Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1888 — Page 2

%he glqmfelicEm. Geo. E. Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

The Republican National Convention will be composed of 822 delegates, as follows: Dclecatmat Urjrc. 5? District delegate* 650 Territorial delegate* „..v .... 1? District of Columbia delegate* - 'lt will require 412 to nominate.

Franck does not seem to be a unit for Boulanger, the dandy. But if he adopts Napoleonic tactics he can help a good deal to make it so. Panizzi says of those killed at the time of the coup d'etat of Napoleon III: “No register was kept. Probably Napoleon did pot know —he could not wish to know. How can I know? But from such details as I gather I account 20,000 rather too few than too many.” He planted his cannon and raked the streets until he thought the people were cowed into abject fear and non-resistance. That was all.. He only killed off enough to make France a unit. Now France desires ' another Napoleon who has another “idea.” The Napoleonic idea cost France some hundreds of millions of money; and of lives, who knows how many, from first to last?

A Pen Sketch of Mr. Fuller.

Philadelphia Pre«*, Withington dispatch. Mr. Fuller is a leader of what is known as the “silk-stocking faction” of the Democracy in Chicago, and is not popular with the rank and file of the party. He ran against Joseph Mackin for delegate to the last Democratic National Convention and was beaten by one vote. The ups and downs of their experience since then have been pretty exenlv divided, but one of them has taken all the ups and left the other all the downs. The man whom the Democracy of Mr. Fuller's own district pre-‘ ferred to him is now serving a term in the IlUneis penitentiary. The defeated candidate is about entering upon a lifeterm as Chief-Justice of 'the United States. The Democrats of Chicago do not seen to be quite* in harmony with the boss Democi it in the White House, but if the defe itod candidate of that delegate election leserves his fortune as well as his successful rival, there ought to be no questions about his confirmation. He is a natty little man, with a flowing white mustache and silvery hair, which he wears long. He” weighs about 125 pounds. It is well that he will have time to get a gown made for himself before his installation. If he should venture to go through the ■ceremony nrsgown borrowed frnnr one of his associates, as Mr. Ijimar did, the clerk of the court would best tie a string to him when he gets into it or there will be some difficulty to find him afterwards.

F. AND A. MASONS.

The Grand Lodge of Masons in session at Indialfsmolis, Wednesday, elected the following officers: Grand Master—lsaac P. Leyden. New Albany. Deputy Grand Master-Tbomaa B. Long, Terie Haute. Senior Grand Warden—Jacob J. Todd, Bluffton. Junior Grand Warden—Nicholas -R. Ruckle, Indianapolis. Grand Treasurer—Martin H. Rice. Indianapolis. Grand Secretary—William H. Smythe, Iniianapolia i Trustee—John Caven 1 • The following officers amleommitteeg were appointed by the Grand Master Grand Chaplain—Rev. E. J. Gantz, Indianapolis. Grand Jjeeturer-John D. Wideman, Warsaw Grand Marshal—A. O. Marsh. Winchester Senior Grand Deacon—S. ". Douglas, Evansville. _ •' ~ ■ — —- Junior Grand Deacon—WalterC. Nunamaoher. New Albany. „ Grand Tyler—Jamison. Indianapolis. Committee on Charters—Alexander Thomas. Terre Hsnte: George Anderaou, Indianapolis; William Frederickson, Laporte. Committee 'on Dispensations—Joseph W, Smith, Indianapolis. A. M. Willoughby, Vincennes: O. A. Burroughs. Laporte. On Grievance*, and Appeals—N. R. Peckcnbongh. Leaveowo.-tb : Frank E. Gaven, Greeusburg: W. T. Tule*. New Albany. On Jurisprudence—Wm. Hacker, Shelbyville; Albert P. Charles, %tmour; Mortimer Nye, Laporte; Brnoe Carr, Iftuianapolis;Calvin W. Prather, Jeffersonville. s s\ On Foreign Corresftondence—Simeon S. Johnson. Jeffersonville. V

Silent for Thirteen Years.

Philadelphia Times. % Then 1 is gSid to ho s, tanner in Bridgeport, Conn., who has %t spoken to liis wife for thirteen yeiKS,. nor has she spoken to him, althougmtlie two are on good terms. It appears mat one inoniin June, 1875, he came iWto his house and asked his wife to hum- up breakfast. In her hum- she dreamed a plate ami spilled some hot coffee % him, A row was the result and it en&d in her saying that she would nevemspeak to him as long as she lived, and %ie swore he never would spealntT hek Since that time they liave never exeliiuiged a word. Their children do all thg talking for them, ami each one is waiting tor the other to give in first It is bouiM to come in time, and then one may well imagine that their talk will be an interesting one. V

INJURED BY BEES.

George Hamil. a young farmer residing two miles north of Xenia, <)., was at- • Wednesday, when fhey settled on his head, face and neck. He immediately began to fight them, and they began to sitng him. In a short time he was on the ground, writhing in terrible agony, and when'his wife unfit mother <nino tn his aid with brooms he was nearly dead. As it was, he became unconscious and remained that way for some time, his head and hands swelling up so as to make him unrecognizable. He fern a serious condition. /

THE LAMETAKE THE PREY

WEAKNESS SOMETIMES A TOWER OF STRENGTH. » What Many Affliction* Hava I>one for Humanity—Thtr* U T»o Much llcutro to b* Ornrraia and Not Enough to Fight in the Ranks. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: “Disabled Hunters Bringing Down Most (lame." Text, Isaiah xxxiii, 2d, “The lame take the prey.” He said: The utter demolition of tbte Assyrian host was here predicted. Not bnly robqst men should go forth and gather the spoils of conquest,but even men crippled of nrm nod crippled of foot should go out and capture much that was valuable. Their physical disadvantages should not hinder their great enrichment. So it lias been in the past, so it is now, so it will lie in the future. So it is in- all departments. Men labftr under seemingly great disadvantages, and amid the most unfavorable circumstances, yet making grand achievements, getting great blessing for themselves, great blessing for the world, great blessing for the Church, and Bo ‘‘the .lame take the prey.” Do you know that three gyeat poets of the world were totally Ossian, John Milton. Do you know that Mr. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting book, “The Comment of Mexico,” never saw Mexico; could not even see the paper on which he was writing? A framework across the sheet, between which, up and down, went the pen immortal. Do you know that tiamluissio, the sculptor, could not see the marble before him, or the chisel with which he cut it into shapes bewitching? Do you know that Alexander Pope, whose poems, will last as long as the English language, was so much of an invalid that he" had to be sewed up every morning in rough canvas in order to stand on his feet at all? Do you know that Stuart, the celebrated painter, did much of his wonderful work under the shadow of the dungeon where he had been unjustly imprisoned for ddbt? Do you know tliat Demosthenes bv almost superhuman exertion first had to conquer the lisp of his own speech before lie conquered assemblages with his eloquence? Do you know that Bacon struggled - all through innumerable sicknesses, and that Ixird Byron and Sir Walter Scott went limping on club feet through all their lives, and that many of the great poets and painters and orators and historitms and heroes of the- world had something to keep them back, and pull them down, and impede their way, and cripple their physical or their intellectual movement, and yet they pushed on ami they pushed up until they reached the spoils of worldly success,and amid the huzza of nations and Centuries.

You know that a vast multitude of these men started under the disadvantage of obscure parentage. Columbus, the Bon of the weaver. Ferguson, the astronomer, the son of a shepherd. America the prey of the one; worlds on worlds the prey of the other. . But what is true in secular directions is more true in spiritual and religious directions, and I proceed to prove it. There are in all communities many invalids. They inwer-know-a-well day. They adhere to their occupations, but'go” paiilmg along the streets with exhaustion, and at eventide they lie down on the Joiinge with achings beyond medicament. They have tried all prescriptions; they have gone through all the cures which were proclaimed infallible, anb they have come now to surrender to perpetual ailments. They consider they are among many disadvantages; and when they see those who are buoyant in health pass by they almost envy their robust frames and easy respiration. But I nave noticed among that invalid class those who have the greatest knowledge of the Bible, who are in nearest intimacy with Jesus Christ, who have the most glowing experience of the truth, who have had the most remarkable answers to prayers, and who have most exhilarant anticipation of heaven. The temptation that weary us who are in ro--bnst health Th?rMvF'Ponqwre«t. —They' have divided among them the spoils of the conquest. Many who are alert and athletic and swarthy loiter in the way. These are the lame that take the prey. Robert Hall, an invalid; Edward Payson, an invalid; Richard Baxter, an invalid; Samuel Rutherford, an invalid. This morning, when you want to call to mind those wiio are most Christlike, you think of some dark room in your father’s house from which tlreh* went forth 0 an influence potent for eternity. A step father Through raised letters the art of printing has been brought to the attention of the hliniL Yon take up the Bible for the blind, and you close your eyes, and you run your fingers over the raised letters, and you say: “Why, I never could get any information in this way. What a slow, lumbrous way of reading! God help the blind,” And yet I find among that class of persons, among the blind, the deaf and the dumb, the most thorough acquaintance with (toil’s word. Shut out from all other sources of information, no sooner does their hand touch the raised letter than they gather a prayer. Without eyes, they look oS upon the kingdoms of God’s love. Without hearing. they catch the ministrelsy ,of the skies. Dumb, yet with pencil, or with irradiated contenance, they deciare the giory of Gad. =i • A large audience assembled in New York at jbe anniversary of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and one of the visitors with chalk oh the black-board wrote this question to the pupils: “Do you rind it very hard to be deal and dumb?” And one of the pupils took the chalk and and wrote on the black-board this sublime sentence in answer. “When the song of the angels shall burst upon our enraptured ear we shall scarce regret our ears were never marred by earthly sounds.” Oh! the brightest eyes in heaven will be those that never saw on earth. The ears most alert in heaven will lx* those that in this world \heard neither voice of friend, nor thrum M harp, nor carol of bird- nor doxologv orcongregations. “ v ' ~ And I tell yon the glories of heaven will be a thousandfold brighter for those who never saw anything on earth. While many with good vision closed their eyes in flight, and many who had a good, artistic and cultured ear went down into discord, these afflicted ones cried unto the Lord in theirTfouhle’,'anWHe" made thyur sorrows their advantage, and ’ so “the lame took the prey. . A step further There are those in all lihood. They have scant wages. Perhaps they are diseased, or have physical infirmities, so they are hindered from do-

ingla continuous day’s work. A. citv missionary finds them up in the dafk allev, with no fire, with thjn clothing, with very coarse bread. They never ride in the street car, they cannot affqrd tl>e five cents. They never see any pictures save those in the show window on the street, from which they are often jostled, and looked at by some one who seems to savjn the look: “MoVeon! what are you doing herd looking at pictures?” Yet’many of them live on mountains of transfiguration. At their rough table He who fed the five thousand bn>aks the breath They talk often of the good times that are coming. This world has no charm for them, but heaven entrances, their spirit. They often divide their scant crust with some forlorn wretch who knocks at their door at njght, and on the blast of the night wind, as the door opens to let them in, is heard the voice of Him who said, “I was hungry and ye fed me ” No cohort of heaven will bo too bright to transport them. By (tod’s help they have vanquished the Assyrian host. Thev have 1 divided among them the sjßtils. Lame, lame, yet they took the prey. A step further; There are iir- all cone munition many orphans. During our last war and jii the years .immediately following, how many children we heard say: “Oh! my -father was killed in the war.” Have you ever noticed—l fear you have not —how well those children have turned out? Starting under the greatest disadvantage, nd orphan asylum Could do for them what their father would have done had he lived. The skirmisher sat one night, by the light of fagots, in the swamp, writing a letter home, when a sharpshooter’s bullet ended the letter, which was never folded, never posted and never read. Those children came up under great disadvantage. No father to fight their way for them. Perhaps there was in the old family Bible an old yellow letter pasted fast, which told the story of that father’s long march and how he suffered in the hospital: hut they looked still further on in the Bible, and they came to the story of how God is the Father of the fatherless'and the widow’s portion, and they soon* took their father’s place in that household. Thev battled the way for their mother. They came on up, and many of them have in the years since the war taken positions in Church and State. While many of those who suffered nothing during thoja&times have had sons go out into lives at indolence and vagabondage; these who started under so many disadvantages because they were so early bereft, these are the same who took the prey. A step further. There are those who .would like to do good. They say: “Oh, if I only had wealth, or if I only had eloquence, or if I had high social position, how much would I accomplish for God and the Church!” I stand here to-day to tell you that you have great opportunities for usefulness.

“Who built the Pyramids? The King who ordered them built? No; the plain workmen who added stone after stone and stone after stone: Who built the dikes of Holland? The Government that ordered the enterprise? No; the plain workmen who carried 1 the earth and rung their trowel on the wall. Who are those who have built these vast cities? The capitalists? No; the carpenters, the masons, the plumbers, tlx* ■plasterers, .the*, tinners, the roofers, dependent on a day’s wages for a livelihood. And so in the great work of assuaging human suffering and enlightening human ignorance and halting human iniquity. In that great, w ork the chief part is to be done by ordinary men, with ordinary speech, in an ordinary manner, and by ordinary means. The trouble is that in the army of Christ we all want to be Captains and Colonels and Brigadier-Generals. We are not willing to march with the rank and tile and to do duty with the private soldier. We want to belong to the reserve corps, and read about the battle while warming ourselves at the campfires, or on furlough at home, our feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back into an arm-chair. As you go down the street you see an excavation, and four or five men are working nnd perhaps twenty nr., thirty., leaning on the rail looking over at them. This is the way it is in the Church of God to-day; where you find one Christian hard at work there are fifty men watching the job. ”0! my Inends* why do you noTgoTo work and preach this Gospel? You say; “I have no pulpit,” You have. It maybe the carpenter’s bench. It may be the mason’s wall. The robe in w hich yon are to proclaim this Gospel may be a shoemaker’s apron. But woe unto you if you preach not this Gospel somewhere, somehow! If this world is ever brought to Christ, it will be through the unanimous and long-continued efforts ot men, who, waiting for no special endowment, consecrate to God what they have. Among the most useless people in the world are men with ten talents, while many a one with only two talents, or no talent at all, is doing a great work, -and So “the lame take the prey.” 5 There are thousands of ministers of whom you never heard—in log cabins in the West,' in mission chapels in the Fast—who are warring against the legions of darkness, stiecesfully warring. Tract-distributors, month by month undermining the citadels of sin. You do not know their going or their coming. but the footfalls of their ministry are heard in the palaces Who are the workers in throughout this land to-day? Men celebrated, men brilliant, men of vast estate? For the most part, not that at all. I have noticed that the chief characteristic of the most of those who are successful ■in the work is that they know their Bibles, are earnest in prayer, are anxious for the salvation of the young, and Sabbath by Sabbath are willing to sit down unobserved and tell of Christ and the resurrection. These are the humble workers who are recruiting the great army of Christian youth —not by might, not by power, not by profound argument, not by brilliant antithesis, but by the blessing $f God on plain talk, and humble story, and silent tear, and anxious look. “The lame take the prey.” " *

Oh! this work of saving the youtlj of our country! How few appreciate what it is. This generation tramping on the" grave—we will soon all he gone. What next? An engineer, on a locomotive going across the Western prairies day after day Saw a little child come out in front of a cabin and toave to' him. So lie got in the habit of waring back to the little child, and it was the day’s joy to him to see this little one come out in front of he aftgwered back/. One day the train was belated and it came on to the dusk of the evening. As

the engineer stood at his post he Saw by the headlight that little girl on the track, wondering why the train did not come, looking for the train, knowing nothing of its peril. A great horror seized upon the engineer. He reversed the engine, lie gave it in charge of the other man on board, and-then he climbed over the engine* and he came down on the cowcatcher. He said, though he had reversed tiie engine, it seemed as though it were going at lightning speed, faster, though ityias really slowing up, and with almost super-natural clutch he caught that child by the hair and lifted it up, and when the train stopped and the passengers gathered around to see what was the matter, there the engineer lay, fainted dead away, the little c hild alive and in his swarthy arms., “Oil!” you say, “that was well done.” But I want you to exercise some kindness and some appreciation toward those in the community who are snatching the little ones from the wheels of temptation and sin—snatching them from under thundering rail-trains of eternal disaster, bringing them up into respectability in this world and into glory for the world to come. You appreciate what the engineer did, why can you not appreciate the grander work done by every Sab bath-school teacher this afternoon?'

My brother, you are the one I want to preach to this morning. I have been looking for you. I Will tell you how you got astray; It was not maliciousness on your part. It was, perhaps, through the geniality and sociality of your nature that you fell into sin. You wandered away from, your duty; you unconsciously left the house of God; you admit the Gospel to he true, and yet you have so grievously and so prolongedly wandered, you say rescue is impossible. It would take a, week to count up the names of those in heaven who were on earth worse than you tell me you are. They went the whole round of iniquity, they disgraced themselves, they disgraced their household, they despaired of return because their reputation was gone, every thing was gone; but in some hour like this they heard the voice of God, and threw themselves on the Divine compassion, and they rose up more conquerors. And I can tell you there is the same chance for you. That is One reason why I like to preach this Gospel, so free a Gdspel, so tremendous a Gospel. It takes a man all wrong, and makes him all right. Oh! my friend, I want to impress upon myself and upon yourselves that it is not the number of talents we possess, but the use we make of them. God has a royal family in the world. Now, if I should ask: “Who are the royal famines of history?” yon would say: “House of Ilapsburg, House of Stuart. House of Bourbon.” They lived in palaces,- and had great equipage. But who are the Lord’s royal family? Some of them may serve you in the household, some of them, are in unlighted garrets, some of them will walk this afternoon down the street, on their arm a basket of broken food, some of them are in the alms house, despised and rejected of men, yet in the last great day, while it will be found that some of'us who fared sumptuously every day are hurled back into discomfiture, there are the lame that will take the prey. One step further: There are a great many peoplydiscouraged about getting to heaven. You are brought up in good families; you had Christian parentage; but you frankly tell me that yon are a thousand mile's away from the right track. •" ”

But you say: “My hand trembles so from my dissipations I can’t even take hold of a hymn-book to sing.” Do not worry about that, my brother. I will give out a hymn at the close so familiar you can sing it without a hook. But you jay: “I have such terrible habits on me I can’t get rid of them.” My answer is; Almighty grace can break up that habit, and will break it up. But you say: “The wrong I did was to one dead and in heaven now, and I can’t correct that wrong.” You can correct it. By the grace of God, go into the presence of that one, and the apologies you ought to have made on earth make in heaven Y'ears ago, on a boat on the North River, the pilot gave a very sharp ring to the bell for the boat to slow up. The engineer attended to the machinery, and then he came up with some alarm on deck to see what was the matter. He saw it was a moonlight night and tnerff were no obstacles in the way. He went to the pilot and said: “Why did you ring the bell in that way? Why do you want to stop? There’s nothing the matter.” And the pilot said to him: “There is a mist gathering on the river; don’t vou see that? and there is night gathering darker and darker, and I can’t see the way.” - Ihenvthe engineer, -looking around and seeing it was bright moonlight, looked into the face of the pilot and saw that he was dying, and then that he was dead. God grant that when our last moment comes we may be found at our post doing our whole duty; when the mists of the river of death gather on our evelids, may the good Pilot take the wheel from our hands and guide us into the calm harbor of eternal rest!

METHODISTS ON PROHIBITION.

In the sl. E. General Conference at; ■New York the inevitable wrangle was precipitated by the question of placing the church on record as opposed to laws licensing the liquor traffic and in favor of complete legal prohibition. The discussion was finally completed by the passage of the following resolution, which was ordered placed in the Discipline of 1888: We are Unalterably opposed to the enactment of laws that propose, by license, taxing or otherwise, to regu'ate the drink traffic, because they provide for its continuance, and afford no protection against its ravages. We hold that the proper attitude of Christians toward this traffic is one of uncompromising opposition; and, while we do not presume to dictate to our people as to their political affiliations, we do exptess the opinion that they should not permit themselves to be controlled by party organizations that are managed in tha interests of the liquor traffic. We advise-the members of our church to aid in the enforcement of such laws ss do not legalize or indorse the manufacture and sale of intoxicants to be used as beverages', and to this end we favor the organization of law and order leagues wherever practicable- We proclaim as our motto voluntary total abstinence from all intoxicants as tiie truc ground of personal temperance, and complete legal prohibition of the traffic ln intoxicating drinks as the duty olcitiL -government. —t—r Thqrgarooalytwo kinds of men who can afford to wear shabby clothes, the rich man and the genius.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The consideration of Senator Paddock’s bill providing postoffice buildings for the small cities has stirred up a good deal of interest, not only in the Senate, but in the House, on the subject. The 1 author of the measure has been felling the pulse of the lower branch of Congress, and gives it as his best judgment that it will become a law. He says that he does not see how any Representative in Congress can refuse to support the measure, liecause there is not a single congressional district that will not get some buildings by it, and that votes against tile proposition will be votes against local interests. The expenditures for the buildings will run froju $15,000 upward, and some of the congressional districts will get eight or ten buildings, worth $40,000 or $50,000. This meaps the expenditure of that much money for labor and materials, and the local interest in the bill is being agitated throughout the country. President Cleveland’s peculiar and high standard of requi sties of cities to enable them to be entitled to a federal building under the preseift arrangement of legislation, lias given almost universal dissatisfaction, and while some of the cities which have been clamoring for buildings worth from $75,000 to $150,000 will only get structures worth from $25,000 to $50,000 under the Paddock bill, they are willing to accept the cheaper structures rather than to stay out of the benefit of them during the public career of the present President: The hill will undoubtedly be amended so as to raise? the limit of cost of buildings before it isilnally acted upon by both houses. The more the proposition had been agitated the greater has become the ideas of liberality of members in both houses.

A dilemma confronts the House Committee on Rules in the shape of the “Arrearages of pension bill, which threatens to prove as embarrassing as was the direct tax bill. Representative •Johnson (Ind.) lias introduced a resolution, which is now before the committee, making the pension bill a special order w ith the provision that its consideration shall continue in the House from day to day until the bill is finally voted upon. Heavy pressure is being brought to bear upon the Committee on Rules to report this resolution along with a number of other special orders. If the committee yields it is believed that the bill would pass the House upon a final vote. The large appropriation required in that event would negative the idea of tariff reduction. On the other hand, should the opponents of the measure, as in the case of the direct ax bill, succeed in defeating action upon the bill, it may be at the expense of the tariff bill, as the defeat -will„have -la-.be accomplished through the adoption of filibustering tactics, which would consume an indefinite period of time. The mere pendency of the resolution jeopardizes all other special orders, for if any such should be reported from the Committee on Rules, a motion might be made in the House with success, to amend it so as to assign time for the consideration of the arrears bill. The Senate committee on agriculture has ordered a favorable report on the Hatch bill to enlarge the duties of the Department of Agriculture and make it an executive department. The committee has, however, struck out all that portion of the bill which looks to the transfer of the weather bureau to the Department of agriculture. The G. A. R. charge that. Public Printer Benedict has not kept faith regarding the employment of soldiers and sailors and -their orphans, .

BOLD JAIL DELIVERY.

' Three prisoners, Ed. Chamberlain, Albert Benson and Robert Catterson, confined in the White county jail at Monticello., assaulted Sheriff Joseph Heuderson, and escaped shortly after 8 o’clock Thursday night. The -sheriff went into the corridor to lock the prisoners in their cells. Chamberlin brained him with an iron bar, and all three rushed into the jail office, smashed a window and jumped for liberty. The sheriff’s skull was fractured and one arm broken; his injuries are fatal. Chamberlain is under indictment for the murder of Ida Whittenberg, his sweetheart, at Reynold, six weeks ago. To escape a mob be was removed to this city, and then to Lafayette. After the excitement had subsided, lie was then taken back to White“county, and there was a determination to give him a fair trial. Benson and Catterson were tramps, awaiting trial for highway robbery. Both have served time in the Michigan City penitentiary. Before leaving, all three wrote long letters. Chamberlin stated that the unwholesome atmosphere of the jail was undermining his health; that this was Ills only chance for liisJife; that he had done right in murdering his sweetheart, and woul 1 advise Others in similar situations to do the same thing. The tramps stated that they recognized that there was no chance for them to gyt justice in Indiana. ■. . ... r-j*-/ It is believed that if c night. Cfaamherlain will be lynched. In his letter he stated that he would ratlrerdie than return to jail. The sheriff entered the jail with a cocked revolver,hut was completely trapjx'd. His wile witnessed the entire affair, and gave the alarm. The streets were fined with people when the escape was made, and a number saw the -flying fugitives. Chamberlain was captured. Fridaynight, at the home of his uncle. Wm. Biddle, six miles from Reynolds. Biddle was a widower and was away from home.

Ida and May, aged nineteen and twentyone, keep house for him. Their feelings can hardly be described as they stood face to face with the youhg man, who was almost as near to them as a brother, with whom they had been raised, and, who at that moment tfas being .hunted' by a thousand armed men. Chamberlain was almost exhausted. For the entire night and day he had dodged about the country in the rain, without a bite to eat or a moment to rest. He was the picture of despair. His first question—was as to whether the officers had been at the house searching for him. When informed that a deputy sheriff had searched the house but an hour before, he dropped on a sofa for a short rest. His cousins induced him to remove his clothing and hangthemto the fire to dry. The moment he fell asleep they searched the garments thoroughly, but found no weapons. They at once decided to turn him over to the authorities, and, while Ida remained at the house, Mary ran across the fields and -told her story to Ralph and Authur Laurie, their nearest neighbors. Armed with shotguns and accompanied by Charles Eckert and Jacob Fisher, the five young men approached the house. There they removed their boots, and, headed by Arthur Laurie, they quietly opened the door to the room in which Chamberlain was lying. Laurie drew a bead on the desperado, and in a second the other four had sprung upon him and bound him. He was taken completely by surprise. It was midnight before arrangements were made to start for Monticello. The parting between Chamberlain and his cousin was touching, the prisoner breaking down and giving the first evidence of feeling he had exhibited sincethe cruel murder of his sweetheart, six weeks ago.

SYSTEMATIC JURY FIXING.

Elaborate and systematic jury bribing and perjury, whenever necessary to win in all suits brought against one of the largest corporations in Chicago, are shown to have been carried on by agents of the company as their regular daily occuprations for yeasr past. The corporation is the Chicago city railway company which operates the extensive system known as the Soutliside eabfe road. Sumner C. Welch, the company’s claimsettler, and William Starkey, attorney for the company, are the persons most directly involved. Welch has been on trial some days for a particular case of alleged jury fixing. He is the person for whom C. B. Holmes, the president of the company, and So w r ell known throughout the country in connection with Young Men’s Christian associations, attempted to make out an excellent character, and while being sharply cross-examined regarding Wetch 4 s connection with himself and the company, fainted away on the witness stand. Starkey was wanted as a witness in the Welch case, hut has suddenly disappeared. Tuesday, H. E. Bond, a paperhanger, formerly employed as a clerk by the railroad company, said that it had been part of his duty during a long period to get acquainted with jurors and witnesses and introduce them to Welch. The latter had regularly furnished him money to spend in saloons. In one instance, when there was no other re-source,-Welch,had solicited him to go on the stand and and testify in a case about which he knew nothing. Whiio Bond- was testifying -thus dan--gerously against Welch, another witness, John S. Newton, a fur fitter, was before the grand jury in the same building, giving evidence that Welch and Starkey had paid him money as juror to help throw a verdict for the street raiway,and when the present investigation began, wanted him to leave town, offering him Is4oo for expenses. The grand iury has returned an in dictment against the absent attorney, Starkey, .based on the evidence given by ex-Juror Newton. ——- —

A RAILROAD WRECK.

A railroad wreck, followed in ten minutes by another wreck, oceured Thursday at a point five miles from Kansas City, where the Hannibal and Wabash roads run parallel. The accident happened about 3 o’clock and resulted in the death of seven men and the injury of three others, one of whom will die. A terrible rain had washed away a bridge over a rat ine and the first accident occnred when an east-bound Hock Island freight trayi was thrown into the ditch. Y. Royston, a brakeinan, <tf Edgerton Junction, Kansas, was on top of one of the cars that went down into the debris. He was crushed beyond recognition. Immediately afterward Edward C. Armstrong, a brakeman, was sent ahead to flag the Hannibal freight. He mistook the tracks and was walking along the Wabash road when a Wabash freight train dashed around a curve and instantly killed him. The Wabash train met the same fate as the Rock Island, as the two bridges were only two feet apart and were connected. The heavy car plunged down on the wreck of the firs C-train. Two dead bodies were taken out soon afterwards. Neither of the men could be tramps. - i Engineer Ben McClellan, of the Wabash train, was badly hurt in jumping, and Ben Norris, a negro youth, was so badly hurt that he was expected to die. John Snyder, the Rock Island fireman, jalstysufferecLslighl-in.juries. It willbe some time before the tracks can be cleared. Meanwhile both roads will use other tracke.