Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — Page 6

The Ulcpnbliran. Geo. K. Mahmiam-, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

A Topcka raw belongs to twentyseven lodger. , --,--..±l“' ’' t- , - I . r Turan are folly fifty centenarians known to be living ip New England al the prefect time. Of this number 11 live in Connecticut; 4 in Rhode Island, 10 in Massachusetts, 10 in Maine, 5 in New Hampshire and 5 in Vermont. The''ldeal in all is Giles Benson, of Castleton, V'.. 115 venrs of age. Ti»a veteran pontnun, b'cwuel J. Randal), of Pennsylvania, is beginning to loca bis age. IPs hair is sprinkled with gray, and his sharp eyes are hidden behind a pair of spectacles. He dresses in unbroken black, and holds hitnself as straight as an Indiab. He never speaks unless he has something to say, so that no t me is Inst, ao far as he is concerned, hv unnecessary talking." Pbcf. G. F. Wkigbt, in his recent visit to Alaska, discovered a queer passage in the Twenty third Psalm as trans latad into the language of the natives. The missionary who made the translation found some difficulty with the firsi five words “The Lord is my shepherd,” because in A.aska there are no domestic sheep and noshepherds. But he thought that he had got over the difficulty until he,heard an Indian read the passage: and then he found he had made it readc “The Lord is a first class-, mountain sheen hunter.” ,

A pkbso.v dependent on a lodge of the F. and A. M. is never known outside of the members of the fraternity, and often not outside the lodge he is connected with. Their charity is distribu ted in a different way from most other secret societies. When they learn of a member in needy circumstances, a committee of three is detailed by the lodge to visit him. They are are not given any particular sum but have authority to supply them with anything they may need. They get clothing, shoes, medicines, groceries, fu I, etc., and continue to do this, not for any stated time, but until the object of the chanty is able to earn a living.

The Great Mississippi Duelist.

latter to tbs Atlanta tontiiivtioa. In Monday’s Constitution yon gave an account of the meet noted duelist in the Gulf States. I lived fifty years in Mississippi and never heard of McClelland, a duelist Alexander K. McClung is evidently intended, whom I knew for twenty-five years. McClung’s first duel was in Kentucky; his second 1 was with young Allen; his third was with Manifee, at Vicksburg. They to Abe Mississippi River below town Manifee reproved McClung for slapping a boy for throwing mud upon him, whom McClung had ducked. Returntog to town, McClung challenged Manifee and they fought next morning at sunrise. McClung was Marshal of North Mississippi during Tyler’s administration, and mads a' good officer, abating his dissipated habits. He organised a company in Columbus for the Mexican war, and at the siege of Monterey was the first to scale the wall, where he stood long enough to shoot a Mexican, but which delay cost him two fingers. He had imbued his command with his desperation and the fort surrendered. For this he was promoted to colonel. He fought no duel after the Mexican war. ....His .duels weraseveii, in each of which he brought down his man, not wounded, but dead. He was the most despsrate and dangerous man I ever met, and the most truly wretched. About 185# be wound up his career by blowing bis brains out at Jackson, Miss.

Addressing the President.

Cnrious, the notions which people have in addressing letters to the*President. I was looking over a patch of White House correspondence the other day, and here are some of the addresses I found: Governor Grover Cleveland, first Democratic President. To His Excellency, Mr. Cleveland. Hon. Grov*r Cleveland, Esquire. To His Honor, G. Cleveland, President of the United States. Col. G. Cleveland, President. To His Highness the Honorable President of these United States. Hon. Mr. Cleveland, esq.,at President’s White House. Gov. Cleveland, President of the United States. Mr. Grover Cleveland, White His Excellency the Honorable President of the United States. G. Cleveland, esq., President. Mr. Grover Cleveland, President U. 8. His Honor, Judge Cleveland, the strictly confideotian >vlda;iU ly an application for a postoffici). To our President, Gov. Cleveland. General Cleveland, the President (Private). -—■ - light Hou. Grover Cleveland, the President, at White House; etc. Shop Talk at the Table. . Landlady (to boarder)—How is the butter, Mr. Darnley? Dttmley fa produce broker)—Qnixt, but strong, madam, and in little emand.

MARRIAGE VOWS.

The Marriage Contract Regarded Wnh Two Uttle Serionanews. The Pledge* That Had Belter Not Been Made—Aluqneiry and Flirtation the Croat Alenee «n Many Horrowi. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday.. Subject. “Broken Promises of Marriage.’* Text, Judges, xi., 35: “I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I can not goback.” He said: There is one ward in almost all the insane asylums and 0 a large region in almost every cemetery that you need to visit. They are occupied by the, men and women who are the victims of broken proraisesof marriage. The women in those wards and in those mortuary receptacles are in the majority, because woman lives more in her affections than does man, and laceration of them in her case is more apt to be a dementia and a fatality. In some regions of this land the promise of marriage is considered to have no solemnity or binding force. It was only made in fun. They may change their mind. The ergigetnent may stand until some one more attractive in person or opulent in estate appears on the scene; then the rings are returned and the amatory leiters and all relationship ceases. And so there are ten thousand Jephthah’s daughters sacrificed as burnt offerings. The whole ulrtjoctneerfs to he taken out of the realm of comedy into tragedy, and men and women need to understand that, while there are exceptions to the rule, once having solemnly pledged to each other, heart and hand, the forfeiture and abandonment of that pledge make the transgressor in the eight of God a perjurer, and eo the day of judgment will re veal it. The one has lied to the other; and ali liars shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone. If a man or woman make a promise in the business world, is there any obligation to fulfill it? If a man sign a note for 1500, ought he to pay it? 11 a contract be signed involving the building of a house or the furnishing of a bill of goods, ought they to stand by the contract? “Oh, yes,” always answered. Then I ask the further question: is the heart, the happiness, the welfare, he tern poral and eternal destiny of man or woman worth as much as the house, worth $5tK), worth' anything? The realm of profligacy is filled with men and women as the result of the wrong answer to that question. The most aggravating, stupendous and God-defying lie is a e lie in the shape of a broken espousal*. But suppose a man changes his mind, ought be not back oat? Not once in ten thousand times. What if I change my mind about a promissory note and decline to pay it, and suddenly put nay property in such ashape that you could hoi collect your note? How would you like that? That, vou say, would be a fraud. So is the other a fraud, and punish it God will, as certainty as you live, and just as certainly if ycu do hot live. I have known men betrothed to lovirg and good womanhood resigning their engagement. and the victim went down in nasty consumption, while siiddenly

the recreant man would go up the aisle of a church in brilliant bridal party, and the two promised “I will” with a solemnity that seemed assurance pt a lifetime happiness. But the simple fact was, that was the first act of a Shaksperean nlay entitled “Taming the Shrew.” Ho found out, when too late, that be had not married in’o the family of the “Graces,” but into the family of the “Furies” To the day of his death the murder of his first betrothed followed him.

The bible eztols one who “sweareth to bin own hurt and chaugeth not’ That is, when you make a promise keep it at ail hazards. There may be cases where deception has been used at the time of engagement, and extraordinary circumstances where the proiuise is not binding. But in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand enragement is as binding as marriage. Suppose a ship captain offer his services totake a ship out to sea, After he gets a little way he comes alongside of a . vessel with a more beautiful flag, and which has, perhaps, a richer cargo and is bound fora more attractive port Suppose he rings a beil for the engineer to slow up and the wheel stope. Now I see tho captain being lowered over the side of a vessel into a small boat and he crosses to the gayer and wealthier craft, and climbs up the sides and is seen wal king the bridge of the other ship. I pick up his resigned speaking trumpet and I shout through it “Captain, what does this mean? Did you not promise to take this ship to Southampton, EngJane?’’ “Yes,” says the captain’ “but 1 have changed my mind, and I have found 1 can do better, and 1 am going to take charge here. I shall send back to you all the letters I got while managing that ship and everything I got from vour ship, and it will be all right.” You tell me that; the worst fate for such a captain as that is too good for him. But it is just what a man or woman does who promises to take one through the voyage of life, across the ocean of earthly existence, and then breaks the promise. The sending back of all the ietters-and rings and necklaces and keepsakes can not make that right which is in the sight of God, and ought to be in the sight bi nisti, an everlasting wrong. What American society needs hr be taught is that betrothal is an act so solemn and tremendous that all men and women must stand back from it until thev are sure that is right, and suie that it is bes\ and sure that no retreat will be desired before that promise of lifetime companionship any amount of romance uiat vou wiso, any ardor of friendship, any coining and co: n't* Rh espuusaTTs ag>te. a golden gate, wl-ich one should nut p-ss unless he or she expects never' to return. Engagement i s th eporch of w hich marri age ia the cattle, and yon have no right in the porch if you do not mean to pass into the ca-stle. The trouble has alwavs been that this whole subject of affiance hat* been relegated to tbe realm of fnvcltv and joke and considered not wonh a sermon or even ss-r one paragraph. And so the ma-f. acre of human lives has gone on and the devil has had it. his o «n cruel way, gad what is mightily needed is «h»t

pulpit and platform and printing press all apeak a word of unmistakable and thunderous protest on this subject ni infinite importance. “But su ppoee Ishould maa e a mistake says some man or woman, “and I find it out after the engagement and before marriage?'* My answer is: you have no excuse for making a mistake on this subject. There are so many ways of finding ou| all about the character and preferences and dislikes and habits of a man or woman that if you have not brain enough to form a right judgment in regard to him or her, you are not so fit a candidate for the matrimonial altar as you are for an idiot asylum. Notice what society your especial friend prefers. whether he is industrious or lazy, whether sh* is neat or slatternly, what books aroread, what was the style of ancestry, noble or depraved, and if there he any unsolved mystery about the person under consideration postpone all promise until the mystery is solved. Jackson’s Hollow, Brooklyn, ' was a part of the city not built on for many vears, and every time I crossed it I said to myself or to others. Why is not this land built on? I found out afterward that the title to the land was in contro versy, and no one wanted to build there .until that question was decided. Afterward I understood the title was settled, and now buildings are going up all over it. Do not build your happiness for this world on a character, masculine or feminine, that has not a settled and un disputed title to honor and truth and sobriety and kindness and righteousness. 0 woman, vou have more need to pause before making such an important promise than man, because if you make a mis ake it is worse for you. If a man blunder about promise of marriage, .or go on to an unfortunate marriage, he can spend his evenings away, and can go to the club or the Republican or Democratic head quarters and absorb his mind in city or State or National elections, or .smoke himself stupid, or drink himself drunk. But there is no place of regular retreat for you, O woman, and you could not take narcotics or intoxicants and keep- your reepec lability. Before yon promise, pray and think and study and advise. There will never again in your earthly history be

a time when you so much need God. It seems to me that, the world ought to cast out from business credits and from good neighborhood those who boast of the number ot hearts they have won, as the Indian boasts of the num ber of scalps he h«3 taken. If a man will lie to a woman and a woman will lie to a man about so important a mat ter as that of a life-time’s ael faro, they will lie about a bill of goods and lie about finances and lie about anything. Bociety to day is brim full of gallants and man-milliners and carpet knights and coquettes and thoee most God forsaken of all wretches—flirts And they go about drawing-rooms and the parlors, and watering places,simpering and bowing and scraping and whispering, and then return to the club rooms if they be men, or to their special gatherings if they bs women, to chatter and giggle over what was said to them in confidence. Condign punishment is apt to come upon them and they get paid in their own coin. I could point you to a score whom society has let drop very hard in return for their base traffic in human hearts. As to such men they walk around in their celibacy, after their hair is streaked with gray, and pretending they are naturally short-sighted, when theireyesare so old in sin that they need the spectacles of a septuagenarian, an eye glass No. 8, and they think they are bewitching in their stride and overpowering in their glances, although they are simply laughing stock for all mankind. And if these base dealers in human hearts be females, they are leit after a while severely alone, striving in a very desparation of agony of cosmetics to get back to the attractiveness they had when they used to brag how many masculine affections they had slaughtered. Forsaken of God and honest men and good women are sure to be all such masculine and female' fritters with hu man and yet immortal affections. O man. O woman, having plighted your troth, stick to it! And here my idea widens, and 1 have to say not only to those who have made a mistake in sol enin promise of marriage, but to those who have already at tbe altar been pronounced one when they are two, or in diversity ol tastes and likes and dislikes are neither one nor two, but a dozen—make the best you canof an“awful nils take. And here let me answer letters that come from every State of the American Union, and irom across the sea, and are coming year after- year irom men and women who are terrific ally allianced and tied together in a hard knot, a very hard knot. The letters run something like ihii: •‘What ought I to do, my husband is a drunk ardi” “My wife is a ged about and will not stay at home.” "My companion is ignorant and hates bo .ks affiTTrevel in them.” “I like miific and a piano sets my husband crazy.” “1 am fond of social life and my companion is a re cluse.” “I am tiying to be good and my life-long associate is very bad. What shall I do?” My answer if, there are certain good reasons for divorcement. The Bible jecognises them. Good socie ty recognizes tnem. But it must be the very last resort, and only after all reasonable attempts at reclamation and adjustment have proved a dead failure. When such aitempa fail it is generally because of meddlesome outsiders, and women tell the wronged wife how she ought to stand on her rights, and men tell tbe wronged husband how he ought to stand on his rights. And let husband and wife in an unhappy marriage relation stand punctiliously on their rights; there will be nd readjustment, and onli one thing will be sure to them, and that is a hell on earth.

If y<>u are unhappily married, in most cases I advise you make the Lxst you can of an awful bad bargain.. Do not project pour peculiarities more than: is neceesiiry. Perhaps you will have some faults of your own which theother party in the marital alliance may have U* suf ier. kon are in the same yoke. If yen pul! yoke will oni'v twist votrr neck. Bitter pull ahead. 'The world ia lull of people wt'o make mistakes abom |,,aß y tilings. and among other things shout betrothal and marriage, and yet have been tolerabiydiar.py and" vOry_useiul in the strength of Ged and by the grace promised in every time of need if those who seek it co: q ier the disadvantageous circumstances. lam a. quainted with lovely women mart ed to con jernptibie men, and g-niai men yoked And yet under these disadvantages my friends are nefui and happy. God helps pt uple in outer kinds of mattnlnm. and

to sing in the same, and He will help yon in the life-long misfortune. , Remember the patience of Job. What a wife he had! At a time when he was one great blotch of eruptions and his property wan destroyed by a tornado, and, more than ail, bereavement had come and the poor man needed all wise cotiael, she advises him to go to cursing and swearing. She wanted him to poultice his boils with blasphemy. But o be lived right on through marital dis advantages, recovered his health and fortune and raised a splendid family, and the closing paragraph of the Book of Job has sneha jubilane 3 that I wonder people do not oftener read it. v-Now my badly-married friend of either sex, if Job could stand it by the help of God, then standit by the same divine reinforcement. Yon have other relations, oh, woman, beside the wifely relation. If you are a mother, train np your children- for Ged and heaven. If yon are a member of a church, help move on its enterprise. You can get so much of the grace of God in your heart that,all your home trials will seem insignificant. How little difference does it make what your unrighteous husband cails you if God calls yon his child and you are sn heiress of whole kingdoms beyond the sky? Immerse yourself in some kind of out side usefulness, something that will enlist your prayers, your sympathies, your hand, your needle, yonr voice. Get yonr heart on fire with love to God and disenthrallment of the human race, and the troubles of your home will be blotted out in the glory of your consecrated life. I cry out to you, 0 woman, as Paul eiclaims in his letter to the Corinthians: “What knoweet thou, 0 wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband?” And if you can not save him you can help in the grander, mightier enterprise of ht-lo-ing save the world. Out of the awful mistake of your marriage rise into the 8 blitnest life of eels sacrifice for God and suffering humanity. Instead of set tling down to mope over your domestic woes, enlist your energies for the world’s i edemption. Now, what we want in this work of walling back the oceans of poverty and drunkenness and impurity aud tin is the help of more womanly and manly hands. Ob how the tides come in! Atlantic surge of sorrow, and the tern pests of human hate and Satanic Jury are in full cry. •, woman of many troubles, what are all th« feasts of worldly delight if they were offered you, compared with the opportunity of helping build and support barriers which sometimes seem giving way through man’s treachery and the world's assault? O woman, to the dikes! Bring prayer, bring tears, bring cheering words! Help! Help! And having done all, kneel with us on the quaking wall until the God of the wind and the sea shall hush the one and silence the other. To the dikes! sisters, mothers, wives, daughters of America, to the diket! The mightiest catholicon for all the wounds and wrongs of woman or man is complete absorption in the work to rescue others. Save some man, some woman, some child! In that effort you will forget or be helped to bear your awn trials, and in a little while God will take you up out of your disturbed and harrowing conjugal relation of earth into a heaven all the happier because of a preceding distress. When Queen Elizabeth of England was expiring it was arranged that the exact moment of her death should be signaled to the people by the dropping of a sapphire ring from a window into the hands of an officer, who carried it at the top of hfe Speed to King James of JBcotland. But your departure from the scene of your earthly woes, if you are ready to go, will not be the dropping of a sapphire to the ground, but the setting of a jewel in a King’s coronet. Blessed be His glorious name forever!

DARING ROBBERY.

A Bank Attacked, the Caahier Killed and the Scoundrels Captured. Four masked men, all heavily armed, entered the Citizens’ Bank, at Limestone, Ind. T., Saturday, and presenting a pistol at the head of the cashier, W. T. Reynolds, demanded that he turn over the cash on hand. While pretending to comply, Reynolds slammed Aha door of the safe to and turned the Jock. He was at onceJaid out by a bullet from the pistol of one of desperadoes, which stfuck idm above the h.iart/kniing hiih instantly. The bank was then ransacked, and all the money in the cash drawer, some s2*3oo,was taken. An attempt was made to open the safe, but in this the robbers were foiled.

As the sound of pistol shots were beard, several people came running toward the bank to ascertain the cause of the trouble. Taey were fired upon by three Of the men who were on guard, and retreated to get arms. Ln a few minutes the town was aroused, and twenty or thirty armed men hurried toward the bank. The robbers weie just mounting their horses and a hot fire started, in which one of rhe robbers (Thomas Evan) was killed outright, being shot several times in the head and body. He was identified as a ranchman, living near town. In the melee four citizens were wounded, hut not fatally, two receiving shots through the arms and two others being slightly wounded in the lower extremities. The three surviving robbers then rode away with the booty captured. A posse of pursuers was soon upon the trail of the flying outlaws, who were riding rapidly in the direction of Atoka. After about an hour’s hard pursuit they were surrounded, captured and taken to Limestone, where Judge Lynch was called to hold court. The leader was found guilty of the murder of Reynolds, and was forthwith strung up. The other two were placed in charge of a strong guard and star led for Fort Wichita, w here they will lx turned over to tha-.TTnit.ed Spates authorities. The stolen money was recovered. Ten thousand people are starving at Mardin. Eist Turkey. It is also reported that the famine at Adana, in Central Turkey, still continues, and the numA vulgar man courts publicity with the hope of wedding notoriety. ■.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Frank G. Epply, of Anderson, has been declared insane from overwork. He is a book-keeper El Ruddle, of Utica, near Jeffersonville, while coasting, collided with a tree and had his skull crushed. Alfred Warren, while eating supper in a restaurant at South Bend, Saturday, choked to death on a piece of meat. Temperance sentiment is developing in mauy parts of the State, including Danville, Greensburg and Jeffersonville. The trouble with most people who believe that charity begins at home is that they never allow it to go outdoors for exercise. Most of the factories at Lawrenceburg that have been shutdown have resumed operations and hundreds of employes have returned to work. Thieves entered the dry goods store of Jamis F. Davis, at Farmland, Saturday night, and carried away a large lot of silk handkerchiefs, e lk etc., amounting to same J3OO. Richard Hance, of Tipton county, while out hunting, Saturday, was attacked by a large eagle of the bald species. He succeeded in killing the bird, but not until he was scratched pretty badly. George Hofer, aged twenty-two years, living one mile west of Brookville, while coasting Sunday near his home ran against a large stone, striking his head and crushingin his skull, from the effects of which he soon died. Patents were granted Indiana inventors as follows: Williim B. Henning, Waterloo'railway tie; William H. A. Spaulding, Peru, adjustable grate for stoves; John F, Thom pson, New Castle, spittoon and securing the same. William Schamberioah, a ’wealthy farmer, aged about sixty years and a resident of Union township, Adams county, committed suicide, Monday morning, by drowning himself in a cistern. He was struck on the head several years pgo with the handle of a windlase, and it is supposed that he never fullv recovered.

Every Grand Army Post in Delaware county has adopted a resolution that will be presented to the State Legislature, asking that body to enact a law living the Cuuntv Comissioners the right to make a levy on the taxable property of their respective counties,to create a fund sufficient to the relief of the noor and dependent soldiers. Two Normal School students at Terre Haute, named Kirkham and Manin, captured a fine New Foundland dog, said to be worth $75, the property of DaiUDavis, took~hiffi to Ahiß''dTssecting room and proceeded to cut him up. The police secured the hide of the dog for identification, and the young men were arrested for larceny and malicious trespass. The Jersey cattle breeders met at Indianapolis Monday, and elected J. H. Jenkins, Indianapolis, President; J. W. Sliger, Ricnmond, Vice President; T. A. Lloyd, Indianapolis, Secretary and Treasurer; and A. E. Taylor, Columbus, Kate M. Busick, Wabash and Dr. James Cochran, Spiceland, directors. Topics of interest to the association were discussed. *

Eider L. Berry Smith, of Huntington, died Menday from the effects of a stroke of paralysis received last Wednesday, For twenty-one years he has been pastor of the Christian church of that city, and was numbered among the prominent ministers of that denomination of the country. He served durinz the. war in an Ohio regiment as Captain and Major. He was fifty-four years of age. Mrs. Wesley Meeks, of St. Omer, wife of the Baptist preacher who was taken out of his bed and severely whipped the other night by a mob because he would not work, has hung out a placard on her house signed with her name, on which she declares that her husband shall not do a lick of work until spring, and defies the Knishts of the Switch to pay her another visit, promising to make ft warm for them it they do. Trouble is brewing at the Dugger coal mines, in Sullivan county. Some time ago the Superior Coal Company entered into a contract with the State Federation to pay 8) cants per ton for all coal mined. They have now imported new men, who agreed to work at a less figure, but the miners have induced most of them to return home. It is expected that more men will come in, and trouble is anticipated.

Macy Warner, under sentence of death for murder at Jeffersonville, says he no longer has any hopes of escaping the punishment of death, and is making preparations to meet, his end. He sent for Sheriff Hay, and told that official that he desired for his breakfast on the day he is to be ex seated a quail on toast and a bottle of whisky. He re-, fuses to see any minister ot the Gospel, and says that he is prepared to die. Mr. Levi Guess, of Vincenhes, was in 1835 an employe of the East St. Louis Railroad. His wife and children lived in Vincennes. Whde in charge of his engine on the night of February 16, it was thrown from the track in conse qnence of a misplaced switch, and he was killed. His administrator, after two trials, m which the case finally went to the Supreme Court, has recovered $5,000 damages—the limit of the law. Greensburgwas considerably startled, on the premises of Rev. B. D. Black; al--o one at Mr. Cuarlee Kimbla’s rest-

dence. These gentlemen have beei quite earnest in the fight against granting license to saloon-keepers who have violated the law. Accompanying each was a threatening note, signed “Liquor League.” But be it said to the credit of the fraternity in that town, it is thought they had no hand in the business. The “bomb’’ was a piece of gas pipe about a foot Idng, and found to be filled with material resembling sawdust, ttrongly scented with turpentine.

The Hendrisks monument committee have decided to accept the model made by Sculptor Parks. The monument will, when completed, be thirty-two feet in height. The pedestal will be eighteen feet high, with three minor basis. On the upper base will rest a columned dye, which will be surmounted by a column ornamented with bronze designs and on which will rest the statute. The monument will be so built so that at any time from one to fonr allegorieal figures may Tie added. Mr. Parks left at once lor] Italy to complete the work. The monument will cost ho* $15,000 to $15,000. The little village of St. Omer, fifteen miles south of Shelbyville, has an organization similar to the “ White Caps” who have been overriding law and order in Harrison and Crawford counties. Tuesday night the band went to the home of the Rev. Wesley Meeks, a Baptist minister, battered down the door with a rail, fired of several shots and then took the minister some distance away and thrashed him three times, giving as a reason for doing so that he had not properly provided for his family and the neighbors were getting tired of his Ikzy conduct. Meeks was badly bruised from the blows he received, but managed to reach home, where he has been confined to the bed. The affair has created considerable indignation in that vicinity. Robinson, on trial at Jeffersonville for the murder of Samuel Hay has been sentenced to the penitentiary for life. On July 9 last Jacob Robinson, seventy years old, shot and killed, with a charge of buckshot, Samuel Hay. Robinson approached his victim from behind, having carried his gun hidden in asack. His daughter tried in vain to prevent him. Hay hi 4 behind his sister,- Belle, who was with him, and Rubicon shot his victim over her shoulders. Her pitiful pleadings for mercy he answered with taunts. During the entire trial his face never showed a sign of feeling, only an occasional smile hovering ttyon big lips. The night of his arrest a mob formed at Charleston, the scene of the murder, but Robinson had been taken to the Prison South for safety. ———- Mrs. Dell Freeman, of Vincennes, keeper of a boarding house exclusively for women, finds herself without boarders owing the strange sights and sounds seen and heard about her premises. At first the demonstration was confined to unusual rapping and noises at night, growing more frequent as time passed. Then the inmates would rush in terror from their rooms, claiming that cold hands had been laid upon their faces. On such occasions knocks on the headboards of the beds elsewnere became more violent and loud throughout the house. The noises were like pistol shots or bullets crashing through the transoms. A tall, spare man, dressed In a white robe, was seen in the basement by three inmates at once. Mrs. Freeman made a statement, Sunday, in which she says she has no fear of the strange visitations, though admitting that they cannot be accounted for. She says that once a sound of a crying child was heard coming from a corner of the room in which she sat. The sound gradually changed into a blood-curdling groan. Two persons beside herseif w«»re present. A fl u?h of blue light arose from the corner, revealing the face of the sparsely built man before mentioned. This man has appeared a dozen times in the full ight of gas, but has disappeared when any one present moved. At night, on several occasions, in different rooms, the same man, lying in a coffi i, and oorne by two spectral pall bearers, passed in review before the occupants. The most startling event of this seemingly incredulous story is substantiated beyond doubt Last Monday night, Mrs. Freeman, after retiring, felt a quantity of some warm fluid falling from the ceiling, and striking her on the shoulder. Upon lighting the gas she was horrified to find her gown and bed clothes smirched with quantities of warm clotted blood. Her clothing hks been subjected to washing, nut the stains cannot be removed. Mrs. Freeman’s strange experience is the talk of the city. The utmost vigilance on the part of two policemen, especially detailed fails to unravel the mystery.

A City Under the Sea.

North German Gazette. A city at the bottom of the sea was seen towardthe end of October near Trep tow, in Prussia, when a powerful south wind blew the waters of the Baltic away from the shore, uncovering a portion of ground usually hidden from sight by the waves. It was the ruins of the city of Regamuende, once a flourishing commercial station, which was swallowed by the sea some five centuries ago. The unusual spectacle was not enjoyed but for a few hours, when the storm slackened and the waves returned to cover up the place which had once been the residence and field ot labor of busy men. Out West they -elaim-thateoraig king. We know very often that ear comisa-ching. - „