Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1877 — Page 1

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aensselaer business cards. Dr. g. a. moss, fHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Spitler's brick building, oppoeite Court House. rTjLGL. LOUGHRIDGE. PHIMICIAN AND SURGEON. Wusidugtea aireel, below Austia’a hotel. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office lu Harding & Willey'* drug store. DrTr. Y. MARTIN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on Washington street, one door above Stone Building. Dk. a. l. HA MA it Announces that he designs toina'ke Kensaelner his permanent home. His professional .services are offered the public with a hope that 30 years experience nuiy render him able to give satisfaction to all who favor him with patronjtge. Special attention given tochronie diseases. Is permitted to refer to all who are acquainted -with him. Residence with Mrs. Crockett, wear -Judge Hammond's. OMue opposite court house. MF.cfIILCOTE, . ATTORNEY, AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office on Waahington street, opposite the Court House square. BIMOS' r. TUOMIHOX, lIAVIII J. THOMPSON, Attorney at Law. Notary Public. Thompson a bro., RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Practice in all the Courts. We pay particular attention to paying taxes, selling and leasing lands. M axion L.Spiti.eh, Collector and Abstracter. A. B. DWIGOINS. Zt.MRI nWIOGINS. RS. &Z. DWIGGINS, . ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice in all the courts of Jaipur, Newton, ißento ii and Pulaski counties ; also In the isuprente and Federal courts. Make collections a specialty. ■'oAi oi ijiari ■■■■ ■iu .1 a—A. ■w. , ■ • ■■ - 11 111,1 INRANK W. BABCOCK, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, Real Estate Broker and Insurance Agent, Rensselaer. Indiana. Lands exsmlncd, Abstracts of Title prepared and Taxes paid. Collections a specialty, Office Hi Spitler’s brick building, opposite Court House. 8-4U-ly.

NOTAUY ITBLIC. COLI.ECTOK. Daniel b. miller, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Ditch aud road petitions and reports carefully prepared: titles examined; abstracts prepared; .till collections promptly attended to. Office in Bedford Jt Jaeksoti’s building, wp-staira. 11-47 A McCOY tz THOMPBON, . BANKERS. Buy and sell domeatic exchange, make -colljcliotis on all available points, pay interest ou specified lime deposits, etc. Office hours from U a. tn. to 4 p. in. Austin house, A. W. CLEVELAND, I’ltoraiETOli. la centrally located, large anil conveniently arranged, mid no pains will be spared to make guests comfortable and happy. Tiie table will alwavs be supplied with the best the market affords. Charges reasonable. 9-12-ly. Hopkins house. R. J. HOPKINS, PROPRIETOR. Excellent table, convenient location, careful attention to wants of guests, and experienced inuuagemeut are its recminoudutious io popular favor. Nit. BOWMAN, . _-TAILOR. Cutting mine to order in latest styles. Charges reasonable. Simp north side of U asliingtoh street, in JwKqw.'d'- Stone Building. v EIMMERMAN. d . FASHIONABLE TAIMHt. Garments made in latest styles. Cutting a specialty, and satisfaction guaranteed. Sliep on Washington- street, one door Inflow bank. < CHARLES P. HOPKINS begs leave to In- ./ form tiie public, that lie is now prepared to Ao house painting, paper hanging, eukimining. etc., at prices beyond competHion. (an lie found at his place, on Front street, known as the Freeman property. U-29-ly. ELLS.—ARTESI AN AND DRIVEN. JAMES W. PORTER. The only water wizzaiil who insures living water and barks up liis insurance by work. No water no pay. Insures an ample supply of water in all his wells for ore year. S-21. SAMP. ERWIN, BLACKSMITH. New brick shop, Front stre-'t, above the old saw mill. Also, in connection, a TOL T OOD SHOP W where all kinds of wood work repnirwill be done to order., Pi ices below competition. SHIN DLER & ROBERTS, BLACKSMITHS. Al Warner’s old stand on Front street. Horseshoeing, machine repairing, callings ironing, etc., done neatly end cheaply. LESLIE GRANT, BLACKSMITH. Shop ou Front street, next door above the stage office, ut Duvall & Gott’s old stand. Patronage solicited.

Pittsburgii, umcinnatt & St. Louis R’y. «E»«AJ6T-3ESCAITX)XJB XSO-CTTE." Condensed Time Card -Columbus and State Line Division. May X3tli, 1076. GOING BAST. No. 1, No. 5. J,vo. State Line t 2-40 p. m. + (S.siun. in. Arr. U-gausport 5,25 “ ».1C “ l.vc. •• . . *12.65 a. m. f 0.25 " Arr. Mirlon. 2.83 “ ILO7 “ “ Hartford. ..? 3.17 “ 11.60 “ “ Itjitaeville 4.10 “ 12.40 p.in. •• Union City 5,05 ‘ 1.10 “ “ Bradford ■Junction 0.00 “ 2.00 “ “ Piqua 1' 35 “ 2-5* * “ lTrMnar77r.v.. 10.83 “ 4.02- “ “ Columbus 12.35 p. in. 0.10 “ GOING west. No. B. No. 8. Lvo. Columbus * 6.30 a. in. 1 3.40 p. in. Arr. Urbana. 8.04 “ 7.40 “ “ Piqua ».02 “ _ ».O2 “ Bradford Junction.* 9.23 “ + O.lM> “ “ Union City 10.25 “ 10.43 “ “ Ridgeville. 10.58 “ 11.20 «~ “ Hartford 11.50 “ 12.35a.in. “ Marion 12.40 p.m. 1.20 •• “ Ixigansport 2,30 “ 3.00 “ >• State Line 10.40 “ 0.00 “ Richmond and Chicago Division. GOING NORTH. No. 2. No. 10. Lvc. Cincinnati . .+ 7.36 a, m. Richmond +10.30 •» Arr. Hagerstown 11.33 “ “ Newcastle 12.05 p.m. “ Anderson 1.20 “ Kokomo 8.00 “ * 2.13 a. m. >* Lponnsnort. 4.00 ,k 3.03 •» “ Chicago. ..vs+fr.... 8,30 •* T.W “« 001X0 SOUTH. No. 1. No. 7. lato. Chicago.....*. * 8.20p.m.+ 0.00a.m. Arr. Logansport 12.45a.m. 1.40 p.m. “ Koxonx 1.60 “ 3.00 •• *" Anderson 4.37 “ •• New Castle 6.35 “ “ Hagerstown 0.05 “ '* Kiclimond 6.55 “ M Cincinnati. . ■. 1>.50 “ •Dally. +Dnilv except Sunday. Trains do pot stop where time U omitted. W. L. O’BRIEN, Gpil’l Pass. * Ticket Agent. Columbus, Ohio

n " t «“ J ’y earned ih these times, but V / I / t caq bp made in three mouths bv uuv VI I I 0 ”® 0 / either sex,in any part of the Tea "country who is willing to 4»ork steadily at the employment that refurnish, SOO a week In yourown town. You heed not be awav from homo over wight. You enu giyp your ifhoje time to- the work, or only your spare momenta. We have agents who are making over S2O per day. All who engage at once can make money fast.. At theqiroaent time money cannot be made so easily and rapidly at any other kind of business, it costs nothing to try the business. Terms and $5 Outfit free. Address at once, H. Hallett A Co., Portland, Nairn), 9-u-y

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

VOLUME 9.

REMINGTON BUSINESS CARDS. JAMES SPENCER. JUSTICE OF TIIE PEACE. Makes prompt collections At reaoiunble ratce. Oilice In Spencer’s ding stere. north aide of Railroad street. SPENCER’S DRUG STORE, REMINGTON, INDIANA. North aide Railroad street. James Spcncur, proprietor. Fresh drugs, pure medicines, eleSant toilet articles, choice cigars and tobaccos, ne stationery, etc. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded. 9-20 W. A. RAILSBACK, Druggist and Apothecary, MiIIINGTON. INDIANA, Dealer in Paints, Oils, Window Glass, Toilet and Fancy Articles, and, in fact, everything usually kept in a first-class Drug Store. CELLULOID TRUSSES a specialty. Will convince my customers that I sell AS CHEAP A 8 THE CHEAPEST. Have recently secured the service of an -experienced Prescription Clerk. GRAND PRAIRIE SEMINARY And Commercial College, Onarga, Illinois, will open the Fall Term, August 28th. The former Faculty, with several new ukenibcrs, will aid students in the Classical ami 8c ion title courses; the Commercial College, Music, Painting, Ztc. , A large teun is anticipated. Expenses, very mcMlcrnte. Bond for eirrnlars to the President, 0-45 KEV. J. B. ROBINSON, A. M.

LUMET KANNAL Druggist and Pharmaceutist, DKAUUI IN DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, aKi> fixe nn.vxtH of CIGk-AJESS jfxjym TOBACCO, Waahington Street, Rensselaer, Imlmun. TAXES! TAXES’ Notice to Tax-Payers. Tiie delinquent tax duplicate with second installment is. now m my hands for collection. The amount of delinquent taxes is unusually large, which compels tiie treasurer to commence forced collection at an early date—not later than the lei of July. Tliose who do not. pay by that time in.ly expect a visit from the treasurer m-hi« deputy, ami eol|eeti<ms made as tiie law direct* A hint to Hue wise is sullieicnt. The smamd installment 4s required to -W-poHlbefoi'e-the-tlrst Monday in XoveutheF-to-save penalty. ’ 1.. U. JANES, June Ist, ISVT. Treasurer JuspcrUo. •>v 111 A W. L. 11 AM AU. DBS. KELLEY & HAMAR, i>i<in r r is r r s, (Up-stairs, in Mrs. Hemphill’sbrlek building.) RKN HS ELA F.R, INDI AN A. They offer their professionnl services to the people of this vicinity. All the modern appliances that are so necessary to perfect operati<mj.«n the teeth, are used by them. The old pracllee of destroying the nerves is entirely supersede.! by- the beautiful process of capping and preserving the tooth alive mid rendering it serviceable during life. Plate work in Hrstclass style. All fees will he reasonable. 23 DAVID JAMES LEA I.EH IN* Hardware, Tinware AND CABINET FURNITURE. Hardware of every description for the house mid farm, kept in stock. Cooking and heating stoves ami nil furniture belonging to them; cutlerv. rarpenters’ tools, nails, screw*, locks, hinges, tacks, axes, hammers, saws in variety, bolts, Castorc, etc. TINWARE Readv made, made to order, mid repaired at the most reasonable prices. The best material and tiie best mechmiics. Call mid examine pails, cups, mid all sorts of tin vessels. Tin spouting made and put up. Work in this line warranted. TO Close Out Presentstock of Cook Stoves they will bo sold regardless of former prices. They include some of the best names In the market. Now is tiie time to buy, when they arc being offered cheap. CABINET FUHNITUHD. Chairs, bedsteads, lounges, talites, stands, bureaus, and all articles in this line of the most substantial make, and for the most reasonable prices. Those who think ot furnishing a house, in whole or in part, should call and leant what inducements we offer in this line. Studebaker Farm Wagons. It Is conceded by every one that knows anything about the vehicles made in the United States that no farm wagons are honoster or better than those made by tiie Studebakers of South Bend. They uro recognized us the standard of excellence. Other' makers’ work may be as good, but none are superior, SETH THOMAS CLOCKS are ronowned the world over as excent timers. In this respect and for beauty and cheapness they have no superiors. A few kept in stock. The Goshen Pump. The Goshen Pump Is made of the host materials, is porcelain lined, is well constructed for durability, is neatly painted outside, is every way desirable, and, beside, it is dump. A Thousand Other Articles might be enumerated, but for further Information in this direction call at the store, opposite the post office, where conversation may be held with the objects before us. This is much more satisfactory than talking at long rauge.

How to Save Honey. TO THE OWNERS”OF lANDS IN JASPER COUNTY. We new have a complete ABSTRACT OF TITIsE to all lands in the county, carefully prepared from the records by experienced men. In compiling this work we have discovered the fiict that there are MANY DDFHOTIVH TXTX.BS which should be adjusted without delay, while parties interested are still living. The expense will be light if attended to soon, nnd may save costly litigation at some future tisne These dn.ective Titles are occasioned by a variety of causes—deeds not recorded, errors in making nnd recording, etc. All persons owning land in the Bounty should call on, or write to, us at ones gnd have the title to their land examined. |l, S, &.Z. UWIGGIJVS, 8-40. Rcasaelaer, Ind.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, AUGUST 9,1877.

Mr. SAinuel Jones Tlldew, late of OrffiHineroy Park, United Ht-Mes. will not be-the next candidate ofithe Democratic party for President There ia a greater railroad wrecker in <fltdiann. Give Uncle Jimmy Williams a chance to develop Jris talent, .if -you want to see Old Usufruct discounted. Tiie Kentland Gazette wants the dollar of tiie daddies’ Vyklie ( eur-J«u<il. How avaricious, to be sure! There are lots of people over this way who would be contented with a few millions of tlieir daddies’ dollars —to begin with. And there are many others (but don’t repeat these fauilly secrets) whose daddies never had any dollars to speak of. Seventy-five per cent, of adi of tiie persons of school age in the Southern states do not attend school, and it was even worse than this when slavery existed there. Is it any wonder that murder and violence afid ' Chlsoltn massacres are of frequent occurrence, or that Democratic majorities are so overwhelming, in tliat section, when tiie ignorance of a large proportion of the people is taken into consideration? Thera is a good deal of deniagogisiu in tiie labor resolutions which the Ohio Republicans thought necessary io append to their kite for a tail, at tlieir state convention last week. Cut out all tiie twaddle and what is left would not express a thought as sitm pie as the trutliful sentence “politicians are often deceptive;’* But if gudgeons are as 4 hungry in Ohio this year as they weie in Indiana last year, that kind of flapdoodle uughtjo be us attractive bait as a pnir of old blue jeans pantaloons.

Ignorant people bel'eve lies. It is difficult for them to comprehend the truth. This is one reason why a larger per dent, of ignorant people are found voting wi h tiie Democratic party than with tiie Republican par y. Governor Williams is a very illiterate man, yet lie will be a formidable rival of Hon. Duniel W. Voorhees for tiie United States senate, if the Democracy have control of the legislature -ayear hence. Ignorance, prejudice and bigojry are the Holy Trinity of Democracy. That there are gentlemen of intelligence, culture and liberality in the Democratic party is as true as that tlieir anti|x>dcs are to be found in the Republican ranks. The latter are as weeds in a field of corn, without vigilance aud good cultivation they injure tiie crop; tiie former are like oases, beuutiiul objects in the midst of frightful desolation, or like torches at uiglit tliat shine witii greater brilliance because of tiie darkness around. When economists talk about the private indebtedness of the country, in adding it together they find an aggregate that looks appalling to the casual glance; but an instant’s consideration will dispel much of its terrors. Like one of tiie evil genii described in tiie Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, when moving at large in tiie atmosphere of distortion it assumes colossal proportions and darkens tiie sky, but it is capable of being reduced to infinitely smaller compass with very little effort of him who wields tiie magical wand of reflection. To illustrate: A, B, C, D and E owe an aggregate of |500; A owes B SIOO, B owes C SIOO, U owes D SIOO, D owes E SIOO, and E owes F $100; but when A sells one hundred dollars’ worth of corn lie pays B tiie SIOO mortgage on his4o-acre wood lot, B pays C for the calves he bought of him last fall, C pays D for the horse he got in the spring, D pays E the amount of his store bill, and E goes and takes up his note at F’s bank. Thus SIOO has fully and honestly and satisfaecorially paid up SSOO of tlie*‘enormous indebtedness which the poor people of this misgoverned nation are struggling under,” according to the figures of Mr. D. Magogg and his friend Green Baeker.

The barbarian hordes of Russia and Turkey’, assisted more or less by the newspaper correspondents in London, England, and the daily press of this country, are beginning to do some tolerablo fair lighting, for foreigners. Last week, basing its statement upon the telegraph despatches published in its Daily exchanges, The Union announced a Russian victory at Rutschuck, and encouraging progress before Plevna. But the next reporls did not confirm the last part of the statement; for, instead of progress, they met disaster, and were compelled to retire with a loss of something like 8,000 of the 40,0(k) troops they were operating with against that position. It appears to have been a sanguinary battle for the numbers engaged in it. Since then, however, the Muscovites received reinforcements and advanced against the Moslems. They have recovered their lost ground near Plevna. Thus far, although meeting with minor - reverses (more considerable in Asia Minor) the balance of results Is largely on the side of Russia. Turkey has lost all of one-third of her territorial possessions in Europe, and probably quite as many soldiers, in killed, wounded and prisoners. It id; and must bo to the end, au unequal fight, with the

advantage of .money, numliers, discipline and military training" on tiie side of Russia; and, more than all these, she represents the better civllizulten, if that of the most enlightened Christian peoples be taken for the standard. Wanted, a good, old fashioned; out-aml-out Republican party organ at Rensselaer. There is a long-felt want here for music of this kind, which ought to be supplied before tiie next politicnl campaign opens, if tiie publicans care about getting control of all of the local offices. It must be distinctly understood that The Union cannot be relied upon for such e.ilerI tainment. It long ago stepped out of I party ranks, and hereafter will advo- ■ eate such measures us in its coinpre- ■ lieiislon seem Calculated to result in i the most good to the largest number, and tiie election to cilice of those liien whom it believes are the best qualified to perform the duties in accordance with law and the most liberal impartiality to individuals. Let Ute managers of the Republican organization In Jasper county heed this seasonable warning and be governed as wisdom shall dictate. Let all who feel interested, even in the remotest degree, understand tliut The Union is purely, absolutely independent on the subject of politics; and is not, nor cannot be, subseivient to the dictates of political organizations should they conflict with its standard of 1 ight.

How to Cook Tomatoes.

This delicious vegetable is now plentiful in our gardens, and we give a few of tiie waya—in wliivllT~Tt~xan be prepared. We do no; propose to tell anything very new, but only how to cook tomatoes in a few excellent and simple ways. Who has not at some time been served with a dish called “stewed tomatoes,” only pieces of the fruit swimming in a greasy pinkish liquor, pad tasting as vile ns it looked; and who doos not welcome them whin slewed to a smooth, rich consistency and delicately seasoned? To blanch tomatoes, pour boiling water over them, and remove the skins with a sharp kuifa. U’heu this is done ent ti:e n into a saucepan and simmer slowly fur from twentv to forty niintilrs; If the tomatoes nni very ripe hiid juicy they need longer boiling t<> retfttee The liquor. Alteritantrst~flfleet! minutes seasoirwith pepper, ralt, and, if they are quite sour, n teaspoonful of white sugar to ■each .quaxL J.uct b font-.Qtyj ate done thicken with a roux. made by melting a Y-fl l ' 1 blespoonful of butter in a saucepan, and stirring into this a tablespoonful of flour. When smoothly mixed, add the tomatoes gradually; boil up once and serve. This may be varied, according to taste, hy stewing a little minced onion or parsely or both with the- tomatoes. Bread or cracker crumbs inay be used, instead «f the roux for thickening. In that case add a piece of butter when you put in the other seasonings.' For baking, select largo tomatoes. Scoop ou! a part of the inside, but du not skin them. Chop very fine some cold cooked meat, cliickeu/iamb, beef, or veal. " Any of these may bp used, or the different kinds may be mixed; a very little park, with any kind of meat makes n pleasant seasoning. Fry a very little, minced oni m in butter, and when jnst colored stir in the chopped meat, a few bread crumbs, and one or two spoonfuls of stock; season with salt, pepper and minced parsley. When hot through take from the fire anl add the beaten yolk of an egg. Fill the touiat'.cs with this dressing, dust the top with bread crumbs, put a bit of b itter on the top of eacli, hud bake in n moderate oven about forty-five minutes. These nre a pretty garnish for any kind of ment. If served alone, pour a teiiiftto sauce in the bottom of the dish. A little green corn added to the stuffing makes a pleasant change. A inayonnftise of tomatoes make a very nice salad course for a company dinner, und is truly delicious nt any meal. Cl.oose tine tomatoes and place on the ice to become ns cold ns possible. Skin them with ft sh irp knife, without the aid of hot water; elire them and arrange on a dish so as to keep the form of then-hole tomato: place a sp >onfui of thick mayonnaise on each nr.d garnish the dish with parsley. Tomatoes are very nic.e for breakfast served in this way. Full directions for making the mnyontiaise have been given in the Weekly Herald under the head of “Lobster Salad." This di»h can be agreeably varied for many by slicing the tomatoes, mixing with them a small proportion of sliced onion, and serving with a dressing made of pepper, salt, un.stnrd, vinegar, and sugar in ft separate boat. Or each person may ndx a dressing nt table to suit himself, but in any case raw tomatoes are always greatly improved hy the use of ice, and should he kept perfectly col l. Scalloped tomatoes: Peel and cut in slices, rather thick. Line a deep dish with these and sprinkle bread crumbs thickly over them; season with butter, pepper, salt and >i little white sugar. Then another layer of tomatoes with the seasonings, and so o>i until the dish is full. Let the tomatoes be uppermost, with a bit of butter upon em h slice. Dv.st with tho bread crumbs and Dake for an hour. Cover the dish for half the time, then remove the cover and let it “brown. A favorite Southern dish is made by substituting greet! corn cut from the cob for the bread crumbs. Season with some fnt pork and a small onion mineetl tine, pepper nnd s«lt. Sprinkle with crumbs, and, for a large dishful, bake an hour.

Proceedings Before Board of Town Trustees.

Tbo regular meeting of the board of trustees of the towii of Rensselaer was held Monday evening, and the following business *us transacted: Extended time of committee to examine the report of the town treasurer until next regular monthly meeting of the board. interpreted the owlinanoa requiring a license feo of S2O far each exhibition of circuses within the incorporate limits of the town of Rensselaer to mean the day and night exhibitions inclusive aaone. Tho petition for construction of sidewalk on south side of Rutson street was withdrawn and relied. Consideration thereof postponed until next regular meeting of the board (in September). Allowed bills of \ Bedford & Clark, for lumber and hardware i - -1 ,2 F. L. Cotton, lumber it,47 N. W. Reeve, making tax duplicate 43.(10 Thomas Sharp, working on streets... 28.00

REMINGTON LETTER. Luther Benson, Amisements, Easiness, Eta

.1 Aouvst 0, 1877.—Business is improving, and met- luuits wear an uic of cheerfulness that linn been nbr,cnt from them a long while. Wo uro soon to have a newspaper • office here, but not, however, before tho i need of one is felt. The croquet fever is ! raging with r-doutilerj fuiy, horse-shoe pitching having becomu a thing of the past Mr. D. B. Miller und wife spent Salibuth here visiting friends. Farmers liegiti to cry . fur ruin ; and from general indications today they will get plenty of it. Lulhw r Benson lectured here hist Frbluy mid Saturday nights, on tho subject of intemperance. The house wns well-tilled both evenings, nnt n ne that attended could help feeling that he was well paid for the time nnd troui bln of going. From the pleasant and mote 1 anturai nppenriince of itiUividuals since then, I think tliut same goo-1 wis ftcconti plished, for at least n short time. It is past i my comprehension how uiiy one can con- ; timid in the downward course to ruin after 1 having the sin and misery of intemperance I pic ured to them so vividly ns it \vis by this sad experience-taught kian. However there j are some who only a few weeks ago signed ■ theplvdge and donned the blue ribhoit that ’ nre falling back into habits which, if not ! abandoned, will lercl them through all the i misery of a drunkard's life and finally lay

them in a drunkard’s grnvn.

Mark Twain’s Drama. “Ah fin.”

“ ‘This,’ said Mr. Liemens, ’is it very remarkable pl ay. J don’t mow as you; noticed it ns it west along; but it is. The eonstruction of the play and the development of the story are the result of great • raienreli, and erudition, and genius, mid ' [ invention —and phigiiirism. When tho nit- ! thors wrote it they thought lin y would put. 1 in a great 10l of calastruphes und murders and such things, because they always enliven on evening so; hut we wanted to have I some dis-ster that wasn’t hackneyed, and i after n good deal of thought we bit upon tire ; breaking dowpof a stsge eoneh. The worst. | nf getting ft good original ideil like that is | the temptation to overdo it; and in fact when the ph'y was all done we fonnd that , we bar] got that stage coach breaking down seven times in the first act. It wastoeoum right along here every seven minutes or so I and spill all the passengers oVer on tl-.e musicians. Well, you see, that wouldn't do; it made it nicnotonous for the musicians; ■ und it was too stagey; arid we had to niudil’y 1 it; and there isn’t anything left of the oi ig- • inni plan now except one breakdown of the coach, and one carriage breakdown, and one pair of runaway hcr-es. Maybe we I might have spared even some of these; but you see we had the Imrae®, and we didn't like to waste them. “ ‘I wish to say also (lint this play lx di-1 dnetic rather then anything else. Ris intended for instruction nitlier —ftrt'-j amusement. The Chinaman isl getting to lie a frequent figure in the United States, an i is going to be a great political pl-oblcm, aUMljve tltppgbXit \yell for you to see him on the'sbige before ,i cKT’rotFlfU 1 ffWI ii'fllx that problem. Then for the instruction of the yourg we have introduced a game of poker. There are few things that are so unpurdonubly neglected in our country as poker. The upp'-r olas's know very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have a sort of general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people at large is fearful. Why-, 1 have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and nil that, who do not know the meaning of a ‘flush.’ It is enough to make one ashamed of one's species.' When our, piny was finished, we found it was s-> long, and so broad, nod so deep—in places—that it would have taken a week to play-if. I thought that was nil right; we could put “To bo continued” on the curtain, and run it straight along, bill the managers s -.id no; it would get us into trouble with the general public, and into trouble with tho General Government, because tlie Constitution i forbids the infliction of cruel or unusual puntshme..*; so he cut out, and cut out, and the more he cut out the hotter th( play got. I never saw ft piny that was so much improved by being cut down; and 1 believe it would have been one, of the very best plays in the-world if his strength had held out so that he could cut out the whole of.it.’’’

Downtrodden Labor.

Downtrodden lahor fitrnislics two-thirds of the support to the four or five hundred liquor shops oLhis city. It is such iuipiu*. denees as driimng aud its kindred indulgences that make it easy for temperate and prudent men to accumulate capital. Workingmen will find temper mce, prudence and economy surer guards against tho oppressions of capital than cointnuiiUui. If all men were prudent, abstemious and industrious. the accumulation of immense fortunes would be n work of extreme difficulty. There would he a more equid distribution of wealth, and labor would bo in a better condition to defend' itself from the exactions of capital. Capital is exacting. ■So is labor when, il has the power. Men arc always vidtpres, wbe'her they cut coupons or wield the hammer for ft living. Workmen would demand a thousaiul dollars ft day for their labor, if thwy could.get it. and employers would take their work for a cent a day,'" if They coiiLV make sttcli n bargain. An attempt to achieve either result by violence und intimidaiiou is nnandiy, and, if unchecked, it would break up society into a series of roblwr league , handed together for mutual protection aud aggression, nnd constantly at win with each oilier. Workingmen who resort to violence simply cut their own threats. The fight is too unequal, and the - must inevitably go Io the wall. And if they succeeded, suceens would eventually prove a thousainf times worse than defeat.—lndianapolis Herald.

Trials of Newspaper Men.

One of the greatest trials of the newspaper profession is that its members are compelled to see more of the shams of. the world than any other profession. Through every newspaper office, day after day, go all the weaknesses of the world; ail the vanities that want to las puffed; ait the revenges that want to be reaped; all the mistakes that want Io be ccrrected; all the dull speakers who want to be thought eloquent; all the ineanr.eM that wants to gets its wares noticed gratis in the editorial columns, in order to save the tj>x of the advertising columns; nil the men who wuut to be set right vvbo were never right; all the cracked brained philosophers with stories as long as their hair,.anti gloomy as t heir linger nail* in mourning because bereft of soap. ritrough the editorial and reportorial looms, all the folliis and shams of the world tiro seen, day after day, and the tcinptition ts to believe in neither God, Mau nor Woman. It is no surprise that in this profession there are skeptical mon; we only wonder that journalists believe anything.—Exchange. Shelbyville crows ovei a three-legged pig.

STATE MEWS AND GOSSIP.

Howard coir tv's Hax crop is estimated i:t SIOO,OOO value. Uiohmmd is to hares fine-art exhibition some!ime in September. Hug cholera is playing sad havoc among the swino about Covington. Dr. J. A Lovett is president of « temperance organization nt Uuodhmd. There uro 13,800 nnmes on the rolls of (he Indianapolis oeiisfoa agency. Six insane people have been f.'nt to the nsyluin from l.nko county within sixty days, Mr. J. G. Foes <dils the Connersville .New.-, sod don’t niti’te much fu«s about it, cither. An cv! five feet long ifn I fifteen inches in clrc.irnlbrcnco w.is caught at Mntliscn recently. The Seventh Day Adventists of this Atnte will begin a six dx.-s cumpnieeting at Kokotno to-day. Three persons received th" ordinance of biplivn. at the Baptist church in Vol par* so, Sunday before iMI. There is a fitr tree in Clinton ts itinty in full bearing, producing fifty-six fits in various stages of growth. A man in Martinsville paid sll fir a walnut Ing, an I sold three timorous knots from its body for sl7l. A largo, three-story, brick hotel building is to hi built tiffs seas .n, on the site of the G uld House nt Valparaiso. Prof. Edward S. Morse, the popular Richmond nafuralist, Ims gone tn Japan to lectori before the Imperial college. Tho temperance roll < f honor Ims on it I 6,<500 nanii's in the city of fort Wayne, j and about 10,003 in Allen county; Miss Georgia Millson will attempt to ride 100 miles in five hours at the Beech Greve ! driving park. Madison, next Sa urday. An additional register in the court of bankruptcy at Fort Wayne,has.been made necessary by the increase of business. It is estimated by the Crown I’.dnt lleg1 isterthat 3JO persons in h ike county believe the philosophy of modern qitrjlualisiu. i A Kook cesnty firmer harvested I,WO bushels of wheat this year irom oil acres of ground. He don't waul to goto Arkncsil*. A dropsical woman of Anderson has ! been tapped more than 15? limes in six years nud relieved of 370 gallons of water Tho taxnbles of Oreencasile, including both nnl and personal, for 1877, am mat to syl?;j*>2. fc ist year the amrunt was s+r B(i<»,sio.

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I Mr. John Lee, president of the Indiana polls, Delphi and Chicago riiilro i I coinp tny, is reported quite sick nt Ids'borne a'. Ciaw- ; fordsviUe. j In view of the possible dangers from in-eendinrn-s-nml rowdies, the mayor of I’lyj inorrth pot tive extra joHeeuion ou duty Sal* ( urdny night. i Democrat has ent re-1 upon , its majority—its twenty-first year. It is ft . good local newspaper; the c is no ioolishtir"? u-baui it. I Twenty-eight, comptnfp s have been filed i in the omtrls at Indiana polls against minisI ters, for neglecting to niuke ptoper returns I of marriages. I A stalk of corn from a reehiimed marsh ; farm near South Bend, sent to the Register office Inst week, was fifteen feet long and bore two ears. The appearance of the corn on Terre Coupee prairie, St. Joseph county, is better for the time of year than hits been known I for ten seasons. If you want fishing sport tint will make you laugh all the time, jii«t bait a hook with red flaum-l and wade it> for frogs.—Crown Point Register. Leander C. Pray, formerly n citizen of this county, is making arrangements to move from South Bend to the distant West. Possibly to Colorado. Inhabitants of the town cf K- ntland are assessed §10,282.2.7 taxes on $:174,5'.1‘.> of property. Goodland people are assessed §4,107.65 on $227,88:1.

Gordon, the pedestrian, now engaged in walking 750 miles iu 750 hours, at franklin, is getting along so well that he thinks of making it 1,000 miles. Mrs. Houseman, wife of a locammivc tireman, in Term Haute, coal oiled her fire, which resulted in a singeing from tho ell’c.ts of which she cnnnU recover. The court house recently complo’ed at Goshen cost iu tho neighborhood of $149,000, ami is said to be one of. the handsomest and most substantial structures of the kind in the state. A lau of seventeen summers, sonot James Matthews, of Warren countv, exchanged worlds, Monday morning of last, week, by committing suicide. Tired of life is the cause assigned. •A Meg'e, an enterprising Rush county farmer, recently sold eighty head • f cattle and one hundred and two hegs. clearing $7,569, The cattle averaged 1,*>15 p unds and the hogs 227. Miss THla Hicks, a benutiful mid accomplished young Indy, of Edinburg announces that she will walk 350 miles in 350 hours for SBSO. Edinburg made $3,000 out us the lady walkist there. Jonas A. Emery, of Grrene county, was the successful competitor for the appointment to West I’oiut Ocni llutsccond district, having passed exHivin.ition held at Vincennes last Thursday. Mrs. Amelia Peido. a lady who saw the roses bloom and wither fur one hundred and e'ght summers, diol recently nesr Knightstown, She ha I residid’ in Kush county halt u century. If we might be allowed to venture a word in season, it would he to tire effect that ouy, Cncle Jimmy Williams hasn’t exactly covered himself with glory in tire preseut crisis.—Fort Wayne Sentii el. A Franklin “smarty" who wis dead broke when t‘ e' circus came around, aiyj, who was b«mt on seeing the elephant, purchased $1.50 woitli of sugar on “.ick” aud sold it for $1 to gtl money to go. A fourteen •year-old son of James Shako, living near Carlisle, met with a severe shaking up. the other day, by being thrown from hie horse nnd receiving a broken .neck, producing death alnio-t in-tantly. Several county clerks throughout the state announce that they will.grant no marriage licenses to minora without the written consent of par-nts or guardians, lluw cruel! Look out for utbther strike soon. A new church building is being constructed by the Baptists at LaPorte, which, tho Chroujtdc says, will bo of the best style of church architecture. It will be 60 feet wide by 92 feet long outside. The auditorium will bS 48 »y 60 feet-, with ceiling 33 feet high. The corner spire will be 125 feet high from'he ground. In beauty of design and' finis|t it will excel anyth ng now in the city.'

NUMBER 47.

~ At the Intameeflng of the Indiana Sttn--day-schobleoßVOßtioa, thepreeideut ed Sunday-school union orgmitvafione in every county of the state. Indiana is Hin third state in the Union in which the w«rk is Completed to this perfection. The Sun-day-schools reported number 4,080, the teachers about 33,000, the scholars 320,852, average nttendar.ee 21!*, 181, and 5,01'1 scholars made profession of Christianity ' and joined church. Investigation confirms that, as was suspected, Col. J. O. Martin, the la-e secretary of the Masonic mutual benefit society of Indiana, who committed suicide a few weeks ago, by stabbing with a pocket-knife, was defaulter to the society for about $12,000. He speculated and lesL But wflat was the treasurer of the society doing *1! that time? Was he silently watching to see if the society’s money was lucly, and if.se to share the profits? How would a thorough investigation please him? Finley Sharp of Monticello t* tlig kind «f >i young man that is true to his Mint Birt there are strong suspicions that he is in league with Kqucr-sellers. Else the Democrat man has 'em fearful this time.. For the latter has been looking at a drop of Monticello water through a contrivance in de by Sharpe of a! eolbir-box and strips cf colored pasteboard. He says he eaw in that drop of clear water numerous turtles, fiies, worms and bugs, as festive and li'ely as Kansas grasshoppers. Tills hnie-m»de microscope magnifies 4,WA diameters.

Fractions! parts ot a year, at Kusimwn rarrt* not exremhur one Inch spoor, »•'> a J ear, *3 for six month*, for three SHWltb-M All lornt notices <•«! advertlseMeaU M fo-tabH.-duM HUtutrprhv. Iteadlng notices, llrrt publbatten Mwmto » line, each pnMhsitioa tliercAftersrtlififik line. Yearly udrerlUumfnU iMilficcS to WM c.'.augeifTofib cMniMlli tl*»e option <>f the advertiser, free of extra cnnrjre. AilvertixeinentS farperxons not nMnlenta ot •laxper manty mast b« |»«l.t far tn wleesce of lirsi. pul>i|<-.illoi>, when led than column In vtee‘, ami ipfarterly ’»»"vsn«ft when larger.' .

John Caton, another Hoosier usdylrhuM will attempt the feat of wnlkieg IW Miles in 80 hours, nt Columbus, beginning M. * o'clock this morning and ending at fin elec* Saturday evening. He will walk his 134th mile backwards. A new and singularly falnl d»e»M baa broken out among niileli cows In Flovd county. They first begin io dry up by degrccs, and bdwW they die tho adder becomes very much inflamed and swollen, A number of valuable cows have been taken by this disease. A young man named Adelaska Thomas, about eighteen years of age, living at Nyeavilte, Parke county, while oseehwingk from a cool shaft, one day not long since, fell from the platform, » distance of about forty feet, and was killed. The strike nt Pittsburg, [lnd.], is owr. Doc. Do.pew rend the riot act from a uomic almanac to the switch-men of the Indianapolls, Delphi and Chicago road, and sworn lie woull call out the Carroll county normal and tlic streets should run r-e-d with b-l-o-o-d. Tho riot act didn't do much good, but they tumbled to the normal.— Delphi Journal. O. I*. Davis’s thousand-acre corn-field 'is expected to average sixty bushels to the acre this year. Mr. Davis has one field on which corn bis been grown for sixty-three consecutive seasons, and Ike yield last year win eighty-two bushels per uere. C. W. Waterman, near Eugene, has 250 acres in corn from which he cxpoclsl busliels. - Tprre Hunte Express. Prof. Isaac Keeley, of cominrnc.’d, Tuesday afternoon us last week, his walk of 525 miles in 525 consecutive hours, slui mile at the stroke of the clock. As soon as be hut completed half the distance he will be joined by Miss Janet Morlcrite, wlio, with him, will walk 232 miles In 2’12 hours. Tile'Clerk's office was the scene of busy work tost ‘J hursday afternoon. The bondsmen of the late sheriff were tryixg io ascertain how much the defalcation was going to amount to. On the one bond it was ascertained to- be aomewtere about SI,OOO. A« .there is yet another batch of iMMsdanx-n .to look, up their luwnHiU, it is impossible to-eetimato what the total will reach, but the other will not probably be less than the one look-ed up lost week.—Knox (Starke Co.) Ledger, . A man named John Helen, while oiling the coupling between a threshing machine and separator, which was in operation in North Marion, just across the river from Mm ion proper, about noon, last Friday, b id his skirt sleeve caught by the coupling pin and was drawn around tho shaft fij* arm was crushed and toru'till it resociblvd nothing human, and his who'e/personwMa bruised and wounded terribly. His arm was amputated at once, but he cannot recover.

Last spring tho editor of the Fowler Democrat, Mr. W. B. Maddock, who had for many years been addicted to the intoxicating bowl, turned over a new leaf, tuid resolved henceforth to shun it as ho would avoid the breath of pestilence. Better still, he has been able thus fur to keep bi»])le«lgn inviolate. But one day last week, while peaceably walking along one of the styeeta us that town, one John 11. Cosgrove a saloon keeper rap over and knocked Uiru’down, as hevl’*d so saying: “You have pulled your last d d temperance s'ring on us.” The assault was brutal, is said to have , been unprovoked, and wholly without palliating Circumstances. Cosgrove was promptly arreste I, and put under bonds tq appear for‘trial iu tire eircuU Meanwhile Mr, Maddock is, if possibl •, more fiimly fixed in his determination to live a life of sobriety; while it is not impossible that once again the blood us the martyr shall prove to be tire wed of the church.ly quickening a tenipcranso revival that will banish every licensed saloon from Benton county. They do no good whatever, while thoevii these saloons infl'et upon a eouimui.ity may not be estimated by money. We have reached another of those hoajtating periods so thickly strewn through the course of the panic. Petee having been restored, capital in huge blocks awaits iu indolence the movement, qC the crops and the assembling of Congress.—Chicago Post. The reportof call non hoard at Chicago, tiring on the mob, and echoed by tele,, raph mH over-the country, proves to have been an error of the oar, tho sound h«ving bee.i really produced by a Chicago belle pulling her. feejtoutut the mud.—ltidiauupuiis Herald. -u The Democrats are charging that the strike is the result of Republican administrations. The strikirs allege that thogreat railway kings We the cause. The strikers ought to know. The great railway kings are nearly all Democrats. How does that truth suit both strikers and Democrat,’— Chicago Post, ' > Mrs. E. L. Switzlu, teaehcr of Ibo Burns’school, Barkley township, so» the month ending Augtmt Bd, enrulD meat of 24 pupils, and a (tally average of 17.2. Rebecca Jenkins., Mary R, Jyiikyis, M uerva Price, Libbio VriCA Price, Billie Daniels and Eds» Wpdttittß' yMHTj; perfect in attendance apd

What Wilted Cuenmbers are Fuil of.

Don’t eat willed cucumbers; they are cf stomach aches.-Knox Ledger,