Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1885 — Page 3

The Republican. ’ RENSSELAER, INDIANA. K. MARSH AT J, - - PUBUBEODL

Insurance companies are willing to insure President Cleveland’s life at lower rates than have been offered since Buchanan went out They don’t believe that anybody wants to assassinate him or that he will try any trapeze tricks. The Medical Department of the Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, 0., has refused to admit women to the privileges of the school, after the announcement had been made that both sexes would be taught together. The young lady applicants for admission talk of bringing suit for damages. In France a manufacturer named Meynard has died without relatives, leaving his house to be maintained in the state in which it was left, “and all the living animals in it” cared for until they die. His body was cemented into a block of granite, to become a corner-stone for a free picture gallery.

Ahnednuggab, in Bombay, is afflicted by a plague of rats. Rewards were offered for the destruction of the pests, but after nearly 2,000,000 had been killed the people recognized in the rodents the spirits of their friends who perished in the last great famine, and refused to permit any more of them to be killed. The New York World has lived in vain. After rising SIOO,OOO to furnish a pedestal for the Bartholdi statue, it has received a letter from *'a constant reader,” doubtless, who wants to be informed who Bartholdi is, and why a monument should be erected in his honor. The editor of the World fainted when he read the query. The widow Van Cott,who is conducting revival meetings in Philadelphia, addresses gatherings every evening and on five afternpons, besides twice on Sundays, with the addition of Sundayschool services, She does most of the talking on these occasions, and prays five time at each service. Such work would be impossible but for her splendid physique.

Watch springs, it seems, are more than ordinarily liable to break during the equinoctial season. A prominent Philadelphia jeweler said recently: “We sometimes have such a pile of watches come in upon us when the equinoctial storms make their appearance that we are compelled to send around to the smaller shopsand pay premiums—and big premiums at that —for a journeyman or so for a couple of days. The Glen (Kansas) Herald tells this pleasant story: “At Wakefield, Clay County, a boy discovered a pig taking an ear of corn in his mouth and then trot off toward the creek. This operation was repeated so often that it excited the boy’s curiosity, and he followed the pig. What was his surprise to find at or near the creek another pig which was sick and unable to walk, and pig No. 1 had been taking food to the sick companion.” This country is now experiencing a decline in immigration, though during the past five years showing the amazing aggregate of 2,968,158. The course of immigration follows closely the business history of this country. News of hard times frightens away our future citizens, while active business and eras of high prices attract them. Nearly 400,000 immigrants arrived on our shores during the past twelve months. About two-thirds of our immigrants come from Germany and Great Britain.

Judge George S. Bachelder, of the International Tribunal at Cairo, who has just returned to this {country, says that General Gordon had but few friends in Cairo, cared for nobody but himself and had the same disregard for death as the Orientals, among whom he had spent so many years. He was extremely pious, but with it all was bloody and ruled those around him with an iron hand. He would have made the Soudan groan with his despotism if fate had not stopped his career in Khartoum.

Mr. J. T. Trowbridge, the author of that very popular poem, “The Vagabonds,” and many readable books, is now 58 years old. He was an active writer thirty years ago, and is even more active to-day. He is certainly a prosperous man of letters, and his home at Arlington, near Boston, is one of the attractive features of that place. He settled at Boston in 1850, after having worked hard, and not always profitably, with his pen, and be was soon brought into prominence by the publication of “Neighbor Jackwood,” which was a strong picture of life in New England. A woman in Gouldville, Pennsylvania, was stung on the upper lip by several bees while passing through an apiary of cross bees. Her husband withdrew the stings, applied wet earth to the wounds, and took her to the house. In a few. momenta she fell to the floor in convulsions, with her nostrils and lip so swollen that she could only breathe through her mouth. ‘ A doctor was sent for, but before he came she

died. She was 28 years of age, and lived but forty-five minutes, after she was stung. Of course her system must 'Gave been in. a very bad condition, and the poison took immediate and deadly effect ___L_ % “He may be observed,” says an exchange of Prof. David Swing, “almost any day walking leisurely through the crowded streets. A profile of his deeply-corrugated, thoughtful face suggests features of Dante. His hair is abundant and streaked with gray. His complexion is slaty. He is a man of small build, but his head is covered with a 7f hat He is very plainly dressed, and his collar is of the Byronic pattern. His tailor must make his clothes without too much style or they cannot be worn His mode of life is quiet, studious, and methodical, although he and his daughter have many callers to entertain, and many invitations to social festivities.”

Spelling schools of the manner of the olden time are likely to be fashionable this winter. Already they have been organized in many places. It is not much credit to be a good speller, but very discreditable not to spell welL It is well for young people to remember this. Many a youth has lost a good-paying situation, and many a young man has lost the Chance of the best wife by failing to make a study of his spelling-book and dictionary when young. There is no place where bad spelling looks worse than in a love letter. A badly-spelled love-letter, written by either a young lady or gentleman, will spoil a hundred -romantic tete-a-tetes by moonlight, and took the whole case up in chancery.

The wife of a well-known citizen of Chicago, on a recent morning, soon after rising, and while still engaged in dressing, asked her Husband: “Do you know anybody named Edsall or Esdale?” A negative reply Was given, and then a “Why do you ask?” She answered: “Because I dreamed that a man of that name was found drowned.” At the breakfast table the morning paper was read, and in one of the items of news was the announcement of the disappearance of a young man named Esdale, and whose remains some ten days later, were found in the lake. This is a bona-fide occnrence, just as related. Neither the husband nor wife had ever heard of the name, and the first time they ever saw it was in the announcement of the mysterious disappearance of a person who bore it. Is this merely a singular coincidence, or is it connected with a clairvoyance which perceives events and things beyond the reach of the average human vision ?

Recognition is being made in a variety of directions of the principle that the legal rules ordim&ily applied to strictly private enterprises and properties, are not applicaple without limitation to enterprises and properties 1 ’ in the conduct of which the public has a more or less clearly defined interest. For example, the right of a party to a private suit to attach a passenger train, thus causing inconvenience to a number of persons not interested in the controversy, has been limited by statute. A recent instance of the recognition of the principle refered to is mentioned in a Boston letter to the Albany Law Journal. The forms of a newspaper were attached at the instance of an attorney who considered himself aggrieved by strictures made in the preceding issue of the paper. The attachment was made just before midnight, when it was impossible to give a bond to dissolve the attachment; the officer refused to allow the forms to be used, and the result was that the paper was distributed to its patrons next morning printed on one side only, one half of the form having previously been prepared, and in the-hands of the printer,, before the attachment was made. To provide against the recurrence of any such inconvenience as was caused to the public in this instance, the last Legislature of Massachutetts passed an act providing that no attachment can be made of the forms of a newspaper when ready for the press. This act does not do away with the right of attachment against the property of newspapers, but introduces the principle that such right must not be exercised as to work inconvenience to the public.

Col. Smith’s Duel.

Old CoL Smith was an odd genius and a great joker. One evening, at a party, a young gentleman upon whom the Colonel had told some cutting jokes, feeling himself insulted, challenged the Colonel to mortal combat. The challenge was accepted. Having the choice of weapons and the appointment of the place of meeting the Colonel told the young man to repair the following morning at 6 o’clock to a certain spot, and added “that he would see that the weapons were there." The following morning at the appointed time, the young man repaired to the identical spot; said spot being among the lead mines, was naturally furrowed with mineral holes. “Well, sir,” said the Colonel, sticking his hands in his pockets, are you ready?” Receiving an affirmative answer, he continued: "Here’s where we are to fight,” indicating a mineral shaft near by, which was at least sixty feet deep, “and here’s our weapons,” pointing to a pile of rocks. “You are to go down that hole and throw rocks up; lam to stay up here and throw rocks dowm” Jt is needless to add that the challenge was withdrawn.

What you keep by you may change and mend, but words once spoken you could never recall.

THE NEW YORK ELECTION.

The Only Wonder Is That It 4 Was Not Worse. ■. * •-7- -1-.-From the Chicago Tribune. . - • For thirty years the State of New York has been a debatable ground, with its general drift toward Democracy since the war period ended. Fourteen Gubernatorial elections have now been held since the Republican party was organized, and each party has carned*seven, the most emphatic Republican victories being won during the war epoch, when the party had the benefit of Democratic accessions. Since 1874 the Republicans have had but one Governor (Cornell, in 1879, when the Democrats ran two candidates), and the drift of the State has been so steadily in their direction that the Democrats now claim it in their column. The reasons for this are not far to find. New York City is the dumping-ground for Europe. Tens of thousands of Irish have poured into it, been naturalized, and are now known as “Tammany,” an organization at least 80,000 strong. The Italians and French are also very numerous, and are solidly Tammany Democratic. The Germans also mainly all vote the Democratic ticket there. The few Republicans among them have neither an organ nor an organization. Resides these there are some fifteen or eighteen thousand American voters in the city who act with the Democrats, and, with the thirty or forty thousand Germans and a few Irish, constitute the other faction called the “County Democracy.” Out of the 140,000 Democratic voters of that city, fully 120,000 are “foreigners,” and their numbers are continually increasing, as their sons vote with them and more and more of their relatives arrive from Europe. New York has thus become really an Irish city under the rule of Tammany Hall. It has an Irish Mayor and an Irish Sheriff and many of the Judges. . The Irish control the Council, the Police, the Fire, and the Street Departments, and most of the offices, as they do in Boston and New Haven.

Brooklyn is in the same political condition in a lesser degree. It gives a Democratic majority of from 9,000 to 12,00 Q. Three-fourths of the Democrats there are Irish. They have also swarmed over into Connecticut, and hold New Haven and other cities in sufficient strength to make Connecticut a Democratic State. Westchester County, adjoining New York, and all the river towns up to Troy and Albany are also under Irish control, and consequently are Democratic strongholds. . Arrayed against Tammany is the “County Democracy,” composed of Americans, Germans, and a few’ Dish, whose only political object is to contest the local offices with the Tammany Irish. The two factions hate each other cordially. The Republicans being in a hopeless minority in the city, there is no necessity for compromise or union between the factions, and there is nothing to abate the fierceness of their rivalry. Their only object is to outvote each other and seize the local offices, and for this purpose to call out as big a vote as possible on each side so as to monopolize the consumption of the revenues, which now are swollen to about $33,000,000 per annum, and which are sufficient to give employment to 20,000 officeholders of all sorts.

Under conditions like these the Democrats have a solid and reliable majority of at least 60,000 on both sides of the river. Around the bay they control 5,000 more. In the range of river towns from Albany down to New York there. is an additional 5,000, so that the Republicans have a fixed, unyielding majority of at least 70,000 to overcome with their vote west of Albany. In other words, except under extraordinary circumstances, this majority is a little more than that from the rural districts. The Republicans, carrying a majority of the counties, still retain control of the Legislature, and will be able to make the laws, subject to the Governor’s veto, but this fearful foreign majority around the Bay of New York has swamped them on the State ticket. The savage effort of the two factions to get control of the local offices added to their strength on the State ticket, which both factions supported. The only hope of Republicans in the future lies in the nomination of a man of extraordinary popularity like Mr. Blaine, but who can at the same time command the mugwump vote. This vote Mr. Davenport had, but, whatever it may have amounted to, it was far more than offset by the “Blaine Irish,” who went back to their allegiance all over the State. This fall, as in 1884, the Republicans also had to fight against the rural Prohibitionists, who have become possessed of the insane idea that they can enforce prohibition in a State like New York, the chief city of which would vote down a prohibition amendment by more than 100,000 majority if it were ever submitted, and if carried would trample its enforcement under foot. Their vote last year was 25,000, more than nine-tenths of it Republican, and this year it will probably reach 40,000. With such ’ tremendous obstacles confronting the Republicans, the chief among them being the Irish obstacle in the alien city of New York, it is needless to look further for the cause of their defeat. The only Wonder is that it was not worse.

Its. Mission Not Ended.

As long as the Democratic party chops open ballot-boxes in the North and prevents men from voting in the South on account of color, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as three-fourths of the foreign appointments are filled by ex-rebel officers, and there are deserving Union soldiers, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. / *’ As long as the Democratic party endangers American labor by agitating freetrade measures, the mission of the Republican party is not ended-.-As long as the Democratic leaders in Northern cities corrupt the ballot-boxes and change tally sheets, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as one vote in the South has the power in the Electoral College of three times as-many in the North, the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as Union soldiers are removed from office and men are appointed because of the part they took in the hanging of “old John Brown,” the mission of the Republican party is not ended. As long as Legislatures gerrymander States so as to give Democrats two representatives for the same number of votes that the Republicans get one, the mission of the Republican party is not dead. As long as a Southern paper prints in its editorial column that it proposes “to have the blood of any white hound -who will dare to vote the Radical ticket,” the mission of the Republican party is not ended.—Bloomington Telephone.

The saddle of Gen. Robert E. Lee and the squadron of gray-coated cavalry carried Virginia with a whirl. It is the story of the Cid-in politics. The amount ann'uaUy paid to school teachers in the United States is $60,000,000, an average of about S4OO apiece. ' i‘

Stories of Lawyers. Gen. Barnes told a story about a lawyer which is a legal classic, but which derived a great deal ..of novelty from a singularly humorous description of the hero. He said this lawyer was rather given to the bottle, and, in? deed, he was in the habit of going on protracted sprees. A great mafiy lawyers da I know lawyers who go on a spree when>they lose a case; find I have known some who go on a spree every time they got a fee, never knowing how long it might be before he got another. But there is something rather novel and original about the proclivities of Gen. Barnes’ hera He never knew when he started on a spree where it would end. It always began in San Francisco, but he very often sobered up in Virginia, Nevada, or Miltipas, or New Mexico, or somewhere miles from home. He was always prepared for it, however, and whenever he sobered up he immediately hung out his shingle and started practicing for enough money to take him back to San Francisco, which he always reached ultimately. The story is worth repeating, says the San Francisco Chronicle: He got on a “ bust” once, and when he came to the end of his tether he found himself sobering up in Carson. Having but one suit of raiment, he hung up his shingle out the door of his room in the hotel and went to bed while his costume was being renewed for wear. He was* in the depths of slumber when a knock aroused him. He requested the knocker to enter, and a Carson man in somewhat rough attire, walked in. “Are you a lawyer?" “Yes,” he answered, from the pillow. ‘Tv got a case for you.” He sat up in bed, drew the bedclothes around him in an instant, and assumed an interested air. “State your case.” “Well, you see I rented a field for grazing from a man, I put a horse on it and the horse died.” “Indeed! Well?” “Well! Hain’t I got a case against that man?” “Unquestionably. But, tell me,what didVhe horse*die of?” “You see, a rattlesnake bit him and he died.” “Ahem!” “Can’t I sue the man for the value of the horse ? He hadn’t any bizness to go and rent me a field with rattlesnakes in it, had he ?” “You’re right, sir, perfectly right. Do you want me to take up the case?” “Yes, of course." “Ahem! What—what amount—what fee do you propose to offer?” “Well, I haven’t got any money I’ll give you—l’ll give half the value of the horse ?” ‘‘Very good. What,r may I ask—what do you consider is the value of the beast?” “It wasn’t very young. It had been kicked by a mule and the gophers had nibbled at it, and it had fallen down a shaft, and it had been fifteen or sixteen years drawing quartz from a mill. Well it wasn’t —well I should say it was worth about $9.”

The lawyer gently laid down in bed and prepared to go to sleep. He gave one last look at the client. “Good morning. I am engaged for the snake.” A well-known lawyer in town had once a case which developed immense importance for a man who is now a millionaire, but was at that time poor. This was a suit brought against him about a piece of land under the Van Ness ordinance. The defendant had engaged to give the lawyer one-third of the property as a fee, contingent. In the District Court the case went for the plaintiff, but on appeal the decision was reversed and the defendant won. The lawyer took his third. A few days after the decision the client came in, looking troubled. “Look here, that fellow’s sued me again about that land.” “On what grounds ?” “An alcalde grant or something; I don’t know. I want you to defend me.” “All right.” “Yes, but I don’t want to put up any monev. How much will you take?” “One-third.” “One-third?” yelled the client; “Geeminy; another suit cleans me out.”

Generals and Lieutenant Generals. The office of Lieutenant General was created for Gen. Washington, in May, 1798, and March 3, 1799, this office was abolished. An act of Congress, approved Feb. 29,1864, revived the grade of Lieutenant General, and March 1, 1864, President Lincoln nominated Grant to this position, which nomination was promptly confirmed by the Senate. An act of Congress, approved July 25, 1866, revived the grade of General of the Army, a rank which, like the other, had never been held by anyone but Washington—and by him only from March 5, 1799, to his death, Dec. 14, 1799—t0 which grade President Lincoln immediately appointed Gen. Grant, with the approval of the Senate. An act of Congress, approved July 28, 1866, provided for one General of the Army and one Lieutenant General, the former officer to receive $13,500 per year, and the latter sll,000. When Grant received his commission in July, 1866, as General, the senior Major General in the army, Gen. Sherman, became Lieutenant General. When Grant resigned his commission as General, in 1868, Sherman succeeded to this grade, and Sheridan, the next officer in rank, became Lieutenant General. An act of Congress, however, passed in July, 1870, provided that the offices of General and Liutenant General should continue until a vacancy occurs, and no longer; so that when Gen. Sherman was passed to the retired list, in November, 1883, the office of General of the Army passed out of existence. Sheridan, therefore, though the highest officer in the army, holds the rank of Lieutenant General only, and when his death, or ment, shall occasion another vacancy, this grade, too, will expire, and the senior Major General will be the ranking officer of the army, unless Congress shall again make provision for the reviving of the higher grades.— Inter Ocean. ' Some of the responses one gets through the telephone are, holler mockery. - I ’

TURKEY and thanks.

President Cleveland Proclaims the Last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. The following proclamation has been issued by President Cleveland: By the President of the United States— The American people have always abundant prosperity for which to be thankful to Almighty God, whose watchful care and guiding hand have been manifested in every stage of their national life, guarding and protecting them in time of peril and safely leading them in the hour of darkness and danger. It is fitting and proper that a nation thus favored should one day in every year, for that purpose especially appointed, publicly acknowledge the goodness of God and return thanks to Him for all His gracious gifts. Therefore I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 20th day of November instant, as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and do invoke the observance of the same by all the people of the land. That day let all secular business be suspended, and let the people assemble in their usual places of worship-and with prayer and songs of praise devoutly testify their gratitude to the giver of every good and perfect gift for all that He has done for us in the year that has passed; for our preservation as a united nation, and from our deliverance from the shock and danger of political convulsion; for the blessings of peace, and for our safety and quiet while wars and rumors of wars haqas agitated and afflicted other nations of the eartaVofour security against the scourge or pestilence which in other lands has claimed ife dead by thousands and filled the streets with mourning; for plenteous crops which reward the labor of the husbandman and. increase of our nation’s wealth, and for /the contentment throughout our borders which follow in the train of prosperity and abundance. And let there, also, be on the day set apart a reunion of families, sanctified and chastened by tender memories and associations, and let the social intercourse of friends with pleasant reminiscences renew the ties of affection and strengthen those of kindly feeling. And let us by no means forget, while we give thanks and enjoy the comforts which have crowned our lives, that truly grateful hearts are inclined to deeds of charity, and that a kind and thoughtful remembrance will double the pleasures of our condition, and render our praise and thanksgiving more acceptable in the sight of the Done at the city of Washington this 2d day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty [l. s. ] five, and of the independence of the United States the one hun'dred and tenth. Gboveb Cleveland, President By the President: Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State.

THE NATION’S FINANCES.

The United States Treasurer’s Regular Monthly Debt Statement. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the let of November: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4)s percent $250,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,740,350 Bonds at'3 per cent 194,190,500 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 223,800 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent..... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 ■ , ' i ■ ■■■■ Principa1.51,260,778,162 Interest 9,595,948 T0ta1>1,270,374,1M DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal.. $3,734,305 Interest. . 219,384 "Total' >3,953,689 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. $346,738,841 Certificates of deposit 18,145,000 Gold certificates 109,020,760 Silver certificates 93,146,772 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed).... 6,961,163 Principal 574,012,536 Total debt— Principalsl,B3B,s2s,oo3 Interest. 9,815,338 T0ta151,838,340,836 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt 283,864,475 Less reserve held for redemption of U.S. notes 100,000,000 Total $333,864,475 Total debt less available cash item 551,514,475,860 Net cash in the Treasury. 66,818,292 Debt less cash in Treasury Nov. 1, 1885.51,447,657,568 Debt less cash in Treasury Oct. 1, 1881 1,460,934342 Decrease of debt during the month. $13,276,774 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOB REDUCTION OP THE DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $93,146,772 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 18,145,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 13,549,637 Fractional currency 2,305 Total available for reduction of the debt $233,864,475 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S.'notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882...• $100,008,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt:— 1 Fractional silver coin $22,965,536 Minorcoin. 719,831 Total $23,685,867 Certificates held as cash... 63,432,364 Net cash balances on hand. 66,818,28$ Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer’s general account.. $487,800,499 Net increase in cash. 3,864,341

THE STEEL CRUISERS.

A Plan for Their Completion Decided Upon by the Navy Department. At the conference at the Navy Department, between Secretary Whitney, the chiefs of the bureau of steam engineering and of construction and repair, and the members of the naval advisory board, the plan for the completion of the unfinished cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta was arranged and decided upon. The work on the vessels will be continued at the yards where they now lie by the Bureau of Steam Engineering and Bureau of Construction and Repair, and they will bear the same relation to the Government as the original contractors did. The bureaus will be held responsible for what is done, and the work will be conducted under the direction of officers representing the bureaus. The Naval Advisory Board will have its representatives at the yards, who will supervise aH work and material, as formerly. If any changes or modifications in the original plans are deemed necessary the same course will be pursued as before the Government took charge. „

QUADRUPLETS.

A St. Louis Wife Give* Birth to Four Girls at Ono Clip. [St Louis special.! Mrs. Michael Gallagher, the wife of a policeman living at No. 1004 Biddle street, became the mother this evening of quadruplets, all girls. The mother and children are all doing well. This is the fourth case of quadruplets bom on that street and in that same block within ten years. Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher Were married in New York, City twelve years ago, and had six children, but all single births, before the quadruplets came. '1 .

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Lincoln Hall was decapitated by a train at Lafayette. —J. A. Graff, of Connersville,, poisoned himself at the Gibson House, in Cincinnati. —At South Bend, Maud Brick, five years old, while at play, fell into a cistern and was drowned. —Harvey Ford, of Jeffersonville, through long-continued catarrh of the head, has become totally blind. —Suit has been ordered against the expoundmaster at Windfall, who is charged with being short in his accounts. —Strand Miller, two years old, was burned to death at Central, Harrison County, his clothes having caught fire. —J. F. Surmann, the well-known New Albany violinist, has gone to New York to take a position in Damrosch’s orchestra. —Frank Talbott, an ex-employe of the Evansville and Terre Haute Railway Company has. begun suit'for $50,000 damages for false imprisonment. —Chief Brooks, of the secret service, Treasury Department, says that he believes Indiana produces more counterfeiters than any other State in the Union.

—The Union National Bank, with a capital stock of $100,000, has been organized at Richmond. Mr. Jesse Cates is President, and Mr. John K. Jones Cashier. —At a revival meeting in Hopkinsville occurred the wedding of a colored couple who begin their married life with thirtytwo children, the groom having twenty-two and the bride ten. —Albert Holt, a saloon-keeper of Logansport, sent his wife to the country and then disappeared. The wife returned and found that robbers had gutted the premises, but there is no trace of Holt. —Fairland lost one of its most respected citizens in the person of Mrs. Dycie Odell, mother of the late Hon. Isaac Odell, once a well-known attorney of Shelby County. The deceased was 81 years old. —Early Monday morning, at Wabash, Mrs. C. Jellison, aged 26, burst a bloodvessel and died instantly. The body swelled to enormous proportions, began to decay, and had to be interred in great haste. —Thomas A. Stockslager, of Kansas, brother of Hon. S. M. Stockslager, of Harrison County, has been appointed a special examiner in the Pension Bureau. The pay is $1,400 per year, with $4 allowances per day for expenses.

—The boiler in W. M. Aiken A Co.’s pork-packing and proprietary medicine establishment at Evansville exploded, wounding eleven persons and wrecking the building. Two of the victims are not eipected to survive their injuries. —The Fort Wayne Council has agreed to accept the proposition of Hon. Hugh McCulloch to transfer the old Broadway Cemetery to the city for a public park, and a committee has been appointed to arrange for the removal of the bodies interred there. —lt will probably soon transpire that Gen. Wallace has returned to Constantinople in response to a cable dispatch from the Sultan of Turkey. It is well known that during his recent residence as United States Minister at the court of the Sultan he not only formed an intimate personal friendship with that monarch, but was honored with his confidence to such an extent that he became his counselor in important public affairs. It may be that the chief purpose of his present mission is to give aid in the impending negotiations for peace; but his services in still more urgent demand in case of their failure. Should there be an Eastern war, which now seems inevitable, Gen. Wallace will no doubt be tendered a high position in the Sultan’s service, and it is not at all unlikely that he will be Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish armies. Such an evefrt would be in perfect consonance with his past career, which has been brilliant and dramatic in all its episodes. As fellow-countrymen, we wish Wallace good luck in his adventure.— Indianapolis Journal.

Mr. Mussleman’s Whims. [Lafayette special.l A curious case of insanity has just come to light which tends to show the idiosyncrasies of a once bright mind, but now an inmate of a lunatic asylum. John T. Mnssleman, once a resident of this city, but subsequently of Loganssport, was a man of 'much notoriety in law and politics in Northern Indiana. Being a thrifty and good business man he accumulated a fortune of $300,000. His unsoundness of mind first phowed itself a few years ago in refusing to pay his taxes. His personal property was sold to pay the same, and he became infuriated at the City Council. He next purchased the Logansport Pharos for $9,500. He then contracted to build an opera house, and afterward wrote a drama entitled, “Logansport Reveries.” Subsequently he went to Indianapolis and hired a dramatic troupe to bring opt his play. His friends, on account of his many vagaries, began to believe him insane, and instituted a judicial inquiry into his case, and the commission declared him insane. He was taken to the asylum at Indianapolis. Mrs. Musselman men sued for divorce and alimony, and was granted $33,000. He remained in the asylum for one year, when, through the influence of the Masons and the Odd Bellows, he was liberated and returned to Logansport. His next move was to buy out a newspaper, and he started the Nun (weekly), a Democratic-sheet. After many eccentricities he was a second time returned to Indianapolis, where he remains in the asylum to this day. „ 1 —" " " *" " ' "' *’ 1 —Henry Miller, aged 77, an old and .J 1 lie highly respected farmer of Ohio County, two miles below Aurora, and who is worth $125,000, has deeded all his property to * his children preparatory to marrying Miss Ada Chance, aged 17, the daughter of a highly respected gentleman of Delaware. He pays the. girl $5,000 for marrying him, and she consents to his transferring the property to his children. —Joseph Solomon A Son, wholesale ’jewelers, and Joseph Solomon, pawnbroker, of Indianapolis, made assignments _