Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — Page 6

ytit jßtpublican. Geo. E. Marshal!., Publisher. RENSSELAER. ~ INDIANA

■ ■ . ■ —J •‘Play ball.” The National gam* is on. Th* A meric tn Association season began on the 18th and th* League on the 20th. A Chicago syndicate has purchased the Indianapolis street railway. They ought to implore the street car service a* a preliminary move to gain the good opinion of Inditnapolitans. Judging from what we learo it could be no worse.

Thk most abominable instance of tyranny of the majority ever exercised > in America,outside theological disputes, io the act of the State Board of Health of Illinois in undertaking to revoke the license of a physician for having advertised in the newspapers. Bat the court has decided that the board has do such power. 'lf it has power any way approximating such autocracy it should be deprived of it. Every man his an inherent right to employ any one he chooses in cases of illness, and the physician has a right quite as inherent to announce his profession and make himself know nto the people. There is at least some ignorance, if not a touch of quackery, in all men. Just law has nothing to do w ith such quackery unlesa it proves injurious to patients. In that case let the law work with generous equity, and punish those who do not advertise as well as those who do.

JELLY FISH AND SHRIMPS.

They Lay Down Together with the Shrimp Inside. World o! Wonders. If a boat is auch*red in anyone of the channels which separate the quicksand of the mouth of the Thames when the tide is running f.at during calm summer weather multidudei of jelly-fish may be seen floating just below the auifice. Borne are no biggir than teacups, and others ire the size of a l»ijri btsiu, and they all have some curious markings on the top, ani move by cminding and and expanding the lower p .rti of their bodies, Hourafier hour th* sc beautifulthings float by, and tbe’r number are incalculable. If one iaciught with the band the fingtn usually perfcrate its j-1 y-like strnc ura, and if it is placed on a beard the creature seems to run away in the Lrm of water. Now a great many of the larger kind, when care fully examined, are fiund to have within their large stemteh asir all white shrimp With meet beautiful emerald colored eyes. It was supposed that there shrimps formed the food far the jelly-fish-or-me-dusa' as they are properly called; but careful invts igations prove that those lively little creatures with the Beautiful eyes only exist in the larges medusae, and that they make of the wandering messesof anima’ jelly their home and larder. The sbr mp soon die 3if is taken from its shelter, and specimens of it are never found saimming with the common shrimps which live in the B<a around our coasts, The shrimp lives at the expense cf the jel y-fish and feeds upon se me of the small c-eiturrs which are entangled by the psculiar structures of its month. The jelly fish floats along collecting food and killing every small living thing that touches its stinging body, while the shrimp enjoys itself and lives inside, out of danger and in great comfort. The sbrimp swims in and out, and is never harmed by the deadly poison of the wonderfully sharp, stings of the medusa. Now the most wonderful part of this singular history is how the jelly-fish and the shrimp come together. There are no jelly-fish in the winter and early spring, and the whole of them die in the autumn, shrimps and Before dying the shrimp leaves the stomach of the jellyfish and lays its eggs at the bottom of the shallow sea. The jel'y-Ssh lays thousands cf tiny egg), which being covered with small movable hairs row themselves into quitt rocky nooks on the coast and settle down. These eggs become adherent to pieces of shell and stone, and do not turn to jelly-fishes any more than a butterfly’s eggs turn to a butterfly. A stem springs from them, and branches aiioe from it all covered Aith. tiny cups, whose rims are crowded with small arms called tenacles. This is the first stags of the jelly-fish’s life. Now the shrimp’s egg Latches at out ihe same time as the stem jmt mentioned begins to grow, and the young shrimp is not at ah like the old one: it has a big head, a small body, and very long legs. In; the fi r. part of t hHiexistencelhfliallyfiah and the shrimp are eeparateand unlike what they euuseqaentiy turn to. As the warm weather comes on the stem with its Li aQchwand -eup=like gin to bud, and after a while out of the buds spring tiny jelly-fish, which toon swim ofl. About this time the young shrimp casts his skin and grows into the form of the old one, and it invariably seeks shelter in the stomach of the firs: young jelly-fish it comes across in its swim-, ming to and fro. This extraordinary circle of events goes on year after year, and the rear on- why the young shrimp should seek an animal totally unlke itself and very fatal to other shrimp?, is one of those things in nature that no one can understand. Certs i nly no other kind ot shrimp could live in the medusa’s stomach. v

MODERN SPIRITUALISM.

Spiritualiam Characterized A* a Humbug and Delusion. An Adulterous and Damnable Religion Ar Mog (From HeH-The Principal ( ao»« of J n •*». ity—Wrecking the Honl Immortal and Making Infidel*,of M«n. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle latt Sunday. Subject, “Modern Spiti ualiam.” Text,Samuel xxxvrii, 78: “Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor. And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raimeqt, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to he woman by night; and he said, I pray tthee. divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up whom 1 shall name unto thee.” He said:

I learn first from this subject that Spiritualism is a very old religion. It. is natural that people atould want to know the origin and the history of a doctrine whicn is to widespread in all the villages, towns and cities of the civilised world, getting new converts every day—a doctrine with which many of you are already tinged. Spiritualism in America was bom in 1347. in Hydesville, Wayne county, New York, when one night them was a loud rap heard against the door of Michael Wetktnan, a rap a second time, a rap a third time; and all three times, when the door was opened, there was nothing found there, the knocking having been made seemingly by invisib.e knuckles. In that same house there was a young woman who had a fold hand passed over her face, and tbeie being seemingly no arm attached to it. ghoitly sospicions were aroused. After awhile Mr. Fox and family moved in that house, and then every night there was a banging at the door, andons ni»ht Mr. Fox said, “Are you a spirit?” Two raps, answering in the affirmative. “Are you an injured spirit?’ Two raps, answering in ihe affirmative. And so they lound out, as they say, that it was the ghost or spirit of a peddler who had been murdered in that house many years before for his SSOO. Whether the ghost of tbe dead peddler bad come there to eolket his 1500 or his bones I can not ray, not being a Spiritual^t, but there was a g»eat racket at the door, so Mr. Weekman dec'ared, and Mrs. Weekman, and Mr. Fox and Mrs. Fox and all the little Foxes. Tbe excitement apnal. There was a universal rumpur. The Hon. Judge Edmunds declared in a book that he had actually seen a bell stirt from ihe top shelf of a closet, heard it ring over the people who were standing in the closet; tl en, swung by invisible hand?, it rang over the people in the back parlor and floated through thefolciig doors to the front parlor, rung over the p jople there, and then fell to the floor. N. P. Talmage, Senator of the United States, afterward Governor of Wisconsin, had his head completely turned with Spiritualistic demonstrations. A man as he was lasing along the road said that he was lifted up bodily and carried toward his home through the air. at such a speed he could not count the posts on the fence as they passed, and as he had a handsaw and a square in bis hand they beat, as he passed through lhea f r, most delightful music. And the tables tipped and the stools tilted, and tne bedsteads raised, and the chairs up et, and it seemed that the spirits everywhere had gone into the furniture business! Well, the people said: “We have got something new in this country; it is a new religion.” Oh, no, my friends. Thousands of years ago we find in our text a Spiritualistic seance. Nothing in the Spiritualistic circles of our day has b‘en more strange, nn serious and wonderful than things which have been seen in the past centuries of the world. In all the ages there ha”o been necromancers, those who consult with the spirits of the departed; charmers, those who put their subjects in a mesmeric state; sorcerers, those who by taking poisonous drugs see everything and hear everything and tell everything; dreamers, people who in their sleeping moments can see the future world and hold consultation with spirits; astrologers, who could read a ’ new dispensation in the stars; experts in palmtrtry, who can tell by the lines in the palm of your band your origin and vour history. From a cave on Mount Parnassus, we are told, there was on exhalation that intoxicated tbe sheep and the grata that came any where near it, and a shepherd approaching it was thrown by that exhala’isn into an excitement in which he could forete’l future even's and hold consultation with the spiritual worlJ. Yes, before the time of Christ the Brahmins went through al! the tablemoving, all tbef irnitareexcitement, which the spirit have exolodedin ocr day: precisely the same thing over and over aga>n, under tbemanipulations of the Bah mi in, Now do you say that Spiritualism is different from these? I answer, a'i these I have mentioned beil rng to thesame family. Ttiey are exhumations from ihe unsetn world. What does Gol think of all these delusions? He thinks so severely of them that He never speaks of them but with livid thunders“b’f indign ition. Hasavs: “I will be a swift witness against the so-cerer.” He save: “Thou shall Bofkufisr a witch to live.” And bat you might make some important distinction between SpiriiaHlism and witchcraft, God says, in so many words: “There shall net be among yotr a conanlter of familiar spirit, or wizard, or necromincer; far they that do these 'bings are an abomination un'o the L rd/’ And he says again. “The soul cf torose who seek after such as have familiar spirits, and aybo go whorin».*_t»r them, strt hes’tolL he rtoToff from his peopfe.” The L nd Almighty, in a score of passage s, which I have rot now time to onote. utters His indignat on against all this family of delusions. Alter tba - be a Soiritualist if yon da-e! Still fnr hen we barn from this text how it is that people come to fall into Spiritualism. Saul enough trouble to kill ten men He di I not know where to go for relief. After aw bile he rwo’ved to go and see the Witch of Hodor. He expected that somehow she would atlord him relief. It was his trouble'that drove him there. And I have to tall you now that Spiritualism finds its victims iu the troubled, tbe bankrupt, the sick, tbe bereft. You loose your watch, and you go to the fortune-teller to find where it is. Yotf loose a friend, yon want a Spiritual

world opened, so that you may have communication with him. In a highlyWiought, nervous and -diseased state oT mind, you to and put younelf in that communication. That is- why I hate Spiritualism. It takes advantage of one iu a moment of weakness, which may come upon us at any time. We loee a friend. The trial is keen, sharp, suffocating, almoet maddening. If we could marshal a host, and noun the eternal world, and recaptur* our loved one, tbe host would Koon be marshaled. Tbe house ia so lonely. The world isso dark. The separation is so insufferable. But Spiritual'emuy.: “We will open the future world, and your loved one can come back and talk to you.” Though we may not bear his voice, we may hear the rap of his hand. Bo clear the table. Bit down. Pat your bands on the table. Be very quiet Five minutes gone. Ten minutes. No motion of the tabl*. No response from ihe future world. Twenty minutes. Thir tv minutes. Nervous excitment all the time increasing. Forty minute?. Tbe table shivers. Two rape from tbe future world. Tbe letters of the alphabet are called over. The departed friend’s name is John. At the pronunciation of the letter “J,” two raps. At the pronunciation Of the letter “O,” two rape. At the pronunciation of the latter “H,” two

raps. At the pronunciation of the letter “N,” two rap’. There you have the whole name spelled out J-o-hn, John. Now, the spirit being present, you say: “John, are you happy?” Two raps gives an affirmative answer. Pretty soon the hand of the medium begins to twitch and toss, and begins to write, out, after paper and ink are furnished, a message from the eternal world. What is remarkable, the departed spirit, although it has been amid tbe alluminations of heaven, can not spell as well as it used to. It has lost all grammatical accuracy and can not write as distinctly. I received a letter through a medium once. I eend it back. I srid: “Just pleaee to tell those ghosts that they had better go to school and get improved in their orthographv.” Now, just think of spirits, that the Bible represents as enthroned in g'ory, coining down to crawl under the table and break crockery, and ring tea-bells before tapper is ready, and rap the window-shutter on a gusty night. Is there any consolation in such poor, miserable work compared with the thought that our departed Christian friends, got rid ot pain and languishing, are in the ladiant society of he even, and that we shall joia them there, net in a stifled and myeterious half-uttersnoe which makes the hair ttand on end and the cold chills creep down the back, but in au unhindered and illimitable delight. Yes, my friends, Spiritualism comes to those who are in trouble, and sweeps them ioto its delusions. Saul, in the midst of Lie disaster, went to the Witch of Endor. The vest majority of those who have gone to Spiritual mediums have been sent tbeie through their misfortunes. I learn still further from this subject that Spirituali-m and necromancy are affaiis of the darkness. Why did not Saul go in the day? He was ashamed to go. Betides that, he knew that this Spiritual medium, like all her successors performed her exploits in the night. The Davenports, the Fowlers, tbe Foxes, the Spiritual mediums of all ages, have chosen the night or a darkened room. Why? The majority of their wonders have been swindled, and deception prospers best in the night. S ime of the performances of spirtual mediums are not to be escribed to fraud, t ut to some occult law tuat after awhile nay be demonstrated. But I believe now that nine hundred and ninetv-nine out of every thousand achievement on the put of spiriusl mediums are anant anffunmitigated humbugs. Tne mysterious red letters that used to come out on the medium’s arms were found to have been ma ie by an iron pencil that went heavily over ihe flesh, not tearing it, but bo disturbing tne blood that it came up in great round letters. The witnesses of the seances have locked the dcor, put the key in their pockt t, arrested the operator and found out, by searching tbe loom, that hidden lexers moved tbe tables. The sealed letters that wero mysteriously read without opening have been found to have been cut at the side and then afterward s’yly put together with gum arabic; and the medium, who, with a hravy blanket over h s head, could read a book, has been found to have bad a bottle of phosphoric oil, bv the light of which any body cau read a bo k, and ventriloquism and legerdemain, and slight of hand, and optical delusion account for nearly everything. Deception being the main staple of Bpiritua no wonder it chooses ihe darkness! You have ail teen strange and unaccountable things in the night. Almost everv man hss at some time had a tom hos ha’lucination. Some time azo,' a’ter I had been over-tempted to eat tomethirg indigestible befcre retiring at night, a’ter raiiring I saw tbe president of one of the prominent colleges ssuide tbe foot of the bed. while he demanded <f me tbe loan o‘ five cents! When I awakened I had no idea it was anything supernatural. And I have to advise you, if you hear and ree strange things at night, to stop eating hot mince pie and take a dore of bilious medicine It is an outraged physical organism, enough to deceive the very elect after sundown, and does nearly a’l its work in the'THght. The witch c f Endor held her seances at night, so do ail the wifi hes. Away with this religion cf : ■ ' ' ■ *'•" ' B - : ■ „ . - fit 11 further: I leera from my text tba Soiri’ualism ii doom and death to its ci« o’pie?. King Saul thought he would get help from the “medium,” but the first thing he sees makes him swoon away and no sooner is b* reanssiiafeithaahe w-dold be must die. Spiritualism is doom and death to every one that yields to it. It ruins ’he body. Look io upon an audience of Spiritualists—<a<laveron°, w*ak, nerypuß, ex; Fansted, Ean’cTs clammy and cold. Notting proeperbrs but long hair—soft marshes yielding rank grass. Spiritualism dee>roys the physical health. Its diecipl-s <re ever hearing startling news from the other world.strange beings crot sing the room in wh te; table fidgety, wanting to igrt ito iea|' loose , *Rif to dance; voices ss pul h'rfl and ominous; bewildered with raps. 1 never knew a confirmed Spiritualist who had a bea thv nervous system. It is incip ent ep ilep sy and cvtalepsy. Des rays your nervous system and you might as we 1 be dead. I have noticed.tta* pieople wno are hearing reps from tbe future world have but little strength left to bear the la-d raps nf th swo Id. It is an awful thing to trifle with one’s nervous system. Jt is si deicate—it is so farreaching—its derangements are so terri-

ble. Get tbe nervoui sys'etn a jangle, and so far as your body and soul are concerned-the whois unirerm is a jangle. Better in our ignorance experiment with a chemiit’B retort that mav smite ns desd, or with an engineer’s steam boiler that may blow us to atoms, than expieriment with tbe nervous system. A man can live with one lung < r with ro eye! and be happy ai men have been undar such afflic ions; bnt woe be to the man whose nerves shattered. Spiritaa rim smiles first of a’l, and mightilv, avail st ih« nervous sjH'em, apd makes life miserable. I indict Rpiritnalism also.becauß) it is as>cial and marital curse. Ths worst deeds o’ licent'onaness and the worst orgi se of obscenity have been enacted under its patronage. The story is too si'e tor me to tel). I will not pollute my tongue nor j oor ears with the recital Sometimes the civil law has been evoked to ttop the outrave. Families innumerable have been broken up by it. It has pushed off hundreds of young women into a life cf profligacy. It ta’ka about “elective affinities” and “affinital relations.” and “spiritual matches,” and adopts the whele vocabulary of freelovism. In one of its public journals it declares “ma’riage is the monster curse of civilization. It is a source cf debauchery and intemperance.” If Spiritualism could have its full swing, it would torn this world into a pandemonium of carnalitK lt is an unclean, adulterous, damnable religion, and the sooner it drops into the bell from which it rose the better both for earth and heaven, For the sake of man’s honor and woman’s pority, I say let tbe last vett've of it perish forevr.' I wish I could gather up all the raps it has ever heaid from spirits blest or damned, and gather them all on its own head in one thundering, rap of annihilation.

I further indict Spiritualism for the fact that it is the cause of much insanity. There is not an asylum between Bangor and San Francisco which has not the torn and bleeding victims of this delusion. Go into any asylum, I care not where it is, and the presiding doctor, after you have aaked him, “What is the matter with that woman?” will siy, “Spiritualism dementsd her.” It has taken down some of the brightest intellects. It swept off into mental midnight Judges, Sanatois, Governors, ministers cf the gospel, and cne time caine near capturing one of the Presidents of the United Slates. At Flushing, near this city, a man became absortel with it it, forsook his family, took his onlv 515,000, turrendered them to a spiritual medium in New York, attempted three times to put an end to his life, and then was incarcerated in the State Lunatic Asylum, wheie he is to-day a raving maniac. Put your hand in the hand of this witch of Endor and she will lead you to the bottomless perdition, where she holds her evei lasting see nee. Spiritualism not only mins its disciples. but it ruins the mediums also who give it time. The Gadanean swine on the banks of the Lake of Galilee, no sooner became spiritual mediums than down they went, in an avalanche of pork, tbe consternation of all the herds? men. The office of a medium is bad for a man, bad for a woman, bed for a beast. I bring avainst this delusion a more fearful indictment—it ruins the soul immortal. First it makes a man a quarter of an infidel; then it makes him half an infidel; then it makes’ him who’e infidel. The whole system as I conceive i 8 founded on the insufficiency of the Word of God as a revelation. God says the Bible is enough for you to know about the future world. You say it is not enough, and is where ycu and the Lord differ. You clear tie table, you shove f side the Bible, you put your hand on the tible and say: “Now let ipirits of the future world come and > ell me son ething the Bible has not told me.” And although the Scriptures eay: “Add thou not unto Ills word?, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar,” you risk it and say: “Come back, spirit of my departed father; come back, sprit of my departed mother,cf my companions, of my little child, and tell me some things I don’t know about you and about the unseen world.” If God is ever slapped equare'in the face, it is when a spiritual medium puts down her hand on the table, invoking spirits departed to make a revelation. God has told you all you ought to know, and how dare you be prying into that which is none of your busin ass? You cannot keep the Bible in one hand and Spritualiem in the other. One or tne other will slip out of your grasp, depend upon it. Spiritualism is adverse to the Bible in tbe fact that it has in these last da) s. called from the future world Christian men to testify against Christianity. Its mediums call back Lorenze Dow the celebrated evangelist, and Lorenzo Dow testifies that Christians are idolatbrs. Spittualism calls back Tom Paine, and he testifies that he is stooping in the same house in heaven with John Bunyan. They call back John Wesley, and he testifies against the Christian religion, which he all his life gloriously preached. Andiew Jackson Davis, the grea test of all the Spiritualists, comes io the front and declares that the New Testament is but the dismal echo of a barbaric age, and the Bible only “one of the pen and ink relies of Christianity.” They attempt to substitute the writings of Swedenborg and Andrew Jackson Da\i?, and other religious baldeidaeb, in the place of ttis old Bible. “But,” says some one, “wouldn’t it be of advantage to hear from the fature wcrld? Don’t ycu think it would strengthen Chrutians? There is a great many materialists who do not believe there are souls; but if spirits from the fature world should knock and talk over to us, they would ing words of the Son of God: “If they believe net .Moeee and tfce prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rcse from the dead.” —New ini anity and perdition. I believe these are the da? s of which the Apostle spake when he said: “In the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirit?. ”

An Idyl of the Springtime.

Only a cucumber, the first of the season. Only a small boy. deaf unto reason; Only a colic, followed by chills: Only a doctor, and Only some pills. Only a preacher, with prayer-book in hand; Only a coffin that rests on the stand; Only a funeral, solemn and quiet -, Only a head-board— ‘■’Twas the boy’s diet" —Atlanta Constitution. The croet-cut saw gets dull in spite el ite teeth.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Evansville has thir.-y real estate agents. ' , union county Democrats endorse Cleveland and Gray. *■ A prise fight took place near New Csst'e, bn the 28th. Wm. Doran, a despondent Peruhver, commttedsucide on the 30tb. Gas in abundance has been found near Somerset, and Wabash is assured of a supply. .■ Y * It is prophesied that $1,000,000 will be expened in improvements at South Band this season. Knox county peach, cherry and strawberry crops have been damaged by recent cold weather. The new and handso ue Vigo county court-house opened up permanently for business Saturday morning. The largest white oak is growing in Pike county. It is twenty-two feet in circumference and fifty to the fint limb. A cow bslonging to Daniel Gabel, of New Market, Montgomery county, gave birth, last Wednesday, to three perfectly formed calves. “The Adventures of a Philospher, a Dan Mule and a Brindle Dog, by an Indian a Man,’ ’ is the title of a new book by Judge Fox, of Richmond. An entire family at Evansville, named Nett, have been arrested for shoplifting. Over SI,OOO worth of stolen property were found concealed at their home. The Indianapolis city council by a strict party vote, Monday night,,refused to expel Simeon Coy, the convicted tally sheet conspirator, from that body. Henry Becker, a citizen of Maplewood, a suburb of Connersville, was st acked by roughs near a church in which an entertainment was being given and severely injured. The steamship company has repaid the $99 which the Miller family bad paid for tickets to Europa, before all but a little boy were killed in the Kouts wreck. He is at Valparaiso, and has not recovered. The village of Burrows, near Logansper", was in a ferment Saturday over the elopement of the fourteen-year-old daughter of Archie Stembough and Jscob Equam, the nine-year old sonot a Carroll county preacher. Several deaths have occured recently in Southern Indiana from a peculiar disease, which baffles medical skill and which is almost epidemic. The prominent features of the malady are total and sudden prostration and excruciating pains in every bone in the body. A Logansport juiy aw aided Mrs. Margarets Fay $2,000 damages against the Pan Handle Railroad Company for the death of her husband, Daniel L. Fay, kil'ed at Woodington. 0.. the 22d of December, 1886, by the breaking of a deh ctive crake staff. Patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: Daniel M. Marquis, Kokomo, sliding joint for gas mains; Jonathan D. Mawhood, assignor to Richmond City mill-works, Richmond, roller mill; Elijah Neff, assignor of two-thirds to J. E. Bell and H. J. Ely, Mentone, pump; John J. Ralya, Springfield, saw. Rev. John S. Howk, eldest son of Judge Howk, of the Supreme Court of Indiana, graduates m a few days from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has accepted a call from Pitts Creeks Church, Maryland, one of the most important churches of that Presbytery. William Fellingham, a wealthy farmer residing near Wheatland, was, on Friday afternoon, killed by a falling tree.Y He was going through a field, when a dead tree on fire su idenly fell upon him, crushing him tb death. Fell .ngham was one of the most prominent men of Knox county, end leaves a wife aud several children. Peter Danish, a Louisville peldler, is at a hotel in Corydon, suffering intense agony from the effects of swallowing a brass scarf pin, which lodged before it reached his stomach. He had the pin in his mouth and sneezed, when it slipped down h s throat. The physicians are unable to give him relief, and he will go to Philadelphia this week and haye the p’n cutout. Robert Hamilton, a firmer living in Washington township. Ripley county, has been losing a great deal of tobacco of late by thieves. A few days since he placed a loaded shot gun behind the door of an old house, which he uses for a store-room. Monday Alvin—DedsOTU: wnhnnFrtnfflghttor/waapasaLngJthat way, when, overtaken by a »torm, ’and attempting to eater the '.nouse for shelter he received the full charge in the breast Hs died iu the afternoon. Charles Beyer; one of three convicts sent to the Southern p onitemiary from Paoli, Orange county, who overpowered the sheriff and would have broken out hnt for tbe sheriff** wifey who eheeteedthem with hrr navy- han sinre ennfiiMte. irient in January developed a mania to cripple himself. A month ago he pierced his hands with a tamping iron; two weeks ago he attempted to crush his wrists with 8 eltdge. This morning he broke out of line of march, rusned into the machine shop, ssized a chisel and chopped,off three fingers of feis right hand before the guards could prevent it He will now work ne mors. The boiler in the tile mill of Wm. Caldwell, at Rushville, exploded about 8 o’clock, Monday, fatally injuring N. E. Conde, Wip. Caldwell and Joseph Lakin, and seriously injuring Joseph Wolf, Allen Lakin, Jordan Calmes pud Lon Pea and ecu. The mill bad not

been used for some timeund the explosion probably resulted from gas which bad generated fpm the rooted boiler. A part of the boiler was blown 100 feet. The front par: of the building is a complete wreck and the wonder is that all wers not. inatantlg killed. Conde was one of the best known men in southeastern Indiana.

A NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.

M. W. Faller, of Chicago, Appointed to the Pouiiion bg tbe President. The President on the 30tb, cent to the Senate tbe nomination of Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, to be Chief Justice of the United State*. The nomination gives gnat satis'acfaction at Chicago to the leading men of both par ies. He had no intimation that he was to receive the position and tbe announcement completely overcame him. He says hs will accept. Mr. Fuller was bora in Augusta, Main, Feb. 11,1833. He graduated at Bowdoinin 1853, and soon after began the study of law at Bangor. In 1856 he removed to Chicago, where his ability wes speedily recognizud, and for thirty years he has enjoyed a lucrative practice and won distinction among the foremost at the bar. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1864, 2872, 1876 and 1880. In his practice in the Supreme Court of the United S ates Mr. Fuller has repeatedly come in contact, both as a colleague and as an opponent, with Messrs. Edmonds, Thurman, Hoadly, Ingerso’l, and other admittedly great lawyers, and has never failed to hold his own among the greatest of them.

Standard Oil Methods.

In the Trust i uvesfigation John Swartz and Frank L. Woods, of Pennsylvania, testified, Saturday, to having heard that the Pennsylvania railroad had allowed lower rates to other shippers than to themselves. They thereupon presented cl a 1 ms for rebate to tbe railread company, and 13 cento per barrel on'their shipmen’s of oil was returned to them. State Senator Lewis Emery, of Bradford, Pa., corroborated the statament made by Campbell to the effect that practically all the dependent refiners had been wiped out between 1872 and 1878 by reason of the rebates given the Standard and ito predecessor, the South Improvement Company, by the railroads and by other meant; they were simply “deviled to death.!’ A computation made by witness showed that the Standard had received over $10,000,000 in rebates in seventeen and a half months from the four principal railroads leading from tne oil fields. The amount of rebates given the Standard het hosght amounted in the aggregate to over $100,000,000 and had the railroads treated all shippers alike, it was his belief that they would now be in receipt cl an annual income of from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 greater than they received at present.

Political.

lowa Prohibitionists have nominated a State ticket. Florida’s delegates to Chicago are first for Blaine, then for Sherman, but go uninstructed. The Republicans of the Third (Chicigo) Coneressional District, Tues J ay, selected Mayor Roche and Hon. Leonard Swett as delegates to the National Convention. The delegates were instructed to eupport the candidacy of Judge Gresham. It is understood that Mr. Swett will present Judge Gresham’s name to the convention. ' Letters have been received from Mr. Blaine, which told of hia continued good health, of the pleasant time he was having; of his intention soon to start northward in Europe, and of the anticipations of pleasure with which helooked forward to the time when he can press his foot on American soil once more. The selection of Cy Leland, Jr.j and ; J, >M. Graybill aa delegates to the Republican National Convention from the First Kamas District, in which Senator Ingalls Jives, isregaidedin Democratic circles as a black eye for that statesman, and ij retarded as a death blow to Ingall’s aspirations. Leland, a bitter antiIngal’s man, started in to show the Senator that he could not control his own district, and succeeded to his heart’s content, - / .

Queen Victoria at Berlin.

Queen Victoria arrived at Charlottenberg at 9 o'clock, Tuesday. The Empress, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess and the Prince and Princess of Saxe-Meiningen received her at the depot Prince Henry and his sisters, the-Princesses Victoria, Sophia and Margaret,Sir EdwardMatet,the British Embassador at Berlin, the Duke of Rutland and t,haHnrgomaatarand Mnnicipal Council of Berlin wem ab»u~piwmt. The meeting between Qaeen Victoria and the royal family of Germany was warm. The Crown Prince conducted the Queen to an open carriage, drawn by four horses, which she entered, and with the Empress beside her, was driven to the Castle. Crowds of people lined the route and cheered enthusiastically as the carriage pssied. k The Queen paid a visit to the Emperor shortly after her arrival at the Castle. The doctors feared that the meeting would excite the Emperor and probably upset him, but their fears were groundless. The Emperor ssemed rather brighter aftsr the interview, and his temperature was normal. 4