Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — Page 7

The. Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. - > - • — — -—*— S. E. MARSHALL, - - Pubushml

It is said that Hon. W. W. Astor, late United States Minister to Home, has-written a novel of Italian life in the middle ages, which is shortly to be printed by Scribner’s Sons. The story was accepted by the firm before the name of the writer was known to them. A Columaus, (Ohio) carpenter, while at work on a school-house, fell down the chimney, seventy-five feet high, breaking both of his legs. He was Rescued by cutting a hole in the chimney at the bottom large enough to pull him through. Contact with the walls in his descent saved his life. “Two of the toes of my buried leg overlap each other and pain me dreadfully,” said the wife of Jacob Berean, of Moriboro, Mass. The leg had been amputecl and buried one month. The husband, unknown to the wife, had the m leg exhumed and toes straightened out, and she said she knew by the relief that followed the exact moment the act was performed.

William Elwood, a noted New York gentlemanly burglar, was reeqgUly discovered eating soap. His fellqfar-pris-oners say he has eaten two day for a month in order to reihaced his weight and give him a consumptive appearance. When searched tobacco was found in his armpits. Physicians say this will reduce weight. Elwood is awaiting trial for the burglary, and for shooting a policeman. There died in Wallingford, Connecticut, lately, a spinster, who remained one on account of a curious pre-nqptial quarrel. The day had been fixed for her wedding, and she and her intended husband began to put put down carpets in the house they were to occupy. She wanted them laid one way, he another. They quarrelled and separated. He died shortly afterward, and the lady never married. A man, who used to preach the gospel in the settlements has written to a friend in Eureka, Nevada, that he is running a bar in Uleda, Montana, and that hispartuer is Yaughn, an old-timer from California, who used to deal faro in Colorado, and was sent to the penitentiary for burglary. “He is a good gambling man,” declares his ex-clerical partner in a burst of admiration, and adds by way of a personal vindication : "Belling whisky pays bettor than preaching, and besides it is no harder work.” ,

There are seven sisters in New York who possess GOB inches of raVen black hair, and a statistician recently computed that their combined hair, if placed in single strands, would reach over 160 miles. They put their hair in silk bags at night to prevent it from tangling. The father of these girds, Eev. Fletcher Sutherland,has been pastor of the Methodist churches in Genaseo, Lyons, and Lockport, New York, and is the only survivor of President Buchanan’s inaugural dinner, given at the National Hotel in Washington, at which some forty guests were pois-? oned. Among the young men of title and fortune who may be said to be coming on for the next London season is Sir Henry Alfred Doughty Tichborne.who will in May next be of age. The youthful Baronet is now in his twentieth year, having been born in May, 1866. The necessity of defending his property against the celebrated Tichborne claimant has entailed upon his trustees the enormous expenditure of £120,000. His estates are in Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Dorsetshire, and Buckinghamshire, and represent between 11,000 and 12,000 acres. Thexe are, in addition, London properties, bringing up the gross rent-roll to £28,000. The anglers in Northern waters have laid aside their rods and reels until the soft winds of Spring open the dogwood blossoms. But the genuine angler during the winter months always carries in his side pocket a sinker or a fly to remind him of past delights and joys Co come. One of the beanties of fishing is its .pleasant memories; a mean man may fish to kill time, but he never loves the sport. When the grandest news that was ever sent to the world was ready to be heaalded, neither priests, nor doctors, nor lawyers, nor statesmen, nor merchants, nor editors were chosen to repeat the “glad tidings," but humble fishermen of Galilee. The S.-n Francisco Society of Lady Agists id having a great time. It doesn’t know whether to call itself “lady” artists or “women” artists. It has long been a local habit to take matrimonial squabbles and all matters requiring peculiar finesse and exquisite blandishment to General Barnes. Accordingly, one of the ladies thought she would do a deter thing, and get the General to settle the vexed question of names. So she stated the case to him. After mature deliberation,partly over the matter in hand, and partly over a complicated shot at billiards, the General rendered his decision : “Avoid-both names,” said he. “Why not be original and euphony ions, and call yourselves ihd San Francisco Society of She Painters?” There

was a rustle of stylish petticoats and a sudden chilling vacancy in the apartment /I, It takes very little sometimes to separate two loving hear! s and make them meet thereafter as strangers. Recently in France a young artist was about to be married to the girl of his clioioe, but begged her for his sake to abandon the use of a bustle, as the sight of one gave him a pain. Instantly her warm French blood began to boil, and throwing her beautilul head proudly back, she gave him to understand, in a tone of voice that made him wish he had belonged to another generation, that where 3he went her bustle would follow close behind, wedding or no wedding. He also had blood that would boil an egg, and he plainly informed her that, since she preferred her bustle to him, she could marry it, and he would hunt up some female who would dispense with that appendage aud give him the preference. Near Cliehalis, in Washington Territory, last October, two boys, John Browning and Ben Prindle, figured in a bear-fight. The boys wdre out for birds, and while passing through a dense thicket, heard a fierce growl—a growl which made their blood curdle and their hair to stand on end. The boys soon discovered that they were surrounded by bears, and that, though well armed, it.was barely possible for them to escape. A monster black made a pass at Prindle, who instantly pulled both triggers, but the gun kicked and knocked him heels over head, with bruin in pursuit. Browning, seeing the plight his companion was in, took deadly aim and sent a bullet crashing through old bruin’s brain. Two others attacked the boys, but young Browning shot them .both, just as one of them was preparing to make a meal of Prindle. Three shots in rapid succession killed three bears and saved two boys. So relates the local chronicler.

The participants in “Japanese weddings,” a form of entertainment very popular at church socials in towns where the appearance of the “Mikado” has suggested the idea, are experiencing considerable embarrassment in New York, and elsewhere, over the fear that they are actually married, after all. The marriages were intended, of course, to be mock affairs, but the ceremonies having been performed, in some cases, by clergymen cr other authorized persons, a not unreasonable suspicion has gained ground that the Japanese unions are sufficiently American to be legal. In one instance mentioned, where the young man and woman who kindly personated Nanki-Poo and Jum-Yum for the benefit of their non-theate»-going neighbors, had each formed previous matrimonial engagements, great confusion and dismay exists. It is probably the wisest and saf-ast plan for those desirous of witnessing the joining of two Japanese hearts to go to a professional show, where there is no danger that the performance is anything but “play acting.”

The birth of a huge iceberg, a . phenomenon that has been seen only once or twice by a European, and to a certain extent has remained a matter of .theory, was observed by the Danish explorers on the east coast of Greenland last summer. The bergs are formed by breaking off from the end of glaciers extending from the perpetual ice of the unexplored interior to the coast and into the sea. The water buoys up the sea end df the glacier until it breaks by its own weight with a noise that sounds<-like ] o ud thunder miles away. The commotion of the water, as the iceberg turns over and over in the effort to attain its balance, is felt to a great distance along the coast. The natives regard it as the work of the evil spirits, and believe that to look upon the glacier in its throes is death. The Danish officers, when observing,the breaking off of the end of the great glacier Puissortok through their telescopes, were roughly ordered bv the Esquimau escort, usually submissive enough, to follow their example and turn their backs on the interesting scene. They had happily completed their observations, and avoided an embarrassing.conflict witli their crew by a seeming compliance with the order.

Utah Wonders.

There is in this extreme north of Utah a magnificent subterranean reservoir of first-class soda-water, bubbling and effervescing out of the ground in such quantities tliat all America might be supplied. In the extreme south, on the road to Orderville, is an exquisite circular lakelet tffiat is always just full to the brim with water as clear and as green as bervL And where the water overflows the lake’s edge it incrusts the ground, and 1 the grass,- and the fallen leaves upon it with a fine coaling of limestone, so that the brim is grawmg higher and higher with the imperceptible but certain growth of a coral reef, and in the course of generations the lake will Become a concreted basin.

The Long and Short of It.

Is in not an outrage upon the eternal fitness of things that we should call the biggest elephant in the world “Jumbo” and the smallest orchid that ever tried to hide its ugliness behind its name the “Chewhoopupangitontothe Yiungstekalamazoplolite Alabazm ?” It does not seem right.— Bob Burdette. Why do people who think secular music wicked, repeat psalms in a singsong manner ? Texas Siftings. v ■-

HERALDRY AT HOME.

Insignia Emblazoned on Republican Stationery —Chat with an Engraver. “What are heraldic devices?” was the question repeated by one of Boston’s most fashionable engtavers. “They are,” he continued, “simply badges of honor granted by a king to bis subjects. They are granted to warriors, statesmen, doctors, artists, scientists, etc., for eminence or public service. There is at present a great rage among the upper crust for seals in the form of autographs, initials, crests, and odd ideas such as dogs, cats, owls, horseshoes, etc. One who wishes to be quite com me ilfaut as regards stationery must have his residence engraved on a steel die and stamped in colors on the upper right hand corner of the sheet, and in the centre of the flaps of the envelope; one and one-fourth inches from the point —using a seal to close the envelope.” “What is now' the most fashionable paper?” “Among the ultra fashionable light shades are the thing—as pinks, grays and creams—having the appearance of being hammered (like silver), or with a grain imitating woven linen. Hotpressed and hand-made papers are still in vogue, and largely used by the best people. A large proportion of this paper is stamped in colors from dies that have been in use from five to ten years. There is a craze among yacht owners to have their paper illuminated iu gold and colors lrom designs combining their own flags with flags of the different yacht clubs they, belong to. Some of tlie paper illuminated jn this way costs as high as 30 cents a sheet, and envelopes to match the same. Among the Boston gentlemen who haye dies of this description are William F. Weld, Georgs Warren, and George W. Weld. Speaking of odd devices in seals, here is ene I made recently for a gentleman named Hatton. It is, you see, a tall hat, with ‘ton’ beneath it. Here is a cat coiled up on the letter T. I made that for a gentleman named Tekat. In monograms the rage is for heraldic tigers, wyverns, snakes, etc., designed to form initials. Many designs, too, are engraved from ideas originating with skiKed penmen, who design ladies’ Christian names without taking pen from paper. They are usually so difficult for an ordinary observer to read that they are known as cipher monograms.- Look at this.” The one referred to read Caroline, and both commenced and ended with the initial letter. It required the most careful study to decipher it, but when once read appeared comparatively plain. “How about coats-of-arms?” “They are becoming very popular all over the United States, and deservedly so. Is it not the most natural thing in the world for a young man to take pleasure in thus recalling a long line of creditable ancestry? As far as the present heraldic artists are able to trace, there are the scions of many illustrious families now residing in Boston.”—Boston Globe.

The Haytien Revolution.

The island of Hayti has been the scene of more than one bloody revolution. The first of these, and the most important in its results, broke out in 1790. At that time the population of the western, or French, part of the island—which had received the name of Hayti in 1777, when the boundaries between it and San Domingo; the Spanish part of the island, were fixed—numbered about 500,000. Of these, 38,360 were whites, 28,370 mulattoes, and the remainder negro slaves. The mulattoes were not held in slavery; many of them were well educated and owned large estates, but the laws of the island excluded them from all political privileges. The white people of the colony had taken mush interest in the French revolution, and sent deputies to the Assembly at Paris to declare their adhesion to the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity. But when the mulattoes urged the application of these principles to their class as well as the whites, their request was contemptuously denied. Accordingly some 300 of their number rose in rebellion under the leadership of one Vincent Oge, but the outbreak was checked, its leader was broken on the tt-beeL and twenty-one of his followers were hanged. In France general svspathy was with the mulattoes, and a decree -was passed bv the National Assembly declaring all persons of color born of free parents entitled to all the privileges of French citizens. Though this decree did not interfere with slavery, it excited great opposition on the part of the planters, and they would no doubt have succeeded in preventing its operation, but for the unexpected occurrence of an insurrection on the part of the black slaves—a class that, up to this time, had been scarcely even considered by either of the contending parties. The whole colony was now involved in a fierce' civil war which lasted several years. The insurgents recreated to strong positions in the mountains which defied attack. The French were further distracted by invasions on the part of the British and Spanish, the former of whom conquered a large part of the colony. Meanwhile, in j 1793, the French National Assembly declared all slaves free. The British were driven from the island in 1797 bv 'iloussiant L’Ouvertnre, who subsequently governed the emancipated people with firmness and dhcretion for several years. -After the capture and death of L Ouverture, the riegroe3 rebelled again under Bessalines, who, on the formal assertion of the independence of the blacks, Jan. 1. 1804, was made governor for life. Since that time the country has been the scene of periodic revolutions. Sometimes consolidated into one State, and sometimes divided into two, the country has alternated between despotism and anarchy, between monarchy and republicanism. The constitution of the present republic was adopted June 14, 1867.— Inter Ocean.

Snoring.

It is related of Sir Humphrey Davy, an eminent scientist, that among his minor discoveries was a theory of snoring and a way of epring it. Be attributed snoring to a dry or parched state of the larynx caused by mouth-

breathing, and in an inveterate case be tried to cure it by putting a piece of castile soap in the mouth of the sonorous sleeper, He found this plan was oily ingredients of the soap lubricating the lafYnz, while “the soda of the soap is forcibly expelled in the form of strong alkaline language by the snorer, who awakens the moment the decomposition begins.” Soft soap is said to be a more powerful remedy for the same purpose. Snorers who prefer to escape the application of this means of cure may do so by rearing with a handkerchief tied under the chin and over the bend, which will keep the mouth shut and the throat moist. — Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.

The Art of Type-Writing.

The type-writer is generally supposed to be a machine of recent invention, but 1 it really dates as far back as 1714. OnC Henry Mill obtained in that year, in England, a patent for a device that would “write in printed characters, one at a time, and one after the other.” There is n of his device to be had now, But it is no doubt true that Mill’s invention was the parent of the present type-writer. The idea seems to have lain dormant for over one hundred years, when it was taken up agaiu by various inventors, who sought at sundry times to embody it in a machine that would work satisfactorily, but apparently without success until 18G7, when a firm in Milsi ankee made a type-writer, that was actually used. Improvements were made from time to time, each one leading to another, when the Remingtons took hold of it and produced the standard machine that is now sold by the thousand all over the world. To such perfection has this machine been brought that even the most detailed and intricate statements, containing column after column of figures, can be readily made wi h it, and in a neat and bHsiness-like form that is impossible with the pen of the average writer. Its use has opened a field for women who have to earn their living, that never exised before. They are naturally expert and skillful in using the fingers, and* they readily learn to use the typewriter with great speed. A number of schools have added it to their regular course, and young men who learn to use it find it far easier to obtain situations. Charles Reade said: “I advise parents to have their boys and girls taught short-hand writing and typewriting. A short-hand writer who can typewrite his notes would be safer from poverty than a Greek scholar." Dr. Brudenell Carter, the famous surgeon of London, when here visitiijg the Centennial, bought every American invention that he thought would be of use to him, and among ttiem a typewriter. In a treatise of his on the eye and how to preserve it, published not long age, he give a cut of a typewriter, and advised all persons who are “near-sighted” to use it. The speed with which an expert operator can rattle off words and sentences is wonderful to one who has never tried to use the machine. The fingers play with a swift and ceaseless motion over the keys, accompanied by the monotonous “rat-rat” of the machine, and sheet after sheet of neatly-written manuscript is taken from the roller, from two to three times as fast as an average penman can produce it. EVw people write with a pen faster than twenty or thirty words a minute; an expert will bring out of the type-writer fifty to eighty words a minute. What, then, must be the value of a clerk who is an expert at both short-hand and type-writing ?

Interesting Newspaper Statistics.

According to the last edition of Edwin Alden & Bra’s American Newspaper Catalogue there are in the United States and British Provinces a total of 16,105 newspapers and periodicals, of which 15,368 are published in the United States, and 737 in the British Provinces. They are divided as follows: Daiaes, 1,411, semi-weeklies, 188; tri-weeklies, 64; weeklies, 11,567; Sundays, 426; semi-monthlies, 356; monthlies, 2,010; bi-monthlif% 40; quarter-monthlies, 141. This shows an increase in the total number of papers in the United States and Canada since last year of 1,303. New York leads tne list with 284 new papers, Michigan follows with 183, Ohio with 122, Dakota , Territory with 88, and with 83, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Utah alone show a falling off. In comparison with the population the increase is greatest in Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Texas, and the Territories, particularly Dakota. All classes of newspapers and magazines are represented in this total increase of 1,303. In the large cities the number of new trade papers has been most marked, while in Dakota and the Northwest the number of new local papers is no* iiceabl'e. ,

Nature’s Oxidizer.

Ozone, supposed to be a very active form of oxygen. lias been thought to exert so benificial an influence that an increase in the atmosphere’s proportion —which rarely averages more than ouepart in 700,000 —has been hailed as a token of a particularly healthful climatic state. Flowering- -plants—especially the odorous kinds —and scented foliage have been pjrbnonnced of hygienic value because they generate ozone. A rather surprising announcement, therefore, is that of Dr. Daniel Draper’s supposed discovery that ozone produces pneumonia, but it seems quite probable'that the gas which so powerfully destroys organic impurities may I>e proven by further research to act as an irritant of the lungs.

Important Theatrical Note.

Marc Aiftony.Grig, the distinguished tragedian from way back circuit—“Me friend, how is this? The house va< cold last night—cold—cold—ca-hold! And yet I had distributed me'good gold among the ushers to insure a hearty welcome and tumultuous applause.” Mr. Oclistein, the prosaic and Hebraic manager—“Golt? Two dollars un’ a helluf! You don’t get no dumultuo.us abblause for no two dollars an’ a helluf. Dot don’t get you no jrnore as a a gordial rezeption!”— £ uegtnde Blaetter.

MEN OF NOTE.

Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender. By the death of Alfonso XU. the claims' of Don Carlos to the throne of Spain have been revived. Don Carlos, who insists that he is the rights ul, heir to the thr me of Spain, would be heir to the throne if the Salic law, which formerly governed the succession in Spain and prohibited the succession of a female, had not been abolished by KiDg Alfonso’s grandfather, Ferdinand VII. in order to secure the crown to his daughter, Isabella 11., Alfonso’s mother.

Don Carlos claims that Ferdinand had no right to abolish the Salic law; that it is, therefore, still in fores in Spain, and that he is King by right. The-growth of public sentiment is, however, Jjffefavor of liberal government, and the possibility of Don Carlos, who represents ultramontane bigotry and intolerance, being called into power, is very remote. A republic might be a possibility if the Republicans were united among themselves, but they are not. Their leaders are divided; there is no cohesion in the Republican party. Besides, the Catholic Church and the property interests, two powerful factors in the politics of Spain, fear a republic and are opposed to it. Don Carlos was bom March 30, 1848. His father, Don Juan, was the brother of Charles VI. of Spain. As Charles VI. died without issue his rights devolved upon his brother and subsequently to the present Don Carlos. The latter was educated in Austria, and was married in 1867 to Margaret de Bourbon, sister of the present Comte de Chambord (Henry VI.) of France, - In 1872 the adherents of Don Carlos raised his standard in the north of Spain, and in July of that year he published a proclamation addressed to (he inhabitants of Catalonia, Aragon, and Valencia, calling npon them to take up arms in his cause. Don Carlos made his entry into Spain in 1873, and the various governments from time to time in power at Madrid sta-ofe in vain to suppress the revolution. When Alfonso was called to the throne Don Carlos issued another proclamation calling npon his volunteers to continue in their efforts, exhorting them tp remember their many brilliant achievements, and that they were fighting for Che welfare of Spain. He also promised them to reform the government should he oome to power. Alfonso’s forces, however, made continued foreing the Carlists, who fought with desperation, to Tolosa. In January, 1876, this, their last stronghold, fell. Their leaders sought refuge in France. ’July 18, 1881, Carlos was expelled from France on the ground of his having ostentatiously allied himself with the partisans of the Comte de Chambord. Don Carlos has five children -the Infanta Blanca, bom in 1868; Infante Jaime, bom in 1,870; Infanta Elvira, bom in 1871; Infanta Betrix, bom in 1874, and Infanta Alix, bom in 1876. Don Carlos is a true scion of Bourbon, lilies and all. Since Henry V. of France refused the crown because the deputies would not permit him to change the tricolor for the fteur delis, there has been no such royal antiquarian upon the European political stage as Don .Carlos. Both preserve the traditions of the fifteenth century with a tenacity bom land bred in centuries of communal institutions, and as difficult to separate as life itself. The Don will not sanction the marriage of his son and the infanta sired by Alfonso, because he considers the mesalliance would rain his chances to the throne.

OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

Ex-Congressman Sidney Clarke's Comprehensive Measure to open Up a Fart ot the Indian Nation. Ex-Congressman Sidney Clarke, of Kansas, has prepared a bill to be presented to Congress organizing the new Territory of Oklahoma. The boundaries include the country within the present limits of Indian Territory known as Oklahoma, and the publio land strip north of the Pan-Handle of Texas. The bill provides for all the necessary machinery for the executive, legislative, and judicial functions of a complete Territorial Government. The Indian tribes who had absolute titles by patent from the United States are exempted from the operations of the bill. The unoccupied Oklahoma land and the public land strip are declared to be a part of the public domain and opened to settlement under the homestead law, embracing about 7,000,000 aores. Another section of the bill disposes of the unoccupied portion of the Cherokee Strip west of 96 degrees of longitude to actual settlers only in tracts not to exceed 160 acres, at $1.25 per acre, the proceeds to be placed to the credit of the Cherokees, less the cost of sale and the appropriations already made for the payment of said land. For the purpose of securing the assignment of homesteads in severalty to the Indians of the various tribes, their education and civilization, the reduction of the reservations, and the sale and settlement of the surplus lands, and the final adjustments of all questions relating to Indians, a commission is authorized to be appointed by the President, composed of three civilians and two military officers. Full authority is given to thexnmmission, under the direction of the President, to enter into such negotiations with the Indians as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the act. - ■ '' - IN Indianapolis Samuel Steinberger and wife were subjected to coal gas by the fall of a stove-pipe. A* the Hebrew law forbade him to touch or kindle fire on the Sabbath, he made no attempt to remedy the trouble. He lost his life, and his wife lies in'* dangerous condition. The handsomest woman in Italy is said to be nearly seven feet tall. She probably seems handsome to mortals of ordinary length. It is a case where distance lends enchantment to the view. Mrs. Diantha Jones, of Batavia, Mich., is in her 100th year, and has never needed spectacles.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Rev; E. E. Green, of Wabash, has fallen heir to $500,000. —The new five per cent, bonds of Jeflersonv.lle have all been taken.' Joy A Co»’s elevator at Red Key burned lately. Loss, $10,000; partially insured. —Escaping coal gas suffocated Simon Steinberg and his wife at Indianapolis. —Joe Spurrier, a brakeman employed on the Panhandle, was killed at North Grove. —George Huff, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Mancie, died in that town. of Washington Connty are taking steps to built a new court house. —The law that the doors of schoolhouses shall open outward is being enforced in Clark County. —W. C. McCray, of Terre Hantc l , has a little, old-style flatiron with which his great-grandmother used to iron Washington's fiilled shirts. —The old Barnett House at Logan sport, one of the oldest hotel buildings in the State, Las l>een condemned’ and sold, and will'be tern down. —Rev. John R. Elmore, of Clayton, having been expelled from the pulpit for bigamy, cut a hole through the ice iu the river and drowned himself. —At Bedford the business places of George D. Gowen, Telford & Co., W. W. Ferguson, and Nathaniel Williams were burned. Loss, $15,000; insured. —Ben. Blanchard, the land speculator, who ran away from Terre Haute to escape a warrant for embezzlement two months ago, has returned and given himself up. —Wilson Spray, a Quaker farmer near Indianapolis, lias made an assignment. Liabilities, $30,000. His farm, residence, etc., are estimated to be worth $50,000. —Joseph Defrees, of Goshen, is dead aged seventy-three. He bad been both Represeutative aud Senator in the State Legislature and a member of Congress ia 1866-7.

—The death in Georgia of Hon. E. T, Johnson, of Indianai>olis, recalls the famous scandal for which he killed Major Henry, of Tennessee, when Mrs. Johnson poisoned herself. --Near Lafayette, Mrs. Betsy Metzger* aged seventy-four, and George Budolph, twenty years old, were united in marriage.' The groom is not rich, but the bride has a snug bank account and owns 160 acres of choice laud. —A few nights ago a committee of the City Council of Vincennes went out on a still-hunt for the police force. One officer was found in bed at his home, another was driink, a third in a house of ill-fame, and a fourth waft discovered sleeping off a debauch in u saloon. —Jndianapolis Journal: The death is announced of Charles H. Clarke, at Louisville, at the nga of seventy. For fifteen years he was connected with the CourierJournal, and for a time acted as the f- - ; # * amanuensis of George D. Prentice. Mr. Clarke is the original of James Whitcomb Riley’s “Remarkable Man,” as he is made to appear in his new book of sketches, “The Boss Girl,” and other stories. Mr. Riley has been asked about it, and says that the surmise is correct. It is said that Mr. Clarke read the sketch in question, which goes far toward explaining his sudden death. —Brookville at present is a quiet little town of two thousand inhabitants or thereabout. Sixty years ago it was the foremost town in the State, nnd was the residence of many distinguished men. The Lund Office was located there, and was in charge of Robert Hanna, a personal and life-long friend of Thomas Jefferson, Other noted personages were Governors Ray, Noble, Wallace, and . Hammond; Hiram Powers, the sculptor; Captain Eads, constructor of the 1 St. Lcui# bridge and the Mississippi jetties; Oliver H. Glisson, Bear Admiral United States navy; Captain Herndon, commander of the ill-fated Central America and father of President Arthur’s wife; May, the architect of the State Honse at Indianapolis; and here General Lew Wallace was bom.

—A divorce suit involving persons prominent in society at Indianapolis, and Well known throughout the State was filed, tried, judgment rendered, and alimony granted and paid the other day in the short space of three hours. Mrs. George \V. Stout was the plaintiff, and her husband, a wealthy and prominent wholesale man, was the defendant. The parties were both in court, and but three witnesses were examined. Stout’s book-keeper testified that he had opened three letters in the course of business addressed to Stout by Mrs. Josie McGee, a divorced woman, making appointments for meetings and demanding money. Mrs. Stout testified to cruel treatment, saying her husband had cursed and abused her, but she had borne this Until she heard of his liaasons with the McGee woman. She charged him with infidelity, and he confessed it and asked .forgiveness* but this she refused. Mrs. Stout’s sister waa a witness to his cruel treatment of the wife. Stout had no attorney, and when asked if he had anything to sav replied negatively. The divorce was then granted and SIO,OOO alimony was,given the wife. Stout immediately paid this by transferring certain city property to her. If cheap prices at, the theaters means to fill the galleries with hoodlums, youngand old, to the discomfort of all who have to listen to cat-calls and guyings, we are not so snrj but the patrons of the- places of amusement would preftfi the old rates. 'lhe owners of the houses owe it to their patrons to preserve order. —Indianapolis Journal. #- • • < Sonth Bend, Jolnr Ungery has been sentenced to twenty years in the penitenti--ry for criminal assault upon his daWghter.