Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 13, Bloomington, Monroe County, 29 January 1887 — Page 2

THE COURIER.

BY H. J. FELTUS.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA

QnKKK Victoria will give away two thousand titles and decorations in connection with the celebration of her jubilee. The pleasing feature about this lavish generosity is that it. will not cost

Her Majesty a cent.. The Catholic priest who preached the funeral sermon oi the late Alderman Masterson, in New York, said: "He was, so far as I know, an honest man. And no matter how strong our Nation may he, it is honest- men, more than able men, who are needed as the saviors of ear liberty." These are true words that might well be laid to heart by statesmen of higt and low degree.

Mr; Powderly's declaration that there is not room enough in this coun

try, large as it is,-aor the; use of a single rifle" as an airencT of labor reform goes

to the core of the socialistic theory. The

safety and welfare of the working classes

depend upon the enforcement ot law and the preservation of- public order,

and the uolicv of violen.ee and destruc

tion which the socialists are seeking to

inaugurate is a thins: to be resolutely

shunned by every honest labor organi-

zation and every patriotic and intelligent American citizen. . There sailed from ports in the British islands 230,000 immigrants to the United States, 40,000 to Australia and only 29,000 to Canada, in the first eleven months of 1SS6. When it is considered that a large portion of the immigrants oome to the United States by. way of Canada, the showing of the North American section of the British Empire in this particular is not very flattering. Lest it might be feared that emigration would depopulate Great Britain, it is well to state that about half of the immigrants referred to came from the continental countries of Europe, and merely touched at the British islands on the way to their destination.

Fly IiOw as the Doves to Their Win

dows.

Humility is the Stepping Stone to Kternal

"Life Avail Yourself of GoriV Promises and Torn Will be Saved.

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When the Scotch crofters rose as one man to protest against an outrageous attempt to raise the rent of their miniature holdings, they were denounced as rioters and an army sent to suppress them. During Gladstone's shart tenure of office last spring he insisted on the crofter's grievance being investigated, and a special commission was appointed with power to adjust rents. In one case the Commissioners reduced the rent 60 per cent, in face of the Duke of Sotherland's demand to have it largely increased, and in every instance they ordered a reduction. Their report has just been issued and shows an average reduction all round of 33 per cent. It is only necessar v to. add that these crofter holdings are on land practically reclaimed from moor, and even sea, by their poor but honest occupants, and

the cruelty of the lords of the manor is thoroughly exposed. ....... Official intimation has onee .more been given of the importance of visitors to Europe providing, themselves' with passports. England is really the only country in which these antiquated nuisances are unnecessary. No wise -American should land in Ireland without one, or he is likely to be shadowed as an emissary of Rossa. In France a foreigner's arrival at any city is reported to the police within a Jew hours, and if he has no passport he is in serious danger of arrest on purely general principles. Some of the German cities are practically under martial law, owing to the socialist ism ement, and an unidentified visitor ha3 to account for himself or submit to an imperative policy order to "move on." Even if he escapes annoyance elsewherethe tourist without a passport finds 'his journey at an end on reaching the Russian frontier, and he is lucky if he is allowed to transfer his -baggage and turn back.

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Now is the tijx:e to lookrover the seed catalogues and make selections. Silos constructed from wood are growing in favor among the Wisconsin farmers. Dry earth or muck in the stable will ' save manure, prevent disease and keep the milk from being tainted! The Crown Prince of Germany selk 1,000 quarts of milk every - day from his farm at Panetz near Berlin. :-,. Some dairymen save the last fourth of the nnlk from the cow in a separate vessel and pour it directly into a cream Frozen apples may be utilised by being made into cider. Some varieties will yield more juice after being frozen- than before. . - . . Secretary Shaffer states that the use of pyrethum on cabbage plants to kill the worms has been attended with entire . success. A German cattle food which had a large sale, was found to contain vegetable ivory turnings 88 parts and com- . jnon salt 12 parts in 1 00; val ue, nil , . Irregular fee ling wi! I- do more to eanse - cows to dry off than ony other .method, while the praatige is extravagant, including waste and loss 6f time. If your bay is falling short but the hay - and -straw together, add bran and shorts,

with a Httle" s&It water' to moisten the mass, and the whole will bG e&ten. If baiter-makers only possessed half

the strength wbice much of their product does early in its ?eer they cou Id defy competition with a large-sised dgfy. There never was a time when so many minds' were at work op so many effort made in various directions to advance j the practice nn& science or agriculture. If you have any spared roexturing the

- winter it can be put to profitable use in . forking over the manure iieap. The i materials can not be too fine or; thor oughly decomposed. $ ;-5 Koyr that eg are high the best way to get-them. is to have warm quarters

for the hens, and feed on a variety of food, with meat as a portion of the ration three times per week. : An excellent mode of utilizing any spare time of wi nter is toctean up and s burn att dried grass and weeds. Trim- ' ming the trees a id vines may be done

any time between now and spring.

v The fali coltsxmav be riven all

ground oats they can eat. As

mareS'Wiu nave dux n&ue laoor to

y'f- form at this season, there will be no .necessity for weaning the colts before

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TheRey. T. Do Witt Talinage's sermon last Sunday was preached at the

reception of three hundred and eight

new members, making the communicant membership of the Brooklyn Tabernacle throe thousand six hundred and fifty. He said: When God would set fast a beautiful thought He plants it in a tree; when He would put it afloat He fashions it into a fish; when He would have it glide the air He molds it into a bird. There is to many of us a complete fascination in the structure and habits of birds. The blackbird floating like a flake of darkness through the sunlight; the meadowlark with head of fawn and throat of velvet and breast of gold; the red flamingo flying over the Southern swamps like sparks from the forge of the setting sun; the pelican, white and black, morning and night tangled in its wings. .They seem not more of earth than of heaven, ever vascillating between the two. No wonder that Audubon, with his gun, tratnned through all the American for-

I ests in search of new specimens. Geolor . 1 . X I., A J 4 1. yv

gists nave spent yuara iu imuiug track of a bird's claw in the new red sandstone. There is enough of God's architecture in a snipe's bill or a grouse's foot to confound all the universities, Thiv: ifl otia of the memorable davs oi

the Brooklyn Tabernacle. On other Sundays we drop the net; to-dav we haul it in. On other days we send out the invitations for a King's party. Toaav we sit at the banquet. On other days we fight the battla; now we claim the victory through our Loid Josus Christ. Ye who have toiled and contributed, and prayed for the success of this institution, , take unto your souls the grand satisfactions this hour. To you, oh men and women, is fulfilled the promise: "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." Wake up, oh Church of God, and bring garlands and music, and let us celebrate our "harvest home." Oh, this mercy of God! 1 am told it is an ocean. Then I place on it four swift sailing crafts, with compass and chart, and choice figging , and skillful navigators, and I tell them to launch away and discover for me the extent of this "ocean. . That craft puts out in one direction and sails to the north; this to the east; this to the west.jThey crowd on all their canvass, and sail ten thousand years, and one day come up the harbor of Heaven, and I shout to them from the beach: ''Have you found the shore?" And they answer, "No shore to God's mercy!" " Swift angels, dispatched from the throne, attempt to go across it. For a million years they fly and fly, but then comeback and fold their wings at the foot of the throne, and cry: "No shore! No shore to God's mercy!" Mercy! Mercy! 1 sing it. I preach it. I pray it JSlercyl Mercy! Mercy! There is no depth it can not fathom. There is no height it can not scale. There is no infinity it can not compass. . When persons apply for membership

into any society, vut; uucauuu ia aancu. "Who are they and where de they come from?" and as this multitude of people to-day present, themseves for membership, it is right that we should ask: fWho are these that come as doves to their windows?" They are captives whose chains have been broken: they are soldiers who have enlisted for a thirty vears' war. Thev are heirs of-heaven.

They come as doves to the windows, first," because they fly low. The eagle dans up, as it to strike its beak into the sun. There are birds that seem to dwell under the eaves of heaven; you see them as little specks against the sky, so far oil' that you can not guess the style of their plumage or the shape of their bodies. Theylloat so far away that if the hunter's gun be discharge'd at them they do not change their course. Not so with the doves or pigeons, they never ' ta&e an y high excursions. They fly around your root and alight on the "fence and seem to dislike great altitudes. So these souls who come to Christ and to his church today, fly low. They ask no great things; they seek an humble place at the feet of Christ. They, are not ashamed to be called beggars for mercy, they are willing to get down on their knees, and to crawl under the table, and to pick up the crumbs of. Gospel provision. There were days when they were proud and punctilious and inexorable and puffed up; but. not now. The highest, throne of earth could not tempt Mary away from Jesus feet. Stoop, 0 pardoned soul! if thou wouldst enter Heaven, A hih look and a proud heart God hates. Fly

low. It is a mercy that thou canst ny at

Remember all the years of thy sin: days of youthful" wandering; thy of manhood transgressions; thy -dark, brooding, truthfulsi 113

against thy soul, against thy bible, againstthy God. It is an oflended God before whom thou co meat. Tfwu 4eservest his wrath. He scattered the one hundred and eight-five thousand of Senneclierib's host in a night. He abhors sin. He will judge the nations. Holy, holy, is the. lord God Almighty, ly lqy. A thousand years ago an Emperor planted a rose-bush from which roses are plucked to-day. At the foot of the cross, nearly nineteen centuries ago a rose was planted which blooms to-day; stoop down if thou wouldst pluck it. Oh, for more of the childlike spirit'. I rejoice in the belief that those who come to Christ to-day come aware of their sins and their grants, and have learned how to fly low,. . Again: ' These persons who cqine today are like doves on their way to thb dove-cot, because they fly for shelter. The albatross makes a throne of the tempest; the sea-gulls finds th,eir grandest froHc in the storm. Not so with doves; at the first blow of the north-easter they fly to the coop. Eagle contests with eagle in mid-air, and vulture fights vulture on the bosom of the carcass, but doves at the first dash of the bird of prey, speed for shelter from fiery eye and iron beak and loathsome talon. So to-day these souls come here fovghelter. Every one has a besetting sin; thai; sin is always after you. The robber watches you when you come out of the bank, sees in what pocket you put tfye money, follows you down the street, notices where you go to dine, and where you ?leep, and what knd of a lock you have on your door; so there is some sin ever on a man's track. It goes with him to the store, it ails on the money-safe, it

looks over his shoulder while he makes out the bill of lad i ng, it goes , out u : l h him to 4in6 walks home with him at night. As to some dog that you do not want to follow you but petsjatg, you say to it: "Back home with youl" You stone it away nd start on. After a while, casually turning your eye, you find it close after you wiih atnieakimj: look. Wherever you. go, sin goes; whe?e vou stay, sin stays. You have watched the, hawk above the barn-yard: it sails around and around over the brood of of chickens -around and around, now almost down to the flock, then hack again, until at last it drops and seizes its prey. There is a hawk ready to pounce on every doy and that is the , reason that these dove' come t,Q.-day to the windowsthey want shelter In Joe graof God and in Christian associations. They gayi "If inare is any power in your prayers, let me have them: if there bo any virtue in good counsels, give it to , me; if thcs be any thing everlasting in Chrizr tian associations, let me feel tboir influence." "Where thou dwellest I will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, thy God my GodY' Open your jdoorg, O, churches of God! and let them coino in as doves to their windows." Christ is the only shelter of the soul in trouble. What can. you do without Film when sorrow come? Perhaps at first you tako valerian to quiet your nerves, or alcohol to revive your spirits; but havs you found any tjiin in the

all.

thy days sins-

medicinos of physical

cient. Perhapr in the excitement of the money market or in the merry-makiinr of the club vou have sought relief. This

world has no balsam for a wounded soul,

no shelter tor a bruised spirit. The dove in the time of the deluge flew north and it was all water, in which were tossed the carcasses of the dead world, and the first solid thing the doyes's feci touched was the window of the ark. So the soul in trouble goes out in one direction and finds nothing substantial to rest upon, and in another direction, and every whither, but thero is no rest for the dove save the ark. Oh, the air is full of black wings and ravens' beaks. They join their w.ins of darkness until they shut out the light of the sun. They have fattened on the carcasses of men. Their clangor is horrible to ear. Trouble and disease and death comine: down on the wind. No wonder these souls have come for shelter "as doves to their windows." What does the pigeon in the coop care for the hawk in the sky? Again! These souls, like doves, fly home. Most of the winged denizens have no home; now they are at the North and now at the South, as the climate indicates. This year a nest in ono tree, next year a nest in another tree. The golden oriole remains but three months of the year in Germany, and is then gone. The linnet of Norway crosses the ocean to find rest away from. the winter's blast. The heron, the goldfinch and the grossbeak are migratory. The cranes call each other together several days before going, choose their leader, arrange themselves

in two lines, torming an angle ana are gone. But the pigeons alluded to in tho text, summer and winter and always have a home in the dove-cot. And so Christ is the home of those who come to Him. He is a warm home: they rest under the "feathers of the Almighty." Men talk as though a starting for God were putting out , on a trackless moor; or wandering through the sands of a great Sahara. No, no; it is coming to the warmest and beat of homes, "as doves to the windows." Again: These sonis lo-day gathering

for membership are like the doves because they come in flocks. The buzzard, with drooping beak, fluttering up from the carrion, is alone You occasionally look up against tbe wintry sky and see a solitary bird wingiug past. But doves or pigeons are in flocks; by scores and hundreds do they fly. , You hear the loud whrr of their wings as they pass. So to-day we see a great flock coming into the Kingdom. It is not a straggler, try ing to catch up with his regiment; it is a solid phalanx, taking the kingdom. It is not a drop on your hand or cheek that ieaves you in doubt whether it rains or not, but the. rush of an unmistakable shower. It is not the

raking up of the gleanings, but the toss

ing up 01 uie run sneaves into uie mow "as doves to then" windows," There are all ages in this flock. Some of them are young, and the very first use they make of their wings is to fly into the kingdom. Some of them are old, and their wings have, been torn with shot and. ruffled with the tempest, and they had almost dropped into the sea. Some of them have been making a very crooked course. They dipped their wings in fountains of sin they wandered near the gulf of perdition; but they saw their danger they changed their course. Thev have come at last, "as doves to the windows," , I thank God that I have lived to see this day; to my dying day I shall not cease to praise Him for this manifestation of His grace. Praise to Him, sun, moon and stars! Praise Him, church militant on earth! Praise Him, church triumphant in heaven! Let the church beneath raise up its right hand of concongratulation, and the Church above reach down its right hand of joy, and while the two are clasped, let the elders of the church put t& our lips the wine of earthly celebration, and the cup-bearers of heaven bring up out of the vaults of eternity the oldest wine, prepared by Him who once trod the wine-nressalone.

( and so let two worlds at once keep ijubi-

lee! Who are those who come to us to-day? Many are young. Until Bobert Baikes came there was no organized effort for saving the young. We spend all of our strength trying to bend oJd trees when a little pressure would have been sufficient for the sapling. We let men down to

the very bottom of sin before we try .to

nit them up. it is a great ueai easier to keep a train on the .track than to get it on when it is off. The experienced rein smaii checks the fiery steed at the first jump, for when he gets full swing, the swift hoofs clicking fire from the pavement, and the hit between his teeth, his momentum is irresistible. It is said that the young must be allowed to sow their wild oats." I have noticed that those who sow their wild oats seldom try to raise any other kind of crop. But while a great flock this day comes to the .dove-cot of mercy, the largest flocks are goins the other way. It is a very easy t hing to tame doves. Go out with a handful of corn to feed pigeons, and they will fly on your shoulders and your hands, so tame. are they. God has fed those who are before me "the finest of the 'wheat," and yet yon have flown from Him all your lives long. .You have taken your clothes out of His wardrobe, and vour bread out of II is hands. God's Spirit will not always strive. In . the morning after a severe night, you have gone out and seen the birds dead ou the snow; so, after awhile, God's mercy will cease,and the earth will be covered with the bodies of those who perished in the storm. That storm is coming. It will shiver the mast of pride it will drive into the white reefs of death every cargo of sin. The cedars of the mountain will split in the hurricane, and the islands shall be moved out of their places, and the continents shalj be rent assunder and the hemispheres shall whirl like a top in the fury of that day. The mountains will be blasted and the beasts, in

! affright, be pitched from the cliff in an

avalanche of terror. The dead shall rush forth from their sepnlchers to see what is tho matter, and all those who despise God shall horribly perish. . Now do you suppose that I can stand here and know that that day is coming wit hout telling you about it? My last resting-place will probably be near yours. What if, when I get up in the resurrection day, .shall see ' yoii rushing at me across the lots of the cemetery, and hear you cry; "Why did you not toll me of this? If Jt had not been for your neglect. I should boon the way to glory." I cannot prepare myself for such a consternation Oh, that my Lord God would bring you now to see vour sin and to

I flv from it; and vour duly, and to help

you to do.it, so that when the last great I terror of earth shall spread its two black j wines and cluch it with its bloody j lojons for thy soul, it can not hurt thee, for (hat thou art safe iii the warm dovecote of a Savior's mercy 1 Kaors koti s,

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An undenominational chapel is to by erected in Nov port by Mr. August Hob moot as a memorial of his daughter. Tho tit In! xcave of toper souls . Into our inmnst bolng rolls, Ami lifts us nnuvnires Out of all mcaaer cares. LoiifrfoTlow, Philip, King of Maoedon: Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us wlien we arc dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole earth while we are giving. Happy liio man, and juippy he ajojit?, lie who can call to-day his ovn;' " Ho who secure within can say, jpojpormw 3othy wojl, for thavc h'yut.1 to day. ' hrydenr The Northern and Southern Presbyterian churches have selected tho fourth Thursday in May of 188S for their united celebration of the centennial of the General Assembly.

'IffTEtt STATU CORKK(!.

Provisions of tho Hill Recently t'assoil by Congress. The bill agreed upon by the .Senate and House conference committee for regulating commerce between the Stales provides that it shall apply to any common carrier of freight or passengers, wholly by rail or partly by rail or water, under a common control for continuous carriage from one State or Territory to another. It includes bridges or fevrise managed by such transportation companies. All charges shall be reasonable and just. Section 2 prohibits any special rates, rebates or drawbacks in any shape. Section S prohibits any preference being given to any person or combination, and declares that proper and equal faciii ties shall be afforded for interchanging traffic between respective lines, but thi-i shall not be construed as requiring any suoh common carrier to give the use cf its tracks or terminal facilities to another carrier engaged in 0. like business. Section 4 prohibits any common car

rier to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation under substantially similar circumstances, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line in the same direction, :he shorter beii-g

included within the longer distance; but j this does not authorise any common earrier to charge as uauca for a shorter as

for a longer distance. Provided, ho vevr, that upon application to the commission appointed by this act such carrier may, in special cases, be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter distances. Section 5 forbids " ools.n Section 6 com pels printing and keeping at all depots and stations, so as to be easily accessible, rates, fares and charges classifying the freight, and setting outthe varous charges specifically. The same provisions apply to railroads -sarrying from a foreign country to this country, and vice versa, in default oi which customs duties shall be collected the same as if the goo :1s vere of foreign production. No advance can be made in the rates except alter ten days' notice, and the new rates sbalt be duly printed aforesaid, lied actions in rates may be made without notice, but they shall be immediately posted. It shall be unlawful for any deviation to be made in the charges as published and every earner must file with the commissioners his schedule of charges find promptly notify it of all changes. Contracts with other carriers, joint fares and rates shall be likewise filed and made public, the commissioners to perscribe the method of publicity; but no party to such joint ar

rangement shall be responsible for the other to it. Failure to comply with any of the regulations o: this section shall, in addition to other penalties, be subject to a writ of mandamus to be issued by any United States circuit court in the judical district where the principal oiiice of the carrier may be located. Failure to comply with the writ shall be punishable as for contempt and in addition an injunction may lie to prohibit the carrier from transacting business. Section? prohibits any combination or agreement to prevent, by changn of time, schedule, carriage in different cars, or by any other means, the carriage of freights from being continuous from the place of shipment to the place of destination, and no break of bulk or stoppage shall nullify the shipment as a continuous one. Section S makes the carrier who violates this aet liable to the person or persons injured hereby for th full amount of dan ages ; sustained, with a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court in every case of recovery and to be collected i is part of the costs. Section 9 provides that complaint may be lodged befo :e the commissioners or suit bs brought in court at the choice of the person claiming damages. Attendance before the court may be compelled and also the r reduction of papers and no plea tendi ng io criminate shall excuse

testimony, but the same shall not be

used in case of trial of any criminal proceeding. Section 10 makes any common carrier or any one acting for it who shall violate this law guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction by the court be fined not more than So 000 for each offense. Section l establishes an inter-State commerce commission of live persons, appointed by the President, the Senate

advising and consenting. They shall

continue in office from January 1,. 18S7, two, three, four, live, and six years, respectively, each member to be appointed for six years, except to fill a vacancy. They are removable for inefficiency or malfeasance. No more than three shall be of the same political party, No one any way related to a common carrier, or holding any stock therein, shall be appointed. The commissioners should not engage in any other business. Section 12 confers authority on the commissioner to inquire fully into the management of the carrier's business and to compel testimony and the production of books and papers. Fail tiro is punishable as for contempt of court the aid of the courts being authorized), but any criminating testimony shall not be otherwise used. Section 13 gives any person or body right to complain to the carrier, and :.C not redressed in a certain time the commission shall investigate and no complaint shall bo dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to i he complainant. Section 14 compels tlic commission to report its findings, and these shall thereafter be prima facie evidence in aU judicial proceedings. Section to orders the

j pommission, if it finds for (he complain-

I ant? to notify the earner of that tact, j and also warn it to cease, and to make j reparation. Obedience to this within a ! specified time is made a matter ofro-

j cord by the commission, and the carrier

) is relieved from further liability for this j particular thing, ! Section 16 holds that refusal by any carrier to obey any lawful requirement I of tho commission shall be met by the ! commission, and be allowed any person j interested in it, with a petition to the j United States court which shall hear j the matter as a court of equity, and

shall pave power to prosecute sts inquiries as it sees fit, ami the rep or of the committee shall be prima facie evjdencb Tn case of sustaining tho complaint injunction or other process mandatory or otherwise will lie, and in case cf ciiso-

jbedienco attachments shall issuo. and

against the carrier or person in, default

INDIANA STATE NEWS. !

boy, is the Punch news-

not exceeding $500 a day may be 3j.e?aed

the money to be paid as the court shiJl . direct. When the value of 't $2,000 orj Wabash will bore, noreis in dispute, appeal may be had ' .Ed Blue, a Logansport t o the Supreme Court under the usual leading cartoonist of the

Liegulatious,but the appeal shall not stay j paper. the order of the court. Costa and conn-; The P. Pt.W. & O. railwayshops'atFt. set fees may be awarded. Tho appeal j Wayne have received orders to construct shall be prosecuted under the direction j forty now locomotives, of the Attorney General when it is the j The Franklin mill, near jWarkleviile, commission that appeals, and the costs j was burned, Saturday night. Loss,

shall be defrayed by the usual appropria- $2,500. Cause, defective flue.

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.Senator Johnson, the young Kepubli- Archbishop c ..".; u..,. r lie. VuhMc the : can from Wayne, is a brother to Editor j Reasons for ma SusneimioaMfHs Peculiar . Johnson of the Century Magazine. 01 W Representative (Gardiner Thursday t ' introduced a bill making it obligatory to I Archbishop Corrigan has mado public . teach the effects of the use of alcohol on a long statement of the troubles withy, the human system, in the public school i Br. McGlynn, the suspended priest oi .

Hons. Section 17 provides that a majority tho commissioners shall constitute

of

Xobiesville struck gas Monday at a depth of 850 feet. The town proposes

a j to supply Indianapolis as well as itself.

quorum. That body may make rules; any person may be heard by it either in person or by attorney, and all the official acts of the commission shall be of record and its procedure public on the request of either party interested. Section IS gives each commissioner a yearly salary of $7,500. A secretary shall be appointed who shall receive $3,500. Compensation of other necessary employes shall be fixed by the commission. The secretary of the interior shall furnish a suitable office and necessary supplies. All necessary expenses of the committee am to he paid on vouchors by the chairman and the Secretary of the Interior. Section 19 locates tho principal ofhee at Washington where the general sessions are to be held, but inquiries may be prosecuted anywhere by one or more commissioners. Section 20 authorises the. commissioners to require annual reports from all common carriers, showing capital stock.

hw paid for, surplus fund, name of .

stoekhdders, cosu of property and improvements, number of employes and their compensation, and a complete financial exhibit of the business, together with information as to rates, regulations and business arrangements. It may also prescribe a uniform system of accounts .for common carriers and tho manner of keeping them. Section 21 provides for an annual re-

j port by the commission to the Secretary

of the Interior on Deoember 1. Section 22 provides that nothing in this act shall apply to the handling of pronerty free or at reduced rates for the United States, or municipal governments or for charitable purposes, or to and from expositions, or the issuance of mileage, excursion, or commutation passenger tickets, or to brohibit reduced rates to ministers of religion, or to prevent railroads from giving free carriage to their own officers and employes, or to prevent the principal officers from exchanging

I passes or tickets with other companies-,

and nothing in this act shall in any way abridge or altar the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this act are in addition to such remedies. Provided: That no pending litigation shah, in any way be affected by this act. Section 28 appropriates $100,000 for the uses and purposes of this act; and Section 24 provides that the provisions of section 11 and 18 of this act, relating to the appointment and organisation of the commission herein provided for, shall take effect immediately, and the

remaining provisions of this act shall take e fleet sixty days after its passage.

The barn of Mrs. Warrener, near Pendleton, was burned Saturday night. Loss on barn and contents $2,000. Incendiary. A farmer named Strauss, living a few mites south of Corydon, killed a catamount, on .Saturday, which measured three feet and eleven inches in length. Hollingsworth, the Knox county

Treasurer, defaulter for $80,000, will surrender himself. Last summer he jumped his bail bond and fled to Canada. The worst snow storm of the season prevailed in the northern part of tho State, Sunday. Trains were moved with difficulty on account of the immense drifts. ICokomo had a $50,000 fire late Tuesday evening. A hardware, a book and a grocery store were burned, as well as the large three story building in which thev were located. An incendiary burned the barn of Abraham Carter, an industrious colored

and requiring teachers to pass an examination on this subject . before a Hcenseis granted thorn. Senator Kennedy is reported as explaining the reason for the Republicans agreeing to compromise: "You see we looked upon tho matter in an agricultural way. Senators are elected for four years and Representatives for two, so we couldn't afford to lose many Senators. We concluded it wasn't good fa rm-

St. Stephen's church. As lon& ago asp' 1882 he was remonstrated with and buked for his activity in politic, which nothing seemed to be able to subduej , He attended the Henry George meeting ,' last September against the positive pro? hibition of the Archbishop. In refers .

ence to the summons to Rome, which came as much of a surprise to Corrigan as to McGlynn, the priest wrote saying he would not go, and at the same time

in'to swap a four-year old fora.yearlin,? j reaffirmed his doctrinal- posHipn aS;M-

AN IIVNOCIDNT KIIXB1. rjakerton Men nt Jersey City Do.&omo Shooting and n Innocent Boy is Kil!elA Shower of Stone and Snow nails aioeta a liuspous-d from Kevulvorii. At about 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon while a party of boys were playing in an open lot adjoining the yards of the "Delaware, Iackawanna & Western Railroad Company at Jersey City, a fracas occurred between the boys and Pinker-

ton's men. and Thomas Hogan, si.xteen

years old, a looker-on, was shot and killed by one of Pinker-ton's men. The boys were jeering the Pinkerton men, who were stationed in the company's yards to protect property. Occasionally they mined a shower of snow-balls and other missiles upon tbe men. Near by

citizen of Posey county, a few days since. HLs less is 4,000. Four horses aud much grain were burned. Tho boiler an tho sawmill of John Norris, twelve miles from Washington, Inch, exploded Thursday afternoon. Jobn Norris was blown to atoms and his son fatally injured. Three otber men were seriously injured. A battle took place in a box car on the Air Line railroad, near New Albany, between an Alderney bull aud a Norman stallion, in which the bull was kicked in the head and killed and the horse was gored so that be died shortly after. Henry Zimmerman's saloon, at North Grove, Miami county, was raided Thursday by four angry females, who proceeded to demolish things, bresikinjj mirrors, smashing glasses, and generally devastating the place. They were arrested and gave bond for their appearance. ''Babe," aged forty-seven years, said to be the oldest horse in the world, died at the stable of his master,. Andy Piaher. at Madison, and was buried on the Craig farm, Friday,; where a suitable monument will mark his last restrng place. A miner at Newburg, Clay county, named John Cook, attempted to cli-aib out of the mine by a ladder, Friday evening. The shaft is seventy feet deep. When he had reached w.ithin 'Sen feet ot the top a round of the ladder broke, precipitating him to the bottom and crushing him into a jelly. Many of the most successful orchard ists of Jackson county have made careful

examination 01 cue neacn Ducts since

the present mild weather set in.

i and find them all right, and the prospect J poinds to an immense crop this season

unless killed by frost in the spring. AU other small fruits promise equally well. Commodore Clemens, an attorney residing at Fierceton, in Kosciusko county, has been sentenced to two years in the penfite:ntiary for complicity in the wholesale forgery of notes which caused such widespread excitement

A prominent Knight ot iLabor says

that the Knights expect to be recognized by this Legislature, and if necessary will prove their power repeatedly through the session, Jf it is not already demonstrated that they are deserving recognition. He did not say that this accounts for tho dead-lock. He did not need to. "... , ... Representative Patton has introduced a bill to do away with the prevalent system of each county in the State sending two students to Purdue University. The object of the bill, he says, is to dissolve all connection betyeen the State and the University' 140 that the latter may become a private' institu

tion not under State control. If this I bill fails, he says he will introduce j

another to increase tho number of students from each county from two to five. The Indiana W. C. T, U. is circulating petitions praying the Legislature to require public school instruction relative to tbe effect of intoxicants and narcotics on the human system; to prevent the sale of obscene literature and pictures; prohibiting the sale of tobacco to miners; restricting the sale of opium; calling for women physicians in attendance upon the female wards of the insane

asylum, and providing a trained nurse to bring female patients to tbe hospital when the same are - unaccompanied by friends; providing adequate punishment for crimes against girls and women, and raising the "age of consent" to eighteen years. THB SENATORSHIP. "

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lows:

"My doctrine about bind : has been ' made clear in speeches, in reported in- , terviews and in published articles, and I repeat it here. I . have taught and shall eontinue to teach in speeches and in writing as long as I live that land is rightfully the property of the people - in common, and .that private ownership of land is against natural justice, no matter by what civil or ecclesiastical laws it may be sanctioned. And X: would bring about instantly; if I could; ' such change of laws all the world over

as would confiscate private property in 'f'M ' ' i land without one; penny of remunera- Zpsip-- ; '

i tion to the miscalled owners."

A second and third summons to Rome have received no attention; and the

archbishop concludes:

The latest phase of this unhappy Conflict occurred Saturday morning, when Cardinal Jacobinii secretary of tibfi propaganda, cabled as foilow .4 ; r " "For prudential reasons, the 'pro ? paganda has hitherto been lbw t6 act in the case of Dr. McGlynn. f " The sov ' -ereign pontiff has now. taken tht - matter ' into his own bands - .:. The 2ase now rests beeenV-'Jfe Glynn and the holy se ' ' "1

about a year ago. Varmim T. Card, a former prosperous merchant of Wabash, was the first of the conspirators to be brought to trial, and is now serving a ten year's sentence in the Michigan City prison. At 2 o'clock Thursday morning at Marengo, Crawford county, the "White Caps." a company of regulators of that county, Harrison and Orange, about fifty

a crowd of strikers and their sympathise j strong, went to the House of Joseph

ers were assembled, and lent encouras

Williams, took him out of bed, tied him

ment to the bovs At length the leader j to a tree,and gave him one hundred blows

of the Pinkerton men stepped forward and ordered the boys to stop throwing at them. The boys did not obey, and almost immediately thre sharp cracks of a revolver rang out,

and. Hogan fell dead. The exi citeinent was intense, and the lookers-on ; fled ;,u every direction. The leader of j the strikers, as soon as he could get his

men together, ordered them back to their headquarters. In anticipation of an attack, the Pinkerton men were at once drawn up in battle array. The Jeiscy City police reserve, stationed at the yards, hurried to the scene. A n ambulance was summoned and the body of the dead boy was removed to the morgue. Hogan was not one of the boys throwing missiles at the men, but stood on the opposite side of the street. Four cf the Pinkerton men were placed under arrest. One of the eyes of one man was horribly discolored and swollen, where he had been struck with a snowball. Another of Pinkerton men had a tooth

knocked out. The-ball that struck Hogan. pierced his brain directly above the rigM eye.

with long elastic hickory switches, that brought blood at every lick. Williams writhed and shrieked fearfully until finally he swooned away under the torture. Only a few nights before Joseph Trotter was taken from his bed tied to the. same tree and given stventytiye lashes. Both parties were accused of drunkenness and cruelty to their wives, and sailing to provide for their fan lilies. The fact was mentioned some weeks ago that Miss Mary Baker,aged eighteen, living seven miles northeast of Mcnon, had been fasting for eighfey-.P,re days, having not eaten a single particle of food of any kind within this time, thus more than doubling the fast of Dr. Tan

nor. About a year ago sue cojk sick with lung fever, from the effect of which she did not fully recover, but was able to be up and about during the summer.

The Indianapolis Ne ws of Friday says: "Without the basest desertion oh the part of Democrats it has been realized for two days by Republicans that they can never achieve success under the agreement in force. As a deal, many politicians regard it as a sad blunder, looking at in the ligh t that the Republicans hold that Green Smith is not qualified to preside over the Senate. Had the Republicans declined to enter into the agreement, and had the House made further changes in its membership, the Democratic majority had prepared for instant execution a plan for disrupting the Legislature without themselves suffering in purse. The Senate, by throwing out two more Republicans,

, would be Democratic by two-tnirds ma

jority, and then could act with most ! audacious freedom. . If. necessary to pre

vent the Republicans from securing a majority, it was -proposed to "fire" from the Senate the remaining, sixteen-Republican Senators Then one Democrat, by . resigning, would leave the Senate without a constitutional majority twothirds. The Senate could neither adjourn nor transact business, and the thirty-three Democrats would thus sit the session out and draw their pay for keeping their seats warm. No United States Senator could be elected under such circumstances, and at the close of the session Gray would have appointed Turpie. This was, and still is, if emergency arises, the Democratic plan. A State officer was sent to the Republican managers, and unfolded the plan to them, avowing that it would be carried out as sure as shoOthV. J t seems to be clear that so long as the present agreement holds good, the Repubflcans can not hope to elect Harrison, the only chance being in the expulsion of Democrats, and if the agreement is broken, and the Democrats put this threat into execution, it is equally certain that Republican success is impossible unless the Senate is ignored. Of course; if lawlessness is resorted to, everything is possible."

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A Sweetly Simple Faith, Mauoa (Oa.) Toleswiplt We still cling to the simple faith that the acme of human wisdom is to know when to lay down a poker hand. 1M8I ILLUSION,

my lave has eheek as red As tlic rotP 'o tho lover cries, misled, For the idea that hit) mini Ever knew the use of paint Never came into his head, suppose. "Alabaster is her throat!" Hear him talk ! llw he never chanced iw note How h liaflitiR faintly blushed , As with dainty hand she brushed "roua the lapel ot hiseoat Powdered chalk ? Aud her form is just divine :" What a fool! :.'dme, fend youth, to me incline, And I'll whfcipe-v iu thine ear, Softly, so thai nova can hear, The whole seeret, 1 opine Cotton-wool -lint her wealth of golden kuir, 1 tippling down!" Ail save you are well aware " Tha'the hair within whose uesh Slle litis causfht a lover t'reslj iffhtJy hajjgs npou a ehair' f With iter gown, c her ilirting uow, elose-pressed, In the wiulz, Come, lorset hr! That is best. Trust me. I, too, loved her once, And I learned at last, fond dUuee, That her heart's like all the rest JtthiM IotUsville Jourual,

Atout twelve weeks

half-teaspoon ful of

after fell into a deep sleep, from which she did not awake for five days, daring which time, and up no Wednesday, she has only swallowed water or food of any kind to immediately throw them up. She has frequent spasms which can only be allayed by hypodermic injections. Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows : George Bebb, assignor to Cf . and W. Merrit, Indiaiaapo-

Maitinsvillo, dumping wagon; Ijtebert Blliott, assignor of one-half to J. W, Nobergall, Prairie Creek, railway gate; Frel Erb, jr., Lafayette, flying target; George W. Green, Abingdon, and L. P. Smith, Smith field, type writing machine; Alva L. and D. M Kitzelnmn, EidgevHIe, (2), windmill and wire fabric machine; Henry E. Lambert, Logansport, tool for clinching fence wires (re-issued); William T, Morgan, Muncie, carpet stretcher; Oscar L. Neisler,ndianapoiis, cultivator; Win. T. Parks, Lagrange; window fly trap; Joseph B. Pexlrick, Columbus, corn planting attachment; William A. Pipper, Jasonviile, device

for lifting w agon bojxca f rom the running

jgctar; Barton W. Scott, Loganaporti motor for centvifqgal pumps; I(alph M. j Snrvat, assignor of two -thirds to J, J. j Sargent and P, W. Stack, Terre Haute, j vehicle wheel; Francis M. Washburn,

assignor to L. Klein, Lafayette tf,nd L Stern, New York, hair clipper; Gustavus H . Zschech, assignor to K. Miller, Indianapolis, saw catcher tor handsaw mills. Kmin Bey has freed from the slave trade a province containing 10,01)0,000 nhafeitau.

M lSGSLhANSO S NOTES A Alicbigauder has patented a mustache-guard to faciliiatesoup eating. 'I want to .Wk an angel." Said the singer, aged and solemn; An editor in the audtettco said: 'Fih an ad iu our waat coliraus.' " Including Jones of Florida there fare

5,000,000 persons in this country with

out homes. . Professor Hughes says a silk ribbon is a better lightning conductor than a metal ie rod. ."' Archdeacon Farrar say s that "in India the English have made one hundred drunkards to one Christian." t Prince Alexander, late of Bulgaria, is said to be largely interested in the cattle business in New Mexico. In no year since the beginning of our government have so many prominent government officers died as in 1886. "Southern California," says a Los Angeles paper, Mcan ship east this jrear3,000 car loads of oranges and lemons of excellent quality." The rop has never

been better. Jinks Hello, K links, did you get a Christmas present for yquv wife this

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Seventeen Persons Trampled and Crushed to Death in a London EntertaJitment Hall-- Caused by a Joker3 Crying Fire.

A "joker7 cried "fire" in a building in . London, Tuesday hight,-when a -Jewish, entertainment was in progress. The people rushed in a solid mass fo- the doprs and hundreds of them, were trampled under foot. Several women and five boys were killed and a largo; number of persons were, injured, several,' it is feared, fatally. A later report state seventeen persons lost -their hyi When the people, after reaching the street, ascertained the facts of the situa-

tion, a sene of great disorder of another

land ensued, caused by the discovery

that numbers were missing:' Then aii

rush back was made. This however, 4 j

was stopped at the main entrance- .by the pohce who had arrived and assumed 5 -controh Seventeen corpses were' fond t inside the theater near the doorj T&ey. 24 were all torn, crushed and disfigured:

It was found that of - the dead, twelve- ' were women, three were boys, one was a girl and the other a man; The remains were almost unrecognizable Eye-witnesses say that the waiy the strong men who got' uppermost iii" tk&&i struggle at the door was that they crushed and trampled on tjiose who fep ijownt -It is stated that -;a . number ot infants ! carried in their mothers' arms and clung; to throughout the j panic; were also Crushed or smothered to death, and thafc -

a number of others were fatally mjurorf.

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Appropriate Jjinksl' I Pretzel'tj Weekly. ; iJ'iU V' .. The following couples .were Iproclaimed in matrimony" in Chicago, last;' ear, if County Clerk AVuiflTs - rowh has been feithfuUy kept: i;' ? Thomas Black and Mary White. 1 , i , Peter Day and Ellen Knit i Solomon Bank and Katharine Valel. -.... James Hill and Susan Dale;' Isaac Slater and Jane Thatcher. ; '-..v ; John Barber and Mary Butcher. I -Stephen Head and Nancy Henfc, i V William Stately and Jessie tai ' ; H Joseph Reed and Julia Hajv

Thomas Spring and Mary May,

Joseph Brown. and Kitty Green.

John Robins and Jennie Wrensu William Castle and Nancy Hajli Peter Chatter and Fannie Calk; Joseph Mann and Eliza Chiidi: John Merry and Lucy Wild; ? r. ) Thomas Bruin and Mary.Bare. James Fox and Catharine Hare? Andrew Clay and Idcy Stone.; Michael Blood an4 liziie Bone.

John Cloak and Julia Hood. i: M Edward Goal and Nancy Wood.r 7

James Broom and Ellen Birch.

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One of the best known localities ii London is Trafalgar squared It-' M, centrally located, payed with stones and asphalt, graced by the Nelson column,, some 200 feet high, and statues of Well ington, Lord Napier and other celebritiesL

and surrounded by fine buildings. For J'JS

many years pastTrafalgar square hasheeni ' celebrated as a gathering place ferpopular assemblages a purpose . i&th

which its central, location and oi

character niake it peculiarly available

mobs. These

big meetings; have bea

come such a nuisance that it is seriously l proposed to convert t he open square into

h paiK ur yaruen. it is- saia tmU .auUss. ,

property-holders

ua- iuo . ueiguoornoofl t-.

year? Elinks-Yes; I bought "her & I ot" the W"1 strongly in favor of

cbange. The laiest hotels in Londemv are situated in the icinity. ; The -hotels pay taxes to ilie amount of $800 000 per annum, and they are getting ; tiredof boarding up their; windows to

washing machine. What did you get jours? Jinks A new patent nickel plated, lead-weighted spittoon. Senator Hearst, of California, , owns a

fine ranch of 48,000 acres at San Simeon,

It

can

loaned the Castros $35,000 on the property at the merely nominal rate of 5 per cent, a month, it is said, and as a natural consequence owns it now. The land is valued at $200 an acre at the present time, as Hearst leases t all for- the pas

turing of cows, charging $16 a year per

I animal, and Iherebv secures an im

meuse vueome from the dairymen.

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formerly belonged to the great Mexv-lav? Ihemselves from tliiQf fpji -.y , vir. a Castro family, but the Senator 7 - ' v "Ac-'j.

vttuniunuca ivr lit uruuituui nlicrs Journal, .... ' r

Chiimbcr

A Russian doctor sava thnt h a u a

..... ;. . . ; --:7:: . Zv .-"JUS OUC, cessfuUy treated with cantha gome patients who were btten by a mbid wolf. Throe men were oadly bitten by thettnimalin vPUSLtiaria ti

J and emithavidaster

Mm wounut; At the same time, iwftri

dered (ntharkles was administered te

In Great Haste. eich in loses of one grain eaehiayi un HhittidelulilH American. 1 .Hl .cerfeltM "Well .. knOWU SVmntonili-

Old Gentleman (to messchgev boy xwha ; fxbibiter These parents havft nw7 is running at t he top of his speed) Great ! ,eeu & rtolJ heavens, what is the trouble? v shtce the Writes wei given and "ii'ffe

x lessen ger uoy oiewimessiy -uon't ""l' vuav cuntnariaes has thus proved

stop me, dan t stop

my dinner.

An electric experiment the pells.

me, I'm gohV to ft successful remedy for the dire

! Vih wbich they wei-e threatened.

repeating at

Cleveland gefejjas $1 a ottM& buj- t smuts i wjf-

diseasei:"'vs