Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — Page 7

GRANT’S TABLET WRITING.

Copies of Some of the Tablets the G-eneral Wrote His Attending Physicians. ... -■;-■■■ - - • Row the Distinguished Patient Watched the Progress of His Wasting, Fatal Malady. How Hope Alternated with Fear, and How at Last He Give Up the Un- • equal Struggle. 5 > Dr. Dong-las -was a worshiper of Grant from the time he met the General during the war of the rebellion, whonthe Doctor was connected with the sanitary service, until he stood by the bedside of the dead. He believed In Gen. Gtant as a man of destiny. When he went upon the steamer lying before Fort DoneUon, on which Gen. Grant sat, and looked at the commander for the first time. Dr. Douglas was Impressed by two things: the reticence and the alertness of the Federal _ officer. At that time he made up his mind that Gen. Grant was to be a great man in the history of American people. Subsequent events, as all know, prove how close and intelligent an analysis of character Dr. Douglas had made. From the time that the General’s voice began to fail, late in June, up to within a dav or two of his death, he communicated with Dr. Douglas very freely by written tablets. The Doctor has nearly 208 of these which he has preserved, and which he proposes to have j lithographed so that he can present the originals to the family. Shortly after Gen. Grant began to find it difficult to talk, not from the use of cocaine as had been supposed, but from the manner In which the cancer affected the vocal cords, he wrote as follows the 2sth of June to Dr. Douglas; 1 shall have to be,careful about my writing. I see every person 1 give a piece of paper to puts it in his pocket. Some day they will be coming up against my Engiis'h. It was Geu. Grant’s style to read up hooks concerning the history of the war and the records of the rebellion very closely and carefully, and then to sit down and write for hours at a stretch on his memoirs. The 23d " of June, at 5:30 p. m., he wrote the following pago: I said I had been adding to my book and to my coffin. I presume every strain on the mind or Do'dy is one more nail in the coffin. The 27th of June, at 10 a. m., the General wrote : I don’t talk because my mouth is easy, and I want to keep it so as long as possible. If I should get up now, I would i robably go to work preparing something for reading up. The same day ho. wrote a tablet saying that he had still been at work, despite what he had said in the morning. He wrote at 4 o’clock in the afternoon; I wrote four pages; I tore it off, and have it; I must read up before I can write properly. Gen, grant, during his early days upon the mountain, as well us during his illness in New York, was always interested in conversation. June 29, in the morning, Dr. Douglas happened to allude to the coming Fourth of July celebration at Woodstock, by Mr. Bowen, of the Independent.- Gen. Grant wrote as follows upon the pad: I have attended one of those reunions of Bowen’s at Woodstock. They are immense af- _ fairs. WATCHING HIS SYMPTOMS. Most of the tablets —all of them, with a few exceptions, in fact—refer to the symptoms of tho disease that was eating into his vitals. By following the tablets from the time the General arrived at Mount MacGregor until the closing of his life, one obtains a very fair idea of the insidious, deceptive course of-the deadly cancer. The 29th of June, at 3 p. m., it was raining, but the General wrote the following tablet: I have had a very restful dav. I hope, however, we will have a pleasant day outside tomorrow. Within an hour he began to experience a change, for at 4 o’clock he wrote: This is always the trouble. No matter how well I get along the'balance of the twenty-four hours, when the middle of the afternoon comes I begin to feel stuffy, stopped up, and generally uncomfortable. The 30th of June the General wrote the following: The atmosphere here enables me to live in comparative comfort while I am be&ig treated, or while nature is taking its course with my disease. I have no idea that I should have been able to come here now it I had remained in the city. It is doubtful whether I would have been alive. Now, I would be much better able to move back than I was to come up at the time I did. U. S. Grant. The General objected to stimulants. The Ist of July he expressed the wish to have the wine discontinued, and wrote as follows: I have njt taken any wine in six days. So far as I have * ried, I dou’t think alcoholic drinks agree with me. They seem to heat me up, and have no other effect. The 2d of July at 2 p. m. the General wrote this interestin g tablet; 1 have had no rest since you left here. Think I feel more like work than any time 1 since I have been here. I will try to rest a little, however. I have worked and feel a little weak from It, but I cannot sleop. From 7 this morning I have dozed off a few times, but not half an hour' in the aggregate, I have been writing upon my views of some of our Generals and of ■ the .character of Lincoln and Stanton. I don’t Elace Stanton as high as some people do. Mr. lincoln cannot be exalted too highly. One of the peculiarities of cancer patients, is that they- have periods of groat despondency. Gon. Grant had these periods, and July 3he wrote as follows: ’ - There are times when I could not recover if left to myself. What is to be Jny fate to-night. Doctor? \\ ill I have to lie awake, making it a study how to get a breath? It is about as much as I could stand to go through another night. It will be seen! from this tablet how much Gen. Grant suffered and how agonizing was the pain ho endured at times. His anxiety not to be left-alone was the very reason-why Dr. Douglas remained by him so faithfully and so constantly. To Indicate how hope and fear alternated with Gen. Grant I append two tablets. July 4 at 7 p. m. he wrote: - I have been, getting along very well to-day. There is a growing weakness, however. July 5 at 10:30 a. in. he wrote: I think I am not so weak as I was at this time yesterday. July ti, at 11 o'clock at night, he wrote this question to the Doctor: * Is the hotel pretty full now? The following were written July 7. At 11 o'clock in tho morning the General wrote: I had a pleasant morning. At 1:30 in the aiternoon the Doctor remarked that bis patient’s voice was better, and the latter wrote: Yes, my voice has broken above a whisper two or three times this morning. At 7:30 p. in. he wrote: I have had an easy day. DAt 11 p. m. he write to the Doctor about the use of cocaine, and said: I may have to use cocaine. If Ido I will take the liberty of waking von up to administer it. The thoughtfulness of the General in ex-’ pressing himself in making his wants known is disclosed by this last tablet. .He was very anxious at all times not to disturb the physician more than was necessary. At 4 o’clock in the morning of the Bth of July the General wrote what for him was a long tablet, in which he spoke of the use of medicines in bis disease and his familiarity with his own treatment, alluding to the habit he had sometimes of getting up himself and applying cocaine, taking a gargle and cleaning out his mouth whep he needed relief. In this tablet he said that if he kept on taking medicine and treating himself he would become quite a specialist in the treatment o diseases. He added that when he was edu- ‘ cated for the life of a soldier he had no idea that he would live to see the rank of a soldier raised two trades higher and have him•<elf occupy both of these exalted positions; , that he was never much of a politician qnd yet had been two times President: that he had never been much of a book reader, and yet be found himself the author of a book that was almost already in print. He closed with a facetious remark that if he ever got well perhaps he would be an authority on Medicine. July 8, at 11 o’clock in the morning, the •General wrote: I feel pretty well, but get sleepy sitting in the air. I took a half Sn hour's nap. Do yon want in the house? lam as bright and well now. tor the time at least, as I ever will be.

Soon after this be wrote: 1 believe 1 will go in after all. The visit of the Mexican editors, July 8, tired him very mut-h, and at 7 p. m. he wrote: I must avoid such, afternoons as this. All that fatigued me very much. I will take dinner and'get to bed while you are at dinner. , Cocaine afforded him much relief. July 9 he wrote: I gota very considerable amount-of rest. That last coca ne did me a power of - good. The water I wauled very much, and it gave me an easy relief, with free breath and brief rest. The same day, at 1 o'clock 4n the afternoon: I have been sitting up ever since about 9 o’clock. Until just now 1 have not been drowsy all that time I feel very much better than for some time. I walked about this morning with ease and pleasure. At 3p.n.: , I have rested finely and slept a little since you were here. Now is the time, however, when my month begins to till np, and I don't teel quite as pleasant, it had commenced just as you came in a few minuses. Half an hour later: For about three times after 1 had used the cocaine, to-day, I would lie: back in the delightful absence from pain, and even slept some. At 11 o’clock, the last tablet of the day: Tjio 10th of July, one day less than a fortnight. before Gen. Grant died, he wrote: I have had a very fine rest to-day, without so much sleep as to interfere with a good night’s rest trom now on. I may not get it, but 1 hope I will. My swallowing is growing more difficult. ’ ’’Buck" has brought up- the last of the first volume in print. In two weeks if they work hard they can have the second volume copied ready to go totheprinter. I will then feel that my work is done. Alas: before the two weeks had expired the old soldier’s work was done. About this time Gen. Grant began to experience greater difficulty in swallowing. The 10th of July, at 11:50 a. m., he wrote: I shall have to reduce my food very materially in order to be able to do anything much longer. It is quite hard to swallow anything after the first half tumbler. “ The same day, at 4 o'clock In the afternoon, ho wrote as follows: Doctor, lam glad to see yon. I didn’t know that you had come in. I don't see how lam to avoid the use of cocaine. It would relieve me very much. As early as 7;i5 o’clock, the morning of July 11, Gen. Grant was writiug to tbe Doctor:' I woke up feeling perfectly fresh, as if I had had a good night’s natural sleep: My breath is less obstructed than usual at the same time of the day, and the head less filled up. In fact, my breath is not obstructed in the least. I have used no co:aine during the night, nor do I require any yet. It was a peculiarity of Gen. Grant always to be considerate of those about him. This is mado clear by the following tablet, which he wrote at 1 o’clock in the morning tho 12th of July: Not sleeping does not disturb me. because I have had so much sleep; and then I have been comparatively free from pain. I know a sick person cannot feel just as he would like to all the time, but I think it my duty to let the physician know from time to time just my feelings, as it may benefit some other fellow-sufferer hereafter. On this same night the General’s nurse, Henry, gave Dr. Douglas a tablet which directed him to wake the Doctor, and advise with him whether anything should be done. The tablet adds: I feel very well, but Have nearly a constant hiccough. Whether this indicates anything or not 1 do not know, but it is inconvenient. The patient may not have known that this symptom signified the commencement of his last decline. Gen. Grant wrote at all horns of the day and night. For instance, at 4 o’clock the morning of July 12: I notice that your little girls and Julia (his granddaughter) get along very happily together with their swing, lawn-tennis, and nice shade. They seem very happy. About the same hour lie wrote: I have not slept probably two hours since 4 o’clock yesterday. Lying down as Ido all the time I get all the sleep in the aggregate that is necessary. * For the last twenty-fotir hours I have suffered less pain on the whole than usual. 1 have lelt more pain than is real because Fhave not been able to go out. Just now I feel quite strong, waiting until I get drowsy. I would probably feel weak if I had to make any gre'at exertion. It Is a question of avoiding nervousness and restlesness. These I have been free from. The trouble has been more from pain and the accumulation of mucus in the mouth and throat. At 8 o-’cvock on the morning of the same day he wrote: My not eating so much has helped me very much. As you say, the difficulty about articulation comes from the sore upon Inside of the cheek. THE LAST PERIOD OP DEPRESSION, July IB Gen. Grant wrote a tablet which has been In part published heretofore, in which ho said: . .1 I feel sore at the prospect, of living through the summer and fall In the condition I am in. 1 don’t think I can, but I may. Except that I gather strength, I feel quite as well as I have been heretofore, but I am satisfied that I am losing strength. I feel it more in the inability to move about than in any other way, or rather in the lack of degire to try to move. About July 16 a weakness of the stomach was indicated, and the 18th he wrote: If I could recover the tone of my stomach t think 1 would pick up. At this timera looseness of the bowels becauie apparent. At 10 o’clock in tbe morning he wrote: I have been very wide awake, but comparatively free from pain. I was just about getting up to walk about the room. Did any one go for you? I didn't send. At ID o’clock at night he wrote the following: Not feeling sleepy. Have been thinking of the propriety of taking food. If I could recover the tone of my stomach I would like it. The latn the General felt very tired, and at 2 o’clock in the morning began to be restless. The Doctor suggested a change of position, and the General wrote: Do you not think it advisable for me to rest as * tailor does when he is standing Up? With the loss of vitality tho malignant pains about the seat of the disease uppoared to diminish, and tho General was deceived as lo his condition, for he wrote the 19th of July: I think I am better this evening than for some time hack. The sore places mmy mouth do not seem to be spreading. On the other hand, I don’t see that any of them are particularly on the road to recovery. At 9:45 p. m. the same day he wrote: What time have you. Doctor? I have been resting so easily, I would not have been surprised to hear it was 11 o'clock. Henry tells mo It is only a little after 9. July 20, at 7 a. m„ ho thought he was better, and wrote: My rest for the night was better than the average. 1 am satisfied I shall have to give Up coffee. It is distasteful, too, and harder to take tnau anything that goes Into my mouth. I feel weak and feverish after my coffee for a long time, and have an insatiable desire to drink water. It has been a half-hour since drinking coffee, and I have an immoderate desire to drink cold water yet. At 2 o’clock a. m. he had written: In making a summary of the progress of the disease the 13th of July I said that the sores in the mouth were still there. This was hardly correct. The palate is about well and along the tongue considerably improved. The .General s nilud did not weaken until almost the last hour. The day before he died ho wrote: I don’t think I slept the last time because of the medicine which put me to sleep the first and second times. He bad taken the medicine but once. After this tablet was written several more were handed by him to the Doctor, but he very considerately and thoughtfully turned them over to the members of the family, for he felt that they belonged to them rather than to him.— Albany Journal.

Popular Opinion.

, His fame is undoubtedly one for all time. —SL Louie Spectator. Thebe is no stranger' life recorded by Plutarch or Gibbou.— Wilmingbm (N. C.) Morning Star. The faults of others which he shouldered through fall from at the grave.— New York Tribune. The moßt conspicuous example of the kind of men American e pmmonwealths are able to evolve when there is" need. —27ie Critic. , He has become the very embodiment of the idea of successful assertion of the National unity against disunion. —The Nation. At the feet or America’s freedom ’lies the clay of America's idol. He was a Ctesar, without a vile ambition; hew&s a Bonaparte, without a dream of universal empire.—Lot ten {Utah) Herald {Mormon). \ '

THETRUNK MURDERER,

Preller’s.! Alleged Slayer in Jail at St. Louis— He Eefoseß to Talk Abont tbe Case. ' ~ rSt. Louis special.] Walter H. Lennox Maxwell, alias T. C. D’Aughier, alias Hugh M. Brooks, the supposed murderer of C. Arthur Preller at the Southern Hotel in this city on the sth of last April, arrived here on Sunday from San Francisco in charge of Detective Tracy and Officer Badger, of the St. Lonis police force. A crowd of from 2,000 to 3,000 men, women, and children were at the depot when the train arrived, and there was a great scramble among them to get a view of the prisoner, but good order was preserved. The accounts of reporters who rode in from Halstead, Kan., on the train with Maxwell, and had free access to him and to the officers in charge of him, are to the effect that he absolutely to talk abont his case and positively asserted that he has at no time or place made any statement in regard to it, or in any way acknowledged that he had anything to do with Preller, or knew anything about it. He says all stories to the contrary are wholly untrue. Detective Tracy thinks that further developments will show Maxwell to be a weak man, mentally, but that he has got the one idea wedged into his mind that his safety depends on his silence, and that he will startle nobody with a romantic defense. Tracy thinks he killed Preller for money; that the few admissions he has made point in that direction; that his voyage from St. Louis to Auckland was a moneyspending debauch, and not a well-planned escape from justice, and that it was the luck that takes.care of drunkards and fools that stood him in stead, and not any good management of his own. Maxwell was in Chief Harrigan’s office an hour or so this afternoon, and a large number of callers were introduced to him. but nothing regarding his case or what line of defense he will pursue was obtained from him. Charles Bleger, the trunkmaker, recognized Maxwell as the man to whom he sold the trunk in which Preller’s body was iound, and a porter at the Southern Hotel recognized him as having been a guest at that house in April last. Maxwell will be turned over by the police authorities to-morrow to the Sheriff and will, be placed in jail. What other, if any, legal action will be taken, has not yet been determined.

GRANT'S TOMB.

A Vast Throng at Riverside Park on SnnO day. (New York telegram.] It is estimated that at least 40,000 people filed past the tomb of Gen. Grant last Sunday. It was the greatest crowd that has visited Claremont since the funeral. The visitors came by every road leading to the park, and began arriving early in the morning. All tbe surface roads leading anywhere near the park were crowded, and the elevated lines ran- extra trains. There were—a number of extra police as well as many detectives in civil clothing, but there was not the slightest disorder, and there was no occasion for their services at any point in the neighborhood of the tomb. By noon the crowd had so increased that it was necessary to form the people in line. The stream stretched over the hill for a quarter of a mile, and the visitors filed slowly past the entrance to the vault three .or four abreast That Claremont has a charm of its own aside from its being the resting-place of General Grant was shown to-day by the numbers who lingered there after passing the tomb. Thousands walked to the top of the knoll beyond, and then spread over the lawn above the bluff which commands the magnificent view of the Hudson. Some of the paths of entrance and exit about One Hundred and Thirtieth street aye steep and dangerous, and it became necessary to-day to close them. The people take a great interest in the camp of the regular soldiers on guard, and come as near to the tents as the guards will allow. To-day a double guard was on duty, and only friends and families of the soldiers were admitted. One of the visitors to Capt Fessenden was Leutenant Brownell, who killed the man who killed Ellsworth at Alexandria.

G. A. R.

The Proposed National Monument to Grant. [Washington dispatch. General S. S. Burdett, Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R., has returned here from the G. A. R. encampments at Gettysburg and Springfield. To a reporter Gen. Burdett to-day said that at each of" these places he spoke to the veterans regarding the erection of a monument to Gen. Grant, and they were unanimously iu Savor of its location in Washington. “It would have done you good,” said he “to see the enthusiasm that was awakened at the chance given the boys -to honor their dead commander. The Grand Army proposes to subscribe 10 cents from every member, and there are 300,000 of them throughout this country. They mean to erect a monument to Gen, Grant in Washington, and I don’t think the day is far distant when Gen. Grant’s remains will be placed for final rest in Washington. In reply to Gen. R. B. Hayes’ letter suggesting that the authorities of the Grand Army of the Republic encourage their comrades to contr.bute to the building of a monument over the grave of Gen. Grant, Gen. Burdett says: “I have been unable to bring my mind into accord with yours on that point. I hold to the opinion that the Grand Army will desire first of all to erect its own distinctive monument to our comrade, not-at a great cost, but for that purpose raising only such sum as. composed of the equal contribution of each individual comrade, shall be within the reach and the glad gift of the poorest. The national monument to be erected to General Grant should be of such proportions and cost as to be beyond the reach of private benevolence, and of right and propriety ought to be ordered by the Congress of the United States and paid for out of the National Treasury, and that consequently the Grand Army should not be be called upon for the effort you indicate.”

Only three Pullman sleepers have ever been seen-in Columbus, Ga., two on Mar-di-Gras excursion trains, and one occupied by Janauschek. According to an eminent Southern authority on barbecues, it takes ten hours to roast a whole ox to perfection. A Georgia Congressman has signed the petitions of sixteen different men for the same office. , ■ The Georgia Legislature has passed i bill prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liqnjors. | The Adventists have settled it The end of the world iB now ■positively fixed for May 14, 1886. „ v J " " rr “ . / Edward Remen yi, the violinist, is on a concert tour in China. ...

MECHANICAL.

Tiiedco instruction ol a ship railway to connect tl«l Bay of Fundy with the Gull of St. Lawrende lias now been finally decided on. ! This will not exactly make Nova Scotia lan island, but ships of 1000 tons and under will be able to reach St. John from Montreal, Quebec and other ports on the St Lawrence without having to encircle the dangerous Nova Scotian coast, a saving of GOO miles. The ship railway, which is to he seventeen miles long, will he supported by a subsidy of $300,001) per year for twenty years, from the Canadian Government. “Tkhnf,” plate can easily he distinguished from properly tinned sheet iron by the sense of touch when handled by experienced persons, unless the terne coating contains an unusually small proportion of lead. Fordoz’s test may, however, be depended upon as final. Clean the surface of the suspected plate, using a little ammonia to remove every trace of grease, and dry thoroughly ip a gentle heat, after applying a drop of nitric acid. Let, a drop of the officinal solution of iodide of potassium fall on the place where the nitric acid was .laid. A yellow spot will appear if tho least lead is present. This test, as~has been shown, is a good one for examining the quality of enamels of cooking vessels.

The restoratioh of steel to its original quality, after it has been burned in the forge, has been tested in the case of various classes of steel in common use for tools, and with varying degrees of success. Sometimes it is found that this accidental burning can be repaired by hammering tbe piece of steel while hot, but not often to profit. This alteration, known as burning, is explained to be due to a more or less considerable decarburation of the metal, and among the processes that have been devised for it 3 treatment the following is said to have given good results: The piece of metal is brought to a red heat and suddenly plunged into a mixture compounded of two parts of pitch, the same proportion of train oil, one part of tallow, with the additioh of a small quantity of common salt. This operation is repeated two or three times. It is stated on good authority that there are now 314 cotton mills in the South, having 1,276,422 spindles and 21,873 looms, while at the time the census was taken in 1880, the Sonth had only 180 mills, with 713,989 spindles and 15,222 looms. The largest increase in the number of mills waarmade in North Carolina, where a gain of forty-three mills and 110,595 spindles is shown, while Georgia made an increase of 139,156 spindles and twenty-two mills. In 1880, the value of manufactured cotton produced at tjhe South was a little over $21,000,000, while in 1883 the value had risen to between $35,000,000 and $40,000,000. Luring the last three years and a half $2,000,000 has been invested by new and old Southern cotton mills in machinery, tho bulk of which has, been paid to northern and western machinery manufacturers.

An ingenious machine has been invented in England for rolling out cut glass into sheets. The machine, or table, is portable, being mounted on wheels so that it can be moved with ease to any part of the glass works. The moulding tables are of cast iron, and of widths varying from two feet •nine inches to fonr feet two inches, and tuo surface is either plain, ribbed, checkered or formed with any device which it is desired to impress on the glass. On each aide of the table a rack is mounted on the lrame of thß carriage, and gearing into each rack is a toothed wheel mciinted on a shaft, which' also carries a plain iron drum the width of the table. The melted glass is poured on the table in front of the roller* which is then passed to and ffo by means of hand wheels, and the glass is thus spread out into a sheet. An adjustable guide is plaeed at the back of the roller to regulate its travel, and means are provided for varying the thickness of the sl|eet rolled. 4

The Delusion of Growing Fat.

If you continue your present dietary habits and live five or seven years more the burden of fat will be doubled, and that insinuating tailor will be still congratulating you. Meantime you are “running the race of life”—a figure of speech less appropriate to you a$ the present momen'? than it formerly was—handicapped by a weight which makes active movement difficult, up-stairs ascents troublesome, respiration thick and panting. Not one man in fifty lives to a good old age in this condition. The typical man of 80 or 90 years, still " retaining a respectable amount of energy of body and mind, is lean and spare, and lives on slender rations. Neither your heart nor yonr luags can act easily and healthily, being oppressed by the gradually gathering fat around. And this because you continue to eat and drink as you did, or even more luxuriously than you did, when youth and activity disposed of that moiety of food which was consumed over and above what the body required for sustenance. Such is the import of that balance of unexpended aliment which your tailor and your foolish friends admire, and the gradual disappearance of which, should you recover your senses and diminish it, they will still deplore, half frightening yon back to your old habits again by saying: “You are growing thin; what can be the matter with you?” Insane and *"%ischievou3 delusion.— Nineteenth Century.

The Age of Candor.

‘‘Will you take a cup of chicory, Mr. Newcomer?” asked tbe boarding-house mistress of a new boarder. “Cup of what?” "Chicory.” “Chicory? Oh, certainly, please— I’m very fond of chicory.” “Yes,” he added, turning to the nearest guest, “I like very much to hear things called by their proper names— I have been drinking this stuff for years, and 1 am certain this is the first time I haye heard it called anything but coffee, Please pass the buttqrine.” —Chicago Ha m bier. The words James A. are to be erased from the pedestal of the Garfield statue in 'Washington, leaving the single word Garfield. ...

FRIGHTFUL MINE ACCIDENT.

A Gas Explosion in a Goal Mine Hear tVilkesbarre, Piu, Kills Eighteen Men. [Wilkesborre !Pa.) special.] -• The most disastrous mine accident of recent, years in the anthracite coal fields occurred to-day at Mocauaqua, on the east bank of the Susquehanna Biver, fourteen miles from this city, and opposite the town of Shickshinny. Nearly a score of Sturdy miners who left ’ffheir homes this morning light of heart and in the best of spirits are now cold in death, having been suffocated by the deadly gas. Fifty-eight men went to work in the mine in the morning, and at half-past 8 o’clock it xvas discovered that the machinery that ran. the fan that supplies the air was broken. The fan stopped and the gas accumulated before the men could be notified of their peril. A few escaped by their own efforts, but nearly all were overcome and met gasping deaths. Twelve bodies have been recovered. Following are the names of the dead: James Whalen, aged 53; leaves three children. William Price, aged 25; unmarried. Peter Bovastski, nged 27; rtnmirrrfed. Anthony Bovastski, brother of Peter Bovastski, aged 23; unmarried. William Zerkie, aged 24; unmarried. Nicholas Bertch, 45 years old; leaves a wife and five children. James Fry, 32 years old; leaves a wife and two children. John Bilby, aged 46; leaves a wife and four children. Anthony Borskie, aged 24; unmarried. Wilson Rymer, aged 36; leaves a wife and three children. Anthony N. Yurski; unmarried. John Broskoski, aged 28. Thousands of excited people are loitering about the vicinity of the disaster, and willing volunteers take turns in going into the mine to rescue those who may yet be alive, and to remove thte bodies of the dead. Six more dead bodies were discovered at nine o’clock this evening. The fans are not yet at work, but an jyrpassago has been made through a second opening in the mine, and it is thought that the rescuers will soon be able to penetrate further into the slope. The scenes in the town of Shickshinny and about the mines are indescribable. The friends and relatives of the doomed ones are gathered by hundreds. Women and children tire mourning and weeping. Strong men shed tears, and the sobs of the bereaved wives of those who have been taken out are heartrending. Every train brings hundreds from the surrounding towns, and it is estimated that at least a thousand people are gathered in the vicinity of the disaster. — r~— — ■— The Salem Coal Company suspended work at the mines, and all hands are helping to recover tho bodies in the mines.

LAND LARCENY.

A Partial List of Those Who Have Been Extensively Engaged in It [Washington dispatch.] The following is a list of the illegal inclosures of public land of which the General Land Office has specific knowledge, which are affected by tho President’s proclamation: • -• . Acre? Persons and residence. inclosed. Levisey Bros., Pueblo Countv, C010rad0..62,T00 John Boss, Pueblo County, Colorado 14,720 John Heropenger, Pueblo County, Colorado 40,900 Lankford Bros., Pueblo County, Colorado. 14.920 E. C. Tolle, Pueblo County, Colorado 35,200 John CF. Haas, Pueblo County, Colorado. .40,300 Daniel Kees, Bent County, Colorado 1,500 J. C. Jones, Bent County,, Colorado 1,020 Polk Anderson, BentCohnty, Colorado. .7,500 David Degraff, El Paso County, Colorado. 10,800 Robert Douglass, El Paso County, Colorado 1,720 Allen <fc Link, Park County, Colorado 13,5Qp B. F. Spinney, Park County, Colorado.... 6,990 James Malloy, Las Animas County, Colorado ; 2,920 Poindexter & Orr, Beaverhead County, Montana.... T .90,880 Charles Beaubin, Silver bow County, Montana..... 4,600 Soloffion Jennings, Siirerbow County, M on tana 7,800 James A. Campbell, Custer County, Mon-

tana 2,500 C. H. Hutton. Albany County, Wyomtng.. 9,000 William Wallace, <j)eer Lodge County, Montana ... 4,500 Chatfei cer, Thomas A Blake. Kingman and Harper Counties, Kansas 24,160 William Dunphy, Lander and Enreka Counties, Nevada. ... 11,500 Baiaal it Bradley, Lander County, Nevada 1,300 Cram <fc Carries, Lander County, Nevada. 3,900 Andrew lienson. Eureka County, Nevada. 3,800 p. F. Coffee <fc Co.. Sioux Countv, Nebraska 6,000 Circle Bar Company, Sioux Connty, Ne- , Lraska 5,330 War Bonnet Live Stock Company, Bionx Connty, Nebraska 5,272 La; ota stock Company, Sioux Connty, Nebraska , .61,968 Ogden <V Ares, Sionx County, Utah........ 900 Thomas Bay, Sioux Connty, Utah 1,200 Patrick Largy, Bionx Connty, Montana... 790 Northwestern Cattle Company, Sionx County, Montana 14,000 Martin Stevens, Bent Connty, Colorado... 9,600 A S. Polk, Bent County, C010rad0...™,.. 6,700 M. T. Hopkins, Bent County, Colorado.. .-20,300 Columbia Cattle Company, Bent Connty, Colorado... 3,000 H. 8. Holly, Bent County. Colorado. ..... 1,200 .McLean Bros., Bent County, Colorado .... 2,000 J< seph Graham. Bent Connty, Colorado... 1,200 Jame < Beatty, Bent Connty, Colorado -. • .21,000 A. J Anderson. Lent County C010rad0..... 1,000 Humphrey Best, Bent County, Col rado... 2,000 SAV. Swink, Bent County,,Colorado ... . 9,000 J.^W.:Potter, Bent Comity. Colorado 4,500 McDaniels & Davis, Pueblo Connty, Col. ..37,5m) Nancrede .V Burns:-y, Pueblo County, Col. 6,500 Frank Bloom, I.as Animas County, C 01... 3,200 W. T. Burns, I.as Animas County, C 01.... 800 B. X. Kimberley. Arapahoe County, Col. . 3,200 Schafer, Arapahoe Connty, C01.'i.... 9.000 Suits have b;en instituted or recommended in the following cases: Acr.-a Inclosed. Arkansas Valiev Land and Cattle Company. Colorado ........ 1,000,000 Prairie Cattle Company, Colorado 1,000,000 Hali Ac Barela. Colorado..; 33,030 Joshua 11. Anderson, C010rad0......... 3,"o0 J ones A: Hess, Colorado 8,300 John Prowers, Colorado i. 200,000 Brighton Ranch, Nebraska. ■ .......... 125.000 Benjamin hershey, Nebra-ka 691 Ira Nichcls. Nebraska 1,083 Morr li C. Keith, Nebraska 1,484 Burke A- Sons, Nebraska 352

SPLINTERS.

Hcbebtine Aucleec: leads the woman's rights movement in France. Thomas Hughes is engaged in writing a biography of Peter Cooper. Sir Chaeles Dilke, it is said, is preparing to settle on a Dakota cattle ranch. Sabah Bernhardt is said to have earned 13,000.000 francs since she first trod the stage. President Cleveland has been invited to atten4Jbe_§t Louis fair in October, and he may accept. THEdpdians have given Geip Sheridan the name of “The -chunky- man - who-means-business. ” Emperor William of Germany always has .a chapter from the Bible read to Mm immediately after dinner. The room in which Patti was divorced was that wherein she was married in 1863.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—John C. Brady was murdered in bis house at Scottsburg by an unknown burglar. •4 —An application has been filed I6r a receiver for G. H. Zschech A Co.’s machine works, of Indianapolis, wbcb owe $35,000. John A. Stein, a prominent member of the Lafayette bar, and former partner of God love S. Orth, died in that city last week. —While Miss Anna Godfrey, daughter of the old Miami Indian Chief, and his niece were ont driving in Fori Wayne Wednesday night, their bnggy was overturned and both ladies seriously injured. —When the wife of Charles Jester, of Richmond, was left at„widow, a year or sc ago, she was unable to support hsrself and babe, and in giving* it to a neighbor re-„„ linqnished all right to it. Now she is married a train, to Ormer Gandee, and want# the child, and has abducted apoli>t News. —While crossing a trestle on the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railroad, near Marengo, an old German, name unknown, was run over by the west-bound freight and had his left leg ent off just above the ankle. The engineer sonnded the whistl* three times, but the old man was deaf and could not hear it —An old superstition exists that When * farmer accidentally misses planting a row of com, wheat, or other grain in a field, a member of bis family will be called to tbe grave within twelve months. A case of this sort was related to a correspondent at Scottsburg, recently, which may prove to the superstitious the truthfulness of the old saying. Last fall, writes the scribe, a farmer living in the northwestern part of this county, named Tunis House, discovered that in sowing his wheat he had missed two rows. Immediately he predicted that he and his eldest daughter, a young ledy, would be called away, according to the superstition. His predictions proved correet, for on the 21st of last March tho daughter died, and on the 26th of the following month Mr. House passed silently to the other shore.

FLORA BELLE.

Antecedents of a Fain on* Pacer; fLetter from Vincennes. 1 The celebrated Flora Belle, one of the fastest horses in America, is a Vincennes mare, and sporting men here and the citizens generally feel proud of her. She is the property of Mr. Jim McCarthy, of this city. Flam Belle is not on the tnrf this season, as she is now in Kentucky, being in foal by Nutwood. Flora Bele’s best records were 2:161, made in Bn.lalo, and 2:13i in F.ochester. N. If,, ia 1883. She made better time than that later on at East Saginaw, Mich., where she made it in 2:11, but she got no record for that. Flora Belle was once the property of William H. Neal of the Meredith House, of Washington, IncL, Mr. Neal is very enthusiastic over his favorits. He tells the following interesting and remarkable story of the great pacer: ■“I bought Flora Belle from an old farmer near Beuford T m Lawrence County, when she was a colt, payi :g him three live-dollar bills for the animal. 1 was bnying hogs through Lawrence County, and I had bought a small drove from the man of whom I afterward purchased the colt I wasn't iu the horse business then, but the old fellow insisted on selling me a scrawnylooking, poav-bnilt colt he had. He said he had paid $5 dash.and ought to have $lO more for his trouble in raising the colt. So I paid him his price and drove the colt to Bedford with the parcel of hogs. The next year sbe began to lengthen and look like she had some speed in her. I broke her to saddle, and she could outrack anything I ever saw. One day I was racking her when she suddenly changed her gait to a pace for the first time and fairly flew along the road. She cover got a chance to rack again, for I began to cultivate her for a pacer, and she rapidly improved, but at that time I did not think of going on the turf with her myself, and in the spring of 1880 I oft'ered to sell her for $125, but did not find a purchaser. ” “When was her first race made?” was asked. “On the L’aviess County Fair Ground track, at the Fourth of July races in 1680,? was the reply. “I then had two or three other horses, and came here from Bedford to take in the races. I didn’t intend to enter Flora, but she showed up so well I saw she couid beat anything on the ground, and entered her for second place.' John Bnrke got first place, but Flora could easily have beaten him, only I did not want to give her a record on her first race. Just after that race I sold a half-interest ip the mare for S3OO to Dr. Net Wilson. ” ■ “How did she get the name of Flora Bfelle?” "I didn’t call her that at first. Her original name was Sally Black, but a young woman in Lawrence County to whom X once loaned the mare to ride to church objected to the name, and I gave her permission to change it This she did, embroidering the name Flora Belle on a fancy linen horse-suit. I campaigned with P'lora Belle during 1880 and ’Bl. through part of Indiana and Illinois, and the mare steadily gained a reput ition. In the spring of 1832 we sold the mare to Jim McCar hy of Vincennes for $3,000. We parted with her too soon.” added 31 r. Neal, regretfully. “If we had kept her three months longer she would have brought SIO,OOO at least. Flora Belle is a great horse, and she made Jim McCarthy stacks of money.” "Did Flora Belle come out of good stock?” “Her sire and dam were of good b ood, but neither of them was fait, and Flora Belle was a sort of an accident, as it were. After she sprang into prominence, some fellow hnnted np the old stallion. He was working as a dr i.v horse. Several mares w.-re bred to him, among them Flora Belle’s chun, but of conrse the quality of the colts cannot be determined as vet. It is not likely, I think, that any of them will ever begin to rival the Belle. ” Mr. McCarthy says he believes she could be fore das low as 2:08. He will put her on the turf again in the fall of 1888, and thinks she will be able to do as good work as ever. 1 - , —A peculiar disease, arising from unwholesome sanitary conditions, is prevailing at Porter, where eighty persons have been attacked within a fortnight, several cases having proved fatal. —James H. Barnett, of New Paris, while sawing wood with a circular Raw, was struck by a bolt, his fade being horribly lace ated and three teeth knocked down his threat —Fifty-four teachers are employed in the New Albany schoola.