Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1892 — Page 2

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DEPARTMENT REPORTS.

The Secretaries ot the Interioi and Wax Submit their Annuals- > O* Work tho Interior Department) nod Recommendation* of tbe War Department. THK INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. The annual report of Secretary NobM •hows that the Interior Department has accomplished more during the present administration than during any other periodThe General Land Office has worked ofl the vast accumulation of farmer years, - mADi now en current business, greater to the advantage of Western settlers; the Indian Bureau has made great progress in elevating the various Indian trikes, in the work of allotment of land in seyeralty to lndividual Indians, tho consequent disintegration of their tribal relations, and tho development of schools. Great reform has g*>sn accomplished in the purchase of Indian supplies, The Fusion Office has of au innneusa volume ,<sf worn, wid has exceeded ail former fteoyds in the number of fin;.; Yota CiflelP&l a-id upon appeals, executing the be n?fi- " limit laws for the soldiers of the Union. The Consfls Office has finished nearly all of its Immense and highly scientific work, sud what romains is rapidly noaring completion. The geological survey lias progressed greatly in its topographical survey of the States and Territories; in Ideating reservoirs for tho irrigation of arid lands, and in its other useful divisions. The Railroad Bureau has kept constant •upervision of tho condition of the roadbeds and appurtenauces and given chreful consideration to the question of the maturing debts of the subsidized railroads and tho future conditions which should govern them. Tho Patent Office has kept up with current work and Introduced several important roforms. The Bureau of Education has greatly extended its operations in Europe and our own country, and the distribution of funds for agricultural colleges, a difficult probboon satisfactorily aud efficiently TJie Secretary's report discusses the reports made by his subordinate officers, and the conditions of the various territories. The government of Utah, it explains, is now in a satisfactory condition, with polygamy about stamped out. Tho population of Oklahoma is shown to be 133.QJ0, not including tho Indians who still maintain their tribal relations. Eightyfive per cent. of the population are whites, and only about 5 per cent, foreign born. It is thought that a conservative estimate of the value of the property, real and personal, in Cheyenne and Arrapahoe counties is 140,003.000; excluding these counties the assessors’ returns show a valuation of 1U.485,162. There are five national banks in tbe Territory, with an average deposit account of 1130,0C0 each, and there are fourteen private banks with a deposit account of half a million dollars. Three railroads are now in operation through the Territory. The Secretary discusses at length tho Nicaragua canal scheme, showing its present status, and expresses the opinion that this enterprise is of the utmost importance to the welfare of our country, in either peace or war, and should have most favorable recognition by Congress. THE WAR DEPARTMENT. V The annual report of the War Department, which has been submitted to the President Joy Secretary Elkins, contains many recommendations. “It is gratifying to be able to state,” tbe Secretary says, “that the army has maintained throughout the year its high standard of discipline and efficiency. Looking to the future and the possible necessity of rapidly transforming a large number of citizens Into effective soldiers, it is a matter of vital importance that the regular army In organization and personnel, should represent as nearly as may be a perfect that the grade of Lieutenant-General be revived as a permanent grade of army rank. Regarding some general features of the service, he says: Tho general conclusion, gathered from all sources,is to the effect that while the enlisted personnel of the army is, as a whole, very much better than at any time previous, much remaius to be accomplished in this connection before wo ear rest entirely satisfied. Everf possible effort has beon made \q secure the enlistment of desirable men, Tbe recruiting service has b’en administered with exceptional vigor and success during tee past two years, and the standard of qualifications has been raised until the test at recruiting rendezvous is so critical that only 28 per cent, of the applicants for enlistment were accepted during the fiscal vear ending Jane 30,1802. It seems that almost everything lias been accomplished that is posilble under existing laws, Notwithstanding all this, however, many men succeed In entering the army whose character and antecedents aro such a 9 to render their presence detrimental to tho service, and the complaint is general as to a scarcity of material for non-commissioned officers. Improvements in administrative methods may correct some of thosoevils; but it Is thought that the best remedy lies through a small increase in compensation. If good men aro warned for the array they must be paid something near what wage-earners receive in ordinary pursuits ofocivil life. Under-ihe pressure of National prosperity representative men command good pay. Under present conditions there is scarcely any poenniary benefit to attract a man to the ranks. Promotions to commissioned grades are necessarily few, and tho difference between the pay of a private nnd a non-commissioned officer Is hardly appreciable, when considered In the light of an inducement to enlistment. it. is, therefoie. recommended that at least the pay of all noncommissioned mdes be increased to the extent of making promotion thereto the object of legitimate ambition, thereby inducing the enlistment of the very best material to compete for the advantages of promotion l© the grade of both commissioned and non-commissioned officers. Considering that there are 1,881 sergeantsof all grades, and 1,014 corporals, it is apparent that, the Inducement should be ample enough to justify young men of character and capacity In Indulging the expectation of ultimately securing adequate compensation and recognition. The Secretary urges the reorganization of the infantry and nrttllory arms of the •ervice upon lines laid down in previous reports; and devotes considerable space to uu Military Academy at West Point post-graduate infantry, Cavalrv. Artillery and engineer schools. The reports of the various subordinate departments are givoh and their rocommeudatione indorsed. lie Prefers “Pinafore." The Hon. William Tecumsfib Sherman regards "Pinafore" as one of the best operas of tbeae time. “Pinafore" has one excellent musical merit It doesn’t contain “Marching Through Georgia,” a Work which has been so much heard and overheard by the lonerWffarlng eahf'of mankind. N. Y. Sun.)

RIZPAH ON THE ROCK.

Is the Subject of Dr. Taltnaga s Sunday’s Sermon. ■ jfhe Crtnifref . Es wyK it) as Well *• Himself—Agonies of ilere&ved Mothore. - - ... » ' ' Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn Sunday. Text 11. Samuel xxi. 10. He said: Tragedy that beats anything Shakespearean of Victor Hugoian. After returning from the Holy Laud I briefly touched upon it, butt must have a whole sermon for that scene. Tho explosion aud flash of gunpowder have driven nearly all the beasts and birds of prey from the regions, and pow the shriek of the locomotive whistle whiou is daily heard at Jeru> saleru wifi for many miles around -eiear Bales tine of cruel claw antTbtak. But iu the time of the text those regions were populous with multitudes of jackals ard lions. Seven sons of Saul Tad been crucified ou a hill. Rizpah was mother to two and rela-, live to fire of the boys. What had theso box s done that they should oe crucified ? Nothing except to have a bffd father and grandfather But, Bow that the boys were dead why not take them down from the gib-j bets/ No. They are sentenced to hang there. So Rizpah takes the sackcloth, ?, rough shawl with which in mourxiiig for her dead she had wra iped herself, and spreads that 6aciccloth upon the rocks near the gibbets, and acts the part of a sentinel, watchiug and defending the dead. Yet every other sentinel is relieved, and after being on guard for a few hours some one else takes his place. But Rizpah is on guard both daj r and night for ha'f years. One hundred and eighty days aud nights of obsequies. What nerves she must have had to stand that! Ah, do you not- know that a mother can stand anything. Oh, if she might be allowed to hollow a place in the side of the hill aud lay the bodies of her children to quiet rest! If in some cavern of the mountains she might find for them Christian sepulture! Oh, if she might t/clu e them from the gibbet of disgrace ar.d carry them still farther away from the. haunts es men, and then lie beside them iu the last long sleep! Exhausted nature ever and anon falls into slumber, but in a moment she breaks the snare, and chides herself although she had been cruel,and leaps up on the rock,shouting at wiid beastr glaring from the thickets and at vulturous brood wheeling in the sky. The thrilling Story of Rizpah reaches David, and he comes forth to hide the indecency. Tbe corpses had been chained to the trees. The chains aro unlocked with horrid clank, and the skeletons are let down. AU the seven are burled, and the story ends. But it hardly ends before you cry out, What .* hard thing that those seven boys should suffer for the crimes of a father and grandfather ! Yes. But i‘ is always so. Let every one who does wrong know that lie wars not only, as in this case.against two generations, children and gt'andchildreu, but against all the generations of coming time. That is wliat makes dissipation and uncleanuess so awful. It reverberates in other times. It may skir one generation, TmritTs'apf to colnA up lfl~TtnrtftTl‘d' generation, as is suggested in the Ten Commandments, which say, “ Visiting tin iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.” Mind you, it sax’s nothing about the second generation, but mentions the third aud the fourth, That accounts for what you sometimes see —very good parents with very bad children. Go far enough back m the ancestral line and you fold the source of all the turpitude. “Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. ” If whoa Saul died the consequences of his iniquity could have died with him it would not have been so bad. Alas, no ! Look on that hill, a few miles out from Jerusalem, and see the ghastly burdens of those seven gibbets and the wan and whsted Rizpah watching them. Go to-day through the wards and almshouses and the reformatory institutions where unfortunate children are kept ar.d you wiil find that nine out of ten bad drunken Or vicious parents. Yea, dnv by duy ou the streets of our cities you find men and women xricckcd of evil parentage. They are moral corpses. Like the seven sous of haul, though dead, unburied. Alas for Rizpah, who not for six months, but for years and years, has watched them i StTcToah not keep the vultures and the jackals off. Furthermore, this strange incident in Bible story shows that attractiveness of person and elevation of posfo tiou are no security against trouble" Who is this Rizpah sitting in de-s----olution? One of Saul's favorites. Her personal attractions had wo., his heart. She had be.m caressed of fortune. With u mother's pride she looked on her princely children. But the scene changes. Behold her in banishment and bereavementRi'.pah on the bock! Some of the worst distresses have come to scenes of royalty and wealth. wliaFporter qt the’ raansiotTs gate has not 1 let in champing and lathered steed bringing evil dispatch? On iwhat tessellatedjiall has there not stood the solemn bier? Under what exquisite fresco has there not been enacted a tragedy of disaster? What curtained couch hath heard no erv of pain? What harp hath never trilled with sorrow? What lordly nature hath 'never leaned against carved pillar sad made utterance es woe?

Gall is not less bitter when taken from .the pewter mug. Sorrow is often'attended by running footmen and lined lackeys mounted behind. Queen Anne Boleyn is desolate in the palace of Henry 111. Adolphus wept iu German castles ’ oveFtTie hypocrisy bTTiuelfds7'Pedt ; o' I. among Brazilian diamonds shivered with fear of massacre. Stephen of England sat on a rocking throne. And every mast of pride has bent in the storm, and the highest mountains of honor and fame are covered with perpetual snow. Sickness will frost the rosiest cheek, wrinkle the smoothest brow and -stiffen the | sprightliest step. Rizpah quits the courtly circle and sits on the rock. ! Perhaps you look back upon scenes different from those in which now from day to day you mingle. You have exchanged the plenty and luxuriance of your father’s house for privation and trials known to God I arul your own heart. The morning Troops of,calamites since then have made desperate charge upon you. Darkness has come. Sorrows have swooped like carrion birds from the thicket. You stand amid yOur slain anguished and woe struck. Rizpah , on the rock, i So it has been in all ages. Vashti must doff the spangled robes of the Persian court and go forth blasted from the palace gate. Hagar exchanges oriental comfort for the wilderness of Deersheba. Mary. Queen of Scots, must pass out from flattery aud pomp to suffer ignominious death in the castle of Frothingay. The wheel of fortune keeps turning and mansions aud lmts exchange, and he who rode the chariot pushes the barrow, and instead of the glare of fesI tal lights is the simmering of the | peat fire, End in the place of Saul’s j palace is the rock—the cold rock, the I desolate rock, I Again the ti aged vof the text dis plays the courage' of woman amid great emergencies, What mother or sister or daughter would dare to go out to fight thecormorantsnd jackul? Rizpah did it. And so would you if an emergency demanded. Woman is naturally timid and shrinks from exposure aud depends on stronger arms for the achievement of greatjenterprises. And she is often troubled lest there might be occasions demanding fortitude when she would ! fail. Not so. Some of those who are ; afraid to look out of doors after night fail, and wha quake in the darkness at the least uncertain sound, and who start at the slam of tfiedoor and : turn pale in a thunderstorm, it the day of trial came would be heroic and : invulnerable. ; God has arranged it so that woman | needs the trumpet of great contest of ! principle or affection to rouse up her ! slumbering courage. Then she will 1 stand under the cross fire of opposing hosts at Chalons and give wine to the wounded. Then she will carry into prison and dark lane the mesj sage of salvation. Then she - will ■ brave the pestilence. Deborah goes i out to sound terror into the hearts of j i Godjs enemies. Abigail throws hersel between a raiding party of ini fm iated men and her husband's vineyards. Rizpah fights back the vulj tures from .{he rock. Again, the scene of the text un- ; presses upon us the strength of maternal attachment. Not many men I would have had c.aura-ge-or--errd'nr-' i ance-fortfie awful mission of Rizoah. To dare the rage of wild beasts, and sit from May to October unsheltered, I and to watch the corpses of unburied I children, was a work that nothing j but the maternal heart could have j accomplished. It needed more courrage than -to stand before opened batj teries or to walk in calmness thedeck . of a foundering steamer. There is no emotion so completely | lip‘i? 1 fish as maternal affection. C'on- | jugal love expects the return of many kindnesses and attentions. ! Filial love expects parental care or is helped by the memory of past j watchfulness. But the strength of ! a mother's love is entirely independent of the past and the future, and is, of all emotions, the purest. The child has done nothing in the past to earn kindness, and in the future it may grow up to maltreat its parent; but still from the mother's heart there goes forth inconsumable affection. Abuse cannot offend it; neglect . cannot chill it, time cannot efface it; death cannot destroy it. For harsh xvords it has gentle chiding; for the i blow it has beneficent ministry; for neglect it has increasing watchfulness. U weeps at the prison door over the incarcerated prodigal, and pleads for pardon at the Governor's feet, nnd is forced away bv compassionate friends from witnessing,the struggles of tire gallows. Other •lights go out, but this burns on I without extinguishment, as in a J gloom-struck night you may see a ! single star-one of God's pickets—- ! with gleaming bayonet of light keep- | ing guard over the outposts of ! heaven. • Oh. despise not a mothers love! If | heretofore you have been negligent j of such an one and you still have op^ ! portunity for reparation, make haste. If you could only just look in for an hour’s visit to her, you would rouse up in the aged one a whole world of blissful memories. What if she does sit without talking much? She watch esj’ou for months when you knew not how to talk at all. What if she has many ailments to tell about? During iifteen years you ran to her with every little scratch or bruise, aud 6he doctored your little as carefully as a surgeon would bind the worst fracture. You say she is childish now. 1 wonder if she ever saw you when you were childish. You have no patience to walk with her on tho street, she moves so slowly. You eomploin at

the expense of providing for her now. I wonder what your financial income was from one year to ten years of age. Do not begrudge what- you do for the old folks. £ care not how much you did for them; they havedone more for you. BuTTrom~tMy weird teNt of-tho morning comes rushing in upon my soul a thought that overpowers me. This watching: by Rizpah was an after death watching. I wonder if now there is an after death watching. 1 think there is. There are Rizpahs who have passed death, aud who are .still watching. They look down from their supernal aud glorified state upon us, and is not that an after death watching? I cannot believe that those who before their death were interested in us have since their death become indifferent as tohappines to us. Young man, better look out what you do and where you go, for ycur glorified mother, is looking at you. “ What would mother sav if she knew this ?” She docs know. You might cheat her once, but you can not cheat her now. Does it’ embarrass us to think she knows all about us now ? If she had to put up with so much when she was here, surely she will not be the less patient and excusatory now. ~_ Oh, this tremendous thought of my text—this after death watching! What an uplhting consideration! Aud what a comforting Thought! Younsr mother, you who have just lost your babe, and who feels the need of a nearer solace than that which comes from ordinary sympathy your mother knows all about it. You cannot run in and talk it all over with her as you would if she were still a terrestrial resident, but it will comfort you I think—yea it will comfort you a good deal---to know that she understands it all. You see that the velocities of the heavenly conditions are sb great that it would take her a half second to come to your bereft heart. Oil, these mothers in heaven! Theycan do more for us how than before they went away. The bridge between this world and the next is not broken down. They approach the bridge from both ways, departing spirits and coming spirits, (iisimprisoued spirits and sympathizing spirits. And so let us walk as to be worthy of the supernal companionships. and if to any of us life on eart.fi is a hard grind, let us understand that if we watcli faithfully and trust fully our blessed Lord there will be a corresponding reward in the land of peace, and that Rizpah, who once wept .on a rock, how reigns on a throne.

Greek. Learning.

No observant tonrisl. can have visited Greece, writes a correspondent, without being struck with the vast number of so-called intelligent -proletarians who are to be met with at every street corner —men who know their “Illiud " and Odyssey ” off by heart, men who have mastered the secrets of astronomy and metaphysics, have a doctor’s diploma in their pockets, and know every art science conceivable, except the art of making an honest dinner. The fact is that education of all kinds is gratuitous in Greece—elementary, middle schools, and universities hospitably throw open their doors and sity of Athens numbers about- 2,009 students, the bulk of whom are as poor as church mice,for every family —even that of the indigent peasant, whose larder is lean and whose roof leaks lamentably—considers it the proper thing to send at leastone son to the University. This is one of the cheapest luxuries the kingdom affords—quite as cheap as tho comedies of Pa liament. Fees there are pone; and as for the problem of keeping soul and body together and paying the mercenary huckster Tor the midnight oil, it is much more easily solved than in any other country on this side ot the Atlantic. The student who aspires to be a doctor simply takes service as gardner, waiter, messenger, runner—iu a word, crawls into any crevice in the social edifice.in the hope that there’s “ a gude time coinin’ " for him yet. A triumph over the difficulties of science against enormous odds is not a whit more difficult to tho sanguine Greek than are victories—prospective for tbe nonce- over Turk, Tartar and Bulgarian. Every year the University of Athens lets loose about 900 full-fledged ‘’doctors” upon society. who stalk about the highways and byways of life, like the sophists of old, ready Vi lend themselves to any cause or enterprise, however and rarely finding enough to still their cravings. Now-, M. Trieoupis feels that this is a serious evil, and lie means to end it or mend it at. once by bringing in a bill to tax intermediate and higher education. Tiie pupil of the preparatory grammar school will, when this bill becomes a law. have to pay 25 drachmas a year (IA-jj, when he advances to the gram - mar school twice that sum, and at the University from 100 to 150 drachmas a year, in addition to fees for examination und promotion, 'lliis is killing two birds with one stone, if we can trust the roseate views of the. minister,who anticipate' an addition tQ the revenue of 1,500,000 drach: mas a yearLyom this tax—not a very ’considerable sum, Tt ts true, but a yery welcome addition to a State purse which, like the Irishman's coat, seems made chiujiy of holes aud fresh air. _ The Emperor of Annam, who has been menttoned So often in the foreign papers recently, has 200 wives, each of whom, with her servants, live in a house in the palace garden, which is surrounded by & great wall’

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Elkhart has a new bank. Waterloo is roller-skating. Shelbyville has free mail delivery. 2 Greensburg is short on dwellings. Seymoure wants a new P. O. building. Evansville has numerouss sandbaggers Eli Bonewits—Wabash—penitentiary—forgery. Richmond’s court house will cost a million dollars. Decatur county the 20th voted to purchase all its toll roads. Henryville schools have been closed on accountof the prevalence of dipt.heria, Redkcy has doubled its population in a year. TC now TTas iTiree glass factories. Sixteen pots have been put In operation in tho new DePauw glass factory at Alexandria. James W. Anderson, the richest man of Rush county, is dead. He owned 5,000 acres of land. Benjamin Murphy, of Wabash county, was kicked in the face by a horse. bursting his eye ball. Mrs. Mary Frame, prophetess of Richmond,’prophecies that the world will eeme Toahendin JSSS! —- The feasibility of establishing an aluminum factory at Noblesville is being eoriously considered. " A horse belonging to Max Munty, of Cambridge City, recently died at an age in excess of forty-three years. Tho Hammond oleomargarine factory turns out 40,000 pounds daily, and tho product sells readily at 18 cents a pound. An official of the New Ross Fair Association contradicts tho report tjiat tho association has concluded to hold no moro meetings. There aro twenty “quart houses” and “speak-easics” doing business at Anderson, against which tho Liquor League has declared- war. The residence occupied by Josie Springer, at Mt. Vernon, was badly wrecked by dynamite, one end of the building being torn to pieces. The great sink hole near Westville, in which the Wabash railway lias dumped many hundreds of tons of earth aud piling is at last permanently filled. James Lamberton. of Goshen, attempted to steal a ride to Elkhart, but fell under the train. Both feet were crushed, aud one leg was amputated near the knee. Miss Clara Paxton, a beautiful girl o* Richmond, is looked upon as hopelessly insane, the result of religious excitement during the Woodworth revival four years ago. James Rhodes, a prominent citizen of Andrews, six miles south of Huntington, committed suicide Wednesday night by cutting his throat. Poor health is the assigned cause. Ed Jones, colored, of Clark county, who headed a crowd of livo negroes and assaulted John Hedgecock on tho night ot the election, has beon sentenced to live years' imprisonment. Mrs. C. Holier, of Ft, Wayne, placed her child, eleven months old, in tho crib, roclr ing the little one to sleep, and then busiedhorself with other cares. An hour later the child was found dead. _ The deer which was first seen in nendricks county xvas phased through Boone into Delaware county, and Wtta finaHy captured alive by men and boys near Cadiz iu Henry county. It is a fine buck. Lyman Beck, seventeen years old, of New Buffalo, pointed a revolver at Joseph Beck, his brother, one year his senior, and thinking the weapon unloaded, pulled the trigger. The bullet took-effect in Joseph's kidneys, and he will die. Mrs. John M. Clark and daughter, of ivi j.niiiav Irnj, wiurwcrc pitsscngcrs urrttre'" Indianapolis & Vincennes train and wero carried throo quarters of a mile beyond the station, sued the company for damages, and compromised for SIOO and $73 respectively. While Mrs. Thomas Knickerbocker was standing in the corridor of tho court house at Frankfort, talking with a daughter aud holding a grandchild in her arms, she sud dcnly fell heavily to the floor autkexpired of heart disease. The child was bruised In tho fall. Several months ago Katie Hood, a girl of Connersviile, was murdered, and her body was found floating in the canal reservoir. It is now claimed that her spirit can bo seen floating over the water almost nightly, aud there is great alarm aniong thc suoerslitlous. John N. Girton, of Putnam county voted for Jackson in 1826 and for Cleveland in 1892, and tho votes were cast not. ono mile from each other. Do lies voted for every Democratic candidate for President from Jaekson to tho present timo, Recently himself and wifecelebratcd thei 1 ' sixtieth wedding anniversary. Mrs. Martha Hannes, of Porter county, dismantelcd a house which Bert Harris erected ou a farm adjoining her own, and she also tried to shoot Harris. Arrest followed, and on her failure to give bonds to keep tho pcaco she was committed. She swears she will kill Harris when releasedJames L. Gibson, near Muncie, fonmi a copper colored stone of peculiar formation lying in his chicken coop, aud beside it tv mangled chickdli, which' tho stouo hud evidently struck in its descent. He claims that tho fragment \va3 a piece of the comet which was wandering around loose some days ago. It weighs six ounces. 6 A robber shot and killed a soloon koepor at Greencastlc, Thursday night. The saloon keeper was counting his money when the robbor entered aud ordered a drink when tho saloon keener turn to Wait oni' him, his money was demanded at the muz zle of a revolver. He reached for his own revolver, when the robber fired, making a mortal wound. At a pumpkin and corn show held a* Martinsville Friday the prlzo pumpkin weighed 71 pounds and 7 ounces; tho sec ond 92 pounds 6 ounces. In the corn con test the dozen ears receiving the first prize weighed 10 pounds 1 ounce; the second 13 pounds 1 ounce. The prizes "fivo dollar pair of shoes to each of the first und a two dollar aud one half pair to the second. James T. Young, defeated in hfS application to establish a saloon at Vallonia, due to the temperance sentiment, started a restaurant atjSeymour. Business was

dull and debts accrued, and l» > fit v despondency, Sunday, he kissed Ms wife' farewell and committed suicide by shoot' hag himself through the breast. He was forty-one years old and tfie fa£er of three children. George W. Reed, press agent for the Leslie Davis Dramatic Company, while at Ft. Wayne iiufuTgedlh a~ generalnspreer Then he retired to bis room at the Hotel Jlich and Indicted two notes, one of them reading* “God bless one that I love. Keep her pure and "good.” The other: “Ft. Wayne is a den of thieves and no good.” A ftef this lio retired to bed and turned on the gas. He was found in an unconscious condition and died soon, after removal to the hospital. He had hnt fnp- : cents left. Kokomo is in the midst of a natural, gar row of prodigious proportions. The rival companies which have been warring among themselves and supplying free fuei to consumers ail summer, have made up and are now trying to collect rates in excess of those named in the ordinance embodying their franchise. This hasaroused a storm of indignation and more than fifty suits have been tiled against: the companies for violation of tho ordinance. City Attorney Shirloy is proceeding by mandamus Injunction, and otherwise against the gas companies, aud is cribfident of defeating the extortion. Kokomo, which lies in the heart of tho gas belt, and which has been enjoying free gas for tho past six months, owing to tho fight between the rival gas companies: hereafter will have lo dance to lively rates, which go into effect on tho Ist. The rates for winter include $1.50 per month for cook stove, $1.50 for the first heater, $1 for the second and seventy-five cents for the third. Each additional heater seven-ty-five cents. Grates are supplied at $4.50 per month, and factories at live cents po r 1,000 feet. The great coni in u ms tank system wasintroduced iu the big window glass works of Mating, Hart & Co., at Muncio, at a cost of SIOO 0)0, The workers, however* are dissatified with the system, which is comparatively new; and have furnished a* new schedules of wages, patterned after tho Jeanette (Pa,) factory. The management offered to guarantee wages ranging from $120,96 to $270 every four weeks, working six and two-thirds hours daily with-the workmen at liberty to make as much more as they desired. This offer was refused and workers quit. Nearly 301 aro out. The management claims to have been mistreated by its employes and a compromise will bo hard to reach. An attempt-was made te assassinate the Rev. W. H. Tomes, the venerable pastor of tho Congregational church at Lake Station, the only religious organization in that village. While Mr. Tomes was seated by his fireside a shot was fired through the window, barely missing both aud wife, and AJr. Tomes hurried to the door in time to see two men running away. Mr, Tomes is known as a vigorons preach, er, and his pulpit utterances have given offense to tho lawless. The attempt to kill him has resulted in the formation of a vigilanco committee to prelect the pastor and his family. There are some roomy theaters in this country, but none that comes up to the old theater of Emilius Seavrius, at Rome, which comfortably seated eighty thousaud persons, ft was Iqudt 1,950 years a<ro.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, Dec. 8.T853. Quotations for Indianapolis when not specified GRAIN. THroar-NorUTOtf, GT!'?fTrr'Nu.'.TrTt,'~63irr' wagon wheat., (57c. Coni No. 1 white, 41e; No. 2 white, 41c; white mixed, 41c; No. white, iOc; No. 3 yellow, Me; No. 3 yellow, 37hie; No. 3 mixed, Me; No, 3 mixed, 37>£c; ear,37)4c Oats—No. 2 white, Stic; No. 3 white, L'4'fc; No. 2 mixed, 83.!fc';- rejected, 2!c. llay—Timothy, choice, $13.01); No. 1, -flhSO; No. 2, fit.-O; No, 1 prairie, *7.50; No. 2. $5.50; mixed hay, $7.50; doyor, $ i.s(>. Bran $11.50 per tou.. ». Jr, | I Wheat. | Corn. Oats. | Rye. Chicago ‘S r'd '2 42 30 Cincinnati.. . ! 2 r’d "(Hi 12 35 51 St. Louis. ... (2 r’d rßi.t :M 31 V, 41 New York 2 r'd 77H 63>i 3854 to Baltimore ... I 71 4» 43 58 Philadelphia. ,2 r'd 15 50 40 Clover Seed. Toledo I 74'4 441 i3l 7t) Detroit 1 wh 73)4 40 57 Minneapolis., i 08 CATTLE. , Export grades $4 5035 35 Good to choice shippers 3 lo®4 35 Fair to medium shippers 3 35@3 70 Common shippers 3 0533 15 StockefSrcoinmon to good 2 0033 15 tlood to choice heifers 2 75@3 35 Fair to medium heifers 2 25(52 60 Common, thin heifers........ 1 50,<52 Oft Good to choice cows 2 ift Fair to medium eo\v9 2 00®2 40 Common old cows.. 1 00al 75. Veals, good toclioico 3 50®!5 51; Bulls, common to modlnm.;.. 1 50®2 73 Milkers, good to choice...... 2500.53500' Milkers, common to medium... 1200@2000 IIOGS, Heavy packing and shipping.. $6 00®0 30 Llfttn* 5 75®fi 05 Mixed 5 80®,5 15 Heavy roughs 4 0)(§5 75 — SHEEP. 1 Good to choice $4 00®4 40 Fair tmnndlimi......, ; r , . a 25(g;3, 55 Common to medium 2 50«C3 25 Lambs, good to choice. 4 PSULTRY AND OTHER I'ROnuCK, Poultry—Hons.', 1 7c $ lb; young chickens. Ru It»r turkeys, fat eholee liens, Oc tt>, ducks, 7c lb; gees#,s.4o for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 2 c. Butter—Choice country butter; 14(®lflc; common, 8® 10c; creamery, retailing from store at 35c. Choeso—New York f lilt cream., 12@12>4c; skims, s«z-7c V lb. (.Jobbingprices.) Feathers—l'rlroe geese 40c If) lb; mixed duck, 2()c y lb. Beeswax- -Dark, 15o; yellow.SOc (selling) Wool—Fina merino, I*>® 18c; unwashed combing,2lc; tub wnshed, 31(®33c. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 3c; No. 2 green hides, 2Mc; No. Ift. S. hides, 4)4c; No. 2G. S. hides, 3>4c; No. 1 tallow, 4c; Nor 2 tullovr. H»jo. —4 Horse Hi<les-$2®52.25. Tallow—No. 1. 4c; No. 2.3^c. Groaso—White,,4c;. yellw, Z%c\ brown, 3c, FRUITS AND TEGETABLES. Potatoes—s2.so(®2.os brl, Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $1.50. Loutons—Choice, $6.50 y box: fancy, $5.00. Pears—Kiefer, $2 y bushel. Onions—s 3 y brl; Spanish, 11.50 per Crete.- s 3*- , ...u—.... Cabbage— Michigan,s23*2.2s per brl.