St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 February 1891 — Page 3

e e—- — LITTLE SHOES. “ BY WILL P. CHAMBERLAIN. A pair of little slippers, Or shoes, no mattcr the name, I sometimes meet as I rummage, And a sigh betrays thé pain That lingers in my bosom; - And I sit in the garret there In thought of a vanished summer That gave a bud most rare. You would forgive the tear-drop—- - Tho’ men must be firm, they say— If you knew of the blossom which faded And fell with the flowers of May; Os how, on the quiet hillside, We broke the carpeted sod And laid away our pcrbion Os the angel returned. to God. « Unsung sleep these dear secrets, : And only now and then Are we permitted to wander | Away from the marts of men— ‘ To dwell with our household treasures And their history, as we choose— Dreaming such dreams as mine to-cay Os this littls pair of shoes. ELx PoilnT, S. D. l - ) . . .' Or. Elfenstein's Mission ,’ ———e ! 0 R Remarkable Romance. R s BY EMILY THORNTON. —e CHAPTER XXVI, l ETHEL NEVERGAIL RECEIVES AN OFFER. “Miss Nevergail,” said Andrew,-a pompous footman at Castle Cairn, as he knocked at the door of ILady Linwood's boudoir, and was bidden to enter, “a l gentleman is in the drawing-room who wishes to see you.” g “Did he give you.a card?” l “No, miss, neither would he tell his | name.” | “Do you know him?” still queried ! Ethel. ! “I cannot call his name, yet I have often seen him.” “It is of no consequence. I will be ! with him presently,” returned the gov- | crness, as she resumed her book and con- | tinued the lesson she was giving her | charge. ! On no account would she neglect a | ~ duty for any person whatever, f When the task was finished, and not’ until then, she descended the grand | broad stairway and entered the drawing- | room of the castle. | There a surprise, indeed, awaited her, i in the presence of Robert Glendenning. ; Certainly she had never anticipated a : visit from her former tormentor, and the | sight of him now brought back so many | unpleasant recollections that she hastily ! turned to retveat. { Too late! ! The young man started forward and | placed himself between the door and her i slight figure, thus completely preventing ‘ her sudden flight. ! “Pardon me, Miss Nevergail,” he remarked, in fectly respectful manAT ee g allpbll i, &Y PRt e

> anxious 1o navea lttle converss ; you, before leaving this place forever, l and therefore I besecech you to remain a ! few.minutes. 1 promise not to detain } you long.” l Pt &N o TRttt G U R SN

“very well,” returned the young girl, gravely, taking the seat he offered her. “Why do you leave ——shire?” “The death of my uncle has, of course, deprived my sister ang myself of his care and guardianship. As the title and estate now fall to his younger brother, Fitzroy, the present incumbent must remove and leave the hall, to be occupied : or not by the new baronet. as he sces fit. Lady Constance will seck a residence with some relatives in London, and we shall make a home somewhere together, unless—unless——” Here the young man paused, greatly embarrassed for a prover conclusion to the sentence he had commenced. Breaking the silence again, for it was becoming oppressive, he resumed: | “Miss Ethel, I come this morning to lay before you a proposition that I hope l will meet with your approval and sanc- | . - : g . | tion. I must #rst, however, express to } you my deep regrets for the offensive | marner in which I used to treat you. I 1 know not why I was led to make myself , 80 disagrecable. I was probably rrompted by a spirit of mischief, but as soon as you left the Hall so suddenly I became aware of my great mistake. “I never tnought I should miss you as ; much as I did, but as coon as 1 could seo | you no more I became miserable. 1 lost my appetite and was almost beside myself with despair. I saw then, for the | first time, that I really loved you. { “Nay,” said he, secing her start up in- , dignantly, as though to leave him, “doi not go. Allow me to finish what I came to say. Iloved you, but I felt that it was without hope. In my egotistical haste T knew that I had won, perhaps what I merited, your contempt. ‘ “To-day I felt that I could endure this misery no longer. I resolved to see you, : to ask forgiveness for my course in the | ¢ past, and to crave the privilege of re- 1] trieving my former mistake by Being al= 1] lowed to visit you as a friend uetl L ean |

s St gMg b TR Sool e S NP Sy SRO M N Tl SRR win your love and ask you to become my | wife. If you will permit me ghus to ! visit you, I will send my sister to a safe | retreat with a lady friend, and will take | board in this village, where I can see you | often, and finally succeed in perhaps | winning your regard.” | “Mr. Glendenning,” interpozing Ethel, ! “what you propose is an utter impossi- ' bility. I can and do forgive the annoy- | ance J confess your conduct occegsionoed | me in other days, but the proposed vis'ts | I must positively decline. It could never \ result as you seem to imagine, for I | assure you my affections could never be : Won: | “You are hasty in thus answering,” : interrupted the lover. “Yousurely can- i not thus foretell what your feelings | would be under such different auspices. | Allow me.” % “Indeed, indeed, Mr. Glendenning, I; must interrupt you by distinctly saying | that, as I am situated, I cannot reesive | visits; therefore, I must beg of you to | receive this, my final answer. It would I' ba the same after years of friendly in- l tercourse. I do not love you, and I never can love you. I forgive you, and wiil! ever think of you kindiy; beyone that we can never go.” “Then there is no necessity for my remaining,” uo said, sadly, as he arose to i ieave. “None whatever,” was the firm reply. ‘ “Miss Nevergail, belicve me, as long as ! Ilive I shall regret having inade your i

e—— residence at the Hall so disagreeable. You certainly had enough to endure in being under obligations to amuse an irritable invalid. The rude manner in which you were dismissed excited my deepest sympathy,” “For which I am very grateful,” kindly returned the young girl. “If ever, as a friend, T can serve you in any manner, will you allow me to do so 0?” = “I will, if T know your address.” “That is not quite decided, but I will leave it with the Postmaster “of this place. And now, thanking you for your kind forgiveness, although feeling deep1y for my unrequited love, I will bid you farewell.” | Robert Glendenning held out his hand as he spoke, and seeinz that genuine ‘ tears were floating in his eves Ethel laid hers in it without hesitation. ‘ Stooping over the little white hand he pressed his lips upon it, then hurriedly ' left the room and she saw his face no | more. That night the whole family left the Hall, and the grand old mansion was i closed waiting for the arrival, or orders, of Sir Fitzroy Glendenning. l The residence of this gentleman was | unknown, but it was believed that he ! ‘ went to Ameriea, therefore every effort ? - was to be made by the proper ones to! discover his retreat, in order to make | known to him the honors that awaited | his acceptance. l Yet, while this resolve and duty was to be immediately put in force, many hearts | rebelled against his return, and the : present aspect of aflairs certainly did noy denote csteem or affection. ( ~ All united in feeling that, although ac- | quitted by law of any knowledge of his | unhappy brother’s fate, circumstances still looked very dark where he was corn- I cerned. i CHAPTIR XXVII. THE MYSTERIOUS WALLET. Drawing an easy seat c¢lose to the cen-ter-table for Mrs. C(lum to occupy, Dr. I Elfenstein seated himself in his own ' office chair, and laying the wallet before him, said: “This, Mrs. Clum, is a little bag, containing someth'ng very much valued by ! the poor man who has just left this i world. I presume it will acquaint us | with the residence and address of his | near relatives. In order that they may i be notified of his death, I deem it my ! duty to immediately examine its con- f tents, and as [ doso 1 wish you to bo present as a witness to the transaction.” | Signifying her willingness to be this| witness, Mrs. Clum bade him proceed. | The keys to the wallet Dr. Eisenstein | found tied close to the edge of the handle. | Inserting this in the lock, he at onco opened it and drew forth its contents. j All that presented itself to his notice | was aboat fifty pounds in money, and a i package of closely written papers. } These papers were without address or siznature, but scemed a short journal of | daily events. ! Little did Dr. Ellenstein dream, a: he | so coolly turaed over these leaves, that | they contained matters so vitally important to himself and his future life. i Seeing no other mode of ascertaining | who the dead man really was, the Doctor | commenced at the teginming to read | what follows: I “Junec 18— | “My God, my God! Why hast Thou ! forsaken me? isnow almostdaily my ery. ’

3 o allvy alano! hauw | “Nearly cighteen years have ! SUTCIT e ! this dreadful solitude, and not until toi ¢ay have I gained from my unnatural |' keeper the slight boon of pen, ink and

-e T s Y e T T eeeWTR LLA SSR R R EOyS ST Ipap«r. This gained, I will divert myself by noting down some incidents ofi 4my life. But to what purpose do I L write? } ! ‘Who can ever read what, out of an | [ aching heart, I shall commit to these [ pazes? i “f know not! i ' “Yet, after my death, some prrscn ! | may penctrate thisliving tomb, and then I i they shali here soe recorded the torrible | | wrong, the fearful fate that has thus be- | i fallen an unhappy peer of the realm! | | “Have I been missed irom my }m!nu‘.’i { Has any one mourned over my nnex- | | plained absence? Has my poer Con- | i stance wept over iy loss? And has my | . dear brother Fitzroy forgiven my Larsh- ‘ | ness now that he thinks me dead? ; “Dead? Yes; all think me dead! | J “I sec clearly at this late date the ! ®whele of Reginald’s ficndish plot. , ! “He used that dagger on my arm to | { draw bloed, in order to leave the impres- | i sion that I had been murdered, before Lo ‘ i shut me into this livinz tomb. i “Yet I live. I, Sir Arthur Glenden- ! ning, Bart., am alive to-day, incarcerated ; in this concealed ioom, built in the ruined | part of my own residence.” . “Ha!” exclaimed Earle Elfenstein, i | starting to his fcet as he read thus far. ! “What have 1 here? If this be true, weo | have aw explanation of Sir Arthur's'! fate. . Mrs. Clum, we must have others ! - present at the reading of this important ! paper. lLet us both seek instantly for ! the presence of our neighbors. Will you summon Lawyer Huntley, who lives | next door, while I go for Rev. Mr. lee? | Not one moment will we waste, for who [ knows but yonder corpse may be all that | is left of poor Sir Arthur Glendenning.” | Replacing the papers and keeping the | precious wallet in his hand, Farle at| once left the house for the manse, while Mrs. Cium ran ont to summon Mr. Huntloy. l In lea: shan el oo 3 0 s e S

—onee s VA el Lan DonaY DhC Y AN returned to the physician’s oifice, ac- | companied by the above-named gpnm(-,-i ‘men. Then, while eagor attention was to be ' seen on every lace, the INottor asain ! opened the wallet and read as far as wo | - have written aboye. | - “Merciful’ Leaven, can this be t:'uvf”: exclaimed Mr. Huntley. “Doctor, pleaso | read that last clause once more., lam | | so dazed with surprise that I can scarco- | 1y understand it.” : \ “Yot I live. I, Sir Arthur Glendeninin;:. Bart. am alive to day, in«'arw)r—l - ated in this concealed room, built in the ! } ruined part of my own residence,” again | - read Dr. Elfenstein, i A_f_tvr a pause he continned: | “The fact that this room existed was | ' known only to my father, Sir Geolfrey, } and he, shortly before his death, confided I | the secret to my brother iteginald and ! myself. We three were alone tozethor when he taught us how to open the panels ! by the aid of a sharp poinfed knife. and I after leading usinside this strange apart- | ment, he charged us to keep the exist- | ence o the place a profound secret, as | the time might come when such a hidden | retreat might become of immense im-l portance. ‘ ! “Dear father! how little did he dream ! that Reginald, for the sake of usurping my lawful title and cstates, would drag me hither, in the darkuess of night, and, | by chaining me like a beast to the floor, | by the help of his valet, Antoine Duval, ‘

| keep me a prisoner for months, years, | life! ’ l | “Oh, that horrible Antoine! how I al--1 ways disliked his soft, fawning ways, his | emooth tongue and cringing airs. ‘ “Villain that he is! Villains, indeed, | beth master and man. | “But I will not thus anticipate. I will 1 g 0 back to our father’s leading his two | young soas to this place, and pointing [ out its many conveniences for spending ' a time in hiding. “‘See,’ he said, ‘here is a bathroom, ' with all its appointments, opening from !this small and ‘neatly furnished bedchamber. Soft mattresses, plenty of bedding, heat from an unseen register, through pipes leading to the kitchen ranges. Oh, everything'is complete!’ “It was the only time I ever saw this room, until the night I was thrust within g it by my inhuman brothar, Reginald, two days and one night after I was foreibly ; taken from my bed. { “Ab, that night! when they overpowcred me in my own room, shall I ever forget it? “sShall that terrible scene ever be obliterated from my weary brain? “I had retired rather earlier than usual, cand had fallen immediately asleep. . About midnight, I should judge, I was - awakened by feeling a hand pressing i something to my nostrils. o | “I instantly had my complete s&%ses, - so dashed the hand with the chloroformed - sponge from my face, then sprang with ~a bound upon the flcor. | “Two men stood above me, and fin | hands seized and pressed me back, Wg:’,l a gag was forced into my mouth. < ’ “A dim light was burning, and ISa that, although masked, one figurs was like Fitzroy’s, and his dressing-gown was i wrapped around his form. | CHAPTER XXVIII. % THE JOURNAL CONTINUED. ~ On how I struggled to f=ee myself! Onee 1 did get a hand loose, and tore the mask from one face, to find it was - not Fitzroy but Reginald who was perpetrating this outrage upon me, his elder brother. } “Turning then to the other, I recog'nized the form and voice of Antoine ' Duval. - “In the course of the conflict, Reginald drew out a dagger and plunged it into my arm, then threw the dagger, red with blood, on the carpet, saying grimly: “‘l'itzroy's dagger. Lio there and testify that he did this deed!” “Oh, my brother, my innocent brother! have they dared accuse thee of my death? “This question harrows me night and dav. “Alas! I tremble for TFitzroy, when such a fiend as Reginaid has proved Limself to be is let loose upon his track. | “But to go on: Binding my hands— | for all my strength could avail little against two hardy men—they passed a rope around my body, afier first putting on my clothing, and, dragging me from tho window, swung me from the balcony to the ground below. “Carrying then my heipless form te the lake, they there bound up my wounds, staunching the flow of blood, which untii then they had allowed to drip as it would, then turned and noise- | lessly bore me to a lonely cave, situated l in the keart of Demon’s Weod—a place never frequented, and, I presume, thu! existence of which was unknown.

PERSET WSS NN WA TV ARSI UL WD WA IIVT W. 53 “THie nlace hiad been prepared for v | T e _ g 1 l readiness, they left me, oty la° helpless, there alone, f*“ Cone nicht Pl

j VAL Ilimilbe TITE—- ’ “Twice they both came with food, and, [ while one stood with a pistol over my i head, to prevent a word, the other fed | me. I “On the second night they visited mo ( about midnight, and, moerely saying: ! “ ‘All is now ready for your reception, | | rise and go with us,” they placed me in 2 l | wagon as bedore, and took me back to | the Hall. ! “Leaving the wagon concealed outside i the grounds, they between them carried { me to the ruined part, and, entering, ! conveyed me into this, my prisen, which | they had seeretly arranged for my use. { I was not brought here at once, it scems, | becanse on the very night of their dari ing outrage they had discovered that | some revolving iron shelves they had ! itted to the entrance could not be se- | i curely fastened, as the large serews to bo | i inserted were too short. Not wishing to ' . bostpone the horrible business, they had - hastily prepared the cave, and held me i - there until other screws could be pro- | - cured. l | | “Now all was ready, and here, just | Z(\ight:mn years ago, I was thrust :u:d| - kept a prisoner by means of along chain fastened from my ankle to an iron bolt !“ in the wall. o “Not one word was snoken until T was | ‘ securely fastened, then the gag was f | taken from my mouth and the ropes | from my limbs. | | “At fiest my tongue and mouth we so J stiff I could make no sound, but seeing | that both were leaving me, closing the l entrance securely inside by standing up ! the shelves and tightly serewing in place | the long screws, I found voice, and call- | - ing to them to pause I begged an expla- | ! nation of the cruelty to which I had | been subjected, and asked why I was to , ( be imprisoned there and how long I was | - to be detad . “At hrsMu, ‘ : Tiav d oo mIY oo L o oy o NSt S U Reas, 1

- but inally he did amfiewfiv%.ese - words: ; . | “*You are to be kept concealed # W place as long as you live, so the Sooner ~ you die the better for ail! I shall not, ! however, take you life! I never will be P a murderer! Food will come to you I every night, about half yast nine or ten, .ou these sheives. You will empty the i plate on dishes you hkave here, and sot- | tinz it back the empty plate will at once i return to me. By this returning plate I { siiall know you still live. When you fail ‘ to return it no more will come, as you f will then be supposed to have died. I . alone shall attend to sending this feod.’ { ;’l‘() BE (7()?"'I‘INUX'}D.J ! Manners of Men. . Ivery man thioks he Las a right to | impose on some woman, ‘ livery man whostarts a quarrel un- - necessarily, onght to get whipped. - Itis so easy to get into debt that - most men do not realize how hard it is - to get out. - “Rustlers” are all right in their way, - perbaps, but they ran into a great - many unnecarsary figh's.—Atchisor - Globe. ‘ Taw largest fruit farm in West Vieginia is the Becker Farm, ncar Harper’s Ferry. 1t centains 5,000 anricot trees, 37,000 peach trees, 3,000 plum trees, 5,000 miscellanecus fruit trees and 35,000 grape vives. i

1 | : PERUSE AND PONDER \‘—‘* OVER THE NEwWS FRCM TOP TO BQTTOM OF INDIANA. e Killed by 5 Falling Tree—Accidental KiliIng—Divorgeq and Married Within an nothnveulle Thieves Jailed—Big Damage Suit, —Franklin County pikes are now free. —Montgomery County country schools closed for measles. —Noblesville Democrat wants to have houses there numbered. —Elwood’s glass factory covers five acrés—all under slate roof. —Michael Doyle, of Winchester, aged 78, died suddenly of apoplexy. —William Haub contributed an arm to the moving train at Vincennes, —George W, Rose, of Wayne County, was fatally injured in a runaway. —Miss Bertha Knove won the honors at the Frankiip, oratorical contest. —Samue] Faust, of Arcadia, aged 60. hanged himself. No cause is known. —Crown Point is mad at Hammond Canse it wants to be county scat of Lake, _b. J. Griggs, of Covington, aged 57, ‘ ,;{tircd of life, sent a bullet through

7 % Brain. %’;F‘i‘;sh-Commissioner Dennis is after P rd and Jackson County illegal fishermen. —Mrs. W. E. Borders, Vincennes, who was taken sick on the streets, died an hour later. ~—George Jetter, a wealthy firmer | near Hortonville, was killed in a railway accident in Texas. —The making of the transcript in the W. I Pettit murder case, at Crawfordsville, cost %748.50. —Five persons were seriously burned by a natural-gas explosion at Lafayette. Three have since died. —The Lebanon Council has required saloons to remove sereens and other obstructions to the view. —Charles E. Morris, of Utica, stumbled over a chair and broke several ribs ‘ while walking in his sleep. ~ —dJohn Hibbs claims to haye discovered a copper-mine on the line of Hendricks and Putnam Counties, —Abraham Neal, John Potter, and William Stewart have been indicted for the killing of Marcus Selig, near Madison. —Pennsylvania company sued at Columbus for £40,000 by the family of James Stanficld, a brakeman killed by the cars, —William Crawley, of Chicago, fell from a third-story window of a South Bend hotel and suffered probably fatal injuries. —Three little bovs of Ladoga jailed at Crawfordsville for selling stolen Chic_l;o:f Said they needed the money to &v to the shoyw. -flias Lyons, 80, south of Muncie, | »ecently. e never had a hair on m;gs was the same physi- |

2 £ Benijami mers. a fl\rn:l"i Stone wayla il b RS al in love A and beat hi ,at New Providenco, * Within »“f-? A at him so that he rovidence, bein SUTSIY T weeks, : point of death. Sto y now lies at the ig g a week ago. Th S G ISt i axrtth ' 4 _—Martha Meel ne escaped. \ii‘;; City arrested APe °§'°"’°‘ at Mich-= o ?:,(;Wens@ each divorced at G and Thomas Jones iams, the latter col raig aud Jesse sent o - OIS Yy tber 11’ Drg...- so lS L pait at Greensburg from di s, | bers. Williams (.Ovnf,o ored, as the rob A’l‘hc ol gy e © "’riu”tinvldin; artners the s; - sg-1 & vast ¢ i essed ¢ % uthorizi ISS 00, S around ¢ same day st quanti and prod QUriZing > o and marri . day, turned | ing si antity of stole . duced |0 3 a loan of 51008 ” than an hour married each Ullw’r illr;“ d | ing silk dresses t](;ttlol( n articles, includ n:’eé:’e State govel‘n(r)xfe?) B Coy. 1 less | mere BSSES, C 1 and k ~ special an et e —Mr. & : rchandise miscellane alichiets and recul TR e Mr. and Mrs. A hi se to a consi leous lorizin sular a < ; Mrs. : whict a consider: 1 izing the Audi DPprop — respectat mos Hunt. : ch had b srable v ands uditor . sle peopl it, aged and een secr valne. | bes au. Atioh ©of State . Honse ple,were attack snd | home. secereted abo - Fairview 1 County 1y osell | se, near M . acked in their ut his} fr v Academy; purchased . TR, Alra Muncie, by ; i s rom maki y; prohibiti . - Mrs. Hunt was se .)y hoodlums and Eugene, a small tow p“’"id'akmg overchar )l‘bltmg railroad 5 e i 8 seriously injur of Newnpor ¥ own six miles 5 ing penalti ges for freig % L & stone y injured by a k vport, was raided niles north discharge of naltics; providi ightang —lt is announ .l 1 : residence of Sam Bed by thieves. The after l\?'l*ntyhfe and long t(‘rlrl:g for i bauk wi ounced that a new the flouri m Bowers, propri > | propriati years g LI Lol vl ‘\"lxl\ W ooybe st new Sby (110“““2'1111115 e i lll(mnm)r of | ete I-)r;d[“'-‘-r $200.000 17)?03 behavior; ;:Ea ' ‘ayne Toh 4 started i = od and three lace, was .y amending % *the Wolad: oo .. an \\' \\- % n rort & 3 oee "’()l(l Wi 5 a”tl >s D the co 5 MG'S } a.i of i . White, late of di : ¥ atches and : lorizi : P mon sc Iy > the White Wheel-w ‘1 late manager |BB diamond ear-rings wer s and a pair | borrow m‘;-'fll' County ('0111::11 school act: = wel-works, is o AL gs were tak . vy ' ssioners : ¢ prime mover in tl ¢s. is named as Jowers had £IOO in cash i ( t.alu-n. Mr. buildings t.:“’ to ereet and h?bfqhtr: ta: —Reports @ new enterpri pocket whict sh in his trouser’s per ian amount 1 pair publis e' : s that the sand rprise. | also ente 11 they did not get ,i‘ r's | amendin of the \'alua.ti)lot to exceed 3 sier slide con TUEE b red the ¥ Be hey |of ng the act on of prope S at Michizan City iF Dl.\. of | Fultz, but g he residence of Willi: Y| of City CT-Hn:t‘il-L-b relating to Lll)lcnlgn-l-t)'; . are not triue Sy is being | dishes : ‘,«ut nothing there say iam streets, alle "1 sin the matter of 1e duties .u_gh L i say “there’s |lt and four or five doll save a sow | bonds in ileys, and 5‘,“.(11_;' o) b}llldillg S e I. pply the glass sac is believed the bu’ ollars in ecash. | inß the <l)ll\}lll¢‘||E of the js“and issuing —Mrs. Shinkl : ;"'”" for 100 vears.” home talent, but th rglary was done by State, "“"“D(t'f‘ real estate ‘Ol:‘f]‘ pll%hlbn;. <. 2 5 RS, Jrow = S identify & ere is > Asse PDy conse 5A ¥ dl}')m‘("-ltmn for a pensi nstown, making n[lf'\ Wi o Lew W tif}!nblv' Isent of the Gc:’mrl::f of Henry Shi : sion as the wi — —ln regar 1e followi ; s S y Shinkle, was infor 1e widow |at Unior Ct dto the cffort beine Honie: P‘l\\l!]q. bills were pass ]ll artment that his wid ormed by the | tur 1 City to have the Ohi 12 made Commissi roviding that 5!)'&1)‘“(1 by de cle, in al s widow. Sar: C o ¢ authorize lio Legis]: ssioners may Sinking F eit arah S . /6 2 New SUry ; cisla- i for b nay use g Fund ready ‘ll“lwi,h r part of the state 'hlll between 111(1i211;~1 Wl survey of the line ak ;ltl .’ux \‘\lm-h such fl:xd funds to buy her murmq.rl" a pension. So she ,I':\ A Sh(mldl b‘m Ohio, claiming that I“'iiitin<r]lll j\q;«t RER e ‘m\? t\i'; re levied, age : S s ) . og : g 51,000 ; e e ill‘.,r lt() him twenty-one \”“](l miles west of th lfxlonl one to eight ll(-atiol;of‘c‘ IN: t'H advertise f()x;(.t.hdppr()_ s illegal. years | H &Ol othand the 1 rtain text-books; e pub—While N on. John M. Smi cognized lie law whiel Xl-DOOKS; re - y N M. Snu ¢ ne ech holds : repealing embploye apum Pedlar, of Portland, clai Smith, an attorne » | persons liable for the estates of | o ployed by tl .of Rosed: , claims tl ney of |lnse y» for their 3 insane ; 21¢ J’;“.k C s¢d d]L‘, tlf'd . s that the matte sane 315\'lu 5 I mailntens 5 pany, was engaged i onnty Coal Cor in the United States er was set- | Natural G ms; establishing th ninee e L},N‘T(ld h G l“”ll- Howard’s U. S. Re Btoh. courts: Fouotls LOOOO Boid ;d: Inspector, at . office of e T 5 ade : .S. Reports, i y :3 3% nspector at $1,2 | it oy dumps his foot cau ‘}ti tween Milssaulm\-ttltmb' in a dispute be Yhe State “0:,1‘)&(,;01 to be fll’péiflgo lplur S was dragged some di 5 caught | They deci setts and Rhe 2 Dvt ddor rai = logist; making i ed by i’l‘“]l“d 5 dosth I.{(.m« distance and |tl t} Soiidl that widlots \1150(1(} Island. t'nb(l,gllmnd companies ‘1\0“1]'; it unlawful family a et e was @ e two States w > the line betwe IDOOSCS Or mail c: leat coaches and promi as a man of . ates was wr : veen | viding mail cars witl e Church prominent i of | quiesced i ong,it had bee g thatin the set ith stoves; W ahdE Pk n Mabhoats ue din for vears cen ac- where :he settlemen Ves; pro- & ythis dis T years, ¢ : the heirs nent 1 S Cythian ol helic o L'dlsnnssod_ , and the case was county 'lnqh: irs all live in ‘fi estates RS e e W unty, and give -their .‘ 16 same - o When John G. Keadle, i Itmlm-fimw‘"“' lmtwo: lxln consent, the -‘ulib SRR adle-in 1861, ] en instead of nay be limi W = 61, left ad of twenty > limited 38 £ _'_—_——~‘_l_l.t) -one days. 0

| —Thomas Cofticld visited the home of %%‘&ciugor, at Lafayette, demand'\,,A_&J;Ll his wants had been supp u-fi‘*m;'sa.;;tg;_gfig‘f:h_ House, i only to return and attempt an assault. lHe was convicted in the ecircuit court, [ and was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. He was identified as a former inmate of the Ohio penitentiary. —Yecars age Anthony Fuller, now of Terre Haute, brought suit against his wife, Alevia Tuller, in Clark County, Illinois, for divorce, and his lawyer informed him that he had won the suit. | Since then he has married and become the father of several children. The othver day he discovered that his first suit had been dismissed and he has applied to the courts for relief. —An altitudinous tale comes from Vincennes to the effect that a cow owned by Thomas Williamson. a farmer of that vicinity, swallowed a piteafork handle about twenty inches long and is none the worse for wear. --Three young prisoners tore away a part of the roof of the County Jail at Terre Haute and made their escape. Two, Driscoll and Vaugt, were under sentence for two years for burglary, and the third, Densmore, was awaiting trial | for participation in the same burglary.

S T e T —Oliver O’Neal, of Greencastle, was sent to prison for two years for attempting to murder his step-child. | ' —J. J. Moran, a guard at the Prison North, was assaulted and terribly beaten by Thomas Hartman, a convict. | : —While Pine Bradburn, his cousin Ed ‘ | Bradburn, and John Wen, were sawing | logs on the farm of the former’s father, three miles south of Muncie, an old deadl tree was blown down, instantly killing i Eeward, who, with his cousin, had hold of a cross-cut saw at the time. The other | tWo men made g narrow escape with their lives. Edward was an unmarried | Young man whose parents reside at Brookvillo, Franklin County. —Emil Eicher, the 17-year-old 'son of a well-known citizen of Evansville, was fatally injured while out on the river hunting for ducks. The coat of a companion caught on the hammer of his gun and an | entire load of duck-shot was emptiedinto the young man’s side. Most of the load ‘ lodged in the vicinity of the spinal column. He was brought ashore as rapidly as possible and prompt medical assist{ance summoned, but without any avail. ) —Mrs. E. Kepler, secretary for the Indiana heirs of the Anncke Jans estate, | @nnounces that a meeting of the heirs | for the purpose of establishing their

b PR DR s S s e igini et i, )oS NG s e claims will be held on March 4, at New | Albany, instead of Indianapolis, as here- | tofore reported. The former place is chosen on account of being the residence | of Mrs. Eliza Whiterow Kevyes, said to be the nearest living heir, and who is of advanced age. —At Williamsport a freight train on the Wabash struck George Mong, 84 years of age, and instantly killed him. Theright leg, between the ankle and the knee was broken, the right forearm broken, the chin was split in two and one deep cut was made over the right eye, and a scalp wound inflicted on the right side of the head. The body, by the force of the blow, was thrown twenty feet. —A number of movers passed through Crawfordsville recently, going from Kentucky o Dakota, who had with them a curious-looking girl, about five years od. The child had all over her head and | neck what appeared to be chicken feath- ' ers, and when she would jabber the ! sound made would resemble a chicken. The only reason assigned for this strange freak was that her father was given a coat of tar and feathers some tive months i before her birtl.. —The Oil Weil Supply Coempany, Ofl Pittsburgh, Pa.,have located their branch house in Montpelier, and will build a warchouse for the purpose of storing their heavy supplies in. The city is full of oil men and are making preparations for a boom in the oil business. The Tewksbury well, two miles east of town, was drilled in, and is flowing seventy barrels daily. There have been contracts let for one hundred derricks, and drilling will commence at once. —The night American express train, {rom Chicago castward ove ! .. .4 . % e

home, at Talbot, as a volunteer in the Twentieth Indiana Regiment, he took Lwirh him a lock each of his young wire’s +{.and 3-months-old daughter’s hair, careTy uclosed in a gilt-cdged Bible, given to him by his wife. At a battle in Georgia he lost the Bible. A friend from Georgia, visiting George R. Harper, in Madison, told-how his relative, Capt. John Russell, of the Third Georgia Regiment, had found just such a Bible, with name and all. Harper did not know Keadle, but advertized the find, saying that it had been piaced in his keeping. Keadle saw the advertisement, came down to Madison, recovered his treasure and returned with ‘it to his home in Talbot. The daughter is now 30 years old and married, and her mother is dead. —Oliver Stone, a wealthy young farmer living near Wabash, was found dead in bed. It is thought that he was suffocated, as he was found lying on his face. —Policeman Kahle,in attempting to arrest two colored tramps who were stealing a ride on the west-bound Vandalia train at Brazil, was shot near the heart by one of the number. The would-be murderer fled, but again boarded the train as it was leaving. He was arrested at Terre Haute. He gives his name as William Suggs. Kahle will recover. .

T Q ' INDIANA LEGISLATURE. ' No Busisess of importance was ' transacted by the Senate, February 12. |The House spent the day in committea of the whole on the fee and salary bill. l THE State engineer examiner bill was Idefnated by the Senate, February 13; building association bill was so amended as to exempt local associations® from operating under the national plan. The following bills were passed: Providing that incorporated towns having no newspaper may publish legal advertisements in any other town in the county | which has a newspaper. The object of this bill is to enable ail such to get the benefit of the Barret law; empowering City Councils and Boards of Trustees of incorporated towns to authorize street railway companies now using horsepower to operate electric lines; removing the power to appoint Trusteesof the State University szt Bloomington from the hands of the Board of Education and giving it to the alumni of that institution. Tn the House the fee and salary bill was completed in committee of the whole. Resolution recommending a clause in the bill to exempt officers \hcrctoforv elected adopted by fifty-six | votes. 1‘ THE day in the Senate, February 14, | was devoted to the introduction of bills. | No quorum was present in the House, | and reports of committees were heard ———- : ArPELLATE Court bill passed the Sen- : ate, February 16, with amendments 5' limiting its existence to six years, and re- ', ducing the salary of Judges thereof from | 84,000 to $3,500 per annum; bill also passed for creating of court of arbitration. House—lndianapolis city charter bill passed; also bill to require street i railway companies to pave between rails and two feet on each ste; to regulate the system of weighing coal atthe mines; the Indianapolis library bills; to protect labels, brands, trade marks, etc.; defining legal fences; to exempt Indian lands from taxation: to recognize the State Board of Health; to protect the dairy product, ete. Resolutions to convene at 0 a. m. adopted. IN the Senate, Feb. 17, bills were ent grossed as follows: Placing benevolent institutions under civil service rule; placing appointment of inspector of oils in hands of State Geologist; resolution | passed asking city to condemn ground I«-usn of State house, to be con- { verted into a park. House—Resolution to investigate T. H. & I. railroad ac'('ounls reported. Bill authorizing increase of capital stock of building and ! loan associations to £235000,000 defeated. Resolution to compel temperance committee to consider measures relating to temperance laid on the table. Bill authorizing formation safety deposit, and guarantee companies passed. Bill to erect natural gas plant in Indianapolis passed, also bill to authorize cities to construct waterworks, electric lighw plants, natural and artificial gas plants passed. : ' Tue following bills were passed by | the Senate, Feb., 18: Raising the salaries of Prison Wardens Afrom $1,500 to $2,500, and of JKeputy Wardens from £I,OOO 51"’0‘]); and providing that these cers shal’ 7 saitisi hatevers have no perquisites w adding imprisonme th 3. "V oo

Singular Textilos. It has been discovered that glass is capable of being turned into fine cloth, _ which can be worn without the slightest discomfiture next to the skin. Cloth is now made of wood. Strips of fine grained timber are crushed between roliers, the filaments carded. in the usual manner with textiles into parailel lines aud spun into thread, from which the eloth is woven. Rough on Corns. A German inventor proposes to make boots with stone soles. He mixes with a waterproof glue a sunitable quantity of — — quartz sand, which is spread cn the thin leather sole empioyed as a foundation. These (uartz solesare said to be flexible and almost indestrustible, while they enable the wearerjto walk safely over slippery roads, Train Struck By Lightning, It has been thought that lightning could not strike a train. The theory “has received a complete contradiction, At Dischau, Prussia, an express train running at the rate of sixty kilometers per hour into the station broke down the bufling apparatus, ran into the interior facade of the station, and broke up against a neighboring house, An - investigation established that the’ % h dent is to be attributed tothe es . lightning, which fell upon the ty A / .