St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 March 1894 — Page 7

METHODISTS MAKEUP TWO GREAT DIVISIONS OF THE CHURCH FRATERNIZING. After Just Fifty Years of Eitranffeiaent the Northern and Southern Branches Begin to Exhibit Symptoms of a Desire for Reconciliation. Hold a Love-Feast. For the first time in half a century the two great branches of the Methodist Church in America—the Methodist Episcopal Church, by which name the Northern body is designated, and the Methodist Church South —have come together in a love-feast. This has just taken place in St. Louis, and is especially noticeable as having taken place in that city, because there the passions aroused, by the civil war ran high and with unusual virulence. It is specially significant as showing the growing strength of the fraternal feeling between the bodies, which may yet lead to their organic union. The question on which the once united Methodist Church of the United States split was that of slavery, and the same lines that marked the seceding States in the war marked the division of the church. But this question, while always a cause of dissension in the denomination, and condemned by the laws of the church, hai been tolerated for years, because the church recognized that under the laws of some of the States the emancipation of slaves was not always possible. Hence it contented itself with coca ional fuiminations on the subject of slavery, but did not debar the owners of or dealers in s aves from membership. These expre sions pleased the Northern sentiment, and while the South did not go into ecstasies over them, it took the matter quietly as long as its pet institution was not menaced. Disruption of the Conference. This good feeling was rudely shattered in the General Conference of 1844 and the secession spirit which later threatened, to disrupt the nation made itself painfully manifest. The conference, which was held in New York, was required to take action on an appeal frem the Baltimore conference. The case was that of the Rev. Francis A. Harding, who had been suspended for failure to manumit slaves belonging to his wife, the Baltimore conference holding that the laws of Maryland permitted such manumission. The General Conference upheld this decision. The decisive case, however, was of .Bishop James A. Andrews of Georgia. Bishop Andrews had married a Georgia widow, whose former husband, among other possessions, had left her several slaves. When the Bishop married he secured these slaves to his wife by a ! deed of trust. The connecti m of a general superinten lent with slaveholding caused a profound sensation in the N r hern church, and it was claimed that this relation would infract the provision forbidding the General Conference to destroy the plan of the itinerant General Superin e idency, since it would 1 be impossible lor a slave-holding B sh- ’ ov. r tbo Northern con- *

uella SnvdggMK. Bfl 7 I .. ^pvpncs-— ,Jfihe i was (0^8?^ Andrews to dwpcse M s his slaves or resign his < fhee. The hist ] he would not do, I ecause cf his deed o. trust; the latter his people would not . allow him to do. Division Decided Upon. Steps were at once taken toward securing a division of the church and its property. The South demanded a proportional share of the capital, assets, etc., of the Book Concern, and tms division was generally assented to as equitable by the Northern conferem e-. Owin’- to the opposition of a few, however,’the United States Supreme Court had finally to decide the question, which it did m favor of the South. A call for a convention of Southern j Methodist< was then issue!, and in May. 1845, delegates from all t ie s.aieholding States assembled at Louis’, ule, Kv. Here an organization was effected, and the first general conference deededupon fc/May. 1816. at Petersburo-, Va. that tme * he org If Hon has ste^progressed in strength and riches, although the wai some-

what impeded its progress, it , now about 12,000 churches and the same number of clergymen and nearly ( 1,500,000 communicants. Bishop Andrews continued actively engaged in the ministry until his death in 1872. May lof that year he preached in New Orleans: toe next day he died suddenly of heart failure. He was 77 years old. WHEAT IS A DRUG NOW. Farmers Holding Back with the Hope of Obtaining Higher Kate’. The Chicago Herald publishes, under the caption. “Wheat Is a Drug, a three-column article, bristling uith statistics, tending to show that the present low’ price of wheat is the natural result of the prevailing financial depression, assisted by overproduction and the holding back of marketable k n. I ivt s of the farmers. Interviews | \ Tun bankers and merchants are also 1 Md a tuo irnndot their views seeming ■

to indicate that the effect of existing ; conditions on finance are not great, out i are directly attributable to the :aw of supply and demand. The position taken . by the Herald is extremely bearish, as ; will be seen by the subjoined excerpts: > Wheat is prostrate in all the markets , of the world. For weeks it has been a i drug at prices unprecedented since • speculation in fnrm pr- ducts began. । It has sunk below all low marks, refused to respond to bullish influences, । and gone begging at quotati ns taken to be under the actual cost of production. Theories that crop products, like articles of manufacture, had an intrinsic value under which they could not long be sold, have been exploded,

and wheat has continued to fall. How i long this condition of depressed pi ices ’ will last is a question that interests American farmers, who devote 35,0 0,0)0 acres every year to cultivating tae cereal to merchant in the land, and, incidentally, to speculate the world over. . „ After analyzing all the influences thieve contributed, and there are any number of them, it would appeal that a new level tumble is about to be established for wheat, beyond which it is not likely to rise except by the boldest manipulation, and then only for brief periods. There are gpecula-

> tors who believe that those good old days when $1 a bushel was the rule will never come again, and that sev-enty-five cents may ba looked to as the - future top-notch quotation. These men are by no means bears, for they concede that wheat cannot hover long around the depressing figures of to-day. They have ransacked the statistics of the world, and claim to have discovered 1 that the cheap product of Russia, India and the Southern hemisphere, which has lately turned an almost inexhaustible supply into the markets of Europe, will finally drive the American crop out. Exposed to that fatal competition, they argue that wheat raising will some day become an American question, to be treated without reference to the export ma: ket, and on the theory that Europe will be supplied from the fie ds that skirt the Baltic, from the rich plains of India and from South America. It may be said that this gloomy view is not shared 1 y the professional bull, who, with ad his buoyancy, offers no promise of an early return to prosperous prices. It is conceded by all speculators, as well as by those whose interests are greater than margin profits or losses, that wheat declined during the panic through sympathy with other stocks and comm :dities. It would be unreasonable to expect it to stand firm and alone in the general collapse that carried everything else down, but the decline cannot be charged exclusively to the panic, nor is its continued prostration, after other st cks rallied, explained by those who point to that as the cause of prices prevailing now. The acreage and the yield of wheat in the United States was le s in 1893 than for any year since 1885, and yet the farm price, 52 cents, was far below that of previous years. It is undeniably a act. that the tremendous overproduction of 1892 and 1891, which left a larger visible supply than the country had ever known, is responsible in a measure for the present low quotati ns. Statistics of visible supplies, acreage, yield and farm prices from 1886 to 1893, inclusive, are then quoted, an analysis of which follows: In 1885 the acreage fell to 34,189,246 and the yield to 357,112,00) bushels, but t! e farm prices reached 77.1 cents. From that time back to 1880 the a -reage never fe’l below 36.393,319, and the lowest yield was 380,280,000 bushels. The la: m price ranged from 64.5 cents in 1884 to 110.3 in 1881. Only twice since 1880 has the United States crop fallen below the figtues of 1893, and that was in 1885, when the farm price was 71.1 cents, and in 1881, when the yield was .’80,280,00), and the price at the farm 110.3. In 1887, with a visible supply of 61,885,50), the high and low'price record was 741, 78t, and the Herald reasons that the present phenomenally low prices are not unreasonable in view of the glutted condition of the principal wheat-producing sections, and that the fact of the cereal being worth less than the a t::al cost of production will but ten 1 to divert the present acreage to the production of some more profitable crop. It is said, as an instance, that of the 23,000.009 bushels raised in Michigan, only 9,009,090 have been brought to market. These figures may not be correct, but the impression is general that farmers are housing a greater reserve now, in anticipation of higher quotations, than they have ; ever held back. Mysteppjis arrivals 1 At 4, TY-< j 1 ~ .1

t?m*Tr mfr w^W ^hese w- . picions. , । Board of Trade men. however, are afreet that better times are ahead, and that the effect of these low prices is, by no means, as disastrous as migh be supposed. WANTS THE CITY HALL SITE. Cook County Commissioners Make a Big Demand on Chicago. At the next meeting of the County Board of Cook County the first gun will be fired in a long legal battle, the duration of which will probably not. be measured by the present generation, I when Countv Attorney Judd presents an order for'the Board's approval making a formal demand upon the city ot Chicago for_the possession of the city hall prope ^y. City officials are at present incHned to consider th I- as a wke, or. at best, a bluff on the part, of the Comity Commissioners. It is thought that the latter have an object to gain, the nature of which is not yet

al Attoimey Judd said, according to a t dispatch, that the county s intentions 1 were serious. “I shall.” said he, ask v the Countv Board to pass an order £ making the demand on the city merely j as a necessary legal formality. Ihe , city will, of course, refuse to comply, ) anil then I shall file a bill for the county. It will pr- bably come up in ( the Circuit Cour*. I expect to get a decision and carry the case before the Supreme Court m the October term of this rear. , . •■lam of the opinion that the county hes a legal right t > the land. As foi compensating the city for its hmffimg, tl at is another question, but 1 don t th nk the courts will think it neces-«a>-v This is not precisely a question of equity or justice, you see. Neither s’de will be robbed, wn cheyer wins, because the two municipalities are uraeHcMlv the <am?. The city pays 1 seven-eighths of the emm’y taxes, and l tn., issue only concerns tlie best u-e pt I

me issue ; A- , the people’s money and the pc( pit s 1 property. The talk is already started E by some of the County Commissioners as to the disposition of the City Hall ( grounds when they get them. A . $5,0 0,00 I building for county purposes, with an in closure in which is to be the 1 i jail, is one of the projects discussed. i Corporation Counsel Rubens thinks I the legal aspects of the suit are not ■ worth worrying over. He thinks it -would ba fortunate for the city if the c >untv won the suit, for the city cou <s than enter into negotiations with tho United States Government to exchange property on the lake front for the custom house block and therei n erect a new city hall.

Newsy Paragraphs. SECOND hearing of the Franklin will contest has commenced at Nashville, Tenn. Edward Neely, of Butler, Pa., was killed by a boiler explosion-while drilling an oil well. OWING to the illness of Captain Miller the Kearsarge beard of inquity aujourned indefinitely. At Muncie, Ind., a 5-year-old boy attempted to couple some cars and was ao badly hurt that he may did

i DOMESTIC ECONOMY. J TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Trained Managers for Farmers-Feeding । Bees in Winter—Planting Fruit Trees Grinding Corn on the Cob-Leasing a Farm. Ceasing a Farm. The time is now at hand for the renting and leasing of farm lands, and it is well worth while when one has land to rent to have the bargain carefully drawn up by a competent lawyer, and a copy of the agreement given to each party so that there can be no mistake about the terras on either side. The following information by an attorney will be found of great value to those about to rent or lease property: In the rental of property the greater risk is always on the landlord’s side. He is putting his property into the possession and care of another, and that other is not unfrequentlv a person of doubtful trustworthiness. These rules and cautions may well be observed: 1. Trust to no verbqJLease. Let it be in Its sW^JmaTTons then become ctWiF mands, and can be enforced. Let !

the lease be signed in duplicate, so I that each party may have an orig-; inal. 2. Insert such covenants as to re-1 pairs, manner of use, and in restraint! of waste, as the circumstances call for. As to particular stipulations, examine leases drawn by those who have had long experience in renting farms, and adopt such as meet your case. 3. There should be covenants against assigning and sub-letting. I 4. If the tenant is of doubtful re-j sponsibility, make the rent payable* in installments. A covenant thatj the crops shall rema n the lessor’s till! the lessee’s contracts with him lavel been fulfilled is valid against the! lessee’s creditors. In the ordinary case of renting! farms on shares the courts will treats the crops as the joint property otf| lord and tenant and thus protectthef farmers’ rights. 5. Every lease should contain all stipulation for forfeiture and re-j entry in case of non-pavnient oil breach of any of the covenants. I 6. To prevent a tenant’s commit! ting waste, the courts will grant a» injunction. T 7. Above all, be careful in select^ ing your tenants.—Baltimore Amer lean. Educated Farm Manage™. There are in the School of Agri I culture of the Ohio State University students who ha e various amount' of training ranging from four month to four years. These young mer rante in age from fifteen to hirt. ; years, ceperally from eighteen _t 1 twenty-live and aie vanouslyu^E

art' always a rmmfn-, on account of completing their couisc^^^, or for legitimate financial re ason < lec | desire to secure work in the manaxe ment of farms or gardens. They arg^ intelligent, earnest, h iro workm^^ young men, interested body and sot in farming and farm life and whfxt^ only wish an opportunity to applßam o tneir brains and mus lo along thes^^ , lines at fairly remunerative retunH se It is believed that there are in Oh. many land owners who cannot pe. eonally manage their farms, wt th^ need just such help. iec( o It is to be understood that the^ young men are for the most pa without capital, and must therefo. seek employment at a salary or ti nit e . management of farms on share---1 where their knowledge, training, ar f work may be placed alongside tlot^ 1 ca; ital of the land owner. ^alari nnje ; ranging from 835 to $75 per mon $ would be expected, or an cpportuni th

to ccndu t farms on shares promu ing such remuneration. Anyo c^. wishing to secure such help shoUj Qe state definitely what he would e■ pect to do in a business way ar what line of farming he desires rt id have conducted, whether genei Wto farming, stock farming, danyiry. al truck farming, gardening, fruit ra^ ing, etc. ______ usFeeding the Bees. ■ The bees do generate the wr which forms the honeycomb, and tl ax is all that they do furnish over * at beyond their labor. This wax is£ nd tained from their bodies, and nff der to make it they have to be nc _ ished. So says the Western hiß They eat a 1 art of the honej^Cj gather. In tap the honey cells to unless they ate provided with gra^_

fated sugar s rup sufficient to Him ewer ail purposes. bu- i h< They prefer to take loose food raun- ! y er than to rob their careful y sea I b , honey cells of their stores. Butth- ■ g , de; riyed of both honey and syrh e d t, the bees in the winter time will I if c , gin to devour the wax cells, andfinup, y iy perish from starvation. Feed fie- ; back is consequently a misnomer. ial- l IV e do not teed back honeying food, for it is too expensive. Wc I c not feed back syrup in order to ,as r hone . We simply feed the syru do c the winter time to nourish and l®et I ( the bees, because we have taken n| in ( of the honey they have gathere&ep ■ sell. We must keep the bees in giost , condition through the winter, or | to they will come out of the hivefood , the spring in a weak and debilitielse i condition. p in i But one more point should betted i served, and that is that the bees r • some genuine honey for food. S ob- • of the cells should be left uncap’ seed and for the bees’ food. They do'ome - ter when they have part honey ped, J part sugar and syrup to live on . bet- . Ing cold weather. It is not econ and duromy

a8 t 0 extrac tever Fronts from Poultry, JamM nflouehman of a “iwit Profits of pouitX L d OQ the ixteen hens the He ° ayß: ®n and a half seas on daring to averaged 153* 72. They we?e a’? he year befor ®. « ana LX rn l , he specially invito attenUo^ / ■ W “ ul ' l 'Uber, wfth the l ' roi “ 1,11 Nt ” ade by a swill bnr^ 01 ^! 00 of sorLs ■y—in the morning— -md Th ° n Sj a ways the same utaX ? ad two-fifths sweet corn ann nature eh of wheat, barley, and ®a , same time I threw in a hJndud 0t grass, and in the fall usuSv J cabbage. Beef scraps were occasion Sally Placed before them. Dug the benod from April to Novem I bar they were kept confined to their at- nt too red twice £ a ^ hem ’ aQd in addition to ration, had at times

j meat of hogs’ harsletts “coolicff ana ! chopped. The eggs were sold at the ’highest market price, fetching much lof the time 40 cents a dozen. Deducting the cost of food and 50 cents on each fowl far depreciation, I find the average ] roht is $2.6 ’. I find no food so well liked by hens as sweet corn. It is very fattening, and. ther fore, will not do to be fed liberally to the varieties that fatten easily, such as the Brahma and Plymouth Ro k. Plant Fruit Trees. That the death of apple trees, J peach trees, etc., occasions regret I need not be wondered at, considerI ing the care that may have been beI stowed on them, to say nothing of I the advantage derived from the lusI clous, healthful fruit. But such H things are taking place every year. 0 Death sooner or later comes to all I things earthly. In the case of trees, i if they have served their purpose I well and given good returns in fruit, ' there cannot be much room for complaint. Especially is this true when one remembers that other trees may be planted. And p anting is not a hard task if one loves trees as did Sir Walter Scott. The sound advice he puts into the mouth of one of his characters will readly be recalled: i “Aye, keep stickin’ in a tree, Jock; jlt will be growin’ while You’re sleepin.” But the planting should be systematic. With many it is spasmodic. They give no thought to the matter until ! some tree agent comes alo: g with beautiful pictures and smooth talk, and then they “subscribe” for more than they can properly take care of,

Ijieresult is disappointment. IWuU ut cbi^, if the matter re- - ceives timely consideration, arid some Pjah tm? he dime cveiw scason. the r supply of fine fruit will be maintained. and tiie loss of trees will he F made up. In such case the planter, taking time to consider, will know - what he is doing. He will inform I himself not only in regard to the 1 kinds of fruit best suited to his lo- > । cality, but also in regard to the right place to obtain the trees true to 5 name. } GrincUng Corn on the Cob. There is a wide difference of opin- > ion among farmers as to the advisability of grinding corn on the cob. , | Prof. Stewart reports the Connecti- ; cut Experiment station as having . analyzed the cobs and found a feed- , . ing value of 44 per cent, per lo l j pounds. This is somewhat more thin । cornstalks are worth. But the stalk . i will be quickest eaten, and though it , may show not so much value by analysis as does th* cob a cow’s stomach would get m st good out of the stalks. Something, too. depends on the condition of the coband ti.e kind of stock to be fed. Cattle will eat ! cobs while they are green and sucI culent. After they have become dry, most of their material is turned to woody fiber, and is very hard to digest, that certainly’ does not pay to grind corn with cob for pigs, or old hogs, forthat matter. The trouble in getting the cob ground finely is obviated by mixing oats or other grain with the corn in the ear. This holds the cob in place, so that it does rot break into : chunks. Oats are also excellent ,to go with corn as feed: and lor horses, grains, oats, and corn without ■ the cob make as good ground feed as । can be wished, but it needs to be cut

... . - "(V.h | wwever finely 11 wav be grouu^b Stenieg cattle keep their appetite setter on coin and coo ground retber than they will on cornmeal. £t we wouldn’t advise feeding cornJob, ground or unground, to any poung animalStreet Names. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when a London street was newly formed, its name and S were frequently recorded on a tablet built into the wall ‘ corner house. The houses

themselves were also sometimes. distinguished by initials, either placed like the street, tablets or on a rainpipe or inside the build in-r. Some of these still survive, but there is constant danger of theirde- ! struction, for every year man} of ^.e I old houses are leveled with tho ground and streets, once important, i cease to exist, are merged in other 1 streets, or lose their importance by ■ being renamed. When you rise in the morning, 1 form a resolution to make the day a । happy one to a fellow-creature.

7 THE~SUNDAyIcHOOL • thoughts worthy of calm 3 | REFLECTION. y I . ■ L and Wh .„ „ Bo ; »■ • Th 7 Wi,l< ’ a m a , Lf SSOI ^ - for Sunda v. Ma-ch is may be found in Prov. 20: I-7 T), 1 - INTR ODUCTORY. word, and so it <rJ he -? ri ! t t h - 18 in ^od’s ternational seHe^ £e7ueat^ BrerSVhVu neg,7 ' :t hostilities us reStdl’J —’?«■»■> ct temperance. Bu“ thp in ’ not neglectful Sat^ , a ne ?o right on doing whS ?hev\ e ? 1O > ns an<r'domeTti at hiflu’ e n religious one d 'Ju advancVof^evH to us. Si i^ ,ber « h ? s , e 'n handed strongest h’trh’i- ed ° fro - m - one of th e n gh-license cities in tho mu,y nice already exist This in « ? Prohibi-

license —licen ed POINTS IN THE LESSON. “Wine is a mocker.” There stands the legend. The illustrations are oat upon the street, and have been since the word was writ. As Peloubet quotes, sadly enough: ‘•Tue drunkards will never be dead. I will tell you the reason why: A new one conies to take bis place As fa^t as the old ones die.” To mock means, fiist of all, to stammer. as of a foreigner trying to speak our tongue. Have you not heard it? The man who drinks' has sunk himself ta the brute and babbles out of a halfbrutality rather than a whole humanity. But shall we take it m its derivative sense, ta scorn to deride! There is nothing abroad that brings such scorn upon civilization as the white man's “fire-water.” Moreover there is nothing in our midst that produces scorn and derision for holy things like “the devil’s drink. ” It is suggestive that this is the same word to be found in the warning of the first Psalm, ‘-Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” “Raging” is a strong word. “Strong drink is raging;” literally, making a noise. Yes, howling, roaring, pre ently smashing the furniture, a little later, breaking heads —all the time breaking hearts. Have you ever lived next door to^ a drunkard's home? Or to a saloon? or the politer bar of a clubhouse? Rasing covers it. ‘ The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion." The king has power to destroy. It is wise to fear him and keep out of his way. as you do out of the way of a roaring lion. “Who so provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.” It is like rushing st aight into the hungry lion's lair. Sa do men trifle with strong drink. And is it not strong? It is “king” over some men—- “ King Alcohol”—and O how truculent,

how me Ciless. this king! ' The things that follow are the things that go with inebriety, the concomit- * ants of drink: strife, sluggardliness, - nonurv, men Heaney, illiteracy, im- : b> cility. faithle-sness. There are tho legitimate progeny of drunkenness. r But of the jest man walking in his in- , tegi ity, another sort cf posterity—“his ( children are blessed after him;” or, bringingout perhaj s more clearly the sen-e of the original, as does" the Douay: “Shall leave behind him blessed 1 children.” HINTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Here is an opportunity for some good, practical talk, particularly to the young men of to-day. Speak out plainly, as plainly a- dees the Bible on the curse of drink and on the utter folly of a iife given to worldliness and frivolity. He who is -everest with sin is kindest to the soul. When Judge S ward sent his son William to college he gave him 81,1 W with which t? get an education. Young Seward came home at the end of the freshman year with the money gone and many "bad habits learned. “You've got all that I can give you,” said his father. "You must work your own way through.” Severe, was he not/ But kind, "too, k nd to the son. and to the nation which that thoroughly awakened young min afterward helped topreserve. What is it to lie “a man of understanding?” Said Mr. Malloch in an article some years since in the Forum on “The Object of Life”: “The fact of sin and suffering in the universe is a serious problem to the Christian and the infidel alike: but to the infidel it is a knot that turns into a noose, and the atheist hangs himself at his own gallows.” “A man of understanding will draw it out.” A deep well requires a long chain. God’s own cable muit be let down into his wells of salvation. “The just man walketh in his integrity." Get a good purchase for the feet. Be ready: there’s a long walk ahead. An infidel lay upon his dying bed. His friends gathered around. With that sad impotency of speech

--- - v. V. . .XVJ VJ. up/vw 11 “Hold on, hold on. comraue. vney said “Hold on.” he cried, rallying a raiment and lifting his despairing face toward them. “in Gol* name, what have I left to hold on to. “A faithful man who can find. When you find such a man his faith fulness is sufficient procmmation of io dne-s. and it is also sufficient reproof of badness. Certain young men used to wish to carouse the night awaj in a certain town across tne water. Suddenly one of them sitting near t.ie window i aused in the revelry became silent and morose. V, hat is the mactpr'” his companion <aled out. 1

cant bear the sight ot tnat eveuubiinr hand across the way there. it was the hand of Sir Walter >cott under the curtains acro-s the street laboiiouslv copying his famous manuscripts while others slept or sported through the night. Thus always does honest industry shame and condemn the idle life: thus always temperance and integrity and truth preach for the use and against the unlike. Next lesson — Review and Easter. Read Heb. 11: 1-20. _ * A woman without jealousy is like a ball without elasticity.

• INDIANA INCIDENTS. ' SOBER fu R I L v TA;,TUNG ’ FA '™- fully Recorded. s s .“. m ”,T V •- line, .n,I General Ne ws N ot „ ’ CaßUa,t ””‘ and Condensed State New». streS° VRtalkß ° f Puttin ? brick mail dMh^ry.* 133 petitioned for free killed* in^ the 5 e' q^P', was 1 rinceton. y ard s at A COMPANY CFt are at Frankton ca P lt alists to locate an im> naKin ^ m^ angements there lm “®nse tin-plate plant The Southern Indiana Tea-L«~’ c iPPaM “ "•* “!? ot M KockpoA. ‘ \|) r |i session ’ ‘ U Pan^Han Ti a brake man on the tXn tS e 5 ElW °? d ' was cay ght beabout the chest. terrlbl y mashed The 18-months-old daughter o' Vr »■ Martli'vlS'-

man was tral tracks near Valparaiso. She was well dressed. Murder suspected. Samuel Steffle, a farmer two miles west of Claypool, was struck by a train on the Nickel-Plate Railroad near that town, and was instantly killed. Houston Starks, aged 10, of Jeffersonville, while playing at the approach to the new Ohio bridge, fell a distance of seventy feet and was fatally hurt, William Bauman, residing eight miles north of New Albany was killed recently. His wagon tipped over an embankment and he was crushed underneath it. He was 65 years old. The biggest Methodist revival in twenty years at Windfall is being conducted by Rev. A. A. Turner of Windfall, assisted by Rev. Disbrowof Greentown, and Rev. Erlocher of Center. The fast train on the Cincinnati division of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway struck and instantly killed Charles Glaser, a prominent farmer near Manchester. An Indian's skeleton has been dug up on a piece of ground east of Columbus, on the bank of Haw Creek, where a heavy growth of timber formerly stood. It i-3 supposed to be an old burving ground. The Commissioners of Pike County have decided to build a new county ia.il and Sheriff s residence at Petersburg. The new jail will cost $25,0W). The opposition on the part of the people of Winslow did not materialize. John Cedars, a wealthy farmer, aged 74 years,‘living near Waynetown, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. His wife has been very low with the grip for several weeks, and it is supposed that this preyed on the old man's mind. Fire originating from the smoke stack of a neighboring sawmill destroyed the barn of John Oswalt, four miles north of Wabash, together with three horses, a quantity of grain, hav, agricultural implements, am three . hwywrwnr jnrCe w miul. — $2,000; no insurance.

_At Seymour. Harry Francisco, aged ■ 17. attempted to jump on a Baltimore ; and Ohio switch engine, but he fell on the rails and two cars passed over him amputating both legs. The back of his head was also crushed in. and death was instantaneous. The boy’s father was a switchman in the yards there years ago and was killed in a similar manner. Mike Campbell, Clarence Stringfellow, and € harley Mcßride, three lt‘-year-old boys from Daviess County, were received at the Prison South recently. to serve one year each for larceny. They are the youngest criminals ever confined in the penitentiary. 1 his makes 693 convicts in the penitentiary at present, being the largest number ever confined there at ’one time. The friends of Cyrus Brown, who shot and killed his wife at Columbus, August last, and who is to be hanged at Jeffersonville April 30. have asked to have his body buried by that of his murdered wife in New Hope Cemetery. but the dead woman’s brothers refused, and the trustees, by unanimous vote, refused to allow Brown's body to be burled anywhere in New Hope Cemetery. Miss Angelina Lamb of Goshen, who lost her voice twelve years ago, as a result of severe sickness, has just regained it in a peculiar manner. An unusually severe paroxysm of coughing- resulted in a rearrangement of the vocal chords. She now speaks in a distinct, but moderate tone, and she says that she seems to be speaking unusually loud. The ease is regarded bv medical experts as one of the most : tin markable ever encountered. r p t A VERY singular discoverv v >er i made in Dubois County, south of Wi ington. one day last week, and it id 1 lieved by the older citizens to cleat „

a very mysterious disappearancfP piece of land along me a and among the trees felled va^a gio-antic sycamore, in which was a no. Fow that reached from the ground upward about fifty feet. M hen the tree fell it split open and half way broke m two at the top of the hollow, and a number of bones of a human oein o were presented to view. The discovery astonished the men who were workink in the timber, and when made known caused much discussion as to how thev came there. It is believed bv some‘that the bones are those of a mannamed Christy, who was warned for murder over thirty years ago.

Samuel Blair, a young farmer residing near Kentland, committed suicide bv placing hir- mouth over a snot^ m and pulling the trigger with a forked stick. This was his secona attempt within a week. Deceased vas a member of the A. O. L . M - MRS. Annie, residing a few m..es from Madison, was horribly burned by her clothing taking fire from a cook stove. Before assistance reached „er she was seriously if not fatally burned, and now lies in a critical condition. In her efforts to extinguish the flame® the house was set on fire and ent..ely 1 । consumed.