Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1889 — Page 2

Gao. E. M abmall, Publisher. ■ • A RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

AN A abauia fedeial court ha* dis(barged an Attache * ho had abominably mistreated an Indian girl on the Mount Vernon reservation. The reason assigned was that t-h* was not a competent witness becaus- ehe had never had any religious ttaehiugs. Aid yet this is nearly the close of the nineteenth century! v ■ Juno* Barkktt’s decision that the Sugar Trust is a conspiracy against the public, and that the companies which have entered into it have forfeited their eorporate rights, will probably be sustained by the higher court . The “combines’; generally will undoubtedly soon make common cause against the public in the courts, but they will have to go all the same. Three or four.hundred sugar, coal, petroleum and other sorts of monopolists will not be permitted to oppress the other 65,000,000 people of the country, at least not for any long period of time. Tbk Eastern States are agitating the question of the popular election, or at least selection, of pos masters. It is urged that the appointment is rarely judicious, and for the best interest of the people. As a mere matter of party machinery the post office in country districts is far from being of as great importance as formerly. The salary is too small in the majority of cases to be generally and widely attractive. Frequently the work is done by clerks who have some ability, while the postmaster himself is unable to manage affairs of the office intelligently. Good business m?u do not Beek the place. This discussion is confined mainly to the country to» ns, but it is widespread. It would be au improvement on the present system if the people should select three candidates, leaving the appointment of one of them to the authorities at Washington.

Wi seem not yet to have nearly got at the fall resources of this continent. Attention is now drawn to that enormous tract of the Northwest known as Mackenzie River Basin. It reaches from the arctic regions to the Saskatchewan, including about one million and a third of square miles. It is found that half of all this vast area is fitted for the growth of potatoes, and much more of if for barley, wheat,oats, buckwheat and other food products. The climate is no more severe north of Great Slave Lake than at Minneapolis and Ottawa. There are forests es trees averaging ICO feet high; and there are mines of extraordinary value, including npt only precious metals, but salt and sulphur. Petroleum deposits underlie the whole district of the greatest value almost inexhaustible. This will afford one more great reservoir for the great Westward pushing tides of the hnman race. It is one of the richest tracts of the Westera continent.

Thebe were thirty Par)amentary elections in Great Britain hut year, resalting in a net gain of two seats for the Home Rule party. At this rate of progress, the fall term of the Parliament elected in 1886 can be rounded out without the overthrow of the Un ; onist Government With two va ant seats the actual majority of the Unionists is ninety-four in a full House. While the, by-elections have disclosed, with few exceptions, Home Rule gains, the relative strength of the parties m the Commons has undergone little change since the last appeal to the people. With the Chief Secretary for Ireland at liberty to prosecute and imprison Nationalist members, such slight advantage as has been secured at the by-elections of two years has not made any appreciable difference in the divisions The Home Rule party has a protracted and discouraging struggle before it

Jakes Paxton’B list oi defeated Presidential candidates, and his review of them, makes interesting reading. William Wirt had the vote of Vermont alone. Peter Cooper and James G. Birney carried no States, but stood for principles. Henry considers a great escape for us, because his brain was always suffused with alcohol —“a Sublime blackguard,” as Marshall oalled him. Some recent revelations of Seward’s policy makes us less regret his disappointment. Horace Greeley; “half baby, half philosopher,” we all will forever feel sorry for, bbt not for the country that missed having him for President. Then there was McClellan, whose glory had a bad habit of steadily fading; and Clinton, and Scott, and' Hancock, and Blaine, and Tiiden, and Douglass, and Cass, and Calhoun, and Crawford, and Fremont, and Bt. John, and Belva Lockwood. Probably in«the jrhole list not half a dozen were great losses tp the country as possible Executives—most of them no loss at aIL v

Struck Gas.

Briggr “Let me congratulate you,old fellow/’ Quimby (surprised): “ tVhy?” Briggs: “Oh, I heard about your good luck.” Quimbf (more surprised): “Good luck! What good luck?” Briggs: “Oh, you pretend it’s nothing. I heard you’d struck gas.” Quimby (sadly): “Oh, you must have misunderstood. 1 only hit a St. Louis drummer in ths mouth.” L "K. '

HOMEWARD BOUND.

FOLLOW THE TRACK YOUR LOVED ONES WENT If Ton Would Join Them in the Eternal Rest—The Way la By the ■ Path ot Faith and Tribulation. { —. . ' ii Last Sunday's subject of Dr. Talmage’s sermon was “The March Homeward.” i and the text, I. Samuel, cLap. xxx.,v. $: “Piireue, tor thou shaft surety overtake them, and without -fail recover ail,” Dr. Talmage said: There is intense excitetaent in the village of Z klag. David and his men are bidding good-bye to their families, and are of) for she wars. In that little village of Zihlag the .defenseless ones will be safe übtil the warriors, flushed with victory, come home. But will the defenseless ones be safe? The soft arms lof children are around the necks of the bronzed warriors until they shake themselves free and start, and handkerchiefs and flags are waved, and kisses thrown, until the armed men vanish behind the bills. David and his men soon get through with their campaign, and start homeward. Every night on their .way home no sooner does the soldiei put his head on j 1 the knapsack than in his dream he hears the welcome of the wife and the Bhout of the child. With glad, quick step they march on,,for they are marching home. Now they come up to tho last hill which overlooks £iklag, and they, expect in a moment to see the dwelling places of their loved ones. They look - , and as they look their cheeks turn pale, aDd their lip quivers, aud their hand involuntaraily comes down on the hilt of thesword. “Where is Ziklag? Where j are our homes?'’ they cry. Alas! the ; curling smoke above the ruin tells the tragedy. The Amalekites have come down and consumed the village, and carried the mothers and the wi»es and the children of David and his men into captivity. The swarthy warriors stand for a moment transfixed with horror. Then their eyes glauce to each other, 1 and they burst into uncontrollable weeping; for when a strong man weeps the grief is appalling. It seems as if the emotion might tear him to pieces. They “wept until they had no more power to weep;” But soon their sorrow turns into rage, and David, swinging his sword high in air, cries: “Pursue! for thou shall overtake them and without fail recover all.” Now the march becomes a “double-quick.” Two hundred of David’s men stop by the Brook Besor, faint with fatigue and grief. They-can not go a step farther. They are left there. But the other four hundred men upffjer David, with a sort of panther step, march on in sorrow and in rage. find by the Bide of the road a ha!i-dead Egyptian, and they resuscitate him and compel him to tell the whole story.

He savs: “Yonder they went, the captore and the captives,” poi t ting in the direction. Very soon David and his enraged company, come upon the Amalekitish host Yonder they see their own wives and children and mothers, and under Amalekitish guard. Here are the officers of the Amalekitish army bolding a banquet. But, without note oi bugle or warning of trumpet, Dtvid and his four hundred men buret upon the scene suddenly as Robert Bruce hurled his Scotchmen upon tbe revelers at Bannockburn. David and his men look Hp, and one glance at their loved ones in captivity and under Amalekitish guard throws them into a very fury of determination; for you know how men will tight when they fight for their wives and children. Amid the upset tankards and the costly viands crushed underfoot, the wounded Amalekites lie (their blood mingling with their wine), shrieking for mercy. No sooner do David and his men win the victory than they throw their swords down in the dust—what do they want with swords now?—and the broken families come together amid a great shout of joy that makes the parting scene in Zialagseem very insipid in the, comparison. And then the empty tankards are Bet up, and they are filled' with the best wine from the hills, and David and his men, the husbands, the wives, the brothers, the sisters, drink to the overthrow of the Amalekites and to the rebuilding of Ziklag. So, 0 Lord, let thine enemies perish! Now they are coming home—David and his men and their families—a long procession. Men, women and children, loaded with jewels and robes, and with all kinds of trophies that the Amalekites had gathered up in years of conquest—everything now in the hands of David and his men, When they come the brook Besor, the place where staid the men sick and incompetent to travel, the jewels and the robes and all kinds of treasures are there divided among the sick as well as among the well. Surely, the lame and exhausted ought to have some of the treasures. Some mean fellows objected to the sick ones having any of the spoils. The objectors said: “These men did,not fight.” David, with a magnanimous heart, replied: “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the Btuff.” This subject is practically suggestive to me. Thank God, in these times a man can go off on a journey, and be gone weeks and months, and come back and Bee his house untouched of incendiary, and have his family on the step to greet him, if by telegram he has foretold the moment,rifvhis coming. But there are Amalekitish disasters arid there are Amalekitish diseases, that sometimes coihe down upon one’s home, making as devastating work as the' day when Ziklag took fire. There are families in my congregation w hose homes have been broken up. No batteringram smote in the door, no iconoclast crumbled the statues, no fiatfie leaped amidst the curtains; but so far as all the joy and merriment that once belonged to that house are concerned, the home has deputed. Armed diseases came down upon the quietness of the scene —scarlet fevers, or pleurisies, Or consumptions, or undefined disorders came and seised upon some members of that family, and carried them away. Ziklag .in ashes! And yon go about, sometimes weeping and sometimes enraged, wanting to get back your loved ones as much as David and his men wanted to reconstruct their despoiled households. I preach this sermon to-day because I want to rally you. as David rallied his men, for the recovery of the loved and the lost. I want not only to win heaven, but I want all this congregation to go along with me. I feel that somehow I have a responsibility in your arriving at that great city. I nave on other Sab-

hatha used other inducements. I mean to-day for the sake of variety, hoping to reach your heart, to try another kind of inducement. Do yon really want to join the companionship of your loved ones who have gone? Are you as anxious to join them at. David and his, men were to join their families? Then I am liere, in the name of God,- to say that yon may, ami to tell you how. I remark, in the first place, if you want to join your loved ones in glory you must travel the same wav they went No sooner had the half dead Egyptian been resuk-itated than he pointed the way that the/ captors and captives had gone, and David and his men followed aifter. So our Christian friends have gone into another country, and if we want to reach tneir companionship we must take the aarne road. ‘ They repented; we must repent. They prayed; we mußt pray. They trusted in Christ; we must trust in Christ. They lived a religious life; we m st live a religious life. They were in some things iilte ourselves. 1 know, now that they ate gone there is a halo around their names; but they had their faults. They said and did thiDgsthey ought never to have been said and done. They were sometimes rebellious, sometipjes cast down. They were tar from being perfect. Bo I suppose that when we -have gone some things in us that are now only tolerable may be almost resplendent. But as they were like us in deficiencies, we ought to be like them in taking a supernal Christ to make up for the deficits. Had it not been for Jesuß they would have all perished,but Christ confronted them, ana said: “I am the way,” and they took it. Our friends have done into glory, and it is through much tribulation that we are to enter into the Kingdom. How our loved ones used to have to struggle! How their old hearts ached! How sometimes they had a tussle for bread! In our childhood we wondered why there were so many wrinkles on their faces. We did not know that what, were called “crow’s feet” on their faces were the marks of the black raven of trouble. Did you never hear the old people, seated by the evening stand, talk over their early tiials, their hardships, the burials, the disappointments, the empty flour barrels, when there were so many hungry ones to feed, the sickness almost unto death, where the next dose of morphine decided between ghastly bereavement and unbroken home circle? Oh, yes! it was trouble that whitened their hair. It was trouble that shook the cup in their hands. It was trouble that washed the luster from their eyes with the rain of tears until they needed spectacles. It w-as trouble that made the cane a necessity for their journey. _

I remark again, if we want to win the society of our friends in heaven, we will not only have to travel a path of laith and a path of tribulation, but we wiil also have to positively battle for their companionship. David and his men never wanted sharp swords and invulnerable shields and thick breastplates so much as they wanted them on the day when they came down upon the Amalekites. If they had lost that battle they , never would have got their families back. I suppose that one glance at their beloved ones in .captivity hurled them into the battle with ten-fold courage and energy. They said, “we must win it. Everything depends upon it. Let each one take a man on the point of spear or sword. We m st win it.” And I have to tell ybu that between us and coming into companionship of our loved ones who are departed there is an Austerlitz. there is a Gettysburg, there is a Waterloo. Wp with the world, war with the flesh, wag with the devil. We have either to conquer our troubles or our troubles will conquer us. You say thatall this implies that our departed Christian friends are alive. Why had you any idea they were dean? They have only moved, If you should go on tbe 2d of May to a house where one of your friends lived and found him gone, you would not thing that he was dead. You would enquire next door where he had moved to. Our departed Christian friends have only taken another house. The secret is that they are richer now than they once were, ana can afford a, better residen e. Y 1 hey once drauk out of earthenware; they now drink from the King’s chalice. “Joseph is yet aliive,” and Jacob will go up and see him. Living are they? Why, if a man can live in this damp dark dungeon of earthly captivitv, can he not live where he breathes the bracing atmosphere of the mountains of heaven? Oh, yes they are living! Do you think that Paul is so near dead now as he was when he was living in the Roman dungeon? Do you think that Fredric.i Robertson, of Brighton, is as hp was when year after year, he slept seated on the floor, his head on the bottom of a chair, because he could find ease in no other position? Do you think that Robert Hall is as near dead now as wh -non his couch, he tossed in physical torture*? No. Death gave them the few black drops that cured them. That is all death does to a Christian. It cures him. I know that what I have said implies that they are living. There is no question about that. The only question this morning is whether you a ill ever join them. But I must not forget those two hundred men who fainted by the tjirook Besor. And yet David, when he comes up to them, divides the Bpoile among them.. He say- they shall have some of the jewels, some of the robes, some of the treasures. I look over this audience this morning and I find at least two hun- { dred who have fainted by the brook 1 Besor—the brook of tears. * You feel as if you could not take another step further, as though you could never look up 1 again. But lam going to imitate David and divide among you some glorious 1 trophies. Here is a robe: “All things work together for good to those who I love God.” Wrap yourself in that #ori- ■ OUB promise. Here is for your neck a string of pearls, made out of crystallized tears: “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy,cometli in the morning.” Here is a coronet: “Be thou faithful Onto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” Oh! ye fainting ones by the brook Besor, dip your bin-bred feet in tbe running stream of God’s mercy. Bathe your brow at the wells of salvation. Soothe your wounds with the balsam that exudes from the tree of life. God will not utterly cast yon off, oh, broken-hearted mao, oh, broken-heat ted woman, fainting by the brook Besor. May God Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, bring ns into tbe companionship of our loved ones who have already entered the heavenly land, and entered tbe presence of Christ, whom, not having seen, we

love, and so David shall recover all, “and as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the staff.” THE TROiIBI.ES IN.SAMOA. Am ei leans Kti d»nt and thi- American Flag Suffer I dl(n t» i, i_ The latest froth Samoa is of the most serious character.- The Germans continue active championship of their choice of Kings. Recently they attacked Mataaja’s forces but were repulsed. Since then, they have committed many outrages and indignities, their ire being especially manifested toward Americans. The property of 1 many Americans was desiroyed and the American flag deliberately fired upon. In one or two instances Americans resident were arrested by the German officers, carried on board their vessels and subjected to indignities. American warships are on the scene, bu‘ have taken no active part, fbrther than to offer protests against German excesses. The Samoan Times, published at Apia, and which has been impartial in its accounts of the events on the isands, gave the following version of the fight on Dec. 18: At 2 o’clock on the morning of Tuesday eighty sailors from the Olga were landed, and forty more were sent in boats along the cosst, the eighty mea marching on land to meet Mataafa. At a German farmer’s plantation the shore party were reinforced by all the imported laborers, said to be New Britain men, so that Mataafa was between the 200 men who came down the day . before and the German sailors and foreign laborers. Mataafa, knowing the danger of interference with the German soldiers, retired inland a few hundred vards. The Germans followed and fired into Mataafa’s people, killing a young man, son of the chief. The chief, getting terribly excited, was only prevented by his own people irom firing into the Germans, but while struggling against the former’s efforts he himself was shot and fell dead beside his Bon. Mataaf i’s people could not stand this, and by common impulse, without orders, returned the fire. Their first volley killed six Germans and wounded others. Several of Tamasese’s men find and the laborers refused to fight it out. Knowing that this meant certain death against vast odds, the sailors beat a hasty retreat to their boats, Mataafa’B warriors following them some distance. Mataafa lost about ten killed and wounded, while the German loss is stated at twenty killed. Among thw dead is Lieutenant Siger. The United States steamer Nipsic steamed to Saluafata on Tuesday, on hearing that German war ships were gtfihg to shell Mataafa’s stronghold.; Captain Mullan had communications with the German commanders, and entered his protest against their reported project. His protest was not taken notice of. however, for the Olga threw shells into the spot where Mataafa was supposed to be, but which he had vacated. ' —*_ While the United States man-of-war Adams was at Apia, early in December, it appears that an American’s house was invaded and his country’s flag, found therein, cut to pieces by I amasese’s men from their stronghold at Mulinu point. Captain Leary, of the Adams, Bent a categorical question to the German consul as to w hether Tamasese’s headquarters were under German protection or not. Failing to get a reply within reasonable time the captain of the Adams began making arrangements for landing a battalion and throwing up fortifications facing Tamasese’s fort. He was determined, if no satisfaction were given for the outrage, to march his men upon Tamasese’s stronghold and take that chieftain prisoner. The intention of the captain becoming known, great commotion ensued in Tamasese’s camp, and at 10 o’clock on the same night the evacuation of Mulinu point was begun with vigor. Secretary Bayard stated on the 21st that the State Department had gone to the extreme limit of its discretion in itrving to arrange the trouble over the Samoan islands m a dignified and honorable manner. The Senate had been furnished with all the corn-spondence on the subject, and it now remained for that body to define the policy of the government in dealing with the subject lurther. Secretary Whitney was also interviewed. He said he thought the time had arrived for this government to establish and maintain a definite line of poljcy in regard to the islands of the Pacific ocean. He commended Captain Mullau’s conduct at Latonga, and said the United States steamer Nipsic has been instructed to remain at Samoa, where she will be shortly joined by th© Trenton and the vandaiia. Mr. Whitney says the three vessels ordered-jto Samoa will probably be sufficient to protect the American interests there in case of emergency. The impression prevails in Cabinet circles that. Germany b&s exceeded the hounds of propriety, and, as a member of the Cabinet remarked “an issue should be made with her at once.”

WASHINGTON NOTESAn event in the House Wednesday, was a speech by Charley Yoorhees in favorot territorial admission. He had prepared himself elaborately aad began speaking deliberately from manuscript, but as be wa-med up to the subject he discarded bis notes and spoke with much force and fervor. He displays more than ordinary eloquence of the character that has made the Tall Sycamore famous, and he not only commanded the attention of the House bul brought forth frequent applause. Under call of States for bills in the House, Monday, several long bills were introduced and their reading called for by Messrs. Gheadle and Pavson, Republicans. This resumes the filibustering ou the suspension of the rules on Monday, which the D inocrata agreed in caucus to omit. It is expected this will put Mr. Weaver on his mettle and he may make a long tight to keep np the legislative day till thg Oklahoma bill is considered. - ) The Benat(j, Friday, adooted an ameudmenl to the,tariff bill allowing a bounty of l centr'per pound on sugar made from beets, sorg urn or sugar can£ grown in the United States—the Democrats, except P tyne, votine against it, and the Reonblieens, except Quay, voting for the amendment. Mr. Boutelle. of Maine, says that Blaine will be Secretary of State. ,

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

, Rockville wants a flouring mill. A telephone war rages at Anderson. -> White Caps have appeared Wabash. Kokomo had battwenty-one jires last Wild cats abound in Washington county. “Scab” is raging among Wabash county sheep. Lagrange Methodists will bnild a new $15,n00 church. John Poutins, of Adams county, was fatally kicked by a horse. A child, aged four, at Martinsville was choked to death by a grain of corn. Andrews White, Caps are giving the Huntington county authorities some anxiety. Asbury Evans, of Elkhart, suicided because of the death of his favorite dog. Evans is thought to have been worth SIOO,OOO. Harrison Dawlev, near Rochester, who was bitten by a dog and badly ma gled, died of hydrophobia, the disease being strongly developed. * The Democracy of the First Congressional District have nomina ed Judge Parrett, Congressman-elect, to fid out the unexpired term of General Hovey. Three young men near English, while trviDg to scare a rabbit out of its burrow, unearthed a small pot of old. coin to the amount of $4 000. The coins were dated from 1825 to 1855. Jesse D. McConkey, near Dublin, while aiding in sawing i wood, using sticks from a large rick, in some way dislodged the mass, and was brnied underneath. resulting in his immediate death. John J. Burton, ex-Poßtmaster of Royal Center, has been arrested at Trinidad, Col., accused of defrauding the Government out of $1,133. He was living with his family at Trinidad under the name of J. Warren Miller. A Fort Wayne telegram states that Miss Carrie Guthrie, of that city, answered an advertisement in a metropolitan paper for a lady correspondent, and the result was a series of letters. These resulted in a betrothal To her intense disgust, however, the gentleman proved to he an African and he was peremptorily dismissed. The Peru postmaster is holding a letter properly stamped! addressed to “Our Dear Lord in Heaven,” and while he knows it must go over a “star” route, still. he does not know how to dispose of it. To relieve himself of responsibility, however, he will forward it to the dead letter office at Washington. James Campbell, a farmer oi Clark county, committed suicide Thursday by shooting himself through thehead. One year ago he was appointed administrator of his father’s estate, and Thursday was the time affixed for final settlement. The presumption is. he as unable to settle. \|, , John Alstott, of Wasson, was shot in the face and badly wounded by. Nora Bain, a young woman, to whom he persisted in paying attentions, despite her demand that he should leave her alone. They were standing in front of her home at the time, and she had the weapon concealed under her apron until ready for use. A jury at Indianapolis, Thursday, sentenced George Hacker, an anai chist who attempted, and nearly succeeded in taking, the life of George Bruce, to fourteen years imprisonment, and fined him SI,OOO. Bruce had befriended Hacker in many ways, and the attack upon him was most outrageous and without any justification whatever. The Mayor and Councilmen of Vincennes resolved themselves into a detective corps and spent a large p rt of the night in shadowing the night police to see if they did their duty. Patrolman Hall was found at home, but Patrolman Robinson could not be located anywhere. These officers were suspended but were rein tatedon proof showing they were rightfully engaged, G. M. Billings, of Laporte, is very low from the effects of chloroform administered to him bv robbers in a depot at Ft. Wayne. Mr. Billings arrived in that city about 12 o’clock at night and going into the depot comfortably seated himself and soon fell into a d ze. While in this condition the narcotic was adminisiered, and on awaking Mr. Billings was taken with hemhrrhage of the lungs and is now inariangerous condition. Near DeSeto, Delaware county, lives Asael Thornburg, aged ninety-seven, who is one of the pioneers of Indiana, and wbo was a direct participant in many of the early events which distinguished the State. Be* has voted for every President from John Quincy Adams to the present time, and he was a delegate to the convention which nominated “Old Tippecanoe” for President. He was at Greenville, 0., when General Harrison negotiated the famous treaty with the Indians. There was ill feeling between Edwin Vallandingham and John M. Dunn, employed on John Hornby’s farm, in Vanderburg county; and Saturday evening Vallandingham, upon returning from Evansville, passed Dunn’s cabin and the quarrel was renewed. Scarcely had a word been spoken, however, before Dunn seized an ax and struck his victim on the head, inflicting an injury which resulted fatallf. Dunn escaped arrest The deceased was aged fifty six, unmarried, and recently c%me from Owentown, Ky. > Nora Bun, the young girl who shot John Alstott at Watson, has been arrested for attempted murder. She ! claims that a few days ago, while, alone : at home, Alstott attempted an assault and she compelled him to leave, warning him that if he ever repeated the insult she would shoot him. Friday evening he came back, and while he was trying to force his way in Bhe armed herself and opened the door, and as he stepped forward she fired, the ballet striking Alstott in the face, penetrating his throat and dropping downward. I Patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesdav,as follows: J. W. Anderson, South Bend, sprinkling nozzle; J. O. Berger. Michigan City, refrigerator; W H. Cloud, Kokomo, pump; P. M. Cu rtis Lebanon, sidiDg guage and square; A Hagquist, South Bend, plow; M. C. Henley, Richmond, fence machine; /. Marsh, Warsaw, door check; ‘J. J. M<Erlain, South Bend, spin pulley, W. T. Morgan, Muncie, sash fastener. J. Q. A. Newsom, Seymour, steam plow; D. M. Parry, Indianapolis, shaft coupling for vehicles; J. A. Witmer, Wakarusa,vehicle spring. The Kokomo Board of Trade starts ! upon ita aecond year with John M.

Leach, President, and J. D. Johnson, Secretary, and with most flattering prospects. During the past year it was sueoeasfnl in securing tactoriea representing SBOO,OOO paid np capital and giving, employment to 1,200 workmen, and it also drilled three gas wells and presented them to manufacturing interests. The last one “blew in” the put week, and it is the second beet well in the Howard field. * ltogether eighteen wells have been drilled in the Kokomo district, and there is npt a failure among them, Mr. W. L. Penfield, of Lagrange, 1 messenger for • the Indiana Electoral College, delivered the certificate of the State’s vote to the Senate. Messengers are now reporting daily. As Mr. Penflcld handed the returns to Mr. Ingalls, the latter observed: “It gives me more pleasure to r ceive thisWote than I wifi experience in accepting the returns of any other State. I was particularly • anxious to see General Harrison carry his own State.” Mr. Penfield replied by paying Mr. Ingalls a decided compliment. saying: “You did as much as -nv other man to help us carry Indiana.” “In what way?” asked the President of the S. nate. “Why, by giving Senator Voorhees the rap you did.” Stanley Chris'er and Clav H. Duncan, of Lawrence county, boy s who .had been reading “Sixteen-String Ja-k” and “Buffalo Bin” liura ure, and who *ere wild wi h the belief that bears a vtere still roaming in the wide of Lawrence, armed ih-mselvis with Winchester rifleß and other pha a herna’ia of war, captured an old cabin which they found on the banks of a creek in the woods and prepared to make a time of it. The first night while they were asleep, the cabin caught fire; and they were awakened with their clothing ablaze, and with all the surroundings wrapped in flames. Both were badly scorched, and Chrisler was compelled to take shelter in a straw stack, while Duncan. clad only in a fertilizing sack, returned to civilization for clothing. Their experience cured them of their foilv. The residents of Broad Ripple, near Indianapolis are becoming awakened to a realization of the fact were swindled about a year Fg >. Two welldressed, glib-tongued young*men canvassed the townntiip selling silverware which they purported was a Urst-class article, and made a sale on an average to every other residentin the township. Every piece of ware sold was marked “1847, R Bros., A. 1.,!’ which is the genuine mark of the R gersßro.’s wares. This ware, uowever, proves to be entirely worthiest. The price paid by the purchasers was sll for a set of tea and tablespoons, a set of knives and forks, a sug ir spoon aud butter\ knife, the real value of which is less than $5. , Some parents are known to have purchased upward of S7O worth for presents for their childreu. ,

A TRAGIC STORY.

A Father Rescues Bis Eloping Daugh ters,' Ki Is Two Young Men and 0,.e oi His Children* The little town of Bolar, in Mercer county, Missouri, furnishes the following tragic story: Henry Thomas, an old farmer, has four grown daughters, named Hattie, Margaret, Nancy and Jane, aged sixteen, eighteen, twenty and twenty-two years, respectively. Last Wednesday night, Samuel and Charles Hasburn, brothers, procured a ladder and helped Margaret and Jane out of a second-story window o{ their father’s house, and as they were about to elope with the girls the old man appeared on the scene, but too late to prevent their escape. He at once procured the best horse he had and a shotgun and started in hot pursuit. When about t * elve miles from home he overtook the fleeing party He immediately opened fire on them, killing both theboys and seriously wounding Margaret. After gettiug nearly home with the girls he was told that the other two, Hattie and Nancy, had also eloped with Ned Greason and Thomas Allison. He at once left the girls he had with him in charge of seme neighbors, and started after the others. After securing the other two girls without any serious trouble, he started back, but when about two miles from home a mob took possession of him and strung him up to a tree. The old man was terribly strict with the girls. He would hardly let them out of is sight, hence the elopement. He always bragged that he would not be bothered with lazy sons-in-law. Public feeling is strongly in favor of the lynching. Margaret died Saturday night.

SIX MEN KILLED.

A Fatal Encounter Between Officers es the Law and Lynchers. A message received at Fort Worth, TeY., Monday, from Graham, Young county, says that Saturday night while a Deputy United States Marshal with a posse of Graham citizens, was escorting the four Marlow brothers, Back Hart and another man named Pierce to the Park county jail at Weatherford, these prisoners being indicted for four murders and eight cases of horse theft, X mob of thirty citizens attempted to lynch them. The marshal and posse defended the prisoners, when a terrible fight took place. Two of the Marlow boys were killed and four of the posse at he first shot. The fight continued, aud another sf the Marl ws and Pierce were wounded, and another of the citizens mortally hurt. The prisoners, Pierce, Mario V and Buck Hart escaped, but all are .said to be wounded.

A MOB'S work.

At Tiptonville, Tenn., a landing on the Mississipi River, some weeks ago, a Joung man married the daughter of Irs. J. F. Atchison, a widow. The young man’B father learning that his son’s mother-in-law possessed S3OO or S4OO, concocted \ plan for him, his son, and the yohng wife to murder the old lady for the purpose of robbery. The plan was agreed to and the crime was committed. The neighbors learned of the crime, fixed the guilt upon the trio, and the latter hastily departed. A pease of indignant citizens followed, overtook and-hanged the entire party to the limb of S tree. Tiptonville is practically almost remote as Shanghai, being without railroad or telegraphic communication with the ontside world. “Keep your seats, please, ladies and gentlemen,” said a theatrical manager; “there is no trouble whatever, Dut for some inexplicable reason the gas went onL” Then a boy shouted from the gallery; “Perhaps it didn’t like the play.'