Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANA BTATE BEN TIN EL" WEDNESDAY APKLL 13 188T.

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PD1 PLES. Blackheads. Skin Blemishes, and Baby Humors, use Cuticura ssoap. BENT WITH PAIN. Due to Inflamed Kidneys, Weak Back and Loins, Acnin? Hips and fii tides, Kclieved ta one Minute by the Cntleura Anil-Pain 1' I aster. Never fails. At druggists', 25 cts.; five for fl. rotter Drug and cuem- - ical Co.. Boston. BT W. J. CRAIO. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13. TERMS PER YEAR. Bingla Copy, without Premium.- 51 00 Clubs of six for.- 5 00 We ask Democrats to bear In mind and select their own State paper when they come to take subscriptions and make up clubs. A genu making up clubs 6end for any information desired. Address INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. Indianapolis, Ind. IMPORTANT NOTICE. TA'ebaye received letters enclosing money Without postoffice address from the lollwing persons: E. E "Worley. James R. Carr. David Watson. S. P. Cabbage. Alex. Bowman. 8. H. Culberson. Henry Sneddon. Fred Friday. Jt La impossible to send or give credit to parties who do not give their fall addres. In writing, always give postoffice, county and State. The Democratic party which Thomas JeSersoa called into being, about a century ago, is not likely to die over night. The terrors of the drought in Texas are increasing. It Is not surprising, therefore, that Senator Reagan has become so saddu ly a cold-water advocate. There is every reason why a man who has been a Democrat should continue in his allegiance to the Democratic party, particularly if he happens to be a wagewoi Ktr. Mr. Powderly declares that the StarSpacgled Banner of the Union is the only flag he will ever follow. The "red flag of the commune" is rapidly growing very unpopular in America. Me. Blaine is lying very 111 in the Indian Territory, whither he had gone to Visit his daughter. News of the progress of his malady ia anxiously awaited in the vicinity of Mansfield, Ohio. Natural gas gasreached at Jonesboro, Grant County, Thursday night. The country around the well is brilliantly lighted Bp by the burning gas, and, of course, everybody ia correspondingly jubilant. The Hartford City gas well seems te be attracting capitalists to that city. Yesterday a farm of 200 acres was sold near the corporation line for $200 per acre. All the cities in the gas belt seem to be eDjoying a boom. Although the information from Mr. Blaine', bedside ia reassuring, yet it is stated that his friends continue very anxious as to the final outcome of his sickness, and that his immediate relatives have been telegraphed to attend him immediately. Czat Ep.hain ii now endeavoring t acquire possession of Tortugas Island, a small spot of ground in the Haytien waters- It is growing very clear that Great Britain needs to be taught that the United States can r ot be trifled with. It begins to look like one effect of the inter-state commerce law would be the reestabiishment of the old stock company system in the theaters of the larger cities. The abrogation of special rates is relucing Tapidly the number of traveling dramatic Organizations. Capital is flowing into Indiana from all directions and seeking the gas field. Property in some of the towns in or near which the Trenton rock has been successfully tapped for gas is now sold at figures Which owners, a few months ago, would liave regarded as simply fabulous, and such sales excite no special wonderment. Jhe whole State is feeling the impulse. It may be that the passage of the inter-state Commerce law and the strixing of gas ere made coincident by Providence for the especial advantage of Indiana.

FISH PROTECTION. The State Fish Commissioner has done a good work in distributing a publication embodying the substance or, it might be said, a codification of the fish laws of the State, but he must be supported by a more active and generally diffused feeling against the abuse of river population if his effort is to amount to anything more than another monument of wasted labor in a good cause. Men see that our streams yield no such supply as they did in the last generation, and that a steady market of good fresh fish would help out the tabje and the pocket-book of many a householder. Yet they talk of fishing as the pioneers did when Pogue's Creek was a "spring branch" and White River a better food source than the hog-pens of the country. 'Your fancy fisher can use his $10 jointed rod and his $-5 reel, with his silk line and Ms fancy flies, and I can't see why I haven't as much right to use my seine or my bomb or my fish-berries." So, to assert his equality, he poisons fifty fish to get a half dozen, or blows up a thousand to get a meal, or seines out and kills a spawning bass with ten thousand eggs, when he won't use it at all. This folly is fading slowly, but it is not gone. And there remains with it the old feeling that all the products of the woods, animate or Inanimate ; grapes, plums, birds, rabbits, fish and frogs are equally the right of everybody who wants them and can get them. Statutes go for rothing with this class, and we shall not see the end of its mischief till we see the last adherent of it on the way to the graveyard. These are not all the baneful influences in the way of the preservation of fish. There are poachers here as well as in older countries, poachers by nature as well as by greed and situation, and tney will rob the streams and break the laws as long as they see any chance to do it with safety. For their benefit, or rather for the benefit of the community that needs to be rid of them, the lawabiding population in the vicinity of fishbearing streams should form association) to prevent infractions of the law, and mki their work effective by a fund to reward information and prosecute offenders. In time, and no very long time, the conviction and punishment of fish depredators would check up the plundering folly that has made our home supply of but little or occasional value, and streams would regain their lost population. Two bass, thoroughly protected, would stock White River from Broad Ripple to the bluff in five years, and no family in the city need be without a fish for the table any day of the week, and out of our own streams. No natural product necessary to man can be bred and matured so cheaply and with so little trouble. No game in the woods, no poultry or pig at the barn, no vegetable of pie or salad need cost so little as the fish that is now about the costliest table article we get. Just let the fish alone, and let nobody hurt them, and they will provide for themselves and everybody that needs them.

JohnT. Raymond, the comedian, is dead. The American stage will miss him sorely. There have been more accomplishei actors, but none to do the American drama better service. A dozen years ago he was a player of poor fortune, knocking about the theaters of the country from New York to San Francisco, occasionally striving for stellar honors, and constantly failing to make anything more than an evanescent impression on public favor here and there. Suddenly he found himself in the habiliments of "Colonel Sellers," and he was, in almost an instant, rich and famous. For two or three seasons, with this play alone, he packed the theaters. "There's millions in it," was in everybody's mouth, and Mr. Raymond, who for bo long a time had experienced the vicissitudes of an actor out of luck, had money to throw away. The change of condition produced no change in the temperament of the man. He remained the eame genial individual, with a good word and a helping hind for everybody. He seemed to be in life for the fun there was in it. The part of "Colonel Sellers" suited him exactly, for he was very much of a "Colonel Sellers" himself. He was without affectations and wis at home everywhere in the hotel corrilor, in the theater lobbies, on the trains and in the streets of the cities be visited. Having taken a conspicuous position among American actors of solid achievement, be held it. As soon as he found the public ready for a change from "Coionel Sellers," he sought to satisfy the caprice. He essayed many parts subsequently, but always with a view to giviDg the public somethiog new and refreshing and American. He was not always successful, but his aim wis most exemplary. No actor has ever dons so much to assist the American dramatist to public favor. Hia own limitations, ai an artist, were marked and narrow, but hi exerted himself most industriously ant conscientiously within the range of his capability. His audiences liked him best in those parts wherein Raymond's own self appeared. They did not care that he should act. Notwithstanding the fact that the nsw Mayor of Chicago was elected by Republican and Democratic votes, we perceive that there is a disposition on the part of the Republican leaders and press of that riy to claim It as a Republican victory exclusively. Therf fore, we are not surprised to find the following paragraph in Jhe stalwart Chicago Mail: Republican workers, It should beitt"1, are desirous for a clean sweep of all the depart ment. They bold that eight year? of oibc holding ought to satisfy the Democuts, who should now submit with a good grace to the consequences of a Republican victory. Mr. Roche Is still silent as to his policy in the mat ter of removals and appointments, and it Is ex ccedingly probable that his action cn taking the Mayor's chair will not only surprise his friends, but disappoint a great many of the hungry horde who are besieging him for post tions. Now, no one will object very strenuously if Mayor Roche does fill all the offices with his Republican friends, but if there ever was an Instance when appointments should be made without regard to political affiliations, it is certainly this. But the Republicans of Chicago do not give the fact that Mr. Roche stood as a citizens' can diate the alighest consideration, and come forward very promptly with a blanket claim upon all the offices. Oar only object in calling attention to the mat

ter is from our point, hitherto made, that the Republican party is not imbued to any serious extent with the mugwump doctrine, and that the accession of.the Republican party to power, whether 'in city, county, State or nation, means a clean sweep of the offices instanter, and the summary ejectment of every man not a pronounced Re

publican. It is the correct method, as the Sentinel has often maintained. It is worthy of remark that the Democratic at tacks on civil service reform are based entirely on the fact that it stands In the way of Immedi ately filling all the offices with Democrats. The Journal. And is that not enough to justify attack? We think it is. The question is whether or not the people shall fill the public offices. Under the operation of the civil service law, and the concessions ot the President to the mugwumps, the people do not enjoy this privilege. The American idea is the Cinclnnatus idea that men may be called from private to public station to do a temporary public service, only to return after a comparatively brief period of such service to the walks of private life. The mugwump doctrine means the creation of a public-servant class. Un der a Democratic administration all offices should be filled by Democrats, as under past Republican administrations they Lave been, and as under future Republican administrations if fate should be so unkind they most . assuredly will be. The effect upon the individual of the system which Mr. Curtis has riveted upon Mr. Cleveland's administration was exemplified the other day in the case of a clerk in the Navy Department. His resignation was called for by the Secretary. He wrote a letter, by way of protest, and said that for fifteen years he had held his office, and during that time had never voted. The Curtis system breeds these non-voters, and la, therefore, contrary to good public policy. We do not want a non-voting class of men in this conntry. The defenders of the Curtis system will say that it does not require a man to refrain from voting. Certainly not by explicit injunction, but it is the chief aim of the system to pre vent him from taking an active part in politics. That inevitably leads to nonvoting for the average man in office. Solicitous of the favor of his superiors and afraid of the malice of personal enemies, he will either quit voting or take a sneaking part in politics. The system therefore de velops emasculates on the one hand and sneaks on the other. Or course there are many Republican papers promptly claiming that the remit of the recent Chicago election was a purely Republican victory. A glance at the following figures, which give the rate polled in 1SSG. shows that the Republicans at that election were in a large minority: Republican Democratic United Labor Prohibition..... 30.SIÖ 21 fi:W 17,90 , .. 6--.-io,ir,i Republican minority .31S Mr. Roche, the Republican candidate for Major last Tuesday, received about 51,000 votes, and as the Democrats had no candidate, it will be seen that he received just about the combined vote of the Republican and Democratic party. Had the Democrats united with the opposition element Mr. Roche would have met with a disastrous defeat It must be remembered always that the labor question was not the issue in this election. Fifty-one thousand persons combined under the leadership of Mr. Rxhe to express their opposition to the Anarchists and their doctrines. Though Mr. Nelson preferred to be the candidate of a labor party, his followers were simply masquerading under a name to which they had no right. As we have said before, the fiht was between the American citizen on the one hand and the Anarchist on the other. It was the unfolding of the red Hag that proved fatal to the Socialist-Labor party In Chicago. The workingmen of America will never march under that tanner. The name "Socialist-Labor" is absolutely meaningless. As well might one say that a thing is "hot-cold" and hope to give expression to an idea. We admit the phrase is not meaningless if one look to the statement of the socialistic doctrine as given by some of its more conspicuous apostles, but the people of America have learned that Socialism and Anarchism are interchangeable terms, and that the men who call themselves Socialists and Anarchists in this country have a common aim the Subversion of the principles of the American Constitution. Therefore, we maintain that the phrase "Socialist-Labor" as current in this country seeks to blind two utterly irreconcilable elements. The United Labor party can hope to achieve no success so long as it temporizes with the men who follow the red flag. The people at large will combine against it, if they are given the slightest reason to suspect that it Is controlled, m any degree, by the destructionists. Wx find the following paragraph in the Toledo Blade: The election is over. Now let us turn in and go unitedly to work to "push things" here In Toledo. The masses of our people have no conception of the possibilities of the near future. They do not dream of what the use of natural gas means to the city. Remember that Toledo is the only large city in the natural gas region, and there la none other which can be profitably reached by plp!ng. Vfe must use the product of the field, aside Irom what is needed for consnmptlon In the thriving towns and vlUages In u e Immediate locality of the wells. Hence it whl i chesp. Hence Toledo manufacturers will have ft great advantage. Think of these things, mci. . d brethren, and tae hold. Give Toledo a booiü. It is true tha here in Indianapolis a campaign is just burning, but there is no reason why we may a,c at once urge upon the people of Indianain'is the wisdom of the Eame spirit of enurprise that the Blade urges upon the people of Toledo. We do not yet know whether or not Indian apolis is within the natural gad belt. All possible means should be takeu to deter mine the question. . Tu gas well of Alexandria, a thriving town of Madison County, gives indications of an Inexhaustible supply. In recent men tion of the various gas booms ot Indiana in the Sentinel the one that prevails at Alexandria was uniateaUoaalJj ,aiU9i

OIL AND GAS.

I By Maurice Thompson, State Geologist. J The Trenton limestone, in which the oil and gas of Indiana are found, belongs to a group of rocks known as the Trenton formation, which is a part ot the lower Silurian deposits. It is a marine rock, and in places La found to be crcwdel with the shells, coral relics, crlnold ttemsand other remains of sea life. Lanl plants probably did mot exist in large number', if at all, at tne time this limestone was beim depcted, for the fossils of vegetable origin found in the lower Silurian rocks are chietly sea-weed remains. The Trenton rock, however, is often quite bituminous, especially in the upper strata, which sometimes contala a great deal of carbonaceous shale. The Trenton limestone does not out-crop in Indiana, unless there may be a slight exposure at some point In the extreme southeastern limit, on the Ohio. Tae name is from Trenton falls, on West Canada Creek, in New York, where the lormation Is exposed in high bluffs. The BIrdseye limestone of the New York geologists 1elongs to the Trenton formation. In some places the limestones are almost black. From Eastern Canada to Wisconsin, and from New York to Tennessee and farther south, the rocks of the group, varying in llthologlcal features, are found In place. The Receptaculite limestone of Missouri and the marbles of East Tennessee are referred to the Trenton, The Trenton deposits are chiefly limestone ot a magnesian type. In Illinois they are reported as being "brown magnesian limestone." In Ohio they are brownish and grayish in color, showing a granulated and porous structure, the substance effervescing feebly, II at all, in diluted hydrochloric acid. In Michigan the limestone is, In places, agillaceous and of a blue color. In Iowa it is reported as varying in color from buff to blue and Is magnesian. In Pennsylvania it is often a blue shale. In Indiana, so far as may be made out from the borings, it is a grayish or brownish limestone, sometimes highly magnesian. Under the microscope it presents, usually, a granular, porous, but exceedingly firm structure, with traces of something like wavy lines of a darker color than the rest of the substance. It is .in this limestone that our oil and gas are found, and this limestone Is one of the strata ot the Trenton deposit or group. An4 1 would here say that one not versed In geology will do well to lear in miud that the Trenton limestone may vary greatly in Its character within the smallest area, and that to "reach Trenton rock" is one thing, and to reach the porous magnesian limeStone of the Trenton rock is quite another thing. What Is limestone in one place, may, In another place in the same geological horizon, turn out to be shale, and vice versa. Geological horizon has nothir.sr to do with a reference to sea-level. Two places may have very different sen-levels, and yet be on the same geological horizon, or they may have nearly the same altitude above the sea and yet have a great difference as to the geological horizon. Lafayette and Kokomo may be less than 100 feet apart In distance above the sealevel, and yet any of the lower rocks m.iy be much deeper below one place than they are oelow the other. Therefore, when we speak of sea-level hereafter, let it be understood that it la with reference to the altitude ot the Trenton rock and not .that of the towns. Iu other word-., Union City, or I'ortlanl, or Marion msy be many feet higher above sea-level than Terte Haute, and yet, because of their lower geological horizon, Trenton rock would be much nearer the surface there than at Terre Haute. Of course this Is well known to everybody who his even a mere smattering of geology, but it Is very hard for others to underst.iud, hence the explanation. THE rrPER SIU'RUN AREA. A straight line drawn from Indianapolis ta Richmond, Ind., will Intersect the western boundary of the upper Silurian area near the northwestern corner of Washington Township,. In Rush Count j. Thence the area extends cantward into Ohio, saving a imall patch of lower Silurian around Richmond. North of this east and west line the upper Silurian area embraces .most of Henry and Wayne Counties, all of Ran dolph, Delaware, Jay, Blackford and Grant, aud a large part of Madison, Tipton, Howard, Miami, Wabash, Huntington. Wells and A laus Counties. At present we need not consider the southern area, as no gas has been found south of Indianapolis, though it may yet be found there. The fcllowlng is a generil section of the chief formations in Indiana : sou.. DRIFT. DAL MEAsrBE-t. SfB-CARBANIFEROl'. PF.VOSIAN. TI'PER Si'I.CBI AM. LOW KB SILURIAM (Trenton. ) The Trenton limestone would be found In the lower part of the lower Silurian in this section, as marked, and above It would come the Un ison River and Utica groups of the same for mation, mostly shales and limestones. Referriag to the general section given abovi, it wUI be seen that all bores put down in the counties just enumerated must begin at or near thetODofthe upper Silurian formation, and the depth of the bore would depend almost wholly on the thickness of the strata, and this thickness appears not to vary at all in reference to a superficial altitude above sea-level. I have thus outlined roughly the upper Silurian area In Northern Indiana, for mere reference purposes, because, in fact, the area may prove, and I think it will prove, to iaclnde a much wider territory. North of the Wabash River the drift deposits are so thick that the underlying 6trata can be studied only with greatest difficulty. One thing, however, has been clearly demonstrated by my survey, viz.: Tim t an Irregular line of upheaval runs across t...- ctate from east to west, with off-shoots to ) outhward and probably to the northward -f;;- central axis; that tho accumulation of i s In Noithern Indiana N ue to this system of w anticlinal! appears almo. certain. Indeed, rc Is ranch to Indicate that the enormous exMislve power of the gas baa tin the long past) i 1 nuch to do with the upheaval Itself, as I slmll presently show. A lin drawn across the state from ths southca t comer ot, Monroe Township, in A'len Cmnty, by way of Huntington, WabMb, Transport, Monticello and Kentland, would, J ft geoersl way, UWM tt ST WW Wl

xisof the disturbance I have spoken of. South of this line both the outcropping? aal the borings Lave shown that the Paleozoic strata (and particularly the lower Silurian) have been bent Into low anticlinals or broken In various ways. I was aware of this, from examinations male in the course of engineering work, long before I took charge of this department, and was sur

prised that its existence had been ignored or de nied. Over and over again it had been proclaimed to the world that the Paleozoic strata of Indiana were undisturbed; that no faults ex isted, and that, with the exception of a slight intrusion of the Cincinnati arch in the southeastern corner of the State, no anticlinal ex isted. In making this statement I expressly disavow any direct or Indirect attack or criti cism upon the work of my distinguished and able predecessors In office, tor it must be remembered that they had not carried te survey far enough north to put tbem in pos-ession of the facts, or to include a fair ttudy, much less a settlement of this question. It was, however, taken for granted by geologists everywhere that no dis turbance existed, and that such phenomena as those at Keniland and Delphi and other points must be referred to "profound false bedding.' and not to upheaval ol the strata. One of the first things I set about investigating was this question, and I desire to say here that I soon became aware that both Professor Campbell and Professor Coulter, eminent scientists of Wabash College, had been observing the striking features ot the problem upon which I was at work. Pro fessor Campbell was the first, to my knowledge, to apply the phrase "rock dam" ti this disturb ance across the State, and Professor Coulter spoke to me of noting certain apparent dis turbances of outcropping strata along theTipoecanoe River. In company with Professor Zorbey I went to Kentland, in Newton County, to re-examine the curious outcrops there, and found the rock upheaved to such an extent that the trata were almost ertical. Theie Is not the slightest appearance of false bedding. The layers are d'stlnctly marked with clay partings between (filled with lossils) and the quarrymen take out a fair building stone, which separates along the proper line of bedding without any trouble. Every feature ot upheaval is present, every evi dence of false bedding absent. From this point eastward theie la more or less continuous evi dence of a disturbance of the Silurian rocks. So westwardly and northwestwardly the disturb ance goei into Illinois. How wide (from north te south) this system of rock waves, fractures and displacements may be, has not yet been determined. The superimposed drift material is so thick as to render study very difficult. The borings, however, indicate gentle waves in the lock as far south as Indianapolis, and they may go further. Professor Zorbey noted many place along the general line of axis where, instead of upheaval, the strata appeared to be shattered into fragments by vertical crevices, as if subsidence had followed upheaval. OIL AND GAS BELT. Much has been said about a certain Indefinite thing called the "oil aud gas belt" in Indians. There la no such thing. "Gaa and oil spots" would be a better phrase. Gas and oil may be in "spots" all over Northern Indiana, and these "spots" may be connected by under ground channels so as to be practically parts of one great field; but a well to be successful must be bored In one of these "spots," or it must in tersect one of these channels ot connection between the "spots," if this theory is true. Tne v eils sunk in Indiana support this view, for dry vells stand close beside productive ones. On the other hand, it may turn out that our gas is not continuous In any direction, but is housed in local rescvoirs of the rock, and if this is true then the supply will be exhausted sooner or later. As far as study has progressed it would appear that gas and oil are likely to be found here and there all over the northern half of Indiana. As to the south ern half of the State there is much doubt, and not enough boring has been done to a sufficient depth to be of much value In study. Beginning at Kentland, in Newton County, and running a ttralght line thence to Madison, in Jefferson County, the State's area will be divided Into two rough triangles The eastern triangle will contain merely a fringe of the sub carboniferous formation, and almost its entire area will bo found geologically low enough so that the Trent rock should be reached without a very expen sive boring. The western triangle would pre sent greater difficulties, as (especially iu the southwestern part) the carbonlfero is formattions would be very thick. In the eastern trbangle It will not be foolish or without souie Lope of success to bore wherever the Devonian or the upper Silurian formation is the sur face rock. In the western triangle gas m:y jet be found In the carDoniferom rooks. It would be without any scientific bais for any town or city In Northern Indiana to conclude without boring that gas or oil is not beneath it. There is no general reason why gas shoull be nnder Anderson and not under L'hIoj City, Logans port or Monticello; but there may be a par ticular reason discoverable by boring a number of wells, or the reason may be too profound to be discovered at all, if the fact exists that the latter places are over dry areas. The reported finding of oil at Francisville is .the first notable anl significant fact in corroboration ot what Ibadtakea as true, to wit. that Kentland is nearly on the axis of the disturbance I have mentioned. A CAS BLOW AT KENTLAND. I am of the opinion that the local upheaval near KentUnd served ags ago as a vent for the pent-up gas of the lower Silurian rock. There are facts strongly supporting this view. In the first place, the fiDer of the stone there shows that while the deposit was yet In a somewhat plastic 6tate it was subject to a tremendous pressure acting from beiow. What is called cona-in-cone structure is disclosed in a marked and unmistakable degree showing where the upward beariug force "telescoped" the sub stance of the rock, so to say. Nor is this all. The almost vertical clay parting ot the strata are full of fossils from the lower Silurian, whilst the rocks themselves are mostly, if not all, upper Silurian. These fossils, mostly of very small species, hare been forced up between the strata from below, along with the mortar-like clay in which they are found Imbedded. When Proiessor Zorbey and I first examined this out-crop, we were struck with the peculiar features I have described, and as natural gas was not then known to be In the lower Silurian rock of Indiana, we agreed in attributing the position of the fossila to the ac tion of up-gushing water at the time of the disturbance. I am now convinced that it was gas instead of water. At first this might seem fanciful, but pause a moment and consider that the present pressure of natural gas is sometimes found to be aa much as 600 pounds to the square Inch, which would lift a stratum of rock 600 feet thick weighing a pound for every twelve cubic inchts! Perhapa, long ago, when the gas was at its highest pressure, It may have had a force many times what It now has, in which case its action would probably break the overlying rock at some weak point and thus find a partial vent, especially If at the same time the crust of the earth were shrinking and causing a fold of the 6trata above the gas. Subsequent subsidence of the crust might close the rent and again hermetically seal up the gas within the rock. Upheaval, followed by subsidence, Is the record shown by the facts as far as studied. In this connection it is well to note that If, upon a fracture of the crust, there was a great escape of gas, to that the pressure largely abated, there would be an Increase of pressure again when the crust subsided and confined tho gas in a more limited i ace, thus acting as a bellows to force it into any stratum that should prove porous enough to receive it. FVERY DI!V WELL S1IOCLD liE "SHOt'"' BEFORK IT IS ABANDONED. No limestone 1 of even and continuous textKf Ii Ry e roäs 1 U 9a; pis?i cr.

ty and refractory in another and porous in an

other, and all these places but a few feet apart. The drill may enter the Trenton limestone at a plase where It is close grained and impervious to gas or oil. The explosion of a heavy charge of dynamite at the bottom of the bote may frac ture the rock either downward or laterallyto point where thtj gas or oil will be reached. This should never be neglected. Nor should the fact that a dry well is made In porous Trenton rock be taken as conclusive proof that gas can not be found in the neighborhood; for the well may have ended in a mere j orous pocket of the rock, surrounded by impervious stcne which, If shattered, might release the gas beyond, thus Insuring a victory. A light Up at the edge of a broad pane of glass will send lines of fracture clear across it; so the shock of a heavy dynamite explosion may crack and shiver a stratum of limestone for a long way under ground. In my next paper I shall offer a sketch of the principal borings In the State and what they tend to prove. Meanwhile. It will be of gTeat benefit to the people of the State if well borers and natural gas companies would. carefully pref erve records of their work an 1 send them to the State Geologist's office. Indianapolis, April 9. lion. A. G. Smith and tha Governorship. I Courier-Journal Interview. Hon. Alonzo Greene Smith, of North Vernon, late President of the Indiana State Senate, was in the city yesterday. A Courier-Journal reporter asked Mr. Smith if he intended to be a candidate for the! gubernatorial nomination before the Indiana Democratic convention next year. "I can not at this time determine whether or not I shall be a candidate," he replied. "It Is fifteen months until the convention assembles, and the time Is too remote tor definite calculations. Some ot my friends are anxious that I shall make the race, and, according to my present inclinations, I think I shall run. But I shall in no event be a candidate unless I am satisfied that I can secure the hearty and unanimous support of my party in the campaign. The next Governor of Indiana will be chosen at the came time that a President of the United States is elected, and It now looks like the Republicans will make Indiana a battleground in the Presidential contest of isss. it seems that such leaders as Sherman and other Western Republicans are d'sposed to abandon the great State of New York to the Democracy, and they hpe, by carrying the rest of the Northern States and three or four of the Southern States lite Virginia, West Virginia, Nirta Carolina and Tennessee to win the Presidency. Tbe adoption of that programme would mean a desperate fight In Indiana. So you see how Important it is to have at the head of the State ticket, in that year, a man who can command the enthusiastic support of the united Democ racy. If I can get that support I will run. If I can't get lt. I am heart and soul for the man that can get it." HE MAY BE CHARLEY ROSS. Postmaster-General Vilas Receives a Letter From a Lost Hoy in Indiana. (Washington Special. rostmastcr-General Vilas has heard from a Charley Ross, or at least a lost boy. Within a day or two he received the following letter, postmarked Mount Pisgah, Ind., April 2, 1SS7, and by giving the letter to the press he proposes to advertise the writer's inquiries as widely as possible. The lost boy's letter reads : "Mr. General Post Master In Washington: What will you charge me to advertise my name and put in the papers and send It Into every Post of fice In the United States, and I would like to have you send the first advertisement out to Boston, Mass., for that Is the place where I was borer, and I was shipped from and was brought out West to a town called Sturgis, Mich., by a man of the name of F. H. Graham, and was stold, and I don't no anything 'bout my fo'ks. and I would like to have you find them for me if you can. Send the advertisement out round Boston, Mass.. first, and if you can find them. find their adrcst and their name and let me no. Write soon and let me uo what you will charge me for your trouble for finding any of them, and my brother's name to, Frankie Welch. Advert se his name to in the papers, direct "George Wfuk. "Mt. Pisgah, Indiana." Pnzzle It Oat If Tea Can. New TorkWorld.J BAR-TXNDXR. o - tThere were twenty-one students at a table, and, after each ot them had treated, they resolved that the expense should be the bar-tender's. They all agreed to commence at one side of the table and count around ; every time seven was counted, one the seventh to go out, the man left last inside to settle. From whic man must they have commenced to count In order to leave the bar-tender to pay the bill? Knighted for Merit In Art. Cincinkati, April 11. Private telegrams from Rome announce that Mr. Ezekiel, the well-known sculptor, has been knighted for merit in art by the King of Italy. glJJACOBS OH FOR PAINS RHEUMATIC. j W After a lapse oty'art 8lnfemenf$ confirming the, efficacy of&t. Jacob Oil atid its permanent cure are given oehvi. From a Rheumatic Sufferer Jan. 1879. Bergen. New Jersey. I have used St Jacobs Oil and it cured me Of rheumatism after a few days' application. AUGUSTUS PRICE. From Same Seven Years Later. 212 7th St., Jersey City, N. J , Oct. 27. iss J I can not add more to the praise of St. Jacobs Oil than my testimony seven yars ago. It cured me. Al GL'äTüd PRICE. From a Ithenmatlc Sufferer Sept. 1830. Union Catholic Library Association, 201) Dearbon Street, Chicago, ill. ) One bottle of St Jacobs Oil cured me of rheumatism, which gave me great pain. J AM KS A. CONLAN, JR , Librarian. From Same Six Yeara Later. 1S4 Huron St., Chicago, III.. October 18, 1SSG. I can only repeat my former testimony to the merits of St. Jacobs Oil. It cured me of a severe case of rheumatism. JA MÜS A. CON LIN, JR, From a It. Office oIN. Y, it. L. O metal January, 1882. E. & W. R R. Co., 1S7) Wott. Kpw York. N. Y. I Two months ago I had rheumatlsim In my right arm from shoulder to wrist, and could not raise It withoutexcruciatingpain. Before the second bottle ol St. Jacobs Oil was used my arm wa well. C. Y. V. WARD, Div'n. Pass. Agent. From Same Fonr Years Later. . 187 West St, New York, N. Y Nov. 1SS. Referring to clipping Irom rew lork leiepram which gives aa account of my case, if it will be of any service to you I shall be pleased, ft. Jacobs Oil cured me. - C. V. V. WARD, Div'n. Pass. Agent THE CHARLES A.YOü ELEU CO., Baltimore, Md. mWAll pawns csino a. Jacob OH or Red Star Cmoh Vtire vUL, by tmxding a twornt stamp and a hitlory of Uicir ca. mriit ADTIC FEES. pSTARCOUGttCURI IIEE FROai OPIATES A1 TOISOSU SAFE. 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Sale for Street Improvement. By virtue of a precept to me directed by the Mayor of the city of Indianapolis. lad., duly attested by the Clerk, under the corporate seal of said city, of date of February Is, Isht. 1 will, 01 SATURDAY, THE 7th DAY OF MAY, HJ7, sell at public auction, at the City Court-room, iu the city ol Indianapolis, between tne hours of 10 o'clock a. m. aod 4 o'clock p. m., tne following described real estate, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the sum hereinafter named, assessed against sail property for street improvement and all costs, to-wit: Lot ninety-two (92) of Yeiser'a subdivi&ioa ia the city of Indianapolis, County of Marion. State of Indiana, owned by Franc L. Orisard. acalnst which is assessed forty-two dollars and seventy cents, with intemi and costs in favor of Richter A Twiname, contractors. HAAC KING, Sheriff Mirion County. Indianapolis, Ind., April 13, ins;. Sale for Street Improvement. By virtue of a precept to me directed by the Mayor of the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, duly attested by the Ol ri. under the cornorste real of said city, oi date of February Ii, 1S?7, 1 will, on SATURDAY, THE 7th DAY OF MAY, 17. sell at public suction, at the city court room la the City of Indianapolis, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p m., the following: described real estate, or so much thereof aa may be necessary to satisfy the sum hereinafter named, assessed against said property for street Improvement and all costs, to wit: Lot number eighteen (1) in Rideaour's Second Addition, in the City Of Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, owned by Mary 8. Robinson, against which is assessed ten dollars and thirty-two cents, with interest and costs, in favor of 8. V. and R. n. Patterson, contractors. ISAAC KING, Sheriff Marion County. Indianapolis, Indiana, April 13, 1 (;. w.;t Sale for Street Improve'ment. By virtue of a precept to me directed bv the Mayor of the City of Indianapolis, led., duly attested by the Clerk, under the corporate sal of said city, of date of February IS, 17, I will, cn SATURDAY, THE 7th DAY OF MAY, 15?7, ' sell at public auction, at the city court-room in thecity of Indianapolis, between the hours of 10 o clock a. m and 4 o'clock p. m , tin following described real estate, or a much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy he sum hereinafter named, assessed against said property for street improvement and a'.l costs, tw!t: Lot ninety-three (93l iu Yeiser's subdivision ia the city of Indianapolis. County of Marion, State of Indiana, owned by Frank L. Orisard, gainst which is assessei forty-two dollars and seventy cents, with interest and costs, in favor of Richter i Twiname, contractors HAAC KIN J. Sheriff Marion Con ity. Indianapolis, Ind., April 13. l'7. Sale for Street Improvements. By virtue of a precept to me directed by the Mayor of the city of Indianapolis. Ind.. duly attested by the Clerk, under th corporate seal of said city, of date of February IS, lüa7, 1 will, oa SATURDAY, THE 7th DAY OF MAY, 1537, sell at public auction, at the City Court-room. In the City of Indianapolis, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m., the following described real estate, or as much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the sum hereiiafler named, assessed against said property for street improvements and all cost, to-wit: Lot 119 in Yeiser's subdivision in the city ot Indianapolis. County of Marlon, State of Indiana, owned by Oliver Smith, against which ia assessed eighty-two dollars and seventy ceuta. with interest and costs, in favor of Richter fc Twiname, contractors. HA AC KINO. Sheriff Marion County. IndianapollB, Ind.. April 13, 18s7. Sale for Street Improvement. By virtue of a precept to me directed by tha Mayor of the city of Indianapolis, Ind., duly attested by the Clerk under tne corporate 6eil ot said city, of date of February is, 1S87, 1 will, on 8ATÜRDAY, THE 7TH DAY OF MAY, 1537, sell at public auction at the City Court-room, In the city of Indianapolis, between the houra of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p m., the following described real estate, or so much thereof aa may be necessary to satisfy tne sum hereinafter named as assessed against said property lor street improvement and all costs, to wit : Lot one hundred (100) in Yeiser's subdivision. In the city of Indianapolis, county of Marion, State of Indiana, owued by William H. Guy, against which is assessed forty-two dollars anl aeveuty cents, with Interest and costs, in !avjr of Richter and Twincme, contractor. HA AC KING, Sheriff Marion Countf.' . Indianapolis, Ind., April 13, lsoT. Sale for Street Improvement, By virtue of a precept to me directed by the Mayor of the citv of Inaianapolis, Indiana, duly attested by the Clerk under the corporate seal of said city, of date of February is, 1S87, 1 wiU. oa FATCRDAY. THE 7th DAY OF MAY, lSi."! sell at public auction at the City Court room, in the city of Indianapolis, between the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. the following described real estate, or so much thereot as may be necessary to satisfy the sum hereinafter named, assessed against said property for street improvement and all costs, to wit: fot No. seventeen (17) iu Ri lenour's second addition In thecity of Indianapolis. Marion Couaty, Indiana, owned by Samuel Robinson, i gainst which Is assess J ten dollars and thirtyi o cents, with interest od costs, ia favor of S. W. & R 11. Patterson, contractors. lvC KING. Sheriff Marion txunty. Indianapolis. Ind . April 13. 1S7. -i-v TOT ira aUTfw - tTv 4w CO nTrlTf TH03. P. BIMPSON.WashI A I h l I lngton.D. C. No pay asked 1 111 Vil ifor pateau uaUl ofctaal. T7rtt:v5laTea;ori flatfe,