Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1880 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1880.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8-

OKXKRAI. SOTKS. Mr. Johx W. M inc a y's fortune ia e?tlanted at : fro in .10.000,000 to O.OUO.OOO. General GraT baa purcha.-?d additional real estate at Lons; Branch at a cost of li'i.OOO. - One of the preatet difficulties that Garfield will ' have to encounter will be hovr to dispose of the truly great men of Ohio. Mr. Robert T. Lis col:, of Chicago, who was one of the Electors on the Republican ticket in Illinois, received the highest tote of any Hector S1S.0C7. The Putnam have secured for thU country Mr. W. H. Mallork'a novel, "A Romance of the Nl eteenth Century," an-1 will issue It early in the new year. AsorWard, a veteran of the war of 1S12, who aw General Packenham killed at New Orleans, tiled at hla home in Fort Scott, Kam., the other day, aged 103 years. Senator 1iAJ's proposed appointment as Minister to England 1 opposed by the Chicago Timen, on account of his "ignorance of the language spoken in that country." Mr. a'D MR-i Hayes will not npon their retirement from the White House go to Europe, but to their Fremont home, which had lately been altered and renovated. Bjornstekxr Bjop.nse. the Norwegian poet, U la Boston, and several people who attempted to call him by name are trying to discover the bet remedy for a sprained jaw. Tu ADPEfs Stevems' e-itAto Is now nearly settled, and it is believed that there will be enough to pay the bequest of $.),000 for the founding of an Asylum for Orphan Children. Jamf.s Fkeemas Clarke object to angels with wings as anatomically absurd. Probably Mr. Clarke would attire hU representative angel in yellow uL-ter and high collar. Jons Hotso, who for many years traveled with liiruum's circus s'"the living tkelelou." committed suicide in New York recently. IJernhardt's visit Ls beginning to tell. In recanl to Mr. P. T. Bamum's illness, his son-in-law paid last Wednesday night, that he was improving, but was tili too ttick to give auy attention whatever to business. Mrs. Hayes is paid to be a woman of remarktbl. endurance, Mie never had any illness except an occasional Mck-headache, and loots much younger than the is forty-nine. Bismarck is now In better health and spirits than fur a long time past: his country life has built up his strength wonderfully. He has resumed his daily rides and talks of hunting next year. General Grant writes to the Boston Middlesex Club, which has elected him an honorary nember, thut he recognize in his relationship to this old Club an honor which he highly appreciates. Mr. A. Ernoson Alcott If said to have begun to keep a diary when he was twelve years old, and has kept it up ever ince. He learned to write by practicing with chalk Tui.hb mjther'a kitchen iloor. Mr. P. T. Barntx. who has been ill for several days at thehuseof hLs son-in-law, Mr. llurd, in New York City, is now much better, but will not be able to return to bis home at Bridgeport before next week. Governor Hawkins, of Tennessee, is a lawyer of ability and a useful member of the MethodUt Church. He was appointed by Browulow a Judge of the Supreme Court He is a large and handsome man, about fifty years old. Mr. Ji'stih McCarthy is engnged on another work similar to hU "History of Our Own Times" an account of the first reform period of the present century. Mr. McCarthy is also writing a new work of fiction, and it is not improbable that he will shortly come to the United States on a lecturing tour. Charles Maiiose, the new Virginia Senator whose political attitude bothers the strong party men on twth tides, mide fortune and fresh reputation after the war in rebuilding and reorgauiiin; the dilapidated railroads of his State and consolidating the lines running across it from Norfolk to Bristol. Mi.s Linnib Suermam, daughter of the General Sydney Sherman who shared with General Houston the honors of the Battle of San Jacinto, has just been married in Texas to a former State Senator. Among the guests were Mrs. M. B. Lamar, widow of one of the Presidents of the Texas Republic, and E. W. Cave, President Sam Houston's private Secretary. Mr. Samcel J. Tildes has had a monument made at the granite works la Westerly, R. I. It is thirteen feet and four inches high and nine feet and four ii.ches by seven feet and four inches In sUe at the basse, and made of blue granite. Fn.m the four corners rise columns, ou which rest a cap surmounted by a cross. The name "Tilden" appears on one side in polished letters. Jonathan II. Greese, once a great gamMer, whe grow rich at the card table, then reformed, exposed the methods of card tricksters, and gave away most of bis gambling prollts. ls now in seedy circumstances in Philadelphia. He bad much tu do with securing the passage of antigambling laws ia New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and Maryland. Mr. J. M Mackay, of Nevada, said to be the richest man in the world, recently sailed in the Cunard steamer Bothnia, with his friend. Mr. Harry Rosener. After meeting his family at Paris, h will travel through Europe and tbeu make a trip up the Nile with hU family and his brother-in-law. Count Telferner. He is expected to return to America in the spring. Ml Cyrcs II. McCormick. of Chicago, has given another large sum 8b 0,000 to the Theological Seminary of the Northwest. It is said to have been given with the hope that It would induce Dr. Pat ton to remain ia Chicago, instead of accepting the call to Princeton Seminary. Dr. Fattou, however, says that he has passex his word and will positively accept the call to the Eastern iii.-UittHin. Bknjaxi: F. Bctusk and Colonel Ingersoll met on the trala to Washington on Wednesday evening. In reply to Cot nel Ingersoll's g reell ig. How do you feci to-nigatT General Butler said: "Oh. pretty well." "Why." snM Colonel Ii gersoll, lu a surprised tone. "I i-upposed you mu.-t be feeling very siik over Garfield's election." "I misunderstood you," replied Butler; I do feel tMtdly enough," aud th-n added: "You and fceecher did it. Colonel." "Well." retorted the Colonel, ' bow uM you pect to win with the Lord and the devil both against you?" Colonel William O. Gordon, of i hesterville. O.. is said to be Hi j ears old. an 1 still a com paralively strong and active man. He is wealthy aud manages all his own business affairs. In his youth hesorr! la the British army, and says that be knew KaDoleon I. He has but one peculiar habit that of persistently ea tug crackers. He always h w a lar,'e btsket of crackers hanging on his bed -pint, and, besid three hearty meals a day, he eats, upoa an average, twelve pounds of crackers a wee frjin ll I basket, tukiug several whenever he awake. .s in the night. Mil Hayes entertained at d aner Saturday evening General and Mrs. Gar' eld. Chief Jus lice aad Mrs. Walte, the members of the Cabinet (nearly ail ol whom were accompanied by 1 iole) except M'. Detren. who is not In tho city; Mrs. Iahlgren Ce . Bancroft, the historian ; Senator and Mrs. Morrill, Justice Strong and lady, fcepreaenta tires Batterwortb and Towanend, of Ohio; Davl. f Califorala; .Mr. and Mrs. Norris. of Ban - yrancise ; Assist tt decrvtarj. of DUte Hay aud -Mr. Hay, et CongTwn an hellabnrjer ml Major jfwaliu, Secretary to' General Garneld. Sena

tor Blaine has not called at the Whlu? House nor held any relation with President Hayes for two years, and so did not make one of the party. When Rev. J. E. Giles, the miserly preacher, died in a stable at Watervllet. X. Y.. a few week ago, f JO.OUQ In bonds and money were found on his person. Kven on the day of his death he had been begging from door to door. Htnce the publication of the case several alleged widows and swarms of cousins have rut In claims for the Miserable old man's hoardings, and the officers of Albany County are very much puzzled to find the rightful heirs. Mr. Alljsom Rak.ey, an Arkansas Justice of the Peace, has been f ultilllng the duties of that office in the same Township for thirty six years. Du.-ing the war that County did not see much of the convulsions that were rending the country, and for the five years of strife Mr. Ramsey administered justice in Princeton Township. During all the administrations. Democratic and Rcpnblican, h has pursued the even tenor of his way. There Is not. probably, such another Instance in the South of uninterrupted justice during all those years. It is a peculiar and re-narkable case. Whes George D. Prentice was editor of the New Kngland Review, he made some reflections upon the management of a Sound boat, then commanded by John Vanderbilt, a brother of the Commodore. A writer in the Hartfort Courant says that Vanderbilt was so offended that he called

upon Prentice to give him a thrashing. Prentice's office was in the third story of the building, directly at the head of the second llight of stairs. Vauderbllt made his busluess known, and in less time than it takes to tell it. found himself lyiug on tho sidewalk iu front of the door. He soon got up and went to his boat, sweariug vengeance. In his next issue Prentice gave an account of tho affair, aud invited Captain Vanderbilt to call again when he saw fit, at the same time telling Captain Vanderbilt that he (Prentice) wcifihed fourteen stone, used both hand? with equal dex terity, aud swung a pair of fists like the halyard blocks of au Ka.t Indian Fchooncr. Vanderbilt did not renew the quarrel. A Speech by Itobcrt Toombs. Atlanta (. Constitution. General Hobt. Toombs aMrcs.el thecitizens and members of the Legislature at the Nail of the House of Representatives. He made an earnest anil eloquent speech. We are indebted to tienentl Toombs for a clear definition of the issues pending in the present .Senatorial race, lie defined the issues clearly, and made them no emphatic that no member of the Legislature can be mistaken. . llclow we give the synojsis of ieneral Toombs' sjkh'cIi: I responded without reluctance to an Invitation to address you to-nilit. There are very grave issues la-fore the people which demand serious attention. My themes hali t two the election of a Senator and the condi ion of the country. "What ol the future?" shall occupy Mome of my time. In intiirin what qualilicalinils are necessary for a r-ciiutor, the standard is not dilücult to find. Jefferson fixed it when he aid he should l hone.-t, he t-hould be capable, he should be faithful. As the prent Kornau orator said, it is time that men should carry their principles on their foreheads. Applause. 1 invoke the blesMngs of the llvii.g Gxl on my country iu this time. (ApplaiiM-.J III the trials through which we have pissed, some men have been found wanting, and others have stood with spirit unbroken, and are ready, row, as ever, to strike for llertv. (Applause. The sjienker then reviewed briefly the sad condition of the South pfter the war. A Legislature was chosen for us, but not by the people of Georgia. I. with thousands of otheni, for the poor service I had done my country, wus denied the privilege of t citizen. But they said: "This will not do; this people is not conquered " So they adopted the system of reconstruction. We accepted it too soon. For New Jersey rejected it after Ueorjiia had accepted it. The loyal citizens march'! Is-tweeu bayonets to the polls and el. cud a Legislature. It met. and it was proposed that the Smith should accept those ameudiueutit which degraded every man in the South whom they didn't choose to pardon, or who stood ou the nobler ground, that he had committed no crime and aiked no pardou. IApplause.1 The first thing the Legislature w as to do, was to elect two Senators. Two men were nominated the present Senator Brown and the illustrious Foster BlodgetU But the memory of their acts was too fre-h, and they were both beaten. This wouldn't do for a reconstructed Legislature, and they passed another act to reconstruct tJeorgia. Govenor Brown having lost the Senate, took piotection on the Supreme Bench. Foster Blodnett took protection in the Slate road, where every body knew there was good stealing. Applause. He had plenty of help. Virtuous Simon Cameron came oowu to help. (?) The President of the Southwestern Railroad inserted. When the Legislature met strain they tried all sorts of management, and didn't succeed until they got a distinguished son of Ohio "Oleaginous Harris," more commonly k'iowu as """auy Harris" aud he ran it beautifully. General Toombs gave a very humorous description of carpet-bag rule. He said, "devolving resources" meant somebody else's things. All this misrule aud fraud was the act of a party led by Governor Brown, and in the ruid-t of those dangers he p tinted at our dwellings with a torch. .Mr. heymojr rati ior iTesiaeiit, ana nineteen twe fifths of the white people of this State voted for him because he stood on a platform which declared that these acts of reconstruction were null aud void. It Is true yet. "I Ion t think MX) houest men in Geotyia voted for them. Our ieople were disheartened iu 1ST 1. Thev went to Baltimore. Mr. Greeley wanted to be Presi lent a man with many private virttues, but not a particle of wisdom a man who was deud a year or two before he died. Laughter. J don't mean to ridicule the por fellow, for he was crazy. Laughter.! This was the time thev say brown came over to the Democracy. God gave the murk ! Applause. We made a manly canvas for Seymour aud State Rights, and carried the State bv 49. 00.1. but when we cannht Brown we lost 40tOiofr.at majority." Alluding to the fraud of IsTti. the speaker said there was oue man in Georgia to whom we owe a monument, and he is the Kalian t member from the second, who voted -no" in that trial. ' Hancock had a worse platform than Tilden, and then came the avalanche. Vt hat shall we do nowT Some curse the Northern Democrats. Some say let's join Garfield. What? lake the principles of the enemies of your country, the principles of the murde era of your children! Vau Buren carried on I v seven Sratesiu 1M0. but the Democrats rallied aeniu. If you eo off and join the rovalists. you will deserve the euithet of i alhouu when he denounced the successful ad ministration as composed of rogues and roj alists. Pierce was elected after Van Bureu whs lost. S'and bv your col-trs, stand bv the trHth. and trust God for the right. (Applause Joe Brown I-smart enough if you w aut bis sort of a man. You are taxing the poor negro's red permT and gourds, and vet the people are to be tickled w ith newspaper stories of a boom. The people were never p.r Kvery sun that has set since reconstruction has fnnnd them poorer Mihii when it rose Some men have become princes, but those who prcsluce are biting the dust in poverty. Governor Brown ls one of those rich men. In an hour.he gut into the Senate. After he got into the Senate, he tried to fret his hand iu the Treasury, f Applause.) I told the people at Hot Sprintes that I served my people sixteen years lit Congress aud never brouuht home one -cent. Some "of them hissed. But 1 said hear the other part. I never wts asked by a single man to do bo. The priuci pies of government are the same as then. Don't think so much of appropriation in of the grander fu-ictlousof the Government. Let" us go back to the grand old doctrine. There are many things worth more than life. 1 not take your oppressor in your evil days. Trus-t him not. Trust not him anywhere who opposed the poor and insulted the woman. How can you look thee widows lu the face how can you go where they are scattering llowent over the martyred dead, and reward the man who helped to oring your men. degradation. Jf you must full, fall like If the Coniiituiiou must go down, "Nail to the mast the Uttered flag, Set every threadbare sail ; Give her to the god of storms. The lightning aud the gale I" Some Genial Irony. I hare always held, said Joh Trhitcorub yesterday, tLat the time would come when trial by jury would be abolished, and American hotels would ct-ae to pill a gravy of French affectation all over their bills of ftre. Do you know 1 think a man can go to New Yrk and make a fortune by opening n hotel with bills of fare printed in English? I think it would get rumored around town that there was auch a hotel. The BheriÖ would never own it. Old Mose met a colored Judy , of his ac quaintance on Galve.-ton avenue, and asked lier now she and her liusnaml were coming j o now, it being a notorious facttthat they I ued to light like rats and dar. The colored I tdv h'k her head and replied: "DrefJuI batl h'its gittin' wu.se and wua." '"Why, I heard he hod quit beating yer. Do nabors say dey hasn't heard hin whack Yen wid a bed alat for moar Jen a week., "J)at's what I e com plai ran' aismt. lie ain't trot no imwr use foar me. I'se gwine to soe a liar ruht away abonl pttin a divorce." Gal veston News.

A NOTED GAMDLEirS LUCK.

J.'II. Greene Career of idfenture, lVealth and Pennrj. A Singular Story of the I'ps nnrt Downi of a Gambler's LifeRestitution to Ills Victims, nn it Want In Old Age Ills Share in AntlGaming Legis lation. Philadelphia Press. Over thirty years ago Jonathan II. Greene was known as one of the most expert gamblers in the country. lie was familiar with all the arts calculated to deceive even the most skillful, and had the faculty of winning money wherever he went. Possessed of a fair education, he supplied what was deficient by natural shrewdness, quickened by rough knocks from a heartless world, and lie passed as a man of earning. His skill with cards was almwt phenomenal, and in the fifteen years he devoted togaiublinghc handled hundreds of thousands of dollars. He came in contact with the most noted professionals of his day; he visited all the principal cities of the Virion, passing as a man f means, which he spent like a prince, and dressed in the most fashionable attire: his society wa.s courted and he was tKjpular with all whom he met. lo-uay he lives in a small house in the lower tart of the city. which is not even supplied with the neces saries of life, with a family of seven children looking to him for supjxirt. and destitute of the means of sunt dying them. In fact. Jonathan Greene, who once had a Jiank account which could be reckoned bv thou sands, is a supplicant for charity. His fam ily have barely the means to keep body und soul together. In ersonal appearance Greene is striking, lall and compactly built, with an eye but little dimmed by his seventy years of life, a rich, melodious voice, and a hearing that tells one who lias in times gone by as4ciated witli those who were gentlemen, in beannjr, at least. His CAREER. The career of Greene lias been a remarka ble one. First he acquired a reputation a-s a professional, and then lie became known as one of the most ardent advocates of the laws enacted in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and Ohio "to make gambling a criminal ofTensc. He was born in Marietta, Ohio, in Juiy, 113, in what wus known as the Campus Marlins, a stockade built by the colony that had emigrated to Marietta County. His father had emigrated there with his family of six children, four others having been burn there, of which Jonathan was the youngest. His father had been a soldier in the Revolution, aud was an architect and builder. It was be who drew the plans and built the Illcnncrbasselt Mansion, twelve miles below the Muskingum Iliver, iu Virginia, occupied by the man so intimately associated with Aaron Utirr, whose intimacy witlt Iiis wife in after years gave rise toasuit that scandalizedMHMcty Th family soon after moved into the Territory of Indiana, and here, when he was six yean old, his mother died. "On her death-bed," said lie, "she asked me never to drink intoxicating liquors. I gave her my word, and in a few minutes she died, with her hand upon my head, and a blessing upon her lips. That pledge I have never broken' And he involuntarily brushed a tear from his eye From that time until he was sixteen years of age, he became a wanderer, his associates bei i it: the Indiai tribes that then held pospossion of the Western country, the principal ones being the Cherekee, Choctaw and Creeks, most of the time being in the Ked Iliver a.s high up as Fort Towson, going up the lUd Kiver.and cutting a way through solid rafts to get there. It was while leading this wild, careless life that he acquired his taste, for gambling, and on returning to his old home in 131, then grown to respectable proportions, he launched forth into the current that has carried so many down to ruin. A CARD SUARrER. But encccss met him at every point, and he soon became looked upon as a gambler from whom it was an honor to win a stake. He could read the cards by the backs almost as readily an by the face; he was the first man to deal the cards from the bottom of the ack, and he was the inventor of four of the advantage" boxes used in faro. Ftdlowing this up successfully for twelve years, his winnings were naturally large, and'his operations extended to all the principal cities of the United State. Coming to Philadelphia in 183Ö, he met a party of well-known gamblers, among whom were Pendleton, of Washington; Campbell, of Itulti more, and Hopkins, of New York, all experts. He played with them three consecutive days, and walked out of the saloon at Sixth and Chestnut streets richer by $30,000 than when he entered. In 1S4L' he renounced the gaming ttble and decided to lead a more honorable life. Beginning in this city, he started on a lecturing tour and went to Ilarrisburg, where, after a heavy outlay of money and much time, he had passed the gaming laws now on the statute b ioks. On the rostrum he exposed the tricks of gambling and startled his audiences by the adroitness with which he handled the canls. After having the law passed in this fctate he went to Kentucky, then to New York, then to Ohio and Maryland, where he had similar laws enacted. During the course of his lectures here a welt-known professional from South Carolina named Freeman denounced him as a fraud, a cheat, and a humbug. He insisted that Greene could not do the tricks lie claimed, and challenged him t pnblicly debate the subject. This Greene accepted, and the Chinese Museum, then at Ninth and Chestnut, was selected as the place. IIcv. William Klder acted as Moderat r. and on the platform were llev. John Chambers. Leonard Jewell and Dr. William Giblnms. For three days the debates ontinued. and when it closed, and Greene won a signal victor)'. Freeman was so much impressed with the force of thearguments used that he renounced the profession and became one of Greene' most ardent supporters. "And not only that," said he, "all his gambling tools were presented to nie, which I still have in the house." MARINO KESTITCTIOX. When he gave up the business he made restitution of all he bad acquired while in it. In Woods County, Virginia, be gave to different parties 10,000 acres of land; in Cincinnati be gave away a number of very valuable houses and lots, and in other cities he gavt t people vast fortunes. By his lectures he made but little; by the sale of his boik, entitled "Greene on Gaming," he made less, and a series of misfortunes has reduced him to -penury. His work orr gaming is acknowledged by experts tobe the most thorough expose of tricks of gnmblers that has appeared in print. He has for two years past been arranging a series of letters tin the subject, which hctproposes to collate under the head of "8ixiy Year a Gambler," which will be interspeised with anecdotes of famous men of the green table which have never yet appeared in print. "I am as expert to-lay with the cards," he remarked, "as I was In my best dty.i. It is a thing a man never forget, if he once thoroughly acquires the art. The eyes may fail, the memory become obscure, but the hand never lopes its cunning. Betides my gaming operations I participated in the Texas War of Independence in 1830, and served in the late Rebellion as Captain of Company F, Thirty-li-fth Indiana Kegiment. "See, here is a scar on my arm. I hare two on my chest, nnd a bullet went through my cheek. I have spent a life of dishonor commingled with good work. 1 was the first man to take card from the bottom of the pack, and the on I v man who did it for years, when the trick waa discovered. Now every rambler does lt.- I know all the noted gambler of the country,

and have played with them. Just after Hiad the gaming act jasscd, a man named Kierson, who kept lately in the old Arcade on Chestnut street, below Seventh, won $ls from a clerk of Townsend tfc Sharpless. and

J refuse! to refund it. He was convicted and sentences! to three years in the penitentiary under the act. All sorts of influences were brought to bear ution Governor Shunk for , bis pardon, but he refused until I made the j request, and he granted it. That was his last ; iardon, for he died soon after." - Iespite bis overty, Greene still retains his spiriti, and hopes at nodistant day to be able to retrieve his lost fortunes, at least Btilticient to be placed alove the actual want be is now in, w hen the little house at No. 1.802 South Juniper street can be suplied with some of the comforts of life, and lis family released from the severe pinch of poverty. The ladies of the Twenty-sixth Ward Relief Association have become interested, and are considering wavs and means of relieving the necessities of Iiis family. A RELIGIOUS PACK OF CARD. How Thej Served as Bible, Almanac and Rook of Common Prayer to a Soldier An Ingenious Plea. A soldier by the name of Richard Lee was taken before the Magistrates of G lasgow for playing cards during Divine service. The account of it is thus given: Sergeant commanded the soldiers of the church, and when the parson had read the prayers, he took the text. Those who had a Bible took it out; but this soldier had neither Uible nor Common rrayerllook; but, pulling out a pack if cards, he spread them out before him. He looked first nt one card and then at another. The Sergeant saw him and said: "Richard, put up the cards; this is no place for them." "Never mind that," said Richard. When the service was over the Constable took Richard a prisoner, and brought hitu before the Mayor. "Well, whut have you brought the soldier here for?'' says the Mayor. "For playing cards in church." "Well, soldier, what have you to savior yourself?" "Much, sir, I hope." "Very good; if not, I will punish you more than ever man was punished." "I have been," said the soldier, "about six weeks on the march. I have no Bible or Common Prayer Hook; I have nothing but a pack of curds, audi hope to satisfy your worship of the purity of my intentions." Then spreading the cards before the Mayor, he be-ran with the ace. "When I see the ace, it reminds me that there U but one God. When I see the duce. it reminds me of Father and Son. When I see the three, it reminds me of Father, sm and Holy Ghost. When I see the four, it reminds me of the four evangelists that preached Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. When I - see the live, it reminds me of the live wise virgins that trimmed the lamps. There were 4en, but five were wise and five were foolish and were shut out. When I pee Hie six, it reminds me that in six days the Lord marie Heaven and earth. When I see the seven, it reminds me that on the seventh day Gk1 rested from the great work He bad made, and hallowed it. When 1 see the eight, it reminds me of the eight righteous persons that were saved when God destroyed the world, viz.: Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives. When I see the nine. it reminds me of were cleansed by were nine out of returned thanks. the nine lepers that our Savior. There the ten that never When I see the ten, it reminds me of ten commandments which God handed down to Moses on the tables of stone. When I see the. king, it re minds me of the Great King of Heaven, which is God Almighty. When I see the queen, it reminds me of the Queen of Sheba, who visited Solomon, for she was as wise a woman as he was a man. She brought with her fifty boys and fifty girls, all dressed in boys' apjurel. for King Solomon to tell which were boys and which were girls. Kimr Solomon sent for water for them to wash; the girls washed to the elbows, and the lioys to the wrists, so he told by that." "Well," said the Mayor, "you have given a description of all the cards in the pack except one." "What is that?" "The knave," said the Mayor. "I will give your Honor a description of that, too, if you will not be angry." "I will not," said the Mayor,""if you do not term me to be the knave." "Well," said the soldier, "the greatest knave I know of is the Constable that brought me here." "I don't know," said the Mayor, "if he is the greatest knave, but I know he is the greatest fool." "When 1 count how many spots in a pack of cards I find 3GÖ as many as there are days in the year. When I count the number of cards in a pack I find there are fiftytwo the number of weeks in a year; aud i find four suits the number of weeks in a month. I find there are twelve picture cards in a pack, representing the number of months in a year; and on counting the number of tricks I find 1hL teen, the number of weeks in a quarter S you see. sir, a tmck of cards serves for a Bible, almanac and Common Prayer Book." A Plea for Noise. '0, Johnny," cried a nervous mother, "do have some pity on tnv txwr head I Can't you play without shouting so?" Boor little Johnnv drew up the tape reins with which he was driving two chairs tan dem, and called out in a loud, hoarse whisper: "Get up! whoa!" But at length, finding little pleasnre in this suppressed amusement, he threw down his reins, and laying his hand on his breast, said, with a long" breath: "0. mother, it's so full of noise in here. and it hurts me to keep in. Don't all little boys make a noise when they play? "Yes, Johnny, I believe they all do," replied the lady. "Oh, then, dear mother," cried Johnny, in a whining tone, "please let me bea little boy." We will join poor Johnny in his petition. Please, mother, let your sons be little boys when they may. Time is bringing on apace life's toils and cares. Let them have a free, happy childhood, that when their fathers are low in the grave they may point back to those days and say: "We were happy children, there was always sunshine where mo'her was." Word of WiiMlom. Never judge by appearances. A seedycoat may cover a heart in full bloom. The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are desired tobe when dying. it is n vanity for a man to pride himself on what he has honestly got aud prudently used. Let him who regards the loss of time make proper use of that which ia to come in the future. Ideas generate Ideas, like a potato which, cut in pieces, reproduces itaelf in a multiplied form. To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to , hew blocks of marble with a razor. Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. Gave the Wrong Sign. He was trying to push himself through the crowd the other day at a fire down on Galveston avenue, when he was halted by a policeman. "I am a member of the Interior press." ; vIIow do I know you are a member of the pres? Where are your credentials?" ' "Credentials? Well, jut amell my breath If you don't believe me,!' and he breathed in the face of the minion of the law, who replied i Yon can't come that on me. . You are only a candidat." Gal Teuton News.

4. SLIGHT INDISPOSITION.

Mr. SpootnIyk nt the Mrrrjr of Pills and Fruit. Brooklyn Eagle. "That's better," groaned Mr. Ppooixrdyke as his wife arranged the cool pillows under his head, "now I can die 1-kiking out upon the trees and sky," and Mr. Npoo pendyke assumed a resigned expression of visage and gazed out of the corner of his eye uoii a bare ailanthus tree and a half-dozen telegraph wires. "Ch! you won't die," said Miss Spoopendyke cheerfully. "You're only a little sick, and vou'll get over it," "That's all you know about it," snarled Mr. Snoopendyke. "To hear you talk one would think you had to be fitted up with little beds and a bad smell to be a Government Hospital. I'm down sick. I tell yc, and I don't want any fooling about it." "Well, well," cooed Mrs. Spoojiendyke, "don't excite yourself. Keep quiet "and you'll get well." "Much you'd care,"muttered Mr. Hpnopendyke, turning on Iiis "side and resting his cheek on his hand, an attitude generally assumed by martyred spirits on theapproach of dissolution. "Will you take your drop again, dear?" asked Mrs. Spoojiendvke. "It's time for them." "No, I won't. They're nasty. I haven't had anything but drops for a week. From the way you administer drops one would think you was the trap-loor of a hanging machine. Gimme some tics." "Rut there ain't any figs. dear. I'll go and pet you some." said Mrs. Sjoopendyke. "That's it," growled her husband. " You only want an excuse to leave me to die alone. Why haven't ye got some figs? You might know I'd want figs. Got any citron?" "No. 1 haven't got any citron; but I won't be more than a riinute away, and I'll get you any fiuit you want." "O yes; you'd get it, I have no doubt. What you want is a rail-fence around, and a gateotl' the hinges to be a dod-gasted orchard. Fetch me some strawberries." "Why, strawberries are out of season. There ain't any in the market now." "I supposed you'd say that," moaned Mr. Spoojiendyke. "You've always got some excuse. If 1 should die, you'd have an apology ready. Gimme something to take this taste out of my mouth." "What would you like dear?" asked Mrs. Spoonendyke. "Soap, dod gast it! Gimme soap if you can't think of anything eis'," demanded Mr. Spoopendyke. "Mebbe you ain't got any soap. At least, you wotldn't hare if I wanted it. (Jot any cherries?" "No; they are out of season. There are some grapes in the closet." "Don't want any measly grapes. If I can't have what I want, I don't want it, Where's those drops? Why don't you give me mv medicine? Going to let me die for want of a little attention? Want the life insurance, lon't ye? Going to gimme those drops before the next election?" Mrs Spooiendy ke ladled out the dose, half of which went down Mr. Spoopcndyke's gullet and half over the front of his night'"That's it," he howled. "Spill 'em. They're for external application. Put 'em anywhere, l'onr'em up the chimney," atid Mr. Spoopendyke fired the spoon across the rootn. "Have a piece of orange to take the taste away?" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, pleasantly. "S'o, I won't," objected her spouse; "gimme a piece if muskmelon." "I don't believe they have niuskmelons in November," sighed Mrs. Spoopendyke. "Of bourse they don't," resjio'nded Mr. Spoopendyke; "they don't have anything when I'm sick; it's a wonder they have houses; it's a miracle that they have beds; I'm astonished to think they have doctors and drugstores. I've got to hurry up and die, or they won't have any undertakers, or coffins, or graves. Gimme a piece of orange, will yc? S'pose I'm going to lie here and chaw on the taste of those drops for a month?" "You'd like those grapes," suggested his wife. "No I wouldn't cither. What do you want me to eat 'em for? Got any interest in the grate trade? Got any commission on those grains? Anybody jay ye to make me eat 'eiu? One would think you only wauled an iron arbor and four small boys climbing ver vou to be a grape vine. Where's my pill?" "You took your pill, dear," replied his patient wife. "Oh, of course! A pill is out of season now. Can't even have a- piil when I feel like it," and Mr. Spoopendyke groaned in spirit and looked dismal. "Now, sit down and don't move. I want to sleep. Don't vou make a bit of noise, if you wan't me to live." And Mrs. Spoopendyke held her breath and never rustled a feather while her hus band lay and glared out of the w indow for an hour and a half. A BILLET IN MIS HEART. The Remarkable Death of Stuart Robson's Brother. lAtlantafGa.) Constitution.! It is not generally known that the family of Stuart Robson, the jsipular comedian, are Gaorjiia people. He has a bmther now living at Yaldosta, and other relatives in Southwestern Georgia. The family name is Stuart, and the actor took it for his first name on the stage. One of his brothers was a soldier in the Confederate army, and was killed in a battle before Atlanta. His thath was one of the most remarkable on record. While engaged in the thickest of the battle he was struck by a ball which tenetrated his heart, and it was suppled Iiis death Was instantaneous. At night preparations were made to bury the dead, when ihe attendants were startled by seeing Stuart move. He was still a'.tve. The surgeon took him in charge, but saw at once that all hopes of recovery were vain. The ball had really gone into his heart. In spite of this lie lingered for hours before death occurred. The case is well attested. The other day Mary Stuart was in Atlanta with the Criterion Comedy Company, and she visited the cemetery to try and find her brother's grave. After wandering a long time among the thousands of Confederate graves there she wa compelled to give over the task of love. All around her were the weather-beaten headboards on which the only inscription was, "Unknown." Trobably her brother rested under one of these nameless graves, without a monument or even a line to tell where he sleej. Half Married. Little Rock Gazetted Old Nat, better known on the plantation as Black Nat, was arraigned before Court, several days ago for bigamy. "Nat," said the Judge, "you are charged with having two wives, Are yon guilty?" "Jedge, de fack dat I'se got two wives ain't de truth." "Have you not been married twice?" "No, sah. Never married but onct." "These two women here say that they are ynir wives. How can you explain their claim upon you?" "Dese two wimtn, Jedge, is my wife, not my wives. Oh, yer needn't laugh," he added, looking around the room. ' ."Your ignorance of grammar, Nat, does not excuse your crime. It would be irupslb'e to have a wife composed of two woiuen." "I doesn't kere mithin' 'bout grammar, Jedge. I 'peals ter facks, pints an! 'flosofy. Ef yerMl gin me de lino fur a minit I'll nrube de truth ob my remarks ter be a h ck. Does I heah a voice?'' "Go ahead," remarked the Judge. "Some time ago I bough a jar ob marriage liscense for de ostensifum purpose is ostensifum a good word, Jedge? Do she go fur whut she ia wuf Jn de Court and 'niong 3e lawyers?" . . . "Go on. raid the . Judge, "don't atop to make words."- ' - .( Wal, I got dar par ob liscense fur de pur

pose ob marryin' Lindy dar, de yallerest ob de two women. I went ter Lind y's house at de pinted time, gin dat liscense ter de preacher, an' stepiei out on de floo'.- Joe den some fellers on de outside runter cut high' Carline. Den dey cut high Aunt Ginny. an je es we wuz Half married some feller flung a brick through de w inder, an I lef. Arter I cot away and studied 'bout hit. I 'cludtnl dat I didn' want Lindy, an' dat I wouldn marry her de udder half. I cum up tor town an' tried ter pit a halj vorce, but da charged full price. Dat wuz too much, ca.se yer know !at a shoemaker, eben, shouldn' charge ez much fur a half sole ez fura whole one. Jes' 'bout dis time I foil in lub wid 'Riah, de black 'oman ober tlar. 1 went roun ter de Clerk's office an' tried ter get u half Uscense, but he didn't hab none but whole ones. I tuk a w hole par, went to see 'Riah. an' used jes' half de license in half marryin' her. Now, J edge, your ignorance of 'rithmetic don't 'scuse yer. Two halves makes a whole one. Two half marriages makes one whole marriage. Put half ob each 'oman togedder an' 1 jes has one wife. Ain't dat de flosofy an' de fack? Jedge, do I heah yer teilin me to goon home an' jine de Church?" "No," said the Judge, "you hear me tell you to go to jail until the day of final trial. ' "Dis is de cusis country i cber seed." remarked Nat, as he was led away by a Deputy Sheriff. "Da teaches 'rithmetiw in de schools, an' den puts a man in jail fur plyin' de knowledge."

Hornetn.' Ietroit Free Press. There is an old woman on Catharine street who delights to find a case that all the hctors have failed to cure nnd then go to work with herbs and roots and strange things and try to e fleet at least an improvement. A few days ago she pit hold of a girl with a stiff neck, nnd she offered an rdd negro named Uncle Tom Kelly fifty cents to go to the woods and bring her a hornet's nest This was to be steeed in vinegar and applied to the neck. The old man spent several days along the Holden road, and yesterday morning he secured his prize and brought it. home in a basket. When he reached the Central Market he had a few little purchases to make, and after getting some tea at a grocery he placed his basket on a barrel near the stove and went out to look for a beef bone. It was a dull dav for trade. The eroeer sat by the stove rubbing Iiis bald head. His clerk stood at the desk balancing accounts, and three or four men lounge. I around talking about the new party that is about to be founded on the ruins of the Democracy. It was a serene hour. One hundred and fifty hornets had gone to roost in that nest for the winter. The genial atmosphere began to limber them up. One old veteran ojened his eves, rubbed his legs and said it was the shortest winter he had ever known in all his hornet days. A second shook off his lethargy and seconded the motion. -and in five minutes the w hole nest was alive and its owners were ready to sail out and investigate. You don't have to hit a hornet with the broad side of an ax to make him mad. He's mad all overall the time, and he doesn't care a picayune whether he tackles a humming bird or an elephant. The grocer was telling one of the men that he and General Grant were boys together, when he gave a sudden start of surprise. This was followed by several other starts. Then he jumped over a bar rel of sugar and yelled like a Pawnee. Some smiled, thinking lie was after a funny climax, but it was only a minute before a solemn old farmer junijH'd three feet high and came down to roll over a job lot of wash-boards. Then the clerk ducked his head and made a rush for the door. He didn't get there. One of the other men who had been looking up and down to see w hat could be the matter, felt suddenly called upon to go home. He was going at the rate of forty miles an hour w hen he collided with the clerk and they rolled on the floor. There was no use to teil the people in that store to move on. They couldn t tarry, to save 'em. They all "felt that the rent was too high, and they must vacate the premises. A yell over by the cheese-box was answered by a war-whoop from the showcase. A howl from the kerosene barrel near the back dxr was answered by wild gestures around the show window. The crowd went out together. Uncle Tom was just coming in with his beef bone. When a larger body meets a smaller one the larger body knocks it into the middle of next week. The old man laid around in the slush until every body had stepjied on him all they wanted to, and then he sat up and asked : "Hev dey got de fiah all put out yit?" Some of the hornets sailed out loors to fall by the wayside, and others waited around on top of barrels and baskets and jars to be slaughtered. It was half an hour before the last one was disjosed of, and then Uncle Tom walked in, picked up the nest and spid: "Mebbe dis will vnre de stiffness in dat gal's neck jist de same, but I tell you I'ze got banged an' bumped an' sot down on till it will take ahull medical college all winter long to git me so I kin jump off a street kyar!" About twin;?. "Where were you when the first shot was fired?" asked a Galveston lawyer. "I was lying down on the sofu." "Where was your husband?"' "He was lying down on the back gallery." "And your children where were they?" "They were lying down on the bed, last asleep." "Anv other member of your family lying down?" "Well, if my brother-in-law was here I expect ne would be lying down in the Court House. He is a lawyer, unless he has reformed recently." Harper's Weekly says: "President Garfield will be the first President of the United States to enjoy the unique pleasure of entering the White House accompanied by his mother as well as his wife. A proud moment for that mother." Is not the mother of ex-President Grant still living? Never spend your money before yon have have it. This will have you from many difficulties and some temptations. But if you have a cold, spend 23 cents for a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Consumption Cure. In changeable climates lite ours, every one should reniemter that Hall's balsam for the lungs has proven itself to be a sure cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis and all Lxuig Piseases, and for a common cough or o-ld we gu&rautee every bottle, it has saved the life c.f many, eveu after all hope had lied. Many of our mt iutelliKeut famines would as suon be without woolen clothing in winter as not to have Bali's Balsam al wavs on hand, for it never fuils to immediately relieve ail soreness of throat and limps. A single diise taken at bed time will gently warm the blood, cause refreshing slumber, nd by mornii.g an onliuary cougb or cold will be gone. Ask your drttgjriKt and your friends concerning the merit of Ilnll's HalMHm. Price irr large bottle, fl. Remember we keep this excellent remedy ou sale at inr drug store in Indianapolis, and do most cordially recommend It to our customer and all good people. BrownltiK k Sloan, wholesale amenta. Health U YTealth. It seems strange that anyone will iuffer from the manv derangements brought on by an tmpnre State of the blotsi, when tscovill'a Blood and Liver Syrup will restore perfect health and physical onmuiratioTi. It is, indeed, a itrengtheniug gvrup. plensant to lake, and hau proven Itself to be the test blood purifier ever discovered, effectually curhe Scrofula, Syphilitic disorders, weakness of the Kidneys, all nervous disorders and debility, ft corrects indigestion. It makes the old feel young, the young feel gay, and will invariably drive out of the svstera tbe manv tils that human flesh and blood are heir to. Price of large bottles with full directions, fl. A single bottle wJtl prove to yon ita merits as a health renewer, for H act like a charm, especially when the complaint is of an exhaustive nature, ha1tt(r a ttudency to lessen the natural vigor of the brain and nervous svptem. Rcmcmlicr we keen this excellent Blood and Liver Syrup for sale at our drug store in Indianapnlis, and do most cordially recommend it to our customers and all good people. Browning A . loan, wholesale agent. I

HEALTH IS WEALTH Health of Body is Wealth of Mind

SarsapariljanResoIvenL' Pure blood makes sound flesh, strong bone and a clear skin. If you would have your flesh firm, your bones sound, without caries, and vour complexion fair, ose Kadway'a barsaparülian Kesolveni. A GRATEFUL RECOGNITION. "TnrnnafiKAtila 1 At-. WU1VSIV-41IV1UW vi u-riAuuiu ujmwc Lm truly a victory in the healing art; that reasoning power that clearly discerns defect and supplies t remedy; that restores step by utep bv decrees the body which has been slowly attacked and weakened by an insidious disease, not only commands our respect but deserves our grtatlude. Dr. Kadway haa furnished mankind with that WOndprflll rmitr Rarfnat-'a UKnanlKan m . v ...,v.j , ...... ..j m iwmiw uuaii solvent, which accomplishes this result, aud suffering humanity, who drag out an existence of pnin and disease, through long davs and long nights, owe him their gratitude." Medical Messenger. FALSE AND TRUE. We extrac; from Dr. Rdd war's "Treatise on Dis ease and Iu Cure" as follows: LIST OF DISEASES CTBEO BT Railway's Sarsaparillian Resolvent Chronic Pkin Diseases, Canes of the Bone, Humor In the Blood, Scrofulous Dbenaes. Ba(Lor I'nnatural Hst.it of Body, Pvphilis and Venereal Fever Sore, t hronte or Old Cher. talt Kheum, Kicket. White Swelling. Scald Head. I'terine Affections, Cankers, Glandular Swellings. Nodes Masting and Decay of the Body pimples and Blotches, Tumors, Dyspepsia, Kidney and Bladder Disease, Chronic Rheumatism aud Gout, Consumption, Gravel and Calculous Deposits, and varieties of the above complaints to w hich sometimes are given specious names. We assert that there is no known remedy that possees the curative power over these disease that Had war's Resolvent furnKhes. It cures stepby step, surely, from the foundation, and restore the injured parts to their Bound condition. The wastes of the body are stopped and healthy blood is supplied to the svem, from which new material ls formed. This is the first corrective power of Radway's Resolvent. . If those who are taking these medicines for the cure of chronic. Scrofulous or Syphilitic disease, however slow may be the cure, "feel better" and' nna ineir general nealth improving, their Bean and weight Increasing, or even keeping Its own, it is a sure sign that the cure ls progressing. In the disea-ocs the patient either gets better or worse me virus oi tne disease U not inactive; U uot arrested and driven from the blood If will spread and continue to undermine the wmstim. j tion. As sion as the SarsAparilliaii make the patient "feel better," every hour you will jpow better, and Increase In health, etrenr and fietüi. OVARIAN TUMOUH.

The removal of these tumors by Radway'g Nf;

i?9oiTeni is now so certainly estatdiftel that what was once considered almost miraculous la. now a common recognized fact by all parties. Witness the cases of Hannah P. Knapp, Mrs. C Kmpf, Sirs. J. H. Jolly aud Mr. P. D. lleiidrix. published in our Almanac for lsTs; 1ho. that of Mrs. C. S. Bibbing, in the present edition of our "Falfe and True." One bottle contains more of the active prind pies of Medicines than any other preparation. Taken in Teaspoonful doses, while others require fire or six times aa much. On Dollar Per Bottle. lis R. lis DYSENTERY, DIARRHEA, CHOLERA MORBUS. FEVER AM) AGTJX,f CPE KD A5D rRIVENTED BT Radway's Ready Relief. RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA. DIPHTHERIA, INFLUENZA SORE THROAT, DIFFICULT BREATHING EUEVED IN A FEW MIX UTES BY RADWAY'S BEADY BELIEF. BOWEL COJIPLAINTS, Looseness, Diarrhea, Cholera Morbus or painfcl discharges from the bowels are stopped in fifteen or twenty minutes by taking Railway's Ready Relief. No congestion or inflammation ; no weakness or lassitude will follow the use of tbe R. R. Relief. ACHES VIVI PAINS. For Headache, whether sic or nervous, ervousness and Sleeplessness; rheumatism, lumbago, pains and weakness in the back, spine or kidneys; nahm arontid th lfrr tileurisv. swelling of the joints, pain in the bowels, heartburn snd jiains of all smiu, Kadway g Keenly Kellet win anorn in mediate ease, and iu continued use for a few dai effect a permanent cure. Price, Fifty Cents. RADWAY'S Perfect Purgatives, Soothinj Aperients Act Without Pain, Always Reliable ant! at lira! in Tbeir Operation. A Vegetable Substitute for Calomel. Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with tweet (rum. purge, reirulate. purify, cleanne ai d strengthen. Rad ays lliln for tbe cure of all disorders of the Htomach, liver, bowels, kidneys, bladder, nervous diseases, headache. ootiNiipatlou, oufttlveiiesg. indigestion, ayppepsla, buliiutme, fever, inflammation of the bow el. Dlletand all de raugenieuts of the internal viscera. Warranted to effect a cure. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury, minerals or deleterious drugs. Otwerve the following symptoms resulting frort diseases of the Dijrenive Organs. Constipation, inward piles, fullness of blood t the head, aridity of tbe Htomach, nausea, heart burn, disgust f food, fullness or weight in ttu stomach, sour eructations, sinking or fluttering ii the heart, choking or suffering sensations when ir a lying posture, dimness of vixion, dots or- weow before the sight, fever and dull pain ia the hd. deficiency of perspiration, yellowness of the skin and eyes, pain in the side, chert, limb, and sud den fl null es of heat, burning in the flesh. A few done of Kad way's 1111 will free Ute system from ail the abere name d disorder. Price, 25 cents per Box. Bold by Druggista, Read "FALSE AND TRUE." Rend a letter stamp to RADWAT Ca, No. Warren, corner Church street. New York. Information worth thousands will be seat TO THE PUBLIC There can be no better rn ran tee of the virtue Dr. Radway's old established R. R. Remedies: 1 1: be base and worthless imitations of ihera, n thi i re FalM XesoJvenU. Relief aad nils. Be ure at. i ak for Kadway'a, and see that lha same "üiday" is on what you buy.

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