Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1887 — Page 2

LTHE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY MA 18 1887.

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BIG DAMAGES GIVEN

A Verdict of $92,500 Agiinst tlia Erinsrilla id Teno Htata Riilrcid. Peculiar Results of Lightning Rallied by l Hendricks Camty Firmer. A Successful mi Dalicite Surgical Op sntioa Reported From L&porto County. Indiana Congregatlonallsts Am Iafaat's Dead Body Found An, Old Land mark Gone A Fatal Fall. VrscEssEs, May 11. The case of Jame3 A. Cunningham vs. the Evansville and Terre Haute Railway Company was brought to a close to-day in the Dayiesa County Court at Washington, Ind., and the jury, which had been out all night, returned a verdict for plaintiff, awarding him $02,500 damages. In the summer of IST'J James A. Cunningham owned and controlled in this city the most extensive starch works and syrup refinery in Indiana. In June of the year named the establishment took fire, plaintiff alleges, from a spars: from a passing engine on the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad, and instituted suit against the railway company for $ 200,000. The case was first brought to trial in the Knox Circuit Court and a judgment was giyen for defendant. Plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court, and the decision of the Knox Circuit Court was annulled. Three weeks ago the final trial began at Washington and was concluded to-day with the result as above Stated. The verdict, perhaps, gives a larger amount for daaaages than has ever been returned in any case in the United States. The citizens of Yincennes, while deprecating the ill-luck of the Evansville and Terre Haute folks, rejoice with Mr. Cunningham over his victory, as they have baeu a&mred that the starch works, which were the chief enterprise of the city before they burned, will be rebuilt. DeWoif, Chambers & De Wolf, of Yincennes, assisted by Gardner & Taylor, ot Washington, represent the plaintiff, and Viehe & KiblacJc, of Yincennes, O'Neall it Hefierman, of Washington, Iglehart it Taj lor. Evansville, and Jonn G. Williams, Terre Haute, were for defendant. Freak of Lightning. Daxtillz, May 11. James M. Barlow, a substantial farmer of this county, relates the following incident, which occurred on his farm during the thunder-storm last Friday : Mr. Barlow's son, aged twelve, and a hired man named James McClelland were at work in a field, and when the shower came up they sought shelter under a forest tree at the edge of the field. This was about 4:30 p. ru. A few minutes later the tree under which they were standing was struck by lightning, the üuid describing a jagged spiral line along the trunk from the top branch to the root. Just at nightfall a neighbor was pasring the spot and found the man and boy lying unconscious under the tree. He succeeded in arousing the man, but the boy remained Insensible, and to all outward appsarance was dead. Iiis face was swollen and distorted until he was barely recognizable. A White froth oozed from his mouth, and it was with great difficulty that a physician, an hour later, succeeded in bringing him to consciousness. The man has since almost entirely recovered, but the lad slill lingers, and is evidently injured internal ly. When found under the tree the man's hair was singed, and a scorched line could be traced along hit side to his right knee. A doe was standing beside the boy under the tree, but was not injured. A Strang; Freak of Nature. LaPoete, May 11. A strange freak of nature has just been developed at New Carlise, a small place east of here. For about one year Mrs. E. Hughes has been ill and her trouble has been the cause ot much speculation among various physicians, who failed to arrive at any agreement or solution of the case. Dr. Fahnestock, of this city, visited her, and after a careful examination correctly diagnosed the case a3 abdominal pregnancy. Shortly afterward Dr. Fabnestock, assisted by two physicians of New Carlisle, opened the abdomen and successfully removed a child of seven months development, in a putrid and partly disintegrated state. The case is one of very rare occurrence, and so far as known the first cf the kind in Northern Indiana. For five months after its death the cliild lay in the strong capsule nature had thrown around it (a capsule si strong ard toDh that it creakel under the knife when it was cut) a mystery to every physician consu'.teJ, until Dr. Fahnestosk's yifrit. The Jady, who has been a great sufferer, is doing well, with every hope of ultimately recovering. A Fatal Fall-Death altera ltrlef Illness. Maktinsvillk. May 11. The wife of William SU John fell down the cellar-way, at Ler home in this city, and received injuries from which she died in two hours. She will be buried in Greene Township tomorrow. Mr. St. John was one of the Democratic candidates for Commissioner at the last election. The wife cf Dr. J. J. Johnson died after a very short illness and was buried to day at Morgantown. She was the sister of Dr. Arnold Grifiitt, of Brown County, and Dr. Cum GrilGtt, ot Morgantown. Her 'son, Dr. James Johnson, was called home from Benford. One of her daughters is married to James P. Baldwin, cf thi city, and another to James G. Bain, editor of tho Republican. Devoted " A Friend of Soldiers Dead. Madisox, May 11. Mrs. Roxy Barns, aged seventy-nve, a widow of a veteran of the war of lsl2, died in this city to-day. She was always a devoted friend of the soldiers, and had seven brothers in the Union army, each measuring over six feet in his stockings. She bequeathed a valuable house and lot to Alois O. Bachman Tost, G. A. R., of this city, and by her request they will carry her body to the grave to-morrow, assisted by the Woman's Relief Corps. An Infant's Dead Body Foand. Goshex, May 11. This afternoon, while cleaning out a vault in the business part of the city, the workmen found the body of a dead infant. It was well formed, and evidently had not been there a very great length of time. A gash was cut in the back ot its neck, probably with a knife. There is no clew to the crime. Whipped for "General Cnasedneaa. B New Albany, May 11. Thomas Dooley was taken from his bed early the other morning by a band ot masked men and tied to a tree in his yard and unmercifully whipped. Dooley is a married man and lives about five miles south of Corydon. Just before orders were given by the captain of the gang to lay the lash to Dooley's bare back he was informed that he was about to be whipped for general cussed n ess. But the true reason of the whipping he received is supposed to be that he had denounced the Knigttsof the Switch, and had accused a number of parties of belonging to the organization. Dooley's doss was a terrible one. He is so ill of it that it is feared he will die. An Old Landmark Destroyed. IIuktisgtos, May 11. The old wooden building on Main street, occupied as a restaurant and barber shop, caught fire

last night The building is the old courthouse, which was erected in 1833. and was used as auch until 1356. The destruction Of the Old landmark recalls to the memory of our oldest citizens many of the scenes of primitive da vs. Arraigned for Embezzlement. Yikcexxes, May 11. Henry B. Dnesterberg, ex-City Treasurer, was arraigned today in the Circuit Court on a charge of embezzling $10,000 of the City's funds. The case will probably be concluded this week. A Murderer Respited. Evaksville, May 10. James McElroy, who was convicted of the murder of John Marta, a farmer living near this city, and sentenced to be hung at Henderson on Friday. May 13, has been respited until July 1 by Governor Knott. Considerable excitement was created when the news was received, and it is feared a lynching mob will be organized, as the general verdict is that McElroy is guilty. Yesterday a colored man surrendered himself to the authorities and asked to be hanged instead of McElrcy, saying that he had committed the murder. He was promptly placed in jail and will no doubt be adjudged insane. No credence is given to his story. A IIorge-ThUf Captured Greehfiexd, May 10. James P. Banks, Jr., a young man residing about four miles south of this city, was arrested at Paris, 111., yesterday, charged with stealing a horse and buggy from in front of a church in Brandvwine Townshipa short time ago. He will be brought t ack to this city this week to answer to the charge. She Followed Her Husband to Prison. Muscie, May 10. Levi Thomas was recently sent to the Prison North to stay for two years, for burglary. His wife begged the judge to allow her to accompany her husband and share his imprisonment. The judge, of course, refused her request. She remained here until recently, when she determined to go to Michigan City. Having no money she boldly set out to walk the distance, which she finally accomplished, and presented herself to the prison authorities to be admitted and incarcerated with her husband. The otlicials could do nothing but refuse her pleadings, which they accordingly did. She, however, did the next besthing and hired herself out to a family living naar the penitentiary as a

eervant, and there she lives, seemingly contented with an occasional brief visit to her was ward husband. Sentenced for Forgery. Columbus, May 10. Chris Boesche, who was arrested at St. Louis, Mo., one week ago for forgery, was brought into court this morning and pleaded guilty to two indictments for the forgery of two notes, one for $150 and the other for $300, to which be placed his father-in-law's name. The court gave him the lowest penalty, two years and ten months in each case, under the statute. As Boesche pleaded to both cases he will serve out both sentences in two years. I) atli of Timothy O'Connor. RKKS8EI.AER, May 10. Timothy O'Connor, of Remington, died yesterday. He was an honored citizen, a leading member of the Catholic Church and universally esteemed. She Advertised for a Husband. Richmond, May 12. The episode has been already published in which figured Hezekiah Dow, purporting to come from Haverhill, Mass., where he owned fine property and a prosperous business; the widow of the late Isaac Cadwallader, to whom he had become engaged through a correspondence, and A. E. Crocker, a real estate operator and mony loaner, who admonished the widow to bank the $100 he bad secured her on a mortgage and beware of her suitor, whom he next proceeded to fire out of the oftice with a bloody nose when he essayed to resent the insult. Today it proves that Crocker sized Dow up just riht, who was working the widow for her money instead of her heart. In response to a dispatch sent to Haverhill, Mass., by a reporter the city marshal replied that there was no Hezekiah Dow in business there to his knowledge, and when Dow found that the widow had given away the matrimonial feature of the affair, he swore loud and deep that he came to take her back with hitn as his wife, but he would be blowed if he would do it now, and he left for Cincinnati on the early morning train with a through ticket to Boston, but without from $100 to $200 of her money. The widow says he got over $10), but she still is not entirely ehaken in her confidence. She says that he told her he was going to South Bend and then to Cincinnati, where he would see if he could not buy their tickets to Boston cheaper than he could here, and also a dress to have in readiness when 6he went among his rich relativ?" in the Fast, the fellow taking her measure and all that. She is sorely grieved lest she is duped or le3t she is wrong in harboring such a suspicion, saying, "If he is not true I'll not trust a man again." The acquaintance all came through an advertisement ehe inserted in the Cincinnati Matrimonial Bureau describing herself as a widow, fifty-five years of age, with a little means, anxious to find a companion with some means and a good business. Ad Fnraged Hog Nearly Kills a Lady. Lo;aksport, May 12. Last evening about o'clock Henry Orwin, living five miks northeast of the city, went to leed a veay large Chester-white brood sow with fourteen youne pigs. Finding one that bad left the bed, he picked it up and handed it to Mrs. Orwin to take to the house, when the pig squealed, and the old hog rushed upon her, thrwoing her down. It was all Mr. Orwin and bis son, with clubs, and a large deg, could do to prevent Mrs. Orwin beiDg torn to pieces by the enraeed brute. As it was, Bhe was badly hurt and bitten on the head and arms. Dr. Downey was called at once, who found her in a critical condition, which may terminate seriously. Finn Dying by the Thousand. Mila5, May 11. The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad reservoir at this place contains some very fine native fish. Within the last few days they have been dying by the thousands and the shores are literally covered with their dead bodies. The disease is dangerous in its nature, beginning at tbe end of the tall and quickly extending to the more vital part of the body, causing a slow and apparently painful death. Fears are entertained that this immense pond will be completely unstocked unless the infection soon ceases. Instantly Killed at Pendleton. Tendletoh, May 12 Jacob Sammers, a deaf mute, who resides at Hanta vi lie, a small village situated one mile northeast of this place, came here this forenoon to do some trading. On returning home and in crossing the track by the water statloa he was struck by a freight train which was running thirty miles an hour and instantly killed. Summers was a sober and industrious man, aged forty-two years, and leaves a widow and two children in limited circumstances. Death of an Old Sarveyor, 8kymocr, May 11. Mr. Thomas Carr died Sunday night at his home in the west part of this county, aged about sixty years. Mr. Carr had just entered on his second successive term as Surveyor, having tiled tne same position over thirty years ago, and was one of the best Surveyors Jackson County ever had. His successor will be appointed at the Commissioners' Court next month. Death From a Horte Kick. Kokomo, May 12. Robert J. Chase, a wealthy farmer of this county, was kicked in the abdomen by a horse yesterday afternoon, and died of his injuries thi-t morn ing at bis residence near Fairfield. He

was an old citizen and a very prominent, public spirited man, and the announcement of his death this morning created quite a sensation in the city as well as ticOEgst his immediate neighbors. A Pioneer Dead. New Albany, May 11. Samuel Coats, a pioneer of Floyd and Harrison Counties, died at the residence ot Luther Meek, in Macomb, III., recently, aged eighty-one years. He distinctly remembered the building of the State-house at Corydoa when that town was the capital of Indiana, and had a personal acquaintance with many of the members of the first Indiana Constitutional Convention. Found in the Ohio. New Albahy, May 11. The body of a boy twelve years of age was found floating in the Ohio River, near Kendall's Landing, Harrison County, on the Dth. The lad was light complexioned and had red hair, but there was nothing found upon the body to identify it. Death at Xinety-Slx. Cambridge Citt, May 12. James Latshaw, aged ninety-six, is dead. He was an old pioneer and lived near Centerville. Death of tbe Oldest Citizen. Frekpobt, May 11. The oldest man in Stephenson County, if not in Illinois, died last evening at his home near this city. Mr. James Smith would have been 102 years of age had he lived until July 20. He cast his first presidential vote for James Madison and his last for Grover Cleveland, and had always been a Democrat. He never rode on a railroad train and never ate a meal at a hotel.

An Important Arrest. Columbus. Ind., May 12. Marshal Hagerty arresied a young man who says his name is E. W. Scott here this afternoon, as a crook. On searching him eight or ten gold rings, ranging in price from $2 to $15, were found on his person, together with a fine gold watch, two lady's cold chains and other valuable jewelry. Scott is boyisrt in appearance, is five feet two Inches in height, sandy complexioned, and is eighteen or twenty years of age. He came here last night from Shelbyville, Ind., on a freight tram. He told the Marshal that he came from Louisville, and his home was in Denver, Col. He pawned one of the finest rings for $;, which led to his arrest. He will be held as long as posiible, so that he can be ider tilled. Mrs. Fromer Arraigned, Greensburg. May 12. Mrs. Hannah N. Fromer was this afternoon arraigned to answer tbe indictment of a special Grand Jury accusing her of murder in the first degree. She appeared in feeble health, pleaded not guilty, and wss given till next Monday to decide whether her trial should occur during the present term of court. The plea of insanity is not considered tangible now. Death on a Steamboat. Evansville, May 12. J. F. Woods, a resident of Hanna, 111., and a large busi ness man of that city, died on the steamer U. P. Scbneck this morning at 7 o clock. just before landing at this port. Deceased wss seventy-eight years old, and death re sulted from old age and exhaustion. His family have been telegraphed for and will arrive in tne city to take charge of his remains. Jacob Block Liberated. Greensburg, May 12. Jacob Block has been liberated from the Southern State Prison ard was here to-day accompanied by his son. He left this evening to go to St. Louis. He will not visit his family at llashville, the scene of the tragedy, the kiUine of Eli Frank, for which he and his son Elsie were imprisoned. SWINDLERS IN COURT. Trial of the Proprietors of the Farm Journal and Farm Album at Chicago. Chicago, May 13. T. 8. Gardner and wife, proprietors of the Farm Journal and the Farm Album, were before United States Commissioner Herd this morning. charged with fraudulently using the mails. Gardner is said to have advertised that he would send the Farm Journal for a year, together with a handsome book of engravings, on the receipt of IS cents. When one sent the 43 cents he received a January copy ol the paper, together with a book full of stock engravings, the total value being about 4 cents. He also issued cir culars showing how one could easily make an enormous salary by getting up clubs. Every day's mail used to bring Gardner from 130 to 200 letters containing the names of subscribers in clubs from two to twentv. Another feature was the promise on the advertisement that when the subscription list reached a certain number he would lend to any subscriber money at 4 percent. A number of witnesses from all sectioos of the country were present and testified for the Government. A Postoflice Inspector estimates the receipts of the firm at samething like $20.000. ARRESTED FOR MURDER. A Fan-Handle Engineer Taken to Hancock County on a Serions Charge. Deputy Sheriff Langenberg yeaterdsy arrested Daniel Sullivan, the well-knowa PanHandle engineer, at his home, No. 37 Walcott street, upon a charge of murder. Toe warrant was sent here from Greenfield, Hancock County. Some time ago Nicholas Stutsman, a lumber dealer at Greenfield, was crossing the Pan-Handle Railroad track, about six miles west of his home, with ahorse and buggy,wben a train, of which Sullivan was tbe engineer, ran into and killed him. It is for this offence that SuMivan has been arrested, charged with the crime of murder. The damigesuit brought some time ago by Stutsman's relatives against the railroad company for damages was compromised for $1,500. Sullivan was taken to Greenfield yesterday. Women and Children Starving. AcsTiir, Texas, May 11. The Governor today received a petition from the county officials of Medina County, asking for a special session of the Legislature to provide for suffering and famishing people in Medina, Frio, Atacosaand portions of Bexar, Edwards, Uvalde and Bandera Counties. The Ere at mass of the people are represented as aving no money, no credit, no crop prospects and no property that can be sold, pledged or mortgaged. Many are living upon half rations of corn bread and tank water, and the seed corn and cotton have rotted in the ground. In one precinct in Medina County 300 women and children are in a famishing condition, and in other precincts the people will Boon starve unless help is furnished. The petition is certified to by the County Clerks in the respective counties. Consumption Cured. An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed in his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lung affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousand's of cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his'suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive'and a desire to relieve human sufienng, x will send free of charge, to all who desire it, this recipe in German, French or English, with full directions for preparing and using Bent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper, W. A. Noyea, 149 Power's Block, Eochastar, N. Y.

A TALK WITH BARRETT.

Ideas aud Experiences of the Actor-Manager-'lllenrl" a Saccess. I New York Tribune. A man somewhat above the medium height, whose grayish bair softened tbe outline of a rather clean-cut face, and whose walk and bearing had the springiness and agility of youth, walked across the lobby ot the Fifth Avenue Hotel the other morniDg and ascended the broal staircase. This was Lawrence Barrett, an actor and manager, who is as hard a worker off the stage as on it. It is therefore rot urprisirg to find him attending to Lis manifold concerns at a comparatively early hour in the morning. He walked with his visitor through the soft carpeted corridors in to his bright, cheerfal room looking out over Madison Square. Aa they sat and talked the hum of busy life came through the open window along with tbe scent of the opening buds and spring blossoms from the park scarce a stone's throw away. Naturally he referred to the success of Mr. Booth's season under his management. "We shall make," be said, "something over $30.000 before the season ends, and better than that, it will leave Mr. Bioth stronger in health and more cheerful in mind than he has been for some years past. It is a wonderful thing this, a man's snatchiDg a new wreath of fame when he is past his fiftieth year. It has, indeed, to use a conventional phrase, given Mr. Booth a new lease of life, physical as well as artistic. He has found himself surrounded by a company, which is not only a good one from a Btage point of view, but a pleasant and kindly one personally, and he has attached them to himself and I think has derived benefit from their companionship. I have been struck, too. with the way in which he has borne the fatigue and annoyances of traveling. Before he set off on his tour I told him that there were certain places from which I wish he wouldn't write to me. I felt sure that from tbese places he could eend me no word of satisfaction, for I knew there were inconveniences there that no amount of care could cause him to do away with. He remmebered what I had said, and when he made one of the long jumps or reached one of the disagreeable places, he used to address me. in burlesque fashion, as 'Monster!' 'Wretch!' etc. Finally, he dropped this, and wrote to tell me that I had delnded him. for there really was nothing to complain of." Mr. Barrett, when tbe subject of his own success at Niblo's was introduced, had this to Bay: "Yes, I am very pleased to say that Renzi' is an undoubted success here, as it has been everywhere this season. Analyzing the causes of this to the be3t cf my ability, I can only conclude that that part, in the first place, suits me particularly well, and that the care and thoroughness with which I have mounted and costumed the piece have also been appreciated by the public. The public now know a great deal more than they did a few years ago not only the public of New York, but that of cities outside. 1 have had this borne in upon me during my feason of traveling through the country. The best of everything has succeeded everywhere, and the managers of such entertainments as are thoroughly worthy have made money. All the others have suffered, some of them severely. A dollar no longer burns a hole in the pocket of the average man. He wants nowadays when he goes to the theater to get the full worth of his money, and he knows that he can do this if he waits until the right play or entertainment comes along. Then, too I hiak the average American is getting 0 be fonder of his home life, and is no loner drawn to the theater for want of a better place to spend his evening." The never-failing topic of the inter-state commerce bill was touched upon. "I think the bill," said Mr. Barrett, "is going to exercise a potent influence upon the theatrical profession. I am certain it will do so if it is allowed to remain in force for two or three years. 1 am not altogether sure that this mllDence will be without its benefit. In the first place, it will draw back to tbe larger cities, and especially to New York, many people who wiil!find their best interests served in becoming prominent members of good stock companies. There are now on the road many stars, both act ors and actresses, who should never have starred on their own account. They havi gained little fame, and have only been en abled to make a little money by tne very facilities afforded hitherto by railroad companies. Ihe hrst-class combinations will continue to travel, but I think they will do so on a aiCernt basis. Perhaps the old local otock companies in the smaller cities may never come into being again; perhaps it is better that they never should ; but the local manager of the future will have to be more than a mere janitor, as he is4at present. He will in future have to provide scenery and perhaps supernumeraries for the traveling companies, who can easily afiord to pay their fares, as far as the principal members of the companies go. but are altogether debarred by the provisions ol" the law from taking a large stock of scenery or a number of small and insignificant people. A longer stay will naturally be made in each place, and I think the result will be beneficial to all concerned, the public included." A recent much-talked-of managerial combination, which atone time it was thought would take place in New York, was referred to. "I should be sorry," said Mr. Barrett, 'to see another actor-manager quit the field. In the combination actor and manager, I am, as you may naturally suppose, a firm believer, and I think the history of the drama will bear me out in IL I am convinced that the theater should be managed from the stage, but this does not necessarily imply that the manager should be an actual actor. Both Mr. Daly and Mr. Palmer fall within my definition of the actormanager. They are in no sense of the term theatrical speculators. They use their own judgment as to the choice of plays, and they both of them manage their stages. But on the other hand, I wish especially to deny in positive terms the theory that an actor can not be a manager. Tbe successful actor has another nature s'ds by side with his artistic one, and the very qualities which help him to hold an audience are useful in teaching him what that audience wants. M. Perrln, the former director of the Theater Francais, was not an actor, yet he was a great, a very great, manager. He was an artist himself aa well as a successful business man." Mr. Barrett was asked whether he has forsaken his idea of having himself a theater in New York. "By no means," he said. "I have merely been obliged to postpone the execution of my plans for a little while; but I am firmly resolved that in the near fature New York shall have a stock theater which shall be devoted to the higher order ot drama, and which shall be conducted from a broad and liberal point of view. I have not been working these many years without having formed many positive opinions aa to the conduct of such a theater. I may be wrong in my premises, but if I am not, I am sure tbat my conclusions are well drawn." Mr. liarrett referred to Mr. Irving's forthcoming production of "Werner," which, he considered, ought in the English actor's hands to be entirely successful. He mentioned that Charlotte Cushman had once wanted him to play the same part, but that he had shrunk from doing so. The play, he thought, was excellently adapted to a rich and elaborate production, and that he had no doubt Mr. Irving would give it. Macready'a name being naturally mentioned in connection with the play, Mr. Barrett told an amusing little story illustrating that great actor's incapacity for taking a humorous view of things. Totd rather more shortly than Mr. Barrett gave it, the story was to this effect: Macready

was once playing "The Gamester" with the stock company of a provincial theater. One of the characters, after giving a description of his ruin by gambling, is asked by "Beverley" how his ruin had been accomplished. He replies, "Taey misled me," to which the gamester answers, "They misled me, too," and thereby makes one of his most Important points. The country actor, an illiterate fellow,gave the word phonetically, saying"they mizzled me." Macready stared at him for an instant, and then, in tragic tones, fell into his chair, gravely repeating: "They mizzled me. too." Talking of his plans for tbe future, Mr. Barrett said that the close of his New York season, at the end cf this month, he would go to his country place at Cohasset with his family, whom he expects to arrive from Europe to-day. He will there rest untii he starts next season playing with Edwin Booth. LIFE, IN SIX ACTS. .

Bahy. Sighing, cry Id g, Night aud day: Winking, blinking:, Full of play. Hoy. Fooling, schooling, (jetting tall; Growing, rowing, Playing ball. Youth. Fufilng, mussing O'er a tie: Larklne, sparking On the sly. Manhood. Cooing, wooing Fature wife: Gunning;, blushing:, Tied lor life. Middle Age. Slaving:, craving, Hoarding wealth, Driving, striving, Broken health. Oil Age. Ailing, failing ty by day. The undertaker Ends the piy. Bosioa Uiotie. Burying His Five Sons. (Philadelphia News. A Lycoming County farmer, blessed by the possession of broad acres and fat cattle, and fatter cash account, had given his five Bons more precious than all elss beside that the Union might be preserved. His wife wes dead and his boys were his onty solace, but when the war against his conntry was declared he felt as did Yolumnia, the mother of Coriolanus, when she said: "Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, I bad rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action." So the Rankin boys went to confront grim-visaged war. The life blood of two of them made more fertile the rank growth of the Peninsula, and their bodies lay unclaimed amid the thousands who had gone down in the shock of battle. The bowed, but not broken, father came to the Governor's oflice la Harrisburg with his tale of woe. Andrew Curtain never turoed a deaf ear to such as he. He said: "You are too old a man to go after your sons' bodies. I will 3end a messenger for them, and you can rest assured that you will be enabled to give them buriaL" And this was done. After the eecond battle of Manassas the seed father again entered the Executive Chamber, and, without saying a word, seated himself. The Governor recognized him at once, and thought, "Can it be that this old man has been afflicted again?" He bade him approach. The visitor's voice was broken, but his tears did not fall as he said : "Governor, another one of them has gone." For a moment Mr. Curtin could not speak. He silently wrung the horny hand cf the despoiled father. When he found voice he said: "You must not go. I will send for him You shall see him again." And this was done. When news of the battle of Gettysburg reached Harrisburg, Governor Curtin traveled across the country and viewed the memorable conflict After its conclusion he returned to Harrisburg and was seated late at night in his room when again Rankin entered without a word and silently seated himself upon a chair. "My God," thought Mr. Curtin, "it can not be that the blow has fallen upon this old man again." He could not bring himself to ask the question, and for fully fifteen minutes the two men sat in th room, their heads upon their hands, and neither uttered a word. At last the old man said, as he steadied his voice: "Governor, tne other two are gone." "The other two? This is terrible." "Yes, Governor, the other two. They have taken them all." He wished a pass to enter the lines that he might take home his silent son-;. "You are too old," said the anguished Governor. "I will send for them and they shall be taken borne." And this was done. After Governor Curtin had returnel to this country at the close of his five years residence at the Court of Russia, he was in Philadelphia when it was intimated to him that Mr. Rankin, who was still alive, would be highly delighted if his benefactor would pay him a visit when the exMinister was on his way to bis home in Center County. Mr. Curtin said that he would comply with the wish, and when he reached the railroad station nearest to the Lycoming County farmer's home he found the old man waiting for him with a carriage. That evening the people of th surrounding country, at Mr. Rankin's bidding, flocked to do honor to the ex-Governor. The next morning after partaking of a breakfast such as only a Pennsylvania farm-house can produce, the aged agriculturist invited Mr. Curtin to join him in a walk. He led the way to a wooded knoll near the house, and a spot which was a beautifully sodded inclosure, surrounded by an iron railing. Within it were five mounds and five headstones. The old man pointed toward them and simply said: Governor, there they lie." Both men bowed their beads and neither uttered a word. In a few moments Emkin turned away with a cheery remark about the surrounding country, and from that moment during the two days festivities that succeeded Mr. Curtin's arrival, the desolate father never again referred to his sleeping sons. lien Wade and Bescher. I called upon Ben Wade shortly before he died and chatted with him about his remarkable career. He told me how, a boy, he walked across the mountains from New England to Ohio, and I understood he kept bis memory green to the day of his deato. Shortly before he died he made a remark about Beecher which la rather interesting. Tbe story is told us by a leading citizen of Jefferson, Ohio, where Wade lived and died, and where his sons still reside. It was during one of Beecher's sommersets upon eligious questions, and this gentleman, a Mr. French, brought in a papsr describing Beecher's new attitude and laid it betöre Wade. Wade read the paragraph, which was pointed out to him, and was then asked as to what he thought of Beecher. He raised his hand and brought it down upon his knee with a slap as he said: "Beecher! Hang Beecher! Beecher knoccked bell out of religion, and religion without hell is no better than pork with out salt." Ben Wade was noted for his emphatic expressions. He believed in calling a spade a cpade, and he rather prided himself upon the tttle of "Bluft Ben Wade." He had a chance to be President at the time Lincoln was nominated, and I have been told that there was some talk of taking lam in place Of Lincoln, but that the other delegates were turned from nim by a circular whicn stated that there had been insanity in Ben Wade's family, that his health was poor, and that it was not safe to nominate him upon this ground. This statement I have never seen in a newspaper, and I have never heard anything in Northern Ohio which leads me to believe that it can have any truth in it. Cruel to Grady. Philadelphia Record. J The New Yoik Herald is Butlerizlng :or Grady, ot the Atlanta Constitution, y running him for v ice-msidenc on a a supposititious Democratic ticket. This sort of martyrdom is very much like burning a man in efiigy when his back happens to be turned.

GEORGE ON THE LABOR PARTY-

He Does Not Know Whether It Will Make a Presidential Nomination. fNew York Sun. Through the prominence given to the ecclesiastical troubles of Dr. McGlynn, the land and labor question has been kept Bteadily before the public, but for a month or two the Labor party had not been heard from until the call for a State convention issued the other day. A San reporter talked with Henry George about the plans of the party and its condition. "Interest in our cause," he said, "is spreading rapidly. Land and labor clubs are iorming all over the country. Here, in New York, we have a political party that is coherent and strong. There are one or two incongruous elements, but they do not affect the general complexion ot the party. The people here have had a splendid education in the land question, and have grasped it so thoroughly that there Is no danger that they will bs led by the nose back to the older parties. We are determined not to flinch from our position. Oar ultimate aim is the abolition of all taxes except those on land. We can not hope to accomplish all that at once, of course, but tbe first step wili be the taking of all taxes off improvements in tbe shape of buildirjgs on land. Out West there has been a Labor party formed that put a hodge-podge plank in its platform about land, but our people will have nothing to do with it. We stand firm for the radical views of the holding of land that has been repeatedly expressed in our documents and declarations of principles. I think the party in this city is much stronger than it was at the municipal election. Elsewhere it certainly is, lor where there as no party at all there is now some kind of an organization in nearly every imporian t city. The politicians don't know what to make of us, and even the labor politicians are fighting us I mean those old war horses tbat have been preaching about the wrongs of labor for twenty years or more without advocating a specific remedy." "Do you expect the party to make a presidential nomination in the next campaign?" Mr. George hesitated at this question, and answered in a doubtful tone: "I am sure I don't know; we may. We don't care to hold the executive offices, but it seems to be necessary to right for them in order to bring our principles iuto the field." "If a nomination were made would it not result in the sure election of a Republican?'' "May be ; we should not care. What difference dees H make who holds the offices? Are we really any better olF because Mr. Cleveland was elected; and would it make the burdens any lighter or heavier if a a Rep Mican were the Chief Executive? I think aot. The important thing is to get the people to think of a real issue, and that is the mission of the Labor party. There are lota of Democrats to-day who ooght to be Republicans, and vice versa. Now the party lines must be sharply drawn that these congruous elements Bhall be united under one standard. If the Labor party comes into tbe field, and by its presence defeats an organization that otherwise might count on victory, the tendency will be to shake up the parties so that the incongruous elements of each will fall out. The Republican party was killed in the last election. It will be a capital thing now to kill the Democratic party. If that is not done in the next election it surely will be in the next but one, and then the mission of the Labor party will have been accomplished. Then a genuine issue will be before the country, and the parties must form on either Eide of It. That issue will naturally be the land question. Jndgmg from the way tbe cause is growing, I should Bay that by that time the whole country would be able to discuss the issue intelligently. Meantime, we shall work hard and in our own way. We shall countenance nothing tbat looks like an alliance a with the other parties, and to guard against that it will bs necessary for us to have onr own candidates in the field for every oilice subject to popular election." "The Labor party cries against the 'corruption' Of the older organizations. What does it say to the suggestion that the placing of so much power in the Government as will follow from making the State the landlord will induce a great amount ol corruption?" "The reply is that it is a mistaken idea to suppose that the functions of government will be increased by the adoption of our plan. On the contrary they will be diminished, and our policy calls not only for no more offices than exist at present, but no new ones. You see what we strive against is taxation. There are several kind3 of taxation now. When we have reduced them to the one tax on land values only, what will happen? Why, the officials already intrusted with the assessment and collection of taxes will naturally do the work. The present machinery of government wilt more than sufiice for the operation of things according to our plan. We shall simplify governmental operations a great deal, aud thus decrease the tendency to corruption. Furthermore, a fruitful source of corruption to-day lies in the valuation of taxable property. When only land is taxed there will not be so great possibility for fraud, because it is comparatively easy to get at the value of land. It lies where everybody can Bee it, and opinions will not difler ereitly on its worth. "So far as the Labor party is concerned, it is harmonious and determined, it is aa element in politics that has come to stay, for it is based not on a desire for oflice, but on a conviction. The work of electing delegates to the State convention will be undertaken very soon, and we expect to have all parts of the State represented and to have a very large gathering." Making; It Hot for Grlflio. Lafayette Journal. The Indianapolis Sentinel is making it hot for the State's secretary, Mr. Grifiia. It seems that Mr. Griffin has a way of his own for publishing tbe acts of the late Legislature, and that way includes omissions, wrong dates and his own individual advertisement. A MOST LIBERAL OFFER. The Voltaic Belt Co.. Marshall. Mich., offor to send their celebrated Vokaio Belts and Electrlo Appliances on thirty days' trial to any man afflicted with Nervous Debility. Loss of Vitality, Manhood, etc Illustrate 1 pamphlet in sealed envelope with fuU particulars, mated tree. Writ them at nnflo. The Church: "Simmons Liver Regulator is certainly a specific for that class of complaints which it claims to cure. II any of oar fellow-beings are suffering from hepatic disorders and have doubts in renardtothe e3icacy of this popular preparation, we can only öfter them the simple and candid argument ol I'M lip to Nathaniel, 'Come and see.' Try the proposed remedy and then von can judge for yourselves." Rev. David Vills. Pastor of Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C. The Judiciary: Constipation caused by a derangement ot the Liver, and always, when used according to directions, with decided benefit." Hiram Warner, late Chief Justice of ;. The Medical Profession: "No other remedv within my knowledge can fill 1U place. I have been practicing tneateine lor twenty vears and have never been able to put up a vegetable compound that would, like Simmons Liver Regulator, promptly and efl'ectivelv move the Liver to action and at the same time aid, Instead of weakening, the di gestive powers ot tue system.-, n. iiinioa, f 11 n 1. 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