Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — Page 6

A FORTUNATE RUNAWAY. Dm OnpM from Mi homo one* itraved. And by the roadside »topped and played," Until the golden lun had set And buih and tree -with dew were wot The Idle boy had loat hid way, ,■ And he cried out with wild diimay, “Oh, Venn*, Mamma Venae, hear! For I am loit, and filled with fear.* Hie earnout call* were all in rain, And nothing could ap|<ease his pain ; HU feark increased with failing light, He eought a place for reet that night. And in a eogy cottage near He haw a candle shining clear; “There," said the wayward boy. "I'll rest n I’m received there aa a guest. '' . Where, welcomed by my lady fair,. With guileless ways no debonair, “Here,* said he* I don't mies mother; This ia my. home—l want no other. ’ The gentle maiden took him in. Kor all his charming ways did win In her dear heart a resting place By their so wondrous piquant grace. And the next dev she wrote to me: “I send tills wanderer to tlicc He Is solovelv. so demure. That he will cheer your heart, I’m sure.* —Cambridge Trilnutt.

SOLD OUT BY THE SHERIFF,

BY J. H. S.

•Chart**,, what do you think?" asked Byrou Trevor. ■ “What’s the matter? Yon look pale,” responded his brother, Charles Trevor. “Aunt Abby lias failed!” w •What! Byron, did you tell me that to startle me?" “It's too true. The Sheriff is to sell her out a week from to-dnv. 1 saw the notices posted up. 1 thought Aunt Abby had been ▼ery reticent about her speculations. I see it all now. They have ruined her.” “And will phe have nolhiug left?” asked Charles, turning pale. “Not a cent! Ail her property; I have learned, will not half cover her liabilities. Ah, those stock speculations! It was her cousin, Hiram Davenport, of New York. that coaxed her into it; and he has done all her business, yon know. I have repeatedly told her that she had better let him and those city brokers alone. I feared they would prove too sharp for her." “Well, it’s too bad!” exclaimed Charles Trevor, angrily. ‘‘Why did she hazard her fortune thus? Now she bus thrown away all this handsome property—the old homestead and all —which wouldTiave been ours some day. The old imbecile!" “It fairly makes me hate her!" said Byron Trevor.

They were the nephews of Miss Abicnil Davenport, a rich old lady who lived near the Connecticut, five or six miles from Hartford. They had been left orphans at an early age, and were tenderly reared by their Aunt Ably. She heaped many favors upon Charles and Byron, both of whom were married, and they were already well-to-do in the world, with expectations of quite a competence at their aunt's death. Now these expectations were suddenly dashed down, and they railed at the old lady's imprudence for hours. Notwithstanding her former kindness to them, they had not a word of pity for her now, or a thought of how she was to be .provided for. The day came, and all the property of Abigail Davenport was sold to satisfy a judgment in favor of Enos Lapham A Co., bankers and brokers, of New York. She must soon leave her old home, yet neither Charles nor Byron came to offer her a shelter. So she saw that she must go to them. “Byron,” she said, on visiting her eldest nephew, .“I must soon vacate the old place, as yon are aware. 1 have a cousin in New York who would give me a home; but I do not like to go there as a mere dependent. If you wOuid bcs’kind enough—” “Ahem ! Well, I—the fact is—” “I am still strong, and will w ork for you,” pleaded the old lady. “I will try not to be a burden to yon. ” “Well, Aunt Ably,” said Byron, “as far as I am concerned, I would not object: but then my house is small, and {-here are the children. Y'ou wonld not be comfortable.” “I w ould be willing to bear with many inconveniences.” “Tine, I am willing; but the fact is, my wife—” / “Oh, very well." And Aunt Abby left the bouse. She next visited Charles. “Well," said he, in a tone of reproach, “yon 6ee what you have done by meddling with those Wall Street sharps, against the advice of Byron and myself. What will you do now?” She replied by asking for shelter, as She had asked Byron. “I’d like to. Aunt Abby. I’m sure,” he ‘ responded, “i d like to have you here; but my house is small, and—” The old lady raised her hand. “Say no more!” she said. “I will find shelter somewhere.” And she left hint. .. . “But for her folly,” muttered- Charles Trevor, “she need not be seeking shelter.'"' Abigail Davenport reached home in a very gloomy state of mind, and found a visitor awaited her. The fact hr; I should have stated it before, but I deemed it scarcely necessary. Charles and liyron were not the only children that Miss Abigail had taken to her heart and home. They had a sister, younger than themselves, named Agnes. When Agnes was in her 18th year, shei eloped with her aunt's hired hand, a handsome young fell of twenty-four; and she had thereby incurred her aunt's displeasure, without hope of forgiveness; and the young couple had been assured, once for all, that they need expect- no share in th& old lady’s estate. Miss Abigail might have forgiven them ' but for the fact that Charles and-Byron lost no opportunity lo prejudice the old i lady against her niece. They had now been married ten years... were in comfortable circumstances, and had several little children. Neither of them had regretted their runaway marriage. “What are you doing here?” asked Miss . Abigail, for she perceived that her visitor ! was no other than William Harvey, who - had eloped with her niece, Agnes Trevor, j ten years before. 'Had Miss Abigail still been prosperous, 1 Will Harvey would probably have replied with a baughty aud independent air; but he had learned of her misfortune, and quietly responded: “Why, I heard of your bad luck. Is it as bad as reported?” “Yes, I haven’t a cent in my pocket." . * “Then you are without a home?” “Yes; but-you don't suppose Charles and Byron will see me want?* “I have talked with fhem,” replied Will, not aware that Miss Abigail had also talked j with them on the subject, “and. they seem to think they are too much hampered. I see they are not disposed—in fact. I have come to Offer you a home with me.” “But you have no room for me.” “We’ll manage that. 1 and Agnes have talked it over, and it’s all fixed. You are to take the room the children have been sleeping in, and for the present they Can sleep in the room with ns. A little addition enn be made to the house by and by.” The old lady tried to speak again, and burst into tears. “Why. what’s the matter, Aunt Abby?” asked Will, in surprise. Without replying. Hiss Abigail threw

herself into an old-fashioned arm-chair, bowed he grsv head upon her hands, tod, cried like a child. "Aunt AhJby, don’t take on so about your losses! You shall be jnst as conifortnblo with us as though you were rich. Yoq will have more cheerful company and less care than of late." . - "It isn't that, Will," said the old lady. “It’s to think that you nhd Agnes, who have so little to thank hie for, should he the only ones to offer my gray hairs a refuge. Your very faults look brighter to mo now than the steady virtues of those two favorites. Thank God, my .eyes are opened at Inst !” The end of it all was that Miss Abigail accepted Will Harvey’s offer, and in a few days went to live with him. Tho time passed pleasantly away, all. went on smoothly, and bhe found that her new friends were sincere. * Charles and Ilyion lived neareach other, and both at no great distance from the old homestead, and they never met wilbont enraing their aunt's foltv; they spoke of her nR an “old imbecile,” and a “simpleton," nud wondered how Will Harvey could afford to harbor her. It would be sad if the story ended here; but it does not. The whole truth must he told this time, by all means. One beautiful morning, Byron Treyor started to drive into Hartford. As lie neared his brother's house he appeared at the gato. I “Are you going to Hartford?"he asked. “Yes."

“1 would like to go there on an errand. Will you take me?" “Yes, come along.” « ■ And in n few minutes Charles was seated in the buggy- beside bis brother. The road to Hartford took them by the old homestead, nud as they approached they saw signs of life there. “Why, somebody's moved in ntlast!"said Charles. “That’s so. I wonder who’s takeu the place?” As they arrived opposite the house, still wondering, they .observed, rfor the first time, that a man stood by the fence, idly whittling n bit of wood with a pocket-knife. When he looked up, they f recogui/,ed—their impeennious brother-in-law. Will Harvey! “Why. Will! Is that you?” said Byron, slopping his horse. “Yes.” They now observed that several pretty children were playing on the lawn. . “ You. hay cut moved hero?” said Charles. “Yes—last Thursday,” Will replied coolly. “Why, you're not able lb rent so large a farm!’’ “1 haven't rented it.” “What then?” “It's been given to me.” “Who would give it, to j/ou?” asked Charles, turning slightly pale. “Aunt Abby.” j, And Will continued to whittle as coolv as a statue could have done, if it could have handled a pocket-knife. “What’s the use of telling us that? The place was sold.” “I thought so, too,” said Will'calmly. “And 'wasn’t it?” gasped Charles, as a fearful suspicion came athwart his brain. “No, it was all sham," replied-Will, with ineffable complacence, taking another shaving from the piece of wood. Charles and llyrou looked at each other in wonder; ami just then Miss Abigail came out into tho lawn. The house was but a short distance from the road, and she had heard the conversation. “Yes, Charles and Byron,” said she, “it was all a sham. I was not eaten up by the AY all Street sharps, and instead of,My pitiful fortune of $60,000 I have made $300,000. I am now worth $300,000, all of which, with the exception of a few dollars, I shall leave to Will and Agnes when 1 die. I have nlready given them the deed for this homestead, and made a will in their favor that shall never be changed. I ant} cousin Hiram oxen the firm-of Enos Lapham «fc Co., instead of owing them!” “Why—why have you acted so?” faltered Charles. “Twill tell you. It was not to test the sincerity of your affection, or that of Byron. I had never thought of doubting you. But I have ceased to speculate actively, and wanting something' to occupy my mind, I concluded to play a stupendous joke, and, pretend to be bankrupt. I thought it would then give me so much pleasure to find you overwhelming me with kindness—vying with each other in offering me a home, nud laying your possessions at my feet. But it turned out so differently. You were cold toward me in my supposed adversity, and it nearly broke my heart. I had expected soon to treat you to a delightful surprise by informing you of the true state of things; but now my wealth seemed barren. But a new joy came to me unexpectedly. When 1 came home, after asking both of you in vain for refuge, I found Will here—whom I had slighted and almost hated; and he — with all-his poverty, with all his struggles for existence, with no kindnesses to remember, and forgetting all his wrongs—yes, he had come to offer me a shaft? in his poor Lome-.-.to offer to toil for me. and bear the burden of my withered fife: and all with no hope of reward. I thank God I have played this practical joke. It has restored to me truer friends than those on whom I have lavished my favors.” Charles and Byron could not utter a word in reply, but drove on toward Hartford, with downcast looks, thinking of their loss, and realizing how richly they deserved it. And they have since lived through loeg years, bitterly regretting that to their kind old aunt they had not proved “Good Samaritans." —Chicago Ledger.

The Horse’s Tail.

Ornamentation rules so generally in these days, that to overlook any point j through which this may be reached in the horse is to lessen the prospect of \ attractiveness, and, in this way, lessen the prospective price. In the mere matter of speed, a horse with a rat tail will go as fast as though he carried a handsome fiowing one. All the same, the latter is a very desirable appendage. i A low-carried tail and a slim tail de- ! tract wonderfully from the looks of a j horse otherwise of good proportions, j stately and a good stepper, while a flowing tail, of good length, well carried. makes an otherwise plain horse attraetive, and there are circumstances where it will add materially to his selling qualities. An expert fitter will greatly improve the mode of carrying the tail by using appliances for elevating it at the root, and especially may it be improved when carried partially to one side by severing the tendons on the lower side of the tail, on the side | toward which the tail inclines, putting the tail in pulleys, drawing it gently over the other side, until the space between the cut ends of the tendons fills up with new deposit- There is little danger of getting the tail too far over, as the tendency of the healing, process is toward contraction, and this requires to be guarded against until the new material to fill the space is firm. — National Live Stock Journal. .. There are no greater prudes than those women who, have some secret to hide. —George SaiuL

BILL NYE.

fiearehta* for a Barber— T ritiiuony a* to 'William'* Bravery. , When I first came here, writes Bill Nyo from Asheville, N. C., I began to cant about me for a good; fluent burlier, with whom I could associate during the winter; one who would not b,e ashamed to be seen conversing with me, and, still,withal,a man who could administer a clean shave without pain. r fell into tho hands of a tall brunette orphan about 55 years of age, named Plum Levy—pronounced Levi. Every-, body said that Plum was a good haircutter, and, very likely, a good shaver, too. It was even reported that people came here frequently from New York to get their hair trimmed. The first time 1 visited the shop Plum wasn’t there personally. 1 took tho chair of an assistant. It was a yery disagreeable chair, with caked places in it. It was upholstered with body , brussels, and the seat had bones in it. The room is heated by means, of a fireplace, and tho water for shaving is boiled in a p.auce-pnn on the coals. The assistant was a perfect gentleman, though. He did everything he could in a social wav to make me forget niv troubles. For half an hour he just simply dazzled me with liis conversational powers,and threw every influence about m© to make me contented. He told me so much about the country and its resources that when he got through- with me I wrung his hand with wet eyes. This may seem to be a physical impossibility, but I did it. For some time after that I decided not to shave any more. My beard is ginger colored with a dash of red in it; but others have risen to allluenee and won a deathless, name who wore this kind of beard, so I thought I would let it grow and thus l>e able to horrify my children into a more thorough state of discipline than I am now able to maintain. Now and then I would go into the shop, however, hoping that Plum might be there, and in that ease I would have one more old-fashioned shave before I abandoned myself to the wild and woolly depths of a tough, red beard; but Mr. Levy was engaged in building a wing on his house, and so I would inhale a little smoke from the fireplace and go away. Later on I decided that I would give the other assistant a hack at my beard. He looked like a likely young man whose parents were dependent on him, so one day I got up into his chair. His chair was not so hard to sit in. as the first one, but it had a very feverish breath and the liead-rest occasionally slipped a cog and fell about four inches, like the cellar door of. a gibbet. I stood this until I got shaved down to a lino even with the angle of the jaw, and then I said I did not care about having my throat whiskers shaved off. I paid my reckoning and •went away with a red tippet of gingercolored plush around the suburbs of my neck like a middle-aged Mormon on his way to the endowment house. In two weeks a man who claimed to bo friendly to my interests came to me and in a hoarse voice informed me that Plum Levy was at work in the shop. I went there at a rapid rate. In the corner near the chair, with a blue flvnet on it, stood a tall gentleman of African descent. He sryiled pleasantly on me through a pair of iron-bound spectacles and told me in a haughty manner to be seated. I sprang gavly into his old red chair, knocking out the dust and liair of forgotten generations, and Plum Levy ran his skinny black fingers over the desolated site of my once hair. It did not take him long to decide that it was doubtless a shave that I desired. I like to meet a man, be he white or black, who can jump at a conclusion that way with the utmost agility and always hit it right. He got some hot water out of the sauce-pan, slashed his brush -around in it, banked up my nostrils with lather, and when 1 had to open my mouth in order to get a place to breathe through, lie stabbed that full of the most unpalatable soapsuds I ever ate. He then pififSOd, in order to try on my eye-glasses, •which I had deposited' on the sink. Evidently they did not fit him, for he resumed his own with a sigh. All this ho did with the utmost freedom. I can imagine how such a man would -net* ivhen he got-a-tdianeerat tion. Wouldn't he gorge himself? I Wouldn’t lie like to get away, into tire woods somewhere by the side of a carload of freedom and just kind of founder himself? I wot so. ' He picked out a razor with a white handle, such as agricultural .papers offer to boys for one new name, and lie mowed around over my fluffy cheek, turning my head over so that the midday sun could shine into my works, until I moaned in a low*key in spite of myself. Oh, how I wanted to go home! How I begged to see mv family once more! How I told Mr. Levy that I knew I liad done wrong, and that I had written things' about the Southern climate that* were too severe, and that if 1 had my life to live over again I would not do so, but, oh. would he not give me one more chance to reform? Would lie not let me look once more upon the faces of my wife and children before lie cut upon the other side of my neck ? ‘At last he relented, and I went to the office of a physician. My friends who recommended Mr. Levy now get out of it by stating that they supposed I wanted my hair cut. They say they never claimed that Plum Levy could shave for sour apples, but he can just more than caFhair.

Georgia Dialects.

In former days is the great crackerdom of Georgia—was settled from little colonies of other States and countries. Thus, each section preserved traces of the local dialect spoken in the, region whence the settlers emigrated. In the mountain countries people say “we'uns” and “you’tins,” “kin you’uns tell we’uns the way,” etc. In wiregrass Georgia these expressions are not used except in rare instances. In the moimtams they call it a “hunko’ bread,” meatmig a piece. In the wiregrass it is a “chunk o’ bread.” So it goes. What is common in one section is strange in another. What is said of the whites is especially true of the negroes. The negroes

of th: northern and" middle counties speak a dialect that‘is in many ways different from the outlandish gibberish jabbered by the salt-water darkies, whose gabble is just about as intelligible as the chatter of rice birds that infest their own tidewater plantations. And yet the guileless author will hear a conversation between two city hackmen and retire to his study and evolve a dialect sketch that is % cross between the tarwlieel twaddle and the talk of the typical dude minstrel with formidable shirt front and burnt cork accompaniments.—Atlanta Constitution.

She Ruled the Roost.

Jim Akers was a small, two-headed, I knock-kneed man, with irregular teeth, w hich made his mouth look like a steel trap twisted out of plumb. His wife was a large, raw-boned woman, fully a head taller and fifty pounds heavier than Jim. She had the temper of a half-famished wildcat, and no darky just “gittin’ religion” was ever half as | I ranch afraid of the devil as Jim was of j her. He had reason to be. When she ! was fairly on the war-path she breathed chain lightning and flung cyclones from the tip of her tongue. Nor did she content herself with words only, however bitter and furious. She very often brushed the poor little wretch with a hickory until he felt as if he had borrowed his back of a saint fresh, from a gridiron. One bright, golden .delicious afternoon in tho latter part of May, Jim left the patch, where lie had been hard at work all day and “snuck een” to his cabin Irfl the back way; He proceeded to doff his every-day clothes and don his Sunday garments, casting furtive glances all the while at the black-browed, terrible dame sitting in the front doorway knitting. .With trembling haste lie completed his preparations, and was shambling out again, when his wife, previously apparently oblivious of liis presence,, shot a fierce glance at him which made him jump almost out of his shoes and brought the perspiration out from every pore. “Wharyou boun’ fur?” she asked. “I Towed Iwuz gwine down to the fish-fry fur a hour or two. Them boys is a lievin’—” “Well, you Towed wrong. You jest histe off them does, and go back into that patch and finish hoin’ them partaters. Don’t you distress yerself ’bout no fish-fries. ” “But I done tole the boys I wus gwine to be tliar. ” . _ “Well, you tole ’em a lie.” “But Ed Sykes and Hank Evans is a waitin’ fur me now at the cross-roads, and I’d rutlier not disappoint ’em.” s “Well, I’d rutlier you would. Shut up now and do ez you’re told.” Jim gasped and quaked with fear; but for the first time in many years, ho thoroughly realized the tyranny under which he was crushed. "His heart was set on going to the fish-frv, and in that feeble, fluttering little., organ a faint shadow, a dim eidolon of spirit became thoroughly aroused. He hesitated a moment, ventured even to return the gaze of those glowing, wrathful eyes, and then started, saying: “Well, I’m a-gwine.” ?’*Great Jeliosaphat! Houp la! She swooped down on him like an owl on a mouse. The air was filled and darkened with dust and sandy hair and agonizing shrieks. Ed Sykes and Hanls; Eyans, at the “cross-roads, ” became convinced that Jim’s cabin had caught fire, and that lie was perishing in the flames. They rushed in all haste to his assistance, but as they neared the spot the clatter cubsided, and they heard a stern, feminine voice, which caused them to halt and keep out of sight, say; “Now I reckon you’ll do ez ver tole. ” Then they recognized Jim’s piping voice, protesting between convulsive sobs: “I’d sorter gin out gwine befo’ you spoke. ” —San Francisco Alta.

Beating the Market Man.

The sample dodge is an old and mean trick by which some sharpers in a small way beat' the market man out of a dinner riow r a-, d then. If you stay herelong enough you’ll see one of them. I usually get from two to a dozen visits from them every day. Many of them are men, old men, usually of respectable appearance, though occasionally you find a well dressed woman' in the business and now and then a child. It is worked like this: The sample fiend comes up when you are not busy and tell yon that lie has not laid in his winter stock of vegetables yet. And then, he talks about different kinds of potatoes and wants to see what we have got. He takes a out of each barrel, says he will try them all and see which he likes best, and moves coolly off. Of course we never see him again. Now that seems like a very small kind of a confidence, game for grown people to be at, doesn’t it? But there are scores of families who depend on just such little tricks for the chief part of their sustenance. Anyway, we have lots of them down here. I have known them to come and “work the racket” amT go away and then be at some othet stand on the same errand an hour later. I actually believe some of them gather enough vegetables in tliis way out of this market in a day to last them all, winter. Of course beggars we would fire out of here in a holy minute, and persons who didn’t look respectable we shouldn’t allow to take a sample. But what can you do when nicely dressed persons, who, for all you know, may own a brown stone block and be able to buy you out a thousand times, come alofig and work von this way ?—Stallkeeper in New lor A: Commercial Advertiser. The following naive promise was offered as an irresiSstible temptation to a fair inamorata: “I thank you, ” said the girl to her suitor, “but I can’t leave home.. lam a widow’s only darling; no husband can ever equal my parent in kindness." “She is kind,” replied the wboer; “but be my wife, and we will all live together, and see.if I don’t excel your mother !” • The teeth of am individual often vary greatly in hardness at intervals, and a Berlin physician, Dr.. W. D. Miller, is experimenting to show that this is due to a varying proportion of lime salts in the food.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A gang of swindlers has jnst been unearthed that have keen operating in different sections of the State qnite successfully. Their scheme is rather novel nnd bears on its face every mark of genuineness, and it is a pretty slick fanner that escapes. These men go in pairs, and their business is to watch the weekly newspapers for notices of stock that has been taken up and advertised. Soon as one of these notices is found, one of the 'men goes to the party who has taken the stock up and inspects it carefully, but is very sorry to find that the lost animal is not his. He then goes back to- bis partner and gives him a full description of the property, and if there is any special mark or blemish on the beast a note is made of it. Then ito a day or two the second man goes to the, farmer and says: “I see you have taken up a horse (as the case may bo) and as one of mine strayed away some time sifiee, I would like to see the animal.” “Oh, yes, certainly.” “I would have no objection to describing it,” and then will follow the description, which is always finished with the remark that “I can identify the horse in a minute if he is ming, by a and then some little, peculiar mark is named that was found by the first jnan. The farmer looks for this, and finds it, tho identification is complete, and the stock is about to %be turned over, when the sharper, half hesitating, says something about selling it. Then, in his own “slick” way, he makes a cash sale, tho farmer agreeing to pay the advertising bill. In due time the rightful owner puts in an appearance, claims and proves up the property, and the farmer realizes that he has been taken in and done for. The trick is a “good one,” and as»n rule, works to perfection. —Among friends of Indiana University there has been much anxiety as to what will be the result on the institution by reason of the failure of tho Legislature to act on the appropriation bills. It will, therefore, be a relief to know that the result wilt not affect the institution in nny way, save to keep iL cramped for need of working room. Dr. Jordan stated in an- ' swer to a question as to the resources of the institution: “The failure of the general appropriation will postpone to the next meeting of the General Assembly the building of the much-needed library hall. It also leaves unsettled the disagreement between the University Trustees and the late Auditor of State as to the time when the semi-annual installment of the University’s stated appropriation should be made. Otherwise the work of the University iB in no wise dependent upon the action of the Legislature. The sources of income for the next year are the following: Stated appropriation made by law and hot dependent upon future legislation, $23,000; interest on proceeds of lands given by the United States Government, $7,000; interest on accumulation of endowment fund, ($12,000) $0,000; fees of students, $3,700; other sources of revenue, SSOO, making a total of $40,000. The income of 1830 should be about $42,500. 'While the institution will not secure a building which is much needed, the failure of this bill will in no way check its prosperity.” —At a meeting of McPherson Post, G. A. IL, the following persons were appointed as a committee to make all arrangements for the Eighth District soldiers’ reunion, to be jield in Crawfordsville next September: T. H. B. McCain, Eightysixth Regiment; Joe McDaniel, Tenth Regiment; AY. H. AVebster, Eleventh Regiment; S. A. Stilwell, Fortieth Regiment; B. R. Russell, Sixty-third Regiment; AV. P. Herron, Seventy-second Regiment, and Mat Doherty, One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment. —An old man recently died in Montgomery County who was supposed to be in poor circumstances. It was ascertained, however, when the remains were prepared for burial, that the sum of SI,OOO was concealed about his body. The sum of S4OO was found in his pockets, and there was $00(f in bills sewed up in a belt which -passed around his body under his clothes. This money had been carfied in this belt, -from appearances, a long time. —Some young hoodlums residing near Linden, Montgomery County, j umped upon the second section of freight train No. 24, on tho Mouon line, and set the brakes, which brought the tx-ain to a standstill, and before the conductor could signal a train following it plunged into the second section, making an ugly wreck’ which took twelve hours to clear away. Three cars were reduced to fragments and eighteen more' damaged, - —The Bedford and Tunnelton Railroad. Company was organized at Bedford, with A. H. Guthrie, of Tunnelton, as President; George Goth, of Chicago, A’ice President; Dr. Ben Newland, Treasurer; H. H. AY alls, Secretary; 'C. N. Lessey, of Indianapolis; J. H. Ward, of this place, andJ. S. Day, of New Albany, Directors. This road will connect with the O. & M, at Tunnelton. —The preparations for boring for natural gas at Delphi have been completed, and the work of drilling has begun, A strong company has teen organized, aud the work will be carried forward as rapidly as possible. It is thought by those well informed in the matter _ that Delphi is within the great gas belt, and that gas will be found at a depth not exceeding 900 feet. —Dr. Rogers, of Martinsville, has killed a flog which for size is ahead of anything in that line. The animal measured seven feet and six inches in length. Its girth was six feet and one inch, and it weighed 600 pounds. Exclusive of the sides it yielded*, twenty gallons of lard and six gallons of sansage meat. —lndianapolis has been admitted as a member of the National Base Ball League. —The Commissioners of Montgomery County have appointed Henry B. Hulett, of Ladoga, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of County Clerk, A. P. Reynolds. Mr. Hulett was a candidate for this office last fall. He will serve until the election in 1888. James Green has been appointed deputy clerk. —Mrs. Raymond Ferguson, of Utica, Clark County, has given birth to a child . weighing but sixteen ounces, with arms three inches and legs four inches long. It is in good health. The parents weigh over 150 pounds each.

A Rather Odd Business.

The buffalo is fast becoming extinct, and such surviving members of his race as are loft in the great Northwest have become wary and elusive. It will never again be possible for the enterprising “skin-strippers” to sweep down upon enormous herds of these noble, ungainly creatures and slaughter them by the score, leaving their shin-denud-ed carcasses to rot upon the plains or furnish food for the wplves or coyotes. Realizing this fact, the “skin-strippers” have either taken up a new and less exciting occupation, and are now known as “bone-hunters,” or have abandoned the buffalo industry altogether. Tho "outfit” of the bone-hunter is a familiar spectacle in the Territory of Montana and in other portions of the West where the slaughter of buffaloes by the wholesale has been of comparatively recent date. •“ That the gathering of buffalo bones is a recognized industry is easily proved by the following figures: During the season of 1883-4 there were shipped East over the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad alone 7,850 tons, or nearly 800 cars, of bones. These bones were brought to various points on the line of the railroad by the bone-hunt-ers, and were then Bold to the agents of the consumers. They were at that time worth about $24 a ton at tho market, and paid the railroad company on an average a little over $0 a ton in freight charges. They are used chiefly by sugar refineries, bone-black establishments, and carbon works, the Detroit carbon works being one of the largest places of consumption in the country. They are also used extensively at* Bt. Louis and at Philadelphia.— Harper's Weekly.

Plant Allies.

While some forms of fungus are most destructive to vegetat'on, it is now believed that there are others which render assistance to the plants on which they live. Frank found that the fungus covering the young root points of certain forest trees, as the beech and the oak, seems to help in the nutrition cf those trees. Another interest ng case has lately been studied in Germany by Wahrlicb, who finds that a yellow bladder-like fungus of the root-tissue of orchids works no perceptible harm to the plants, but on the contrary probably aids them by changing woody matters into a form that they may more readily absorb. , „

A Reasonable Request.

Magistrate—You are accused of stealing chickens, Uncle Rastus. Are you guilty or not guilty? Uncle liastus—i pleads not guilty, yo’ honah, an’ inquests de privlege of frowing myse’f on de mercy ob de cou’t in case de evidence goes agin me.— New York Sun. Mark Lane, in London, was originally called Mart Lane, from the privilege of fare accorded by Edward I. to Sir Thomas Ross, of Hamlake.

The Western Settler’s Chosen Specific.

With every advance of emigration into thofar West, a new domand is created for Hostetter’a Stomach Bitters. Newly peopled regions are frequently less Balubrious than older settled localities, on account of the miasma which rises from recently cleared land, particularly along the banks of rivers that are subject to freshets. The agricultural or mining emigrant soon learns, when he does not already know, that the Bitters afford the only sure protection against malaria, and those disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels, to which climate changes, exposure, and unaccustomed or unhealthy water or diet subject him. Consequently, he places an estimate upon this great household specific and preventive commensurate with its intrinsic merits, and is careful to keep on hand a restorative and promoter of health so implicitly to be relied upon in time of need. If a man borrows money he does not care to have it talked about. He wants to be quietly let a loan.— I 'New Orleans Picayune. ■■■_ Coughs and Hoarseness. —The irritation which induces coughing immediately relieved by use of “Prown’t Bronchial Troches.” Sold only inboxes. We don’t hanker for burdens, but wo should just like to hitch on to a fresh Comstock lode. —Lowell Courier.

A Profitable Investment

Can be made in a postal card, if it is used to send your address on to Hallett & Co.. Portland, Maine, who can furnish you work that you can do and live at home, wherever you are located; few there are wiio cannot earn over $5 per day, and some have made over SSO. Capital not required; you are started free. Either sex; all ages. All particulars free. indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility relieved by taking Mensman’s Peptonized Beef Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing it* entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making, force-generatiug, and life-sus-taining properties; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork, or acute disease; particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard A Co. proprietors, New York. If afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25a Best, easiest to use, and cheapest. Plso’a Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 50c.

CAYAFIRH iHNHI HAY-FEVER ELTB CREAM BALM Is not a liquid, snuff or powder. Applied into nostrils is quickly absorbed.lt cleanses the head. Atlays Inflammation. Heals the sorts. Restores the senses of taste and smell SO cents at Druggists; by mail, registered, 60 cents ELY BROTHERS, Druggists, Owego, N, Y.’