The Corner Stone, Volume 5, Number 6, College Corner, Union County, 9 February 1876 — Page 1

THE CORNER STONE. i . PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY W I H, X H-A-MIIjTON".

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TOI'ICS OF THE TIME.

While American young men are concealing themselves in huge overcoats and lounging around big fires, an old man in Canada, seventy years old, passes his winters in a perfectly nude state, and has been living thus for fortv vears. Accohdixg to the Almanach de Gotha the subjects of Queen Victoria, exclusive of those in the British Islands, number 203,000,000. Of these there are upward of 5,000,000 in America, nearly 2,300,000 in Australia, etc., nearly 2,000,000 in Africa, about 176,000 in Europe, and in Asia nearly 193,000,000. The Prefect of Police at Paris, remarks the Pall Mall Gazette, has lately issued a decree with the object of meeting one of the great requirements of the day, or rather of the night, in that city namely, " night medical attendance." At every police office doctors who are willing to get up at night will inscribe their names. The public may see the list there, all night, and choose any name 4hey please. A policeman will forthwith proceed to the doctor's house, awaken him from his slumber, and give him a ten-franc fee. This fee will be reimbursed to the municipality by those who are able to afford it, but those who cannot pay will receive medical succor gratis. Ix Plain View, Minn., a young man named Fritnk Hathaway, shot and killed Nettie Slay ton, because, as is supposed, of unrequited love, and then, with the same pistol, attempted to kill himself, but failed to accomplish the deed, making only an ugly wound in his breast. He was taken to a hotel and placed under guard. On Tuesday night, January 25th, about midnight, about fifty masked men drove up to the hotel and proceeded at once to llathawayrs room, rushed by the keeper, put out the lights, took the young man from the room, and hung him to a tree in the back yard, and drove away. All was done quietly and within the space of five minutes. They apparently came, so it is said, from some distance. This is the second case of the kind in that State. The sitxiation of the Government in France appears decidedly precarious. When a rider has to walk a tight-rope, steadying himself with a pole loaded at one end with the Ministry, at the other with the people, bis heels-over-head descent is but a question of time. Mae.Mahon and the Government thought to strengthen themselves by having Senators elected for life; but it is now an even question whether they are to hold office during their own lives or during that of the Senate. The change of Constitution is not quite peiiodical, as wits used to say it was ; but even regularly changed periodical Constitutions are better than oire that may be violently altered, and its leaves new written with blood on any day. The contractors engaged in ditching and filling in at Long Lake, a point twelve miles from St. Louis on the Chicago and Alton Itaiiroad, and otherwise known as Mitchell Station, have just dug into a mound there, which, according to the Alton Telegraph, proves to be a perfect bonanza of wealth to the curiosityseeker, and opens up a subject of rare interest to all who are acquainted with the history of what are usually termed the Mound-Builders of the Mississippi Valley. Among the relics exhumed were large quantities of beads and shells, necklaces, stone implements, and weapons. A fine spear, about two feet long, made of clear white flint, was found, the handle of which was wrapped with copper wire. Was this one of the trophies presented by Marquette or LaSalle, two hundred years ago, or may it not have a much greater antiquity, and ante-date the visits of those early explorers ? In answer to inquiries made concerning the matter, the Churchman explains why Easter will fall this year on the 16th rather than on the 9th of April, by saying that Easter day is regulated not by a solar but by a lunar cycle the cycle that regulates the Golden Number Now, by a solar calculation a day always begins at midnight; but by lunar calculation it begins at noon. If, therefore, tne rascnal lull moon tails on a Satur uajr uici j. hi., n, ia tuuiiueu as jailing on ftunaay ; ana then Laster Day is, un der the rule in the Prayer Book, the Sunday following. This is what happens in the present year. The Paschal full moon falls on Saturday, April 9, and Easter Day is the Sunday following, i. e., April 10. It may be added that should the full moon fall on March 21 be fore 12 m., that full moon (counted as falling on March 20) would not regulate Easter Day, but the one following. This happened in 1810,

PARSOX KELLY.

BY MAKION DOUGLAS. Old Parson Kelly's fair young wife treae Died when but three months wed, And no new love has ever come between His true heart and the dead, Though now for sixty years the grass has grown Upon her grave, and ou its simple stone The moss And yellow lichens creep her name across. Outside the door, in the warm summer air, The old man sits for hours. The idle wind, that stirs his silver hair, Is sweet with June's first flowers ; Rut dull his mind, and clouded with the haze Of life's last weary, gray November days; And dim The past and present look alike to him. The sunny scene around, confused and blurred, The twitter of the birds, Blend in his mind with voices long since heard Giad childhood's careless words, Old hymns and Scripture texts ; while Indistinct Yet strong, one thought with all fair things la liuked The bride Of his lost youth is ever by his side. By its sweet weight of snowy blossoms bowed, The rose-tree branch hangs low, And in the sunshine, like a fleecy cloud, Sways slowly to and fro. " Oh, is it you ?" the old man asks ; " Irene !" And smiles, and fancies that her face he's seen Beneatli The opening roses of a bridal wreath I Down from the gambrel roof a white dove flits, The sunshine on its wings. And lighting close to where the dreamer sits, A vision with it brings A golden gleam from some long vanished day. " Dear love," he calls ; then, " Why will you not stay ?" He sighs, For, at his voice, the bird looks up. and flies ! Oh, constant heart ! whose failing thoughts cling fast To one long laid in dust, Still seeing, turned to thine, as in the past, Her look of perfect trust, Her soft voice hearing in the south wind's breath, Dream on ! Love pure as thine shall outlive death, And when The gates unfold, her eyes meet thine again ! Tlie Galaxy. ROW ALICE LEARXED HER LESSON, BY HESTER A. BENEDICT. A sweet-faced little thing was pretty Alice Brand that is, everybody said so, who said anything about her, outside her home. Inside, there were those who had learned to their bitter sorrow, that she could be, and was, at times, anything but pleasant or sweet or pretty. She was the eldest of four children, all healthy and rollicking, and she was the darling of the little white house that overlooked the village of Creedmoor, with its rows of elms squaring the academy grounds, its tall spires and background of high hills, where the sun stayed longest in the lazy afternoons. But she was innately selfish and had cultivated that unfortunate gift so that it seemed to be all of her and yet she was the darling of the one house on the hill, and of the hearts that sought her happiness first, in all their tender seekings af ter good. For she was so pretty and so piquant when not crossed in anything ; her laugh was so full of music, and she had such soft, kitteny ways, that the whole household made of her a pet and an idol. " But you just rub her fur the wrong way, and then out come the claws !" the servant girl said to the village sempstress, who had been remarking in her presence the pretty purring ways l nave mentioned. And the servant girl was right, though of course she might have kept her opinion to herself, if she had not been a ser vant. The village sempstress was thinking of the significant though inelegant remark of Julie, thinking of it very regretfully, and saying to herself, " What a pity! oh, what a pity !" when the door opened and Alice herself came in looking very much as if the " claws " were " out." : You needn't trouble yourself to fin ish the dress," she said, stiffly, " I shall not need it." " Not need it! You're not going to die, Miss Brpnd?" : No ; better if I were, perhaps. But I'm not going to the party, and there's no need for you to work your eyes out on a dress I shan't wear." " Why, Alice, I thought your heart was set on going? What has changed I your mind ?" j Before the girl could frame a reply, even had she intended one, her mother entered softly, the traces of recent tears still on her cheeks and in her mild blue eyes, and going over to where her daughter stood, she laid one little hand caressingly on the curly head that was so precious to her, saying : " You have thought better of it all, haven't you, dear ?" " I haven't changed my mind, if that's what you mean." And the girl moved away from the hand that was stroking her hair, and looked poutingly out of the window and into the shadow of the pines on Sunset Hill. "You see, Emma," Mrs. Brand exclaimed, seeming not to notice her daughter's manner, though her face flushed under it, "Alice has her heart fixed on an old silk of mine which she wants me to have you make over for her ;

but it would not become her half so well as this sheer white muslin." " I agree with you, Mrs. Brand," Emma answered, holding upadrwiringly the snowy bodice, and turning it this way and that in the waning light ; " there is nothing so perfectly sweet and pure for a young girl as just such a dress as this and your daughter looks especially well in white," she added, smiling toward the young girl in a way that young girls like, but which had no effect whatever, except to strengthen the stubbornness of an erring little heart, and to deepen the lines of willfullness about the otherwise perfect little mouth. "Well, there's no reason in the world why I should not have what I want" Alice was biting her words sharply off " and I don't want white. If papa can't afford to buy me a silk, I should think you'd want me to have yours. You'll never wear it again you're altogether too old for such a shade and it would make over beautifully for me." Mrs. Brand made no reply for a mo ment. She wa3 thinking of her girlhoodhat did not seem so far away, and of how he had loved her so all those rosy days ; of the quick years that had come and gone, leaving her old ! Not so very, only thirty-six. And she could not feel old. She did not want to. For her children's sake she must be young al ffays. " Alice," she said, softly, breaking the silence, after it had grown painful, " I had thought I might wear the pretty silk you covet once more. Perhaps it is selfish, but your father favored that dress above all others, and" her voice almost in a whisper " I meant to be buried in it. It was so dear to him." "Oh, nonsense, mother! The eld thing'd mildew before that time. But you might as well be dead, for all the comfort you are to me !" She would have given her right hand to recall the words a moment later. She had not meant them at all, and only when a cry from the sempstress made her turn, till she was face to face with her mother did she realize the bitter shame of them, the pain and the possible death they might have carried to the true heart that had loved her so unselfishly all her wayward life. " Mother, mother !" sha cried, kneeling at her mother's feet and clinging to her hand, " forgive me ! I didn't mean it. Don't you know I didn't mean it! Mother! mother!" But the lady neither spoke nor stirred. If she heard, she gave no sign. Her face, white as the cloud of tulle upon the table, was turned toward the window, and her eyes, a strange look staring from their stillness, were fixed on the shadows of Sunset Hill. " Call your father, Alice, quick !" the sempstress commanded, sharply. "There, Mrs. Brand ; lean on my shoulder. Are you a little better?" The tired head dropped gently, its blue eyes closed, its pale lips parted with a sigh, and thus the lover-husband found her. All that night they watched beside her, and the doctors gave not even a look

of hope. Toward morning she seemed conscious for a moment, and feebly beckoned for Alice. With a moan, pitiful to listen to, the young girl flung herself upon her mother's bosom, begging her to live! only to live ! " But you will kill her," the physician said, lifting the girl forcibly. " Excitement will not do." " Don't talk to me," Alice said, sternly. I say she shall not die !" Then falling on her knees beside the bed, she prayed : " For my soul's sake, oh, Thou lover of souls, let this cup pass from me! For the sin of a moment do not doom me to the hell of eternal remorse! Let her live! let her live! Oh, mother, mother, stay with me !" Did the child's voice reach the ear of Jehovah Did it call back the soul that was passing, and bind it newly to the clay? At any rate the pale pink silk, with its garniture of yellow, lies folded away in Mrs. Brand's best closet still, and Alice wore the white dress to the ball. And the bond that binds together the gentle mother and the gentle child will bear all tests henceforth, for its links are mutual love and mutual trust. And Alice, having learned her lesson well, is thanking God because of it every day of her life, for thou;rh it cost much, it was the means of sheathing her claws forever The body of a man named Davis was found on the track of the L. M. and G. S. R II., near Clarksville, Tenn., recently, horribly mutilated, having been twice run over. The pockets were rifled, and it is supposed lie was murdered and robbed, and thrown on the track. The Boston Advertiser thinks the population of the United States in the mid die of 1875 was about 43,000,000.

Eight females are in attendance at ''M -L Total fund, ?G,SG3,1?1.C2. AddTurdue University, the agricultural in- ; inS to thia the Congressional fund (Institution of Indiana. Female farmers I ,000.02). there is the grand total of are the need of the hour. of TW.li'l.G-l, K ing an incrca-e- of The annual report of the Richmond ! S794-33 ovcr 1S74Board of Trade shows that nearly $40i,- After being out about three hours,

uw were expended on new buildings ! there last year. Solomon Phillips, a fireman in the sash, door and blind factory at Lima, was causrht in the bekimr and instantly killed.

Charles Harrington, in jail at Terre : r1-.-.., U negotiating a loan f r Haute for the murder of Samuel 1W j 0W3 to get Willard College building ney, a Sugar creek farmer, has made a u.nder way. This makes his endowment full confession of the crime. The real virtaaiy SooO.OuO. Work is to be corncause of the crime was an old feud be- f ienceiIj thespriag.. tween the families as far back as 1S30. I The Panhandle train going ea-t the A correspondent says that Harrington j oluer evening ran over and killed an unlocks like a fool, but one would hardly, j kcown tramp near Richmoud. He on first sight, call him a hardened villain. "ing on the truck of one of the cars and, A nine-year old son of Theodore Oli- ! falic beneath the wheels was terribly ver, living at Cory, sixteen miles south manSl- Another tramp was endeavorof Terre Haute, blew the top of his sis- n2 to 9teal a rule 5n tlie ?ame va.v a::J ter's head off with a shot-cun which he wheutlie train rassod through the water was foolin"- with. 1 wu-ca covers the track at that point, he

Dr. Orr, of Paxton, a village m Cub- j sou .Aim . il. fT T T i. - 1 Evansville Eadway, was called to his j IT i!? "yj? I men and his legs filled with slugs fired from a shot-gun. The left limb will have to be amputated. Poberc Aiken, a boy eighteen j-ears of age, stepped on a side-track before some moving cars at Terre Haute, and will lose both his legs and even his right arm, if he recovers at all. It is reported that au organization, comprising a large number of citizens, exists in Columbus, with the object of breaking down the pikes and pike companies of the county. It has signs, grips and passwords, and holds secret meetings. Toll-gates have been torn away and destroyed on one pike. No gate can stand more than twenty-four hours. Governor Hendricks being appealed to, ! called unon the sheriff to protect timrv ! erty and uphold the law. Since the puVication of the Governor's letter the organization has extended itself to ail parta of the county. The sheriff has refused to act in the premises, disregarding the Governor's injunction. The twenty-fourth annual report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction has been submitted to the Governor by James H. Smart, Superintendent. It is a concise and well-written document, containing facts and statistics of special interest to Iudianians, or that portion of them, at least, who regard with pride our admirable system of common schools. The total enumeration of school children for the year ending November 1, 1S75, was G67,73G ; being an increase over the preceding year of 13,372. Of this number, 340,514 are white males, 317,434 females, 4,940 colored males, and 4,S43 females. Total number of children enrolled in the schools for the year ending September 1, 1S75, was 502, 3o2, of which 495,711 are white, and G,G51 colored. From the following exhibit it is shown that 95 per cent, of our school population between the ages of G and 15 A I 1 received scholastic training last year. Children enumerated under the age of 15 years, 480,770; enrolled in public schools under 15 years of age, 427,008; enrolled in private schools, estimated, 30,000; total number between G and 15 receiving scholastic training, 457.00S; balance not in school last year, 23,762. In this connection, Superintendent Smart says : " By reference to the United States census of 1S70, it appears that there were in the State of Indiana at that time, 26,7S3 children between the ages of ten and twenty-one, who could neither read nor write. " After patient and careful inquiry, it was thought that the number of illiterate children was much smaller than was shown by this statement. Having all the machinery necessary for taking an accurate census of the school population, it was determined to make a separate enumeration of all illiterates between the ages of ten and twenty-one. This was done at the time ef taking the last enumeration. In seventy-nine counties the reports show that there were but 4,234 illiterate children between the ages of ten and twentyone. Upon the supposition that the counties not reported contain the same proportion of illiterates as the other counties, the total number of illiterates in the State would be 4,922. While it is probable a large share of those re ported as illiterates by the United States census in 1870 have now become of age, and are therefore not included in the report taken by our school officers, a careful analysis of the facts will show one of two things to be true, that the census did us great injustice as a State, or that our teachers have been doing right royal work during the past five years." A summary of the common srhnnl funds indicates that the amount held by

counties in January, 1S75, was ?2.0"7232.55; non-negotiable bond, ?34'-

the jury in the case of the United States against Hiram Brownlee. at In dianapolis, charged with complicity in the Evansville whisky fraud-, returned a verdict of not guilty. Willard Carpenter, the Evansville ' rnira.1 fire !,., ...5, 1 .1 m.I, : . hehaJ ,. , V ff WM so dUeUsted tl.,, vhen" tlie lraln -ached dry land he defended from his perilous perch, and, with a simple "Good evening, gentlemen," he struck out through the woods. A man employed as a section hand on the O. & M. It. Il was killed near North Vernon, recently, under circumstances which indicate foul play, as lie was seen ! late at night in the company of bad characters. He to found early in the morning on the railroad track horribly mutilated. -diss Babbs, of Monroe Township, Jefferson County, met with a fatal accident while visiting her brother-in-law, Mr. Walter Jines. It appears that she had been subject to fits, and was loft in front of the fire by her sister, Mrs. Jines, while she went out to milk, and during ner absence Mi:s L.abb3 took ant and fell into the fire, burning her feet and hands to a crisp, and soserious'iy injuring her that s-he died inside of twenty-four hours from the time of the accident. One day's Indiana news: George Harness, of Logansport, dead at 10. Boy killed by a locomotive at Terre Haute. Treasurer Hayes funeral at Warsaw, the largest ever seen in Kosciusko county. Little Cliver, at Corry, fattally shoots his playmate. Seven mules and a horse killed by the explosion of 194 kegs of powder at Coal Creek. Loaoinotive at Garr's station breaks loose and tears down the depot building. Wm. Hoffman, of Posey county, kicked to death by horses. A young woman of Hamlet ruined. Dr. Orr, of Paxton, horriblv mancled bv assassins. Some "Points''' i t amly. We propose, s,n.ys the New York Slar, to give our young readers a few " points" with regard to the candy question. The next time that your mother predicts that you " wi1! not havea tooth in yourhead" from eating so much candy, reply pleasantly, but firmly, that Henry, Duke of Beaufort, for forty years ate nearly a pound of sugar candy daily, and yet died at the age of eighty with a full set of perfect teeth in his head. If this is not enough, crush your parents completely by remarking, coldly, that every schoolboy knows that Cleland in his "Institutes of Health," mentions a Mr. Malloney who was extremely fjnd of sugar and addicted to its use, and who reached the ripe age of one hundred years, having good teeth until he was fourscore, and then actually cut a new set! If your father cwnes to your mother's relief, ast-ure him that teeth have been soaked in syrup for a whole year without any perceptible effect, and that the best authorities now say that sugar is good for children. Now, if this isn't a firebrand, we don't know what is Vegetable Ieeo rati ohm. No one knows, says a writer describing a German agricultural fair, who has not seen it worked into an architectural de sign, how beautiful a string of onions i can be, how gorgeous a row of vegetable marrows, how delicate a cluster of turnips. It sounds puerile, but it was lovely, nevertheless. Imagine a temple-like construction all composed of odorous pine, with an arched portal on either hand, and then every liue and curve, every niche and pillar and balustrade, defined with glowing fruit. It was looped in festoons, and hung in taeU of red and white and gold; the arms of Wurteiuberg, even, were traced in yellow corn, while above it all rose a graceful column, a mosaic from ba-e to summit, of every fruit that autumn can bring to peifeotion. Tin: '- leap year necktie" .for gentlemen, has a spring, which, being touched, moves a thickness of silk a-id?, and i shows a disk insciihed " No."

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Never give up! It is wiser and better Always to hope than once to repair; Fling o-X th load ct dosl-fi cankt-ncg f:t-r. And :rck thedrk rv'J of lyracical cutStret firt iipt.er f'se Vtsrdea B.yItk yu ; Pr6!-.lE!ce kiaJty tn icir.eJ lit tup ; AbI ia s";l trial or tivu'.i'.? lt!h:r.k you, Tbe watcttwonl &f life must U, Strtr pf vp!r Servr fire rp Tktrt Ere thaT.re-5 3l chrv5 H -!: as the fcr-fefu! a toadreJ I on; inJ, through tbe cfc.v, 'V:- l .-.n arrit Efory success ii you'll z.r hope CKeer piTe up ! f ti wisret i li-J-t Kaowizj that rroTi !&re t.e And ot 1S nijtjiavs the asd tbe c4drt. Is the true subworJ of " Never giTc ! vf r : tir-! Thot:cU ti e prape ttot tnay rt'.vic , Or the full thutdT-rfiud c tct you burst ; Stand like a iwk, aed tbe vorta t.r the last; Little shU barm yo-j, lioisb d:-:r. t-clr wmti, Never ciTe t:p, if a : n-.'.y r.rts?", t'r ; i -r.i wisely t.s.s cia-ed the tup; At; 1 the I .:"" -ur.i .!, ! a a'.I yoar d ;s!reiics. Is the .out watchword of " Sett'r gire uj. rr..ciL AX It SCMSSOKH. Stop end n fleet seriously before ym join any Black Hills ex-ed:tk.n. Whi.fky x-.t seventy-five cents a drink out there. Thf. fallowing st-ntc nee, "John quickly extemporized five tow bags," contain all the letters of the alphabet, and only iVar of them are u-; 1 more than once. Street cars of a heavy, unwieldy kin ! are run in Constantinople. Each, car is preceded by a half naked Turk, who shouts or blows a horn to warn people to get out of the way. Two citizens of Albany cot to discussing the Bible in the public schouls, and one of them was knocked down and had his hip broken. Sinners have tio fcu-ir,ess discussing such questions. A Boston" grocer was telling a newsaway money to advertise, when the Sheriff came in and shut up the store. Retribution is always loafing around. A Boston bey of six summers went to a neighbor's house and remarked : " Will you please let me see your parlor carpc -t, for auntie says it makes her mort skk every time the comes here!" YorNG gentlemen who appear on the streets with books under their arms arc not necessarily student. A patent hajust been issued fH a whi-ky i' - A' i" book form, with natural leaves and backs. Wht should ibe rich di-;se Ihe 1 Why should the jxr repue ? A li'.Ue while, and we shxi! all In cii-.ial friend lip -oia. Life at the te-t is lnt a jest, And has its witsirr ,lar, E-.it since we're hi-re, w-::a Jrieo-U so -dear We'll drie dull carf away. A Westerx editor apologizes to bis readers somewhat after this f.laon : "We expected to have a death and a marriage to publish this wtx-k, but a violent stonn. prevented, the wedding, and the doctor being sick himself, the patient recovered, and we are accordingly eheated out of both." HF.i-Mr.oi-D stated, on his lunacy examination, that fifty thousand dollars a year was none too much for his wife to spend, that she was the best woman in the world, and that he intended that he should hold the purse. What woman can put her hand on her heart and declare that that man is insane 1 A bat in the New London sb market got his tail in a clam's mouth, as it were, and the latter shut down on him and held on until the animal died. It wa an agile thing for a clam to do, but when" the victim was dead, it hadn't legs to walk away from the odoriferous carcass. Tkoy rress: A certain man walked all over the city yesterday trying to 1 a Philadelphia directory. A friend aked the cause of his anxiety and was toll ihat he wanted to see if he knew anybody in kthat city, and if so, where heaved, in order that he Ail - v w. And he is not liking up th.it long visit next summer. the only man WHO is k matter. Particles of science are often very widely scattered, and writers of extensive comprehension have accidental remarks upon topics very remc-te from the principal subject which are often more valuable than former treatises, and which are not known because not promised in the title. He that collects this is very laudably ejn ployed, a.sl.e facilitates the progress of others, and by making that easy of attainment which is already written, may give some adventurous mind leisure for new thoughts and original designs. Ladies with -Al-kin acmies nv.;-l keep away from the messgeries. According to the Liverpool J'tt a l;i4'y wearing one of these elegant garment went too near a polar bear recently, and was subjected t- a very cloe --: ' uncomnrt'd.!e hug from that wintry animal who is M!ppod to have imagined Imiw-lf f..r the moi'.ii at his home in the no rth ensraced in seal hunting. The owner of the War wa compelled to fzj the l.idv for damare -uklaiiied bv herself hiid the saeque.