they have often done before, in time to give tbe victory to tbe Republicans. The prominence of the "Confederate brigadiers" in Congress is a blunder, which gives the "bloody shirt " Haunters just tbe opportunity they want. Tbe State Legislature injured tne party no little by its course. unite a number of others apparently well posted were seen, but those above quoted were representative persons. The fan Handle Boot and oboe company and the Vogel t Son - Organ company, the only manufactories of much note are running with reduced force and irregularly. The fruit in this vicinity is not promising. Peaches and cherries are killed, and apples are injured some. Wheat looks fine, also grass, but scare sly any oats sowed. Other spring work done. The season is very back ward, and farmers are unable to do anything. Mao.ce. AN INTERESTING ARTICLE. The Diary Kent by a Gentleman Two Hundred Years Ago. Albany Argus, March 31. Among the many rare and interesting articles at tbe Loan Exhibition which closed Saturday evening, was the diary of Rev. iSoadiah Rus3ell for the year 162. Rev. Mr. Russell was a tutor at Harvard at the time he kept the diary. He afterward was pastor of a church at Middletown, Conn., and was a surgeon in the Pen a it war. He was well known and highly respected in his State, and when be died in 1713 his virtues and deeds were widely tet forth both in poetry and prose. The Argus has been permitted by Mr. 8. V. Talcott, whose prooertv the diary now is, to make tbe following extracts from it: 20 day, 1 month, 1G32. It being Sabbath day ye morning was very cold, at noou very warm and at night between 4 and o of y clock there was a thunder shower which came from ye southwest, wherein was a great stOIhaii. 1 e hail stones were nearly LpsTCignela of bullets. Toey broke several T squares ot glass at college, lor they came witn a strong wind, raey broke glass at Roxbury, and at Lyn, it shattered many windows. Moreover at Lyn after sun down as it began to be darkish, an honest old man. jyr. uanrord, went out to look lor a new moon. Thinking the moon had changed when in the West, he espied a stranee black cloud in which after some space he saw a man standing in arms complete with his legs straddling and havine a pike in his hands which he held across his heart which sight ye man with his wife saw, and many others. After a while ye man van isnea in wnere soon appealed a spacious snip seeming under sail tboagn she kept the same station. They taw it, they said. apparently as ever they saw a ship in the harbor, which was to their imagination tbe handsomest of ever they saw, with a lofty stem, toe nead to tne Boutn, the nun black tbe sails bright; a long and resplendent steamer from ye top of ye mist. This was seen for a great space both by these and others, of ye same town. After this they went in where tarrying but a while and looking out again all was gon and ye sky as ciear as ever. 11th dsy, 2 month, 1682. Heard of a man in Connecticut uoiitge viale) who was taken with a hidden shivering, after which he heard a voice saying, "yet four dreadful judgments should come speedily upon the whole earth, viz: Sword, famine, fire and sickness, which should without speedy refor mation prevented, begin at Kew England, and though for eur sins we have cause t fear such judgments, yet we are not to count such revelations . as oracles. Rings, iytn aay, otn month, it is credibly re ported ye Mrs. bhamng, or uoston and an other person, Barnard, a cooper, did severely attempt to mnrder themselves. Near same time a woman at Dockysterscipt into a well, but finding ye water cold, she bethought herself and came out. Another i'itih Story. Easton Express.! ' George Bryant, train master at High Bridge. N. J., and William Hibbler, conductor on the Central railroad of New Jersey, were fishing from the Newark Bay bridge three years ago. Bryant lost his sinker, and substituted for it a Central railroad switch key. He got a "huge bite," and in drawing in his line discovered a large eel on his hook, but before he could land him the eel broke loose, carrying away tbe hook and the switch key. Eight months after an eel was caught by Captain Simon Chapman in an old barge at Chapman's wharf, on the Thames river, three miles above New London, Ct. When the eel was cut open the lost Central railroad switch key was found inside of It. Last evening, on Conductor Kibbler's train, the son of Captain Chapman introduced himself to Captain Hibbler and said his father still had the key in his possession. Arrangements were made to have It returned to Mr. Bryant, at High Bridge. ' IntereRt. No blister drawssharper than interest does. Of all industries hone is comparable to that of interest It works all day and night, in fair weather and foul. It has no sound in its footsteps, but travels fast. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. It binds industry with its film, as a fly is bound in a spider's web. Debts roll man over and over, binding him hand and foot, letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him. There Is but one thine on a farm like it, and that is the Canada thistle, which swarms new plants every time you break roots, whose blossoms are prolific, and every flower the father of a million seeds; every leaf is an awl, every branch a spear, and every flower like a platoon of bayonets, and a field of them like an armed host. The whole plant is a torment and vegetable curse. And yet a farmer bad better make his bed of Canada thistles than attempt to be at ease on in-Utmti.

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An Elmtrs Advertiser Man's Bide to a Fire ; oat Hook awd Ladder Truck. V EUnlra Advertiser, Sii' There is such a thing as making progress too fast. Sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way there. If you would like to have that demonstrated to your satisfaction, in case yon do not already concede the force of tbe proposition as occasionally applicable, just ride to a fire some night on the hook and ladder truck. We; were never so glad in all our life to get to a fire as we were last Hatdrday morning, tot we knew that when that desired spot was reached the machine would stop, provided it did not stop before it got there. A person connected with this paper arrived at the truck house Saturday morning j-ist as they were hooking on the horses. The assistant engineer, inquiring it he was going to the fire, informed turn, on receiving an amrmative answer, that be could "ride on the truck just as well as not, as they were going right away." No one likes to walk when he can ride just as well as not. So a perch was secured on top of the truck, and the horses started. "Look out for your head!" was the warning, and the upper door sill of the house was passed in safety. The horses seemed ambi tious, "better hold on with both hands." a voice came through the darkness; and if tbe person bad had 40 bands be would have held on with each one. The ladders were not covered with cushions, and yet they were springy. They are so springy yoa ere liable to get your fingers pinched if you get' them between a couple while "holding on." We believe tbe route traversed was up Main street from Market to Fifth. We think it is the duty of the Common Council to smooth down that beautiful avenue immediately. "How fast are we going now?" ventured the newspaper man to a "hook" in front of him, who was smoking his pipe In peace. "We are only allowed to go six miles an hour," was the assuring reply. And yet it seemed as if it were about 60 miles and only one lap. The Park church passed in review as if a telegraph post on the line of an express train; barely a glimpse was caught of Trinity with its tall spire; the elegant residences with here and there an occasional light, flitted by like tbe baseless la one 01 a vision, ana we were yet not a wreck behind. First, Second, Third, Clinton, Fourth and Fifth streets were passed, seem ingly as close together as cracks on a barn floor, and at last the conflagration was reached and we were saved. An inventory was. taken of personal effects, and though superficial, resulted in the discovery of tbe loss of two illustrated newspapers which had been jounced out of his overcoat pocket during the excursion, a pinched finger, a muddy coat, a rent or two, and hands all oil from holding a torch "lust a minute" for one of the boys, to Bay nothing of the pleasure of the trip. "Better stay and ride back, as we go slower returning," was the polite invitation, but his time being bis own and the walking good the scribe at length reached home although his pace was hardly six miles an hour a firm sympathizer with Mr. John Gilpin, tbe noted equestrian. AX INTERESTING QUESTION. How Old 1 the World? An Answer liy an English Scientist. London Academy. Geologists, astronomers and physicists alike have hitherto been baffled in tbeir attempts to set up any satisfactory kind of chronometer which will approximately measure geological time, and thus give us some else to tbe antiquity of our glebe. It is therefore worth noting that Mellard Iteade, of Liverpool, has lately contributed to the Royal society a very suggestive paper, in which he endeavors to grapple with the question by employing the limestone rocks of the earth's crust as an index of geological time. Limestones have been in course of formation from tbe earliest known geological periods, but it would appear that the Later formed strata are more calcareous than the earlier, and that there has, in fact, been a gradually progressive increase of calcareous matter. The very extensive deposition of carbonate of lima over wide areas of the ocean bottom at the present day is sufficiently attested by the recent soundings of tbe Challenger. According to the author's estimate, the sedimentary crust of the earth is at least one mile in average actual thickness, of which probably one-tenth consists ot calcareous matter. In seeking the origin of this calcareous matter, it is assumed that the primitive rocks ot the original crust were of the nature of granite or basaltic rocks. By the disintegration of such rocks, calcareous and other sedimentary deposits have been formed.- Tbe amount of lime salts in waters which drain districts made up of granites and basalts is found, by a comparison of analyses to be on an average about 3.73 parts in 100,000 parts of water. It is further assumed that tbe exposed areas of igneous rocks, taking an average throughout of all geological time, will bear to the exposures of sedimentary rocks a ratio of about one to nine. From these and other data Mr. Reade concludes that tbe elimination of the calcareous matter now found in all the sedimentary strata must have occupied at least 600,000,000 of years. This, therefore, represents the minimum age of the world. The author infers that the formation of the Laurentian, Cambrian and Silurian strata mnst have occupied about 200,000.000 of years; the old red sandstone, the carboniferous, and thepoikilitic systems, another 200,000.000, and all tbe other strata the remaining 200,000,000. Mr. Reade is, therefore, led to believe that geological time hss been enormously in excess of the limits urged by certain physicists; and that it has been ample to allow for all the changes which, on the hypothesis of evolution, have occurred in the organic world. " Women Inventors. The Scientific American says: "The question is often asked us: Do tbe inventions of women ever amount to anything? From our long experience with inventors of both sexes, we conclude that larger proportion of inventions patented by women prove useful and profitable than those of the sterner sex. We see bv tbe New York Sun that the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad company has selected a device, from the many that have been under consideration, for lessening the noise of the trains, and that it is tbe invention of Mrs. Walton, of New York. The plan consists of boxing the rails in a mixture of sand, tar and cotton, and has been under test for three months on several blocks of the road in Sixth avenue. The ringing of the wheels on the rails, which makes a large part of the objectionable sound. Is considerably deadened. Sbe gets' according to the San, $10,000 for the use of the invention on the Metropolitan line, and the company is to control its adoption on other roads, paying her a royalty." 1 Popular Errors. ' " To think that tbe more a man eats the fatter and stronger he will become. To believe that tbe more hours children study, the faster they will learn. To conclude that if exercise is good, tbe more violent it is tbe more good is done. To imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. To act on the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enonzh to sleep in. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better is good for the system, without regard to more ulterior effects, lo eat without an appetite or to continue to eat after it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the taste. 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