Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 14, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 February 1887 — Page 2

THE COURIER,

BY H. J. FELTra.

BLOOMINGTON..

INDIANA

Let the great powers of Europe buy Krupp guns and other munitions of war. The United States should go .on erecting nrachine-shops and investing in cultivators and harvesters. Some twenty-

DELUSION.

Doubters Who . ITHecvy the Christian iteltsrfon.

The Gospel Spread Despite. Their. Jcorg anrt Pretenion SeoflTev Beg for Pardon When the . Ijritag Hour omelr, Talmago's Sermon.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text,

five years ago it was Europe's opportune. Ezekiel xxi., 21. Subject: "Is the Chris

ty. It may be the opportunity or tne United States is approaching, and she should be readv to take advantage of it.

Tub proposed retaliation against Canada for her course towards American fisherman is an unsual proceeding, but there.seems to be no better way of reaching the difficulty and compelling a decent regard for the obligations of neighborly justice and courtesy; and it is believed that the exclusion of Canadian vessels from our ports will very soon and peaceably settle a dispute which ought to have been ended long ago by some proper assertion of the dignity and power of our Government.

There were eighty-one important strikes throughout the country last year, in forty of which the strikers failed altogether, while seventeen ended in a compromise. About 450,000 persons were at one time or other on strike. The aggregate losses to strikers or to employers are unknown, but the former undoubtedly suffered more than the latter. Last year was not more unfavorable for strikes than the average year, but the records of even the best years show that strikes are costly and elumsy methods of conducting industrial con troversies.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES-

Philadelphia Record. Wages are being advanced at some blast furnaces from 5 to 10 per cent. The workmen in the Joliet, HL, steel works have received an increase of 13 per cent, in wages. A big stove foundry has been started in Nebraska, and a mower and reaper establishment at Kansas City. The carpet trade is begining to give evidences of life. Buyers have waited a long time to see if last season's prices would prevail this year. Textile manufacturers entertain very bright hopes for the future. , , Plate-glass is in good demand, and factories are overcrowded with orders. The green glass workers are still out. and will be assisted by the Knights. Stocks of shades are light. New designs are soon to be brought out. ...

French and German clothing manufacturers expect to do a large business in alothing with Japan. The Empress recently placed an order for $200,000 worth of fashionable European clothing with French and German manufacturers. The application of electricity to carlighting is feasible. It is done in England with Faeur batteries. A central rail is used. At each end of the car are eontaet pulleys, which, coming in contact with the middle rail, convey the current to the incandescent lamps. , The government has 0,000,000 worth of tools, hardmare, pails and stuff-of that kind. Among them are 46,666 augers and bits, 29,542 screws, and 146,885 nles. There are 1,200 tons of cast and wrought iron and 159, 600 pounds of old copper. Much of this material U lying loose around the yards. The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company has established a mutual guarantee fund. The cost of insurance ranges from 65 cents per $100 the first year to 50 cents the fifth year. It is a very successful and satisfactory system to the employes, and it will probably be extended to other roads. The possibilities of a general advance in wages of both common and skilled labor are being considered by employers in all stations. Many of them think that the establishment of arbitrative methods will help to increase rather than to decrease strikes and dissatisfaction by offering facilities for the presentation of demands. Great industrial and building activity is reported from the Northwest. Minneapolis and St. Paul furnish the most marked evidences of it: The Knights there are putting up a large four-story building. All the saw mills are getting ready for a big spring's work. The flouring- mills are doing more -than they . did last winter.

Gun-makers record with satisfaction

ver been exploded, even though the pressure goes as high as 200,000 pound? to the square inch. The endurance ranges from 300 to 2,400 rounds. The life of a large steel gun is 200 rounds. The avarage pressure in Krupp's guns is 30,000 pounds to the square inch. Paterson silk manufacturers have started a dozen silk manufactories in this State to employ cheap labor, and a cigar manufacturing concern has just been started at Kingston, N. Y., with a capital of $500,000, and is employing only country girls, and is using the best .machinery that can.be had for cigarmaking. Other manufacturers threaten to follow. Manufactures are favoring the establishment of relief associations. Several New England employers have started them. One in Portland, Me., has a membership of 129, All persons whose wages are over $5 a week pay $1 fee and and 10 cents per week, which entitles a member in case of sickness to ?6 per week until $25 has been drawn out, and to $25 in ease of death. Great expectations are indulged in concerning the labor convention to be held in Cincinnati on Feb. 22, Five hundred delegates, at least, are counted on. - A good deal of well-deserved op position is felt and expressed of some of the originators, whose name smell in the nostrils of honest la bor. " The Knights will lead off, and the obnoxious members will stand in the background and

watch. The convention will call another one. to nominate a President for 1888. It is apparent that employers will very generally advance wages-, voluntarily. Hundreds have already done so, even before any demand was formally made by organized labor. Prices are improving, mills, factories and mines aro over crowded, orders are far in excess of capacity, and emplovers,therefore, take the opportunity of advancing wages. At the rate business is crowding in, the great majority of employers will not be in a position to remain idle Jong over wage disputes.

tian Religion a Cheat?" He said: Two modes of divination by which the King of Babylon proposed to And out the will of God. He took a bundle of arrows, put them together, mixed thorn up, then pulled forth one, and by the inscription on it decided what city he should first assault. Then an animal was slain, and by the lighter .or darker

color of the liver, the brighter or darker

prospect of success was interred, 'lnat is the meaning of the text: "He made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.", . Stupid delusion. And yet all the ages have been filled with delusions. It seems as if the world love? to be hoodwinked, the delusion of the text isonly a specimen of a vast number of deceits practiced upon the human race. In the latter part of the last century Johanna Southcote came forth pretending to have divine power, made prophecies, had chapels built in her honor, and one hundred thousand disciples came forth to

lollow her. About nve years before the birth of Christ Appollonius was born, and he came forth; and after five years being speechless, according w the tradition, he healed the sick and raised the dead and preached virtue, and, according to the-myth, -maving sleceased, was brought to resurrection! But there are those who say that all delusions combined are as nothing compared with the delusion now abroad in the world, the delusion of the Christian religion. That delusion has to-day two hundred million dupes. It proposes to encircle the earth with its girdle. That which has been called a delusion has already overshadowed the Appalachian range on this side of the sea, and it.. has overshadowed the Balkan and Caucasian ranges on the other side of thejsea. It has conquered England and the United States. This champion delusion, this hoax, this swindle of the ages, as it has been called, has gone forth to conquer the islands of the Pacific; the Melanasia and the Micronesia and Malayan Polynesia have already surrendered to the delusion. Yea, it has conquered the Indian Archipelago; and Borneo, and Sumatra and Celebes and Java have fallen under the wiles. In the Fiji Islands, where there are 120,000 people, 102,000 have already become the dupes of this Christian religion, and if things go on as they are now going on, and if the influence of this great hallucination of the ages can not be stopped, it will swallow the globe. Supposing, then, that Christianity is the delusion of centuries, as some have pronounced it, . I propose this morning to show yon what has been accomplished by this chimera,

this fallacy, this hoax, this swindle of the ages. And in the first, place, I remark

tnat tnis aeiution pi the unnstian religion has made wonderful transformations of human character. I will go down the aisle of any church : in Christendom, and I will find on either side that aisle those who were once profligate, profane, unclean of speech and unclean of action, drunken and lost. But by the power of this delusion of the Christian religion they have been completely transformed. And now they are kind, and amiable, and genial, and loving, and useful. Everybody sees the change. Under the power of this great hallucination they have quit their former associates, and whereas they once found their chief delight among those .who .gambled and swore and . raced horses, now. they find their chief joy among those who go to prater meetings and churches so complete is the delusion. Yea, their own families have noticed it the wife has noticed it, the children have noticed it. The money that went for rum now goes for books and clothes and for education. He is a new man. All who know him say there has been a wonderful change, "Vhat is the cause of this change? This great hallucination of the Christian religion . There is as much difference between what he is now and what he once was as between a rose and a nettle, as between a dove and a vulture, as between day and night. Tremendous delusion! There goes Saul of Tarsus on horseback at fall gallop. Where is he going! To destroy Christians, Ife wants no. better play-spell than to. stand and watch the hats and coats of the murderers who are massacreing God's children. There goes the same man. - This time he is afoot. Where is he going now? Going on the road to Ostia to die for Christ. They tried to whip It out of him, then thought they would give him enough of it by putting him into a windowless dungeon ana keep him on small diet ,and denying him a cloak, and condemning him as a criminal, and howling , at him through the street; but they could not treeze it out of him, and they could not sweat it out of him, and they could not pound it out of him, so they tried the surgery of the sword, ami one summer day in 65 he was decapitated. Perhaps the mightiest intellect of the six thousand vears of the world's existence hoodwinked, cheated, cajoled, duped by the Christian religion. Ah! that is the remarkable thin? about this -delusion of Christianity, it overpowers the strongest intellects. " Gather the critics, secular and religious, of this century together and put a vote to them , As to which is the greatest book ever written; and by large majority they will say "Paradise Lost?" Who wrote ! Paradise Lost?" One of the fools who believed in this Bible, John Milton. Benjamin, Franklin surrendered to this delusion, if you may judge from the letter that he wrote to Thomas Paine, begging him to destroy the ''Age of . Reason" in manuscript and never let jt go into type, and writing afterward, in his old days: "Of this Jesus of Nazareth I have to say that the system of morals He left and the religion He has given us are the best , things the world has ever seen os i3 likely to see." Patrick Henry, the electric champion of lib

erty, enslaved by this delusion, so that he says: "The book worth all other books put together is the Bjble." Benjamin Rush the leading physiologist and anatomist of his day, the great medical scientist what did fre say? "The onlv true andperiect reliinon is Christianity,

Isaac Newton, the leading philosopher of his time what did he say? That man surrendering to this delusion of the Christian religion crying out: "The sublimest philosophy on earth is the philosophy of the GospeU' David Brewster, at the pronunciation of whose name every scientist the world over bows his head, David IJrewster saying: "O, this religion has been a great light to me,, a very great light all my days." President Thiers, the great French statesman, acknowledging that he prayed when he said: f'l invoke the Lord God, in whom I am glad to belle vo." David Livingstone, able to conquer the lion, able to conquer the panther, able to conquer the savage, yet conquered by this delusion, this hallucination, this great swindle of the ages, so that when they find him dead they find him on his knees. Win. K Gladstone, the strongest intellect in England to-day, unable to resist this chimera, this fallacy, this, delusion of the Christian religion, goes to the house of God every Sabbath, and often, at the invitation o; the rector, reads the prayers to the . people... . 0, those mighty intellects are overborne by this delusion, what Gfeance is there for you and for me? . . Besides that, I have noticed that firstclass infidels can not be depended on for steadfastness in the proclamation of their sentiment,, Goethe, a leading skeptic,

I was so wrought upon by this Christiani- ' Jy that in a weak moment he crie4 put:

"My belief in the Bible has saved me in my literary and moral life." Rousseau, one of the most eloquent champions of infidelity, spending Ins whole life warring against Christianity, cries out; "The majesty of the Scriptures amazes mo," Altai non t, the notorious infidel, one would think he. would have been safe against the delusion of the Christian religion. Oh, no! After thinking against Christianity all his days, in his last hours he cried out: "Oh, Thou blasphemed but most indulgent Lord God, hell itself is a refuge if it hide me from Thy frown." Voltaire, the most talented infidel the world ever saw, writing two hundred and fifty publications, and the most of them spitefully against Christianity, himself the most notorious libertine of the century, one would have thought he could have been depended upon for steadfastness in the advocacy of infidelity and in the war against this terrible chimera, this delusion of the Gospel. But no; in his laat hour he asks for Christian burial, and asks that they give him the sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why, you can not depend upon these first-rate infidels; you can not depend upon their power to resist this great delusion of Christianity. Thomas Paine, the god of modern skeptics, his birthday celebrated in New York and Boston with great enthusiasm ; Thomas Paine, the paragon of Bible haters; Thomas Paine, about whom his brother infidel, Wm. Carver, wrote, in a letter which I have at my house, saying that ho drank a quart of rum a day and was too mean and too dishonest to pay for it; Thomas Paine, the adored of modern infidelity; Thomas Paine, who stole another man's wifo in England and brought her to this land; Thomas Paine, who was so squalid and so loathsome and so drunken and so profligate and so beastly in his habits, sometimes picked out of the?ditch,6ometimes too filthy tone picked out; Thomas Paine -one would have thought ne could have been depended on for steadfastness against this great delusion. But no. In his dying hour he begs the Lord Jesu3 Christ for mercy. Powenul delusion, all-conquering delusion, earthquaking delusion of the Christian religion! Yes, it goes on; it is so impertinent and it is so overbearing, this chimera of the Gospel, that having conquered the great picture galleries oi the world,the old masters and the young masters, as I showed in a former sermon, it is not satisfied until it has conquered the music of the world. Look over the programme of that magnificent musical festival a few years ago in New York and see what rere the great performances, and learn that the greatest of all the subject were religious subjects. What was it one night when three thousand voices were accompanied by a vast number of instruments? "Israel in Egypt." Yes. Beethoven deluded until he wrote the High Mass in D major. Haydn deluded with this religion until he wrote the "Creation." Handel deluded until he wrote the oratories of "Jephtbah" and "Esther" and "Saul" and "Israel in Egyptf'and "The Messiah." On the closing night three thousand deluded, people singing of a delusion to eight thousand deluded hearers. Yea, this delusion of Christian religion shows itself in the fact thai; it goes to those who are in . trouble. Now it is bad enough to cheat a man when Ho tc TVill anil toKoti Via ti nrrtonoTAnfl

but this religion comes to a man when he is sick and says: "You will be well again after a while; you are going into a land where there is no coughs and no pleurisies, and no consumptions, and no languishing; take courage and bear up." Yea, this awful chimera of the Gospel comes to the poor, and it says to him: "You are on your way to vast estates and to dividends always declarable." This delusion of Christianity come to the bereit, and it talks a reunion before the throne and of the cessation of all sorrow. And then, to show that this delusion will stop at absolutely nothing, it goes to the dying bed and fills the man with anticipations. How much better it would be to have him die without any more hope than swine, and rats, and snakes. That is all. Nothing more left of him. He will never know anything again. Shovel him under. The soul is only a superior part of the body and when the body disintregates the soul , disintregates. Annihiliation, vacanc', everlasting blank, obliteration. Why not present all that beautiful doctrine to the dying, instead of coming with this hoax, this swindle of the Christian religion, and filling the dying man with antici pations of another lite, until some in the last hour have clapped their hands and shouted, and some have sung, and some have been so overwrought with joy they could only look ecstatic? Palace gates opening, they thought; diamonded coronets flashing, hands beckoning, orchestras sounding. Little children dying, so that, although the little children had been so weak and feeble and sick for weeks they could not turn on their dying pillow, at the last, in a paroxysm of rapture uncontrollable, thev sprang to

their feet, and shouted!; ''Mother, catch me; I am coming?" And to show the immensity of this delusion, this awful swindle of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, I open a hospital, and I bring into that hospital, the death-beds of a great many Christian people, and I take you by the hand this morning, and I walked up and down the wards of that hospital, and I ask a few questions. I ask: "Dying Stephen, what have you to say?" "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." "Dying John Wesley, what have you to say?" "The best of. all is, God is with us." "Dying Edward Pay son, what have you to say?" "I float in a sea of glory." "Dying John Bradford, what have you to say?" "If there be any way of going to heaven on horseback, or in a fiery chariot, it is this," "Dying Neander, what have you to say?" "I am going to sleep now good night." "Pying Mrs. Florence Foster, what have you to say?" 'A pilgrim in the valley, but the mountain-top aro all agl earn from peak to peak." "Dying Alexander Mather, what have you to say?" The Lord who has taken care of me fifty years will not cast me off now; glory be to God and to the tamp! Amen, amen, amen, amen!" "Dying John Powson, after preaching the Gospel so many years, what have you to saj?" "My death-bed is a bed of roses." "Dying Doctor Thomas Scott, what have you to say?" "This is heaven begun." "Dying soldier in the last war, what have you to say?" "Bojs, I am going to the front." "Dying telegraph operator on the battlefield of Virginia, what have vou to say?-: "The wires are all laid and the poles are up from Stony Point to hpad-ouarters," "Dying Paul, what have, you to say?" "I am now ready to be offered, and the

time of m 3- departure is at hand, I have fought the good fight. I have finished my coufsoj t have kept the faith. 0, death, where is thy stng? Q grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be untD God who giVeth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!" O my Lord, my God, what a delusion, what a glorious delusion! Submerge me with it, fill my eyes and ear3 with it, put it under my dying head' for a pjljqw this delusion spread it over me for a canopy, put in underneath me for an outspread wingroll it over me in ocean surges ten thousand fathoms deep! O, if infidelity, arid if atheism, and if annihilation are a reality, and tho Christian rejjgion is a delusion, give me the delusion! . Well, we will soon understand if all. Your life and mine will soon be over. We will soon come to tho last bar of the music, to the last act of tho tragedy, to the last page of the book yea, to the last line and to the last word, and to you and tQ wf. it will either be midnoon or midnight. ji'AITH. We only feel that faith fa Hie. Aad death is pie fear of deati, ...... Whey we suffer up to the solemn bights Of a true and living faifo When we o not say that the Jead shall riaa At the rMurreflt&n-pall -But wheu we trust In the Lord, and kaov That we cannot die at all, Pawl fei ;

LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS, TIIK .101NV CONVKNTION. Turpio 7S, Harrison 71, Allen A. The Spiiakcr had boon mbilnvily tdjaurning the convention after a bi lot had beer taken. To-day Mr. Jewctl meekly flfeked: "Mr. Speaker can we have another ballot?" which created laughter. Mr. Johnson suggested that as Mr. Jowett had been n pood boy he bo allowed nnot he- ballot. The Speaker said, "Tho Choir will consent," which was received withgreal, good huiror. Second ballot Tur pie 75, etc. SKXATK. Nearly all the morning session was consumed in the hearing and consideration of t he minority report on tho McDonald-Brannaman oufce.. It was a voluminous document and argued that McDonald was entitled to tho sfiat, but if he vasnot Brannaman was no ; entitled to it. After a long discussion consider Atiou was postponed until Fob. 3, by a party vote. The House resolution for a jolut committee to visit the Tippecanoe battle field next Monday and report its conditio i. was adopted and the chair appointed Dresser and Brauemau, The committee on public buildings were instructed to investigate all public coutraets for buildings in progress of erection. Mr. Camplell's motion to reconsider the vote adopting a resolution In relation to the repeal of the copyright Uw for publishing sebool books was rejected. Mr. Logsdon's concurrent resolution calling upon Congress to secure au amendment to the United Slates constitution providing for the election of Senatois by a vote of tho people was adopted -Ay en 43, nays 4. A resolution appointing a committee to visit Kuightstown and report concerning the .Soldiers' Orphans Home the expenditures on tho building now in progress- was adopted. nousk . The committee on agriculture reported back Mr. Garrison's bill to prevent stock from runnfng at large, with certalu amendments, and the repofi provoked a long discussion, wh8h took up the time of the morning sessiou Finally Mr, Gordou moved that the enacting clause of the bill be stricken out. An effort to lay this on tho tablo was defeated by a vote of 46 to 52, aud the report of the committee was concurred in. The bill w as eventually engrossed. The bill for the aprolntroeut of a State live stock sanitary commission was ordered engrossed. Bills were introduced : Relating to drainage; to authorize- the trustee of Jamestown, Boonecouu ty, to corapromise the delinquent taxes duo the town; to make offices Tncant when the person receiving the highest number of votes is ineligible; to require e fleets of alcohol and uarcotics to be taught ia the public schools; to provide payment for sheep killed by dogs; to fix the State rate of interest; to prohibit oounty superintendents from teaching sehool; to compel railroad companies to give on bulletins information as to trains; to require Justices to use a seal; concerning bondsmen of county olMcers; to encourage the killing of English sparrows; to require drains for higbwf.ys; concerning the government of the charitable institutions; to provide for the taxation of telephone companies ; to require clerks to make Itemized statement of costs concerning change of venue in criminal cases; defining ambezzleineut and fixing penalty; concerning perjury; to define duties and fix compensation of Attorney-General; concerning road supervisors; concerning mechanics liens : to require loaning of school funds at 8 per cent ; concerning proceedings in civil cases; to regulate making of ditche and appointment of commissioners of drainage; to enlarge the powers of cities of over 70,000 population: to regulate fees of certaiu officers: to provide the manner of conducting elections and contests; to require banks to make certain roports. Arc-solution was adopted, authorizing a com mitteo to report the advisability of purchasing a Governor' residence. fxoi x K a 101.13, Jan , 26, 1 SS7. . THE JOINT CONVENTION. Turple 74, Harrison 70, Allen 4. The House bill for the relief of Nathan KlHotv ex-to'i-nship trustee in Orar.ge county, who was robbtd aud his house "bnrned, by which he lost 1,000, was passed ayes 45, nays 0. Also a bill was passed for the relief of Samuel Dickinson, of Dearborn county who lost township money by a bank failure but. not unanimously. Also, e bill was passed regtilnting terms of court in the fourth judicial circuit. Also, a bill was passc legal izing certain records of the board of com--miss oners of Ripley county. Also a bill was passed flxJngtefmsTii'uuiif 5I'U 'the Weiftl-judicial (jircuit. The bill to provide a home for focble-raincV ed ct ildren was reported with a recommendation that it be located at Ft. Wayne. Tho committee's substitute for the bill to regulate the practice of dentistry, was read. It provides that practitioners shall have a diploma from a dental college, and that five members of the State Dental Asiation shall be appointed a board of examiners. I t also requires a registcry of dentists to be made, and that iu June, 1847, the examiners shall determine the status of dental colleges. nousB.' Hills were introduced: For the regulation and establishment of tlie State militia; to prevent fraud iu the sale of garden and farm seeds; concerning the building of public ditcher and drains across highways; to provide for tho electior of co anty superintendents by the vote of the people: providing for tho refunding of V ie Indebtedness of the State at not exceeding per cent., and authorizing a loon of S4W.000 for the purpose; prohibiting the hunting of rabbits with ferrets, and tho killing of squirrels during Jaanaryi February, March und April; allowing owners at property on highways to keep 200 feet thereof improved; prohibiting sale of woodcock, grouse, chickens, wild d icks, etc., at certain timesof the year, and prohibiting killing of uail for two yen ; exempting certain charitable institutions from taxation; to aaiend theaot conijerning the killing of siock by railways; prescribing duties of coroners; providing that neithex party to a divorce suit shall be competent to testify in suoh proceedings un1jss called upon to do so by the Court; providing for letting out contract for furnishing books to the common schools to the lowest bidder; proing for a tax on all theatrical performances, circuses, etc.; providing ior the ajtpointraeat oj ; ommissioners of drainage ; authorizing incorpotated towns to ta'lce stoek In raiuoads, water vorks, etc., upon certain conditions. A resolution was adopted requesi;iug Congress ;o eslublish a burwiu of agricultur, tho chief of ffhlch shall he a cabinet officer. The Senate bill for the legalisation of the incorporation of the town of Huhtiugburji was passed. Tho blll!to fix the liability of rail i-oad and other companies for injuries to employe by tho negligence of co-employes was reported from committee aud disous6ed, after which it 't& re-comaiitted

to the judiciary committee. Tuesday at 2 p. m. was fixed toi consideration of Griffith's oivil service bill. : The hill to fix the rate oi interest on school fund loans at 6 per cent, was ordei c-d engrossed. The bill to repeal the intimidation laws was read the second time, with a favora oie committee report. The bill was disewsed. Oshorn, Howard and White were appointed to visit the Tippecanoe battle ground on the part of the Uous. Indian apous, Jan. 27, 17. TnB ,IOIN;T CONVfiNTK.'H. Turpie 74, Harrison 70, Allen 4. . 6J3NATB. ... . The bill repealing the intimidation law was dicussed without action . The bill tq osihl8 he school for feebleminded children at Fort Waynn was also discussed at great length. An amendment to locate tho institution at Kokoino was rejecied. The Senate then voted eyes 43, nays 6 to locate the Institution near Fort Weyne. 1 he bill was recommitted with instructions to investigate tht expenditures of the amount heretofore appropriated for the ineafio asjiujas. U0US18. Osborne's bill, requiring plairtifls beforo justices to give security for 0091s in certain ojises, was indefinitely postponed. Also, M oi:k's bill to secure fair priioary elections and nominating con ventlons. ,lso, Pierce's bll reealiiig ffee uro vokelaw." Grose's hill, authorizing the State ofiioers to make a locm of $1,000,000, aud appropriating 82,000,000 for the completitlon of the ew State House and $107,000 for furnishing It, an 3 for appropriaUono for mo completion ot the hospitals for the insane, was reported baok from, the committee on ways and means, wit'a a recommendation that it be passed and also printed. The provisions of the bill were explained and debated. iNDUJyAPOLM, Jan. 28, 1887, Wi JOViJ CONVEX ri()N? Turplo Harrison Sf Ajleh , .... SENATE, Pptltionfj were presented, asite for a sanitary llTsociw1; 4ea1rittfr a r. on-partisan management of Hh beaeyQlem; iEttttitJOMs. The 6bair annouao4l that there were twenty 8enatni

paired aud that if these pairs were recognized, the Senate won Id bo without a., quorum. The Chair would not recognize these pairs. Tho entire forenoon w as spent in considering if it was dvisalle to adjourn till Monday, without reaching a conclusion. Tiie biil requiring employoni to pay their em. ployes at least once a week was taken up, Several r;mendmonts were stiggosted, some of which were adopted. The biU wan pafssed to engrossment, HOt'SE. Bills were ifitroducod to repeal the intimidation act ; fixing term of notaries public at four yoarsaud de'lning their powers; regarding the assignujent of claims against corporations and tho collection thereof: to legalize the incorporation of Fortvillo, Hancock county.. Roerts bill for purity elections was amended and ordered engrossed. The bill fixing term of county officers at four years, and rendering officers ineligible to re-elco tion was indefinitely postponed, The bill providing strkt penalties for arson, defining this offense as the willful destruction of property of the value of Sip instead of $23, was ordered engrossed. A resolution providing for adjournment until Sfonday Was rejected, . Bills were Introduced, also, to make election days public holidays; to regulate the construction of ditches; and amending parts of the mechanic's lien law. Mock'fj bill requiring the amount of attorney's foes to be specified in notes was takeu up. The minority report of the committee, recommeudlug indefinite postponement was substituted for the majority report recommending its passage, and the bil$ was killed.

Indian apoi.13, Jan., 2t, 1887. , THE JOINT CONVENTION. Thf're was no quorum present . The Republicans Refusing to vote. The total vote cast was M, Alleii 3. ' . SENATE. Ti?c House bill requiring employers to iMy their employes every we;k in lawful money was taken up, and the committee report reeomtneuding au amendment making payments every two weeks, was concurred in. A motion to strike out the first section was rejected a yes nays Hi. A quorum not voting a roll call discovored 34 Seaaiors present. The amendment was rejected by a vivavoce vote. Alter further consideration the Senate went into joint convention, after Widch it stood adjourned. . . HOUSE. The bill providlug for the repeal of tho law empowering county cominissioneis to appoint students to Purdue Ui&iversity. the purpose being to separate ihatinstltution from State control, was reIorted unfavorably, ilr. Patton, its author, made ii speech against the report and lu favor of the 'Mil, Ln which ho deuounced Purdue "as a fraud,' ate. He said it had been a constant drain upon ihe State and had been of no benefit to anybody. Upon his motion the bill was made the special order for Tuesday at 10 o'clock. The bill to prevent the sale of pernicious literature was rejwjrtwS favoeably from committee and ordered engrossed: The bill allowing couuty clerks payment for enrolling soldiers and soldier's widows was passed to engrossment. Committee reports were coucurred in favoring Indeflniie pos tponment of the concurrent resolution for pensioning all honorably discharged soldiers (for the reason that the House had already passed its opinion on the subject), and the resolution for the distribution of the surplus in the U. 9. treasury among the Union States for tho pur pese of building soldiers' monuments. The bill prohibiting the collection of toll from persons going to or from religious meetings was reported favorably. Before u vote was reached the nouse went into joint convention aud then adjourned until Monday. Mono a y, January si, 1887. THE JOINT CONVENTION, There was uo quorum present and no election. An informal ballot was taken. SKKATE. Hills were introduced concerning the State Librarian; to repeal the telephone luw: to regulate the sale of drug3 and mediciues; to provide for removal of county superintendents of schools; concerning the medieallaw; for the protection of the ballot box; to pay Andrew Steppner for work done for the State. The hill setting apart a place iu the State Mouse to erect a statue of Gen, Pleasant Adams Hackleman was passed. The bill providing for the inspection of steam boilers and theppoIutment,of a boiler inspector was ordered engrossed. Pills were introduced, also, to reduce taxes on eai estate; to regulate foreigm Insurance in the State; for the relief of Joel S . Davis, of Bartholomew county. The bill establishing a home for feeble-minded children at Fort Wayne was passed. HOl'SE. Tho special order was tho report of the committee on recommending the passage of tho bill prohibiting the collection of toll from persons on their way to and from church. The report was concurred in. The bill was ordered engrossed. Ackman's bill making it a misdemeanor for township trustees to fail to maintain and repair fish ladders was ordered osigrossed ; also, the bill providing for the vacation of private burial grounds; also, tho bill requiring railroad companies to place und maintain bulletins at all stations as to the time trains arrive and depart. The bill regulating the mining and weighing of eoal was engrossed ; also, the bili regulating the sale of poisons and the compounding oi modtaines by iwompeten t persons.

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Mr. Ibach has introduced a bill, providing strict penalties for exorbitant charges for "Bohemian oats" and other cereals, and the obtaining; of fraudulent contracts by such sales. Some legislation in this direction seems to be needed. "Yes," said Speaker Sayre Thursday morning, while in a thoughtful mood, "that compromise agreement plainly says, Hhe speaker shall adjourn the joint convention.' It don't say anything about the convention adjourning itself. I guess I have been doing all right." The complexion of the House by trades and professions is as follows: Ministers,; lawyers, SO; farmers, 35; surveyors, 2; mason, 1; retired, 1; manufacturers, 4; tile-maker, 1; business, 1, lumber dealer, 1; printers, 2; journalists, ; teacher, 1; grocer, 1; merchants, 8; cooper, - carpenters, 2; machinist, 1; physician, 1; banker, 1; abstractor, 190; nothing,!. Total 100. Governor Gray Thursday submitted a message to tlie Assembly relative to the Green River island long in controversy. The island is claimed by both Kentucky and Indiana, and both exercise jurisdiction over it. This is a cause of endless contention, as farmers by whom the ground is occupied, are divided in their allegiance. The Governor makes no recommendation further than that the Legislature should provide a way of reaching an understanding in the caso. Representative Grose has introduced a bill which proposes to place the benev oient institutions of the State on a nonpartisan basis. It provides that each in stitution shall be managed and controlled by a board of three trustees to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. Each board is to consist of one Democrat, one Republican and one woman, and the six women thus appointed to the six institutions, shall be three Republicans and three Democrats. Representative Roberts's homestead bill provides that on and after July 4, 1887, a homestead of sixty acres of farming land, occupied by the owTner,and one lot in any incorporated town or city, occupied by the owner, shall be exempt from forced sale on execution or any other final process of court, except for the payment of taxes, or of debts created to secure the purchase money, for improvements made, or for mortgage liens, on which both the husband and wife have joined, It also provides for the exemption of necesjiary furniture, household eiFect8,clothing, provisions on hands, tools or implements used in business or trade, etc.

WAR WITH CANADA.

That I a, War ol' Words-Tho Senate Action m Viewwi by the Press. THK AMKS.UCAN PitKSS. Tiie passage in the Senate, by a vote of 46 to J, of the fishery bill, indicates that that measure is likely to have a large majority also in the House. The bill authorizes the President to protect the rights of American fisherman in certain ways which are specified. The question is one which, in its general bearings,concerns the people of the whole country; although that part of tho fishery industry which is pursued on the borders of Canada is of comparatively small proportion, and ailects, pecuniarily, a small portion of the country only. There has been a great deal of loud and sanguinary talkin? done by Eastern newspapers and Eastern Congressmen. This, it seems to us, has hardly been warranted. There can be little doubt that if the Administration had shown a moderate amount of intelligence and tact in conducting

this controversy, the naai;ter would have been settled peaceably before this time. The Canadian authorities, to be sure, have evinced a haste and impcriousness since this trouble began which is highly aggravati ng and unjust to the United States, but it seems to he reasonable to believe that, if the question were to be properly brought before the British Imperial Government, some amicable arrangement might have been reached before now. One month ot war wouid cost the country more than the product

of the entire fishing industry affected would amount to in twenty years. The people of the United States, while determined, as always, to defend the rights of American cititzens against foreign encroachment, are equally determined to avoid war so long as this can be done without any sacrifice of the honor or dignity of the nation, Great Britain wfould certainly hesitate a long time before declaring war against the United States, if there were any honorable way of escaping It. St. Louis Globe-Deinocrat. The fact of the matter is that all this miserable wrangle over fishing rights has been provoked by the illegal attempts of New England fishermen to catch fish in Canadian waters. They are utterly indiifterent to what the consequences of their acts may be so long as a hostile tariff gives 1;hem a monopoly of the fish market. They have exhausted the supply of fish along our own oast , and at the risk of involving America and Great Britain in var have poached upon the reserved rights of our neighbors. As long as they were allowed to do this Yfith impunity Maine and Massachusetts reveled in the high jjrices of protected fish caught in Canadian waters and according to international treaties as muGh a foreign product as Nova JSeotia coal or St. John lumber. New Bngland fishing boats manned by Canadian fishermen habitually ignored all limitations upon their rights and carried what they caught in Canadian waters into Eastport, Portland, and Boston duty free. But fish caught by Canadian fishermen in their own boats pulled out of the salt wat r in the same places were excluded from our markets by the tariff. Naturally the Canadian owners of fishing boats became jealous of such encroachment upon their fishing grounds and appealed to their government to protect them under the treaties. Chicago News. Tns vote of tho United States Senate on the bill to authorize the President to protect the rights of American fishermen will make Great Britain do one of two things crawfish or fight, The whoio country will applaud the vote. Indianapolis Sentinel.

SI, Ixgalils wanted te bp sure whether the report of the committee on foreig n affairs meant war before he sailed in,and then he sailed. If the British lion will take tho trouble to cast her eye over Mr. Ingalhi' neither faint nor feeble remarks, she will learn precisely what the majority of American people think about he r. Indianapolis Journal. The severe reprisals contemplated in the Senate bill, and the yet more severe measures contemplated by the House bill, are the result of constant evasion of the spirit and oeettsional defiance of the letter of the fishery treaty of 1818 by our Canadian neighbors; albeit the hitter and spirit of that treaty are unduly favorable to them and unduly exclusive toward us. As a Nation we have lived uo to the letter of a one-sided treaty, to which clumsy diplomacy on the part of our representatives has made us a party. The breaches are not of our making. A desire on the part of Canada to foi ce the United States into a half free-trade policy, to which she herself is averse with any Nation other than ourown,a:ad which she only desires to extend to such of our products as will not conflict with her own, has been the motive of Canadian action. The motive has been encour

aged by England, whose jealousy of cur newrly acquired manufacturing and trading supremacy is natural and evident. It is not likely that England will support Canada to the extent of wrar, but it is certain that she has encouraged her to an extent that has made war possible if not imminent. Chicago Inter-Ocean. A Montreal paper, announcing the proposed retaliatory legislation by this country, has the following head lines: "U. S. Legislators Propose to Get Even With Their Face by Taking a Mouthful of Their Own Nose." This is the nature of a mistake. While wre might, to some extent, cut our noses off by the proposed retaliatory legislation, it would not be slitting our windpipe, which is what it would bo for Canada. If we carry out non-intorcourse as proposed it would inconvenience us some, but it would bo absolute trade ruin for Canada. If she does not know it, and thinks to scare us off by persistence i n her present course, and is inviting us to a "dance of death," she will see how nimbly we oan trip that "light fantastic too.' ' Indianapolis News. THE CANADIAN WtESS. ' The United States Senate, since it became a caucus of plutocrats, has displayed little statesmanship, and its decadence in the general esteem will be furthered by its 'retaliatory fishery bili. When no regular evidence was before them, and with none in rebuttal of the statements of the angry fishermen, the Senators oi? the United -States have

brought Canada up for trial, pronounced i

her guilty, and put a weapon for vheri

punishment into the Pesidentfs 'hands. The uso of that weapon VFift injure American trade at least as inAich as Canadian. It does not lesson the? con tempt duo jfco senatorial legislators. Their game? in its diplomatic aspect, is the old one of alarming Great Britain into bulldozing Canada. Toronto Globe. All the leading Canadian papers, irrespective of party, agree that Canada's position is impregnable on the fishery question, and urge the Dominion government to uphold Canada's rights at all hazards. At tho same time the hope is expressed that the United States government will not take the course which recent legislation indicates until every means of coming to a fair and friendly jettlement is exhausted. "A retaliatory measure has been

passed by the United States, and, as a result, poor Canada is to suffer all the frowns of the Republic if she persists in

enforcing her treaty rights. The Canadian authorities simply required fishermen to obey the custom laws, such as all American vessels frequenting Canadian ports are obliged to obey, and to report on entrance and to clear regularly upon departure. Only two seizures were made for the violation by. Americans of the treaty by purchasing bait. The Canadian government has not, ina single instance, refused any fair righ's of hospitalitys having allowed all reasonable facilities for shelter, repairs, and obtaining wood and water, getting medical advice and reasonable supplies for the sustainance of life when they have run out of these, aud for these Eastern fishermen want the American people to refuse to purchase from or to sell to Canada. To ronto Mail. THE LONX PRESS. . "To-day telegrams from New York, Montreal and Ottawa are of a very reassuring character. Nobody here regards the violent speeches of Senators Ingalls. Hale and Prye seriously. Even the dignified American Senators are not above playing to the gallery. It is muched to be hofed that no steps will be taken to exasperate the quarrel, and that the good sense of Canada will insist upon a policy of peace. "-London News. "We are sure that Mr. Ineall&'s out-

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not represent the feeling of either the American Senate or people. On the other hand, it would be foolish to shut our eyes to the importance of the question involved." London Post.

j The Chronicle thinks the fact that Mr. Ingall's splenetic outburst neither surprised nor shocked the more respectI able Senators is a far more serious matter

than the dispute itself, and hopes that the Washington authorities will early disclaim any community of feeeling with Mr. Ingalls. The Standard says that President Cleveland will probably have the good sense to veto the measure or agree to it merely in form and as a prelude to amioable negotiations. The Standard protests against cither Canada or England being coerced. The dispute, is one which is not beyond ' the scope of

diplomacy.

Effect of Clover on Sol!. The Farm has this to say in relation to the effects of manuring with clover: One of the most remarkable studies in practical farming is . the wonderful recuperative and restorative effect of clover on land. This effect can hardly

i be exaggerated. It is a mystery to ! many farmers how a crop grown on a soil can impart to it more than it takes

from it. Perhaps it will help them to understand this to remind them that but a small portion of the plant comes from the soil. In a ton of dry clover hay, chemists tell us,there are but from 106 to 134 pounds of organic matter (by which they rnean that which has come from the soil), and all the remainder is inorganic, or matter that has come from the atmosphere. Another fact which help3 explain how green manuring helps the soil is, that in most soils there is enough of plant food to grow hundreds of crops (and often

thousand), and much of this is in a condition in which it is - not readily avail

able for the olant. One of our best

modern writers on agricultural chemistry says: "So great is the wealth of fertility stored in the soil that if the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash contained in the upper twelve inches of a good soil were valued at the prices charged for them in our commercial fertilizers, a farni of 160 acres would be worth about a half million dollars." This must be constantly born in mind. The question we are about to solve in cultivating our farms is not when will the become perfectly exhausted but howr can we manage it so as to get profitable crops at the least expense now? Prof. Roberts, of the New .York

Experiment Station, found that, a field of clover which yielded 3,295 pounds of cured hay had 4,893 pounds of dried roots, or nearly 1,600 pounds more of roots than of top. On Time, Not ou Eternity. New York World. A Brooklyn man who had a bad record for buying goods on the installment plan and never paying for them, went into a Fulton street furniture house and asked if he could get a parlor suit on time. "Yes," said the dealer, "You can buy anything you want here on time, but not on eternity." Tho man didn't buy, MATER DOLOROSA, Because of one dear iufuiU Hed, With golden hair. To mo all little heads A halo wear; Aud for one saintly face I knew AU oabea nve fair. Beoause of two wide, earaest eyes Of kenvenly blue Which looked with yearning-gie My sad soul through.

AU eyes now flU mtue own with ware Whate'cr their hno. Because of little death-iuarked Ups, Which once did Call My uaine lu plaintive toues, No voices fall .. Upou my ear in vaiu appeal From children small Two little hands held lu my owa Long, long ago, Wow cause me as I wander through - This world of woo, . To Qlasp each baby hand stretch! nt Xn tear of foe. The lowest cannet plead iu valu, 1 loved Him so.

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Two Greensburg boys, aged 11 J andl, have started out to kill injuns and- buf" faloes. ' . - ' '..'V.?;" v Colonel A. G. Slop, a fstriner of Knox county, has assigned. His liabilities ap-- . proximate $30,000. , ' ' -

George Deluse, while hunting in Shelby county Thursday, killed a bald eagle

measuring seven feet and twOi, Jnchea from tip to tip. , " 'C A well UUOn farm nf Trarin Tlii viC'

near Crawf ordsville, gives very- evident signs of oil, and an investigation will be in order at once to ascertain the facte itt . the case.' . ,vJ. v John Weigel came to Columbus fron' the country, drew his pension ($504), "

j got d wink and was beaten , out of the

whole amount, and is now lying in jail? - on a charge of intoxication; . . .

The Diamond Tea company fhas been operating in Muncie, and was Thursday compelled to put up its stock of gifts to pay the fines of its employes, who were prosecuted under the gambling acfe The barn of SJas Perry -in Washing- -ton township, Kosciusko county, was ; burned Thursday night-' with all ita contents, including three horses. Loas

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$3,060; no insurance. Cause unknown. John Harbin, while hauling- lumber

cennes, Thursday, was I -crushedy apUe

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hour. J .:'?..;. '; 'rMrs. Harriet Prior, colored j said to be f ' 126 years of age, died at Hanover 'J?rikl

day night, one affirmed that -ahe waited at the teble of George Washington at the time of' his. J sickness and death. ... ;'.,-.. s Two years ago the t wife of Frank Keys, who lives in Crawford county, gave birth

ago she gave birth to triplets two boya, and a girl. ThjeMer dren are doing well. . I Hon. Eufus Magee, minister to NorJ wav and Sweden, is on his way heme, having sailed the first of last week, - He brings the remains of his wife, whose death occurred some months ago, for burial at Logansport. V A letter received from English Lake States that the mallard ducks have al-! ready been seen in that local jtfi is something nnuauah These game birds rarely ever put in an, appearance

oeiore tne miaaie oi Marcn. . : : The city council of Crawfordsville has passed an ordinance that all vagrants who are arrested and fined shall work Vthe fine put upon the streets at the rate : 'i of ...75 cents per day, and if- they rehwa , -to work they shall be fed on bread and

water until they are willing to work. . Samuel Young, editor and proprietor

of the Delphi Journal, is wanted for the ; - - alleged forgery ct a note for $1,000. When . 1 :r "rf

confronted by the injured parties he ee ? eaped and left the town on foot The act

was committed in the adjoining county J-? ' of White, wnere Young lived until last V fall, when he purchased the Journal witk a- ;x

the money thus obtained; He was married this month. ', ... The family iPBiabS " jwP1 "-."MitSfe: in the northwestern part of the State, is, in harjd luck. Builars Jsi-oke into their house, which eausid Mrs. Ranb to g6. . insane. Her husband sent her little . daughter to her mothers' at Chicago; Here the little girl. was poisoned nearly; to death by a dose of carbolic acid. Then ; -Raub tried to have the mother-in-laW ': declared insane but without success. In r the meantime his wife ran away, but he pursued; capturing her on the shore of the lake after she had bitten hi m severely v

through Uve hand. . -Indiana can respond, should war with Canada be imminent," said Adjuv tant General Koontz, "with as much, promptness to-day as- she did during the civil war. She has forty-two military

companies with anaverage membershipt of fifty each, and the census shows that there aro 463,000 men competent asr 'to& age. Why, Marion county alone can. furnish 28,000. The military statistical show Indiana fourth as to military Vap;'

pointments, so at least thee-fifths of the competent men in the State ; would make an army in themselves. , L ". Evan Fi x, the man who was t ried and acquitted at Nashville, Brown eountjs,

last April, of the murder of George Cooper, the particulars . of which , w er ;; given at that time, had a sale of his household goods on Saturday,- prepars-v

tpry t o emigrating to Alabama. In the evening he wras called to his door by a ' disturbance among his dogs, and as he turned to go in was snot in the back; neck and base of the skull. - He feU,and;

a second shot wras fired, but none of the :'; ': ; shot struck him. Some of the members ' V of the family who went to thje door made, , ' a narrow escape from the second shot. ' His condition is said to be- serious and much excitement prevails. ' ttm if V wi j ;

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open six-inch pipe isprobably as strong as the wind in a hurricane. A . board weighted with forty pounds was held up j J by the outflowing gas so that it did not rest on the pipe at any point; When the gas flows from a twoinch pipe the roar is deafening inside of the dferrick, i and it can be heard in any part ,of the city. The volume of gas ib simply iaamense, reaehing millions fi of cubic feet : -per day. This well alone would; probably heat and light the whole city; It; is without doubt tlie strongest welt iuT the State: Muncies first well is now furnishing heat for about 100 stores, -

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Argument in the Hmith-Robertsoa-ease,involying t he -alidity of the election; of Colonel .Robertson to the Lieutenantgovernorship, began beltore the Supreme

court Tuesday and continued until Friday noon. . W- H, HV Mills and. Senator Harrison appeared for Col, Robertson and Jason & Brown and Judge Turpie for Smith. A decision is expected in a few days. f-i"4feii'-''

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winter, so as to be in full wjaenthe season onnB;;