Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1892 — Page 2

. : THE REPUBLICAN. Gwoca E. Marshall, Publisher. » ii, ■ rl RENSSELAER - INDIANA * ,y > * ;.- ■" « -; ' . , ' - ’ .

The cheerfwl citizen who understand why stage passengertalwajrs sit still and submit to beta? robbed by highwaymen will undoubtedly applaud the bravery of that ■ California passenger who filled a robber full of buckshot the other day. But as the passenger himself was also riddled the next instant, it la hardly likely that his example will often be imitated by travelers. Walter Warner is a New Jersey boy. Walter, like most boys, was smart for his years—at least he thought so. He was handling a revolver and his mother bid him to be ■” aireful. 'laughed at her innocence. and to show her that it was not loaded he placed the barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Walter may recover, and if he does it is to be hoped that the lesson’ wiß be a fruitful one.

Strange as it ni£v se&m, despite the wide circulation of newspapers, green goods operators still find many victims among green citizens. The New York newspapers almost daily chronicle experiences of confiding citizens of Tenessee, Indiana and other Western and Southern States where the people are notably innocent. New York operators are sharpers, Western investors are innocents. When sharpers and innocents meet, innnocence suffers every time. But does this virtue, in this line, deserve sympathy? It only needs fair dealing on the part of the sharpers to make it commit a crime. As a rule the innocents may well be thankful that they get Into no worse trouble than to lose their cash.- They might —and no doubt would —get into the penitentiary were their orders honestly filled. ■ ‘ ‘

The journey across Tibet whic^ l Captain Bowers has just completed is of more than usual interest because he is the first to cross from side to side the great unknown region stretching through the central part of that country. He has found in this region, still blank on our maps, a large salt lake, which, at an elevation of 17,930 feet, is believed to be the loftiest lake in the world. He has also discovered a splendid range of snowy mountains, witjh ope particularly 'lofty peak: which he thinks will prove the equal of Mt.~ Everest, now regarded as thp highest of mountains. In a journey of over 2,000 miles his route, sayq for a few miles, lay through a country that was never visited by white men before. We do not wonder that the party suffered severe hardships when ~ we read that for two weeks the route was over a table land 17,000 feet high, an elevation that three Mount Washingtons, piled one on top of the other, would hardly exceed. Captain Bowers’ journey will take high rank am mg recent explorations.

The first map of the world ever made, it is reported, will be exhibited at the Exposition. A cablegram from London states that Pope Leo consented to its., loan from the Vatican library. It is known as the tliege Ribere map and was begun in 1494 and finished in 1529. It is accompanied by a contemporary copy of the same map containing the famous bisecting line which; Pope Alexander VI. drew/ across it to settle the claims of Spain and Portugal to American territory. J t was bequeathed by Cardinal Borgia to the Vatican library, and is the same, which Pope Pius IX refused to allow/ the American government' to have even a copy of. It is three feet \v jeveia, aiid is in an excellent state of preservation. It begins with the Molucca group and ends with the other half? The Nile is traced to three lakes. Russia and Siberia are put down as barren and unknown countries. America makes a s’fiowy~ appearance with Yucatan, Brazil and New Spain distinctly indicated, the north terminating with Labrador. .

That Settles it.

Detroit Tribune. , . , “So it is really true' that old Siiverbrique has gone under, is it?” \ “Yes, square failure, too. The poor old devil hasn’t got a cent." “That’s bad. Wonder what that proud daughter of his will do?” “Oh, she’s going tobecome a professional beauty.” “You don’t say so! How do you know?” “Well, I saw her with an actor this afterrmon. and her hosiery is to be illustrated in the Sunday Moon next week. To make a fine satchet powder take of orris root, powdered, three ounces ; of powdered starch three Ounces, of ground musk seed one-half ounce, of essence of bergamot one-quarter aunce, of essence of musk one-quar-ter ounce, of attar a! roses thirteen Orops. ' .

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON

Forget Me Not Should fee Adopted by Us. i - ■ - —. . ’ ' \ ; A» Our Great National Flower- Having Been Forgiven, We Should Forget Our Past Misdemeanors, “ ■ .- . '«■-> • ' 'V- 1 — | Rev. Dr. Talmage Preached at | Brooklyn last Sunday. Text Heb. ; viii, 12. He said: . The natural flower of the Egyptians is the heliotrope, of the Assyrians the water lilyr-of the Hindoos is the marigold, of the Chinese is the chrysanthemum. We have no national flowep; but there isjiardly any flower, more suggestive to many of than the “fOrget-me-not.” We -ail like to be remembered, and one of our misfortunes is that there are so many things we cannot remember. Mnemonics, or the art of assisting memory, is an important art. It was first suggested by Simonides of Cos, 500 years before Christ. Persons who had but little power to recall -events or put facts and names and dates in proper processions. have, through this art. had their memory reinforced to an. almost in* credible extent. A good memory is an invaluable' possession. By all means cultivate it.

But right along with this art of recollection, which I can not too highly eulogize, is one quite as important,and yet I'never heard it applauded. I mean the art of forgetting. There is a splendid faculty in that direction that we all need to cultivate. We might, through that process, be ten times happier aiid more useful than we now are. We have been told that forget fulness is a weakness and ought to be avoided by all possible means. So far from a weakness, my text ascribes to God. It is the very toy pf Omnipotence that God is able to obliterate a part of His own memory. If we repent of sin and seek the Divine forgiveness, the record of the misbehavior is not only crossed off the books, but God actually lets it pass out of memory. “Their sins and their iniquities will ! remember no more. To re-' member no more is to forget, and you cannot make anything else out of it. God’s power of forgetting is so great that if two men appeal to Him, and the one man, after a life all right, gets the sins of his heart pardoned, and the other man, after a life of abominations, gets pardoned, God remembers too more against one than against the other. The entire past of both the moralist, with his imperfections, and the profligate, with his debaucheries, is as much dbliterated in the one case as in the other.. Forgotten, forever and ever. “Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." This sublime attribute of forgetfulness on the part of God you and I need, in our finite way, to imitate. You will do well to cast out of your recollection all wrongs done you. During the course of one’s life he is sure to be misrepresented, to be lied about, to be injured. There are those who keep these things fresh by frequent rehearsal. If things have appeared in print, they keep them in their scrap book, for they precious 'paragraphs out of mewspapers or books and at leisure times look them over, or they may have them tied up in bundles, or thrust in pigeon holes, and they frequently regale themselves and their friends by an inspection of these thihgs, these sarcasms, these falseho'ods, these cruelties. I have known gentlemen who carried them in their i pocket books, so that they could easily get at these irritations, and they put their right hand in the inside of! the coat pocket over their heart. and say: “Look here! Let me show you something.” Scientists catch wasps 1 and hornets and poisonous insects and transfix them in curiosity buSaus for study, and that is well. ut these of whom I speak catch the wasps and the hornets '/‘and poisonous insects and play with them and put them on themselves and on their friends to see how far the noxious things can jump and show how deep they can sting-. Have no such scrap book,. Keep nothing in your possession -that is disagreeable. Tear up the falsehoods and the slanders and the hypercriticisms. Imitate the Lord in my text ' and forget, actually forget, sublimely . ■ forget. There is no happiness for I you in any other plan or procedure ! i You see all around you in the church and out of the church, dispositions acerb, malign, cynical, pessimistic. Do you know how these men and women got that disposition? It was by the embalment of things pantherine and viperous. They have spent much of their time in calling the roll of all the rats that have nibbled at their characters. Their soul is a, cage of vultures. Everything in them is soured ot embittered. The milk of human kindness has been curdled. They do not believe anybody or anything. If they see two people whispering they think it is about themselves. If they see two people laughing they think it is about themselves, i Where there is one sweet pippin in ■ their orchard there are fifty crab- i apples. They have never been able 1 to forget. They do not want to forget. They never will forget. *l’l, ZX w e«zx4* zx zl JX zx Z. xzx ». . -- - _ r -

’Their wretchedness is supreme,for no one can be happy if he carries perpetually in his mind the mean things that have been him. On the other hand you can find here” and there a man op woinan,(for there fare not many of them) whose disposition is genial and summery. Why? Have they always been wdl treated? Oh, no. Hard things have been said against them. Thgy have been

' charged with officiousness, and their i generosities have been set down to a desire for display, and they have many a time been the subject of tit-tle-tattle, and they have had enough small assaults like gnats.and enough great attacks like lions,to have made them perpetually if they would have tfbhs'ented to be miserable.’ But they had enough Divine philosophy to east off theannoyances and they have kept themselves in the sunlight of God’s favor and have realized that these oppositions and hindrances are a part of a mighty disci-, pline, by which they are"to be prepared: for usefulness-^and heaven. The secret of it all is, they have, by the help of the eternal Gqj| r learned how to forget. Another practical thought: when our faults are repented of let them go out of mind. If God forgets them we have-a Eight to forget them. Having once repented of our infelicities and misdemeanors there is no need of our repenting of them again. Not only forget your pardoned transgressions, but allow others to forget them, The chief stock on hand of many people is to recount’in prayer meetings and pulpits what big scoundrels they once were. They not only will not forget their forgiven defects, but they seem to be determined that the ch urch and the world shall not forget them. If you want to declare that you have been the chief of sinners and 6xtol the grace -that could save such a wretch as you were, do so, but do not go into particulars. Do not tell how many times you got drunk, or to what bad places you went, or how many free rides you had in the prison van before you w ere converted.

Lump it, brothers. Give it to us in bulk. If you have any sears got in honorable warfare 1 show them: but if.youhavescarsgbtin ignoble warfare, do not display them. I know you will q uote the fiible reference'to the horrible pit. from which you were digged. Yes, be thankful for that rescue, but do not make display of the mud of that horrible pit, or splash it orerother people. Sometimes I have felt in Christian meetings discomfited and unfit for Christian service because I'■had done none of those things which seemed to be in the estimation of many necessary for Christian usefulness, for I never swore a word, or ever got drunk, or went to compromising places, or was guilty of assault and battery, or ever uttered a slanderous word, or ever did any one a hurt, although I knew my heart was sinful enough; and I said to myself: “There is no use of my trying to do any good, for I never went through those depraved experiences;” but afterward I saw consolation in the thought that no one gained ordination by the laying on of the hands of dissoluteness and infamy. And though an ordinary moral life, ending in a Christian life, may not be as dramatic a story to tell about, let us be grateful to God rather than worry about it. if we have never plunged into outward abominations.

■ The fact js that the world does no.t know God, or they would all flock to him. Through their own blindness. I or the fault of some rough preaching that has got abroad in the centuries, i many men and women have an idea i that God is a tyrant, an oppressor, ) an autocrat, a Nana Sahib, an omnidotent Herod Antipas. is a libel ; against the Almighty; it is a slander against the heavens; it is a definition of the infinities. I counted in my Bible 304 times tßF'woW^‘mercy, single or compounded with other words, Icounted z in my Bible 473. times the word “love,” single or compounded with'other words. Then I got tired counting. j Over a place- in Russia, where : wolves were pursuing a load of travi elers, and to save them a servant ’ sprang from the sled into the mouths i of the wild beasts,and was devoured, | and thereby the other lives were sav- \ ed, are inscribed the words. “Greater love hath no mSp than this, that a man lay down b li.is life flor his friend.” Many a surgeon in our own time has, in tracheotomy, with his own lips drawn from tfie windpipe of a diphtheritic patient that which cured the patient, slevy the surgeon, and all have honored the self-sacrifice. But all the other scenes of sacrifice pale before this moss illustrious .msftyr of all time and all eternity. After that agonizing spectacle in behalf of our fallen race nothing about the sin-forgetting, God is too stupen- ■ dous for my faith, and I accept the i promise, and will you nofi all accept ; it? “Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. ”

The Men Who Succeed in Dairying,

i In every dairy community in the ; laud can be found dairy farmers who I are making a fine success of the,business. Would it not be welj for the great body of farmers who cry “dairying don’t pay*” to inquire what sortjof men these successful ones are. Almost invariably it will be found that they, &re men of intelligence who have seen enough to send their brains ahead of their hands. They are readers of the experience and thoughts of other men. They are students of the principles that underlie the practice of successful dairying. Men who starve their bodies have no strength to work. If dairymen do not constantly feed their minds with dairy knowledge, how can they expect to succeed. The richest experience of others may be recorded a thousand times, but they will know nothing of it. Princess Victoria of Hawaii will visit the United States and the World s Fair in' 1893, returning to Honolulu in time to celebrate her 18th birthday, October 16, when “she will become eligible to assume the duties of her position as heir apparent to the throne of Hwaii.”

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Huntington has free mail delivery. Wabash clerks have formed a union. Thirty students graduated from the Valparaiso law school. The mayor of Warsaw will have no Sunday base ball tn that city.? “ The business men of Anderson have organized a commercial club. Crawfordsville demands reform in the quality of its soda water. The dead body of a woman was seen floating over the dam at Wabash. ■ Counterfeit gold dollars of the issue cf 1857 are circulating at South Bend. Mrs. David McCrosky, near Laporte, fell down stairs and died of her injuries. TDimitrij Antonovitch Konoplitzsky has joined the Russian colony at Kendallville. Th reeves! den ces at Pendleton have been struck by lightning during the past week. Fire in the cotton mills at New Albany on the Ist did damage amounting to 135,00 P. Hazlewood, a suburb of Anderson, has ordered a new school building, to cost 111.800. '

Thomas Sheppard and wife, of Fort Wayne, have celebrated their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary. .Lightning set fire to Michael Mosbaugh’s barn, in Hatnilton county, and seven horse? were cremated. Petersburg is overrun with Gypsies, tramp showmen, scissor grinders, handorgan men and peddlers. Within the limits of the United States 413 species of trees have been found of which 108 grow in Indiana. The thirteen-year-old son of W. B. Wilsey, of Muncie, fell under a street car, losing one leg at the ankle, and seriously crippling the other, Ex-Senator Graham M. Fish, of Logansport. has sold his farm of 383 acres, near that city, to the Illinois Steel Company, receiving 128,C0J cash. Harry Miller, a school teacher near Ligonier, while a guest at the depot hotel, Elkhart, blew out the gas upon retiring, and narrowly escaped suffocation. Lightning struck the barn of Amos Thomas, near Fairmount, while the own er was standing within 'six feet. He recovered in tfme.to rescue the live stock. Elisha King, an old farmer of Rush county, recalls that the rainy season of 1858 did not close until June 15, and that many fanners did not finish corn planting until June 25. A jury at Wabash found that E. L. Rittenhouse owed the estate of George Knoon 1600 for United States bond coupons that were in an old chest that Rittenhouse had purchased for a song. While Bert George, of Muncie, was shooting at a mark, the weapon was prematurelydischarged, and a bullet struck Richard George, of Mt. Carmel, in the groin, causing a fatal wound. John Hiatt, living near Richmond, is eighty-eight years of age, he and his wife having lived together sixty-eight years, They have had one hundred children, grandchildren and grpat grandchildren. Jack Harrington and John Porter, employedin the Evansville & Terre Haute railway yards at Terre Haute, were catfght by a car Thursday n' rht. Harrington was killed. Porter escaped with a broken

k‘R. , ' The recent havy rains have done an-im-mense amount of damage in and around Indianapolis. All the streams overflowed -their banks and lowlands were flooded. Many families were compelled to vacate their homes. , The carpenters of Elwood propose testing the eight hour law enacted by the last Legislature, and have filed against E. R. Coxen, of whom it is alleged that he discharged men because they refused to work ten hours daily. Twins came to the home of Jas. Thom pson and wife, of Mt, Vernon, the. past week. One’is a boy and the other a girl, and a peculiarity is that the boy has a growth of whiskers. He is healthy and well developed in all respects. Sergt.Thomas Gunn, U. S.A., attached to the army recruiting station at Fort Wayne, has received notice of the death of his father, T. W. Gunn, near Minneapolis, and that he has fallen heir to $38,000The Sergeant will leave the army. Orris Snyder, near?Greentown, while bathing in Sugar Creek, was seized of cramps and drowned. He was trying to save a youpger brother, who had become 1 entangled in the limbs of an uprooted tree The lad was rescued by other parties. A calf belontfing’to a Mr. Houchen.near Seymour, became strangely sick one even Ing this week and in a short time began to whirTrqund and round,, as a pup after its tail, anuwithin two hours was dead. It whirled for two solid' hours, neyer stopping to draw breath or grease the axle. W. E. Sherwood, in the employ of Evansville for nearly twenty years, kept secret lhe map showing the location of the water pipes. The city made an effort to secure it, failing in which, he was dis--giiSsSd±flmtbe office. Mr. Sherwood went out rather than surrender the plat, for which he demands ;SI,BOO. Twelve months ago George Sillings aged thirteen, of Edwardsville, mysteriously disappeared. Wednesday his skeleton was found dangling from a tree in a lonesome piece of woods. He was posed to have run away because of bad treatment, but whether he committed suicide by hanging or was murdered 4s a mys-. tery. the authorities are investigating; The majority of the harness and collar makers of Evansville are striking for nine hours’work and ten hours’ pay. There was a strike for the same cause last season, and after a time the employers acceded thereto. The manufacturers now claim that after trying the" plan for one year find it is against their Interests, and they propose to supply the places of the strikers with non-unionista. In Grant, one df the best cereal producing counties in" northern Indiana, it is estimated thA there, will not be more than half a corn crop this year. Half the planting is not done, and many acrhs plantedin corn Saturday and Monday are ruined "by the Monday night and frequent falls of rain. The growth of wheat is luxuriant but rank and-frail and falling in many places. The American Tin-plate Company, of

Elwood, made a test of its immense works Wednesday. Some fine specimens of bright tin were turned out. The work was mere-

ly preparatory to a grand opening which is to be held later, and at which McKinley will preside. The capacity of the works at present is 1,200 boxes per week. The cost of the plant so far is 8325,000. It is the largest on the Ameri< a i continent. Miss Anna Swalem, employed in the Harrison pants factory at Evansville, while hunting for a lest shuttle caught her hair on the shafting, and almost instantly a large portion of the scalp was torn away. Miss Swalem had a magnificent head of light golden hair, of which she was naturally very proud. The accident necessitated the shingling off what was left. It is doubtful if she ever recovers from the jp jury. The L. E. & W.'fast train due in Indianapolis at 3:30 a. m., Tuesday morning plunged into a washout near Fisher’s station. Three persons were seriously injured, and several not so badly hurt. A still more frightful disaster was narrowly averted. The “Kokomo Pan Handle” follows this train with but a few minutes intermission. land but for prompt action would have crashed in to it. The accident was due to the heavy rains of the night.

A peculiar Dug has appeared near New Ross, and L. O. Howard, assistant entomologist, United States Department of Agriculture, pronounces them as being “scutigeraforceps.”" They live on cockroaches and house flics, and are common in the South. The bug has a body from one to two inches long, and covered with eight plates, and has fifteen pairs of legs, which increase in length from front to rear, the hind onffi being as long as the body. It has large, reticulated eyes, and tsi motions rapid. J. M. Boggs, president of the State Bodrd of Agriculture, said Thursday that wheat is looking fine in.the northern part of the State, but is somewhat in danger from scalding, due to humidity and the hot sun, Oats, he said, will give a full yield. Corn, however, will, be much reduced in acreage, and good, weather and late frosts will be necessary to admit of a fair yield. There is a prospect for a very large yield of apples in Indiana, but there will be few peaches in the northern section of the State. - „

About a month ago Shelbyville purchased a fire alarm system. Since then, bn several different occaslonss, the company and citizens have been greatly annoyed by unknown parties turning in false alarms at various hours of the night, thus bringing out the department and the people from their beds. Finally the Council passed an ordinance on the subject fixing a heavy penalty. On last Sunday night two false alarms were turned in from distant parts of the city. For this William Lane and William Moote were spotted. They were arrested and taken before Mayor Morrison, and convicted of being the guilty parties. Each wefe fined fl(X\ Lane went tp jail, and Moore appealed to the Circuit Court.

Patents were granted Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows; F. M. Archer, Fountaintown, base for honey, comb; F. L. Bailey, Freeport, metal wheel? G. J. Cline, Goshen, attachment for corn planters; C. M. Collins, South Bend, device for controlling the water jets of street sprinklers; H.M. Finch, Michigan City, submarine telephone; T. F. Groves, Kokomo, step ladder; F. A. Hetherington, Indianapolis, film or plate carrier; R. A. Howard, Richmond, race track; E. P. Koontz, Ligonier, rocking chair; H. T. Keith, /Vincennes, holder for post marking stamps; N, E, Miles, Indianapolis, corset; T. C. Moore and S. F. Gruff, Dublin, bicycle; C. D. Secor, South Bend,doffin attachment for spinning mules.

Representatives of the law and order element of Crawfordsville kept tab on the saloons Sunday last, and eighty persons were seen to enter one saloon and sixtyfive another, During a meeting of the pity Council on the 31st, there was an uprising of citlzeng, and a great crowd waited upon the Councilman with why the laws could not be enforced. Individual pledges were received for the passage of a saloon screen ordinance, and the cooperation of the mayor and'Xifficlals were promised, looking to more regard for the law. ’

THE MARKETS.

lMDii,K*,rOLts. Juueß. 1839. _ AU quotations for ludiaaapolU wlieu uol Bpecifioj 4 GRAIN. Wheat—No. 2 red, 86c; No. 3 red, 83cw agon w 1) ea t, 86c. Corn—No, 1 white, 50c; No. 2 white. 50cwhite mixed, No. 3 white, 46(a)49c’ No. 2 yellow, 47c; No. 3 yellow, 46Xc; No! 2 mixed, 47c; No. 3 mixed, 46c: ear, 44Uc. Oats—No. 2 white, 36c; N 0.3 white, 34cNo. 2 mixed, 34|<c; rejected, 29c. *~ Hay—Timothy, choice, «12.3 t No. 1 $12.25; No. 2, $10.00; No. 1 prairie,sß.oo; No’ 2, $6.50; mixed hay, $7.00; clover, SB.OO. Bran, $12.50 per ton. ~ Wheat. ] Corn. Oats. Kyu. Chicago,2 r’d 83 49>4 31 CinfilunaU.... 2£dßS . - 48 86 85 St. Louis 2 r’d 87 44 36 75 New York.... 2 r’d 99 57 36*4 87>4 Baltimore.... 9134 5314 38 84 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 9114 54 3714 Clover „ - Seed. T01ed0........ 93 50 83U 700 Detroit. I wh 90 51 34 Minneapolis.. 81141 * CATTLE. Export grades $4 25(94 65 Good to choice shippers 3 85@4 15 ? Fair to medium shippers 3 Common shippers 2 85<sj3 25 Feeders, good to choice 3 15@3 35 Stockers, common to good.. .t. 2 50<93 00 Good to choice heifers 3 50(94 00 Fair to medium heifers 2 75@3 25 Common, thin heifers 2 25@2 65 Good to choice cows. 3 25®3 75 Fair to mediurn cows 2 65ft in Common old c0w5....*.:, 1 25(?3 n Veals, common to good 3 00<94 50 Bulls,common to medium.... 2 00®2 50 Bulls, good to choice 2 75®3 75 Milkers, good to choice 3000(94000 Milkers, common to medium.. 15 00® 25 00 HOGS. Heavy packing »nd shipping. $4 <?o@s 00 Lights 4 75M4 85 Mixed Heavy r0ugh5.••••••••••••.....c4 00® 4 50 SHEEP. Good to choice... «**....*4 00® 4 53 Uj’air to medium.,-... 3 o®3 75 Common to medium 2 00®4 0) Liambß, good to choice.... 6 00®8 00 miscellaneous. Eggs, 13cj butter, good country, 10® 2c; feathers, 35c; beeswax, 35® 4Oc; wool 30@33c; un washed,22c :heqs,oXc; turkeys Igc; clover seed, $6.00(36.50.

POLITICAL.

Tammany expects to send 1,000 of its members to Chicago. Ex-Senator Ingalls prophecies the nomination of McKinley at Minneapolis, The Kansas People’s party and Democrats have agreed to combine against the Republicans. The conference of Alliance ( leaders in Tennessee resolved to stick by the Democratic party. ,• The Republicans of the Ninth District renominated Congressman Waugh at Logotee, on the Ist, by acclamation. The Wisconsin Prohibitionists adopted a platform demanding prohibition, an ample circulating medium issued by the government, education in the English language under the supervision of the State, and government control of the railroads and telegraph. A full State ticket was nominated.

Secretary Blaine Is reported to have emphatically reiterated at Washington on the Ist “that his naihe will not go before the Minneapolis convention; that he will not be its nominee.” Senator Quay visited Blaine on the same date and endeavored to get his consent to use his name as a candidate, but absolutely failed. John C. New says ip a published interview that Chauncey M. Depew will make the speech nominating President Harrison at the Minneapolis convention. Mr. New further says that there will be but one ballot, and that Blaine’s name will not be presented. He expects that Mr. Blaine will write a letter positively declining to allow the use of his name as a candidate.

A ’Washington special to the Cincinnati Commereial Gazette says: It seems to be reasonably certain that the present situation will go to Minneapolis. The plan of the anti-Harrison men is in accordance with Information published during the past few days. It is likely that two names will be put in nomination at Minneapolis, hose of General Harrison and General Alger. Then, when the call of the roll of States begins, Alabama is expected to declare for James G. Blane. Next comes Arkansas, and then follow California and Colorado, all declaring for Blaine, There you haye the situation. This is what the inti-administration people expect and are planning for. Mr. Blaine’s hame will not be mentioned until the roll call begins. Nothing as yet has been heard from Mr. Blaine to interfere with this program, though there always remains the possibility of something coming from him at the last moment, as his Scotland dispatches lame into the convention of 1888.

A GREAT STORM.

[t Was Wide-Spread and Exceed-ingly-Damaging. High Water and Tornados Make Sad ; Havoc at Many Point*—lmmense Destruction of Property. y Deirango, Tex., was visited by a tornado Thursday evening. No less than a dozen souses were swept away and many people were killed or injured. On the same jvening a cyclone struck Troy, Tex., doing much damage to property and fatally Injuring five persons. The damage in Houston county is fully 150,000. One man was badly hurt: ~~. —r It was the worst storm ever experienced it Grand Rapids, Mich. Three miles of Jhe'G. R. & I. roadbed was washed outand jne bad freight wreck occurred. Traffic was brought to a standstill, The Gastonade river at Richland, Mo., was the highest known. All streams in fact have become raging torrents. Much damage was done in the territory of Oklahoma. Murphysboro, 111., reports 1,000 families homeless in that vicinity Another crevtse has occurred in the Mississippi river sear Jamestown, La. Similar reports are made from all points of the western and Muth western country.

THE PRESBYTERIANS,

The one-hundredth and fourth General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, in jession at Portland. Oregoif, concluded its business on the. Ist and adjourned. Almost the last thing it did was the adoption of a resolution, with this admonition against Briggs ism: “The General Assembly would remind all under its care that it Is a fundamental doctrine that the Old and New Testaments are the inspired and Infallible word of >God. Our church holds that the Inspired word as it came from God is without error. The assertion of the contrary can but shake the confidence'.of the people in the sacred books. Ail who enter office In dur churches solemnly promise to receive them as the only Infallible rule of faith and practice; if they, change their belief on this point,Christian honor demands that they should withdraw from our ministry. They have no right to use the pulpit or the chair of the professor for thjb'dlsseminatlonbf their errors until ruled out by the slow process of discipline. The Presbyteries should speedily Interpose and deal with them for a violation of a vow taken at the beginning that Is obligatory until the.party taking it is honorably and properly released from It. The Assembly enjoins upon all its ministers, elders and Presbyteries to be faithful to the duty that this imposes on them.

TRAIN ROBBERS AGAIN.

A Santa Fe Train “Held Up” and Conaidarable Money Taken. The south bound Santa Fe train was “held up” at 9:45 Thursday night by masked robbers, at the stock yards, near the station of Red Rock, in the Cherokee Strip. The train was flagged and the engineer and flrtftnan were taken prisoners. The robbers then entered the express car, broke open the safe and secured its contents. The amount obtained is said to be $5»;000. The passengers were not molested. Deputy United States Marshal Madsen,at Guthrie, has been notified, and will organize a posse and start in pursuit of the gang, the number of which is unknown. The money obtained is thought to have been intended for Indian payments. The express company officials My tha! the robbers got less than *5,000. .