Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 February 1889 — Page 1

COUNTY DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY TERMS of Subscription < ..tl W rjontha'.. TJ throe months. ao INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. AUVKKTUINO HATCH : Ob* square (»lloee). oee tnecrtioo.tl at •Keck additional Insertion. . Sn A liberal reduction made cn advertisements run nine three, six and twelve. months. Legal and Tranatcnl advertisement. mutt be paid tor In advance. RATES. NUMBER 40. .-r,— w'j Pike Count OK ALL J. L. MOUNT, Proprietor, Our Motto ia • Honest Devotion to Principles of Right.” - --.—-...——at—_ J“™ ' ' OFFICE, 0T#r G. & M0HTG0KEST'8 8tore, Main Stmt. VOLUME XIX. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1889. Neatly SUcoouted REASONABLE NOTICE I! P‘r*ons recdtrle* a eopr ol tbln ,- , this notice crossed In lead peaell am notittwl that the time of their stibseri|>ttoii tea expired.

1‘ROf KSSION AI, i: A It US, E. A. ELI', Attorney at Law, IETEKSBURO, IM». OJIce: OterJ.R. Adams ft Son's Drug 8tom. He t» also a mom her of the United Klat-w colM Aaaoemtlon. and gtvot prompt attention »**ry matter in which he i> employed. P. KiatAKLWoie ~aT H. TayuJZ RfCHABDSON & TAYLOR. »

Attorneys at Lawf FKTBR88URG, INft Prompt attention glvrn to all bulon.. V Notary Public rnn.tnntly In tlioottlcc. OfBeo In Carpvntar Uaiifllntc- »*lt »»'l Main. J. \V. WILSON. I Attorney at Law, PETERSBURG, 1NU K# <)IRc.: OverJ. H. Young & Go.'. SlorO. I. 11. LaMAHR. Physicianand Surgeon * PETERSBURG, IND., Will pnctke In l*ilie and adjoining rows Olflce. Mont^mi*n'» buddm* Office >»<nir> day wild night. |fr"Oliw'a»eM of women «n I chihlren n apoeUlty. Chronic and difficult caacfr solicited., HKXKY FIELDS, Insurance & Real Estate A.G v:xt, PETERSBURG, : i INDIANA. I>‘udlr|* rnmpabici represented. Prompt at trnt*on to btttlBMl. Notary buj>hicv» attended to. li«aaonabre ratr*. Office: Itank lltidding. EDWIN SMITH. ATTORNEY %J LAW, Real Estate Agent PETERSBURG, - - INDIANA Offlee, over Got Frnnh‘<» More. at* tcutton jrlveii to t'olleciton**. Huyln .* and >ell Itu ttunils. Kihoiiihd; TIUc« tn l I'urubhlng itiMMi'l*. It, K. KIMK. M. I).. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IND. Office in Hank Budding, residence on H**trnth Street, thiee vjuart*'. *outb of Main. Cali* promptly attended to. dnjr «»r ni*ht * j. a BUNCAS.’ Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG, . IND. Office on first floor Carpenter Building. i«a. ar. BCAniiis,

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THE WOULD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily New*

CONGRESSIONAL Tut credential* of (Senator Coke fTsias) were presented tn the Senate on the llth. nod after the ru-c.sentailouol a petition from Indian resident* "! HamptonrVa tor a reform tn the *T'tem of Issuing rations to students at Indian school* the Senate went Into executive session. When the door* were opeued'fhe Naval Appropriation bill was taken up and an amendment adopted providing tor two new steel crblsViru of gunboats In addition to those already provided for tn the bill. Periling further consider' ation the Senate adjourned... The House loalstrd on Us amendments to the Direct Tax bill an l a cpnlcrence wsa ordered. The Senate bill passed for* bridge over the Missouri river at Eravrnworlh. Kan. Afler some ronlehilon Ihe ! Smalls -Elliott contest wise from South Carolina j was taken up and debated until adjourngffp^ i Aron passing several billj ot hprlva'e and local character Ihe S^»ts fta tM UU, an Executive sew-jn ,„T, fc„ then resuir^ hon-ldemtied ohhe Naval Afi RW’CetOn hill, whtv* alter farther debate will •’'^ehdaient passed. After a Ion* debate W.t Pacific Hill road funding Mfl was laid aside and Ihe report of the OmmUles on ITivileges nnd K ectlons In Ihe Washington - County (Texas* ease lakemjip, nnd the Senate soon adjourned' When The House. met the Senate bill to enable the President to protect the Interests of the Coiled States In Panama waste- . reived and referred. The House then resumed debate on the Smalls Elliott election ease which continued until the elota of the aeetloh. In the Senate on U>e l3th lbs bdhferonoa report on the Cbhtular »ed Diplomatic bill was l>re*er.,ed and agreed to, and after some routine -or* the Hekste proceeded tn a body *|0j House of Representatives for Ud> purpose of ! counting the electoral Vote fcr l*re*ident and Vice President. Cpoh returning to the chamber the proceedings were entered on the journal end the resolution In regard to the elect ion ip Washington County, Texas, discussed Mill ! adjournment — In the House ‘uV. Oates, from the Judiciary cmnm'tbre. reported a Mil t * amend the Natn*-a!lsatlon laws and the.In dlan Appronrtetlbh lull was reported AV IS.M ] the Scnule Was received In a body for the pur- ! pose ot counting the electoral vote for President I and Vice-President After the proceeding re- j U’lired by law the presiding officer formally so j Hound'd Harrison and Morton Heeled and the ! Senators returned to their chamber. A long I nnd heated debate then followed on the Smalls i Elliott contest from (South Carolina. The ma- ! Jortly report eonlthning Klllotl In his seat was 1 dually adopted ami the House adjourned. In the s-naiu ttnthsMth the re*otion for a select committee of seven SerubJison nn the Irrlgsuon and rfrlam*tl*u 'of and lan * • as agreed to. Oneb-tho unimportant hills passed. Kenatoe Wilson ilowsi a dressed the Hiiitats ir. support of the bill relating to tm H"d. llrjn >rs A conference was ordered on Ir.e I-egivUtive Appropriation bill, and the resolution In relation to the Wushrnglcn County (Tex i election wax further discussed hy Senainr Cokc. ^lhe House non concurred in ihe Ker.otc^fcmenduicnts to the Legislattvs bill and asked s further ronteenee. The report Of the conference committee on the Tcrrttonsl Admission bill Was presented I ond a further conferrnoe asked. Mr Baker sN. j \ * Olfined a resolution instructing Ue House conferee* tn (1) exclude New Mexico; i'.'l srnend the hill so a* to provide for the admission nf South Dakot. hy proclamation, and 'Si lhat thi proposed States ot North Dakota- Montana and It ashtngton shad be adttttlled nn the same : basis, either by proclamation or act of admission A substitute offered by Mr. Oox (N. Y.l providing for the admission of North Dakota. Montana and Washington was a cepted by Mr. Maker The proposition to eliminate New Mexico kfa* adopted and pending further consideration the House adjourned.

rtMojiu me tniis reared to the Senate on the 15th w»» (he House bl 1 to provide fot ! the allotment of lands In severalty to the I'eon^ and Miami Indiana In the Indian Territory. ThW rmtentlais of Senator-elect Washburn i Minn t 1 were brieonted 11,e Senate bUl lo {atlfy and eoaCrm the agreement with the Muscogee or i Creek Indians and opening for settlement un- i assigned lands in the Indian Territory was passed. The hill to retire General W. ft. Rose "**•» "<th the rank ot Hftndltr General PVted Thr Senate passed forty-one private pension hills In twelve minutes. After resolutions ana eulogies upon the late Congressman Kotxrisou, of lA-ui-ianm'^ahe^' Senate adjourned ...In the House the Tariff bill, with Senate amendments, ana reported. Mr. Mills also reported a i resolution that the substitution of n new Tariff hill by Hie Senate w#» in conflict with the Con Mitutkin, which gave the House the sole power to originate sueh a measure The resolution instructing the House conferees on the Territorial Admission bul was agreed to. It provide# for the admission of North Dakota. Montana and Washington. The Senate bill for the proteellon of American I Mb rests tn Panama pissed. A conference was ordered on the Forttfleatton ahd Pension Appropriation bills. The Post office Appropriation bill was further con- I aldered in Committee of the Whole. At the evening session thirty-three private pension bill* passed. _ WASHINGTON NOTES. " ! Tit* Secretary of War has transmitted t J the House A statement of the chief signal officer of the army setting forth the very unsatisfactory condition of the sig. nal corps and the Inefficiency of the present lieutenants of that corps and urging j the passage of a reorganisation bill for the improvement of the service generally. Tnr Aettfig Commissioner of Internal Revenue hns asked Congress to appropriate }IW,0W to cover a deficiency for the , salaries and expense* of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue. The Department of State has received notice of death nt bis post of Mr. Thomas A- Roberson, consular agent of the Coiled States at luwlh, Germany, ou the 4th inet. Mr. Roberson »ss s oitii -n of Missouii. He died of consumption, after an illness of several months. COLONEL Lamoxt says that the position he willoccupy after March 4 will be that of president of the Avenue C Street Railway Company of Jtew York City. RauthouBikw CorrET, agent cf the Cmatilin Indiana In Oregon, has been removed by a special agent of the Interior Deparlm nt on a charge of falsifying his vouchers. The House Committee on Agriculture j has decided to report adversely the bill for j the development and encouragement of the silk culture in the United States. I Roth houses of Congress met in the hall of the House of Representatives on the 13th when the returns of the Electoral Colleges were opened by Presiding Officer Ingalls and Benjamin Hanison and Levi P. Morton declared elected President and Vice-President of the United States respectively. ’ The Senate in executive session on the 13th confirmed the nomination of Normaa J. Colmau, ot Missouri, to be the first Secretary of Agisgulturo.' A joist meeting of Union and Confederate veterans engaged in the battle of Chickamaugua was held recently In Wathlngion to take steps to preserve the battlefield and mark the positions of the forcea An association similar to that of Gettysburg was decided on. Senator Palmer, from the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, has reported favorably an amendment to the Agricultural Appropriation bill, giving the Secretary ot Agriculture 4100.0X) with which to continue the experiments lu the production and manufacture ot sugar from sorghum cane and beet*. Captain F. M. Ramsey, United Slates oner, has been ordered to duty as Commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, and Commodore George Belknap, now nt the Mara Island navy yard, has been ordered to take command of the Asiatic squadron. The President has nominated Commo1 ope George E- Belknap to be Rear Admiral, Captain John G. Walker to be Commodore. Commander Silas Casey to be Captain and Lieutenant-Commander Jnmee M. Fordyce •o bn Commander. Senator Teller says that the use of his name in connection with*Cabinet appointment is entirely unwarranted. Becsetart Fairchild was summoned hastily to Casenovta, N. Y-, on the 13th by n dispatch announcing that his venerable father was dying from a stroke of paralysis.

Tit quartet between ludien Commie* iloner Ob?rly end Secretary Vile* wee he* tore the Senete Committee on Indian At* (elm recently When much ttt the cetrre* epondenee Was aubraitt xi. Ex-S«cbstA«t WiiXiam Wisdom re* fuse* te either afllriu or deny the report., that be had been offered the Secretaryahip of the Treasury by General Harrison. Th« House Committee on Appropriation* has decided to rep u-t a substitute for the Cowles Interna) Revenue Wit, pr''po*'rg the entire rt liea! Of Its W»r6o tax, but Dmittiita the ■■inooBshine’’ sections of the Cowles bill.

TOE EAST. Tire toUl of the losses in the John TVy etb & BroeJ drug manufactory fire In PhllA* delphUrwas jtft6 OJO5 insured fof f4t0t0fi& Tire strike of firemen And seamen Cq ocean steamer* at Liverpool bits bxteeiieU tq Boston, where sevhAl meft haVe beeti threatened by stiikers. W>iAi*ta8r. Clair, a clothing merchant ht M'llkinsburg, neat Pittsburgh, Fa., was fatally shot by it burglar Ihe other wornI VS- **• Thu third' annual coneention of the National Association of Builder* b'gan at Philadelphia on the 12th with 330 delegates present. Alston Warxvr. Commander-In-Chief, O. A. R-, was banqueted at Young’s Hotel) Boston, recently. On* man was tilled and another fatallv Injured And the tipple house and tract demolished by a runaway loaded coal,car at Oalnsha A- Order’s inloe near Bast Brady, Pa, the ether day. Tire Orand Lake Coal Company, one of the largest coal firms in Pittsburgh, Pa., is embarrassed John l«n ay, a prominent cltiren ot Piltiton. Pa., wee fquhd murdered on a by street reveuliy. Italian robbers were suspected. Tus Opera House block in Cape Vincent. N, Y., end -the-bank in which were®78d tround * of opium recently seised have been destroyed by fire. Loss. s<0,0o0, Point ladies were severely hurt in Chester, Pa., recently by a collision be* tween a rallssny train and a street cAr. Ida rtartholoroay, Oenesee, Rochester and possibly the Miller breweries, the four largest la Rochester, It. Y.| hate. It is said, passed iuto the hands of the great Eng ish syndicate said to have JI2S,000,Ot* capital. By the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive at Norristown, Pa., recently the engineer and fireman were ki led.

THK WEST. On* man tv a < killed, another fatally hart amt a third slightly injured l>y the fall of. the race In a coal mine near Mitchell, ▼llle, lotva, recently. lit* chemical laboratory of the Ohio State University at Columbus, containing the outfits of the department of mining and metallurgy, was destroyed by fire recently. Loss, $30,O0U Tit* Hessian fly is destroying the Wheat crop in Central Illinois. In some places w hole fields bsTe been destroyed. iNsj-xcron Eonfield recently suspended by Mayor ltoche, of Cbicag >, has tendered his resignation. General Rcssell A. Alger has bought the Pittsburgh and Lake Superior Company’s iron mine near Marquette, Mich., for The mine has been a continuous producer since 1871. Peter Uno.'EY, n blacksmith of Chicago, was sh'it nud fatallr injured the other night by Ferdinand Vecchione, an Italian blacksmith, w ho caught Rooney climbing tbi oifgh his shop window. Probably nothing could better show the feeling that has been aroused against Governor Church than the introduction in the Dslpsta Legislature of a bill changing the name of Church County to McCormick County. Secretary McCormick is Governor Church’s most bitter |»oliticai enemy. Near Galesburg, III., on the night of the 13lh an express train on the Burlington collide I with a freight. Express Messenger Whiflln, of Chicago, was instantly killed and the conductor of the freight was badly hurt, also a brakemau. The others escaped. The Myers-McAuliffe prise fight, about w hich much has been talked of, took place at North Judspn. lud., on the 13tb. It was a very tame affair and after sixtv-six rounds was declared a draw. A terrific explosion occurred at Johnson’s dynamite factory, near York, Pa., recently. John Harlin, an employe, aged thirty-three years, was blown to pieces oud the factory totally demolished. A m xies of stockholders in the Chicogo Consolidated Bottling Company recently upplied to the circuit court for a receiver for that corporation. The capital stock of the company l«$000,000. William Haffner was appointed receiver. Chief Justice Joseph It. Reed, of the Iowa Supreme Court aud Congressmanelect from the Ninth Iowa district, has resigned his judicial position to take effect February Sv Judge Harvey, of Decatur County, is likely to be elevated to the Supreme Bench. A* Anti-Trust and Anti-Pool bill has been introduced in tbs Minnesota Legislature. The penalties are mad* very heavy. Assistant General Svi-ekintenoent N D. Boot, of the Northern Pacific railroad, died the other dav from the effects of injuries received at Tacoma. AY ash. T. Rev. Father Daniel Dougherty. some years ago a Catholic priest iu Kansas City, has begun the practice of medicine in Chicago, having renounced the priesthood. The boiler makers in the employ of the Risdon iron works at Ban Francisco have struck on the ground that certain iron plates being used iu the repair of the boilers of the steamship Australia were made abroad. Ths strikers contend that they will nAt, work in any shop which procures any port,,on of the boilers in the East or in foreign countries; that every thing must he made on the Pacific coast. John AY, Street, inventor of the improved cattle car, d ied recently at Chicago aged fifty-two. A careful estimate at Cheboygan, Mich., of the logging stock for the coming season shows that the cat will reach 1$0,UOO.IXM feet of lumbar. Mill men look forward to a very busy season. John Lee was banged at Alexandria. Minti., recently for killing his rival in a love affair in cold blood after a spree. John Moe, h'.s psrtner in cr.me, waa granted a iivmautaUoa at the last moment. There is some anxiety among farmers and miners in California on account of the absence of rain in the valleys and snow in the mountains. Thru buildings in Giuckman & Hollar's block; at Chippewa Falls, Wit, were destroyed by fire the other morning. The loes on the buildings and stock was about $170,000. Partly Insured. Tin: south. Governor Bccener, of Kentucky, declares that under no circumstance would he be a candidate for the United States Senate against Mr. Blackburn. The investigation into the cause of fires on cotton ships now in progress at Charleston. 8. C. by a committee of the Stock Exchange, is watched with considerable interest. The National Prohibition conference met at Louisville; Ky„ on the 13th. Tu stock bars of D. Henry Reiman near Emmettsburg, Md., in which were several valuable herses and a great quantity of produce, was destroyed by fire the other day. Loss, $73,000; cause, incendiarism. C. J. Hull, an old eitisen of Chicago, reputed to be worth $4,000,000, died in Houston, Tex., recently of Bright’s disease. A rtmx on the corner of Main and Gayosa streets. Memphis, Team, on the night of ; the 13th iuflioted a loes of about $3)0,000. Ths principal sufferer wee tfee Mansfield pea* Company. 1

Two taora fruitless ballot* fob Unite* State* SeOator Urere taken by tile Wfci Virginia Legislature on the Rtb. , tin Bank of Bedford «t Llurtjr, Va* has suspended. Assets and liabilities an* known. Tub official trial of the new gunboat Yorktowa was made la Delaware bay re* cently and was pronounced a success. Monro* Wilmrsow a SttloTed murderer wind^ttord to be hanged at ScottsTille, K)r^ March 13. made a desperate to escape the o^„r uight^t was'recap t* 'il*u thd chained to the Jail floor.

GKNKRAIa Thi recent riots In Rone are (‘harm) to French agitators, soma 8f Whom Were aft rested; T*h Cisr bf Russia has purchased two largo estates Ig the Ci iiuoa anj) will establish an .imperial residence there. DhVL|th StsoH hat sent to India a proc- , lamation irrltlog the people to subscribe the sum of H,000,000 with the object of throwing off the English yoke. It has lately been discovered that the barbed wire patents are worthless, a patent having been granted to Louis Janin in France, April 19, 1965. for the invention, which is auterior to the (Hidden patents granted in this country, and which, under the law, milker them Of, nd value. I’d it labor strike in the north of Fram'd is extetid ng. The Socialists are actively at Work among the laboring classes. No credent* id given in Calcutta to reports that the Afaeer bt Afghanistan has designs upon Russia He Is simply pacifying the province. He will return to Cabut In tbs spring and will spend the summer at Caudahar. Tiik betrothal of Prince Leopold, the son of the Red Prince, to Princess Sophie, sister of the Emperor of Uermany, is an renounced. Tux trial of Dr. King commenced^ at 1-amlieth Palace on the 10th before the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dt. King Was charged with illegal ritualism. Mast bouses at Fleiivier, a village id the canton of Chatelet, Swltserland, have beeh demolished by landslides add ths people are panic-striekeH. THOl'saxSs of unemployed men are waudering along the Panama canal awaiting the termination of the financial crisis. De Lessept’ latest scheme is to issue new bonds, subscription to open March 1 and close March 9. *

Is consequence of its detent on n motion to adjourn in a debate on the Constitution revision question in the French Chamber of Deputies on the 14th, the Floquet Ministry resigned. Late advices from Samoa say there has been no change in the situation. There has been no fighting* and Tamasese and Matanfa remain in their strongholds. The British Consul has warned British subjects pot to supply natives with arms and td maintain strict neutrality. The British war ship Calliope has replaced the war ship Royalist. The German and American war ships remain stationary. Herr Rramle’8, the leading partisan of Tamasese. has been recalled to Berlin. AttoTRKit tragedy was enacted at Lsks Stnnberg, Bavaria, recently when two persons drowned themselves in its waters. Since the suicide of King Ludwig eleven persons have drowned themselves In tha lake. A lively war on freight rates is brewing among the Atlantio steamship linesThe White Star Company has cut rates from Europe fifty per cent and the otheir line - are ready to follow. The Chicago, Burlington dfc Quincy railroad directors have declared a dividend of one per cent Toe Washburn & Moen Barbed Wipe Company, which controls all the patents in this country, claim that the Janen patent in France does not cover the Glldden patent Advices from Shanghai state that the famine in Anhui and Kanqsu was worse. In one province 300 families were starving and altogether several millions were suffering from famine caused by drought two years in succession. Mcch comment has been caused in Vienna by the news of the holding of a court ball at St Petersburg. It is stated that the Csarina tried to prevent it, but that the Csar insisted upon bolding tha hall because of a similar action in Austria during Russia's mourning period. The Danish Embassy alone was invited to the Russian ball. The committee appointed at the recent meeting of the American Shipping and industrial League have presented to General Harrison the resolutioni adopted by the league. Business faltpres (Dun's report) for tha seven days ended February 14 numbered fcO. compared with 303 the previous week and £73 the corresponding week of last year. From the comments of the European press Kloquel’s fall created a deep impression in Berlin and Vienna. I11E LATEST. Is the Senate, on the 18th, Mr. Coke resumed his speech against the Texas elec-tion-outrage resolution, but soon yielded the floor to permit Mr. Sherman to present the conference report on the DirectTax bill, and again gave way in order to allow Senators Blair and Edmunds, who were not present when the report on the Direct-Tax bill t»as adopted, to express their views iu opposition to the bill. As Seftator Coke did not wish to complete his remarks, the Senate adjourned..tn the House, the conference report on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill wa„s submitted and agreed to. The PostOfiSee Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole, nnd the pending amendment, increasing the appropriation foir the compensation of post-office clerks by .-330,003, was defeated by a vote of 88 to S7, and an amendment providing that the aggregate salaries of post-office clerks, ns fixed by the new classification, shall not exceed the earn appropriated by the ' bill ($3,.V*0.000), was adopted. Miss Stanley was the winner of the lii-days’ female bicycle tournament at the Madison Square Garden, Hew York,, Ci ty, which closed at midnight of the 17th. She covered a distance of 824 miles and 3 laps. Tub German Commissioner to the Mel bourne (Australia) Exposition offered t gratuitous insult to the American Commissioner at the dinner given by Chief Commissioner Sir James MacBaip at the close of the exposition to Mr. McGoppin, the American Commissioner, on the eve of his departure for home, by deliberately leaving the room while Mr. MeCoppin was speaking. There is not much hope for the passage of the River and Harbor bill. Sentiment in the House is very strong against it, and Chairman Blanchard has become discouraged. The Blaine people at Washington are suggesting Mohone for the Russian mission. As Minister Lothrop is the only American diplomat who has survived the Russion mission in a number of years, the Blaine people think that Mohone Is peculiarly qualified for the place. Man. Cleveland held her last public reception as mistress of the White House, :n the 16th. Notwithstanding the heavy rain, several hundred persons,, mostly ladies, were present. Mrs. Cleveland was insisted by Miss Bayard, Mrs. Endicott, Mrs. Whitney, Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs. Dolman, the wife of the new Secretory >f Agriculture. The President and Mrs. Cleveland will >ecome guests tit the Victoria Hotel, New fork City, after the 4th of March. Apartnents have already been engaged. It is thought that the repairs oa the kqoednct tunnel at Washington, at an esimatod cost of one million dollars, will lave to be made by the Government, owns to the defective contracts mid worthess bonds of those responsible for tit* wigiaal failure. i.- );■:

j TAlMAG^S SfiKMON. 4 Discourse on Christ’s Writing in the Dust.

Uiuioit il sentence WHwl More Forcible by the Iter, tty of HU Writing—The «Ub S of *he Must '* \ V ** ' Rev. T. DeWltt Talmage, 1it a recent sermon at Brooklyn Tabcrmv le. took for We subject “The Literature «l! the Dust;" His test arM! lefut stooped down and wrote kill the ground r-J(0im.vUi.;«: , , A Mohammedan mosque t ;apds, n,ow "where once stood Herod’s, i I'niple, .the scene of niy test Solomon’s !brepl<i had stood there, but Nebuchadn *sar thundered it down. Zorobabcl’a temple had stood there, but that had beer prostrated. Now we take our places in a l emple that Herod built because he was f nd of great architecture and he wanted lihe preceding temples to seem insign fleant. Put eight or ten modern rathedr is together nud they wttuld hot Cqtiai tli: 1 struohtit*. it covered nineteen acre's. There dete marble pillars supporting ri >fs of cedar ittid silver tables on which (ttood golden cdps. aud there Were carvlc j{s exquisite and inscriptions resplendei it, giitleriug Il balustrades aud ornament; f| gateway s; The building of this tem] le kept ten thousand workmen busy l or forty-six years. In that stupendous die of pomp and magnificence sat Christ and a listening throng stood about Him when a wild disturbance took place. A ( roup of- men are pulling and pushing al >ng a woman who had committed the worst crime against society. When tbL. have brought her in front of Christ »%jV ask that He sentence her td death b£, oiling. They are h critical, niercilesT disingenuous erdwd: They want to gerVl rist intd eontrdversy ami public reprell usion. If he say “Let her die,” they vrt I. charge Hint with Cruelty. If He let he go, they will charge Him with being in e mpllcity with wickedness. Whichever wn He does,they would howl at Him. Then «ceurs a scone which has not been sufflcie itly regarded. He leaves the lounge or 1 eneh on wliich he was sitting aud goes down on one knee, or both knees, aud with the forefinger of His right hand He begins to write in the dust of t! .0 floor word after word. But they were Hot tb be diverted or hinderer, They kept otl demanding that h< settle this case of trangression u> till he lacked up and told them that they imght themselves begin the worn n’s assassinstiou, if the Complainant rho had never done any thing wrong him elf #ouldogan the fire, “Oo ahead, but 1 e sure that tne man who flings the first nr isile is immaculate,” Then He resumed riling with his finger in the dust of the ft or, word after word. Instead of looking >ver His shoulder to see what He had wr: ten tho scoundrels skulked away. Fin dly, the whole place is clear of pursuers, .utagouists and plaintiffs, and when Christ has finished this strange chirograph)- a the dust. He looks up and fiuds the w< nan all alone. The prisoner is the only o i,e of the courtroom - left, the judges, • re police, the prosecuting attorneys hat ng cleared out. Christ is victor, and He so rs to the woman: “Where are the pro ecutors in this case? Are they allgone? Then I discharge you; go aud sin no more. ’ I have always wonder d what Christ uttote on the ground. For do you realise that is the only time that le ever wrote at all? I kuow that Eusebius says that Christ once wrote a letter to AI rarus, the King of Edessa, but there is n< good evidence of such a correspondence The wisest being the world ever saw, a ,d the one who had more to say than an ■ one who ever lived, never writing a b ;>k or a chapter, or a page, or a paragrap , or a word on parchment. Nothing bvr this little creature on dust, aud one swr p of a brush or one breath of a wind obi erated that for. ever. Among all the rol j of the volumes of the first library fo\ uded at Thebes there was not one scroll elf Christ. Among the seven hundred thous nd books of the Alexandrian library, v» doh by the infamous decree of* Calipt Omar were used as fuel to heat the four t ousand baths of the city, not one sent nee had Christ peuucd. Among all the nfinitude of volumes now standing intli i libraries of Edinburg, the British Must am or Berlin or Vienna, or the learned ir positories of all nations, not one word w: itten directly by the finger of Christ. All that He ever wrote He wrote In dusl, uncertain, shifting, vanishing dust. My text says He stoop; !l down and wrote on the ground. Stand i ng straight up a man might write on ti e ground withe staff, but if with his 1 ngers he would write in the dust, he msi t bend clear over. Aye. he must get at leas on one knee or he can not write on tife 1 ground. Be not surprised that He stow; sd down. Stooping down from castle «< barn. Btooping down from celestial hor age to mobocratic jeer. From residence r Ijove the stars to where a star had to fa I to designate His landing place. Fron Heaven’s front door to the world’s jack gate. From writing in round and silvered letters of constellation aud gal xy you the blue scroll of Heaven, to wr tingon the ground in the dust, which its ii feet of the crowd had left in Herod’s tetc j>le. If in January you have ever steppe I out of a Prince’s conservatory that ha I Mexican cactus and magnolias in fuJ bloom, into the outside air ten degri is* below *ero, you may get some idea of Christ’s change of atmosphere from celestial to terrestrial. How rnauy Heavens there are 1 know not, but there are 11; least three, for Paul was “caught n |> into the third Heaven.”

tnrist came aown n >m highest Heaven to the second Heave it, and down from second Heaven to I irst Heaven—down swifter than meteors ever fell—down amidst stellar spleio tors that Himself eclipsed—down throe gh clouds, through atmospheres, through* appaling space— down to where there ' -as no low »r depth. From being waited oi at the banquet of the skies to the broiling of fish for his own breakfast, on the ban ns of the lake. From emblaxoned chariots of eternity to the saddle of a mule’s back. The homage cherubic; seraphic, archangelic, to the paying of Rixtr-two and a half cents of tax to Cmsar. From the death* less country to a tonb built to hide human dissolution. The uplifted wave of Galilee was high, b it He had to come down before with Hii; feet He could touch it; and the whirlwimi that rose above the billow was higher yet; but He had to come down before—with His lip He could kiss it into quiet. Bethlebmm a-stooping down. Nazareth a-stoopiny down. Death between two burglar*; a-stooping down. Yes, it was in consot unco with humiliations that had gone before, and with selfabnegations that come after, when on that memorable day in Herod’s temple He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Whether the woids he was writing were in Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, I can not say, for He knew itU those languages. But He is still stooping down, and with His finger writing oit the ground; in the winter in letters of < rystals, in the spring in letters of flowers, in summer in golden letters of harvest, U autumn in letters of fire on fallen lea es. How it would sweeten up and enri ih and emblazon this world could we see Christ’s caligrapby all overt*. This world was not flung out into space thousands of years ago and then left to look out for it self. It is still under the Divine care. ( hrist never for a half second takes His haitdoff of it, or it would soon be a shipwrecked world, a defunct world, an obsolete i-orld, an abandoned world, a dead world “Let there beligh ” was said at the befimtog. A&d Ob* it stands under the

wintry skies and. says: “Lot there besnod1MN to euricti the earth:’* and Under the Clouds of spring aiid Sift' i'Come: yfl blossoms, make redolent the orchards!” and In September dins the branches into' khe rat of beautiful colors and awiigs Ibem in the baKy,air He wliim of pinel^ ibis: “Without Him Was iiot adjuMi*g made that was made,” Christ writing qji the ground, if we could see Uis hand in all the passing seasons, how it would illumine the world! All verdure and foliage would be allegoric, and again we would hear Him say as of oldi “Consider the, lilies of the field, how they gfOWi” Slid We wduld , not hear the whistle « & quail; <!>■ thji cetwiug of k,taven, or the roundelay df fi hrhWn* ihr<\sher without saying: “Behold th# fowls-, of .l^e air, tlipy gather, not into barns* re,t your ,Heavenly Father feedeth them,1’ and a ddniinio hen of thfi barnyard could not cluck for her bi'cfod,' yet we would hear Christ, saying as of old: “How often would I hove gathered thy children together, evefi as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings,” and through the redolent hedges we would hear Christ saying: “I am the rose ot ?hardii;’* we, could ubt dip tKtf seasoning frointhe salt-cellar without thinking hf th<* diviue suggestion: “Ye hre the salt of Uie earth, but, if the salt have lost Its savor, it, is .fit for nothing but to" tie «ast out and trodden under foot Of men.” Let us Wakd up from bur stupidity and take the whole world as a parhble; Then, if with gun and pack of hounds we start "It before dawn and see the morning coming dowu off the hills to meet us, wo would cry out with the evangelist: “The day spring from on high hath visited us;” or caught in a snow storm, while struggling home, eyebrows and beard and apparel alt covered with the whirling flakes, we would cry Out with Pavidi "Wash me aild 1 shall be whiter than snow.” In it pietdre gallery Of Europe there is on the ceiling.an exquisite fresco, but people having to look straight up, it wearied and dizzied them, and ben t their necks almost beyond endurance, so a great lookingglass was put hear the floor; and now visitors only need to look easily down into this mirror and they see the fresco at their feet. And so much of all the Heaven of God’s truth is reflected in this world as in a mirror, and the things that aro aliove are copied by things all around us.

uav na«r wi?. iu i.uiun vuv of God's Bibles, ayei the Best Bible He ever gave the race? We talk abOUt the Old Testament and fihe New Testament, blit the oldost Testament contains the lessons bf the natural wOTld. Some people like the New Testament so Well they discard the Old Testament Shall we like the New Testament and the Old Testament so well as to depreciate the oldest, namely, that which was written before Moses was put afloat on the boat of leaves which was calked with asphaltum, or reject the Genesis and the Revelation that were written centuries before Adam lost a rib and gained a wife? No, no; when Deity stoops down and writes on the ground, let ns read it. I would have no less appreciation of the Bible on paper that comes out of the paper mill, but I would urge appreciation of the Bible In the grass, the Bible in the sandhill, the Bible in the geranium, the Bible in the asphodel, the Bible in the dust. Some one asked an ancient King whether he had seen the eclipse of the sun. “No,” said he, “I have so much to do on earth, 1 have no time to look at Heaven.” And if your faculties were all awake in the study of God, we would not h ave to go much further than the first grass-blade. I have no fear that natural religion will ever contradict what we call revealed religion. I have no sympathy with the followers of Aristotle, who, after the telescope was invented, would not look through it, lest it contradict some of the theories of their great master. I shall be glad to put against one lid of the Bible the microscope, and against the other lid of the Bible the telescope. But when Christ stooped down and wrote on the ground, what didl he write? The Pharisees did not stop to examine. The cowards, whipped of their own consciences, fled pell metl. Nothing will flay a man like an aronsed conscience. Dr. Stevens, in his “History of Methodism,” says that when fiev. Benjamin Abbott, of olden times, was preaching, he exclaimed: “For aught I know there may be a murderer in this house,” and a man rose in the assemblage and started from the door and bawled aloud, confessing to a murder he had committed fifteen years before. And no wonder these Pharisees, reminded of their sins, took to their heels. But what did Christ, write on the ground! The Bible docs not’state. Yet, as Christ never wrote any thing except that once, yon can not blame ns for wanting to know what He really did write. Bat I am Certain. Ho wrote nothing trivial, or nothing unimportant. And will you allow me to say that I think I know what He wrote on tlhe ground? I judge from the circumstances. He might have written other things, but, kneeling there in the temple, surrounded by a pack of hypocrites, who were a self-appointed constabulary, and having in HU presence a persecuted woman, who evidently was very penitent for her sins, I am sure He wrote two words, both of them graphic and tremendous and reverberating. And the one word was “hypocrisy,” and the other word was “forgiveness.” From the way these Pharisees and scribes vacated the premises and got out into the fresh air, as Christ, with jnst one ironical sentence, unmasked them, I know they were first-class hypocrites. It was then as it is now. The more faults and inconsistencies people have of their own, the more severe, and esnsorions are they about the faults of others. Here they are —twenty stoat men arresting and arraigning one weak woman. Magnificent business to be engaged in. They wanted the fan of seeing her faint away under a heavy judicial sentence from Christ, and then after she had been taken outside the city and fastened at the foot of a precipice, the Scribes and Pharisees wanted the satisfaction of each coming and dropping a big stone on her head, for that was the style of capital punishment that they asked for. Some people have taken the responsibility of saying that Christ never laughed. Bat 1 think, as He saw these men drop every thing, chagrined, mortified, exposed, and go out quicker than they came in. He most have laughed. At any rate, it mukes me laugh to read it. AU of these libertines, dramatising indignation against imparity. Blind bats lecturing on optica. A flock of cows on their way up from a carcass, denouncing carrion. Yea, I think that one word written on the ground that day by the finger of Christ was the awful word Hypocrisy. Bat I am sure there was another word is that dost. From her entire manner I am sore that arraigned woman was repentant. She made no apology, and Christ in no wise belittled, her sin. Bnt her supplicatory behavior and lier tears moved Him, and when He stooped down to write on the ground. He wrote that mighty, that imperial word Forgiveness. When on Sinai God wrote the law. He wrote it with finger of lightning on tables of stone, each word cat as by a chisel into the hard granite surface. But when he writes die offense of this woman he writes it in dust, so that it can be easily rubbed out; and when she repents of it, oh. He was a mercif ul Christ! I was reading of a legend that w*s told in the far East about Him. He was walking through the streets of a city and He saw a crowd around a deed dog. And one man said: “What a loathsome object is that dog!” “Yes,” said itnother, “his ears are mauled and bleeding.” “Yea,” said another, “even his hide would not be of any use to the tanner.™ “Yen,” said another, “the sast, is dreadful.” Then there, said: “Batpearls i

•$» Ml *pnri tin? vUHMeti of Ms teeth.®Then the people, WoYad by the Mea the* any (mb could hud any thing pleasant V'nCeriims * dead dog, soldi “Wny, this mail be dssus of Naaareth,” Reproved and cott fitted they went away. Surely this legend (it Christ W good, enough to be true. Kindi5«S» in ail HiS #wdu arid way s and habits.Forgiveness. Word 81 CteVen letters; and some of them thrones, and sOnw-' of them plain branches. Better have Christ write close to our names that one word,though he write it in dust, than to have tW name out into monumental graaite with the letters that the storms of a thou* sand years can not dirt ten* te. Bishop Rabingtou had a book of Utity three Waves; Tbje first leaf was biack, the second leaf fed, the (bird leaf white. The black leaf suggested $}»* the red leaf atonement; the white leaf pendent ion, Thet is the whole story. God wiii otatcd’ antiy {Mrdon, I must not forgft ttf soy that as Christ, stooping down, with his uttger wrote on the ground, it is evident that his Zfy«*pathies are with this penitent woman, arid that he has no sympathy with her#ypocritical pursuers. Just opposite to that is tite' World's habit* Why didn’t these unclean Pharisee** bring One of their own number to Christ jfor Uxccfiatio'ri nuid ertjtitalpnutshment? No, no;they cSMledk that id it rsa*ri which they damnate IB it woman. And s6 MW world has had for offending women scourges 8»d objurgation; and f6r just one offense she becomes (in while for men whose lives have been soidomte for twenty years the world swings open its doors iff brilliant welcome,and they may sit in Legislatures and Senates and parliaments or on thrones. Unlike the Christ of my text, the world writes a map's misdemeanor in dust, but chisels a woman’s offense with great capitals Upon ineffaceable marble. For loreign lords and princes, Whose name - can not even be mentioned in respectable circles abroad, became they1 are walking lazarettos of abomination, our American princesses of fortune wait, and at the first beck sail out With them into the blackness b'f , darkness forever. And In what are Called higher circles of society tllere is flow not only the imitation of foreign dress Slid foreign manners, bttt An imitation of foreign dissoluteness. I like an Englishman and I like an American, but the slickest creature on earth is an American playing the Englishman. Society needs to be reconstructed on this subject. Treat them alike, masculine crime and feminine Crime', If you cut the one in granite, ent them both id granite, If you write the one in dust, write the other- in dust. No,. Bo, says the world, let woman go down and let man go up. What is that 1 beer plashing into the East river at miduight, and there is a gurgle as of strangulation, and ail is sti^Never mind, li i- only a woman too dffWtraged to iive. Let the mills of the cruel world

griuu ritfut mu; But white I speak iif Christ of the text, His stooping down writing iu the dust, do not think J underrate the literature of the dust. It is the most solemn and tremendous of ail literature. It is the greatest of all libraries. When Layard exhumed Nineveh he was only opening the door of its mighty dust. The excavations of Pompeii hare only been the unclasping of the lids of a volume of a nation’s dust. When Admiral Karragut and his friends, a few years ago, visited that resurrected city, the house of Balbo. who had been one of its chief citizens in Us prosperous days, was opened and a table was spread in that house which 1810 years has been buried by volcanic eruption, and Par* ragnt and his guests walked over tho exquisite mosaics and under the beautiful fresco, hnd it almost seemed like being entertained by those who, eighteen centuries ago, had turned to dust. Oh, this mighty literature of the dust! Where are the remains of Sennacherib aud Attila and Epaminondas and Tamerlane and Trojan and Philip of Macedon, and Julius Ctesarf Dust! Where are the heroes who fought on bith sides at Chseronea, at Hastings, at Marathon, at Cressy, of the one hundred and ten thousand men who fonght at Agincourt, of the two hundred and fifty thousand men who faced death St Jena, of the four hundred thousand whose armor glittered in the sun at Wagram, of the one million men under Darius at Arbella, of the two million six hundred and fortv-one thousand men under Xerxes at Thermopyl®? Dust? Where are the guests who danced the floors of the Alhambra, or the Persian palaces of Ahasuerus? Dust! Where are the musicians who played, andthe orators who spoke, and the sculptors who chiseled, and the architects who built in ail the centuries except our own? Dust! The greatest library of the world, that which has the widest shelves, and the longest aisles, and the most multitudinous vol-, umes, and the vastest wealth. Is the underground library. It Is the royal library, the continental library, the hemispheric library, the planetary library, the library of the dust. And all these library cases will be opened, and all these scrolls unrolled, ami all those volumes unclasped, and as easily as in your library or mine we take up a book, blow the dust off of it, and turn over its pages, so easily will the Lord of the resurrection pick up out of this library of dust every volume of human life and open it and read it and display' it. “And the volume will he rebound, to be set in the royal library of the King’s palace, or in the prison library of the self-destroyed. Oh, this mighty literature of the dust! It is not sowondertnl after all that Christ chose, instead of an inkstand, the impressionable sand on the floor of an ancient temple, and instead of a hard pen, put forth hie forefinger with the same kind of nerve and muscle, and bone, and flesh, as that which makes up our own forefinger, and wrote the awful doom of hypocrisy and full and complete forgiveness for repentant tinners, even the worst. And now I can believe that which 1 read, how that a mother kept burning a candle in the window every night for ten years, and one night very late a poor waif of the street entered. The aged woman said to her: “Bit down by the fire," and tie stranger said: “Why do yon keep that light in the window?” The aged woman said: “That is to light my wayward daughter when she returns. Since she went away ten years ago, my hair has turned white. Folks blame me for worrying about her, but yon see I am her mother, and sometimes, half a doson times a night, I open the door and look out into the darkness and cry, ‘Lizzie!’ ‘Lizzie!’ But I must not tell yon anymore about my trouble, for I guess, from the way you cry, you have trouble enough of your own. Why. how cold and sick you seem? Oh, my! Can it be? Yes, you are Lizxie, my own lost child. \ Thank God that you are home again!” .And what a nm« of rejoicing there was Iji that house that night! And Christ again stooped down, and in the ashes of that hearth, now lighted up not more by the greet blazing logs than by . the Joy of a reunited household, wrote the name liberating words that he had written more than eighteen hundred years ago in the dust of the Jerusalem temple. Forgiveness! A word broad enough and high enough to let pass through it all the armies of Heaven, a million abreast, on white horses, nostril to nostril, flask to flank.

STATE INTELLIGENCE, The Indiarapous, Feb. B—Ovwr one-third of tM members of tie General Aumbljr were out of their seats to-day, they having gone to visit tM various educational tnslltutiims of the State. The Rouse could not secure a quorum during the eatlrc day, and the Senate numbered borefy a quorum. The Senate passed two WUs of itoportanee. One was Senator Taylor s “White Cajf' km. making W riotous ronsptney for three or Mttt> persons to com blue together foe the purpose of dote# tuny tintswful net whtlo wearing white cups or feetug otherwise disguised, and Bring n penalty of a Bne of *5.0X» and imprisoauont sn the State prison for not more than ten tier less than two years. Tho second bill was one By Senator Johnson, providing that the death penalty shall be performed la the State prison, and that no one shell bo present at the execution but the hangman spiritual adviser ami relatives of the condemned to so. lntHd*A#OtiS »K 7.—3 Bit AT*—The Andrews election Mil was called up for consider*tion on the second reading, and 17 aeetlons were acted upon. The ttU contains sUty-alx ttsttons and emhmces about all the provisions ~ of the celebrated Australian election system, except that as regards the printing of the ballots and designating the dburtldate to be voted for. The bill is a decided sJmplIBcaUon of tho Australian method. It Is thought the bill will reach engrossment in a day or two. nod be sent immediately to the House, where Its passage ia regarded as assured. This is considered tho most important measure that haa occupied tho attention of the Indiana legislature for a generation. The bill repealing the statute whloh prohibited » wife from legally becomlngugurety or guarantor of any boot! or contract, was pasted today. HOf sB —The House devoted 1U session to discussing the contested election ease of Peyton, Democrat, vs, John, Republican, from Spencer County. John had u plurality of *8, but Peyton charged the discovery of M Illegal rotes cast for John, and the latter was unseatrd bj a rote *ot M to 17. Flvo Pemoeratio members voted with the Republicans. ItrniAK APOU& Feb. A—Sknatk.—The Serrate columned consideration of the new election bill and reached the thirty-third teelioa. It la estimated that the new system will necessitate an additional expenditure of about fM.000 each election. The House and Senate met In Joint session to elect a State Librarian. The Democratic caucus nominee. Jacob P. Pun. Jr., and the Republican caucus nominee, Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, ot Wayne County, were placed In nomination. The ballot resulted—Dun HI, Mrs. Meredith 64. Horn*—Mr. Adams (Rcpublleanl presented a resolution charging that absconding County Clerk Sullivan had been scaling magotty butter to tho trustees of tho Insane Hospital at more than the market price ot good butter; also ths» the employes of the hospital have beeu guilty of hntcisMicy and immorality; that it Is a matter of general Information, so tar as the tax-payora of the Slate are concerned, that John E. Sulltvan, Ml escaped lldef and defaulting official of Marion County, was furnishing to tho trustees of the Insane Asylum prorislons under contract, etc., and proposed that a committee be appointed to Investigate. Tabled by a party vote. Pills passed i Placing the city of Indianapolis under the Immediate control of the Legislature; for the protection and relief of railway employes. A MU was Introduced to make it unlawful io "Iroat" In saloons. IseiASiKUl, Feb. d.-Sknat*.—The Binate devoted the day io considering several sections of tho new election MU. Adjourned unlit Mnnduv.

House—WlUard's bill limiting bequests tor chsrituble or religious purposes to onefourth of the estate, passed the House. The bill appropriating MW.OOU for the erection of buildings for the School of Feeble Minded Children, was made a special order for Monday afternoon. ISMASAPOMS. Feb. 11.—SENATE—Bills introduced: To tul9» towns and cities to ihforCD ordinances to abate nuisances; to au- ; horU- boards of school commissioners of cities baring St MO or more inhabitants, to levy a tax; or the better protection of highways—restrictlas heavily loaded wagons; to provide for the care of State-house—by a superintendent to bo elected ly the G-noral Assembly; to amend section 5tl, R. a of 1S81. oo necrnlng expert.wltnesses; to- amend section <4 of an act concerning taxation of steamboats and other water craft. A majority of the members of the Judiciary Committee submitted two report! favoring iho Indefinite postponement of two bills— one to authorise judges of the supreme court to employ secretaries, and the other to repeal Section 5,SIT of tbo Revised Statutes of 1881, which provides that no city or town shall charge more than flit) for liquor license in addition to the sum alrosdy provided for. A minority of said committee recommended the passage of both bills. The election bill was then considered. Hot’?*.—A bill repealing the statute making it a criminal offense to intimidate men from working or to interfere with the running of trains was ordered engrossed. Bills Introduced: Concerning telegraph and telephonn Companies; concerning the use of telephones; concerning the indebtedness of cities of over 1.5JU and less than 15.000; to provide for tha furnishing of school-books: to amend Sections 1500 and 4371. Revised Statutes, concerning tha loaning of school funds. The bill appropriating lito 0W for buildings for the feeble-minded children. With majority and minority reports thereon, was read. Alter remarks by Messrs., Darnell. Hliambaugh Fields, White and Reynolds, it was ordered engrossed, and made a I special order for next Wednesday. Item .inapoijs, Feb. 18.-The Senate passed a bill appropriating 5IW.500 ft r the construction of a new building for the School for FeebleMinded Children, to bo erected at Ft Wayne. The new election bill was ordered to engrossment. In the House this morning Mr. Reynolds Introduced a bill prohibiting candidates from paying political assessments; also one giving women the right to vote at all muniel-. pai and school elections. Ho was also successful in having the Local* Option bill made a special order for to-morrow and in presenting n monster petition from Wayne County people, praying that the salo of tobacco to boys under sixteen years of age be prohibited This afternoon ths House passed the bills appropriating 180.030 with which to build a p.rc-proof structure for the State University, sad also r.0,030 to build a Steam laundry tori'— State Reform School. T Tint shaft in a coal mine at Mitchell, Ind., broke and precipitated the cage ninety-five feet to the bottom. One person was killed and two seriously Injured. Fhank Kibes, of West Point, was found frosen to death between Lafayette and hi* home. He is supposed to have been In a state of intoxication. ViNcavtfES Is tin alesnlsquabbleover the publication of the dnlinquWt-taxllst in a Sunday newspaper. The paper contend* that the publication complied with In*'--, lew, while the authorities rule differently. A teet case will lie made. i The State Fish Commissioner hai sent an agent to Investigate the fish dynamiting outrages which are being extensively committed in Wlilte river, south of Columbus. Tmxhe are about fifty miles of toll roeds in Montgomery County. The Berlhoicmcw county bar held a meeting in the court-house in Columbus for Iho purpose of taking steps toward having that county under a separate jn* molil circuit Jit Is now joined to Brown Runty. A committee was appointed to memoratls) the Legislature to make tha desired change. William T. Hcnt, of Tangier, Parke County, was fined $70 for selling whisky to n m nor. The machinery of the O. and M. shops at Vincennes are to be moved to Washington, and tha new shops era about ready for occupancy. t Two mad dogs were killed in Rockville* one hliving bitten a calf. The city antheritias have ordered all dogs mnssled or be shot by the maishal. The fortune of half a million dollars to which George jiinn, formerly an Inmate of the La Forte County poor asylum, was said to have llalten heir to, has dwindled down to $26 under Investigation. Ax indictment has been found, at dlanapolls, against John A- *»*«» ting agent for tha lament Company.