Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — Page 3

The Republican.. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Ck E MARSHALL. Put-usher.

Gen. Jackson had two Secretaries •of State, two Secretaries of the Treasury, two Secretaries of War, two. Secretaries of the Navy, and two Attorneys General in his first term. In his second term he had three Secretaries of •State, three Secretaries of the Treasury, two of the Navy, two Postmasters Geeoral, and two Attorneys General. The Maharajah Dhaleep Sfngh has •established a headquarters in Chandernagore, near Calcutta, which is a French possession, and is issuing thence incendiary proclamations to the Sikhs, ■declaring that he has repudiated the treaty of annexation of the Punjab, and is now an enemy of Great Britain and a •claimant of the throne of his ancestors. A fellow who lias a mania for throwing ink worked Baltimore for awhile, and then went to Philadelphia, where Jie now is. He mingles in crowds and has a spray by which the ink is spattered over his victim’s attire. He has ruined as many as twenty dresses and •cloaks in one evening. He can have mo other motive but pure deviltry, and if caught it wouldn’t be a bad plan to make an ink bottle of him. A Nevada newspaper says that a citizen recently saw two Piute bucks dig •a hole in the snow bank, get into it, and wrap themselves in a single blanket, preparatory to a night's rest. In the morning ho saw no signs of the Indians, but a mound of snow marked the spot where they went to bed. He was sure that they had frozen during the cold night, and prepared to dig out the bodies; but the first thrust of the shovel brought the bucks to their feet with grunts of disgust. Instead of being frozen, they were moist with perspiration. A Chicago ni3n went out to Rockford the other day to attend the funeral of a relative, says the Chicago Tribune. As the coffin was being consigned to the earth he noticed that the interior of the grave was lined with ferns. This being something entirely new to him, •he afterward asked why the ferns w ere placed there, and was told that they concealed a metallic case into which the coffin w'as lowered. "When the mourners left the cemetery blacksmiths came and riveted an iron lid onto the ease, thereby making it imjwssible for body-snatchers to gain access to the coffin. Such devices for preserving the sanctity of the dead have been found necessary on account of the numerous grave robberies that have been committed at Rockford within the last few years. A curious thing happened in England a week or twe ago. . A Mr. Bulpett, once a Rugby boy and later a graduate of Oxford, was famous in his time as a walker and runner. A discussion arose lately as to wdien men w ; ere at their best, and .Bulpett thought he could then make a record, though 35 years old. Heavy bets were made that he could not walk a mile, ride a mile, and run a mile in seventeen minutes. He went into training and at once went lame, having strained the muscles of one leg. Still, he persisted, and the trial came off before a great throng at Newmarket. He walked the mile in eight minutes and twenty-five seconds, ran it in six minutes and six seconds, and then jumped on ahorse and rode it in two minutes, thus winning the bet by two and one-eiglit seconds. The fact should be known in this country, where men begin to think themselves passing their prime between 35 and 45. According to a writer in the Century Magazine, the nations of Europe' now have tw r o and a quarter millions Of men under arms, and twice that many in reserve, ready to cut each other’s throats according to the modern improvements of warfare. This is not an encouraging characteristic of this Age Of Progress. It is progressing backward toward barbarism. It proves that there is something radically defective in systems of government which have to be upheld by six or seven millions of bayonets. The savage tribes of interior Africa can make as good a showing as this. But the nation that has progressed furthest backward is the English. Her army has to be increased, not to fight a foreign foe, but to evict poor Irish tenants from their humble cabins. Her generals gain glory by conducting a campaign against the hut of some bed-ridden widow. Her gallant colonels win the Victoria Cross bv their bravery in throwing a sick baby out into tho road. The Russians, the Germans, and the French have at least the excuse for their armaments that they fear attack or long to carry ambitious projects; but the British government, under Lords Salisbury and Hartington, battles with starving peasants and bullies Irish babies. And yet England is sometimes satirically called a civilized nation. In a broker’s office on Broad Street several years ago, writes a New Yorlt correspondent, I was introduced to a middle-aged woman, well but not showily dressed, dignified in manner, and both pleasing and intelligent in looks. She was the mother of the ener-

i getio Irish leader, Parnell, then just looming into notice. Mrs. Parnell was then, and tyad been for some time, a steady operator in the took market. She had considerable means, partly inherited from her father. “Old Ironsides," and the excitement of specula-, tion had a special charm for hir. She was there almost daily, looking over the quotations and giving orders to buy or sell with the nonchalance of a veteran. Some of her family tried to draw lior away from the risk of speculation, but it is a characteristic of tlie Parnells to have their oWn way, and the old lady had hers. Her ventures occasionally turned out well, but more frequently the turn of the wheel was against her, and the result that might have been expected finally came. All the money she took into Wall Street was lost, and at last she found herself actually i»oor. It was a painful change, as in the better times she had enjoyed "luxurious comforts either in the best New York hotels or in her handsome home, once the residence of her father, at Bordentown, N. J. For some time before she left New York for Ireland, last summer, she received regular remittances from her son, and these were her sole means of support. Few women have more reason to regret a personal knowledge of the ways of Wall Street than Mrs. Parnell. She had abundant means when she went there and nothing when she left. This is a sail experience for any person advanced in years, and especially bad when the person is a woman. But its lesson is never heeded except by those -who learn it at their own cost.

Washington letter to Boston Traveler : One of the handsomest women who haunt the Capitol is a tali and magnificentlv-formed widow, who is the agent of a prominent book concern. She has lustrous bTOwn hair and splendid eyes, and many and many a member of Congress has wilted under their expressive glances. She solicits subscriptions and, it is understood, is the most successful of all the vast aripy of book-agents who prey upon the community. If there is one thing above another that will interest gallant Senator Blackburn it is a handsome woman. The widow by some means ascertained that the courtly Kentuckian was somewhat susceptible, and so went up to the Senate chamber and sent in her card. Several of the Senator’s associates learned that “Genial Joe’’ was about to receive a call, and they made up their minds to play a practical joke at his expense. They enlisted the service of a messenger, and substituted for the widow’s card, one hearing the name “Mrs. Wratz. ” Blackburn came out into the ante-room, and when he caught sight of the beautiful widow his face was wreathed in smiles and his breast swelled out like a pouter pigeon. Advancing in a most fascinating manner he extended his hand and said with great cordiality: “I am glad to meet you, Mrs. Wratz.” The widow’s eyes snapped as she replied sharply: “Senator Blackburn, I am astounded. I came here to see you on a matter of business. You are the first member of Congress who has ever said ‘rats’ to me. ” The Senator looked confused for a moment, and then drew out the card which the practical jokers had prepared and said: “I’m sure there must he some mistake, the name reads W-r-a-t-z.” The widow looked at the card, and then they IrotK 1 aughed. A few moments later the widow put down the Senator’s name for two copies of her book. Then they shook hands and the widow went to look for a fresh victim. Later in the day the practical jokers told Blackburn all about their little scheme. He looked at them sadly and led them clown to the restaurant,where he gave an order to a colored waiter, who appeared in a few moments with a bottle which lie opened with great care. The jokers and the Senator sipped the foaming contents, and promised to keep the affair a profound secret. *

The Dog Was Honest.

C. J. Persliall is President of the New Jersey Kennel Club and owns some of the best pointer dogs in New Jersey. Mr. Persliall finds relaxation in studying the characteristics of the canine family. “Have you heard the story about my Jimmie?” he asked. “No? Well, I was sitting in the Hoffman House case one evening, dreaming away the time while waiting for a friend. Jimmie "was curled at my feet, when presently he got up, stepped carefully across the rug as if he was on game, and came to a full stop at the opposite corner. There he stood, a model for an artist. After being called several times he returned to his old position, but did not seem satisfied. He repeated the maneuver, only to be called baok again, and after he had done so twelve times I began to get interested. Going to the corner of the rug I- turned it up, and there found a dollar. He kept pointing the dollar till I counted eighty-four. Just then some friends came in and I told them Jimmie would point a silver dollar. They lauglied at the idea, but I told him to ‘hie on.’ He jumped up, snifi’ed about; but it was no good, he would not repeat the trick. I had to tell the story of what he had done, and going to the corner to pick up the dollar in confirmation of my story, foUnd it was a trade-dollar, which, as you know, is only worth 84 cents. I-tell yon, Jimmie knows a trick or two.”—Philadelphia Press. ~ It is easy to live in the world’s opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, dn the midst of the crowd, keeps withperfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

HEPBURN OF IOWA.

An Eloquent Tribute to, the 400,000 Union Soldiers Who /Marched to Death. -• i t Ouly 30,000 People Would Have Bhared in the Pension Bill—And Only $4,370,000 Bequired to Pay Them. The Contrast with the Mexican Soldiers— A Withering Analysis of Bragg. [From the lowa State Register.] It seems that the speech with which Colonel Hepburn replied to his neighbors, when he received such a cordial welcome home at Clarinda, lowa, was one of peculiar grace and power, and one which is worthy to be printed in every free-minded and fair-dealing paper in the land. In go other speech or paper has the cruelty of the pension veto, the justice of the provisions of the bill, the debt of honor owed by the nation to its soldiers, nnd * the facts as to the few or the many who would have been benefited by the bill, been so clearly and powerfully set forth as in this impromptu speech of this great defender of the Union soldiers, in talking to his own neighbors. It is safe to say that this speech will be the one which the Democratic party will have to meet in the campaigns in the different States, when it shall attempt to justify the action of Cleveland as demanded of him by the solid South and the coldblooded money kings of the North. The old Union soldiers, wherever they shall be as this speech shall come to them, will thank God for Pete Hepburn. After a beautiful and loving tribute to lowa, his home, and its people, his neighbors for nearly his whole life, the Colonel said: There are matters that I would like to talk about, but fearing that some might regard them improper upon an occasion like this, because of seeming partisanship, I will omit them. I cannot, however, omit one thing that I desire to say, and that is, that the President of these United States, in my humble judgment, in honesty of purpose, perhaps, has mistaken the temper of the people when ho classifies those with you and our Chairman from ’6l to ’65 as paupers and mendicants. It is a mistake no legs marked and certain than those other hitter words uttered by our whilom comrades when they wero classified ns vagabonds, as thieves, ns perjurers, as the scum of tho earth. The battle-scarred old heroes of! the Rebellion, tottering toward the grave, have done nothing to deserve such characterization as that. Sometimes I have thought that there might have been a misleading of the Executive mind that wus in harmony with honest purpose. I remember that all the great journals of this land are to-day declaiming against the claims and the rights to recognition of the old veteran; but I remember, my comrades, that in ’6l that same class of journals printed in the great metropolitan centers, the centers of wealth, were not those that upheld the hands of Abraham Lincoln in tho earlier part ot the war. The capital of this nation, like the capital of every other nation, then was cowardly as it now is mean. (Cheers and applause.] Those men whose sentiments are voiced by the great metropolitan presß forget the Then situation. They wero menaced by a separation of our territory' into two hostile nations—nations if erected that must be in the very nature of things constantly at war. There conld have been no peace between the United States and the Confederate Statos. There were such differences of sentiment, such differences of purpose, there were such wars of ideas, that they would have manifested themselves in wars more disastrous than tho wars of the Roses or the Thirty Years war that devastated Europe. The Confederate States with slavery as an institution, and tho United States with the liberty-lovingjprinciples that we had, could not have been at peace. The result would ha' e been constant carnage, that constant destruction of wealth, that constant interference with accumulation that would then have sent the now rich to the poorhouse. The old veteran saved them from the poorhouses, in their days of distress ; they forget it and are not willing now to save the old veteran from the poorhouse. [Applause. | I am not overdrawing this picture. The man who was a man twenty-five years ago and abreast of the thought of his time, knows the absolute impossibility it would have been to have had two governments, one resting upon the corner-stone of liberty and the other resting upon the cornor-stone of human slavery, existing side by side in a condition of peace and amity. I’have thought sometimes that tho younger men—those growing into the activities of life now—fail to appreciate the situation of twenty-five years ago. Youvoung gentlemen have seen nothing around you during all of your few years of experience save those conditions that result from peace, prosperity, and plenty. You know nothing of the conditions of twenty-five years ago. Since that period we hav.e trebled Our wealth, we have more than doubled our population. Since that period we havo trebled our manufacturing and wealth-creating possibilities; we have more than quadrupled the circulating medium; we have since that time multiplied by five times the railways of the country ; we have more than deubled the commerce of the country; we have more than quadrupled the internal commerce of the country. You know nothing about that, and perhaps you havo but faint recollections of what the war cost. , You may not know that of the men that marched to the front, 67,000 of them were shot to death on the battlefield ; that 43,000 of them died in hospitals of wounds received; that 29,000 of them were starved to death in the prison pens of the South; that 24,001 of them died from--accident, were drowned, died from sunstroke, disappeared ; that 235,000 died in the hospitals while their names were still upon tho army rolls. A great army of 410,000 men that went to the front and never came back. You havo forgotten this if you ever knew it. Think of what a multitude of men! There have never been so many votes cast in any election in the State of Iowa; there are not so many voters in the State of lowa to-day as in this’army of tho dead. Could they he called buck and formed into bat-tle-line,, formed into marching column, divided into three arms of the service—infantry, cavalry, and artillery; mount the cavalry, furnish the artillery with guns, horses, and caissons, give to each that camp and garrison equipages and those army trains needed to move the army and supply" it for thirty days, and start it from Davenport on the march ; when the vanguard reached the city of Council Bluffs the rear guard would otlll be looking from the bluffs into the Mississippi River. That was tho number of men that died—that were our comrades. Can it be possible ? I would say it to the President, if I could, can it be possible that of a corps marching to the front, twenty-five per oent. and more could be destroyed, and the balance escape unscathed? They may have escaped the mark of bullet; but how is it possible, all undergoing the same fatigues, tho same perils, the same vicissitudes, one strong man is stricken down and the others not somewhat affected appreciably in t: at physical construction that unfits them for the possibilities of old age, to say nothing of those taat languished in the prison-pen. Twenty-six of Page County’s boys lay for nine months amid the horrors of Andersonville ; young, stalwart, vigorous men when they went within those fatal, fearful gates; you can select them to-day among the men of "their age, because of the premature decay resulting from the horrors of the situation into which they were thrust; and yet, perhaps, not one of them, under the pension laws as they now exist, could receive a pension. That pension bill that was referred to by the gentlemen who preceded me was not the serious thing that many have ffiaos been asHwljfctawddiy returns . ad e from a little more than hall of the ftantteiTln-.trie United States ‘XhsArit&srly ejMS-iaan in those”' conntles were inmate* of tho houses. those caseCT^uS.*foaßa«d>ly digcharged, who from m**.-®**, able to cam a swvvort. It was perhaps, there Would woe; bo 30,W; in round numbers was .the t<A»\ wwsuber i that the Commissioner 1 of Pensions and’the' Committee of Invalid Pensions ih the House expected would be beneficiaries under that act, so that the bOl would cost the Government all told a little less than four and three fourths million dollars annually, the cost gradually diminishing. 'No fair interpretation of that bill can make any man a beneficiary under it unless he is dependent upon his maunal labor for support and is totally incapable of earning a support. It was that class of men we were trying to provide for. It is ttiat class of men that the metropolitan press has said shall notbe provided for, at the instance of the wealth of the country and the solid vote of the unreconstructed South, There was no question or principle involved in this except It be a,.principle of patriotism. The solid vote that the Mexioan {tension bill received, and the approval it receiv'd at the hands of the Hxecutive. met every constitutional question that ia involved in the other bill.

Under the Mexican pension bill fix and three- | fourths millions are estimated to oe annually necessary in the way of appropriation. Bui there is a wonderful difference in the lpoality in its distribution. Under the first bill it is north of Mason A Dixon's line where the money will be expended; under the other bill more than three-fourths/of it will be expended south of that line. These two bills ran side by side through the House. In their passage one was supjxrsed to be dependent upon the other. The North paid the price of putting three mon south of Mason and Dixon's line on the pension roll under the Mexican pension bill for each one that it secured tho North. Of the men who have been engaged in the Indian wars previous to the war of the rebellion, more than ulnetentha of them came from the slave States. Sixty-niho thousand men wore engogod in these wars, the various Indian wars, prior to tho Mexican war. All of them, save 6,1)00 that participated in the Blaokbawk war, were soldiers In the so-called wars that were carried on in the Southern States: the Florida war, the Creek aud Seminole wars. Sixty-nine thousand of that class of volunteers are covered by the Mexican pension law,. Of 101,0(10 volunteers in the Mexican war a little more than two-thirds came from the Southern States ; it was a Southern war: it was for the propagation of the institution of slavery; it was to add new slave States to the union of Stages; it was in their interest; it was carried on by a Democratic and Southern administration. The men who clamored for regiments where favors were to be distributed wero selected largely from the South; so that more than two-thirds of all the volunteers in that war were selected from those States. Here you see 195,000, supposing them all to bo living, are beneficiaries under the Mexican pension bill, while 35,0J(j men only are possibly beneficiaries, supposing them all to be living, under the same bill in the North. But that bill, altfiough tho two measures rau side by side, secured the necessary approval that mode it a law, and after it was approved the other failed. Some of my friends in my own neighborhood have spoken very kindly of the few words I was able to say With regard to tho veto of that measure. I have here in my hand a letter which I received a few days ago, that gave me no inconsiderable satisfaction. With vour permission I will read it. It is dated “Headquarters E. H. Brown Rost, No. 130, G. A. R„ Fond du Lac, Wis.” Fond du Lac is tho home of Gen. Bragg, the man wno characterized my -old comrades, who might be beneficiaries under the bill, as “vagabonds, thieves, scoundrels, perjurers, and the scum of the earth." The letter reads: Feb. 28, 1887, Hon. Mr. Hepburn, M. C., Washington, D. C. : Sm—Y’our remarks to General E. S. Bragg as to his position in the G. A. R., comparing him to Benedict Arnold, meets with the hearty approval ot this post, of which General E. S. Bragg is a member. We thank you and all others in Congress who took so prominent a part in vindicating the late bill for the relief of our worthy comrades and thoir widAws and orphans. Yours respectfully, George D. Stanton, Adjutant of the Post. Accompanying that was a series of resolutions passed by the post, too long to weary you with at tins time. I would have been glad if that gentleman who spoke so feelingly with regard to his love of the true'soldier, could have received a letter indicating the opinions of his old comrades before he delivered his speech in opposition to their bill? It might have saved him from a mistake. There are men here who know, that that gentleman was a gallant officer. He was commander of that i rigado known in the Army of the Potomac as the “Iron Brigade.” There was none better. Ho succeeded to its command late in tho war; it had won a world-wide reputation then. No mm loading a Roman legion in tho days when Rome was most powerful, or a French division in those days seventy-five or eighty years ago, when France won her highest renown as a warlike nation, ever felt or hod a right to feel more confidence in the men who followed him than the leader of that Iron Brigade. I hoard that gentleman say iu the midst of his scathing denunciation of his old comrades that he was a friend of the soldier; that no man could feel the thrill of delight that came to tho soldier’s heart as he rode along a waving line, who heard tho acclaims of the comrades when they felt that confidence that comes with a trusted leader, no man who had ever led them up the heights of a desperate assault, could ever forget his old comrades. Ah, who is it that makes the rotown of the General ? ••■•:■■.—y-..,-.,, Sujipose that when ho dashed along the lines he had not been met by the huzzas that came from brave hearts ; that when he led the assault ho had not been followed by tho bayonets that were hold by well-nerved; hands? What would have becomo of the leader's renown, and where would have been the stars ot rank? I thought when I heard , him say that, that he ought to have felt that soutimont of mutuality and reciprocity that should exist between the soldier who made his General and the General that was created by the ranks. [Applause. | There was another picture ; there were some of those old men that once the commanding" officer came; there were some of those men whose eyes light up with the fires of courage when tVey knew the deadly assault was to bo made ; there were the men who with firm hand held the bayonet as they rushod onward, exposing their bare breasts to the torrent of shot and shell that camo hurtling like a winter's storm against them. These old men now in the poor-houses, eyes dimmed by want, stalwart hands no longer stalwart because of the ravages of disease and old age, holding out those gaunt hands pleadingly toward the man whoso renown they created, and begging him, in the feeble voice of old ago, for succor now in their great distress. [Enthusiastic applause and cheers. 1 Thero were two pictures that should engage the attention o # f tho artist- one Bhowing how well the hoys performed thoir part, the other showing how easy it was to he recreant when profit and possible honor—preferment, I would say—dictated a change of front.

A Distinction Without a Difference.

A Roman ecclesiastic, in reply to whatever question might bejiropo.sed, began by saying: “I make a distinction.” A cardinal, having invited him to dine, proposed to derive some amusement for the company from the well-known peculiarity of his guest. Saying to him that he had an important question to propose, he asked: “Is it under any eirenn:stances lawful to baptize in soup?” “I make a distinction,” said the priest. “If you ask is it lawful to baptize in soup in general, I say no. If you ask is it lawful to. baptize in Your Eminence’s soup, I say yes; for there is really no difference between it.and water.”

He’ll Let ’Em Fight Next Time.

Tho peacemaker is not always blessed. Recently, one pf that fraternity approached two men who liad been quarreling, nnd remarked, “Oh, come, gentlemen, what is the use of quarreling? Shake hands,'now, and make it up. You-were botif wrong.” “So I lied when I called Tom a liar, did I?” “And I lied when I stated that Jim was a thief.” 1 V “You knock him down, Jim, and I will kick him sore,” remarked Tom. The peacemaker was done up to the queen’s taste, though he succeeded in making friends of the two belligerents.

Unsatisfactory Progress.

Tommy came home from school, and handed to his father the teacher’s report on his progress during the month. * - “inis is very unsatisfactory, Tom; you're a very small number of good market I’m not at all pleased with it. ’’ w* “I told the teacher you wouldn’t be, bA he wouldn’t alter it.” Among the notabilities now in Rome are Mr. Blunt and Lady Anne Blunt, daughter of “Ado, sole daughter of my house and heart.” -Lady .inne Blunt is small, delicate, feminine unaffected. She has the. *-ojee Byfdtr-*fc*v’ed in woman; is wWip/ittea, as* fta ium? say, liaif a good rntritfe, wclLcnt features, sincere brown with a of ptiwer qnd paTtfarreß'fi . TMig is v seven ty of ex-p-wsswm in her4hee wtiiSß' tells of a ih&zAeter. strong dbiflinatfe and painful elpefiemjLady 'Ahjaftfias the-reputation among her friends ot being clever. bTSve, and masterfuj. • \ r—- - “There’s a great deal of tolk.’Nibserves ,Mx. Jeames Yellowplnsh, in his unpublished journal, “abont the ‘old masters.’ Now, why, in the name of goodness, don’t somebody ten ua about the old servants?” Bhe —Come, hubby, take me to the theater to-night.-—He—Gan’t do it; I've only one ticket, and it’s necessary for us to economize now that we are married. Goodbye, love. q

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Emanuel Rosenbarger, an aged and; respected fanner, of Harrison County, died of cancer, after long and most intense suffering. Mr. Boaenbarger has been one of the most unfortunate men iu that county. About twenty years ago he became almost totally deaf, so much so that it was painful to try to converse with him. A few years later he had his right arm ground off in a molasses factory, of which he was owner. About seventeen years ago a cancer made its appearance on his face, and steadily grew worse until it ate almost his whole face away. For the last five years he has been blind, his eyes both being destroyed, and the lower part of his shall left bare. About the only thing he possessed which resembled a human face was his chin, his nose, cheeks, and upper lip all being eaten' away by the cancer. During all these misfortunes he never complained. He was an honorable man, nnd the father of fourteen children. For the last two years it was necessary for his family to keep him in the cellar during the summer months; and to keep constant watch over him. Blind, deaf, and speechless, his wants could be known only by signals which he could make with his only hand. —Patents have been issued to Indianiaus as follows; Beilis, William K., Indianapolis, coin packet; Dodgo, Wallace H., Mishawaka, devise for transmitting power; Fauber, W. K. Harry, Marshfield, fencebuilding machine; Fulton, Harmon H., Indianapolis, cultivator attachment; Hamilton, James J. and D. Bearly, New Castle, fire extension ladder and truck; Leonard, Charles N., Indianapolis, pillow-holder; Patee, Theodoras N. and S. K. Lawshe, Greencastle, lightning-rod standard and brace; Reed, Hugh T., Richmond, shelving; Shewmaker, John W., Terre Haute, barrel carrier; Solenberger, John T. and H. G. Woody, Kokomo, gas pressure regulator and cut-off; Seschech, Gustave H., Indiannpplis, band-saw wheel. —At a meeting held at Logansport for the purpose of making arrangements for unveiling tho monument erected by Cass County to the soldiers and sailors of the war, it was decided to hold the celebration on July 13, that day being the centennial anniversary of the adoption ot the ordinance of 1787, which dedicated Indiana and the Northwest to freedom. The commute on invitation were instructed to invite Col. William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, and Qen. William H. Gibbon, of Ohio, as special orators of the day. The monument will be seventy-five feet high, and will be the first one in Indiana erected under the provisions of the State law. —The first natural gas company formed at Crawfordsville has ceased digging, and the well will probably be abandoned. A depth of about 1,200 feet had been reached. There is a light flow of water from the well which strongly resembles artesian. Tho workmen on this well have been transferred to the other company, and the dig; ging of their well has been commenced. The first company expects to sink another well soon. —Mrs. John Collins, who lives near] Marietta, was standing near the fireplace when her clothing caught fire, and there being no aid near she was burned nearly to death before any one was alarmed by her cries. Her infant child was in the cradle, and the fire was rapidly making its way toward it when it was snatched from its couch by Charles Keath, who was the first to appear on the scene. —De Pauw University has just closed an unusually pleasant and prosperous winter term. The aggregate enrollment so far this year is almost 700. The best of. order has prevailed and thorough work has been done in all departments. The large Sophomore jdass had to be divided into four sections for their orations, and their entire performance was highly creditable and satisfactory*—-—*— —A horrible accident happened at a sawmill near Cassville. While playing under one of the saw tables the 11-yenr-old son of T. M. Daniels was caught by a swinging circular saw, splitting his little body lengthways down the sjyne, penetrating the lungs and exposing other vital organs. The little fellow still clings to life, but there is no possible chance of bis recovery. —While Mr. Ji. Winslow, a farmer who lives near Millport, a few miles southwest of Seymour, was harrowing in oats with a drag, his team ran away, and dragged -him across the field and into a ditch, where his j dead and badly mangled body was found a i little later by neighbors who witnessed the accident. He leaves.a family. —Gifts to Hanover College during the past year aggregate almost $20,000. This does not include handsome sum? given by Mr. F. M. Boots, of Cornersville; W. M. Hoffman, of Fort Wayne; Cyrus H. McCormick, of Chicago, and others, to enable Hanover to extend aid to young men studying for the ministry. * .. —The ne’tv firm residence owned by Thomas Ireland, nine miles north of Delphi, burned to the ground while the family was away from home. All the household furniture was lost. Loss between $3,000 and $4,000. Only slight insurance. —Elmore Kickley and John Barrett of Fort Wayne, warm personal friends, went out in the country to shoot at a target. During the shooting Barrett accidentally shot Kickley through the heart, causing instant death.' Barrett is wild with grief. —John W. Harper, President of the Wabash County Agricultural Society, and one of the leading stock-breeders and farmers, was nearly killed while felling a tree. His leg was broken in three places. —Joseph Christian, a white barber of dison, was President Lincoln's coach-maa-for one year, beginning in 1882. ■*gjjs—'The Odd Fellows of Madison are ar* . ranging Hot a celebration of the sixtyNrighth anniversary of the order in that city on an elusive scale. There will be a public parade on April 28, and an address at night by ex-Secretary of State Myers. —Earl, eldest son of Maj. G. W. Grubbs, of Martinsville, while holding a cartridge in his hand and striking it with a knife, had his hand perforated by the cartridge exploding. • . —Mrs. Jesse L. Williams, of Fort Wayne, has just given a handsome donation to the current funds of Hanover College.

It Should Be Generally Known

That the 1 multitude of diseases of a scrofulous nature generally proceed from a torpid condition of the liver The blood becomes impure because the lifer does not act properly and work off the poison from the ayatem, and the certain results 1 are blotche*, pimples, eruptions, swel.lngs, tumors, ulcors, and kindred affections, or settling upon the lungs and poisoning thoir delicate tissues, until ulceration, breaking down, and, consumption ia established Dr. Pierce’a “Golden Medical Discovery* will,, by acting upon the liver and purifying, the blood, cure alltheso diseases. Strange as It may seem, iron is not firm. ’The market reports say so.— Lowell Courier.

Tennyson’s- “ M a y Queen.”

Who knows but if tho beautiful girl who died so young had been blessed with Dr. Pierce’S “Favorite Prescription* she might havo reigned on many another bright Mayday. The “Favorite Prescription” is a certain cure for all those disorders to which females areliablo. Politicians are excusable for being on the fence..—They with to keep posted. Brown’s- Bronchal Troches for Coughs and Colds; “1 do not see how it is possible for a public man to be himself in winter without this admirable,aid.”— Rev. R. M. Devena, I‘oceuset, Mas*. Motto for a corset factory—“We havo come to stag.”-—Cleveland Sun.

A Daring Bobbery.

The robbery of the Adams Express car on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, in October last, was one of the beat planned, coolest, most audacious pieces of villainy ever perpetrated, as the discovery of the villains was one of the best pieces of detective work we ever heard of. A serial story, founded upon this occurrence, commences ia the Chicago Ledg<r of April 13, bv the author of that exciting novel, “Manacle and Bracelet,” which will prove a treat indeed to the readers of this class of fiction. The Ledger is published for $1.50 per year, in advance—half the price of Eastern papers of its class. A sample copy contain ng the opening chapters of this great story will be sent free, to any one sending name and address to the Ledger Cbmpany, 271 Franklin street, Chicago.

Fortune’s Favorites

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WELLS’ HAIR BALSAM.

If gray, restores to original color. An elegant dressing; softens and beautifies. Mo oil nor grease. A tonic restorative. Stops hair coining out; strengthens, cleanses, heals scalp. soc. The best thing on earth to add to starch to giva a good body and beautiful gloss is “Kough oi» Dirt,” only washing compound that can be SO used. Makes ironing' easy and saves the starch. Has dirt-removing power double that of any other. The removal of Prof, banborn of New Hampehire,~after being pronounced incurable by a score of physicians, from Las Vegas, N; M.,to his home, was effected by administering Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic, which has restored him. to his formor good health. “Rough on Dlrf’ whitens clothing yellowed by careless washing’ or use of cheap washing compounds. Washes everything from finest laces to heaviest blankets. There need be no fear in using this article. Does not rot no* yellow. 5 and 10 cents.

IF YOU ARE LOSING YOUR GRIP

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“BUCHU-PAIBA.”

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