Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1889 — Page 2

ggfct jUpitfrliran., <3 io. B. Mabsb all, Publisher.

Reports of Boards of Health in the Southern cities show that the death nto per thonsand among negroes is far higher th*n among whites, In some eases this excess of mortality is 120 per cent., while the average is folly 50 per cent. This is one of the facts which show the falsity of the reasoning of the philoeophefs who contend that the is going to outnumber the Caucasian in the Southern States threequarters of a century hence. A woman preacher of Ohio has had come difficulty in securing a license to perform the marriage ceremony. This out an lowa protest that in that State and in Michigan and in Illinois there are many women serving as ministers, and withal officiating at marriages. To be sure, and as it should be. There is no rational objection to a good sermon or lecture from a woman. They make our best teachers and professors, and may do as well as preachers. The day of prejudice, pure and simple, that enables a musty old Judge of Probate to quote Paul and refuse a woman her legal right to do what she can do right well is past, or ought to be past. Public sentiment has settled down grimly to this, that the conspiracy of an organized body of men to commit murder, and the actual assassination of an American citizen, deserves, and must receive, the most prompt and terrible punishment possible under equity and * law, and that the conspirators of every grade must be made to feel that this is the last, as it is the first, attempt of native-horn persons to wreak their organic vengeance on those who have been untrue, or supposed to be untrue, to secret oaths. If this be not so, we shall in time have condottiere from Naples, and Highbinders from Canton, and clans from every quarter, all operating as thugs to make life miserable and unsafe.

There are 600 children reported in the poor houses of Illinois. Other States allow the same abnormal outrage to continue. With them are some of the moat debauched of adults, insane as well, in some States. Immorality of the grossest sort is openly practiced, asd ot a child escapes pollution. There re probably over 5,000 cnildren being educated by the States in this unwholesome manner. It needs another How* aid to work a reform. Our prisons,jails and penitentiaries are bad enough,but our poor houses are the worst of all. It has long been held by the decent poor to be the worst possible disgrace to be driven to resort to these public institutions. They are filled by tramps and prostitutes and vagabonds, and prostitution is one of their common features. Not a child should be allowed inside their doors. , A cock-and-bull story to the effect that an English syndicate was forming with a capital of £10,000,000 for the purpose of controlling the dry goods trade of the United States has been cabled to this country and published in double leaded type in a leading New York newspaper. The enterprise is following in the lines, it is stated, of the brewery investments. Didit ever occur to these English investment alarmists that the United States has twice the population of the United Kingdom, to say nothing of infinitely greater natural resources, and that, moreover, the average Yankee can take care of himself when it comes to business as well as any one in the world? The tail, so far as we know, has never yet succeeded in wagging the dog, and the United States, in the respect noted, have become very decidedly the dog. An English syndicate might as well be formed to regulate our atmosphere. -

New Guns for the Navy.

The ordnance bureau of the navy department has completed two of the ten-inch steel breech-loading reflos for the monitor Miantonomah, says a Washington letter to the Boston Post These are the largest and most powerfully built guns yet turned out for the navy. One of them is at Annapolis awaiting trial. The other has been fully tested, with gratifying results, as it compares favorably with the best products of renowned European ordnance works. The muzzle velocity attained was 2,000 feet per second. The range conld not be determined owing to the lack of a sufficiently large proving ground, out tt Is estimated at ten miles. Soon after the contracts are awarded for the construction of the two new 500-ton gunboats preparations will begin at the Washington ordnanceyard for the manufacture of this peculiar ordnance, which is to be made up entirely of rapid-fire guns of extraordinary calibers as compared with guns of this type now in use in our naval vessels. The largest guns of this kind will hosts inches in caliber, but owing to the simplicity and compactness of their mechanism and construction Hwy will not materially exceed in weight the six-inch rifles of the kind now In use, although they are fully equal to them in range and accuracy, and are vastly superior in Offensive power by reason of their rapidity of llro. I

“AT CLOSE QUARTERS.» The Tiger Hunted the Duke, bul Royaflty was Too Muohfor Him. During the recent stay of the Due d'Orlcans in India he visited Lord Duffertn at €alcmtaclgaars : i^a»i : er hunt was organized, which lasted six weeks and ranged over lGOtnilea of country. The duke shot eight tigers. One incident be relates ar follows: “Two cubs of a tigress had been shot and the mother hemmed in by a line of elephants. There was an idea ih at she was crouching in a small stream, but none of our elephants could be got anywhere near ft After some time my elephant, being pluckier than the others, was induced to move forward and push the tree down. While thus engaged the tigress sprang out from beside it with a roar and a tremendous leap right to the top ol my howdah, smashing the front of it—breaking my gun with one blow of her paw and exploding the right barrel before I had time to fire. This is the gun," producing a double-barreled rifle broken in two pieces just below the barrels, the trigger guards and metal plates wrenched off and twisted by the force of the blow, and with one barrel discharged, the other still a 1 half-ccck.

“Fortunately for me,” continued the prince, -‘she then tumbled backward, possibly startled by the explosion, and made off for the jungle. My elephant, mad with fright, bolted in the opposite direction, and for a considerable distance nothing would stop her. When at length we got back to the others we found the whole line of elephants so demoralized that we had to give up the sport for the day and return to the camp. Next morning we cornered our game in nearly the same spot, and I had the good luck to bring her down just as she was crossing the river.” “What became of the mahout when the tigress leaped on the elephant?” was asked. “Oh, he managed to slip round in some extraordinary way under -th«elephant's ears, and was unhurt, but lost his head-dress.”

Timber Thieves and Public Lands.

The American Forestry ; congress, undismayed by past failures* is moving vigorously forward in the good work of preserving our forests not only from needless destruction but also from the ravages of the timber thieves who have been allowed to plunder the public domain for years with impunity through the criminal indifference of congress and its failure to protect the forests by suitable legislation. It will be remembered that the last congress was besieged by this association with appeals and protests and with memorials’ setting forth the nature and extent of the depredations of the timber thieves, but no action was takeu. Now the association has gone straight to headquarters and laid a memorial before President Harrison It is a significant document and ought to command prompt attention. It shows that millions of acres have literally been given away to individuals and corporations who have enriched themselves by cutting off the timber and leaving the land worthless; thrt the timber thieves have been open and defiant in their operations, particularly in the redwood region of California; and that since 1880 the value of the public timber stolen outright amounts to $36,719,935, of which the government has only recovered $478,073. =Chicago Tribune. '

A Roundabout Route.

Mrs. Gabb—“Where are yon going this summer?” Mrs. Gadd (lightly)—“Oh, to Newport, Saratoga, and I don’t know where all. We will make the rounds, I suppose. Haven’t decided yet just when we will start, but I’il let you know, my dear.” Mrs. Gabb (meaningly)—“Oh, I’ll be sure to hear of it when you leave, because my Cousiu John is the railroad ticket agent here.” Mrs. Gadd (hastily)—“Our firsl journey, however, will be to my dear aunt’s farm near Squashvillc. and I do hope she won't insist on keeping us all summer, as she did last year.”—New York Weekly.

A Man of Expedients.

Of all the dispositions with which moral man may be born, there is no other that on the whole is so likely to assist him to make his way through life satisfactorily as that of being born a man of expedients. .Whatever gifts of wealth one may chance to inherit, he is sure sooner or later to oome to grief, unless he inherits also the art of managing them. It is by no means enough to get a fortune'; it is necessary to use eneV wits to preserve it. But fortune Is, after all, only one of the innumerable elements of which life is compounded, and as it becomes every year necessary to have a large fortune to hold one's own among the wealthy of the land, so does it become every year of less importance whether one does iave a fortune, sinee there is constantly a larger proportion of people whp do not have tin enormous amount which goes tc make up Urn modern fortune* and the majority will assert itself, even to the extent of breaking away from the domination oi wealth. ~ In every department of life, in the greatest affairs with which be is

ed upon to have to do as well as in the most mimute, there is room for the display of this faculty of being "prepared for the emergency. To be a man of expedients it is necessary to TiaVQ much mental dexterity, much power of adaptability, and wide fertility of resource. Indirectly there is needed a large imagination, and the man of expedients is above everything else, perhaps, a man of imagination. Me is able to put himself in j different relations t® any given problem, and if the first’doas not furnish him solution of any difficulty that may perplex him, he is capable of looking the whole matter over from a new standpoint, and-thereby selecting some hitherto unsuspected means of escape from the entanglement which annoys him.— fix.

What Berliners Eat.

The amount of animal food disposed of in the German capital is such that, divided up equally among the population of the city, it yields an allowance of two and a half pounds of meat a week to every man. woman and child in the place, including infants in arms, members of the legislature and paupers. In other words, says the London Telegraph, each and every Berliner, irrespective of age, or sex or political opinions is officially credited with the consumption of 141 weight of beef, mutton, veal, pork, lamb and horse-flesh per annum. No fewer than 7,000 horses are slaughtered yearly for the Berlin meat market, their flesh being partly sold as “butcher’s meat,” in shops specially affected to the retail trade iu “pferdefleisch,” and partly “worked up” into sausages,a popular variety of which is hawked “all hot” about the streets late in the evening and during the smaller hours of the earlv morn. Poor Prussians are much addicted to horse-flesh stewed in a savory sauce; nor do the well-to-do disdain it as as occasional viand served under its own name. In Germany. Italy and even. France the flesh of horses and asses in unquestionably “converted into sassengers,” like unto the aged hero of one Samuel Weller’s most gruesome anecdotes, in vast quantities, and imparts to them close texture, rich color, and aromatic flavor, in particular to Brunswick “wurst," “martadella of Bologna,” and “saucisson de Lyon.” This bulk of the substance to which these dainties owe their being, however, is pork, fresh or salted; and in all probability the 470,000 pigs that annually pay the debt of nature in tribute to Beninese appetites find their way to the table in the shape of either sausage or ham; for Prussians rarely eat roast pork or fried bacon, whereas they never weary of smoked and cured preparations of pig. Besides devouring this porcine host, Berlin stands accountant yearly for the violent death of 127,500 head of cattle, 131,500 calves, and 346,000 sheep, besides a multitude of minor animals, all of which vanish in due course down her capacious maw.

When Robert Was a Boy.

John W. Burdette, for many years editorial writer and business manager of the Burlington Hawkeye, is a younger brother of the famous humorist. He says: “Bob always bubbled over with fun, and his stock of stories was exhaustless, even when a child. He could make us a good fairy tale or adventure at a moments notice, and his younger brothers were always ftftor hina for ‘just one more story, Bob,’ whenever we got him alone. At bed-time we were especially annoying to him. After we were all cuddled up —for we slept three in a bed—Bob would tell us a score of stories, and we constantly begged for oae more until he would become weary. I guess that some of Bob’s best stories were told to us in those days. I would not like to say a thousand times for fear of exaggeration, and if I said less than a thousand times it might not be up to the number of occasions when Bob was obliged tp kick us both out of bed and roll himself up in the blankets and go to sloop in spite of us, for we never tirod of hearing him, no matter how sleepy and tired he might become. Yes,- if one-hun-dredth part of. the fancies, witticisms and inventions which Bob entertained his little brothers with could be printed, the world would call him a genius of the most marvelous kind; for the thousand tales of the Arabian Nights were never more interesting than those winter nights’ tales of my good brother Bob. There was never a bet - ter brother.”

Fallacy of the Reading Notice. Reading notices intended to make the reader believe that what he reads fa the opinion of the editor of the paper. are now so well understood that they exert no more influence than an undisguised advertisement A conspicuous advertisement in the advertising columns is an honest announcement of a desire to do business. There Uno attempt at deception about it If the goods are such as can bo sent by mail, the p** er s of largest circulation should be used. If bulky, such as must be bought at stores, then the money should be spent near home. The sale of an article having merit Is most advantageously advertised where the vender and his merohan disc are so well known that their reliability may be vouched for, and as these who can speak in their favor Increase in number the sale can be extended over an sver-wideaing circle.—Printers’ Ink.

COMMON SENSE WANTED

COMMON SENSE THE GREAT WART OP THE WORLD. It is Especially Needful in Making Preparations for the Next Life in the Upbuilding of Christian Character. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Livingstone, M. T., Sunday. Subject, “Outwitted by the World.” Text Luke xvL 8. He said: In the first place we want more common sense in the building and conduct of churches. The idea oi adaptiveness is always paramount in any other structure. If bankers meet together and they resolve upon putting up a bank, the bank is adapted to banking purposes; if y manufacturing company pat ap a building it is to be adapted to manufacturing purposes; but adaptiveness is not always the question in the rearing of churches. In many of our churches we more light, ffiore room, more ventilation, more comfort. Vast sums of money are expended on ecclesiastical structures, and men sit down in them, and you ask a man how he likes the ehureh. He says: “I like it very well, but I can’t hear.” As though a shawl factory were good for every thing but making shawls. The voice of the Kreacher dashes against the pillars, ten sit down under the shadows of the Gothic arches and shiver and feel they Midst be getting religion or something else, they feel so uncomfortable. Oh, rav friends, we want more common sense in the rearing of churches. There is no excuse for lack of light when the heavens are full of it, no excuse for lack of fresh air when the world swims in it. It ought to be an expression not only of our spiritual happiness, but of our spiritual comfort when we say? How amiable are thy tabernacles, oh Lord God of hosts! A day in thy courts is better than a thousand.”

Again I remark: We want more common sense in obtaining religious hope. All men understand that in order to succeed in worldly directions they must concentrate. They think on that one subject until their mind takes fire with the velocity of their own thoughts. All their acumen, all their strategy, all their wisdom,all their common sense they put in that one direction, and they succeed. But how seldom it is true in the matter of seeking after God. While no man expects to accomplish any thing for this world withont concentration and enthusiasm. how many there are expecting after awhile to getintq the kingdom of God without the use of any such means. Oh, that men were as wise in the matter of the soul as they are in the matter of dollars and cents. This doctrine of God’s sovereignty, how it is misquoted and spoken of as though it were an iron chain which bound us hand and foot for time and eternity, when, so far from that, in every fiber of your body, in every iaculty of your mincL in every passion of your soul yon are man. And it is no more a matter of free choice whether you will to-morrow go abroad or stay at home than it is this momenta matter of free choice whether von will accept Christ or reject him. In all the army of banners there is not one conscript. Men are not to be dragooned into heaven. Among all the tens of thousands of the Lord’s soldiery there is not one man but will tell yon: “I choose Christ; I wanted Him; I desired to be in His service; I am not a conscript—l am °a volunteer.” Oh, that men had the same common Bense in the matters of religion that they have in the matters of the world—the same concentration, the same posh, the same enthusiasm! In the one case a secular enthusiasm; in the other, a consecrated enthusiasm.

Again, I remark: We want more common sense in the building up and enlarging of our Christian character. There are men here who have for fortv years been running the Christian race, and they have not run a quarter ol a mile! No business man would be willing to have his investments unaccumulatrve. If von invest a dollar you expect that dollar to come home bringing another dollar on its back. What would you think of a man who should invest f 10,000 in a monetary institution,; then go off for five years, make no inquiry in regard to the investment, then come back, step up to the cashier ot the institution and say, “Have you kept those SIO,OOO safely that I lodged with you?” but asking no question about interest or dividend? Why, you would say, “That is not common sense.” Neither is it, but that is the way we act in matters of the soul. We make a far more important investment than SIO,OOO. We invest onr soul. Is it accumulative? Are we growing in grace? Are we getting better? Are we getting worse? God declares many dividends, bat we do not collect them, we do not asx about them, we do not want them. Oh, that in this matter of accumulation we were as wise in the matters of the sonl as we are in the matters of the worldl How little common sense in the reading of the Scriptures! Weget any other book and we open it and we say: “Now, what does this book mean to teach me? It is a book on astronomy; it will teach me astronomy. It is a book on political economy; it will teach me political economy.” Taking np the Bible, do we ask onrselves what it means to teach? It means to do just one thing: get the world eonverted and get us all to heaven. That Is what it proposes to do. But instead of that, we go into the Bible as

botanists to pick flowers, or we go as pugilists to get something to fight other Christians with, or we go as logicians trying to sharpen our mental faculties for a better argument; and we do not like this about the Bible, and we do not like that and we do not like the other thing. what would yon think of a man lost cm the mountains? Night has come down: he can not find his way home, and he sees a light in a mountain cabin; he goes to it, he knocks at the door; the mountaineer comes out and finds the traveler and says: “Well, here I have a lantern; yon eantakeit and it will guide you on the way home;” and suppose that man should say: “I don't like that lantern, I don’t like the handle of it, there are ten or fifteen things about it I don’t like; if you can’t give me a better lantern than that I won’t have anr.” Now God says this Bible is to he a lamp to our feet and lantern to our path, to guhfo us through the midnight of this world to the gates of the celestial city. We take hold of it in sharp criticism and deprscat# this and deprecate

that Oh. how much we would be if by its holy light we found our way to our everlasting home! Then we do not read the Bible as we read other books. We read it, perhaps, fouror five minutes just before we wtire at night. We are weary and! rieepy, go somnolent we hardly know which end of the book is up. i We drop our eye perhaps on the' story of Samson and the foxes, or upon some genealogical table, important in its place, but stirring no more religions emotion than the announcement that somebody begat somebody else and he begat somebody else, instead of opening the book and saying. “Now I must read for my immortal life. My eternal destiny is involved in this book.” But I remark again: We want more common sense in doing good. How many people there are who want to do good and yet are dead failures! Why is it? They do not exercise the name tact, the same ingenuity, the same stratagem, the same common sense in the work for Christ that they do in worldly thingß. Otherwise they would succeed in this direction as well as they succeed in the

other. There are many men who have an arrogant way with them, although they may not feel arrogant. Or they have a patronizing way. They talk to a man of the world in a manner which seems to say: “Don’t you wish you were as good as T am? Why, I have to look clear down before I can see you, you are so much beneath me.” That manner always disgusts, always drives men away from the Kingdom of Jesus Christ instead of bringing them in. W hen I was a lad I was one day in a village store, and there was a large group of young men there full of rollicking and fun, and a Christian man came in, and without any introduction of the subject, and while they were in great hilarity, Baid to one of them: “George what is the first steD of wisdom?” George looked up *and said, •Every man to mind his own business.’* Well, it was a rough answer, but it was provoked. Religion had been hurled m there as though it was a bombshell. We must be adroit in the presentation of religion to the world. Do you suppose that Mary in her conversation with Christ lost her simplicity? or that Paul,thundering fiom Mars Hill, took the pulpit tone? Why is it people can not talk as naturally in prayer meeting and on religions subjects as they do on worldly subjects? For no one ever succeeds in any kind of Christian work unless he works naturally. We want to imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, who plucked a poem from the grass of the fieid. We all want to imitate Him who talked with farmers about the man who went forth to sow, and talked with the fisherman about the

drawn net that brought in fish of all Borts, and talked with the vine dresser about the idler in the vineyard, and talked with those newly affianced about the marriage supper, and talked with the man cramped in money matters about the two debtors, and talked with the woman about the yeast that leavened the whole lump, and talked with the Bhepherd about the lost sheep. Oh,we might gather even the stars of the sky and twist them like forget-me-nots in the garland of Jesus. We must bring everything to Him—the wealth of language, the tenderness of sentiment, the delicacy of morning dew,the saffron of floating cloud, the tangled surf of the tossing sea, the bursting thunder guns of the storm’s bombardment. Yes every star must point down to Him! every heliotrope must breathe His praise, every drop in the summer shower must flash His glory, all the tree branches of the forest must thrum their music in the grand march which ahaii celebrate a world redeemed. NoW, all this being so, what is Ihe common sense thing for you and for me td dp? What we do I think will depend upon three great facts. Thejfiret fact is that sin has rained ns. It has blasted body, mind and soul. We want no Bible to prove that we are sinnere. Any man who is not willing to acknowledge himself an imperfect and a sinful being is simply a fool and not to be argued with. We all feel that sin has disorganized our entire nature. That is one fact. Another fact is that Christ came to reconstruct, to restore, to revise, to correct, to redeem. That is a second fact. The third fact is that the only time we are sore Christ will pardon ns is the present. Now, what is the common sense thing for ub to do in view of these three facts? Yon will all agree with me to quit sin. Here are the hopes of the Gospel. We may get them now. To-morrow we may get them and we may not. Next day we may and we may not. The prospect less and less and less and less. The only sure time now—now. I would not talk to you in this way if I did not know that Christ was able to save all people, and to save thousands as easily as save one. I would not go into a hospital and tear off the bandages from the wounds if I had no balm to apply. I would not have the face to tell a man he is a sinner unless I had at the same time the authority of saying that he may be saved. Oh, man! Oh, woman! I wish to-day I could show Jou the burned hand of Christ—burned i plucking you out of the fire, burned in snatching you away from the flame. Aye, also the burned foot, and the burned brow, and the bunted heartburned for you. By His stripes ye are healed.

Foraker and the Saloonkeepers.

The Times-Star, Thursday afternoon, prints a letter from Governor Foraker to Mayor Moaby concerning the threatened defiance of the law by the u Turner Hall mass meeting of saloonkeeper* last week. The letter is dated Columbus, July 27, and is as follows: Dear Sir—Do not tolerate any defiance of law. No man is worthy to enjov the free institutions of America who rebels against a dnly enacted statute and defies the authorities charged with its enforcement. Smite every manifestation of snch a spirit with a swift and heavy hand. Ido not make these suggestions from fear yon need them, bnt only that yon may have anv assurance they may afford yon in the discharge of the doty to which yon tee (Bailed by the action of the Turner Hall meeting of yesterday, the proceedings of whioh 1 have just read in the pspert. Your very truly, J. B. Foaaasb. Very pastoral.—“ Yours is an cultural country, isn’t it?” ssked a nfisn on the limited of his new acquaintance from Dakota. “Yes, pardner.” “What do you raise, mostly?” “Jack pots.”

THE STATE CAPITAL.

Two county superintendents a schools have made requisitions upoi the Superintendent of Public Instructioi Era* the new school books. The fin order came from Fort Wayne, and wai i f° r I*soo books. The second from Wash ington, Daviess county, was for 701 books. The employes in the StaU Superintendent's office not understand why the requisitions should be Bo small. In Fort Wayne there are 11,615 pupils, and in Washington over 2,00 C children of school age. It will thus be seen that the requisitions are for lea than one-fourth enough books to supply the pupils in the two school corporations, although the Attorney General holds that the requisition must be foi enough books to supply all the children of school age. The superintendent! may make additional requisitions daring the year, but the State Superintendent Is opposing that plan because it will impose an enormons amount of unnecessary work on his office. In a circular to superintendents, just sent out, he kdvises that: “The requisions -from the varions corporations and connties be as complete in the first instance as possible.’ The fact that the Legislature failed to make any appropriation tc meet the increased expense of the department by the school law, compel! the Superintendent to meet this expense

personally. Somebody Beems to be responsible for the small requisition! being sent in. A circular signed by Baker A Randolph, and sent to all Superintendents advises that trustees order Dnly about one-fourth of the book! needed at this time. The firm is doing work for the Indiana School Book Company, and Mr. Baker says the order was inserted in the circular at the request of the school-book company. Some of the Republican politician! think they have discovered that the bill passed by the last Legislature, appropriating 15,000 for a series of farmers’ institutes in the various counties of the State, is to be manipulated in the interest o! the Democratic Free Trade Organization, They are led to believe this because Professor W. 0. Latta, of Purdue University, who is said to be a free trader, has been appointed lecturer and general superintendent. The State Board oi Agriculture has been asked to assist in making the institute a success, but hat refused to do anything so far, because of a dislike of the plans for the meetings —lndianapolis News,

Late State News.

Owney Heaton, a “trusty” in the Prison South, who admits having four wives, escaped from that institution on Saturday. Mrs. Christopher Hillard, of Crawfordsville, claims to be annoyed by the ghost of her dead husband prowling around the premises. Nine barrels in twenty minutes is the product of the Phoenix' well at Terre Haute, which is the second one to strike the oil field. This is equivolent to 700 barrels per day. There is earnest talk at Anderson, looking to a revival of the company of Patriarchs Militant, which formerly took high rank among the organized bodies of the State, but was suffered to disband. The result of the courtmtrtial during the State Military Encampment, by which Bergeant Kerr, of Fort Wayne, was dismissed from the service, continues to be vere severely criticised in Northern Indian. Miss Mattie Laughlrn, of Rushville, Is said to be the betrothed of O’Brien, the wife murderer, now awaiting execution in the Lexington, Ky., jail, and she has been strenuous in her efforts to aid the condemned. Miss Laughlin was unaware of his married state until after the foul crime had been committed. Four prisoners awaiting trial at the September term of court, escaped from the jail at Laporte, Monday morning,by tunnelling through the south wall and letting themselves to the ground by means of a rope, made of bed clothes. They had planned the escape for several weeks. A posse of officers started in Kursuit and succeeded in overhauling vo on a farm west of the city. The other two are still at large. While three yonng men were at the house of John Groover, near Liston, Sunday, and were playing with a pistol, a lad named Gardener took possession of the weapon and with the remark, “Now, I’ve got you,” pulled the trigger. A discharge followed and the bullet struck Richard Young, aged seventeen, in the breast, penetrating his heart and killing him instantly. He was the son of John Young. The shooting was the result of carelessness, there being ne ill feeling between the parties.

A Boy’s Chances Spoiled.

Farmer’s Boy—“ Father, why cannot 1 rise iu the world the same as othen men? For instance, why cannot J some day beoome Secretary of Agricuh tureP” Old Farmer—Too late, too late, my son, you know too much about farmin’ ’’ —New York Weekly.

THE MARKETS.

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