Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 October 1873 — Page 4

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Have re*ently opened a handsome and rlioiee lot of new style Fall and Winter -X*."" ffc,?,

Cloaks, Jackets, and Redingotes,

Cloak tigs. loaking: Tel vct.H. Velveteen*, Waterproof*, Black Reaver#, Black Drap tie te. White Ilrap «le te.-

SHAWLS! SHAWLS,

A large aud coinpleteStOCK

of all descriptions atUreat Iy Kcduced Prices.

Hoberg, Root & Co Wanted. W.VNTED-AN

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clerk In olUce and collect In city at 320 Main Ktreet.

WED. A. ROSS,

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\lr ANTED—A PARTNER, EITHER ACVV tlve or silent for a Irgltiiiiatc, welt CKtabliehed ami paying business In thlsclty. Cash required, twefvu niinUit*! dollar*, or farther particulars, address 11. M., office Saturday Evening Mail, giving name and pontofllce add row.

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die*or gentleman on salary or com mission to c.tnvuKH for the best selling book.. published. For tcrrltorj-, particulars, etc., add rem J. S HARPER, Lafayette, Indiana. sep6-lt

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FEW MORE RELIABLE

men to sell the Howe dewing Machine In this and adjoining counties. The only machine without a mult. Call on, or addrew* Tho Howe MachlneCouipany. Office,

Main *irf«'t. J'*nU

For Sale.

JOR HALE—8 LOTS ON BAHY TERMS— ALHO two story House and L-ot on terms HO easy that the rent of House will pay half of the purcnase money. A. MATTOX.

OR HALB--FARM OF M» AOREH. UN der cultivation—on Pralrleton road, the Xrwt south of Honey creek. Term*—one payment down, next in two years—balance at en«l of eleven years. Apply to Mrs. Ma tllda Coffmsn. Pralrcton.Ind. sanl3-3in.

Real Estate Broker/

600 OHIO STBBBT,

Now i» the time to make Investment* which we beyond all question Heal Estate in Torre liaote will steadily advsnce. have an unusually desirable erty lor sale, at a decided l_ east eomor ot Fourteenth and -s entire square of ground, with a large, aana^ tome, convenient house, a gvoa barn, and the lot covered with line fruit trees-ospe-clallr desirable for subdivinion. as lots command a high price in that locality-price very reasonable—will take a smaller improved property In part pay. Lot 60x141 feet, northwest .corner Six«h and

lily advsnce. 1 piece of propbargain—sou Ur and Locust —an

Vandslia Railroad. Having 141 leet lying alone the Railroad. It must soon be desirable for warehouse purposes. Very cheap f»r eatk. A aeat. convenient hoase of rooms outbuildings and fences In perfect orderlot foot on 1SV4 street, aear Poplar.

Terms easy. House and lot on Twelfth *treet, near Poplar -«SxlM—rents at $18 |er month. Price $1,860 Vacant lot. .WxHl feet, on Fourth street south of Park, for ft,100.

V»oant lot, 60x1 !M fret, la southern city, «W0lees than its value. Must Half lot. »*1» fl»«t. en Bast Bagle

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Corner lot on South Sixth street. 71x168. good opportunity tor desirable property. One of the best farms In the eounty. a location, railroad station on i*, and la «»«r way nestable. Price 130 per acre* House and lot on Fourteenth street, near corner of Walnut terms anually easy prioe $1,100. cash 1100 balance part In monthly payment*, and part on long time rt 6! sold. street, one, two

Price WOP. 1100 cash balance la oi and three years. Large eottage on South Seventh street. tMM. 13.000can stand five years only 11,000 is ca*

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THE MAIL.

Office, South ^th Street. P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE-HAUTB, OCT. 18,1878.

SECOND EDITION

HIRING QJRIA AWAY. It la generally admitted that tbere la no meaner trick in the domestic world than offering a servant girl higher wages than she la receiving for the purpose of securing herservieea. It is the custom, we believe, among some ladies, however much they may deslro and need the services of a certain girl, t© refuse, even at her own solicitation, to enter into any negotiations with her unless she has either left her place, or given notice that she intends leaving. But those who are not so particular aa this would think themselves engaged In a very scurvey trick if they were to attempt to secure the services of a girl

S &1* who is receiving two dollars per week

offering

her an advance of fifty

cents or a dollar, and that too when her services were fully worth that amount. And if they think it mean In themselves, they would think it a great deal meaner in any one else, or at least be a great deal more likely to think it mean in others.

Now is this sentimeHt right? Is it founded in any law of justice? Certainly every person,—-and servant girls are no exception we suppose—Is entl led to such compensation as tbo labor performed is worth. Every person has a right to go where such compensation can be secured. On the other hand the person needing any service has aright to pay what it is worth to himself. And in paying, or offering to pay what it is worth to him he not only secures his own right, but* he secures to the one rendering the service the right io obtain what the labor is worth. If servant girl is worth three, five, or ten dollars per week to A., and B. is only paying her two dollars A is losing what is of great value to him and for which be is willing to pay fhll value, and the girl is losing the extra wages which her labor is worth. The mere fact that she is in a certain situation with no agreement on either side as to the length of time she shall remain, has nothing to do with tho matter

But how is it in other matters? If a merchant wants a clerk or book-keep er, is it regarded as an offence to offer to a man who suits htm a better sltna tion than that already occupied? One of our young men has Juat gone from one of the banks to Indianapolis. He was probably offered abetter situation, better wages, etc. Did tbo Indianapolis firm play a mean trick upon the bank here Not at all. Tho bank officers probably said, "we are paying you all you are worth to us, and if you are worth more to som& one else, it is all right for you to go." Are not all business men and firms on the look out for the best men to fill various positions? and when they find such do they not offor such wages as to make it an object to acoept without any regard to present employers? It is not a strange thing for a railroad corporation to offer the President or Superintendent of another road a larger salary than he is getting in order to secure just the man they want. And tbere is no whining about this, no charge ot meanness. If the road which he is now serving is not willing or able to pay as much, they let him go with the bost grace possible. Such a thing has been known we believe as a church offering the pastor of another church larger salary than he was getting to induce a change. If we are not mistaken this is very common among churches, and is really the means by which it Is made known to ministers that they are wanted in other fields.

Wili somebody rise to explain why that which Is regarded as perfectly fair In other business is not fiair In the business of buying and selling services In the household Will somebody explain why that which Is right between

plain why

that wfelch Is right between

JL business firms In reference to clerks, w—viw between railroads In reference toProti-

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other employees, between

churches in reference to ministers, is not right between women In reference to servants. If we are entitled to whatever there is in tbo market, if we are willing to p*y for it, *nd If the owner

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Only T«f »ellir«ssl altairaTser. No patxr oflkr* eiiuai Uwluoament* to both offer of the highest bidder, by what role

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3 School Boston. TitBreadway, 10.1. II*:us HT K, Madison 8L.tr

commodity is entitled to what­

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any one else is willing to pay for his article and has a right to accept the

work excluded? We are rally aware of the heresy of tbts article? Bot If wo are not mistaken here is a right of women tun been withheld, tight belonging to many a suffering housekeeper, and a corresponding right belonging to many a hard working and fidthfal girl who has need of all *hs can get for her labor.

QUITS a broese seems to hsre been stirred In tho Episcopal chnrch beOMSK, the Dean of Canterbury, and two «f the Bishops of this country assisted In tho oowtmnnion eervk» In a Presbyterlan church. Tho INNUI and Bishops seem to know what thoy ars about, and

able

to Uke care of themselves, sod the complaining partiss are reaping a rich harvest of popular contempt and ooadetRoatton* as they deserve. Ye* altar sti they havo a fall right to their way«aodifthey wantto ftmoeoffa Uttle "haven for troobled eoote" by moans of reftwals to si tat the communion wtlh any bat their own Ilk* and other means, why lei them bvitd tho and get io, and pat up tho ban.

the sxrnsaa w. mb. millioan. It Is the easiest thing in the world to be mistaken. Peeling that the caas of Mr. Mllllgan had been unduly prejudiced, not before the courts, but before the publio, we took occasion to review, ss we thought in perfeot truthfulness, and with the falrneas of bearty friendahip, the course of the Express towards him, and to show that tbere wss strong circumstantial evidence" in favor of Mr. Milligan's conclusions, as published in his card, concerning this raattor. Therefore it was not without some surprise that we read in the Express of Sunday morning concerning what we had supposed was a perfectly truthfol and fair statement of facts, the assertion that "The article consists of little things ingeniously distorted and exaggerated, and of mnch that is untrue." What a mistake! Instead of fairness, were not simply distortion and exaggeration, but Ingenious distortion and exaggeration. Instead of truth, not simply a few mistakes, not simply a single, or a few falsehoods, but "much that is untruo." Surely it is easy to be mistaken, and either the Mail or the Express has made an egregrious blunder in reference to this whole matter. As interested parties, whether the offenders or tho aggrieved, are not good judges in such eases, there is no other way but to leave the public to judge for itself. Our intention was to give the facts which bad produced in our mind the conviction that Mr. Mllligan bad not been dealt with fairly before the public by the Express. If there was ingenious distortion and exaggera tion, then wo have a genius for this kind of work which enables us to do it unconsciously. If there was "much that is untrue" then wo mistook false hood for truth.

It is a matter of little consequence what the Mail and Express think of each others'course,butit is ofconsider able importance to one who has a good name at stake, that he should not be misrepresented before the public. And therefore if wo have not exaggerated and distorted and falsified sbout this matter, it is desirable on Mr. Milligan'i account that the public should know it

Itseeins to us that if there was extortion, exaggeration, and "much that is untrue" in that article, the Express was unfortunate in its selection of ex amples. It says: "A sample of little things distorted is the statement that the Express published tbo news that the indictment had been found before it bad been returned to court. The fact was publicly known on the streets The Express would have been a poor newspaper if it had failed to publish the fact." Here is every word we pub lished in reference to this if the public can find the distortion and exagger ation in it we must submit to the charge. We said: "It published the fact of his Indictment beforo it was announced by the jury, and when the oath of secrecy was upon all parties cognisant of the fact. All this might have been set down to the credit of newspaper enterprise." Here is a plain and simple statement of an undented and undeniable fact, and the addition of a comment that this might be accounted for by the "enterprise" ofthe paper. To state a fact* certainly is not exaggeration or distortion. To state the possibility that "newspaper enterprise" may account for that fact may be distortion, bat it is hardly an exaggeration, and if it were both, certainly it is not of such a nature that the party implicated need be particularly disturbed. If the Expr ss deslros it, we will say that it denies the "soft impeachment." Yet it ean hardly do this, for in the quotation above, it indirectly claims that what we said might be, really was the fact.

In reference to the abundanoe of untruth, it is hardly more fortunate in its example. It says: "As a sample ofthe things nntrne in the Mail's article, is the statement that the Express, at once, after Mr. Milligan's indictment, "demanded that he resign his position as minister and as councilman." The Express did nothing of the kind." The italics are ours. Here is jnst what the Express did say, and whieh it seemed careful not to Include in its statement last Sunday morning, of what it Mid. The very next sentence after tb^t with which it concludes Its quotation of what it said, reads as follows: "MeantimeIt will be proper for Mr. Milligan to suspend his functions as a clergyman and member of Common Couodl untll his innocence is shown." Let this bo compared with onr statement that "at once it demanded that he resign his position as a minister and as councilman," and that with the declaration that "The Express did nothing of the kind.** It seems to as, we know not how it will seem to the public, that this is too near sn approach to fitting onr assertion that, "at once dgmaoded that he faalgh bis position as minister and ss councilman," to be classed with "much that is nntrne,*' and mot with tho broad denial that "The Express did nothing of the kind." There is a difference between suspending one's fractions as clergyman and member of common council, and resigning, and yet, so far as unfair treatment is concerned, they are so much allks, that there is little difference between a hasty and effletous demand for the one or the other. Tho nso of tho torn "resigo" instead of "suspend bis functions as clergyman and member of common council," did not add one particle to the force of oor argument, and waa not used for that purpose. A narrow basis Is this upon which to found the charge of publishing untruths and making the assertion "The Express did nothing of tho kind."

But tikis reply to onr article, together

with the other squibs upon the same subject, Is unfortunately slmiUr to tho entire oourse pursued concerning this case, of which we aaid last week that "the course of that paper has not seemed to be as fair toward Mr. M. as it usually is in such cases." After de* daring its great care to do Mr. Milligan no injustice, it repeats wbat it has implied before, that, "twenty-one out of twenty-four of his neighbors have on their oaths as jurors condemned bim," when it knows perfectly well that the finding of an Indictment is not condemning, but only declaring upon orparte evidence that there Is sufficient ground to inqnlreJn open coart whether the man ought to be condemned, and that even for this purpose it is not required that the twelve jurors should be unanimous. It may be that twelvo members ofthe Grand Jury have declared that he ought to be triod, and it may not be so. It is not true that they have condemned" blm. But wo will not point out other similar manifestation^ of unfairness.

For

some reason in ref­

erence to this matter, the Express seems to have fallen into tho sad condition of the colored brother who deolared that be could never open bis mouth without putting his foot in it.

Had not the Express made against us the serious charge of distorting, exaggerating, and falsifying, we should not have given so much space to this subject.

THH meeting of the Evangelical Alliance which has been held in New York, and closed Us session of twelye days Inst Sunday, was a remarkable one. It presented the pleasing spectacle Of many of the leading minds of almost all denominations in friendly conference on matters pertaining to tho general interests of Christianity. The meeting was remarkable for the talent which it represented. It was remarkable for the christian courtesy which prevailed in all its discussions Only twice in all the twelve days was there any thing approaching to un pleasantness, though there was great freedom and often wide differences of opinion. The discussion on the rela tion between church and state seems to have caused some feeling, and also that on Darwinianlsm, But iu reference to the former, the unpleasantness was manifested chiefly between the presiding officer and a speaker with whose sentiments he sgreed, but Irom whom he differed in reference to the good taste and courtesy of his presenting these views in the language used.

There is no doubt that this meeting has done muoh to promote a feeling of unity between christians of different names and creeds. The tendency seems to strongly set towards unity in these days and it is a most favorable sign of the times.

The mistake has been made of supposing that the Alliance aims at organic unity. It does not. Nor is it wise to attempt anything of the kind. Not however on the ground assumed by the Cincinnati Commercial that competition between the sects Is desirable, but because of differences of taste, temperament and judgment. All men and women cannot be made to think and feel alike, nor is it desirable that they should. And when these differences of thought and taste lead in different directions, it is well that those having the same sentiments should go together. As Beecher puts it: We let each family keep bouse in its own way, and the world gets on very well. So in religion wo msy let each church family keep house in Its own way. Let the families stop quarreling, and each trylug to make every other family conform to its method, and be fast and firm friends, often visiting and helping each other, and tbere will be little need of organic unity because there is something better and stronger.

WHILB our peoplo up here use agricultural fairs for improving the breed of trotters, cattle and hogs, down at Rome, Georgia, a novel innovation has recently been made. This was a cooking contest among the young ladies of that and neighboring towns. The purpose was to decide which of the number could produce the best dinner from a given qusntity of meals and vegetablea, and the gastronomic strife was encouraged by an award of prises for the beat and second best dinners, snotber for generfcl proficiency, and a fourth for excellence. The tost was by taste and appearand, and the Judges, after sampling the visuds of each particular Miss* gave to Miss IHttie J. Johnson the first prise, which was a cooking stove to Miss Octavta Shropshire, (be second prise,anotbOr cooking stove to Miss K. J. Shropshire, flO for general proficiency, and to Miss Alloe Camp, of tbo mature age of 12, $30 for excellence. Next fell let's haves similar pot snd kettle contort op here. Let cooking bo ouule popular, good oookery an h«nor, and tbo troublous servant-girl question will soon be solved.

TttK election iu Ohio—a square fight between the Republican party snd the atralght-out-old-time Democracy—has rasultod In tho election of Hon. William Alton, Democrat, aa Governor, by a majority of some eight hundred. The bslsnos of the Stato ticket la yet In doubt. This election will serve to infuse now life Into the old Democratic party, and in tho next Presidential election we msy expect the old Republican and Democratic parties to enter the contest withfbannenaixi principles undisguised.,

Tvosa opposed to Sunday legislation bsve a special Invitation to hear tho subject discussed to-morrow evening aa tbsy wIU see by referring to tho department of "Cbnveh Notes."

"CRUMBS OF OOMFORT." ftndlsnspoHs

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Perry WestfeU te making a big thing of the Terrs Baufto Mall. HBuIUvan Union.]

The Mail Is slwsys fall of obolce reading matter, and shQOld ho welcome to every home. [Robinson Anus.]

The Msil ws think muo|i bettor suitad to the wants of our people aa a literary paper than any or those from the l&}8$ft£n cities. [Booster State.}

The Mall has large and steadily iacreaalng subscription list in this county, but we would like to see it made much larger. It is su excellent paper, and contains a large amount of good reading matter, and should be tskenby every family in Vermillion county.

Frankfort Crescent,]

The Saturday Evehlng Mail, published at Terre Haute, is one of the spiciest weekly papers that oomes to this office. It is nigh-toned without being dull, gossipy without being chaffy never low or vulgar and ytt full of life and vigor.

The City and Vicinity,

THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL Is on sole each Suturday afternoon by A. H. Dooley, Opera House. a R. Baker A Co., P. O. Looby. M. P. Crafts, Will R. Sheriff, Walter Col©, Harry Hill,.. James Allen....... J. B.Dowd,

.._Opp. Poet Office. ........ Paris, Ilia. ..Marshall, Ills ........Sullivan, Ind.

Clinton, Ind.

..„„.Rockvil)e, lnd.

Geo. Cunningham— -.Brazil, Ind. C. V.

Decker „...Mattoou, Ills. 11. J. Feltua Ureencaatle, Ind. John W. Collins. Kansas.Ills. Harris Ward, •.Knlghtsvllle, Ind G. W. Greyie, Waveland, lnd.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

Opera Hons©—Harriet Beecher Stowe. Grand Excursion—Jerry Toles. Better than New—J. Hunter. Clothing—Erlanger & Co. Employment—Howe_Machlne Company, en.

A Great House-The Har] To the Ladles—Gaxette Singer Sewing Machine. Boarding— W. H. Chad wick. School ot Architects—J. Speyer. Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient. Coffin Vault—Isaac Ball. Cloakq and Shawls—Hoberg, Root A Co. Watchmaker—Goldman. Glandcro Cnred-C. K. GlflVml. Wanted—Yonng Mun—820 Main street. Notice—Chaa. Arlcth, Executor. Dry Goods—foster Bros. Revolution—A. Hers & Co. For Sale—3 Lots-A. C. Matlox. Attractions at Cent Store. —and— Many Local and Personal Notices.

COLDS are prevalent.

LOVELY autumn weather.

OVERCOATS will be longer.

APPLB-BUTTBR time js here.

LAST night of the Drummer Boy.

THE days are ever so much shorter.

IT is hardly probable that the nailworks will be rebuilt this season.

THE best performance of the Drummer Boy will be thst of this evening.

THE builders are hurrying up their outdoor work this delighttal westber.

OCTOBER frosts have flushed the persimmon's cheek with hue of ripeness.

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THE silent tear will unbidden oome as the story of the Drummer Boy progresses. .*

THE hunters snd nutters sre daily scouring the woods, generally with good success.

THE river bass are in good health snd appetite, daily Increasing in fatness and solidity of flesh.

Go TO the Opera House to-night end seethe boys in blue and the boys in gray fight o'er their battles.

THE intense excitement incident to the election last Tuesday has subsided and Hamiil is elected over Buff by msjorlty of six votes I

THE office ot constable is no sinecure in this township. There are five of them and they gather in from J50 to |200 a month In fees.

TWBWTT-TWO butchers in this city slaughter eaeh month an average of fonr hundred cattle snd nesr one thousand smsller animals.

TUB slightest symptoms of mob Isw should be frowned down. The lsw will be faithfully executed, fellow-cltlsens, when money and InflueotisI friends do not intervene.

ScRVAHT-OAum" la essoining such alarmingly dlssgroeable proportions that many ladies of onr bast society an going back to tho principles of thftir foremothers, and doing tljolr own

Oun people, who never fall to respond to the cry of real distress, this weak raised by subscription #655 snd forwarded it to the yellow fever stricken cities of Memphis and Shrsveport. Chauneey Rose contributed FLSO of this sum and one hundred dollars csine from the employes of tho Vandalia shops. In sddition tho Masonic frater ulty sent down five hundred dollars.

OCR Aomrrs.—We havo now in the field thirty-six active, energetic agents —mostly lsdies—canvassing for subscriptions to The Mall. They sre meeting with extraordinary soooess mak*«g on the commission allowed from two to five dollars a day. The Mail is well known and popular, and theChromo "Good Morning" captivates on sight. We want a good agent In every village snd neighborhood for filly miles around.

D. N. Foanrsm*s Saturday Evening Post has Town Talk department, and his T. T. has already caused a lively stir among tho police, tho gamblers, tbo proprietor of variety show, snd the politicisns. The editor says his T. T. Is "an old resident of Grand Rapids, quiet unsssumlng gentleman, who' wields a trenchsnt pen snd who proposes to use It in tho interests of order and decency." Just like onr T. T.

SBB the Drummer Boy to-night snd sld the Soldier's Monument fund.

A Horrible Murder!

THE KILLING OF JAXE8 DEAKDT.

All the Guilty Persons In Jail,

The Terrible Deed Confessed.

One of the most atrocious murders ever committed in this oounty came to ligkt this week. So coolly planned, so deliberately execnted, it is appalling in its very hellishness. The murdered man was James Deskin, about twentytwo years of age, residing near Fountain station, a short distance east of Markle's mill, on the I. it St. L. R. R. The murder was committed on the night of the 5th of September. The body was hidden under some brush and logs, aud was not discovered until last Saturday. James Roper, David Roper and Henry Llndley, all colored, snd Mrs. Deskin, a white woman, wife of the murdered man, are now in jail. To an Express reporter Mrs. Deakin related this story:

I am 19 years old. My maiden name was Agnes Boland. I was born near Harmony, In Cloy oounty. My pannta died when I waa young, and I was raised by the brother of the man that I afterwards married. Three years ago I married James JJeakin. the man who w«' murdered. We lived happily, except that he got Jealous of James Itoper, a colored man, vho often enme to our house. Roper had a great influence over me. I think that he gave me love powders in peaches. He said so once. R«per used to say to me that ha would kill my husband so that he (Itoper) and I could go off and live together. I told my hufiband ones that Roper had aald that he would kill bim. That made D^akln mad, and he would not let Roper come about tbo house for some time. But afterwards they made It up, and Roper came back.

I went to Woodvltle, Illinois, on the20th day of August: Deaklnsold tho furniture we lived near Fountain Station, on the I. A St. L. Railroad. He sold the furniture because it was sort of understood that we had parted. Roper told me that he would kill Deakln if would go away, and that he would Join mio, and we would go to Canada to live. I went to Woodvllle, Illinois, to Deakln's brother. I got one letter from Roper. He said that my husband was working at Jones' mil!, and that be had had no chance to kill htm yet—that ha (Roper) was coming out In three weeks and that ho hoped to get away with my husbaud before that time.

I burned the letter. I returned to this county the Thursday after lint's show was In Terre Haute, (Deakln waa murdered the night of the show—RBIORTKR.) 1 went ton cousin's of my husband's in Lost Creek. I didn't know that my husband had been murdered, but I supposed thut he had been, because I hoard that Hoper went to tho show with htm, and that Deakiti had not been seen since. I never knew positively that my husband was killed until to-day.

I have not seen Roper siuee I left home iu August. Roper had a bean of power over me, but I care nothing for him now. I don't see what was the cause of the power over me, unless it was love powders

I have no children. I bad one and it. died. I have no negro blood. Deakln was about SU years old.

David Roper, a boy of sixte«n years, gives this account ofthe murder: 1 lived at the time of the murder a mile from Grant station, on the I. & St. L. Railroad. I went to Lent's ahow In Terre Haute on the 6th of September with Jimmy Roper (my uncle) and James Deakln. We got in town a*out noon. We went Into several saloons aud drauk. Then we went to tho show. In the evening we started home, walking on the track of the 1. A St. L. Railroad- There were four of ns now, Henry Llndley, a colored boy sixteen years ola Jimmy Roper, Jimmy Deakln and myself. Sometimes on the way we straggled along so that we were not altogether, and then it was made un that Deakln should bo killed. I thought they were In fun. It was understood that he should be killed, but I had no idea that he would be. When HIMUH half a mile beyond Markle's mill, Deakln was walking a little ahead. Jimmy Roper was right behind him, and I was to the right of Jimmy, and a little ahead of hhn. Jimmy was about five feet from Deakin. 1 heard Jimmy Roper say, "I believe I'll shoot him," and justih^n he find, and Deakin fell without a word or groan. Then wo picked him up and carried him to the place where th« bony was artorwords found. The body quivered a little ai we went along. That made us think thot maybe he wasn't dead: so Roper and Lisdly mauled his head and race with a club. Llndley aid I put the brush and logs over the body. We got blood on our clothes.

Wejjot rrora Deakin 112 and a new pair of boots. Henry Llndley got the boots. I had the tl2 awhile, and then Jim Itoper took it from me,

I have talked to Jim Roper about the murder often since. He said thnl all he wanted to kill Deakin for was to get his wife. He Intended to go off and live with her somewhere. He didn't goto her right off because he hadn't money enough to go to housekeeping. At times he told mo that he was sorry that be had killed Deakln.

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Jsmes Roper, the chief sctor in this terrible drams, at first refused to say anything, but the next day after bis' arrest, made a clean In east of the affair. His story, in the main, does not differ from the foregoing, except that ho endeavors to make the crime as light npon himself as possible. Ho admits that he shot Deakin from behind, with a pistol, and states that Dave Roper cut bis throat with a pocket knife.

Altogether, it is one of the blackest crimes ever committed in the county. And yet bow aillyt There wss not the slightest need of killing Deakin. His wlfefcad gone away, and It Roper dosired to live with her, bo bad only to follow her, Tbo boys had no motive to sssist In the killing—no more than the sbootlng ot dog, in a midnight spree. All four of tbo guilty wretches, ss above stated, Mr* to fall. They have no money—no friends—and, of courso, the law will make quick work of the misSrsfcitf blasts. Tbo question of their punishment should be gravely considered by those in authority. All the droumstanosa should be weighed, and In a cool and dispassionate manner punishment should be meted to each..

A JC exchange tells of a young couple In moderate circufflpances, at the time of their marriage were overwhelmed by considerate friends with oake-bas-kets, fish-knives, snd similar indispenssble articles for bouakeeplng. The lady, however, who wss of a practical torn, traded off the whole lot lor a cook-atove, an article she wss more accustomed to "wrestle" with.

MARRIAOB Ltoxsmn.—The following marriage licenses havo been issued by the Oounty Clerk since our last report:

Thomas L. Button snd Jessie St Clair. JOaeph Karlln and Mary C. Karlln. Geo. Cobble to Miranda McKinsey. William A. Latta to La vine Trneblood. William H. rarteb to Mart lids J. Serves. James Thurston to Rebecca Perkins. iLuke Leonard and Catharine Murray. Chaa. H. Lewis and Catharine HaOl. James Donnelly and Jennie Hnbbsrd.

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