Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. ' They have cornered copper. ChaunceyM. DePew has returned from Europe. \ An explosion of aB.& 0. freight engine near Mansfield, 0., Friday, killed five people. *' Washington City was visited ( by a severe stormJSunday, which did considerable damage. At Davison, Ga., Tuesday, C. P. Ketchens shot and killed his father for abusing his mother. The town of Sigourney, la., suffered a loss of $250,000 by fire in its business portion Tuesday night. The Brotherhood will request the Southern roads employing negro firemen to substitute White men. Malarial fever has broken out among the Texas convicts, and out of S2OO, 922 are sick with the disease. The bitter county-Beatwar in Wichita county, Kan., which has continued for years, has at last been settled. The steamship Gaelic arrived at San Francisco from China, Thursday evening, with 708 Chinese passengers. At Niagara Sunday, Charles A. Percy went through the whirlpool rapids. He lost his boat and barely saved his life. A lightning and hail storm in western Pennsylvania did great damage to crops, Monday night, and killed two men. Frank Corfrey and Miss Minnie Taffley were drowned in the Schuylkill river, at Philadelphia, Thursday night, by the overturning of their row-boat. A number of workmen employed in the Hoosac Tunnel were overcome by coal gas from a passing locomotive. It is thought that two of them will die. An explosion of a puddling furnace at the Keystone rolling-mill, Pittsburg, damaged the mill, SIO,OOO. One workman, named McMunn iyas slightly injured. Jacobs & Proctor’B Grand Opera House, at Syracuse, N. Y., and adjoining property were destroyed by fire at 3:15 Thursday morning. Loss about $250,000. Walter Grantham, a salesman from Chicago, and his two sisters, were drowned at Cary, 111., Friday, by the capsizing of a boat, from which they were fishing in Fox river: Mrs. Snell, the widow of the Chicago millionaire who was murdered in his own room by (it is supposed) William Tascott, has offered a reward of $20)000 for the apprehension of Tascott. George Q. Cannon, the Mormon apostle, surrendered himself, Monday, in court, and was sentenced to six months in the penitentiary and a fine of $350 on two indictments of unlawful cohabitation. Peter Rodenhauer, of Quincy, 111., barricaded himself in his house with a Winchester rifle and two shotguns at hand, and defied arrest for violation of the fishing laws. He was finally arrested and jailed. Gen Harrison attended the reunion of his old regiment, the 70th, at Clayton, Ind., Thursday, and made the “boys” a speech. He walked in the procession with his old comrades and segmed to greatly enjoy the occasion. Owing to the illness of his son, upon whom a painful operation was recently performed, the Hon. Carl Schurz will be obliged to prolong his stay in Germany. The son is stopping at Kiel, and is convalescing. Mr. Schurz hopes to be able to start on his return by the end of October. 7 The flood in the Savannah river has covered the rice plantations near Savannah, and the rice crop is nearly, if not quite, a total loss. Reports from the country districts state that the lowlands are all under water and roads and bridges carried away so that travel is almost impossible. The family of Joseph Noice, living in Moundsville, W. Va., had sausage for breakfast Monday. Three children ate heartily. Half an hpur afterward they were taken violently ill. Dr. John R. Davis was called, and he pronounced the complaint trichinae. The.„children are very ill, and the chances for their recovery are poor. - Andrew Rhuel, a well-to-do-farmer of near Manchester, Mo., shot and killed Fred and Annie Fink, Friday, and then blew his own brains out. Rhuel had made derogatory remarks of Miss Fink, for which he was soundly threshed by her brother Fred. * Rhuel then procured a revolver and killed the brother .and tfister in cold blood. Miss Mary C. Murray, of Brooklyn, has engaged counsel to bring an action for $50,000 damages against George Monford, a millionaire of Bridgeport. Conn., for breach of promise. She also brings suit, against Monford for SIO,OOO, the value of some diamond jewelry, which, she alleges, he took from her after he hid changed bis mind about marrying her. A premature explosion of blast in the south face Of the Wick’S tunnel, on the Montana railway, south of Helena, Mont.,, Tuesday, killed ten men and seriously wounded five. The accident was caused by the concussion of a giant cap, fired as a warning in the north face, the headings being now close together. This is the first casualty recorded in the tunnel, which is over a mile in length, Charles A. Pillsbury & Co., of Minneapolis, the largest milling firm in the world, has just finished a division of $40,000 among their employes. This has been made in pursuance of a profit-

sharing plan adopted four years ago. For two years there have been no profits to divide, but the past year has been profitable, and the .firm keeps its promise. This believed to be the largest amount ever divided under the profit sharing system, i * , The Northern Kentucky Methodist j Conference, in its closing session Monday, adapted by a strong majority a resolution deplaring the liquor traffic the foe Of “the home, the school, the church, and the Nation: the inspiration of lawlessness and anarchy; the missionary of ignorance, crime and want; the great enemy of common humanity,” and urging the church members be not controlled by any party organization controlled by it. It also declared against any license law. Fire was discovered at B. Rockwell’s general store, at Junction City, Kansas, Wednesday. A gale was blowing at the time, and the flames spread rapidly to other business places, doing total damage of about $125,000. While the blaze was at its fiercest, rain began to fall in torrents, and in a short time, the wind having died away, the fire was under control. While clearing away the debris a workman came upon the bodies of Albert Franks and Milo Everleigh,clerks in the store of B. Rockwell & Co. How the young men lost their lives is not known, but it is supposed that they had made an effort to extinguish the flames and were overcome by smoke. News comes of a horrible catastrophe at Devine station, Texas. Saturday, Callie, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Byrd Smith, was sent by her mother to start a fire in the cooking stovg. The girl poured oil over the coals of fire, and the kerosine can exploded, scattering the burning oil over the girl and her two sisters, Delia and Dosia, and her brother, all of whom w T ere standing around the stove watching her. The mother hearing the screams of the children ran into the kitchen and found her four children in flames. In her frantic efforts to save her children she was terribly burned about her arms and face. The children all died of their injuries hi a few hours. Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, died at the Willard pauper hospital, New York, Wednesday evening, from yellow fever. He arrived at New York from Oaklawn, Fla., where he has an observatory, on Monday, and was immediately prostrated with the disease which the best physicians unhesitatingly pronounced as yellow fever. Other doctors doubted that the disease was yellow fever, but their doubts w r ere removed when the patient was seized with the black vomit and died from its effects. The professor had engaged passage for Europe, intending to sail on the 15th. His family are still at Oaklawn, Florida, where no cases of yellow fever have been reported. Late advices from the Northwest report great suffering and many deaths from starvation among the Indians of the Canadian Northwest Territories. From the Peace River district several cases of cannibalism are reported where, to save their own lives, heads of families have killed and eaten their children. Last year Parliament voted the sum of $354,000 for supplies for the destitute treaty Indians of the Northwest, but from what has been learned it appears that dishonest agents who were intrusted with the distribution have approprited the greater portion of the grant. Gabriel Dumont, Riel’s lieutenant, has again been attempting to stir bad feeling among the Indians with, it it said, considerable degree of sucees. Two men, named Steele and Mockabee,! both drunk, boarded the east-bound C. and 0., train at Mount Sterling, Ky., Sunday afternoon and fought all the way to Stepstone, where the conductor, for the safety of those in his charge, put the men off and told them to fight it out. They drew their pistols and exchanged five shots each. The fifth shot from Steele’s pistol passed through Mockabee’s brain, killing him instantly. They were cousins. One lived at Soldier and the other at Enterprise. There were no arrests. Mockabee was the most to blame for the trouble. After the killing Steele boarded the train and proceeded home, the train having waited until the duel was over. A deplorable state of affairs exists on Tug river, whose waters divide the Hat-field-McCoy settlements. Business is comparatively paralyzed, and will be until the trouble is adjusted. Men who are not in any way engaged in the feud are afraid®to venture out of their own neighborhood for fear of being shot from ambush. Friday the McCoy crowd made a raid on Hatfield territory, and as usual got worsted. Two of the McCoy gang were killed. During the past month the West Virginians have raided the Kentuckians twice and have lost five men killed outright, while the Old Commonwealth shows an unbroken frorc. A total; annihilation of one or the other of the factions would seem to be the only thing that will restore Tieace. Now, as in the past, the Kentuckians resprt to arms when compelled to. The West Virginians have always been the aggressors, but when molested the Kentuckians have on each occasion showed the intruders they were at home. «

FOREIGN.

Eight thousand cigar makers are on a strike in Havana. ' 7^ It is believed Prince Bismarck is preparing to retire from public life.. Forty lives were lost in a steamboat collision in the harbor of Port Luz,

Canary Islands. The “Sud America,” an Italian vessel, was sunk. / Fifteen thousand acres of land are submerged in the canton of St. Gall, Switzerland. The crops are destroyed, and many villages have been abandoned. The shortage of the wheat crop in France is estimated at 4Q,000,000 hectolitres. Bakers in Paris and other large cities are already advancing the price of bread. J 7, " ■ "Captain Yangele, who has jnst returned from the Congo country, is convinced that Stanley is safe and of Tippoo Tib’s innocence of the murder of Major Barttelot. Mr. William Redwood, member of Parliament "for Fermanagh, has been convicted at Wexford of offenses under the crimes act and three months imprisonment at hard labor. The commission appointed by Parliament to investigate the charges made by the London Times against Mr. Parnell, began its work Monday. The Judges said that they would make it very searching. Mr. Parnell is represented by Sir Charles S. Russell and Herbert Henry Asqueth, and the opposition by Mr. Ruegg. The news of the murder in Africa of Major Barttelot, the leader of the expedition in search of Henry M. Stanley, has given rise to speculation regarding the fate of the great explorer himself. The London newspapers are unanimously of the opinion that Major Barttelct was betrayed by Tippoo Tib, who organized the native portion of the expedition, and the question is asked why may not Stanley have been also the victim of his treachery. The greatest stoim that ever visited the island of Cuba occurred Sept. 4th, particulars of which have just arrived by mail. From 500 to 1,200 lives were lost. The cyclone raged for fifteen hours, and wreaked fearful havoc on life and property throughout the island. It demolished the principal buildings of the large cities and wiped out whole towns situated near the seaboard. The valuable crops were ruined, and the machinery of the plantations as well. The loss reaches several million dollars. -

NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.

The New York Democrats held their State convention at Buffalo, Wednesday. There was a large attendance and mucn enthusiasm. George Raines, of Monroe, was made temporary chairman and Chas. R. Defreest temporary secretary. D. Cady Herrick, of Albany, was made permanent chairman. The platform endorses the St, Louis candidates and platform; the President’s letter of acceptance is commended and his course in the fisheries matter approved. The Chinese bill is endorsed and its approval by the Senate is demanded. “We condemn the Republican majority of the United States Senate,” runs the language of the platform, “for its hostility to the labor measures which were passed by the House of Representatives in March and April of 1888, and which have failed to receive even consideration by the Republican branch of the Legislature.” The fourth plank is: “We maintain that combinations of capital, commonly called trusts, are conspiracies which limit production, fix the price of commodities regardless of the cost of production, and reduce the wages of labor; crush out ftie smaller independent dealers, and strangle competition. These conspiracies are not private affairs; they ard matters of governmental concern. We demand legislation to prevent such combinations, and we condemn the last Republican Legislature for. "defeating all legislation for the suppression of these trusts and monopolies, alike repugant to the common law and dangerous to the prosperity of a free people.” The high-license legislation of the State is characterized and denounced as “Variable, defective and hypocritical legislation of Republican legislatures upon the liquor question, much of which was clearly inconsistent, not honestly designed or calculated to aid ihe cause of temperance, but intended only to mislead the people and for political effect.” The Sixth favors maintainance of the canals; employment of favors without competition with free labor is favored; to Parnell and Gladstone is extended the moral support of the party; and the last planks indorse Governor Hill’s administration, condemn his enemies, and congratulate the Democracy of the land upon their bright prospects of national party success. Governor David B. Hill and Lieutenant Governor Jones, of Binghampton,—“he pays the freight,”—were renominated by acclamation amidst the wildest enthusiasm. A full State ticket was then nominated.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Whitney authorizes the statement that he has no intention of resigning from the Cabinet, and that he never owned a dollar in the Standard Oil Trust no. had any relation to it. The Senate Monday refused to reconsider the vote by which it passed the Chinese instruction bill, and it goes to the President for his signature or veto. The whole matter is now ip his hands. In the Senate Monday Mr. Sherman introduced a resolution directing the Committee on Foreign Relations to inquire into the relations between the United States and Great Britain and Canada, and to report at next session of Congress. This is interpreted to mean that no action will be taken by the Senate at this session relative to the retaliation bill.

“MAKE A CHAIN."

SURROUND THE CHILD WITH GOOD INFLUENCES. From tin Cradle to tlie Grave—The Result Will I Be a World Emancipated from Sill. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text, Ezekiel vii 23, “Make a chain.” He said: *" "T 1 At school and in college in announcing the mechanical powers, we glorified the lever, the pullefy, the inclined plane, the screw, the axle and the wheel, but my text calls us to study the philosophy Of the chain. These links of metal, one with another, attracted the old Bible authors,and we hear the chain rattle and see its coil all the way through from Genesis to Revelation, flashing as an adornment, or restraining as in captivity or holding in conjunction as in case of machinery. What I wish to impress upon myself and upon you is the strefigth in right and wrong directions of consecutive forces, the superior power of a chain of influences above one influence, the great advantage of a congeries of links above one link, and in all family government and in all effort to rescue others and in all attempts to stop iniquity, take the suggestion of my text and make a chain! That which contains the greatest importance, that which incloses the most tremendous opportunities, that which of earthly things is most watched by pther worlds, that which has beating against two sides all the eternities, is the cradle. The grave is nothing in importance compared with it, for that is only a gully that we step across in a second, but the cradle has within it a new eternity, just born and never to cease. Now what shall be done with this new life recently launched? Teach him an evening prayer? That is important, but not enough. Hear him as soon as he can recite some Gospel hymn or catechism? That is important, . but not enough. Every Sabbath afternoon read him a Bible story? That is important, but not enough. Once in a while a lesson, once in a while a prayer, once in a while a restraining influence? All these are important, but not enough. Each one of these influences is only a link, and it will not hold him in the tremendous emergencies of life. Let it be constant instruction, constant applicatiop of good influences, a long line of consecutive impressions, reaching from his first year to his fifth, and from his fifth year to his tenth, and from his tenth year to his twentieth. “Make a chain.”

Spasmodic education, paroxysmal discipline, occasional fidelity, amount to nothing. You can as easilv hold a child to the right by isolated and intermittent faithfulness. The example must connect with the instruction. The conversation must combine with the actions. The week-day consistency must conjoin with the Sunday workship. Have family prayers by all means; but be petulant and inconsistent and unreasonable in your household and your family prayers will be a blasphemous farce. So great in our day are the temptations of young men to dissipation ana young women to social follies that it is most important that the first eighteen years of their life be charged with a religious power that will hold them when they get out of the harbor of home into the stormy ocean of active life. There is such a thing as impressing children so powerfully with good that sixty years will have no more power to efface it than sixty minutes. . But all people between thirty and forty years of age, yes, between forty and fifty—aye between fifty and sixty years, and all septuagenarians as well, need a surrounding conjunction of good influences. In Sing Sing, Auburn, Moyamensing and all the other great prisons are men and women who went wrong in mid-life and old age. We need around us a cordon of good influences. We forget to apply the well-known rule that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. If the chain be made up of a thousand links, and nine hundred and ninety-nine are strong, but one is weak, the chain will be in danger of breaking at that one weak link. We mav be strong in a thousand excellences and yet have one weakness that endangers us. That is the reason that we sometimes see men distinguished for a whole round of virtues collapse and go down. The weak link in the otherwise stout chain gave way under the pressure. * The first chain bridge was built in (Scotland. Walter Scott tells how the French imitated it in a bridge across the river Seine. But there was one weak point in that chain bridge. There was a middle bolt that was of poor material, but they did not know how much depended’upon that middle bolt of the chain bridge. On the opening day a procession started, led on by the builders of the bridge, and when the mighty weight of the procession was fairly on it the bridge broke and precipitated the multitudes. The bridge was all right except in that middle bolt. So the bridge of character may be made up of mighty links strong enough to hold a mountain, but if there be one weak spot that one point unlooked after may be the destruction of every thing. And what multitudes have gone down for all time and all eternity because in the chain bridge of their character there was lacking a strong middle bolt. He had but one fault and that was avarice: hence, his fatal debauch. She had but one fault, and that an inordinate fondness for dress, and hence Ijer own and her husband’s bankrupty. She had but one fault, and that a quick temper; hence, the disgraceful outburst. What we all want is to have put around us a strong chain of good influences. Christian association is a link. Good literature is a link. Church membership is a link. Habit of prayer is a link. Scripture research ia a link. Faith in God iB a link. But together all these influences make a chain! Most excellent is it for us to get into company better than ourselves. If we are given to telling vile stories, let us put ourselves among those who will not abide such utterances. If we are stingy let us put ourselves among the charitable. If we are morose us put ourselves among the good-natured. If we are givefi to tittle-tattle, let us put ourselves among those who speak no ill of tneir neighbors. If we are despondent let us put ourselves amon? those who make the best of things. If evil is contagious, lam glad to say that . good is also catching. People go up into the hill country for physical health; so, if you would be strong in your soul, get yourself up off the lowlands into the altitudes of high moral association. For many of the circumstances of our life we are not responsible. For our parentage

we are not responsible. For the place oi our nativity, not responsible; for our features, our stature, our Color, not responsible: for the. family relation in which we were born, for our natural tastes, for our mental character, not responsible. But we are responsible for the associates that we choose and the moral influences under which we put oureelves. Character seeks an equilibrium. A B is a good man; YZis a bad man. Let them now voluntarily choose each other’s society. A B will lose a part of his goodness and Y Z a part of his badfiess, and they will gradually approach each other in character, and will finally stand on the same level. One of the old painters refused to look at poor pictures, because, he said, it damaged his style. A musician can not afford to dwell among 'discords, nor can a writer afford to peruse books of an inferior style, nor an architect walk out among disproportipned structures. And no man or woman was ever so good as to be able to afford to choose evil associations. Therefore, I said, have it a rule of your life to go among those better than yourselves. Can not find them? Then what a pink of perfection you must be! When was your character completed? What a misfortune for the saintly and angelic of heaven that they are not enjoying the improving influence of your society! Ah, if you can not find those better than yourself, it is because you are ignorant of yourself. Woe unto you, Scripes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

But, as I remarked in the opening, in sacred and in all styles of literature a chain means not only adornment and royalty of nature, but sometimes captivity. And I suppose there are those in that sense deliberately and persistently making a chain. Now, here is a young man of good physical healthy good manners and good educatioh. How shall he put together enough links to make a chain for the down-hill road? I will give him some directions. First, let him smoke. If he can not stand cigars let him try cigarettes. I think cigarettes will help him on this road a little more rapidly because the doctors say there is more poison in them, and so he will be helped along faster, and I have the more confidence in proposing this because about fifty of the first young men of Brooklyn during the last year were, according to the doctors’ reports, killed by cigarettes. Let him drink light wines first, or ale or lager, and gradually he will be able to take something stronger, and as all styles of strong drink are more and more adulterated, his progress will be facilitated. With the old-time drinks a man seldom got delirium tremens before thirty or forty years of age; now he can get the madness by the time he is eighteen. Let him play cards, enough money put tup always to add interest to the game. If the father and mother will play with him that will help by way of countenancing the habit. And it will be such a pleasant thing to think over in the day of judgment when the parents give account for the elevated manner in which they have reared their children. Every pleasant Sunday afternoon lake a carriage ride, and stop at the hotels on either side ihe road for Sabbath refreshments. Do not let the oldfogy prejudices against Sabbath breaking dominate you. Have a membership in some club where libertines go and tell about their victorious sins; and laugh as loud as any of them in derision of those who belong to the same sex as your sister and mother. Pitch your Bible overboard as old-fashioned, and fit only for women and children. Read all the magazine articles that put Christianity at a disadvantage, and go to hear all the lectures that malign Christ, who, they say, instead of being the Mighty One he pretended to be, was an impostor and the implanter of a great delusion. Go at first out of curiosity, to see all the houses of dissipation, and then go because you have felt the thfallof their fascination. Getting along splendidly now! Let mb see what further can I suggest in that direction. Become more defiant of all decency, more loud-mouthed in your atheism, more thoroughly alcoholized, and instead of the small stakes that will do well enough for games of chance in a lady’s parlor, put up something worthy, put up more, put up all you have. * Well done! You have succeeded. You have made a chain —the tobacco habit one link, the rum habit one link, the impure club another link, infidelity another link, Sabbath desecration another link, uncleanliness another link, and altogether they make a chain. And so there is a chain on your hand, and "a chain on your foot, and a chain on your tongue, and a chain on your eye, and a chain on your brain, and a chain on your property, and a chain on ydur soul. Some day you wake up and say: “I am tired of this and lam going to get loose from this shackle.” You pound away with the hammer of good resolution, but cannot break the thrall. Your friends join you in a conspiracy of help, but fall exhausted in the unavailing attempt. Now you begin, and with the writhing of a Laocoon, to break away, and the muscles are distended, and the great beads of perspiration dot your forehead, and the eyes stand out fromthe sockets, and with all the concentrated energies of body mind and soul you attempt to get loose, but have only made the chain sink deeper. All the devils that encamp in the wme-fiash and the rum-jug and the decanter—for each one has a devil of its own—come out and sit around you and chatter. In some midnght you Bpring from your couch and cry: “I am fast! 0, God, let me loose! O, ye powers of darkness, let me loose! Father and mother and brothers and sisters, help me to get loose!” And you turn your prayer to blasphemy, and then your blasphemy into prayer, and to. all the din and uproar there is played accompaniment by key and pedal, but the accompaniment is rattle, and the rattle is that of a chain. For five years, for ten years, for twenty years, you have been making a chain. • But here I take a step higher and tell you there is a power that can break any chain, chain of body, chain of mind, chain of soul. The fetters that hammer of the Gospel have broken off, if piled together, would make a mountain. The captives whom Christ has set free, if stood Bide bv side, would make an anny. Quicker than a ship chandler’s furnace ever melted a cable, quicker than a key ever unlocked a hand-cuff, quicker than the bayonets of revolution pried open .thesßastile, you may be liberated and made a free son or a free daughter of God. You have only to choose between serfdom and emancipation, between a chain and a coronet, between Satan and God. Make up your mind and make it up quick.

POLITICAL.

*’ Colorado Democrats have nominated' T. M. Patterson for Governor. J. G. Parkhurst, of Michigan, will probably succeed Lambert Tree as minister to Brussels. - - Chairman Brice and representative Democrats from several western States held a conference at Chicago, Friday. The official returns fromthe Arkansas election are all in, and the majority of Colonel Eagle “Democratic' candidate for Governor, is 14,981. During a speech in Brooklyn, Monday night, Hon. Warner Miller, Republican gubernatorial candidate, said that the saloons of the State were bringing forward a corruption fund of hundreds of thousands of dollars to influence the result of the popular vote. Major W. H. Calkins has signified a willingness to meet Senator Voorbees in joint. debate on the tariff question. Chairman Jewett, says the Indianapolis News, is not inclined to view the map- , ter favorably, regarding it as a scheme to draw Voorhees into an arrangement for oppointments that would not be filled. Information comes from Arkansas that Dr. C. M. Norwood, the late fusion candidate for Governor of Arkansas, will contest the election of Governor Eagle. Dr. Norwood claims to have been elected by 700 majority. The Republicans and Union Labor party of Arkansas have decided to fuse on a presidential ticket. In response to a call for a National convention of the Greenback party to meet at Cincinnati Wednesday, but seven delegates appeared. They met Wednesday morning and issued an address to the American people, the substance of which is that the evils of the country arise fromthe scarcity of money, which evils the Greenback party proposes to meet by issuing more money. In reply to a question from W: C. Sheppard, editor of the Maunch Chunk (Pa.) Gazette, General Harrison has written a letter, saying. “I cannot but express surprise that you should ask me such a question as that contained in your letter of September 6th, namely, whether I have ever said in effect that a dollar a day was enough wages for a workingman. There may be campaign lies so plausible as to require a denial, but this is not certainly one of that sort.

YELLOW FEVER RECORD.

Tuesdav: new cases 40; deaths 11. Wednesday: new cases 59; deaths 10. Thursday: new cases 63; deaths 12. Friday: new cases, 43; deaths, 12. Sunday: new cases, 75; deaths, 9. Monday: New cases 52, deaths 7. The disease is spreading throughout the State. The physicians are so worn out that they can scarcely respond to calls. Heartrending cases of sorrow are reported. The bodies are removed with aa much dispatch as possible without the usual ceremonies attendant. It is an epidemic of the worst character, and there seems no hope of staying its ravages before cold weather. Among those who died were' Hon. H. A. Lenle and Louis Q. Fleming, two prominent men of the State.

THE NATIONAL G. A. R.

Hon. William Warner, of Missouri, was elected Commander-in-Chief for the ensuing year. He served with the 3rd and 24th Wisconsin regiments. He is at present a member of Congress. Col. Moses Mail, of Columbus, was elected senior Vice Commander and Joseph Hodfleld, of New York, junior Vice Commander. The parade was the largest in the history of the G. A. E., being four hours and forty minutes in passing a given point.

BASE BALL. Standing of the League and American Clnba up to and Including Sept. 16. RATIONAL LEAGUE. Won Lob 4 New York - 70 41 Chicago... Detroit 61 149 Boston .. 68. £3 Philadelphia 56 55 Pittsburg... 64 57 Indianapolis.... 44 71 Washington f AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. ——, —— . '*• Won Lost. St. Louis.. 76 34 Athletics...... 70 40 Brooklyn • •••••••••a ••«#*'» •••«*•« 70 46 - TV) IT T C 2 4S Cleveland 45 64 Louisville Baltimore 46 07 Kansas City... 37 73 THE MARKETS. Indianapolis, Sept. 18, 1888, ' a bain. Wheat, Rejected ...73 | Com, No. 3 White, 47 No. 3 Rid... 89 I No. 2 Yellow, 42 No. 8 Red... 90 | Oats, No. 2 White.-. 27 uvs STOCK. Oattus-Extra choice shippers 6.20a3.90 Good to choice shippers...; 4.40x5,10 Extra choice helfeis ..—.8.00x8.26 Good to choice heifers..... ....2.75*8.60 Good to choice oow* 2.65*308 Boee—Heavy packing and shipping 6.85i6.26 Light and mixed packing ....6.70*6.85 Ptes and heavy r0ugh5.—.....—4.30*5.50 Smnr—Extra choioe. .3.75*4.50 Good to choice 320*3.50 aeee, Btrnrxß, rouLTav. Kb*.. 15c I Poultry .hens per lb 8 Butter, creamery...23c | 8005ter5......* fancy country—l4c Turkeys 7o choice country... 9c I ■BQEUinon. Wool—Tine merino, tab washed “ do unwashed, med .. 20a 23a “ u very coarse 17a13a Hsyhoioe tlmothylß6o | Secured Jmm 18 He V jfeSScm.primegoosSM I tHores seen .4.76 Chicago* Wheat (Sept.) 9n TTork.— 14.22 Com “ 44 Lard.— 9.97 Oats “ 25 I Ribs. 8.67 LTV* STOCK. Cirrus-Bee vs 3.50*5 50 Hoe«—Mixed,..&.9sa6.3C Cows .a .30*3.2: Heavy...6.10*6.70 Stockers.... 2.00*350 1ight....6.75a6.70 Sheen. 2.75a4.65 Skips 4.00*6:6, Cincinnati-Wheat, 88: 00m, 49; oats, 26; rye; 66- pork $14.00, lard. |9.50; butter creamery, 26} dairy, 16; eggs, 14. __ _ „ , Loledo-Wheat, 93; com, 39, oass, 25; clover, seed, 85.35. Philadelphia—Wheat, 97; com, 63: oats, 82. Baltimore—Wheat, 93; com, 68: oats, 35: Louisville—Wheat, 85; com, 47; oats, 25. New York—Wheat, 97; com, 53;oata, 85.