Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1887 — Page 7

THE INDIANA fcTATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 31. 1887:

NATURE'S WONDERS

Remarkable Cavea Diicmrel in Lackest Hcuntair, Taosesssa. Wosderfal Stalagmites, Stalactite, Crystals ad Other Formation A tak Onr Twe Acre la Extent. CllATTSOOQa, T!C5. Globe-DimOCTat Special. Three miles south of Chattanooga out of the eastern base of Lookoat Jfoantain a stream of water pours lato the valley la a steady yolnme a foot In width and Biz inches deep. The 11 owing of the water as it comes oat of the locky wall la accompanied by a constant current of cold air, and for this cause the natives have Darned it Blowing Spring. Some time ago, the Grant brothers and AlcGratb, who own the surrounding miaotain side and ralley land, conceived the idea that the spring bad its source in immense caverns, with which Indiau legends ay the interior of Lookoat Mountain is honeycombed. A short time ago they offered a reward of $50 to any one who would explore these hidden caves. List Saturday a mountaineer named Alex. Smith appeared at the office of Grant Brothers and claimed the reward. lie brought several stalagmites and stalactites Of remarkable size and beauty, and of many carious shapes, together with small crystals and fragments of rock which werj seamed with what appeared to bs silver, lead and copper. The Grant Brothers, who are largely interested in minis;; lands in Tennessee and Alabama, told the mountaineer they would give him the promised 59 and ano'her half a hQEdred on top of it it he would verify his rind by taking them over the giounl of his explorations. A VISIT TO TUE CAVE. Accordingly a party, consisting of M. and II. W. Grant, J. W. McCrath. S. It Logan, the successful gas well borer, and representatives of the daily papers took - carriages and drove out to Blowing Spring this morning at o o clock. Atter breakfasting at a farm house, dressing them selves in heavy flannel clothing and pro viding themselves with miners lamps, the party, under the leadership of Smith, began their tortuous entrance to the cave. The explorers had tj take the water from the start, crawling along in the bed of a r arrow stream oa their bends and knees, and often doing the snake act on their stomachs for hundreds ol feet at a time. When they left the open air the temperature stood at So , and the water in the cavity wa? 40. This mode of progrebiion was kept up for more than an r-cur, when a cavity on the right of the stiffen) was entered, and tha party pro ceecea in a nail bent attitude alone a Vf indins passage floored with sand, and ob ETucted by bowlders and irregular blocks of rotten limestone, until tbey reached a chamber of an oval shape fifty feet wide aud seventy-five feet in length, and alout twenty-five feet high. Here the first stalagmites and stalactites of any considerable size were found. Miny of tbe former rose to a hUhtof ten feet, and the latter hun down from, the cilin al most low enough to touch the heads of the wondtr-struck beholders. Sme time was spent in examining the outer ertces of this subterranean apartroe t. öe verl pieces of rock were knocked off with small hammers from the. jutting ledges on ens side of the cave, and under the lam plight showed an mlstskstle evidence of the preseace o! cither silver or lead ore. FCETHIK EXPLORATIONS. Following their guide tbe men left ihU chamber, and after clamheaiug up a long, steep passage which led in tha direction of the top ci Lookout Mountain for more than half an hour, descended for a distance Cf Dearly 100 yards, leaping like mountain goats from rock to rock and then entered a IcEg gallery, which run alongside a stream for nearly half a mile. This gallery bad others opening Into it at rightangles and irregular intervals, and its walls were crusted with myriads of tiny crystals that glistened like diamonds in the light of the lamps. A sudden turn in tbe tortuous passage brought the party into a larre hall over two acres in extent. Everyone stood rooted to the ground wit j astonishment. In the middle of this immense opening glittered the crystal staters of a lake, and from its center rose a miniature island, from who ?e bosom, uplifted to a height of nearly fifteen feet, rose a tall, symmetrical stalsgimite, that bare a perfect resemblance to a Gothic tower, white at the top, and of yellowish tint at the base. Urmarets, bastions and terraces were as accurately traced ia its outlir es as if they had been fashioned by tbe hand of a human architect. This larffe central tower was sirroundei by others maller in s'ze and height, and of divers thapes and colors, but all bearing a singular resemblance ..to architectural forms. HOBE W05DEKS. The floor of the cave surrounding tbe lake was as smooth as the glass and of a blackish-gray hue, like the marble for Tied in the white oaks region in Foathern New ilexico. It was covered with crigut pebbles of many colors and varying in dimenaiOES fiom the s'ze of a pin's head to that of a walnut. Many of there were gathered by the exploring party, and are pronounced to be opals. Some of the rpeoimens collected are said to be larger and more flawless than those found in the neighborhood of Chihuahua. The ceiling of this vast underground .cavern, which was dome-shaped and forty fret above the miniature lake, was thick with pendant stalactites, arranged as if nature in placing thera there had tried her hand at lincrusta work. Oa benches of rock, rising like terraces on the eastern aide of this apartment, were ranged huge stalactites, grotesqueites, bearing the shapes cf recumbent animals. Among these la'ter Mr. McCrath found and detached from its fastenings one that looied like a petrified turtle. TU FI35Y TRIBE MI-ING. No fih were found in the lake, but on one side of it were seen the footprints of raccoon acd bear. A crawling brook came out cf one side of the rocky wall and fed the lake with its waters. Acarfol examination showed that the lake bad no outlet. Thera is but one put sage leading into this Immense cavern. It is the supposition of maay that these cave j were known to the Indiaas, and there art evidences that they uel thsm as plices of retreat during war and es burial places for their dead. On their return trip the party explored many smaller caves. In one of them indications of gypsum and iron were found, and in another, which Is not mors than 300 yards frem the mouth on the side of Lockout Mountain, thev came upon a bubbling spring, which Mr. Logan savives unmistabable evidence of the presence of natural gas. The news which the party brought to the city has filled the city with a degree of excitement slightly less in intensity than that which ten days ago followed the discovery of natural gts. The Haadred Leading Newspapers. New York Sun, I We have received from a postal-card correspondent this somewhat unexpected and embarrassing requtst: "Wbatare the hundred leading daily newspapers oHLhe United States? 1'iease name them according to your honest opinion." Whether our correspondent's question Is .suggested by the various century lista which It Is just now tbe fashion of the idly eorioua to frame the hundred best novel a, the hundred greatest authors, the äosdred most eminent men ot the time, and so forth or whether he has in view the more practicable purpose of stocking a reeding room with fair reprnentaUon of

tbe contemporary literature of American journalism, we have no means of knowing. It is not always easy to say what constitutes a leading newspaper. Weight and influence of editorial opinion, newa caterprise, literary qualities, circulation, notoriety, geographical situation, and even accident all have something to do wit a the matter. It ia cot difficult to name dozens of journals that certainly belong among the leaders; but when it comes to filling out the list to tbe exact number specified, to deciding between the rival claims of newspapers of nearly equal importance, to beckoning this newspaper Into tbe front seats and waving that one to a place behind the ribbon, the task becomes both arduous and delicate. It la very much like attempting to make a list of the hundred "best citizens" of a town. TDe choice must in some esse be arbitrary, and must depend largely upon the personal inclinations aud point of view of the person or persons intrusted with the responsibility of selection. Nevertheless, tbe question is rather Interesting, and we are tempted to furnish onr correspondent with a list of the hundred newspapers, from among the twelve or thirteen hundred published daily in the United States, which in cur opinion ehonld be clasped tor one reason or another as leaders in the journalistic community. They are all printed In the English language. They are cot all to our liking. Several of them would be comparatively insignificant were it not for considerations of locality. Tbe matter of political opinion, of course, does not influence the composition of the list, except so far aa tbe weight and character of a newspaper's opinions seem to us to entitle it to a place that it would not otherwise obtain. Ilere

is the experimentalist: Lewfoton Journal, 1'ortland Press, Concord Monitor, MaDCbetiter I'nion. BnrhDgton i'ree Press, Boston Advertiier, Bocton iobe, F.of ton Herald, T.oitOD Journal, Fvst n Post, Eeeton Ercniag Transcript, Worcester Spy, fpringfield lit publican I'rovlaenee Journal, Hartlord Courant, Hartford Times. Chattanooga Times, Washington National Republican, Washington Poet, Washington Htar. Richmond Star, Richmond State, Ra'elcrh Observer, Cnnrleston News and Courier. Atlanta Constitution, Augusta Chronicle. Savanah News. Jacksonville rimesUnion, Montgomery Advertiser, Mobile Register. New Orleans TimesDemocrat, Sew Orleans Picayune, ;lvestou News, Henirhis AvaUuche, 'ahville American, Louisville CourierJourual, New Haven PaLalium, New York Commercial Advertiser, New York Herald. New York livening Mail aud Express, New Yora livening lost. New York Times, New Yvk Tribune, New ork World, B.-oklyn Ele, Lr-oklyn feua'ardUnion, Albany Arcus, Albany Journal, A'baijy lime?, Troy 1 resF, Troy Times IT.ica Herald. Ttira Obeervt-r, Kochfester Democrat and l"nroi:iole, Rochester Union and Advertiser, Buflalo Commercial, Bufialo Courier, Newark Advertiser, Cincinnati Conitairclal Gazette, Cincinnati Enquirer, Colutubus Dispatch, Cleveland Leader, Cleveland Pialn Dea'er role to Blade. Detroit lree Press, Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis Sentinel, Chicago Herald, Chieairo Inter-Ocean, chleKONers, Ch'cajjo Times, Chlcao Tribune, Milwaukee Sentinel, St. Paul Globe, St Paul Pionesr-Press, Minneapolis Tribune, Omaha ilorald. su Lout a Globe-Demo Philadelphia Inquirer, crat, t. Louis Republican, KanpasCit; Journal, Kansas City Times, Letvcaorth Time, Denver Republican, Philadelphia Public Ledger. Philadelphia News, rnitdelph!a Press. Philadelphia Kecord, Philadelphia Tiims, Pittsburgh Dispatch. aK Lke (Mty Tribune, San r raneusco AltaCatitornia, San Francisco Call, San Francisco Chronlfle, Portland Oregonlan. Fiffturfch Commercial C'szet e, Baltimoie American, Baltimore Sun. Wish id gun Critic, If our count Is accurate, that makes jut ninety-nice; and any esteemed contemporary which rnv consider is'f R3 underestimated or irjured by reason of its omision from tb list is at liberty to cratest The Suu'd right tj the vacaat ouehundrcth place. About two years ago. Lieut. Moxle acci dent'y discovered that a common fodier riant had a peculiar effect on the nervous system. Experiments have shown it to be a powerful nerve food capable ol takdng the place of Btimn'anta, removing the hanker ing thirst for drink and helping the ner vous tired out feeling in women in an hour like beef sleske on a hungry stoma?h without stimulation harm, or retction. It does not lose its effect more than food. Ealo enormous. Druggists keep it. It Settled Him. IDvtroit FreePress. "One day last week,' he began as he called the chief clerk at the post office window, "I wrote a postal card in here to my mother." "Yes ir." "She never sot it" "Taat's too bad." "It is too bad, but I suppose I am to blftrac for it. As near &s I can recollect I did not address the card." 'Oh, that's it? Well? "And I have called for it." "My dear sir, that card has gone to the Dead Letter 02ice." "It has? And you didn't make no efTirt to find who it was written to, or who wrote it?" "We did not" "Then tt at shows how tbe post offic's are run under a Democratic administration ! You sent it right to Washington, eh?" "Yes sir." Probably never slopped to retd it?" "Probably not." "Very well! That settles me! I've heard these things hinted at, and I know theyaretrue, Good-bye. air! If I don't beat Grover Cleveland out of a renomlnation I'll boy you a hit-a hat under whicn to walk out of here!" Consumption Cared. An old physician, retired from pracMce, bavirg had placed in his hands by an East Ibdia missionary tbe formu'a of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lung aflYrtioi.s, alao a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all nervous Complaints, alter having tested its wonderful cui&tive powers in. thousands of case?, has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive and a deeire to relieve human suffering, I will eend free cf charge, to all who desire it, this recipe in German, French orEig lish. with full directions for preparing and usirg. b'ent by mail by addressing with starr p, rjaroTg this paper. W. A. Koyes, 149 Tower's Clock, Rochester, N. Y. A Political Chestnut. Tbe Louisville Courier-Journal correspondent has ju?t unearthed this story concerning Jsmei Buchacan: "A Democrat from Lancaster, Pa., called on President Buchanan early in his administration, aud stated that his wife was in poor health, and that he desired an appointment aa Consul to a mild climate in order that he might benefit his wife's heHh. The President was non-committal, and the gentlemen returned to Lancaster rather depressed. Ia a few weeks his wife died. About three months later an appointment came to the applicant to the point desired. The gentleman was rather indignant at the tardy manner in which the appointment came, and tat down and Indicted the following brief but curt epistle: 'Mr. President: Your appointment is respectfully declined. My wife is in heaven ana you can go to heiL,,, Too Hoch Totl. ITexas Sittings. I First Tramp If I had my way I'd have ZG.' national holidays In the year. Second Tramp You would, eh? And then thera wonld be one working day every four years. Oh, you are a nice one, you are. Yen would make a galley slave of the poor laboring man, wouldn't you?"

BIDWELL, THE FORGER.

Detective Plakartob'a Story of His Crime, Minneapolis Tribure.l "Yes." remied William Pinkerton. the Chicaga detective, "I arrested and landad Eidwell, the great iorger and bank robber, behind the bars. Reading of bis recent discharge from the English prison in the papers the other day started old-time reminiscences of fourteen years aj;o. There is a gocd deal of romance connected with Bidwell. and that sister of his who, it seems, effected his release, has been in my office la Chicago hundreds and hundreds of tiroes on her brother's account, to have us use our influence with the Uritisa rtithoritiee. lie was an educated fellow, thtrp and shrewd, and conseoaently one of tbe roost accomplished and dangerous criminals at that time in America. His name is Austin Byron Bidwell, and ha ha3 a brother named George. He was bora and raised in Adrian, Mich., and now is about forty years of age. In 1872 the Third National Bank ot Baltimore was robbed of nearly 11.000,000, and the cte was given to us to work u. I took the ease in band and begun work by shadowing a woman named Chapman, wife of the notorions bank robber, Joe Chapman, whom I supposed at the time was implicated in tbe robbery, and I thought perhaps she would In some wey communicate with her husband, whom 1 had every season to believe was in KuglBDd. I finally cot over to London, ard one day, while walking about the city tracing some bank notes, 1 casually stepped into Russell's tailor shop on the Strand, and there, right before my eyes, stood Austin Bidwell and Joe Chapman. Inspector Share, of the Scotland Yards, and I watched them for some time, and 1 fiaally came to the conclusion that they were but Indirectly, li at all, connected with the great Baltimore robbery. I was at that time making my reports to Messrs. Frschfield, of the Bank of England, and I took especial pains to explain to them the importance of keeping an eye on the two men. They merely pooh-poohed the idea that these men could do anything, s tying that banking in England was done on a difierent system than In America, sj I let the matter rest. "In the meantime we tad caught the Baltimore bank robbers, end in March, 1873, I returned to America. A short time alter my arrival I received acablegrem from London sayirg that ths Bank of England had been deirauied of nearly fl 0CO.GC0 by none other than Austin Bidwell and a p?l of Lis named MicDrnnell. Another cablfgram stated that MacDjnnell was en route for New York iu the steamer Tbcringia; that she would arrive in port in a few days, and that Bidwell was at Sai.ta Andre, Spain, aud wai abou; to sail for Mexico, and would stop at Havana, Cuba. Being wrll acquainted with Bidwdl, I started off mystlf to intercept him, and rnrde a bee line for F.orida. At Cedar Keys I secured a cattle ship and we sailed for Havana, and as good luck would have it, we sailed psjt the very ship that bad Bidwell on boird while rounding into pott I arrested him as soon as he ste pprd off the vessel, and there being no extradition treaty then between Cuba and England, the police authorities would not lock him up, bat merely kept haui at their station. Tnrouah bribery he escaoed and I had my work to do over again. Securing vanish interpreter I started out and finally located him at a Spanish town calitd Maienow, about forty mile3 below Havsni, and took him back With me to that pla-.e. Oe again endeavored to bribe the tran I had to guard him by ofTeriog him a United States bond for $1,000, but the mu luckily did not recogniz a the value of it and he failed. I etaid in Havana until Jene awaiting the arrival of th Eiplish deieciivea, v;ben he was taken to Eigfand. While in Cuba I intercepted a letter directed to Bidwell at Hvana which was written in cipher. I made part of the cipher out and immed'ately cabled to New Yoik to have them secure a trunk addressed to dpt. George Matthews that was at fome European express office, In Austin it Baldwin's New York Express office my brother Robert found the trunk, and opening it found CG5 $1000 United States bonds wrapped up in an old suit of I clothes. A woman called for it, and my brother shadowed Ler and found that she I was the wife cf the notorious Phil. Hav i grave. The letter was written by George J U cwf 11, w ho was at Ediuburg at the time, sua v. no nas srrestea there a short time af erwerd. All the others implicated la the robbf ry were arrested afterward. Mcror.cell was arrested In New lork and Edwin Noyea Hill ia London, so with the two Bid sell brothers we had the whole lot crged. 'Now it 8Pems when they first went to Lcndon thev went under the name of Horton & Co , and were there ostensibly for tbe j urr08e of establishing large shops to manufacture Pullman cars to operate on English roads. They brought $10,000 with tbetn and established a credit at the Western Branch of the Bank of England. To begin operations they went to Brussels aud secured a number of bills of exchange, which they successfully counterfeited aad passed on the bank. The next they wanted was a Rothschild.' bill of exchange, which was a little difficult to get. At la3t an opportunity offered Itself.. Bidwell wa3 traveling between Calais aud Paris on the railroad which happened to beloDg to the RothsonilJs when an accident occurred and he wes bruLet up considerably. Patching up his face with plasters, be kobbled into Pothtchild's office and asked for the Biron. He stated that he had ben iojureJ on tbeir road, but instead of complaining be merely wanted a bill of exchange for a large amount of money that he had with bim. This he secured, and after securing a bill of exebaafce of Bledenstein, their plans were fully perfectad and their operations began. Theyicserted au advertisement In one of the London papers for a private secretary, aad hid one of their own pals (the Eiwin Noyes Hill that I etat d was arrested in London) to answer the advertisement in the pi er en ce ol some big bank official when they engaged him. Tbir plan was this: Atter counter felling a- number of the various Is of exsbange. they would in the niorne se nd Hill to the bank to cash them Tbey would then watch onisiie, and if Hill came out alone everything was a'l right, but if be came out wlih a stranger it was a Bicrnal that everything was discovered. Things went on smoothly, and they had a'ready secure! nesrly $1,003,0), when the frsud was dissevered one day by there being no date on one of Bie-teostein's bills of exchange. The sequel Is as I have already told you. Hill was arrested in London. Austin Bidwell m Havana, Geirge Bidwell in Edinburgh, and McDinnell in New York. They were all sentence i to life imprisonment, and now I see that Austin Bidwell is at last pardoned end released Another episode In Bidwell'sHfe ii the ore that gives the romantic coloring to it. Wbile in London he became infatuated with and married an English Colonel's daughter, who, there is no doubt, ioved him dearly, and believed him to ba the man he represented himself to be. He settled a dowrey of $2.,000 on her when they were married, which, of course, was stolen money, and the poor g'rl did not bave an opportunity to spend but about $l.rX) of It. Senator Yoornees Taking m Vacation. IKansas City, Mo., Special. 1 A distinguished looking gentleman, wltn a duster thrown carelessly over his arm, attracted considerable attention at the Union Depot the other morning, as he walked leisurely up and down the platform. It was Senator Dan Voorhees, of Indiana, The Tal! Sycamore of the Wabash." Senator Voorhees is accompanied by John K. Lamb, ex-Con greasm an, and at present United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana.

These two gentlemen are on their way to Colorado, where they expect to spend several weeks in the mountains.

IT IS A WONDER COUNTRY. Minister Hannas Talla Abeat tha Argentina Ilepabllc. INewYorkWorld.l Mr. Bayless W. Hanna, United States Minister to the Argentine Republic, is in the city, on his way back to his station after a short vacation. A World reporter asked him to give some information concerning bis distant station, and he laughed as be eaid: "That is a very broad suggestion, but I'll begin by saying that the climate could hardly be surpassed. Fires are but little ued in the winter in Buenos Ayrea. The cold and heat belts are just tha reverse ot ours, as there we look north for heat and ecr-th for frosts and ice. I reDeat that it is an exceptionally healthy cll uate, thera being none more so, perhaps, 00 the earth. We bad cholera there last year. It was impoited in ülthy emigrant ships from Italy, but was not nearly so bad as reprstented and was soon stamped out by the active and wise stnitary measures on tha part of the Argentine Government. This waa only the second visitation of that dreaded plague ever known in the country. "The products of the country are nearly altogether pastoral. Cattle aud sheep farming constitutes its main industry, and that is carried on on a vast scale. Some time ago on one farm or estancla of three and a half leagues of land or 22.400 acres, owned by Mr. Samuel B. Hale, a Boston man, I saw them shear t)3,C03 sheep, while at the eame time there were l0.000 head of horned cattle and soma 300 horses on the same place. The stock runs out all winter and is not fed at all, so you will sse it mont be a profitable industry." "Don't they cultivate corn, oats, wheat, etc.. as we do here?" "Yes, they do, but not much for market. Both corn and wheat succeed as wsll and better than in the Usited States. They coc 1 excel us If they cultivate 1 as we d j, but they do not care much about that. The wool, hides, tallow and frrzjn meats that they export constitute a vast and profitable trade. The Argentine Republic is the largest exporter of all the South American countries, and, I may aid, the largest importer also. All this is increasing year by year. The country has aa enormous producing capacity, which of couwe makes Its exchanges a nutter of vast Importance tons. Its people would be among our very best customers if we would give ttem the least char.ee to exchange tteir products with us. They need 'our rcrichltcral machinery, our mawarg. railrcad and tramway equipments, our incomparable cotton ptints and manufactured woolen fabrics aad our coal and lumber. For all this they would gladly give us their wool, hides and tallow. Bat they cennot sell their wool here, and cs a r?sult of all this we have neither ships, commerce n or even an adeqiate mail service. Mere than one hundred steamships go to tbe River Flate from Kiglaud, Garmany, Italy, France, BiJglum. Portugal and. Austria-Hungary, but not one steamer carries tbe American iUg into their porta. England has $189,000,000 invested in their railroads, paying from 12 to 23 per cent, oa every ote of them and an increasing volution on each. But the United States has not one dollar invested tbsrs iu fini enterprises," Why is this so?" Simply becsuse we have n mail sarvlcd Ihcre, end our people know little or nothing about the country. The commerce of evrry nation always bas and always will follow Its mail, carried and protested by its own flag. The Argentine Rpaplic as aa organized government is yet in ira infancy, and but little more than twenty-five years old. Its Presidents have but a single term cf six years, restricted by the Contsitutlon. Gen. Metrie was the first President Gao. Sarraiento, who is well known " iu the United btate, the second, Allevanado the third, and Gen. Roc a the fourth. The present incumbent, Siarez-Celman, is just ebout finishing tbe first year of his administration. The country has been most fortunate in the character and spirit cf its Presidents. They have all been men of broad views, and have achieved wonders. The preient executive will not be behind h's predecessors, and I may add that he is a warm alinlrer of the United States aud its institutions. You see then what an opportunity then is for our commerce if it will only s'rata'i out its hands aud inaugurate sensible facilities for launching its interests. That country has something mora thai 3.0)),C00 pejple and is filling up as no new country perhaps has ever done before. Its monthly Imm gration is prodigious, chiefly from Italy, Spain, France aad E ig' ail. Our people there are few, became we have no mail facilities, and consqiently little trade. This will not always bs s, however, as a new era is d iwning, aad s mer or later we will have ships running thera. I know that President Cleveland is deeply concerned about the matter, and will give it the weight of his executive influence. Just now a new consideration arises, and one of vast importance. Ia a few months a rai'road from Buenos Ayres, on the great Plate river with its month only eigity miles away and flawing into the Atlantic running to Valparaiso, in Chili, on the Pacific, will bs completed. Only thirty miles of the construction remains to be finished. That will furnish a highway for all tbo best South American commerce and mail service, including that of Prru, Bolivia, Chili, Argentine Rapablie, Paraguay and Uruguay, to the East. It will also be the main route to Australia. The distance from New York to Baenos Ajrfs direct, oa the great circle, ij 5,850 miles; across the continent from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, 780 miles; thence to Auckland, New Z?aland, 5,500 miles, and from there to Sidney, New South Wales, 1,400 milei, mating a total distance of 13,5:0 miles. England is new contemplating just such a route to Australia via Rio, tapping tbe Trans-At-lean Railroad across the Southern Continent at or near Mercades, in Argentina. This route, however, would be aoout 13,Coo miles in length. The road now nearly completed from Baenos Ayres to Valparaiso will, in my judgment, soon become one of the greatest highways in the world. Now the mails from both the United States nd Europe po mainly by the ships of tbe Pacific Steam Navigation Company an English Incorporation around through the Straits ot Magellan. Tais new railroad across the South American Cootirent will sU orten that service 2.900 mile, less the dlüarence between Buenos Ayrea and Valparaiso, making a net saving of 2,100 miles over tha most tempestuous and hazardous waters of the world. Thus it will be seen what a great opportunity our country has to widen its commerce and find a market for its great surplus products. The business men of New York, tbe most powerful commercial agency we hsve, ehould open their eyes tojihis matter, and the eooner it is done the better for ths industrial interests of the United States. I Buggest tbe first thing tobe accomplished is the establishment of a line of ships from New York to Buenos Ayies." Joe. Oh! Where Was lie! I Detroit Free Press, Joe Harvey, of Qaebes, tied his dog to a keg of powder containing twenty-five pounds and let her go. When the dog came down on a shed roof forty rods away he wss a little bewildered, and had a few singes to prove that he had been on a sprte but they are looking for Joseph yet. The cot elusion is that he stood too near the keg. a Jay Gould's wondeiful yacht will, It U said,: be moat completely and elegantly furnished. Among other useful and indispensable things ordered for it was a box of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. zA

NEVER ACCEPTED HIS FREEDOM.

Daath of TJne! Hilly Toombi, n, Sarvnnt la tha .Family of General Xoomba. Washington, Ga.. Special to Chicago Times.l To-day the body of Uncle Billy Toombs waa buried in the colored cemetery here In the presence of a large number ot the best white citizens, as well as of almost the entire colored population. Prominent among these present and taking personal charge of the arrangements were the membars of the family of the late General Robert Toombs. Uccle Billy was born eigatyfeven j ears ago, the slave of Major Toombs, and was eleven years of age when the Major's son Robert was born. Billy was assigned to duty as the boy ia waiting to the baby, and took great interest ia his development. When youog Mr. Toombs grew np and married, his father presented him with Billy, and ever after the closest fiiecd&hip existed between the two. Billy accomtanied his master to Washington, to the fashionable watering places, and to Europe. In this way he became acquainted with many distinguished people. In all the changes of life, however, Billy never lost his head, but wai polite and faithful to his maker's interests. Before the war he had an intense hatred for tbe abolitionists, refusing to countenance them in any way. When the war was over, and tha Toombs family had gathered once . more at the old family mansion, Billy returned there, too, aa well as the rest. "You are free now," said Gen. Toombs to him. "I'll never be free from old master," said he, "but I will follow you all my life.To this Gen. Toombs replied: "Very well, tben, I'll take care of you " Kver after this Billy was the most devoted of eeivants, looking atter his master's interests as though tbey ware his own. When Gen. Toombs died two years a?o he made fall provisions for Uncle Billt'a maintenance, and no mourner at the general's grave shed warmer tears than did tbe fan hful African, who lingered there long after the crowd bad left. I'ncie Billy will be remembered as the only African who absolutely refused to accept his freedom. The First of the Drummers. Philadelphia News 1 Daniel R. Wolff, of Chambersburg, says be is the first commercisl traveler who ever went on the road. In LSI t be went to Philadelphia ai a salesman with the dry pools house of Dnnton, Gemmill fc Co. "Trade was du!l that year," says Mr. Wolff, "and I suggested to the firm the idea of sending some one ont among the country merchants to drum up trade." "Who will be the drummer?" asksl one of the fi;m. "I will," I replied, and they sent mo cut. That wa3 ths origin of the term drummer,' by which all travelieg salesmen are now known. I went oa the road aud solicited trade among t?e merchants of Fomhern and Central Penniylvania aud New Jersey. For five years rcarried no samples, filling my cutt liners' orders from samples provided by themselves. In 1S1'. It struck me all of a fulden tbat this was recfsparily keeping my trade limited, and that if I carried a line of samples of my o"n I could introduce new goods and more oftLm. I s?nt to the firm and showed them that tbo samples were coming from the wrong end of the lin, and thsy env the point and furnishfd me with satpples. From tbet year dates the enstomt of carrying samples by diummers." Mr, Wolff has bteu constantly on the rota ever sicce 113 p'oneer trip amng the country merchants, and at tns aa ot nearly seventy is still drumming up trade for a Philadelphia house. A Mos; warn p Pf8'Jnt. Omaha Worll.J O.Taha citizen President Cleveland is a good deal of a mugwump, isn't he? Omaha stateman That's just what he la, a mugwump of the worst kind. "Yes, I know a case in which come of the biggest statesmen in Chicago went to him aud asked to haye one of the hardest party workers there appointed to the marehalsbip of Northern Illinois, and the President turned rlghtjaround and appointed another man. "Just like him. Who was the man thev wanted appointed?" "McGarigle." The Mayer's Message. May we be pardoned for requesting the mayor to incorporate in his next message the fact that many of our most prominent citizens have been cured of rheumatism, neuralgia and kin-! dred complaint?, by Salvation Oil. aud that he recommend this valuable medicine to be kept in every family. A Sla'.ter of Identification. Harper's Bmr. Gentleman I lost my purse yesterday, and have called to sea if tbe one you advertised is it. Finder of Lost Parse Here's the purse oi found, stir. The four $10 bills la wan pocket, tew fives and four wuns ia another and a small gold chain an thray colleurbuttons in another, je3 ez oi found et, sur, an' ef yer kin preuve proppurty by discribbin' the kontanis, an' payin' for the advertisements, yer kin hev it, sur. Medical Item. "You are looking to badly, my daughter," eaid au Austin mother to her seven-year-old daughter, "that I shall tend for Dr. Smith." "Don't send for bini. He is already engaged to be married." The Importance of purifying the Mood can ot be overestimated, for without puro cannot enjoy good health. ec-.1, r.only every ono needs a ' : : : i dlci.io t . , i'.:r.!.'ze. and enrich - . . n l, and II;---.. . :.. .v;s.-.parifia L jrMliy !;f.:eivT i -'?uli.ir in I;., itcuw ' v. ". Jlood's R.iv?ajv.;-:ii. ' Prepared by C. I. Ilxjd c 2 i"..,.-S. IOO Doses Cno Dcdar LADY; AGENTS WANTED 10.000. at ouce: entirely new undergarment; outnt tree, conntionally. Agents average 110 to r-v omit po ran tou. au aDoui it raxai Mrs. B. 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MEM m a Notice' to Heirs, Creditors, Etc. In the matter of the estate of ifaiaii Gr?e, deceased. In the Marion Circuit court, Auput Term, 1887. Notice is hereby given that Iaaac Furnas, as Sdmini6trator Ol the estate of Ieaiah Oeorgo defeated, has presented and filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same wnl come up for examination and action of Raid Circuit Court on tho l Jth flay of Sept., 1887, at which time aU heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in Mid court and show cause, it any there be, why said account and vouchers ehould not bo approved. And the heirs of sai l estate are also hereby required, at tbe time and placa atoreaid, to apj-ear aad make proof of thoir heirship. ISAAC Ft RN VS. Administrator. Bitter & Ritter, Attamtvs. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Votire is hereby riven, that the unlcrsl&rjtd bas duly qualified as executor of tbe estate of Abraham Uowen. late of Marion Oucty, Indiana, deceased. Sa'.d estate isuppoFed to be solvent. JAME3BOEN, Executor. W. W. Woollen , A ttorney. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby given that tho undersigned has duly qualified as administrator ot the estate of David Newlin, late of Marlon County. Indiana, deceased. Saidestate la supposed to be solvent. J0HS SANDEU3. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Votive is hercbv Riven that the unde-stgn,d has duly qualified as sdministrator of ths estate ci Faraujl Brewer, late of Meian Cnnity. Indiana, deceased. Said estate Is suonod to be solvent. SAMUEL W. TOD'J, Administrator. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, Noti is hereby Riven tiat tho ua.iersigid baa duly Qualified asadmisstrator cf tb.9 estate of Timothy Feny, lste of Marioa County, Indiar a, deceased. Said ett ia urp-ed to oe insolvent. JOSEPH iu PERRY. Administrator. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Noti is hereby erven that the understenel has duly qualified as executor vi the estate of Fraiii Ittenbach late ot Marioa County, Indiana, deceased. Said eatateis supposed w be aolveut. JACOB UUX. Executor. FT PIV? To sell our F.ubbcr Stamps. Free it iaiu CatitlDcue to Aeents. CH ANOLEB & FISHER, Clevel and. O. j jjy Cur narUy, UkeCbeitandsIl Ich idstrlna X V V7 t" . aonndiu namn. AM roa . fpfi. I VA-. BSXSOH'a&VB' i RUPTURE reulrtd and cured, or vour money TCJutuea also to uro aijy accepted rare. Our Medicated Soft h7S I fad and Kunture Solution cares the bad cases of direct and scrotal hernia without knife or needle. Hydrocele. vericoccle. and spermatorrhea successful! t treated at office or by correspondence. Kor circulars, rules of EHBTirenmt and RClMnV.no tion. rail on or address SANITARIUM, 77 H f-t Markst street, lndiacapalia. lod. EBSTER'S nnaMM Dictionary. a DICTIONARY, . 11S.000 Wordi, n-K rrr5.inj:', a GAZETTEER OF THE WOfiLD, of j,ux Tit!-, nl a BIOGRAPHICAL DiCTIOKABY, of nearly IO.ixjo Noted I cirons, ALL IN ONE BOQX. i rtrry fifhMl ! 1 nrry ronUinsSoo more Words and nearly 200O ir.ore Illustrations than any other American Dictionary. G.AC MERR1AM & CO., Pub'rs.SpriägfielJ, Mass. T0.WEAK MEN 8a3crfns from tue effects 01 yonthrul errora early decay, wattin weakness, lobt taanhool etc., I will send a valuable treat!? (aied con taming fall particulars for honte cure, FKBI of charge. A splendid medical work; aho-iif ro'retd by every man who 1 nervous and de cilltated. Address Prof. F. U. rntTLFB. Jlftto, Oaa KILER BROS.' jga&FE MOE POST Most practical post invented, C Tl p 1 1 IT fl Adapted for barbed or u l nun U cot wire, plant n I'lcket lenciiig. tanuotDurnc JIITDADT 1? rot. Can, bo Thos driven In hard. vJdcsirine posts est soil by a will bave to order sledijeor direct from n a. We maui. yzr bare no amenta. We aar von the tmiii DrofiL. TKRRlTOnV OB SAI.K. fcnT for dmiftrr. Mention tale vaver EXTEKIIUR roi'ltltV, aiannfjMurera lit a. raa. st laniAAAfoua, lao. wm vtm ftrxra

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iy.""iV.'. Cold Medal, Paris, 1878. The Tavcrito Eumbers, 303, 404, G04, 351, 170, and lis other styles, Sold throughout th? Wcrld. Notice of Sale of Land3 Mortgaged to the College Fund. Notice la hereby pivea tbxt the following described tracts of land, or so much thereof aa may be necef sary. will be oOered at public sale to the higbett bidder, at the south floor ot the Court House, in the City of Indianaporis, Indiana, between tbe hours ot 10 o'c'ock a. m. acd 4 p. m., on the 12th day of September, lt7, the tame ttirtR mortgscel to the Slate ot Indiana to secure the pajrent of a loan from the Collepe Fund, and forfeited by the nonpatent of interest due it. No. 1017 Beginning at the Intersection of tha weFt line cf the Gravel Koad, and the wet line of the wett half of tha ncrthwet qnarHr of seetlcn twtntp-two in township fourteen (M), Borth of range three (3), east sixty and a tail poles south of the northwest corner ot raid half quarter thenre n S5 1-3 degrees a ton poles and sixty-three fcundretha; thence n bi 2-Z degrees west, eeven poles and fifty three bundrcths to the west line of said section, tht'Ecc south thirteen pole and thee fcuadretha to the beginning, containing 40 qua re poloa, situate in Marion county, State ol Indiana. Mortgaged by Harvey Imaxk. Principal. r0; Interest, S39.C2; damage, 115.05; costs, f 12. ToUl. ClG.t7. Ko. 1079 The south half ol the west half of the .'Eoutbeast quarter of aeotion sixteen (1C), town eleven (11). north of ranje three (3), east, lu John Ron county, and State of Indiana. Wortes ged by James It. Msson and Kebecc J. Mtoh hia wife. Principal, JXO: interest, f 19 72; CamSjTta, 136.0; costs. $12. Total. I757.S0. No. 1158 The northeast quarter of the northcast qaatterand tbe east Lo.f of the southeast quarter of the lortheast quarter cf eecuou thirteen (13). and the 60Utheaft quarter of the southeast quarter of section twelve (12), except six acres Described as follows: IWinuing at the southeast corner of said tract and running thence west ten rods and four links, thence north to a point twenty-firee rods south of tha north lice of said tract thence northwest to a staka tweitv-three rods west of tue nortneast corner of std tract, thence east to the northeast correr of said tract, thence south to the beiiinsne. AU Ol raid lsal 1 lu towni? cleT IW, nctth range one (I) eat. ftituite ia Morgan county. .Mortgaged by Michael Shlreman and Delilah A. KbireuaTi, his w ife. Principil, -00; late'est. trie;; caxßges, 523 33; coata, 12. ToiaXi" 3y v. VicThe south weit quarter of the sontheast qnarterW .OTS,"" IlVJul southeast quarter, aL Vn twli of the southeast quarter, a!.' & .elcti0:t?T. (.2), town one (1) north of rarge .Cur containing ore hundred and twenty ac. Aiartin ccunty. Morigsgcd by Euoch E. Iann and Martha J. In man, hi w:ia. Fr,acipal, f "00; interest, !".. 22; damages, 23 5; costs, $12 Total. 595.53. No. 1183 The east half ol the north-east quarter of section ;twenty-two (22) and the aouth-wrst quarter uf the south-east quartoc, and the southiast quarter of south-west quarter of section twenty-eight (2b), in township thirty one (:tl), north range eight (S) wet in Newton county. Mortgaged by William H. H. Urabam and Kllen E. Graham hia wifo. Principal VQ; interest $35.26; damages, $29.80; costa Iii Total, f627.1i No. 1195 South east quarter cf the north-east quarter ot eection twenty-five (25) in town.hlp lour, north of range f-vr west, contitning f rty acres more or less. Mortgaged by Gilbert Stlioa and Joanna Stiles hia wife. Principal SLfO; interest f 23.56; damages 13.27; costs Li Total, S19t.83. No. 12!S-The wet half of the sonthweTt quarter of sectlcn tweuty-fi ve (20), aud the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-six (20), all in town ttro, north raage and Georpe W. Lewis her husband. Prlac:pU $:x: lnteret, $17.81; damages, S27.9'J; Cosa, Iii. Total, $v-87.W. No. 1227 The east ball of tbe routheast quarter of section three (J), township twelve (12L north rarge two (2) e-ist, containing eighty acres. Mortgaged by S?.rn Cal l well and Audrew J. C'aldwe.l her hasbaad. Principal f; interest. 71.1G; dana4es. S-.IT; coats, f li Toul. M'.2fc. No lst Lota numbered tweaty-two (22), tweuty-tl rce (23) and nineteeu lu John . Pence's addl tion to the city of Prmafort, Clinton county, Ind. Murtirag'.d bv Johu Vf. P.-noe and Mary J. PeDce his wite. Principal. 5'H); interest, J67.6G ; damages, $25.93; ctts $2. Toal. OOS C4. No. 1252 The west half cf the northeeit quarter of section twenty-four (24). towuahip ten (lu) north rauga one (U, we6t. conUining seventysetenand twenty-two hundredths (77 22 l!-o) acrca more or lesa Mortgaged by Willlata Cirgin and Matilda Cirjiu hi wifn. Priccipxl, l"0; intt rcsf, $15 2C; damages, J2ibC; costs, $12. Total, 11012. No. 1287 Tbe southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty A). townbip (o) north of range three (S) west, except thirteea rods fquare In the northeast rrncr terof. IU rtrased by Perry Wright aud Tary J. Wright his wife. Principal $400; interest. 19.47; daoiages. $:3.07; rosU, $12 Total, $1S4.54. No. 1291 The northwest quarter of ths northeast quarter of section tweaiy-nlne (20). town five (j), north range three (3) wett Mortsased bybuaarnah MCJormica. Principal. $;oo: lntemt. tiV.CS; damages, f23.05; costs, 12. Total, 4M 13. A Tte above described landa will be first otferea for cah. Ehonld there be no bid tbev will ba immediately offered on a credit of five years, with interest at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum, payable in advance; but In neither case wl;l any bid be taken for a sale leas than the principal,1nterest and costs due aa above stated, together with 5 percent, damages on amomt of aale. Bknn cark. Office of Auditor State, Auditor cf state. Indianapolis, July, 12, 1SS7. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice Is herebv given that the undersigned has duly Qualified as administrator of tbe estate ol (I'm. C. Anderson late of Marioa County Indiana, deceased. Said estate ia anppoeedto be solvent. JiDWARD D ANiKL, Administrator NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has duly qualified as executor ol the eatate of Sarah A. Burns, late of Marion County. Indiana, deceased. Bald es'ate ia auprosd to be solvent. P. W, BAUTHOLOMEW, Executor. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned; has duly qualified as assignee of the rlgbta, credits lc of James F. Morris, of Marion County, Indiana. Said estate ia supposed to - bo Insolvent. Ii A AC MORRIS, Assignee. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, Notice it hereby given that the nnderaltred ha duly qualified aa admin intra tor with the will annexed of the estate of Ruth LandJav, täte ot Marion Otunty, Indiana, deceased, isali estate la sappoetd te be solvent. ALBERT R OOLP, AdcUaifiireio: