Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1883 — Page 2

1 THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 31. 1883.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31.

Thc "Passion Hay" poker. Folk's deficiency, shortage, or stealage foou up nearly Somehow the American people make baste very slowly in wip'ngout polygamy. It is now given out as reliable that Senator Davi, of Illinoi?, and Miss Barr, of brth Carolina, will bs married in ilaich. "MoTHiRS. look to your girls," says an exkarge, and another chimes in "this is good dricetjoa ein never look to anything rattier and sweeter for mental refreshment. Philadelphia is to have cable cars this week. Cincinnati is preparing to have them. Chicago and San Francisco already have them. In a short time they will be one of the institution of every city. Now that llr. Arthur's Secretary cf the Treasury i politically dead, the cry is "Hoar and forgery." And those who advo cate forgery for hoisting men into cilice aay that it is a success oftener than a failure. Fikst report: "It wa? not a suicide, but a caas of accidental sootisg." Second report: "His books and accounts are bcint; thoroughly eianiined." Third report: "Short between thirty and furty thousand -dollars." Ir ia said that, there are forty pistote in Mississippi to oue plough. This 5s probably true of other States. A pistol Is a very handy thing to have in the houso saaietimes, although the habit of carrying one bout all the time is to be deprecated. Mormon Missionaries never grow weary. They ransack the vorldfor converts. One of their papers, in its last issue, publishes reports from twenty-eight different saint) vho were seeking converts as far West as Nevada, as far Soutü as Alabama, and cs far North as Oregon. The sei-occasional French racket seems ta be gradually approaching, or else that last manifesto to banish all descendants of former reiguine families seems utterly foo'iah. It goes hard with a Frenchman if an cn'.nle ct a covp .ft .'- does not seem probable in the near fntii'e In a description cf the ladies cf Salt Las Cityawritpr of "Lippincctt's Marszine" says that many of the Mormon women are highly educated and cccoinplished, and that poetesses are common. Many of the young ladies are Sunday -school teachers in the Harmon Church, and the children sing sweetly. "Yon couldn't cultivate the self-respect of boy who ate out of tin dishes and without good spoons," faid the Superintendent of the Cleveland Work House, when he refused to feed the boys cut of tin dishes. He told the Board "if he wa3 to make those boys act ike gentlemen they must have the surroundings cf gentlemen." "W e Coventor lUu llutler was in WashogtoQ the other day he visited the Senate Chamber. As soon as he came in at or do-sr Senator Hoar slipped out another into the cloak room. He and old Ben an birdly dwell in the statue State, and when it comes o one room then or.e must get away. It is now claimed that Dorsey resigned the position of Secretary of the Republics n National Craraittee on account of defective eye aigbt, and low the jutstion i?. What can Dorsey do to make himself useful when in the renitentiarj ? If the Government should conclude to furnish him with an amanuensis lie might write the history of the campaign in Indiana, tell how he used Arthur's "peap" and carried thc tate for Porter and Garfield. Jathawkee, in writing to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, refer to the Indianapolis Journal's attacks upon Hon. Horace Heffren, and remarks: "But to me it seems queer that the Journal and its friends should support Millican for Senator against an honorably discharged Union soldier at the last election, and now be attacking Heffren for the very effense tor which Milligan was con. vieted by the Court that discharged Heffren." A New York paper demands that the whipping post be replanted in all places where it has been torn np by the triumph of gush and sentiment over the well-beiDg of society, and remarks that "there is more barbarism in the assault by an able-bodied brate on a delicate woman than there is in giving a few laches on the bare back of a cowardly and brutal husband." Manifestly the right thing !o do, whipping post or no whipping pest, is to whip wife whippers. THE LOGIC OF RESULTS. Tbe people of Kansas incorporated the prohib" I lory bquor amendment in the Constitution o the State; they elected Mr. 8t. John, the real prohibition anoptle. Governor: they gave him a Lerilature that wan ready and willing to pars stay taw tnat he mUht ask to seenre tue enforcement eftba amendment. We had probioltioD, : St. John and an iron-clad lienor law for two yeara, and we r.'.so had free whUVy in nearly ever town In the State during all that time. The people did not rpaliy believe in prohibition, but they were wUUng to Rive it a fir trial. They have learned that prohibition will not prohibit. Now then, with all due re -pect to St. Joha and nia friend", we must insist that, a failure i written upon their effort?, U cau hardly be expected that the voter of this State wiil couoent to cover the mine around again, even by a different route. The November venlict, fairly Interpreted, rowans GlicK aod rea'rtctlou ia preference to St. John and free whisky. TopekaCommoa wealth (Rep.) It may be trne that "experience is a dear school' We indorse the aphorism, and add that those who graduate in that school, in practical affairs, are about the best educated tuen and woaaen to be found. The people of Kansas, under Professor St. John, have taken a twc-yeaiV ccurte in "prohibition." The State, with prodigal liberality, supplied ier citizens with teachers of acknowledged Ability; with books and documents of stanLsxd -authority; with a Constitution and with laws in conformity with the Constitu'ion. It "prohibition" ever had a fair aance to ran and be glorified, Kansas f urLahed it. Kansas has learned in the school f experience, and is eminently qualified to -nter the lecture field and tell what she mows about prohibition. St. John visited Indiana and lectured, and now Kansas demarais audienQ. Kansas comes with no high wrought apostrophes to prohibition, nor is it

required. Sentiment and pathos ara not

indemind. None of the arts of oratory are called for. Rhetoric may stand a tide. Let as have the '.cgic of rc6ult of facta, or experience trr.th. without embellishment We start out with the plain declaration of the Topeka Commonwealth, a Republican organ. It presents no fancy sketch, and the Governor of Kamas tells his people and produces the figures to prove what he says, that prohibition in Kansas has proved to be a wretched, disestrous and a demoralizing failure. The logic of results is convincing. Experience has been a dear school for Kansas, but the people have been taught in it, have paid their tuition fees', have graduated, and with renerous beneficence are riving to their neighbors the wealth of their knowledge. We are inclined to the opinion that the pecpie will gladly listen to the logic of results, and endeavor, with prudent forethought, to escane Mich results as have fallen to the lot of Kansas Wise, prudent, restraining laws are in demand, laws that can oe enforced and obeyed and if it be made a matter ol prayer, let the people pray for a re'gn of common sense. CURRENT NOTES. The War Department Is seriously considering the expediency of ircrcasing the standing Army so as to have a many soldiers as there a e Pay master?. Mes. Laxgtkv told a St. Louis reporter that the was twenty-eve years of age. some people, it will be remembered, are born on tboC'.'lhcf February. Colonel Nic holas Smith, who married one of Horace Greeley's daughters. Is In Washington sc-ckicg a diplomatic appointment, lio would lika to le sent to Italy. Hekry Villart, the Northern Pacific million aire, rau awsy from his lather's home in Germany while a boy, and landed at Castle Garden with no friends and but little money. A carp ponJ in Shonanhoah County, Va., hc& in it thoueandi of carp from f ix to eight pounds down to those of laet summer's hatching. The pound was stocked only t we years ago. "Tue Adarnlesa Eden," a new light opera, written by Savlile Clarke for women only, and now running successfully at the Opera Comlq je in London, will be prosenled iu New York about April 15. John T. Raymond matched stiver dollars in the cite of Delmonteo, in Naw York, the other night, until he had won over SJj. Then he ratehed the lot against a two and o half gold piece andickt. Then he wore. Tub greater part of a cargo of sound cocoanut shipped from the West ladies wc:e found, upon arrival at Philadelphia, to be worthies'. Kai had gnawed out the eyes, drank the milk and thus mined the meat of tbe nut. W elster sued Teylor, In Chicago, for alienating his wife's aSertiona, and was elated when the foreman of the Jury wdi: "We fiad tor the plainthT," but correspondingly depressed by the res 1 of the verdict, i'Vand award ono cent damagca." The 575,000 won by Müs Livingstone ogainht Mr. FlemloK, ot New York, having been pronounced the heaviest verdict evcrgainel for breac-a of promi.e. a St. Louu paper recall one of flOC,OCO Riven to MU-s Kartrong against t":e millionaire Snaw, of tht city, years ago. Miss Delia McWuakter. formerly an enterprising Iowa milliner, is now farming extensively in Dakota. She hotneateaded a quarter section, to which she added another quarter, making half a section all under the plow. She superintends personally all the work and transacts all tte business, Disraeli was an actor. His great speeches wcie all carefully and Laboriously prepared, tut in taeir delivery he would hesitate with evident perplexity asif choosing the mostemphatic words to express bis meaning, and then, with a burst vt relief, utter it, just as he had prepared it for utterance perhaps two weeks before. Tiis borne of Robert Tocmbs is close by the !pot of his birth, at Washington, Ga., and he has never lived permanently elsewhere, "fifty years ago," he said recently, "I brought my wife to this house, a bride, and here we have lived all these years. We have been blessed more t Jan the most and I thank God for it." Dr. Schliem ha received permission from tte Hellenic Government to make excavations on the northwest of Athens, near thoold Academy, where those who fell in war were buried, and where the grave of Pericles Is supposed to be. After exhsusting thete regions the learned Doctor Intends to transfer Lis labors to the island of Crete. C, J. Vanperfilt left a large estate, but it is aot probable that his New York debts will be paid. There is not property enough to do It. The bulk of thecbtatsconbktsof a Urge sum of several hundred thousand dollars which ho had the income of during life, and which ho could will away. Itut It seems this money is not liable for any of his debtt, and so, although Mr. Vanderbilt leaves his frienda hundreds of thousands, he leaves his creditors, as usual, In the lurch. it a. and Mas. Lake fell into Intemperate habits iu Providence, lost their social position, and sank so low as tobe frequently arretted for drunkenness. The man at leDgth conquered his appetl:e. aid lived soberly for several months. The woman determined to do likewise, but one night she declared she could stand total abstinence no longer, and started off on a spree, regardless of her hnsband'i protest. Next morning she waa fcu.d frozen to death In the road, with an empty bottle in her grip. L Astronomie says that the little cannon of antique pattern in the Palais RoaaJe, which Is customarily fired at midday through a sun-glass concentrating the sun's rays, has done the same duty through all thc various changes of Government in two ceaturieä. In Lard's "Journey from I'ng to SL Cloud" (1751), he nit V es bis young tourLit Mit his watch by it. It stands at the point fixed by F.icbelleu the year before hla deata es the boundary'be-tween the Manor of St. Honore and that of the Archbishop. ArroamsQ to a compreheusive statistical return lately published in Germany, there are in Europe ninety two eitlen with moro that 100,000 inhabitants, out of which four capitals thow ea ;h over a million population, as follows: London, 3.822,4); Paris, 2.225,910; Berlin. 1.125,110. Out of the nmety-two cities and tow us referred to, Er.glaod clilxns 26, Germany 18, Italy 11. France 10 and Russia 8. The others are divided among the smaller Elates. There wero in the United gute in 1SS0. twenty cities having 1CO.0C0 inhabitants and upward. The collection of papers relating to Baajjniiu Franklin, which Henry Stevens has been rnakiag for many years in London, and which has been purchased by the United States, Is bald by a correspondent of the CTcciunatl Commercial Gazette to be Invaluable. Some of the manuscripts were found In a tailor's shop, where they bad remained seventeen years. One was cut ln'o a pattern for a sleeve, and another was crowed with the figures of a customer's measurements. The papers have been carefully mounted and bound la sixty volumes. The most curious and valuable la the original of the petition of tho Continental Congresa to the King, Indoraed by in presiding oQcer, Ileary Middleton. and ma,ked as having pawed through Franklin's hands on October 26, 1771. Another gem is the earliest autograph of Franklin, the manuscript of his "Articles of Belief and Act of Religion," dated 1723. Thore la a letter by Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, earnestly advising nlm to marry, and giving many reasons why a man is likely to become worthless and un

happy nnleaa ha ia a husband. Moral and other considerations are mingled tn the moat amufing

way. An argument is even mads in favor of marrying old women "they a: so grateful." Tbi troublo mads by the b'acx ballots cast In New Haven laat November has caused a number of bills to be Introduced Into the Connecticut Legialaturo prescribing the kind of ballots to be us 3d la future. One measure proposes that the ballots of all parties shall be printed, and furnished by tue 6Ute. Another bill provides that tu blank tickets shall be furnished by the Town Clerks, and that each party do its own printing Massachusetts has perhaps the most sensible law on the subject It provides for ballots of a uniform atze and style of type, but distinctly allows thc counting of any ballot that shall be cast, whether it conforms to the prescribed form and atjleornot. The penalties tor violation of the law are confined to the person who shall print or the person who shall peddle ballots which are contrary to the legal form. - TUE STATE. New, Opinions and Personal Item aa Gathered From Oar State Exchanges. Michigan City is suffering from bniglars. During the pork-packing season in Wabash 10,000 hogs were slaughtered. Crawfordsville mide $195,000 worth of im provements last year, by way of new build ings. Ilev. Dr. Dickinson, of Lafayette, is tem porarily employed as one of the Professors of I'urdue University, assisting President White. Professor Rid path, of Asbury, is working on his Universal History. His United States History lias reached a sale of over 200,000 volumes. The public man who wants to eo to some place where people won't make a fuss over him, should seltle right down in his native town. Kokotuo Dispatch. On his seventy-first birthdsy Alexander Ihompson, Treasurer of Wabash College, was presented with an elegant eold-headtd cane by the College Faculty. Six men at the foundry of Nichols & Libey, at Lima, were recently nearly suffo cated while at work by carbonic acid gas generated in the molding room. Captain Y. II. Hall, of Laport , died Wt Thursday from injuries received by jumping from a third etory window of tee Newhall House during the terrible lire. A Company has been organized at Corydon to build a large bathing establishment and sink artesian wells. The snlphnr water at that plac? is equal to the water at White Salphnr, Va. Jeßersonville has twenty-nine white schools with 1.434 scholars, and five colored schools with SOS pupils. There are four grades in the High Hchooji) and twelve grades in those below the High 2hdBl. Put Montgomery County in a judicial circuit by itself, and away with this Republican buncomb about a Superior Court which will cost the taxpayers of this County $2,000 per annum. Crawfordsville Iieview. The Notre Dame University at South Bend, Ind., is to have the finest dome in the country, except that of the Capitol at Washington. It will ha 200 feet high, and the statue surmounting it will be illuminated at night by an eclipse of electric jets. There will be thirty-six allegorical paintings on th inside by Professor Gregori. The material will be iron, and the cost is estimated at $25,000 to $30,000. Miss Mattie Brasket, residing on Hannah stree.t is, what is strange among her sex, an expert pistol shot. rJhe owns a thirty-two calibre Smith & Wesson, and at ten paces can drive the center nine times out of ten. At ttiirty paces she can hit a spot the size of a silver ouarter nearly every shot. She shoots oil-hand without much aim apparently. A burglar would stand a poor show if she got the drop on him. Anderson Iieview. Dr. Sid McClure is the only man outside the Governors who ever exercised the pardoning power. On making an estimate of all prisoners who ever were confined in the Prison South while he was physician down here, he found one name on the book to which no one inside the walls laid claim. He conclnded the convict who was on record hut could not be found ought to pardoned and marked so on the book. The convict, however, had skipped. Jeffersonville News. After a lone and unfortunate quarrel among the people of Muncie, Ind., over tbeir public school, matters have quieted down, and Mr. II. S. Mcltae has been re-elected Superintendent. The teachers elected by the old Board of Trustees lat spring, finding their case hopeless, withdrew their suit for damages, and the teachers elected af:ertbe organization of the new Board have control of the tchool?, and every department of the work teems to be doing well. The High School is the largest in the State in proportion to the size cf the place. Charles F. Strack, of Fort Wayne, has invented an automatic railroad gate and signal apparatus to be used at the crossings of railreads to prevent accidents while trains are parsing, and i so perfectly constructd that the running of a train gives a signal nf its approach in time for passers to get off the track, then closes the gate so that persons and trains can not cross until the train is out of the way, alter which the gate is opened again by the same agency that closed it, thus doing away with llagmen and human agency, in opening and closing the gates at railroad crossings. ltailroad men unhesitatingly pronounce it the greatest invention of the age, and insist that it will ac complish more to prevent accidents at railroad crossings than all other devices combined, and that it can not fail to be adopted by the great railroads of the country at an early day. Fort Wayne Journal. Will the Democratic Legislators please transact their business, adjourn and return to their homes and thus avoid the necessity of a defense at the hands of the party two yean hence? Michigan City Dispatch. Hon. II. P. Shaffer, Representative from this County, true to his promises to the people, has introduced bills in the Legislature to repeal the obnoxious Bjard of Health law and infamous road law, passed by the last Legislature. There is but little doubt of the repeal of these laws. Anderson Democrat George Winter, Esq , ha? sold the Anderson Review to Me&ers. George Ross and Thomas 1'. Harris, of that city. The new management gives evidences of ability, literary taste, good judgment and practical business sense, which insures their future success as editors and proprietors. It will be conducted strictly on business principles and will advocate pure Democratio doctrines. All of the little Republican 6'juirt-gun organs in the country are firing away at General Fitz John Porter and at once proeeed to read out of the party every Republican Senator who voted for the bill to reinstate hi in. The oil Rebel yell has been worn threadbare by the penny whistle Republican press, and they dive down upon the Fiiz John Porter case like vultures in tcarch of meat satficient to carry them through the campaign of 18S1 Michigan City Dispatch. The Legislature is acting very foolishly and childis-hly in oi-eatTair. Both Houses have appointed Committees to examine into the State Hons mat'er. The consequence seem likely to be two expensive investigations, probably conflicting reports and nothing done. A Joint Committee should be appointed and go ahead with the work at once. The people are watching this Legislature very closely, as it went In on a reform current. If it does not run in that channel, it will go out in a counter current and some of the members will be badly damaged from having run against snags. New Albany Ledger. The young Democrats of Jeffersonville, in council last night, decided to keep op their organization. The Club will, at an early day, issue an address to the Decocratsof each and every Ward in the city, urging upon them the necessity of orgasuzatioa with a

view of going into the city canvass in the

spring organized and thoroughly united. believing that the success of our grand old party depends npon clo;e organization, and the doctrines taught us by our fathers, that none bnt Democrats ought to be put on guard, they will work to that en L The Times congratulates these stirring young Democrats, and joic s bands with them. A naited party, and every Democrat in the city with his shoulder to the wheel, insures sncceas at our spring election. Jeflersonil!e Times. LOUDON LETTER. From Our Regular Correspondent. Losnos, Jan. 10. Mr. Gladstone's indisposition, though sufficiently severe to prevent his journey to the North and postpone the Midlothian campaign, will prove, it is hoped, nothing bnt one of those pasting ailments due to that East wind, which might almost be called a part of the British Constitution. The Prime Minister is fond of outdoor life, but the English climate has sud den changes in it; the afternoon belies the firomise of the morning, and frosty nights ollow bad daya with "infinite variety,'' giving the best barometers enough to do to register the rapid transformations. The young and the strong grow tough and hardy with the discipline, and under these errav skies are bred tne eubduers of the weste places of the earth, the masters of new worlds. Englishmen who have reached Mr. Gladstone's age, however, can not at once defy time, fatigue and winter. The Prime Minister brings to his hours of open air relaxation, a body and brain already tasked oy tue weigut 01 an Empire s busi ness: and strenuous amusement nndcr unfavorable conditions often acts as a new strain. His strength is. hsppily, still great, but advanced life at its best lacks one element that youth almost invariably eniovs: it fails in elasticity. Veterans sometimes can do much in the Premier s case few young men can work as hard but even his green old ege can not so quickly recover from a "knock down blow." An illness t&at would be a tri tie to a youth requires weeks of care and consideration for one who has pushed the vears of life allotted by the psalmist to ordinary men. I should not make the present trivial and homely incident at Ilawarden the subject of these re marks had nt the Prime Minister been on the eve of another serious exertion. lie was going to Midlothian again to deliver at least four great speeches in four days. It can be understood that, like a wer horse pricking up his ears at the sound ol a trumpet, Mr. Gladstone becomes animated ss he "remembers his swashing blows" in 1379 and 18S0. Then he roused the "LsthiaKs three" and won the victory he has tince enjoyed. The place, the name, the new opportunity were to him and his followers what "the sun of Austerlitz" was to tfie first Napoleon, and that they should recall their successful campaign is natural enough. Still it is pertinent 1 1 . 1 .11 n-i to ass:, wny ugnt tne matter over again c ine enemy is not in tight. Nobody, not even Mr Parnell, has trodden on tbetailof Mr. Gladstone's coat. Why should he quit his happy and safe fireside at Hawarden to plunge in mid-winter into the North, facing scotch audiences in draughty halls, ou wind swept platforms and at bleak railway stations, to rout all bis foes over again and "thrice to slay the slain?" There truly, he would find no enemy but winter and cold weather yet these ere bad enough when Scotch mists combine with Scotch froets to infect the lungs and grasp thc throat of the unwary visitor. Mr. Gladstone is almost "to the manor born," but in this weather, he would do well for his own sake and for the sake of England, to prefer his own heaithstone in milder Wales. "The time and my intents are savairewild," says the inflamed Montague. England has at the present, on the contrary, a piping time of peace, and Mr. Gladstone, even, might find 1 impossible to call up the rapture of tbe combat, or to appear again before the Scots with the light of battle on his countenaEC?. The almost unnatural calm which has fallen over politics may be due to the inertia following on exhaustion. England has had a stirring political year, legislative work is close at hand, and great changes are, perhaps, not far clT. The Bad of a Duelist. The Corate de Larilher, one of the well born anwDg the bretteurs, met one day in the street a business man named Casters, walking with his young and pretty wife. He advanced to him and said, with a polite bow: "I beg your pardon, but I bave made a bet with my friend here, whom I beg to introduce to you, that 1 would kiss your wife while she was walking with you" her the ether man turned livid "after having given yon a blap in the face." Castera fought him next day with pistols. The Count's first shot hit Castera on the right car. Ids second on the left. Before the third, h said: "Cette tois jeferai mouche," and with the third he shot Castera through the eye. Castera was avenged in a manner dramatic enough. One night as Larillier sat in his favorite scat in a cafe, while a marked ball ras going on hard by, a stranger in a domino and mask came ud to him, overturned his glass of punch, and ordered a glass of orgeat instead. Larilliere, for the first time in his lift, turned pale and cried: "Yon scoundrel, yeu don't know who I am!" "Oh yea," tbe stranger replied, "I know who you are quite well," and, with the words, forced him down into the chair from which he had risen. The orgeat was brought, and the stranger, holding a pistol to Larilliere's head, said: "Unless you drink this off I shall blow out your brain! on the spot; if you do drink il off, I will do you the honor of fighting you to morrow." "With the eaber?" cried Larilliere, who had lately been practicing witt that arm. "How 3-ou like," said the stranger. Then, as Larilliere drank off the orgeat, he added: "I bave humbled you enough tonight. I put off killing you till to-morrow." The morrow came, the adversaries met, and Larilliere found that he had met his match. The strarger left him not a moment's breathing space, but never followed up his attacks, until at 1 ist Larilliere cried, insolently: "When are you going-t(;;ll ms?" "Now," said the stranger, for tbe first time using his sabre like a duelling sword, and lunging it straight through Larilliere's heart. Masses were said in the Churches of Bordeaux for this man, who kept hu name a secret, and who had rid the town of its scourge. Old But Good. Nowadays when a sabscriber gets so mad because an editor difiers with him on some trivial question that he discontinues his subscription and "stops his caper," we remind him of a good anecdote of the late Horace Greeley, the well known editor of the New York Tribune. Passing down Newspaper Row, in New York city, ono morning, he met one of his readers, who exclaimed: "Mr. Greeley, after the article you published this morning, I intend to stop your paper." "un: no," raid Mr. Greeley, "dont do that" "Yes, sir, my mind is made up, and I shall top the paper." But the angry subscriber was not to be appfaed, and they separated. Late in the atternoon the two met ngain. when Mr. Greeley remarked: "Mr. Thomrbon, I ara very glad you did not carry out your threat tins morning." "Wb.it do you mean?" "Why, you said you were going to stop my paper." "And so I did; I went to theoflice and had your paper stopped." "You are surely mistaken; I have just come from there, and the press was running and business booming." "Sir," eaid Thompson, very pom ppously, "I meant I Intended to stop my subscription to your paper." "Ob, thunder!" reioined Greeley, "I thought you were going to stop the running of my paper and knock me out or business, iiy iriena, let me tell you something; one man is just a drop of water in the ocean. Yon didn't set the machinery of this world in motion, and you can't atop it; and when you are underneath the ground things upon the surface will wag oa just the same as ever,"

HOW MB. AVERT CAUGHT A BUBOLAB

Dietlas; a Fit Beneath his Caah Drawer and Blggtng a Trap Over IU Norwich, Conn. Letter to the New York 6ua. An amusing case was tried last week in the Superior Court of thia County. George Avery is a typical country grocer, snd his store in the quiet villsge ofGroton has almost as various a stock of goods as was crowded into the ark. He is till and lean, and prosaic and methodical in disposition. He never smiles. No one ever accused him ot humor or shrewdnew. At intervals of several years his store ha been entered by thieves at nigat and small sums of money have been stolen from his till. Two or three months ago he lost quite a sum of money and some valuable g jods in this way. Mr. Avery said nothing; but he took a spade and went down into his cellar and began to dig a hole directly beneath his money drawer. At odd times for several days thereafter, when trade was dull and the male gossip had fallen asleep on the cracker barrels up stairs, Mr. Aery toiled at his excavations. When he bad finished his work with the shovel he had a pit four feet square and eight feet deep. From the top of the hole to the floor of the grocery was a distance of about ten feet Mr. Avery next purchased some of the smoothest matched yellow pine boards in the market, and with them made a seamless shaft, reaching from the floor of the grocery to the bottom of the pit He next cut a. square hole in the iloor under the till, at d rigged in a trap, similar to those used on callows frames, directly opening into his eighteen-foot fhaft He invented a retiex action spring that, after the decent of the tr3p, would carry the door back into position. wiere it would be held by a snap eaten. Mr. Avery was now ready for his next burglar. He arranged his trap during the day so that neither he nor his clrk would fall into the bowels of the earth, bat invariably left it biited when he shut up store f jt the night He wai ed several weeks with no result. On the night of Jan. 2, Henry Johnson and a partner, wandering rascals from New York, decided to enter Mr. Avers's itoro for pillage. The getting in was a simple process. They quietly knocked in a pane of glass.and Johnson entered. He trod safely across tbe store and passed behind the counter. He approached the till. He placed his hand on the drawer knob and tock a step forward. Instantly the trap shot downward with a rattle and bang, and Mr. Johnson went down straight as a plumb into the chasm. His de cent was so sudden and rapid that he han't time to utter a cry to his companion. The latter heard the noise ot the trap as it struck against the side of the shaft, and at once made off. The trap, as soon as it had disposed of its victim, rose swiftly and noislessly into itä place, and the automatic hap lasteced it Mr. Johnson, speaking to a reporter con cerning his dowiiia:, said: "I thought 1 was going down to the bottom of the earth. I was Bui prised. I struck all in a heap. It was total darkness. I picked myself up after a while, and found that I was lame, but no bones were broken. I then began to think of some means of getting out I thought I was in the cellar, and felt around. My hand struck against the side of the pit I found there was a smooth surface all around me. As high upas I conid jump it was solid as steel. 1 kicked against the Vidcs, but it was no use. I cussed the damnition hole. Then I thought I might dig under thc boards, and I went to work with a will, but afterdigging for half an hour with my hand; and piling up a mound of earth behind me nearly as high as my head, the piled-ur eorth began "to run back into the hole. I gave up the task as hopelesss. and waited foi developments. I was now anxious to be caught. Anyway to get out of "that blasted pit, which was blacker than midnight" At an early hour on Jan. 3, Mr. Avery came dr?wn to his store, opened it, and at once saw that burglars had paid it a visit and that the trap had been sprung. Mr. Averj went about his morning duties with his u.-ual composure, sweeping out the store and tettlDg thing to rights. He did not go to the shaft to see whether the burglar had escaped. He had perfect confidence in the trap. Alter an hour or two, and alter returning to his home and eating breakfast, he called the neighbors Into the store and told them about his trap. He added that he had good reasons far oelieving taat there was a burglar in it All went to the mouth of the shaft, and Mr. Avery raised the lid. The party peered down,and dimly descried Mr. Johnson, begrimed with soil, sitting complacently on the dirt pile at the bottom. He lookep up at the gathering and called out: "When are ye goin' ter let me outer this cussed trap?" Mr. Avery replied that there was no hurry. A Constable was called in, ropes were prepared, and after a quarter of an hour Mr. Johnson was drawn up and landed on the grocery floor. He made no effort to escape. He was taker! to New London and lodged in the County Jail. He pleaded guilty to a charge ol burglary in the Superiar Court, and on Tuesday last was sentenced to two years in the State Prison. His companion, whee name is unknown, has not been captured. Mr. Johnson is still lame from the effects of the fall. TUE STKKL M.AIDKX. Instruments of Torture to be Seea la 0 Old German Village. In a town in Nuremberg is a loom where there are preserved a number of very curious instruments of torture used in Nuremberg hundreds of years ago, before the days of Jails and Penitentiaries. There are thumbscrews of the most approved patterns, and helmets for gossiping men and women. A singularly cheerful piece of furniture is a large, heavy wheel, on one side of which stands out a large, sharp piece of iron. In the glorious days of old an offender who bad to be punished with the wheel was stripped naked and firmly bound to a plank, faca downward. The piece of iron on the whrel was heated hot, and the wheel was rolled up and down and across the victim's back till justice was satisfied or tbe victim was dead. Inasmuch as the spike was long enough to go half way through tbe man's body, and was always heated red hot, the victim generally died and ja3tic3 was entirely satisfied. " It was net as expeditious as the guillotine, but it was just as certain. The only man tt at ever survived it was adjudged a magician becac&e he survived it, and waa promptly beheaded for being a magician. That settled him. He didn't bother Nuremberg any more. There are alto displayed switches made of fine threads of steel, which were laid on the back with great effett A little of these things goes a great way, but on being told that in the adjoining tower is the "steel maiden," you get over your qualm ishness. . Your party is taken in charge, by a guide, who shows you a large assortment of horrors before you come to the chief one, as a sort of preparation. There are stocks of all kinds, gags for tattlers, handcuffs, anklets and eradel, tbe bed cf which is filled with spikes, in which old-time offenders were faithfully rocked to sleep a sleep from which there was no awakening. There are long tables with screws at top and bottom, to which men were strapped by the hinds and feet the screws being turned ur.tii the unfortunate man was torn spart. In those cheerful days, when a merchant, baker, or butcher was found selling his goods by false weight or measure, be was placed in a cage and carried all through the city, with his name and trade fastened conspicuously in front After making the grand tour, he was taken, cage and all, to the river, and ducked again and again, till it was thought that his lesson was sufficient to prevent repetition. Perhaps some such form might be advantageous in these days. Wife beaters in those times were severely punished. Thev were furnished with closefitting helmets, from which heavyweights wero auspeadeo. uaey were given con-

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BKvuvud f - a " " a m rr priately labe ed' nd placed in stocks with heavyweights attached to their arms and feet; and there .thy t the livelorg day, subjected to the ers and ridicule of the tow3. Scolding wik9 were PQt in cages, with gsges in their nuV1"", and exposed on the public tquare. You wre shown all kinds of beheading blocks and jaJows.upon.'which noted villians have gonrf tC their reward, while the walls are covered rout top to bottom with the pictures of he practical operations of the various instrjmtots that filled the room. All this preparatory to the "steef maiden," which is kept ink room above, precisely as she was in the days of her usefulness. You ara shown what apxeara at first sight to be a rude statue of a woman clumsily hewt.' out 01 wood. 1 he guide noisele -ily opened it, one door swinging to the right and the other to the left The statue wrs hollow, and just the size of the average man. Inside were Etraps by which the offender was bound so that he could not move a single muscle. Both the doors were lined with long, sharp steel pike?, strong and thick. When the victim was firmly fecured, ihr door on the left was slowly but firmly i.iut, apd the long pikes went into his bed, two being so arranged as to pierce his eyes. Then the door a the right was closed in a similar manner, and he would receive another compliment of spikes, the closing of the door being done verv slowly, that the torture of the man in the embrace of the maiden might be prolonged as long as possible. The very last spike pierced his heart After remaining shut ud for" a while the straps were unloosened from the outside, a spring was toucbed, and the man fell fifteen feet into a cleverly constructed mschine that ground him up as fine as mincemeat, and dropped him into the river below, making food for fishes. IXGEK50LL OX LINCOLN. His Introduction to a Lecture on "Lawyer Lincoln by thr Crier of the Court." The following is Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll'8 introduction to a lecture delivered last Sunday night in Washington by Mr. Kidd, who was ouie Crier of a Court in which Abraham Lincoln often practiced law: "We are to hear thi.i evening a lecture about Abraham Lincoln. Not about Lincoln the President, the preserver of a Nation; not about Lincoln the statesman or the liberator, but about Lincoln the lawyer jomet hing about him as he really was before be fell heir to agony and fame something about his peculiarities, his habits, his thoughts and common words that is to say, hi daily life. "Nearly all the characters of history are impossibie monsters We know nothing about their pc cuIiaHties, cr nothine but their peculiamies. Washington 13 only a steel engraving. About the roots of these caks there clings none of the canh of humanity. Lincoln had the advantage of living in anew country, of social equality, ol teeing in the horizon of his future the perpetual star of hope. He saw and mingled with men of all kinds: and. aft?r al.l men are book?. He became acquainted with nature wiih things; he lived and appreciated the poem of the year. "It is no advantage to live in a city. The fields are better than paved streets, and the great forests than walls of brick. Oaks and elms are more poetic than t lie stacks and chimneys of factories. In the country is the idea of home. There you see the rising and setting sun; you become acquainted with the stars and clouds, you heir the rain upon the roof, and listen to the sighing of the wind. Every field is a picture, a landscape; every landscape is a poem, and every forest is a fairy land. "You have ro idea how many men are spoiled by what is called 'education.' For the most part "Colleges are places where bricks are polished and diamonds spoiled. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford he might have become a quibbling attorney or a hypocritical p&rson. "Linccln was a many-sided mar. He was acquainted with smiles as well as tears. He was never alraid to ask. He was not to dignified to admit that he did not know. He was not solemn. Solemnity, as a rule, is a mask; hiding tbe features of ignorance, and whenever a man is too dignified to ask he ceases to learn. Lincoln was a combination cf wisdom and shrewdness. He was a logician. Logic is the necessary product of intelligence and honesty. It can not be learned; it c?.u not be taught It is the child of a good head and a good heart. He bad intellect without arrogance, genius without pride, and religion without cant that is to say, humanity without hypocrisy. He was an orator that is to sav. he was natural. He never pretended. lie did not eay what he thought others thought, but wnat he thought "It you wish to be sublime, you must keep close to the gra3S. You must sit by the fireside of human experience, of human emotion. Above the clouds it is too cold. Too much polish suggests insinceiity. If you wish to know tbe difference between an orator and a speaker, between what is felt and what is said, read Lincoln's immortal words at Gettysburg, and then read the speech of Edward Everett The one gathered flowers from his heart, the other words from his brain. The words of Lincoln will never be forgotten. Tbe speech of Everett will never be read. The elocutionists believe in the virtue of voice, the sublimity of syntax, the majesty ol long sentences and the genius of gesture. Great ideas should be expressed in the shortest words. The greatest statutes should have the least drapery. "Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It Is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity, but if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abuped it, except on the side of mercy. He would never turn amen out of eren the smallest office, and leave a stain upon his name, without having given him full and ample hearing. He loved to pardon. He loved to see tbe tears of joy upon the cheeks of a wife whose husband he had rescued from death. "He will be knowa through all the years as Lincoln the Great Lincoln the Gentle, Lincoln the Just." A Warnlna;. Arkansaw Traveler. A destructive fire which occurred the other day and rendered houseless one of our most worthy citizens, was caused cy the recent change from very warm to very cool weather. During warm weather Mrs. Gappieson alwavs makes the fire in the kitcben stove, but when cool weather comes, the Colonel attends to that piece of menial per formance. The Colonel nad made arrangements to visit a neighboring town on business, and had told his wife that he must bave breakfast before daylight He was aroused at the proper time by hi wife, who taid: "It's awful cold this moraln?. You'll have to get up and make the fire. You'll find the kindling and everything ready." The Colonel hopped out of bed, and lig'itinga small band lamp, hurried to the kitchen without pntticg un his clothes. Pretty soon he returned and buttled under the covers, shivering and congratulating hiniielf upon the completion of his task. "What did you do with the lamp, Colonel?" "V-o-o cold, let me tell yon." "I say, what did you do with the lamp?" "Voc-oo We'll have a good fire in a xninuie. Hear the stove roar, will you? Talk about making a fire!" "I say, what did you do with that lamp?" exclaimed Mrs. Gappleson. "Lamp! That's a fact By George, I left it sitting on the stove," and he leaped out of bed and reached the door just as the thing exploded. Of course nothing was eaved. Warning Jto women Don't let your husbands make fixes.

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Increased strength exhibited inc secreting glands, and functional harmony r. stored to tne beverai organs. 5. Yellow Unge on tbe white of the eyes, and the swarthy, saffron appearance of the skis changed to a clear, lively and healthy color. 6. Thore suffering from weak or ulcerated lungs or tubercle will realize great benefit in ex pectoraunx ireeiy tne tcugn phlegm or mueual throat or head; diminishing the frequency oh cough ; general increase of strength throughout the system; stoppage of night sweats and pains! and feelings of weakness around the ankles, legsj snouioers, etc.; cessation 01 cold and chius. sensH ot snsocation. bard breathing and paroxysm of cougn on lying down or araing in tne morning All these distressing symptoms gradually dlaai pear. 7. As day after day the 8 ARS APA RILLT AX J lasen new signs 01 returning neaitn wui appear as the blood unproved In purity and strength, dis eaae will diminish, and all foreign and inrpuM deposits, rode, tumors, cancers, hard lasopcJ etc., be resolved away, and the unsound md4 sound and healthy ulcers, fever sores, chronlq sun aiKeftnes, graauaiiy disappear. 1 8. In cases where tbe system baa been salivated and Mercury. Quicksilver, Corrosive Bublimatd have accumulated and become deposited In the! bones, joints, etc, causing caries of the bonesJ rickets, spinal curvatures, contortions, white Wenings, varicose veins, etc., tne SAiuarAiuii 1 LIAN will resolve away these deposits and exter mlnate the virus of tbe disease from the system. 9. If those wbo are takmr thee medicines to; the cure of Chronic Scrofulous or Syphilitic di eases, however slow may be the cure, "feel bet ter" and find their general health improvlnc. their fieah and weight Increasing or even keepliuc its own, It Is a sure sign that the cure la progree-) leg. Is these diseases the patient either gets better or worse the virus of the disease is not inj active; If net arrested and driven from tho blood, it will spread and continue to undermine th constitution. As soon u the 8ARSAPAR1LLIAK. makes the patient "feel better," every hour yoni will grow better and Increase In health, stramrtai andnesh. J The great power of this remedy Is In diseases; that threaten death, as In CONSUMPTION of jUr Lungs and Tuberculosis Phthisis, Scrofula, dypbl iloid Disease. Wasting. Degeneration, and rieeM ation of the Kidneys, Diabetis. 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