Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — Page 3

GOD AMONG THE STARS.

The Heavens Declare His Glory and the Earth Shows His f Handiwork. Dr. Talmage Preaches the First of * Series • of Sermons on Divine Science—God , in the Natural World. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject, “The Astronomy of the Bible.” Text: Amos ix, 6, “It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven.” He sad ; ’ My hearers, it is time that we widened out and heightened our religious thoughts. In our pulpits and Subbath classes and Christian work of all sorts we ring the changes on a few verses of Scripture until they excite no interest. Many of the best parts of the Bible have never yet been preached from, or indeed even noticed. Hence 1 to day begin a series of sermons, not for consecutive Subbath mornings, but as often as I think it best for variety’s sake, on the astronomy ofjthe Bible,or God among the stars; the geology Of the Bible, or God among the rocks; the ornithology of the Bible, or God among the birds; the ichthyology of the Bible, or God among the fishes; the pomology of the Bible, or God among the orchards; the precious stones *of the Bible, of God among the amethysts; the conchology of the Bible, or God among the shells; the botany of the Bible, or God among the flowers; chronology of the Bible, or God among the centuries. The fact is we have all spent too much itime on one story of the great mansion of God s universe. We need occasionally to go up stairs or down stairs in this mansion; down stairs and in the cellar study the rocks, or up stairs and see God in some of the higher stories and learn the meaning of the text when it says, “It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven.” It takes whole pages for a man to extol the making of a telescope or microscope, or a magnetic telegraph, or a thrashing=machine, or to describe a fine painting or statue, but it was so easy for God to hang the celestial upboitery that the story is compassed in one verse: “God made f'O great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. The stars also!” Astronomers have been trying to call the roll of them ever since, and they have counted multitudes of them passing in review before the observatories built at vast expense, and the size and number of those heavenly bodies have taxed to the utmost the scientists of all ages. But God finishes all he has to say about them in three words, “The stars also!” That is Mars, with its more than Gfty-five million square miles, and Venus, with its more than one hundred and ninety-one million square miles, and Saturn, with its more than nineteen billion square miles, and Jupiter, with its more than seventyeight billion square miles, and all the planets of our system, when compared with the stars of the other r parted with all the Rocky mountains and all the Alps. “The stars aLo!” For brevity, for ponderosity, for splendor, for suggestiveness, for sublimity piled on sublimity, these words excel all that human' speech ever uttered or human imagination ever soared after, “The stais also!” It is put in as you write a postscript —something you thought of afterward as hardly worth putting in the body of a letter. “The stars also!” Read on in your Bibles, and after awhile the Bible flashes with the aurora borealis, or northern lights, that strange illumination as mysterious and undefined) now as when in the book of Job it was written: “Men see not the bright light which is in the olouds. Fair weather cometh out of the north." While all the nations supposed that the earth was built on a foundation of some sort, and many supposed that it stood on a huge turtle or some great marine creature, Job knew enough of astronomy to say it had no foundation, but w suspended on the invisible arm of the Almighty, declaring that “he hangeth the earth upon nothing.” While all nations thought the earth was level, the sky spread over it like a tent over a flat surface, Isaiah declared the world to be globular, circular, saying of God, “He sitteth upon the circle of the earth.” While running your fingers among the leaves of your Bible with the astronomical thought in your mind you see two worlds stop—the sun and the moon. But what does that Christian know about that miracle who does uo‘ understand something of those two luminaries? Unless you watch modern astronomy put those two worlds in its steelyards and weigh them you are as ignorant as a Hottentot about the stupendousness of that scene in the life of Joshua. The sun, over three hundred thousand times as heavy as our earth and going thousands of miles the hour! Think of stopping that and starting Its again without the shipwreck of the universe! But I can easily believe it. What confounds me is not that he could stop and start again those two worlds in Joshua's time, but that he could have ' made the wheel of worlds of which the sun and moon are only, cogsand keep that wheel l olling for thousands of years —the flywheel of all eternity. If an engine r can start along train, it is not t urprising that he can stop it. I.’ God could make and move the universe, which is an express train drawn by an omnipotent engine. I nm not surprised that for a part of a day hfc could put down the brake? on two at the rotating machinery.

Infidelity is hard up for ground. of complaint against the Scriptures when it finds fault with that cessation of stellar and lunar travel. If astronomers can give a< name to a whole constellationor galaxy, they think they do well, but God has s name for each star in all immensity. Inspired David declared of God. “He telleth the number of the stars ; he calleth them all by their names.” They are not orphans that have never •been christened. They are not waifs of the night. They are not unknown ships on the high seas of immensity. They belong to a family of which God is the rather, and as you call your children Benjamin or Mary or Bertha or Addison or Josephine, so he calls all the adult worlds by their first name, and they know it as well as though there were only one child of light in all the divine family. Oh, the stars, those vestal fires kept burning on infinite altars; those light houses on the coast of eternity ; the hands and weights and pendulum of the .great clockof the ' universe; according to Herschel the so-called fixed stars are not fixed at all, but each one as sun with a mighty system of worlds rolling around it, and this whole system with all the other systems rolling on around some other great center! Millions and millions, billions and billions, trillions and trillions, quadrillions and quadrillions I But what gladdens me and at the same time overwhelms me is that those worlds are inhabited. The Bible says so, and what a small idea you must have of God and His dominion if you think it only extends across this chip of a world which you and I now inhabit. Have you taken this idea of all the worlds being inhabited as human guesswork? Read Isaiah, forty - fifth chapter, eighteenth verse: “Thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made it: he hath established it; h&~ created it not in vain; he formed it to be inhabited." Now, if he, inhabited the earth so that it would not be created in vain, would he create worlds hundreds and thousands of times larger and not have them inhabited? Speaking of the inhabitants of this world, he says: “The Nations are as the drop of a bucket. 7 ’

If all the inhabitants of this world - are as a drop of a bucket, where are the other drops of the bucket? Again and again the Bible speaks of the hosts of heaven, and the word host means living creatures, not inert masses, and the expression “hosts of heaven” must mean inhabitants of other worlds. The psalmist cries out, “Thv mercy is great above the heavens?’ What could be the use of His goodness above the heavens if there .were no inhabitants to enjoy it? Again, the Bible says, “He has set thy glory above the heavens.” And here my text comes in with its idea of a mansion of many stories. “It is he that buildeth his stories in the heavens.” All around us in this world we see economy of omnipotence. If Christ was going to feed the hungry seven thousand in the wilderness, he made use of the boy’s five loaves and two fishes, expending no more creative power than was needed. “Waste not" God hath written all over this world. And do not suppose that God would waste world material in our solar system to the amount of what has been estimated as seven, hundred trillion miles of solid contents, and that only a small part as compared with other systems that go to make up this many stored mansion of the text where it says, “It is he that buildeth his stories In the heaven."

It has been estimated that in the worlds belonging to our solar system there is room for at least twenty-five trillion of population. And I believe it is all occupied or will be occupied by intelligent beings. God will not fill them with brutes. He would certainly put into those world's beings intelligent enough to appreciate the architecture, the coloring’ the grandeur, the beauty, the harmony of their surroundings. Yea, the inhabitants of those worlds have capacity of locomotion like ours, for they would not have had such spacious opportunity for movement if they had not power of motion.

Yes, they have sight, else why the light; and hearing, else how get on with necessary language and how clear themselves from advancing perils. Yea. as God made our human race in his own image he probably made the inhabitants of other world’s in his own image—-in other words, it is as near demonstration as I care to have it that while the inhabitants of other worlds have adaptations of bodily structure to the particular climate in which they dwell, there is yet similarity of mental aid spiritual characteristics among all the inhabitants of the universe of God, and made in his image they are made wonderfully alike. Now, what should be the practical result of this discussion founded on Scripture and common sense? It is first of all to enlarge our ideas of God, and so intensify our admiration and worship. Under such consideration, how much more graphic the Bible question which seems to roll back the sleeve of the Almighty and say, “Hast thou an arm like God?” The contemplation also encourages us with the thought that if God made all these worlds and populated them ft will not be very much of an undertaking for him to make our little world over again and reconstruct the character of its populations as by* grace they are to be reconstructed. What a manstrosity of ignorance that the majority of Christian people listen not to the voiced of other woriflsSj a'though the Book says “Theheavens declare the glory of God " and again, “The works of the Lord are great and to be sough tout.”

' How much have you sought them but? You have been satisfying your-elf with some things about Christ, but have you noticed that Paul calls you to consider Christ as the creator of other words, “bv whom also he made the words.” It is time you Christians start on a world hunt. That is the chief reason why God makes the night—that you may see‘other word?. I thank God that we have found out that our world is not half way between heaven and hell, bntisin a sisterhood of light, and that this sisterhood joins all the other sisterhoods of worlds, moving round some great homestead, which is no doubt heaven, where God is and our departed Christian friends are, and we ourselves through pardoning mercy expect to become permanent residents. Furthermore, I get now from all this an answer to the question which every intelligent man and woman since the ea-th has stood h?.s asked and received no answer. Why did -God letain-and sorrow come into the world when he could have prevented them from coming? I wish reverently to say I think I have found the reason. To keep the universe loyal to a holy God it was important in some world somewhere to demonstrate the gigantic disasters that would come upon any world that allowed sin to enter. Which world should it be? Well, the smaller the world the better, for less numbers would suffer. So our world was selected. The stage was plenty large enough for the enactment of the tragedy. Enter on the stage sin, followed by murder, pain, theft, fraud, impurity, falsehood, massacre, war, and all the abominations and horrors and agonies of centuries. Although we know comparatively little about the other worlds lest we become completely dissatisfied with our own, no doubt the other worlds have heard and are now hearing all world in the awful experiment of sin which the human race has been making. In some way interstellar communication is open and all worlds either by wing of flying spirits or by direct communication from God, are learning that dis loyalty and disobedience doom and damp' everything they touch, the s pectaclepraeticsdly Says to all othe r worlds, “Obey God, keep holy and stay in the orbit where you were intended to swintr, or you will suffer that which that recreant world out yonder has been suffering for thousands of years. ” It is no longer to me a mystery why so small a world as ours was chosen for the tragedy. A chemist can demonstrate all the laws of earth and heaven in a small laboratory, ten feet by five, and our world was not too small to demonstrate to the universe the awful chemistry of unrighteousness, its explosive and riving and consuming power. I do not believe there is a world that has been in existence from the time when Copernicus, the astronomer, knocked on the door of heaven, to the world that last week came in sight at the observatory at Greenwich,. but has heard of our terrific terrestial experiment, and the awful object lessen ha? thrilled the multimillions of stellar population, especially when they heard that m order to anest the disaster Of" ceri" turies the World Maker and the World Starter and the World Upholder must give up his on’y son to assassination to expiate and restore and save the victims of the planetary shipwreck. ———_

The Period of Bodily Growth.

There , are some reasons to suppose that a period of bodily growth in Americans at least continues longer than is commonly supposed- The statistics gathered by the United States Sanitary commission and discussed by Dr. B. A. Gould, concerning the height and other proportions of nearly a quarter of a million soldiers appears to indicate that young men are not on the average physically adult until they attain about the age of 28 years. It seems to me clear from my observations of young men in Harvard College that they do not on the average 'attain the full measure of their mental powers until they are at least 25 years old. My observations have inclined me to believe that the reasoning capacities, or at least those involved in carrying on difficult trains of thought, are not at their strength until this age. This fact, if such it be, serves to show how futile it is to expect in Immature youths a full measure of comprehension in difficult tasks which are before them in our schools and colleges. The of bodily growth affords at least a presumption that’ the mental development demands a greater number of years than we assign to it, and makes the wide divergencies in the rate of intellectual growth more comprehensible.—N. S. Shaler, iu Phil. Press.

Just by Accident.

One of those lucky girls who can turn their_mistakes "into victories is said to have originated the fashion of wearing ribbon belts twisted so as to make a point in thocenter of the back. Dressing in a hurry, she drew her belt carelessly about her waist and hastened down to breakfast to be greeted by her dearest enemy before she had traveled half the length of the hotel dining-room, with, ••Oh, Adele, dear, your belt is twisted right in the middle, don’t you know. Kun back and straighten it before Mr. —— sees it He is so critical about little matters.” “Don’t you think it gives a nice pointed effect?” demanded Adele, catching sight of het reflection in a fHcndly mirror. “I do,” and she marched serenely to her seat, and after two days of wearing her belt twisted the other girls agreed with her. As for the critical Mr. , for some reason, of which possibly Adele has the secret, he seems curiously indifferent to the dearest enemy nowaday a —Boston Transcript.

A GIGANTIC SWINDLE,

Before Which AU Former Fradulent Schemes Pale Into In* significance. Fresh Development* in the Panama Smm»Turbulent Scenes in the Deputies— Numbers of Legislators to Be Prosecuted The Republic in Peril Many Duels Will Result. 0 ’ <••• ■ In th© French Chamber of Deputies at Paris, Tuesday, M. Floquet, the President of that body announced that he had received an appif cation for the prosecution ofM. Rouvier, ex-Minlster of Finance; M. Jules Roche,ex-Miuister of Commerce; E. Arene, member for Corsica; Antonin Proust, member for De Jevres; Baron •‘■’Oubeyran, member for Loudon, and Joseph du la Fanconnerie, member for Orno, ... H° stated that the application was made on the ground that the magistratVinthc” Panama canal case had received many check stubs in which appeared the Initials of deputies, and that-avidence against the individuals in question had been laid before the Parliamentary investigating com mission. The application could not be granted without the consent of the House. Thq Chamber decided that the standingcommittees should meet and consider the application. In the Senate M. Le jßoyer, the President, stated that he had received a demand for the prosecution of Senators Renault, Albert Grevy.i Beral, Thevonot and Deves for the partithey had taken in the affairs of the canal. The matter was referred to the standing committees. M. Rouvier appeared before the standing committee, of which he is a member, in his own defense. He said there was nothing in the evidence which would implicate him, and that he had served the State In high positions: for many yeardt and in many cases had deemed it his duty to preserve silence as to certain sic s, but the accusations agaiqst his honor had relieved him from all Obligations. There was nothing in the documents seized to prove that ho had ever received a check from anybody in the interest of the Pan-' ama Canal Company. He had served the State in high office for several years, and ho TiaT aTways deemed it his 'duty to preserve silence as regards certain facts. Before the Chamber resumed business this statement had'gqne abroad and caused Intense excitement in the lobbies. M. Rouvier was expected to refute in detai M Clemenceau’s charges. The gallerie 3 were packed. Deputies who had Intended to absent themselves from the sitting hurried back to the chamber. The report of the special committee, read by Chair man Alexandre Miller, favored the grant Ing of the application for authority* to prosecute. All waited impatiently for (he explanation of the accused members. Deputy Arene, charged by M. Andreux, late prefect of tffe police, with corruption in connection with the loan of 1888, was the first one to protest his innocence.

As M. Rouvier ascended the Speaker's tribune, every Deputy], leaned forward in tn attitude of attention, and the first words of his defense were delivered amid oppressive stillness. After reminding the Chamber of his long public service, his hitherto unquestionable record and the obligations to official secrecy which had previouslyclosed’ Tits mdnnr,‘ he made emphatic denial that he had accepted checks from the Panama Canal Company or its agents, nor had he any discreditable connection of any sort with the company’s enterprise. When he cams into power he found that the secret service fund was entirely inadequate for the defense of the Republic. As ho and his col* leagues must have the money which the lecret fund lacked, hp had recourse to personal friends for money to tide oyer the lifliculty. The confusion grew in the Chamber as the deputies became convinced that M Rouvler was evading the issue. Loud murmurs of protest greeted his first statement as to the secret service fund, and when ho suggested that the checks were contributions of his friends to the support of the Government there was an outbreak of bowls and laughter. Raising his voice M. Rouvier shouted: “What I did. all public mm have done. Ilad I not adopted that course the men now Interrupting me would not be seated on those benches.” Bedlam broke loose the moment the words were uttered. M. Rouvier made three attempts to be heard. After the demonstration had spent itself, he continued : “I am perfectly ready to go before any tribunal.' I h&Vo nothing to fear. I never derived the slightest benefit from the Panama Canal Company, I never defended its interests. I challenge investigation.” When order had been restored the report of the special committee in favor of the prosecution was adopted. Paul de Roulede then asked what action the disciplinary council of the Legion o r Honor had decided to take against Dr. Cornelius Herz. “This man.” M. de Ronlede said, “is not to be left with the insignia in his possession, although I grant he is a mos 1 Important man to the State, for he truly holds the reins of government.” M. de Roulede proceeded to make a mos t ylrulent personal attack on M. Clemenceau, “whose relations to M. Herz.” he said, “are too well known to need detailed description,” Amid renewed cheers and jeers he declared that M. Herz tried to buy the Boulangists with Panama money but they had refused to touch It. Despite M. Floquet’y repeated' protests, cries of “dissolution” and a general tumult, M. de Roulede again addressed himself to M. Clemenceau. “Why did this Herz give 200,000 francs to La Jusilce?” he shouted. M. Clemenceau, white with rage, sprang to bls feet, and shaking both fists toward M. de Roulede, shouted back an answer which nobody could hear. M, Clemenceau replied that M. Do Ronlede’s attaeks were pernir'.ous,sbwnefas and without foundation. Although he had no written proofs of his Innocence, \e defied M. De Roulede to substantial,,

lb, charges jest nsds. He would no answer these brazen slanders in the chamber, but would demand personal satisfaction Immediately after adjournment. The attacks of the last speaker upon MHerz were based on falsehood and imagination. Boulanger himself had not a more devoted friend than Dr. Herz. M. Clemenceau acknowledged that La Justice had supported capitalists occasionally,but denied that it had ever promoted business enterprises in the Interest of Dr, Herz. In conclusion M. Clemenceau. cried but: “De Rouledc has accused me of betraying my country by introducing foreign influence. De Roulede lies.” ; fAfter another scene of wild disorder, Lucien Millevoye, Boulangist deputy, for Somme.rose to defend the memory of Gen Boulanger against the aspersions east on itby M. Clemenceau. He then let loose a torrent of abuse on M. Clemenceau. In the consequent tumult. M. Millevoye turned upon M. Flou inet. who was trying • to restore order, and shonted at him u u insuiting name. Millevoyeclosed hisspeecli with the assertion that Herz wnN the paid emissary of a foreign power; The chamber t lien ad Jon rnfid. —--t~ The bitter feeling aroused during the morning led to many wrangles and tumultuous scenes, and it is believed that a number of duels will be the result. Deputies de Roulede and Millevoye have already sent seconds to Deputy Clemenceau.

SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Canada is building war vessels. Shelbyville will have electric ears. A new gusher has been developed at Atlanta. Susan McCormack, aged ninety-six’ died at Shoals, Tuesday. Mrs. Hannah Evans, of Greencastle, is dead, aged eighty-seven. A receiver lias been appointed for the Order of Solons at Pittsburg. Pa. Richard Croker, the Tammany Sachem, says that organiza Jon will ask nothing from Cleveland. The House has passed the Senate biij increasing the pensions of Mexican veteftins from $8 to sl2 a month. Stamboul, the celebrated stallion, wa sold at auction in New York, Tuesday, for $41,000, to D. H. Herriman. An agreement has been signed by Dillon, Davitt and Harrington, by which the Irish fund at Paris will be released. 3The proposition to make Grant and Huntington counties separate judicial circuit is favored by the bars those bail wicks. John Brandt, a merchant of Evansville, was killed by an electric car, Tuesday. The moterman and conductor were arrested. Many Terre Haute people have been victimized by a smooth-talking young man who took orders for clothing, and collected in advance.

Kansas Populists are reported to be organizing military companies for the purpose of taking posession of the State Legislature by force if necessary. 3G. W. Baird, president of the First National Bank of Lebanon, was dangerously injured by a fall. Owing to bis advanced age bls recovery is doubtful. The Louisiana Sup erne Court has sustained the “Jim Crow” law, making i t compulsory on railroads in that State to provide separate coaches for white and colored passengers. The $75,010 paid by the Chilean government, in settlement in full for all claims arising out of ibe Baltimore affair at VaK paraiso, was paid into the sub-treasury at New York. Tuesday. John Freyhoff, of Urbana, 0., a German gardener, well- to-do, tried to m urde r bi a wife and two children, Monday, and bo* lieving he had killed his wife, committed suicide. It is believed Mrs. Freyhoff wil die.

Herr Most,the valiant knight of anarchy was publicly horsewhipped by Emma Goldman at New York, Monday nightThe woman is a friend of Bergman, whose shooting of H. C. Frick was discountenanced by Most. Charles Fort was convicted off manslaughter at Marion. Tuesday, for killing Michael Halpin, an inmate of the Soldiers Home, at Jonesboro, last July, and sen. tened to twenty-one years in the penl-> tent) ary. Jacob Krieger, once a prominent financier of Louisville, died in that city, Monday, penniless and heartbroken. Rising by bis own efforts to affluence, he lost hi? fortune in trying to save the Masonic Savings Bank, of which he was President, which failed August 8, 1891. He was a native of Prussia and aged 67. An Indianapolis Journal staff correspondent sumarizes the prosperity of Muncie as follows: Increase of wealth in Delaware county in five years, 17,000,000; increase of Muncie’s population from 6,000 ten years ago to 22.000 in 1892; 000,000 outside capital brought in; 8,000 workmen employed; monthly wages paid in factories. $350,000. Patents were on Tuesday granted Indiana inventors as follows: Johnston U. Frank, Eden, picket wiring fence machine; David Shivell, Arlington, buggy top; J ames M. Smclser. Richmond, sash balance; Nelson Therlen, Hammond, ceding ornament; Horace W. Tingloy, Michigan City, assignor to Automatic Turning Co.. Chicago, rotary lathe.

London's Breakfastless Children.

Cable, in New York Sun. There are forty thousand little children in London who go breakfastless to school every morning. This is the saddest feature of the great unemployed -.problem which agitates the metropolis. The mat ter has been urgently brought before the School Board this week by delegates from the idle workmen, with a request that the city should fill the stomachs ar. well as-tl.e brains of the little ones whose attendance it compels. The subject has already been scmi-officially invesf’gatfcd. and the appalling figure, which are dally growing, were found to be about correct It is also said that a wholesome porridge can be provided at cost ol only a halfpenny per child. It is arged that, unless such an expedient is adopted, the compulsory education law might as well be re pealed for hunger for knowledge and. hunger for food can never coexist in the same body Jeaatofall a child's.

TOLBERTS CAUSA TERROR.

The Desperadoes Determined to Avenge Their Relatives. A reign ot terror exists Io Kemper county, Miss., and every citizen who bad anything to do with the hanging of old man Tolbert and bringing Walter and Tom Tolbert to justice is new In hourly dread es his life. One week ago William Beckham was assassinated while sitting by his own fireside. Beckham had made his arrangements to leave the country the next day. On Saturday evening, as Col. Adams, who was identified In. the tight against tho Tolberts, was riding along a dreary toad, two while men tired at him from ambush, but Adams'horse shied and AdMrrrettnTred-tize fire with a shotgun, but without effect. There is Abo greatest consternation existing, and no one goes abroad without being heavily armed. Dr. Stemmis. who also played a prominent part In tlie tragedy, has been compelled to neglect a large practice and seclude him; elf at home. The ‘ dfsguisetF men artr supposed to be Ranse and Charlie Toibcrt, who. driven to desperation by the hanging ol their father, the death of thslr brother John, and the shooting and cr.ptura of their brothers Toin and Walter, have determined to avenge their cause.

A PLACE FOR HARRISON.

The President, It Is Sold, Wil) Instruct la the Stanford University. The San Francisco Examiner of Tuesday says that President Harrison lias accepted a proposal from President Jordan, of tho Leland Stanford Jr., University, to become a member of the faculty of that institution. Ills duties will comprise a series of law lectures, which will call him to Palo Al to two or three times a year,and it is probable that ho.wiil make California bis winter residence.

SHOT HIS ROOM MATE.

A sad tragedy occurred at the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville, Tuesday evening. R. M. Powell and R. J. Whitthome, room mates, w-*re packing their trunks preparatory to leaving for their homes for the holiday vacation, when Whitthome picked up a pistol to /hand It to Powell. Just as Powell took hold of the pistol it went off, killing him instantly. The shooting was purely an accident. _____________

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

A real estate boom la on in Clinton county. Three firemen were faliy injured In a lire at Albany, N. Y., Monday. Ten Welsh operators at the Elwood tinplate works have stopped work. A new Christian church was dedicated at New Mt. Pleasant, Jay Sun- = . day. I There have been twenty-five cases of , ! choiera at Hamburg iu the last week, and ’ two deaths, -f 3 “Bate” Hawkina has again appeared at Shelbyville, and is prosecuting saloon men who sold him whisky. The watchman at Roann wm entertained by a stranger wnile a confederate robbed a hardware store. 3 The Presbyterian church at Pleasant Hili, Clark county, was burned, Monday, Losßsl,sCo; do insurance. ' Ex-Congressman Janie* B. Cheadle was ( married to Miss America; Moore; at' Ktriri lin, Clinton county, Tuesday, I Broker Sibley, of Chicago, whose disastrous failure occnrred Monday, claims that tho collapse was the result ot a special combination whose purpose was to “do” him. Warrants have been issued at Indianapolis for the arrest of F. D. Somerby et al., prominent Iron Hallers, for embezzement. and requisitions will be secured for the men on the various States where they may be found.

There is little reason to doubt that the President will soon issue an order extending the civil-service law and roles so aa to include all letter carriers and clerks in free delivery postoffices, These offices now number 601, and give employ men t to about 11,200 carriers and 9,3(0 chHts. making 20,500 in all. Much interest has been aroused among the agricultural societies of the State in the election of now members of the State Board of Agriculture, which takes place* at Indianapolis January 4. At that time the terms of eight members will expire. Those members whoso terms expire are candidates for re-election, and there are several other candidates from nearly every district. The members are elected by delegates from the agricultural societies of the State. J On Jan. 5. the U. S. district court will take up the trial of criminal cases. Tuesday the trial jury was drawn as fbllows: John C. Alexander. Greenfield; Elliottß. Barr. Goodlaud; Benjamin P. Brown, Franklin; Aaron T. Cotton, BlnIfton; Alpheus Dillon. Brazil; James Goodwin. Fairland; Matbias 8. Herbst. New Albany; J Howard, Livonia: Weeden Hume. Pleasantville; Francisco Lord. West Liberty; dharies Mylar. West Pork; James Massey, Hebron; John S. McCorkle, Evansville:-Eugene Mocrow, Bluffton; Norman Marklebam. South ,Bend; DavldS. Morris. Union City; P. J. Nay* lor, Sharpsville; William F. Pratt,Greenfield; John Rohrer, South Bend; Ellas Scott. Jackson borough; George S.earce. Danville; William Trueblood, Kokomo; David W’arner. South Bend; Henry Williams, Crawfordsville. ‘ * Cornelius Vanderbuill has bought al| the lots adjoining his present magnificent residence in New York, which he Is now demolishing, together with the sluctures upou the recently purchased ground, aad will erect a palace of fabulous beauty upon the site thus acquired. It is" estimated that tbo cost of the new building and grounds will exceed F-’,000.000. It is said tbo Rothcnllds will establish a groat beer trust in this country, with headquarters in New York, millions of capital are be used in theentcr. prise. Sites have already bean «a»ur«d in New Haven. Bridgeport and Hartford. CL, Chicago, Columbut, O„ an« San Francisco, V • ■ .HfO#