St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 15, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 October 1889 — Page 1

VOLUME XYV.

B T v e e e - - - .~ ARomanceofthe Civil | War, ‘:,f'»’ el e e BY MAJ. JAMES F. FITTS. CHAPTER XVI. b BACK TO THE MOUNTAINS. % Major Brandon had joined the battal- ~ jon some time Lefore the occupation of . the city, and his wife now came on from . Memphis to join him. This little corps was 80 largely reduced that it was made .pm of the garrison, the Major and his wife occupying a house where Colonel . Smedley was & welcome guest. Mrs. ~ Brandon, with warm sympathy for the . goldiers froma her own locality, busied ~ perself in trying to make them movre com- ~ sortable, in such ways as only a woman's . gkilled fingers can; and Smedley, on ~ petter acquaintance, admired, in a' lanE:id way, bher homelike virtues' and in- = dustry. L "'.l‘lzat's the wife for a soldier,” said the . Major one day, with enthusiasm, as she ~ Jest the two friends and comrades together. “She’s true in every way; true to ~ her husband, her country, and her home. Isay—Smedley!” | . “well?” ~ “I don’t want to be impertinent; but are . younot following a will-o-the-wisp? lls ~ pot that old madness on you that you told ~ me about in the mountains? You act ~ likeit.” - The Colonel returned an evasive an- ~ gwer and changed the subject. That - npight Mrs. Brandon plied her husband ~ with questions, and obtained all that he ~ krew about his friend’s hopeless passion. It is too bad,” she said, with emphasis, ~ *that so fine a man and so good a soldier ~ should be guilty of such folly. Because it is nothing else, for a man who loves ~ his country enough to risk his life for her, . to make himself unhappy over a rebel ~ woman.” : “I don’'t know about that, Alice,” gaid - the Major, with a mischievous pretense ~ of arguing the question. “If I had hap- ~ ‘pened to wear a gray uniform, I suppose ygguwould have loved me just as well—e ~ “I would have had nothing to do with ~ you,” replied Mrs. Brandon, indignantly; and the Major laughed, and said that he thought the women were rather more bit- ~ ter partisans than the men were. ~ July passed, and important tidings - eame for the Mountain Battalion. Gen- - eral Burnside was organizing andequip- ~ ping an army at Richmond, Kentucky, 1 gor the liberation of East Tennessee, and it would soon move toward Knoxville. ~ The record of the mountaineers in the ~ war had become known at Washington, . and the General had been authorizod to ~call for this command to aid in delivering . their homes. Many of the sick and wounded had retnrned to duty, and al- ~ most two hundred couldnow be mustered. The order for the transfer was read one ~ night on dress-parade, and enthusiasm gr.evailed over discipline; the line broke forth in cheers of delight, They were going home, after almost two years of absence; home, where the hearts of all men are, but oh, how wholly those of the soldiers! Those that were left, not half of the number that went out, would soon see their wives and children; they would come home as liberators, and probably remain there on duty during the remainder of the war. There was happiness and unrestrained glee in that camp that night, and very little sleep among the mountaineers. The steamer that would take them to Cincinnati was to be ready in two days. Colonel Smedley had not resumed command, and the Major felt a little awkward in his position. He showed him the orders. : “Os course, Charley, you'll take command, and coma back with us? Gods!— think of the reception that you’'d have there!” There was a little huskiness in Smedley's voice. “No, Graham,” he said, “my fighting days are over. Some day, when the war shall become a dream of the past, I will come up to East Tennessce and renew the old friendships. Now I am only a civilian. I was mustered out of the service this morning.” The Major tried to speak, and broke down in sobs. At the embarkation the scene was most affecting. The officers and men thronged about Smedley; they begged him not to leave them, and almost shook his resolution. . “Don’t urgs me, loys,” he said. “It is Impossible. The surgeon says that my life depends on my leaving the service. My heart goes with you, but my poor, shattered Lody must stay behind. Goodby, and God bless you!” Caps were taken off in a silent salute as the steamer passed out of sight of the tall figure on the landing. Captain Burt Hankins, who had diligently learned both to read and write since honors began to come to him in the | battalion, stood by the guards and | chewed tobacco violently and effusive'y. ITe was unable to contain the reflections that agitated him, and at once proceeded to announce them for the benefit of his listening company. “The Colonel’'s all wrong,” he said. “He orter go with us. To be sure, he's not got over his wound, but he could get along with it, if he would. Things could be made easy for him if he'd only stay. But he won’t.” “What’s the matter with him, Burt?” one of his old neighbors familiarly asked. “A woman, of course. Just what makes half the trouble everywhere. Murs. Major | told me all about it; mighty sensible woman &he is, I can tell you! The Cclonel 18 in love with a secesh girl here in Vicksburg; old thing, begun before the war; and he can’t get her out of his head. I'm a bachelor, yon know, and a tolerable old one; all women are pretty much the Bame to me; but I do wonder at the Colom:ll making such a to-do over any rebel | calioo. If he'll come back to the moun- | tains I'll show him a dozen handsomer and better'n this omne; yes, sir, and girls that can run, jump, and ride a horse bareback. Ido wonder at Lis choice; and the gal won’t have him, neither.” The Battalion reached Cincinnati, and was transported to Richmond. We canLot pause to even mention the incidents of that arduons mareh of an army over the mountains, the men nearly all mounted, ammunition and stores being mainly | Packed on mules, ani tne whole moving with the utmost celerity. In some inStances our Ba:tall on passed by their old homes in the Clinch Range; the peg- | ple, having heard rumors of the advance, | {(‘ll‘lz‘mw! to their Lomes and \\'ulwu!uudl their deliverers; the long-promised, anx- | lously expected Union oceupeation of East ! Tennessee had come, and new hope had | arisen among the pecple of that region. 1 On the 3d of September, with drums beating and colors displayed, the weary, - but rejoicing, army entered Knoxville. A surge of patriotic feeling swept hkg o Efg whirlwind over the little city. The

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S S A SA, walks, the windows, the housetops were lined with exultant people. Men shouted themselves hoarse; women waved their handkerchiefs; the old flag flew everywhere, many specimens of it, large and small, being brought out from secret places where they had been hidden since the war began, It was a grand, a glorious sight, A seedy-looking fat man, who had fog' some months been keeping a small huckster’s shop at Knoxville, stood on a drygoods box as the columns marched through the street and loftily harangued the erowd nearest him: “Ah, this is the thing, gentlemen and la(?les. Glad I am to have lived to see tlus. day! I haven’t dared to eXpress my sentiments here before this day. To have done so would have been to prejndice the sale qf my soap, starch, lard and candles —which, by the way, I will continue to sell to you very cheap for cash, But how it does rejoice my heart to see this proud display of the gallant defenders of our blood-bought liberties! It reminds me of the bloody field of Shiloh, where I was in the thickest of the first day’s fight, recoving many wounds; and General Grant said to me at night: ‘lthuriel, how goes the battle?” ‘Doubtfully, General,” I said; ‘but with the morrow’s sun I will accompany you to the field again to do or die for the cause we adore. The weight of my character, the prestige of my name shall always be given——'* The Battalion passing as this climax was reached, the orator was recognized. Major Brandon nodded to one of the sergeants, who left his place long enough to cave in the sides of the box with the butt of his rifle, and Ithuriel Mancey, soaring higher and higher in the delivery of his impudent fiction, suddenly found his great bulk rolling in the gutter, greatly tc the amusement of the crowd and the soldiers, The needs of our narrative compel us at this point to part with Ithuriel Mancey. He is, or was lately, leading a precarious, shabby, but always good-natured existence in Cincinnati. He is ever ready to accept favors of any description, but is chiefly desirous of those of a liguid nature, with an oceasional small coin, and in return therefor he will hold forth eloquently for the amused frequenters of the places that he haunts as to how hs, Grant, Buell, Nelson, and a few others, won the second day’s fight at Shiloh. Mrs. Brandon was able to rejoin her husband speedily, and thereafter her home was not disturbed by the war. In that November occurred the successful defense of Knoxville, on which occasion young Dan Baird realized his long-cherished wish of fighting with the soldiers. He was in Fort Sanders at the time of the assault, and behaved well. Mrs. Baird and her children, happy in the return of their friends, and especially of their benefactress, Mrs. Brandon, thought there was nothing more on earth to be desired. But a great surprise and a great joy was in Btore for her. 'The Major's wife had noticed that Captain Burt Hankins was a frequent visitor to the house; but she was not prepared for the announcement which the widow rvather diftidently made to her that winter, that she and the Captain weve to be married. “Well, 1 heartily congratulate you,” said Mrs. Brandon, recovering from her surprise. “I should think it would be a very good arrangement.” “I really hope so, ma'am. I've always known Burt; he was poor Wally's best friend, and I've enjoyed his calls greatly this winter, But I was astonished when the man began to talk about marrying. ‘You don't mean it,” said I. ‘Why, ves, I do,’ he said. *‘ What'li youever do with me and these children?’ ‘Take good care of you, of course. Nice folks; 1 know you perfectly well, and ecan’'t make any mistake about it. And I think it's best not to put it off. An old bachelor is apt to be an old fool, and some young girl is always likely to make a bigger fool of him,” Burt bas a dreadiul taking way!” As time passed, and the clamor of the war swelled loud in the distance, Brandon and his wife from this comparatively peaceful retreat looked anxiously for news from Smedley. Not until the summer of the close of the hostilities were they permitted to look upon his face, to grasp his hand again; and in the meantime, they waited in anxious suspense. Tho letters that he had promised eame not; but instead, vague reports that their friend had disappeared trom Vicksburg, and that he had re-entered the Union army, Often they speculated upon his tate, and wondered what the next chapter of his life would be. “He will give up that old folly at last,” said Brandon. “A man cannot always pursue a vision that mocks him.” “I read him differently,” replied his wife. “He has determination and devotion. I tremble for him. If he does not win her at last, he will miserably wreck his life somewhere.” And the sturdy Captain, recounting to Mrs, Hankins some ot the stirring events of the last two years, usually wound up with wondering whether Col. bmedley was making a fool of himself yet over that secesh girl. The last chapters of our narrative will relaie what fortune still lay before the man to whom these hearts were so warmly drawn. CHAPTER XVII. CHAFING IN FETTERS, After the departure of the Battalion Charles Smedley rested quietly at Vieksburg foratime, sc far as his body was concerned, but his mind was in a condition of unrest. Ile had not seen Isabel since her abrupt farewell, and of course had not ventured to call at her house, but he had been much upon the streets, hoping to get sight of her or hear from her. One day be passed by the house and saw that it was closed and that there was a sentinel before the door. As quickly as he could get there Smedley went to tho headquarters of the officer in command in the city, where he was well acquainted. He asked the Adjutant the reason for what he had seen. “Brick house, well up the hill? Shut up and guarded?—Moutford?—O, yes, 1 remember, That's a remarkable case, ‘ you might say one in a thousand. The house is owned by as handsome and proud | & woman as you'll find along the river—and as bitter a rebel. Her parents died, we learned, before our oceupation. Well, ‘ it seems that Miss Montford devoted hergelf daring the siege to the care of the wounded, and was untiring in her efforts, | day amd night, to alleviate their misery. She even gave linen from her own beds for bandages and turned over about all of her delicacies to the hospitals. l‘he‘ Confederate surgeons, and indeed those of our boys who were wounded and pris- I oners, say that she never discriminated, | but gave one side just asg much attention as the other., So when she expressed a‘ desire to leave here we felt bound not | only to aid her all we could in getting | away but alco to protect her property dur- ‘ ing her absence.” : “Where has she gone?” , “She had transportation te Jackson. While we could not well inquire as to her intentions, anl in fact did not care, she being a woman, &I have reason to think that she has gone on, into the Confederacy. They say she’s a Taxtar for Southern rights, although a most humane woman,”

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e gV ] So that # was as she teld him 1t would be. She could not rest under his flag. They were, indeed, sundered; battle lines l and picket posts were between them. [ A great weariness came upon Smedley. | His strength *vas slowly returning, but his “mind disegsed” left him no peace and ‘ but littlo rest. As soon as he was able to | mount a horse he rode back to the hills, traced the long lines of fortifications, and surveyed the spot where he had dashed at the works at t»lhe hend of his mountaineers, “Perhaps it would have been better if that had ended it for me,” he mused. Five wmiles back was his great cotton plantation, inherited from his father, ! where his own childhood and youth had been passod. He rode over to visit it. ‘ More than two years had gone since he had viewed that familiavr and beloved i scene; but it had lived in his airy dreams, from Shiloh down to Vicksburz. He had jictured a day when, the war being over and gone, lie should come back to this beautiful home with Isabel, ILife would be something worth living then; he would be one of the largest planters on the river; his “people,” as he called | his hundred slaves, would never leave him, bond or free; he would raise great crops of the staple, and accumulate ¢ wealth for Isabel to enjoy; perhaps part | of the time they would live in her house at Vicksburg, andan occasional long visit to New Orleans and Cincinnati would give them variety and help to make life g 0 on smoothly and prosperously, Alas for the dreams that were! Already | they had been rudely shattered by that fatal interview with Isabel, and even the I poor fragments were now to be swept’ away, The horseman drew rein by the wide entrance to the grounds and looked 1 sadly up the bread avenue of osks. Only t blackened ruins marked the spot where | the noble mansion once stood: outbuildings, cabins, all had been consumed. ’ A beunt and decrepit old negro hobbled | up, and, grasping the rider's boot-leg, uttered cries o%)joy. l “Why, bress my pore ole soul, Mas’ Charles, wha' yo’' been so long? Dey ? said yo' was dead.” | “I've been fighting for the Union, Jeremiah.” | “Yo' has? Good! Tl'se powerful glad yo's come back. Now dey's quit fightin’ | roun’ heah, won't yo' build up de ole place? De boys an’ girls will come homeo —gome ob 'em—when dey know yo's heah, Dey're scattered all roun’ now.” | “The war is not done yet, Jerry; I can's i tell when it will be, or how I shall feel about the old home then. How was the | place burned?” | “Lias’ Janiver de five catched, I dunno how, only dat night de sojers was all | over de house, buildin’ big fires in de | chimbly-places, and raisin’ de debbil, as usual, Oh, I tell yo', Mars’ Charles, eber since yo' bin away dese sojers most broke | my pore heart wiv devre drefful doins'! Sometimes de Lincum boys come, gometimes de rebs, an’ I declar’ to goodness I | tink one lot 'bout as bad ns todder. Dey | orders de niggers ronn’, an’ breaks up de chairs for kindlin’, an’ pulls up de car- | pets fo’ blankets, an’ rips up de sofa bot- | tom to see if dere’s money hid in it, an’ steals some ob de dishes an' smashes de rest, and dey makes great charcoal pietures on de walls ob de debbil, sometimes holdin’ Ole Abe in his claws, sometimes Ole Jeff. Oh, it was awfu! But eber since de fire dey's been nothing to come fer, an’ Jerry an' Ole Mammy libed in peace ober in de ole pig-pen.” Smedley gave the old fellow some mouey, comforted him with the assurance that he would return sore time, and rode away. More than ever, now, he felt alone, cut off from human ties and sympathies. He was always welcome at post headquarters and at the mess-tables of the ofticers of the garrison, but he felt that his days of usefulness were over, and that ke had | nothing to live for but the past. He thonght it would be a rclief if he ceuld go back to the army, and again share its strange, wild life, There would be oblivion in that, at least; there would be activity, excitement—perhaps rest. When, near the end of that September, he read in the newspapers from the Northwest the long and stirring storv of Chickamauga, with its alternate tides of defeat and victory, his spirit was roused again as at the blast of a hugle. With the paperin his hand, he ksoucht the Post Surgeon, who had lately had charge of his case. [TO BE CONTINUED.! Had to Play the String Out. A man seated himself in a chair in a Chicago barber-shop and ordered one plain shave, without tonic. “Look here,” he said, byway of amendment, “I've got an awfully tender face and I want you to be very careful with it.” The barber promised solemnly to return it to him as whole as he found it, and then he proceeded to strap his | razor finely. He lathered his particu- ' lar eustomer carefully, took his ear in his hand, and with one swipe removed l beard, lather, and cuticle from hair to chin, 'The patient howled with pain, | and, sitting bolt upright in the chair, he eyed the barber reproachfully. “What in —— are you trying to do ?” he demanded, angrily. “You see, my razor is too sharp,” apologized the Chesterfieldian barber. “It is so sharp that when it takes hold it will not let go, and I am obliged to play the string out.” The River Nile, The Nile has a fall of 6 inches in 1,000 miles. 'The rise of the river commences in June, continuing until the middle of August, attaining an elevation of from 24 to 26 feet, and flowing through the valley of Egypt, 12 miles wide. In 1829 it rose to 26 cubits, by which 30,000 persons were drowned, It is a terrible climate to live in, owing to the festering heat and detestable exhalations from the mud, ete., left on the rvetiving of the Nile, which adds about 4 inches to the soil in & century, and encroaches on the sea 16 feet every year. Bricks have been found at a depth of 60 feet, showing the vast antiquity of the country. In productiveness of soil it is excelled by { no other in thy world. Marriage Age, In Austria, 14 years for both sexes. In Spain, thie man at 14, the woman at 12, In Germany, the man at 18, the woman at 14, In Belgium, the man at 18, the woman at 15, ‘ In France, the man at 18, the woman gt I Ir Russia, the man at 18, the woman at 16, In Saxony, the manat 18, the woman at 106, In Switzerland, tle man at 15, the woman at 12, In Hungary, C'atholies, the man at | 14, the woman at 12; Protestants, the man at 18, the woman al 12

IR R TRIRETTII—====~, e oA e gBl i e e Bt e l INDIANA HAPPENINGS. e eee et | EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED, ————— An Interesting Summary of the More Tmportant roings of Qur Neighbors - Weddings and Deaths—Crime, gasualtie& and General News Notes, ‘ e Miami Ceunty Farmers' Institute. The first regular meeting of the second year of the Miami County Farmers’ Institute met at the Court House at Peru, and was a success in regards to numbers, enthusiasm, and practical ben- ‘ efits. The following . officers were elected for the ensuing year: Prosident, ! Joseph Cunningham; secretary, Lewis Bond; treasurer, J. B. Joyce. Sixty new nates were enrolled, showing an average age of 70 years. Inthe old pioneer class Samuel Phillabaum was | awarded an elegantly mounted farm | scene as the oldest farmer in Minmi{ Connty, aged 83 years. The order ofi the exercises consisted of asolo by Miss | Gertrude Bearss; a paper on “The Value | of a Good Dairy,” by N. B. Hoover, of | Mexico—discussion by A. J. Phelps, of | Bennett's Switch. “Corn Culture,” 'uyg Johu Blair, of Peru-—discussion, by ! | Lewis Bond; “Noxious Weeds and { I Grasses and their Effects upon Crops, ' and the Best Modes of Exterminating | | Them,” by D. O. Fisher, of Denver, and : l J, H. Harlan, of Pern. Prizes for live ‘ t stock were also delivered to persons { and townships winning them during{ ’ last spring’s meetings. t | Patents Issued to Indiana Inventors. l Patents have been issued to Indiana | inventors as fellows: Charles H. Aus- | ? pach and J. J. Wilkelm, Cedar Grove, | | band cutting feeder for threshing ma- 3 i chine; Elias C. Atkins, Indianapolis, | | cross-cut saw; George L. Beck, Leb- | | anon, washing machine: John B, Car- | ftor and J. W. Pertz, assignor of mm-‘g | half to M. S. Eiberling, Kokomo, and E. | % S Levi, New York, machine for grinding ‘ | wood; Wallace H. Dodge, Mishawaka, | { pulley; Charles €. Graham, Crawfords- | | ville, shaft attachment for carriages; | Jesse K. Kester, Terre Haute, assignor | for one-fonrth to O. E. Duffy, Wash- | t ington, electrical metal detector; ‘ { Charles P. Lancaster, Fairmount, gate; i Adolph F. Prahm, Indianapolis, aiglmlg | lantern; William . Shoup, Middlebury, | | churn; Frank M. Smiley, Goshen, cm‘? | brake; Willinmn W, Smith, Elkhart, in- | ; haler; Isane M. Thompson, Franklin, | gate; Edmund C. Westervelt, BSouth | Bend, sulky plow. E | Queer Mixture Holwlfi-t-!znlmmhip, ! | There lives in ""nion Township, Clark | County, a family who ocau. boast of the | most curionsly complicated relationship, | Some years ago a widower named Hor- | gan, who had a grown son, married a | | widow who had a grown daughter. x | After a while he and his wife secured a ' divorce. His son then fell in love with | his father's divorced wife, and he mar- | ried her. The father got married to the danghter of the woman from whom he | had been divorced. Each couple has children, and the two families are terri- ! Lly mixed os to their own relationship. ‘ The old man is his own father-in-law and brother-in-law of his son, and the step-father of his wife, while the son is | father-in-law of his father, his own | step-son, step-father of his step-mother, 'and so on. The relationship of the | children who are the issue of the last | marriages is too complicated for any ' one to puzzle bis head over. ‘ g | Minor State Items, | —The Kokormo natural-gas plant has been soid to a Chicago syndicate for - §200,000, ! —The cooper shop of James Nichols, | at Terre Haute, largest in the State, was ! destroyed by fire. | --Edward Long was poisoned at Columbus by drinking cider from a zine | bucket, and may die. | —William Kickle was struck by a rail- | way train, at I'lora. while driving across the track, and killed. | —At Shelbyville ’Squire Beynou, a well-known Justice of the Peace, was ! found dead in his bed. | —Thomas Bevnon, a justice of 'he peace living near Shelbyville, commmitted suicide by taking morphine, —Robert Martin, of Jeffersonville, ; was shockingly burned by an explosion in Patton’s hollow-ware factory. —Henry Meyer, a wealthy farmer, was thrown from a buggy in a runaway, near Lebanon, and had his neck broken. —P, F, Wilhite, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Montgomery County, aged 81 years. was seriously injured in a runaway accident. | —While feeding a straw-baler at Rats- - burg, Chas. Fish was caught in the ma- ' chine, and both his legs were broken, | one of them in two places. | —doseph Binford, a prominent citizen of Carthage, and a recognized minister in the Society of Friends, dropped dead from heart disense, aged 72. i —David Arnic, of Monrovia, Morgan | County, engaged in a controversy with | amule. An arm was broken and his head was seriouly injured. | | —The saw-mill and a large quantity of | Immber of James Learned, three miles south of Albany, Delaware County, was ‘ totally destroyed by fire. Loss, about [ $1,500. ‘ | —DMrs. Matilde Morrow, east of Moat- . pelier, lost her barn, two horses, corn, | hay, and all her farming implements by Zfirc. Loss, #3,000; insured for SBOO in | the Home of New York. Cause of fire | unknown. | —A 6-year-old son of Aaron Crawford, of Milton, was caught by the branches of | a falling tree, chopped down on the farm | of W. L. Lamberton, near Bentonville, i and seriously bruised. He escaped death i|l'wm the falling trunk by but a few i inches. | ‘ —Pendleton, like all of the natural- | gns towns, has organized a Board of ’ Trade, and elected B, F. Aiman, President, and W. E, Brown, Secretary. Free gas and building sites will be oft'ered. as inducements to secure manufacturing industries. |

T IR R TR R R RR R RRB RR R RR R RO R R ROy —A large bull dog owned by Isaac Mauck attacked Perry Wolfe, 13-year-old son of Aaron Wolfe, at Corydon, and so badly lacerated him that it is feared he will die. { —The boiler of Wm, Titus’ saw-mill, ' at Union Village, Johnson County, let | go, probably fatally injuring Edward i’l‘itus, and a younger son of the proprietor. William Titus and Willis Deer | were also seriously hurt. i ~—A heavy timber fell on J. Montgom- | ery, at tho Ohio IFalls car-works, at { Jeffersonville, erushing his right foot. ’ James MceGinty was caught in a belt in the machine shop and had his right arm i broken below the elbow. | ~—Harry Kitterman and Edward and William Rhodes were flogged by White | Caps, a few miles south of Corydon. ! Thev are all young men, and Kitterman , is half-witted. He lived with the | ]Rhodes family, and the three weve whipped at the same time. They were i | charged with stealing, and their punish- | | ment was quite severe. \ { —A band of night-riders from Perry ; (‘founty has been committing many i depredations in the southwestern por- § . tion of Crawford County recently. They ! | burn buildings, kill stock and threaten | i?tlm citizens with violence without any i | apparent reason for such actions. The | | people of Crawford County have de- 5 i manded tuat the officers of the law pro- !, | teet them. ‘ ! —lln 1886, Jacob Harmon, a farmer of : ;\\'nrren County, died and left a\\‘ill} | which gave 640 acres of land, ~lued ot | ‘ $16,000, to Wabash College, Crawfords- | ‘ ville. The land was in Irogquois County, 3 {lll, J. M. Harmon, a nephew, has [ brought suit to break the will, elaiming l , that his uncle gave him the land, though | | a deed was never made. 'l'he case is on i trial in Chicago. | —The Lafayette City Couneil, after | several weeks consideration and delay, | has at last came down to business on {the liguor-license question, and by fl! | vote of 8 to 6 has adopted an ordinance l fixing the retail license at 3250 per year. 1 { The old price was $25. Under the old law the revenue derived was 32,150 per ; Cannum; under the new, if all continue lin business, it will be $21.500, ‘ i -Isainh Faulkner, who lives east of | Montpelier, is & man that was marked | from his birth with warts all over his ; body, from the size of a grain of corn to {n large bean. His body is literally | covered with them, and they hang on [ him like wattles on a hog's jaws. His { danghter, aged 16, has a full set of i double teeth, both front and baeck, and | no person can understand anything she | SBYH. . John Watson, a leading church ‘member, and one of the wealthiest farmers in Harrtson County, has been | arrested for gambling. He went to a | circus at Corydon recently and was | beaten out of sß# by a gambler, who | operated a shell game. In an endeavor { to get his money baock, he invoked the i aid of a deputy prosecutor, and was indicted himself, for gambling, for his i trouble. | —Wm. H. Wilhelm, of Indianapolis, { an inspector for the Salmonia Natural- | gas Company, of Fort Wayne. detected i escaping gas in the cellar of Martin | Klug's residence. Wilhelm was deter- { mined to find the leak, and took a i lighted lamp with him into the cellar. He did not find the leak, but his badly mangled body was picked up half way i across the street. He may die. The ! house was badly wrecked. | —The immense plate-glass factory, % which was recently located at Pendle- | ton, has made the necessary arrange- | ments to commence erecting one of its ! mammoth buildings this fall. Its build--1 ings, when completed, will cover about f eight acres of ground, but the company { have two years to complete the works ' and get everything in good running org der. The contract also states that it { shall be the lavrgest plate-glass factory ’ in the gas-belt, and shall employ at least | gix hundred men. The owners of the ; factory have purchased all of the sur- | younding stone-quarries and taken op- | tions on several hundred acres of land adjoining the city. —As Mrs. Sipe and Mrs. Austin were | driving across the Monon crossing at itho north edge of Frankfort, a northbound passengertrainstruck them, killling the horse instantly and seriously % wounding the ladies. Mups. Sipe re- ! ceived, besides severe bruises, a frac- | ture of the left arm. She is about sev- ‘ enty yeaurs of age. Mrs. Austin a ! younger woman, received several scalp i wounds, a fracture of the skull in two | places, left leg broken, and other injul ries of a less serious nature. She will ]prolmbly die. The accident happened iiu a level open place, but the horse took fright just as he reached the crossing and could not be gotten off in time. —A peculiar accident occurred at the home of F. W. Painter, two miles northeast of Middletown, as the result of ! which Miss Lou Little, a young servant I girl in the family, was shot in the thigh and seriously wounded. She was inthe cellar, churning. A young man, Lester Painter, was in the cellar at the time giving a trapeze performance. While hanging by his toes from the trapeze a gels-acting revolver dropped from his Lip pocket, and was discharged. Ths% shot took effect in the young lady’s leg just above the knee. The wound i 8 a very serious one, and the surgeon has, | as vet, been unable to locate the ball. | The unfortuuate young woman is thei daughter of Mr. Gam Little, of Middle- | town. | — Simon P. Cooper, who was a rest [ dent of Switzerland County, went to the little village of TFlorence on the night of November 15, 1884, for the pur- | pose of having a jolification over Lhel election of Cleveland, and while enjoying himself by filling up with bad whisky, killed a man. Cooper thereupon fled to Chattanooga, 'J.‘elun., where he remained in hiding until 1887. He was discovered in that year, tried and sentenced to impriscnment for life. The Supreme Court has confirmed the | sentence.

M THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. ‘ e e ENTERTAINING DISSERTATION ON | SERIOUS SUBJECTS. | g | A Pleasant, TYunteresting, and Instructive Lesson and Where It May Be Foun« —A Learned and Concise Review of the ~ Bame. ~ The lesson for Sunlay, Oect. 27, may be - found in Ps. 32: 1-11. } INTRODUCTORY. - We turn not far aside here to take up a - psalm of David, the psalm itseli being a goniession that David was a sinner like othors, and needing the unmerited favor of Gtod, This Scripture has for its heading . the somewhat enigmatic words, “A Psalm ' of David, Maschil.” The margin translates it, A Psalm of David, giving instructions.” . The Douay version says, “To David him- . self, understanding.” How far back these | headings are { » be traced, whether or not “ they are an integral part of the canon of in- | spiration, it is not ior any one perhaps to | say authoritatively, This wo know. how- | ever, thut they reach as far back toward ! the sources of the original writing as we ! can find our way, and, though they seem to i be the work of seribes and compilers, the ‘ divections soem to be such a part of the ancient divinely approved temple service l that we dare not pass them by lightly. The meanine of this heading scems to be ! that the psalm before us was of a number, i thirteen in all, used for didactic purpose, | one of the teaching or doetrinal psalms, | Certainly wo can {ind in it for our classes, I to-day, divine instruetion and illumination. | WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. | ~ Blessed. The psalm begins with words of I blessing, but it is in reality a psalm of con- | fossion. The Douay version calls it “The ! seeond penitential psalm.”——Transgres- { slon is forgiven. As may be seen the { original is quite eliptical, more than halt of the words in the English being suppliod, ’ More literally it would road. Blessed, the { guilt - pardoned, sin - covered.— - Three | words, in faet, in the Hebrew, two of them i compound, ! Imputeth not. The word means originally to bind, hence figuratively, to think, to l count for or esteom. It is the same word at Gen, 15: 6. that is translated,"He counted { it to him lor rightoousness;” and the same also at Isa. 53: 4, which is rendered, “Yet we did osteem him smitten.”——lniquity. To have no iniquity imputed or reckoned to his account was to be counted guiltless. ~--—3pirit. Literally, breath, hence disposition o character, Seo Job 20: 3, wher¢ { the same word oceurs.——No guile, No deceit, 'That is, to be made, by God’s } grace, what one claims to be, l VWHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. Blessed is he whose transgresion is for- { given. The penitent’s Psalm, our owt {»auhu, Christian brother. We quoto the reautiful first psalm, “Blessed is the mar that walketh not in the ecunsel of the un- | godly, nor standeth in the way of sinners i nor sitteth in the seat ol the scornful.” Bu ' who of us knows that blessedness by native | claim, and as “to the manner born?” The ’ thirty-second Psalm fits our case. 'Thal blessodness we know-—-the blessedness o sins forgiven: oi wicked counsel, sinfu ways, scornful seats put away throu th grace { and the wayward past covered and for- { gotten through God's merey. Here i blessedness for the poorest and wretched: est, grace for the transgressor, favor for the sinner. It is ours just besause we are sin. 1 ners, ours if through raith, we will take it “But you are such a sinner—how can you be saved?” said the minister to the new convert, testing ber, “Didn’t you say,” was her promjpt roply, “that Christ died for sin. ' ners? Now vou sav I'm a sinner and I can” be saved, 1 know better than that, il you don’t, Itell youl am saved!” Can not we all for our own blessedness say it: “1 do believe, I now believe, That Jesus died forme; l That on the cross hie shed his blood, From sin to set me free.” Blessed is thy man unto whom the Lor¢ i imputeth not iniquity, We are seeking 1o i & deflnition of true blessedness; shall we not find it here? The supremely blessed man is he who feels that he has no iniquity to his account with God; true, dewnrighl blessedness is the consciousness of a record cleansed and a spirit ransomed and made holy. In very truth, there is nothing like it. The huppiest man in all the world 1s the man who suddenly awakoens to the apprel hension of redemption; the bliss that ex. | ceeds all earthly bliss is that which comes at the moment when there flasiies in upor us the reality and greatness of what Chris Jesus has done for us—the conviction of & {mrsonul and complete salvation. Now, yrother, remember this, that bliss is no ephemeral. It is to last. Last Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday evening, perhaps, you rose in the prayer meetinw, and told of the Joy that was once yours when flirst you saw the Lord, Why not praise God with a present and abiding joy over sins forgiven' Tuke renewedly the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. Blessed continuously and inereasingly blessed, is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth nos iniquity. " In a time when thou mayest be found. When is it? Is it not when he most needed, when the ery of the godly goesup, when the floods of great waters are around about! Joremiah says: “Ye shall seck for me ang find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” It is the whole heart that goes lorth in search of God when the agonized cry of human extremity is heard. Where human need is greatest right there is God to give his aid. There is a vast throng pressing out with Christ from Joricho’s gate. It was the one who cried in fuliness of want, “Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy upon me,” that gave pause to those Llessed ieet. Moody calls our attention to the three “hopeless cases” of Mark v., the demoniac ot the tombs, the woman who had many physicians but rather grew worse, the lifeless daughter of Jairus., Just at this point of man’s hopelessness came ’ the Great Deliverer. When is Christ to be tound? When self is lost, then Christ is I found. l I acknowledged my sin. Unto no priest. ' Unto God alone, against whom the sin has | been wrought. "Against thee, thee only, i have I sinned, and have done this evil in i thy sight,” eried David, in that wonderful t eompanion psalm, the Vifty-flest. Acknowledgment oI »ent 13 Ve Wiy ului of sin, "“dLord, | Lbe merciful to me the sinner.” Confession l brings pardon, because confession in itself, { when rightly rendered, is a prayer, an entreaty for help. Read over the beatitudes, It is the confessing, imploring spirit that carries away the blessing. Blessed are the | poor in spirit—they that mourn—the meek { —they whiech do hunger and thirst. It is I the ready soul that finds succor. How can God help those who will put forth no hand for His deliverance? How can He pour salvation in when the cup is already full—full of pride and self-love? We were driving through the track of a eyclone in the forest —miles and miles of prostrate trees. We | noticed that those that stoo ! up straighti est and stoutest were the ones that were surely (aken, snapped off in their puny strength as though they had been stems of drv grass; while, if any escaped, it was the low-lying tree and shrub, which, bending with the blast, acknowledged at the same time its own weakness and the strength of the winds of heaven. In this sense, too, is there not truth for us in Paul’'s word: “When I am weak, then am I strong.” Mercy shall compass him about. To be condoned by merey, garrisoned by graeos ’ what a privilege is that! “Two bands!” (Mahanaim) ecried Jacon, when looking away fom his own little company he beLeld the encom assing angels of the Lord. ! “Lord, I pray thee,” said Elisha, for his i {imorous servaut's sake, “open his eyes that he may see. And the Lord opened ; the eves of the young man, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full ot horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” Iw, for eyes to behold the grace and goodpess that hems us in and keeps us safe.’ Come again to that eomiorting hill Psalm, the one hundred and twentyv-fifth, *They that tiust in the lord shall be as Mount Zion, which e¢an not be removed, but abideth forever. As the mountains are round ! about Jerusalem, so the Lo:d is round ] about his people, from henceforth even for ever.” i Next Lesgon: “David's Rebellious Son," -2 Sam. 15: 1-12 .

NUMBER 18.

S — T ————— " NN - . RAUM GETS THE PLACE. s s— PRESIDENT HARRISON NAMES HIM AB COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, The Illinols Man's Appointment a Surprise to the Politicians—His Previous Record— The Annual Report of the Pension Office ~—Gossip from the Nation’s Capital. [Washington telogram.) The President has appointed Gen. Greem B. Raum of Illinois as commissioner of pen- | sions, and he has assumed the duties of his t position. This action was a surprise, as " Gen. Raum’s name had not been promin1‘ ;aintly mentioned in connection with the ofce. ! Green Ferry Raum is a native of Illi~ | pois and one of the best known politicians lin that State. He was born Golconda, | Pope county, Dec. 3, 1829, After re- | ceiving a common-school education he | studied law, and was admitted to the barin 1803, Three years later he went to Kan- | sas and aftiliated with the free-soil party. ' t This made him obnoxious to the pro~- | slavery faction and he returned to Illinois,. ; settling at Harrisburg, : At the beginning of the rebellion ha- .| made many ‘“‘war’ speeches, and subse- | quently entered the army. He rose to the--3 rank of I}l‘igudier—(zenel-ai and took part. * | In many important engagements, partici ularly distvinguishing himself in the battla '| of Corinth and the Atlanta campaign. | At Missionary Ridge he was wounded, p | bu§ immediately upon recovering resumed . | active service in the field. ) ‘ At the close of the war he wenu .ato the- . i railroad business for a brief period. Im. ) | 18G5 he was elected to Congress and served. t l from March, 1867, to March, 1869, Im : | 1876 he was president of the Illinois Re- . | publican convention, and in the same yeaw : l was a delegate to the national convention: of that party in Cincinnati. He was ap- . { pointed commissioner of internal revenue- ) i Aug, 2, 1876, and retained that office until 1| May 31, 1883, During that period he col--1 Jected ¥850,000,000 and disbursed %30, 000,~ > | 000 without loss, Y| Since 1383 Gen. Raum has been practie--3t ix{g law in \Vt}sbington. He is the author .| of & work entitled “‘The Existing Conflict -« Between the Republican Government and o | the Southern Oligarchy.” > | The annual report for the fiscal year 9} 1885-89 of the commissioner of pensions i has been submitted to the secretary of the _ | interior and is now m the hands of the v public printer. Following isa summary o| ©f the main featurss of the report: n ' There were at the close of the year 489, - - | 729 pensioners, There were added to the i | rolls during the year the names of 51,831 1| new pensioners, and tue names of 1,75¢ | whose pensions had been previousiw ft i dropped were restored to the rolls, making )t! an aggregate of 53,670 pensioners added 1 | during the year; 16,507 pensioners were: o | dropped from the Jolls for various causes, - | leaving a net increase to the rollsof 37,16'% 8) names. The average annual value of eacky > ! pension at the clcse oi the yeay Js shown “! to have been slii. The aggregate annual p l valuo of pensions is $64,240,H52. The u { amount paid for pensions during the year v | was $38,275,118. The totai amount dis--3 | bursed by the agents for all purposes waa -1 889, 181,048, In the aggregate 1,248,146 xt pension claims have been filed since 136¥ , | and in the same period 754,121 have beer: allowed. Commuissioner Tanner recommends theestablishment of two additional pension agencies, to relieve the overworked otfices at Columbus, Chicago, Indianapolis, and ‘! Topeka, Kan. Herecommends that Con(ll ‘ gress be asked to amend the act of June 6, 1 18714, so as to extend the benefit of all pen-~ y ' sion laws as to rates to all pensioners . { | whose pewsions have been granted by 4 | special acts passed subsequent to said data, . ¢ | and that the benefit of pension be granted. “| to the widows of uldiers who died from " | causes originating in the service prior to- : ' March 4, 1861, during the time of pease.. ¢ | He further recommends, as did his preden | cessor, that the act of March 3, 1377, be 1 i amended so as to grant pension to those a | who, having participated in the rebellion »li against the United States, subsequently . | enlisted in the navy and were disabled 1 | therein, o The injustice and unfairness of the acd v | of Congress approved June 16, 1880, the - | report says should be corrected. This ack ‘1 limits the right of pensioners to receive ‘ll $72 per month to those who were receiving o | S3O per month at the date of saidact. Ne ¢ | provision is made therein for granting said rate to those who were totally help- . | less on said date, but were not receiving , | S6O at said time, and none for those who ¢ | have become totally helpless since that | date. The anomaly is presented of two 11 men equally disabled, possibly living side 1’ | by side, the one receiving $72 per month » | and the other 50 per month, : The commissioner asks attention to the 3 i fact that the act of Aug. 7, 1882, whih t | terminates the pension of a widow on ae--1 | count of immorality, makes no provision 1 I for continuing the pension to the minoy , | children of the soldier whent the widow’s . i pension is terminated. He asks. thak S i Congress be requested to correct: this 1 { palpable injustice. v The Commissioner earnestly recomt ‘ mends that whenever an invalid pensiener ) | dies the usual pension be granted to kis 5' widow, or, if he leaves no widow, then a to his minor children, without regard to. | whether or not his death was due to any ;| carse incident to the service and line of , | duty. 1 ' The commissioner favors granting pen- | ! sions to all soldiers who are disabled: He . says: ‘‘As the war period recedes from us. . | and age and its attendant %nfirmities f affiict the veteran who served his country ' | faitnfully and well a quarter of a century : t ago, it is a very serions question yle?tlxgr. t | the government dozs him justice in limit- » ' ing the application of the pension laws to | those disabilities only which were contraet- - '|ed in the service and Jine of duty. 1 ear- { nestly recommend that a pension be | granted to every honorably discharged | = soldiec and sailor who is now or may here- . | after become disabled, without regard te. > | whether such disability is chargeable to: ! the service of the I?nited. States or has | been contracted since discharge therei from ! i | The commissioner also favors a pension. | for army nurses and makes an earnest . appeal on their behalf. | e PN ' ! Foreign Brevities. | 7Tmp Vatican will shortly publish all the | documents in its possession supporting its k | claims to tcmpumi powers. : o CouNT OKUMA, (hinese Minister of | Foreign Aftairs, has been slightly “"’“nd"j ‘od by n would-be assassin. The latter ' committed suicide. O t THE Chinese government is negotiating for a loan of $40,0.0,000 Lor the construc~ | tion of railways. [ Tup German steamer Ifarco Brunner, { Wthh was reveutly \\'l"3(?]{9(l on the Red’* ! sea, was looted by Arabs. | Tue Russian revenue for 1888 way 34, ! 000,000 rubles in excess of the expendia. tures, which were 13,000,000 rubles below the estimates. i! A cOMP:iNY has been formed in France with acapital of $10,10),000 to laya eable from Marseilles to Bucuos Ayres. Inter- ' est on the capital is jpuaranteed by the. Argentine Government.