Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

OOMESTIC. The workmen lost the St. Paul street car strike. Carl Boss, the well known musical director, is dead.* Therp is much suffering among the miners in Pennsylvania. The prohibitory ordinance at London, Ontario, has been repealed. A fliflftp wflfl TnlVHpfi Kn monto/l XL mail Btogv l?»o luuut-u Uj luaqncu highwaymen, near Eureka Springs, Ark. 1 It is reported that fifteen companies have been organized to build big cotton mills in the South. David G. Cfoly, a well known New York newspaper man, the husband of •‘Jennie June,” is dead. Five convicts, one of them a woman, have been sentenced at Fort Smith, Ark.*, to be hanged July 17. Lysander Bandall committed suicide at Bangor, Me., by strangulation. He* left a note stating “rum did it.” Advices by steamer recount the builds ing of railways in Japan, and establishment of electric and other plants. . Four tons of powder exploded at Waverly, Dear Halifax, N. S., wrecking the mills and the employers’ houses. The guns of the United States cruiser Chicago have been tried, and the trial ' was in every way successful and satisfactory. An lowa farmer named Barker was swindled out of $2,000 by three confidence men who purported to be land buyers.

Briscoe B. Bouldin, a deputy collector of internal revenue in Virginia, was shot and fatally wounded by a “moonshiner.” At Cohoes, N. Y., Mrs. Dunn was murdered by her husband. Dunn was arrested. The motive for the crime is unknown. ~ Miss Ella Drummond, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a Vernon county, Missouri, farmer eloped with her father’s farm hand. Whitelaw Reid, Minister to France, and Samuel B. Thayer, Minister to the Netherlands, sailed for Europe Saturday morning. A fourteen-year-old boy was seriously injured at G., .by the explosion of a railroad torpedo which he hrew into a bonfire. The wall of the Mountain City ter, recently burned at Altoona, Pa., was blown down, John W. Keller, aged seventeen, was instantly killed. Ga., will be known as Fort McPherson, in honor of General James B, McPherson, who was killed near the site in 1864. What is known as the Australian election law, with some modifications to suit the locality, has been adopted by both Houses of the Missouri' Legislature.

Five hundred societies of Christian Endeavor are represented in the Illinois (State Convention in session at (Springfield- There are 1,000 delegates in attandanoe. Secretary Proctor and suite are in Chicago on a tour of inspection of western military posts. This is Adjutant General Drum’s last tour, as he will shortly be retired. A daughter of Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson, of the Episcopal Church, eloped from her home at Jackson, Miss., with I. W. Heaves, of Chicago. They were married at Cairo, 111. N. W. Doty stuck a red flag out of the fourth story window of a block in Chicago Centenmal day and the mob which gathered came near lynching him. A rope was procured and an attempt made to string him up. At Greenville, Miss., Weston, a negro, shot and killed Hugh Cunningham, a night-watchman. Later in the day, Lem Collier, colored, expressed sympathy for Weston in a saloon, when John Kelly, the bartender, shot him to death. A Coroner’s Jury at San Francisco has exonerated from blame Ed. CufFe, who, while sparring, last Friday night, with Tom Avery, a local pugilist, accidentally struck a blow that caused the latter’s death. Twolve men belonging to a gang of desperadoes, who have been robbing and committing murderous assaults on farmers in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, were captured bv a Sheriff and a posse of forty men and jailed^/'"'' . The schooner sailed from Gloucester, Mass., on a fishing trip to George's Banks, on March 25, since which time nothing has been heard from her. Her owners Thursday had given her up for lost. She carried: a crew of fourteen men. Ex-Governor John C. Brown, of Nashville, Tenn., has accepted an invitation to represent the South in the reunion of Union and Confederate soldiers of Scotch-Irish blood at the Congress to be held in Columbia May 8 to 11. Corporal Tanner will represent the North. The Hon. John Sherman, the Hon. John C. New, Consul General at London, the Hon. W. W. Thomas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway, and Lincoln Valentine, Consul for Honduras. sailed for Europe on the City of New York. The Windsor Theater, at Chicago, located on the west dide of the river, caught fire shortly after midnight,Tuesday, and in less thanV twenty minutes was completely destroyed. Three firemen were injured by a falling wall, one of them seriously. Loss, $40,000; covered by insurance. A dispatch from Bt. Paul, Minn., says the agent and party sent out by the Minneapolis Historical Society to disewer the source of the Mississippi River, retained, Friday. They report having discovered two lakes 110 feet above Itasca, and seven miles distant to which they traced the head of the river. At the request of Governor Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee, Mr. Gaorgß W. Childs has consented to loan to the Bcotch-Irish Congress the harp ol Thomas Moore, now to be seen at the Philadelphia Ledger office. The instrument will be on exhibition at Columbia, Tenn., wher&tbe Congress will assemble May 8. Jacob D. Shaulis, a wealthy farmer of near Somerset, Pa., was found dead hanging to a tree near his residence. A few yards off was the body of his wife, shot through the body. Two Bons of the dead man have been arrested. It is alleged that the old man committed . suicide first, and then David, his son, I attempted to kill his step-mother, who

is only twenty-five years of age, to prevent her inheriting the estate the two boys hoping by this means to secure the estate themselves. 'A dispatch from Pan Antonio says it is reported there that during a fight at Mex., arising from the imprisonment of Jesuit priests, who had been delivering seditious sermons, and attempt by tfie populace to rescue them, twohundred of the people were kilted; by soldiers and policemen. The priests are still in jail. The report is officially denied, Meetings of the stockholders of the North Chicago Bolling Mill Company and the Union Steel Company were held at Chicago Thursday for the purpose of consolidating their interests with the Joint Steel Company. When this combination is affected, and the new concern is to be known as the Illinois Steel Company, and it will be the largest of its kind in in the world, having a capital stock of $25,000,0C0. is In Brsxton County, W. V., P. B. Harr and .family tried to Cross a swollen mountain stream. The frail craft capsized and all the family were thrown out. The wifeand one immediately sank. Harr, who if as an expert swimmer, seized another>and made desperate efforts to eseape. He caught on the canoe, but was swept down stream and perished before help could reach him. The bodies have been recovered. A dispatch from Lima,Ohio, says: The west bound passenger train on the Chicago & Atlantic Road, consisting of ten coaches of emigrants, had a miraculous escape from being wrecked a mile east of this city, Friday. A crossing over a culvert burned, and had fallen in. The engineer did not discover it until he was within one hundred feet of it. When he saw the sparks he promptly applied the brazes and stoppetl his train with the cow catcher immediately over the ditch, which was about twenty-five feet deep and twenty feet wide.

FOREIGN. Vesuvius has broken out with great violence. Streams of lava are flowing down the Pompeii side. It is stated that the French election will be postponed unril next year, to avoid a contest with the Boulangists. At Morrilton, Ark., an attempt was made by a politician, O. B. Bentlj, to assassinate ex Sheriff Harry Coblentz. The Samoan Commissioners were presented to Emperor William at Potsdam Thursday. Tfie Emperor conversed in a friendly manner with all the commissioners, who were delighted with their reception. The Tipperary Court has affirmed the sentences of four months each imprisonment of Mr. John O’Connor, member of Parliament for South Tipperary, and Mr. Thomas Condon, member of Parliament for East Tipperary; three months on Mr. Charles -Tanner, member of Parliament for the middle division of Cork, and two months on Mr. Manning Tor violations of the crimes act.

NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE.

More LawlessnetH In the South—Armed Regulators Prevent the Negroes from Toting. At 6 o’clock Monday morning a party of twenty-five or thirty men, armed with Winchester rifles, surrounded the court-house at Lafayette, La., while several other bands, also armed, remained just outside of the town limits. These men, in menacing tones, pror claimed that no negro would be allowed to vote at this municipal election. A large number of men, with arms, were in the immediate neighborhood of the court-house equal e, and at the several entrances to the square armed men were posted, and negroes were not permitted to enter. At 6:30 Sheriff Broussard offered to escort a number of men at the north entrance to the square to vote. He attempted to enter with the men, when there was a rush of armed men to the entrance, and shouts were heard, “Shoot them!” “Kill him!” “Don’t allow them to go in!” and the voters turned back. The sheriff entered the court house, and the commissioners and clerk of the court and sheriff, who were holding the election, then closed the Soils and retired. A sworn statement y these officers was forwarded by mail to the governor. Late dispatches from Lafayette fully confirm this report. Gov. Nichols received a dispatch from Sheriff Broussard concerning the affair, and stated that he had succeeded in arresting and landing in jail ten of the regulators. The sheriff thinks the parish authorities will be able to suppress the disorder and punish those .engaged in the outrage. As a precautionary measure, the military have been ordered to morve at a moment’s notice. The postponed election for mayor and town council will be held at a future day. It is stated that the larger portion of the regulators were non-residents of the town and that but few of them lived in the parish where the trouble occurred.

A Panic at Chicago.

During the crush on the lake front Tuesday night, where many thousands of people congregated to witness the fire works display, a number oi women and children were trampled upon and seriously injured. The crowd was so dense, however, and the confusion so f:reat as to make it impossible to gather urther particulars. A number of boys were also badly burned by the explosion 6f some fire works, which, it is thought, occasioned the panic which resulted in the trampling down of many women and children in the crowd. The panic was caused by a team of horses, becoming unmanageable and plunging right and left among the spectators. Many women were among the injured.

Didn't Intend to Hurt Him.

As President Carnot was leaving the palace of the Elysee to attend the centennial oelebration at Versailles, Sunday, a stranger drew a pistol, and, pointing dirustly at him, fired. The man was immediately seized, and a rash was made toward the President to discover the extent of his injuries. M. Carnot quickly assured the crqwd that he was not hurt, and the excitement was over. The man who did the shoot ing gave his name as Perrin and his occupation as a marine store keeper. He stated that he had no desire to kill the President, and showed the truth of his assertion by proving that he had fired a blank cartridge.

OTHER DAYS LIVED OVER

REMINISCENCES OP THE JOY AND 80 BROW OF THE PAST. The Home—The Fireside and the Church—A Vivid Picture ol the Different Phases or the Fleeting Human Life. Rev. Dr. Tahnage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject "Other Days Lived Over.” Text, Deni, viii.. 2. fie said: I want to bind in one sheaf all your past advantages, and I want to bind in another sheaf all your past adversities. It is a precious harvest, and I must bp cautioned how I swing the scythe. Among the greatest advantages of your past life was an‘early home and its surroundings. The bad men of the day, for the mostpart, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of, an unhappy home. We are not surprised to find that Byron’s heart was a concentration of Sin, when we hear his mother was abandoned, and that she made sport of his infirmity, and often called him “the lame brat.” He who has vicious parents has to fight every inch of Ids way if lie would maintain his integrity, and at last reach the home of the good in heaven.

Perhaps your early home was in the city: It may have been in the days when Canal street, New Yofk, was far up town, and the site of this present church was an excursion into the country. That old honse in the city may have been demolished or changed into stores, and it seemed like sacrilege to you, for there was more meaning in that plain house, in that small house, than there is in a granite mansion or a turreted cathedral. Looking back this morning you see it as though it were yesterday—the sitting-room, where the loved ones sat by the plain lamplight, the mother at the evening stand, the brothers and sisters, perhaps long ago gathered into the skies, then plotting mischief on the floor or under the table, your father with a firm voice commanding a silence that lasted half a minute. Oh, those were good days! If you had your foot hurt, your mother always had a soothing salve to heal it. If you were wronged in the street, your father was always ready to protect you. The year was one round of frolic and mirth. Your greatest trouble was like an April shower, more sunshine than shower. The heart had not been ransacked by troubles, nor had sickness broken it, -and no lamb had a - warmer sheepfold than the home in which your childhood nestled. Perhaps you were brought up in the country. You stand now to-day in memory under the old tree. You clubbed it for fruit that was not quite ripe because you couldn’t wait any longer. You hear the brook rumbling along over the pebbles. You step again into the furrow where your father in his shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy oxen. You frighten the swallows from the rafteis of the barn, and take just one egg, and silence your conscience by saying they won’t miss it You take a drink again out of the very bucket that the old well fetched up. You go for the cows at night, and find them wagging their heads through the bars. Oftimes in the dusty and busy streets you wish you were home again on that cool grass, or in the rag carpeted hall of the farmhouse, through which there was the breath of new mown hay or the blossom of buckwheat.

You may have in your windows now beautiful plants and flowers brought across the seas, but not one of them stirs in your soul so much charm and memory as the old ivy and yellow sunflower that stood sentinel along the garden wall, and the forget-me-nots play hide-and-seek mid the long grass. Thejfather, who used to come in, sunburnt from the fields, and sit down on the door-sill and wipe the sweat from his brow may have gone to hie everlasting rest. The mother, who used to sit at the door a little bent over, cap and spectacles on, her face mellowing with the vicissitudes of many years, may have put down her gray head in the pillow in the valley, but forget that home you never will. Have you thanked God for it? Have you rehearsed all these blessed reminlscenes? Ob, thank God for a Christian father^thank God for a Christian mother; thank God for an early Christian alter at which you were taught to kneel; thank God for an early Christian home* I bring to mind another passage in the history of your life. They day came when you set up your own household. The days passed along in quiet blesßedness. You twain sat at the table morning and night and talked over your plans for the future. The most insignificant affair in your life became the subject of mutual consultation and advisement. You were so happy you felt you could never be any happier. One day a dark clond hovered over your dwelling and it got darker and darker, bnt out of that cloud the shinning messengers of God descended to incarnate an imirortal spirit. Two little feet started on an eternal Journey, and you were there to lead them—a gem to flash in heaven’s coronet, and yon to polish it: eternal ages of light and darkness watching the starting out of a newly created creature. Yon rejoiced and yon trembled at the responsibility that in your possession an Immortal treasure was placed. You prayed and rejoiced, and wept and wondered; you were earnest in supplication that you might lead it through life into the kingdom of God. There was a tremor in your earnestness. There was a donble interest about that home. There was an additional interest, why you should stay there and be faithful, and when in a few months your house was filled with the music of the child’s laughter, you were struck through with the fact that you had a stupendous mission. Have ybu kept that vow? Have you neglected any of these duties? Is your home as much to you as it used to be? Have those anticipations been gratified? God help you to-day in your solemn reminiscence, and let His mercy fall upon your soul if your kindness has been ill-requited. God have mercy on tue parent on the wrinkles of whose face is written the story of a child’s sin. God have mercy on the mother who, in addition to her other pangs,"*haa the pangs of a child’s iniquity. Oh, there are many, many sad sounds in this sad world, but the saddest sound that is ever heard is the breaking of a mother’s heart Are there any here who remember that in that home they werennfaith-' fnl? Are there those who wandered offfrom that earl? home, and left the'

mother to die with a broken neat t? On I stir that reminiscence to-day. ‘ I find another point in your life history. Yoa found pne day you were in the wrong road; you couldn’t sleep at ' night; there was just one word that seemed to sob through your banking house, or through your office, or through your shop, or vour bedroom, and that word was ’‘Eternity.” Yon said, "I am not ready for it. O God, have mercy 1” The Lord heard. Peace came to vour heart. In the breath of the hill and the waterfall’s dash von heard the voice of God’s love; the clouds and the trees hailed you with gladness; you came into the Honse of God. You remember how your hand trembled as yoa took ap the cap of the Communion, You remember the old minister who consecrated it, and you remember the church officials who carried it through the aisle; you remember the old people who at the close of the service took your hand in.theirs in congratulating sympathy, as much as to say: “Welcome home, you lost prodigal:” and though those hands are all withered away, that Communion Sabbath is resurrected this mornintr; it is resurrected with all its prayers, and songs, and tears, and sermons, and transfiguration. Have you kept those vows? Have you been a backslider? God help you. This day kneel at the foot of mercy and start again for heaven.

Start to-day as you started then. I rouse your soul by that reminiscence. Bat I must not spend any more of my time in going over the advantages of your life. I must put them all in one great sheaf, and I wrap them up in your memory with one loud harvest song, such as the reapers sing. Praise the Lord, ye blood bought immortals of earth! Praise the Lord, ye crowned spirits of heaven! But some of you have not always had a smooth life. Some df you are now in the shadow. Others had their troubles years ago; you are a mere wreck of what you once were. I must gather up the sorrows of your past life. But how shall I do it? You say that is impossible, as you have had so many troubles and adversities. Then I will just take two, the first trouble and the last trouble. ,As when you are walking along the street, and there has been music in the distance, you unconsciously find yourselves keeping step to the music, so when you started life your very life was a musical time-beat.. The air was full of joy and hilarity; with the bright, clear oar you made the boat skip; vou went on, and life grew brighter until after, a while a v ? ice {lvm heaven said, Ha t. and quick as the sunshine you halted; you grew pale, you confronted vour first sorrow. You had no idea that the flush on your child’s cheek was an unhealthy flush. You said it can : t be any thing serious. Death in slippered feet walked round about the cradle. You did not hear the tread; but after a while the truth flashed on yoa. You walked the floor. Oh, it you could, with your strong, stout hand, have wrenched that child from the destroyer. You went to your room and you said, “God save my child! God, save my child.” The world seemed going out in darkness. You said, “I can’t bear it,” You felt as if you could not put the loDg lashes over the bright eyes, never to see them again sparkle. Oh, if you could have taken that little one in your arms and with it leaped the grave, how gladly you would have done it! Oh, if you could let your property go, your houses go, your land and your storehouse go, how gladly you would have allowed them to depart if you could onlv have kept that one treasurer

But one day there arose, trom the heavens a chill blast that swept over the bedroon, and instantly all the light went out, and there was darkness—thick, murky, impenetrable, shuddering darkness. But God didn’t leave you there, Mercy spoke. As you took up the eup, and was about to put it to your lips, God said, “Let it pass/’ and forthwith, as by the hand of angels, another cup was put into your hands; it- was the cup of God’s consolation. And as you have sometimes lifted the head of a wounded soldeir,and poured wine mtohia lips, so God put his left arm under your head,and with his right hand He poured into your lips the wine of His comfort and His consolation,and you looked at the empty cradle and looked and looked at your broken heart, and you looked at the Lord’s chastisement, and you said “Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in thy sight.” • Ah, It was your first trouble. How did you get over it? God comforted you. Y ou have been a better man ever since. You have been a better woman ever since. In the jar of the closing gate of the sepulcher you heard the clanging of the opening gate of heaven, and you felt an irresistible drawing heavenward. You have been purer of mind ever Bince that night when the little one for the last time put its arms around your neck and said; “Good night, papa; good night mamma. Meet me in heaven.” But I must come on down to your latest sorrow. What was it? Perhaps it was your own sickness. The child’s tread on the stair, or the tick of the watch on the stand disturbed you. Through the long weary days you counted the figures in the carpet or the flowers on the wall paper. Oh, the weariness, the exhaustion! i Oh, the burning panm! Would God it were morning, would God it were night, were your frequent cry. Bnt you are better, perhaps even well. Have you thanked that God to-day that you can come out m the fresh air; that you are in this place to hear God’s name, and to sing God’s praise, and implore God’s help, and to ask God’s forgivenm? Bless the Lord who healeth all oar diseases and redeemeth our lives from destruction. Perhaps your last sorrow was a financial embarrassment. I congratulate some of yon on your lucrative profession or occffpatidn, or ornate appeal, on a commodious residence—everytbing~you put your hands lo seems to turn to gold. But there are others of you like the ship on wjilch Pall sailed, where two seas met, and yon are broken by the violence of the waves. By an nnflOVlsed indorsement or by a conj action of unforeseen events, or by fire, or storm, or a senseless panic, yon have been flung headlong, and where you on«*e disEensed great charities now you have ard work to make the two ends meet. Have you forgotten to thank God for your days of prosperity, and that through your trials some of you have made investments which will continue after the last bask of this world has exploded, and the silver and the gold are molten in the fires of the molten world? Have yon, amid your losses and discouragements, forgot that there wu bread on your table this morning, and

that there shall be a shelter tor your head from the storm, and there is air for your lungs, and blood for your heart, and light for your eyes, and a glad and glorious religion tor your soul? ", Perhaps your last trouble was a bereavement That heart which in childhood was ,your refuge, the parental heart, and which has Been a source of‘ the quickest sympathy ever since, has suddenly become silent forever, and now, sometimes, whenever in-sadden annoyance and without deliberation, yon say, “I will go and tell mother,* 5 the thought flashes on you, “I have no mother,” or the father, with voice less tender, bat as stanch and earnest and loving as ever, watchful of all your ways, exultant oyer your success without saying much, although the old people do talk it over by themselves, his trembling hand on that staff which you now keep as a family yelic. his memory embalmed in grateful hearty is taken away forever.

Or, there was your companion in life, sharer of your joys and sorrows, taken, leavingthe heart an old ruin, where the chill winds blow over a wide wilderness of desolation, the sands of the desert driving across the place which once bloomed like the garden of God. And Abraham mourns for Sarah at «he cave of Machpelah. Going along your path in life, suddenly, right before you was an open grave. People looked down and they saw it was only a few feet deep and a lew feet wide, but to you it was a cavern down which went all your hopes and all vour expectations. Bat cheer np in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the comforter, fie is not going to forsake you. Did the Lord take that child sut ol your arms? Why, he is going to shelter it better than vou could. He is going to array it in a white robe, and with palm branches it will be all leady to greet you at your coming home. Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals. Blessed the importunate cry that Jesus compassionates. Blessed the weeping eye from whieh the soft hand of Jesus wipes away the tear. But These reminiscences reach only' to this morning. There will yet be one more point of tremendous reminiscence, and that is the last hour of life, when we have to look over all our past existence. What a moment that will bel I place Napoleon’s dying reminiscence on St. Helena beside Mrs. Judson’s dying reminiscence in the harbor of St. Helena, the same island, twenty years after. Napoleon’s dying reminiscence was one of delirium: “Head of the army.” Mrs. Judson’s dying reminiscence, ss she came home from her missionary toil and her life-oL self-sacrifice for God, dying in the cabin of the shin in the harbor of

St. Helena, was: “I always did love the Lord Jesus Christ.” And then, the historian says, she fell into a sound sleep for an hour, and woke amid the songs of angels. I place the dying reminiscence of Augustus Caesar against the dying reminiscence of the Apostle Paul. The dying reminiscence of Augustus Caesar was, addressing his attendants: “Have I played my part well on the stage of life?” and they answered in the affirmative, and he said: “Why, then, don’t you applaud me?” The dying reminiscence of Paul the Apostle was: “I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteona Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to all them that love His appearing.” Augustus Caesar died amid pomp and great surroundings. Paul uttered his dying reminiscence looking up through the wall of a dungeon. God grant that our last hour may be the closing of a useful life and the opening of a glorious eternity.

THE WORLD’S EXPOSITION.

Opened by Preeident Carnot with Impressive Ceremonies. President Carnot formally opened the Paris exposition Monday afternoon. The president was accompanied to the exposition grounds by the president of the senate and chamber of deputies. The party wap escorted by a squadron of cavalry. They left the Elvsee at 1:30 o’clock and an artillery salute announced their arrival under the central dome of the main exposition building. President Carnot ascended the dias that had been erected under the dome. He was surrounded by the members of the cabinet and members of the senate and chamber of deputies. M. Tirard, the prime minuter, made an address, welcoming the President. He declared that the exhibition exceeded all expectatiens, and proved that the French people still preserved all the qualities for which they had been noted. Despite the acuteness of the economic crisis, they had been able to collect a splendid array of exhibits. Although every government did not officially take part in the work, most of them veneroußiy seconded the efforts of private individuals. In the conclusion of his jsddrese, M. Tirard extended a greeting to the strangers now in Paris, and said that republican France would show itself hospitable and generous, treating them not as rivals inspiring jealousy, but a« fellow workers laboring for the bappini-M of humanity. President Carnot, in his address, referred to the undauntable energy es France in arising from severest trials to fresh industrial triumphs. He afterward inspected the various departments of the exhibition.

OIL FEVER AT TERRE HAUTE.

A New Well of an Ketimated Capacity es One Thousand Barrels Per Dag. Tremendous excitement was created at Terre Haute Monday night by striking oil at a depth es 1,900 feet. When oil was reaehed. a jet sported up sixty feet into the air, and a heavy flow, six inches in diameter, begaa. The pressure was so great it could not be cut off, and in a short time the ground for a square around the well was flooded several inches. The drillers say it is the biggest well they ever struck. Tkrfe estimated flow is one thousand barrels per day. Fears are entertained that the flooded ground will catch fire from the sparks of passing locomotives.

BASE BALL

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WASHINGTON NOTES.

The seal brown horses, which generally pulled President Cleveland when he went out riding, and die ex-President’s carriages and stable outfit were sold at auction, Monday. Secretaryfßlainedrove up just before the sale, and, after examining the cariiages, spoke to ex-Re presentative Bwett in regard to the Victoria and then drove off. He did not, however, secure the Victoria, as Mr. Bweft’s bid was not high enough. The seal browns were first put up for sale and the bidding was started at (ICO for each horse. After the nsnal amount of persuasive talk and numerous exhibitions of the points of the animals as they were driven around bara brougham they-were finally sold for sl4l spiece. The horses were purchased for Mr. Cleveland in Poughkeepsie, and it is said that he paid between six and seveq hundred dollars for them. The landau, said to have cost $1,400, was sold for $660; the Victoria, which cost Mr. Cleveland SI,OOO, for $486, and the brougham for $450. The silver mounted harness with the monogram “G. C.” on it, went for $62.60. A

miscellaneous lot of stable paraphernalia was knocked down to various persons for an aggregate of $114.36. Altogether $2,043.86 was realised from the Bale. A number of the purchases were made by livery stable men, and they eaid the things sold generally Went cheap. The only part of Mr. Cleveland’s stable while President whieh was not sold were the horses and carriage used by Mrs. Cleveland, which she took with her to New Yprk. Mai. Geo. B. Davis. Judge Advocate, who has recently acted as Judge Advocate of the T.ydecker and Arms CoartMartial, has been selected by Secretary Proctor as the army officer at the bead of .the commission provided for in the sundry civil appropriation bill to continue the publication of the records of the War of the Rebellion. There will be two others to act with him—civilian experts who have not yet been selected. The appropriation for'this purpose will not be available until the Ist of July, and until then Colonel Laselle will continue in charge of the publications, but Major Daviß will report to him at once in order to be given an insight into the methods that have been heretofore pursued and to devise plans for the futore. The entire work is to be completed in five yeara and the commission will have their hands full. Major Davis was recently engaged with Colonel Barron the revision of the army regulations.

Postmaster General Wanamaker has received a telegram from Postmaster Flynn at Guthrie, Oklahoma, in which he says the daily sale of postage stamps at his office amounts to about SSO, that the eleven clerks in the office are kept busy from 5 o’clock in the morning till midnignt, and that when the mail is ready for delivery there is usually a line of men a half a mile long waiting for their mail. About 3,000 letters and i 1,000 newspapers are delivered from that office daily. There art five banks and sir newspapers in operation in the new town. Land Commissioner Saturday received a report from Inspecor Hobbs at Guthrie, which shows that during the first week 450 entries and forty-two notices of contests were made. A crank walked into the office of the secretary of war Thursday, and taking the secretary’s chair opposite to Gen. Bennett, who is acting as secretary, declared that he was secretary of war, having been appointed by Mr. Cleveland. The officials humored the man, who busied himself in giving orders and discharging the appointment clerks until the police officers arrived and took charge of him. He was identified as a man named Baker who had taken charge of the police headquarters a few days ago in a similar informal way. The President and the Secretary of the Interior have called upon the United States officials in Oklahoma, charged in the report of the inspectors of the Interior Department with corrupt firactices in connection with public ands in that Territory, for any explanation or statement they may desire to make relative thereto. The reports of the inspectors will not be made public at present There is no truth in the report that seems to have gained currency that Secretary of State Blaine suffered a paralytic stroke Tuesday at his house in Washington. Mr. Walker Blaine states that there in not a word of truth in the story, and says Mr. Blaine is improving. Justice Gray and Miss Matthews will be married Wednesday the 19th inst. Ex-Attorney General Garland has become a resident of Washington. The public debt was decreased $13,078,264.11 during April.

The law partner of Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, is J. Gephart, oi Bellefonte. He will saii for Enrol e early in June. Mr. Gephart is a Democrat, but in the last campaign refnsed to support Mr. Cleveland on the tariff issue. He is a practical Prohibitionist, and would past his vote for the Prohibition amendment next Fall if he should be in this country. Gephart is, therefore, a Protectionist, a Prohibitionist and the law partner of a Republican, hnt He still asserts his Democracy.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, May 7,1888. quint Wheat- Corn - No. 2 Red 84 No. 1 White ib No. 8 Red 80 No. 2 Yellow 32 Oats, White 27 LIVE STOCK. Cattle—Good to choice 4.1004.35 Common to medium 2.4003.00 Good to choice cows 2.8503.25 Hooe—Heavy 1 4.6504.72 Mixed 4 6004,86 Pig> -.4.2504.46 Sheep Good to choice _.3.8004.00 Fair to medium 3.0003,40 BOOS, BUTTER, POULTRY. Ei?gs_ 10c Hena per *5 B|e Butter,creamery22c Roosters _4c Fancy country-. 12c Turkeys 10s Choice country. 9c Wool—Fine merino, washed. 33031 unwashed med 20022 very coarse ,—l7OlB Hay,timotliy.l2.6o Sugar cored ham 12 Bran -. ...8.25 Bacon clear/udes 11 Clover seed...-4.45 Feathers, goose 35 Chicago. Wheal fMay)—.Bl j Pork. .. .......106 Com “ ...34 1 La-u «77 Gate - 23 I R..e 5.00