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DOUBLE DH AND JOE; ~ -cn The Poorhouse Waifs. BY DAVID LOWRY. CHAPTER IV. A HEAVEN OS EARTH. Job Wonder looked down at. Too with a furious twinkle in his eye She was such a “little mite,” he said to himself. ‘I reckon now you don't know much. Like as not you can’t cook a tater” I “1 can learn. You—you put bilin’ i waTr round ’em, don’t you?” Job laughed cutright. Joe felt more at home with him after she board his jolly laugh. “I won t ax any more ouesUQj^^„,£asn why? If I do, and you toll me how awful f green'you be—you see, why, I can’t] V^havo any excuse for taking you to my ; ~wi.e. ”

1 Joo somehow began to think Job’s *wife was an aw. -inspiring wottta^. ^ow o d be you?” .on’ no. ” d ^o you said before. Well, I — 1 IT tell women s ages My wife t>d she knows.” , Make a ra. 11 , ow ' it home judgin' horseflesh. Ben Pratt ^ ay tbat thing there?” reckon we'll get on fust rate • t tie n. ” “I’m sure we will,” Joo answered. ft seemed true, too. Job Wonder possessed the indefinab’o charm that drew children and dumb animals to him. Dogs that snapped at the heels of other men and snarled let Job range free. Joe looked at him furtively. As he remembered it afterward, ho recalled with a feeling of pity the pathetic little figure ■beside him on the wagon-seat. She looked neither to the right nor left, but straight ahead. “Haven’t you any relatives?” “Me?” The query startled her. “No—nobody that ever I heard of.” “All—all alone by yourself?” Joe was silent. “That's kind o’ hard. Kin you play a Sood tune on that thing there?” “Not very. I can play on the Vordion. ” । “The what?” “The ’cordion,” said Joo, demurely.“The accordion. Where is it?” I j “Got it in this bundle.” ? ' Joe nursed the bundle as if it con- 1 tained a baby. k “There! Thought you had clothes “ there. ” M “So I have—got my other apron here. ” “Apron!” Job looked down at Joo | open-mouthed. “Yes. Did you think I'd a whole suit here? ’Tain'tbig enough to fill a ward- I robe, is it?” Job shook his head. Joe’s queries were too much for his gravity. He burst out laughing; he laughed until teats ran down his cheeks, and Joe was greatly offended and looked glum “So you can play the accordion? Well, ] we 11 have music to the farm, anyhow, o' j nights, when you get there. We will , to. I reckon. If yo nre

mind what I'm saying. Job Wonder's t never said one thing and did another. If my women folks don’t like you, they 11 come 'round by an’ by to like you, and a you’ve got a friend in me, mind. But ( you’ll find plenty to do—plenty. You } ■won't have no time to play with dolls at . my house.” ( “Dolls! What's dolls?” Job turned square around and looked ( at her. “Dolls —why, just dolls, of course. Every girl knows what dolls are. I never seed a girl didn't have a doll.” “I never had one—never seen a doll.” “Never seed a doll!” The idea was too much for Job. He looked at her, j shook his head, and muttered to himself, “Never seed a doll'.” unconsciously. "I say,” he added, suddenly, “what else have you got in that small parse!?” “Patches an’ things—things all tangled up, colored yarns and old buttons.” “Buttons? You mean ribbons—purty j ri boiiS, don't ye?” “Never had no purty ribbons. Yarns ! to darn my stockings. See!” She showed ’ her stockings to him. “1 arned 'em all myself.” But Job Wonder did not look at them. He was thinking—wondering what sort of childhood it was that was ignorant of dolls and ribbons. When ho reined up before his farmhouse (there was not a snugger or more Inviting farmhouse in Acorn County than Wonder's, or one that was kept in better order), and helped Joe out of the wagon, his movements were sharply scrutinized by two pairs of keen eyes. j The eyes belonged to Mrs. Job non- i dor and Job's sister Samantha. The women’s eyes took in at a glance, । first, “the belongings” of the girl, The second glance revialed her disposition,] age and nationality. I She was full of fire, apparently fourteen, and an American. Before Job was well out of the wagon with Joe, Samantha Wonder beckoned her sister-in-law. _ .-^__A-Where in a'! t!ie world did Job pick that crittur up?” _ .

Samantha's tone ind cated disgust. i “Ono would think he con dn’t find her like in Acorn County,” Mrs. Wonder ie plied. Then the women adv aneed to the 1 I ve brought von more help. said Job. as he entered the house. “Here s the makin’ of a go id woman, I 11 be bound. ” Mrs. Wonder made no response. Samantha sniif-’d her disapproval. Job quietlv took Joe’s hand, and saying: - * “Come—l’ll show yon wheic to put your things, Joe,” led the way to an inner room. When he re-entered the kitchen his sister said sharply: “You a' ways was a master hand. A hat did von bring that girl here for? W h? 10 did she come from —where did you pick bf‘F lip?” “Yes,” chimed in hs wife, “that’s what I want to know. Such a sight at she is. She hasn’t any thing tit to wear. “That’s just why I brought her.” “Job Wonder'.' Whatever do yot mean?” “You’ve been tollin’ me you had to< A much work—l brought, her to help you. ’ 1 “Help’. That girl a help!” Samanthi turned up her nose in derision, I “Y< s—for to help. 1 brought her fror 1 Barnesville l o irhouse.” “Job Wonder'. Have you gone crazy 0 “I guess not. But l‘m goin’ to hav my own way. She’s here—an' to Sta;

mind. To stay as long as sho wants to. If she don’t' suit me—l’)' stand it, I reckon. You women folks oedn’t make any row about it!” “O, very well!” exclaimed Samantha, with another toss of the head. “Very well,” said his wife. “W ain’t i barbarians. We sha’n’t put her out. ! But if I went to the poorhouse and j brought a boy or girl here I’d not hear the last, of it. You’ll be the talk of the township,—Job ” “That for the whole county,” said Job, snapping his fingers Then he stepped out to see how his farm hands had taken care of his horses, and to discuss his farm affairs with his oldest farm-hand. When he returned to the house he I found Joe in the yard, looking at the peacocks with great eyes. There were more chickens than she thought was in the whole world—ducks, geese and turkeys strutting about. The fowl made ; a great noise as they ran to the feed the i men threw them The peacocks and peahens were new to her—indeed nearly all that was there was new tq, poor Joe. “What^ them?” she asked, pointing to the peacocks. ‘Teacock9.‘v^l!|^ ain't they?” “And them things without tails?” “Them's guinea hens.” “I never heard of them. All yours, Mr. Wonder?”

» J UIIUVI * - "AlLm ! "e. Now, you come in with I me anWo. U the folks hain’t got some- j thing for ii§ to eat.” . I She followed him in shyly. There were five or six men—farm hands—-look- | ' Ing at her. For the first timo In her ; life poor Joe was disconcerted. The I farm hands followed Mr. Wonder into ' the dining-room and seated themselves ' at a long table. Such a table Joe never saw in her , dreams. Iler eyes sparkled as sho j looked over it. । There was a pile of broad—beautiful ! white bread—at each end of the table; i su h big slices, too. Thore were two 1 heapedsdishes—covered out of sight with ' brown biscuit. There was a large, a very i । largo, plate with ham on it. and another ■ with cold chicken. There were so many I things Joe couldn't remember them all. I Plates of butter, and honey, and fried eggq and preserves, and pitchers of . milk. And such epffeo! Joe never tasted I anything like it in all her life. i Job Wonder was a man who grew tho I । best of everything, got the best prices i I for his products, and enjoyed tho very ] j best at his own table. “Thore can’t bo ; nothin’ too good for us as grows it,” Job ' was in tho habit of telling his friends, I whom ho ont'ria ned with lavish hos-| pitality, and husban I and wife were in I accord, for Mrs. Job Womb r delighted | in the reputation sho had acquired of i i being the most bountiful of housewives, i “Here, n w,” said Job, heaping ujon I poor Joe’s plate everything within reach ] —a greater quantity than she had been accustomed to receiving in two days—] “you just make yourself to homo. No body’s mindin’ yon—they’ve as much as । they cam ’tend to helpin' ov themselves. ] You must be mighty hungry' after that I ! long ride.” i At first Joo only nibble ! at her dain- j I ties. Then, seeing that’no one observed i ; her, she ate timidly; and then the odor ' of the viands—their toothsomeness and sweetness conquered all reserve, and sho ate to repletion; ate until sho felt , ashamed of herself as sho looko I at her i plate. What seemed sufficient for three i : meals had disappeared. “Now, as soon as you’re a mind to, you I can go to bed. We're early risers here, all L Lani us. Mebbe •WK *

but sho che ked herself in time. “You don't say! Well that s ivs airy as we’ll want you, I reckon Mrs. Wonder will tell you anything you want to know,’’said the farmer kindly as ho lit his pipe and sat down on the back porch overlooking his broad acres. Joe looked out in the yard, at the chickens rustling among the trees, at the farm hands laughing and joking, then shyly aske 1 the farmer's wife if she would please tell her where she was to sleep. “Come right here,” said Mrs. Wonder, leading the way to an upper room. "If you want a candle. \ou can have it tonight. I’ll leave this ” Then Joe was left alone in the clean white room “My!” -he exclaimed, "this must be like heaven!” She undressed s owly, very slowly , looking at the pictures on the wall. Thon she looked at the bed in dismay. “Good gracious! How am I to got in there. It's almost as high as my head.” She tried to climb in. an 1 rolled back laughing to herself. Thon she moved a • hair alongside of the bed, turned the clothes down, ana hopped in. As she did so, she gave a little cry that was like a s |ueal. The featln ry mountain rose ail around her. She was almost buried in the soft bed. “My goodness! There can t be noth tic nicer than this in heaven!” She lay there laughing s >fCy to herself, like a baby crowing or crooning in its

; waking morning hours. I lien she bei came very, very drowsy, and then Joe ; (suddenly be ame oblivious to all the ' world. ' She was sound asleep. CHAPTER V. A NAKIIOW ESCAt’E. I When Zeke Caper regained conscious- । ness. he put a hand up and felt a lump on his head, and swore softly to himself. I Then he sat up and looked about him ir, n iinzod wav’. He looked at the blood

in a aazeu way. nc — on the ground and the Plains of blood on his shirt-bosom, and his express! m once more was that of a muiderm. “I li kill him if 1 ever get him in my power ” The Superint mdent of Barnesville Poorhouse fairly gritte I his teeth. “1/il kill him —but I L co it in my own time and way. I m not the man to risk , the penitentiary or the gal ows.” | j “Curse him—curse him through ad । ' eternity!” a favorite oath; “but I’u make him pay up for this.” I i He looked down the road. \\ as that somebody coming up? Yes. He could see them plainly—-a group of men. He advaucd to meet them They proved to b; some farm hand; and laborers on , the public highway returning home. When they reache 1 Zeke Caper, they stopped to speak to h m. , “Yes—no»wonder you look at me. Jhe > wonder is I’m here, to look at. See 5 there. ” ’ 1 He bared his head. 1 hey looked at the I lump on his head, at the bloody face. He i ' presented a sickening spectacle. He i was really only a trifle the worse of the o hurt, but he looked like a man whose ” head'had been pounded to a jelly. a Then the way Zeke Caper groaned and moaned! It was enough to move any one n “Who did it? Did they rob you?” i “I don't know. I haven’t looked. D was a boy—a boy who ran away fron e the poorhouse. I was trying to take bin y, bock, and he took me unawares am

>. thought ho had murdered mo. It was I long ago. I laid on the road a long time.” o “What a devilish creature he must be.” “An awful bad boy did that.” , “Ought to bo hung.” “He will be some day.” t “Yes, he’s bound to hang.” . 1 These were tho comments Zeko’s talo I elicited. ■ j “So you belong to tho poorhouse?” 1 • “I’m Zeke Caper, the Superintendent. ” I “What! the Superintendent! This is I a mighty serious business, ” said one la- > boring man. i । His follows nodded. ■ I “Which way did tho boy go?” , “I don't know. To Barnesvire, I I suppose.” 11 “He’ll be caught—he’ll come to grief,”' saul one. “If we got our hands on him, you’ll get him back soon.” । “I'll let the law deal with him,” said ; Caper. “I’m a law-abiding man ” ; “That's more than most of us would , say with that, head.” Thore was a chorus of sympathy now ] for the poor Superintendent. At that moment a farm hand espied a boy’s head peering at them above a fence rail. The boy was lying on the ground. Tho farm hand pretended to walk along without observing the boy,

» .u<s VMM uvj) but all at once he shouted: “He^o he is!” ’ Inst mtly tho remainder of tho group j ran in tho direction he pointed. । Tho boy ran jts fast as ho could. Tho I pursueri^^ifang, clambered over, and I crawled Wrough the fence. They separated. and were not long in heading the boy off. Tho man who espied him first caught ] the boy roughly and flung him down. I Ho would have done him bodily injury in his wrath but a fellow checked his arm. | “Lookout. Don’t you kill him. Leave i that to tho law. ” I They took him back to tho road. ] There, with Caper glaring at him, sur- ! rounded by men who regarded him as a ] murderer, Dick's heart sank. For, as the reader has inferred, it was ' poor Dfbk. He felt like a murderer, i Ho could not leave the scene of his crime, a- ho thought, and had stolen back to look at tho Superintendent, , when he was surprised, first upon be- > holding Caper sit up, then curiosity im- ' polio I him to remain ami witness tho I meeting with the workmen | And this was tho result. He would bo j put in the penitentiary or returned to i the poorhouse. Anything was prefer- ] ab'e—death was preferable to Barnes- | vllle poorhouse “What have you to say for yotiis If?” demanded Caper, grasping Dick's arm. “Nothing to you." Thru, addressing I the men near him. “Take me to prison. I am ready to go anywhere but to the poorhouse. lam willing to let him toll* his story. and if tho judge will only listen to mine, whatever they do will be right. That man swore ho would kill me. He tried to murder me, and I saved my life by hitting him with a stone. ■ “What a liar! oh, what a liar that boy Is,” said Zeke Caper, groaning “Yes, you can tell that by looking al him,” said one. “Seo here, mates ” said one who had hitherto been silent, “I’m not so sure about that. Mow'd any of you like to live at the Poorhous ? Was you ewr in a Poorhouse?" “No. I never Another amt another said the samtS ,“VV ell. I have lieen. I've been In J t

^Wc' i “No, you're out there, Mr. Superintendent. I was there helpin’ the plumbers—l worked there three weeks, aud the way you treat folks lon't suit me, nohow. ' You've g- t your own swed will of them and you wallop 'em right and left. I'm in fax or of giving the boy a fair trial, if he calls mo as a witness , ■ why. I'll go right willing, and tell ail 1 know.” 1 i -And what do yon know "’ demanded Caper, beginning to bluster. "W ho are you that talks to me in this way?” “There! There! 'tow fee! You hear ’ him,” retorted the mm of spirit, i “That’s not a patching to the lordly airs 1 I've seen him put on. I've seen him i strike old men yes I have, and women. ; : Yes I saw this man lick a little girl — they called her Joe " “lie was always abusing her until 1 ’ took his mind ofl her. ami then he > been down on me ever since,” said Dick, with i fire in his eyes. ’ t aper discovered when* too iate that c ho had revealed his real disposition, lie t pretended his head hurt him, but no one ? pitied him now. -Tell you what 1 believe, mates, said t 1 the speaker, who manifested an inde- - pendent spirit "If he’ll wash himself I've an idea he won t look much tm worse. Smear mo with blood and 1< g look awful, too.” Caper cuts d him beneath his breath. '. “Look yon. boy,” >a:d the man win s befriended him "Do you want to g<

back with him?” , “I'd sooner die!” exc.aimed Dice “Well, wiil we take you to Barnesville and put you in jail?” “I don’t care what becomes of me, said Dick, desperately. The workman talked apart with bis fellows. Cai-er meanwhile waked homei ward. The man turned to Dick again. “You take my advice, now. (ut your hookey. Run for your life. If that fellow gets you in his clutches he'll pay

vou off he’ll do for vou If you’re emi-h! near here, they'll put yon in mil; In aC e send vou to the penitentiary. I know what it is to hav.' no friends. You j get as far away as you can before morn- | ins, and keep moving mind what I say, keep moving. I was only blowing. : They wouldn’t mind what I d say iu ! court. He'd have it all his own way.” I Dick looked alert He was impressed, t o, with the advice given him. I “We'll keep quiet. Nobody 11 mar anything fnm us. Ho may tell. Iles likely to get his clutch ‘S on you. “I’m very much obliged to you, said । Dirk. “You'll walk a little ways with us, so 1 as to deceive him—then cut tour stick?’ This was the plan Dick pursued. W hen he was a quarter of a mile on the road, lie darted from the laborers ted ’ across a held, and once more disap- | neared in the fringe of timber land that ' ho had sought shelter in earlier in the 5 ' day. . » | • •£( j be CONTIM ED. | 9 ’ Thfre is a spot a thousand miles , I square in Cential Africa where there 1 I is neither coal, non, water supply ’ tillable soil, trees lor lumber fodder t for stock, or anything else of the leas n I value to man, and it can be bought £ cheap, advertised as the El Dorado oi d । the world, and sold so” $25 afoot fion . I

i THE-SUNDAY school. ; SEROUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. AT S“6hta j ^*th ß,t,on ° f tho -Ttm eWe ii Spen^ ° f Scrl P tur e’ found in jXi nJ. 1 S 8 U " day ' July 61 nitty b ® The Ik tuoductory. been fUp Vj° (,I<l ^tament have tho truth 'fh » 1 ° n '. for we have le a«wd which t s *iyhig, u They are they » I°/ m °'” But now wo are to fviould )>« , te strange that there d\ v tel? I Plucking up cf interest in Sununy -schools all over tho land? t WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. en U nl, J g ' Tbo ft,st word of Genesis, enl "> - k ’ as woU ns human thought and ”P ee c«^an go, to that pre-existence which was God’s from before the foundation of tho world. C f, j. John! The Word. Greek, logos, in the sense of declaiatlon, this bemg the gospel of God manife* lor declared; seo v. 18 below. With < xl. Preposition of association or participation was God. Accent on the last word. Greek ’t* tV- d Uo<i WHS ,h ° Worti ’ PtcJh'ato

puv ursv. The same. Greek, This one or ho. Slgnltk imt reference to Christ, the chief among > ten^^Bmsand —Was in the beginning. ‘’mphosis. Christ was before IdM^h’hly, human birth. Indicating the extent of his ps^MpaWon. Uy him, or through him, by H^fcutborlty. Without him. No ox- ' ■cepHons Greek, not one thing. That was made. ’ ereutlon , ' aS b ° Cn Ula<le ' Tl ‘o visible ^ThV'ii^t 9 !' fe ' I>rcsent ten ,is life. In darkness. Opposite of light. Tho tin ? frO ' n Chrlst dark - CoinpreoVVu' An o,mcur « Passage. The word hl i ßtasn. to take hold of; m. 1 ’v a ? Ol>ts ,l “' ‘“caning approh ml Kendered, thus, “perceive” at Acts 4 U and 10: 3L There Is another sense, io »■'t ,to take possession of, overwhelm, bw It n Vs :^ of n "’Pte” and the boy at Mark 9: 18 (“wheresoever be taketh him >. f here was a man. Not the same as In was of v. 1. This meaps camo to be or Ply came. A man. Not, as before, V'! frnm ^“l- The highest dlgto "'hlch mere man has attained ..»hn. The Baptist. 'ho same. This one rho (emphatic) sntew ,c,‘e v 2 so contrasting t hrift and hn. o bear witness of the I.Lht. Homo m».the Light.” The word -witness hcn r s marturkm, from which comes marty r ;nidi, verily, John bt'came. AH men .jsfße ali” seems to bear special cmI h .i* Through him, i. ~ , through J»»n John's ministry had then partlcuiur licailng on faith, I. e.. belli fln tt si|mony. 17 1 ,bal John purposely and p rr - I - st ntly singling < lirist ou t ;is s,- ; ar ne -mil pione Ip his divine dignity... —Was s„ nl p, t>Sj-witness. Tho was sent is added; the pn-aK<- is all tho clearer as «,.n as more aedratc if rendered without it. but was the true Light. It would bo nmver the Greek to say. the true Light n a, tbatwhldi. etc - Lighldh every mnn i. e .'ndlrlduaHy, the word -man” is In the I AH men b nrow t»f the Christllghtspot wll acknowledge it. Which cometl into the world. Ambiguous, but more frobobly talongtag to t|in word -light. Thus, the true light was Hut nhlch^ nilng Into the wo Id. IHhteth .o erv man. , He I tn tho world. C nneet with -that cnmetßntO the world," The Greek order brins*.t more dearly this connection. In the v4.l was be.--Made by him. Adding 1

1,. , / - 1 o c!.u u Xml lil- >' T An a stn>ns surprise ■ f speech Kb* t ni\od.* In the sei s • of acknowledgment. This if me wor! lewd at Col. <l. -As ye have uWb- *e received Christ Jesus." Ato ♦ . I.lk X for criticism. Grace and truth. Redeeming and upbuilding. In Gt bosom Where he may know. Hath Jwlared him. Made us know. lubosotnd him. Ghat thi r.rssox teas lifts. j n /ie beginning was the Word. Then, Chrl« an brethren, you and I were there, t,fiere In th" thought and In the heart of </l- 1\ r won! signifies revelatloi . eommut cation. And now I read that It was ■ In t'e beginning: It was alv in (. d's grach^" purpose to declare himself, he had a from before the foundation of the 1 w*d. Looking back thus our hearts are 1 st ngely thrilled. We ;i re not of to-day. nw<L yest» rday. -In the la ginning " We • look c'‘k and we are lost; and then we look forward ami we are hst again, in [ wonder. Me and praise, again, and again, ( and agsiiv 1 He wa not that Light, but was sent to be»r wj’ne's of the Light. S■am I. Thu . Christ Im disciple stands to-day alongside 1 of Join, pointing and say mg, “Behold, the s Ltnjof God, that tak« th away the sin of 0 tl< world." We -are witnesses, Gott help t*to render tesUm my as simple and direct I a-was that of the great harbinger! Os ■- wk tn was it hies. >lly s lid: f .-If held the lam;> of truth that day O S low that none could : iss the way: j I Ad yet so high to ! i ing in s.ght Tin picture fair, -The World’s Great Light.'

Te l and that held it - ur ’e was seen.” bit as many a< received him. to the:a gge bo power to l» 'ome the sons of Go I. OTarher. right to be the sons of God. I’he htmt we have received Christ into hearts ofaitli. our names are already written in th Lamb's l>ook of Life, and we are King s s,;s. To how many has this text tin-own tii gate wide open! Become sons? Sune as doubtless trying to attain to that digny by effort, by sacsitice It cannot be dde. Sonship is a gift, a thing received xvh Christ. Have we not read it? -Beluvd, now are we the sons of God " 1 hero SOU .'tiling t > be sained, stature, fulin -ss Xltsnu? inu-t be isorn before we glow. It is n« knt > sonship, but In smship. that wo । uVrvw ti rn vn

dt Jop and attain. “Now are ye ognt la th&rd, walk as children of the light.” -Ac ■ for grace. Here is orthodoxy. OrWight; doxa. appearance or opinion. I s' ! stand clear in the sight of men and a jqs, orthodox, according as 1 approach tl mind and life that was hi Christ Jesus, (ace for gracohis comeliness transferred, h beauty, his blessedness: For Christ gUs • f iiis very own, not something les-, its- himself. “My peace” he said, -my joy." to seo pattern perfectly copied in the c t oil of Jesus < hrist! nt grace and truth came by Jesus ( hr:.st. I Is not. only Savior, but Teacher, Master. S' ie of us are so easily sat isfied. We ask s ply to have < ur poor souls saved, just r sinned and plucked from the burning, t1 is all. But these are but as the rudit its. There is grace for saving and there i rae 1 for upbuilding which is the truth < •<><!, and both of these came by J< sus < Ist. “See that ye come short of no gift.” ft Kansas woman boasts that she irer appeared on the street twice 4hin the same week in the same I oss. Her husband is wearing a suit I tdeh he bought four years ago, and a H of the vintage 1885. I r¥ E butt end of an electric wire conth>l more terror than the south end of iorth-bound plantation mule, and any ; iniwho forms an acquaintance with P mower is never known to forget it. • V fraud in need, is a fraud in deed.

THE POSITIVE TRUTH ’ — that all the hoosier news is HERE. What Ou r ».| shbwAr , Omng-Matters of Generat and Local Intel eat-Accl-dents, Crimes, Suicide, Etc. —New Albany makes and ships three carloads of glass i niit jars cvcry <|ay Ure destroyed George Moore’s rcs j. dence near Martinsville. Defective flue. —Mary Newby, Plainfield maiden lady is insane, as a result of religious excitement. —M-s. Bernard Frie was badly burned in explosion of gasoline at New Albany. —The eastern exursion of Indiana newspaper men will start from Frankfort the last of July. —James McCardle seriously injured >J <lll exploding smoothing-iron in Muncie Dye Works. —Gharles Gilmore, a colored minister

at Muncie, was slashed with a razor in a fight with Frank Cotterail. Ihe Indiana Live Stock Investment Company, at Crawfordsville, has paid out ,oti insurance on horses, —Martinsville was visited With what was supposed to be a < loud-burst, the streets and cellars being inundated. Earl Lucas was loading a shotgun at Jeffersonvilh l , when it was accidentally discharged, tearing a hole in his hand. —Moses Kinnmann, an old steamboat pilot well known for years on the Ohio and Mjssjssippi, died from paralysis at New Albany. A counterfeit dollar is in circulation at Columbus and the editor of the Kcpn is losing sleep f. )r fear it will be passed on him. —Amos Stephenson beat his hor-e to death with a club because it couldn't pull a load up hill near Crawfords, i.|p. <lffieers are after him. \\ hile assisting in raising a barn, four mill's southeast of Corydon a lew dav> ago, Madison L. Brown, aged ?3 }< ar>. ruptured a blood vessel and died a few hours after. tiiandma Ogies, near Martinsv!ll»>, i" years old. has not been further than three miles from home in thirty years, never -,iw a locomotive and never had her picture taken. A lot of dry goods stolen from Walmer A (o. s store at Montpelier three years ago, was returned to the postmaster there last week from Chicago with a note from the thief say ing he had reformed and repented. A short time ago C. Benedict, of t hieago, a traveling representative of N< Ison Morris, the big pork packer, sold three ‘ ar-load- of meat to butchers in , Fort Wayne and collected <i,ihio for the ( same. It now seems ho din not turn Ahts money over to the firm, but disap-

;>■ .mil With the funds. .. . 1 f I ■ , » f * * * * . , k -ed against the spine. Tltr iJiflv at once became paraly/od below the place where the ball was vm bedded. Delias no feeling nor use of his legs, un d It is thought he cannot live. A companion was in the act of shooting at a bird when young Kctnington stepped in front of the gun. J. E. Townsend, of Harveysburg Warren bounty, (thio, was instantly killed by the early south-bound passenger train on the tW. a M. Railroad, a half mile south of Milford. He was crossing the track in his buggy when the team was struck by the engine. From papers on his person it was learned that the man was a physician ami was deaf and dumb. Tim buggy was broken in pieces, but the horse escaped without being hurt. - The attorneys for the capitalists who are interested in the project of piping g.is from the indiat a fields to Chicago claim that their < Hunts will go right ahead, regardless of the recant Supreme Court deci-ion. They urge that according to this derision artificial pressure reaching 300 pounds may be used, and that such pressure will be sufficient to

pump gas to Chicago. Should these capitalists attempt togoahead with the work it is likely that injunction proceeding will be brought and the Supreme Court asked to define the meaning of the 300-pound clause in toe opinion of Judge Elliott. It is possible the ease may get, into the United States Supreme Court. —At the Annual Encampment of the Sons of Veterans, held at Logansport, the following officers were re-elected: Colonel, John W. Newton, of Winchester; Lieutenant-Colonel, William Beach, of Indianapolis; Major, Franks. Martin, of Lebanon; Camp Council,E. S. Walker, of West Lebanon: George C. Harvey, of Danville, and Fremont Garrett, of Win- ! Chester; Delegate at Large, Horace G. Ogden, <4 Danville; Alternate. Henry H. j Weaver, of I’iltsboro; Delegates to Na- ’ tional Encampment, Thomas H. Burt, of Lafayette; O. E. Ensley, of Indianapolis, and George I’. Newman, of HamJ mond; Alternates, George Krietenstien, , of Terre Haute; William 11. Steele, of - Pendleton, and J. W. Noel, of Star City. । The next Encampment will meet at lort s Wayne. —The onion crop raised by the farmers , residing on the river bottom west of New Albany is said to be very large and fine 3 this season. Four hundred barn Is in. e t already been shipped to Northern points. 1 At Peru, twelve persons out ot the families of Abnei Kissman, Daniel Whitehead. J. Summi rs. J. W cist, and f B. Smith, were seriously poisoned by V eating imported dried beef purchased at 11 a grocery store. Prompt medical at- . tendance saved them, though the condition of some is still serious.

——— THESE ACTUAL FACTS — ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. An Intnrnntlns Summary of the More Important Doing, <>f our Neighbor* ~ Crimea, Casualties, Deaths, Etc. . A tin-plate factory is to be established at Elwood. —Exploding gasoline disfigured Mrs. Bernard Free, at New Albany. Daniel Clip was killed by a falling beam at a barn raising near Goshen. I nah Lambrum beat his brains out against the wall in the Madison jail. —Seymour butter dish factory works “P 300,000 feet of timber every month. David Stobo. ex-County Recorder, of Columbus, was badly injured in a runaway. —Robert Young and wife, near Ladoga, have been arrested for starving their babe to death. Jolin Newby, of Hamilton Countv.

IKHIIIHUII VOUlliy, , had to kill a valuable dog that showed signs of hydrophobia. : Mrs. Rachael Prigg, of MechanlcsI burg, was stric’ ”n with paralysis at her daughter’s home near Muncie. —The Tenth Indiana—fantry has decided to hold a reunion at Crawfordsville, Sept. 18 and 19. —.lames Mulhaney, aged 97 years, died suddenly of cramp colic at his home m ar Eckerty, Crawford County. —I. J. Brittain, of Noblesville, has a number of revolutionary relics, including an old clock that has kept time for 120 years. —Paul Burns, of Crawfordsville, gathered forty-two gallons of cherries from a tree that has been bearing fruit thirtytwo years. -A hired hand on Watson Cohoe’s farm, near Columbus, found a stone weighing two pounds, that is supposed to contain fine gold. — Indiana Association of Spiritualists have bought the mounds near Anderson, and will make the historic spot the spii itnalist's chaiitaqua. -Io protect themselves from petty pilfering the farmers residing near Silver Grove have organized themselves into a neighborhood police force and patrol the country roads nightly. ■ IV. E. Liddler and Lewis Gwin, both prominent farmers near Cicero, are laid up on account of serious injuries. The former fell from a scaffold, while the latter was thrown from his buggy. —Tlic Methodistsand ('ampbellites at Kingman tire disputing over the possession of a church that was built by common subscription, and in which the denominations alternately worshiped for years. —The foundry department of the Ohio Falls car-works, at New Albany, has temporarily suspended, ami unless new contracts arc received soon this immense

establishment will be compelled to cease operations altogcther. I he thirteenth annual convention of iant street pm mm; 1 -,.f st. John was formed Knightsand 1,000 civic members participated. Ten bands furnished the music. After the parade the prize drill took place. — I’he State Board of Health is objecting to the recent improvements made by ne Crawfordsville Water-works Company. It is claimed that the wooden tubing through which water is run from springs to the pump-house is so shallow that it admits surface-water, and thus contaminates the pure water of the springs. —At Brazil, Don. W. R. Guthrie, prosecuting attorney, was assaulted from behind by an unknown man, receiving a blow which it is thought has fractured the skull and may prove fatal. The would-be assassin broke and run, 1 but was captured and locked in jail. He is supposed to be some old criminal whose conviction LawyerGuthcrie had perhaps secured at some time in the past. He fought desperately when caught. —Plans for the new court-house to be erected at La Porte, have been accepted by the County Commissioners, ami work will begin at once. B. S. Tolan, the > well-known architect, of Fort Wayne,

wa- the successful contestant over a half dozen other lirst-class architects and building engineers who competed for the job. Mr. Tolan’s draughtings call for a handsome, modern structure, with equipments equal to those of any likesized building in the State. —A mysterious poisoning ease occurred a few days ago in Washington Township, Gil son County, in wliich Mrs. John Robb lost her life, and her little daughter narrowly । '•t ap* d dfath. Airs, llyobt accompanied by th<* child, went to a spring near their home to got a drink. Over the surface was found a green scum, which usually gathers on the water of a sluggish flowing spring. This she pushed away, drank copiously, giving to the child a small quantity. Shortly afterward both were taken violently i I with all the symptoms of poisoning, and the mother died two days after. The child, however, recovered. Upon examining the water in the spring it was found that it was greatly impregnated with paris green, a virulent poison, which had been put there by some miscreant supposedly for the purpose of destroying the family. —ln the criminal libel suit of Miss Carrie Curran against the Madison Democrat for .$.■»,000 damages for defamation of character the jury gave, a verdict for plaintiff for 81,500. —A riot took place at Mishawaka in a saloon the other night. The participants demanded possession of the saloon driving out the proprietor and bartender with clubs. They detied the police, cut and slashed each other most shamefully until stopped by th 1 marshal and a posse.