Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1891 — Page 3

BRAVE MEN.

Men Who Do Exploits Should Be of Great Soul. They Are Worshipped by All Mankind— Should Be of Christ-Like Mould — Dr. Talmage’s Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Ocean ©rove, N. J., Sunday. Text: Daniel xi, 32. He said: Antiochus Epiphanes, tjie old sinner, came down three times with his army to desolate the Israelites, advancing one time with a hundred and two elephants swingings their trunks this way and that, and 62,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry troops and they were driven back. Then, the second time, he advanced with 70,000 armed men and had been again driven back. But the third time he laid successful siege until the navy, of Rome came in with the flash of their long banks of oars and demanded that the siege be lifted.' And Antioehus Epiphanes said -he wanted time to consult with his friends about it, and Popilius, one of the Roman embassadors, took a staff and made a circle on the ground around Antiochus Epiphanes and compelled him to decide before he came out of that circle, whereupon he lifted the siege. Some of the Hebrews had submitted to the invader, but some of them resisted valorously, as did Eleazer when he had swine’s flesh forced into his mouth, spit it out, although he knew he must die for it, and did die for it; and others, as my text says, did exploits An exploit I would define to be a heroic act, a brave feat, a great achievement. ‘•Well,” you say, “I admire such things, but there is no chance forme; mine is a sort of hum-drum life. If I had an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight I also could do exploits.” You are right so far as great wars are concerned. There will probably be no opportunity to distinguish yourself in battle. The most of the Brigadier-generals of this country would never have been heard of if it had not been for the war.

Neither will you probably become an inventor. Nineteen hundred and ninety-nine out of every two thousand inventions found in the Patent Office at Washington-never yielded their authors enough money to pay for the expenses of securing the patent. You will probably never be a Morse, or an Edison, or a Humphrey Davy, or Eli Whitney. There is not much probability that you will be the one out of the hundred who achieves extraordinary success in the commercial or legal or medical or literary spheres. What then? Can you have no opportunity to do exploits? lam going to show that there are three opportunities open that are grand, thrilling, far-reaching, stupendous ami overwhelming. They are before you now. In one, if not all three of them, you may do exploits. The three greatest things on earth to do are to save a man or save a woman or save a child. During the course of his life almost every man gets into an exigency, is caught between two fires, is ground between two millstones, sits on the edge of some precipice, x>r in some other way comes near demolition’. It may he a financial or a moral or a domestic or a social or a political exigency. You sometimes see it in courtrooms, Some young man has got into bad company and he lias offended the law, and"he is arraigned. All blushing and confused, he is in the presence of judge and jury and lawyers. He can be sent right on in the wrong direction. He is feeling disgraced, and he is almost desperate.

Let the district attorney overhaul him as though he were an old offender; let the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to say a word for Mm because he can not afford a considerable fee; let the judge give no opportunity for presenting the mitigating circumstances, hurry up the ease and hustle him off to Auburn or Sing Sing. If he should live seventy years, for seventy years he will be a criminal, and eacirdeeade of bis life will be blacker than its predecessor. In the interegnums of prison life he can get no work, and be is glad to break a window pane, or blow up a safe, or play the highwayman, so as to get back within the walls where he can get something to eat and hide himself from the gaze of the woi’ld. Why don’t his father come and help him? His father is dead. Why don’t his mother aome and help him?. She is dead. Where are all the ameliorating and salutary influences of society? They do not touch him. Why did not some one long ago in the case understand that there was an for the exploit which would be fam-

ous in heaven a quadrillion of years after the earth had becorpe scattered ashes in the last whirlwind? Why did not the District Attorney take that young man into his private office and say: “My son,-I see that you are the victim of circumstances. This is your first crime. You arc sorry. I will bring the person you wronged into your presence, and you will apologize and make all the reparation you can, and I will give you another chance.” , Or that young man is presented in the court room,and he has no friends present, and the Judge says: “Who is your counsel?” And he answers: “I have none.” And the Judge says: “Who will take this young man’s case?” And there is a dead halt,and no one offers, and after awhile the Judge turns to some attorney, who never had a good case in all his life, and never vyill, and whose advocacy would be enough to secure the condemnation of innocence itself. And the professional incompetent crawls up beside the prisoner, helplessness

to rescue despair, when theie ought to be a struggle among all the best men of the profession as to who should have the honor of trying to help that unfortunate. How much would such dn attorney have received as his fee for such an advocacy? Nothing in dollars, buti much every way in a happy consciousness that would make his own life brighter, and his own dying pilldw sweeter, and his own heaven happier—the consciousness that he had saved a man! There sometimes comes exigencies n the life of a woman. One morning a few years ago 1 saw in the newspaper that there fvas a young woman in New York, whose pocketbook containing $37.33 had been stolen, and she had been left without a penny at the beginning of winter, in a strange city, and no work. And although she was a stranger T did not allow the 9 o’clock mail to leave the lamp-post on our corner without carrying the $37.33; and the case was proved genuine. Now I have read all Shakspere’s tragedies, and all Victor Hugo’s tragedies, and all Alexander Smith’s tragedies, but I never read a tragedy more thrilling than that case, and similar cases by the hundreds and thousands in all our large cities; young women without money and without home and without work in the great maelstroms of metropolitan life. When, such a case comes under your observation, how do you treat it? “Get out of my way, we have no room in our establishment for any more hands. I don’t believe in women any way; they are a lazy, idle, worthless set. John, please show this person out the door.” Or do you compliment herpersoiial appearance, and sqy to her things which if any man said to your sister or daughter you would kill him on the spot? That is one way and it is tried every day in the large cities, and many of those who advertise for female help in-fac-tories, and for governesses in families, have proved themselves unfit to be in any place outsidejof hell. But there is another way, and I saw it one day in the Methodist Book Concern in New York, where a young woman applied for work, and the gentleman in tone and manner said in substance: “My daughter, we employ women here, but I do not know of any vacant place in our department. "You had better inquire at such and such a place, and I hope you will be successful in getting something to do. Here is my name and tell them I sent you.” The embarrassed and humiliated woman seemed to give way to Christian confidence. She started out with a hopeful look that I think must have won for her a place in which to earn her bread, I rather think that considerate and Christian gentleman save a woman.

New York and Brooklyn ground up last year about 30,000 young women and would like to grind up as many this year. Out of all that long procession of women who march on with no hope for this world or the next, battered and bruised and scoffed at, and flung off the precipice, not one but what might have been saved for home aud God aud heaven. But good men and good women are not in that kind of business. Alas for the poor thing! Nothing but the thread of that sewing girl’s needle held her, and the thread broke. I have heard men tell in public discourse what a man is. But what is woman? Until some one shall give a better defination. I will tell you what woman is. Direct from God a sacred and delicate gift, with affections so great that no measuring line short of that of the infinite God can tell their bound. Fashioned to refine and soothe and lift and irradiate home and society and the world. Of such value that no one can appreciate it, unless his mother lived long enough to let him understand it, or who in some great crisis of life, when all else failed him, had a wife to reinforce him with a faith in God that nothing could disturb. Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the feet that rocked you and the anxious faces that hover over you! Speak out, ye nurseries of all Christdendom, and the homes, whether desolate or still in full bloom with the faces of wife, mother and daughter, and help me to define what woman is. But of the sea correspond with the heights of the mpuutains. I have to tell you that a good womanhood is not higher up than bad womanhood is deep down.

The grander the place the more awful the conflagration that destroys it. The grander the steamer Oregon the more terrible her going down just off the coast. Now I should not wonder if you tremble a little with a sense of responsibility when I say that there is hardly a person in this house but may have an opportunity to save a woman. It may in your case be done by good advice, or by financial help, or by trying to bring to bear some one of a thousand inflyenceSi If. for instance, you find a woman in financial distress and breaking down in health and spirits try ing to support her children, now that her husband is dead or an invalid, doing that very important and honorable work —but which is little appreciated—keeping a boarding house, where all the guests, according as they pay small board, or propose, without paying a/jy board at all, to decamp, are critical of every thing and hard to please, busy yoursplf m trying to get her more patrons, and teli her of divine sympathy. Yea, if you see a woman favored of fortune and with all kindly surroundings, finding in the hollow flatteries of the world her chief regalement. living;Jprherself and for time as if their were no eternity, strive to bring her into the kingdom of God. There is another exploit you can

do, and that is to save a child. A child does not seem to amount to much. It is nearly a year old before it can walk at all. For the first year and a hall it cannot speak a word. For the first ten years it would starve if it had to earn its own food. For the first fifteen years its opinion on any subject is absolutely valueless. And then, there are sp-many of them. My, what lots of children! And. some people have contempt for children. They are good for nothing but to wear out the carpets and break things and keep you awake nights crying. Well, your estimate of a child*is quite different from that Tnother’s estimate who lost her child this summer. They took it to the salt air of the sea shore and to the tonic air of the mountains, but no help came, and the brief paragraph of its life is ended. Suppose that life could be restored by purchase, how much would that bereaved mother give? She would take all the jewels from her fingers and neck and bureau and put them down. And if told that that was not enough, she would take her house and make over the deed for it, and if that was not enough, she would call in all her investments and put down all her mortgages and bonds, and if told that was not enough, she would say: “I have made over all my property and if I can have that child back I will now pledge that I will now toil with my hands and carry with my own shoulders in any kind of hard work, and live in a cellar and die in a garret. ' Only give me back that lost darling!” I am glad there are those who know something of the value of a child. Its possibilities are tremendous. What will those hands yet do? Where will those feet yet walk? Toward what destiny will that never dying soul betake itself? Shall those lips be the throne of blasphemy or benediction? Come chronologist, and calculate the decades on decades, the centuries on centuries, of its lifetime. Oh, to save a child! Am I not right in putting that among the great exploits? But what are you going to do with those children who are worse off than if their father and mother had died the day they were born? There are tens of thousands of such. Their parentage was against them. Their name is against them. The structure of their skulls is against them. Their nerves and muscles contaminated by the inebriety or dissoluteness of their parents; they are practically, at their birth, laid out ou a a plank in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, in an equinoctial gale, and told' to make for shore. What to do with them is the question often asked. There is another question quite as pertinent, and that is, what are they going to do with us? They will, tea or eleven years from now, have as many votes as the same number of well-born children, and they will hand this land over to anarchy and political damnation just as sure as we neglect them. Suppose we each one of us save a boy or save a girl. You can do it. Will you? I will. How shall we get ready for one or all of these three exploits? We shall make a dead failure if in our own strength we try to save a man or woman or chili. But my text suggests where we are to get equipment. “The people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits,” We must know him through Christ in our own salvation and then we shall have his help in the salvation of others. And while you are saving strangers you may save some of your own kin., You think your brothers and sisters and children and grandchildren are safe, but they are not dead and no oneTs safe till he is dead. My friends, let us start out to save some oi.e for time and eternity, some man, some woman, some child. And who knows but it may, directly or indirectly, be the salvation of one of our own kindred, and that will bo an exploit worthy of celebration when the world itself is wrecked 3ftd the sun has gone out like a spark from a smitten anvil and all the stars are dead.

Judge Waxem’s Political Proverbs

Its a blessing to the community that politikie campanes comes by fits and starts. When a statesman gets crazy to be president he aint fit fer his callin till he gits cured. Honest men aint nacherly politishans. We air a grate natiun but wc don’t know it all yit. Wimmin never was bilt totgide the ship of state. 4 * Ei we didn't pay no taxes, we wuldn't sod like we owned a sheer in the country. Take keer of your votes and politicks will take iceor of themselves. Newspapers is the nashunal boomers. Money aint wuth no more ner less than wliat it will buy. Patriotism oughtent to declare no cash dividends. — —■ —

His Hump a Savings Bank.

For years there was a beggar on the steps of Saint Sulpice with a hump which steadily grew. l A few months ago he was taken ill and in dcliruin jumped out of a window and was.killed. A neighbor who picked him up upon investigating his hump found that it contained $20,000 in bonds and coin. Finding that the beggar had two relatives to whom he had left his fortune by will, th j finder sent the money to them with* the exception of $4,000. The rola tives discovered this fact, and prosecution for theft, the man in question was condemned to two years imprisonment.

SHELBYVILLE LYNCHING.

Charles Hawkins, a Desperado - Strung Up to a Tree. Hawkins Shoo Down the City Marshal, and Retribution Overtakes Him la Short Order. :

At Shelbyville, about 4 o'clock p. m., bu the 2Sd, Charles Hawkins was in the saloon of Reddin Doran, drinking and playing pool. At the pool table he won a dollar, with which he proceeded to buy liquor. When under the influence of drink ha was a perfect flend, ready to murder a person at a word. While in this condition h« raised a quarrel with John Chambers,who refused to quarrel with him and walked out of the saloon. Hawkins followed out on to Harrison street, cursing and appearing anxious for a fight. The street was crowded with pcoplo when Marshal Bruce came along, and, approaching Hawkins, told him he must keep quiet and not get into trouble. This only infuriated him the more, and, drawing a revolver, a murderous 38-call ■ her, he denounced the MarsfiaTand told him that np Shelbyville officer could arrest him. Bruce courageously started for the man, and the sharp report of Hawkins's fire in return but his revolver would not work. While thus engaged the three shots from Hawkins’s weapon struck him on the right side, below the shoulder blade, the bails ranging down and entering tho right lung. One ball passed entirely through the body, After being shot Bruce displayed great nerve by advancing and grabbing Hawkins. Starting with his man toward the county jail Bruce fell iu his tracks some fifty feet from the saloon. Officer Johnson came up and hustled the desperado off behind the bars. After Hawkins had emptied his revolver his son came rushing up and gave his father a fresh revolver. After Bruce had fallen to theground oldman Hawkins rushed up and tried to strike the prostrate man with a buggy whip. A great crowd gathered on the street and the excitement was intense. Bruce was elected marshal in May last and Is a young man hbout thirty years old with a wife and children. The Hawkins tribe ia3 for years been a terror to t c people of Shelby county. They formerly resided in the village of Marietta aiW committed many deeds of violence and bloodshed. Charles Hawins, it is. said, shot a man in Tipton some years ago. He has played the Jesse James in Shelby countv for a long, time, but his career is now well about over. Sheriff McDougall is making extra defense to-night in case of an attack upon tho jail. Hawkins is about thirtyfive years old and in poor health from consuption.

HANGED AT MIDNIGHT.

At 12:30 o’clock on the night of the 22d a mob of 300 men surrounded the county jail at Shelbyville, where Charles Hawkins was incarcerated, for the purpose of taking him out and hanging him. About one hundred approached the jail and knocked at the door on the south sjjle. Sheriff McDougal responded, crowd grappled and Overpowered him> The keys of the jail proper were quickly secured, and Hawkins was found oa the ower floor. He asked time to pray, and crossed his hands over his breast. A rope was placed around his neck and the desperado dragged to the court house yard. The nearest tree was used and the man quickly strung up. The body was shot full of bullets, and the crowd ned, leaving it still hanging to the tree.

A NEW YORK DISASTER.

Sudden Collapse of a Building in Park Place. Probably Fifty Inmates Crushed In Its Debris—Not a Soul Escapes— An Awful Horror.

A dreadful catastrosphe, fraught with a great loss of life, occurred in New York shortly after the noon hour Saturday. Men, women and children, who, after a weak's 'weary toil, within but a few minutes of their usual half-holiday, met death without a word of warning by the fall of Taylor’s building, Nos. 36 and 60. Part:-Place, Anywhere from thirty to fifty persons were killed. How many are in the ruins nobody knows, neither sit known what caused the collapse. It may have been an explosion, or the building mar have fallen because it was overweighted, or by the vibration of the printing presses. The building was condemned a few years ago. Some persons said that the bqjilor in the basement exploded, Whatever it was. the wreck was complete and the havoc awful. The whole front wall of the building was torn out and dashed into lieap of ruins, which ex tended'Entirely across and partly blocks the street. Following the crash came an outburst of flame, and in ten minutes ail that was left of the building was a solid wall of fire. Tho most terrible loss of life occurcd in Peterson’s restaurant, which occupied the ground floor. It was a very popular little restaurant and wa9 well filled. An eyewitness of the dlsastor says at tho time of the explosion fully fifty persoqgf- were seated at the tables. In addidion to this number there were the waiters, the cooks and the proprietor and cashier, wh% if the estimate of fifty customers is correct would swell the hist of the dead in the restaurant alone to fifty-eight or sixty. Just exactly what momeut the explosion took place is not known; it was probably nearer twenty minutes pt3t 12 o’clock than half past, so .that only those who sh>it down the moment the hour for knocking off work came, and had already left the building, escaped. One tiling alone is certain, and that is that those unfortunates who were in the building when the aw. r u crash came were either crushed to deatli or burled alive. Fire added to the awful horror. It broke out with fury, and bthe»tiino the department got to work h ■ enveloped a large part of the ruins. It wai gotten under control, but not until, It is feared, many of the victims in t ie ruins had been burned. The work of rescue began at once and continued all day .Sunday and Monday. At this wrilin-r Seventeen bodies of the fifty in the ruins had been recovered. Not a person rescued alive. The scenes were the »io>t heartrending. ,

3,000 KILLED IN BATTLE.

The Wax Dogs of Chili Turned Loose at Valparaiso. Ralmaceda’s Soldiers Repulsed—Another Pattla Baaing—Watching the Consist from Valparaiso. New Yobs, Aug. 24.—The Herald this morning has Valparaiso, Chili, cable dispatches substantially as follows: President Balmaceda aud the junta de Gobierno are clinched in the final desperate struggle for the mastery of the Republic of Chili, The chosen battle ground is in full view of the city of Valparaiso, and thousands of anxious eyes are watching from every pointof vantage the battle which is to decide the fate of the country. The battle has been raging practically for three days. The first engagement was at the mouth of the Aconcagua on Friday and resulted in reverse to the government The final test of strength is now being made at Vina Del Mar Beach, directly across Valparaiso bay and less than five miles away. When reached here that, an army of 6,(XX> rebels had been landed at Quintero bay Thursday Balmaceda an<j generals were taken by surprise, but tli< utmost activity was used in getting troops to the front so as, if possible, to prevent the invading army from crossing the Aconcagua river immediately south of the bay, The arrangements were made, however, and only a little over half of the troops were available for this purpose. - . . t . __ ■ Six of the insurgent war ships were anchored in Cosnon bay at the mouth of the river, and under cover of their guns lli; army of the junta undertook the task a 1 forcing a passage of the liver ou Friday morning. A most desperate and bloody battlo resulted, lasting nearly all day. Afire from the insurgent army, which was parked on the northern bank of the river, aided by the heavy batteries and machine guns from the ships, was toe much for the government troops and they wore forced to retire, which they did Id good order. Both sides fought with the utmost valor and while less than 30,000 troops were engaged the list of casualties is nearly 3,000 killed and wounded. The General in command of the government forces selected a strong position on the beach of Vina Del Mar, the eastern shore of Valparaiso bay, at his second line of defense, and leaving force enough in front of the enemy to check his progress somewhat, took his place there Saturday and went to work to strengthen it as much as possible. All day the insurgent forces pushed their way steadily forward, driving the comparatively small government force before them. At every pointof vantage the Batmacedist made a stand, and while they were forced to give way before superior numbers, they retarded the advance and -save the main army at Vina Del Mar a . wance to better prepare Itself for the decisive fight. It was not until late in the evening that the attacking army arrived in front of Balmaceda's main line of defense. It was then too late to give battle. In the meantime President Balmaceda, with every available man In this department, with himself in command, went to the fronts He had over 10,000 available fighting men, while the insurgent forces had been re? duced to less than 7,000. At the back of tho government line is Fort Callao,tho heavy guns of which have lone good work in this battle, both in rallying the enemy by land and preventing the insurgent fleet, which had entered the bay, from doing anything rnqre effective

than long range firing. The congrcssionalists attacked in force this morning and all day long the battle lias raged with the utmost fierceness. The war ships did alrthey could to aid their land forces, but they had regard for the heavy guns in the fort and were compelled to do their fighting at long range. Consequently they were not nearly so effective in aiding Hie land attach- as they had been at the passage of the Aconcogau on Friday. They sent as many men as they could spare, however, with all their available machine and rapid-firing guns, to aid, as a naval auxiliary brigade, the attack on Ualmaceda’s position. The utmost excitement prevails in this city. The roar of heavy artllery and the >harp rattle of small arms resound through the streets and are echoed buek from the high hills surrounding the city, liverybody who is left here lias spught some place overlooking the battle grouud and. 'iiousands of people are watching the iosperate struggle which is being fought under their very eyes.

The scene from Valparaiso is one of awful grandeur. A heavy pall of smoko hangs like a cloud over tho contending armies. It is lit up almost continuously by sharp flashes of light from the cannon and rifles and the thunderous roar of tho artillery can bo heard continuously. The most powerful glass cannot penetrate the cloud of smoke aud only occasionally Can the movement of the troogs lie even guessad at, though from Uruez Polht glimpses of charging regiments can occasionally be seen. There Is a constant stream of wounded being brought into the city from the front and temporary hospitals are being fitted iif> wherever possible. Nearly *U the women w ho had not kit the city have volunteered their services, aud the full medical force of the city have their hands full. From the wounded aim their attendants only the most fragmentary Information as to tho progress of the fight ca.i be obtained, and it is utterly impossible at thi* writing to form any judgment as to which side is getting the better of it Admiral Brou, commanding the American fleet, and the officers of the other foreign naval forces, have combined to pro- ! tect the lives and property of tho foreign 'citizens. ! Lob Angelos is to build a sewer to ttu , ocean at a cost of $4,030,030. Eighty highway robbers Were execute! at Pekin su the 26th of April.

THE HOLY COAT.

Thousands of Pilgrims at Trevet To Gaze Upon It. Guarded by Knights With Drawn Swords— The Lame, Halt and Blind Seek Its Healing Bowers. The garment known as the holy coat was exposed to view Thursday morning in the Cathedral at Treves, Two Knights ol Malta,ln full costume, with drawn swords in their hands, stood ou either side of the shrine inclosing the holy coat case, which was surrounded by tall lighted candles on handsome candlesticks, and surmounted by a large gold cross. There was an impressive scene in the sancturay, over a hundred priests assisting in the ceremonies which were grand in the extreme. The cathedral was richly decorated for the occasion and was packed to the doors with people. The interior of the edifice was a sight well worth seeing. The vestments of the priests, the scarlet uniforms of the Knights of Malta; "the countless lights flickering in every nook aud comer, th< prismatic rays filtering through tin windows, tho strange congregation, composed of people of many nations and all walks of life, formed a picture not often seen. Bishop Korum, during his address to the assembled multitude, earnestly urged the faithful to unite in ycnerating the gar-, ment from which power and virtue proceeds. The nave of the cathedral was then cleared So as to enable the municipal au. thoritlesand parochial societies to mareh np to the shrine of the holy coat and venerate that relic.

The scenb was a motley one. The English tourists in light tweed suits and Prussian officers in uniform stubbornly refusing to kneel before tho relic, and a bourgeois citizen in evening dress were prominent in tho crowd. The service, with the monotonous Gregorian chants and the administration of the eucharlst to representative ecclesiastics, seemed of the medieval ceremony. The unveliug of the relic evid nt'y made a deeply devotional impreisioa on the crowd of worshipers. Many were overpower 'd by their feelings. Several women fainted. There was a general movement of the crowd, prompted by curiosity as well as religiovs fervor. The procession past tho shrine of the pilgrims, most of who n handed a rosary or crueifijc to attou lant prietts for contact with the relic, was accompanied by a low hum of paternosters and avesv Among the pilgrims are age! cripples and sufferers from all m <st every Complaint. Outside tho cathedral there was a busy scene, to which processions with banner and music, throngs of visitors and venders of photographs, rosaries anil Images, who had a thriving trade, all contributed. There were some scenes of disorder owing to somewhat violent attempts madti to gain early access to tho cathedral Treves is overflowing with pilgrims and with visitors whose curiosity alone lias been excited. The streets are filled with processions of all descriptions and sacred banners, crosses and lighted candles are to be seen on all side 3. During the whole time the holy coat is oa exhibition about twenty excursion trains a day will arrive at Treves, a very great number for a continental city, and a large temporary railroad station has been built for the pilgrims; but in order that the town may not be overcrowded, the different bands of pilgrims, led by their priests, will only be permitted to remain one night in town. Arriving, say in the evening, they will march the next morning in procession to the cathedral, and must leave town the same evening in order to make way for other religious bodies of people. At 10 o'clock at nigbtpilgrims were still filing in to behold the relic and an eager throng were besieging the doors of the cathedral. The police had some trouble to preserve order. The whole town is in a

commotion. Pickpockets are rampant and several have been arrested. A stylishly dressed old woman was robbed ol 300 marks. SOM y. HISTORICAI, FACTB. Tlie first solemn exhition of the holy dbat took place in 1196, when it was placed under the new altar. There it rested till 1511, when the Emporor Maximilian urgently wished it to be exhibited, which was done in that year. Pope Leo X about this time promised indulgence to all who made the pilgrimage to Treves. Then in the years 1531,1545, 1553, 1594 and 1635 It was also shown. Toward the end of the seventeenth century, "ben the Fench, under Louis XIV, invaded Germany, the precious relic was hidden in the fortress of Elirenbreitstein. Thereto 1713 the elector of Cologne was allowed to see it. In Elirenbreitstein the coat was kept until after the seventh war.JAfterths exhibition there in 1765 it was brought back to Treves, but a few years later it had to be removed to the interior of Germany when Napoleon I. invaded tlw country. At last, in 1810, another solemn exhibition took place in Treves, Napoleon I. permitted it, but he expressly forbad* miracles to be performed on this occasion* lie briefly and simply decreed, “II esi defendu de faire des miracles en cet e* droit.” Yet the report of the vicar-general-Cordet, about the exhibition In the yeai 1810 says that gouty patients who wert wheeled up walked away alone. The rulers of 1844 were most tolerant and therefore, numerous miracles were reported The Treves mnvspaocra of that date were full of accounts of miracles which took place at the exhibition of 1844. Thegreatest sensation was caused by the healing ol the young countess of Dorste-Vlscherlng. President Harrison was 53 years old on the 20th. lie passed the day at MU McGregor, tho resort made historic by Gen. Grant’s pilgrimage to, illness and death. A banquet was given in the President’s honor. A tornado swept the island of Martinique on the 30th, killing sixty peopk and doing immense damage to shipping and property. In Sand Creek township, Bartholomew county, there are 121 voters named Newsome.