Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. W. R MARSHALL, - Publish**.

Baroness Burpett Couits has the satisfaction of knowing that her yonng American-born hnsband beat the Mnrqnis of Lome for a seat in the Honse of Commons. The' Marquis is the Queen’s son-in-law, and it was her Majesty who snubbed the Baroness because she married a young man. A Binghampton commercial agent wore celluloid collars. The train on which he vrt.a riding slackened its speed, when he thrust his head out of the window to learn the cause. At that instant a spark from the engine struck his collar and ignited it. His whiskers were scorched, but fortunately he escaped serious injury. At a recent marriage in Ohio the bride, a Miss Morris, wore a dre3s that was imported from Paris in 1742, for a wedding, and has been in the family ever since, being used only on such occasions. It was worn again in 177 Gas a wedding dress, but not a?ain till the other day, when Miss Morris donned it, and it is in almost as good condition as when new. Cassius M. Clay, though not .far from 75, is managing a large farm in Kentucky, and nearly as vigorous in mind and body as he was in his prime. He has had a checkered and picturesque career, having been a lawyer, legislator, soldieiy lecturer, banker, politician and diplomat. Of late be has withdrawn from public life, albeit he periodically furnishes his views on leading questions to the newspapers. Three relatives of Schiller are living in Vienna, who did not—-being in mourning at their mother’s death—make themselves known to the committee in charge of the Schiller festival of 1859. They are the sisters Clotilde, Mathilde, and Sophia Kodweiss, daughters of F. E. Kodweiss, who was the son of E. J. Kodweiss, who was the brother of Schiller’s mother, Elizabeth Dorothea Kodweiss. Oe the nineteen Presidents elected to that position, four, W. H. Harrison, Zacliariah Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, and Jame 3 A. Garfield, died in office. Of the Vice Presidents, and those acting as such, George Clinton, Elbriflge Gerry, William E. King, Henry. Wilson, Thomjts Hendricks, died in office. Of the forty Presidents and Vice-Pres-idents, nine, or over 20 per cent, have died in office. This is a greater ratio of mortality than lias befallen any other class of men.

A farmer in Middlebury, Connecticut, lias discovered a valuable assistant in his farm work. lie lias a 13-year-old ox which in the past has annoyed him greatly because of a propensity to shake apples from the trees by interlocking his herns in the limbs. Being anxious to secure his immense Rpple crop before heavy frosts the strong ox was turned into the orchard and was soon discovered vigorously at work shaking the apple-tree limbs. The “farmer says die - ga 111 ere d more than :500 bushels of apples with the help of hi:? willing bovine. 5 . 'thiE following sentence written by Alfonso, the late King of Spain, in the autograph album of Miss Foster, the daughter our last Minister to that country, be read with special interest since his death: “A la Senorita Foster: El gefe del pais do la tradicion y los remerdon, que es un etusiasta admirador do las gigantescas creaciones de la libre America, del pais del parvenir,., Alfonso, Marzo, 1881,” The translation of this is:. “The chief of the country of tradition and memories —who is an enthusiastic admirer of the gigantic accomplishments of free America, the country of the future,”

It used to be a humor of Sarah Bernhardt, when she felt particularly hateful and sour of soul, to get in a coffin and pretend to take a nap. But Bernhardt’s playfulness seemed trifling, indeed, in view of the dreadful misadventure of Mme. Natalie, who also trod the French stage. While Mme. Natalie was playing in pantomime ~£t the Folies-Dramatiques, she swooned and passed into the state of rigidity that marks one who is dead. So they put the poor girl ipto a coffin. But, lo! at the first rap of the hammer on the lid Mme. Natalie awoke and stood up, to ' the amazement and terror of all at the grave. Mme. Natalie had been in a trance. That was in 1836. She reappeared upon the stage O 1838, and acted for thirty years, retiring then on a pension of G,475 francs. A few days ago this noted woman was again placed in a coffin, nor did she start when the lid, with < melodramatic solemnity, was tapped threo times. The millionaire roadities of New York have erected private stables of late years on a more luxurious scale than many a residence. Mr. William Rockefeller's stable oh Fifty-fifth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, cost $45,000. Mr. Flagler, also of the Standard Oil Company, has a largo* liable on Fifty-fifth street, west of Sixth Avenue, which cost him $50,000. Tlie Vanderbilts’ stables, corner Madison Avenue and Fifty-second atreet, covers three city lots, and the

property is worth SBO,OOO. Mr. William K. Vanderbilt’s stable on Fiftyeighth street, within a stone’s throw of Firth Avenue, is valued at SOO,OOO, The building that shelters Muxey Cobb and Neta Medium, and the ground on which' it stands, corner bf Fifty-eighth street and Fourth Avenue,, cost Mr. Isador Chontield $45,000, But the most expensive and rechenche palatial stable of them all is Mr. Frank Work’s, where Edward and Dick Swiveller are domiciled on Fifty-eighth street, a few doors oast of Seventh Avenue; the estimated cost of the property was SIOO,000.

A flood of light is let in on the singular spread of Socialism in the German capital by statistics showing that in Berlin no less than 94,00(1 families, comprising nearly 400,000 individuals, have to live, sleep, and often work in “suites” of a single room. In 3,000 of these rooms there is neither stove nor fireplace. One-fourth of their tenants are poor lodgers. Twentyfive thousand families live in cellars under sanitary conditions that are characterized as absolutely shocking. Such meagre accommodations as the despised New York tenements afford, with their two or three rooms to each family, are at a premium, and would be accounted a great boon by thousands. Only of the poorest and the best classes of dwellings—those renting at 10,000 reicbmarks a vear or over—is * there abundance, for the Berlin builder is a speculator and not a philanthropist The poor have not even the chance of going to church of a Sunday to meditate on better things to come, were they so minded; for all the Protestant churches and chapels in Berlin have together hardly seats for 50,000, while the servant girls alone number over 60,000.

The latest novelty in jewelry consists of a curious and effective portebonheur that has been knowq,in Egypt for the past eighteen centuries, and is made of gold or silver and worn as a charm or bracelet by ladie3, and a cravat pin by men. The name of this pros-perity-bringing talisman is “oudja,” signifying luck and happiness, and shows the eye of Horn , from which a tear-drop flows, intended to represent the River Nile. The peculiar property of tho “oudja” is to bring good luck; but the Pharaohs looked upon it as an emblem not osly capable of warding oft' adversity, but also of ltavjng a large influence over the goodly yielding of the earth, containing, as it does, the main principles and fertilitv, i. e., fire represented by the sun, Horans, and water, by the tear flowing as the Nile. This charming little amulet is being adopted by many members of the aristocracy, and is presented by friends one to the other with the graceful wishes usual on such occasions, to such an extent that by Christmas, not a Parisian with a particle of superstition will exist without his or her “oudja.” The bangle pendants are made of gold and precious stones, of pure gold and silver, to accommodate all sorts ©f conditions and purses.

The late Wm. H. Vanderbilt’s home is a palace of which a Doge of Venice might have been proud. It cost hint about $2,000,030, It is ©f brown stone and is mere elegant than showy in ap pearance. It lias a fine gallery of paintings which is open to artists and others at certain intervals. Here are examples of the best work of contemporary artists both in this country andin Europe; here are canvasses by Corot, Meissonior, Daubigny, Jean Francois Millet, Delacroix, Whistler, Mbran, Miliais, Watts, and many others, hot to mention the sculptors represented. Mr. Vanderbilt is said to have been a better judge of paintings than some had supposed. The appointments of hi* palace—for it is nothing less, are elegant, not to say gorgeous, in the extreme. One of tbe bronze doors is said to*have cost SBO,000, and the bronze ratling around the house $60,000. But it happens that the splendid house is overdecorated. It is too-too, as the early icathetes would, say. There is scarcely a spot big enough to place ypur little fingernail that is not covered with some device, the result of money and art. Mr. Vanderbilt has been in the habit of giving art receptions, and tickets for these were eagerly sought by connoisseurs and society people. Very recently, however, he announced that he would give no more public views of his art works, and for the last year thetreasures ho had collected from two •continents have been visible only to his intimate friends and visitors of the family. His collection of contemporary and, other French art he valued at over $1,000,000. A grand fancy-dress ball was given in tho new mansion the night of March 26, 1883, and on this occasion, for the first time, the actors arid other shining lights of the first society of the city appeared in Mr. Vanderbilt’s drawing-rooms. The ball was the event of the season, and was said to have cost tbe opulent host $40,000,

A benefit tociety in London, lately established, has some good features. Its basis is the payment into a common fund of $25 a year by the firm, and from two to six shares ar© allotted to each workman, according to the average amount of.his weekly earnings. On euch of these share he pays 5 cents a week. Sickness brings $1 per share; after three months 50 cents a share is paid. In case of |a death each wo~kmah is taxed 50 cents. v

THE ALASKANS.

Their Antiquity—queer I dean About Steal—The Bout Children in the World. In his report to Congress of the Point Barrow polar expedition, Lieut. Bay devotes pne chapter to the natives of Alaska. , Of origin and descent, he saya, we could get no trace, there being no record of events kept among them. Their language abounds in legends, but none of these gave any data by which we coaid judge how long these desolate shores have been inhabited. That the ancestors of the people have made it their home for ages is shown by the rains of ancient villages and winter huts along the seashore and in the interior. On the point where the station was established were mounds making the sites of three hnts, dating back to the time when they had no iron, and men “talked like dogs.” AtPerigniak a group of mounds mark the site of an ancient village. It stands in the midst of a marsh, a sinking of the land cansing it to t>e flooded and consequently abandoned, as it is their Custom to select the high and dry points of land along seashores for their permanent villages. The fact of our finding a pair of wooden goggles twenty-six feet below the surface of the earth points conclusively to the great lapse of time since these shores were first peopled by the race of man. - They are a robust, healthy people, fairer than the North American Indian, with brown eyes and straight black hair. Then men are beardless -Until they attain the age of frjpm 20 to 25 years, and eyen then it is very light and scattering, and is always clipped close in the winter; at that season they also cut Of their eyebrows and tonsure their crown like a priest, with bangs over their forehead. Their hands and feet are extremely small and symmetricab They are graceful in their movements when unencumbered by heavy clothing. * They are kind and gentle in disposition and hospitable to strangers; though they may rob a stranger of every means of obtaining a subsistence one moment., they will divide with him their last piece of meat the next. They have no form of government and live in a condition of anarchy. Though given to petty pilfering they rarely, if ever, break into a cache or enter a tent of hut for that purpose. During the first winter we had stoves, of which . they were in great need, in a Sibley tent, and they all knew they were there; and although the tent was tied, with no regiilar guard over it, nothing was ever disturbed, though if anything was carelessly left out it would be stolen at once. They never make the slighest resistance to our reclaiming property when discovered, and would laugh about it as though it were a good joke. A more obedient or a better lot of children cannot be found in all Christendom. I never saw one of any age do a vicious or mean " act, and while they were always around the station during the fall and winter, they did no mischief, but, on the contrary, would busy themselves in shoveling the snow out of the tunnels and running on errands and doing any work they could for a little food each day. The children would wait around the door for members of the party to come out to take their daily exercise, and would accompany each member, and every few moments they would say “nanmitanity” (now let me see); they would scan the traveler’s faco for frost-bites, and were ever ready with a handful of snow to be applied, should they delect the slightest sign of freezing. The games were very what we see played among children of our own race, and in imitation of the pursuits of the elders, we often saw them with play-houses cut into the hard snow, with snow images set ujj and the little fur-clad mites of humanity bustling around, playing keepingffiouse afnd making calls; ’with the thermometer at 40 degrees below zero.

There is no marriage ceremony among them, but children are often betrothed by their parents at an early age, and this promise is faithfully kept, and they enter upon their marriage relation at the age of 12 to 15 years. Where there has been no childhood engagement the mother makes selection of the wife for her son, and the girl selected is invited to the lxrase, where she takes the place Of a servant for a short time, doing the housework and cooking, generally returning to her father’s iglee to sleep. They often have family disagreements, the husband resorting to blows when the wife is sulky and disobedient, sometimes with the result of her running away. We knew of one instance, where, owing to a slight mistake the husband had made in his estimate of his wife’s character, he obtained results not anticipated. While out on a deer hunt he attempted to chastise her. She retaliated and gave him a severe thrashing and then fled to a village seventy-five miles away. At the time we landed at Uglaamie, this same woman carried on her back a box of lead weighing 380 pounds a distance of ©ver 200 yards. - When a man of matured years loses his wife either by death or from incompatibility of temper be selects one for himself and sometimes uses force. A native from a village to the westward. whose wife had left him, came up to Uglaamie to obtain another. One day we were attracted by loud outcries from a woman who had been waitiaor around the station for food. We found our friend from Sidaru vigorously cuffing her ears, and it was some time before we could make him desist. He explained that he wanted her for a wife and was persuading her. Their dead are carried out and laid on tho tundra without any ceremony other than the near relatives following the body to its last resting place, o Tt is usually wrapped in deer skins; if a man, his sled and hunting-gear are broken and laid over the body; if a woman, her sewing kit and some few honsebold utensils are placed at her head; but everything so left is. broken. With but few exceptions I never knew them to pnv any atlention to their dead after they were carried out, and all showed great relnctaoce about speaking of them. The bodies are usually eaten by the dogs, especially in the winter, and it i 3 no uncommon sight to see them gnawing the bones on the roofs of the huts. While they all claim that it is bad to use anything that belonged t© the dead, I noticed that no matter how good an outfit a .man had

when living, his was the most worthless sled and gun that could be found after his death.

How Porcelain Ware is Made.

To earthenware the blue clay gives toughness and solidity; flint gives whiteness, kaolin whiteness and porousness, and Cornish stone aot’s as a sort of flux, binding all together. These materials, being weighed and measured, are placed, together with a large quantity of water, in huge vats fitted with an agitator called a “blunger,” by means of which they are thoroughly stirred up and mixed together. As my oonrteous guide raises the lid of one of these "blunging” machines, 1 descry, as it were, the interior of a vast churn, filled with a .strong, white sea, as if the cliffs had got with the tide in the manner depicted by some painters of seascapes. This beautifully white fluid runs off, when its parts are judged to be sufficiently mixed, into troughs, and is strained through sieves of lawn, varying in fineness from twenty-two to thirty-two threads to the inch. It is being tested by weight, a certain measure being required to weigh a certain number of ounces. The slip now reposes for a while in quaint receptacles shaped like the Noah’s ark given to children. To get rid of the superfluous dampness of the compound “slip,” it is forced by means of pumps into bags of strong cloth. It is then pressed and sometimes cut up and pressed again, being then ready for the thrower. When the sort of sausage machine just described has done its work, and the slip has been pressed, the material is of the cousistancy of stiff dough. In this condition it comes into the hands of the potter, but not directly. Before it reaches him it is weighed out int© lumps and handed to him by the girl who acts as his assistant. When the lump of clay is finally handed to the potter he deals with it in a wonderful manner. Placed on the horizontal wheel revolving befoire him, the clay is made to perform the most extraordinary evolution. It spreads out, leaving a hollow center, and grows like a mush-room under his skillful hand. , It becomes anything he likes. It may be a bowl, a cup, or assume any other shape. As the clay revolves rapidly the workman has only to change the position of his hand to produce any shape he may wish. In the so-called "green bouse” © large quantity of ware is drying preparatory to being “fired.” This process is the crucial test of pottery. All the preceding operations have been conducted with a distinct view to this one. All the combinaiions of clay, flint, stone, or bone have been made with forethought of the kiln in which the ware will be partially vitrified. Earthenware and porcelain are only, as is well known, less perfect forms of glass, or rather, of glass in another stage of development. When the earthenware slip cups and saucers, mugs and jugs, are sufficiently dried, they are ready for the “biscuit” kilns, as they are oddly called, for the ware is not twice baked in them, nor is it good to eat Some kinds of ware are submitted to the intense heat of the kiln three times, all twice—once in biscuit, once in glaze. When painting is introduced over the glaze, as in the ole Sevres pate temlre and the various kinds of fine porcelain, there is a third tiring. Before being placed in the kiln 3 all the articles thrown, turned, or molded are arranged in the “saggers,” receptacles of coarse clay, very thick and strong, like deep pie dishes. Into these the various art cles are packed with considerable skill, little triangles being placed between each to prevent their touching each other, and the saggers are next packed together in the or oven, each saggar being lined'at the bottom with a liiyer-of rock sand.—Piled ono on the other, tho saggers make a fairly compact column, and when the oven, some nineteen feet in altitude, is filled, the fire is applied. It will be understool that the fire by no means touches either the ware or the saggars in which it is enclosed. They are simply in an oven about to be raised to a tremendous heat. The firing is dono by means of flues so arranged as to diffuse intense heat throughout the whole intcror of the ovens. The firing is a ticklish operation, requiring the supervision of a skilled workman capable of existing without sleep for some thirtysix or forty hours. At first tho heat is applied gently, for fear of cracking the ware, and the fireman has an anxious time of it. Little openings in the brickwork enable him to judge of the progress of his work. The heat of a biscuit oven during the last twentyfour hours is intense, between 20,000 and 30,000 degrees F. As the ware has taken from forty to fifty hours in firing, so does it require an equal time to become cool. —English Magazine.

A Contracted Curriculum.

Approaching some little school children the other day, we heard the following conversation: “Well, my little ones, what do they teach you at school?” Little One—“ Cat, sir.” “Well, my little man, what lessons do yon recite first in the morning?” “Write‘cat,’sir.” “After that, what do von look for?” “The word ‘cat,’ sir.” “Then what next?” “Sit up and be quiet.” “You don’t write ‘cat’ all day, do yon?” “Yes, sir; sometimes write dog, and then ait up and be quiet.” “Well, don’t they teach you your a, b, c’s and aL’s, etc.?” “No, sir; we can write cat, sit up, and be quiet.” “Where are the other little ones who go along with you every morning?” “Their took them away from school, for she said we all did nothing bnt write cat.” * “Can yon spell and read ?” “No, sir.” “Well, what do yon at school?” "Write cat and look for the words ‘sit up and bo quiet.’” > ' ‘’Can you write hat; hog, pig, cow, bug?” , ‘•No, sir; cnlycst”~ Americus (Ga.) Ilf publican. Ar exchange says tho attitude o too many churches to-day is: “Com© to ns and be saved; or stay away and be lost.”

AGITATED IRELAND.

The English Cabinet to Be Quite Chary About Accepting' Home-Rule Proposals. Lord Randolph Churchill’s SchemeProspective Parliamentary Lffgisla'ion. Cable dispatch from London. It Is known pretty certainly in quasi-official circles that the Cabinet council of Saturday unanimously agreed to greet the new Parliament with proposals for legislation which will give nothing to Ireland that would not be conceded on principles already adopted by all parties in England. Lord Randolph Chnrshill submitted to the Cabinet a proposition for the reform of the administration of Government in Ireland. The scheme is supported by the Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and by Earon Ashbourne, the I»ord Chancellor. The project involves the abolition of the vicerovalty and the castle executive, and the placing of Ireland ou the same footing as Scotland, having a Secretary in the Cabinet. The positive announcement cabled last night that at yesterday’s Cabinet council the paragraph la the Queen's speech promising Irish legislation was, after opposition, eventually adopted, is absolutely conflrmed to-night, and all doubt on the subject arising from conflicting and conjectural reports is set at rest. The Queen sanctions tho introduction of a bill on the lines proposed by the Cabinet, and the speech from the tnrone will pledge the Ministry to bring in a complete scheme of Irish local government. The leaders of the Irish Parliamentary party have decided that the police force now employed in Ireland is throe times os large as is necessary for all proper purposes. One of the first acts of the Dublin Parliament (when created) will be to reduce the number of constables by at least one-half. The increased quietude and security that the Pameilites say will surely follow will afford a striking proof of their good faith.throughout the agitation. It is also virtually decidod to demand a loan from the Imperial Exchequer to purchase arable land in Ireland and distribute it among the present or other tenants upon easy terms of payment, the Irish Government to be charged with the duty of enforcing payments and forwarding the receipts to London. The trade newspapers continue to deplore the foreign competition, which they say is crippling all branches of British trade and industry. The latest instance of this disastrous influence is furnished by the milling business. There has lately been a large and unprecedented migration of English millers to Germany. They have sold their former plants at a loss and have started new mills in Germany, availing themselves of certain local and other advantages which they find in that country. Mahy cargoes of whole wheat, purchased in America, to arrive in the Liverpool and London markets, are fonnd unavailable here because the millers are unable to take it. The captains and supercargoes are therefore instructed to unload in Germany, where the wheat is ground into flour and returned to England. The strong Toryism of the' Times appears to be a serious matter for the Liberals. The proprietor has kept himself free from party entanglements and the paper seems to show lately that its 'proprietor thinks he goes with the tide of public opinion. For example; We cannot satisfy Mr. Parnell by any measure which even Mr. Labouchere would accept. If wo attempt to satisfy him we shall pat weapons into his hands which, as he frankly warned us, he will fortwith turn against ourselves. If we are to stop short of separation, as every Englishman, Radical or Tory, agrees that we are, we must strive to do what is lust and right without listening to the demands of Mr. Parnell and his eighty-five followers. The United KiugJom must not be dismembered. Our national interests are not really at variance, but the n utional sentiment of Ireland is turned against England by what Gold win Smith rightly calls the pressure of a terrorist organization w.elded by a dictator and aided by foreign money. It is this pressure which would be perpetuated and installed in the seat of power and authority by the establishment of a Parliament in Ireland, end Mr. Parnell has told us plainly to what use It wouid be turned. It is for the people of England to(ponder over these things while there is yet time.

A CHAT WITH CLEVELAND.

Tbs President Talks Freely—He Discusses His Duties as They Delate to Congress. [New Tork telegram.] The New York World’s Washington correspondent lias an interesting interview with President Cleveland upon topics now uppermost in the public mind. When asked it he had Interviews with Republican Senators tor the purpose of talking over with them what will be done with his appointments, the President said: "No; there is not a word of truth in it.” ' “Have you talked with Senators of either oarty on the subject?'’ "I havo mentioned this subject casually to some of my callers, but only as a casual topic of conversation. Of course, it is natural that I take an interest in the confirmation or rejection of tho-mfeii I havo selected during the vacation, but I seal no undue anxiety on tbe subject. I believe this is an executive office, and I deem it important that the country should be reminded of it. I have certain executive duties to perform, and when that is done my responsibilities end. The office is one of the co-ordinate branches of the Government. The Senators and members ha,vo their duties and their responsibilities. They put their hands upon the Bible and take tho same oath of obligation upon assuming office as does the President.” The President t(um continuing said that when he had made his recommendations t > Congress or had sent appointments to the tieuate. the responsibilities then were shifted to the other end oi the; avenue. The President regards the financial question ns the most important before Congress, although he does not by any means underrate the importance of the tariff'question. As he touched upon these two topics he stood up and moved about, leaning upon chairs about his desk as he outlined his personal ideas relating to these subjects. He said: “I believe the business of the country is now to a large extent in a condition of uncertainty, owing to the doubt os to what will be done with silver. I wrote upon that subject to the best of my ability in my message. I don’t see how even the extreme advocates of the use of silver can ask to have the coinage continued while so much remains idle, and there seems to be no scarcity of currency.” :i)o you believe that Congress will cary out your recommendations about silver? Do you think some compromise will be the actual result accomplished?” To this the President said ho had no means of knowing what would be done. It was a subject which had now passed beyond his control of direction. He had not the slightest wish or desire to influence Congress beyond the methods employed by him in directing their attention to the subject through bis official message. The President was asked how he regarded Senator Beck’s speech on the tariff. He replied : “My own personal idea abont that is that the only practical way to pass a bill would be to have the Honse Committee charged with this work take up the subject in a business fashion, and modify the present law in such a way as to help poor people who labor and take away needless protection of the few who have grown rich at the expense of the many. There are many incongruities in the tariff which! could be- remedied by looking at the whole system from a business standpoint.” Returning to the subject of the Senate and the consideration by that body of his appointments, the President said: ‘I have made no hasty selection of officers, hot on the contrary have given very much time and investigation to the subject, appreciating that very much depends on the personnel of the Government Possibly I may have erred in some instances, bnt I am sore they are few, and I have every evidence that the country is satisfied with the new officials. I have no knowledge as to what course the Senate will pursue, but I have no idea that it will assume to. interfere with the prerogatives of the President I have my duties; it has its. One thing I don’t believe, and that is that the United States Senate will spend its time in listening to the petty criticisms of appointees which come from the disappointed applicants fbr office. ”

A Celestial Joins the Church.

A special from St. Louis, Mo., says: “ Jue Jon, a Chinese laandiyman, professed Christianity to-day, and was taken into the Pilgrim Congregational Church, Five other Chinamen witnessed the cere*. ! moay from the gallery, and seemed greatly ] interested in Jun’s conversion. Jun wore : his Chinese clothes and still wears his pig- : tail, but had it wound around his head, while his fellow Celestials let theirs hang down their backs.” _ •’

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

--John Riekel. a railroad employe at Elkhart, was killed by the cars. —Louis Doschrt, a Richmond grocer, ma le an assignment. Liabilities, .$20,000; nominal assets about $20,000. —C. B. Johnson, a brakeman on the Chicago and Graiyl Trunk Hoad, way killed near Battle Creek, Mich. He has a wife in South Bend. —George Solomon, eighteen months old, traveled nlo&e from Cincinnati to Vincennes. He* was taken from the train by his grandmother. —Colonel Edward.AVallace, a brother of Gen. Lew Wallace, find a son of Governor Wallace, of Indiana, died at Brownsville, Tex., of pneumonia, aged 53 . years. He whs a veteran of the Mexican war, and s rved with distinction in the Federal army dining the rebellion. —Harry Posey and Charlotte Thompson were lovers forty-six years ago. Something then separated them, bat they have jnst j been reunited and married at Brtreeville, she coming from Michigan and he from Texas for the purpose. He is now sixtyseven years of ijge and she Is sixty-three. —I. N. Pnttison, the retiring City Treasurer of Indianapolis, is nnable at present to make a satisfactory showing of the con- | dition of the funds in his charge. He de- | dares, however, that the city shall not lose | a dollar. The apparent shortage, for which unfortunate investments are said to be responsible, is abont $78,000. It is said that Pattison lost $43,000 by the failure of the Harrison Bank. —lt is hinted that if the elite of Indistti apolis had known in time that New York : exclusives intended to seclude themselves t : at their country-seats and at Long Branch ■ on New Year’s Day, they would have folj lowed suit by withdrawing to Bloomingdale | Glen and Maxinkuekee. The trouble is, , says the .Journal, we never do get the sash- ! ions out here until they are old in New I York. ' ! —Gen. George H. Sheridan, formerly of ' Louisiana, is preparing an address on Gen. Grant, to be delivered before the Grand Army posts of the country, under the auspices of tfae Grant Monument Committee, for the benefit of their fund. It will first be delivered early in January. By a similar plan Gen. Sheridan raised a largo sum for the monument erected to the mem- ; ory of the late ex-Gov. Morton, of Indiana. —Elisha Hyatt, the wealthiest eitizen of. Daviess Connty, died of Bright's disease at Vincennes, aged 72 years. Mr. Hyatt was worth $500,000, and was pne of the most active business men in the State. He leaves a wife and several children. In November, 1884, his bank at Washington failed, leaving Mr. Hyatt, the President, in the lurch; and he, too, was compelled to make an assignment. Mr. Hyatt offered to pay 70 cents on the dollar, but the principal creditors refused and the estate is now in the courts. —Henry Morrison, head clerk in Wile’s dry goods house, at Rochester, has absconded, leaving a host of creditors. Several months ago the young man bega© playing poker, and, after exhausting his own resources, began borrowing various sums from his acquaintances, and by that means secured several hundred dollars. He was also in arrears with the Masonic Lodge, of which he was Secretary, and his accounts as Treasurer of the Knights of Pythias Lodge likewise show a deficit. A few days ago it was discovered that Morrison had forged several notes. «nrT it hi" disappearance was caused by the threats of prosecution. He occupied a high position in society, and hi* downfall has created a sensation. —One day last week the body of a man was found in the woods four miles east of Columbus. The head was horribly beaten, one eye and part of the nose gone, and there were five or six bullet-holes through different parts of the body. The man Kul evidently been dead several days. His overcoat,a revolver with one empty chamber, and a murderous-looking club, all bloody, lay near th:* corpse. The remains were those of Georgo A. Cooper, a man of 20, who lived with his father a few mile 3 from where the body was fonnd. At an inquest sufficient evidence was elicited to justify the arrest of Evan Fix, son of a widow for whom Cooper had been working. Two other persons are suspected of complicity in the crime, but have not yet been arrested. —A telegram from Indianapolis says; “A dramatic incident occurred at Ripley’s ■ Morgne to-night. A neatly attired woman entered and asked to be shown tho dead robber. Mr. Ripley accompanied her to the room where the corpse was still lying on a cooling beard and turned the black covering from the man’s face. The woman gazed upon it for a moment, then burst into tears, and in a moment bent over the form and imprinted a kiss upon the lips of the dead. Taking a pair of scissors from her pocket she clipped a lock from the robber’s hait and turned to leave the morgne. The Coroner was present, and tried to detain her, bat she refused to answer any questions, and hurriedly left the place. A man was immediately' detailed to follow her, bat it is impossible to gain anything concerning the result of his espionage. All indications point to the fact that the man u Charles Fowler, alias Charles Thompson, that his family is one Of respectability and wealth, and reside in a Cincinnati sal arb-” —lt is said that Pennsylvania woods are, overran with bears, twelve having been killed within the past week. With bear in Pennsylvania it is no wonder foreigners imagine buffalo at Buffalo aid Indians in Indiana. . '* li •' —James F. Elder, a pioneer journalist of Indiana, uho was Postmaster at Richmond under Presidents Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, and Cleveland, dropped dead in kis from apoplexy. '