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BARLY FROSTS. BY FLORENCE JOSEPHINE BOTCE. gamine?, bright sevson of gla Inees, Was breathing the sweets thro' the land, An! the fair queen of summers resplendent Had flourish.‘d her silvery wand, When lo I at the hour of midnight Jack Frost, from his regions sfar, • Came, guided by Luna s reUection, And many a glimmer ng star. And over our valleys and hillsides The work of des rue ion began ; And over our mountains and river Ho waved his destroying hand. But when, at the dawnin > of morning, He beheld th? result of his tod. He retreate 1. like shadows of darkness, Frew out of the lan I of his spoil. Now over the lofty old mountains The sun’s p’easant visage appears, And the fanner awakes from his slumbers To realize yesterdav’s fears. •We'll well!” ho exclaims to his neighbor, While visorous'y rabbin: his hands, “T iis untimely mi 'night marauder Des ruction has spread o er our lands I 'For there was the corn’s verdant tassels, Now they are crinkled and brown. And the grass is crisp in our meadows, A right poor show for our town. The fruits of our labor have vanished, Swep off by the br jath of the frost; While ’Jack’ on his way goes rejoicing. The farmer may mo irn what he’s lost. •But the habit of ever complaining O’er m Ik that is spilt I detest, And we may as wed bo a-tblnking, Perhaps it was all for the best. For mane yo ing lives, like the summer, In castles of air are engrossed. And many young hops s, bright, enchanting, Are nipped by an untimely frost.” WAITBFIKLD, Vt. ’Twixt Lili 1 mill Death OR WR MEDICAL ADVICE. & Story of the FrancoPrussian War. BY ROB3RT BUCHANAN. CHAPTER 111. AN ADVENTURE. When it became known that the Chevalier de Gavrolles was about to throw in his lot with the defenders of France there was great local enthusiasm. Father Andre, bo h in public and private, discoursed eloquently on the glories of patriotism, and pointed to the lord of the chateau as a shining example. The imme li ite result was seen in tho format on of a large number of volunteers from the district, many of them being men who had alrea ly served their time, and were otherwise exempt from conscription. The diy of parting arrived, and, followed by those whom his example had inspiied. the Chev ilier left his homo. A few days letter word came that tho Norman recr i ts, with others from neighboring districts, had been formed into a company of tire Line, of which Gavrolles was constituted Captain. “Courage, my darling," wrote tho Chevalier to his daughter. “We are ordered to the front at once. ” He aided iu a posticript to his letter: “Tho medallion, with your mo her’s picture and yours, lies always on my heart. Every night before I lie down to rest I look at the pictutes and bless both the living and the dead. May God have you in his keeping and speedily reunite n !" Left alone in the chateau, Blanche felt the full solita le of her situation. Always deeply religious, she now spent much of her time in prayer. Iler piano was locked up and never opened, her paiuting (cf which she had been very fond) quite neglec<ed; even books bad no attraction for her any longer. All her c ire was to read the journals, full of news from the seat of war, and to look eagerly for her father’s letters. As time advanced, the position of affairs grew more and more critical. The French forces "’ere driven b ick on every side, and the over-successful Germans were pouring like a torrent into the heart of Fiance One morning, as Blanche sat in her boudoir, there was a knock at the door, ami Hubert entered, the very picture of consternation. “News, mademoiselle, horrible news!” he cried. “The Germans are close by!” Blanche started in amazement. “It is quite true, mademoiselle,” continued the old man. “I had it from the mouth of M’sieu Dude^ant, the schoolmaster, who has seen them with his o vn eyes. Oh, that the earth would open and swallow them up alive, the cannibals! Thev are coming here and we shall soon be e...en up alive!” The news was not without foundation. A portion of tho advanced columns of the enemy hid entered Normandy and taken possession of the capital. The whole district was in a panic. The wildest and most hideous stories were in circulation, and it was asserted on every hand that the Germans were committing the most inhuman crimes. Meantime, Blanche de Gavrolles was agonized with anxiety, for nearly a fortnight had elapsed and there was neither a letter nor a message from the Chevalier. His last letter, hurriedly written on the scrap of an old envelope, had been sent from a distant town in the North, where Rome sharp business had been going on with tho enemy’s skirmishers. It had contained one passage, which afterward formed a source of hope and comfort. “I do not know if t'ris will ever reach you,” tho Chevalier wrote, “bat if it does so, do not be alarmed if you do not hear from me speedily again; lor it is now oxceelingly difficult to pass letters beyond the linos. Keep up a good heart, my Blanche, for t think tho horrors will soon beover; it is tho beginning of the end." Another bomb of alarming intelligence was presently exploded by old Hubert. “They are in Rouen, mademoisllo! They have cut tho telegraph wires! Lord, deliver us!" In these elements of alarm Blanche did not think of herself, nor of tho personal t>eril which might soon threaten her; all ter thought and care was for her father. She prayed for him incessantly. While all the district w’as in an uproar, and tho chute m itself like a startled rookery, with Old Hubert wildly holding forth and the female servants chattering in teiror, sho remained out war ily calm, seldom leaving the privacy of her own apartments. But one cold, still afternoon, when the first autumnal frost was on tho ground, she left the chateau and walked out into the woods, which looked beautiful in the sore and yellow leaf. Clad in a simple dross of black velvet, with an ivory cross, her lather s gift, suspended around her neck, R be seemed alm >st like a roligiense. Her 0 dy companion was an old Norman deerhon id, christened “Gaston," after her father. The snn was sinking over the sea, and inland the pro-pect was already growing dark; yet she did not hasten her footsteps, though she now turned her face in the uirection of home. Before she reached the wicket-gale leading into the home woods the full mobu bad arisen, mingling its "right beams with the last faint rays of darlieht Kail anti nonaivA VAt struck l)V

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I the quick beauty of the scene, she lin- ! gered just inside the gate, looking sex- j ward. Suddenly she was startled by the sound । of horses’ hoofs and almost at the same | moment she perceived two men o i horseback rapidly approaching across tho fields. I The moonlight struck full upon them and I flashed upon something like glittering steol. Sho knew at once that they were soldiers, for their spurs jingle 1 as they came, and each of thorn carried a long weapon like a spear. Quick as thought she drew back among the bushes, and seizing the dog Gaston by the collar made it lie down at her feet. The men came along at a trot, while, sick with apprehension, she lay in her hiding-place to watch them pass. And now, as they loomed more clearly against the sky, looking gigantic on their powerful steeds, her worst dread was realized. They wore Uhlans! She knew them at once by their dross, and the spears they carried; far. tho igh sho hid never seen any Uhlans living the pictures of the wild cavalry were famili r I to her from illustrated jour als. Fortunately she was safely bidden, at d the strangers would hive ridden by unsuspiciously had it not been for the conduct of the dog. In spite of her attempts to quiet him, Gaston began to growl, show his tee’h and strugg’o for escape; and suddenly, as they passed the wicket pa’e, he tore himself free, and, leaping f.om the bushes, rushed fiercely at the horses’ heels. Utterly terrified, Blanche remained in her hiding-place, watching what followed in trembling fascination. As the dog darted Jut, showing bis teeth, one of tho horsemen wheeled swift as lightning and covered him with a pistol. There was a flash, a report and the poor animal lay dea I upon the ground. Tho man who had fired the shot was a sinister-looking, middle-aged soldier,with a ferocious black must a he; ho was short and somewhat stout and crouched low in the saddle. His companion, who had rid- | den on past the spot, bat who now came , quickly back, was many years younger and । very tall; his beard and mustache wore golden-yellow, and the expression of bis face, though stern, not at all forbidding. Reining in his horse he spoke rapidly n I German. Tho other replied with a gruff ' laugh and pointed his spear at the dead j hound. Crouching in the bushes, Blanche felt her heart swell with mingled bate and horror. To her simple mind tho men seemed scarcely human, resembling rather I the savage monsters of popular imagina- ■ tion. She perceived now that the man who had fired the shot carried pn his saddlebow some straw, a bunch of vegetables and I a couple of dead geese. They spoko together for some moments; | then, to her terror, sho saw tho younger ! soldier pointing eagerly to the place where sho lay hidden, and saying something which was received by his companion with an incredulous shrug of the shoulders. Then she heard the sharp click of a pistol lock, and simultaneously saw the older man ride close up to the bushes, pistol in ; hand. Something clearly attrackod his attou- I tion, for ho uttered a loud express on in I German, at tho same moment point ng the weapon stra ght toward the hiding-place of tho unlucky girl. The other called to him impatiently, as if requesting him to eave the spot, but he was determined. Fora moment her fate hung in the balance; his finger was upon the trigger, and he was in the act to the. But suddenly his companion uttered a cry of warning, and, riding quickly to his side, placed a hand upon his arm. “Take care, Vogel!" he said, still in Ger- i man. “It is only a woman." CHAPTER IV. FOES—AND A FRIEND. Knowing now that escape was impossi- ' bio, Blanche stoppod out from hor hidingplace and stood, pale as death, but roso- | lute, looking at the two officers, for such I they were. The oiler man apparently lit- I tie moved by her sox and helplessness, I surveyed her from head to foot with an i angry scow ; but the other, with a light j laugh, Lyape I from his saddle and leading | his horse by tho reign, walked close up to • hor. She met his eyes without flinching, I though it seemed to her as if her last hour I had come. To her surprise, however, he ’ addressed her in her native tongue, which ' he spoke quite fluently and with the I slightest possible accent. "Pardon mo, fraulein, but it is a late I hour for one so young to be abroad. My I friend hero is impetuous, and you have j had a narrow’ escape with 1 fe.” His manner gave her courage; and, still I keeping her eyes upon his face, she drew herself up proudly us she replied: “My name is Blanche de Gavrolles, and I dwell at tho Cha'enu of Grandpre.” The other Uhlan greeted her speech with a coarse laugh, and cried in French, which he spoke with a thick Teutonic accent: “The devil! Sho has courage, the little she-fox! Lift the baggage up on my saddle, Hartmann, and I will carry her back to camp. ” Ha tmnnn, ns his companion called him, answered with an angry look, and again addressing Blanche, said quietly: “Do not alarm yourself, fraulein. My friend is an ugly fellow, but doos not mean what he says.” “Ho is a coward,” nnsweied Blanche, firmly, “or ho would not h ivo killed my poor Gaston!" “Do you mean that dog? Then it was yours?” “Yes,” was the reply; and as she gave it, Blanche gazed at tho dead body through blinding terns. The man on horseback laughed again. “Thank your stars, girl, that it was not you I killed, but the cur!” ho cried. “Silence, Vogel!" exclaimed tho other. “Do you not see the young lady is terrified?” “I am not terrified,” said Blanche. “I am French, and I do not fear the enemies of my country. ” Hartmann looked at hor with a quiet smile. It was curious, but his eyes were quite gentle and Iris manner moro and more kind. “I am sorry this has happened, fraulein. IVe Germans, I assure you, do not make war on women or children or dumb animals. Have you parents, little one?” “I have a father,” answered Blanche. “lio must boa careless father, I am afraid, to suffer yon to be wandering in tho woods a’one at so perilous a time.” “He is with the army of tho North,” cried Blanche, “fighting for the tFatherland." “Come, ti airman, cnea the mounted Uhlan, impatiently moving away. Hartmann prepared to remount; then, hesitating, he again looked at Blanche. “Take my advice and hasten home. More of our people are about and there may be fresh danger. I should be sorry if any evil camo to you. Over there in Germany ; I have a dear sister of my own.” He leaped into the saddle and, with a • nod and asm le, rode away after his comj panion. . i I For some minutet Blanche remained < stupefied. All had occurred so suddenly f that as vet she could scarcely realize the i situation: but as the troth dawned upo»

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hor, and she found herself case and nn« , harmed,the tension of her strung-up nerves | gave wav, and she began to sob hysterically. Bending over tho dead body of the I dog, she tried to discoverany signs of life; ' but there were none; it had been killed l instantaneously. Her heart swelled with | hate audjindignation against his destroyer. It was growing dark, tor black clouds were drifting rapidly up from the sea. She remembered the strange officer’s warning and, after oue last look at the dead dog, she prepare! to hurry bick to the chateau when the sound of a voice arrested her. “Ah! It is you, mademoiselle. Thank God, I have found you,” it said. “I have been searching for you through tho vil - 1 ige, for, look you, there is terrib'e news. 'The accursed Uhlans are upon us in swarms!” “Tho Uhlans!” said Blanche. “Yes, Ilouzel, I know, for they shot poor Gaston. " She turned as she spoke and pointed to the dead hound which lay al the newI comer's feet. I The man looked at ihe animal. Then I he turned to hit mistiess with a sinister s.nile. “I saw them,” he said. “I was crouching in the bushes yonder and saw them pass. It is well for them, Mlle. Blanche, that ton avere hete, otherwise oue of them Mould be lying where Gastoa lies now. I had my gun ready, pointing at the monster’s he nt, ami 1 did not fire because I thought of yon. But I shall remember them, and you shall be avenged!” The girl shuddered. “Thank God I was here," she said. “It ■would have been too terrible!" “What is teirible, mademoiselle —to slay the enemies of my country? The Che a- । Her, my in ister, has gone to do it; why ; should not I? “Ah! but that is different, Honzel. My father is fighting in fair i nd open battle; he would not slay an enemy from behind a tree.” The man blusl ol sheepishly and looked down. He could not siy whit was in h s mind, or hi would hme sad, “1 <a e for I my country, but I care mo'e for you. i These men have made you shed tears, >hey i have filled your heart with sonow; and ; lor that I would shoot them like dogs. ” Alt ho t h he w is st di a young ma i, be was the girl’s senior by several yo irs, and all his life bad bee i spo t in the forests cf Grandpre. His father and gramifath. r j before him bad been keep rs of the forest, ; : nd in the service of the De Gnvol es. For the rest, he was a hand-oine follow, I a..d endowed w ith all the m mliness which comes to tho ovcupa.ion of forester. He con d have had his ] i k of the'iUnge beauties, but h s heart was entirely devoted to his mistress. If he had been a wise man, and bad takcu thought for the future, ho v.ould assuredly have nipped in the bud this unwise pass on, which could co ta nly bring him naught but pain; but he was iol a wise man at heart so far ns Bland e was concerned, mid ho preferred not to think of the future. It was quite enough for him to know th it ho < onl I stand bm.e th tho window of tho chnto.il and listen while Blan he p’nyed to her fnthet of an evening; or that he could stroll down to thechiteau of a morning and watch for her appearance, certain of roceii ing a smile and a pleasant word. Foi Blanche, quite ignorant of tho tl mo sho was fmini ig, was pnrticulmlv aminblo to tho young fpiester, and accepted his devotion very graciously, but qn to in the spiiit as a young princess leeening the homage of n subject. “lime you been into tho will go, Honzel?" said Blanche, creeping neaier to Lis aide. “I passed through the village i i search of yon, mademoiselle. XX hen 1 heard yon had loft the chateau. 1 was in terror lest the Germans should molest yon Ami now, my dear young mistiess, hasten," he added. “Let us get into the shtlter of the house. Do not fear; 1 will seo that you । are safe. ” Blanche looked nt the dog. "And poor Gaston?" she said; “he can- ' not be loft here, Honzcd. I should like I him to bo carried home and buried in the I garden, close to the sun-dial." The forester nodded. j “I will see you safe first, mademoiselle; i then I will return for the hound and do as I yon wish. Como!" Ho shouldered his gun and hold forth I his arm. Blanche I.id her baud on it, and j the two walked away together. They soon reached the chateau. Their ' arrival was opportune, for the servants, ■ alarmed at tho protracted nl sence of their I mistress, had armed themselvac with I torches, and, headed by old Hubert, who | was trembling with fear, were prei aring I to set out in search of Blanche. XVith n j low bow to his mistress and n co temptn- [ oits Icok at the quaking figure of the old butler, Honzel turned from tho eh iteau to retrace his stops through tho forest, when the voice of his mistress arrested h m. “Houzel," she said, very gently, “yon are very rash and 1 eadstrong. Promise me that you will not rush heedlessly into danger.” “But I must go and bury your dog, mademoisollo." “Be it so; but come to me when yon return, that I may know yon are safe." Flushed and elated, Honzel retraced his steps along the road which he and Blanche had trodden. All was quiet now and tho moon was shining biigi.tly. The hound lay where he had fallen; mid Ilouzel saw now, what he had rot noticed I efore, a ■white filmy substance lying near to the hound. Trembling with emotion, he kissed the precious token and thrust it in’o his breast; then, lifting the dog. ho mndo his way again to too chateau. Ho reached it unmolested. But instead of entering, ho carried his burden straight (o the girden and buried it near the sun-dial as Blanche had directed. Then he went to tho house, and was shown straight to tho drawingroom, where Blanche was sitting. “Ah! I am glut you have returned,” said Blanche. “Did you hoar anything more?” ^Nothing, mademoiselle; nil is qu et i now'. I hove buried Gaston, and, ’"<io added, beneath his breath, “I should like to put a bullet through tho heart of the man who killed him!” [TO BE CONTINUED.] Takes Him at His Word. “My boy,” said a father to his little ■ son, ‘‘if you want to get on i i life you can’t do better than take a leaf out of my book.” But when, only two days later, the poor little chap tore a page out of his folio Sh.ikspeare, he gave him an awful thrashing. You can’t , please some people. The vege’ablo matter in the sea to । tho westward of the Azores has been found t > contain a large amount of fish and other life sustaining substances. A Determined Man. “Tommy!” “What is it, dad?” “Go to bed.” “I won’t!” _ । “Then stay up I will be obeyed!”— Cl'.icago Ledger.

INDIANA HAPPENINGS. . — ] EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE 1 LATELY OCCURRED. 1 < An Interesting Summary of the More Im- ( portant Doinga of Our Neighbors— W»«tdings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties And j deneral New* Natefe I Death of a Surgeon Who Rendered Valuable Service to Indiana Troops In the War. Dr. Albert Gallatin Preston died at I 1 Greencastle, of organic heart disease. 1 He was born near Liuchburg, X a., April 1 17, 1813. In 1824 his parents moved to Union Upuuty, Ind. At the age of 17 be began the study of medicine, and almost at once began its practice. He ( fust located at Middletown, iu Henry j County, in 1833. Ho graduated from 1 the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, j in 1840. In 1843 ho moved to Green- I castle, where he has ever since resided. | Ho*was well read in his profession, but . his chief characteristic, was bis rare I sagacity and sound judgment in apply- j ing his knowledge to the particular case in hand. Both ns consulting and I operating surgeon he had few equals in J ■ the State. During the war be was al- I most constantly in tho service of tho 1 State. He was surgeon of the Fifty- | fifth Indiana, and was captured at the ' ' battle of Richmond, Ky. Both before. I ; and after his connection with the regi- | ment ho was frequently sent by Gov. | Morton to care for Indiana’s wounded r soldiers at times of hard lighting, being ' thus dispatched to Stone River, Pitts- I burg Landing, siege of Corinth, Vicks- i burg and other severe engagements. He । was surgeon of tho Board of Enrollment । for tho Seventh congressional district, I with headquarters at Terre Haute, from the time of its organization until the 1 I close of the war. Ho was of a quick I and rather imperious temper when one . attempted in any way to put an affront । upon him or his friends, but otherwise i of a most generous and forgiving nature, i and not apt to take offense where none was intended.| An Alleged I’olsouer ot Hor«es Arrested Alonzo XV. XValpert, of Peru, hns been i arrested and lodged in jail, charged with the heinous crime of poisoning four magnificent horses, the property of George Lewis. The poison was mixed । with bran. Iwo of the horses, n span of । iron nrevs, value I ut Stoo, were found dead. Two others are suffering liorrrbly. and one of them will die. while the other may possibly recover. The act is barged to lea piece of spite-work. XValpert and Lewis, who are brotherH-ir-'nw. have I e ?u on bad terms, caused by Lewis refusing XValpert ndmissiou to Lewis house, where XValpert s wife is stiying. ) pending action on a divorce suit against XValpeit Fhe mixture which poisoned i the horses is being iinnlyzad. Minor slate Item*. Madison claims to be entitled to free postal delivery. Fort XX’ayne claims tho largest wo- ; man in the State a 547-pounder. Edinburg has secured the abolition of tolls on all roads entering that point. The Howard County fair Mill be held at Kokomo, September !* to 13, in- i | elusive. •lohn Bull, a well-known resident of XVaterloo, died there recently at the j age of 72. - Louis Burkart, aged II years, was i drowned in White Kiver, near Seymour, ’ while bathing. -Fish ladders are to be placed in the 1 St. Joe river for the benefit of Lake ' Michigan fish. —John Eads, who died recently near । Carlisle, is said to have been a victim of ! human glanders. j —Rome City people deny that the I reservoir there is any meuance to the ’ safety of the public. - Shelbyville has secured an electric ' light system, and Richmond has begun ] work on a belt railroad. —Green County people are talking of : draining marshes in that county, which j would redeem 15,1)00 acres. | —Orlando Hayne, of Franklin, fell from a scaffold while painting a house in Shelby County, and was killed. —Mrs. Rae McDaniels was recently shocked by electricity while removing clothing from a wire clothes line. —Van Dunlay, a cow herder of Clinton was run over by a north-bound train on the C. A E. I. railroad and killed. —Oscar Rodenbarger, of Mulberry, recently shot his 4-vear-old brother in tho bend while cleaning a revolver. —A tine flow of natural gas has been struck at tin depth of 975 feet nt XVillow Branch, on the ()., I & XV. Railway. —Thad Vanpell shot and killed XX illiiun Stone ut Salem ('enter, near Angola, in a quarrel over A’anpell’s wife. — Hon. Isaac R. Leyden has been appointed a Trustee of the State University, in place of Judge Banta, resigned. Rev. A. B. Chaffee, formerly of ' Franklin jjollego, has been installed as ' pastor of a Baptist Church at Seymour. , —A petrified turtle,said to weigh 53,000 pounds, found recently in Parke county, has been purchased by Cincinnati parties. —Clark County druggists have been i warned that they will be prosecuted uut dor the law if they prescribe for sick f persons. s —Allen Jamison, a 13-year-old boy, J fell from a tree at Evansville while 3 watching a base-ball game, and was fa- ' tally injured. —The body of Alexander XVhittaker, n colored murderer who drowned himself * at Evansville, was found in tho river < there by a dog. f - Richard Shields, aged 30, whose father lives at Framing hum, Mass., was killed by a train nt Vincennes, while attempting to steal a ride. _While tho two sons of Clarence Hnttertield, of Spencer township, Harrison county', were out bunting, the elder shot and killed his brother, aged 10 1 years, by the accidental discharge of his rifle.

■ —F. Walker, a young man living near Shelbyville, was made a cripple for life i recently by having the needle of a self- • binder driven through his feet. i 1 —Sanford Johnsonbaugh, while unloading hay at Monticello, last wook, ac- I cidentally ran the fork in his little daughter’s eye, causing hor death. —The businessmen of Crawfordsville have signed an agreement to form an association for tho purpose of advancing the interests of that city and county. 1 —Albert XVetsell, aged 20, a miner at Lodi, was killed the other day. A blast of a miner in au adjoining room of the mine blew down tho separating wall, 1 and this fell on XVetsell. —Saloon licenses at Rushville have been raised from SIOO to $250 by the City Council. The validity of the action of tho Council will bo contested by the saloon-keepers. . —V. P. Harris, living near Greens- i burg, who, last summer, captured tho eagle “Abo No. 2,” has a fine flag, with ■ forty-two stars floating from a pole, ninety-feet high, at his home. —An effort is being made at Now Albany to forms a company for the purpose of laying a pipe line from there to the gas-bearing regions of Harrison County, twenty miles distant. -A young man, aged 14 yours, son of Jolin Zimmerer, living near China, five miles northeast of Madison, was accidentally shot and instantly killed by a boy mimed Berkley, with whom ho had been hunting. i —Samuel Shoemaker, a 10-yeui-old • boy, living near Union City, wont to tho pasture to bring up a family horse, and was shortly afterward found, there, unconscious and with a fractured skull, from which he died. । Five weeks ago Dr. Knowles, state ! veterinary surgeon, kXlled two horses belonging to a man mimed Eads, at Car- | ■ lisle. Eads himself was suffering with glanders, and word has been received that he has died from the disease. Seventeen girls and four boys bei longing to Indian tribes in the farXVost, , who have been educated nt XX bite s Mani mil Training School, near Wabash, were sent to their homes this week, and will ibe replaced by other Indian children. । XX hile riding on an excursion train. near XX estport, a voting man named Thurston was struck on the bead by something beside tho track while ho had his head out of the ear window. The injury is very severe an I may be I fatal. Johnson County farmers have gone ' into the cultivation of peas extensively. They make an average yield of 150 bush- I els per acre, and command t>s cents in I the market. The canning factory there . is glad to get them, and is now packing 3tl,(MMt cans daily. XX'hii ’ kindling a the in the cook- । stovt, the wife of Charles Fischer, a ; merchant tailor of Brazil, was severely > and perhaps fatally burned by the tire j igniting the coil oil iu a can, the oil ’ having been used in the kindling. Prompt attention was summoned, and , I she may recover, though seriously . burned. XX'm. O’Halleiiu, 2t years old, and the sou of a prominent saw-mill owner at Evansville, was killed while at work jin the mill. He was running au edging ; machine, when the board plank which ; he was dressing flew back and struck ; him in the abdomen, throwing him a distance of twenty feet and tearing a bole in his stomach. Gerd Steinbeck, a farmer living on I a piece of hind near Goshen, adjoining that of the Leavitts, whose two daughI ters were mysteriously murdered a few j weeks ago, was found hanging in his barn the other night. He left a note i stating that be could not endure to be suspected of a crime of which he was innocent. The mother of tho girls bud charged him with the murder. Judge Tracewoil, of Corydon, denies that he granted:! divorce to a busbaud because his wife was insane. He says the grounds for divorce were cruel treatment and abandonment, which were proven on the trial. Subsequently to the abandonment the wife became insane and was in the asylum, but this fact only came to the knowledge of the court incidentally on a return of service. An occurrence in which the remarkable fatality of honey-bee stings is made apparent, is reported from Patriot, several miles south of Columbus. Two horses belonging to Stephen Lucas, of that place, were tied together and left grazing in the yard, when they were attacked by bees. In their endeavors to escape the animals knocked over several of the bee-hives, and they were instantly covered with the angry insects. Before they could be rid of them they were both fatally stung. Oue of the horses lived but one hour and tho other about five hours. —Au accident serious enough iu its results, but far moro frightful in appearance, occurred at Richmond. Glen Miller, a suburban pork, was visited by i thousands of picknickers, and in tho rush to get to the city in the evening, i the large open street cars were crowded ♦o their utmost. In one of these tho brake got out of order iu coming down a steep grade on Tweuty-third street, 1 and at Eight street ran into another car. Many passengers were thrown headlong. About half a dozen were hurt, but only one dangerously—Miss Maggio Hans, parlor matron at Earlham 4 ollege. I She struck on her bond, and is suffering with concussion of the brain and internal injuries. t —Jeffersonville justices of the pence f are competing briskly for tho patronage r of runaway couples. Some of them have put up attractive signs, and one j magistrate talks of running a carriage i to the depot. A two-story brick bank building, owned by Henrv Uechtel, at Naponee, j collapsed, owing to a defective founda- - tiou, and five men were buried in the - ruins. Os these, George Arnold, XVil- ) Hum XVygnnt and James Cripe are serii ously injured, and in the case of the former the chances are against recovery.

THE HARVEST PROSPECT ’ CONDITION OF THE CROPS |IN THE ' NORTHWEST. I Certain Sections of Dakota amt Minnesota in Which Drought Has Considerably Diminished the Stand and Yield - South- i ern Minnesota Reports of an Encourag- * lug Nature. A St. Paul dispatch gives the following resume of the crop situation made since the recent rains, and from reports of more than 500 correspondents: In general terms the crops a e in much letter cond tion in Minnesota than in either of the two Dakotas, ami notwithstanding the general drought there are still large tracts throughout the wheat areas where there is pioiite of an excellent yield. Along the main lines of the Manitoba in Minnesota, westward almost to Tintah and Hainesville, there is a va-t area including nearly a dozen of the chief wheat growing counties of the State, within which the g ain for the ni< st part looks well, an I in some sections never gave finer promise at this stage of growth. It has a strong and healthy appearance, is of goo I stand and is heading out fine’y. A good ciopfis cooked for in this section. Otter lail comity piomises an average ci op. Ah ng the Manitoba A Sioux Falls line from XVilmar to Marshall tho wheat also appears tor the nunt part to be in good si ape for several miles on both sides of the line. In the lower Red River valley the crop is i cor and thin without a doubt, and it is too late for it to receive much improvement. A large aiea around Grand Pork-, including Grand Forks <oi nty and a part of Trai’, and extending । as far west :.s I arimora, has a very promising look. Near Keis > and Burton, in Trail comity, there arr field: that will yield eighteen to twenty-two bushels to the acre, according to present prospects. In Walsh and Pembii.a counties along t’.ie river, the prospect is about the same a« at Grand Folks. On the Minnesota side of the valley, in Marshall county, north of XVarren, and in a portion of Kittson county. a very good cn p wi.l Le 1 arrested. | In Northern Dakota, west of Larimore an l in tl.e Devils Lake region, the yield will be very small, although the prospects have I eon son.ewliat tm. roved by the late , rains. In the Turtle mo'intain region, ■ however, ti e crop is in good shape. Os the North Dakota Hop outside of these . areas it is to b> said that it is generally poor, bi t is s; otted by area-, of greater or ' less extent which will turn out a good yield Tiie wheat on the Missouri slope is I ! in lettershape than in oil er setions, though it was injured by tho hot weather u week ago. 1 In so’ them Dakota the crop is in very poor pl ght, only a small area north of Aberdeen, in Marshall and Brown counties I and portions of Day and Clark counties, I giving pro niie of anything like a fair I ' crop. Practically, the w! ole State of । 1 South Dakota had suc< um! ed to the I drou ht, and although there is prospect ' . that the grain wll be of good quality it I will probably not average over half a < rop. Returning to Minnesota, the norther counties, north of the region along the I Manitoba main line already desc ibed, will fare । oor’v. though rain will probably I he'p them out a goo 1 deal. rhe grain I i Ims an old, stunted h ok, and the hot winds have stripped off all the green leaves, burning up the plants, root and stalk. Wheat and oat fields head o’ tat four to six iuclies high. It is in ciutral and southern Minnesota that the wheat crop seems to be at its best. In half a do en counties of the southeast- ' ern portion it is in ] oor conditii n, but with this exception, the outlook is very ; good, es|>ecially in southeastern Minnesota, the Minnesota river valWy and in m >st of the counties co i posing the southern tirr. Even in this section the crop is peculiarly sp< tied, adjoining townships and even ad- > joining fields, displaying very diverse rei suits. (hi the whole, however, the yield in southern Minnesota will be good, far above I the average for that part of the State, if the conditions continue favorable. Filmore | and Freeborn counties send in excellent repqits. Oats may be a little short, but all other < tops in southern Minnesota are do- | ing well < orn and flax have been lackward, but are catching up. and vegetables ae in n flourishing condition. Southern Minnesota wi ), therefore, taking all kinds, turn out as large and as fine a crop in the ag regate as has been harvested there for years. Northern lowa advices are to the effect that it is too dry for s nail grain, but corn is doing well. Reports from over the Ne- ( braska division of the Omaha railroad j represent the corn crop as in excellent ' shape, and all others as doing well. >l. I’AI L HOMES IN DANER. An Imlisna Man Claims Title to 83,000,0 IO Worth of Real Estate. Sr. Paui, Minn., July s.—George XXL Ewing, of Fort Wayne, Ind., has made a claim through Attorney Ullman, of Chicago, to one-fifteenth interest in property s it? \ arious parts of St. Paul, est imated to be worth about 1^2,000,000. Notices of this claim have leen served on all the owners of the lots affected, by Captain C. L. Bunker, who is representing the claimant hero Dec. 31, 1863, George XXL Ewing, Jr., conveyed to his father, George W. Ewing, j considerable real estate in this county in i trust, to devote the income for the main- ' tenance of the grantor during his life and at his death ro revert to his legal representatives. The interest thus conveyed • I was the interest which came to him under > the will of his uncle, being an undivided [ one-fifteenth. Both the trustees and | grantor are dead, and George XV. Ewing, ! third and only son of George XV. Ewing, * Jr., having now come of age, intends to * bring suit to recover the property, unless i a satisfactory adjustment can be made. ; I KENW£Y HEMP. ’ New York Farmers Make the Experiment 1 , of Raising It with Marked .Success. j ' Troy, N. V., Julr s.—The raising of Kentucky hemp has been introduced in this vicinity. This season about thirty farmers ’ in Rensselaer and Washington counties ' have tried the experiment with marked - success. Two stalks of hemp eight feetsix , inches high from the farm of ex-Assembly--3 man Baucus of Schaghticoke, were brought to this city to-day. They represent the ’ average size. Hemp brings about SSO to ’ the acre, and the sucres- of the experiment - will probably make hemp one of the staple products of this region. ‘ a centUnnTaiUm^ .... ...... 1 €oi’g>’®4» to Be Asked to Appropiiate 3 81,500,1 OO for That Purpose. B PaiT.ADiti.rHiA, Pa., July s.—The Governors of the thirteen original States met Thursday with the Citizens’ Memorial asso- ’ elation. The Governors assembled in the • Continental hotel and afterward conferred ■ with the select council, when arrangements 3 were perfected to bring before Congress u proposition to appropriate $1,500,000 to be used in the erection of a monument in this city tn commemoration of tho centen- ’ nial, and of the notable events celobrateiu Philadelphia iu 1876.

NUMBER 3.

THE SWMYJCHOOL ENTERTAINING DISSERTATION ON SERIOUS SUBJECTS. A Pleasant, Interest!^, antl i nstrucltvo Lesson and Where It M a v Be Found _ A Learned and Concise « e »i ew of th „ Maine. The lesson for Sunday, Jm v 14 u. found in 1 Sam. 4: 1.18. y may 1,0 ■ /"OAT THE LESSON TEACHVS Beside Ebenezer. Wo sh u ii , experience wo had with this uimwninr aa in personal Bible study We fli t? 06 * used in connection with two nrom"A 111 : Widely similar events in r lom, hent but namely the los^ ’ a *. h ^; the uefe.it ot the Phir^*" 1 Ihat is. it marks at on > tint > isaae 's va!/’ quishment and at another time her victory' V\ olnstai,eo o f the defeat at Aphek. reeonled m this lesson, and recocnizing the moaning of tho word, our first nnimlsewas to say: Here is a AXt the very place marked victory. Losson- h\ expoi lencos ol 1 lessedneas are not in them reives sufficient tho scene of S may through ill-conduet. become tho plaeo of do.eat. J hon wo looked BiTdin and found that tho victorious battle of Mizpah had not y. t I o. n fought and that thia nomenclative at Aphek was simply an anticipation by tho historian of a name idtorwurd given and so the correeted lesson stands: the place of defeat may become the p'ace of victory. Aphek may change to Ebonezr Israel was smitten before ttie Philistines. It was a needed humiliation; Israel’s Bu 1 Kun; and a second and more disustious was .o follow. God lets his people be smitten at tunes. Or rather he smites them him. 1 aelt, using Ph Hstiu as a rod. Is it not thus he proves his love? “Whom the Lo.d loveth he chasteneth.” Israel’s v or y afflictions in her days of declension were a proof ot the divine concernment. Spurgeon commenting on the word of Christ: "In the world ye shall have tribulation," says, thou asking tho reason of this, believer look upward to thy heavenly Father ami behold him pure and holy. Wilt thou easily be conformed to his image? . . . Next. ( hristian. turn thine eyes downward. Dost thou know what foes thou hast beneath thv feet? Dost thou think Satan will Lt thee alone? . . . Then look around thee. Tho world is not thy friend. . , Lastly, look within thee. Sin and seif aro still within. Ah, if thou badst no devil totempt thee, no enemies to light thee, and no world to ensnare thee, thou woulJst still find in thyself evil enough to be a sore trouble to thee." Aes. and when we grow careless regarding all these adversaries God sometimes sends us a bitter defeat, XVhat is it but his messenger saying, “Watch." [ Let us feteti, the ark of the covenant of the. Lord. Irreverence is to bo road here. It speaks in the very language used. Come, let us go fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord. “Lend a hand; haul it along!” How shocking the collocation of words, half sacred and half profane. It was like Uzza laying his rudo hand upon the ink. It was worse, a careless, sin-polluted people rushing in upon tho sacred thing-; ot God and presuming to use them as a talisman, 1 or. indeed, as a barricade against threatI ened and deserved punishment. XX'hen Titus besieged Jerusalem, and captured ; point after point, the Jews still stubbornly . declined terms of capitulation, and, prei sinning on the sudden intervention of Jehovah, fled to the recesses of the great temple, using the ark again as a barricade and God’s house as a stockade. But God’s gates are a strength only’ to thovo who keep his covenant. Only “he that dwelloth (through faith) in the secret place of the Most High" can say of the Lord "ho is my refugo and my fortress.” (IBs. i;j) Christ | sitting on that hill over against Jerusalem pronounced truth’s judgment here, as the awful havoc of the city’s overtiirow gives testimony. And what shall wo say of a corrupt church which while allowing and following itself tho ways of tho world pretends to secure immunity by a roso t to mystical rights and ceremonies? XVhat is it but saying with brazen irreverence, “I nt us letch the ark of the covenaotof the Lord out of Shiloh unto us.” Blasphemy! “XVho shall ascend into this hili of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? Jis that hath clean hands and a pu-e heart." Quit yourselves like men. They did their very best. Philistines though they were, they aro more commendable in this transaction than were tho children of Israel. And for this simple reason: they tliicvr into the battle all the strength they had. Israel coming to tho engagement rashly, prayerlossly, with the form of godliness I but without God, invited the discomlitme she received. It is what Christ men -t when He said, "J he children of this world aro wiser in their genaration tham the I children ot light.’’ That is co far as human strength and sagacitv can go. they prepare themselves for w hat is before them. God s i people, given a larger and fuller armament and enduoment. often fall far short of putI ting on tho whole armor and of going into battle prepared to prevail. 'Jo simply equip ourselves with the world's weapons is to I be less than a match for the world. XX» must wait for the strength of the Lord orc we can safely confront the world. Only when, using in our way the same prudence, wo take what is ] repined for us and say to each other in the Lord, "Quit yourselves like inen and light’’ is the issue vll Jojy’ That initial battle at Penteeost was bt t specimen of what God will do for R>' j s people who fultlll the divine injunctions of Equipment and go forth with tho swmdof the anirit whicih is tho word of tiuth. ■ Jho Torid'is Rising its » against us! Can we meet it without a like zeal in the uso of the better armament God has given us? . f (l His heart trembled for the J k J Eli cared for the ark as the »PP * His solicitude for it, along With his mceK ■ ness toward God. was the Sl 7 ,np /” a ” l i^ 1 his life. Thoro is something dee ply >atl tti - , in the picture of that old man situ n there “by the wayside watching-”, He had let t> e ark go doubtless with nmgi'in,-. persuaded by his h» a Ist ons s . he waits in gathering anxiety lot nuts bo i the field. At last he descries the me sen ger coming. Ris heart l a «P® and presently, himself not le.s < than the minting herald, ho Usti ns for t woi-.i- “Israel is fled before the linns linos'” His cheek blanches, but ho waits hensivo of such a report, ll.on like a omr comes the intel! gence, dead!" . also. Hophni and ^mehas me ; Alas. alas, his n«mo departed, the proplxe J breaks and h< dm- • [ t[ k ia thor of ourcondemn him. L» tus tn God? ( '“ Ur ^ L nn f l < od\vh ^ hespiritof Eli ‘ .a th. , ‘ heart? i Next Lcsson-Samul the IWoimcr.“ ’ . 7: 1-12. j Maxims. । ' Let l nmm wish for unearned gold. Be honest and then be Mockery ne^r degrades e just. t To-morrow may never co Jo^is. } The purest are tho most < 1 e ( One lib is oft the cause of te mmo. A lie is black oven if it is a x Inti e. “I can’t” is a humbug and a mu ’ B Vis not parsimonious lo be economib *No admittance here except on bind > U< Wealth nor power can onnobhi the [ ; m To-day is *ll tho time we absolutely bTaingle fact is worth ft folio of • ment. . . It is not selfish to bo corioot in joui dealings. .