Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 August 1900 — Page 3

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GIVES SOME HINTS ON TO READ. WHAT 6y Tha4 tLe Greatest IJlevtin of a Nation I au i:ieatel literature Its Greatest Cnrne au Impure Literature Some Timely Suggestion. (Copyright, 1300, by Louis Klopsch.) Dr. Talmage, who has been spending & few days in St. Petersburg, sends the following report of a discourse, which will be helpful to those who have an Appetite for literature and would like eome rules to guide thern in the selection of books and newspapers: text, Acta xix, 19, "Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men, and they counted the price of them and found it 50,000 pieces of silver." Paul had been stirring up Ephesus with some lively sermons about the sins of that place. Among the more important results was the fact that the citizens brought out their bad books and in a public place made a bonfire of them. I see the people coming out with their arms full of Ephesian literature and tossing it Into the Harnes. I hear an economist who Is standing by saying: "Stop thi3 waste. Here are $7,300 worth of books. Do you propose to burn them all up? If you don't want to read them yourselves, sell them and let somebody else read them." "No," .said the people; "if these books are no. good for us, they are not good for anybody else, and we shall stand and watch until the last leaf has burned to ashes. They have done us a world of harm, ar d they shall never do others harm." Heir the flames crackle and roar! Well, ray friends, one of the wants of the cities is a great bonfire of bad books and newspapers. We have enough fuel to make a b!r.z-' 200 feet high. Many of the publishing houses would do well to throw into the blaze their entire stock cf goods. Bring forth the insufferable trash and put It into the fire and let it bo known In the presence of God and angel3 and men that you are going to rid your homes of the overtopping and underlying curse of profligate literature. The printing press is the mightiest agency on earth for good and for evil. The minister of the gospel standing in a pulpit, has a responsible position, but I do not think it is as responsible as the position of an editor or a publisher. At what distant point of time at what far out cycle of eternity, will cease the influence of a Henry J. Raymond, or a Horace Greeley, or a James Gordon Bennett, or a Watson "Webb, or an Erastus Brooks, or a Thomas Kinsella? Take the overwhelming statistics of the circulation of the daily and weekly newspapers and then cipher if you can. how far tip and far down and how far out reach the influences of the American printing press. What is to be the issue of all this? I believe the Lord intends the printing pres3 to be the chief means for the world's rescue and evangelization, and I think that the crreat last battle of the world will not be fought with j swerds and guns, but with types and presses, a purified and gospel literature triumphing over, trampling down and crushing out forever that which Is depraved. The only way to overcome unclean literature is by scattering abroad that which is healthful. May God speed the cylinders of an honest, intelligent, aggressive, ChristIan printing press. Good Rooks a Riesling-. I have to tell you that the greatest blessing that ever came to the nations Is that of an elevated literature, and the greatest scourge that has been of unclean literature. This last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to fill insane asylums and penitentiaries and almshouses and dens of shame. The bodies of this infection lie In the hospitals and In the graves, while their souls are being tossed over into a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror and despair! The London plague was nothing to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but this modern pest has already shoveled Its millions Into the charnel house of the morally dead. The longest rail train that ever ran over the tracks was not long enough or large enough to carry the beastliness and the putrefaction which have been gathered up in bad books and newspapers in the last twenty years. Now, it Is amid such circumstances that I put a question of overmastering importance to you and your families. What books and newspapers shall we read? You see I group them together. A newspaper is only a book In a swifter and more portable shape, and the same rules which will apply to book reading will apply to newspaper reading. What shall we read? Shall our mlnd3 be the receptacle of everything that an author has a mind to write? Shall there be no distinction between the tree of life and the tree of death. Shall we stoop down and drink out of the trough which the wickedness of men has filled with pollution and shame? Shall we mire in Impurity and chase fantastic will-o'-the-wisps across the swamps when we might walk In the blooming gardens of God? Oh, no! For the sake of our present and everlasting welfare .we must make an Intelligent and Christian choice. Standing, as we do. chin deep In fictitious literature, the question that young people are asking fe .qhnll wo - - c- - - f - .. ! read novels ? I rrr.lv tl3 that are pure, good. ChrJsthn. elevating to the heart and ennobling to the life. DiTt I have still further to lay trt T believe that svnty.flve out cf the 100 novels In thb day are baleful and destructive to the last deSTe. A pure work of fiction is history and roetry combined. It is a history of things around in with the licenses and the assumed names of poetry. Tho world can never pay the debt which it owes to such writers of fiction as Hawthorne and McKenzie and Landon and Hunt and Arthur and others whose names are familiar to all. The follies of high life were never better ' exposed than by Miss Edgeworth. i The memories of the past were never j more faithfully embalmed than in ' the writings of Walter Scott. Cooper's 3Yils are healthfully redolent with ;

the breath of seaweed and the air of the American forest. Charles Kingsley has smitten the morbidity of the world and led a great many to appreciate the poetry of sound health, strong muscles and fresh air. Thackeray did a grand work in caricaturing the pretenders to gentility and high blood. Dickens has built his own monument in his books, which are a plea for the poor and the anathema of injustice, and there are a score of novelistic pens today doing mighty work for God and righteousness. Ennobling and Purifying. Now, I say, books like these, read at right times and read in right proportion with other books, cannot help but be ennobling and purifying; but, alas, for the loathsome and impure literature that has come in the shape of novels, like a freshet overflowing all the banks of decency and common sense! They are coming from some of the most celebrated publishing houses. They are coming with recommendation of some of our religious newspapers. They lie oa your center tables to curse your children and blast with their infernal tires generations unborn. You find these books in the desk of the school miss, in the trunk of the young man, in the stearnbo.it cabin, on the table of the hotel reception room. You see a light in your child's room late at night. You suddenly go in and say, "What are you doing?- "I am reading:' "What are you reading?" "A book." You look at the book. It is a bad book. "Where did you get it?" "I borrowed it." Alas, there are always those abroad who would like to loan your son or daughter a bad book! Everywhere, everywhere, an unclean literature. I charge upon it the destruction of 10,000 immortal souls, and I bid you wake up to the magnitude of the evil. I shall take all the world's literature good novels and bad. travels true and false, histories faithful and incorrect, legends beautiful and monstrous, all tracts, all chronicles, all poems, all family, city, state and national libraries and pile them up in a pyramid of literature, and then I shall bring to bear upon it some grand, glorious, infallible, unmistakable Christian principles. God help me to speak with referenuce to my last account and help you to listen. 1 charge you in the first place to stand aloof from all books that give false pictures of life. Life is neither a tragedy nor a farce. Men are not all either knaves or heroes. Women are neither angels nor furies. And yet if you depended upon much of the literature of the day you would get an idea that life instead of being something earnest, something practical, is a fitful and fantastic and extravagant thing. How poorly prepared are that young man and woman for the duties of today who spent last night wading through brilliant passages descriptive of magnificent knavery and wickedness! The man will be looking all day long for his heroine in the offlce, by the forge, in the factory, in the counting room, and he will not find her, and he will bo dissatisfied. A man who gives himself up to the indiscriminate reading of novels will be nerveless, inane and a nuisance. He will be fit neither for

store, nor the shop, nor the Held. A woman who gives herself up to the in discriminate readiDg of novels will be unfitted for the duties of wife, mother, sister, daughter. There she is, hair disheveled, countenance vacant, cheeks pale, hands trembling, bursting into tears at midnight over the fate of some unfortunate lover; in the daytime, when she ought to be busy, staring by the half hour at nothing, biting her finger nails Into the quick. The carpet that was plain before will bs plainer after having wardered through a romance all night long in tessellated halls of castles. And your industrious companion will be more unattractive than ever, now that you have walked in the romance through parks with plumed princesses or lounged in the arbor with the polished desperado. Oh, these confirmed novel readers! - They are unfitted for this life, which Is a tremendous discipline. They know not how to go through the furnaces of trial through which they must pass, and they are unfitted for a world where everything we gain we achieve by hard and long continuing work. Avoid Partially Bad Hook. Again, abstain from all those books which, while they have some good things, have also an admixture of evil. You have read books that had two elements in them the good and the bad. Which stuck to you? The bad. The heart of most people is like a sieve, which lets the small pirticles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in awhile there is a mind like a loadstone, which, plunged amid steel and brass filings, gathers up the steel and repels the brass. But it i3 generally exactly the opposite. If you attempt to plunge through a hedge of burs to get one blackberry, you will get more burs than blackberries. You cannot afford to read a bad book, however good you are. You say, "The influence Is insignificant." I tell you that the scratch of a pin has sometimes produced lockjaw. Also, if through curiosity, as many do, you pry Into an evil book, your curiosity is as dangerous as that of the man who would take a torch into a gunpowder mill merely to see whether it would really blow up or not. In a menagerie In New York a man put his arm through the bars of a black leopard's cage. The iv.iimal's hide looked so sleek and bright and beautiful. He just stroked it once. The monster seized him. and he drew i forth a hand torn and mangled and . bleeding. Oh, touch not evil, even with the faintest strokp. Though t i J may be glossy and beautiful, toa-h it j nor. lest you mil forth your soul lorn and Heeding under the clutch of tho j leopard. "II it," you say. "how can I ' find out whether a book is good or bad without reading it?" There is alwavs ; something suspicious about a Lad Lock. I never knew an election ?nr:r,,:!T?g ! suspicious In the Index or style of IIlustration. This venomous reptile always carries a warning rattle. Again, I charge you to stand off from all those books which corrupt tho imagination and Inflame the passions. I do not refer now to that kind of book which the villain has under hU coat waiting for the school to get out, and. then, looking both ways to see that

there is no policeman around the block offers the book to your son on the way home. I do not speak of that kind of literature, but that which evades the law and comes out in polished style, and with acute plot sounds the tocsin that rouses up all the baser passions of the soul. Today, under the nostrils of the people, there is a fetid, reeking, unwashed literature, enough to poison all the fountains of public virtue and smite your sons and daughters

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rallied the forces of righteousness, all armed to this great battle against a depraved literature. Cherish Good Hook. Cherish good books and newspapers. , Beware of bad ones. The assassin of j Lord Russell declared that he was led ; into crime by reading one vivid ro- j mr iice. The consecrated John Angell j Janu-s. than whom England never produced a better man, declared in his old age that he had never yet got over the evil effects of having for fifteen minutes once rad a bad book. But I need not go so far off. I could tell you of a comiv.ie v.-ho was great hearted, : v.vhlfi and g imous. He was studying for .in honorable profession, but he had an infidel book in his trunk, and , lie said to me one day, "De Witt, would . you like to read it?" I said "Yes, I j would." I took the book and read it j only for a Tew minutes. I was really j startled with what I saw there, and I j handed the book back to him and said, i -You had better destroy that book." j No, ho kept it. He read it. He reread j it. After awhile he gave up religion as ( a myth. He gave up God as a non- j entity. He gave up the Bible as a ; fable. He gave up the church of Christ J as a useless institution. He gave up j good morals as being unnecessarily j strinirnt. I have heard of him but ' twite in many years. The time before j the last I heard of him he was a confirmed inebriate. The last I heard of him le was coming out of an insane asylum in body, mind and soul an awful wreck. 1 believe that one infidel book killed him for two worlds. Co home today and look through your library, and then, having looked through your library .look on the stand where you keep your pictorials and newspapers and apply the Christian principles I have laid down this hour. If there is anything in your home that cannot stand the test do not give it away, for it mignt spoil an immortal soul; do not sell it, for the money you get would be the price of blood; but rather kindle a fire on your kitchen hearth or in your back yard and then drop the poison in it, and the bonfire in your city shall be as consuming a3 that one in Ephesus. Gently itrhukeii. A good many people maintain thai the only argument that really reaches a practical joker is a stout club. Yet Hie Philadelphia Tinie3 prints an incident of an Italian cafe which seems to show that milder measures answer when there is in the offender's makeup a spbstratum of manly feeling. In the evenings there was always fine music in the cafe, made by a man and Iiis wife. She played on a stringed Instrument, and after several selections, carried around a little filigree silver basket, in which she collectec coins from the guests. One night, as the music began, a man seated at one of the tables held up a gold coin. Tho woman smiled, and the man dropped it on the marble slab that covered the steam pipes. When she made her collection she went first for the gold coin, but as she picked it up she gave a cry, and dropped it again, for it had become heated on the slab. The next evening, when the musicians appeared, the woman's hand was bandaged, and she had some difficulty in managing her instrument. When she made her collection she avoided the man who had played the practical joke on her; and night after night she did the same thing. In vain he offered her apologies and other coins, but she merely bowed and smiled in passing him, and never allowed him to give her the slightest donation. Of course one can imagine the offender's feelings; but who can find fault with the woman's gentle, yet dignified, rebuke. Youth's Companion. I Ilabonic Plague, 300 It. C. The earliest authentic record of bubonic plague has hitherto been accepted, says Nature, as dated 300 B. C. Drs. F. Tidswell and J. A. Dick have, however, recently brought evidence before the Royal Society of New South Wales to show that the epidemic of 1144 D. C, described in the first book of Samuel (chapters 4 to 10), was the bubonic plague. After the riiillstines had captured the Ark of the Covenant and taken it to Ashdod, severe illness broke out among the people. "The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and He destroyed them and smote them with emorods." The word "emorod" has usually been taken to mean hemorrhoids, but In the revised version of the Old Testament it is stated to mean tumor or plague boiL The epidemic in Philistia occurred at the time of the regular plague season, and mice are mentioned in connection with it, which furnishes additional evidence that the epidemic was plague. for a connection between the death of ! rats and plague at Bombay and elsewhere has been clearly established. Ilaltimore Sun. About ;-n Andre. Gen. Andre, the new French ninlstcr of war is sixty-two years o:' age. He is an excellent type of th well educated French soldier, distinguished by physical vi ir and cool energy, ai well as for intellectual qualities. Wi'ile eommandcr of the PoI t..t hnic school from December, 1 to May, 1S99. ha showed himself a skilful as well as a.i energetic administrator. Ho has :;trcauotioly opposed the IntroJuction of politics lato the army, and It 13 therefore certain that ho will cooperate with the cabinet to mako France peaceful. Slelho'Mst Missionary Receipts. The total receipts of the Methodist Foreign Missionary society for the last year were $t,37G,399.07, which Is the largest amount ever paid Into th treasury in one year.

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Any European statesman who, .it a critical moment in the affairs of hi 5 country began to raise a private army without making it clear that it was for the good of tho government, would ver. For some time China's greatest LI IIUXG statesman has been busily raising and equipping a large force of soldiers, whom he will pay and perhaps direct himself, and no one ktio-.vs whether his intention is good or evil. Probably this is the first time in history that a statesman of nearly fourscore has set himself the arduous task of i emitting an army for per.-onal use. Li Hung Chang, however, is an old hand at this particular species of effort. It is unle:s!ool he keers anions I his private papers a voluminous list I of lighting men who are attached by ! interest and affection to his person, and when he staits to raise his army these people form the nucleus of his force. One thing may be taken f;r granted. Li Hung Chang's private army will be composed of brave men, admirably equipped and well led.

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Lb Finee he was a young man the statesman has raised several private armies. Although he is not a gifted, military commander himself he knows almost instinctively a capable general when he meets one, and lucky has it been for China that he possesses this capability. He can obtain excellent soldiers, moreover. The men who euCHANG'S BANQUETING HALL AT list under Li's banner know that their pay is sure, and that their food will not be stinted. They also know that if they happen to do anything notable and worthy their employer is sure to be generous in rewards. From his earliest years, as a man interested in military matters, Li Hung Chang has been a peisistent advocate of modern armaments. If his advice had been carried out before the war with Japan China would not havG been struck down so easily. It is believed that Li, out of his vast wealth, has accumulated a great store of modern weapons for bis private army, and It is unlikely to be deficient in transport, commissariat, or even in medical service. His force is certain to bo stiffened by drilled men who have Leen on his bo aks for years, and who have probably been out in his service before. Every big official of the Impecluding the new famous I-Ho-Tan, or Boxers. Many of these agents have been trained in the schools of Europe and America, and have high degrees from foreign universities. All work under Get. Yatabe. They have studied the secret service systems abroad, especially in Germany and France, and know how to collect information to the best advantage. As engineers and surveyors they have made accurate maps of the country, such as China itself does not possess, and they have gathered complete data as to possible supplies and routes for the military and naval departments. They have done all this without the slightest suspicion of what they were about reachintr official ears in China. They have kept in touch with the consular ami the diplomatic service and with the bureau of information in Tokio, where the reports of the agents are arranged for ready reference. So Japan knows China, and other nations do not. Senator Tlatt of Now York went to havo a prescription filled in a New York drug shop recently. The young clerk taking longer to do It than the senator thought proper, Mr. Piatt said: "Here, I'll io it. I used to be a druggist myself." And going back of the counter, ho made up the proscription in a very short time. i '.. 7 -.. "A AX l.V ;. h 1?UV RUSSIAN. ITALIAN. pital, Brooklyn, suffering from almost total paralysis of tho left side. She waa attacked during tho recent hot

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RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Cow nu Ot-iiic Any .uill in t onnr-tlo:i with il.o Nfrlt-y I iiImii I'mmlt - Ho S.y He Miujiij H.iu-ht the l'riutiuj U2ice. Cowan Deuie Auy luilU Itass H. Cowan. piTi i tit of tho Nctily Printing company, at Muiicie, issued a rani deno nn ing the stat -meat d: Assistant Postmaster (lent-ral HrisLow, whirh cjiiiK-.ts him with thj Neely Cuban frauds, slati'ig that the records ohow til a;, the;-' was mach' a U-gitimat.- sal- ot the printing utä i from N'c.'iy to him. and f.irtht rmuithat piiiiiin.ix bills fur thi Cuban g-t-ruaicut. nr.', ; n d through Neely, v aot paid f wi.-c. He stat.-s that owing to a olerieal error Hat k ;xa.? p.iid on i bill of $1;.;; twice, but tliat this was long sin e reetilivd when lunhl.one disi overed the mistake. riiii-igo I'.raiwh of . If. A I). I L. Patri'-k. nre of the ilij.f j-rr-moters of the Cindnnat i. Pi. an:'. mi & Muiu-ie railroad, now in -ir..-se ii -. n struftion. said ai Indianapolis th v. road, when cuiapl :. will in ii:::- : i, : Chicago Niarrli of t Cirwinna:;. Hamilton & Dayton. All Cincinnati ."Jid "hie:;ao Ua.h' will ! an id over the new roatc The n". line. Mr. Patrick said, will give tie- company a rhoncr route between iiie two pla s lha.ii the Indian. .poli.- l.ran a r.uw a.'forcis. 5-"or tin- uI;hIi I l-nion. There is brisk competition aaions the idvcns along the extension o: th1 Wabash railroad line fi.cn w i!;iv;i to Untier, and ti'ian-ial a:d will undoubtedly be voT-',i t(. '. ui: 1 :v.v. -h o? the road. The distaee I's niii s an i three loutes have h.-en su: yeil. Already two petition- a -u for e! - tions to vote sabsi!"i es it: e )i vii !;' e. and more are being circulated. Tii probability is work on the -onn-t inr link will be begun this fall. Ditchers Stri' h at lVru. The dit'liers employe. 1 hy the ShawKendall Engineering company of Toledo. Ü., engaged in eoum-ctir.c litwell system with tie1 pumping station at Peru, struck for higher wages, and were discharged. They were working in water alove tneir waists ami thought the pay insufficient. Indiana I iilnecr in liina. John H. Means, formet ly of Switzerland county, a civil engine:-, j.-, in the employ of a railway syndicate with headipiarters ;t pekiu. China, and when la.t heard irtjai. prior to the trouble, he was on the point of starting with a surveying corps two hundred miles into the interior. ticneral Stale cun.. The health authorities o: Laiat;e are investigating the milk suypiy. uul startling discoveries are being made. Analysis discloses formaline and bicarbonate of soda used as preservatives, not counting water dilutions. Mr. and Mrs. D:tniI Youut o Washington township, Klaci.i'o'.d county, while removing hou.-'ehoM goods to a new humr, wore thrown from the wagon by accident, and the woman had both arms broken. The new secret order, styling itself the Parliamentarians of the Cmverse, has established headquarters at Logansport. Miiloa Shcdell heads this new fraternal order, with Hugh Smith national secretary. Mrs. Mary C. Johnon. an old resident of Franklin township, Fio d county, was found de.a In bed wi;h her llible open by her side. She w is evidently reading the sacred volume when death struck her. The New American Oil and Mining company, the Interstate Petroleum and Oil and Gas company ;nd the interstate Oil company have been absorbed by the Jasper County Oil and (las company. Mrs. Li 11 it Coy of Coshen, has brought suit in the lCkhart circuit court against Jerry N. Trump, a policeman, claiming $lo.uuO damages because of words a fleeting her reputation. Terry McCart of Taoli, while in the act of boarding a train at West Ua leu. was struck in the eye by a Lünern swung by the colored porter and very badly hurt. William Walker of Clay county, while riding homeward in a siorm. had his horse killed by lightning, while he was alarmingly shocked. Prof. James Franklin Mills, superintendent of the Covington schools, and Miss Gertrude Hanes of Covingron. will be married August 7. Clement Lee. who died at Washington, was one of the wealthiest men in Daviess county. He served in the ! legislature twenty years ago. In her suit for divorce at (livcusburg, Mrs. l.cn. Emmert is demanding iW-Ou alimony from her husband, who is in Indianapolis. Mrs. George A. Cunningham of Evansville, is dead, ller husband is a member of the Republican state central committee. Lieut. W. Cm. Miles of Covington, serving in the Thirty-seventh infantry, contemplates resigning because ol" ill health. Allen 1). Chamberlain, a printer of Hennessey, III., fell from a fourth lloo. window at Evansville. and died of his injuries. Walter White and Mug trct Se'-ing, young people of Madison, eloped lied ford, Ky., .uul weie manied. Fleming Wilson, a Pro; her of Mrs. Charles Skultz, of ElUhart, was trampled to death by a stallion at Joseph, Oregon. The first is top has been taken at Hartford, looking to the oianizailo.i cf the national association of snappers. Miss Lulu Buchanan of Knox county, wants $30,000 damages from Harry Thurgood, for alleged breach of promise. Mrs. Fannie Naden, wife of James E. Naden, editor of the Rushville American, is dead of consumption.