Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — Page 6

£ht gepuhlican. Gao.E. Msbrball, Publisher. BKNSSELAER. INDIANI

i A lady died at Barre, Mass., • last week, aged 96, who had never seen a Tailroad train'. Aye, but did she ever tee a base ball batP Crxw. Lord Walsei.et has assumed eommand of the troops in Ireland. May victory crown his .armies no better dhan it did in Egypt Buffalo has a firm named Irish & English. What is equally curious, Mr. English is an Irishman and Mr. Irish an Englishman. ■■iHMniainnaiaaJte ~ Russia is new proposing to enact a law by which all Hebrews may be sent to Siberia without trial. Russia, is capable of just such a proceeding. A oablb says "Etnperof Williaip arrived in Vienna yesterday, and received a Cordial welcome.” We are pleased to hear it We feared that when Emperor William arrived in Vennia be would receive the cold shoulder. A Cork rope is the latest invention. It is made of small corks placed end to end and the whole covered with a braiding of cotton twine; over this is « ooar.-er braiding in heavy strands. According to the inventor a rope one inch thick will stand a strain of 1,000 pounds. It has been computed as an illustration of the great cheapening of ocean freights which has taken place in re* cent years that half a sheet of note paper will develop sufficient power when burned in connection with the triple expansion engine to carry a ton a mile in an Atlantic steamer. , A town in England, Skiddaw, Cumberland, stands unique as a township of one house and one solitary male adult inhabitant. This man is de* proved of his vote because of the fact that there are no overseers to make out a voter's list, and no church or pnblic buildipg on which to publish one, if made.'

Henry the Eighth and His Son Edward—A Royal Baptism.

The grim father was wild with delight when then prince was born. True, he had daughters—Elizabeth and Mary; but this was a son, a veritable heir to his throne! On sueh an occasion it was impossible to do too And accordingly, the christening was celebrated with unusual leplendor. Magnificent carpets, with of red silk and cloth of gold, decked the rooms through which the -procession was to pass. A fire-pan full of coals, ‘-with a good perfume,” was provided to keep the baby warm; the (Christening vessels wereof solid silver, and all persons concerned in the ceremony were ablaze with jewels. Then there was a grand procession to the chapel where the service was held, first came the attendant, noble. ®en and servants, bearing each a torch lor taper; next, Princess Elizabeth, ofterward "Good Queen Bess,” herself at young that she was carried io arms; then, borne under a canopy, the babyprince. with a train many times longer Mian his body ; then the Princess Mary, who was to be godmother; then more attendants, more tapers, and at last the procession leached the chapel, and the baby was duly cristened. His name and titles were proclaimed, splendid gifts were presented, aTe Deum was sung, refreshments - ere passed, the young princesses being treated to spiced wafers and wine, and finally, with a tremendous blares of trumpets to conclude the ceremony, the child was carried back to its mother. King Henry drew up with his own band a list of rules "for in* best care and management,” as he wrote it, • of the holle realmes most precyouse joy* elle [jewel], the Prince’s Grac No •Irani, ors were to visit him without special order (which wa* -eidom granted); and no visitor most to .eh the prince except to kiss hw hand.— 6l Nicholas. At a double wedding in P yson, Ariz.. the tjwo couples and two hundred and fifty spectators were all on horseback. The brother of ©ne of the brides announced that his wedding present would be as manvci ttle a< the arides and their husbands could find and brand that day before sundown. Eighteen head wore captured and branded by each married pair. The grooms U this unique Wedd ng were Thoma* Bench and Charles Co'e, noted eov-boys. and their brides were Maggie Meadows and Julia Hale. 4. A ball of fire, apparently about two feet in diatoeter, fell from the I ctrens during a thunder storm and alighted tn the road near Merrick, L. 1., along which Mr. and Mrs. Stillman of Brooklyn, were riding in a wagon with tbeir jour children. The luminous sphere boiled under the vehicle, ilified it from fce ground, burned the hor-e on the lorebead, knocked two of the children •anseless. blistered Mr. Still man’s right leg and almost tore the shoe from his bight foot

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Two vessels arrived at San Francisco on the T7th with scurvy en board. Senator Morrell was re-elected by the Vermont Legislature Tnesday. An Ashland couety <Ohio) t juryman became insane, imagining he is pursued by bribes. A man at New Market last week sold a hog for S3OO to a man residing at Montevallo. Mo. The official figures for the population of Tennessee are 1,763,723. The population of Memphis is 94,586. Pearls are being found in tbe Sugar river near New Albany, Wis., and great excitement prevails, John Bryan, of Findlay, €)., deserted his three-wedks’ bride, and ran away to Cali-f fornia with her sister. ’ Two men were killed and eight injured by an explosion of giant powder at Leadville, Co!.', on the 14th. In an action at law brought by a Pittsburg citizen, it is alleged that the funds of tbe city are in unsafe hands. A Kansas jury holds it is not a crime to steal liquor in that State, as the keeping of liquors is contrary to law. Two colored women are under arrest in Dayton for robbing veterans of the Soldiers' Home of pension money. Elliot, of Kansas City, defeated Murphy, of New York, in a hundred-birds trap shooting match for $5,000 a side. The town marshal of Falmouth, Ky.. was assassinated on the 17th by unknown parties, while entering his front gate. A prize guess advertisement in the Cleveland Press caused an edition of that paper to be suppressed, Tuesday. Five cases of small-pox have developed in Bt. Louis with n the last two weeks. One of tbe cases resulted fatally. The police census of New York City shows a population of 1,710,715, an increase of 197,210 over the Governmens figures. Mrs. Ann Aldrich's twin babies were fatally burned during her temporary absence from home, in Brooklyn, dayThe attendance at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is unprecedented. Up to Monday 2,234 students had been enolled. Brown county, South Dakota, has had crop failures for three years, and the peo pie are in absolute Want for food, fuel and clothinW. ______i , ' ' ' • - The R. G. Peters Corinpany, one of the largest lumber firms ip Michigan, made an assignment on the 17th. Liabilities exceed $2,000,000. The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered 5 per cent, added to the percentage of old soldiers and sailors applying for civil service promotion. The Ohio Legislature met in special session, at Columbus, on the 14th, called on account of the corruption of the Board,of Public Works, of Cincinnati. Four hundred Boston waiters, white and colored, met Monday night and were organized into a union by a member of the Waiters' Alliance of Chicago. At Chicago Felix Young, laborer, was instantly killed, James Turner, laborer, badly injured, and several others badly bruised by the fall of a derrick. All the Kew York (city) courts adjourned on this 15th in respect to the late Supreme Justice Miller. Appropriate remarks were made by distinguished jurists. Census returns show: State of Illinois 3,8;8,536, an increase of 740,665; Mississippi, 1,284,887, an increase of 153,290; Louisiana, 1,116,828, an increase of 176,882. James W. Miner committed suicide at Gilman, lowa, on the night of the 14th, on account of his wife finding fault with the price at which he sold a load ol potatoes. * Flora Molloy, six years old, of Hazelton, la., who wandered away from her home was found sunk to her chin in the mud of a swamp. She died shortly after being taken home. Two Chicago policemen engaged in a quarrel on the 15th over religious matter?. Finally Tim Madden, one of tbe officer?, drew a revolver and fatally shot Mr. Junge, the other officer, „ At Manitowoc, Wis., a young girl named Louisa Alwardt, aged twenty years, took poison to escape marriage to a man whom she disliked but whom her parents were bound she should marry. Conrad Folz, who has been Cook county’s jailer for nearly thirty years, died at Chicago. He leaves a comfortable fortune of about $1'25,000,, having invested in paying real estate io early days. James Maxwell was hanged at Morris, 111., Friday morning for the murder of Charles Decker in June last. He was game to the last and died apparently the most unconcernedaman in town. On account of failing health Mr. Joseph Pulitzer has retired from the editorship of the New York World. The policy of the paper, nor really of the men at the editorial head, will not be affected. It is claimed that the locomotive, on the Chicago i Erie line which blew up near Huntington, and dangerously injured the engineer and fireman, was condemned two years ago, and that employes had been dis charged for refusing to man the engine. At the Pa Plata coal mines, near Derango, Colo., contracts were let to parties whom tbe miners disliked. In the even ing two miners drove the contractors from camp at the muzzles of their revolvers. One contractor, over seventy years old. died from exposure. William Budd, president of the Farmers’ Alliance in Boone county, Pennsylvania, started for Lebanon to prevent his wife from applying for a divorce. Word reached him before he arrived that she had made the application, whereupon he dropped from his horse dead. The’village of Andale, Kan., was struck by a hurrican Monday and suffered great damage. A large Catholic church was lifted from its foundation and thrown a dist&noe Of many yards. Lighter buildings were tossed about like boxes. Trees were torn up and went flying through the .- - I The overland I stage was robbed on the night of the 12th, eighteen miles jfortb of Uhtah, Cal. The Wells, Fargo & Co. treasure box and the United JSUtes mail sacks were taken. While the robber was cutting the mail sacks Driver Me-

DteMt napped a pistol at him, but it would not go off. The robber retreated and fired two shots at the driver, neither es which- took effect The robber was -caught at Cloverdale on the afternoon of the 13th- He proved to be $ boy about eighteen years old and a stranger in the community. He traveled over sixty miles on footbefore he was captured. He succeeded in getting about SIOO from the stage. He has admitted that he committed the crime Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, tc the surprise of every one, has announced his purpose of speaking at tbe State Fair on the 23d in st. It is intimated that he will endorse the farmers fqlly and advise them to select a Senator as successor to himself who is in complete accord with their policy. •Frank B. Rae, of Chicago, has produced an entirely new electric street motor enabling any sized car to be run with one motor instead of two, reducing the cost of maintenance and repairs one half and doGngaway withall toise and tbe profuse use of oil, which are new the chief objections toother electric motors. The Government building at Chicago, occupying a square, has been condemned and will be abandoned. There are 8,000 employes in the building and accommodations will have to be found for them elsewhere, The building is considered in a dangerous condition, and isapositive men* ace to persons employed therein. Official returns show that the total number of votes cast at the recent Idaho election was 18,008. The majorities received by the Republican candidates for Congress and Governor are as follows: Sweet,Congressman, 2,171; Shoup, Governor, 2,372. Upon joint ballot the Legislature will stand: Republicans,4s; Democrats,9. C. W. Sutterfleld, Republican, and H. J. Thomas, Democrat, candidates for Auditor of Adams coupty, Ohio, hive each deposited $1,500 in tbe Citizens’ Bank of Manchester, making a pool of $3,000, which will be given to the unsuccessful candidate; This is done as a guarantee that no money paign. * Some guessers now declare that Jf the Republicans win at the NtWembßr election there will not be a special session of Congress called, but if they lose there will beThe reason for this prophecy is that if the Republicans lose there are several measures they desire to enact into laws before retiring—these bills being the federal law, the reapportionment bill and the shipping bill and others of less importance. .. For the first time in the history— Brooklyn the children from all the Catholic Sunday schools and Institutions of 'hat city, were out on parade, Sunday. The parade was given in honor of the ,-olden jubilee of Bishop Lough.in. In all, -,000 children turned out and ma'rehedby the episcopal residence, where thqy were reviewed by Bishop Loughlin, Cardinal Gibbons, the visiting bishops and prominent citizens.

William Fillinger and his wife, who live three miles from Perry, Mich., attended a series of revivals and became religious mad in a mild way. With them lived Fill inger’s mother, who has long been physcally frail. It worried Fillinger and his wife that the elder woman was unoaptized, Hid on the 18th they decided that the necessary religious rite should be performed, although the poor woman was confined to her bed, unable even to rise. Taking water to her room they began the ceres mony by dashing water in her face, and ct ntinued it until, from shock and exhauss ton, their victim died. Fillinger and his wife were arrested and taken to jail aX Comma. * FOREIGN. The deaths from cholera at Aleppo aver]; age fifty daily. Eleven persons committed suicide in Paris on the 14th. Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, has taken up his residence at Versailles. Sixteen members of the crew of the bark Malmesby were lost off the Nova Scotian coast on the 10th. Dr. Koch, of Berlin, has ceased to make experiments in the cure of consumption, and it is presumed that his method of treating the disease has been a failure. A preliminary meeting was held at Paris on Monday, by the American Congress, which formally opened its session TuesdayThe tribal history of America will be the subject of research. The returns issued by the French Board of Trade show that the >-.outh of September the imports increased 6,196,000 francs, and the exports] decreased 6,456,0(0 francs as compared with the corresponding month last year. Advices were received from Victoria, B. C., on the 14th, announcing the arrival of tne sealing schooner San Diego. The San Diego reported that she put into Ounalaska and was ordered away by the collector of customs. She refused to leave, and was thereupon threatened with seizure. Shu claims she had put into port for supplies, but was obliged to go to sea again to escapu seizure. The captain reports he caught 51J seals in Behring sea, despite the vigilance of the cutters Corwin and Rush, and his total catch for the season was over I,IOC seals. Dispatches from London ? assert thai Spain cannot negotiate a reciprocity treatj with the United States for the Cubar trade without violating the “favored na tion clause’’ in the existing treaties witl other nations. It is said at the Departmenl of State that this point was discussed and finally decided in 1884, when Minister Fos ter negotiated a reciprocity treaty on ths same basis that is now proposed, and is now revived, not by Spain, but by the com marcial interests of Great Beitain for az obvious purpose. Tho United States alsc has the “favored natiuz. clause” in mostol her commercial treaties, ui»t thiq will no) embarrass the government in the pegotis ation of reciprocity treaties or arrangements with other nations, because the Department Of State has uniformly held, from the time of Mr. Jefferson as Secre (ary of State to Mr. Blaine, that the faI voted nation clause applies only where privileges are granted freely,'and without a consideration ; but wherever a special consideration is made the condition of a favor granted or received, the favored no on clause does not apply.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Lp grippe is paying Elkhart county another visit. i The Hebrews of Kokomo have a successful Sunday school. t David Rudictl, of Liberty township, Wabash county, extracted his corns with a knife and died of blood poisoning. | Several cases of malignant diphtheria ! and scarlet fever are reported ip Staunton, Newberg, Carbon and other points, with a few deaths. ' In filling a political appointment in Madison, Hon. Jos. E. McDonald wa|> advertised as the “Gladstone of American Democracy.” ['■ Francis Sargent, a young Englishman, working as a ditcher in White county, has fallen heir to SIO,OOO by the death of a relative in England. The dead body of an unknown man who had IbsUan arm was foundln the woods near Goshen. It is not knowa whether it is a murder or suicide. r Twenty indictments for forgery have peen returned against Freeman Cooper, of Kokomo, the attorney who fled some months ago, but who returned and gave, bond for trial. .Horace Fallis, Martinsville, aged twelve, lied suddenly, and a postmortem held showed that his death was brought on by eating too many pawpaws. The seeds lodged in one of the small intestines and caused acute congestion. Mrs. A. R. Beardsley, of Elkhart, pre •sented the city schools with flags, and the occasion was made.one of public importing; the G. A. R. posts, societies, fire department and 3,000 school children joining in a parade of the streets and other exercises. The farmers’ fight against toll-roads in Henry county continues with unabated vigor. William Herkless forcibly removed the pole at the toll-house on the Knightstown and Greensboro pike, and was arrested for tresspass. A jury of farmers acquitted him, and farmers also contributed to defray the expenses appeal to a higher court. During a political quarrel at Corydon, Captain William L. Purcell struck Col. W. W. Kintner with a stick of wood, knocking him down and breaking one of his legs. Tbe quarrel was kept quiet at first, the injured man reporting that his broken leg was due to an accidental fall, out on the 13lh he caused the arrest of his assailant for attempted murder. The Jackson County Assembly Farmer’s Mutual Benefit Association has elect--4 the following officers: President, W. W. Winkler; Vice President, J. G. Offutt; Secretary. Oliver M, Foster; Treasurer, James Smith! Delegates to State Assembly, J. G. Offutt, W. W. Winkler, James T. Russell, J. A. Foster, James Marsh, John Thomas, Andrew Spry, W. L. Wright. When Governor Hovey and staff reached Petersburg last week, on the occasion of the soldiers’ reunion, be was met by a com nittee and escorted to a vehicle which was attached to a straw-stacker; the stacker to a grain separator, and the latter to a water tank wagop, while the whole was Irawn by a traction engine. The Otwell Brass Band, seated on top of the seperaor, whiled away the time with “Marchin’ Thro’ Georgia.” Patents were issued Tuesday to Indianians as follows: C. A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, shearing machine; B. S. Boydston, Clunette, stethoscope; E. Brettney, Indianapolis, dust collector: E F Clemens, Albion, music notatiqp; C Oomstock, Indianapolis, road cart; M Garwood, South Bend, wheel plow; M C Henley, Richmond, lawn mower; G P Pearson and J A Foster, Attica, barrel stand: W S Ralya, Indianapolis, saw tool and device for jointing and dressing saws; N H Roberts, Indianapolis, devise for jointing and dressing saws; £ F Saverer, Land, combined mower and hay tedder; B C Wickers, Westfield, brick and tile kiln; B B Wright Evansville, bracket or shelf. The Indiana Live Stock Sanitary Commission filed its annual report with the Governor, Tuesday. The amount paid for sixty-nine horses killed Jn the various counties by order of the commission aggregated $2,235, making an average allowance of $33.83. The salaries of the commission amounted to $2,114, and their expenses $1,044.14. Contagious glanders were reported as existing among the horses, and tuberculosis and big-jaw among tbe cattle in many localities of the State. It has been the work of the commission to quar an tine all known cases as far as practicable, and to save the State from paying an excessive amount for animals killed by or der of the commission. The report of the State veterinarian. M. E. Knowles, was embodied in the commissioners’ report He found glanders existing in fifteen of the twenty counties visited, directly traceable in most instances to Texas ponies. In flu-, enza in a mild form prevailed over the eastern and northern portions of the State during the summer. The cattle have been exceptionally healthy, and tuberculosis, when found, and that to small degree, was usually among dairy cattle. Tbe live stock of the State, generally, is reported as very healthy.

ORIGINAL PACKAGES GO.

A Decision of the Federal Court Allows Them to be Opened. A decision was rendered in the United States Circuit Court in Topeka, Friday morning, that has dropped like a bombshell and created consternation among the friends of prohibition in Kansas. The decision in question allows the reopening of original package liquor houses in that State, and in effect declares that the Wilson bill enacted by Congress does not restore the power of the Kansas prohibitory law as against original package saloons. The facts in the cash are that Charles Raaner, agent for a Kansas City liquor hou/e, wife arrested for selling liquor in Topeka after (the passage of the Wilson bill* The defbudant applied to the United States Circuit Court for a writ of habeas corpus, admitting that he sold liquors as charged, .butclaimed that inasmuch as the Kansas prohibitory law was enacted before the Wilson bill, that the Wilson bill did loot apply. Judges Foster and Phillips .ustamed this view and granted the writ,

NO MORE PLURAL MARRIAGES.

The New York Independent published on Thursday articles received by telegraph from President Woodruff, of the Mormon Church, and'Governor Thomas, of Utah, concerning the action of th? Mormon conference, of Oct. 6, forbidding polygamy. President Woodruff says: “The action of tbe conference is conclusive. The churcir has no disposition to violate the laws or defy the government. The revelation of God requires us to obey the constitutional laws sis ths land. Judge Zane has recognized the action of, the church as sincere and final, and has rescinded the rule excluding Mormon aliens from naturalization.” Gov. Thomas says: “The manifesto of the President of the church has now been confirmed by the conference. It comes with the force of a new revelation, and whatever doubt may have existed as to the purpose and -egect bf the manifesto as first sent out, they now seem to be removed. The Gentiles rejoice that the contest begun so many years ago against polygamy has finally triumphed, for they believe that never again will polygamy flourish on American soil. This is the most important event that has occurred in the Mormon Church in years, and it is believed it will result in greatly advancing the material interests and prosperity of the Territory.^^-^±-;

A PREACHER’S EXPERIMENT.

He Kills and End-a.ors to Restore to Life, But is Unsuccessful. Primus Jones, colored, was killed Sun> day morning at Sumter, S. C. A protracted meeting was being held by the negroes at Beulah Church, and the greatest ex citement prevailed. It was at first reported that Primus had been offered as a sacrifice to the Holy Ghost because of his incredulity. Deputy Coroner Norris held an inquest at the church. The testimony showed that, in a perfect frenzy of fanaticism, Jones was killed by Rev. A. H. Durant, the negro pastor, and one Richard Campbell, a prominent member of the church, because the deceased had expressed doubts about the supernatural power of Durant to kill and restore to life, and that it was a test case, but the experiment failed. A large number of Durant’s congregation believed that he possessed supernat’ ural power until his failure in th is case. The finding was that Jones was murdered by Richard Campbell and A. H. Durant. The jury was composed of intelligent colored men, and the Coroner complimented them on thqjr verdict The prisoners are in jail. -

A RISE IN PROVISIONS.

The advance of all kinds of clothing and wearing materials, cigars and other manufactured articles affected by the McKinley bill has been followed during the past few days at Chicago by a decided rise in the price of provisions. Nobody has attempted to allege that eggs, beet and mutton, butterand vegetables and other necessities of the daily table had been affected by the latest tariff law, but all tbe same the provision doalers seem to have got it into their heads that as every other branch of retail industry is marking up its prices they have a right to be in fashipn. Many of the leading restaurants have increased their rates on their bills of fare, and those that retain their old prices have either re duced the quantity served or attached prices to the side dishes hitherto served without extra cost with the regular order. Altogether should prices continue it will cost both rich and poor fully 20 per cent more this winter for the necessaries of their tables than it did a year ago. Tratnffig Grapes' oh Trees, M. Crawfort). well-known Ohio nurseryman, says the natural support of the grape vine is the treo. He would er farmers to grow grapes on trees fcr their own use, if they have not time to grow them in any better way. Grapes rot less on trees than in vine yards. There is a right and & wrong way of even getting a vine into a tree. It will be a slow process to plant a vino at the root of an established tree and train it up the body. The proper way is to plant it at some distance from the tree, and grow it on a stalk u til the erd of the second year, By this time one should have a ripe cane six or eight feet high. It may then be trained into the branches, after which it will take care of itself. It will grow very rapidly until it reaches the top While growing fast it will develop few fruit buds, but when it can go no higher, and must grow horizontally, if at all, will bear abundantly-

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, October 17, 1890. GRAIN. ■ ] Wheat. Corn. Oats. | Rye ' Indianapolis.. 2rd 99 1w 52 2 w 43% 3rd91%2ye5l , Chicago.*..,—. 2 r'd Hi 51 %j 42% 68 Cincinnati 2 r'd 100 5»% 45 63 3t. Louis 2rd 99% 43 40 i , New York 2 rd 107% 18 47% ” ,77 Baltimore *WI 56 42 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 102 58% 53 Clover Toledo.. 101% 52' 45 410 Detroit. . 1 wh IJO 54 , 45? Minneapolis : 109 Louisville j UTI STOCK. Cattlb —Export grades fl.lO *4.i ( GguoU to cuoice snippers.. 4.10(aj4. i Common to medium snippers.... (u,3. « Stockers, 500 to Sob tt» .'.... 2.(8 (tta.O Good to cnoice heifers 2.50*a3.iC Common to medium heifers..... 2.Good to dnoice cows,... Fair to medium cows..,. 1.7 (gpj.i£ Hous —Heavy.. tr.DitjL Light/..... ( 4. :5«Q4.3 Mixed............ 4. U(gi, • Heavy roughs.. 3. . t Sheep—Good to ch0ice....;..;.. 4;3'«H.S Fair to medium 3. MISCELLANEOUS. Eggs Fc. Butter, Creamery :2®3 ; Dairy le, Good Country ic. Feathers, 35c. Bees Wax, la*<s2o; Wool 3u<jg3s, Unwashed 3 Poultry, Hans c. Turkeys 80 toms CJevar seed 45)(J4,;5.

INDIANA CHARITIES.

■xelmngeof VkwiMUth« Beat Method* ot Caring for Unto, tunatea. The first State Conference of Charities *t Indianapolis, Ths people $1 attendance consist of county commits oners, township trustees, super* jntendents us county poor asylums, superintendents of orphans’ homes, and others engaged in charitable work. Secretary Johnson, of the State Board, Rev. Oscar McCullough and John R. Elder were the moving spirits of the conference. The at* tendance was quite large. A permanent organization was effected by the election of John R. Elder, president and Alexander Johnson, secretary. The pappr on .be sub;ect was read by S. K. Leatherman, super* intendentof the Elkhart County Asylum. The Elkhart County Farm consists of 1'23 acres, with 100 acres under cultivation. Mr. Leatherman made the point that the poor could be more economically cared for where a large farm was connected with she institution. Mr. Leatherman thought the most important duty of a superintend-. out was the purchase of supplies; this is where there was frequently a great waste. He advised against buying cheap goods. He. had experimented, he said, and had bund it was more economic to always buy good goods. • He followed the same plan n the kitchen aud dining room; the inmates were always given the best. Superintendent Williams, of the Marion County Asylum, opened the discussion in a lengthy talk about his methods of management. There are, he said, 3)5 inmates >f the Marion County Asylum. There were but 220 acres of land connected with the institution, while 400 could be utilized to advantage. Mr. Williams belived the areat waste came from the table. It was uis pan to save everything that wasn’t consumed at the table. For instance, if an inmate did not eat all tbe bread that was brought him at one meal it was saved and returned to him at the next. Mr. WiL liams also believed there was economy in □uying agoodarticle,o' clothing, but in an asylum like the one in this county where 'here were so many transient inmates it could not be done. The tax-payers, ho said, were Imposed on continually by people being sent to the poor fa m who had no business there. The taxpayers of Marion county, he said, were constantly paying for the keeping of vass. The cost of running the Marion County Asylum, Mr. William* said, was SB2 or SB3 per capita per year. Mr. McCarty, of the Henry counjy Orphans’ Home, followed Mr. Williams.! He,. urged that children in orphans’ homes be taught to work. His plan was to instruct the boys in farming, and the girls how to sew and do all kinds of house and kitchen work. Mr. Breckenridge, Trustee of Allen township, Allen county, objected to calling poor asylums “poor farms.” The latter name, he said, grated harshly upon the ears of many people. Mr. Breckinridge called attention to the mistake made in many counties of letting the position of medical attendant to the lowest bidder. He thought physicians should be employed on accountof their fitness, and notbecause they were able to underbid some one else. Mrs. Franklin, of Bedford, asked a ques' tion that none of the Superintendents present seemed anxious to answer. She said she had understood that sametimes when inmates refused to work they were whipped. She wanted to know if many Superintendents did resort to whipping. One Superintendent replied that he found Bible authority for shutting eff the rations of a mail who wouldn’t work: that always brought a lazy man to time. The economic question was discussed by quite a number of other delegates. Joshua M. Hull, Superintendent of tbe Vigo county asylum, read a paper on “Care of Insane and Idiots in County Poor Asylums.” and Qtto Williams, of the Marion' county asylum, one on “Care of Helpless and Sick Inmates." Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch delivered aa address on the -‘Value of Conferences of Charities." The speaker said there are • 15,000 rec ipi en t & 0 f ch ar ity in Indi an a, re* quiring an annual expenditure of $2,000,000. The he believed, had an op* portunity to accomplish much good. Short addresses were made by Commissioner Winderly, of Vanderburg county; Super, intendent Charlton, of the Reform Sohoob Lieutenant Governor Chase and others;

"YOU CAN’T DOWN A CHRISTIAN”

Four white men and ten negroes of Eppstone, (town) N. C., on the 15th, had a“litr tie affair." The negroes were too many for the white men, and while the scrap was at its height a white stranger rode up bn a blaok hors 3, looked around for a moment, sprang from his horse- and said: “You can’t down a Christian.” In less than ten seconds he had laid out five of the negroes and ended the fight. After quiet was restored he was asked his n ame. He said he was from Virginia, and for want of a better name was sometimes called “Un* cle Hannah." He inquired the way to Coinjock Bridge, sprang into the saddle, and was off like aflash. "Young Sullivan’’ was never seen in those parts before. He is of medium size, and is evidently a fighter from “way back.” An old darkey standing by said he “don’t know what dat man woulder did es he had ar got mad, fer he licked five an never etopped smilin’ nor tuk his cigar out of his mouth." Oren Munger, the Anderson tailor, has left the city apd no one knows where he is. He is under SSOO bonds for kidnapping his own child, S3OO for abducting Miss Mollie Moore, SSO for carrying concealed weapons and is defendant in a SIO,OOO damage suit brought by the mother of Miss Moore. Munger is a married man and is said to possess considerable wealth. A special from Cleveland, 0., says: The Cleveland, Canton & Southern railroad has been indicted for violating the interstate commerce law. It is charged that the railroad has failed to file with the In* ferstote Commerce Commission a schedule of its joint tariffs and rates. Also that tba road has not posted in conspicuous places’ notices of its increased or reduced rates. The Erie road is also' indicted fdr not posting its schedule of rates. The offense is , punishable with a fine uotexoeealng $5,000.