Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1885 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL' WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25 188C.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25.

TERMS PER TEAR, lazle Copy. without Premium. otn of eleTea for.. 10 00 We uk Democrats to Dear la mind, m4 select heir own EUte pawr when they coma to take ctscxlpUona andmaka up clubs. Agents making tip data send for any information desired. Address INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL COUP ANT, InCianpalis, lad, Gcseeal Stkwaet iä dead. He. Randall says there will be no extra session of Con cress. Evin- placid Switzerland is ailllctea with ubiquitous dynamiters. GEOr.c.i Adams, formerly Treasurer of Casa County, died in New York Saturlay. Surrogat Roiaixs, of New York citv, and President Arthur propose to form a law partnership. Niaely every prominent town in the State seems determined to secure the Oliver Chilled Plow Works. Log ak continues to dodge around wherever that Senatorial bolt ia due, bat somehow it does not strike him. "We think it quite safe to say that there is not one chance in ."00 that the Cabinet will salt the Republican editor. How the organs would have puckered if Jeff Davis bad Btayed at home in sullen disregard of that passing Liberty Ball! It is gratifying to announce that the rbysx'ans of General Grant yesterday Rave the opinion that Lis tongue trouble is not ciucer. Tiksty-ose Chambers of Commerce in Geraiauy protested most earnestly ;i?ainst ths proposed incree in t ho import duties on grain. The redoubtable Miss Kate Field is at "Washington, after enjoying her season of Mormon hospitality. Let Mormonisai look out, all the same. Governor Alger, of Michigan, has turned out of office every Democrat and Greenbacker appointed by Governor Beole. Sj much for Republican civil service reform. 't Tar Boston Post well says that all the statistical archives of nations show that the purchesiug power of a day's labor is always greater under free trade than under protection. The train that left Bloomington, 111., for Kankakee one week ago yesterday arrived at the latter p?ace Sunday evening. It was seven days mating the trip. "Why? The beautiful snow! Pitts, one cf the msil robbers who killed Marshal Grasling and his deputy near New Braunfeis, Tel., fell dead within 100 yards of the train. Yeajer, his accomplice, was pursued eight miles and shot dead. Another disgraceful piece of bungling at an intended execution is reported from England. Three times was the attempt made to hang a man at Exeter, but through defective machineryevery attempt failed. The guillotine never fails the rope frequently. The Blaine organs are growing impatient over the delay in announcing Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet Patience, good gentlemen! Care'd had not prepared his list on the 4t of March. The Ssnate was detained sever tl days in consequence of the delay. Horace B. Ferren, Deputy Postmaster of a a via, N. Y killed himself with a revolv er in a coal shed. It was eoon learned that a special examination of the accounts of the office is being made by inspectors, who have already discovered a shortage of 1 2,000. De. Johs M. Home, a wealthy and distinguished dsntist of New Jersey, died recently, and a part of his will relates curiously to the cure of consumption. He introduces the subject by saying that in 15 S his life was preserved by the free Inhalation of pure, fresh air, after which time, in deep gratitude to Cod, he made the subject ot "correct breathing of common air"' a study. He had teen impressed by observing the result of a aigh on the interior mechanism, the normal action of the organs being reversed thereby and everything being di3arranged,while fall, deep breathing led to a healthy development cf all these organ?. The Springfield Republican, through Its "Washington correspondent, tells a very un pleasant story: "The Senate, in its last executive sessi:n, consummated one of the grossest outrages upon West Point and the army which It has perpetrated at the present session. A cadet named Wright, from New Jersey, who was about to be found deficient a short time since, resigned to escape the disgrace. He at once, through New Jersey social Influence exerted here, secured a nomination fron the President as Second lieutenant, The Senate had fnll knowledge of the case, and still confirmed him. As a result, Wright, who could not maintain himself as a cadet, takes rank in the army two years ahead of those cadets he left in his own class to trägste through their course. The President-elect went Mcoastin?" the other night. A witness, however, says that he who reports the Incident saw '"tears in his eyes" and "the wind blowing through Lis mustache with a mournful cadence." As Mr. Cleveland was whirling down the hill at the rate of twenty miles an hour and the correspondent stood at the top the story must be taken with a grain of salt. Here it is: " The next instant they were darting down the slide like t flash of light. Tears came into the eyes of the Presidentelect, and he held his breath as the wind blew through his mustache with a mournful cadence. Jolly coasters caught only a glimpse o! him t3 the sled ped downward, bat he did not escape recognition. Young men clapped their hands and panting beaulies paused to waive handkerchiefs and comforters. It was a triumph by moonlight. At If it the little sled carne to a pause and Mr. Iveland and his tflot alighted. Their citing was flecked with anewy particles

and their noses had beea deftly touched by frcsty bands, but they did not care. Mr. Cleveland had enjoyed a bob-sled ride for the first time in thirty years."

GOOD SENTIMENTS. The stones contributed by Indiana and Illinois to the Washington monument are set in the east wall nearly sixty feet from the bate. Indiana furnishes a block of variegated native limestone inscribed: INDIANA Knows no North, no Sooth: Nothing but the Union. "What a splendid sentiment it is. Illinois contributed a block ot bun native limestone tejiirg the words : ILLINOIS ; s STATE SO VERE1NGTY, NATIONAL UNION. We hope our Republican friends will not object to the fore going on the Illinois stone and advocate the erasure of the words "State Eovereingty" by a move to amend with hammer and chisel. A SAD CONDITION. The language and intent of the following petition, from sixteen maidens of Charleston, 8, C , bear a strange interpretation to the present status and advanced stage of woman's position. It was found among the records of the Secretary of State, bearing date 17.33, and was addressed to the Governor of South Carolina, and ran as follows: The Humble Petition of All the Maids Whose Names are Underwritten: Whereas, we, the humble petitioners, are at present in ' . li: . i 1 . a very meiancnoiy cuuuiuuu ui iuiuu, cuusiderirjg how all the bachelors are blindly captured by widows and we are thereby neglected. In consequence of this, our rennest is that your Excellency will for the fu ture order that no widow presume to marry any joung man till the maiJä are provided for, or else to pay each of them a fine for satisfaction of invading our liberties, and likawise a fine to be levied on all bachelors as ehall be married to widows. The great disadvantage it is to us maids is, that the widows, by their forward carriage, do snap up the young men and have the vanity to think their merit beyond ours, which is a jreat imposition to us, who ought to haye the preference. This is humbly recommended to your Excellency's consideration. And we poor maids, in duty bound, will ever pray, etc." THE LEGISLATUREGoiDg leisnrely is not always going slow. There is such a thing as "getting a good ready" and then going fast with a very fair confidence of going right. The Legislature this session has been acting on this suggestion, or as Crockett had it, making "sure of being right before going ahead." It has spent most of its time in studying its work, a very necessary preliminary when there is as much to do as there is here, and especially es much wasted work as th re is, which yet must be examined before there can be any certainty that it is useless, and when there is as little time fcr well-weighed work as there is here with the two months allowed every two years to the legislative business of 2,CC0,0CO of people. The rapid dispatch of matters that have had a chance of thorough examination, when the time came for it, proved that what caviling papers called "idleness" and "uselessness ' was really preparation, and that in all probability thi3 will prove one of the busiest sessions of the Legislature for years. There Is more danger of doing too much and making trouble by immature legislation than of doing so little that the imputation of "a wasted session" can be fairly made. A PROTECTION ALL CAN FAVOR. The fire demon seems to have a gluttonous relish for large, isolated buildings, which have been erected as the homes of children, or persons equallv helpless. Several instances of this kind, involving fearful sacrifice ot human life, will be fresh in the memory of all, and the latest in our dispatches has but narrowly escaped being another cruel holocaust. The arctic rigors ot Saturday morning witnessed the destruction by fire of the Mountain Institute, an educational establishment at Chappauqua, New York State the country home of the late Horace Greely. One of the teachers was fortunately awakened in time, and with the assistance of his companions, managed to extricate safely the seventy-five children who w.ere pupils of the Institute. There were many narrow escape i, however, and eeveral of the children were carried out insensible through the smoke and flames, while all had to pass some time upon the frozen, snow-covered ground, barefoot aad partly naked, before effectual assistance reached them. The very idea of the situation is enough to make one shudder, its only bright spot being that no precious little Ufa was lost. But we may well ask if there be no preventive of the oft-recurring horror of this class all over the country? Is it not at at least possible that the States, respectively, shall exercise the same supervision over buildings in the rural districts intended, like this, to shelter a number of children or infirm persons that Municipalities do within urban limits? Shall we never attain to common prudence except through disaster? END OF IRON MONOPOLIES. There are cow none to dispute the fact that Alabama and Tennessee can deliver pig iron to the centers of trade at a lower price than the cost of making it in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Some time since the Philadelphia Press sent a representative into the South to refute the fabulous stories of the cheapness at which iron could be turned out there. The Press man in the end affirmed the truth of all that had been claimed for the Alabama mines. More recently Colonel A. K. McClure, of the Philadelphia Times, proceeded South on the same mission, aad now makes the frank admission that the half had not been told to him. "It is idle," writes Colonel McClure, "for Pennsylvania and other great iron producing States to close their eyes to the fact that we have reached the beginning of a great revolution in those products. No legislation (alas!), no sound public policy, no sentiment can halt such! a rev olution when the Immutable laws of trade command it, and the sudden tread of the hordes from the Northern forests upon ancient Rome did not more surely threaten the majesty of the mistress of the world than does the tread of the iron and coal diggers of Alab&ms threaten the majestj of Northern iron and coal fields." In other words, Peansylvania and Ohio are brought face to face with another and more dangerous iron rival than Englandone that can produce It as cheaply as Engand and has sot got to pay transportation across the Atlantic Colonel McClure, with-

out denying the claim that Alabama can fell iron at nice dollars, give) eleven dollars and fifty tents as the figure at which she can sell, though he admits that there are f arnaces which can afford a lower figure. He further says: "It must be remembered that Pennsylvania has reached the minimum of cost in the production and marketing of her iron, while Alabama can aad will greatly cheapen the delivery of her iron in the great centers of trade." The Courier-Journal, which two years ago predicted that iron could be made in the South at $9 to $12, now places the figures at $3 to 10. The latter are none too low. Given the extensive facilities of the large and long established furnaces of the North, the cost of production will farther decrease. Within five years, even without a penny tariff, England will find herself shut out from the American iron market. The tariff will be found super-serviceable. There is ore enough in Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina ts supply the American continent, and the facilities for transportation adequate for its distribution. The days of Pennsylvania Iron monopolies are numbered.

8ENATOR HARRISON AND THE LAND GRANT. Senator Benjamin Harrison, of Iadiaua, cast a vote a week ago to-day which challenges the condemnation of his constituency, regardless of party. It was to lay aside and, so, practically to kill the bill for the forfeiture of the Texas Pacific Railroad land grant. Tt will occur to the logical reader to question how, since there is no Texas Pacific Railroad, can there be a Texas Pacific laud grant? There ia no Teias Pacific Road or Company, and yet there is a Texas Pacific Railroad land grant of 14,300,760 acres. Y'hy this should be so only a Republican United States Senate seems to know, and our Senator Harrison appears to be conspicuous in that outrageous knowledge. Briefly, this is the situation: On March 31, 1871, a grant was made to the Texas Pacific Railway Company of 14,CO!,7C0 acres of public lands, twenty alternate sections on each side of the proposed road being allowed per mile, with the right to the company of making np deficiencies ten miles beyond these limits in certain territory, while in other territory no limit was prescribed. In California the company might cure the deficiency within twenty miles of tne granted lands. Net a stroke of work has ever been done to earn this grant, but, notwithstanding, it is held for the company by the Interior Department. Not only the 14,30O,7;0 acres embraced in this grant are thus withdrawn, but as the Interior Department can not tell which is railroad and which is public land until the grant has been selected and surveyed, all the Government land within the limit of the grant is also practically withdrawn; and as a consequence of the refusal of the Senate to declare the grant forfeited the public is denied the right to settle upon about 40,000,000 acres of the public domain. The Southern Pacific Railroad, a competitor of the Texas Pacific at the outset, is built along the line which the Texas Pacific projected. The Southern Pacific was built without any land grant and in opposition to the Texas Pacific It was the boast of the Southern Pacific men the Huntington g ang when appealing to Congress for charter and tight of way, tnat they asked for no grant of public lan is. They employed agents and attorneys to go Into various States ,and with this argument in their favor as against the Texas Pacific to influence legislature to memorialize Congress that it cede charter and right of way privileges to the Southern Pacific Company. Not only this, but it was further held that the Texas grant had already passed. It was by such claims of independence for itself and by thus discrediting the Texas Pacific Company that the Southern Pacific secured its desired privileges and completed its construction. But later the Huntington ring received a pretended assignment from the Texas Pacific when, presto, change! it sets up the proposition that the Texas Pacific grant had never lapsed, and that by virtue of the transfer the Southern Pacific was entitled to the Texas Pacific land grant. So the Texas Pacific transfers 11.309,760 acres, not an acre of which had it earned under the terms of the grant, to the Southern Pacific, which had bargained with the Government that it desired no grant. The transfer, therefore, is, ab initio, void, jnst as entirely so as if the Indianapolis Street Railway Company had made it. The Southern Pacific has no more title to the lands under it than If the transfer had come from a corporation of ghosts. There isn't a backwoods Justice Court in Indiana that would cot throw out a claim so absurd as that of the Southern Pacific in the premises. Yet here is the United States Senate, and an Indiana Senator active in the scheme, virtually sustaining the claim, which is nothing less than an attempt to rob the Government of more than 14,000,000 acres of the public domain. What do the people of Indiana think of Senator Harrison's attitude in the matter? AN OVERSTOCK OP "RED TAPE." A capital enactment of the Legislature would be such an amendment to the law relating thereto as should put a stop to the expensive folly of bringing to this city twice a year the school rovenues of the various counties. These sums from the ninety-two counties only remain a few weeks and then must be transported, in whole or in part, back to the ninety two counties for distribution to the townships for school purposes. Whence the necessity and where the benefits of such a policy? How is Steuben County or the State 'Benefited by the County Treasurer bringing down to the State Treasury Steuben's assessment for school purposes and then, a month or two later, coming down, drawing It out of the State Treasury and taking it back again. There are some 800 miles ot travel if he comes in person, and for what end? Why not have each county retain and disburse its afciessment for school purposes, or such pait of It as the apportionment allows it? Take Elkhart, for example, on the northern border, whose assessment of $16,742.21 . is only fl58.50 racre than its apportionment of 116,583.71 why have It send its assessment to the Stats Treasury and then weeks later tend for its apportionment? Why not have it simply remit the exoass of 1153.50? Twice per year the counties send to the Stats Treasury about $1,000,000 (or $2,000.000 per annum) for school purposes, and

twice a year fake about $l,000.OCO away again. This process Involves expense somewhere. Who bears it? The weeks this sua lies in the State Treasury it is withdrawn from the counties. Why not let such part of it as must go to the counties remain in them? It is not unfrequently the case that the school authorities are Inconvenienced for the want, in the interim, of this same money. To more fully illustrate our argument, we give from the State Auditor's reports the monthly Treasury balances for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1SS4:

December 1, 153..... January 1. lSi February 1. 1SS1 March 1, 1S34 .... 1192.833 82 1,271 6 .1 65 6S1.0.7 61 656 5 &7S.479 4S 431,812 9 l,6i3,S3$ 86 7Si.7iS 6J G77.SU 20 6I9.6J5 84 431.200 i) Arm l, ism way l. p-4 June 1, 1SS4.-..... July 1, August 1. 1S8I Peptember 1. 1SS4 October 1. 13$.. November 1. li.. Average monthly balance, $713.923 4G. It will be observed that the January and June balances are swelled enormously by the school assessments. During December and May the County Treasurers, regardless cf distance or inconvenience, must travel to the capital, to bring their assessments. Daring January and June the County Treasurers, reg a: dim cf Inconvenience and distance, must ccme to the capital again to take back their apportionments like that noted phalanx teat rxaiched up tbe hill and then marched diwa again. There is enough "red tape" in the process to supply the dry goods market of the country.. Fjomthe statement of monthly balances it ia seen that while that for May 1 was 51C9.M2114. the balance for June 1 was $l,Gf:;,3C tG, or a difference of ? 1,254,020.92. Rut on July 1 the balance ia $780,733.6: a shrinkage in thirty days of ;07,095.17. But if this entire sum of $907,C93.17 be charged to the counties all will cot have received their school fund, for the aggregate apportionment was $1,050,441.70 or $143,346 59 more than the State Treasury disbursed in the month of June. So we see that about $1,000,000 is drawn in from the counties needlessly, and that after thirty days there are, at least, 113,310.59 still uxreturned to the counties and possibly three times that amount. Are the counties and the school districts bene fited by this withdrawal of the money from them? If so. how? Is the State benefited by this money which belongs to the counties and the schocl districts, lying In the State Treasury? If so, wherein? Will the Legis' latcrs not put an end to this folly and the ills that ensue from it? WHO STRUCK BILLY PATTERSON? This question Is not a fresh one. Every native born American of seventeen years must have heard it asked. Within the last half century it has traveled, in sundry lan guages, around the globe and until now, never been answered. Here is the origin of the expression: About 1835 one Billly Patterson, of Balti more, while visiting in Habersham, a moun tain county in Georgia, fell into a fight with one of the natives. In the progress of the fight tome person came to the rescue of the native by striking Billy Patterson on the bead. But so large was the crowd and so intense its interest In the set-to that no one saw from whom came the blow. The mystery of the source of the blow so exercised the crowd as to break up the fight. Billy Patterson turned his attention from his open attagonist to an effort at finding who had secretly struck him. When, after weeks of fruitless in quiry, he returned to Baltimore, be left friends t? continue the search. Patterson and his friends agitated the question until it came into general use over the entire coun try. The man struck was vexed over the affair through life, and in his last will and testament is a clause reciting that the administrators on his estate pay $-"00 to any person who should furnish proof of twho dealt him the c'.adf atine blow. A short time since one John Dyer, of Habersham County, died at the a?e of ninetynice. Only a little while before death he confessed to have been the man who struck Billy Tatterson. No speculation has yet appeared as to what this answer has to do with the extraordinary blizzard?, the interruption of transportation, the excess of catastrophes by rail and other recent disturbances. But even if the answer precipitated these convulsions, we can endure them patiently when remembering that we, at leaat, have solved that problem of world-wide moment: "Who struck lUlly Patterson?" FOOLISH. There is a good deal of humbug in the cry of ,lSectionalism," "Solid South," and kindred expressions used so flippantly by the Republican press. There is very little sectional animosity outside of the Blaine organs and a tew leading Republican bosses and politicians. Tbe ' Solid South" is largely a creature of the imagination. The figures of the last Presidential election demonstrate that tbe Democracy have no actual majority in several Southern States, and the plurality in five at least is very small. Take for instance the folowing States: Florida, with a total vote of 59,901, gave Cleveland a plurality of 3.571. Maryland, with a total vote of 185,806, gave Cleveland a plurality ef 7,993. Tennessee, with a total vote of 25'J.4'4, gave Cleveland a plurality of 7,092. Virginia, with a otal vote of 231,991, gave Cleveland a plurality of 6.003. West Virginia, with a total vote of 132,157, gave Cleveland a plurality of 2.477. Blaine's plurality is alike trifling in several Northern States. Here are the figures from seven of them: Illinois, With a total vote" of G72.G0!, gave Blaine a plurality of 2.2(i9. Michigan, with a total vote of 400,223, gave Blaine a plurality of 3,30s. Wisconsin, with a total vote 319,870, gave Blaine a plurality of 2,4 il. Oregon, with a total vote of 52,732, gave Blaine a plurality of 988. In the great Bute of New York, Mr. Cleveland received only a plurality of 1,047 in a total vote of 1,171,203. The great mass of the people are kindly inclined tonard all sections. Let the Blaine organs advocate that which makes for peace. A ovod many of our exchanges have gives much apace daily to printing the opinions ot Senator Nuzzle, Congressman Mozzis, Hon. Guzzle, Blank Puzzle and various other public men as to who will and who will not compose President Cleveland's Cabinet, It is

refreshing to cote the importance which Wasbincton press correspondents attach to the corridor gossip of the CapitoL "It is believed here," etc. ; "it is stated on what ia considered reliable authority etc.; "it is thought in certain circles," etc, that Mr. Cleveland has decided on this, that or the other man. If the reader vho sees all this twaddle will say' those fellows know just what I know which is nothing and no more, of who will constitute Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet," he will say a large-sized truth. The expressions of those who have pretended to know anything of the slate are only guesses, and need cot be relied on as anything more. Of course, lome will bs proven to have guessed correctly, and those will sapely remark I told you so." But it is only a guess after all.

A Difference of Opinion. Referring to the new bond of the Treasurer of 8'ate, Mr. Cooper said in a recent interview with a News reporter: "The bond will be submitted to the Governor and when it is approved by him (the Governor; it will be locked up and kept looted." "Has tbe Governor decided that the names should be suppressed?" "No, not exactly that, but we have aa understanding about the matter, and the bond will not be made public The requirements of the law are fulfilled when the bond is filed in accordance with its provisions aad approved by the Governor. Tbe responsibility rests with him an J me. I snow what 1 am talking about when 1 cay that tae names will be kept to ourselves." Governor Gray seems to differ somewhat with Mr. Coor er in relation to the matter, as we notice the following in yesterday's News: Apropos to Mr. Cooper's remark, that the bandsmen's names were not to be male public, aud that an understanding to that ef.czi bal been made with the Ooveruor. the latter to day aid : "There Is one thing I wish you would sav in the News, and make it emphatic: Ko tmneemtDU have been maae with me with regard to keeping Mr. Cooper's boudsmen's names out of priut; and what's more, nons can be wade. Whate er U rlKl't that tbe public shou'd have ttaev will eet. Air. Cooper mada a request of me not to publish the Loncmicu'8 names, but I made no remarit." It is a matter of pleasurable congratulation to te thus promptly and decisively assored tbat Governor Gray will not, as stated by the Treasurer, be a party to locking up from public view to important a public paper as the bond cf tbe State Treasurer. Indeed, no one who knowsj Governor Gray could for a moment have supposed such a thing possible. To have added this to the blunder alnaiy perpetrated in relation to this Treasury matter, wouJd Burely have bsen Btrange, almost beyond precedent. Governor Hendricks and his wife, having been much annoytd at the recent appearance in Eeveral newspapers of what purported to be a picture of Mrs. Hendricks, accompanied by a very flippant reference to her supposed ambitions, the Vice President-elect telegraphed the following letter to Mr. Cleveland last night: Indianapolis. Feb. 23, lss. Eon. Grover Cleveland, President-Elect: My Dear Sip. Mrs. Hendiieks and I have been much ancovel by the publication in some of the newspapers of a picture somewhat resembling her, and an article in bad taste attributing to her an ambition quite absurd. 1 need not say that the publication was without our knowledge, aud that to no percons can it be so ohensive as t3 ourselves. I understand that inch pictures and articles are prepared in New York, and furnished to subscribing: newspapers for a small price. We trust tbat it will not be an aunoyaace to youraell or the ladies of your family. With great respect, T. A. IlEM'KICKS. The following is the text of a bill introduced in the House of Representatives February 10, by Hon. W. E. English. It was read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed:, A bill to authorize the donation ef the United States Arsenal building and grounds, located at Indianapolis, Ind., to the State of Indiana U be med as a State I'mverbity, Be it enacted by the ttenate and House of Representatives of the United State in Congress assembled that the Secretary of :War is hereby authorized and directed to convey by deed in fee to the State of Indiana to be used as a State University, the United States Arsenal building at Indianapolis, Ind., and the lot of ground upon which the same is located. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. A STRANG K STORY. Tale ef the Guillotine Mow a Dead Man Talked-What He Said. Figaro, Paris. While traveling in Europe last spring I epent a few weeks in Paris, and one night accepted an invitation to take dinner at the house of a physician, who, although an American, has made that city his home and has acquired a Continental reputation. When I say taat he is a Baltimorean, and that he epent several years in the service of a foreign potentate now in exile and disgrace, from whom he received tbe title which he bear3, my readers can form a shrewd guess to his identity. The company I was asked to meet wes a very distinguished one. There was a United States Senator from New York State, a member of the French Senate who held an important position at the co:rt of Napoleon III., but bad now thrown in hie fortunes with the Republic; a celebrated English novelist, a famous comedian from the Theater Francaise and a member of the Academy of Sciences, whese works on psychology are known all over Earope. It will thus be seen how pleasant the gathering mnst have been, and how, under the genial influence of our host's choice Burgundy, the conversation spread over a wide field in literature, art and science. Naturally it drifted into abstruse psychological subjects, ana the fact that several of the guests were materialists did cot prevent the starting of a discussion od the forms of mind and matter, and the possibility of a sentient condition even after the principle of life has left tbe body. Instances were cited as having been recorded by witnesses in which, after serpents and eels bad been cut into small portions and the vital parts seemingly destroyed, the various Tortious seemed still to be endowed with life and vitality; and a case was mentioned, well known in radical jurisprudence, in which a mac, an inordinate gambler, who was about to be beheaded for a henlous crime, begged, as a last request to be allowed to play a game of piquet with one of the soldiers who was guarding him. The officer in command humored bim, and the game began. Both were expert players, but jnst as the doomed man was about to lay down a card which would have settled the contest, the officer made a sign to the executioner. That functionary lifted his sword, and with one stroke severed the wretch's head from his body, and as tbe ghastly object fell to the ground the lips were seen to move and from them weie heard to come, in clear, distinct tones, the words, "I have won the game." Up to this time the member of the Academy of Sciences, whom I will call M. X., had been an attentive listener, but he cow interposed and said, "Gentlemen I can tell you something even more wonderful than this, and something which on account of the eource from which the story came to me, incredible as it may appear to you, I can not believe. My grandfather was a physician in this city during the terrible scenes of the Revolution in 17S9. He was an ardent student and a successful experimentalist. One of his most intimate friends was a yonng Englishman, who was also studying medicine. They had tastes in common, and were also inseparable. Imbued with monarchical ideas, this young man could not see in the revolution that men were fighting to overthrow tyranny, and, ifter the manner of His countrymen, he openly and boldly denounced them. Reports of hi utterances were carried to tbe Committee of Safety. He was arrested, taken before'ithe dreaded Robespierre and sentenced to the guillotine. On the night before the execution my grandfather, who had considerable political influence, was granted permission to visit

him In his cell In the prison of La Concierge. The interview was a long one. The young man 'S.' we will call him was brave and sorchalant, and, after a long metaphysical argument, my grandfather aaid to him: 'I have long wanted to prove if unconsciousness and the ability to act remain any time after death. Let me make this proposition: I will he present and near you at your execution to morrow; my profession and my relation to the Committee of Safety give me nousual privileges. The moment your head fa Is into the basket I will lift it up, and if ycu know me and still have the power of action, you will close your left eye three times.' The doomed man laughingly agreed, tbe compact was sealed, and the two friends bade ea:h other en sSfect'onate farewell. Morning dawnei on the prison, and as each victim's number was read out he took his place in the tumbril and was carried to the scene ot his execution. The young Englishman was there; so was my grandfather. Head aftsr head fell. Then came the turn of '3.' He placed his head beneath the knife, which flashed downward, and the head dropped into the basket. My grandfather could hardly repress a ehndder. but true to his promise and his thirst for knowledge, be picked it up and held the face to him. A film seemed to be fathering over his eyrs, but suddenly the left eye closed, then o jened. Did his senses deceive him? No! It closed again. Oace more it opened; aaiu it closed; it opened again. The experiment was complete."

BOTEL. THIEVES. The Way They Couiiuct Their Operations With K ucreiia. Philadelphia News. "I ice by the diratcbes that the hotel thieves aie mating business for the detectives in Chicago and the West generally," said Chief of Detectives K:ly last night. "Aside from the expert bak. burglar and tbe house-breaker, the only criminals who csn command sny respect from the detective is the expert hotel thief," added the Ch:ef, reflectively. "Why? Because he mot t be intelligent, adroit, and po95essed of a perfect nerve. In point of intelligence I would even rank the hotel thief above tue tank burglar or sneak, who are accorded the front rank in the criminal profession. Prerequisite to the hotel thief are edncition and a geed address, which is usually obtained by travel. He is generally dignified ; well, but quietly dressed, and with the general appearance of a man of business. The crack hotel thieves ordinarily travel in pairs, although they ere, to all appearances, unkrewn to eeeh other. "The first nieht after registering at a hotel they Eleep late, and whe'n roused by the Chambermaid request her to call the a at noon. When the maid has completed her labors in the corridor in which their rooms are located their business begins. Ths vacant rooms are located, and while one thief stands on watch his confederate effects an entrance to an unoccapied room y meat of a skeleton key and closes the door behind him. He then rapidly bores a hole immediately over the bolt and filJsup each end with white putty. If the lock is a double one, as is the c?.?e in many tlt clas. bote'", a small Lole is drilled thröuga II so that nippers can beussdon the inside lock in turning the key after the victim has retired. A half dozf n rooms can be fixed" in this ' way within an hour. This completes the wora: for the morning. The afternoon is utilized in making themselves "solid" with the regular guests over the bar and in washing the register fcr guests assigned to the "fixed" rooms. "When 6very one has gone to bei one thief resumes his watch and 'pipes off1 the watchman while his confederate works the room?. This is done in short order and the thieves sre away by daylight. The tools used by the hotel thieves are of the finest tempered steel and consist of a 'bar-key,' need for opening big locks; a set of six bits, arranged for either stem or tumbler locks; a small drill, a file, a sectioaal stem or 'widdy,' several p:ece3 of wire and a pair of nippers. Some putty or pigment ia also Included ia the kit, which is easily carried about the person. I am glad to say that we have t ot had a professional hotel thief in Philadelphia during the past year." Ikvited to deliver the St. Patrick's Day oration this year before the Irishmen of Ottawa, Canada, Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly, of the Tilot (Boston), inquired of the English Home Secretary if Her Majesty's Government would on that occasion grant him immunity from arrest on British soil for his complicity in the Fenian operations of 1';. The answer was that such immunity "cauld not safoly be granted." So, although his countrymen in Canada are still anxious fcr him to visit them, says the Pi'ot, "as he can cot afford to alarm his family and perhaps eerionsly interfere with his business by such an experiment, it is not probable that he wUl go." E tea kef. Carlisle is making a collection of the most curious communications he receives; auch, for instance, as a letter from a Minnesota man, who wanted an appropriation by Congress to provide him with a good sle.;gb. He told what kind of wood it was to be made of, how many bells it should have, and how thick the steel of the runners shorld be; and in a post scriptum intimated thp the salvation of the country depended on the appropriation being made promptly. Jamds B. Belfof.d, Republican, recently in Congress, declared that Hayes never was elected President. Here are his words: You can all readily recall the filibustering we bad in this House at that time, arid you can also reaoily recall the fact that on every vote in that filibustering epoch I ktood np with you Democrats like a lone pine tree in the desert. We broke that deadlock. AVe pissed tbat bllL Rutherford h. Hayes who. in mv judgment, never was electel President ot tbe L'nited 8tates, lthouzh 1 voted to beat you Democrats, because you had not tbe courage to stand up for your rights -ßutherforl B. Hayes vetoed that bill. "What's the Matter With You?" "Well, not much in particular. But I'm a little ailing all over. I don't sleep well, and my kidnejs are out of order, and I can't enjoy my meals, and I'veja touch of rheumatism, aud once in a while a twinge of neuralgia." Now, neighbor, you seem to want a general fixing up. and the thing to do it is Brown's Iron Bitters. Mr. A. J. Pickerel!, of Ennis, Texas, says, "I was a sickly man. Brown's Iron Bitters made me healthy and strong." VTO CRANK8 WANTED But we want a few i live men to represent us in an honorable and money-making business. Good pay to right parties. Ko peddling from bouse to hoase. Seud stamp lor reply, or 25 cents for samples. Address Lock Box 51, Earrlsonville, Mo. A MONTH, iwnt wanted, eoi"""" intr arliriti in th world. 1 nmi'lt free launujAY BRONSON.Detroit.Mioh ADRI7ET Bend six cents ror postage, and rs I nifct ceive free, a costly box of goodi which will help ail, of either sex, to more money right away than anything else in this world. Tottunes await the workers absolutely sure. At onot address TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maina. to m r.iEiii Inffrinefrora thsef-fM-t of youthful trmanbood, ftc. 1 will end you valuable treati upon thsabovsdifafU'.ali'O direction for lf-ciirs, fresot charge. Address Prof. P. O. i OWLLU,Moodu,UaB. "VTOTiCE Tbere will be an election of three L Trustees for Lawrence Lodge of Independ eut Order of Odd Fe llows No. 875, to be held March 14, ISbS. J. 1. MARSHALL. Secretary. WANTED ladies easily aad steadily earn at borne $10 weekly, city or coon try; complete Instructions mailed on receipt of 15 cents. Materials furniahad. Toilet Ulg. Co., 52 East Madiaoa street, Chicago, 1Ü.

ECZEMA And Every ßpecies of Itching and Burning Diseases PositivelyCured. ECZEMA, or Pa'.t Rheum, with its a?oa!?:ag iuhisg aad burning. iDstaatly relieve! br a warm bath with Cuticura Jusp, nl a single aplicatiou of tulicura, the great tMün Cure. Th.i repeated dailr, Uh two or three do-es of Cuticuia KeKuveiU, the Kew Biool Puriäer, to k-p the blood cool, tl-e perspiration pure and unirntating. the bowels open, the liver and ki taevs active, will speedily cure Eczema. Tetter. Riagworjs, Psoriasis. Lieben Pruritus, .-call Head. DanJrnd, aud every ft tdes of Itthiiig. Scaly and 1'lmply Humors of the calp and ik!a. when tlie '-et physicians and all known remedies laiL Will McDrtuaUi, Dearborn 6treet, Chi cago, gratefully acknowledges a cure of Salt Kheum, oa bead, neck, fat e, arms, and less for seventeen years: not able to move, except on bands and knees, for one year; not able to heij himself for elht year; tried hundreds of reraadies; doctors pronounced his case hopele-s; Permanently cured by tae futicara Resolvent, (blool purifier) internaliv. and Cuticura and Caucnra Soap (the great Kkiu eure-) externally. Charles Houghton, Eq., lawyer, 2S State street. Boston, reports a eae of Salt Rheum vu ier his )bservation tor tea yeim, which covered the patient's body and lim'-s, and to whioa all known methods of treatment had been applied without benefit, which wa completely curvd solely by the Cuticura Kernedits, leaving a clean aalheaiiay Skiii.

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OfTToä. A4. Murray St.. Flow Vo-w John T. l.s kmder. Attorney for PlaiutiT. SHKRIFF'S 8ALE. By virtue of a certI9?l copy of a decree to me directed, frem th Clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, ia a caue wberem Francis M. Churchman ct al. are plalntitls, ann Dorroan N. Davidson et al. are defendants (case No. SO."'''.'), requiring me to mate the sums of money in taid decree provided, aud ia manner as provided loriu t-ai l decree, with interest on said decree and costs. I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on SATtKDAY, THE 215T PAY OF FEBRUARY, A. D., In, betwen the tours of 10 o'clock a. tn. and 4 o'clock p. m.. cf said day, at the door of tne Court House of llarion County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven y jars, of the following real estate, to wn: Lot number eigüty-ßvefS.")) in Davidson's second addition to the city of Indianapolis, in Marion County, Indiana. If such renta and profits will not seli for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree.interest and coi. 1 wlil at the tame time and place expose to public tale the iee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be saSicieat to discharge said decree, interest and costs. 8aid sale will be made wltriout any reliet whatever Irom valuation or appraisement laws. GEORGE IT. CARTER. Sheriff of Marion County. February 2itn, A. D. !. MtF.Riu. Moer.ns, Attorney for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE By virtue ol an execution to me directed from the Clerk of the Gibson Circuit Court of Gitson County. Indiana, I will expose at public 6ale, to the highest.bidder, on SATURDAY. THE 21ST DAY OF MARCH. A. V., ISS5, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 4 o'cloc k l: M. of said day, at the door of the Courl-bouse of Marion County, Indiana, the renta and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, situate in Marion County, Indiana, to-wit: Lot No. eleven 11 J. In G. B. Edwards' subdiviHon of block nineteen 13!, in Jonnson'i heirs addition to the city of Indianapolis. And on failure to realize tlie fall amount ot judgment. Interest and costs, 1 will, at the same time and place, expose at public sale the fee impl of said real estate. Taken as the property of Pleasant N. fcpaln, at the mit of William L. Dortey. Said sale to be made with relief from valuation and appraisement laws. GEORGE H. CARTER, Sheriff of Marion County. February 21it. A. P. 1W. MMBHHMHMiIIIIIHilHHkVBBBSSSISBBSSSaSSSSSSSalSSSSSSBSaHBBaMBHBSSBl Trcbate Cause No. 110G. In the Circuit Court of Marion County. Indiana, May term, lts5. .... George w. tpratt, executor of Lstate of Mathews Mayer, deceased, vs. Kate A. Mayer, et aL To Kate A.Mayer: Fridoline Shoemaker, auardian ol Irank Joseph Mayer. Laura Mayer and Willie Mayer: Minnie S. Spratt, Frank Josepa Mayer, Laura Mayer and Willie Mayer. You are severallv hereby notified that the above named petitioner, as executor of tbe estate aforesaid, fcas filed tn the Circuit Court ot Marlon county. Indiara, a petition, making you defendants thereto, and praying therein for an order and decree of sid Court authorizing the sale of certain real estate belonging to the estate of said decedent, and in said petition described, to make aets for the payment of tbe debts and liabilities of said estate; and that said petition, so filed and rending, is set lor bearing in said Circuit Court at the Court-house in Indianapolis, Indiana, oa the first judicial day of the May term, 15, of aaid Court, the same being the 4th day of My, Witness, me cieri ana sesi oi sa. i Court tbislih üay of February. IS. MOSES G. M'LAIX. SEAL Clerk. P. W. Baitholovew. Attorney for Executor. Notice of Appointment Kolice Is hereby given that the undersigned has been arpolatcd Acmlniitratrix of tue estate of James Milton frlmmona, late of Marlon County, Indiana, deceased. Said estate to supposed to ba solvent, 184 FLORA R. SIMMONS, Administratrix. a flTCfi I.AD1F A0 CCKTUHES rt ItlS S S-U.htomakeeS to as a dty cti at thrtc hornet. Work ent hr niail.Koianra-stnf . A1trr stubp Crewa Hvf. Ca m Vim bu. Cia n.lA

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