Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 19, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 March 1887 — Page 2

BY H. J. FELTUit

BLOOSnNGtON,

INDIANA

Sons one has discovered that even sosialism has its uses. Bismarck is said to be afraid to declare war owing to the danger of a socialist revolution. Mankind owes very little in the way of gratitude towards either socialists or anarchists, but if they can frighten Bismarck into preserving peace, all Europe will rise and on this occasion only call them blessed . :

TnEitE.isalaw in Germany whereby

the ownership of property entails obli

gations to military service, not only on the actual owner, bub on his sons, and this without any regard to nationality Hence, a Bussian-born subject, but naturalized American citizen, residing in Ohio, has been called upon to hold himself in readiness for military duty in Germany, because his father had purchased an estate in the Fatherland. The proceeding would appear to be a breach of international law. There was no attempt at abscondingr to evade military service, as the citizen now summoned was never liable' in any way for such service, and left Europe at a time of peace. If he docs not comply with

the sammons a fine of $1,000 is, to be

levied on his father's German property,

and -both summons and fine may-he re

peated as often as desired. Miiitarian-

ism seems to blind its votaries to al ideas of justice, common-sense and de oency. . .- - OUT OF THE OKDLNABY.

,, Themavorof Dubuque, la., runs a

lunch counter and saloon.

In a single ward in the city of Lincoln,

HI., there are-thirty-two widows.

A nunter in ixine nerre. u. x. re-

cently killed a rabbit four feet long.

Delorain, I. T., is four months old It

has 100 houses, 7 stores and 4 hotels. . A Hemlock ( Mich.) man humanely chloroforms his hogs before he butchers them. Mr. Pyron, of Chester, 111., has a pet crow that talks as fluently as a trained parrot. 1, ... There has not been a prisoner in the Le Sueur.county (Minn.) jail for three months. . A band of Indian squaws who came into Bangor, D. T., recently, 'all invested in corsets. '? , , A Pokagon (Mich.) man found a bear's tooth in the center of a solid log. recently while chopping. A preacher of Larkin, HI., was fined $1.50 and costs for disturbing a religious meeting of a rival sect. A lady in South Hav en, Mich. , has a parlor ornament in the shape of a dead rattlesnake five feet long. During January full V 1,000 sled loads of bullheads were caught on the borders of Beaver Dam lake, Wisconsin. . Mr. Thomas M. Davis, of Milford,Del., is the owner of an ol&slefgh. His greatgrandfather, Mark Davis, bought it in Philadelphia in 1779. Carlisle Scott, of Golfax, 111., has a gray prairie squirrel which was found frozen solid under a strawstack, Mr. Scott thawed is out gradually, and now it is a lively as ever. -: ... Three residents of Kinderhook, IF. Y. say they met the ghost of a deceased neighbor on a lonely road near that village one night recently and had a long and entertaining chat with it At the WashingtonTerritory penitentiary fe rules require that the hair on the right aide of prisoner's heads shall be shaved off, while that on the left side is allowed to remain in its normal condition. ' While Capt Cameron, of Portland, Ore,, was walking on a dock reeentlv smoking, a ball from some unknown rifleman struck his pipe, carrying it all away except a, Uttle bit: between his teeth. - Albert Niekerson, of Sag Harbor, L. I., is 12 years old. Every day he sits down to the table with his father and another, grandfather and grandmother, great-grandfather, and greatTgrandV mother. A lightning adder gave an exhibition in a public place in Lansing, Mich., and gained great admiration by his rapid work with columns of fissures. After he had taken up a collection and disappeared it was discovered that his totals were all wrong. ' In regard to such animals as frogs; etc., it is pretty hard to say at what time they are dead: I remember the case of a snapper which I caught in. a creek in New Jersey. We began by cutting off the head and going through the usual process in cuch cases. Some time afterward I found the heart (which had not yet been disposed of) still contracting. I take it ior granted the animal was really dead, because it had been cooked, and I had eaten it during the interval. Cor. Philadelphia Ledger.

Be Careful of Your Signature.

outb'a ComMnion.

A gentleman of wealth, while practising penmanship one day. wrote his name upon a blank slip of paper and allowed it to lie on hisdesk" It attracted the attention of a neighbor, who, for a

joke, filled the space above the signature in the form of a promisory note, and a lew days afterward the joking neighbor presented the paper, with an offer to allow considerable discount i f the apparent drawer would cash it at the time. The gentleman perceived the joke, and the holder of the document, placing it in his

pocket, departed, and nothing more was said about it. Subsequently the holder was stricken with paralysis and died, and his executors, finding the note, and having no knowledge of the joke attached to it, brought suit and recovered the sum for which it was drawn. Uncle JEsek's "Wisdom. k Ontury Magazine. We stand in-our own sunshine oftener than others do. It ia the litttle things that are the most wonderful and difficult ;tt is possible for human enterprise to make a moun-

lain, out impossicie ior xy to make an oyster., There is nothing so necessary as neces aity; without it, mankind would have ceased to exist ages ago. The heart gets weary, bat never gets old. ; . V' .... . If a man is right, he can't be too radiflt if ' wron. he -can't Via tnrt finnsfivxr

tive. You can outlive a slander in half the time you can out-argue it. vj

Tender Scenes, Connected With the Day of Sacrament and Reunion. Ono tlird and One Faith, On Cross and One Redeemer A Season Which Draws the Faithful Xearer Heaven Ir. Talinnge's Sermon, Sunday was Sacramental Day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and the sermon was preached at the reception of 347 new members, making 630 received during the present . revival, so that the communicant membership now is 4,051.

Dr. Talmage took two texts I. Chronicles, ch. xxiii., v. 5.: "And four thousand praised the Lord," and Exodus,

ch. xii., v. 14: "This day shall be unto

you a memorial," He saidt

When week before last the communi

cant membership of this church passed into the four thousand, now reaching

four thousand fifty-one, the first part ol my text came to my mind, and I be

thought myseu wnat a grana tiling n

would be if the four thousand of our communicant membership would, like

the four thousand of the ancient temple, make it their lifetime business to praise the Lord. Let them all take harp and timbrel and anthem and doxology. - ., -b The allusion of my second text is to the Passover, which commemorated the deliverance of the children of Israel on the night when the destroj'ing angel sped through the land of Egypt,destroying the enemy but saving the Israelites,

because on the door posts oi tneir dwellings was sprinkled the blood of the lamb. To day we come to celebrate a grander Passover, all peril going away from our soul at the sight of the sprinkled blood of the Lamb of God on the door posts of our hearts. Christ, our Passover, sacrificed for us. ,; The Sacramental Sabbath, whether it comes in an American churchy or an English chapel or a Scotch kirk, is more impressive than any other Sabbath. Its light is holier, calmer, sweeter; its voices more tender; its touch is softer; its memories are more chastened. The fruits of the Christian life suddenly ripen, like orchards on the hill fronting the south. The wine of the Holy Sacra

ment seems pressed from the grapes of Celestial vineyards and tho bread broken seems to drop from the hand of Him who parted the loaves for the five thousand. We walk to the church of God with a more thoughtful face and. with quieter step. The jubilant songs of other Sundays are struck through with pensi veness, and are all a-tremble with tears; and when, at the close of the service, at the door we shake hands, it is with a more cordial grasp, because .we feel thrilling through our body and mind and soul the great doctrines of Christian brotherhood; and our minds go back to onr forefathers' celebrating the sacrament in times of persecution in Scotland among the Highlands; . commemorating the dying love of Christ, while they were pursued by their enemies, pouring the wine into rough wooden cups, dipping the waters of baptism from the mountain rock, until one day they heard the voices of their enemies coming up the hill, and the pastor cried out: "Oh, Lord, the Shepherd, have mercy on us, the sheep!" And instantly there was a roaring heard as of great floods, and sure enough a cloud had burst and there were great torrents running down the mountain side that whelmed their foes with a sudden wrath. What a deliverance it was for them on that sacramental day! Oh that on this sacramental day the cloud of God's mercy might burst and our sins be whelmed and our souls saved! This is the amethyst of days. This is the pearl of days. This is the diamond of days. This is the day of days. Among the ten thousand million ages of eternity this Sabbath will be to you significant and memorable, for "this day shall be unto you" forever and forevei "a memorial." There is much in the scene of to-day to impress us because it is a time of reinforcement. ,1 used to remark that if I ever lived to see our membership reach four thousand . I thought I would be willing to say with one of old: "Now, Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes h ave seen Thy salvation." Bat I have changed my mind, and I never so wanted to stay as now, so as to see them all enlisted for God, and to watch their victories. AVhat might not they accomplish in the way of making the world better if they were all baptized with a double portion of the Holy Ghost? Four thousand!. That is four full regiments, as military-men count a thousand to a regiment. I think not one hypocrite among them. Taken into the church sometime in large numbers, but each one as carefully examined as to change of heart and evidence of regeneration as though he or she were the only one presenting himself or herself. Many of our former members have passed away into the skies, and have joined the church triumphant, but we have four thousand and more left for the church militant. To arrae! Quit you like men! We want no, reserve corps among them. Go into action, all of you. Some will make cavalry charges. Some will be sharpshooters. Some will stand guard. Some will be on picket duty. Many of you will belong to the. rank and file. Let there be no straggkis, none off on furlough, not one deserter. With Christ for Commander-in-Chief, and the one-starred, blood-striped banner of manger and cross to lead the way, I give the order that the General in the war gave, when rising in his stirrups, his hair flying in the wind, he cried out till all the host heard him: "Forward, the whole line!" There is also something in such a scene to deeply impress one, because it rehearses a . death scene. Now, you know, there is something very touching in such an incident. Though you are in a hotel, and it is a stranger 1 hat is dying, how softly you move about tho place, and if you come up to his couch it is with uncovered head. Even the voice of the jester is stopped, and when the eyes of that stranger are closed it is with emotion. But. I am to tell you this morning of a death such as has never before or since occurred. . When we die, we die for ourselves, and the crisis is alleviated by all beneficent min

istries. Isathings for the hands, bathings for the bead, bathings for the fqet, the light turned down low or set in just the right place, all the offices of affection about us when we come to die. But not so with Jesus. He died "not for himself, but He died in torment, and He died for others. He might have moved around in gardens ma-ie by His own t j . 1 1 i t . . .

nanus, an eanniy poxeniaie amiu vineyards and olive groves sloping to the sea. Instead of being tossed in the fishing-boat on Tiberius He might have chosen a sunshiny day and a pleasant wave for the lake crossing. Instead of being followed by an unwashed rabble He might have charmedsanhedrims and universities with his eloquence. " Instead of a crops and a bunch of twistea brambles on His brow He might have died in the castle of a Roman merchant, the air bland with lillies and frankincense. But no; he died in torture; the good for the bad: the kind for. ihe cruel; the wise for the ignorant: the divine for the human. Oh, how tenderly we feel toward any one who has done a great

kindness, and, perhaps, at the imperiling of his own life! How we ought to

feel toward Christ, the Captain of palva tion, on the white horse riding down our foes; but in the. moment He made the victorious charge the lanees of death struck him! There was a very touching scene among an Indian tribo in the last century. It seemed that one of the chieftair.8 had slain a man belonging to the opposite tribe, and that tribe came opand .said:. "We will exterminate you unless you surrender the man who committed that crime." The chieftain who committed the crime

stepped out from the ranks and said, "I j

am not afraid to die, but I have a wife and four children, and I have a father aged and a mother aged, whom I support by hunting, and I sorrow to leave them helpless," Just as he said that his old father stepped out and said, "He shall not die. 1 take his place. I am old and well stricken in years. I can do no good. I might as well die. My days are almost Oyer, tie baft not b scared, take hie; '. And they accepted the sacriliee. Wonderful sacri

fice, you say, but not so wonderful a3 that found in the gospel, for we deserved to die; aye, we were sentenced when Christ, not worn out with 3'ears, but in the flush of his youth, said, "Save that man from going down to the pit; I am the ransom. Put his burden on my

shoulders. Let his stripes fall on my back. Tako my heart for his heart. Let mi die that he may live;" : . Shall it be told to-day in heaven that, notwithstanding all those wounds, and all that blood, and all those tears, and all that agony, yon would not accept Him? . There is no woo amid the surroundings of that scene that impresses me more than that of Hisown mother. You need not point her out to me. I can see by the sorrow, the anguish, tho woe, by the up-thrown hands. That all means mother. "Oh," you say, "why didn't she go down to the foot "of tho hill and

Bit with her back to the scene? It was too horrible for her to look upon." Do you know when a child is in anguish or trouble it always makes a heroine of a moiher? Take her awray, you say, from the cross. You can not drag her awav, She will keep on looking; asking as her son breathes she will stand there looking. Oh, what a scene it was for a tenderhearted mother to look upon! How gladly she would have sprung to His relief. It was her son. .-. Her son! How

gladly she would have clambered up on the cross and hung theio herself if her son could have been relieved. How strengthening she would have been to Christ if she might have come close by Him and soothed Him! Oh, there was a good deal in what, the little sick child said upon whom a surgical operation of a painful nature must be performed! The doctor said: "That child won't live through this operation unless you encourage him. You go in and get his consent." The father told him all the doctor , said, and added: "Now. John,

will you go through with it? Will you consent to it?" He looked very pale and he thought a minute and said: "Yes, father, if you will hold.my hand I will!" So the father held his hand, and lent him strength through the peril. Oh, woman! in yonr hour of anguish whom do you want with yon? Moiher. Young man, in your hour of trouble whom do you want to console you? Mother, If the mother of Jesus could only have taken those bleeding feet into her lap! If she might have taken the dying head on her bosom! If she might Imve said to him: "It will soon bo over, Jesus; it will soon be over, and wo will meet again, and it will be all well." But, no, she dared not come up so close. They would have struck her back with their hammers. They would have kicked her down tho hill . There can be no alleviation at all. Jesus must suffer and Mary must look. I suppose . she thought of the birth hour in Bethlehem. I suppose she thought of the time when with her boy in her bosom she hastened on in the darkness in the flight toward Egypt. I suppose she thought of His boyhood, when Ho wras the joy of her heart. 1 suppose she thought of the thousand kindnesses He had done her, not forsaking her or forgetting her, even in His last moment, but turning to John and saying: "There is mother; take her with you. She is old now. She cannot help herself, . Do for her just as I would have done for her if I had lived. Be very tender and gentle with her. Behold thy mother!" She thought . it all over, and here is no memory like a mother's memory, and there is no woe like a mother's woe. I remark again: This is a tender scene because it is a Christian reunion. Why wras it that in the sessional meeting, when I asked a woman if it were her son wTho sat next to her making profession of his faith, she made no answer: but after a moment, trying to control her emotion, she burst into tears? I said within myself, she need not tell me the story. Iv is the old story of a prodigal got back. "The dead is 'alive again and the lost is found." Oh how many families there are that rejoice together today. These Christians during the rest of the year, perhaps, wilt not know much about each other. You go in one circle of society, these go in some other circle of society, and this one travels in that path and this one the other path; but to-day we will all come on one platform, and we make one confession, and we cling to one cross, and we gaze upon one death anguish. It seems to me this morning not like a church, but like a great family circle, and we ioin hands around the cross of Christ, and we say, "One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one cross, one Christ, one doxology, one heaven!" AVhile I stand hero it seems to me as if this communion table, which is only seven or eight feet long and three or four feet wide, widens unt'l all the Christians of our own denomination can sit at it; and still tho table widens until all the Christians in this land of all names and denominations come and sit at it; and still Urn table widens until it bridges the sea, and Christians on the other side of the Atlantic come and sit at it; and still that table widens until the redeemed of heaven mingle in the communion. Church militant; church triumphant. Again, my friends, this is an absorbing scene because it arouses 60 many precious memories. We look back and remember the days of our, childhood, when, long before we knew the meaning of the bread and t he wine, wTe sat on the side pews on sacramental days, or in the galleries, aud looked as pur fathers, mothers, and older brothel's and sisters sat at the communion. Or, if wre sat with them, we pulled at mother's d ress and said: "What does that mean? What is that in the cup? What is that on the plate?" 0, yes;we remember those sacramental days of our bo3'hood. We remember how much more tender father was on that day than on any other day. We remember how mother stood, and without saying any word looked at us, and her eyes got full of tears. Oh, the dear old soul! They have gone! But un til the day of onr death we will associate this holy ordinance with their memory. And when our work on earth is done we will just go up and sit down beside them in the heavenly church, as we used to sit beside them in the earthly church, and then we will drink new wine in our Father's kingdom. I remark again: This scene. is tender to-day because it.isa confessional. You and I remember the time when if a man had charged us with any thing like im-

penecuon or wTrong uoing, we would have thrown ourselves back on our honor, and said: "You don't know who you are talking 1o. I shall resent such an insult to my honor and integrity." We do not feel that wav to-dav. As we caze

upon the sacrifice of Christ, and think j of what we have been and what we have done, our hearts melt within us. We see one dying accursed for our sin, and we ! hear Him in his dying words begging! for our service, and yeb how little ser- j vice we have rendered. Of this short !" life we have begrudged God even a frag- j ment. A las! Alas! Some of us have lived out the most of our days, and yet we have rendered to God no earnest service. ,

Sad, that we could have so maltreated Him on whom all our hopes depend. Oh, my brethren and sisters in Christ.to-dav

join hands wit h me in a confession before Christ! If thero be any place more humble than another, let us take it. If there be any prayer more importunate than another, let us breathe it. If thero be any confession more bitter than another, let us weep it out. Once more: This is a tender and absorbing scene because it is anticipative. My brethren, wre are not always going to stay here, Th is is n o t ou r ho i n e. Th i s is only the vestibula of the church in which atlast, wo expect to enter. After

awhile, our names will be taken off the church books, or there will bo a mark in the margin to indicate that we have gone up to a better church and to a higher communion. Our Father is not goingto let His children remain in the dust. The grave is no place for us to

stay in, "The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise;,, The" Lord shall descend from heaven With a shoiit and the voice of the Archangel, and ye shall rise, Tho white robe in which they put us to our last slumber here must got whiter. Oh, the reunion of patriarchs and apostles and prophets, and of all our glorified kindred, and of that "great multitude that no man can number!" Our sorrows over. Our journey ended. It will be as when kings banquet. And just as the snow of winter melts, and tho Ileitis' willbrjghteti

in tile elorioussnriiiirtimei so it Will be

With all these cold sorrows of earth; they shall be melted away at last before the warm sunshine of heaven. While I present these thoughts this morning does it not seem that heaven comes very near to us, as though our friends, wnom we thought a great way off, are not in the distance, but close by? You have sometimes come down to a river at nightfall, and you have been surprised how easilv you could hear

voices across that river. You shouted i ... .i - jv . . S

over to tne otner sire oi me river, aim they shouted back. It is said that when George Whitetield preached in Third street, Philadelphia,. one evening-time, his voice wTas heard clear across to the New Jersey shore. When I wTas a little while chaplain in the army, I remember how at eventide we could easily hear the voices of the pickets across the Potomac, just when they wTere using ordinary tone3. And na wa p.omo to-dav and stand bv

the Kiver of Jordan that divides us from our friends who are gone, it seems to me we stand at one bank and they stand on the other; and it is only a narrow stream, and our voices go and their vdces come. Hark! Hush! I hear

BEECBER DYING.

The Great Brooklyn IMvino Stricken With Apoplexy r

lla in Uncon hIo us and ln.i.Hng Rapidly, But Iti IH-ath Not fixiioctcct nt Onfce--Fnrliiuxlnvt of the Sad Event Gathering His Family About Him Sorrow in Plym out h Church A Brief Sketch of His Life and Services.

was stricken

morning, hut

3ay: . .'These are

oi great tnbu la-

Henry Ward Beocher with apoplexy on Friday

knowledge of the event was kept from the puhlic until Saturday evening. The account of the attack and illness is thiu given by members of the family Uet NYecn 2 ami 3 o'clock IVlday mornimj

ho awoke his wife and complained of fueling ill. She arose to get him a drirJc of something, but before she could do so he commenced vomiting. Sha thought nothing of the aiiack,8Hpposin. that he had eaten something which had disagreed with him, or that he was sintering with biliousness. The fit of vomting lasted some time, and when it had . . ' j i j . i u

passeu ivir. wuuuuei jay uuuis. un uua low, quite exhausted. In a short ti m e he fell a sleep, and M rs. Beecher concluded that he vould be better in a few hours. When Mr. Beecher did not come down to breakfast his wife became alarmed, and calling Col. Beecher and her daughter-in-law, thoy went to Mr. Beecher's room. They found him lying awako in bed, very pale, but unablo to utter a word. He made an effort to rise, but fell back again powerless. To anxious questions from his wife and son aa to how he felt, he could make but a few inarticulate sounds in answer, and the now thor-

distinctly what they i.hnv whn Wimft out

tion and had their robes washed and ; oughly frightened, family sent m naste

maaewmie in mo uiuou ui uju umuv. Still the voice comes across the waters, and I hear: "We hunger no more, we. thirst no more, neither shall the sun light on us, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in themidst of the throne leads us to living fountains of water, and Godwipeth away all tears from our eyes."

A KANSAS COUNTY-SEAT AVAR. Two Men Killed and Four Mortally Wound, ed Throe Others Received Slight Injuria A Genuine Shooting Affray. Word has been received of a serious shooting affray at Coronado, Wichita county, on Sunday night, in which two men lost their lives,fcur were fatally shot and three were seriously injured. Tho killed and fatally injured are from Leoti and the others from Coronado. The trouble occurred over the location of the county -seat, both towns being candidates for the honor. Some time ago the Governor sent a commission there to take an expression of the people as to the location of the temporary county-seat, and as the result of the canvass Leoti was designated. An election for officers and a permanent county-seat was called for the 6thof this month, but in the meantime the Legislature passed a law postponing the county-seat elections until a registration was had. Leoti voted for county officers and a countyseat both, on the . ground that the recent law is unconstitutional. Coronado failed to vote on the countyseat question, and was defeated on the county election. Since then each side has charged the other with gross frauds, and a good deal of bad feeling was developed. On Sunday night a crowd of men went from Leoti to Coronado, and during a dispute over the elections Charles Colter, from Leoti, struck Frank Lilley, of Coronado. over the head with a revolver. Ezra Loomis tried to stop the quarrel, and received a bulletin the leg for his pains. Tiie shooting then became general. A corrected account of the fight says that the killed are Charles .Colter, William iiaines and a man named Johnson; the men fatally wounded are Frank Jones, A. N.Barry and George Watkin. Emmet Desming fled, and it is not known whether he is wounded or not All the parties named are from Leoti. They were fired upon as soon as they reaehed Coronado and were taken at a disadvantage. RIVER DISASTER. Complete Destruction By Fire of the Packet W. H. Gardner, Toinbijrbee River Twenty Persons Xiose their lives Jj-00 Bales of Cotton Burned. The steamer W. H. Gardner, on of the largest boats plying on the Tombigbee river from Mobile, was burned Tuesday afternoon, three miles below Gainesville, Sumter county, Alabama. Gaptain F. S. Stone telegraphs to the Register from Epes, Ala., that the boat Is a total loss, together with 464 bales of cotton. About twenty persons lost their lives, ten white and the same number of colored. The white persons were passengers and included five children. The colored were deck hands. The boat was valued at $25,000 and the cotton about the same amount.

The Southwestern Strike. Chairman Curtin, of the select committee created by the House to inquire into the cause and extent of the southwestern railroad strikes, Friday, submitted the report of that committee. In summing up, tho report says: "With regard to the general question of the right of workmen to combine for determining with their employers the terms on which only they will consent to work for them, provided the combination be perfectly voluntary, and full liberty be left to all other workmen to undertake the work, and no obstruction be placed in the way of the employer resorting elsewhere in this country in search of a supply of labor, we think there is no ground in justice or sound policy for withholding such a right from the workmen."

Tom Soulier's Rat-Trap. Savannah News. Tom Souder of Montezuma caught forty-nine rats in one night recently. He put a large wash-pot in the barn and filled it half full of water. Then he floated cotton-seed on the water, sprinkling some meal on the seed for bait. Next morning, to his surprise, ho found forty-nine rats in the pot. "!Kitherinen Rejoicing. There was great rejoicing in Gloucester, Mass., Thursday, among owners and fishermen over the passage of the Kdmunds bill. At noon all the bells were rung, colors ho isted and guns fired.

Co u ldn't Stand It. Sam Jones'B bad grammar was more han Boston could stand. Boston people are anxious to go to heaven, but; t hey want to' ( there grftjamatically.

for medical assistance. Mr. Beecher s family physician, Dr. W. S. Searlo, arrived in a short time, and made a hasty examination. He said that Mr. Beecher was quite ill, but did not think there was any immediate danger. He pre

scribed soine remedies, and during the day noted every change in the patient's condition. ' Saturday morning Mr. Beecher ap

peared to be orse, and it was decided to call Dr. W. A. Hammond, of New York, for consultation with Dr, Searle. Before noon Mr.Beecher lapsed into unconsciously ss, and was in that condition when Dr. Hammond entered the house. Dr. Hammond satd that Mr. Beecher was in a critical condition, yet, as he was a strong man, he might r;Uly. He gave the family all the hope he could, and it was after 2 o'clock when he went away. Before he became unconscious, Mr. Beecher seemed to recognize the members of his family, and, though articulation was very painful to him, he managed to express his wish that Dr. Hammond be called in and that his relatives be summoned. Sunday morning there seemed to bo a change for the worse, out a rally occurred, and then at 10 o'clock another relapse. Dr. Hammond being engaged, Dr. Ted Helmuth was taken into consultation with Dr. Searle, and he agreed with the other physicians that death was certain. Mr. Beecher is in a deeply comatose, state from which ne can not be aroused and from which he will never probably rally. Mrs. Beecher is utterly worn out. She is a year older than Mr. Beecher, and is feeble at best. Dr. Edward Beeeher, brother of the dying man, was as the house Sunday evening. President Cleveland telegraphed an inquiry as to Mr. Beecher's condition, and asked if there was any hope of recovery. Hundreds of telegrams have been received by the family, from all parts of the country, but they will not be given to the public while Mr.-Beecher Kves. A near friend of Mr. Beecher says that the property left by him will not exceed in value $125:,000, though his income for a score of years has been $30,000 per annum. He gave freely in all sorts of charities, and the only self-ia-dulgence for which he was rioted was in the collection of curious gems. All day Sunday and until midnight, the officer on duty at the door was kept busy answering the questions'of friends or of strangers. For hours the people stood in the cold, damp wea.ther, looking at the house, and it was not until the lights in the windows were lowered that the crowd dispersed. Even as late as 1 olock, persons climbed up the stairs and tried to road the latest bulletin. Most of the flowers gent to the house came from the members of the congregation. Later bulletins give no hope of his recovery, but the end may not be reached for two or three days.

BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS UFE, Henry Ward Beecher was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 18115. His father, Dr. Lyman Beecher, was only less prominent in his day than his son in thus. day. He was the leader of the resistance to the Unitarian movement in New England, and more than fitfty years ago long ahead of the "Washingtoman' ' reform- was, for a time, almost single handed the champion of temperance against tippling, then, almost universal among all classes and profession, the clergy a.$ well asothors. ' It shows the hereditary pluck and daring of the family, that so prominent a man as Lyman Beecher should so, vigorously assail a custom as common and held as innocent and wholesome as eating. He

was married September 19, 1794 to Miss lioxana Foote in New Haven. Dr. Lyman Abbott says that "two lines of sturdy New England ancestors, dating back "to 163S, when Hannah Beecher and Andrew Ward came over from England with Davenport to the New Haven colony, wtfre brought together in the union." ..The mother of Henry Ward Beecher died when he was thre e years old, and his father married, in 1817, the accomplished lady of whom he always speaks as "mother." He tells ue that his father and mother w ere usually too busy with a big family to give much attention to the governmen t of any one child, and he did pretty much as he pleased so far as parental direct ion was concernad. . He graduated from Amherst College in 1834. A couple of years spent in des ultory theological studies at Lane Seminary ended in an invitation to take the pantorate of a little church of cue man and twenty women in Lawrenceburgh, Ind., at a salary of 300 a year, his wife

said -S400 he said most of r? paid by the "American Home Missionary Society the remainder ($150) by tho congregat ion. Short Iv after the acceptanca of this pastomte Mr. Beech ex went to W orceiiler county, Mass., arid married Itunice White Bullard, to whom he had been engaged "as long as Jacob waited for Leah." His pastoral work, however, did not wait on his domestic arrangements. His first act was to arraign the single male member of his congregation for "unwortbinesH," and expel him, ler.ving a female church exclusively.. He had preached in LawrenceburgU

but a short time when he was invited to Indianapolis, where he labored for eigfc.t years. While there he lived a life of much sirn plioity, the salary paid by the then struggling church bein insufficient for a more pretentious styl jof living. Durin g this period he preached twice ou Sunday, held at least five: services it week, anil, br coilscnt of his flock, engaged in missionary service tbvoiigh the State for a portion of each yea". His great social talent made him very popular, and his play of humor in bis discourses drew many to hear him w ho could not have

been reached by the usoalsiyleof exhortation. During" the third vear of bis

ministry in Indianapolis a great revival of religion occurred in Terro Haute, as a

pa mat result, at least, of his labors. This was followed by revivals in other parts of the State and for many months he was unceasingly active. There was a continuous growth in the membership of his Indianapolis church, in fac, until the pastor resigned in 1&74, to accept a call to the Plymouth Congregational C hurch in Brooklyn, N. In Plymouth pulpit he declared at once his principles oi free, speech, and during the excitement aroused by the passage of the fugitive slave law labored for tho cause of tho. oppressed with

great energy. ; When the battle for the

settlement of Kansas was going on, and the East was sending out colonies, Mr. Beecher advocated the necessity of their going armed, and a subscription was raised in Plymouth Church to supply every family with a bible and a rifle. This raised a great outcry, of course, but not many years later churches which had risen in protest at these ri lies wore

aiding to equip soldiers and . prepare

munitions ot war. During the war Mr. Beecher's labors were incessant. Plymouth Chinch took charge of raising and equipping one regiment, the First Long Island, and many of its young men went out in it. At this" time Mr. Beecher took the editorship of the New York Independent, wishing this opportunity to , give his views wider publicity. He was in constant communication with Washington, and on intimate term 3 with tho Secretary of War, for whose wonderful efficiency he had the greatest admiration. His multiplied labors and the burdens of the war on his spirit broke down bis health. His voice began to fail and ho went to Europe for a temporary respite from' work. Here occurred one of the inost remarkable events in his career. On his first arrival in England he was im

portuned to lecture, but havinggone for relaxation, he declined to do so. On his

return to london from Paris, after a few

weeks, duiing which he had heard of

the battle ot trettysourg ana tne capture of Yicksburir, he recognized the

fact that he had the opportunity to plead the uause of his country before the world, and to expose the true character of the Southern Confederacy. A series of engagements for him to speak were formed, and he opened in Manchester to an audience of 6,000 people. The Confederacy's emissaries- had made every preparation to excite popular tumult, and prevent his being heard, but notwithstanding the roar and fury he persevered and , said his say in condemnation of the Rebellion and its instigators. He spoke in Glasgow, Edinburgh and " Livorjjool, the disturbances and excitement in the latter place being ahead of any other .experience. Tho speaker's powerful physique and strong lungs stood him in good service on this occasion, as he had to outscream a mob and drown th& roar of a mul'Jtude. As he said of it afterward, it was like driving a team of runaway horses and making love to a lady at the sf.me time. These speeches had a wonderful influence toward creating an English sentiment in favor of the Northern cause where sympathy with the South had hitherto prevailed. He always regarded this as the severest labor and greatest effort of his life. After the close of the war Mr. Beecher was one of the first to advocate a policy of cone liation and amnesty. This, being in . advance of popular sentiment, created; much feeling and estranged many friends, but .with the ......passage of time these differences of opinion were adjusted, and his wisdom on that occasion acknowledged. Since the war Mr. Beecher has continued with Plymouth Church, varying his life each year with a lecture tour through the country. His strong character, t'crsonal magnetism and loyalty to his friends his produced among the members of his congregation a feeling of affection and confidence which has no parallel in this country. Foul slanders have not been sufficient to move, but through evil and good report they have stood by their pastor until oulumny was lived down ana their faith justified. ., Sir. Beecher has always been noted for his ,. interest: in politics, bat only concerned himself actively when moral, questions in which s he was interested were th e points in controversy; as, for instan c?, during the war, when ne labored earnestly in behalf of the Republican party and was classed as an active member, In 1884, he varied his usual course of procedure and espoused the cause of Mr. Cleveland, and labored earnest :y for his election. In the summer of .1886 Mr. and Mrs. Beecher went to England for the first time since the war, and ere the recipients of manjr social attentions. Since their return the Plymouth naistor has remained quietly at his home in Brooklyn, occupying his leisure moments in writing an autobiography, a wceklv letter for a newspaper syndicate, and doing other literary work. Recently he renewed his labors upon the uLife of Christ' a work begun some years ago and laid aside, and it i3 probable that the unn sual indoor confinement growing out of this hastened the attack of apoplexy that has laid him low. To those who have felt, as probably most of his friends and admirers have always done, that his religious opinions and duties were the core of his life and of his value to them, his changes in this respect must have sometimes been puzzling. Long ago he gave up all the Calvinism that the Presbyterian division left in him, and later accepted the Universalis i th eo ry of the fin al sal vation of every body. But all the time he remained a Congregationalist, and orthodox enough to maintain his connection with other churches of the same denomination. The scientific theory of evo-

I lution," advanced in its most intelligi

ble and complete form by Mr. Darwin, gradually made itself a permanent lodgment in his iaith, and he preached if series of sermons shortly before his lastvisit to Kurope expressly to demonstrate the consistency of faith in 'evolution" and reve lation. Mr. Beecher was not a great theologian. He was too original, i nde pendent and nrosressive to be bound by

tenets or anchored to dogmas. Hej cared more for Christianity than ho did ! for theology, more for religion as a rule j of life aud conduct than a combination 1

of creedfi. He was always catholic and liberal, and grew more so as he advanced in ago. In recent years his liberalism went so far as to receive the censure of strict constructionists nd almost subjected hi m tr the ch argo o f heresy. His progress in this direction was the natural result of a sympathetic, emotional

nature, aided bv the mellowing, per-

the journey. His was : a. magnificent career, and no doubt his liberated spirit will exult in the tho aght that he fell with his armor on. To the lastt with all Ids faults, he was a grand old man.

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TjICGISTj ATI VE NOTES.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Among the new measures introduced in the Senate Monday afternooon were bills appropriating money for the main

tenance of State institutions, and a two hundred-dollar liquor license bill. Judge Turpie lias forwarded his resignation as District ""Attorney, and a pe

tition has been forwarded by a majority of the Democratic members of tho Legislature asking that "Gil" McNutfc be appointed to the vacancy. . President pro tern Smith was presented with a gold pen-holcle:f by the Senate

pages. Speaker Sayre received a gold watch from the Republican members of both hemses, a pair of gold sleeve buttons from the pages and an enlarged picture of himself from the door-keepers. Door-keeper Schreeder received a fine gold-headed cane from the clerks.

The committee of the House to investigate the charges of bribery attending the voting for IJnited States Senator, submitted the evidence with a report that it was not sufficient to warrant the finding that there was corruption in regard to the senatorial voting. It and the testi mony were ordered to be prink

ed, and copies sent to e;ich member -of

the House.

The Democrats held:v caucus, Thursday night, and appointed the following joint committee to prepare the memorial to the Senate on Senator Turpie's " election: On the part of the SenateFowler, Barrett, TJrmston and Trippett. On the part of the House Jewett, Gordon, Kellison and Shambaugh. It is under

stood that Gov. Gray, Senator Turpie

and Hon. Jason B. Brc wn will be called

upon to assist the committee.

Representative Pcttnon, of Sullivan

eouniv. Fridav evening received a dis

patch signed by Director Norvall, Horn

and Wilson, of tho prison south, notifying him that, in accordance with the al

most unanimous recommendation of the Democratic members of the General

Assembly, they had appointed him warden of the prison. Mr. Patton

received a great many congratulations

duiing the evening; aad both Republi

cans and Democrats express the opinion that a better selection could not bo

made. The proposition is desirable only

so far as it gives a man a record to re

form tho institution and correct the

flagrant abuses that exist there, and this.

Mr. Patton will doubtless do. The salary is only $1,500 a year. Mr. Patton is a lawyer by profession, but .has been more recently engaged in farming. The soldier's monu ment bill is now a

law, but this result bas been brought,

about in a circuitous and unusual manner. As indicated by the the News Wednesday, the bill was sent from the House to the Governor, properly attested by the signatures of the House officers, but signed by Colonel Robertson as lieutenant Governor, in behalf of the Senate. Thursday morning Governor Gray sent the bill buck .to. the Senate, where President Smith ordered the secretary to scratch og Robertson's signature, which was done, and then both he and the secretary signed it in the usual way. It was sent back to the Governor, who formally approved it by his signature, and sent it to the office of the Secretary of State, t be recorded with the other laws. In explanation of his action in the matter, the Governor sent a lengthy message to the House, which was merely received but neither read nor spread upon the record as yet. Friday morning the door of the House committee investigating the manage

ment of the State benevolent institutions

was opened, and a blind girl was conducted to the witness chair at the end of a long table opposite the chairman. General Grose. Dora Eaglan is the girl's name,and she bore in her arms her babe, born in the Bartholomew county poorhouse, Feb. 1, a little more than a month ago. The child was illegitimate. The girl's story was that she had, been betrayed while a student in the Indiana Institute for the Blind by a porter employed there. Miss Amy Loomis, a teacher in the institute who had charge of the floor on which the girl hVcd, testified that no parties were allowed in that part of the building. Miss Loomis mid the Eaglan girl was untruthful and wholly unreliable. Superintendent Nolan, of the Bartholomew county poor asylum, and John Stubo, township trustee, both testified that her reputation for morality was very bad there.

The revival meetings at Martinsville1 are still in progress with unabated inter-? est, 250 persons having made professions of Ohristiamty up to dateT. y ,- A business man in Ru shviile, hereto fore presumed to be fairly intelligent' and wide-awake, contributed 12,050 to

gold-brick swindlers in Hamilton, Olast.

week. v. ..

Pat Holland , a' character of Peru, was

shot late Monday night by ; Mrs. Blla Wise while stoning her house. He is j dangerously-injured, i' wonjart $.&S'k jail. r ; 't''.- . The st udents of Wabash college havfef signified their intention of adopting knickerbockers as a college uniform. If the Bcheme succeeds, cloaks andferoadp

brimmed hats will be adopted. ,? ' Mother Angela, one the most widely-known women in the country, a niec of Thomas Ewing ands cousin ot Jamesj G, Blaine, died at $oire Dame,d;?; Friday. ' , . ' r - : ' Z:'': K: -: At Greensburg, the jtrry; after behalf

out all night, brought iii a verdict oft

$1,200 against the Big Four Company for

the killing of George "Vnber near Bates-:

ville last fall." " ; v, ' .

Bridget Hayes's barn at Dunkirk,

eether with all its eontents, consisting of two horses one muleabout ten tons-, 1. v

of hay, 500 bushels of corn, machinery

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and farming utensils, turned Thursday.

Loss about $1,000. a S

A fcarn belonging to Adam G arloiclr,

living five miles f roiled Madison, wipf

burned Thursday night. Fourhorses "

two sheep and a ealf were burned to

death, besides a lot of hav, corn i

other grain. Loss about $i,000."r

George W. Baker and Marion Bond; whose imported calves werekilled' t prevent the, spread of disease in Clinton? oounty, brought suit for damages against David P. Barner and Joseph-; Carmaok:,

but the jury found for the defendants.:; -

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BTJIiGARIAN KB VOLT.

hans. weakening, influence of age. Mr.

Beecher's idea of religion rose above theological ;iogmas,aiid his Christianity had little us 3 for creeds. Yet, be had the stuff in him that nu rtyrs are made of, and the nrineinles of human action lie

preached are the ones that will last. Perhaps his powers have failed somewhat within the last few years. Certainly, he has not added to his reputation as a preacher. That was lonp since too great to be increased. Latterly he has shown a disposition in his sermons to indulge in personal confidences and .reminiscences which, interesting, in their way, were indicative of a$e. But he kept th harness on to tha 1ast,und did his regular work up to the the very day he avis attacked. He and Plymouth Church pulled together to the end of

So ldiers Revolt and Fight Loyal Traops Many Killed or Driven Into tUo Water And Drowned Suppressed, A serious revolt against the government terminated in a serious fight(bet ween the mutineers, and troops at Ruetehut. All the insurgent officers were either taken prisoners, killed or wounded in the battle with the loyal troops, or were drowned, The nautineers, after arresting the loyal officers and the commander ot the garrison, Biimmoned the infantry to surrender, which they refused to do. Firing then began, and the mutineers were attacked by the militia and forced to retreat. They were pursued and driven into the Danube by the infantry. Tho -mutineers took to boats and en

deavored to escape, but their boats were

stoowedbv a gunboat and they were

compelled to yield. An hundred persons were killed and wounded on both

sides, the insurgents sustaining fully three-fourths of the casualties. The loyalists entered Silistria without opposition. They found there the corpse of Colonel Kristoffr commander of the garrison, who had been killed by his men. The , other officers escaped

! into Roumania. Several other persons

were killed at tSihstria. Two officers and sixteen privates who were 'engaged in the revolt were captured and shot.

United States custom officers peared in Ligonier- and at once

ceeded to the farm of Scott Galiawayi a

few miles south of town; where4 they ' confiscated seven head of horses jnst if imported from Canada . without having j, a 'A the requisite duties paid tbeteon; Thjf ; J horses are valued atOO - r ; : : n ' J; The administrator of tUiftestatei oMv-f Leander Smith, the septuagenarian,. . who died last vf eek at Milan, in teking an inventory and appraising the effector .'f. discovered a large amount dfhiddeh ' j treasure $1,950 of old gold' coin being "? found in a jar of rancict lard, whilv 't

oth'W large sums were found secreted- V0 s places equally as unique. W 5 ; H. H; Francis, editor of the Michigan pity Dispatch, has filed an affidavit with the lerk bf the Laporte OlrcntS ' Gourtj charging A; T; reelandf men- x ber of the eominon council of that city;; H with being a habitual drunkard, and: ? :t asked that he may be adjudged to have f forfeited his' office and tke offi inAceaA voflonf THo naoex nrlll Ko aciw) t JK

at tbe April term oi mxat. . ; M

Some time ago a man was murdered at 4ji Warsaw, Ky., and - his murderer, who' escaped, was: sai o be James Plew formerly of Veyay; Plew's friends der nied it, and claimed -t the south before the murder occurred W

Sunday Plow's remains were- landed at Vevay, a.ccompaniedwith the certificate of a physician as to his sickness and

death; thus exonerating him. ' ; f ;. . In Ohio township, Crawford county i " ? Wednesday evening, Thomas, the seven- vJ teen-year-old son of Samuel Bird, was 'J tef alone in a room attlieir home . with, his ,; . ? thirteen-year-old sister. He ordered the" i? " girl to do something that as' contraryto the order of her mother and: she rre-i S :

fused to obey him. That so infuriated the young ruffian that he seized a shot

gun in the room loaded- with buckshot v and fired upon her5' depositing the ven-. tu-e load of heavy shoi in the back ancO

shoulders, infiicting fatal wounds Mary Baker, the- famous White eonn-; '; y 1 ty fasting girl.' has lapsed into herformer f ' Jcoridition. At the endof the one hun- f-"y

area ana nitn. aay ute patient topa mmr t4

of jelly, 'paregoric and water, and it was, t believed that she would speedily recovft er. Dr. Reed, of Monon, Ms Baker-8: physician, says no food is retained by the faster, and, as the flesh us wasted ; away, nothing now remains to sustain life. I)eath is again looked for at any moment.; This paralleled fast began- " last October. ' ' ". y

Utica, Clark county; bears the distinc-- HZtion of numbering among its citizens,

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wife and well' TheS

A Funny View of It. Toledo American. . . The New York World and the CourierJournal, of Louisville, are figuring; out how it is that President Cleveland cannot be renominated, and the Commercial, of this city thinks so too.1 These papers slyo just about in the same position a Vermont Postmaster was during Buchanan's Administration, atf which time a newspaper correspondent from the place . wrote as follows: We have two political pities in this town the Postmaster on one side and everybodT else on tbe other," . ;

It was born' on last Friday to tKg of Raymond Ferguson; a farmer only weighs sixteen ounces. - It is formed and in very cood health;

arnis of the iittlestrangeriare ju three 4 inches long, while its legs measure four inches. The attending physician says f

it will survive if nthinfr unforeseen

happens. The mother and father of t

midget each weigh oyer lop pounds,

are in the best of healith.

The following jludiana peopled ere 'b Tuesday granted patents: p:ilit ander, of Hartford,; wire-twisbg ' tool; -W. W arnum,.'pf ladiimapolis, mos

quito canopyjEllias Brantigah of 1

dianapolis, fireapeAlin W Palmeipr ton, of Indianapolis, &pectacle?ease hoider; J. J. Ralsback of Indianapolis, belt, ; replacer; Andrew Bureham, Mineral i ' Gity,ditching machine; John S.Constan !j Kirkpatrick, fanning mill; Qenry Faiv mer Riclmiohdence maehejr Alfred" H. Gove, Waidronv nre fence , machne; , Lewis H. jaepbsj Goshea, draft equal-y

iaer; Perry Kesltngj Walton, tension device for wire-fence machine; John T.

.Lewman, Leatherwood, horse-rake; Geo ' W. ;M vingsion 1 Kew Comery washih machine; Jolm Kewling aignorteS himself and T, J.. Groves, VJSvansvill ink fountain fbr Achromatic printinM"

machines; Williani T. Parkeri Euro

Delphi, advice for bending and dryinfc carriages poles? and thills; vThosl B.

Thorn Vmcennes, gate.

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suit was proujrnt aoout, atter a

turbulent scenegby the Republicans andfour antiAbbett Democrats, voting ioC Blodgett. ; Blodjjtt is superintendent of the New York and Long Branch rail

road and is one of the most actiye Deni-?

ocratic politicians in the State.:

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A dispatch front San Francisco, Tuesday, says: Advices hy the steamer GehX from Hong Kong;' slate that a Chinese'

junk going from 'Hainan to Siam w-

recently wrecked offtthe Soetray coast.

Out of G00 passengers and erew aboan

only six5iuceknowu to haveescaned

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