Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 32, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1886 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA BTATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24, 1836

A MYSTERIOUS MISER.

Romantic Circumstances Attending th Ufa and Deatli of a Strangs- MortaL Detailed Account ot the Burning of a Famlly of Seven Persons in WisconsinHorrible Death or the Wife of a Tale Professor. .Boston, Feb. 20. The Traveller prints a remarkable story about James Henry Paine, a grandson of Robert Treat Paine, one of tne signers of the Declaration of Independence. There died In, New York Ciiy, some two weeks ago. in squalor and abjec t wretchedness a man who, op to some thirty years ago, was well known here la Boston In journalistic circles as a musical critic of more than average ability, and a financial reporter of uncommon keenness. On the street he was known as one of the most miserly, unscrupulous and groping of usurious money lenders. Ills name was James Henry Taine. He was born in Boston In 1812 and was educated in the public schools, and 1520 he began business for himself, and soon became musical and financial reporter for the I'ost, and soon after was employed by the Traveller a&'its financial reporter. He Inherited quite a property lrom his father's estate, and began his business of loaning money on the street at high rates of interest. His habits, even at this time, were miserly In the extreme and his personal apDearancewas repulsive because of his slovenly dress and person. He gained on the street an unenviable notoriety for his practice of loaning money on stocks and then bearing the stocks through the columns ofjthe paper on which be was employed. This naturally led to his loss Ot employment as a financial writer, and his personal habits became more disgusting, and his greed for money increaed. Jn the latter part of iMii. owing to a questionable financial transaction. Bostou became too hot for him and he departed for New York. His ouly Lasrgatre was an old wooden, hair covered trunk, into which he packed all his earthly possessions. His brother, the late Robert Treat Paine, freouently Mid that he had no doubt his brother James carried away in that old trap of a trunk not less than JiuO.ouo or $300,000 in gold securities, mostly bonds. He was next accidentally met in New York ly tne executor of an estate which he had defrauded. He was arrested and taken to the Tombs, where, after some parleying. 1'aine promised if he miht be released, to make good the amount of the stocks and other property which belonged to the estate. The executor went with hira to a large brown frtone front house on Fifth avenue, where they vere admitted without question, and on entering a finely furnished room I'aine asked a man they found there to bring him his bonds. The mau complied and brought a large quantity of bonds, Which Paine pikd on a table and counted out to the executor hfty-six one thousand dollar bon is without making any perceptible diminution of the pile. He continued to be heard from now and then alout New York. He finally became so ragged and filthy that he was arrested as a vagrant and sent to the Island. Come acquaintance, who knew of his musical ability, raised a pbrseof come -0. secured his release and procured him a presentable f. t ot clothes. Subsequently it was known that he hired a room in Canal street, to which no one was admitted. He grew so wretched and sank so low that he was seen on the street holding his bat, begging for pennies to purchase food. After his miserable death, on searching the rags which covered his person, some two or three hundred dollars were found secreted in them, and this was all. And here arises the question, what bad become of his stocks, bonds and wealth? His brother, Robert Treat Paine, believed that he was worth from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. It is certainly known thet he owned a large amount of property. He was a lanre owner in the Chicago land Company, checks in payment of dividends were sent to him !n New York, and though it was never easy to find him these checks were always promptly acknowledged and came back to Chicago properly endorsed by him in token that he had received the money. WISCONSIN'S CALAMITY. l ull Details ot the Sheboygan County Disaster. Mil WACKEE, Wis., Feb. 20. The first detailed report of the Sheboygan County disaster, in which on Tuesday morning last a family oi seven perished by the -burning of Abraham Ehle's residence, was received here last evening from riymouth, the nearest telegraph station to the scene of the horror. The charred remains of Mr. hle, his wife and three children were to-day brought to Plymouth for burial, those of the father being in one coffin and those of the mother, sonaud two daughters in another. Mr. Ehle's father has been buried at Fond du I.ac, and Mrs. Kinney, a friend of the family and the seventh victim, was buried near the scene of the holocaust. The r.hle residence was a ramblin?, two-story buildinar. bnilt of logsciapboarded over, to which two or three w ins had been added. The giouud tioor cf the old hostelryonly was occupied. From the piai e where the body of the husband was found it is evident that he was aroused from his sleep, left bis bed. bis sleeping family, and passed out into the hall, turned to the left and entered the kitchen, where the tire is said to have originated. Mrs. Kinney slept in a large room at the back of the building, ."-he was evidently aroused, as her body wasfouud in the kitchen," within eight or ten iect of th:it of the younger Mr. Kh!e. The ouly jwrson who escaped from the burning building iV Fred Lambrecht, twenty-three years Id. who had been in the employ of Mr. Khle for nearly three years. Lambrecht htis given several versious of tile storv of the tire, in the main the same, but di tiering In the details. He was greatly CT' ited. which may account for this. The relatives of the family insist that the fire did not result from accident, and that seven mem-l-eis of the family could not have perished from the flames or Miflocation as the house was aria ted. That the eMer Khlo was aroused, they :...i:i is thown by the fa t that his body was .i!Tid souie distance from his bed. Three doors ; d three windows miht have afforded him exit. he relatives of tne dead urge that Ehla woüid not have left his wife and three children to ierisli in the flames. Mr. Ehie owned proiery worth f ."0.000 or ar.,000. He was known to keep a large sum of money in the house, and for four months pat has visited I'lvmouth at intervals of a day or two, and marketed Rrain and wood. Had violence been done the inmates, it is said by lr. Mead of this city I who had experieme with burned bodies at the Urooklyn Theater disa-teri, the remains would have shown it. No physician attended the Coroner' iuquest or held a post-mortem examination of 'he bodies, althougn the heads and truuks of ; x(epting the body of the cider Ehle. which t burned to ashes. Vere in an excellent state of , serration. I'nless there are further develop ..eut. to arrests will probably be ma le. FRIGHTFUL. DEATH. The Demented Wife of a Yale Professor Laii l rom a llluff. Kiw Haven. Cona., Feb. 20. One of the most painful casualties that has ever shocked society in this city was the death ot Mrs. Waldo, wife of Professor Waldo, in charge of the Yale Observatory, wit ich occurred Friday under distressing clrcumces. For a longtime Mrs. Waldo had been t ring from nervous troubles, which culmli . ia day or two since in temporary insanity. A ! :rse was kept constantly with her. Thursday nik.i t she was not able to bleep until 4 o clock, at vb.ch hoar the nurse also dozed olf and did not . -iake until 6 o'clock, when she found that her i dient had disappeared. Mrs. Waldo had arrayed herself in garments of iriocs kinds and fled. An alarm was at once aised and search for the missinjr woman com-i-ienccd. The Waldo residence is in the Vale observatory building, almost on the outskirts of the city. Just above it is the reservoir, and beyond that lake Whitney. It was at once thought that Mrs. Waldo had thrown herself into either one of these and ended her troubles, uetectives commenced a search of the woods lying between East and Westrock, but failed to Und any traces of her. The Vale students and Professors then ioined in the search without success. Mrs. Waldo was discovered standing on the top of Mne rock after 4 o'clock by a party of nurses who had joined the searchers in a carriage. I'ine rock is a bluff that rises up to a height of about forty feet, and dose to West rock. Its front is precipitous. As soon as the nnrses discovered her, Mrs. Waldo started to climb down this front. They drove toward the base of the rock, and one of them shouted to her to wait a moment and she would be saved. The warning was either given too late, or terved onlv to frighten Mrs. Waldo, for no sooner had it been uttered than she turned around toward the carriage and hurled herself down a distance of twenty-five feet to the base of the rock, fche struck on her head and left side. Her left wrist was broken, and that side of her head was . badly bruised, übe fell within a few feet of the Carriage. The nurses hurried to her assistance, and Ir. Smith, of Westvllle, and Dr. Stetson, of this city, were Kent for, but in less than twenty minutes Mrs. Waldo expired. iTofeseer Waldo is heart-broken over his great sorrow. He is a man of tender sensibilities, and It U feared that the blow will prostrate him. The deceased lady was about thirty -five years of age and a beautiful woman. She was very high in society. She leaves two children to whom the was tenderly devoted. Mrs. W aldo's sister died last summer under cirCvsuiaactt n$ariy as 4iaU53?ix)S 1 U? Us7 et

to-day. Mrs. Waldo and her sister drove to Double Beach on the Brentford shore for day's outing. No sooner bad they reached I.tndey's hotel, situated near a high biuff. when Mrs. Waldo's sister Jumped out of the carriage, rushed up to the top of the bluff, hurled her parasol and hat on the grass, and then threw herself over the cliff into the water, striking her head on the rocks in her descent. A boatman succeeded in rescuing her. and she was brought to this city, but died from the effects of the shock. It is believed that this led to Mrs. Waldo's nervous troubles.

JOHN B. GOUGH, The Wall-Known Temperance Advocate Sketch of the. Checkered Career of the Noted Lecturer, and How . fla Reformed. The announcement of the death ot John B. Gough, the famous temperance orator, was received with genuine regret in all parts of the United States and even in the old world. Mr. Gough was an. Englishman by birth, and was of humble parentage. He was born August 22, 1317. His father was a soldier in the British service, and his mother was, during a score of years, the schoolmistress in the village of Sandfate, where they resided. In his youth he new what poverty was, for when the eider Gough was absent in 'war time Mrs. Gough was sometimes sorely straitened for means. The boy appears to iiave had educational advantages, however, and when eight years old was a remarkably- good reader. Often while reading to his mother as she sat working by her cottage door strangers would stop to listen, and he was frequently sent for to read to ladies and gentlemen at the village library. When he was twelve years old his father decided to send him to America with a family then about to emigrate. in order that in thi3 country he LEABJ A TRADK and establish himself in life. The family settled on a farm in the interior of the Stlte of New York. He remained with them two years, but in lSl, having obtained his father's consent,, he went to the city of New York to learn a trade. Meanwhile he had become a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Shortly after his arrival in New York he found employment in the Methodist Book Concern as errand boy and as a learner of the bookbindere' trade. He became a skillful workman, and as his prospects began to improve he sent for his parents and sister to join him. His mother and sister arrived in 11, but his father did not accompany them, being loath to lose his pension of 20 per annum. For a short time the family lived comfortably and in happiness, but the depression m business which occurred in 1833 resulted in a loss of employment and in a series of severe trials. In the summer of 1331 Mrs. Gough died of apoplexy, and soon afterward Mr. Gough began that career of dissipation which came so near wrecking him wholly, and which in his LECTURES ON TEMPERANCE he has described with such terrible vividness. He had been under the influences of a mother's love, and had been a pure-minded young man. After his mother's death his abilities as a story teller and a mimic made him welcome to a certain circle of young men. He became an inebriate and sank so low that his companions, who had enticed him into evil ways, forsook him. During the years from 1834 to IS 12 he went from place to place, sometimes appearing on the stage as a comic singer or as a low comedian, and sometimes working at his trade, and always sinking lower and lower into the depths of aottishness. In IS-'SS he went on a hshing voyage from Xewburyport and wa3 gone several months. On his return he married and did well for a time, but relapsed. A child was born to him but died in infancy. Left at one time by his wife, who went to Providence to care for an invalid sister, he came near being burned to death in his own bed. which, in his drunken carelessness he had set on fire. DELIRIUM TREMENS followed, and then his wife died, and at last he seemed to be without a friend in the world. The story is a terrible one, and it would be charity not to repeat it, were it not that Mr. Gough "in his own inimitable way has told it again and again as a warning to others. The turning point in Mr. Gough's life was in October, IS 12. On a Sunday evening he was walking along the streets of Worcester, miserable and hopeless, when he was touched upon the shoulder. Turning he met the kindly glance of Mr. Joe Stra:ton, who asked him to go to a temperance meeting the next night and sign the pledge. He promised to do so, and went. Another attack of delirium followed, nearly costing him his life. Recovering, he kept his pledze rive months, when he fell, but wa soon restored, and since then he has been a thorough-going temperance man. His qualifications for public speaking were calied into requisition, and for about forty years he has been one of the most welcome occupants of THE I. ECU RE PLATFORM, rot only in this country, but in Kngland. He has been heard with eagerness by all classes of society, and his work in the "temperance cause lias been broad and effective. I'robably no man has ever appeared upon he lecture platform more frequently. He has traveled something like half a million miles, and has delivered something like 8,X0 lectures. In his later years he has taken other subjects in addition to temperance to talk upon. He has been interested always in religious matters, and ha3 delivered a number of addresses at religious gatherings. InlSTShe was in England, and while there he spoke a number of times. He was warmly welcomed there, and was heard by immense audiences. This was his second visit, his firat having been made in 1S.VI. Mr. Gough was a speaker of a very peculiar type, and attracted as much attention by his Slatform manners as by the eloquence of his inguage. He was an actor, and delivered his lectures with much dramatic force, his action at times appearing to verge upon ec centricity. Mr. Gough s income from his lectures has been very large, but he was a man of large generosity, and devoted much of his wealth to good works. He was married a second time at Worcester, November 21, H43. and his married life has been very happy. Sir. Sliauklin i Coining. I Kvansviile Courier. 'The Association of Democratic editors of Indianapolis tne '2lh of the present month, and there is every indication that the meeting will be largely attended. The occasion is one that Democratic editors can not afford to slight if they can arrange to be present witho.it actual neglect or injury of their business. Much of the inconsiderate jarring that exists among members of the Press of the State would le entirely. dispelled by the personal acquaintance acquired at these conventions, and as harmony is one ot the prime elements of party success, it is plain that the intercourse enjoyed at these conventions is in every way an advantage. The Courier will be represented at this conven tion, and hopes that every lemocratic jour nal in the First Congressional District will also be represented, and that by its respons ible editor. IJorrible Tragedy. B.N';oRt Me., Feb. 20. News reached here late last night of a shocking tragedy ia Aroostook County. Monday night, on a plantation seven miles below Van Buren, a Frenchman named Martin, seventy years old, had a dispute with his wife, and the woman went to her son s house, where she remained all night. At about 7 o'clock the next rnornin she returned home, accompa nled by her two grandchildren boys. The boys were out of the house cutting wood, when suddenly Mrs. Martin rushed out screaming, closely followed by her husband with an ar. ane was overtaken fifty feet from the door, and the man truck her a blow on the head with his weapon. killing her Instantly. The boys ran for aid. and Martin dragged the body of his murdered wife to the bouse, left it on the tioor. ana men went uptaiis and shot himself througa tne neaa. . Delicate diseases, affecting male or female, however Induced, speedily and Dennanenily cured. Illustrated book for 10 cent In stamps. "World's Dispensary Medical Association, bf Main street, uunaio, N. Y.

MRS. HENDRICKS AT HOME.

Finding Comfort From .Past Associations ' Troubled by Impertinent Spiritualists. A representative of the Sentinel called upon Mrs. Hendricks yesterday and passed a half-hour in conversation upon general an'd personal topics. She lias regained her wonted cheerfulness, but whenever, the name of her late husband was mentioned her voice faltered and a tear glistened in her eye, showing that her grief still sat heavily upon her when the past was snggeste'd. Referring to her home life, she said she had been- away butv little since her husband's death, and then only for a abort stay at a time. She felt better, she said, when surrounded by the objects and friends with whom she and Mr. Hendricks were, intimately associated,' and it was for this reason that she confined herself so closely to home. "It may be a fancy," said she, 'but it was here that his spirit left me, and I always think I am nearer to him when I am at home, surrounded by the things which he loved and which we both enjoyed together. Mr. Hendricks was always fond of his home, and he never returned to its quiet after a protracted absence without expressing pleasure and satisfaction at the event. Every room in the boose has something whicn reminds me of him on account of the pleasure he expressed in its use, and when I am separated from these things I appear to be further away from him. My life now consists in great part in living over aerain the days when we were company for each other, and. since I find my chief enjoyment in living thus. I am happier when surrounded by the things which formed a part of these associations. For this reason I have declined all invitations to visit friends for anv protracted period." The allusion to the spirit of herdecea3ed husband Drought up the subject of spiritualism and mediums, and she said that she had been troubled considerably by letters and alleged commuications from Mr. Hendricks, sent by this class of persons. Mrs. West, of ashington City, had sent her several pages of poetry, said to have been so strongly inspired by spirits, in the spirit land, that she arose at 7:30 in the morning to write the verses. The letter was unanswered, and a few weeks later another batch of poetry was received from the same source, with a letter indicating chagrin upon the part of the writer that the hrst communication had not been answered. At this, Mrs. Hendricks wrote to Mrs. West and candidly stated that she had no confidence in her ability to com municate witn tne spirits of departed per sons. Still another letter was received from a party in New York, who professed to be able to communicate with spirits, ani who en closed a letter which had been received from Mr. Hendricks in the spirit land, and, the writer said, was in his own handwriting. Mrs. Hendricks characterized it as a clever piece of imitation, but said she could easily detect the difference. The writing might deceive some people, but her familiarity with his chirography enabled her to see at once that it was not his. Keferring to this subject she said : "Of course. I do not believe in such things, and do not see? that any good can come from encouraging them. That they do not come from Mr. Hendricks, is clear to my mind, for the sentiments of none of the communi cations are expressed in language such as he would have used, lhey bear on their face the impress of an inferior mind, one inferior to his while alive, and certainly infer ior now, if the spirit land, as I believe, ele vates and euqobles the sentiments and aspirations of the soul. Of course. I respect the belief of those who do not regard spiritualism aa I do, and I do not pretend to say that there is no communication between the de parted and those who remain. I think this power if power it may be called is confined to persons of nervous temperaments, and I, you know, would not make a good Spiritualist." A HANDSOME SOUVENIR. Mrs. Hendricks Iteceives an Kngraved Let ter ot Condolence From a California Club. Mrs. T. A. Hendricks received the follow ing letter yesterday morning: Cai.u-orxi a State Devixt.aticCu b. ) San Fkam wo, Fei. 2, lvi'J. i Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, Indianapolis, Ind.: Dear Madam I have this day forwarded per Wells. Fanjo A C'o.'s Kxpress the letter of condolence of this club on the death of your lamented husband, Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks. We shall be pleased to hear of its safe arrival. I have the nonor to be your ooeuient sen ant. it. r. hi sh, eereiary. The letter of condolence also arrived yes terday, placed in a neat, satin-lined box. mounted with silver. The envelope was of large commercial size and of beautifully polished silver, with the name and address of Mrs. H. handsomely engraved thereon. The letter was also a work of art. being engraved on neat parchment paper in large script with elegant nourishes and engravings. The letter read as follows". California State Drjuor ratio Ci.ru, ). .san Fbancixco, Dec. 1, ) Df.ap. Madam We, the California State Demo cratic Club, leg leave to express to you our deep sense of the loss sustained by the nation and mankind in the death ot vour la me u tea h us bau a ; and to convey to you personally our heartfelt sympathy in your bereavement. .s legislator huu csecuiivw oi luuiiim, ns i -reseutative in the councils of the nation at Wash ington, and as Vice President of the I nited States twice chosen bv the people he has in every public capacity commanded the respect and ad miration ot an. Clear in his judgment, pure in his Integrity, firm in his convictions, he has for nearly forty year been a light unto our path in the hour of darkness, a tower of strength in the c"ay of battle. To us, as citizens, his loss is irreparable. The friend of humanity, the faithful servant of his country, the trusted and honored leader of his party has been taken from us. We are grateful that he lived to witness the fruition ot his hopes the triumph of those principles of which duriug a long life he was a bulwark. With unfeigned grief, and with profound respect, we approach the chamber of your sorrow ard lay upon its threshold this tribute of distant friends to the memory of the dead. We remain, madam, your oledient servants. J. GiTTE, President; H. P. örn, Secretary. THE BLIND ASYLUM. The Annual Keportof Tht- Inntltutiou Shows It to be in (iood Condition. The annual report of the Wind Asylum was submitted to the Governor yesterday. The report shows that the total value of personal property and real estate is $373,8:;it.lj; amount appropriated for current support. $2h.(KX; amount expended, $21,027.30; amount exiended for repairs, $'.sG; amount paid into the Treasury, $."K)0.nG; "balance on band. $3.8i3.22. The report of Superintendent Jacobs, which is attached to that of the Directors', states that it is gratifying to note the general prosperity in the institution. The work of instruction has been conducted with unremitting energy and regularity. The pupils have evinced great interest in the work and dilligence in stud v. There had been a steady and decided improvement in the general deportment of the school. The methods of discipline were not severe but firm, and the rules few and simple. The report shows mat mere are izo pupus in me luaubuciuu at the present time, ana tnat nity-six coun ties are represented. There has been no mi' terial chanee in the division of the school work. Work in the literary, musical and industrial departments has been carried lor ward with unusual assidity. There has been but little sickness in the institution and only one death. Poor Old Madison Wells. lFrotn an Interview ia Cincinnati Enquirer. "What has become of poor old Madison Wells, of Louisiana?' "Old Wells is still living, but he is now Minrl Tla la not a man ot much moral trinciplo.. Iüs idea ol principle atop with, re

ciprocitv. He promises to fulfill his obligations, lie is a revengeful old fellow, however, and he once made a terrific charge against a man now high in public life from Louisiana. You and I would not think it was a very great libel, but dowp there it was considered such a libel before the war that among the high causes for criminal libel waa saying that a man had negro blood in his veins. You will therefore perceive how hard it is to emancipate a society from prejudices that were put into the very laws. You could not do a greater injury in Louisiana than to say of the best citizen, morally and socially.

inai ne naa a augnt negro taint in him. Old Wells made that charge after the war. and if he had accused the man of the most heinous crime it could not nave atung more." - ' J,L '- - HORATIO SEYM 0 UK. HANCOCK AT GETTYSBURG. Thrilling Descriptions of the Hero's Inspir ing Valor. I From the Brooklyn Eagle.l Of General Hancock's individual action at Gettysburg it would require a volume to tell. lie was really the action of the arm v. and Hound Top, Culp's Hill and Cemetery Heights were his creation. He sent word to General Meade that was the place to fight, and seizing the favorable positions, with the eye of a consummate General, hung on to them with the advance until Meade brouarut up the whole army and delivered his battle. Hancock was grand and magnificent in the battle of Gettysburg and seemed the very incarnation of war. On the second day he was at Cemetery heights during the frightful cannonade when the rebels concentrated the hre of one hundred and fifty guns on our lines. The air was full of missiles; streams of shot and shell screamed and hissed every where: it seemed as though nothing could live under that terrible fire men and horses were torn limb from limb; caissons ex ploded one after another in rapid succession, blowing the eunners to pieces. The infantry hugged the ground closely and sought every slight shelter that the light earthworks afforded. It was literally a storm of shot and shell, like the fall of raindrops or the beat oi hailstones, lhose who bad taken part in every battle of the war had never seen any thing like that cannonade, and the oldest soldiers began to be uneasy for the result. Hundreds and thousauds were stricken down; the shrieks of animals and screams of wounded men were appalling; still the awful rushing sound of flying missiles went on and apparently never would cease. It was then, when the firmest hearts had begun to quail, the army beheld one of the grandest sights ever beheld by any army on earth. Suddenly a band began to play "The Star Spangled Banner," and General Hancock, with his stafl Major Mitchell. Captain Bingham, Captain Parker, Captain Bronson -with a corps nag flying in the hands of Private Wells, appeared on the right of his line uncovered and rode down the front of his men to the left. The soldiers held their breath, expecting every moment to see him fall from his horse pierced by a dozen bullets, but still he rode on, while the shot roared and crashed around him, every moment tearing great gaps in the ranks bv his side. Stormed rt by shot and shell, Boldly he rode, and well. Every soldier felt his heart thrill as he wit nessed the magnidcent courage of his General, and he resolved to do something that day which would eqnal it in daring. Just as Hancock reached the left of his line the rebel batteries ceased to play, and their infantry, 18,00) strong, were seen emerging from the woods and advancing up the hill. Hancock knew the artillery fire had been intended to demoralize his men and cover the advance of their infantry, which was to make the real attack. Turning his horse he rode slowly up his line from left to right, holding his hat in his hand, bowing and smiling to the troops as they lay Hat on the ground. Hardly had he reached the right of the line when the men who. inspired bv the courage of their General, could hardly re strain themselves, received orders to attacfc the advancing rebels. Eighty guns which Hancock had concentrated opened their bra zen mouths and streams of blue bullets flew from the muzzles of our rifles to the breasts of the Confederates. It was an awful day, and Longstreet's "Old Guard of the South" melted away like wax under the terrible fire. Of the 13,000 who came to the attack 5,000 fell or were captured on the kill side. Thirty stands of colors and an immense number of small arms were taken. Hancock was everywhere, riding the storm of battle as if he bore a charmed life. At last, just in the moment of victory, he was seen to reel in his saddle and would nave fallen to the ground had he not been helped 1 1 1 . I 11 l 3 , 1 i " , iiuiu U13 uunw. rL. uaii nau uierceu 1113 iiugu, and for a time it was thought the wound was mortal. "Tell General Meade," said Hancock, ad dressing his aide, Colonel Mitchell, "that the troops under my command have repulsed the enemy and gained a great victory. The enemy are now flying in all directions in my front.' No ltids (or Convict Labor. Chicago, Feb. 10. The Inter Ocean's Joliet, 111., special says: A remarkable phase of the convict labor problem waa presented here to-day. The .State penitentiary authorities seem to have a surplus of convict labor. Advertisements have appeared in a half dozen of the leading papers for a month past offering the men to be contracted for to the highest bidder for from five to eight years. To-day the Board of Commissioners met at the penitentiary to open bids for the convict labor, but no bids were received, much to the surprise of the Board. The members concluded that the agitation of the convict labor question has intimidated contractors to suca an extent as to cause con vict labor to be placed at a discount. The authorities are in a quandry as to what to do with the men. it is thought that tne con vict labor question will be submitted to th vote of the people of the State at the next general election and that it will be abolished ill U1C D U IC. Mr. Blaine to Heart the Ticket. Washington Special U Springfield RepuUican.1 In an interview to-day Senator r rye said that he considers Blaine the strongest Repub lican mentioned for the next Presidential nomination and asserted his belief that Blaine will be put in the field again in ISSS, if be shall so desire. Bince "Jo" Manlev'a visits here it is hinted that Blaine will mnnt his strength for Logan, with the understanding that Blaine shall be Secretary of State, but men who are Terr near the latter say that thing of the kind is thought of and that Blaine will not head the ticket gain, himjcll U be C&o

JUST AS BAD AS PAINTED.

Widespread Commotion Caasad by ta Ter rible Confession of ei Physiciaa. The story published in these columns re cently, from the Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat and Chronicle,, created a deal of comment here as it has elsewhere. Apparently, it caused even more commotion in Rochester, as the following from the same paper shows: Dr. J. B. Henion who is well known not only in Rochester, but in nearly every part of America, sent an extended article to this paper a few days ago, which was duly pub lished, detailing his remarkable experience and rescue from what seemed to be certain death. It would be impossible to enumerate the personal inquiries which have been made at our otlice as to the validity of the article, but they were so numerous that further investigation of the subject was deemed necessary. ith this end in view, a representative of this paper called on Dr. Henion at his residence on Andrews street, when the following interview occurred: "That article of yours, Doctor, has created quite a whirl wind. Are the statements about the ter rible condition vnu were in and ihc wnv you were rescuecT such as you can sustain?" "Every one of them, and many additional ones. I was brought so low by negleting the nrst ana most simple symptoms. 1 did not think I was sick. It is true I had frequent headaches; felt tired most of the time; could eat nothing one day and was ravenous the next; lelt dull pains and my stomach was out of order, but I did not think it meant anything serious. The medical profession has been treating symptoms instead of diseases for years, and it is high time it ceased. The symptoms I have just mentioned, or any unusual action or irritation of the water channels, indicate the approach of kidney disease more than a cough announces the coming of consumption. We do not treat the cough, but try to help the lungs, we should not waste our time trying to relieve the headache, pains about the body or other symptoms, but go directly to the kidneys, the source of most of these ailments." "This, then, is what vou meant when vou said that more than one-half the deaths which occur arise from Uright's disease, is it Doctor?" "Precisely. Thousands of diseases are tor turing people to-day, which in reality are Bright's disease in some of its many forms. It is a hydra-headed monster, and the slight est symptoms should strike'terror to every one who has them. I can look back and re call hundreds of deaths which physicians declared at the time were caused by paralysis, apoplexy, heart disease, pneumonia, malarial fever and other common complaints, which 1 see now were caused by Bright's disease." "And did all these cases have simple symp toms at first?" "Every one of them, and might have been cured, as I was, by the timely use of the same remedv. l am getting my eyes thor oughly opened in this matter, and think I am helping others to see the facts and their possible danger also. Mr. arner. who was visited at nis estab lishment on North St, Paul street, spoke very earnestly: "It is true that Bright s disease had in creased wonderfully, and we find by reliable statistics that from 0 to 0 its growth was over 250 per cent. Look at the prominent men it has carried off, and is taking off every year, for while many are dying apparently of paralysis and apoplexy, they are really victims oi kidney disorder, which causes heart disease, paralysis, apoplexy, etc. Nearly every week the papers record the death of some prominent man from the scourge. Re cently, however, the increase has been checked, and I attribute this to the general use of my remedy." "Do you think many people are afflicted with it to-day who do not realize it?'' "A prominent professor in a Xsew Orleans c!ass on the subject of Bright's disease. He had various fluids under microscopic analy sis and was showing the students what the indications of this terrible malady were. 'And now, gentlemen,' he said, 'as we have seen the unhealthy indications, I will show you how it appears in a state of perfect health,' and he submitted his own fluid to tne usual test. As he watched the results his countenance suddenly changed his color and command both left him. and in a trem bling voice he said: 'Gentlemen, I have made a painful discovery; I have Bright s disease ot the k'dnevs.' And in less than a year he was dead. The slightest indications of any kidney difficulty should be enough to strike terror to any one. "iou know of Dr. Henion scaser "Yes, I have both read and heard of it." "It is very wonderful, is it not?" "No more so than a great many others that have come to my notice as having been cured by the same means." "iou believe then that urights disease can be cured?" "I know it can. I know it from my own and the experience of thousands of prominent persons who were given up to die by botn their physicians and inends. ' "l ou speak of your own experience what was it?" "A fearful one. I had felt languid and un fitted for business for years. But I did not know what ailed me. W hen, however, 1 found it was kidney difficulty I thought there was little hope and so did the doctors. 1 have since learned that one of the physicians of this city pointed me out to a gentleman on the street one day, saying: 'There goes a man who will be dead within a year. I believe his words would have proved true if I had not providentially used the remedy now known as Warner's Safe Cure." "Did you make a chemical analysis of the case of Mr. H. H. Warner some three years ago, Doctor?"' was asked Dr. S. A. Lattimore, one of the analysts of the btate Board ot Health. "Yes, sir." "What did this analysis show you?" "A serious disease ot the kidneys." "Did you think Mr. Warner could re cover?" "No, sir. I did not tiunk it possible." "Do you know anything about the remedy, which cured him?" "I have chemically analyzed it and find it: pure and harmless.'' Dr. Henion was cured five years ago and is well and attending to his professional duties to-day, in this city. The standing ci Dr. Henion, Mr. Warner and Dr. Lattimore in the community is beyond question, and the statements they mike can not for a iranient be donated. Dr. Henion's experience shows that Bright's disease of the kidneys Is one of them set deceptive and dangerous of all diseases, that it is exceedingly common, br.t that is can be ccjed if taken in tim4. Women aa Household Decorators. IColonel T. WMIigginson in Harper's Bazar.j Ü woman 13 the born and appointed decorator of the borne, why should she not be trained to do it artistically aid professiona.ly? It is not truly artistic to plunge at once into the most exclusive extreme of the present fasiion, whether it lead to black, or white, or a multiplicty of hue, but to take what is truly the best of each period and adapt it gracefully to the needs ol modern use and to the needs of each separate family. In many houses this is now exquisitely done; no one can deny the great improvement in our "interiors" within twenty years. But if it is to be dona systematically lor the community, it Li impossible to leave it wholly to amateurs. The modern decoration implies architects, designers, and artifiers of its own. In the foreman of an art blacksmith's shop I found the other day one whom I had previously known as ' a working jeweller; h had simply transferred his energy and skill from gold and silver to brass and Iron, and was laboring with hands harder than before, yet no less cunningly, upon graceful gas figures and in door ornamentations oi his own designing, It must be the same with women; they must undergo professional training to do their best. Here is this whole continent waiting to be made graoeful and fccAutUui Ia it in-door, hsiaej, it u atf by

dealers that, outside of a few large cities, there is absolutely no organization to supply this demand no one who can girr to a young couple setting up their housekeeping more than that amount of information posessed by the average furniture dealer, which ia very little. For want of this, many a young pair, as their wedding day approaches, sit down and ponder helplessly over some book on The House Beautifnl, or In-door Decoration, until their souls are filled with despair. Where are they to find these charming portieres, these aesthetic wall-papers, these delightful Russian wash-bowls that are lighter and prettier and cheaper and more durable than any china? And the dealers receive unavailing letters from a thousand miles away, asking for the wrong things or under the wrong names, and ending in failure. What is the remedy? Tire remedy is for a few women first, and then a good many women, after training themselves properly, to take up decoration as a profession. Let any two bright and capable girls who hav3 wearied themselves in painting water-colors that people do not want, or Christmas cards for which the market ia waning, try another experiment. Let them, after studying in the art schools of New York or Boston or Cincinnati, make also a careful study of the markets and workshops of those cities, so far as they relate to decoration ; and then go, armed with circulars, price lists, plans, and patterns, to establish themselves as household decorators in some interior city to which the wave of modern improvement has come only as a matter of intelligent interest, not of systematic supply. They will have to wait a'while, no doubt, to command public confidence, or even to make their mission understood, but they will not have so wait so long as their brothers will wait for clients or for patients. They will need to be very practical, very accurate, very efficient, and very patient. The great dealers in the larger cities will gladly make them their agents, give them their letters of introduction, and pay them a commission on sales. With a little tact they can learn to co-operate with the 'ocal dealers, to whom they will naturally leave the coarser supplies, devoting themselves to the finer touches. If they succeed at all, their circle of clients or correspondents may extend through whole States, and they will help to refine the life and thought of the nation. By all means let us see women take up household decoration as an educated profession.

PULLED HENRY CLAY'S NOSE. A Baltimore Barber Who Shaved the Statesman and Refused to Take Pay for It. A Baltimore correspondent writes: Thomas Harvey is the name of a colored man who keeps a tonsorial bazaar in close proximity to the Union Depot, Harvey has been beguiling an unsuspecting world for some thirty years with his magic drp shampoos, his Oriental capillary lotions, and his learned disquisitions on io"litics, police, poetry and pills. The music of his good, broadsword razor has been heard in our leading hotels since the days of Andy Jackson. "Yes, sir, that is a monstus fine picture of Mr. Clay," he said, pointing to a very old chromo of the great Kentucky Commoner inclosed in a small frame and suspended on the wall of his shop. "How do you know it is a good picture?" asked the reportorial visitor, whose faint similtude of a beard was being gently mowed down by the keen Sheffiald blade. " 'Cause I ought to know," replied Harvey, with a proud smile. "I shaved Mr. Clay the last time he was in Baltimore, and a barber who shaves a great man like him is not apt to forget how he looks. Yes, sir, it is the best picture I ever saw." "I'll tell you how it was," he continued. "It was in January, 1350, when Mr. Clay made his last visit to Baltimore. I was a young man then, and was working in the old Fountain Hotel now the Carrollton. The boss he comes to me and he says, says he: 'Charlie, vou go up to Professor Smith's house, on Saratoga street, and shave a man ;' and you do a good job, because it's Mr. Henry Clay.' So I took my best tools and went to Professor Smith's. Henry Clay always stopped at Professor Smith's honse when he came to Baltimore. He was then in the second story front room, waiting for the barber. When I got to the door Mr. Clay was a readin' a paper, and looked up and said: 'Come in here, you black scoundrel, and get to work on dis 'ere face. But he was mighty pleasant, and that was only ais way of talking, and I tell you I made a good job of it, for I was proud to sbave Mr. Clay. There was a three d?ys' growth of beard, but it was not thick. Mr. Clay's I eard was thin. He had one of the biggest faces I ever shaved, and his upper lip was monstus large. When I was a-shavin' that lip, I had for to cotch hold of his nose. Mr. Clay laughed and said: "Look here, you nigger, dars mighty few men I would allow for to pull my nose in dat way.' When I got through Mr. Clay asked me what he owed me. 'Not a cent,' said I, 'for the honor of shaving Mr. Henry Clay is enough pay forme.' 'Oh! take this half dollar,' he said, handing me a silver fifty-cent piece. But I refused again, when Mr. Clay laughed and said: Dh! it's no honor to shave me; I'm only clay, after all; I was made of clay, by clay, and I will return to clay just like other people. But I refused to take a cent, and went away. When I went back to the shop my boss said : 'Where's de money fur de shave?' And when I told him that I would not take any pay he was pretty mad about it, 'You ought to have brought back at least a half a dollar for shaving a man like Clay,' he said. He said he would take fifty cents out of my pay, and I told him I would be glad if he would, and he did." He Fetched, Her. San Francisco News Letter. Scene in the street car. Seats all occupied. Enter young lady. Young gentleman rises and offers his place. Young lady slams down into it. Young gentleman (inquiringly) I beg pardon? Young lady glances-at him silently. Young gentleman unbuttons his overcoat and produces an audiplione. Grasping it it firmly in his teeth, he bends forward in bland but resolute expectancy. Young lady gives up the " struggle, yells Thanks-s-s-s!" ani leaves the car at the next crossing. Poisoned Ilimself. Grand Have:;. Mich., Feb. 15. John Doyle, of Holland, a young man f twentyeight years, waa found last night lying in the street in an insensible condition,, apparently drunk. He was accordingly taken to jail, where it was found he was in a dying condition. Investigation showed that he had been drinking with several young raen during the evening, and every time he tsok n drink he was observed to squeeze a brown substance Into his glass. This substance afterwards proved to have been opium but the deadly iK)ison waa not recognized by any of his friends. He died during the night. Catarrh. For twanty years I was a sufferer from catarrh of the bead and throat. By a few applications of Ely's Cream Balm I received decided benefit was cured y one bottle. Charlotte Parker, Warcriy, K. Y. Know thyself, by reading the "Science o Lifa," the best medical work ever published io? young and middle-aged men. FITS. All Fits stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day's use. Marvellous cures. 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