Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — Page 7

The Republican: - . . - t ; RENSSELAER. INDIANA. W. E. IfAHfIHAT.T, - - PUBLISHBI

" At a recent meeting in Cleveland Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle, read a selection from Paul with reference to charity, in wliich Paid says: “I spake as a child.” Then Mr. Murphy added: “I have always thought Paul was a countryman of mine, but that we got cheated out of him somehow. Who but an Irishman ever said ‘spake’?” <

The Philadelphia Record publishes a list of the persons who were reported to the police as missing last year, and the number reaches 600. Among those who “mysteriously disappeared” were fifty-six girls between the ages of 12 and 21, and seventy-four boys, aged from 12 to 20, the others being adults. Wliat a field for dark imagination or gloomy speculation the facts provide.

The weeping willow, say the Garden, seems to have had a romantic history. The first cion was sent from Smyrna in a box of figs,-to Alexander Pope. Gen. Clinton brought a shoot from Pope’s tree to America in the time of the Revolution, which, passing into the hands of John Parke Custis, was planted on liis estate in Virginia, thus becoming the progenitor of the weeping willow in America.

A recent writer notices the fact that although the present century has been, par excellence, the century of science, yet it has given birth to the marvelous imaginations of Scott, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Carl'le, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Leopardi, Victor Hugo, Tourgueneff, and Heine, which shows, he thinks, that whatever may be the disenchantment of science, it covers too small a field to beat back tli'e imagination of man. The secret of Mr. Bigelow’s refusal to accept the position of assistant treasurer at New York has at last leaked out. His wife objected to his assuming an office of so much care and responsibility, and in compliance with her wishes he wrote the letter of declination. As the story goes, however, lie was afraid of the ridicule Republican papers would heap on him if his reason for giving up the office were disclosed, and so he carefully kept it from the public; *

“Pauline Bonaparte, the beautiful sister of the first Napoleon, was a modest woman,” says the San Francisco Ingleside, in defending an artist or that city, “and she did not hesitate to pose for a nude model for Cnnova, who perpetuated her exquisite form in the statue of ‘Sleeping Venus.’ The story they tell concerning this fact serves to illustrate her real delicacy and sound sense. Some prude asked how she could have been willing to pose for the sculptor. ‘Why, there was a fire in the robm,’ was her ingenuous reply.”

One of the heroes of . the FrancoGerman war has just died, Gen. Bonnemains, who commanded the Cuirassiers in the famous cavalry charge at Reichsliofen. The feat of arms by which he saved the advance of the Germans, while his men fell in Scores around him under the murderous fire, until Marshal MacMalion had got clear away from the Woerth and Froeschwilier, is commemorated, on many a canvas and in song; and to this day the appearance of a cuirassier regiment at a review is always greeted with frantic plaudits. Gen. Bonnemains was 71 years of age.

Five Mile Beach Island, near Cape May, has an unique and beautiful feature in its holly groves, which stretch for four miles along the island. Many of them are very aged trees. Their trunks are more than a foot in diameter at half their height. The light gray bark, with tints of pale green and patches of brown, bring together the hoariness of age and the tenderness of yoiith. The moss hangs from the branches as if the forest were Southern, while the evergreen leaves and the bright red berries keep up the illusion of summer in the drearier days of frost.

The startling result which' has followed the experiment of sending to France for treatment by M. Pasteur of boys bitten by a mad-dog in Newark is well calculated to make scientists pause and reflect. One of the boys sent to Paris, little Eddie Ryan, was accompanied on the trip by his mother, and now not only does Eddie come back apparently cured, but he conies back also with a little brother, born to Mrs. Ryan on the return trip. If the effect of Mi Pasteur’s treatment of a little boy be to make that little boy well and to give him a baby brother within two weeks, then the discovery is even a more wonderfsl_thing than has been claimed. "What the £3 rants will say on“ this point must be awaited with the keenest inter- . eat. * f - The Washington correspondent of the fit. Louis Globe-Democrat writes? ‘■’When Senator Bevry, of Arkansas, came on to take his seat Col. Dave Caruth of St. Louis, who is an intimkte personal friend of Mr. Berry, wrote to Senator Vest requesting him, <&« a personal favor, to ‘take care’ of the new Senator. Judvc Rogers, Arkansas delega-

tion,tpßs how the Missourian tliackatgoo the trust. When the new Senator appealed Mr. Vest approached him and said; ‘Berry. Dave Caruth writes me to take care of you. All I’ve got to say to yon is, to bring on vour family and keep them with you. If you don’t, in six months you won’t be worth a d—n’. That was the sum total of Mr. Vest’s advice; but Judge Rogers says it was ' the very best that could be given.

The new German ironclad Oldenburg will be of entirely novel construction. It is a broadside ship with ten ten-inch guns—five on each side, two* above and three below deck, but the whole five can be concentrated on the 1 same point with sufficient force, it is estimated, to disable even the strongest iron Clad. The displacement Of the Oldenburg is 5,200 tons, and her engines 3,900-horse power, enabling her to steam fourteen English miles an hour. The German Government are apparently not well satisfied with the construction of the torpedo-boat at Stettin. They have ordered new ones in England, and refuse to accept six that have been completed. China has also ordered her three new ironelads to be built ‘in England and not at Stettin.

Generai, Sheridan has just been presented with a gavel, to be used by him as President of the Army of the Cumberland, which is somewhat unique. It is made of wood from a tree, still standing, which marks the spot where Gen. Lytle, of the Army of the Cumberland, fell mortally wounded. A mus-ket-ball, shot frgm an old Springfield rifle, still remains imbeded in the gavel. Gen. Lytle will be recalled as the author of that remarkable poem, “Antony and Cleopatra.” Richard Reals was then a soldier in the Eighty-second Illinois Infantry, and at the time was serving with Gen. Lytle as orderly. They were friends, and the night before the Brigadier’s death, Reals wrote to him one of his most spirited sonnets. It was found in Lytle’s vest pocket, shot through and stained by his blood. Sarah Bernhardt has been attending the French Chamber. Her object in going was to hear Clemenceau, and it may be catch his eye and charm him by the marks of interest she was prepared to show when he would be in the tribune. Her toilet was one to’ be seen in a crowd, being of crimson velvet, trimmed in front with two verticle bands of old guipure lace. A creamcolored felt hat surmounted an artistically arranged wisp of pale golden liaip, and was trimmed with pink and crimson arranged in a large tuft. The accomplished actress sat next the diplomatic Box. She did not look the worse for the severe indisposition which has been announced in the papers, for the fatiguing rehearsals of “Marion Delorme,” or for having played the part of Lady Simpson at M. Pierre Petit’s artistic soiree.

Lord Ronald Gower, in a pleasant letter from Pera, where he has been staying for some time, and which he compares to “Cleopatra on a dunghill,” speaks of the extraordinary intelligence, yearning for sympathy and kindness, and unbounded gratitude when they get it, of the dogs who are the only scavengers of that flirty and delightful city. They swarm in packs about the streets and lanes. They all have districts, and woe betide any dog that ventures beyond his own frontier. He is immediately set on and tom to pieces. The Turks are very kind to them, and have at various points erected little* sheds as places of refuge for them. On Friday ’charitable Turks distribute bread and meat to them. One evening a dog came up arid licked Lord Ronald’s hand. He once patted him and he never forgot.it. He followed him to his boundary, looked wistfully after him,wagged his tail in farewell, but would go no further.

In an address before the Liverpool Geological Society, by Professor Reade, on “The Denudation of the Two Americas,” he shows that 150,000,000 tons of matter, in solution, are annually poured into the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River, and this, it is estimated, would reduce the time for the denudation of one foot of land over the whole basin —which time has hitherto been calculated solelV from the matter in suspension—from one foot in 6,000 years to one foot in 4,500 years. Similar calculations applied to the La Plata, the Amazon, and the St. Lawrence show that an average of 100 tons to the square mile, per annum, are removed from the whole American continent. This, it is stated, agrees with the results previously arrived at by Professor Reade in respect to Europe, from which it is inferred that the whole of the land draining into the Atlantic from America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, contributes matter in solution which, if reduced to rock at two tons to the cubic yard, would equal one pubic mile every sir years. ,

Accepted His Apology.

ChicagoMan(tiercely)—“Do you mean to call me a liar, sir?” Boston Man—“ That is the construction which naturally suggests itself in connection: with the observation that I addressed to you, sir. ” Chicago Man (mollified) —“All right, sir. I accept your apology. I allow no man to call me a liar.”— New York Sun. Avoid shame, but dd not seek glory —nothing so expensive as glory.'—Sidney Smith. ■ »/. ' * -V ' ■ V; ■

PRESIDENT AND SENATE.

Mr. Sherman Sets Forth Boldly and Distinctly the Republican Policy. Either Branch of Congress Has the Right to Any and Every Paper on File. (o He Warns the Democrats that They Are Pursuing a Course That Will React. The introduction in the Senate of the United States, on the Bth insfc, by Mr. Eustis of a resolution directing the Finance Committee to ask the Secretary of tho Treasury for -certain information concerning the alleged refusal of the New Orleans Sub-Treasury to receive standard silver doUars precipitated a debate based upon the refusal of the administration to furnish Senate committees with information concerning the suspensions of Federal officials. During the debate of Mr. Eustis’ resolution Mr. Sherman arose to support the resolution, saying that lie thought the inquiry entirely proper, and that tho Senate had a perfect right to anything on the Executive files pertaining to tho subject under consideration or to Executive appointments, suspensions, or removals. He continued :

I think we have a right to seek information of any department of the Government, whether the information be on paper or by parol. Ido not think there is any doubt of that whatever. But for that we could not legislate—we could not even by executive session. I havo just as much right to go to any department and ask for any papers affecting that department, affecting legislative business, if I go there armed with the power of the Senate, as the Secretary of the Treasury or any department of the Government, or as the President of the United States. That has always, from tho foundation of the Government, been the festablished law. Any information that may affect the judgmont or conduct of a Senator or any* subject of public duty in_ information thatthe Presidents bound to communicate. There ought to be no secrets whatever in this Government of ours ; it is a government of tho people. There is no rule or provision for keeping secrets. We have no right to say to another department of the Government: “For ivhat-rea-son did you do this thing?’’ The President ha 3 no right to come to us and say : “Why did you pass this law?” He has no right to cross-ex-amine us. The departments are separate and distinct. But all the information contained on the files of any department is just as much tne property of a Senator as of anybody else. There is no secret in this Government hat can be juotected from legislative supervision. Mr. Saulsbury thought that the discretion ns to furnishing information concerning a suspended officer was vested wholly in the President. Mr. Sherman replied that nobody proposed to deny the right of the President to exercise Ills discretion. He was as independent as the Senate. But he ought not to prevent the Senate from having the same sources of information that he had. The Senate had a right to cad for that information. At the same time the Senate should be courteous. If the President should give as a reason for withholding information that it was confidential, the speaker would be content; but he had no right to withhold papers containing charges openly made, on which lie acted And which papers were on a public file, merely because they came to—him about an exectftivc matter. If they wore confidential they ought not to be filed and allowed to poison the fame of a man. If they ought not to Ive seen by Senators or the suspended officials they ought to be cast into the waste basket without action. Mr. Pugh said that Mr. Sherman did ngt claim that the Senate should call upon the President for any other than public documents. Tho character of these documents determined the right of the Senate to their possession. The President had the right to determino the character of the documents, and, hence, the right of tho Senate to possess them. Mr. Sherman-re-plied : Where did tho Senator from Alabama [Mr. Pugh] discover this new-fangled idea? Where are tho precedents that enable him to say that the hood of a department shall say what papers shall be given to the legislative department—- , that he shall say what papers from the files of a department shall be given to tho legislative department of the government? When, in all tho hundred years of this country's history, was such a doctrine presented before? The Senator from Alabama [Mr. Pughl was a member of the House many years ago. He wiU remember that, time and time again, we investigated tho administrations of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan. We called, before ns all the papers, secret and public, in regard to that administration, and they were nover denied us by the last two Democratic Presidents. They never con. tended that they could withhold cne paper and give another. On the contrary, in obedience to law the Secretary* of the Navy sent to the House of Repreaentatives a private letter of James BSchanan’s which entered into the public records, and was commented upon and used. The idea of a distinction between papers, public and private, never occurred until during the present ..administration. Why, Mr. President, the lawis plain and mandatory. I happened to hold the office of Secretary of the Treasury at one time, and I was brought before both ,houses of Congress—fTfhe Senate and the House of Representatives—when they called on me for papers in a certain controverted ca.se—and I will not refer to it at any length, because it was in executive session. They not only called on me for the papers, but they called on mo to come in person, to explain the papers, and to give reasons why and wliStefore. I never conceived that I hod a right, at an executive officer, to put myself on my dignity and say: “I wilt”show you such papers aa will do rue'no harm and will keep back tne others." They say I was reckless sometimes, but I never was so reckless as that. What right has the PresMent to say for what purpose we shall use papers ? If we have the right to use those papers at all we have the right to use them for all they are werth. Is the President to have the right to say; “You shall use those papers for one purpose and not for another?" There is no such distinction. If the papers are on the public file we have the right to see them. They may be material or useful. Mr. Pugh asked Mr. 'Sherman whether he claimed for the Senate tho right to review the action of tho President in making removals. Mr. Sherman replied that it was unnecessary to go into that subject. Mo would s'ay yes without question.,however, as the right to do so was given to the Senate by a law Which he believed to have been constitutional when passed. Mr. Harris (Tenn.) then asked Mr. Sherman whether he claimed a right to review the grounds on which the President has made a suspension in vacation, which the law leaves wholly and exclusively to the discretion of the President. Mr. Sherman, in answer, said: It is not a question of what wo havd a right to review, but what information wo have a right to get from the executive department. I warrant you that I can Show in tho -history of the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. Harris] that he has been as p>r>is tout and insistent upon the right to examine these papers as any one „elsp, for ho has called for them himself over and over again, and they have never been denied. What we will do with these papers—whether we will steal them, or bum them, or destroy them —wo do not allow the Executive Department to put any inquiries to ns. We do not put any inquiries to the President of the United States, because the independence of that great office demands that he should not be inquired of for his reasons—demands.that he should be treated with resj>oct. But evejry paper on which he acts, on any duty whatever, executive or legislative, is ours as well as his. The papers filled with him t> induce the removal of an officer are the very papers we ought to consider in the very question at appointment. Whether ye should use them for one purpfcse or another is not now a matter of dispute. It may come up at toother time.

Anent Kissing.

A poetess sings m the Norristown Herald: -V % Kiss me, kisa me. quickly *tiove; Where the fragrant Vine and vagrant Winds your window ledge above. <■ Tastes differ, but for our part, we'd rather be kissed slowly than quickly. There is very little satisfaction in lightning kisses. It ,seems'tans like kissing wasted. The pleasure's gone before you taste ft, A greater joy, a sweeter blias, „■ T/e# in tty* long etv* kin— The melting kiss, as wa might say. That fairly takes your breath Away.

HANCOCK DEAD.

Another Brave Sfldler and Brilliant Generai Vanquished by the Dread Destroyer* Hia Taking Off Budden and Unexpected—A Sketch of the Deceased. [Net? York telegram.] Winfield Scott Hancock. Major General commanding the Department of the Atlantic, died at Governor'B Island on Tuesday, the 9th inst. The cause of his death wan a carbunclo, located on the back of his neck, combined with kidney trouble. The carbuncle first made its appearanoe Jan. 27, while the General was in Washington» whither he had gone on private business. He believed it to be a boil.jnd had it lanced* It caused him considerable annoyance for two or three days, but on Friday, the 29th ult. he felt in the best of health and spirits 1 . He returned to New York on that dav. The supposed boil began to trouble the General after his return to Governor's Island, and a week ago to-day Dr. Janewav pronounced it a carbuncle and began tc treat it as such. Two days later the General’s condition much improved. The carbuncle, however, broke out afresh on the 7th with a great deal of vigor. It grew worse and worse until 11 o’clock at night, when the General became delirious. The following day the kidney trouble was discovered, and the patient s condition w-as for the first time considered dangerous. Early this morning he became unconscious. Dr. Janeway called in Col. Charles Sutherland, Medical Director. and telephonD. M. Stimson, , of this city, who soon put in an appearance. The physicians examined tne patient, and soon saw that Gen. Hancock’s hours were numbered. He sank steadily from that time forth until he died. Fears were entsrtained of uremic convulsions, and preparation was made to treat them, but they did not appear, and the General passed away quietly. In the room at the time, in addition to the physicians, were Gen. James B. Fry, Lieut. Eugene' Griffin, nn aid-de-camp : Hospital Steward Robinson, and Orderly John Ward, who had been in constant attendance on the sick man for several days past. The patient had been unconscious for about six hours previous to his death. Mrs. Hancock was in the adjoining room when her husband passed away. She had been up with the General all night, and left him at four o’clock in the morning. Even then the sick mau seemed to realize that his end was drawing near. As his wife imprinted a farewell kiss On his sunken cheek he murmured : “Oh, Allie, Myra, good—” Allie was a pet name by which he oallcd his wife. The sentenoe was not finished. They were the last words ho at. tempted to utter. With Mrs. Hancock, at the time of her husband's death, were her cousin, Mrs. Emma Bouvier, and Mrs, Eugene Griffin. The survivors of Generai Hancock's immediate familv, aside from his widow, are his brothers Hillary Hancock, who was torn his twin, and is a lawyer at Minneapolis, and Brovet General John Hancock, He was the father of two children, both of whom are dead. His daughter Ada died in March, 1875, and his son Russell died a vear ago last December at his plantation in Clarksdale, Miss. The son left a widow and three children, one of them a toy, who has been living with the General at Governor's Island.

The News in Washington. [Washington dispatch.] A telegram announcing the dangerous illness of Gen. Hancock was received by the President atout.l o'clock to-day and was read to the Cabinet. Just after the Cabinet adjourned a second telegram was received convoying the intelligence of his death. The flag on the Whits House was immediately placed at half-mast, and the President soon after issued the following Executive order: “Tidings of the death of Winfield Scott Hancock. the senior Major General of tho army of the United States, have just been received] A patriojie and valiant defonder of his country, an able and heroic soldier, a spotless anil accom-plished-gentleman, crowned—alike with the laurels of military renown and the highest tribute of his fellow-countrymen to his worth as a citizen, ho has gone to his reward. It is fitting that every mark of public respect should be paid to his memory. Therefore, it is now ordered by the President that the national flag be displayed at half-mast upon all the buildings of the exeoutive departments in this city until alter hi* funeral shall have taken place,” The President also sent the foUowlng telegram to Mrs. Hancock: “Accept my heartfelt sympathyand condolence in your terrible bereavement. The heroism ahd worthTof your late husband have gathered to your side in this hour of vour affliction a nation of mourners.” - The flag on uo War Department building was placed at lOuf-must by order of the Secretary of War, BMd arrangements were made for the promulgation of a general order formally announcing Hancock’s death to the army, which will he issued to-morrow. The Secretary of War also recalled the invitations he had issued for a reception to the officers of the army, navy, and marine corps for this evening. Biographical. General (Hancock was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Feb. 14, 1821; he entered the West Point Academy in 1810, graduated in 1814, and in 1846 received his commission of Lieutenant of infantry. He served during the Mexican war, was promoted for his gallantry, and, having filled several subordinate posts, was made Assistant Quartermaster of the Western Department with the rank of Captain on the staff, which rank he held at the outbreak of the civil war. In 1861 he was appointed Brigadier General of volunteers, and served in the Army of the Potomac. Ho accompanied General McClellan’s army to the Peninsula in 18627 and distinguished himself in the battle of Williamsburg. » At the battle of Fredericksbnrg, in December, 1862, he commanded a division which suffered severely, and for his meritorious conduct on this occasion he received a commission as major general of volunteers. He took part in the battle of ChaneellorsviUe. When the advance of the Union and Confederate forces eiibountered at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, and the Union forces wore driven back, Hancock was sent forward by Meade to decide whether a general battle should be risked there, and if so, although he was outranked by Howard, who was on the field, was ordered to take the command until Meade should come up. In the decisive engagement July 3 Hancock’s division bore the prominent part, although he himself was severely wounded early in the engagement. He recovered sufficiently to return to duty Dec. 27,1863, but was unable to command a body of troops until April, 1864, when he was promoted to the command of the Second Army Corps and was engaged in aU the battles of the Wilderness campaign, ‘from May 5 to June 19, 1864, when the breaking out of the old wound received at Gettysburg compelled him to leave for a time. He returned to his command in July, and remained with it until Nov. 26, 18p4, being subsequently engaged in lighter duties until the close of the war. He was promoted to be Brigadier General of the regular army in August, 1864, Brevet Major General March 13, 1865, and Major General of the United States army July 26, 1866. After the war he was successively commander of the Middle Department, 1865-66; of the Missouri. ISO6-G7; of the Department of Louisiana and’- Texas, 1867-69, and of the Department of Dakota, 1869-72. Upon the death of Gen. Meade, November, 1872, the President, in acknowledgment of his great military services, appointed Gen. Hancock to the command of the Department of the East, with headquuarters at Governor’s Island, New York, a position which he held up to the day of his death, being one of the three Major Generals in the United States Anny. In 18e8 Gen. Hancock was a prominent candidate for the Democratic nomination to thus Presidency, which, however, was given to exGov. Seymour. Hj secured the nomination in 1880, but was defeated in the election by Gen. Garfield, who received a popular majority of 7,018 and an electoral majority of 59 over Gen. Hancock. ____ Sam Jones says “from a Governor down to a dog peltef, be would not vote for a man that touched, tasted, or handled whisky to save his life.”

Ebahtus Corning, whose 1,100 orchids have cost a fortune, has also a collection 50,000 butterflies. A- ■. * Louise Michel will devote the proceeds of the sale >of her “Memoirs” entirely to rehabilitating^fallen women. The Rev. Dr. Talmage rises at 4 o’clock Sunday mornings and thinks out his sermon while he paces his study floor. The Rev. Phillips Brooks’ Boston Church, Trinity, has cost 9750,000 so far. Sib Abthub Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert ore reported to have agreed to disagree. A HA* at Waco, Neb., brtohed hi* horse to a rocking-chair and took s sleigh-ride. , f *.

DAKOTA SENATORS.

The Two Slen Chosen to Represent the Prospective State in the v IJ. S. Senate. Hon. G. D. Moody.' ' Gideon D. Moody, one of the newly elected United States Senators from Dakota, was bo& in Cortland, N. Y., in 1832, entered the Union army, rising from the ranks to a colonelcy. Removing to Dakota he was made Speaker, of the Assembly in

1808, and re-elected in 1874. In the years intervening he served as a member of the House. He was sent as a delegate to tfip Constitutional Convention of 1883, and served ns chairman of the committee appointed to prepare the memorial to the President and Congress setting forth Dakota’s claim to sisterhood in the Uhited States. _____ Hon. W. J. Edgeirton. W. J. Edgerton, the Uuited States Sena-tor-elect from Dakota, who, with Mr. Moody, his colleague, is in Washington awaiting recognition, has already served in

the Senate. He was chosen to succeed the Hon. William Windom, of Minnesota, when the latter was chosen for Garfield’s Cabinet. Upon the close of his Senatorial term* he was commissioned, Dec. 23, 1883, Chief Justice of Dakota, which position he held, until succeeded by the Hon. Bartlett Tripp.

BORED WITH BULLETS.

An Officer in Austin, Tex., Shot and Killed by a Drunken Scion of a Good Family. [Houston (Tex.) special.] For several days past Mr. Kyle Terry, a handsome man, about 26 years old. whose home is near Richmond, in Fort Bend County, has been visiting friends in this city. He has been indulging in liquor pretty freely, and last night became Somewhat intoxicated. Officer Williams arrested Terry against the latter’s protest,taking him to the station, but was released on the pledge that he tvould appear before the Mayor and answer to tho chaise of being disorderly. This luorning he came upon Officer Williams, who was going toward the Court House. The very sight of Williams seemed to drive Terry crazy. He sprang toward the officer, uttering a terrible oath. Williams saw he was confronting a man crazed with drink, and jumped behind a passing colored man. When the negro saw Terry advancing, pistol in hand, he became frantic and tried to run, but Williams clung to his back with deadly tenacity.; The colored man from sheer fright, it is thought, fainted, aud with Williams still clingiug to him they rolled off the sidewalk into the gutter. Terry followed, becoming apparently more excited at Williams’ effort to escape. Bending over the prostrate negro, Terry emptied his selfcocking six-shooter into the prostrate form of his victim. He literally pumped lead ini§ Williams without moving his arm. Each ball entered the body of the unfortu* nate man. The effects were noted by people who witnessed the affair from a distance, who say the body seemed to jump a few inches from the ground each time a bullet penetrated it. The fifth ball passed through the heart, and Williams rolled over dead, one hand still grasping the negro, who lay in an almost comatose condition, an unwilling witness to the awful crime. .Terry was immediately arrested without resistance and taken- to Jail. Intense excitement has prevailed here all day, and an extra guard has been placed inside the jail Jo prevent possible lynching. Officer Williams was a general favorite on the force, and leaves a wife and three children. The Terrys have been for three generations among the most honorable citizens of the south. The prisoner is a son of General Fiank Terry, of Confederate renown. Terry’s Rangers were far-famed in war days. He comes from a. fighting family, being a nephew of Judge A. W. Terry, of California, the slayer of Senator Broderick. Other members of the family have achieved distinction in legislative halls and on the bench of Texas.

A young man at Santa Barbara, Cal., was arrested and fined for practicing on the clarionet in his own apartments. Fifteen men went out to hunt rabbits in Modoc County, California* recently, and in a short time lolled 450 of the little animals. ’ v ■ Sawdust burned to the windward saved many Florida orange groves from the biting frost. - 11 —" f It is said that more than a thdumnd NewYorkers axe already booked to sail far Europe. '

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A fine at Princeton, last Weak, destroyed valuable property. \ —The residence of James Oris sum, south of Shelbyville, was burr ed. —Disappointed-in love, Charles Dunbar, of Colfax, blew ont his brains. —Dr. F. M. Wall, of Urbana, convicted of malpractice, has appealed the case. —The Cigar-makers’ Union of Terre Haute has resolved to boycott Chinese laundries. —The Wabash Importing Company has purchased twelve Norman stallions in France. —Robert Templeton, a miner in the mines near Harmony, was instantly killed by falling slate,. —A detachment of the Salvation Army recently took possession of the village of Sweetzer. —John Fesfner. a farmer living near In- . wood, set tire to his dwelling and perished in the flames; —William Harrison, of Wayne Connty, committed suicide while laboring under a 'fit of insanity. —Mrs. John Joey, of Wabash, recently gave birth to a boy baby weighing only nineteen ounces. —At Hpencer, a large sized pin was extracted from the hip of thp infant daughter of Dr, W. E. Kwigert. —Dh. E. R. Myrtle, of Cedar Point, and his thirteeu-year-old step-daughter are said to have eloped together. . —Judge Berry has set aside the $2,000 judgment against Dr. J. P. Orr, of Rushville, for alleged malpractice. —ln the case of Kreig and HeitzJ charged with manslaughter, at Huntington, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. —The Prohibitionists have decided to call a State convention at Indiannpoiis May 26, and advise the miming of straight Prohibitionist tickets wherever there is any . likelihood of getting votes. —Probably the largest single pension ever paid at the local agency was to Ferdinand Black, of Etna Green, who received $10,763 for blindness.

—Louis Grant, Sr,, of Vincennes, master boiler-maker of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, while engaged at work fell over apparently dead and expired in thre.e hoars. —The people of Milrov last week helped celebrnte the one-hundredth birthday of Capt. John Boyd, who built the first frame bam in Bush county, more than fifty years ago.* —Valentine Kelley, of Clarksville, who has been hunting hidden wealth during the last two years, has unearthed an iron pot, at the bend on Silver Creek, containing $1,500. —Wealthy fanners in the northern peri of Wabash County have become the victims of so many shrewd forgers that they have perfected the organization of a protective association. —The wife of Henry T. Kirk, in the northern part of Hendricks County, while insane, went out into a shed, poured a can of coal-nil over her head and clothes, applied a match, and was so burned that she died in a few hours. —Albert Van Wagner was arrested for seriously damaging and attempting to derail trains of the Grand Bapids and Indiana Company. He confessed, and declared he had no accomplices and no reasons for his act. —Twenty years ago Cnrtis Travis re-‘ ceived a certificate of deposit for $159 on the Bank of the State of Indiana, at La Porte. A few days ago the widow of the deceased discovered the paper, which she presented to the bank, where it was cashed. —An old lady at Zionsville, named Keely, was burglarized of a quantity of money and jewlery, at the pistol's mnzzle, and was so scared she could not identify her assailants, but the next night dreamed a man named Ashley was robbing her, which led to Ashley's arrest and confession, and the arrest and breaking np of a dangerous gang of burglars. —New Holland has been agitated over the appearance of a grizzly bear. The beast is alleged to have been seen on the outskirts of the village by several farmers, but the reports gained no credence. The huge beast was then said to have turned np in the neighborhood of the postoffice and the inhabitants were frightened half ont of their wits. v —A box-car which had some loose grain scattered over the floor was invaded by goats at Columbus, when some of the boys closed the door. Arriving at Indianapolis the brakemen opened the car door, when the goats jumped out, scattering in every direction. The crew, supposing they had been shipped as freight, engaged in a chase for hours. They then went to hunt the agent to see the way-bill, when they discovered the joke. —E. H. Shirk, of Pern, has bronght suit against Keeport A Co. for trespass. In getting out bis kiln Keeport went across the canal-bed line. The farmers owning land along the canal claim that where the bed was abandoned for the purposes for which it was originally used by the Wabash A Erie Company, it reverted to them. The canal-bed, from Fort Wayne to Lafayette, was purchased by the company of which E. H. Shirk is chief. —The annual repqyt of the Site Insane Hospital gives: Number of patients at the close of the year, 1,448; admitted during the year, 774; discharged, 587; died, 128, including two suicides; expenses for maintenance, $173.43 per capita (this is the lowest figure ever touched in the management of the institution). » *» ■ .i. r . * . —W. E. D. Barnett, of Carhop, the new timber agent for Utah, while i n route to Balt Lake City,"was oapiimjd for two small debts, in Terre Haute. ■• . m . ■■ • . . . I TO&Rshs.*'- ,