Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1887 — Page 3

THE INDIANA BTATE BEJTTIfTEL- WEDNESDAY .JOKE 8 1887.

PLAYING AT SOLDIERY. I

Tkcughia Sngestei Wbiis WitcMcj tüa Parades on Dacoratoa Day. Tha Police of New York, md Cjp&in. Willliazia' Sacc833 in His Precinct Dona Ritt Eicites tin Stcry cf tha Catacizj Epiacch in Washirgton jifa. Piatt's New Book Remarkable Interest la Sporting CTent Theatrical Matter A Kassian Authority, f Special Correspondence ol the 8ent!i;l.l Nxw Yobk, Jane 4. Each year the numbers in the parade of tne Grand Army of the Republic on Decoration Day grow smaller, and the graves of the veterans more numerous. 1 watched the parade of llonday last and thought of this for about three consecutive and serious minutes, 'while the rest ol two hours of time spent la watching the long drawn-out line was devoted to admiration cf the young fellows who are taking the piace ol the old soldiers. Decoration Day isn't ta my mind such a solemn occasion as it purports to be. I don't indulge in regrets; I don't care a fig for ?he "has beens; ' haven't the slightest reverence for the "once famous;" but I like to anticipate. I believe in the boys who are to make history, and I delight in believing that the hereafter Is to produce greater men than we have ever known or heard of. I watched the parade of the young soldiers with delight, marred by one reflection they don't march as tho old soldiers do. They havea't that long, loping stride that the Grand Army had when it marched home through "Washington. They haven't that stride which enabled Sherman to march around Joe Johnston's Hank when he couldn't break his front. The new soldiers are precise !n 6iep and prim in manner; but the substance of valor and endurance is there, and the most of those I saw on Monday will probably have occaron to show both in deadly encounter. We are already beginning to need another war with somebody among ourselves, if we can't find anybody else to fight and war ought always to be as welcome as a thunderstorm, lor it has something of the 83 me refining Influence. A war which will annex Mexico or Canada, for instance, will Eet those countries a hundred years ahead in civilization. The police of this city had their parade the day after Decoration Day. There were over 2,000 of them in line, and a fine display of splendid physiques they made. These annual parades have a good iaflaence, for they show the restless element of a great city like this the great, concen trated and disciplined strength of our militia and police. I was greatly pleased with the demonstration made all along the line of marcl on the appearance of Captain A. 8 Williams, of the Twenty-ninth Precinct. On almo3t every block of the entire line of march three cheers were called for him by naice, and given with vigor by the public, who always will like a posltiva and belüget ent fellow inch as Williams is. He is the object of more hatred from thieves and politicians than any half dozen other officers on the force. Ever since I can recollect, the Mayors and other small fry politicians of this city have been trying to get Williams dismissed from the force, or removed from th9 Twecty-ninth Precirct. They have invariably Had the hearty good wishes, if not co-operation, of the pool sellers, gamblers, thieves and buncoateerers of the city. Williams' precinct is probably the richest in the world. All the great hotels, restaurants and dry goods and jewelry establishments are in his precinct. So are all the largest houses of ill-fame atd the biggest gamblers' clubs; for you will find here, as the wide world over, that the demimonde of both sexes congregate where the most wealth la concentrated. Yet in no part of the city is crime less frequent than in Captain Williams' district. Twenty thousand strangers a day are free from robbery or violence in that district; burglaries there are almost unheard of, and murder has not teen committed there in a long while; and it is solely because of Williams' reputation as "a good clubber" and a fearless officer. Every once In a while somebody make charges against him for permitting prostitution and gambling and other vices of human nature to exist, and as a result the Police Board has to listen to a lot of whining complainants who think the millenluni ought to exist in their immediate neighborhood, and then they have to read endless lists of the most substantial merchants and citizens protesting against Williams' removal from the precinct. Steele Mackaye has been illustrating at Buffalo the many difficulties and the few advantages of "trying a new play on a dog," as the familiar slang of the stage describes the production of new piece outtide the metropolis before submitting it to a more critical examination. Mackaye is a nervous, wiry man, with a great deal of energy of a spasmodic kind and a constant and firm confidence in his ability, and little annoyances aggravate him mightily, while failure is correspondingly depressing. He seems to have had any number of annoyances in Buffalo, where he produced bia new play of "Anarchy," and theplee itself seems to have fallen rather flat. The name is enough to kill iL It does not seem likely that it will be tried on here very soon. Another manager who pursues the sama policy with new pieces Is Colonel William . Sinn, ot the Brooklyn Park, bat be orders things better than Mackaye. He rics his new plays at his own house, where he can do as he pleases with the force at his command a very important particular in the production of a ne w play. Then he tries on new pieces only for his own star, who is also his own wife, and here are three incentives to gooi and thorough work by the manager, and that generally injures good work by all the subordinates. Colonel binn's plan is to try a new piece at his own house for a week; II it is a success it goes on the road; if it is a failure it is atelved and permitted to be forgotten. Hii production this week of Robert Bnchanan'a play of "Fascination" received more than the usual attention from the critics, who were uniformly very kind, both to the author and the actress who in terpreted the price! pal part. The latter was Cora Tanner, a most beautiful woman, and for two seasons past a very auccessf al star in a melodrama by Buchanan, entitled "Alone in London " Although she has made a success of "Fascination," Colonel Einn tells me that she Is booked for next aeaaon in "Alone in London," and will sot, therefore, play "Fascination" during the season of 1887-83. I met Donn Piatt,who founded the Washington Capitol, at the Lafayette Hotel, Philadelphia, not long since. He had been reading Cadeau'a account of the Catacaxys. ''Badeau, he said, "does not mince matters in peakieg of that outrage on official and aociad life at Washington; he tells the truth about the Catacazys." Why," I wled, "do you call it aa outrage 7' "Because, GortachakofTsent aa Minister to the United States a man whom he dared not commission to any other power. It would have been considered an insult and titled fj ffacH. Bftdm ii mistakea in bia

assertion that the ladies ef Washington received Madame Catacazy. Mrs. General Sherman, Mrs. Dahlgren indeed, ail the ladies of society gave the Madame the cold shoal Je-r. Tbere was an absurd distinction made between social and official conditions, r?d Mrs. Fish received her officially. There is always a crowd cf people about Washington eager to worship the diplomatic corps, and thee people s warmed ab sat the Catacazjs. Well it, was social recognition enough for such people. This diplomatic business of our Government is ridiculous enough, as we have no call for it, but it brings the blus!i to knojr that foreign officials can send their mislresae3 to Washington as wives cf their ministers. This hss been done more than once. By the by, my intercourse with the Cataiszys was rather ludicrous, I was fighting the administration, and to get even with me General Bibco:k gave out the contents of a dispatch from the late John Y. Mason, while Minister to France, when I was Secretary of Legation, and subsequently charge d'a flairs, that was not complimentary to me. This document was considered so confidential that even I was not permitted to read it. I went at Hamilton Fish to know how he came to permit such a violation of the rules. Hamilton Fish loots like a butler, bat he feels like a gentleman, and when he told me that it was not his act, cor done with his knowledge, I accepted his statement and began locking up the offender. One day I was called on at the Capitol office by a rather pretty, little, bright-eyed French woman, with pearly teeth, who said, in a charming way: '"I am ze demoiselle de compagnle of Msdame Catacazy. I am proud to make ze acquaintance of ze editair of ze Capitol. Ah ! Morsleur, you write ze droll articals. I laugh, Monsieur Catacazy. Madame alzo laugh at ze droll zings vat you write; very droll et sevaire alzo.' " 'I am much ccmplimented if the Russian Legation enjoys my articles. Of course, all Butsia is supposed to laugh. What can I do for you?' " 'Monsieur, it is I who can do zs grand service for monsieur. You have euimee m ze Department of State. You do not know; you do not suspect. Foraleetle compensation I can give yon ze name of ze enemee.' "I 6truck a bargain with the sprightly little woman, and got from her the information that Bancroft Davis, then Assistant Secretary of Sta'a, was my hidden foe. and I proceeded to make lite a burthen to Bancroft. The acquaintance thus began continued during the winter. One day she informed me that Monsieur Catacazy wished to sfe me at his house. I sought the home of the diplomat at the hour indicated, which was that of Iuluq. We had a delicious lunch, with only the minister, his fair wife and myself to enjoy it. We had cot gone far before Catacjzy began talking of an article ot mine that had appeared in the New York Commercial Advertiser which was very severe upon the Secretary of the Slate and President. 1 afsured the minister that he was under a delusicn, that I had never written for the Commercial Advertiser I had been Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, but not at the time he mentioned. The minister persisted, and I f:ot rather warm, denying it. We had at ast reached a rather cool condition, when Madame inteirupted us and soothed down the minister. Subsequently, when I told my little French spy of what had occurred, she broke into a merry laugh. She did not explain the nature of the jeat that awakened ber musical laughter, but said: "Ah! Monsieur, von sate bien clevair droll, vairy droll alzo.' She gave me many amusing sketches of life at the Russian diplomat's how they slept all day and gambled all night. They had so little confidence in each other that no cards were us?d a second time, but in winter were thrown in the grate, and in summer out at the window. The early neighbors would fin i the pavement covered with cards, and wonder thereat. Säe told how disposed to intrigue was Madame, and of Monsieur's furious jealousy. Sbe related a scene which ended la the flight of a Washington swell, with an ugly wound from a revolver bullet in his hand, and as it escaped his too susceptible head, nothing was ever said about the affair. The most amnsing story, however, told was of Madame's laying siege to Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. The journals over the country not long after appeered with an eulogy in Sumner's happiest phrases of eloquence on the 'beiuties of womanhood as they appeared in the pertcn of the Russian Minister's wife.' "Four years after these social and diplomatic events," continued the Washington editor. "I was walking along Broadway, JJew York, when I encountered the former demoiselle de compagnle of Madame Catacazy. All the official actors of my little comedy were out of office or dead. The curtain had been rung down, the lights extinguisned, and I had half forgotten the events, when thisipri?htly femaleof French distraction brought them vividly to mind. She was about the same, if anything, younger in looks, and quite as young in manner. " Ah! Monsieur, she cried, seizing my band and pumping my arm with much vigor, ze droll editair de journal Capital!. Mon ami, you vill treat me to a superb loonch, and I will treat yon to some zings vairy amueant.' To this I, of course, consented, and taking the stage, we got out at Delmonlco's, where I gave her the liberty of ordering the fare. Ehe told me how old Catacazy got into trouble writing abusive articles for the papers, in which the President and Hamilton Fish are not only spoken of in an unpleasant manner, but certain state secrets given out, that put the Secretary on the track of the informer. He cornered Catacazy, and demanded of Gortschakoff the stupid fellow's recall. She said Catacazy conceived then of a li'.tle scheme to liberate himself. He tot me to lunch, and had a short-hand reporter behind a screen. Praising the offensive article to me he thocght my vanity would make me accept the authorship, and such acceptance he would put under the nose of Hon. Hamilton Fisn, while sending a copy to Gortachakofll 'Bat droll editair did not tumble In ze trap. My ! but I did laugh at ze stupid Cits ' " T.ut why did you not tell me?' " Zai vas not mv beezn 83, you very droll enfant. It vas my beezness to tell Monsieur Bancroft Davecs. vitch I did.' 'The devil! Whyshoull you tell him?' " 'Ah, Monsieur, you are a lee tie stupid, too. You see, I vas employed by Monsieur Bancroft Davecs to vatch Monsieur Catacazy. Zen Monsieur Catacazy employ me to vatchjbis yife he vas vairy jealous. Zen yon employ me to vatch Monsieur Bancroft Daveea. Ah, I make ze good zing all around,' There you have a glimpse," Piatt concladed, "of social and official life at Washington after the war. No court of Europe, in the past or present, had or has such a world of intrigue, corruption and romance aa our capital presented for about twelve years after the war." I made some Inquiries of his publishers of the fate of Piatt's recent book, which he calls "Memoirs of the Men Who Saved the Union." The second edition is in press, the first having been sold in thirty days. The new edition contains a new preface, in which Piatt pays his disrespects to has numerous critics. Two United States officers challenged him on account of what he says about West Point, and he told them to go help defend West Point in print, and not at the deadly toy dueling pistol's dread mouth, and they took his advice. Piatt's book has been "clawed at" far and near; hence the large eale It has, I remember, some years ago, printing a volume about men of the war which didn't represent all those who fought aa heroes. I was In the Mercantile Library one day when a man came in returning a copy of my book. "What do you keep such, lies as that for r ho

asked of the clerk. "For subscribers," was the answer. "We have twenty-five copies," he added. I picked up the -volume, and found the margins of almost evry other page scribbled over w'th "Liar," "Coward," "D d lie," etc. "Are the other copies you have marked in this waj ?" I asked. "Yes," said the librarian; "ith er the people who real this book are the biggest liars living or ths author was." I confess to coming away feeling highly complimented, and I hope my experience will give the belligerent and criticised Piatt a vast amount of grim satisfaction. The interest taken in this city in all sporting matters is fairly illustrated by what is known here as the "Ticker Service." This is the announcement simultaneously in every section of the city of the result of any sporting event the moment it is deldfd. This service was at one time confined to quotations of stock, as they fluctuated on the Exchange; and a single "Ticker Service" supplied all demands, Then Charles A. O'Rourke. 'of the City Press Association, conceived the idea of applying the base-ball, racine, boating, etc., and now one may read in almost every hotel corridor, every larger bar or billiard room, and in every bank and tvsry broker's office, the Btart and finish of all races, and the result of each inning in every game of base-ball played by the League nines in any part of the country. There are thousands of these sporting tickers and three diierent services. O'Rourke supplies the great majority of these tickers several hundred in number. I asked him how many would be discontinued as soon as the base-ball and racing seasons are over. "Fully one-third," was his reply. Saloon keepers pay $20 a mouth for the use of these news "tickers," solely as an attraction to customers of their bai3. At the Lotus Club, the other night, I asked Colonel Thomas W. Knox, its secretary, and a famous traveler in Russian and Siberian latitudes what he thought of the peculiar political and social condition at St. Petersburg, where, according to the latest newspaper report?, the Czar is constantly about to be blown up with nihilistic bomb shells. The Colonel intimated that he was more interested just now in other topics, but added: "If you want to get the most correct as well as latest view of Russia as she is, go to Bouton." It was said very much as if Bouton was a place warmer than Russia is popularly said to be; but on inquiry I found that Bouton was a man, to-wit, John Ball Ronton, who has been for two decades an editorial writer for the Journal of Commerc ' Bouton has written," continued Colonel Knox, "a most interesting volume on Russia, which he caL's 'itoundabout to Moscow.' His notes upon what he saw in Earooe, and especially those referring to the Russian Empire, show that he traveled with his eyes wide open and had no hesitation about asking questions where he desired information. He has a great deal to say about the bazaars, churches and palaces of Moscow, and his pictures of the Tartar life of the ancient capital of Russia are graphically drawn. Mr. Bouton wt 8 in Russia at a time when the Nihilists were especially active, and he evidently made a careful study of the social and political state of the Northern empire. I see that the erroneous idea that Mrs. Agnes Booth'.is not to play the part of "Mrs. Ralston," wife of "Jim, the renman," in the play of that name, to be produced next Monday night in Chicaeo, has grown out of the announcement that Ada Dyas is to play the same part "on the road" next season. Mis. Booth plays the part for this season. There is no reason why she shouldn't play it for a decade to come, for it is a very wonderful performance. The whole cast of the piece, as Palmer is to play it in Chicago, is very handsome, and, notwithstanding the formidable opposition of Augustin Daly, I have no doubt that the success of the piec will be very great The play has no merit which the actors do not give it; but the ecting is such that the demerits are not noticed. Miss Marie Burroughs has been playing the part of "Aggie" at Boston, but in Chicago the original will be resumed by Miss Maud Harrison. Miss Burroughs made a great hit in the part in Boston, but in view of the fact that she is to play a very much more important port in "Saints and Sinners" in two or three weeks of the Palmer engagement at McVicker's ehe will not play the minor part in "Jim, tbo Penman." Miss Burroughs remains in this city for a fortnight. Wiliiam F. G. Shanks.

Freddy's Appeal. Little Fred did not like Sunday. He never had thought much about It except that the bells rang and big folks went to church; that mamma told him Bible stories, when he somehow felt very gjod and peaceful, and that papa was home all day, and in the afternoon, if it were clear, took him out for a walk. That is, until he lived next door to some children and discovered that on Sundays he could not go to their house to play. From this time Sunday was a great trial, and frequently for days before he would talk of little else. "How many days till Sunday, auntie?" be mournfully asked one morning as he sat by the register, vainly trying to button his shoes. Why, three whole days, Freddy," cheeringly answered auntie. "Ony free days?" walled Fed, in tones of deepest woe. Then energetically, "I don't see what you have it so often for !' "Why, Freddy, Sunday is one of the d8ys of the week. It is God's day." G:d makes the Sunday?" said Fred. "Yes," said auntie. "He has a kind of wheel," soberly explained the little fellow, "and turns it 'round 'til he turns out Sunday. It just comes; but I don't see why he has it so twick, and," he added, after a moment's thought, "if he is going to have it so twick all the time, I'm just going into Crowell's io play anyhow." This idea appeared to cheer him, for be vigorously reattacked the buttons and began to hum a tune. Presently he began to talk to himself, and auntie, who was just going out of the room, heard him softly say: "God! God! Don't make Sunday come ro twick!' Then, after looking expectantly a moment at the ceiling, he slowly, and in the deepest bass he could command, answered: "No; I won't; I won't" Again, es shaking with laughter auntie started toward the stairs, she heard in accents of the moBt earnest entreaty: "Codi God ! Please don't make Sunday come tco twick!" Then in stentorian tones : "No ; I won't ; I won't." An Attempt to Corrupt Jar ore. New York, June 3. District Attorney Martine to-day corroborated the statement that attempts had been made by somebody to "fix" jurors in the case against Jacob Sharp, and that that was the reason for excusing Messrs. McEIwee and Caldwell. He also corroborated the report of an attempt to corrupt Mr. Rnpfei, drawn on the first paneL The trial will not begin before Monday. A jury has not yet been obtained. Only On Lynched. Hc!TiifGBCKQ, June 1. -News of a lynching in the interior of Orange County, Indiana, came to Jasper, Ind., last night. Two men abducted a young girl, took her to the woods, and having outraged her. left her tied to a tree. One of the men was caught and hung yesterday, and searching parties are scouring the forest lor the other. AnKastern Kajan Had a rnby which lighted his palate at night. More precious than gems are beautiful teeth, which light up the face when displayed by a smile. Use Bozodont, and your teeth will be brilliant aa jewels, your breath sweet aa the rosea ox vaaamcre.

THE VANDALIA DEAL

The Eile of the Yaadilia Rulrotd to ths C, H. and D. Syndicate. The G antral Office to bo Removed ta Cincinnati What la Thought of the Sale. Railroad circles have been on the qui Vive for several days becinse of rumors regarding the sale of the Vandalia Road to the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company. Mr. Henry 8. Ives is thought to be the moving spirit of the transaction, and those who know him intimately say that he is a sort of embryo Napoleon in his business modes and idea. Though only twenty -3ve yeais ot age, he is said to be one cf the shrewdest men on Wall street. According to the following Associate Press dispatch the sale has been consummated: Cihcivsati, June 3. Mr. Henry S. Ives was Been to day In reference to the recent deal of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayten, and asserted positively that the transaction was completed. He was not willing to say what was the price paid, but he said that the first installment was paid yesterday and that the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton would take possession to-morrow. This act wtuld set at rest all doubts upon the genuineness of the deal. The trains of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago would be permitted to run over the new acquisition for the present. What would be done later could not now be told. As to the Pennsylvania Company, he should insist upon their trains continuing aa at present. -They would be urgently requested to do to. Mr. Ives did not conceal the fact that he anticipated trouble of some sort with the Pennsylvania Company, growing out of Its relations with the newly acquired property. The general offices of Vandalia Road will be removed to this city. Mr. Ives will be here for a short time, his object being to arrange for placing the new depot bonds of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Road. The C., II, and D. Vandalia Deal. IEnquirer.1 The subject of conversation yesterday in railroad circles was the purchase of a controlling interest in the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Road by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton people. Maoy of the local railroaders doubted the truth of the statement. Notwithstanding the doubt expressed the deal is an assured fact. As stated in yesterday's Enquirer, the first pajmentwas made at Terre Haute Wednesday, and yesterday a certified check was given in this city for the balance of the purchase money. It is said that the existing relations between the Pennsylvania and Ciacinnsi, Hamilton and Dayton people are friendly, and that the former will continue to operate over the T. H. and I. and Vandalia if they so desire. It was the intention oi the Pennsylvania people to build from Red Bank, ci the Little Miami, to Richmond, Ind., via Hamilton, in order to have an independent line of their own between Cincinnati and Chicago, and work is progressing rapidly on the extension from Red Bank to Hamilton, but as satisfactory arrangements have been made between the C, H. and D. and Pennsylvania the line will be extended m fcrther than Hamilton, and the Pennsylvenia wi I, efter its completion to that point, operate over the C, II. and I. between Hamilton and Richmond, at which point they again strike their own lines. Tie C, H. and D. people also also threatened some time since to build from Rashville to Anderson, to connect with the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan, and had suiveyors in the field running the line, but amicabie arrangements have been made With the Pennsylvania Company under which the C. II. and D. people will operate over the Pennsylvania lines between Richmond and Anderson, lad., where they strike their recent acquisition, the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan. Gossip About the Deal. I Commercial Gazette. What will be known to railway histo.y as tke great Vandalia deal was the one theme of conversation yesterday in the local railway world. In Pennsylvania circles and these radiate more widely than one would imsgine on superficial observationeverybody was slow to believe, that their favorite corporation had been caught capping, even temporarily. Pennsylvania officials knew, or . pretended to know, nothing about it "except what they saw in the newspapers." A peculiar thing about existing laws is illustrated by the transaction. The majority of tbe stock of a little corporation being bought up, the control of. the property goes to the purchasers, and with this control that of all the leases and other valuable holdings of the little road. Thus a transaction affecting a whole railway system and immente amounts of securities can be made with money that is trifling in amount compared with the results achieved, if the operator is smart enough to find just the place to put his million or two into. The little road becomes the power "the tail wags the dog." The Pennsylvania can, of course, be only temporarily inconvenienced, if at all. They can either remain on the Vandalia tracks under the old or a new arrangement, build the links necessary for a new St. Louis line say in connection with the Big Four or swap a New York entrance to the B. and O. for a St. Louis entrance. The object and the result of the deal was not to injure the Pennsylvania interests, but to enhance those of the B. and O. and C, H. and D. The Vandalia Purchase. ICourier-JournaLl The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton has, by its purchase of the Vandalia, made a sensation in the railroad world. It was a coup d'etat, similar to the reported sale of the Baltimore and Ohio to the Richmond and West Point Terminal Company. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton operates 353 miles of road, and pays a b!gger dividend than any cth?r railroad of importance in the United States. Mr. George H. Stayner is the president and Mr. Henry 8. Ives Is vice-president. Mr. Ives Is another Alfred Sully. He Is only twenty-five years of age, but there is said to be no man on Wall street shrewder in financial afTairs than he. Both he and Mr. Stayner are ambitious of building up the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton into an important system. Killed by Lightning. Kakeas Citt, June 3. A terrible rainstorm, accompanied by blinding lightning and heavy thunder, occurred bere between 4 and 6 o'clock this evening. The Missouri Pacific roads were badly Hooded, and considerable minor damage was done through oat the city. At Jtosedale Lewis Uuckett, While sitting in his front doorway, waa Btruck by lightning and instantly killed and the house consumed. Eight miles east of here David Custer, who waa on horseback, took refuge under a tree, which was struck and both horse and rider killed. The Haid and the Lions. INew York nerald.l A highly sensational hypnotio experiment was achieved at a private performance yesterday at the Folies Bergere, Paris. The curtain rose and revealed a large cage containing three Hons. Signor Glacometti. the lion-tamer, then entered the cage and made the lions jump about and roa?. Then a pretty young lady In a white dress appeared and was hypnotized by M. de Torcy according to the methods of Dr. CI arcott le Torcy and hie hypnotized youn lady entered the cage, the animals being kept in check bv the lion-tamer. De Toicy com pelled the young lady to faU on the

lions' backs, and to place her beai in a lion's mouth, held open for the purpose by trie lion tamer. The seance wound up by the young lady who had been put in a rigid acute cataleptic state resting with her head on one stool and feet on another while the lions jumped over her. One lion placed its paws on the patient's thighs, and caught in its mouth a piece of moat attached to a cord, thereby firing a pistol fastened to the icof of the cage. The lions all jumped about and roared f urious'.y, and in the midst of the excitement Da Torcy brought the patient out of the hypnotic trance and removed her from the cage. The Prefect ot Police has not yet allowed this performance to be given in public, but the private performance was so voslferouBly applauded that it is believed the restriction will soon be removed.

CAUGHT BY A COWBOY. Several Toang Call fornlans Thought They Had Canght Him rhelr Mistake. The San Francisco Examiner. A man of twenty-five and of medium height, apparently from the country, swaggered into the Baldwin billiard-room on Tuesday uight. The coat he wore was aa antique Prince Albert, well oiled about the joints, and it looked as though the suns of many seasons were lodged in it. His pants were of the old spring-bottom pattern, held tigkt about the waist by a yellow belt. A felt hat, discolored by the Eun, covered a small, bumpy head, and Bhaded a pair of grey eyes below the projecting forehead. His whole appearance was that of a man who had been lying on the range at night and walking about in the daytime. "Playin pool, eh?" he grunted, aa he lounged up to where a number of young bloods were engaged in pyramid pool. There was a hasty consultation among the latter, the conclusion reached being that the seedy-locking individual was a chump, and that it was their duty to work him. "Yes, we are playing pool; want to join us?" answered one, winking at his friends. "Don't mind if I do; but you fellers '11 knock the spots oflen me." "No, we won't; we'll promise not to. Won't we, boys?" with another wink. They all promised they would give the newcomer a show, and he took a cue. He was fifth and last to play, and when it came his turn he handled the Btick so clumsily that the hearts of the other boys beat with joy. He missed, and before it came his turn again all the balls were down. Next game he took second shot, and, to encourage him, the gamekeeper showed him the easiest shot. After a long and d ) liberate aim the ball was pocketed. Another went down, and still another. Then he missed. Next game he was first-, and as the house pays a dollar to the man putting the fifteen balls down from the breax, the boys had many jokes to craok at the expense of the strancer. "Now for the dollar," they kept saying as country chalked his cue to break. His whole manner changed. He straightened himself up and handled the cue with a grace that surprised the others in the game and made the spectators laugh. He hit the pyramid square and sent two balls to the pockets. Then he played the most difficult shots on the table, putting the balls down with an ease that made the others who were playing green with envy. He did cot quit until he holed the fifteen balls. Then he played recklessly, but managed to get from six to ten balls every game. The other boys did not like to quit the game for appearance Bake, and they played in a weary manner, never showintr any enthusiasm. The green country chap was a cowboy from Arizona, he said, and just dropped in to have a little fun with the boys, as it was his night off and there was no faro loose. The Greatest Woman in the Country. Kiles Democrat! Some weeks since we promised, if possib'e, to obtain an account of the work done bygone of our Michigan ladies in one year. This ladv is Mrs. Catherine Carberry, and the record'from fall of 1885 to fall of 1886 is substantially as follows, in her own concise language: "Shelled fifty-five bushels ot corn and put it in the bin. "Got home 6,300 pounds of coal and put it in the bin. Trimmed eighty rods of fence and burned mcst cf the brush. Sheared eight sheep. Dropped eleven acres of corn and helped cover it. Worked three acres of corn, plowed it five times and hoed it once. Topped it and hauled the fodder to the barn. Snapped the corn and took it to the barn, where my husband, eighty-six years old, busked it. It made 105 bushels in the ear. I gathered my pumpkins and dug my potatoes, and got fifteen cords of wood in the shed and piled it up. Gathered my apples and put them in the cellar. Took my cider apples to the mill and brought back five barrels ot cider. Took one load to the cider mill and sold them. I spaded up the ground and planted and worked my garden. Moved twenty rods of rail fence and uiuic twcuiT axila 0 "I cut and made my husband one coat, and cut and made a vest and pants and four shirts and hemmed three pocket handkerchiefs for him. Made myself six dresses (three nice ones and three common ones), cine aprons, one polonaise, eight pair of pillow" cases, four sheets, and hemmed twalve napkins. "There are 923 pages in the Old Testament, and I read C1(J pages, besides religious and other papers, and kept a diary of the weather and my work, and an account of what we bought and sold, with day and date. Did my housework and took care of my stock three horses, three head of cattle, eight sheep and fifty hens and raised a pet cat." Mrs. Carberry is sixty-four years of age and weighs but ninety-five pounds. She retires each night at 10 o'clock and rises at 4 o'clock each morning, and takes bo naps between times. In addition to the above, the lady has teken care of an invalid husband and done many things unmentioned in this account, and among them we may mention that she has taken and paid for in advance the local papers, and has honorably paid every cent for everything she has bought. This is a woman's work, and the record is sufficiently commendable to make many a man blush with shame. Few there are who bave so fully followed the admonition, "Whatsoever he saith unto you,ldo it." Had a Boom. Wall Street Newa. I "Has this town ever had a 'boom?' " inquired a Boston man of a native who was loafing around a railroad depot in Ne"I should remark I" was the ready reply. "Help things much?" "Well, that's a question. We boomed in two groceries, a mile of sidewalk, three Eastern widows, a drug store and five saloons in one year, and real estate went up 30 per cent." "Thin it must fcaye helped." "Yes, but we all got so infernal stuck up that me and another feller are the only two men in town what speak to each other, and seventeen persons backslid from one church alone." iJlseaae and Death Force their way into many a household that might be protected lrom their Inroads, by the simple precaution of keeping in the house that benign family medicine and safeguard of health, Dbstetter's Stomach Bitters. Particularly where there are children should It be kept on hand, aa a prompt remedy for Infantile complaints, in their outset easily conquerable, but which, If allowed to enmft themselves on the delicate rhliriUh nifunism. are not easllvdlslodged, aua speedily work grievous mischief. Irregularity Ot Ue Doweii, maigeaiioa tuu djuuusuvhs va ailments of common occurrence In tne household. Children Illing in malarious regions are more liable to be attacked with chills and fever Uian adalta, end the ravage of that feU disease in there system are speedier and more aer ious. In remote localities, far from professional aid, It is eepeciaiiy aeiirawe.

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The Importance of purifying the blood annot be overestimated, for without pure blood you cannot enjoy good health. At this season nearly every one needs a good mcdieiue to purify, vitalize, and enrich the blood, and Hood's Sarsaparilla Is worthy your confidence. It is peculiar in that it strengthens and builds up the system, creates aa appetite, and tones the digestion, while it eradicates disease. Civeitatrial. i Hood's Sarsaparilla Is sold by all drug-gists. Prepared by C. L llood & Co., Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses Ono Dollar Or Black Leprosy, Is a diseaee which is considered Incurable, but it has yielded to the curative propertfrs of Swirr'a Specitio now known all over the vrorld as S. S. S. Mrs. BaUey, of West Somerville. Mass., near Boston, was attacked several years ago .with this hideous black eruption, and was treated by the best medical talent, who could only say that the disease was a species ot - LT PROS Yand consequently incurable. It is impossible to describe her 8uCennps. Her body from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet was a mass of decay, masses of flesh rotting oü and leaving great cavities. Her n?crs festered and three or four nails dropped off at one time. Her limbs contracted by the fearf al ulceration, and for several years she did not leave her bed. Her weight was reduced from 125 to 60 lbs. Perhaps some faint idea of her condiuon can be gleaned from the fact that three pounds of Cosmoline or ointment were used per week in dressing her sores. Finally the ryicians acknowledged their defeat by this Black Volf, and commended the sufferer to her all-wise Creator. .. - ' Her hueband hearing wonderful reports of the use Cf Swirr's Sfbcihc (S. S. 8.), prevailed on her to try it as a last resort. She began its use under protest, but eoon found that her system was being relieved cf the poison, es the sores aüsnmed a red und healthy colcr, as though the blood was becoming pure and active. Mrs. Bailey continued the S. S. S. until last February; every sore was healed; she discarded chair and crutches, and was for the first time m twelve years a well woman. Uer husband, Mr. C. A. Bailey, is in business at 11)4 Blackstone Street, Boston, and will take pleasure in giving the details oi mis wonaenui care, eena 10 us lor Treatise on blood and Skin Diseases, mailed free. Tax Swin Srscirio Co Drawer 3. Atlanta. Ga. S cf D ALS'AVAR OED TO rv rsa f"v n xn v urn kiitKUH - iv1 til Cnri rienrlty, 1 J tr Ehetnntlm, Lnuituro, In ra Backftcb, WeakneM, Colds In . ii- tb Cheat tad all AcbM datrln. fwgwi ttii1 i" ii ipj-fae nie 2- 1 Benn of Imitations under ttmUar onnd! ng tum. Am worn Susoii'S AKD STOPPED FREE Insane Persons Restored Dr.KLINE'S GREAT :, 1 for a Brain & nfrvb Disrasrs. My w M curt er tt Ajfectümt. fits, Fpü'psy, tc. t, -m I!FALLI8ta UtaKen El a.rcrrea. ra ry mji,w L' l first day's urt. Treatise nut t-i tml bottle free to i J Fit pati"eots. thffY paying express charges on box mhem I J retired. Srnd namr. P. O. nd expres address ol fr J ltflicted to r.KLl'l.o't Arch St.Hiildr1rhi.Pa. fae and then have thera return acain. I man a rad heal . enr hirVroad. the disea- of rITS, K?ILKl Y er F A1.L.1M kivonteuH. Because, einer baT failed U n reasoa fa 1,4 bow reeeiTlnr a car, fiend at ooe lor a treatise anj frt atottte of my Infallible remedy. CJWe xpreee and Po ddres Dr. R to. KOOT. WS Pearl SVPHew rat D. M. Bradbury, Attorney for Plaintiff. SHERIFFS SALI By virtue of a certified copy oi a decree to me directed, from the Clerk of tha Superior Court of Marion County. Indiana, In a cause (No.S6.533) wnerein Joshua Zimmerman is plaintiff and Samuel Kennedy et aL are defendants, requiring me to make the sums of money as provided for in said decree, with Interest on said decree and costs, I will expose at public sale, to tne highest bidder, on BATTJRDAY, THE ISth DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1S87, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m.. ot said day, at the door of the Court House of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits foj a term not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, to-wit: . Lot twenty-three '23), in square twenty-iour (24) In Beatty's addition to the city of Indianapolis, situate In Marlon Conuty. Indiana, If ruch rents and profits will not sell for a sumclent sum to satisfy said decree. Interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and cwts. Said sale will te made without any reliel whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. ISAAC KING, Sheriff of Marion County. May 25, A.D.1S87. SALE OF STATE LAND. BT4TE OF INDIANA. 4 OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR OP STATE LAND DEPARTMENT. Knttr tu hereby eiven that la conformity with the provisionsof an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved Merch 7. 18S3, entitled "An Act authorizing the sale and conveyance of certain lands belonging to the slate of Indiana, disposing of the proceeds thereof, and providing for the recovery of the possession of any lands of the Bute unlawfully occupied, and for the rent of any of the lands of the State until sold." I will offer for sale, to the highest bidder at the door of the court-house In the town of Cannelton, at from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. on Tuesday, June li, lt7, the followine described tract of land situated in Ferry County, belonging to the State of Indiana, and author lzed to be sold by said act: Part of section. 8ec. Tp. Rg. Acres. Ap. Ne qr SO qr 15 5S lw 40.00 1200.00 Keqrse qr 15 5s lw 40.00 150 00 EH of sw qr of ae qr. 15 5a lw 20 00 50.00 Said land will be sold to the highest biddei for cash. No bid for a sale less than the appraised value therefore will be received. These- land were mortgaged to the dtate of Indiana to secure the payment of a loan from the College Fund, and were forfeited lor tie non-payment of interest due it. BRUCE CARS. Auditor of etate, iailtttrt, i&, Hoi m

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Notice Is hereby given tbat pursuant to the provisions of an act of the General Assembly, approved March 11, lo75, entitled "An act authorizing; the sale and conveyanrw of certain, lands belonging to the Ftateof Indiana," the undersigned Governor, Secretary of State and Auditor of State, will offer for sale to the high est bidder, at theoCice of the Auditor of State, in the city of Indianapolis, on Saturday. June ISth, lSh7, between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 12 o'clock m. the following C escribed lot and tracts of lands belonging to the State of Indiana, and authorized to be sold by said act, to-wit: Lots 18, 19 and 20, In Morto, Coffin and Wrights' subdivificn of outiot 149 in the city of lLdiarapolia lots IS and 20 appraise! at SiOO each ; lot 19 appraised at f 00. Lotion weot side of White River, immediately r outh of the NatioEal Road, known as the Ferry Landing; appraised at I3.aU. All of the above described real estate being in Marion County. fart of KCtion. Sec. Tp. R. A. Neqra wqr 5 SO n 3v 40 8 e qr Sw qr .. 6 30 n 3w 43 N w qr B e qr 5 30 n 3w 43 Swqrseqr .. 5 SO n Sw 43 N e q r n w qr 8 30 n 3 w 40 N w r n e qr. 8 SO n 3 w 4a Swqrneqr 30 n 3w 4a Seqrneqr 8 SO n Sw U in Fulatkl County, appraised at ti per arre. No bid for a sale for less than two-thirds of the appraised value will be received- The terma of sal to be one-third of the purchase money cash in hand on the day of sale, and the remainder to be paid in three equal anneal installments, to be evidenced by the purchaser's promissory notes, bearing 6 per cent interettfrora day of sale, and secured by mortgage on the premises sold. Said Interest to be paid annually in advaq.ee: or the purchases may pay the amount of bis bid incsab. ISAAC P. G KAY, Governor, CHARLES F. GRIFFIN, Secretary ot State. BRUCE CA RR, Auditor of State. SALE OF STATE LANDS. STATE OF INDIANA. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE. LAND DEPARTMENT. Notice is hereby civtn that In conformltv with the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 7, 1S83 entitled "an act authorizing the sale and conveyance cf cei tain lands belonging to the State of Indiana, disposing cf the proceeds thereof sna providing for the recovery of the possession of any lands of tne State cnla wfully occupied and for the rent of anv of the lands of the State until sold," I will offer for sale to the highest bidder at the door of the court-house in tha town of West Shoals at from 10 a. n. to 1 p. nu Satuiday, June 11, 1J7, the following described tracts of land situated in Martin County, belonging to the State of Indiana, and authorized, to be sold by said act: Tart of Sec. Nw qr teer... Swqrneqr... Neqrne qr... Se qr ne qr Sw qrse qr.

Sea. Tp. R. Acres. Ap. 54 2n 5w 40.00 tAiu.eo 21 2n 5w 40.00 200.00 15 3n 4W 40 01) 150.0 IS 3a 4w 40.00 150.OS 20 5n Sw 40.00 160.09

Said lands will be sold to the highest bidder forcab. No bid for a rale less than the appraised value thereof will be received. These lands were mortgaged to the State of Indiana to secure the payment of a loan front the college fund and were forfeited for the noQ payment of Interest due it. BRUCE CA RR, Auditor of State. Indianapolis, May, 18S7. SALE OF STATE LANDS, STATE OF INDIANA,") OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF 8TATK, -LAND DEPARTMENT J Notice is hereby giren that in conformity with the provisions cf an act oi the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 7, ISM, entitled "An Act autbor'zicg tne tale and convejance of certain lands uelonglng to the State of Indlara disposing of the proceeds thereof, and providing for the recovery of the poresfion rf any lands of the State unlawfully occupied, and for the rent of any of the lands of the State until sold." I will offei for sale to the highest bidder, at the door of the Court House, in the town of Princeton, at from 10 a m. to 4 p. in. on Monday, June 13, 18.V7, the following described tracts of land 6ituated in Gib6on County, belonging to the State of Indiana, and authorized to be sold by taid act: Part of Sec. Sec. Ts. Rr Ac Ap. N. wqr. S. E. qr,... 21 Ss 9w 40 $6-u 00 S. W. qrS. E. qr 24 3s 9 w 40 ?560 09 N. E. qr. 8. E. qr 21 3s 9 w 40 S5Ü0 00 S. E. qr. 8. E. qr 24 Es 9 w 40 u0 W Said lands will be soil to the highest bidder fcr cash. No bid for a sale less than the ap praised value thereof will te received. iSatd Janas are known as Escheated Lands. The title of the State to these lands was affirmed by a decree cf the Gibson Circuit Court at its Ma term 185. BRUCE CARK, Auditor of State Indianapolis, May 11.1SS7. Hawkins Norton, attorneys for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed, fromtxie Clera ot the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in a caue (No. 36.56") wberein Loan and Trust Savings Bank is plaintiff, and Frederick B.ggs et al. are defendants, requiring me to make the sum of sixteen thousand, eicht bundred and nincrj-sevea dollars and ninety-six cents (16,897 00). with interest on taid decree and costs, I will expose at pubUo aale, t the highest bidder, oa SATURDAY, THE 4 DAY OF JUNE, A. 1867, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o tlock p. m. of said day, at the door of the Court-house of Marion County Indiana, tha rents and prof ta for a term not exceeding seven, years, of the following real estate, to wit: Lot one (1) in square forty-three (13) except fifty (50) feet off the west end thereof, beine sixty-five (65) feet front on Alabama street by one hundred and fa ty-two (152) feet and six (6) inches deer on Ohio street, in the city of Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. If euch rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, Interest and cost . I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to diFcbarse said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. I3AAC KIN6, Sheriff of Marion County, May 11, A. D. 1SS7. Harris & Calkins, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a certlled copy of a decree to me directed, from tha Clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in a cause (No. 36.6T6) wherein John Hilt is plaintiff, and James N. Mayhewetal. are defendants, requiring me to make the sunt of three thousand four hundred and twentytwo dollars and seventy-two cents (3,422.72) with Interest on said decree and cost, I will expose at public sale, to tha highest bidder, oa SATURDAY, THE 16tH DAY CF JUNE, A. V, 1887, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and o'clock p. m. of said day, at the door of the Court-house of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years of the following real estate, to wit; Lot number four (4) In Masons subdivision of lots three (3). lour (4) and five (5) of Danforth'a subdivision of lot" thirteen (13) and fourteen (14), la Tratt'i subdivision ol outiot one hundred and seventy-one (171) in the city of Indianapolis, according to the plat recorded In flat book four (4), page 64, in the office of the Recorder of said county; also, a tract of land ten (10) feet in width by one hundred and twenty (121) feet In depth, contiguous to aaidl lot number four (4) on the west, designated on the plat of said Mason's subdivision as a private alley, situate In Marlon County, Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sen for a mxU ß Clent sum to satisfy said decree, interest andl costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof aa may be sufficient to discharge said decree. Interest and coata. SaiJ sale will ba made without any relief whatever, from valuation or appiaisemenUws. Sheriff of Marion County. May 25, A. D. ISSf NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice la hereby given that the nnderalgnedt has duly qualified aa administratrix of the estate ol John D. Prinz, Ute of Marion County, Indiana, deceased. Bald estate in supposed IO toe solvent. cat ü a rink p&Lnz, Administratrix.