Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — Page 7

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

HE PREACHES ON A RELIGION FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE. He Asks Attention to the Rank and File Rather than to the Few—The Disadvantages of Being Conspicuous —The Blessing of Content. Gospel of Content. Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent on his annual midsummer tour, preaching and lecturing, prepared for last Sunday a sermon on “Plain People,” a topic which will appeal to a very large majority of readers anywhere. The text selected was Romans xvi., 11, 15, “Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hennas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia.” Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam Clark, Thomas Scott and all the commentators pass by these verses without any especial remark. The other twenty people mentioned in the chapter were distinguished lot something and were therefore {discussed by the illustrious expositors, but nothing is said about Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. Where were they born? No one knows. Where did they die? There is no record of their decease. For what were they distinguished? Absolutely for nothing, or the trait of character would have been brought out by the apofttle. If they had been very intrepid or opulent or hirsute or musical of cadence or crass of style or in anywise anomalous, that feature would have been caught by the apostolic camera. But they were good people, because Paul sent to them his high Christian regards. They were ordinary people, moving in ordinary sphere, attending to ordinary duty and meeting ordinary responsibilities.

What the world wants is a religion for ordinary people. If there be in the United States (15,000,000 people, there are certainly not more than 1,000,000 extraordinary, and then there are 04,000,000 ordinary, and we do well to turn our backs for a little while upon the distinguished and conspicuous people of the Bible and consider in our text the seven ordinary. We spend too much of our time in twisting garlands for renfarka- . hies, and building thrones for magnates and sculpturing warriors and apotheosiziug philanthropists. The rank anti file of the Lord’s soldiery need especial help. The vast majority of people to whom this sermon comes will never lead an army, will never write a State Constitution, will never electrify a Senate, will never make an important invention, will never introduce a new philosophy, will never decide the fate of a nation. You do not expect to; you do not want to. You will not bo a Moses to lead a nation out of bondage. You will not be a Joshua to prolong the daylight until you can shut five kings in a cavern. You will not be a St. John to unroll an apocalypse. You will not be a Paul to preside over an apostolic college. You will not be a Mary to mother a Christ. You will more probably be Asyncritus or Phlegon or Hermas or Patrbbas or Hermes or Pholologus or Julia. Heads- of Households, Many of you are women at the head of households. This morning you launched the family for the Sabbath observance. Your brain decided the apparel, and your judgment was final on all questions of personal attire. Every morning you plan for the day. The culinary department of your household is in your dominion. You decide all questions of diet. All the sanitary regulations of your house are under your supervision. To regulate the food, and the apparel, and the habits and decide the thousand questions of home life is a tax upon your brain and nerve and general health absolutely appalling If there be po divine alleviation. Jt does not help you much to be told that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things mid the criminals of Newgate. It does not help you much to be told that Mrs. Judson was very brave among the Bornesian cannibals. It does not help you —much to be told that Florence Nightingale was very kind to the wounded in the Crimea. It would be better for me to tell you that the divine friend of Mary and Martha is your friend, and that he sees all the annoyances and disappointments and abrasions and exasperations of an ordinary housekeeper from inorn till night, nnd from the first day of the year to the last day of the year and at your call he is ready with help and re-en-forcement.

An unthinking man may consider it a matter of little importance—the cares of the household and the economies of domestic life—but I tell you the earth is strewn with the martyrs of kitchen and nursery. The health shattered womanhood of America cries out for a God who can help ordinary women in the ordinary duties of housekeeping. The wearing, grinding, unappreciated work goes on, but the same Christ who stood on the bank of Galilee in the early moruing and kindled the fire and had the fish already cleaned and broiling when the sportsmen stepped ashore, chilled and hungry, will help every woman to prepare breakfast, whother by her own hand or the hand of her hired help. The God who made in 2 destructible eulogy of Hannah, who made a coat for Samuel, her son, and carried it to the temple every year, will help every woman in preparing the family wardrobe. The God who opens the Bible with the story of Abraham’s entertainment of the three angels on the plains of Mamre will help every woman to provide hospitality, however rare and embarrassing. Premature Old Age, Then there are the ordinary business men. They need divine and Christian help. When we begin to talk about business life, we shoot right off and talk about men who did business on a large scale, and who sold millions of dollars of goods a year, but the vast majority of business men do not sell n million dollars of goodß, nor hajf a million, nor n quarter of a million, nor the eighth part of a million. Tut all the business men of our cities, towns and villages and neighborhoods side by side, and you will find that they sell leap than $50,000 worth of goods. All these men in ordinary business life want divine, help. You see how the wrinkles are printing on the countenance the story of worriment and care. ,<*f¥ou cannot tell how old a business man Is by looking at him. Gray hairs at 30. A man at 45 with the stoop of a nonogena- ’ rian. No time to attend to improved dentistry, the grinders cease because they are few. Actually dying of old age at 40 or 60 when they ought to be *at the meridian. Many of these business men have bodies liko a neglected clock. The human dock haa simply run down. And at the

time when the steady hand opght to be pointing to the industrious hours on a clear and sunlit dial the whole machinery of body, mind and earthly capacity stops forever. The cemeteries have thousands of business men who died of old age at 30, 35, 40, 45. The Heat Kind of Grace. Now, what is wanted is grace—divine grace for ordinary business men, men who are harnessed from morn till night and all the days of their life—harnessed in business. Not grace to lose SIOO,OOO, but grace to Jose $lO. Not grace to supervise 250 employes in a factory, but grace to supervise the bookkeeper and two salesmen and the small boy that sweeps out the store. Grace to invest not the SSO,000 of net profit, but the $2,500 of clear gain. Grace not to endure the loss' of a whole shipload of spices from the Indies, but grace to endure the loss of a paper of collars from the leakage of a displaced shingle on a poor roof. *> Grace not to endure the tardiness of the American Congress in passing a necessary law, but grace to endure the tardiness of an errand boy stopping to play marbles when he ought to deliver the goods; such a grace as thousands of business men have to-day, keeping them tranquil :wh%ther goods sell or do not sell, whether customers pay or do not pay, whether the tariff is up or tariff is dovqi, whether the crops are-luxuriant or a dead failure, calm in all circumstances and amid all vicissitudes—that is the kind of grace we want. Millions of men want it, and they may have it for the asking. Tillers of the Soil. Then there are all the ordinary farmers. We talk about agricultural life, and we immediately shoot off to talk about Cincinnatus, the patrician, who went from the plow to a high position, and after he got through the dictatorship in twenty-one days went back again to the plow. What encouragement is that to ordinary farmers? The vast majority of them, none of them, will be patricians. Perhaps none of them will be Senators. If any of them have dictatorships, it will be over forty or fifty or one hundred acres of the old homestead. What those men want is grace to keep their patience while plowing With balky oxen and to keep cheerful amid the drought that destroys the com crop and that enables thorn to restore the garden the day after the trampled out the strawberry bed and gone through the lima bean patch and eaten up the sweet corn in such large quantites that they must be kept from the ..water lest they swell up and die; grace in catching weather that enables them without, imprecation to spread out the hay the third time, although again and again and again it has been almost ready for the mow; a grace to doctor the cow with a hollow horn, and the sheep with the footrot, and the horse with the distemper, and to compel the unwilling acres to yield a livelihood for the family, and schooling for the children, and little extras to help the older boy in business, and something for the daughter’s wedding outfit, nnd a little surplus for the time when the ankles will get stiff with age and the breath will be a littje Bhort, and the swinging of the cradle through the hot harvest field will bring on the old man’s Vertigo. Better close up stout Cincinnatus. I know 500 farmers just as. noble as he was.

What they want is to know that they have the friendship of that Christ who often drew his similes from the farmer’s life, as when ho said, “A sower went forth to sow,” as when he built his best parable out of the scene of a farmer’s boy coming back from his wanderings, and the old farmhouse shook that night with rural jubilee, and who compared himself to a lamb in the pasture field, and who said the eternal God is a farmer, declaring, “My Father is the husbandman.” Those stonemasons do not want to hear about Christopher Wren, the architect, who built St. Paul’s Cathedral. It would be better to tell them how to carry the hod of brick up the ladder without slipping, aud how on a cold morning with the trowel to smooth off the mortar and keep cheerful, and how to be thankful to God for the plain food taken from the pail by the roadside. Carpenters standing amid the adz, and the bit, and the plane, and the broadax need to be told that Christ was a carpenter, with his own hand wielding saw and hammer. Oh, this is a tired world, and it is an overworked world, and it is an underfed world, and it is a wrung out world, and men and women need to know that there is rest and recuperation in God and in that religion which was not so much intended for extraordinary people as for ordinary people, because there are more of them. Healers of the Sick. The healing profession has had its Abercrombies and its Abernethys and its Valentine Motts and its Willard Par-, kers, but the ordinary physicians do the most of tho world’s medicining, and they need to understand that while taking diagnosis or prognosis or writing prescription or compounding medicament or holding the delicate pulse of a dying child they may have the presence and tho dictation of the almighty doctor who took the case of the madman, nnd after he had torn off his garments in foaming dementia clothed him again, body and mind, nnd who lifted up the woman who for eighteen years had been bent almost double with the rheumatism into graceful stature, nnd who turned the scabs of leprosy into rubicund complexion, nnd who rubbed the numbness out of paralysis, and who swung wide open the closed windows of hereditary or accidental blindness until the morning light came streaming through the fleshly easements, nnd who knows all the diseases and all the remedies and all the herbs and all the cathollcons, and Is monarch of pharmacy nnd therapeutics, nnd who has sent out 10,000 doctors of whom the world makes no record, but to prove that they are angels of mercy 1 invoke the thousands of men whose ailments have been assuaged and the thousands of women to whom in crises of pain they have bocu next to God in benefaction.

Come, now, let us have a religion for ordinary people in professions, in occupations, in agriculture in the household, in merchandise, in everything. I salute across tho centuries Asyneritus, Phlegon, Hernias, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. ""First of all, if you feel that you are ordinary, thank God that you are not extraordinary. lam tired and sick and bored almost to death with extraordi- i nary people. They take all their time to tell us how very extraordinary they really are. You know as well as I do, my brother and sister, that the most of the 'useful work of tho world is dono by unpretentious people who toll right on, by people who do not get much approval, and no one seems to sar. “That is well done.”

Phenomena are of hot little use. T|dag« that are exceptional cannot be depended on. Better trust the smallest plaDet that swings on its orbit than ten comets shooting this way and that, imperiling tho longevity of worlds attending to their own business. For steady illumination better is a lamp than a rocket. Then, if you feel that you are ordinary, remember that your position invites the less attack. Conspicuous people—how they have to take it! How they are misrepresnted and abused and shot at! The higher the horns of a roebuck the easier to track him down. What a delicious thing it must be to be a candidate for President of the United States! It must be so soothing to tho nerves! It must pour into the soul of a candidate such a sense of serenity when he reads the blessed newspapers! The Abused. I came into the possession of the abusive cartoons in tho time of Napoleon 1., printed while he was yet alive. The retreat of the army from Moscow, that army buried in tho snows of Russia, one of the most awful tragedies of the centuries, represented under the figure of a monster called General Frost shaving the French Emperor with a razor of icicle. As Satyr and Beelzebub he is represented, page after page, page after page, England cursing him, Spain cursing him, Germany cursing him, Russia cursing him, Europe cursing him, North and South America* cursing him, the most remarkable man of his day and the most abused. All those men in history who now have a halo around their name on earth wore a crown of thorns. Take tho few extraordinary railroad men of our time and see. what abuse conies upon them while thousands of stockholders escape. All the world took after Thomas Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, abused him until he got under the ground. Thousands of stockholders in that company. All the blame on one man. The Central Pacific Railroad. Two or three men get all the blame if anything goes wrong. There are 10,000 in that company. I mention these things to prove it is extraordinary people who get* abused while the ordinary escape. The weather of life is not so severe on the plain as it is on the high peaks. The world never forgives a man who knows or gains or does more than it can know or gain or do. If, therefore, you feel that-you are ordinary, thank God for the defenses and the tranquility of your position.

' Contented Spirit. Then remember, if you have only what is called an ordinary home, that the great deliverers of the world have all come from such a home. And there may be seated reading at your evening stand a child who shall be potent for the ages. Just unroll the scroll of men mighty in church .and state, and you will find they nearly all came fro log cabin or poor homes. Genius almost always runs out in the third oj, fourth generation. You cannot find in all history an instance where the fourth generation of extraordinary people amount to anything. Columbus from a weaver’s hut, Demosthenes from a cutler’s cellar, Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from a shoemaker’s bench, Arkwright from a barber’s shop, and he whose name is high over all in earth and air and sky from a manger. Let us all be content with such things as we have. God is just as good in what he keeps away from us as in what he gives us. Even a knot may be useful if it is at the Cud of a thread. Oh, Wat we might be baptized with a contented spirit! The spider draws poison out of a.flower; the bee gets honey out of ,a thistle, but happiness is a heavenly elixir, and tho contented spirit extracts it not from the rhododendron of the hills, but from the lily of the valley.

A Horse’s Tail.

In well-formed horses the tail should be strong at the root, rising high from the croup, the direction of which it follows. When this is horizontal the tail is gracefully carried, especially when the horse is moving. With powerful, good-shaped horses it Is often carried upward, or even curved over the back, especially when the horse is lively. The health and strength of the animal are, according to popular notions, indicated by the resistance the tall offers to manual Interference and by tlid way in which it is carried. To some extent also it affords an indication of the horse’s disposition. A fidgety horse usually has the tall, like the ears, always in motion; when about to kick, the tail Is drawn downward between the legs; when the animal Is fatigued or exhausted then it is drooping and frequently tremulous; and with some horses, when galloping,, it is swung about In a circular manner or lashed from side to side. There can scarcely be any doubt also that, like the tail of birds, It assists to the horse’s movements, as when the animal is galloping in a small circle, or rapidly turning round a corner, it Is curved to the iuner side. With well-bred horses the hair of the tail Is comparatively fine and straight, and often grows to su<sh a length that it reaches the ground; coarse-bred horses may also have the hair long, but then It is usually very thick and strong, and more or less frizzly, though soft curly hair may occasionally be noticed in the tall of thoroughbred horses. In some horses there Is a tendency to shedding of the tall hair (this, like that of the mane, tall, forelock, fetlock, and some other parts, is permanent, and not shed at certain seasons, as in other regions of the body); the horse Is then said to be “rat-tailed,” and there Is a popular saying to tbe effect that such a horse Is never a bad one. In other Instances the tall hair falls off except at the end of the dock, where It forms a tuft, and the horse js then “cow-tailed” or “niuletalled.”— I ’J’he Nineteenth Century.

Bismarck’s Gold Chessboard.

Prince Bismarck was recently the recipient of a handsome present In the shape of a chessboard Inlaid with alternate squares of yellow and milkwhite amber laid on an under surface of gold. The figures, which are marvelously carved, are also of amber, and each minute detail Is faultlessly carried out. ; ; Voltaire was afraid to sleep In the dark, and Invariably woke If bis candlt went out

AGRICULTURAL NEWS

THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. Crops Properly Planted May Be Cultivated Diagonally—Have a Place for the Fowls to Roll—Good Dairy Cows Are Always Salable. ■ ■■■i i ■ ■ Cultivating Diagonally. If the planting has been properly done there is often much advantage in cultivating diagonally between hills. This will cut corners which are left untouched when the cultivator has been run only as the rows are planted. It is well when this is d6ne to have the outer teeth of the cultivator made smaller, so that the cultivator next the plants should not run so deeply. It will require a careful horse and a man to run the cultivator who has a steady eye to fio this work without occasional Injury to a hill; but it can be done. Such thorough cultivation will leave little or nothing to be done by hand labor. A Place for Fowls to Roll. The trouble that manyjfarmers have In keeping fowls out Of the garden is because they do not provide a substitute. It is natural for hens to seek a "dusting place xvhere they can clear off any vermin that may be on them, or without regard to this to take a dust bath, which Is their way of keeping skin and feathers in healthy condition. A small place near the hen house should be plowed and sown with grain. It need be only a few feet squire, and may bo dug with a spade in a few minutes. Then scatter and lightly cover enough grain to keep the fowls busy. It is astonishing how much of ihe time this rolling place will be occupied and the garden will wholly escape. When the hen goes to the garden she makes directly for the beds where the choicest seeds have been sown, for here the ground has &en most thoroughly pulverized. Give the hens as good a place outside the garden, and there will be no trouble In growing garden truck, no matter how nnmy fowls are kept But the strawberry patch must be enclosed. The fowls go there for a different purpose, and when they get a taste of the fruit It is hard to keep them out, however high the enclosure. A Paying Business for Farmers. The most salable farm animal to-day Is a first-class dairy cow. We often wonder how more farmers back on the hilly, rough pasture farms do not make a business of raising heifers of good milking strains to supply milk-, men in the milk-producing counties. Let the milch cow pass the first two years of her life on cheap land, and not try to pay interest on costly land until she Is able to give milk. Last year we told of a Massachusetts farmer, says the Rural New Yorker, who takes his heifers by rail to cheap pastures in Maine every spring, wintering them on grain, hay and oil and cottonseed meals. These heifers are sold to milkmen with their first calf. We believe that a man could. In a few years, establish a reputation for good milkingstock, and bo assured of a steady income. Some men can make this pay better than ordinary dairying.

Devon Cattle. In choosing his breed of cattle the general farmer wants—if not a “general purpose” animal—at least a combination animal; that it is to say, one yielding a satisfactory flow of milk and its products in butter and cheese, and at the end of her usefulness in this direction, a carcass for which the butcher will pay a good price, says the New York Times. In these respects the Devon cattle are entitled to first consideration. Even with ordinary care and feed, a milking Devon will hold her flesh well, and she Is a good milker, giving a satisfactory amount of milk that, in richness of cream, is only a shade below the Jersey product, and where rough pastures and the ability to subsist largely upon rough forage is a consideration, the Devon tamest first rank. She is admitted by the best authorities to require less food than any other thoroughbred known, aud to be almost as capable of taking care of herself when pasture js short, as the celebrated Highland cattle of Scotland. She is what is known in the West as a good “rustler.” The Color of Fruit. Northern fruit growers know that the color of fruit is largely dependent on the amount of available potash which the soil contains. Tills with sunlight aids in the development of both color and fine flavor. A California orange grower has found that iron heightened the color of his product and made it more salable. His oranges were originally very pale, but by using five pounds of iron filings around his trees the color has been changed to a dark yellow, with increased qualify of fruit So much iron filings probably made the soil more open and porous. If the iron served as plant food a small quantity would have been sufficient.

Potato Buga on Tomato Vincis. Many people who are uot botanists do not Imagine that the potato and the tomato are at all related. But the potato beetle Is a thorough botanist, at least so far as members of the solanum family are concerned. The egg plant Is included in his depredations, and gardeners who grow either tomatoes or egg plants near where the potato is grown must look out for the ravages of the beetle. The eafly potato vines die down early In July, and the horde of beetles from these are oblged to seek other plants on which to feed. A Dairy Test. To prove which Is the more profitable market, the creamery or a milk association in Philadelphia, two dairymen reported to Dr. A. T. Nerilo, month by month—one sending his milk to Philadelphia, the other to a creamery which

paid by test Tbe one sent 82,214 quarts of milk to Philadelphia, for wbieh he received 3.1 c. per qnart, or $1,027.23, the milk averaging 4.8 per cent, of fat for the rear. The other sent 33,234 quarts of 5 per cent milk to the creamery, receiving $1,070.84. Had the first sent fats 4.3 milk to the creamery he would have lost $101.04, and had the second sent hfs 5 per cent milk to the city he would have lost $49.G3. “That is,” says Dr. Neale, “In tbe city trade no distinction in price is made between a product with 5 per cent and one with' 4.3 per cent, of butter, yet in 33,214 quarts of milk this difference on a creamery basis represents $150.07.” ' Greenhouse Pests. W. D. Philbriek says: “The aphis, the pest of greenhouses and hotbeds, thrives best in a warm temperature, especially If fed upon lettuce and cucumber plants. Smoking with fine tobacco dust frequently and carefully is the best remedy. The various mildews and rots of lettuce and cucumber plants are but little understood. The preventive comes first, says the Philadelphia Ledger. This is to clear the vacant greenhouse with a strong sulphur smoke, then fill with clean plants and keep them growing vigorously. The first crop in a green house is generally the best it ever produces. The most effectual remedy for ants is slaked lime, dusted over the hills and strewn about where they are. To prewent worms and rabbits from harming trees, mix together turpentine and hog’s lard, and apply on the trees. This kills the worms in the tree, and prevents the rabbits from gnawing. The lard kills the rabbit and the turpentine kills the worm.

Crimson Clover and Potash. Analysis of crimson clover shows that it has a large proportion of potash. Some of the failures to grow It, especially on sandy soil, are probably due to a deficiency of potash. The common red clover frequently falls from the same cause. A dressing of wood ashes, or where this cannot be had, of muriate of potash, will .secure a seeding where without It there have been repented failures of clover to catch. Heavy soils have usually a considerable amount of potash, but even on these a potash dressing often gives beneficial results, for It presents the mineral plant food In available form. Cutting Green Oats for Feed. The earliest crop that can be cut for soiling from spring seeding is one of oats or barley. It i 3 good economy to cut oats green just as the head Is forming and feed it to cows. The stalk is then juicy and it contains the nutriment that a little later will be deposited In the grain if It were allowed to stand. The amount of green feed that will make a good ration for a milch cow would produce less than two quarts of oats if allowed to ripen as gruin. Vitality of Premature Peaches. . Prof. J. H. Watkins, of the Georgia station, In his experiments with stones of prematurely ripened peaches, found /them to be lacking In vitality. But the seedlings from such that he succeeded In growing produced fruit mueh earlier than did the parent tree, and, in most cases, of improved quality. Too Much Live Stock, Too much live stock Is quite as bad .for the farmer as too much land. Do not crowd the stock, and do not keep more than can be fed well, pastured well and housed well. If you have more than this, sell off the surplus speedily. Notes. There are ten “fruit schools” in France, where pupils are Instructed practically how to cultivate and vhusband fruits. Permanent sod, without fertilizing. Is an injury to the orchard. This lias been proved in the experience of nearly every successful orchardist Over ICO acres are given up to pickle growing in the vicinity of the town of Camden, Maine. The crop is a profitable one, usually yielding an income of SIOO to $l5O an acre. String beans can Ik> l.ad throughout the whole summer by planting about once a month for successive supplies. The seed germinates quickly, and the plants grow rapidly. The function of the queen bee. says a writer, is simply to lay eggs and thus keep the colony populous. This she does with considerable energy. A good queen, when at her best, will lay 2,000 or 3,000 eggs in a day. A patented method to raise asparagus under a newly invented cap, to bleach It aud draw It up. can be tried on a smaller scale by putting empty flowerpots over the shoots. Asparagus shows an immense latitude In the degrees of tenderness and toughness; it all depends upon how it Is grown. The original snow apple tree, now 70 years old, Is a production of Oaklnud County, Michigan. It Mill bears fruit. The tree was planted by Apollle Dewey on bis farm between Blrmingumn and routine, and brought forth a new apple, which for lack of any other name, was styled the “snow apple ” The Germans have lately been experimenting upon the effect of copper on potato vines. They found that a 2 per cent solution of blue vitriol (sulphate of copper) In lime water, sprlnkled on the plants, Increased the amount of chlorophyll In the leaves, and increased tbe number and size of the potatoes. All who have ever picked fruit from a step-ladder hdVe experienced a sense of Insecurity when leaning towards one side for a hold. The whole thing may topple over. There Is a new Invention, where tbe beam which holds the rounds jn place runs In the middle, and, to balance the rounds straight across, a twisted. strong wire is run up both sides, making the' ladder light and more secure by this middle hold.

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. Itlwt Oar Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimes— Pointers About Our Oirn People. Minor Btate News. John Brady, a school teacher of Rock* port, was drowned while bathing in the Ohio River. John C. lleuser of Seymour, shot himself in the head with a 38-caliber revolver. Financial troubles. Hendrickson Bros’, stock barns at Kewanna burned, together with a famous stallion. Loss $15,000. Dr. S. W. Edwins of Elwood, has been appointed medical examiner of the Indiana militia for Madison County. Miss Clara B. Kei.t.y, of Ft. Wayne, was burned severely. Ilcr clothing caught fire from a flying bit of burning paper. Mrs Patrick Duffy of Wabash, was fatally burned by her clothing catching fire from a gas stove. She is 75 years old. Three valuable horses lielonging to Jesse Beard, near Needham’s Station, were poisoned one night recently by unknown persons. R. J. Collins, colored, of Indianapolis, was killed by an Eric train near Noblesville. lie is supposed to have fallen from the train. • ■ Counterfeit silver dollars of unusally good finish are circulating in several towns in Montgomery County, and there is much complaint. L. D. Keptixoer, employed in a sawmill at Loogootee, was dangerously hurt by a flying fragment of wood thrown off a circular saw.

The work of erecting the North Baltimore glass factory buildings at Albany has commenced. There will be eight buildings and two smelters. Burglars entered William Sumption’s residence at Muncie while the family were seated in front, and stole diamonds and Jewelry valued at $400. Fred Weidell, aged 18, was killed in a Michigan City saw-mill, by a piece of timber which rebounded from a circular saw and struck him on the breast. The orchards in Washington Township, Harrison County, are bending and breaking so heavily are the fruit trees loaded. The estimated value of the fruit crop is placed at $60,000. Mrs. Thomas Lewis, wife of a coal mirier of Brazil, has been notified that she is heiress to $100,000 by the death of an uncle at San Francisco, from whom she had not heard for 30 years. Capt. J. F. Fee of Greencastle, has been appointed by Gov. Matthews Major of the First Battallion, First Regiment Infantry, I. N. G., to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Major H. P. Cornick. Mell Boone, Jr., aged 22, a brakeman on the middle division of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad, was struck by the spout of the water tank at Brownstown, knocked from the car, and his skull fractured. He will die. Henry Emmelman, a clerk at J. L. Moore’s wholesale grocery, in Indianapolis, was literally scalped by a freight elevator. He was leaning over the shaft when the elevator descended. His skull was laid bare from his forehead to the back of his head. Benjamin Dooling, of Vincennes, fooled with a revolver, and there was an accidental discharge of the weapon, the bullet lodging in the shoulder of Richardson Davidson. Davidson was dangerously hurt and he was removed to Keensburg, Ill., where his people live. Charles Thennes of Michigan City, who operated a saloon in his hotel with the door opening on a small alley, and who was arrested under the Nicholson law, has been acquitted, the jury holding that the alley was a highway sufficiently within the meaning of the law. W. F. Brown, of Rochester, and Lyman Evans, “trusties”, in the prison South, upon being sent to the prison "garden for vegetables, took advantage oftheoppoitunity to escape. They were accompanied to the garden by Cal Armstrong, the defaulting County Treasurer of Tipton, but be refused to join in the flight. The Board of Directors of the Northern Indiana Prison have made the following appointments: Chaplain, the Rev. A. L. Curry of Noblesville; physician, Dr. Spinning, Covington; steward, D. S. Durbin, Indianapolis. Warden Harley is authority for the statement that United States convicts will not be removed to Leavenworth prison. Patents have been issued to the following Indiana inventors: Russel W. Guilford, assignor to Auburn Iron works, Auburn. Ind., steamer engine; Harney K. Harris, Michigan City, moistener and paper weight; Frederick T. Wright Fort Wayne, assignor of one-half to J. N. Neal, Cold Water, Mich., wire fence; John F. Snapp, Frichton, fire alarm device; Wm. S. Taylor, Rensselaer, hog ringer; John A. Wright, Indianapolis, tack catcher for bicycles. Isaac Goodman, leader of the notorious Goodman gang, was released from the Prison North on a pardon by Gov. Matthews, and returned to Anderson. He is now 68 years of age. He received his training under the guerrilla Quantrell, in Kansas. In 1860 he came to Indiana and organized a gang. He educated his son Dick in this line, and they headed the gang, which made nightly raids, and plundered everything within fifty miles. His house was made a depository. He entertained no one, and his house, which set back off of the roads, was not invaded by callers of any kind. His fortune continued to grow, until he was worth $100,000. The gang was rounded up at Summittville two years ago, and in the fight that followed Dick Goodman was shot and all were taken prisoners. The gang was sent up for nine years. Isaac’s years and failing health, and the fact that his wife was rapidly sinking, secured the pardon. He cannot last long. Dick, who was shot several times in the Summittville fight, is in the hospital, dying. There is a hermit living in the Patoka River bottoms, near neyden, who calls himself Bill Cox. He tells a story in effect that years ago his family died until none was left but himself, and then a mysterious voice whispered in his ear that his life was in danger, and that he must leave the State at once. Thereupon he returned to Indiana, and finding this secluded spot in the Patoka River bottoms, he erected a rude little cabin, and there he has remained in seclusion ever since, subsisting on roots, berries and small game. He belives that his hermit way of living is an atonement for crime, of which he refuses to speak.