Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 March 1899 — Page 6

DICK RODNEY;

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Or, The Adventures of An Eton Boy... BY J AAA ES GRANT.

I'tLATTtlll VII. (Continual.) Tie xij, in luxuriance, bordered ; rl 3itt-yv a. 5 we ascend-!, and it is ; ifc: or tears after the nine has j -Vtti jcly 3-tm these isles to Kurland. j r dcr Jut, it always ferments and mft-- ti(jitfi when the vineries f?Mi .fc s.-.-t it came are in bloom; but tt:s titvF -suy perhaps be as true as ! Erf.-:t:af5 of these mighty ruins : FY.kj iters ouce covered all the i Jj'uiut: islands, but of which no "'-&.. LiRfifluru? and I., after a ramc Mt inurs. found ourselves in iid Ltd .-'.'itary place, where blocks xx 2 heaps of yellow pumice ; t v-T lying among shattered J n.i?v uz '..asui;. Wucii were stinuieu -T;tit .vail crystals tha glittered u-r :v?.ifcjn- streamed through a It.- rtir the ravin were cloth1! ,'.h. rii; ropsewood acl little thickets rivp Jtuma-blan a, which there rr tiicut ten foot high, ami is covri vivii tu'ts if odoriferous t!owTi.c taal .--a, the waves of which Ui-i -if liask o: sleep in the smi-a'i-'.av ifa'u tlci perspective of this ra- . itivj iiro we etiuld sec the Kukv,;')f with her snow white di;3vs iKt-a- and l:er other canvas Sf Iiig mitred by our walk, we sat o uhi the mouth ot a species of .ikt.?rji rrouo, r'jrrucd by masses of -"JtVa und bisart, which in some rast tutocs of the volcano had r.r.. and heaped together. There a '-tr -rrvUsT gurgled joyously from a iu'i'.k.i ro k: and now, opening iL- i-itnrr iiat:. we proceeded to make J it iilifat (;n the viands I had to wit. boiogna I: r'.ipfct fix the ship AK!-ie and hiseuits, with brandy and ; nutter Tivtf sir xcHs (felfefousfy dear, and ! titr tiruw of the rocky chasm in ! -niiüh ve sst. there fell a natural i t-. vf a? the wild Indian fig and Mte fYetrs.and these shaded us from increasing beat of the morning 2l ts still there. H L-eard oaiy the coo of the great wihiKl ';i5Tn3 among the gorgeous foliw: Ar sweet notes of the little jjiiide. lukired canary bird", as thev sttf Tt i lrjt us when we scared -:it-i: frmu their nests, which they ; ZTuy Vnikl lu the barrancas or wat- J triK'j'v ytr.-h being the coolest ! ;.ittn iu that volcanic. js!e. r. Z niAi'TKit viir. low Tom Was Tattooed. .Mr Kinjiaion was a hort and thicki'U.r, about torty years of age. txS i Isare was suggestive of fiofSit ni'iscu'ar strength; his hair was i zi iort. but his w hiskers were of : nu? i vort'iMi'uous description, as he ;ws S3 SHi us tu. conceal as much as S.is?i;e of tlx' strange circles, stripes, ir.d grotesque designs with which his wrr-.-turned face was covered, and ;;';, i t'ifir form and blackness. i scions a. Jiiueous aspect or features -it s-rvL? ere rather good look- j ile us an intelligent man.and well ciL? f-wr tho humble class to wlii-li he "Wye. Master R(lcey." said he, on C 7,'ivins; that I was still surveying t::Ui soiuething of wonder land ä as. a point on which he was strtualMrty sensit ive; "you .see what f-iiZ3 figure-head these 'tarnal ilertrs ou the coast ot Africa made "LT Blf ." 'Hew did this happen. Tom?" said I, "2:Jiiti hi drinking horn. -AfcwrA twenty years ago. Master -TfAlriy. I J.eicnigetl to the Arrw. a R.."t ijverpool bark of two hundred .ti! aif tons register. I made ta Tiufs in tej- to South Anierivfc. I'jt at last, as liad luck, or my des:r. men say in the play, would 'f X Le was chartered for the west fckst of Africa, to trau- with the nauot. -...ot iu black cattle, for slav-e-Tr utr, B-ver our line of business. s.ti(-d from the Mersey in June. Äif. kT!y ia Aug'tst found ourselves at !le siwrrtti if tlie Congo river, after a .T-f-cL voyage; hut n the night i f r.'iif tt.e land", a heavy gale came -.Ti. ar. i k .ereu round ail tin- points in an hour. ' h s,.ji 't Ay was a-- black as thev could i m. ti eier thing el,e was black too. T.-Kii HfLi'lN on :il.4. li..v. ... ra:;. and heawh knows thev were j li;r-ua''h-too white and to.. t..,r 'Our .kipp r handle the Arrow 'Ii. d he obeyed every touch of kti u-A u horse might do its -aj-iiiV-: she was sharply built, but Vfvify sparreii. aud no other sipiareTTzn rft upon the sea could beat lfTn inf. "1 ittiak I see her yet. Master Rod2d. t.x she was th? first vessel I .itf-ri on board of. und hang me if ? lore her as if she had been a:y i-Tti mother's house, near Deptford rfr4ri 'ffT knfl was Ioiik and low. and vt IXf m swan In the water, only that not white, like a swan, but ts !?rfc as p;iint could make her. AlaTt. ie masts tapre away like ftfitng-7oi. crossed by the square TiTTlTV whit tays. shrtuids. halyards .Ti-il .siKpfr were always taut, as if ;r f fnst-irifi; but for all this, she näfi ?o weather that gait off !

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Congo river. She missel stays and pot sttrnway. you see. sir, it was bon all over with her after that." -How? I do not understand." ; What do they teach folks ashore? She was taken aback In the hurricane the ' most dangerous thing that can happen to any essl a sudden shift of wind threw her on her broadside in the i trough of the sea. and with her deck ; toward the storm, so her hatches were i soon beaten in all the sooner that ; she was driven on a coral reef near ; the Shark's Nose, where the sea was liko a sheet of foam around her. i "Five poor fellows were washed ; away ami drowned; but when day i broke, and the storm abated a little, the captain, six men and I got ashore . in the long boat, jutt as the poor Ar- ; row began to break r.p. for we could : see the waes beating into her and I rending asi:ncer the decks, the inner ! and outer sheathing, as if they rouldn't ! scatter the cargo fast tnough far and ; wide. ! "Well, there we wre. shipwrecked in a wild place- on the west coast of Africa, at a part of the Congo river where the mangrove tree. grow into ' the water, and have their lower ! branches covered with oysters and bar- ; naclcs. I "We coul.l see high blue hills in the j distance when the sun ame up from ' ihr ane swamps ami the wild woods : which bordered the river, and we sat on the beach for a while looking rue- ' fully at the wreck, of which little now ' lemained but a few timbers, till the : increase of the morning heat drove us for shelter into a grove of oil-palms. and there, Master Rodney, we found tulips, lilies and hyacinths growing ; wild, and six times larger than you ; I ever saw in Knglaml. ! "Some of our men proposed that we ! should repair the longboat she was partly stove in and put to sea. or creep in along the coast until we were j picked up. We were without carpenter's tools; but the captain had a case i of surgical instruments, and the fitst i use we made of the saw was to cut into halves an iron buoy which had floated ashore from the wreck. "Thus we had two kettles, in which we boiled some seabirds and their eggs, and made a mess whereupon we breakfasted. Kxhausted by the late storm, the birds were easily knocked down bv stones as they sat with droopj ing w ings upon the rocks near the sea; j but scarcely was our miserable meal i over when we heard loud yells, and, j attracted by the smoke of our fire. ; down came a whole fang of ugly dar- : kis. all Mussolongos. wild and naked, i with rings or fishbones in their long cars and flat noses all streaked with

war-paint and shouting like madmen of themselves. This-so favored nn esas they brandished their muskets and ' cape that i soon found an opportunity

siars. "They tired a volley, which stretched on the earth the poor captain and all my shipmates, dead or dying. The latter thev soon dispatched with their klliVf,s Jind spears, and left them to be ,.a(,.n ,y wild animals; but on finding I that I had escaped iheir bullets, they j supposed that their fetish had pro tected me. and so for a time 1 was safe. "For a whole week 1 was forced to help these savages in he work of tak ing all that remained of the wreck to I pieces, though hundreds arne from the interior, and they wrought hard, some men using even their liled teeth to get all the iron and copper bolts, j which they prized more than the cargo, sails or spars, as they could fash- . i, , . Ol Speais anu Wiov5. mil n nil - thing they could lay their dingy hands upon, myself included, they made off inland, just as a vessel, which proved io be a king's ship, came round the Shark's Nose, and thus, with help, protection and liberty at hand, I was more than ever a prisoner. "I was in very low spirits, you may be sure, fearing they only intended to j fatten me up. like a stall-fed ox. or a i turtle iu a tub. before cooking and eating me. or making me a sacrifice to some idol carved of wood; for many r times I saw the whole tarnal tribe on ! their knees before the figure-head of th rrow whicli had been washed ashor fetish. and was pronounced to-be t Tor ,hr'e ,1avs traveled among I i. ... .... i . . t : . . . . . . . . . . . . . l . : . i . Oieii ,iiiu siiin -Kifrn rn.iiiii.s. iiiiik. wild woods aud immense pathless r'l saw i aneluakes. where in an hour iioif i fco ieoiiarns iniii ?eiir:s nowi- ; . . . inr iac kals and anlelones. crinninc monkevs and . battering paroquets, I ti......vr we... see., in :,it the lw.ws j at (Iref nwich fair, till we arrived at a j I kraal of a hundred huts, for all the j ! world like pigsties, surrounded by a high palisade of bamboos, and situated in a forest of palms. " was now the slave of a chief, whose rigging was rather queer, for it j consisted only of a deep fringe, or kilt, of unplaited grass, a neckla e of lion's ( teeth and fishbones, and a cap of leopaid's skin, on which towered a plume of feathers, above a row of human teeth aud sea shells.' "Ueing . rope-ended by an inch-and-a-half colt aye. or keelhauled once a day from the foi eyardarm wei e joke when compared to all this African niggn made m.' undergo, in pestilent swamps, where the ery air choked me. as if I had been in : ship with a foul

hold, for the slime in these canebrakes was as thick as tar and black as old bilge-water. "One day he was soothing his excitement by beating me with a heavy bamboo, till my back and arms were covered with blood. Close by were a whole gang of the tribe squatted under a palm tree, smoking bubbles bubbles made out of nut shells, looking on and laughing at the torture I was undergoing; but in the midst of their sport we heard a roar that made our hearts tremble, and all ieady to scamper off. "There was a mighty crashing and swayJng of the wild canes in the adjiMent brake, and then a great, squareheaded and tawny-haired lion, as large as a goo 1-sized pony, and with a tuft like a swab at the end of his switching tail; came plunging forward, with eyei flashing and red mouth open. "Souse as a sheet anchor goes into the sea. he sprang upon my owner, and in the time I take to turn this quid. Master Rodney, that troublesome personage was borne off into the jungle, a bruised mass of bones and blood, dangling in his jaws. "The whole thing passed like a ftash of lightning! "At first the niggers were about to pursue the lion, but upon reflection they thought it less dangerous to fall upon me and kill me outright, saying that my stupid cries had brought the wild animal tipon them. Then an old fellow, whose wool had become white with age, who was coiled up in the root of a tree, where he generally berthed himself, and who was considered a wise man. came forward and demanded their attention. He had been a brave fellow in his time, for he wore a row of human teeth at his neck, all strung on a lanyard, with a bit of an old quart bottle which he had found upon the beach, and wore as a

great mod lein. or order of th-- gar ter. perhaps He saved me by saying i in tneir outianui.su ibberish that I was evidently under the protection or the great fetish, in honor of whom I should be made like themselves and handsomely tattooed. "I might as well have hallooed to the wind in a tearing pampero, or a stiff reef-topsail breeze. Master Rodney, as have attempted to oppose this piece of Congo kindness. In a minute I was hove down under the nasty, black paws of five-and-forty howling and jabbering niggers, all smearing me with palm-oil out of calabashes and old gallipots, and they persisted in rubbing it into m till all my skin was nearly peeled off. "Then the old fetishman. who lived in the root of the tree, after making three summersets and uttering six howls, ornamented all my face, hands and arms in this fashion, using a kind of knife, which he dipped from time to time in some black stuff that he carried on a, cocoanut shell. In ten minutes I was all over serpents and circles, stripes, pothooks and hangers! "It went to my heart to have my beauty spoiled, but I was far past making any opposition, and so I have had to go through life in all weathers, with a face like the down's in a pantomime. "They made me so like a nigger that they scarcely knew me from one of giving the Mussolongos the slip in o-ht :md made a shift. after 1 I many a break-heart adventure, reach a British settlement. (To be continued.) ZANTE'S TREASURE. to J I he Search for It U to lie ItenrivrU. Just now the attention of Athenians is centered at the island of Zante, one of the Ionian group. Some time ago ilmii. vvj fviMit in tlit -.irchivoc of the j state library in Athens a parchment, j dated several hundred years ago. sayI ing that when Suleiman in 1536 con quered Corfu, the inhabitants of Zante, fearing that their island would share a similar fate, buried all their treasures and fled, and that the Km press Sophia I did the same. The place where the ' empress' trea-ure lay is described as ' "within the fortress under a large red stone near the temple of St. Luke." i lu lb" year H'.Oo Pope Clement VIII. : made a search for the treasure, hut the t I result is unknown. In 1814 the Knglish attempted to find it. and e.xcavations were made, the large stone men- ; tioned in the ancient document found I but then the search was interrupted, j Now the document is in the hands of ! an Italian, who. together with some (Jrceks. in searching for the treasure. ! The -J,'k government has granted a ' ' ln(es.-ion lor the work" on condition a of receiving half the treasure if it be , found. A patrol of soldiers guards the plaie night and day. valors met with a well, The excawhich was easily pumped dry, but instead wf the ! hirge led stone they found at the boti i.irii 1 1 m t)i vi-oil t u ii tfivittiic rniA run ; " """ "Jr 'J,,,,, 1 lul itiinv .iiii'l II I ha it' Mlil' w.kllin a1 4 V. f j ai'1 Ui ,,e ver' remarkable. It 1 has been explored for eighty meters. and runs close below the church of St. I.aurentia. In it was found a structure of masonry." which, when struck, emit ted a hollow sound, This has now to be opened, aud the operation is looked forward to with great interest and excitement. A laut I. bear that walks like a man, no The doubt. Is a frightful foe to be hunted out; ! Hut a worse foe yetof his clutch be ware! Is the awful man who acts like a bear. Chicago Record. The highest value of an Knglish 1 p,)StHgc stamp is ",. The stamp is of ! oblong shape, and very seldom us:td.

HE HEALS BY MAGIC. THIS MAN CURES CHILDREN

WITH A STRING. 6trBg Jroe dlana Pwr Attributed to Mayor B. I'lCkftloger, of HIiifTtoa, ln- - (Juatnt (irrman Folk-Lore apr.tlllon Nucce.ofall jr I'ractired. If the strange powtr attributed ' ! o Mayor James B. I'essinger of Bluffton Ind.. could be extended to phsieians ! everywhere, there would be an end to j apprehension that the human race is 1 deteriorating in size. For Mayur Pessiiigvr claims to able to correct improper growth children while in infancy, and his ertion is backed by many years successful practice. His nut hod of ; as- ' of i t is i imply to measure them with a string, according to a system handed down ;n (lerman folk-lore, and possessed :y few persons. Notwithstanding the superstitious nature of this "rite of measurement.' many phi-ians have witnessed the working of the treatment, and. while they offer no solution, admit that it possesses some strange eftioacy. At any rate, the practice bid? fair to spread throughout the I'nited States, if Mayor Plessinger can be induced to part with the secret. Long or short growth among infants is not an uncommon complaint. One of the peculiar diseases that befall small humanity is a tendency, between the age of six weeks and two years, lo either grow too fa-s-:. or too slow. The more common of the two is "sinnt" growth.. The child seemingly cases to grow. and, instead of waxing hearty, dwindles into u strong anl puny and insignificant creature, for whom there seems nothing in view but the siavc. i and that nossihlv not far ilis!::iit. I: . . . , .,. ... old lauy. wno thinks sij 4s crsed in cmui lore, advises 'measurement. ' In foi't if Ic tho lv fl'. cacious remedy in such a critical crisis ay 'he old ladleu. The child must be measured by a person who is endowed with the powr to controvert the malign influence that overshatTt.WB It. A common piece of twine is used, and the child is measured from head to foot. Then the string is wrapped in the hinge of the front door in such a fashion that it will wtar as the door opens and shuts. Uf course a mystical incantation goes with the ceremony. When the string is worn out the child begins growing long or short just as the nature of the case demands. Mavor Plessinger says he has been gifted with the power of this mystical measurement since nineteen years of age. It is an old (lerman custom, and n,e person who can apply the formula t j. ...t.. hi w- ft W .IS .. jmparted to the nmyor n) .Momer , entine. an old lady highly respecieu iu Hinffum for her nursing ability ami

her knowledge of homely remedies, j moves down along tlie pipe until at Feeling that she was unable to pursue j hist she is on top of the furnace, where her calling much longer, she summoned j she stays until the fire is made up Mr Plessinger, who was her favorite . again and. the heat ascends, when shn anioug the young men of the place, j again taks to the pipe. . Those upaud made him hr heir to the secret, j stairs can hear her as she journey

By no means must the Incantation ne Kiven to one of a sex miliar, to me It came from a woman, and possessor. the mayor has picked out the young fady to whom it will be Kiven when he ....I- ,.u o.i nnon to lav down his , ,xf healinir ( I O f M " - S3j There are hundreds of people in , Hluffton and over the country genrral- ' t tw. in the treatment, ami 1 nuu w - can be ited in Uluffton among anil WOllieil W llOHI HO dtlf W Oil Id I suspect were ever cured by the string method. One of the city s leading so ,ietv ladies was measured, not by the however, when a small ihild. Immediately aftr the measurement sh,

set up the first energetic cry of her ex- j are for sale, and we would be glad to istence. was given a slice of bread and j know from wh re they can be obbutter. which she ate greedily, and tained." We hae not heard of any grew rapidly out of hr infirmity. ! such skeletons having arrived LernAn incident worthy of note was that . don Lancet.

i' an 0,M m!,n ""'j'":, h" ! county line who was bedfast. Hi as 1 four and one-haif inches longer than I t normal, but two weeks after tha raeas-

uremeiii was reduced until he was only an inch and one-half oer the correct limit. The reader must not imagine thit because such belief exists in Bluffton that the city is a little backwoods village. It is the only city in Indian outside of Indianapolis that has thre miles of asphalt streets. It is s hustling town of ((0 inhabitants, without a negro in its population. The only colored man who t?vr voted there walked out of town it a rapid gait, with a crowd of mn in pursuit, and none other ever repeated ihe operation. It is a modern city, bun many of its good citizens believe ia the theory that children can be )ur?'i by the mayor's process, becaus. it has i been tried in their families and tliey know it. i Nor mu-f it le thought tha" Mi chief executhe at. old hoary-hadi ; doctor of the root, bark and herb thei ory. He i veteran of the lie wir. ; an Odd Fellow of state standing, dti i j an energetic , -ntlemau who i.i 'ini.s- ! siiming and makes no pretensions t ; extraordinary powers, i He knows that he can cure htldra ; suffering from "long" and ' short" i growth, aud he does it for the pleasur it gives him in doing an act )f humanity. Never, in on er five hunlr-M ! cases, has he taken a cent of motley ' as a fee. but mi" of his most highly ; sifted posi-fssions is a handkerchief . which a grateful mother pre.sen'ed htui in a successful case. A tew davs at the incid'n u 1 1 into the metropolitan press .in I :u j. vagu- and skeptical manner aiisr?:)rescnted tlie working" of the, '.vor'ny nmyor. It inferred to he fact f.bnt. ar.uld remedy sufferers from dwntdoni. wliiih is not the truth, for no onsimtional inhimity can be cur.d Many letters have reached him roUtivn - th- matter, and wn-n tiie inquiry T-i-a sincere or.- an ai..-wer was iet'trr.j ed. but many of the j WH basket letters reached his FELINE THERMOMETERS. Mi Spndn the fold Weather on the t'uruarr t'lp. A West port man has a cat of rej markable intelligence, she is a regular j thermostat. Her home is in the cellar, : and there she is constantly kept to ; look after the rn I The man fires rip i the furnace every morning before h" I goes to work, and this usually su flicks ; until be returns at night. The recent I cold weather, however, lias got beyond his calculations, and the fire gets low j about 4 o'clock iu the afternoon. The j cat lives on top of the furnace, only j coming to the floor to get food and ; drink She even sleeps aloft. Wit on f ti t 1 1 111 i w ti mtitr ha ut-j n i . . . ... me p. pes as iai i-ui as me warmm is omionai.te. as tin- mvtties uown ami . the furnace gives out j,,ss ileat. sn(, , along the pipe, aud know when the neat is -becoming less. When the tire is banked for the night, she sleeps on top of i he furnace, and in the morning, when her master comes down to nn;nd the fire, she crawls out on the pipe, reaches over aud strikes at him playfully with her paw to show her approval of his attention to duty. skeleton In Ilrmtml. Messrs. Krohne & Sesernann write: -Sunn- Cerman newspaper report that , ;J ,.onsjgnment of skeletons of dervishes has arrived in this country of exceptionally large size and beauty (besonders grosse und schoene exeniplare) If i this report is true, and the skeletons

A WEEK IX INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. An liiexp?i'te'J Move of Shelby t'onutjr ComniUiioner4 Th lJrllre (ae Tranferrei to Hancock County u retlttoa of the Ito.trU. S.'ieÜn-y:!!. Ind. Another flank movement was executed by the Board cf County Commissioners last evening befor-? the adjournment, of the Circuit, court, in the noted UrMge casus. A temporary restraining order was granted by Judge Huckingham. last week, enjoining the commissioners. '.hf county auditor and the bridge contractors from proceeding with th? work of construction or the payment of any niotwy from the county treasury for material or labor. This movement -.n the t)irt 0; tne taxpayers was unex;jtctei. t:i statement having been published that no responsible personwoubi dare to attach their nanieto a bond binding themselves for damages thai might, result from thsuit. Thur.-d.iy of this week was thUnie fixed for hearing the issue, th-' injunction to dissolved or mad-? permanent. 0:i last Monday James 11. Mc(J'i!lo;ig!i of Indianapolis, who is retained by th taxpayers, came here an l prepared :'.k case. It has been heb! all along v the Shelbyville Hemocrit that th people of tlie county vantc the hrids;"s lutilt: thai they made at; issu- in th last local caniiaign. ani that if the matter of buildini; the ":)ri-ii;e.- w is lvft to tlie taxpayers, an l "ot :. disruntie 1 ex-oIli'.-iaS. il. . bridges wo-ibl lie lmiit. in .v the many as.-ei-tio:i.- ol it has been the p'esl:ni;'Tion that, the commissioner-, woubi '' 4'a! to go iit.) court wilii tlie issi,,.. la-r (v!i;iu the attorr.?ys who are repiv-si-ntin, th" coniniissioner.s and The auditor presented to Judge Huck:n2;!!r.i :;:i atlid ivit for a change of venue from the county of the suit against the '.imniissioners ami the auditor aud the s-tit for injunction. The affidavit sets out that owing to the bias an! prejudice existing iu the county against the defendants, they cannot secure a fair and impartial trial. Judge Buckingham snt the cases to Hancock county. The temporary injunction is thus made to remain "u force, and the cases thus transferred :nav not be culled for manv weeks. D'Kl at l!ie Age of KM. C,reea:::r4. Ind. -David Kirley. i veii-krto-A-'i resioent of this iDecaturi "ounty. is dad at the home of Reuben ma;vley. in this ity. from the effect. of a fall which he received last '.Vednesday. Mr. Kirby was tut years of age. He Aas born in Pennsylvaiiir in 171. and came to Indiana in Isi'J. subsenu-mtly settling in this county in 1?). where h.e has since resided. Mr. Kirhey v.-as a depemlent pensioner, his -r.i liivinj; ierish-d in the i-ivil war. The Ken Muriler C'aoe. I.'ga:isport. 1ml. Mike IV.oli and Tony ri'.der. charged with the mur-je;-of John Ueno of Wabash, two months ago. have been on trial in thCircuit court hero for three days. Reno, who was the son of respectable people, was killed by the Italians in a quarrel over a pail of beer. K irked lu the Stomach. English. Ind. Jacob Hronsteir.. a peddler, driving a balky horse, near Sodom yesterday, while trying to force the animal to proceed, was kicked iu the stomach and will probably die. ft is feared Jacoli's stomach was ruptured by the kick. (itnerjl State New. George Mitchell, of Shelby viile. for a wager of ) cents, undertook to sit half an hour in shirt sleeves in the street, with the thermometer registering - dejrvs below wo. When tlie half hour had expired he was found to be unconscious. from col. I. and he is likely to die o? exposure. Samuel Warner, a farmer near Hartfold City, declined all offers to lease his land t oil men. Instead, lie contracted for drilling and tubing wells with such result that frequently his income .eaches 1100 a day. and it now aggreg3tej-. $1."00 monthly. An ordinance is pending in the NewAlbany city council repudiating the present contract with the New Albany Water Company, which still has sixteen years to run. and entering into arrangements with the Home Crystal Water Company. A stranger named Sexton took $-ii.) stock in the natural gas company at Tipton several years ago. paying cash. Sine then nothing has been heard of him. although the company annually passes dividends to bis credit. The Wabash county commissioners havrt begun operations under the new law- to condemn 'the Hass property at Wabash, in order to proceed witTi the Memorial Hall project. Frances M. EflRle and John M. dinner of ' Wabash have purchased a controlling interest in the Lawrence National bank of North Manchester. Congressman James M. Robinson of Fort Wayne announces that he will lie a candidato for a third term. If he U nominated and elected, he will be the first third-term man ever bent to Congress from tho Twelfth district. George Arnett, saloon-keeper of Middletown. while walking homeward late at night, was met by masked men and robbed of $400. Jennie. 13-year-old daughter of David Sutherland, of Dick Johnson township, Clay county, was accidentally

b'itraed to death. .