Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1889 — Page 6

she itaraMieaii. G*o. E. XiMiu, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

London has carried the "drop a nickel into the slot’' nonsense u> practical business, and by dropping a penny into the dot poor people may secure a gas light for six hours. Each burner is arranged so as to give thirty-six feet of gas for a* penny, which, by the 1 w#y, is only 56 cents per thousand feet ,

It is undoubtedly Gen. Boulanger’s purpose to seek election in all parts of the country where vacancies occur, so as to keep his name before the people. If he succeeds in all br nearly all of his attempts be will feel strong enough to darry out his scheme to force President Carnot to resign, as President Grevy was compelled to do a little over a year ago. Boulanger’s ambition to become head of France, whether as President or dictator, is not concealed.

Th« Pittsburg Volksblatt procured for its issue of New Year's Day brief dispatches from many Governors concerning the condition of things in tbeir respective States and Territories. They are tnainly in one strain, and that ia the exultant strain. Gov. Taylor says that Tennessee is "on top of a rolling wave of prosperity;” Gov. Adams says that Colorado has just passed through the most “prosperous year in her history;” Gov. Lee says that the “rapid development of the resources of Virginia points to a new era of prosperity;” Gov. Taft says that Rhode Island is "confident of the prosperity of her industries;” Gov. Perry says that Florida is “makings marvelous advancement;” Gov. Biggs says 'that Delaware is “prosperous and happy;” Gov.' Leslie says that Montana "has the brightest and most prosperous outlook;” Gov. Semple says that Washington Territory will soon be “the 1 idlest commonwealth on the Pacific,” and so it goes to the end of the chapter, according to the Volksblatt’s dispatches from the States of the North and South, East and West Everybody is happy. It is delightful to read such intelligence at the opening of the new year 1889.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The N. Y, Sun’s Washington specie, says: It is seldom that a man play's so completely into the hands of his opponents as General Weaver has done in his policy of obstruction. The Republicans of the House have always been more interested in the rights of the majority than in those of the minority, and in the next House they will be particularly anxious 'o enlarge the powers of the majority because their superiority in numbers will be so small that only a change of rules or Democratic interference will enable them to get along at all. They have therefore every reason for desiring in the Fifty-first Congress a set of rules that will reduce the influence of the minority to its lowest tejms. But they lack a they would hesitate sotne tim'S"before making radical changes in their own favor in the rules which have substantially governed in the past fivelCongresses. Weaver has furnished the excuse. He has shown the extraordinary power the rules give one man to delay and,indeed, prevent the business of the -House. He has kept it up long enough to breed discontent in the House and attract public attention to the rules which were created elaborately to delay instead of to facilitate legislation. He has created a sentiment inside and outside of the House in favor of changing the rules and reducing the powers of a minority. This is precisely what the Republicans wanted more than any other one thin 4 President Cleveland has written a letter to Judge William A. Vincent, of New Mexico, admitting that he acted unjustly in removing him frotn office and proffering the Chief Justiceship of the Territory. Mr. Vincent declined. Speaker Carlisle,Friday, checked General Weaver’s fillibustering scheme in the House, by unusual and arbitrary rulings, which permitted the transact ion of business. GEN. HARRISON’S TROUBLES. General Harrison’B visitors, Thursday evening, were Judge Edgerton, Sena-tor-elect of South Dakota, who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate; Colonel Pratt, Superintendent of the Indian Schools at Carlisle, Pa.; Colonel D. P Eells, Ti uman F. Hardy and O. C. Waite, of Cleveland, accompanied by their wives; G. P. Kirkland and Judge Stratton, of Birmingham, Ala., and A. T. Wimberly, of Mississippi, all of whom asserted that they did not come to talk about politics to the President-elect. A delegation of about twenty of Virginia and West Virginia Republicans, favorable to the appointment oi General Mahone to a Cabinet position, reached Indianapolis; Friday right, and called upon General Harrison, Saturday. Representative Bowden, of Norfolk, was one of the visitors. Members of several Republican Legislatures have endorsed; Mahone’s candidacy. A LEGISLATIVE DEAD-LOCK. The West Virginia Legislature met at noon Wednesday, and in the House the Democrats effected an organization by electing Woods Speaker. In the Senate, Carr (independent) voted with the Democrats, which resulted in a deadlock. Carr and Mi near (Republican) were candidates for President of the Senate, the Democrats supporting Carr and the Republicans Minear. Matters are in such a shape in the Senate that it cannot elect officers or adjourn. Balloting on adjournment was likely to oontinue all night, as the vote is a tie. Since Carr went with the Democrats, each member is afraid to leave,-lest the opposite party will take advantage of the absence and organize thp Senate. The dead-lock continues from day to day, pending legal proceedings that may unravel th 9 difficulty.

DOLEFUL SABBATHS.

BOLKMITY NOT ESSENTIAL TO TRUE RELIGION. Life Should Be Made Cheerful and Enjoyable and NoDolefulSabbaths Should Darlten t Ho.me». \ l ■*- " V A ■*s%- 'VR£v. Dr.n Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text, Isaiah lviii, 13. He B&id: There is an element of gloom striSing through all false religions. .Paganism is a brood of horrors. The god 6f‘ Confucius frowned upon its victims with blind fate. Mohammedanism promises nothibgto those exhausted with sin in this world bat an eternity of the same passional indulgences. But God intended that our religion should have the grand characteristic of cheerfulness. This religion has no spikes for the feet; it has no hooks for the Shoulder; it has no long pilgrimages to take; it has no funeral pyres upon which to leap; it has no Juggernauts before which to fall, its good cheer is symbolised in the Bible by the brightness of waters, and the redolence of lilies, and the sweetness of music, and the hilarities of a banquet. A choir of Seraphims chanted at its induction, and pealing trumpet, and waving palm, and napping wing of archangel are to celebrate its triumphs. But men have said that our religion is not cheerful, because we have such a doleful Sabbath. They say: "You can haye your religious assemblages, and your long faces, and your sniffling cant, and your psalm books, and your Bibles. Give us the Sunday excursion, and the horse race, and the convivial laughter. 1 want to show these men that they are under a great delusion, and that God intended the fifty-two Sundays of the year to be hung up likfe bells in a tower, beating a perpetual chime of jov and glory and salvation and heaven; for I want you to carry out the idea of the text, “and call the Sabbath a delight.” I remark, in the first place, we are to to find in this day the joy of healthy repose. In this democratic country we all have to work—some with hand,some with brain, some with foot. If there is in all this house a hand that has not, during the past* year, been stretched forth to some kind of toil, let it be lifted. Not one, not one., You sell the goods. You teach the school. You doctor in the sick-room. You practice at the bar. You edit a newspaper. You tan the hides. You preach the Gospel. You mend the shoes. You sit at the shuttle. You carry the hod of bricks up the ladder on the wall. And the one occupation is as honorable as the other, provided God calls you to it. I care not what you do, if you only do it well. But when Saturday night comes you are jaded and worn. The hand can not bo skillfully manufacture; the eye can not see so well, the brain is not so clear; the judgment is not so well balanced. A prominent manufacturer told me that he could see a difference between the goods that went out of his establishment on Saturday from the goods that went out on Monday. He said: “They were very different, indeed. Those that were made in the former part oi the week, because of the rest that had been previously given, were better than those that were made in the latter part of the week when the men were tired out.” Sabbath comes, and it bathes the soreness from the limbs, quiets the agitated brain, and puts out the fires of anxiety that have been burning all the week. Our bodies are seven-day clocks, and, unless on the seventh day they are ; fpnad up, they run down into the grave. The Sabbath was intended as a savings bank; into it we are to gather the 'resources upon which we are to draw all the week. That man who breaks the Sabbath robs his own nerve, his own muscle, his own brain, his own bones. He dips up the wine of his own life and throws it away. He who breaks the Lord’s Day gives a mortgage to disease and death upon his entire physical estate, and at the most unexpected moment that mortgage will be and, the soul ejected from the premises. Every gland, and pore, and cell, and finger-nail demands the seventh day for repose. The respiration of. the? lungs, • the throb of the pulse in the wrist, the motion of the bone in its socket declare: "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.” I appeal to your observation. Where are the men who twenty years ago were Sabbath-breakers, and who have been Sabbath-breakers ever since? Without a single exception, you will tell me, they have come either to financial or to moral beggary. I defy yon to point out a single exception, and you can take the whole world for your field. It has either been a financial or moral defalcation in every instance. The man who takes down the shutters oi his store on the Sabbath takes down the curse of Almighty God. That farmer who cultures his ground on the Sabbath-day raises a crop of neuralgia, and of consumption, and of death. So great is the moral depression coming upon those who toil upon the Sabbath day that you may have noticed (if you have not, I call your attention to the fact) that in cases where the public interest demands Sabbath toil the moral depression is so great that there are but very few who can stand it. For instance, the" police service, without which not one of our houses would be safe—there are very few who can stand the pressure and temptation of it. In London, where there are five thousand policemen, the statstic is given that in one year nine hundred and twenty-one of that five thousand were dismissed, five hundred and twenty-three were suspended and two thousand four hundred and ninety-two were fined. Now, if the moral depression be so great in occupations that are positively necessary for the peace and prosperity of society,, I ask yon what must be the moral depression in those cases where there is no necessity foi Sabbath work, and where a man chooses worldly business on the Lord’s day just because he likes it, or wants to add to his emoluments? During the last war, it was fonnd out that those public works which paused on the seventh day turned out more war material than those which worked all the seven. The fact is, Sabbath-made ropes will break, and shoes leak, and Sabbath-made coats will rip, and Sabbath-made muskets will miss fire, and Sabbath occupations will be blasted. I will place in two companies the men in this community who break the Sabbath and Hie men who keep it, and then I ask you who are the best friends, of society? Who are the best friends of morals? Who have the best prospects

in this world? the best for the world to come? Sabbath morning comes in the household. I suppose that the mere philosopher would say that the Sabbath l’ght comes in a wave current, just like any other light, but it does not seem bo to me. U seems as if it touched the eyelids more gently, and threw a brighter glow on the mantle ornaments, and cast a better cheerfulness on the faces of the children, and threw a supernatural glory over the old family Bible. Hail, Sabbath light! We rejoice in it.' Rest comesjn through the window, or it leaps up from the fire, or it rolls out ijn the old armchair, or it catches, up the body into ecstacy and swings open before the soui the twelve gates which are twelve pearls. The bar of the unopened warehouse, the hinges of the unfastened store window, the quiet of the commer? cial warehouse seem to say: “This is the day the Lord hath made.” Rest for the se wing-woman, with weary hands, and aching side and sick heart. Rest for the overtasked workman in the mine, or out on the wall, or in the sweltering factory. Hang up the plane, drop the adz, slip the band from the wheel, put out the fire. Rest for the body, for the mind, and for the soul. Again I remark, we ought to have in the Sabbath the joy of domestic reanion and .consideration. - There are some very good parents who have the faculty of making the Sabbath a great gloom. Their children run up against the wall of paternal lugubriousness on on that day. They are sorry when Sunday comps, and glad when it goes away. They think of everything bad on that day." It ia the worst day to them really, in "all the week. There are persons who, because they were brought up in Christian families where there were wrong notions about the Sabbath, have gone out into dissipation and will be lost. But there are houses represented here this morning where the children say through the week: “I wonder when Sunday will come!” They are anxious to have it come. I hear their hosanna in the house; I hear their hosanna in the schools. God intended the Sabbath to be especially a day for the father. The mother is home all the week. Sabbath day comes and God says to the father, who has been busy from Monday morning to Saturday night at the store or away from home: “This is'ybur day. See what you can do in this little flock in preparing them ior heaven. This day I set apart for you.” You know very well that there are many parents who are mere suttlers of the household; they provide the food and raiment; once in a while, perhaps, they hear the child read a line or two in thenew primer, or if there be a case of .especial discipline and the mother cannot manage it, the child is brought up in the court-mar-tial of the father’s discipline and punished. That is all there is of it. No scruting of that child’s immortal interests no realization of the fact that the child will soon go out into the world where there are gigantic and overwhelming temptations, that have swamped millions. Rut in some households it is not this way; the home, beautiful on ordinary davs, is more beautiful now that the Sabbath has dawned. There is more joy in the “good morning,” there is more tenderness in the morning prayer. The father looks'at the child and the child looks at the father. The little one now asks questions without fear of being answered: “Don’t bother me; I must be off to the store.” Now the father looks at the child, and he sees not merely the blue eyes, the arched brow, the long laßheß,the sweet lip. He sees in that child a long line of earthly destinies; he sees in that child an immeasurable eternity. And he feels a joy, not like that which sounds in the dance, or is wafted from the froth of the wine-cup, or that which is like the “crackling of thorns under a pot,” but the joy of domestic reunion and consecration. Have 1 been picturing something that is merely fanciful, or is it possible for me to have such a home as that? I belie ve-it is possible. I have a statistic that I would like to give you. A great many people, you know, say there is nothing in the Christian discipline of a household. In New Hampshire there were two neighborhoods—the one of six families, the other of five families. The six families disregarded the Sabbath. In time, five of these families were broken up by the father becoming a thief. Eight or nine of the parents became drunkards, one committed suicide, and all came to penury. Of some forty or fifty descendants about twenty are known to be drunkards and gamblers and dissolute. Four or five have been in State Prison. One fell in ft duel. Some are in the almshouse. Only one became a Christian, and he, after first having been outrageously dissipated. The other five families that regarded the Sabbath were all prosperous. Eight or ten of the children are consistent members ©f the church. Some of them became officers in the church; one is a minister of the Gospel; one is a missionary to China. No poverty among any of them. The-homestead is now in the hands of the third generation*. Those who have died have died in the peace of the gospel. Oh, is there nothing in a household that remembers God’s holy day? Can it be possible that those who disregard this holy commandment can be prospered for this life or have any good hope of the life that is to eome. t There are two or three ways in which we can war againSt Sabbath-breaking usages in this day; the first things is to get our children "right upon this subject and teach them that the Sabbath day is holiest of all the days, and the best and the gladdest. Unless you teach vonr children under the paternal roof to keep the Lord’© day, there are nine hundred and ninety-nine chances out of a thousand they will never learn to keep the Sabbath. You may shirk responsibility in the matter, and" send your child tq Sabbath-school and the house of God; that will not relieve the matter. I want to tell you, in the name of Christ, my Maker "and my Judge, that your example will be more potential than any instruction they get elsewhere; and if you disregard the Lord’s day yourself, or in any wise throw contempt upon it; yeu are blastingyour children with an infinite curse. It is a rough truth, I know, told in a rough way, bat it is God’s troth, nevertheless. Your child may ge on to seventy or eighty years of age, but that child will never get over the awful disadvantage of having had a Sabbath-breaking father or a Sabbathbreaking mother. There is another way in which we can yrar against the Sabbath-breaking usages of the country at this time, and that is by'making our houses of worship attractive and the religious services in- ... *v 'l > ) : *

spiriting. I plead not for a gorgeous audience chamber, I plead not tor grained rafters or magnificent fresco; hot I do plead for comfortable churches homelike churches—places where a church-go-ing population behave as they ought to. Make the church welcome to ail,however poorlv clad they may be, or whatever may have been their past history; for I think the Church of God ianot so much made for you who could have churches in your own house, but for the vast population of our great cities,' who are treading on toward death, with no voice of mercy to arrest them. Oh, blessed day! blessed day! I should like to die some Sabbath morning,when the air is full of church music, and the bells are ringing. Leaving my home group with a dying blessing, I should like to look off upon some Christian assemblage chanting the praises of God as I went up to join the one hundred and forty and four thousand and the thousands of thousands standing around the throne of Jesus. Hark! I hear the hell of the old kirk on the hillside of heaveh. It is a wedding bell, for behold the Bridegroom conieth. It is a victor’s bell, for we are more thap conquerors through Him who bath loved us. It is a nation’s beil, tor it calls th& nations of earth and heaven to everlasting repose.

DEATH IN THE TORNADO.

READING, PA.-, THE SCENE OF A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE. Sixty Persons Killed and More Than a Hundred Injured-A Silk Mil], in Which Two Hundred Girls Were at Work, Torn to Pieces With Mirefol Results. - ‘ . A tornado struck Reading, Pa., at about 5 o’clock on the 9th. The storm swept down the Lebanon Valley, wrecking everything before it. When the tornado struck Reading; it first unroofed the P. &R. Co’s., paint shop, and in less than ten minutes the structure was in flames. Four persons were killed and several badly injured. From that point the storm cut a swath about 259 feet wide and everything in its way was leveled to the ground. Nine dwellings were unroofed on Eighth and Marion streets. The storm next struck the four story brick silk mill of Grinshow Brothers at Twelfth and Marion streets and leveled it to the f round. Not a brick' was left in place. he building was filled with 200 operatives not one of whom escaped death or injury. The fire department and 10,000 people soon responed to the alarm, and the work of rescue began. The cries of the wounded and dying and their friends were heartrending. The funnel shaped storm cloud struck the building directly in the center on its broadest side, which faced the West. It fell to pieces as if composed of so many building blocks. The walls gave way, the floors fell down, one on too of the other and the great mass of human beings was crushed in the ruing, while amid the whistling, rushing, roaring wind their arose terrible cries to heaven ior succor. Girls with blackened faces, tattered and tom clothing, and with bruised and broken limbs dragged themselves from the ruins. Probably one hundred escaped or were dragged out by friends, but not one without injury. These of course worked on the upper floors. The most reliable estimate places the number in the building when it went down in the neighborhood of 175, and as before stated, one hundred of these were, rescued by friends or dragged themselves out immediately after the accident. The alarm for relief was immediately sent out, and in a short time thousands of citizens Pad arrived to help out the dead and dying. The scene was a horrible one and beggars description. The mill is situated at the foot of Mount Penn, a high mountain overlooking the city. Huge bon-fires were built, as the city was in total darkness, which gave a dismal- appearance to the scene. The firemen left the burning paint-shop and assisted in the rescuing of the dead and dying. The police force was called out, the ambulance and relief corps and thousands of people were at the debris carrying out bricks, pulling away timbers’ and' assisting wherever they could, all at the same time, but their work was slow compared with the demand for the rescue of the victims. Here a young woman was taken out all bruised, and suffering from cuts and gashes. One body noticed as it was dragged out had its head cut off. . Others were in various postures, the living all suffering from the most terrible wounds and some almost scared to death. A reporter entered what was once the basement of the building, and groping his way through the debris noticed five bodies of young girls lying dose together. He tried to pull them out, but they were pinned down, and it was impossible to move them. They were dead and beyond all human aid. At this writing the number killed cannot be correctly ascertained but it is believed will reach eighty. Later details show that thirty-one persons 5 were killed outright, and of those injured many will die.

LAST YEAR’S CROPS. The Extejnt of ibe Yield and the Value Thereof, Compared with the Previous Year. " t - Wabhington, Jan. 12. —The December report of the Department of Agriculture, which gives in detail estimates of some of the more important crops, makes the product of com 1,987,79 >,OOO bushels, grown on 75,672,763 acres, valued on the farm at $677,561,580, or 34.1 cents per bushel, against 44.4 cents for thq crop of 1887, a decrease ot 23 per cent., the product of 1887 being 27 per cent less in volume than that of 1888. The average yjel'd of the commercial belt, or Beven corn-surplus States, averages 33.2 bushels per acre. The Atlantic coast, south of the Potomac, averages 11.2 bushels of,comparatively poor quality. The wheat aggregate is 414,868,000 bushels, grown on 37,336,138 acres, valued at $384,248,030. The average yield is, therefore, 11.11 bushels per acre; winter wheat, 11.6 bushels, and spring wheat, 10.3 bnshels to the acre. The average farm value is 92.6 cents per bushel, against 68.1 cents tor the previous crop, a difference due more to foreign than domestic scarcity. The aggregate for oats is 7u7,157,000 bnshels, grown on 26,998,282 acres, and valued at $195,424,240. This is 27.8 cents - per bushel, against 30 cents for the crop of 1887. A comparison of aggregate values shows that the present corn crop is worth $51,000,000 more than the previous one; wheat, $74,000,000 more; oats, $6,000000 less.

I LEGISLATIVE NOTES. Gov. Hovejrhas appointed Will B. Roberts as his Private Secretary. Mr. Roberts served in the same capacity for Governor Potter daring that gentleman’s term of office. Governor Isaac P. Gray celebrated his retirement from office by an extensive reception Thursday night to the members of the Legislature and State officers, and scores of other friends. Between the hoars of 8 and 12 o’clock five hundred or six hundred persons passed through the parlors ot the gubernatorial residence and paid respects to the Governor and wife. ? Mason J. Niblack, the Speaker of the House, is the youngest man who ever , occupied that position in this State, being but twenty-six years old. He is the son of J udge Niblack, recently of the Supreme Bench. The father was very proud of his son’s advancement? “I want you to understand, gentlemen,” he would say, “that this is no d—d unanimous thing,” referring, of course, to the close vote in the caucus. The State Auditor has prepared a general appropriation bill, in which is embraced a complete list of the expenditures deemed necessary for carrying on the State government and the benevolent and other institutions dependent for support upon the general treasury until Qctober 31, 1889. That sum of all the expenditures mentioned in the bill is $1,870,000, not including cost of new buildings asked tor at several institutions. The deficiencies caused by lack of appropriations tor the past year are also included in this amount General Alvin P. Hovey,Monday, became Governor of Indiana. The formal ceremonv of installation occurred in-the afternoon at English’s Opera House. Mason J. Nib’ack, Speaker of the House, presided, and Chief Justice Elliott admin istered the oath of office. Ira J. Chase was at the same time installed as Lieutenant Governor. The attendance was very large. The Governor gave a reception at the State House from 7 to 9 o’clock in the evening. He was assisted bv his daughter Mrs. Menzie, his son, Chas. J. Hovey, Miss Laura Ream, the State officers, Supreme Court Judges, Ex-Governor Gray, Ex-Lieutenant Governor Robertson and others! Many hundreds of people paid their respects. A ball at Tomlinson Hall was attended by people from all parts of the State. The caucuses of the Democratic, members of the Legislature were well attended, and resulted in the selection of the following officers of the House: Speaker—Mason J. Niblack, Knox. Clerk—T. J. Newkirk, Rush. Assistant Clerk —C. E. Cromley, Sullivan. Doorkeeper—F. D. Hainbaugn, Enfton. The contestants with Mr. Niblack for the speakership were Gabriel Schmuck, of Marion, and J. H. Willard, of Lawrence. The Senate caucus elected Green Smith, Secretary; James F. Cox, President protem; John D. Carter, Orange, Assistant Clerk; and E. R. Hamilton, of Morgan, Doorkeeper. The House Republican caucus nominated Hiram Brownlee, of Grant, tor Speaker, Frank W. Rowles, of Allen,for Clerk, Mr. Agnew,of Wabash.for Assistant Clerk, and William A. Dubois, of Hamilton, tor DoOr keeper. Gov. Hovey’s appointments will be: Three Managers for the Female Prison, School for Feeble Minded Children, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home; three Trustees for the Indiana Reform School for Boys; three Trustees for the State Normal School; seven Trustees for Purdue University; six Members of the Board of Health; four Commissioners for each of the Metropolitan Police Boards of Indianapolis and Evansville, to be appointed by the Governor, Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer of State;, four State House Commissioners, whose office will cease to exist as soon as the State House is accepted by the Legislature; four Commissioners of the new Insane Asylums; one State Geologist; one Mine Inspector; one State Inspector of Oils; one Clerk of the Printing Bureah —appointed by the Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Auditor of State; one Commissioner of Fisheries; one State Veterinarian. Governor Gray closed his official duties by issuing a commutation of sentence to Blair Mock, a young man who is serving a fourteen-years’ sentence in the Northern Prison for murder."' He was convicted from Grant county some two years ago, and aB the commutation reduces his term to three years, he has but one more year to; serve. The Governor does not think the boy should ever have been convicted, as the crime was committed in self defense. The last effort of the Kennedy family for the nardon of Wm. Kennedy, serving a life sentence for the murder of young Baker, of Greensburg, in 1885, failed of its object. The scene in the executive office was most affecting. The aged mother of the prisoner threw herself at the Governor’s feet in a flood of tears and refused to be quieted, or to move. She called on God to take her life rather than allow her to go away without the paper that should free her son, and, after a longtime of pleading and weeping on the part of all the members of the party, they sadly withdrew. If Bruce Carr has lost flesh during the past few days, says the Indianapolis News, possibly here’s an explanation. Preliminary te the organization of the Senate, arid while discussing the Robertson complication, several Republican Senators favored Carr’s calling the Senate to order, as was his right as State Auditor. He was then to appoint a committee to wait upon Robertson and escort him to the Chair, and if the Democratic majority refused to recognize this effort to install Robertson, Carr was to maintain his position and refuse to entertain any motion even if he continued in the chair until Monday, when the new Lieutenant Governor will be inaugurated. This proposition placed Carr in a great dilemma. He could not afford to “go back” on his party, and as both branches of the Legislature are threatening to trike a whack at the insurance perquisites of his office, neither could he afford to antagonize the Democratic majority any more than could be avoided,and as he contemplated the fix in wnich he was being thrust, not counting the personal risk which might be attached thereto, itnearly threw him into a fit. Fortunately for him, however, this proposition did not meet with the approval of a majority of the caucus and it was not pressed. The Wool Growers Association met in Washington, Thursday, and resolved that there ought to be an immediate settlement of the question as to the dntyon wool

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jonesboro wants a bank. Laporte is still boring for gas. Walkerton rejoices in a bank. Mumps are epidemic at Anoka. Elkhart bonds sell at a premium. prevails at Ebenezer. a Waveland is prosecuting gamblers: Michigan City is enjoying sleighing. A law and order league is forming at Wabash. ' A Woman’s Exchange is promised tor Goshen. * Mollie Corwin, of Shelbyville, has just been divorced from her seventh husband. Grazing- for cattle on the Southern Indiana hills is a remarkable result of 'tiie pleasant winter. The Jeffersonville Shoe Co. will' abandon convict labor after April 1. They clann it does not pay to use convict labor in that business. The immense tank, belonging to the Standard Company at Laketon, has sprung a leak, and the oil is contaminating the water of Eel river for miles. Jerry Shoaff, of Fort Wayne, who killed Goelecke, a saloonkeeper, with a spittoon,because the latter attempted to collect pay for drinks, is given but two years in prison for his murderous deed. John Wright, of Atlanta, aged seven-ty-five, and a-prominent resident of Pike county, after* being blind for three years, claims to have suddenly been cured of his infirmity through the efficacy of prayer. The oldest Methodist preacher in the State is said to be Rev. George Schwartz, of Jeffersonville, who was licensed to preach in 1882, when twenty years of age, and who has been continuously laboring ever since. The gross receipts of the Louisville, New Albany & Corydon railroad, last year, were $10,393, through which a dividend of one per cent, was paid on the investment. The rolling stock of the company consists of two engines, two passenger cars and one freight car. The State common-school fund increased during 1888 $83,784,68. The entire increase in all public school funds reached $98,103.56. ■ The revenue derived from all sources during the year was $5,235,031.93. The rumber of teachers employed in the State last vear was 14,202. * . Peter Kempf, a saloon keeper at Russiaville, was tried in toe Circuit Court, last week, for the illegal sale of liquor, and convicted. His fine and costs amount to $260. and in # default of the money he is in the county jail, where he will remain tor the next nine months unless his fine is sooner paid. Sweeney & Bro., of Jeffersonville, have contracted with the Government to build a revenue cutter, tor service on the South Atlantic coast. It will have a steel hull, and will be completed at the Jeffersonville Works at a total cost of $90,000. Heretofore this class of work has always been done in the East. The Indiana Presidential electors met in the House pf Representatives at -Indianapolis, on the 14th, and cast the electoral vote of the State for Benj. Harrison for President, and Levi P. Mo: ton tor Vice President. On the 15th the electors froib Illinois and Ohio visitedTndianapolis and with the Indiana electors called on Gen. Harrison and tendered their congratulations. It ia n’eedless to say the greetings were cordial. The inauguration committee has arranged with the trunk lines west of Washington for round-trip rates tor those who desire to attend the inauguration ceremonies next March. The- following will be the fare tor round-trip tickets from the named points: Cincinnati, 0., $12.50; Fort Wayne, Ind., sls; Indianapolis,lnd., sl6; Logansport.lnd., $16.75; Louisville, Ky., $15.54; Richmond, Ind., $14.25; Terre Haute, Ind., $18.25; Vincennes, Ind., $18.25. While the family of Wm. Woodard, of Muncie, were at supper Thursday evening the little girl, aged fifteen months, crawled up to the chair of her brother, who is four years old, and was looking up and prattling to him, when the little fellow accidentally overturned a cup of tea, the hot fluid falling directly into her face and a great deal of it going into her mouth and down the throat passage. Her sufierings were intense until death relieved hqr Friday morning. A strange phenomenon is noticed in connection with the gas supply at Montpelier. Six hours out of every twenty-four the gas runs down to a minimum, and six hours daily it reaches a maxiinum. While at low ebb the valves are open wide to get a sufficiency, and when at the highest point the smallest turn of the key will supply the demand. The movement is constant with the ocean tides, but whether or not the same influences are The cause is a matter of conjecture with the Montpelier residents. Col. John A. Bridgeland, who went to Washington to complete arrangements tor the accommodation of Indiana people who attend the inauguration, returned to Indianapolis Saturday. He secured quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel, where the .Indiana people will have exclusive use of ofie of the large parlors facing Pennsylvania avenue; he also rented a hall, in which will be placed a hundred cots, tor which a charge of $1 a day will be made, and a vacant lot, where a good view of the procession can be obtained, was secured. Seats will be placed on it tor 250 persons and a charge of twenty-five cents, “as much,” Colonel Bridgeland remarked, “as we would have to pay to see a monkey show,” will be made for their use. There will be no trouble about accommodations, Colonel Bridgeland thinks, as provision will be made for caring for 20flfb00 persons. The visitors from Indiana will probably number 2,500. —~ « A duel was fought, Monday, between Henri Rochfort,editor of I’lntransigeant, and M. Lissargarv, editor of La Bataille. The weapons used were swordß. Both combatants were wounfied. M. Lissar.gary’s wounds are dangerous. Governor-elect Hovey has resigned as Congressman from thetoFirat District, and Governor Gray has relied a special election to fill the held Tuesday; the 29th inst. A British Minister to the United States will not be appointed until after Harrison’s inauguration. Minister Phelps will embark tor his home January 31. __