Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1883 — Page 3

THE CYCLONE.

Us Terrible Work of. Devastation in Illinois and Wisconsin. Immense Destruction of Life and Prop* erty. . The cyclone which recently swept over ' portions of Illinois and Wicomin was one sf the most extensive and damaging visitations of the kind ever experienced in the Rortkwe-t. Its trail of desolation end death Is visible from Montgomery ccnnty, in Missouri, to Bacifie, in Wisconsin, a distance o it ever :00 miles. The storm seems to lave consisted of a series of funnel-shaped clouds, that burst out here and there, darting to the earth, pulverizing farmhouses, sweeping away trees, fences and every object that interposed, and then, sailing up into the heavens, only to pounce . down again at some other point and resume their horrible work of destruction. Thus lids frightful phalanx of funnels pursued their course, bobbing up and then down again, for a course of 1500 miles until the waters of Lake Michigan arrested them in their wild career. The loss of life inflicted by the awful visitation numbers at least seventy, while hundreds of unfortunates have been more or less severely injured, many of them, it is feared, beyond the hope •f recovery. The vagaries and recent*icitßs cf the •yclore defy enaise ati n. Preserving or e rne a couj s-i ram no thwest to southeast. wobb’ed and twisted in every crnceivable way. It was no respeeter of persons or property. Ereryth'rg m its path was hurled violently to the earth or earned away. Massive oak and stalwart hickory trees were as pipe-stems before the terrible b’ast; and as frr telegraph poles and fence-rails, the windy monster played with them as if they had been iucifer matches. Not seti fled with raining homes, it scattered their contents upon every hand In one instance a tea-poo was landed in the boughs of a tree, where it was caught and held At another place, piece t cf a lady’s necklace were found in a hedge fence, under careened stoves, and in various out-of-the wav plaoes. All of the wearing apparel •f one family was torn to shreds, so taut it could not 1 e worn. One mjp’B vest was blown several miles away, and a roll of money was blown out cf one of the pockets and tom into small bits. In one case a farm was swept clean of cornstalks, which were imbeded in a hedge on the opposite side of the fteld The cyclone took off the porch and chimney of a man’s house, nothing else being injured A piano was lifted up, carried half a mile, and damped into the cellar of a house that had been blown away. Many miraculous escapes are reported In Sangamon coHnty, 111., a farm laborer was prostrated on the ground by . tbc wind jn t as a house passed over him, sailing'in the air Lks a balloon. Had he been standing up he would have been killed In the same vicinity a whole family was buried beneath the ruins of their dwelling, and all escaped injury. A man was blown out of h:'s house and landed in his orchard, several red* away. The houre was wrecked One man’s house called away in the air, and at last accounts h<? had not heard of it, although he had searched fay and wide for his property. Peter Shaver, es Brown oounty. 111, opened his door to see (he makeup of "the storm, when tbe house was taken and shaken to atoms. He found himself in the top of a cotton-wood tree, and his wife and babies were all scattered about and insensible. Luckily they all came to, scratched and l raised, but with no bones broken. Those who describe this terrible stormking, tell of a sudden hush, of the descent •f a track cloud with & heat fiery and wbi e; of a glare of lightning and a roar of un- - chained elements. The rumble of the approaching storm was like the thunder of innumberuble wheels. The next instant it was over, leaving in ibstraok ruined homesteads aud-graen fields, blasted os if by lire. One man describes it as consisting of three clouds of smoke and fire, rushing along through the air with the smaller •nd of the funnel near the earth. As the clouds drew nearer they seemed to unite. Then there was a deafening roa , resemb'ing the passage of a hundred railr . ad trains, only shriller, then there was a crash, and in another moment it was over. Tbe demon of the air had sped on his course to repent the performance somewhere elße. Along the ma'n path of the ey clone the deeds assumed the appearance cf a revolving Bl.est es fire. The spec ac.'e was grend and yet horrible. At times it seemed that immense balls of fiie were sent ■p, and these would burst, fiLing the heavens with flame. At such times there was a 'cracking sound like the burning of an im- < aaense forest The storm seems to have had its birth weßt of the Mississippi and just north of the Missouri river. It first made itself felt in Montgomery county, Mo., where it blew down a good many houses, killed four or five people, and maimed a dozen or so more. It thence crossed the Mississippi river into Madison oounty, HI., passing four miles south of Alton Houses, trees, fences and everything in its path were razed to the ground or carried into the air. Eleven people were killed and upward of twenty wounded in Madison oounty. In Jersey county a number of dwellings were demolished, thrdte Ole killed and several severely injured. ontgomery county a great many buildings were borne down by the fierce blast, and several fatalities occurred. At Woodboro a church and a school-house were blown down At a farm-house near there, caw-logs two feet in diameter were picked up and carried away like feathers. In Macoupin county the cyclone tore several farm-houses to pieces. George Baker's‘house, near Brushy Mound, was blown to atoms, and his wife and three children killed. They were blown into a tree and found dead Two other children were badly injured. Eleven persons were in one bouse that was demolished, and, strange to say, only one was killed. Green county suffered severely. Farm houses, barns, fences and fruit trees were leveled to the ground. Three people were killed and about a dozen badly hurt A number of farm-houses were wholly or partially wrecked in Christian county, and several persons injured, though no fatalities are reported. It was in Morgan county, however, that the hurricane was more severely felt, both in regard to loss of life and damage to properfar, than at any other. point in Illinois. Two funnel shaped cyclones passed almost simultaneousiy within a row miles Of Jacksonville, one north and one south of the town, and both traveled from a southwesterly to a northeasterly direction. One of the funnels Struck the village of LI ter burg, containing about 100 inhabitants, and wreoked nearly every building, in the town. Beven people were killed and about thirty injured, sonke of them so badly that they will hardly recover. A good many farmhouses in the vicinity were wrecked and several persons wounded. The other funnel swept over a motion known as Greasv Prairie, and did nearly as much damage as the first Fourteen farm-hoores were demolished, six people "killed and a large number injured. Mi Mason county several farmkouses were blown down, two persons

killed and others injured. Hall fell in great chunks that killed live stock. The hurricane was very damaging in Brown oounty. Dwellings and barns without number went down, and many people were injured, a few of whom will probably not recover. De Witt county also suffered severely. About fifty farm-houses were wrecked in the county, five people were k : lled end about twenty injured, some of-them very severely. Macon county was likewise a sev< r > sufferer by the terrible visitant Farmhouses, barns, fences and trees were swept away like feathers. Four people were killed 'and more than a dozen crippled. In Logan county several farm dwellings 1 end outhouses were lorn to pieces, three people killed end qu te a number injured In Menard county about a dozen dwellings were wrecked and a child wai killed. In Bangamon county a great l umber of houses were blown down, three lives were lost, and several persons received injuries more cii less sevefe. In Sullivan and Champaign counties the tornado did considerable damage to property, but no i/es'were lost In Livingston county one woman was killed, four or five persons were injured, afid much damage to property wasinflicted. Thecyclone seems to have paused here in its terrible work, and is noo heard of again until McHenry and Boone counties, in the extreme northern pare of Illinois, are reached Here it bobbed down to the earth again, and resumed its fantastic tricks with increased fury. In Boone county several houkea were swept down, two men were kiUed, and considerable live stock was Jo -t In McHenry county the damage was still greater. Between thirty and forty farm-houses were blown down, five people were killed and a great many wounded, and the damage to farm property was immense, fenoes, orchards and live stock forming the principal losses. This completes tbe work of destruction by the fanuel-shaped demon in Illinois. From McHenry county it jumped over the State line, and is next heard cf at Bloomfield, Wia, where it blew down several bouses and killed one main. Thence it passed between Geneva Junction and Geneva Lake, doing little damage, however. Its next work was in the vicinity of Union Grove, where it demolished churches, school-houses, dwellings and barns, killed four persons and wounded seven or eight. In this region at least four separate tfhd entirely distinct funnels were seen within a radius of three or four miles. They seemed to unite, and thus strengthened" the storm demon shaped its oourse for the ill-fated city of Racine, where it resumed its terrible work of dea’h and devastation. The first reports of the tornado’s work at Racine exaggerated the casualties, but the damage to property was greater than the first accounts indicated. Only eight people were killed outright, but the injured number ninety-nine. Many of these are horribly maimed and some of them will never recover, while others will be cripples for life. About thirty of tbe injured were sent to the hospital for treatment The others were caied for in private houses. About 250 people were made homeless by the cyclone at Ilacine. Prompt action was taken by the iocal authorises to relieve the sufieriDgs of the homeless. From Racine the demon of destruction passed into Lake Michigan, where it became dissipated and lost its power for further harm before reaching the eastern shore.

REVENUE COLLECTORS.

Seduction of the Internal-Revenue Dis-tricts—Thirty-six Heads to Come OS [Washington Telegram.] Secretary Folger is meditating upon the proposed reduction of the internal-revenue districts. He will have the unpleasant duty of decapitating the Collectors done by July L At any rate, he hopes so. He grows more sanguinary the more he thinks about it. He thought first of leaving an even 103, then he fixed upon ninety-three, but now he has in contemplation a basket of th rty-six heads, which will leave but ninety. The saving to the Government, even under this process of decimation, will be comparatively small It w.ll.ba about one-tenth of 1 per cent upon the amount of revenue collected last year, or say, at a liberal estimate, #150,000. As an economic move therefore, it would rcaroely have been suggested. An offioial of the department said i o-day that the saving would not amount to much, in fact, but the reduction had to be made in obedience to a clamor. Wherever a #2,5 X) collector is discharged, a # I,OCO deputy would have to be appointed. In addition to this saving there would be a few hundred dollars difference in the rent paid. It would be difficult to make a saving of $3,010 for each district abolished Several Congressmen are already in the city te see about it Each has his particular Collectors whom he thinks should be retained The Secretary holds, however, that no favors can be shown, that tbe reduction must be made entirely upon a business bads.

Homestead Entries.

[Washington Telegrftm.] In a recent opinion the Commissioner es thp General Land Office holds thatfn making proof upon pre-emption and homestead entries witnesses mast be persons entirely dieinterested in the claim and oognlzaat of their own knowledge of the facts In the proof during the entire period of the alleged residence and cultivation. The fact mat a homestead or pre-emption claimant cannot fnrnish the necessary proof by his neighbor?, but has to depend upon his attorney and backer to make‘tae same, casta suspicion upon the transactions, and tends to show collusion in the making, of such proof, i his opinion was called forth bv a letter from W. W. Burke, of Huron, Dakota, calling attention to tbe faet that in many instances homesteaders and pre-emptors in making proof have for wit. nesses their attorneys, or parties from whoa they ore borrowing money with whieh to perfect their claims, people wfio de not reside near the land covered by tbe entry, bnt generally reside in towns.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are forty-nine female physicians in Brooklyn, N. Y., of whom fifteen are home, opatha In Hudson, Columbia county, N. Y., is the largest apple orchard In the" world—3o,ooo trees on 800 acres. The dressy young man, te be in tone now, must have a narrow stripe of braid dofrn tbe side of his pantaloons. It is estimated that the pawnbrokers of New York city, collectively, nave fully #20,000,000 of pledges in their possession. A Yankee has stormed a prairie-dog town in the West, end captured the animaiw fog their skips, which, made into gloves, rival the finest kid. Of thirty-nine female students of medicine attending the lectures of the Paris Faculty l&*t year, eleven .were English, fire American and one Indian. ‘ ?•*.. EroHT Massachusetts railways having ha the last year carried 41,429,*,85 passengers and killed only bight. It is argued natlt is safer to ride than stay off the oaxa * Traveling costuipes tyre nothing if nostriking and con-plcuoua Brown, olvs green and mopse-colored cloth is the mat ter.al, made sd^erfluoosly tight-fitting, the of the jacket or Jtreey basque covered with military braid.

THE BAD BOY.

“There, you drop that," said the grocery man to the bed boy, as ha came limping into the store and began to fumble around a box of strawberries. “I have never kicked at your eating my codfish, and crackers, and eheese, and herring, and apples, but there has got to be a dividing line somewhere, and I make it at strawberries at 6 shillings a box, and only two layers in a box. I only bought one box, hoping some plumber or gas man would come along and bny it, and, by gum, everybody that has been in the store has sampled a strawberry out of that box, shivered as though it was sour, and gone off without asking the price,” and the grocery man looked mad, took a hatchet and knocked in the head of a barrel of apples, and said: “There, help yourself to dried apples." “O, I don’t want your strawberries or dried apples,” said the boy, as he leaned against a showcase and looked at a bar of red, transparent soap. “I was only trying to fool you. Say, that bar of soap is old enough to vote. I remember seeing it in the show-case when I was about a year old, and pa came in here with me and held me up to the show-case to look at that tin tobacco box, and that round zinc looking-glass, and the yellow wooden pocket-comb, and the soap looks just the same, only a little faded. If you would wash yourself once in a while your soap wouldn’t dry up on your hands,” and the boy sat down in the chair without any back, feeling that he was even with the grocery man. “You never mind the soap. It is paid for, and that is more than your father can say about the soap that has been used in his house the past month,” said the grocery man, as he split up a box to kindle the fire. “But we won’t quarrel. What was it I heard about a hand serenading your father, and his inviting them in to lunch?” “Don’t let that get out, or pa -will kill mo dead. It was a joke. One of these Bohemian bands that goes about town playing tunes, for pennies, Mas over on the next street, and I told pa I guessed some of his friends who had heard we had a baby at the house had hired a band and was coming in a few minutes to serenade him, and he better prepare to make a speech. Pa is proud, of being a. father at his age, and he thought it was no more than right for the neighbors to serenade him, and he went to loading himself for a speech, in the library, and me and my chum went out and told the leader of the band there was a family up there that \yanted to have some music, and they didn't care for expenses, so they quit blowing where they was and came right along. None of them could understand English except the leader, and he only understood enough to go and take a drink when he is invited. My chum the band up to our house and got them to play ‘Babies on Our Block’ and ‘Baby Mine,’ and I stopped all the men who were going home and told them to wait a minute and they would see some fun, so when the band got through the second tune and the Prussians were emptying the beer out of the horns, and pa stepped out on the porch, there was more nor a hundred people in front of the house. You’d a dide to see pa when he put his hand in the breast of his co >t and struck an attitude. . He looked like a Congressman or a tramp. The band was scared, ’cause they thought he was mad, and some of them were going to run, thinking he was going to throw pieces of brick-house at them, but my chum and the leader kept them. Then pa sailed in. He commenced, ‘Fellow-citizens,’and then went back to Adam and Eve, and worked up to the present dav, giving a history of the notable people who had acquired children, and kept the crowd interested. I felt sorry for pa, 'cause I knew how he would feel when he came to find out he had been sold. The Bohemians in the band that couldn’t understand English, they looked at each other and wondered what it was all about, and finally pa wound up by stating that it was every citizen’s duty to own children of his own, and then he invited the band and the crowd in to take some refreshments. Well, you ought to have seen that band come in the house. They fell over each other getting in, and the crowd went home, leaving pa and my chum and me and the band. Eat? Well, I should smile. They just reached for things, and talked Bohemian. Drink? O, no. I guess they didn’t poor it down. Pa opened a dozen bottles of champagne, and they fairly bathed in it, as though they had a fire inside. Pa tried to talk with them about the baby, but they couldn’t understand, and finally they got full and started out, and the leader asked pa for $3, and that broke him up. Pa told the leader he supposed the gentlemen who had got np the serenade had paid for the music, and the leader pointed to me and said I was the gentleman that got it -np. Pa paid him, but he had a wicked h>ok in his eye, and me and my chum lit out*.and the Bohemians came*down the street biliq,’ full, with their horns on their arms, and they were talking Bohemian for all that was out. They stopped in front of a vacant house and began to play, but yon couldn’t tell what tigne it was, they were so full, and a policeman came along and drove them Lome. I guess I will sleep at the livery stable to-night, cause pa is offal unreasonable when anything costs him $3, beside the champagne.” “Well, yon have made a pretty mess of it,” said the grocery man. “It’s a wonder your pa does not kill yon. But what is it I hear about tbe trouble at the churoh? They lay that foolishness to you.”

.fcrii’ f "Its all a lie. They lay everything to me. It was some of them ducks that sing in the ohoir. I was just as mnoh surprised ss anybody when it ooeurred. Yon see, oar minister is laid up from the effect of the ride to the funeral, when he tried to run over a street oar, and an old deaeon, who had symptoms of being a minister in his yonth, was invited to take the minister’s place, and talk a little. He is an absent-minded old party who don’t keep np with the events of the day, and whoever played it on him knew that he was too pious to even read the daily papers. There was a notice of a choir meeting to be read, and I think the tenor smuggled in the other notice between that and t]je one about the weekly prayer meeting. Anyway, it wasn’t me, bnt it like to broke np the meeting. After the deacon read the choir notice he took np the other one anti read, ‘I am requested to announce that the Y. M. C. Association will give a friendly entertainment with soft gloves, on Tuesday evening, to which all are invited. Brother John Sullivan, the eminent Boston revivalist, will lead the exeroises, assisted by Brother Slade, the Maori missionary from Australia. There will be no slugging, bnt a collection will be taken up at the door to defray expenses.” Well, I thought the people in church would sink through the floor. There was not a person in church, except the poor old deacon, but what understood that some wicked wretch had deceived him, and I know by the way the tenor tickled the soprano that he did it. I may be mean, but everything I do is innocent, and I wouldn’t be as mean as a choir singer for $2. I felt veal sorry for tho old deacon, but he never knew what he had done, and I think it would be real mean to tell him. He won’t bo at tho slugging match. That remark about taking up a collection settled the deacon. I must go down to the stable now to help grease a back, so you will have to excuse me. If pa comes hero looking for me, tell him.you heard I was going to drive a picnic party out to Waukesha, and may not be back in a week. By that time pa will get over that Bohemian serenade,” and the boy filled his pistol pocket with dried apples, and went out and hung a sign in front of tho grocery, “Strawberries two shitlin a smell, and one smell is enuff." — Peck’s Sun.

Gen. Butler and Jefferson Davis.

The Democrats failed to unite at Baltimore, but I will not trench in politics to say more than such was the fact, but I may say that a committee of fifteen from the Breckinridge wing was chosen to meet about Christmas qjb Washington to take measures for future organization. I was one of that committee, and when I went to Washington I found the delegates from South Carolina bringing the ordinances of socessioh. I conversed with them and I conversed with others of that oommittee, and I found that they had no intention of doing anything but to found an empire, the corner-stone of which was to be slavery, and to get the roof from tho United States. I told them that bloody, terrible war would be tbe result; but it h only fair to those gentlemen to say right here that they honestly did. not think so, because they were of opinion that tho North would not fight. My answer to them was: “The Noitli will fight, and don’t you make any m’stake about that.” “The North will fight?” one Texas gentleman asked; “well, who will fight?" His blood got up about that time. I replied: “I’ll fight for my own side.” The answer was: “There will be plenty of men to take care of you.” I said: “I have argued and voted for union for twenty years, and, God helping me, I will fight a year or two if necessary for the same thing.” After 1 had concluded to return home, I called upon Jefferson Davis, then Senator for Mississippi. I had previously traveled with him when he was on a visit to New England, and I believed him then to be a firm Union man. I sent a note to the Senate Chamber, saying I should like to see him, and I have the note in my possession now which contained his reply, in which he says: “Call and take tea with me this evening. I shall be glad to see yon.” I went, and I said: “Can not yon stem this torrent? Can not you stop this terrible catastrophe which is breaking on u's? What course are yon going to take?” He stayed to think for a time, and then said: “I shall go with my side.” He continued and said: “Yon are a Democrat; what oourse will yon take ?” I replied: “I shall go with my side”—and 1 did—“and my-side will go with me.” There was no anger, but more of sorrow between ns, ana, while the tears stood iq his eyes, Mr. Davis said: “Is it possible that next time we meet we shall meet as, enemies?” I sobbed in my reply: “That depends on yon.” —Speech of Gov. B. F. Butler.

Supported by Evidence.

“Gessler? Who was Gassier?” said Mrs. Beokram to her hnsband. “He was a tyrant, my dear, and also a life insurance agent.” “What do yon mean by snch nonsense ?” “There is no nonsense about it, Mrs. Beckram, I assure yon. Does not William Tell say to Gessler in the third act: ‘Ha, tyrant, hast thon not given ms assuranoe of my life?* Yonr usband, madam, never makes a statement that he is not prepared to support by documentary evidence.”— Texas Siftings. A lady of irascible temper asked George Selwyn why woman was mads of the rib. “Indeed, I can't say,” was the reply, “unless it be that the rib is the most-crooked part of the body.”

INDIANA NEWS.

Kvamnnutlstohave anew cavalry company. There la now bat one such company In the State—that at Portland, Jay oounty. Ax Indianapolis William Montgomery, Isaac Slay and Isaac Baker engaged in a quarrel, which resulted In the «iHng of the totten In Union oounty, the other day, a citizen borrowed a hone to ride to a neighbor’s, about two miles distant, and then walked and led the horse Col. Buchanan, of Evansville, was robbed, on Friday night, of #l5B arid a #175 watch by a burglar who had entered the residence and ohiorofomed the inmates Capt. & W. Blosser, of the Salvation Army, has leased for one year the Universallst Church, of New Albany, and will conduct meetings there every night , A meeting of ex-Union prisoners wa3 held at the Coart House, in Columbus, on Saturday, May 19, to organize an association for the Fifth Congressional district Gen. T. W. Bennett, the retiring Mayor of Richmond, was in office for six years, and during that time liquidated the entire indebtedness of the oity, which amounted to *159,000. Efforts have commenced toward tbe erection of a new Presbyterian Church in Vincennes. The congregation has grown so that the present place of worship has inadequate accommodations. Henry Unmeet, John Guyer and Lewis Guyer have died from the result of the injuries received at the boiler explosion near Nappanee. This makes five who lost their lives out of the six employed The prospects of the Rose Polytechnic, at Terre Haute, are very flattering. It Is expected the number of applications for admission to the Freshman class of next year will be greater than the school can accommodate.

Joseph Case, of New Albanv, while raving In delirium tremens on Monday evening tiled to kill his wife with a hatchet, Ing several severe wounds on the head. He afterward tried to hang himself, but was pievented. The Infant son of Rev. John Pouoher, of. Indianapolis, crawled between the slats of the bed a few mornings since, and when found was hanging by the head in an unoonsclous condition. He was brought to with difficulty. John Byebs, of Madison, owns a large Prussian rabbit A large dog made an attack on it, the rabbit showed fight, jumped at the dog and bit its eara and head until the canine was himself glad to tuck his tall under his legs and run, while bunny held the fort Ghn. Geo. W. Russ, the Adjutant General of the State under Gov. Williams, is now in Dallas, Texas, where it is reported he Is prospering. His wife, Mrs. Emma Rues, has been granted a divorce from him on proof of abandonment together with the custody cf the children and 975 per month alimony. There was practically an agreement between the parties looking to this result Judge Allen, of Terre Haute, fined S. 0 Davis, an attorney, #3O for contempt of court Davis was engaged in a suit In whioh a law partner of the Judge was a WitnessWhile the latter was on the stand Davis lost his temper, and exclaimed that he was not to be bulldozed because the court was a law partner of the witness. For that the Judge promptly assessed a fine of #lO. Mr. Davis, In a sarcastic manner, invited the court to fine him again, and the court did so, adding another #lO. Judge Hammond, of Rensselaer, has been designated by Gov. Porter to euooeed Judge William A Woods upon the Supreme bench of this State, Judge Woods having been called to sucoeed Judge Gresham. ‘Judge Edwin P. Hammond was born at Brookvllle, Franklin county, Ind, Nov. 20, 1885. His father, Nathaniel Hammond, a man of marked character and intelligence, was boro in Maine, Nov. 2,1786, and came to Indiana locating at Brcokville in 1820. He moved to Columbus, Ind, in 1817, and thenoe to Jasper county, where he died Feb. 2, 1674. He left surviving him four sons and five daughters, among the former Abram A., formerly Governor of the State, and William P., a Representative in the Indiana Legislature for Morgan oounty. ’ The subject of this sketch In early life engaged ia farming and other labors, enjoying such eduoational advantages as were afforded in the common schools, and in the seminary at Columbus. He became a law student in 1856, in the office of hi* half'brother, Abram A, and Hon. Thomas A Nelson, in Terra Haute. In the winter of 1856-7 he was 'admitted to the Senior law class of the Asbury University, at Green Castle, Ind, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Hon-. Alexander C. Downes was the professor in the University. In 18'<8 Judge Hammond located at Rensselaer, Ind, and opened a law office Although young in years and in experience in his prof ession, his attention to business soon brought him a respectable and growing practioe. At the outbreak of the war he closed his office and enlisted under Captain, afterword Gen. Robert H. Milroy, in the Ninth Indiana volunteers, Ha was elected and commissioned at the organization of the compcny as Second and subsequently os First Lelutenant, and served three months with his regiment in West Virginia In October, 1861, he was elected without opposition to fill a vacancy as Representative in the Legislature from the counties of Newton, Jasper and Pulaski, but he felt that his place was in the army, and accordingly he re-entered the service. In August, 1862, he was made Major, and Nov. 31,1868, Lieutenant Colonel At the close of the war he was appointed by the President of the United States Colonel by brevet Immediately after bis army service he entered, on the practice of law at Rensselaer. In 1872 he was appointed by Thomas A Hendricks to the Circuit Court bench of the Third judicial district He was re-elected ta the same offioe In October, 1878.