Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — Page 6

l;be sqmbKt<m. Gbo. E. Masshali., Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

Dickens' picture of ’ speculating may be often repeated, And be always appropriate: “Speculation is a round game—ttfe nlayers' aferr iitrir or nothing of their cards at first starting. Gains may be groat; and so may losses. The run cf luck went against Mr. Nicklebv. # A mania prevailed; a bubble burst Four stock brokers took villa residences at Florence: four hundred nobodies were ruined, and among'"them Mr. Nicklebv!” But the villa occupants go next, and the game is a round one still —it always gets around to the' chief players last. It is a queer spectacle, that of Garrett haunted by Gould, a specter trying to seize his railroad and telegraph. Rather a lively set of resolutions was recently passed by the Arkansas Medical Society, one of which reads: “Resolved, That the appearance in religious papers of homilies on prayer and praise, side by side with cures of incurable ailments (with often e<Wtorial indorsement), and other medicines really intended for fo-ticide, largely tends to shake the confidence of the profession of medicine in the integrity of the managers and editors of such journals.” The doctors then hint that, as their services are gratuitous to clergymen, they expect the latter to withhold indorsements from quacks. Part of the wording of the resolution might shake the confidence of schoolmasters in the grammatical skill of the medical profession of Arkansas; but the complaint is just, if the charges are true. It must be remembered, however, that'those who publish such stuff carefully refrain from Sunday issues. . _

SOME ODDS THINGS.

The Center of population of the United States is near Louisville, Ky., Like the big fortune yarns there periodically come along accounts of persons going off into a trance and narrowly escaping burial alive. Almost invariably the supposed dead return to life in the coffin, after having gone through the usual preserving process—-almost generally sufficient to cause death. The latest story of this kind originated in an Ohio town. Dog swimming races are the ‘‘latest” addition to Boston sports. Floats are anchored at a given distance off shore, and from these the canines start, being, preceded by their handlers in boats,who jarge the animals to do their utmost by holding tempting morsels of food at an unreasonable distance. Recently the winner of a half-mile contest «&>r docs over one hundred pounds finished in nine minutes. A Dakota man essayed the perilous task of assisting his wife on wash day. He was assigned to hanging the garments on the lines. The unfortunate man moved to his doom like a Roman martyr. He had almost completed his job when the lonely suspender which held his pantaloons gave way. To grab the falling garment was his first impulse,ahdm doingsoth~e~ clothespin' held in his mouth dropped into his throat. A commotion ensued. To protect his person and prevent suffocation occupied both hands, but his wife arrivpin and save his life. Hereafter he will journey to the country on wash day. The greatest set of rattles ever cut from a rattlesnake are now on exhibition in the office of the treasurer of Lycoming county, at Williamsport, Pa. The string measures eight and one-half inches and contains forty-five rattles., The biggest string on record previous to this was taken from the big snake killed near Westport last week. That string measured four inches in length and contained twenty-one rattles. The snake that bore it was the biggest one ever killed in the State, being.seven feet long. The mos°t curious fact connected with the monster Williamsport set of rattles is that it was taken from a snake less than three feet long, the rattles forming almost one-fourth of the reptile’s entire length. If it is true that a rattlesnake g ows a rattle every year after the first year, the snake must have been 40 years old. This freak among snakes was killed by County Treasurer 'Eld red in the Pine creek region.

A German local paper give away an interesting business. It says: “Very interesting female figures are to be noticed at the Konigsberg railroad depot —a considerable number of youfig, pretty maids coming from Russia and bound to America* there to get married. No fallacious illusions caused them to leave their native country. They had been regularly .engaged by a commercial concern that is in the international matrimonial business, and, for some time has been supplying marriageable women to the farmers of western American regions where the population is thin and there is great demand for intelligent, able-bodied housewives willing to share in a fanner’s life. Some shrewd business men having become aware of this need, and considering _ Russia the bestfield wherefrom to get the best crop to suit American farmers, have established a company as above gfwWi for the recruiting ol female immigrants. When two quarrel both are in the wrong.

A WORLD FULL OF WOE.

FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVEAREWE PURSUEO. I The HoumlK of Ma Are Alw»y» en Oar Track—Tne Hope of Kteinnl Kent i* the ItciUM* iff I* 1 HrUtiau. ~ B|v. Dr. Talnmge preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text, —~ ‘-7 I have just come from the Adirondack*, and the breath of the balsam and spruce and piile is still on me. The Adirondacks are now populous with huntets, and ’the dCer are being slain by the score. Talking a few davs ago with aliupter, I thought I would like to see whethepjny text was accurate in its allusion, and as I heard the dogs haying a little way otf,>and supposed they were on the track of a reindeer, I said, to the hunter in rough corduroy: “Ro the deer always make for the water when they are pursued?” He said: “Oh, yes, Mister; you see they are a hot and thirsty animal, and they know where tlie water is, 1 " and when they hear danger in the-"distance they lift their antlers and snuff the breeze and start for the Racquet, or Loon, or Saranac; and we get into our cedar shell boat or stand by the ‘runway’ with rifle loaded ready to blaze away.” My friends, that is one reason why I like the Bible so much—its allusions are so true to nature. Its partridges are real partridges, its ostriches real ostriches, and its reindeer real reindeer. Glory of the text makes the hunters’s eve sparkle and his cheek glow and his respiration quicken. To say nothing of its usefulness, although it is the most useful of all game, its flesh delicious, its skin turned into human apparel, its sint w s lashioned into bowstrings, its antlers putting handles on cutlery, and shavings of its horns used as a restorative, taken from the name of the hart, and called hartshorn. But putting aside its usefulness, this enchanting enwfcure seems made out of gracefulness and elasticity. When, twenty miles from any settlement, it comes down at eventide to the lake’s edge to drink among the lily pads and, with its sharp-edged hoof, shatters tiie Krystal of Long toke, it is very picturesque. But only when after miles of pursuit, with heaving sides and lolling tongue, and eyes swimming in death,the stag leaps from the cliff into Upper Saranac, can you realize how much David suffered from his troubles, and how much he wanted God when he expressed himself in the words of the text. . The most of the men and women whom I happen to know at different times, if not now, have had trouble .after them, sharp,-mulled troubles, swift troubles, all-devouring troubles. Many of you have made the mistake of trying to fightthem. Somebody meanly attacked you, and you attacked them’; they depreciated you, and you depreciated them; or they overreached you in a bargain, and you tried, in Wall street parlance, to get a corner on them; or you had a bereavement, and instead of being submissive, you are fighting that bereavement; you charge on the doctors who failed to affect a cure; or you charge on the carlessness of the railroad company through which the accident occurred; or you are a chronic invalid, and you fret and worry and Scold and wonder why you cannot be well like other people, and you angrily charge on the neuralgia or the laryngitis or the ague or the sick headachy. The fact is you are a deer at bay. Instead of running to the waters of divine consolation, and slacking your thirst and cooling your body and soul in the good cheer of' the gospel, and sw immixjg away into the mighty deeps of God’s love, you are fighting a whole kennel of harriers. A few days ago I saw in the Adirondacks a dog lying across the road, and he seemed unable to get up, and I said to some hunters near bv: “YYTiat is the—matter with that dog?” They answered: “A deer hurt him.” And I saw he .had a great swollen paw and a battered head, showing where the antlers had struck him. And the probability is that some of you might give a mighty'" clip to your pursurers, you might s damage their business, you might worry them into ill-health, you might hurt them as much as they* hurt you, hut, after all, it is not worth while. You only have hurt a hound. Better be off for the Upper Saranac, into which the mountains of God’s eternal strength look'down and moor their shadows. As for your physical disorders, the worst) strychnine you can take is fretfulness, and the best medicine is religion. I know people who were only a little disordered, yet have fretted themselves into complete valetudinarianism, while others put their trust in' God and came up ’ from the very shadow of death, and have lived comfortably for seventy-two years, with only one lung. a man with but one lung, but God with him, is better off thanjagodlesg man wit h twojungs. Some of you have been for a lons?*time sailing around Gape Fear when you ought to have been sailing around Cape Good Hope, Db not turn back, but go ahead. The deer will accomplish liiorCAvith its.S-WUt loot than with its horns. I saw whole chains of lakes in the Adirondacks, and from 6ne height you can see thirty, and there are said to be over eight hundred in the great wilderness. So near are they to each other that—your mountain guide picks up and carries the boat from' lake to lake, the small- distance between them for that reason called a “carry.” And the realm of God’s word is one Ipng chain of bright, refreshing takes: each promise a lake, a very short carry between them, and though for ages the pursued have been drinking out of them they are full up to the top of the green banks, and the same David them, and they seem so near together that in three different places he-speaks of them as a continuous river. ~ But many of vou„have turned your back on that supply, and confront vour trouble, and: you are soured with your circumstances, and you are fighting society, and you are fighting a pursuing world and*troubles instead of driving you into the cool lake of heavenly comfort, have made you stop and turn round and lower vour head, and it is simply antler against tooth. I do not blame you. Probably under the same circumstances I would have done worse*. But you are all wrong. You need to do as the reindeer does in February and March—it sheds its horns. The Babbinical writers allude tojthis resignation of antlers by the stag when they say of a man who ventures his money in risky enterprises, he has hung it on the stag’s horns; and a proverb in the far East tells a into who has foolishly lost

Ins fortune to go and find where the deer shed her horns. My brother, quit the antagonism of your circumstances, quit misanthropy; quit complaint, quit pitching into your pursuers, be as wise as n?x spring will be all the reindeer of the Adirondack*. Shed your horns. But very many, of you who are wronged or the world —and if in anv assembly between Sandy Hook,New York, and Golden Gate, San Francisco, it were • asked ting all those that had been sometimes badly treated should raise 'hblh hands, and full response should be made, there would be twice as many hands lifted as persons present—l say many of you would declare: “YVe have always done the best we could, and tried to be useful, and why we should become the victims of malignrnent,or invalidism, or mishap, is inscrutable.” YVhv, do you not know that the finer a deer! and the more elegant its proportions, and the more beautiful its hearing, the more anxious the hunters and the hounds are to capture it? . Had that roebuck a ragged fur and broken hoofs and an obliterated eve and a limping gait, the hunters would have said: “Pshaw! don’t let us waste our ammunition on a sick deer.” And 41k5 hounds - would have given a few sniffs of the track, and then darted off in another direction for better game. But when they see a deer with antlers lifted in mighty challenge to earth and sky, and the sleek hide looks as if it had been smoothed by invisible hands, and the fat sides inclose the richest pasture that could be nibbled from the bank of rills so clear that they seemed t o have drooped out of heaven, and the stamp of its foot defies the jackshooting lantern and the rifle, the horn and the hounds, that deer they will have if they must needs break their neck in the rapids. So if there were no noble stuff in your make-up, if you were a bifurcated nothing, if you were a forlorn failure, you would he allowed to go undisturbed; but the fact that the whole pack is in full cry after you is proof positive that you are splendid game and worth capturing. Therefore sarcasm draws on you its “finest bead.” Therefore the world goes gunning for you with its best Maynard Breech-loader. Highest compliment is it to your talent, or your virtue, or your usefulness. You will be assailed in proportion to your great achievements. The best and the mightiest being the world ever saw had set after him all the hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and they lapped his blood after the Calvarean massacre. The world paid nothing to its Redeemer but a bramble and a cross. Many who have done their best to make the world better have had such a rough time of it that all their pleasure is in anticipation of the next world. Yes; for some people in this world there seems to be no let up. They are pursued from youth to manhood, and from manhood into old age. Very distinguished are Lord Stafford’s hounds, and Earl Of Yarborough’s hounds, and the Duke of Rutland’s hounds, and Ciueen Victoria pays $8,500 per year to her Master of Buckhounds. But all of them put together do not equal in number, or speed, Or power to hunt down the great kennel of hounds of which Sin and Trouble are owner and master. But what is a relief for all those pursuits of trouble, and annoyance, and pain, and bereavement? My text gives it to you in a word of three letters, but each letter is a chariot if you would triumph, or a throne if you want to be crowned,'or a lake if you would slake your thirst—yea, a chain of three letters —G-o-d, the One for whom David longed. and the One whom David found. Yon might as well meet a stag, which, after its sixth mile of running at the topmost speed through thicket and gorge, and with the breath of the dogs on its heels, has come in full sight of Scroon Lake, and tried to cool its projecting and blistered tongue with a drop of dew from a blade of grass, as to attempt to satisfy an immortal soul, when flying from trouble and sin. with any thing less deep. an<l high and broad.and immense, and'infinite, and eternal than God. His comfort, why it embosoms all distress. His arm, it wrenches off all bondage. His hand, it wipes away all tears. His Christlv atonement, it makes us all right with the past. andjalLiigfct with the future, and all right with God, -all right with man, and all right forever. foFhim I thirst; for His grace I beg; on His promise I build my all. Without Him I can not be happy. I have tried the world, and it does well enough as far as it goes, but it is too uncertain a world, too evanescent a world. I am not a prejudiced witness. I have nothing against this world. I have been one of the most fortunate, or, to use a more Christian word, one of the most blessed of men, blessed in my parents, blessed in the place of my nativity, blessed in mv health, blessed in my field of work, blessed in my natural temperament, blessed in m’y family, blessed in my opportunities, blessed in a comfortable livelihood, blessed in the hope that my soul will go to heaven through the pardoning mercy of God,, and my body, enless it be lost at sea or cremated in somg conflagration, will lie down in •. the gardens of Greenwood among my kindred and friends, some already gone and others to come after me. Life to many has been a disappointment, but to me it has been a pleasant surprise; and yet I declare that if I did not feel that God was now my friend and ever-pres-ent help I should be wretched and ter-ror-struck. But I want more Him. I have thought of this text and preached this sermon to myself until with all the aroused energies of my body, mind and soul I can cry out: “As the hart panteth after the water-brooks so panteth my soul after Thee, O, God.” Through Jesus Christ make this God your God, and you can withstand anything and everything, and that which affrights others will inspire you._ 0! Christian men and women, pursued of annoyance and exasperations, remember that this hunt, whether a still hunts or a hunt in full cry, will soon be over. If ever a whelp looks ashamed and ready to slink out of sight it is when in the Adirondacks a deer, by one long:, tremendous plunge into Big Tupper I-ake, gets away from him. The disappointed canine* swims in a little wav, but, defeated, swims out again, and cringes with humiliated yawn at the feet of his master. And how abashed and ashamed will all your earthly troubles be when yon havg dashed Into the river from under the thrbne of God, and the heights and depths of heaven are between you and your pursuers. Two good citizens of Pipestone, Mich., have made a novel agreement. In case Cleveland, is elected one is to attend church every Sunday; if Harrison is elected the other is to oil th% wind-mill of the village water-works regularly.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Half the Maxinkuckee cottages are closed. YVarkarusa is getting many new houses. "■ The Schools of Elkhart are overcrowded. A case of glanders was reported at Terre Haute Wednesday. • Terre, Haute’s fire chief is inspecting the cellars of business houses. Kush county is said to be covered with aboat $1,000,0H0 worth of mortgages. Farmers in Deer Creek township, Cass county, have organized for police protection. ~~ - /\ , Michigan City has more secret and\benevolent societies than any other town .in the State. The Fourth District Republicans nominated Manly D. YVilson, of Madison, for Congress on the fourth ballot. The bear that has been circling around in Montgomery county has been seen in the suburbs of Crawfordsville. Burglars made a raid at \Valkerton,the other night, and took notes and money from the store of Ross & Reese amounting to nearly $5,000. Miss Elizabeth Todd, aged nineteen, of Jackson county, killed herself with poison Monday, She bad been disappointed in a love affair. It is hoped that the new life-saving station at Michigan City will be completed in sixty days. The work has been greatly delayed in various ways. Hon. L. O. Shroeder, ex-Mayor of Vevav, one of the ablest lawyers of Southfern Indiana and a prominent Democratic politican, is dead. His “Civil Justice Treatise” is a standard work. Things are now arranged so that the Hoosier farmer can have fresh meat all the year round and not have to fall back on his smokehouse. The trave ing butchers are supplying his demands. YVhile firing an anvil at a political meeting at Advance, ninemiles west of liberty, George Beam was seriously if not fatally hurt by a premature explosion. His eyes were burned badly, and he may lose his sight. James M. Chamberlain, aged sixtyfive years, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Steele township, Daviess ing, in a grove near his home. The body was not discovered for some time. The little town of Annapolis, Parke county, with 400 or 500 inhabitants, has been scourged by typhoid fever. Twentysix cases, three fatal, are reported in one month, and many are still very,Sick. The cause is bad sanitary conditions. Grant county has a snake now. It is a monster snake. It has been seen on the farm of Mr. Lewis Landis. It is suspected that this is the same snake that lias been frightening the lowly inhabitants of YY r abash county for several weeks. YVm. K. Parkinson, ex-County Commissioner of Jasper county, died Monday of Bright’s disease. Mr. Parkinson was a grandson of the celebrated Simon Kenton, who was distinguished in the pioneer history of Kentucky and Ohio. Mr. Parkinson was engaged in farming and stock raising, and was quite wealthy. Patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: Cortland Ball, assignor-of one-half-to J. V. Wood,- Indianapolis, crude-oil burner; Henry C. Davis, Terre Haute, hydrocarbon retort iilporizer; Jacob C. Gose, Reelsville, assignor of one-hal fto R. H. Bowen, Putnam vi lie, motor; Urban L. Shaw, Westfield, gate. YVm. Anderson, of Lake Township, and Mrs. Thomas, of Eel River Township, Allen county, were maraied by Judge O’Rouke, of Fort Wayne, YVednesday. The groom is a prominent farmer and is on the shady side of seventy-four years, while his bride, a well perserved widow, is benevolent and good looking at seventy. —The residence-and contents belonging to J. Edwards, near Haughville, were totally destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Mr. Edwards and a ■ small child were sleeping up sfaire, .'anrr' barely" escaped with their lives. Raising a window with the child in his arms, Mr. Edwards jumped out, but was badly burned and bruised. He succeeded in arousing the family below and got thein out safely. Suit is to be. brought in. the Ilarrison Circuit Court against ex-Treasui|pr John C. Graves and his bondsmen to recover $14,000, which the County Commissioners say he is behind in his accounts. Graves retired a year ago after making a settlement, and that was supposed to be final. However, county orders were received of which no register had been kent. The boiler of a steam thresher engine belonging to Bennett <k Glover exploded YY'ednesday on the farm of Edward Green, in Salt Creek township, Jackson county. YY'illiam Bennett, one of the owners, was killed. His body was hurled 150 yards. George McElffesh, John Lambert, Brazille YVeekly and Ambrose Thompson were slightly injured. Charles Dabb was blown 100 feet, but suffered no severe injuries. Edward Chamberlain, the Monticello murderer, who has been confined in the Northern Indiana prison for several months past for safe keeping pending his trial, bids fair to defeat the ends of justice, for he is gradually starving himself to death. He has not tasted food of any kind for two weeks past, and refuses -even delicacies. His apppearanee is greatlv changed, and unless his trial occurs soon he will succeed in making away with himself.

Two lives were lost pear Cates Station, Saturday night, on the T. C. St. L. Railroad. Two squads of workmen were returning home at a late hour on handcars in opposite directions, and when over a high trestle collided, mangling one maffso badly that he died in a short time. John Grist was so dazed by the shock that he walked off the trestle, falling about thirty feet, breaking his neck. One squad had a lantern in front but the other had none. No explanation is given of the cause of the accident. Three men were killed "at Hammond while walking on the tracks of the Western Indiana Railroad, Monday evening. They stepped from one track to avoid a coming freight, when all were struck by a Chicago & Atlantic passenger and instantly killed. The first was found with his skull crushed, terribly mutilated. They were Poles, and from papers discovered on their bodias were probably in the employ of R. D. Walsh, a Chicago contractor. John Kepplinger, who was with John Brady in the latter’s house Saturday night when an unknown assassin fired at both through a window,,gave his testimony Wednesday before the Coroner of Daviess county. Kepplinger is suffering.from The wound[ in his head and may never recover entirely from his injurv. Brady died instantly. Kepplinger rushed to the door, wounded as he was, after the shots were fired, and saw a man disappearing down the road on horseback. The people of the neighborhood think a tramp, who had been loitering in the vicinity, was responsible. A horrible case of homicide occurred late YVednssday evening, three miles southwest of Columbus. James Ford, a farmer, while delirious from typhoid fever, sprang from his bed, and, seizing a chair, made a vicious attack upon his wife and two children, who were in the room. The infant child was killed outright. He struck his wife several times over the head, inflicting injuries from which she will die. His ten-year-old son was knocked senseless, and so seriously beaten that he can not possibly live. The screams of the terror-striken family aroused the neighbors, and several men soon arrived on the scene,thorri-fied-at the sight that met their gaze. Ittook the work of eight men to manacle the maniac.

The Preacher Thanked Heaven.

An old sea captain sat in the lobby of the custom-house yesterday. He was in a talkative mood, and related a number of funny - experiences he had with ministers. There was one in particular, says the Baltimore News, which amused him Very much as he recalled it. 1 “Once, when we left London,!’ he began, “to make a trip to Baltimore, among the passengers on board was a preacher We had hardly got out of the river before the good inan became awfully sick, and he felt sure that something was wrong with the ship. He related his fears to me, and to allay them, I took him to the fore part of tiie vessel, where a mimber of sailors were at work. “ ‘Do you hear those men swear?’ I asked. “ ‘Yes,’ he replied. ‘lsn’t it shocking? YYTmt-wfflhecome.oLthem?’ “ ‘Well, I don’t know,’ I answered, “but it mustbe plain they are not worried about the condition of the ship.” The reverend gentlemen saw the point and felt, much easier. “The next day a terrible storm arose. The vessel plunged in the trough of the waves, and the passengers were greatly frightened. “I noticed the preacher going to the same part of the ship, and I followed him. Suddenly he stopped and listened attentively. Then he -exclaimed: “Thank heaven, (hey are still swearing.’ I need not add that the boat didn’t go ____ ____

ROBBED A BUILDING ASSOCIATION.

A week ago the President of the Cincinnati Duckworth Building -Association-, detected the Secretary in drawing an order in favor of a member for SIBO, when the books showed that the member had never paid in anything but the initiation fee. The Secretary, Jule List, admitted the fact and promised ’to make the amount good. Ever since developments have been made until now it appears that List] hks been systematically embezzling frofn the members. It was at first thought that a few. thousand dollars would cover the shortage, but it now seems that it will amount to $20,000 or more. List has used the money in fast living and is now in hiding. After the exposure he made an apparent attempt to commit suicide. 7

VERMONT ELECTION.

The \ 7 ermont election occurred on the 4th and resulted in a victory for the Republicans by a majority of 27,000. The Republicans made large gains and the Democratic and Prohibition tickets show losses. The Senate is how solidly Republican and the House has an increased majority. Y’ermont gives a Republican pluralty of 28,954, majority of 27,659 and again of

5,819.

THE NATIONAL G. A. R.

The National Encampment G. A. R. at Columbus, 0., opened, Tuesday, most auspiciously. The -ciW-is a grand display of flags The number of visitors is estimated at 250,000, and the soldiers proper at 10,000. Gen. Sherman is among the prominent soldiers in attendante.

POLITICAL.

Arkansas went Democratic, last week, by 10,500 majority. Congressman Payne, of Pennsylvania, expresses the belief that the Republicans will carry New York, Indiana, Connecticut and New Jersey.— . —— -r~ — A mass meeting at New York Friday night to protest against the renomination of Governor Hill was attended by 2,600 people-. ——-^— •—- Labor party, in convention at Newport, Ky.,Saturday nominated George Thu.be for Congress in the Seventh district to run against Speaker Carlisle. Thcebe declined, and YY T . R. Fox, of Covington, was nominated. Mr. Thurman was given a grand reception in New York Thursday night, lfuring his speech he was taken sick and was compelled to stop and was taken to his hotel. His illness is not at alljerious. , Miss Anna Dickinson, famous as an actress, writer and lecturer, in accordance with arrangements made by the National Republican Committee/will begin a canvass of Indiana on the 20th of the present month. It is understood that she will talk chiefly about American ho nr.es. . Senator Edmunds telegraphed General Harrison the following on the result of the Vermont election being made known: ■“Vermont greets you with metre than 27,000 majority. Let all patriots strike the workers of sham and the enemies of American labor.” J. C. McCullough sent the following telegram: “As Vermont promised at Chicago in June, so she has performed at the ballot box in September. The Republican star that never sets ascends higher, and will never set.” Chairman Huston has formally declined the challenge of Chairman Jewett for a joint debate between Hovev ahd Matson. Mr. Huston says: “I tm well satisfied that joint debates simply result in drawing party lines and arousing party prejudice, and certainly are not conducive to a calm and intelligent consideration of political questions. lam in favor of the fullest discussion possible of the great political questions now at issue, and General Ilovey and many others, competent representatives of our party, will be given gn opportunity of explaining our position. Any imputation that we do not want a free and full discussion of the record of the two parties is wholly unwarranted.”

THE DREADED FEVER.

A special from St. Augustine, Florida, says: A letter has been received in this city, disclosing a terrible state of affairs in the town of Bayard, a small settlendent on the line of the Jacksonville and railroad, about twenty miles north of here. William Ortgn's, the son of a farmer living at Sampson, about five miles of Bayard, had occasion to visit the-latter place. On nearing the settlement he was attracted by a strong stench emanating from the vicinity of a house supposed to be vacant. Through curiosity he hitched his horse and proceeded to investigate. On reaching the house a ghastly spectacle met his eyes. Stretched upon a couch was the body of a woman, and in the same room were the bodies of five children. They had evidently been dead for several days. The boy, on realizing the horror of the scene, fled precipitately, and mounting his horse, rode back to his home and told the startling story to his] parents. As St, Augustine' 'is strictly quarantined against Bayard and that vicinity, the news did not reach .here until Several days after the occurrence. The country people are horror stricken, and even if it were known that any one was occupying the house it is unlikely that any one of them could have been induced to go near it if he knew this was a case of yellow fever, It is supposed that the unfortunates were rfefugees from Jacksonville and were stricken with the disease after leaving town. Jacksonville asks for aid from the people everywhere. - r —— THE RECORD. Thursday, new cases 46; deaths 10. Friday: New cases, 77; deaths 8. Sunday: new cases, 49; deaths 7. Total cases, 624; deaths 73. Monday: New cases, 132; deaths, 15. The country is responding liberally to" the call for-relief.

OLD SOLDIERS WRECKED.

An excursion train on the N. Y., P. & 0., road, bearing members of the G. A. R., to Columbus, 0., was wrecked at Wadsworth, 0., Monday. An accident occured to the engine. While waiting for repairs, a heavy freight train thundered down upon and crashed into the passenger train. Four cars were wrecked, two of them being completely demolished. The excursionists had had warning of impending danger and all succeeded in getting out of the cars before the crash come, but as they hurried down the embankment the wrecked coaches rolled down upon them killing four persons outright and injuring twenty-five others more or less seriously. ,

THE MAINE ELECTION.

The State election in Maine occurred on the 10th and resulted in a sweeping Republican victory. The majority for governor will reach 20,000. Every county in the State gave a Republican popular majority. The Senate is wholly Republican and the House ehcted but about twenty-five Democrats. All four ! of the Congressmen were returned. “'I ■? • - - . . •.. .. •' - ■.w v * •