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SOLUME XV.

e et e T T I e e UNRE.T. ey x PT JETFIF FORBUSH-HANAFORD, It 3 dut lok into those glorious eyes, l And feel the clasp of that dear hand of thine, Far away good resolution flies, And for an instant 1 imagine you are mine. God‘ knows I would not grieve you, but in veir | Itry to think pf-‘rhups "tis for the bose, And all alone in silence bear my pain; ~ But, oh, I'm weary of this wild unrest, Weary of this ceaseless, endless dreaming ! Os a future that, alas! can never be, J wonder do you understand my meaning, That from sweet thoughts of you I am not | free. { "is wrong to love you, you I hold so dear, | Wrong to linger fondly by your side; In pity %or myself I drop ¢ tear, And wish that ere I loved you I had died. ARomanceofthe Civil, War. | ——— ee s ! BY MAJ. JAMES F. FITTS. ! CHAPTER X. ’ AT ExOXVILLE. 1 That fall and winter passed; the spring | was well advanced. The area of the war , had widened; the armies of the opposing | forces were pushing to larger and broader l fields. Our rifle battalion had joined the | advance up the Tennessee, and upon the ‘ first Sunday of that April was encamped ! with its leading division beyond Pitts- | burg Landing. At Knoxville fair Alice Clay was nursing hope and living on the ’ few and irregular letters that reached her from her patient lover. The cruel blow that had fallen upon that houschold in the tragical death of the only son and brother the previous August had filled it I with mourning, and had intensified the bitterness of the parvents to the Union cause. The body was reclaimed from its grave in the mountain wilds and interred in the home cemetery, and on the day of burial a long account of all the ecircumstances of the fight and the death of young Clay was brought to Knoxville by | one of the eavalry party. ‘ The mother pined and wasted away from grief for her dariing, and went toi her grave beside him early in the spring. | The father was middle-aged and vigor.ous, and his hatred for the Union cause was doubled by his bereavement. He grew morose and sullen, and poor Alice, bravely trying to bear up under her griefs, sawthat his feelings were being alienated from herself. “This is no place for me,” he said to her one day. “The Federals are gaining a foothold in Tennessee; the news comes to-day that they have possession of the capital. I shall cross the mouniains and go to Richmond, where there is company that pleases me. Here every other man is an open or a disguised Unionist. When Ireturn it will be when there is a Confederate army here powerful enough to! compel submission. In the meantime, you may stay here; the atmosphere seems to suit you. If things continue to go as they have begun this spring, you may ex%fft your friends, the Federals, to occupy oxville. Then you will have an opportunity to marry your brother’s murderer.” It was such bitterness as this that divided homes and families against each other in this section during that unhappy time. | “You are eruelly unjust to Grnham,"l was the girl's indignant reply. “You heard how he came out with a white flag i before the fight began, and tried to prevent bioodshed; how he warned Colonel ! Webber not to advance. His own letter tome said that he was with poor Tom when ke died, and that the dearboy recognized him and smiled on him.” She wept again at the recollection. | Her father was not in the least softened. l “I wish,” he said, slowly and distinetively, “that some one had put a bullet through Graham Brandon’s treacherous heart at that moment.” He left his home that morning, never to return. No tidings were ever received from him. It was conjectured that he met his death upon some distant battlefield; butnothing definite could be known. He was but one of thousands whom the vast whirlpool of war ingulfed and concealed from human sight. The brave patriot-girl remained at her desolate home, aided only by a faithful negro woman, the sole slave of the family; and, staying back her sorrows and hoping for reunion with her lover in the future, lived upon such shifis and devices as were the common experience of the people | about her at that time. : | it was on that first Surday of April, when, unknown to her, the air of that ] distant field on the Tennessee was grow- | ing sick with the horrors of slaughter, | and while the church bells were calling’ her to devotion that she saw a red-eyed woman with three children stop before | the house. Omne was a tall lad, and there | were two small girls. The party were clad in coarse and worn stuff. Alice came to the door. “What did vou wish?” she asked. “I wanted to tind Miss Clay,” was the reply. When she was satisfied that the one she sought was before her, she took a large roll of greenbacks from the bosom of her dress. l “Here is more than a thousand dollars,” she said. *“I heard of you in the moun- ‘ tains. Mr. Brandon used to tell me about you, and——" “Did you know him?” Alice interrupted. “Oh, yes; and part of this came from him. That was last summer, when the fichting was going on up in the Clinch; after—after my poor Wally was killed.” She wiped hereyes and choked. Alice’s tender heart warmed to her in her distress. “I don’t understand how I am entitled to any of your money,” she said. “You need 1t all for yourself and your children, Ishould think. But come in and tell me about it.” They rested their tired limbs in the house, and noticing the wistful, hungry faces, Alice called the negress to bring them food. Thaey ate almost ravenously. When.they were satistied, the woman proceeded with her story. “Most of my neighbois up there went off to the Cumberland after the fighting had begun in the mountains,” she said. “But I couldn’t go. I hadn’t the heart to leave the dear old spot where I was born and my children after me, thongh the place was Lurned that dreadful night that | Wally was killed. Dan fixed up a shel- | ter for us with the help of a few of the | men who stayed, because they were cold or cripnled, and didn’t fear to be conScripted; and some way—God knows how—we have passed through the winter alive. A week ago a man came up that way from here, and told me about your father going off and leaving you alone. Then I resolved to do as Mr. Brandon told me; and we have walked all the way down to find you.”

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T —— : SR *What did he tell you>” “It wag the day they buried Wally that he and Captain Smedley—ah, what a brave,. fine gentleman he iB, miss—came an‘:l tried to comfort me a little. 'o"’:‘l:iilsta small thing to do for ome in your distress,’ ne said, ‘but you can take { 1t freely.” With that he fook ‘eat bunch of bills from his pocket an:{ gla,e:e them to me.” . : “I‘burst out crying; how could I help it. ‘To think that Wally almost hung yon on false suspicion!’ I said. | Do not speak of it.’ said he; and his l face was not a bit angry; only sad and kind. “ ‘And here’s more for you, Mrs. Baird,’ says Mr. Bm}ldon; and he put most as much money in my hands as the Captain had.’ ‘Y“ ‘Lef me advise you a little,’ he said. ou can’t get along in these mountains with these little children, now their protector is gone. Take them down to ]\?oxvl.llc; there are Union people there l who will gladly help you, when they 1(-111"11 Yyour story. Goto'-—and he thougift | & minute—‘yes, go 1o Miss (lay, whom I | ha_n"e told you about. She will advise | with you and befriend you. The money you have will last a long time.’ 5 | ok meant to do as he said, but kept putl ting it off. When I heard that you were left alone, too, I knew I must come; for it might be that vou were in need of the generous help Mr. Brandon gave me. Hé's the good friend of all such as I—he and the other gentleman; they're fighting for us now, they and the Clinch men, off | somewhere on the Tennessee.” ] “Yes,” interrupted young Dan, “and i when you get settled here in town, I'm l going to find them and ’list with them.” | | “00, Dan, don’t! You're only a boy.” ! “I'm nearly fifteen,” proudly replied the i young hero. .His mother looked at him sadly, yet wl}h pridq, and finished her brief story. So, Miss, you see it is only right that you should share this money with me. You need it, or you will before this dreadful war is over.” Alice Clay was drawn to this sad, suffert ing woman and her little flock by her simple yet tcuching narrative and the frequent mention of her lover in terms of praise. The family remained with her all that day; she found place for them to enjoy such'sleep that night as they had not lately knewn, and after breakfast the next morning she was not willing to let them go. | “Stay with me,” -she . said !to Mrs, Baird. “We need each other's help in these troublous times. Let us make one household, and kear our , burdens r together.” ; i No it was. : | And whilc unselfish love and Christian kindness were on that Sunday and Monday preparing to lighten the weary days to come in that house, over the rivers and the mountains hundreds of miles to the west the bhotile armies were raging in blood, the fell demon of war was rioting in death and wonnds. Our steps must be turned towara the Tennessee. CHAPTER XI. A SABBATH OF 186, In the sudden ard overpowering attack at daylight of that Sunday morning, when line upon line i Confederate infantry burst from the woods, rapidly suppo:ted by artiliery, crushing and driving back the advanced Union'brigades, our Moun- ; tain Battalion sutferod heavy punishment, ~ Striving to stand and fight, like other | commands, it was literally pushed back ! -by the weight of the attuck. It lost heavily, as all the regiments did th:t were ex- I posed to the tremendous fire of bullets, | shell, and rovnd-shot th:at swept thoswi fields, woods, and hollows. “Torn and | bleeding, it gave ground as slowly as pos- | sible, hanging to every thicket and point ‘ of shelter from which a fire might be re- | turned. - Major Brandon was severely l wounded through the shoulder, and early compelled to seek the rear; Colonel l Smedley, his npiform torn with balls and | reddened with the effect of two slight | huris, kept the field, and skillfully direct- | ed the retreat of his men, holding them out of the panie that seized many soldiers upon that morning of disasier. In the accounts of that first day’s battle written from the Union side, there is a general and painful resemblance. The soldiers of that cause fought rnot for vietery in those hours; they baitled for darkness and delay, that the re-enforcements mwizht come up the river, and the army be i anited, which never should have been i divided at such a time. That they fought I stubbornly, desperately, their former socs | admit. Nothing but good fighting and | large sacrifice prevented the Fearful dis- ‘ aster that would have followed had these l torn and broken lines reached the river at | three o’clock in the afternoon. instead of | near dark. Not even the gunboats could bave saved that calawmity, which might i have opened Ohio to invasion, had the re~istance been less stern and protracted. Through the long kours of that day raged the greatest battle that America had | 'known up to that time. Prolonged re- | sistance was everywhere followed by cer- | \ tain overwbelming and driving. The | Union trcops fought, yielded, and fell | back, as they were compelled to. It was the same story everywhere over the field. The victorious lines of Johnson and Beauregard pressed steadily on; their battevics were continually advanced. They passed Shiloh <Church, where General Beanregard wrote his exuliant dispatch to Richmond. Glimpses of the river appeared through the trees; there were the gunboats Tyler and Lexington, and there large guns were hastily collected and formed in a semi-circle from bank to bank at the bend. It was this artillery and the huge shel!s of the gunboats, say the reliable accounts, that repulsed the last charge before darkness, of the Confederates, striving to make good their leader’s hoast that his horse should drink from the Tennessee before night. And under the river bank were thousands whe had scarcely fought at all, to whom, on this occasion, General Sherman applied the expressive language, “that sickening crowd of laggards and fugitives.” It is hardly possible that those upon such a field, though realizing what took place about them, could have known at the time how near destruction the Union army upon that field was, although at night the full meaning of the situation was <een, All day long the Army of the Ohio was coming up, quickened by the terrible and incessant uproar above, which left vo doubt as it swelled nearer and nearer where defeat was falling. Yet it could not be landed upon that stricken field in time to take a large hand in the fight during the hours of daylight; its purt was to be played the next day, and darkness was, a ter ali, the best friend of the Union forces on that first day at Pittsburg Landing. ‘ It was about nine o’clock at night. Burt Hankins, now a Lieutenant in one of the compan es, had found the Major Ly the river, unconscious from loss of blood, and had c.rried him aboard a hospital boat which was about to go down with an immense load of wounded and mangled soldiers who had been so fortunate as to get aboard. Colonel Smedley visited him and made him as comfortable as possible with. blaukets brought from the field while he was wait-

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U ——————— ing his tam ¢ be operated upon. The | Colonel also brought one of the men | aboard to take carc of the Major on tue | long passage to the Ohio, end sat by him half an hour. : “You must stay here with me, | I Charles,” said Brodon, while his face | writhed in pain fl.m his stiff and torn | shoulder. Such affection and familiarity had grown up between these two kindred | spirits through “days of battle and nights | of rest,” that they always called each other by the Christian name. “Don’t | mind me, old fellow; I'll get along; and | sorry I amto leave you and the boys here in this dreadful mess. How is it going | to end?” | “All right, I think,” replied Smedley. | “Nelson’s advance is already up; Buell is coming; we'll turn the tables on them to-morrow. Keep up your heart, Graham; all will be well with you. Is your wound painful?” “Rather,” said the Major, with a grimace. “I see that doctor geiting nearer [ here; he'll be welcome when he gets to | me, knives, nippers, and all. How many | of our brave fcllows do you snppose we i lost?” i The Colonel looked very grave. | “There are more than a hundred miss- ‘ ing; of course some of them got separated { {rom the battalion, and. haven’t found it | yet. But we lose beavily; I should say a | dozen killed and fifty wounded, and most of the wounded prisoners.” i With sad farewells they separated. | Smedley returned to the bivouac of his | command, which was gaining in numbers by the arrival of some of the men who ’ had lost it in the confusion of the morning’s attack; but not three hundred, all told, answered that night to roll-call. He lay down on the ground, and some of the men covered him with a blanket. With his head pillowed on his boots he looked up at the sky, trying to study out stars amid the clouds; and, as ever, his | thoughts and yearnings took wing to Vicksburg, to a brick mansion with a wide veranda on the heichts overlook- 1‘ ing the great river. The pangs of hope- | less love returned to torment him. What 1 was she doing at that moment? Did she ever think of him? Was he ever to see her again? He sighed as he thought, and almost wished for a soldier's death on the morrow to end his pain. l ' In the darkness of that situation he heard the confused murmur of many : l tongues, the tramping of sect as troops | were unloaded from the transports, the shriek of escaping steam, and ever and | anon a terrible savage roar as a great shell soared upward from the gunboats, leaving a track of light behind it, and dropped over toward the positions to which the enemy had withdrawn. | “From the sublime to the ridiculons it is but a step.” There was some stir among the men near him, exclamations | of surprise followed, and then, strangely | enougn, liughter. The Colonel listened | to hear what it conld mean. “Well, that ain’t you, Itby Mancey?” l “Indeed it is, gentlemen; here I am, sound and safe. 1 {fold vou last summer | that T should sec a great deal of ihe war yet,” | “You ain’t a soldier?” | “Oh, no; I have dropped that line of | business, with some others that ¥ used to | think I was suited for. 7The fact is, war i is conducted with too much noise and bluster; there is not! that gentlemanly de- | corum about it that would recommend it to me. I think that when the imprudent and »rrogant sttempts of these extrenm‘ i Southern persons to subvert the sm-rmli | institutions and liberties handed down to ’ us by our fathers shall have faded, I will { prepare a memorial on this subject to Con- | I gress——-" 1 | “Oh, bother that! If you’ré not a sol- | ’ dier. where did vou get that blue suit, two ; | sizes too small for yen? Your arms and ! | legs stick out of it fifteen inckés, and the [ rest of it makes you look st} ough vou'd | been melted and poured intoit. But I see ' you've got a worse stove-pipe than ever.” “My clothes are a pari of myself, genl tlemen; it is neither elegant nor refined to | | make game of them. I found a quirter- | | master’s clerk wko genecrously donated | these articles to me; or rather, I paid him in plug-tobacco. I've got some in my pockets now; take a chew.” ' | Several voices said, “ Thank you, Ithy,” | and then the colloguy wert on, the sol- 1 diers breaking in. as the humor served them, to ask questions. | “Where'd you get-so much?” | “Why, youn must know I'm a sutler, or ] I was this morning I am not really cer- | | tain just what my vocation is at the pres—s ent moment. I shall ve to crave the i kind hospitalities of you chivalrous 1 { mountaineers until I ean coquet with { Fortune again after my calamities of this ! morning.” ' “How was it, Ithy?” | | “Tell us all about it.” | | “Did the Jcohunies catch you?” { I “Allow me to proceed, gentlemen, and I: will satisfy your curiosity. I had a large and valuable assortment of canned fruit. pickles, bitters, smoking and chew- 1 ing tobacco, playing-cards, gingersnaps, | | candy, nuts, shoeblacking, paper collars, | stationery, crackers and cheese, leidl pencils, tin cups, linen shirts——" l |~ “Bite off your schedule, Ithy. We'll take all the rest for granted.” [TO BE CONTINUED.) An Animated Gripsack, Two men sat side by side at a table m a Chicago restaurant. One of them was evidently a city-bred man, while | the other looked like a hoosier farmer. Oxn the floor. by the side of his chair, | the ruralite had deposited a small earpetbag. As he sat waiting for his or- ' der the city chap thought he noticed the grip move. He regarded it closely | for a few moments and then felt sure I that it moved. | “What have you there—pups?” he | asked the hoosier. | “Naw, they ain’t pups,” replied the ‘ old fellow, as hLe proceeded with his lunch. | The grip rolled half over from the mysterious force inside, and the city man’s curiosity got the better of him. “What have you there, anyway ?” he asked. “Wall, T’ll tell ye,” said the granger, deliberately. “I'm takin’ home a couple of game cocks. What? Yaas, I know cock-fighting is agin the law, but I ain’t got ’em for fightin’. Tlt’s just like this: My ol’ lady has chickens an’ I hev a garden. We're each proud uv our departments. But her chickens get into my garden an’ seratch up all my seeds an’ beds. Now I've got these game cocks, an’ I'm goin’ to please her by tellin’ the ol’ lady they're fine chickens. She’ll put ’em in her coop an’ they’ll kill every darn chicken she’s got. T'd rather have two chickens seratchin’ in my garden than twenty—an’ then maybe one of these cocksll kill the other after they do up my wife’s chickens.” ' The city chap opined that it would be a very good scheme if it worked. ; A FATHER maintains ten children bet- | ter than ten children one father.

S ———————————————————————————————— i e v ssy o D INDIANA [IAPPENINGS. | i L s - EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE l i LATELY OCCURRED, l ‘ An Interesting Summary of the More Tm- § portant Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and ! ; General News Notes. i = E Sad Story of Human Neglect, | A sad story comes from the northeastern portion of the city of Madison. For l a number of years the old Point House, ' on the old Telegraph Hill road, has been occupied by a number of colored | people and an old white woman called f “White Dove,” or “Granny Scales.” The | place became so notorious from the ‘ - frequent outbursts of blasphemy and | disturbances of various kinds that it | was determined to rid the community of . the nuisance. A shorttime since pro- . ceedings of ejectment were instituted, | | and the occupants were ousted, since! | which time they have been encamped | on the hillside near by, and during the E late cold spell they have had nothing to | protect them from the rain but the shel- ! ter a few small treer afforded. Among ' them is a colored man known as “Nigger Bill,” whois in a pitiable plight. ; For a week he has lain upon the cold ! ground, with no covering save the canopy of the heavens. He has had no | { medicine, has hiad not a single morsel to . eat, not even a drink of water to quench { his thirst during the five days he has | lain out there upon the bare hillside. : | When asked if they were doing anything | ’ for him the occupants of the air-castle | | replied that he was in a fit and couldi i eat or drink nothing. What keeps him | i alive is a mystery. Nothing is being! | done excepting that his tender-hearted | inssoci:ztvs turn him over to keep the ! { sunbeams from his face. l sl i ’ Heirs to 82 000,000, ' A strange streak of good fortune has | | struck the Hayes family in Pike County. | gA few wvears ago Grandfather T\vtityi | Hayes died in South Carolina, and left | | an immense estate, valued at several | | million dollars. to John Hayes, who has | | just died, and his heirs, William Hayes | (un eccentric character, known as “Pike | i County Bill”), Twitty Haye. and Eliza i Miley (wife of George Miley, deceased), 3 and John Hayes, all living in Pike ‘ i County. John Hayes, of South Car- é i olina, administrator of the estate, is in ‘ this county now looking up the heirs. | ’l’ilw County Bill will get $62,000, and ! Solomon Rhodes, who married a Hayes, | i gets $4,400, There will be $£2,000,000 | i distributed among the heirs. A few ; | years ago ex-President R. B. Hayes's | family filed suit against the estate, but | ! failed to establish their ¢laim, as nearer | % relatives were found. They say that | there is more property to be sold, and there will be still more money coming. } Eleventh Cavalry Reunion, i { The sixth annual reunion of the ! Eleventh Indiana Cavalry which was | i held at Pendleton,was the most success- { ful the association has evar held. One | {of the pleasing incidents of the re- | union was the presentation of a gold | { watch and chain by Maj. J. C. Hannum, | | of Delphi. in behalf of his comrades, to | | E. W. Collis, of this place, who has been | i their eflicient sscretary for the past five | ? yvears, and ,was again unanimously | | elected to serve for the coming year. i The following officers were elected to | gerve until their next meeting: PresiE dent,Maj. E. Shewalter,of Portland;First | Vice President, R. H. Crowder, of Sulli- | % van; Second Vice President, Capt. San- | | ford Sewell. of Greencastle; Secretary, | i E. W. Collis, of Pendleton; Treasurer, | |D. M. Burns, of Lebanon. After a spir- | | ited but good-natured discussion, they | ! decided to hold their next reunion at { Portland in September, 1890. i ‘ Fatal Accident at a Saw-Mill, ’ ' A fatal accident is reported from i { North Manchester, Wabash County. | i Joseph Turner was resawing an ash ! | board, about thr:e feet long, at the { saw- mill of Scott Dunbarwhen it caught | ;inthe saw, and, flying back, the end | Estrurk Turner between the eyes with | | terrific force. Both eyes were knocked } | out, and almost the lower part of his | { face torn away, having an ugly holei ' larger than a man’s fist, and exposing| { the brain. Turner lived for a few hours. ] after this accident, and was conscious. ‘ He was 60 years old, and his home was ; at Milan, Mich., where he hada wife; and several children. i Patents Issued to Indiana Inventors. ! | Indiana inventors have been gr:mtedf ! patents as follows: Jacob Albin, Sey- ! | mour, carpet tacking and stretching | ! machine; Peter Anderson, assignor to | | H.G. Olds, Fort Wayne, fifth wheel for ! ! vehicles; Elon E. Cass, Noblesville, bed | [ bottom; Frank P. Cox, Terre Haute, arc [ t lamp; William R. Cunningham, ass.ig'norl {to Wallace Manufacturing Company, l Fraukfort, machine for cutting brick or ‘ other clay products; Josiah O. Keller | and D. D. Weisell, . Fort Wayne, dental vulcanizer; Winfield W. Mullen and F. M. Mullen, Bunker Hill, grain drill; John J. Stedman, La Porte, dental plate. I\liuor—;late Items, -~The Logansport Presbytery will mweet next year at south Bend. ~—Two new gas wells have been struck in the vicinity of Montpelier. ! ’ —George E. Gephard, a Panhandle! brakeman, residing at Sweetzer, was ; ix killed Ly the cars at Ridgeville. ' 1 —A nieeting has been called at Sey- 1 i mour, Oct. 10, to form & '-:uon-partisanl ; press association for Southern Indiana. —The publie schools of Marion have I been ordered closed on account of the | prevalence of diptheria. Abouta dozen { | deaths have occurred, and there are . . about that many more casecs. The danger l of an epidemic, however, is believed to ! be past. —The people of Vernon are very much elated over the discovery of natural gas there in quantities enough tosupply the demand of home consumers. The well fust completed proves to be considerable of a gusher, showing a pressure of fifteen pounds to the square inch.

eeo . e e A S L SRR ' o —A successful movement has been in- | augurated for the formation of a Pres- | byterian church at Hazelrigg, Boone l County. —At Knightstown, Jerry Newell, an old soldier, was found dead in his bed. Death was caused by the effects of whisky. —The Commissiouers of St. Joe County will be petitioned toappropriate £IO,OOO for the evection of a Soldiers’ Monument at South Bend. —Two more great gas wells have deen struck near Winchester, one by the elec- | tric light company, of that city, and the other by a company of ten citizens. ‘ —Mrs. Rosina Shiefflen, of Jefferson- | ville. awoke the other night, to find a | negroburglarin her room, and promptly threw him out of a second-story win- | dow. | —At Sevastopol, Koscinsko County, J. H. Mollenhau r committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. He was poverty | stricken, with a large family on his | hands. | —The grand jury of Miami County has condemned the jail under the covrthouse at Peru as unhealthy, and recommends the construction of a separate building. | —dJohnnie Wiant, the 10-year-old son of Israel Wiant, of Marion, who was abducted by a mesmerist and snakecharmer, was recovered at Plymouth by a Chicago detective. —l'rederick Koech, a young man apparently about twenty vears of age, was killed at Princeton on the railroad., He attempted to board a through freight which was going at a rapid rate. - The 2-year-old daughter of John Mooney, of Fort Wayne, swallowed the contents of a bottle of liniment, containing choroform and laudanum, and died from effects of the poison. - —Dr.J. G. Caldwell, of Jeffersonville, has in his possession the log book of the steamer Gen. Clark for her third trip from Louisville to New Orleans, - during the winter of 1820 and 1821. —The largast fire insurance ever taken out in one lump in I'ort Wayne was placed with 5. C. Lumbard by the Jenny Fleetrie-light Company, being a risk of 23925,000. Allthe companies represented in that city received a portion. —Wyland Bienz accidentally shot himseif at Goshen while looking into } the barrel of a revolver which he thonght was not loaded, having snapped the hammer a couple of times. He died in about three hours. He was 26 vears old and unmarried. ~ ~—Peter Flynn has brought suit against John Wampler and Jim MeGiiliard, of Crawfordsville, for 81,000 damages, resulting from the defendents selling him & loaded ecigar. His eyes wore badly injured, and he cannot work, though he has a family dependent upon him for support. ~James Bain, whose home at North - Knightsville was destroyed by fire, tells ~of other losses besides the house and furniture. He slept with S6O under his pillow, and his wife with £IOO under her pillow, and, being paper money, was consumed by the flames. His wife barely escaped with her life in her night clothes. -Spears B. Hollingsworth, the defaulting treasurer of Knox County, who was recently released from the prison, has entered suit against the present treasurer for the collection of SI,OOO, drawn by the plaintiff in his own favor while he was in jail at Vincennes. He has also begun an action against his bondsmen to recover the property they gseized to cover the amount they paid out to make good a portion of the deficit. —The tragic death of a man and woman, whose bodies were found in a field near Windsor, Canada, with no meaus of identification save a tax receipt from & Rush County, Indiana, and a gold ring f marked “M. A. D.,” developed the fact that Silas Dunsmore, formerly aresident ' of Brookville, but for some time a resi- ' dent of Bentonville, Fayette County, about three weeks since married Myrtie i A. Green, and they were making a wed- ' ding trip at the time of the tragedy. Friends believe that it may not have ' been suicide, as Dunsmore had considi erable money when he started. . —Several days ago, as Mrs. Zipprian, ! a most estimable German lady, was re- | arranging the earth in a large vase, Eplaced on her son Edward's grave, in ithe northern cemetery, at New Albany, ' she was surprised to come across a bright s2o’gold coin in the bottom of ‘the vase. She made further search, and ' was rewarded by finding nine more } coins, making a total of S2OO. The vase ' had been standing undisturbed forsome i months in the cemetery, and Mrs. Zipprian is at a loss to account for the treasure. Some believe that the coin ' had been stolen and was hidden in the vase. — A double murder occurred at Menter, asmall town located about five miles from Huntington. Andrew Tussly, Martin Hillmell, and John Tussly had been drinking pretty heavily and were indulging in a regular spree. As one of the trio expressed it tu y were “painting the town red.” They finally became involved in a quarrel over a petty matter in dispute, drew their knives and began slashing each other. The result ! was that Andrew Tussly was killed outright by John Tussly, who also fatally wounded Hillmell. Andrew Tussly and ‘M:u-tin Hillmell were in good circum- | ' stances and the fathers of large families. | ~ —The election ordered to incorporate | 'Lindon, in Montgomery County, did not take place at the time appointed. It geems that the “cow question” was the cause of the postponement. Some peo- | ple were afraid that the cows would be shut up at once. ‘ —At Winchester, Rev. William Smith, | of Saratoga, a prominent divine of the United Brethren Church, and who was arrested on a charge of attempted criminal assault, a few weeks ago, was tried | and sentenced to two years in the Northern Penitentiary.

e ———————————————————————————————— ! STATEHOOD ELECTIONS. | e | REPUBLICANS CARRY THREE OF THE | TERRITORIES. , Montana in Doubt, but Ciaimed for the{ Democrats—The Tickets Elected in the | Dakotas and Washington—How the Next { Congress Will Stand. Elections were held on the Ist inst. in the four new States of North Dakota, l South Dakota, Washington, and Mon- . . tana. Beautiful weather was enjoyed ! ' throughout the Northwest, and the | vote was a full one. The capital fight in | South Dakota and Wushington called | out the few voters who wight otherwise | have been classed as stay-at-homes, while | the closeness of the State acted in a | similar way in Monta:a. Work was not ' by any means abandoned for votes, the i Sunday-school children in Aberdeen, | 5. D., marching in procession during the | day to influence the vote on the prohibi- . tion amendment. Those towns in Sounth i Dakota which were not themselves capi- ! tal aspirants were filled with workers for | the contesting cities. i { In South Dakota the questions to be | decided were: State and legislative offi- | cers, two Congressmen, and judges; also, | voting on the Constitution, on a prohibi- | tion clause, a clause for minority repre- | sentation in the Legislature, and on the | temporary location of the State capital. | North Dalota voted for the same officers, and also on the Constitution and a prohi- | bition clause therein. ‘ | In 1883 South Dakota gave 19,869 Reanli('nu majority; North Dakota, 9,509 | Republican majority; Montana, 5,134 Re- | publican majority; and W ashington, 7,371 | Republican majority. | The results, brietly stated, are Republican victories in the two Dakotas and | Washington. Both parties claim Mon- | tana. | . The tickets elected are as follows: { i NORTH DAKOTA. ! [ JORN MIBESRI. ... .0 .00l il Goveenor | ALFRED DlCKlE............Lieutenant Governor | JOHN FL1TTL®........0...... .. Decretary of State JUER BoBBRY . i g diaa g Anditey LI B BOORWI .ol e TSR raR GEORGE F. G00DW1N...........Att0rney General WiLniaM MiTCHELL vvvees.Superintendent Publie Instruetion H. T. HELGESEN. .. Commissioner of Agriculture A. L. CAREY........Commissioner of Insurance G. 5. MONTGOMERY... | T. 8, UNDERHILL..... - Railroad Commissioners DAVID BARTLETT.... ) ALFRED WALL1N....... ) Guy C. H, Corrass..... Judges Supreme Court J. M. BARTHOLOMEW... ) H. C. HANSBROUGH ................Congressman SOUTH DAKOTA. B MBIERTI. L 0 s overnoy J. H. FLETCHER. ...........Jieutenant Governox | A, O. RINGSRUD..,..\.OOO. ... Secretary of State W P BRI e okl TARLOR. . oo citai on o s At ROBERT D0LLARD..............Att0rney General G. I, PINKHAM, .....Supt. of Public Instrucdtion [ O, H. PARKER...Commissioner of Public Lands DicHToN ('nliu.x,( G, E. BENNETT, ~..... supreme Court Judges A. G. Kxrnrnay, ) (,'t ;::”\2;;’ Fucsrantiny ian s sOOTIERGNSIION WASHINGTON, ’ NP RFERRE.. . oo dun Covarne C. E, LAUGHTON...........Lieutenant Governor ALLEN WE1R................ .. Becretary of State A A TORDELAEY. .. .ii.i ciiiiniicie i ORiEUNST W. C. JONES......oenveeeese .. Attorney Genera! PHOMAS M REED. 0 . n i b G Anditor R. B. RYAN..........5uph of Public Instruction W. T. P0RRE5T.............Luand Commissionex JOHN, Li. WILSON,...s.:.OOOOO4.4O::COONErasEMEn The election of Republican Legislatures in the four new States, in case Montrna is Republican, means eight new Republican United States Senators in the Fifty-first Congress, increasing the Republican strength in that body to fortyseven, against thirty-ceven for the Democrats. Should later returns change the legislative result in Montana the Republicans would still have forty-five members of the Senate and the Democrats thirt:--nine. ‘ With five new Republic-n Congressmen from the new Siates, as seems most probable, the Republicans will have 169 members of the House in the Fifty-first Congress and the Democrats 161, the delega- . tions by States being as follows: | State, R. D.] State. B D Alsbamb .1. . SNowmdi 00 1 AYEansas....... . 5 New Hamshire. 2 .. California ...... 4 2 New Jersey..... 4 3 C01erad0........ } ;. New York. ... .. 19 15 Connecticut.... 3 1 North €arolina, 3 6 Delaware....... .. 1 North Dakota.. 1 o rlovidel 000 200, ... ...... 16 5 Georein. oo Lo i 00regon. s L IHHneln.cc .. 18 7 Pennsylvania.. 21 7 Indiana. ... ;i 3010 Rhode 18iane:. 2 . lowe oo 10 1 fouth Carolina. .. 7 Kasinga. ... T . Boiuth Daketa.. % . Kentucky....... 2 9 Tennessee...... 3 T Louisiana.. ... 1 offeßng. Lo oLy 0 1) Maino ... ..... 4 tNermobt. .. .. % . Maryland....... 2 4 Vargin oo 2 8 Massachusetts. 10 2 Washington.... 1 .. Michigan........ 9 2 West Virginia.. .. 4 Minnesottn ... .. O .IWiséonsin iiia 1 2 Mississippi ... ~ Ti —_—— Mingouri...c.o .4 10 Totalde | 160 161‘ M0ntana........ 1 .. Republican ma- : Nebraskii:..... 8 .U Jjomby oo 8 ‘ f Pl b ‘. DIVORCED FROM THE D .AD. e | A Jewish Widow Goes Througha Strange - Ceremony at Louisville, Ky. i Louisville (Ky.) dispatch: The rare ceremony of divorcing a woman from her dead husband, according to the old requirements of the Motaic law, took place at the B'Nai Jakob synagogue in this city last Sunday. The woman was Mrs. Levin. whose husband, a peddler, was killed on the 27th of last June by two tramps. She had two children and the old law of the orthodox Jews is that in such a case the dead man’s eldest brother is to marry the womaun and raise up the chil- | dren in the name of the deceased. Mrs. | | Levin, however, did not desire to marry Israel Moses ILevin, her husband’s brother, nor he her. She had, therefore, | to be divorced, and as there were not in Louisville two orthodox Jewish rabbis, | who were required to perform the cere- . mony, they were brought here from Chi- | | cago. The divorce took place in the ' synagogue in ths presence of a small | congregation, that had thriftily been charged 2 cents a head. ? EIGHT MEN DROWNED. ! ; A Vessel Capsizes Near Port Rowan, ! i Canada, With Disastrous Results. : | ¥ . | A Port Rowan (Canada) dispatch says: II The schooner Erie Wave, commanded by | Capt. Stafford, capsized between this place | and Clear streef, and eight persons were drowned. ' . The vessel had been aground for some days and had an extra crew aboard to ! assist in getting her off. A squall struck _her last night and she capsized. Four of the crew were drowned and also four landsmen, who Wwere on . board. Two of the crew reached shore. | Notes by Cable. [ | THE official gazctte at Berlip print‘s a l decree calling the Reichstag in session | Oct. 22. ’ | EmpEROR WILLIAM and the Empress | have arrived at Schwerin, where they | ' are guests of the Grand Duke of Mecklen- | burg. ! ‘ | It is expected that the Czar and Czarina willleave Fredensborg Oct. 10 | for Berlin, where they will remain two ! days. il ' CHOLERA in an epidemic form has ap- ! peared at Bagdad and various places on the Euphrates. 3

NUMBER 15.

__-__N e THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. -_‘—'————.l——— SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY AND ABLY CONSIDERED. e ey A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson —Thoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection—Half an Hour's Study of the Scrip-~ tures—Time Well Spent. The lesson for Sunda 2 . 6: found in 2 Sam. 5: 1-12, e e INTRODUCTORY. We have seen David as the shepherd bard and the favored youth of Saul’s royal court. We have followed him through seven or more troublous years as the exile prince, Now we behpld him as the reigning king. There were “hree things which the people wged as David’s kingly credentials. (1) He was a true Israelite, though his martia’ exploits had been for so long a iime on foreign soil and for un alien power. Knowing the doughty David, uiready renowned among nations, to be a veritable Jew, they are glad to hail him, the chiefest and most deserving among them, as king. (2 He was in Saul’s early day the king’s own general-in-chief, and the disposition to make the military chieftain the people’s kKing thus early found voice, (8) Above all, tha - call of God was upon him, as was plain in the days when Saul's anger burned against lnm‘, but Samuel, the prophet, stood and Spoxe, Wo know not how often, in his behalf. At last David is king, and Israel’s golden days are begun. May these be also golden days for us. : WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. Elders. The old men, as to Samuel, when a king was first asked (1 Sam. 8: 4)—a league. Literally, cut a covenant, referring to the sueritice that usually accompanied the solemn act.——They anointed Davii. u.(ml had already anointed him. (1 Sam. 16: 12.) Now the people at last ratify it. So ixisolj\'lth Saul. Compare 1 Sam. 10: 1 and : 19, Thirty yvears old. Hebrew idiom: Son of thirty yeurs.——Begun to reign. He had been seéven or more years waiting for his throne, before Judal came to him. A.L_chron. Over scven more years ol | Waiting here.——And in Jerusalem.” An an- . ticipation in the n arrative. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES, _Then came all the tribes of Israel to David. Now David is ready for great things. He has a great people with him. All the tribes of Israel have resorted to him. When the superintendent knows that be has all the school with him how muen he feels equal unto! When the teacher feels that the class have as one man given him their confidenae and esteem, in what lordly fashion he ean lead them! When the pastor is agsured that a loyal peopie, notone halting or hindering, are within, O, what conquests in Jehovah’s name he sees before him! When voung Charles Hadden Spurgeon went to Newington some one suggestcd to one of the war«ens of the church, “What if heshould fail.” “We’'ll not let him fail!™ was the prompt and earnest response. The campaign of the fall and winter is before us. Do the churches and schools realize how much the success ot their leaders depends upon a strong apd heaarty following? Only as the pastor feels his people to be his very bone and flesh, has he the power God intended him to experience. King David made a league with them, That was the right sort ot a confederacy. Covenant is the word. HEe bound the peo- | ple by a pledge. Thore was somethinz fore ! them to agree to, and he would not undertake to lead them until they had sworn fealty to him and to the cause. That is what every chureh does with its pastor. It is the meaning of the reiterated covenant. Loyalty to God and his appointed leader of the hosts. Here do we tind the secret of that success which has attended the “Christian Endeavor” movement. It is a pledged fraternity. They have made a league for the truth’s upholding. Alas, how little of the reul covenant spirit in our churehes! how us a sueccessful church, we will point you out a pastor and people who have given each oth r their haad in roverent service of the Master. Are we not right about it? Thou shalt ieed my people and thou shalt be a captain. He who would lead must first; feed. Itis God’splan. The shepherd spirit is the approved spirit. Those who feed his people best are his truest prinees—for such is the word—and to them he gives laurel of ! victory and the throne of rulership. Look back in history. 71he great leaders have been great feeders, as regards the people. John Knox, what a dispenser of the Word was he! John Calvin. how mighty in his expositions—we sometimes doubt whether we have ever found his equai! Martin Luther, He wtote the “Table Talk” as well as the “Iheses.” He was a teacher before he wag a warrior. All these from finding the people and through finding the people, came to tiieir captainey. And nhave we found any better plan to-day? David ecannot come in hither. It was, as it were, u challenge: and a contemptuous one, 'lhis is probably the meaning of that somewhat durk message, “except thoutake away the plind and the lame.” That is to say, our crippizs and invalids are a mateh for you. Come up and take them, if you cun. David takes them ut their word, and names them all “blind and lame,” which, indeed, they prove to be before his prowess. There is much of this bold banter today. The world has grown arrogant. conceited in its strongholds of gin and unbe- | iief. It assumes acontempt of the church’s | spiritual weapons. ror women and enil- | dren! they say, right scornfully. YVery | well, now, let us go acainst tuem, and, in ! the name of David's God, let us prove them ! all to be women and children, bliad and ' lame and weak in the face of the cmnipo- { tence of God. Remem!'er that “neverthe- | less” of Holy Writ. “Nevertheless David took the stronghold.” “The heathen rage, the people imagine a vain thing”—nevertheless “the Lord reigneth. ; So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. “Fort” was whuat the Jebusites esteemed it to be, a stronghold safe and sure. But sce, David takes it and lives in it. What an answer to the contemptuous flings of its former inhabitants. When Saul fell, the Philistines celebrated their victory by coming and oeccupying Isruel’s cities in the valley of the Jordan | and Esdraelem. “The Philistines came | and dwelt in them.” Here David in turn triumphs, and celebrates his vietory by changing the hostile fortress into a place | of righiteousness and truth, to be hence- | forth eailed by his own name, as tk_]fa Lor(_i s | anointed. They bore a man to his Chris- | tian burial in Chicago the other day whose name itself suggested his old life of worldly | levity. but his later career was one of good | works for the Master's sake. It was Tony | Delight. There was a citadel of sin snatched from the evil one and made over into a l temple of the gigl.\‘ Glo t. God give us re such tropiic mi’ifl "boa&d went on and grew great, and ! the Lord of hosts went with him, Enough | that to make him great, to have the Lord | f atness with him. He went right on ! ;)n t%ree?;rr;,ge of God, and he could not help | but grgw. As the P.evisjon says, “he waxed | greater ana greater.” Or as nearer the | Hobrew. He went on, goxng a?d ETOWI}JS- | Keep in the grace of God day by day for ' daily g owth. i Build a I(iltgedfence of trust " -day | | I’i‘]&lxglgglspace “;i‘J?l loving work, | / rein stay. | Lo ehrough the sheltering bars : oW ; G,‘,:{ :fifin Egp thee bear what comes joy Or SOITow. Next Lgis]g,)l_o_“tl‘he Ark Brought to Zion," 2 Samueli:_l_-_l_z;____________ s Froa 50,000 analyses in a German laboratory. it appears that fluctuations in the solids of milk deperd almost entirely on variations of the fat. The evening milk is richer than that of the morning, and the November and December milk than that of other menths. ot e b e A~ Austrian botanist, Prof. Paeyritsch, has discovered that double flowers may be artificially produced by mites, and believes that each flower has its peculiar mite-parasite which gives rise to the doubling.