Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 20, Bloomington, Monroe County, 19 March 1887 — Page 2

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Somb enterprising detectives have taken to stationing themselves onthe usual points where bood ers cross the Canadian border. They go through every tram and generally manage to find an excuse for detaining anyone who they think resembles an absconding embez zler. The precise facial characteristics of a boodler arc not generally known, but the detectives have proved by their captures that they have something better to work on than mere guess-work.

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A coNYBNTiox has been called to meet at Chicago on- March 30th , of all antisecret society people, and it is predicted that secret societies will be subjected to a bitter attack from ministers and lecturers in the near future. The .call for this convention is signed by some of the most distinguished ministers in the country. The particular object of attack will be Fremasonry. Doubtless these good brethren mean well, but secret societies will continue to flourish in the future as-in the past, nevertheless.

This is a good fish story as told by the correspondent of last Monday's Cincinnati Gazette: "At Rockport,Ind., during a shower, Jacob Stein looked out of a

window and saw a cat-fish eight inches

long fluttering on the ground; He wont

out, called neighbors and found 240 cat

fish three to eight inches long, all lively and unhurt. They were gathered up and many were cooked and eaten. This is -no fish story, but facts, and there is no accounting for the presence of the fish, except that they were brought bythe shower and dropped. j

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' . if JU3IPED TO DEATH. - Singular Accident on tlie New York Kle--ntd Kail road Men Become PaiUcJ .Stricken and Fall to the Ground Below f Three Men Killed and Seven Injured. i A few minutes after 7 o'clock Tuesday morning an accident occurred on the down-town track of the Third avenue Elevated railroad at the Fourteenth street station, New York, which resulted in the death of three men and the wounding of seven. Afire occurred at the tailoring establishment of Nicollvthe tailor, on the Bowery, near Houston " . street. The elevated trains on the down track were blockaded on Ninth street np as far as Fifty-second street. : - All the trains were crowded with peoi pie on their way to work. Alongside the track -is a small platform leading I from the stations, and used by the em4 ; ploy es. When the 6" o'clock train came 1 to a stand-still, between Fourteenth and 4 Seventeenth streets, a man named FatI ; rick Matthews, who was on the platform if : of the third car, opened the gate and got f ont on the narrow platform. He started :r to walk to the Fourteenth-street station, i and was followed by a number of men I- who were anxious to get to their work. A long cortege of men was picking its 1. way slowly, when suddenly the train ahead started up and began to move i The next one following suit and "in a successive series of jerks went along the f line up to the last train. Each one of them shook the track with a convulsive I movement' that frightened" those in front I and made ihem hurry ahead rapidly to reach the station safely. They got behind so that they were seared and ner'I vous in turn. Some of them were look4 iog around anxiously for a support, and a bunch of a dozen moving in single file 4 just below Fifteenth street, in sight of l the platform, scurried nervously forward 4 to eatch a gate of the nearest car, when 'the train of which it was a part suddenly started a head and nearly shook the t foremost one off his feet. Springing - back in fright from the moving wheels 1 he crowded1 against the man behind i lnm on theverge of the narrow plank walk. From below, where a crowd - was watching the progress of the promenade rs in mid-air, a shout of warning arose, but too late. The man seized wildly at his neighbor in terror of his life, the latter drew back, but the crowd behind was pressing on. The train was moving on the right. Those farther behind saw a momentary bunching of the crowd in front, and then one, two, half a- dozen were seen falling over the edge r into the street below, from which arose a frightened -wail that turned into shrieks of terror and despair as man after man struck the pavement and lay mangled and bleeding. Then followed awild rush in the streets and a wilder and more desperate one above in the air. The venturesome pedestrians caught at the gates of tho train as it passed and clung with the grip of despair. It palled up and was stopped almost immediately. The frightened, and breathless men were -pulled in and room made for the others. In two minutes the plank, walk -- was j clear. Down below in the street a scene of horror was in progress. The men had fatten in the middle of the street ont the surface car4rack. In a ghastlv heap, they lay, some, motionless, some groaning faintly andjone shrieking, wildly in

pain and terror. A crowd of thoneands

Serving; as a Thorn to Sting; and Perplex

Small Cares, ThotiRli .Numerous, Ave Preferable to One Calamity The Way ly Which. They Can ho Calmly Borne. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached in tho Brooklyn Tabernacle last .Sunday. Text, Deut viiv, 20. Subject, "Stinging Annoyances." He said: Mv friends, when we are assaulted by

behemoths of trouble great behemoths

of trouble wo become chivalric and wo assault thom; we get on the high-mettled steed of our courage and make a cavalrj- charge at them, and, if God be with us, we come out better and stronger than when wo went in. But, alas for these insectile annoyances of life these foes too small to shoot,these things without any avoirdupois weight the gnats, and the midgets and the flies, and the wasps and the h ornets! I a other words, it is the small, stinging annoyances of our life which drive us out and use us np. Into.the best conditioned life, for some grand and glorious purpose, Gcd sends the hornet. , . I remark in the first place., that these small, stinging annoyances may come in tho shape of a sensitive, nervous organization. People who are prostrated undec typhoid fevers, or. with broken bones, get plenty of sympathy; but who pities anybody that "is nervous? The doctors say, and the family says, and .everybody says: "Oh, she's only V little nervous; that's all." The sound of a heavy foot, the harsh clearing of a throat, a discord in music, a want of harmonv

between the shawl and the glove on the same person, a curt answer, a passing slight, the wind from the east, or any one of ten thousand annoyances, open the door for the hornet. The fact is, the vast majority of the people of this coun

try are overworked. These., persons of whom I speak have a bleeding sensitiveness. The flies love to light on anything raw, and these people are like the Canaanites spoken of in the text, or in the context they have a very thin covering and are vulnerable at all points. Again, these small insect annoyances may come to ns in tho shape of acquaintances who are always saying disagreeable things. There are some people you can not be with for half an hour but you feel cheered and comforted. Then there are other peopU yon can not be with for five minutes before you feet miserable. They do not mean to disturb you, but they sting you to tho bone. They gather up all the yarn wnich the gossips spin, and peddle it. They gather up all the

adverse criticisms about your person,

about your business, about your home, about your church, and they make jyour ear the funnel! into which they pour it. They laugh heartily when they tell you, as though it was a good joke, and "you laugh, too outside. These people are brought to otir attention in the Bible, in the Book of Ruth: Naomi went forth beautiful, and with the finest of worldly prospects, into another land, but. after awhile she came back widowed, and poor., What did her friends do when sho came back to the city? Read the Book of Ruth and find out. When I entered" the ...... ministry I looked very pale for years, and every year, for four or five years, a hundred times a. year, I was asked if I was not in a consumption: and passing through the room I would sometimes hear people sigh and cry: "Ah! not long for this world!" I resolved in those times that I never, in my conversation, would say anything depressing, and, by the help of God, I have kept the resolution. These people of whom I speak reap and bind in the great harvest-field of discouragement. Some days you greet them with a hilarious ""Good morning," and they come buzzing at you with some depressing information. The Lord sent the hornet. It is astonishing how some people prefer to write and to say disagreeable things. When I see that there are so many people in the world who like to say disagreeable things, and write disagreeable things. I come almost, in my weaker moments, to believe what a man said to me in Philadelphia one Monday morning. I went to get a horse that

was at tne nvery, and the hostler, a plain

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that yon preached to the voung men yesterday. ' I said, "Yes.,f He said: "No use, no use; man's a failure." . The smallest insect annoyances of life sometimes come in the shape of a local physical tronble, which does not amount to a .positive .prostration, but which bothers you when you want to feel the best. Perhaps it is a sick headache which has been the plague of your life. And you appoint some occasion of mirth or sociality or usefulness, and when the clock strikes the hour you cannot make your appearance. Perhaps the trouble is between the ear and, the forehead, in the shape of a. neuralgic twinge. Nobody: can see it or sympathize with you; but just the time when you want your intellect clearest, and your disposition brightest, you feel a sharp, keen, disconcerting thrust. The Lord sent the hornet. Perhaps these small insect annoyances will come in the shape of a domestic irritation. The parlor and kitchen .do not always harmonize. To get good service and to keep it is one of the great questions of the country. Sometimes it may be the arrogancy and inconsiderateness of employers; but whatever be the fact, we all admit there are these insect annoyances winging their way out from the culinary department. If the grace of God be not in the heart of the housekeeper she cannot maintain her equilibrium. The men come home at night and hear the story of these annoyances and say, "O! these home troubles are very little things." They are small, small as wasps, but they sting. Martha's nerves were

all unstrung when she rushed in asking Christ to reprove Mary, and there are tens of thousands of women who are dying,stung to death by these pestiferous domestic annoyances. i These small insect disturbances may also come in the shape of business irritations. There are men here who went through 1857 and September 24, 1869, without losing their balance, who are every day unhorsed by little annoyances a clerk's ill manners, or a blot of ink on a bill of lading, or the "extravagance of a partner who overdraws his account.

who had watched the blockade from be- i or fe underselling of a business rival,

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low surged around and closed in upon the scene.' A .police ofiicer, who had ' witnessed the occurrenc3, sent out lialls for ambulances. While volunteers were sorting out the heapof the fallen, and policemen were urging back the crcwd, the ambulances arrived. The surgeons turned in' to render immediate and pressing aid, and the ambulances recurved their load and galloped back to the hospitals, Ten had fallen from the track, all told; that is ten were found dead or injured. If any escaped unhurt they were not c ounted. The three at ' the bottom of the heap were dead. They had fallen head first and bad smashed in their skulls; one and all. For them the dead wagon was called and t hey were taken to the- morgue. Several of the othcrs'were more or less desperately in jured and will die. r Later and more authentic information gives the following cause for the aceidfmi: One-of the men on the track made a dash for the rear car and succeeded in climbing on tho rear step. This action " placed him in & position where a por tion ' e hi8 body extended over the trackway, and as the train proceeded he? was brought violently into contact with the passengers on the roadway. The w ight of his body swept ten of the passengers into the street, with the resul t that three ' were killed and seven seriously injured.

or the whispering of business confidence

in tue street, or the making of some little bad debt which was against his judgment, just to please somebody else. It is not the panics that kill the merchants. Panics come only once in ten or twenty years. It is the constant din of these ' ever-day annoyances which is sending so many of our best merchants into nervous dyspepsia and paralysis and the grave. "When our national commerce fell flat on its face these men stood up and Jelt almost defiant, but their life is giving, way now under the swarm of these pestiferous annoyances.. I have noticed in the history of some of my congregation that Iheir annoyances are multiplying, and that they have a - hundred where t hey used to have ten. The natuialist tells us that a wasp sometimes has a family of twenty thousand wasps, and it does seem as if every annoyance of your life bred a million. By the help of God to-day I want to show you the other side. The hornet is of no use? Oh, yes! The naturalist tells us they are very important in the world's economy. They will kill spiders and they, clear the atmosphere, and I really, believe God sends the annoyances of our life upon us to kill the spiders of our soul and to clear the atmosphere of our skies. These annoyances are sent on us, I tkink, to wake us us up from our lethargy. There is nothing that makes a man so lively as a nest of "yellow jackets,"- and I think that these annoyances are intended to persuade us of the fact that this. is not a world for us to stop in. If we had a bed of everything that was attractive and soft and easy, what would

we want of heaven? You think that the hollow tree sends the hornet, or you think the devil sends the hornet. I want to correct your opinion. The Lord sends the hornet. It seems to me that these annoyances in life are a moral gymnasium, each worry a peg by which wo are to climb higher and higher in Christian attainment. "We all love to see patience, but it can not be cultured in fair weather. It is a child of the storm. If you had everything desirable and there was nothing more to get, what would you want with patience? The only time to culture it is when yon are slandered and cheated, and sick and half dead. When you stand chin-deep in annoyances is the time for you to swim out toward the great headlands of Christian attainment, and when your life is loaded to the muzzle with repulsive annoyances, that is the time to draw the trigger. Nothing but the furnace will ever burn out of us the clinker and the slag. I have formed this theory in regard

to small annoyances and vexations. It takes just so much trouble to. fit us for usefulness and for heaven. The only question is, whether we shall take it in the bulk, or pulverized and granulated. Here is one man who takes it in the bulk. His back is broken, or his eyesight put out, or some other awful calamity befalls him; while tho vast majority of people take the thing piecemeal. Which way would you rather have it? Of course, in piecemeal. Better have five aching teeth than one broken jaw. Better ten fly-blisters than amputation. Better twenty squat's than one cy clon e. There may be a difference of opinion as to allopathy and homeopathy; but in this matter of trouble I like homeopathic doses small pellets of annoyance Tather than eomo knock

down dose of calamity. Instead of the thunderbolt give us the hornet. If you have a bank you would a great deal rather that fifty men should come in with checks of less than a hundred dollars than to have two depositors como in the same day each wanting his ten thousand dollars. In this latter case you cough and look d5wn at the floor anil up to the ceiling before you look into the safe. Now, my fridnds, would you not rather have these small drafts of annoyance on your bank of faith than some all-staggering demand upon your endurance? I want to make you so strong that you will not surrender to small annoyance. You know that a large fortune may be spent in small cnange, and a vastamount ol moral character may go awav in small

depletion. It is the little troubles of

life that arc having more effect upon you than great ones. A swarm of locusts will kill a grain-field sooner than the incursion of three or four cattle. You say, "Since I lost my child, since I lost my property,! have been a different

man. But you do not recognize the architecture of little annoyances that are hewing, digging, cutting, shaping, splitting and ihtorjoining your moral qualities. Rats may sink a ship. One lucifer-match may send destruction through a block of "store-houses. Catherine de Medicis got her death from smellinga poisonous rose. Columbus, by stopping and asking for a piece . of bread and a drink of water at a Franciscan convent, was led to the discovery of a new world. And there is an intimate connection between trifles and immensiities, between nothings and ever' things. Now, be careful to let none of these annoyances go through your soul unarraigned. Compel them to administer to your spiritual wealth. The scratch of a six-penny nail sometimes produces lockjaw, and the clip of a most infinitessimal annoyance may damage you forever. Do not let any annoyance or" perplexity come across your soul without its making you better. Our National Government does not think it belittling to put a cax on. pins and a tax on buckles and a tax on shoes. The individual taxes do not amount to much, but in the aggregate to millions and millions of dollars. And I would have you. O Christian men, put a high tariff on ever)7 annoyance and vexation that como through your soul. This might not amount to much in single case, but in the aggregate it would be a great revenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction . A bee can suck honey even out of a' nettle; and if you have that grace of God in your heart, you can get sweetness out of that which would otherwise irritate and annoy . A returned missionary told me , that a company of adventurers rowing up the Ganges were stung to death by flies that

! infest that region at certain seasons. I

have seen the earth strewed with the carcasses of men slain by insect annoyances. The only way to get prepared for the great troubles of life is to conquer these small troubles. "What would you sa3r of a soldier who refused to load his gun or to go into the ponflict because it was only a skirmish, saying: I am not going to expend my ammunition on a skirmish; wait until there comes a general engagement, and then you will see how courageous I am and what battling I will do." The General would say to such a man: "If you are not faithful in a skirmish, you would be nothing in a general engagement." And I have to tell

you, oh, Christian men, if you can not

apply the principles of Christ s religion on a small scale you will never be able to apply them on a large scale. ... If I had my way with you I would have you possess all possible worldly prosperity. I would have you each one a garden a river flowing through it geraniums and flowers as beautiful as though the rainbow had fallen. I would have 3ou a house, a splendid mansion, and the bed should be covered with upholstery dipped in the setting sun. 1 would have every hall in your house set with statues and statuettes, and then 1 would have the four quarters of the globe pour in all their luxuries on your table, and you should have forks of silver and knives of gold, inlaid with diamonds and amethysts. Then you should, each one of you, have the finest horses, and your pick of the equipages of the world. Then I would have you live a hundred and fifty years, and you should not have a pain or ache until the last breath. "Not each one of us?" you say. Yes; each one of you. "Not to your enemies?" Yes; the only difference I would make with them would be that I would put a little extra gilt on their walls, and a little extra embroidery on their slippers. But you say, "Why does not God give us all these things?" Ah! I bethink myself. He is wiser. It would make fools and sluggards of us if we had our way. Oh man puts his best picture in the portico or vestibule of his house. God meant this Avorld to be only the vestibule of heaven, that great gallery of the universe toward which we arc aspiring.. We must not have it too good in this world or we would want no heaven. Polycarp was condemned to be burnt to death. The stake was planted. He was fastened to it. The faggots were placed around him; the fierce flames kindled, but history tells us that the flames bent outward like the canvass of a ship in a stout breeze, so that the flames, instead of destroying Polycarp, vere only a wall between him and his enemies. They had actually to destroy him with the poniard; the flames would not touch him. Well, my hearers I want you to understand that by God's trrace

the llamcsof trial, instead of consuming your soul, are only going to be a wall of defense and a canopy of blessing. God is going to fulfill to you the ol easing and the promise, as he did to Polycarp. "When thou walkcst through the firo thcu shalt not be burned." Now you do not understand; you shall know hereafter. In heaven you will bless God even for the hornet.

The Miracle of It. The .Tudgo.

"What wuz de tex dis mornin Mister Johnson? I wuz too late." "Itwuz about do miracles, Brother Snow. "Whar de Lor' fed seven people on live t'oasand baskets ot fish." "I don't see any miracle about dat." "Oh, do miracle am, dey all didn't bust,"

A MAN HUNTER. Varied Experiences of a Collector of Human Curiosities. St. Louis Globe-Pexnocrat. It is two years since Bamura's niiow was in St. Louis, audit will be remembered that one of its features was the socalled ethnological congress, consisting of representatives of eijhtiLraees found in the Orient, certain island!? of the Pacific Ocean and Australia, Few who saw them stopped to consider the difficulty in obtaining the conseni; of these people to leave their native homes. Yet one man spent more than two years seeking after them. This was Thomas H. Davis, who was sent to the far Kast by Barnum in lSSito collect representatives of various peculiar species for his

circus. Javis executed ins commissaon in two years, returning to America in ISS-t with thirty-two people. He was in St. Louis in 1SS4, but has not been here since. He was met this week, having

come as an advance agent for the Lights o London, and incidentally mentioned that he intendod to publish his adventures in search of the queer peo) lo of Asia. Two of those whom Davis brought to America died, and the others returned to their native land. It proved too cold for them; they lost interest- in the country after a few months, and longed to see their relatives. To the student of the human race, the most interesting specimens in the collection were the

Todas and Afghans, the first that had ever been induced to leave their country. Tho former is a strange race, or rather remnant, and have oniy been known to Europeans within the last twenty years. "These Todas," said Mr. Davis, "live in the Nellgherry Mountains, in India, and are not more than 350 in number. They are extremely exclusive, and as they keep high up in the mountains, little of their history or characteristics is known. From what 1 learned they live in small huts, not more -than five feet high, and feed upon milk, refusing meat or anythiug with life. Their religion is different from anything in India, and no one seems to know what or how they

worshiped. They have priests who keep away from public t notice, living always in huts, fed by the people. It is known that they are polyandrous, and I wiw one woman who was ijaid to have seven husbands. My intet peter explained the marriage custom. When a girl reached a marriageable age,her father sold her. The price is paid in buffaloes, of which they have large herds. After this marriage, when the wife desires, she chooses an other husband, who buys into partnership soto speak, by paying buflaloes to the first husband, who divides with th o father. I had a hard time getting these people to leave their mountain, and only by tempting their avarice did I succeed in getting two men to go with me, I was particularly anxious to get them on account of their total difference from any race I had seen in India. They were whiter than the others and had a decidedly Hebrew cast of countenance. Their ruling passion was avarice, and they used their shaip intellects to acquire everything possible. One oi them carried this to humorous extent. In coming over on shipboard he learned several English words, and used them to beg articles. I was the only one he respected, and ho undertook to supply me with cigars. When we reached New York about 300 prominent men were invited to have a private view of the tribes, Well, sir, that Toda boned every last visitor for some articles. If he did not get what he pointed to he would end withIgigar?' meaning a cigar. He asked Henry Ward Beecher as well as the others, and after the show was over presented me with fifteen cigars. After that he learned to discrininato between good and bad cigars, and only asked well dressed visitors for them. "When ho left the country he had a trunk full of articles which he had collected. His favorite question was 'Intwallon; meaning, What's the price?" His companion died in Providence, R. I., of a lung trouble. "Afghans are notoriously lovers of their country, and I gave up the attempt to get any of them. I went to Cabul to hunt for a Mongolia dwarf who was said to be there, and mentioned the object of my visit to the British Minister, whose power in Afghanistan is almost absolute. He men tioned to me that two Afgnans were ch.uned in a dungeon awaiting death for having made an attempt, from political motives, on the life of a high official, and suggested that if I would take them out of the country and never bring them back, he would have them placed in my custody. That is how I came to have Afghans in the collection. They were skillful swordsmen, and gave spectators cold chills when they got warmed to their work. "Most of the other people were Hi ndoos, Burmese and Parsees. They were a common lot, spent their money i.u opium, candy and such tbingf; as circus life affords? I visited many tribes, and often failed to get representati es, owing to their unwillingness to leave. India is full of remnants of strange races, that stick to their native soil untempted by promises, money or pictures ol! other lands. I went in to the Himalaya. Mountains, but was slopped in the confines

of Thibet. I also heard of a strange race of white men said to live north of Afghanistan, who were described as be ing of large frame, white facefi, blue eyes and blonde hair. There wen tnid'tions about them, but I could not locate them precisely. I went to Siam and China, but took none of the natives of the towns, and I feared to pierce tho interior owing to the danger. "I paid a visit to the Island of Ceylon, where I had heard of the Veddas. These are the native wild men, and so

scarce and hard to find that many of the inhabitants of the island, had never scon them. I finally hired men to kidnap a Yedda. In this way I got two of them, and they would have proved great curiosities had they been brought to America. I was forced to turn them loose after five diys because? they refused to eat, drink, move or speak; simply glared at their keepers. I brought over an inhabitant of one of the Audaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, a vicious, wild follows who grew rather quiet and docile before we reached America. "Yon remember there were three Nautch girls in the collection. I had a great deal of ftwMe in, securing them,

because this class of females made a living for their parents at home, and, although desirous of going with me, were com p cllcd to remain . Otherwise I could have had them easily, for flesh is fearfully marketable and cheap in India. T freouentlv had offers f -on:t mothers to

.j .. sell me daughter, and one old woman insisted upon selling me a very beautiul girl about 14 years of :ago for 500 rupee, raying that at leaijt tho child -would he a pretty plaything. Whenever I heard of Nauton girls I went in quest o I: them, bat usually found them ugly and unskillful. I grew so tired of seeing a Nautch (dance) that I at last looked upon it as a bore. It is generaly the recital of some harrowing love tale, where the girls walk through their parts to the furious and painful accompaniment o : tom-toms. At last 1 found just what I wanted at the City of Tanforc four very handsome girls, who could d nee or pase gracefully. They were da ncing before the Mahommedan

princes who ruled the place, and, through the courtesy of the resident foreigners, I was allowed to witness the performance on November H, the Mahommedan New Year. One of the girls, who had danced before the Prince of

Wales, was covered with jewelry from head to foot, and was the finest specimen of womankind I saw in India. These girls wanted to go with me, but their relatives would not allow them. After another long search I found three girls at Hyderabad, whom I obtained. "I did not go to any part of India where I did not find missionaries, and I kept clear oi: them, because found they had no influence outside of the French missionarien who assume the costumes and life of tho natives. I did not find a successful missionar' in the interior, Few of the natives knew of any world beyond Calcutta. I found the tracks of

several Americans, and at Mysore the Maharajah welcomed me w ith open arms, because he had been visited by Blondin,

the tight-rpe walker, fifteen years bej fore, who .iad said he was an American.

He had sc pleased the Maharajah that he expected me to do something wonderful because I was an American. I pleased him by giving him several of our colored lithographs, which he t hought were oil painting3,a nd had framed. I might acid that the tribes hated each other cordially, and m long as they were thrown together did not establitih social relations. Several of them made each others' acquaintance, but the majority of the tribes held no communication and despised one another, chietly on account of religious prejudices, because no two of the tribes were of the same religion." A Pet Whale Los Angelas (Oil.) Express. An immeme whale is "knocking about'1 in the water at Santa Monica. It is quite ';ame. and the inhabitants take great pleasure in feeding ii and watching its antics in the water. He is so friendly that he will follow a boat; at a respectable distance and eat the food thrown to him. He is especially fond of fruit Oi couno there is no way to fill him u; but he knows when he ha3 enough, and, when satisfied, takes a plunge and disappears. "W hales are shy monsters, and when it comes to enjoying the company of human beings no such fact was ever recorded before. Some years ago a whale was captured and placed in an aquarium in Paris, where it became the object of great interest. It grew to great size and yas not slow in responding to the calls of its keeper. The conshin t stream of visitors naturally made it lose it? shyness, and it often seemed to enjoy the presence of sight-seers. This whale was in 1834 sold to a showman in London for the handsome sum of $25,000. Great trouble was experienced loading i i on the schooner Misty Way but the trouble did not end there. While in a gale in the channel the vessel was badly wrecked, and the huge wooden tank, which stood on the upper deck, was smashed and the valuable inma te escaped. Tho eailors, when they saw the whale flounclering on the deck, were thunderstruck: and made for the rigging. " It is just possible that this most precocious whale at Santa Monica in the same one that endured captivity at Paris and made its escape. He evidently belongs to the species known as the Sibbaldius sulfureus, as the body is large and relatively slender,and is capable of greatspeed. Jusv. how long this marine visitor will remain in those Southern waters is not .known; he may disappear as mysteriously and unceremoniously as he appeared upon the scene. The Santa Monica people are enjoying him, and it is to be hoped no attempt will be

made at a capture. The Previous Question. Bm.Perley Poorc, in Boston Budget.

John C. Calhoun, then a Senator,

stated in debate, lnlSil, that the "previous question" vvas introduced into the

House in 1811. Its establishment was

rendered necessary by tho long-winded

speeches of Barent Gardiner, a Repre

sentative from Nesv York:, who would

speak two or three days oh some unimportant resolution when action was promptly demanded. Henry Clay, differed from Mr, Calhoun in his recollec

tion. He said that before he previous question was introduced Lhey had a rule in observance in th3 House which acted

as a great auxiliary in cutting off debate,

and that was a question o;i consideration,

viz.: "Will the House now consider?"

He recollected the application of that

rule in a particular care of interest.

Mr. Kandoloh. who unuerstood that a

message would be sent from the Presi

dent declaring war against Great Britain, came to the House in tho morning and commenced his famous war speech, and

after he had spoken sme time he Mr,

Ulav being m the chair, iiskeci mm on

what proposition he based his remarks. Mr. Randolph replied upon a resolution he was about to odor to thiseflcct: .Resolved that it was inexpedient to go to war with Great Britain." Mr. Clay asked him to be good enough to reduce it to writing, which he did and sent it to the Cbair. The question was then put, "Will the House now consider the resolution?" and decided in the negative, which cut off the speoch, and Mr. Kandolph denounced it asji "gag" law." The Snalco Season Opens, .fcf up, Gn., Sentinel. The Graham boys report a huge swal-

INDIANA STATE NEWS,

lowing. They say two king snakes undertook to swallow a ground rattle. One commenced at his hcacl and the other at hi tail; they swallowed until they met and then swallowed each other.

Noblesvi He's population is 3,01l1. Marion now has tAVOgas wells flowing. Win. Airsman upset his rowboat at Elkart, Saturday, and was drowned. A religious wave is sweeping over Muncie, Six or eight hundred persons have joined church. Dennis Noon, of Madison has been acquitted oi crime in killing his brother. The act was one of self-.defense, J. B. Fatton took the oath ofoBceand entered upon his duties as Warden of the Prison South, Wednesday. The aged step-mother of the late Capt.

James B. Eads resides at Lapor to, ,vhere she is cooipciled to maintain herself by sewing. A tramp was shot and killed by Cornelius Sutton while trying to break into a farm house, Beven miles west of Indianapolis, Monday night, By the provisions of tho now law regarding the taxation of building and loan associations, the only association funds liable for taxation are those on hand

April 1. Charley Smith, of Freetown, Jackson county, while climbing over a log with

j his shot-gun in his hand, discharged the

gun and was shot m the bowels. He cannot survive. Dr. J. 15. Hardy, of Whitest-own, was cowhided Friday by Mrs. J. W. Vaughan, mother of the girl he was charged with holding improper relations with. A jury had acquitted him. The students of Wabash college have signified their intention of adopting knickerbockers as a college uniform. If the scheme succeeds, cloaks and broadbrimmed, hats will be adopted. During 1886 there were 1,106 buildings erected m Indianapolis, the largest number in one year since 1875. 'Chat city hflft about ei?htv buildiner and loan

associations, all of which are prosperous. The south well at Portland was drilled

in Friday, and illuminated the south part ofthe cr;y Fridny night with a thirty-foot

blaze. The Denny land, 140 acres, sold

Saturday for $18,000,and will be platted

at once. There is such a boom in mesmerism

in Elkhart as to interfere with wort in the public schools, and the school authorities have peremptorily ordered, under severe penalty, its discontinuance among pupils.. George W. Baker and Marion Bondj whose imported calves .were killed to prevent the spread of disease in Clinton county, brought suit for damages against David P. Barner and Joseph Carmack, but the jury found for the defendants. At Yincennes, Tuesday, Judge Mallott over-ruled the motion for a suspension of judgment in the case of '-Treasurer Holiing8WOrth, for embezzlement, and the three yearr' sentence will stand unless set aside by the Supreme Court. Dr. Rogers, of Henry county, killed a hog last Saturday which measured seven feet and three inches in length. Its girth was six feet and one inch, and it weighed 600 pounds. Exclusive of the sides it yielded twenty gallons of lard and six gallons of sausage meat. Warden Patton, of the prison South, has selected William Koyce, captain of the night guards, as temporary deputywarden. Boyce has been at the head of the night guards for many years. He is said to be Republican in politics. The most remarkable temperance revival ever known in Vincenues was begun on Sunday night a week ago, and is still in progress, under the auspices of Thomas and William Murphy. Over three th ousand have signed the pledge, many of them being leading business men. Grave fears are felt at Decatur that tho St. Mary's reservoir, the largest; artificial body of water in the world, will burst it banks and flood ail the country along the St. Mary's river. A three-inch rise will overflow the reservoir. The damage in sueh a caso would be incalculable. William O. Laughlin, the old gentleman from Lett's Corner, who bought his tine coffin a few days since, is now in trouble over it. No one in Lett's Cornor

will dve him a nlace to store it. Neith

er his daughter nor any of the neighbors will have it about, and it still remains in the depot. The cigar factory of Henry Lamping, three miles southeast of DeGonia Springs, Warrick county, burned early Tuesday morring. About forty thousand cigars, one thousands pounds of tobacco and a large amount of tax-paid stamps were consumed. The loss is estimated at $2d,000. An attempt was made to wreck a Wabash passenger train near Marshrleld, Saturday morning. A bag ol: blasting powder was found in the coal, where it had been placed bv some scoundrel. It

weighed three pounds, and would have blown the boiler to pieces and probably killed the engineer and fireman. On Tuesday a three-story mill, known as the Hyberger mill, on the banks of Sugar Creek, near Alamo, Montgomery

county, was undermined by high water and fell over into the creek. The building and contents area total loss. The mill was not running, and no person was at work in the building. J. S. Kennedy and Harry K. South land; of Indianapolis, have been discharged from the Government printing office at. the instance of Representative By num. It is said that these men were requested to vote for Bynum, but the' refused , and retribution came Wednesday. Both of them will remain here, however, and work elsewhere. Thomas and George Ford, who hired Thomas Cottrell to burn the W oodward mill at Lapel have both been sent to the penitentiary. The trial of Thomas was concluded at Noblesville Saturday, and he was sentenced for four years and fined $800. George had preyio'osly been sentenced for nine years and fiued $1,000. Paten ts were granted Indianians Thursday as follows: Charles F. Chamberlain and G. L. Lamb, Goshen, scrubbing-

brush; Park B. Graham, Greencastle,

guide for edge-molding machinoH; Augus

tus St. Clair, Van Buren, carriage-brake; Caleb T. Tower, assignor to Economist Plow Company, South Bend, sulky plow; Henry 0. Fox, Evansville, lamp attach

ment for sadrirons; Alberts. MiUer,slatewire stretcher; John A. Lacoy, Rural,

cockle separator.

Tho 'large new barn of Allen Gosh, a

prominent farmer of Carr township, six

miles west of Brownstown, took hre

about 8 o'clock Tuesday evening and was buraed to the ground with all its

contents . Eleven fi ne farm horses were in the stable and perished by 'the fire,

the flames having spread so rapidly as to bafile all efforts to remove the animals from the building. The origin of the fire is unknown, though it is attributed to some accidental cause, .. ... Thursday night near Otis, Lapor te county ilenry Fraeer, of Haskell Station, was waylaid, knocked senseleBs and robbed of $1 ,300, the hard-earned savings of his lifetime. He had been to Furnasville to collect the money and interest of a borrower, and started to walk home, a distance of seven miles. The train being late and all the banks closed, he was compelled to carry his money. His assailnnts wore masks and were un

recognized. The complaint in a suit for $25,000 in a case in vol vine the forgery of a name

to one note for $15,000 and another for $1,500 was filed in the Wabash Circuit Court, Monday. The plaintiffs are Mrs. Olive Woodrum and Mrs. Emma Canaday, of Koanoke county, Virginia, only children of Jacob Christinan, a rich farmer, who died in that county eleven years ago. The complaint declares that Sarah Christmaii, a sister, and Peter and

Louis Chnstman, brothers of Jacob, forged the name of Jacob to the notes after his demise, and realized on them, by which transaction the daughters

were left penniless. The commissioners of the new Insane Hospi talsheld a meetingWednesday afternoon to consider the condition of affairs.

As the construction of the new. hospitals, will be completed in less than two weeks, the contractors have decided to continue work, taking chances on get-

BILL NYE'S BAlLTMg Lines on Returning: tlie Blasted Document toithe Oenial Giver- T

ting their pay, as the . commissioners have decided not to issue any more vouchers until there -is money in the treasury to pay them. They need $100,000 to furnish and equip the buildings and probably that much more to operate them during the currant year, but as there is no provision for this money, the hospitals wiii probably be allowed to re

main as they are until the next Legislature meets. v . ' ,-. The Supreme Court Friday overruled the petition for a rehearing in the injunction proceedings of Senator Smith against Colonel R. S. Robertson, to de

cide the Lieutem nt Governorship question, and this finally disposes of a case which has recently occupied much public attention. As is usual in petitions for rehearing, the opinion is written by the chief justice, who at this time is Judge Elliott. Aside from reaffirming the former position of the . court, that there was no jurisdiction, he touches upon only one point, which was raised in the petition, that being that, that as the injunction was granted by Judge Avers in vacation of his court there could be no. jurisdiction. ; This, the opinion ' says, implies that a

court m vacation has greater powers

than a court in regular tcrnv-a position that is evidently untenable. There

are no dissenting opinions held by the Judges, but with the

opinion rJudse Niblack sent down a

lengthy document which was entitled

14 Views of Judge Niblack. On account

of the importance of the case, and the misapprehension that exists in the public mind regarding the license of the

court, he says that he feels constrained to make the statement that he does.

Then follows a lengthy review of the case, incidental to which is a discussion of the

electoral commission of 1887, which he savs was not a judicial tribunal. He

adds "Believing as I alwaysiave and

still do, that the courts have nothing to

do in the settlement of this matter, I

have not examined the main question

with that care and attention which would enable me to promulgate any fitting expression of opinion, which might

be urged against or brought in conflict

with any action the legislature has taken

or may take. Asa citizen of the State

and a member of the co-ordinate branch of the State government, I stand ready to acquiesce in whatever that body may do. The present disorganized condition

of aifasrs i can only regret wo have no power to relieve by an expression of

opinion

Hunsbx, Wis., March 30, 188?; V. F. Whit. Esq,, General PiHSMiger Ant, Atchison aud Santa tte R. Bi, Topeka, Kajpt1. s Dear Sir: I inclose herewith anr.ual, pass No. Q 035 for self and family over your justly celebrated road during the year 1887. I also return your , phatoV graph and the letters yon have written me during the past five years. Will you; kindly return mine? And so this brie and beautiful experience isto end and each of us must go his own way bore, after.. I - . .Alas! -....,..... ;-. ,,:;iV

To you this may be easy, but it brings a pang to my heart which your gentle letter of the 1st inst cannot wholly at" leviate. ' -' ' Whenever hereafter you look upon

this tear-speckled pass will voir hot - think of me? Remember that you liiayftK cast me from you and that I am wonder- ; ing across the bleak and wind-swept plains sadly enumerating thelies.op ,my - ; way to eternity. - ' -.J - I do not say this to reproach you, for ; I fear that you care for another, and so '1 v S we could not be happy again toge ; But ph! do you pause to fully con prehend the pang it costs me to return this pleasant-faced little pass with, its con

ditions on the back? Gould you see ;. me even now, as I write these I ines. tuinihg away ever and anon, laying aside ray -trembling pep to go and sit by the cjteKi ; and shudder and-weep and put out the Q

fire with

, A "Beautiful Biuner," Brookly n Eagle.

A very beautilul dinner was given on

Fifth avenne this past week to fourteen married couples. The table was in the form of a large crescent and was covered with a cloth of rich yellow China silk heavil v fringed. Upon this was laid a

mirror crescent shape, following the out

lines of the table and set in a border of

yellow tulips, planted, in a bed of pale

purple lilacs. One end of the crescent

was finished by a large bunch of lilacs

tied with yellow satin ribbons, and at the other end was a si milar sheaf of yel

low tulips tied with lilac ribbons. At

the plate of each gentleman was a posy of Parma violets, filling the air with perfume, and the ladies' favors were dainty slips of Sevres, filled with violets and tied with yellow and lilac ribbons. No more beautiful effect has ever been attained in table decoration than this, and the candles had shades of lilac and yellow, two' colors infinitely more be

coming to the complexion than the red that is so popular and that makes the ace it shines upon pallid rather than rosy. v Death of Captain James St. Eads. Captain James B. Eads died at Nassau, N. H,, Thursday last of pneumonia. He was born in Indiana in 1820. With his parents in 1833 he removed to St. Louis where forty years later he located and built the largest steel bridge in the world. He was a mechanical genius while a youth, and became in his maturity one of,if hot the greatest,engineers of the world. AVhen the rebellion came Captain Eads secured an order to build eight, gunboats. In forty- eightnours after reciving the order work was under way, and wathin 100 days the entire eight, carrying oyer 100 large cannon, and costing $1,000,000, were in active service.

They were the first iron-clads the Unit

ed States ever owned. In all Captain

Eads built fourteen of these vessels. Of

his later works tho buiilding of the $8,-

000,000 St. Louis bridge, his $5,000,000

jetty job at the mouth the Mississippi aud his Tehanntepec ship railway scheme are familiar; Bald Knobbers" at Work. Saturday night a band of armed men, supposed to belong to the "Bald Knobbers," went to the house of William Eaton, thirty miles south of Springfield, Mo., and, breaking down the door, fired a volley into the house. Wnu Eaton and Charles Green were killed outright. Eaton's aged father was seriously wounded, one woman was shot in the head and

another in the hand, Thcmufdcrers then escaped,

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my bitter tears, ' your heart.

would sof ten and you would say: "IfeJ v turn, O wanderer,; return! -'y You do not say in your letter thatj-f,:-' have been falso to you or - that Ilup even-grown cold. You do not chrgeroc ,.; with . infidelity of . failure . to pro vide. You simply say that it would be letter::

for each to go his several ways, forgetting that my several -ways are passing; away. ,, J , 'tf''? It is all well enough for yon ;to talkabout going your several ways: r" ou have every facility for doing so, but with; me it is difterent. Several years rgq a large Northwestern cyclone and myself : tried to pass eaclx other ;on the same -track. When the wrecking crew founds o me I was in the : crotch of a butternut:

tree, with a broken leg? Since that time I have walked witli great diMculty, and to go my several ways has Jeen "a,;very serious matter with me. ; ' - But I do not want you to think tbat lo am murmuring; I accept my- doom," calmly,yet with a slight tinge of unavailing regret.. ... . ' ''rJ, ":; ;.. '.. Some time, perliapsi' ua-the middle of the dark and angry night; when the coldblasts wail through the telegraph wires and the clashing sleet- rushes with wild; and impetuous fury against the wicidowe of your special car,as you lie warmly en-' sconced in your yoiuptions bert a and hear the piUleOTwinwS'ith hoarst and croupy moans chase each other aronndt

the Kansas haystacks or shriek wildly -r

away as they light out for their cheerless; home in the Bad Lands) will yon no think of me as I grope . on 'biindlj through the keen and pitiless blasts;

stumbling oyer cattle guar 3s, falling into

culverts and beaiing out my; rare young

brains against your rough right owayf will you not think of me? I do not ask i much of you, but I do ask this as; w$ separate forever. t --' As you whiz by me do not treat - me?

with contumely, or throw crackers af v me when I have meekly turned out to let your haughty old train go ly. have always spoken of you in the high--est terms, and -I hope you will lo the? v same by me. " 3 :. -f - f life is short at the best, and it is espjef , ci ally so for . those that" have to- "walk., Walking has already shortened myiife ; a great deal, and I wouldn't be surprised? v if the exposure and bunions of the year ' j 1887 carried me off, leaving a gfcp inA American literature that will look like,a? new cellar. .. v ' . Should any of your engineers or track ; men find ine frozen vote, cut next -winter. when the grass gets short and the nights ..; get long, will you? kindly ask them to report the brand to your auditor and struet him to allow my family what u& , thinks would be right? I hate to write to r " you in this dejected manner, btt youJ ; -t cannot understand how hftavy my heaj ' is to-day as I pen these Ues? - V'

I wish you and yourbeautinilroitd un-

mitigated success. It is a good ros tdj for I have passed- over it and enjoyed it How different the country will Juok to me as I go bounding - from tie tie, slowly repeating to myself the; trite re mark once made by the Govenior joi North Carolina to the Executive oi South Carolina. v: ,s -Jv I hope you may never know: - wiat it is to pull into the quaint littler ci iy of

La Junta with the dust of many a ..mile

upon you and the thirst ol a lcti f u

eventful journey in your tnroat. fiojfe

that Congress will not pass a lawf next year which will make it a felonyl for a . railroad man to say "gosh" ; wit gout a permit. I hope that your life will be chuck full of hurrah and naJlelujah,

even if mine shouldbe always bleak

and joyless. ..... ..Js: V Can I do your road any gocJ,;eitJier at

home or abroad? Can 1 be of avice-

i,7

to you over your right of way by: collecting nuts, bolts, old iron or other

bric-a-brac? I would! be glad -to u& r

fluence immigration or pull weeds' be- :

tween the tracks if you wpiddM -wilU ing to regard me as an employe.

I will now take a last look at- thu fair .

young leatures? or your pass ieiore

finally sealing this letter. How, S!id tp Vv ee an aynuual pass cut dcfkn in life's vounsr mornine.v ere oneriourthi f -i ts ?

race has been r fjtt from it forever! 'iXi:.-.'-'- A:s- $J' What a sad year this has been so far? " Earthquakes : fires, storms, railway disasters and death in every iprmt. have; visited our country, and now, lUcu the biting blasts from Siberia or the nip- ; ping frosts from iTfrwia, corner the.

Congressional cut-worm, c utting x the

early crop of flowering annuals juste as

they had budded to Woom into: ejujtj and usefulness! ,f J'-: t " I will now close this-sad letter to' go -over into the vacant lot, behind the ihigh board-fence, where I can eob in anf un-v fettered way without shaMag tfee glass; out of my casement. '? Yours, with a crocutof unshed tears -on hand, v -. ' V- '09

To th e Farmer.

Constant change of stock gives you no

opportunity to realize the iu,U yaliie- bf.

any breed, however

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