Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 21, Bloomington, Monroe County, 26 March 1887 — Page 2

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BY H. J. FELTU3-

BLOOOTKGTON,

iNMana

A. colored man at Amerieus, Ga.f was arrested on a charge of burglary prelened by a neighbor and taken before a magistrate for trial The accusing neighbor was excused from court to hunt up some witnesses by whom ho proposed to prove the crime. For two routs the court awaited his return, Only to find that he had eloped with the defendant's wife. It is a pity for such talent as that to be buried in Georgia. :

The news that Germany will not lend De Lesseps any more money to prosecute his Panama Canal scheme indicates that that project has not man v more

months ot life in it. With the United States, France and Germany closed against donations for the building of the

great ditch, De Lesseps xull .fine it beyond even his phenomenal powers of persuasiveness to obtain sufficient money to keep up the work to the: middle of next year.

The woman suffragists are not likely to be spoiled just yet by the amount of success which they are going to achieve.

Their big victory in Kansas, and their

yeiy fair promise of a victory in New

York, has been followed by defeat in

Xew York, Maine and Massachusetts.

A measure was before the Legislature of each of these Stales to enlarge the political rights of women, and all these measures have failed of passage within the past few days. . .

ha Christian World Rejoices Over a Redeemed Soul-.

The Presidents of the trunk railroad lines have decided that the inter-State commerce law deals with fares in the aggregate, and that, consequently, the proportion of a through fare need not control local lares. If this view should be ratified by the Inter-State Commission, it will simplify one of the most perplexing features of the new statute, and materially lessen the labor of adjusting railroad charges to a general standard of justice and fairness. , -

Through the vigorous efforts of the Chicago Mail, several Cook county boodlers have been placed under arrest and $10,000 bonds. They seem to have been guilty of systematic and wholesale corruption in the management of county .affairs, dealing out contracts for buildings, repairs and supplies with a lavish hand and taking a "commission" of the exhorbitant prices charged as their share of the "boodle." Those under arrest are Warden William McGarigle, of the County Hospital; AVarden Henry Varnell, of the County Insane Asylum; Edward McDonald, engineer- of the County Hospital, and employes Driscoll and Connolly. Bpsides these, some of the largest of the thieves have vamoosed.

Queer Things About Money. A woman who bought an old-fashioned bureau at a second-hand store in Cincinnati discovered a secret drawer in it which contained $1,300 in gold and old bank bills. Money was so scarce in certain counties of Southwestern Texas during the earlier part of the winter, that in some instances the skins of javelina hogs were used as a circulating medium, and 'possum skins were frequently offered in liquidation of grocery bilk. 'Squire Royal; the tax collector of Taylor county, Pa., took out a well worn overcoat to sell to an old cloth es man a few days ago and found $190 in bills rolled up in a sheet of note paper. The 'Squire is confident that the money is his own, but he has no recollection of having placed it in the pocket. A Chicago gambler who had been playing in hard luck, borrowed a counterfeit silver dollar from a friend and made straight for the nearest faro bank. He met with phenomenal success, and on quitting the game was $121 ahead. As he was leaving the place he boasted of the trick, and was at once, ignominiously kicked into the street. John Monroe, a young man living with his widowed sister in the northern part of Georgia, was digging a hole for a potato bin in his cellar the other day, when his spade broke open an earthen pot containing $1,480 in gold. The coin had been buried by his sister's husband during the war and subsevuently forgotten. A young farmer in Des Moines county, la., who had saved up $20& in bank bills, wrapped a piece of paper around them and stuek the roll up the chimney in his bedroom for safe keeping. One cold afternoon his mother pot a stove in the room and built a rousing fire in it and when the young man returned to supper only the charred remnants of the notes could be found. Some months ago a lady living in Butler, Ga., through fear of the depredation of tramps, put $1 10 in bank notes in a pasteboard box and buried it in the yard near the wood pile. Last week she went out to get it, and found that the box and bills had been badly mutilated by-wood lice. She has sent the notes to the banks which issued them for redemption. The pet cat belonging to Mrs. Lucy Cain, of Hannibal, Mo.,brought a mouse into the parlor recently, and with it a small piece of a paper money. Mrs. Cain thought nothing about the occurrence until one day last week, when she discovered that a roll of bills' was missing from her bureau drawer. Then she put two and two together, and began a vigorous search of the premises. The missing bills were finally unearthed in a corner of the cellar, where a colony of mice had made a nest of them.

Beecher on Tneater-Going. ; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher recently took up the theatrical question and said: 'I have attended the theater & few times, and I have made up my mind that on the whole I do not care for them. When there are artists capable of? lifting life into a higher sphere than I have seen it before, and bringing history, as it were, into a sight of men, then I have enjoyed their impersonations and intend to again. Should it follow from this that the young men under my charge go to theaters? I would answer that . they must be their own judges. My impressions are that the fourth-rate theaters are to be let alone, because they spoil! the good theaters and will spoil and corrupt the best of those that attend them; and that second-ratie theaters are to be let alone, and that the first-rate theaters are to be visited 'oecasjoiuiUv':

Goeri "Cfteer for tle IMshonrtened" Send ilut Your Signal and Relief Will Not. ho Wanting A Sermon for Those Who Think "No Man Cares for Their South" ... Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text, salm cxlii., 4. Subject, "Cheer for the Disheartened." He said: David, the rubicund lad, had become

the battlo-Worn warrior. Three thousand armed men in pursuit, of him, he had hidden in the cave of Engedi, near the coast of the Dead Sea. Utterly fag god out with the pursuit, as you have often been worn out with the trials of life, he sat down and cried out: "Ionian cared for my soul." If you should fall through a hatchway, or slp fromascaffoldinjr,or drop through a skylight, there would be hundreds. of people who would come around and pick up your body ard carry it home or to the hospital. I saw a great crowd of people in the streets and! asked: "What is the matter?" and I found out that a poor laboring man had fallen under sunstroke, and all our eyes were filled with tears at the thought of his distracted wife and his desolated home. .We are ail sympathetic with physical disaster, but how little sympathy for spiritual woes! There arc men in this house who have come to middle life who have never yet been once personally accosted about their eternal welfare. A great

sermon, dropped into an audience of

hundreds of thousands, will do its work; but if this world - is ever brought to God it will be through little sermons, preached to private Christians to an audience of one. The sister's letter postmarked at tbe village; the, word uttered in your hearing, half of smiles and hali of tears; the card left at the door when you had some kind of trouble; the anxious look of some one across a church aisle while an earnest sermon was being preached, swung you into the kingdom of God. But there are hundreds of people in this house who will take the word that David used in the past tense and employ it in the present tense, and cry out: "No man cares for my: soul." Yon feel as you go out day by day in the tug and jostle of life that it is every man for himself. Yon can endure the pressure of commercial afTairs.and would consider it almost impertinent for any one to ask you whether you are making or losing money. But there have been times when you would have drawn your check for thousands of dollars if some one would only help your soul out of its perplexties. There are questions about your higher destiny that ache, and distract, and agonize you at times. .Let no one suppose that because you are busy all day with hardware, or dry goods, or groceries, or grain, that your thoughts are no longer than your yardstick, and stop at the brass-headed nails of the store counter. "When you speak once

f about religious things you think, five

thousand times. They call you a worldlinsr. You are not a worldling. Of

course you are industrious and keep busy, but you , have had your eyes opened to the realities of the next world. You are not a fool. You know, better than any one can tell you, that a few years at most will wind up your earthly engagements, and that you will take residence in a distant sphere, where all your business adroitness will be a superfluity.. You sometimes think till your head aches about religious subjects. You go down the street with your eyes fixed on the pavement, oblivious, of the passing multitudes, your thoughts gone on eternal expedition. You wonder . if the. Bible is true, how much of it is literal and how much of it is figurative,if Christ be God, if there is any thing like retribution, if you are immortal, if a resurrection will ever take place, what the occupation of your departed kindred is, what you will be ten thousand years from now. With a -cultured placidity of countenance you are on fire with agitations of soul . Oh, this solitary anxiety of your whole lifetime! You have sold goods to or bough t them from Christian people for ten years, and they have never whispered one word of spiritual counsel. You have passed up and down the aisles of churches with men who knew that you had no hope of heaven,and talked about the weather, and about your physical health, and about everything but that conceiuing which you " most wanted to hear them speak, namely, your everlasting spirit. There have been times when you were especially pliable on the great subject of religion. It was so, for instance, after you had lost your property. You had a great many letters blowing you up for being unfortunate. Yon showed that there had been a concatenation of circumstances, and that your insolvency was no fault of yours. Your creditors talked to you as though they would have a hundred cents on a dollar or your life. Protest after protest tumbled , in on your desk. Men who used to take your hand in both of theirs and shake it violently now pass you on the street with an almost imperceptible nod. After six or eight hours of scalding business anxiety you go home, and shut the door, and throw yourself on the sofa, and you feel in a state of despair. You wsh that some one would come and break up the gloom. Everything seems to be agaiDSt you. The bank against you. Your creditors against you. You make a reproachful outcry: "2?o man cares for my soul." There was another occasion when all the doors of your heart swung open for sacred influences. A bright light went out in your household. Within three or four days there were compressed sickness, death, obsequies. You were so lonely that a hundred people, coming into the house did not break up the solitariness. You were almost killed by the domestic calamity. " A few formal, perfunctory words of consolation were uttpred on the stairs before you werft to the grave; but you wanted some one to come and talk over the whole matter, and recite the alleviations, and decipher the lessons of the dark bereavement. No one came. Many a time you could not sleep until two or three o'clock in the morning, and then your sleep was a troubled dream, in which was re-enacted all the scenes of sickness, and parting and desolation. Oh, what days and nights they were! No man seemed to care for your soul. There was another time when your heart was very susceptible. There" was a great awakening. There were hundreds of people who pressed into the kingdom of God; some of them acquaintances, some business associates; yes, perhaps some members of your own family were baptised by sprinkling or immersion. Christian people thought of you and they called at your store, but you were out on business. Thev stopped at y our house; you had gone around to spend the evening. They sent a kindly message to you; somehow, by accident, you did not get it. The life-boat of the Gospel swept through the surf and every body seemed to get in but you. Every thing seemed to escape you. One touch of personal sympathy would have pushed you into the kingdom of God. When on communion day your friends went in, and your sons and daughters went into the church, you buried your face in your handkerchief and sobbed: "Why am I left out? Every body seems to got saved but me. . No man cares for my soul." Hearken, to a revelation I have to make. It is a startling statement. It will so surpi'ise you that I must prove it as I go on. . Instead of this total indifference all about you, in regard to your soul, I have to tell you thaf heaven, earth and hell are after your nraortal spiritearth to cheat it, hell to destroy it, heaven to redeem it. Although you may be a stranger to the Christians in

this house, their faces wonld glow and their hearts would bound if they saw you I

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mao one step heavenward. So intricate and far-reaching is this web of sympat hy that I could by one word rouse a great many prayers in your behalf. No one cares for your soul! Why, one signal of distress on your part would thrill this audience with holy ' excitement v If a boat in any harbor should get in distress, from the men-of-war, and from the sloops, and from the steamers the flying pari dies would pull to the rescue. And if now you would lift one signal of distress all these voyagers of eternity would boar down toward you and bring you relief. But, no. You are like a f-hip on fire at sea. Thev keep the hatches down, and the captain i frenzied, and he gives orders that no one hail the passing ships. He says: I shall either land this vessel in Hamburg or on the bottom of the ocean, and I don't earo which." Yonder is a ship of the White Star Line passing. Yonder one of the National Line Yonder one of the Cunard Line, Yonder one of the Inman Line. But they know not there is any calamity happening on that one vessel. Oh! if the captain would only put his trumpet to his lip and cry out: "Lower your boat! Bear down this way! We are burning up! Fire! Fire!" No. No. No signal is given. If that vessel perishes, having hailed no one, whose fault will it be? Will it be the fault of the ship that hid its calamity, or will it be the fault of the vessels that passing on the

high seas, would have been glad to furnish relief. If it had been only asked? In other words, my brother, if you miss

heaven it will be your own fault. No one care for your soul! Why, in all the ages there have been men whose entire business was soul-saving. In this work, Munson went down under the knives of the cannibals whom he had come to save, and Kobcrt McCheyne preached himself to death by thirty years of age, and John Bunyan was thrown into a dungeon in Bedfordshire, and Jehudi Ashman endured all the malarias of the African jungle; and there

arc hundreds and thousands of Chirshan

men and women now who are praying, toiling, preaching, living, dying to save souls. No one care for your soul! Have you lizard how Christ, feels about it? I know it was only five or six miles from Bethlehem to Calvary the birthplace and death place of Christ but who can tell how many miles it was from the throne to the manger? How 'many miles down, how many miles back again? In that place Christ started to save you. Your name, your face, your time, your eternity in Christ's mind. Sometimes traveling on mule's back to escape old Heron's massacre, sometimes attempting nervous sleep on the chilly hill-side, sometimes earning his breakfast by the carpentry of a plow. From the first infant step to ihe last step of manhood on the sharp spike of Calvary, a journey for you. Oh, how he cared for your soul! A young man might as well go of! from home and give his father and mother no intimation as t o inhere he has gone, and crossing, the seas, sitting down in some foreign country, cold, sick and hungry and lonely: "My father and mother don't care anything about me." Do not care any tiling about him! "Why, that father's has turned gray since his son went off. He has written to all the Consuls in the foreign ports asking about that son. Does not the mother

care anything about him? He has broken her heart. She has never smiled since he went away. All day long and almost allniiditshe keeps asking; " Where is he? Where can he be?" He . is the first thought in her prayer

and tne last thought m her prayer the first thought in the morning and the last

HENRY WARD UMVAIER. Choice Sentences from His Sermons and Lectures -Anecdotes.

at night. She says: "O. God, bring back my boy! I must see him again before I die." Where is he? I must see him .again before I die," Oh, do not his father and mother care for him? You go away from your Heavenly Father, and you think he does not care for you because you will not even read the letters by which he invites you to eoino back, while all heaven is waiting, and waiting, and waiting for you to return. A young man said to his father: "I am going ofT; I will write at the end of seven years and tell you where I am. Many years have passed along since that son went away, and for years the father has been troing to the depot in the village on the arrival of every train, and when he hears the whistle in the distance he is thrilled with excitement, and he waits until all 1 he passengers have come out, and then he waits until the train has gone clear out of sight again, and then he goes homo, hastening back to the next train; and he will be at every train until that son comes, back, unless the son waits until the father be dead. But oh, the greater patience of God! He has been waiting for you, not for seven years, not for nine years, but for some of you twenty years, thirty years, forty years, fifty years waiting, calling waiting calling, until nothing but omnipotent patience could have endured it. Oh, my brother! do not take the sentiment of my text as your sentiment. We do care for your soul. A young man, at the close of a religious service, was asked to decide the matter of his souVs salvation. He said: "I will not do it to-night." Well, the Christian man kept talking with him, and he said: "I insist that to-night vou either take God or reject Him." "Well," said the young man, "if you put it in that way, I will reject Him. There now, the matter's settled." On his way home on horseback, he knew not that a tree had fallen aslant the road, and he was going at full speed, and he struck the obstacle and dropped lifeless. That night his Christian mother heard the riderless horse plundering about the barn, and mistrusting something terrible was the matter, she went out and came to the place where her son lay, and she cried out: "O, Henry! dead and not a Chnsiian. Oh, my son! my son! dead, and not a Christian. Oh, Henry! Henry! dead, and not a Christian." God keep us from such a catastrophe.

Three different waiters at a Southern hotel asked a little, prim, precise Harvard professor at dinner in quick succession if he would have soup. A little annoyed, he said to the last waiter who asked: "Is it compulsory?" "No, sah," answered our friend and brother, "no, sah; I think

it is mock turtle."

A GEORGIA VOLTUNTKEK. Far up the lor.oly mountain siue My wandering footsteps Jed, The twsfs Jwy thtek beneath my feet, The pine ighed overhead ; The trace, of a dismantled fort Lay in the forest nave, And in the shadow near my path I saw a soldier's grave. The bramble wrestled with the weed ' Upon the lowly mound; The simple headboard, rudely writ, Had rotted to the ground, I raised it with a reverent band, From dust its words ,o clear, But time had blotted all but these "A Georgia Volunteer.' 1 I heard the Shenandoah roli Along the vale below, I aw the Alleghanies rist Toward the realms of snow; The valley campaign rose to mind, Its leader's nam?, and then I knew the sleeper had beer one Of Stonewall .laeksou's men. lie sleeps; what need to question now, If he were wrong or right? . lie knows ere this whose cause is just In God the Father's sight: He wields no warlike weaponn now, Returns no foeman's thrust; Who but a cowarr! would revile An houored soldier's dust? Roll, Shenandoah, proudly roll Adown thy ratify glen, Above thee lies the grave of one Of Stonewall Jackson's num. Ueucath the eedar and the pine In solitude austere, Unknown, unnamed, forgotten Ues A Georgia volunteer.

WISDOM, The truest self-respect is not to think of .self. It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. There is always somebody to believe in any one who is uppermost. Any feeling that takes a man from his home is a traitor to the houshold. In this world it is not what wo take up, but what we give up, that makes us r;ch.

The stream of life 'Jorks, and religion is not to he run in one channel and business in another. Success is full ot promise until men get it; then it is a last year's nest from which the bird has flown. We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead;" but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born." Some men are like pyramids which are

very oroaa wneretney roucn inogrounu, but grow narrower as they reach the sky. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find tbc flaw when he may hnvo forgotten :ite cause.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track but one inch between wreck and smoothrolling prosperity. In the morning wo carry the world like Atlas; at noon wo stop and bend beneath it, and at night it crushes us flat to the ground. A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society needs another Christ to die for it. Liberty is the souPs right to breathe, and when it can not take a long breath laws are girdled too tight. Without liberty man is a syncope. We sleep, but the loom of life never

stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain, so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in. We ought to love life; we ought to desire to live here so long as God ordains it; but let us not so encase ourselves in time that we cannot break the crust and begin to throw out shoots for the other

life. A flower never put on their best clothes for Sunda' but wear their spotless raiment and exhale their odor every day, so let your christian life, free front stain, every give forth the fragrance of the Jtove of God. Men have different spheres. It is for some to evolve groat moral truths, as the heavens evolve stars to guide the sailor on the sea and the traveler on the desert; and it is for some, like the sailor and the traveler, simply to be guided. A-man living at a hotel is like a grapevine in a 1 lower-pot movable, carried around from place to place, docked at the root and short at the top. Nowhere can a man get real root-room and spread out his branches till they touch the morning and the evening but at his own house.

secutive lectures lor $12,000, $0,000 being in advance, he to have expenses paid and a special car. That was $700 a lecture. The bureau cleared $5,000. He went out as far as ChicE go. In IS72 I took him personally. For the season

lsS7(5-77 he netted for himself $11,530, foils? 78, $27,200; for 187S-79, 21,200, for 1879 SO, when he did but little lecturing, $8,500, and he has averaged about the same since, making a total of about $240,000 for the ten years for which 1 have his receipts. Ho delivered in that time over 3,200 lectures and traveled 100,000 miles, lie was a great hand to travel nights; he was stover fatigued if he could sleep in the afternoon, and his afternoon nap he always took if

possible, whether t ravelin

or not.

; of ancient Hellas, a chief vehicle of one hiinctred converts since i t began its expression of art. It is not, how work at Orawfordsvi le, am has done

Art in Onr Coinage. The Century for MaTch has an illustrated arttiele on Greek coinage, by W. J. Still man, also an editorial, from which we quote: "It must indeed remain a dream, as Mr.Stillman expresses it, that

modern coinage can ever become, like

that

the

ever, too much to hope that it may come at least to reflect the contemporaneous attainment of art. Greek medalists were un trammeled by the requirements of regularity of contour, and thickness, and excessive flatness of relief which are in this practical age de manded in money for the greater convenience oi its use as

a medium oi exenange. uur powerpresses, too, are, in truth, necessary to

secure swiftness and economy of manufacture; but they can never produce the artistic effect of the blow struck by the hammer of the ancient coiner, deftly modulated and directed as it always was by experienced workmen, so as to bring out the full value of any particular die. Moreover, perhaps we cannot expect the designer of to-day, whoso mind is free from all mmist of mythological

illusion, to work with quite the inspiration of Evainetos and Kimon and their great unknown brother-artists. But after every allowance has been made,

me iaci remains tnar., wnn a iew exceptions, the coinage of the modern world is unnecessarily inartistic. And none will gainsay Mr. Stilhnan that, among all, the products of the United States mint are the most barbarous the most contemptible in the weakly grotesque design of their eagles, in their ill-drawn and commonplace Liberties and in the vulgarly staring lettering of their legends."

IN J IAN A STATE NEWS. Ft. Wayne claims 40,000. The new Union Labor party nominated a city ticket at Evansville, Monday night. A brewe ry to have a capacity of 30,000 barrels a year is to be built in Ft. Wayne this year. Alpheus T. Wagner, aged 60, for forty years a resident of LaPorte,died,Sunday, of measles. Thomas Murphy, son of Francis, is conduoting a remarkable temperance revival at Kvansville.

The followers of Mrs. Woodworth at Muncio are organizing a church to be known as the Church of Clod... Over 5,000 have signed the Murphy blue ribbon temperance pledge at Evansville and the interest is increasing. It is a veritable boom. Sca rlet fever is raging at Jirdson,Parke county. There are about ten cases, and two deaths have resulted. The schools have been closed. The Salvation Army has secured oyer

AXKCDOTKS. A member of his church once remonstrated with him for saying funny tilings in the pulpit, and he remarked that it he noticed them coming he tried hard to steer clear of them, but sometimes they would pop out in spite of all that he could do. He liked to sit for Ins photograph.. He once wrote thus to a photographer who had sent him several proofs: "One of the small photos is comely in my wife's eyes. The larger ones are good, provided you linish one of them as I ought to look, and the other as I do look." He was to have married a young couple at his house on Thu rsday evening of last week, but on Wednesday night the young man came to announce that, the lady had backed out. "Cheer up;" said Mr. Beecher, "I will get you a better girl," and he summonded his housemaid, Mary Moloney. He even had a fixed opinion about dogs. He once said: "If the dog isn't good for anything else it it is good for you to love, and tha t is a good deal. I have two miserable little scraggy dogs up at my Peekskill farm. They arc practically good for nothing, but I f ometimes think they are worth more to me than the whole place." When his mother died ho was only three years old, and he did not go to the funeral. They told him that they had laid his mother in the ground, and that she had gone to heaven. One morning ho was found digging under the window. His sister Catharine asked him what he was doing, and he said: "Why, I am going to heaven to find ma." His last public speech was delivered at a demonstration Chickering Hal):., in New York, on the 26th ultimo, favor of the Crosby high-license bill. He was received with a perfect tumult of applause. When lie began his address he did so in a somewhat low tone of voice, which elicited cries of "Louder!" He replied I'll be loud enough when I get warmed up." He was much shocked by the bad portrait of George Eliot that appeared in the catalogue of a AVestern publishing house. "Now why," said Mr. Beecher, "will men print such pictures as that one? The Lord knows George Eliot was homely enough, and the devil knows it by this time. Do you know what that picture suggests to me? It looks to me as if George Eliot had been in purga

tory, and there had been some terrible explosion with her in the center cf it." He was present at a dinner to Herbert Spencer some years ago, and addressed a highly intellectual, not to say skeptical, audience, and brought them to their feet in a perfect storm oi ap plause by a speech which he concluded with the confident assertion of his belief in immortality. Hon. Wiliarc. Bartlett says: "He then vindicated h is title to be considered the greatest preacher of his time, not only to the common people, but to those who, in some sort at least, claim to bo the wisest of mankind." HIS E MININGS. "I first came in contact with Mr. Beecher in 18715, when the Itedpath

Bureau, in which I was a partner;, en

gaged him to jiQjiver seventeen eon

Mrs. Mackays Jewels. BuUimore American. It is said in Paris that Mrs. John Mackay owns the Jinest jewels in the world. Two specimens certainlv take

precedence over any of their kind tha are known. One is a sapphire that she bought for 150,000 from a liussian Brince. It measures a centimeter,about four-tenths of an inch, in diameter; and has no defects. She owns also the most splendid emerald known. Among her other toys is a neck lace of pearls worth SlOOjCOO. and a set of corals, comprising a brooch, crown, bracelet, etc., all of the most delicate rose color, each piece covered with diamonds. It took two years searching to complete this collection of gems, and there exists only one other collection like it, and that belongs to the Queen of Portugal. Further than these area pair of solitaires worth $425,000. One of them was bought at the sale of the eflects of the Duke of Brunswick, and the jeweler who was commissioned with the securing i ts mate was over two years in getting it. Most of these jewels, as well as a great quantity of invaluable lace, will probably coino some day to the Princess Coloima, the daughter of Mrs. Mackay, Prince Colonna is an Italian nobleman who met his wife in Paris. It is interesting, in mentioning these insignia of enormous wealth, to recall the time when John Mackay was an ordinary California miner, picking away at the bottom of a shaft at the trade union wages of $4 a day. At that time he took his dinner from his cabin in the morning in a tin pail, and the eatables were prepared by the. skillful hands of the bonanza queen. Now he makes his millions, (or keeps them made) in Wall street and on ihe Bourse, and Mrs. Mackay spends them in Paris. It is doubtful if any parvenus more tnoroughly and sincerely enjoyed their elevation to the ranks of the mighty.

The While Man of the New South.

Mnrh Century.

Indeed, it is the white man of the

South more than the blaok that has

been freed by the civil war; and the greatest blessing which has thus far resulted to the South from the emancipa

tion of the slaves is its effect upon the white man of that region in transforming him from a dependent idler, or "gen

tleman of leisure," supported bv his

slaves, into an independent, self-reliant worker. We speak of the typical, representative Southern white man, not of all classes, for thero were working white men in the Old South and there are idle white men in the New, But the white man of the New South is pre-eminently a worker as compared with the white man of the Old fcouth, who, if not an idler, was at least it man of multitudinous leisure. But having now been set free from that bondage to leisure and that contempt of labor which is inseparable from slave-hold ing,the representative of that region has become a new man and has entered upon a new probation among the industrious races of the

earth. If the Old South had a contempt j for the worker, the New South has a

greater contempt for the do-nothing and the idler for the man who does no honest work, it matters not how white his skin or how full his exchequer. The "gentleman idler" has lost caste in the South; he is an institution of the past.

much to lighten the labors of the police

sourt

Mr. and Mrs. Frame, the Quaker evan

gelists, are conducting a series of revival meetings at the Friends' Church, Mun-

cie. in which much interest is mani

fested.

Joseph Bloom , employed at White's ' wheel works, Fort AVayne,while stealing a ride on the Nickle-plate train, on Saturday night, fell between the cars and was instantly killed. Two TO vansville dogs got i nto a fight and knocked down a gun that was standing against a wall. The weapon was discharged, shooting one of the dogs through the heart. The s tudents 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. The treasurer of the State soldiers' monument committee says there is sufficient money on hand to begin the work and to earry it forward until the State's appropriation can be utili2;ed.

Friday morning the residence of

W. T. Summers, situated in Warrick county about ten miles from Evansville, was burned. The loss is between $4,000 and So, 000; insured for $3,!2oO. Andrew Pfohl, aged forty-three years, a prominent acitizen of Princton, eommitted suicide Saturday night by taking thirty grains of morphine, because he eould not break off the drinking habit. The Anderson Democrat, was purchased Tuesday by ex-S-ecretary ot State M3rers. Colonel J. B. Maynard, of

Indianapolis, will become editor, while Captai n Myers will loo k alitor the busi-. ne3 of the office. George W. Baker and Marion Bond, whose im ported cal yes were killed to prevent the spread of disease in Clinton county, brought suit for damages against David P. Barner and Joseph Carmr.ck, but the jury found for ihe defendants. Hon. Rufus Magee, of Logansport, United States Minister to Norway and Sweden, was entertained Thursday evening at a banquet given at the home of Montgomery Hamilton, Esq., of Fort Wayne. Twenty prominent citizens sat down to the feast Jo tin Barrett accidentally shot Charles Kickley through the heart, causing instant death, three miles west of Fort Wayne, on the Wabash railroad, Sunday afternoon. Both parties are young men and warm frieads, and had gone out to do some target shooting. Warden Patton, of the Jeflersonville prison, is receiving an average of fifty letters a day from persona who desire positions at the prison. One man based his claim for a place on the fact that he had served the State for fully two years in i hat institution for stealing a cow. Hon. E. B. Sellers, State Senator from White, Carroll and Pulaski count ies,has been appointed United States District Attorney to succeed Hon, David Turpie. Mr. Sellers was endorse d and recommended by Mr. Turpie, while Mr. Voorhees urged the appointment of J. G. MoNutt, deputy under Turpie. Governor Gray Thursday appointed bustees for the new feeblerained institute, which is- to be located at Fort Wayne, making the board consist of Edward A. Hackett of that city; Abner H. Sha3fer, of Huntington, and Mary T. Wilson of Indianapolis. The positions pay $100 a year, and there is considerable work connected with them. Fort Wayne Commandery No. 4, Knights Templars, have admitted to membership Mr. George Godfrey, of Allen county. He is a full-blooded Miami Indian, and the only Indian Knight Templar in the world. He is copper colored and of unmistakable Indiap physiognomy. While Mr. J. Winslow, a farmer who resides near Millport, a, jew miles southwest of Seymour, was harrowing in oa';s with a drag, his team ran away and dragged him across the field and into a ditch, where his dead arid badly mangled body was found a little later by neighbors who had witnessed the accident. William l8ombigger was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the Shelby county jail for horse stealing. He didn't like the jail, and concluded he would rather be in the penitentiary for one year than six months in the former phwo, and on a new trial being granted

he pleaded guilty, and was giver, one J

year in State priso?a.

The Island City Coal company is worki nr a netw field at Linton, while a new

shaft is being sunk at Lyon, where a live-foot vein of bituminous has been s truck, at a depth of 106 feet. The boom is felt even down to Washington, in Daviess county, where a coal town, Edna vide, has been platted, near Mout-

niachlne; J. II. Martin, BlOomington mole trap; J. I. Townsley, Vincennes, eoin counters with automatic locking devices; Chas. Wittenbaugh, telephone toll collector and telephone register, N. Williams, Evansville, roller knives; Edmund Zoller, Indianapolis, cuffholder, Two employes of the Wabash Schoolfurniture Company, who came to that place from Germany a few months ago, have just received notice from the head

of the military division in the fatherland in which they served, to return at

once and rejoin the army, now in pro

cess of mob ilization. They are threa tened with the confiscation of their property in "case of refusal to obey the summons. Botk, however, will refuse to go. The large new barn of Allen Goss, a prominent farmer of Carr township, six miles west of Brownstown, took fire about 8 o'clock Tuesday evening and was burned to the ground with all its contents. Eleven fine farm horses were m the stable and perished by the fire, the flames having spread so rapidly as to baflle all efforts to remove the animals

from the building. The origin of the fire is unknown, though it is attributed to Borne accidental cause. The remains of Mrs. Martha Sch emmill, of LaCross, aged fifty-five years, were found under the Nickle-plate trestle at Valparaiso on Saturday. She had been at the latter place for a day or

two visiting a step-sister and other

friends, and on Friday evening started

for the Nickel-plato depot. Parties living near there heard groans in the night, and it is supposed she was walking

over the trestle after dark, and missing a step, fell to the ground, and was bo badly injured she could not move, and froze to death.

Intense excitement was occasioned at

the mills of the Muncie bagging company Monday morning by Miss Emma Rich going into a trance. She has been a regular attendant at Mrs. Woodworth's meetings, and was one of twenty-three who were baptized in the river at the edge of town Sunday. Mr. Johnson, who recently came to that ity, was brought to the scene, and soon brought her out of the trance state. This gentle

man claims to be able to exert influence over an audience to such an extent that

Mrs. Yvoodwortn can not place anyone in a trance stater . Charles B. Crecelius, agent for the Louisville & St. Louis Air Line, at Taswoll, is missing, and also Miss Fannie Taswell, the handsome daughter of James Taswell, a . prominent and wealthy citizen of Taswell. Crecellius is said to be short in his accounts with the railroad company, but it is not yet known how much. He also borrowed a gold watch from one party and over $100 from others. He is a married man, leaving hie wife and two children in destitute circumstances. They were last heard from on their way to Kansas. At a meeting at Logansport on Friday evening, for the purpose of making arrangements for unveiling the monument erected by Cass county to the soldiers and sailors of the late war, it was decided to hold the celebration on July 13, that day being the centennial anniversary of the adoption of the ordinance of 1787, which dedicated Indiana and the Northwest to freedom. The committee on invitation were instructed to invite Col. William F, Vilas, of Wisconsin, and Gen. William H. Gibson, of Ohio, as special orators of the day. The monument will be seventyfive feet high, and will, be the first one in Indiana erected under the provisions of the State law.

GERMANY'S GREAT

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Enormous Demonstration i in Berlin l .Honor of the Emperor' Vinetietli BirthdnyTne City Crowded toy Vat Throngs of People Guttering; Aggregation of Itoyalty A Beloved Baler; -

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Emperor William's hirthday festivities virtually began Sunday many societies and clubs throughout Germany holding reunions in honor of the occasion. The influx of strangers into

Berlin continued Monday, The concourse in front of the Emperor's palace was very great audi there -was- enthusiastic demonstrations, the crowd

chanting the hymn, '"Heil Dh?

kranx," , The day was observed as general holiday and the streets were thronged witn people watching the completion of the decora tions; All the thoroughfares were gorgeous with flags and floral designs. The weath er was clear and cold. There was . a .constant stream of eouinaores alone Linden ave

nue of royalties exchanging v.iPits1 or going to the palace. The Prince of e Wales, Archduke Rudolph and the : ;

Grand Duke Vladimir: were ntcipientar.

of special ovations. r 1 '

Among the iatesti arrivals were the ; King and Queen of Rou anuria, the Crown Prince of Denmark, the dfCing s

and Queen or Saxony, and Jfnitce liOUis ', Jpf I

of iJavana. rne istaperor,? xupnaay -afternoon, gave a special audience to - q

foreign envoys, headed by AigineiiDa-r' -

ed at the reception, presenting General

Cordova, of Spain; Qenerai' :carneiro,-

of Portugal; General Verspyk? ot

land; General Horyatoyich, of Seryia; ; Prince Komatsu, of Japan, and envoys from Greece, China and the 8o uth African Republic. This was the only omfcial reception of the day.- A f tei wurd. there

was a State dinner to royalties. ' Prince Bismarck and General ' Von;

Moltke were -also the receipen fcs of an" ovation at the hands of the students and

the multitude, and were very ..much'.';

moved oy tue expressions oi feneration?

showered upon them. "

In the evening, between three and four thousand students, bearing flags; banners and torches formed a processionj and inarched to the palacet The line extended from the palace to:he opera-

house. When the procession arrived-

at the palace the Emperor and Empress" appeared at a. window on the roun4 floor. President Moenckjof the students J committee, rode up to the wuidow, and 5 their Majesties, with the grand 1uehesa:.:;; ,

of Baden, rose and bowed. Muencfccalled for cheers for the Emperor, for the victorious commander i:i glorious ; battles; for the beloved fetlier of hia country, for the author of the union ot, the German races, : for the defender of the frontiers of the empire,- ind for the ; guardian of thq peace of the w orlct The - applause was tremendous, arsd was fol-X -; lowed by the singing of the rationol an-T them, the Emperor remaining standing and bowing with .evident gratifications: The procession then marched past thei c palace The whole scene wairmost brilliant. t:,. 1 :.asJ, ' At 11 o'clock, when the Gui rassier regk ; j

ment came to relieve the giard atthe? VK'JBt palace, the thousand t4pf burst into enthusiastic cheeiing; which ; continued so Ion

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KKtijilSH AS SHE IS T RDTE. The teacher, a lesson he taught; The preacher, a sermon he praught; The dealer, he stole; The neeloi, he hole: Ami the Rcrueeher, he awfully scraught. The long- whKlcA sptaker, ho sH)ku; The or ofiiee-scK'lier. he soke, The runnei, he ran; The rtunner, he ;lan: And the shriekor, lui .norribly shroke. The tlyerto i'auudtt flow; The buyer, on credit hi bow; Thofloer, he .lkl; Thesuer. h? j;il; And the liav, (a hbh jr.tuui), lew. The writer, this nonsense he wrote; The tighter, (an editor), fete: The swimraer, h swam; The slttmu.er Iip sfcaiM : A u( t hQ biter wuJj I?, titigry and bote, . .. H.O. Dodge,

gomeryj

and wnere a mine is being

opened. The Lake Brie & Western -."Railroad (Company bought, Monday, the IndianHPolis, Peru & Chicago railroad, which

-was formerly a part of the Wabash sys-

j en, and sold under foreclosure to a committee of bondholders. The price paid was about fi5,5O0,O00, or at the rate of S2(,000 a mile. It is understood that the present stockholders will have the right to subscribe to stock representing the new acquisition within a short time, but the terms of the issue hud not been arranged Monday. Patents were issued Tuesday to Indi-

ville, cultivator; G. W. J)ayis, jffew Albany, Apparatus tor , stage effects; . E. Hildreth, Decatur, tubular valve; N. Zollinger, Goshen, ftraia sepavnm Olnas, MoNeal, Mishay.ika, boring

How to Clean Things. Soda will clean tarnished tin. Vine-

irar and salt will clean copper. Butter

is the best polish to put into starch. Baking soda put on a burn will taVe out heat. A heated knife will cut hot bread without making it soggy. Oil of cedar is sure death to vermin which infest ohambers. Toilet sets and all chamber articles should be cleaned in cold water. White lead will cement broken crockery, a tea-cent bottle lasting for years. A small paint brush should be used in cracks and crevices while dusting a room, A simple way of loosening a rujsty screw is to apply heat to the head of it. When the burners of lamps become clogged with char, boil them in strong soapsuds. By using soda water as a wash you can clean ceilings that have been smoked by a kerosene lamp, "(f you drop soot on the carpet coyer thickly with salt, and it may be swept up without blackening the carpet A few oyster shells mixed with the coal for a furnace or large stove will prevent the accumulation of clinkers. To clean brass bird-cages use a tablespoonful of salt and a teacupful of vinegar, beat,and apply with a flannel and rub till dry. - Saved By the Drink. Pittsburgh Dispatch. V. . . v, - " Whisky saved my life once,0 said the man on the coal box, impressively, c , The man on the cracker bajrrel, who had been upholding the cause of temperanee, looked surprised, then became incredulous. , "It's the truth," asserted the man on the coal box. The man on the. cracker barrel demanded a bill of particulars, remarking at the same tune: "I suppose it's one of them snake chestnuts." "No, it ain'tj ' responded the man on the coal box. 11 You know Jim Smi thers?" "Yes." .. V .. , "Well, I s' pose you remember that time he shot nie and missed me?" "Yes," .. " ., " Well, that was the time." "But what had whisky to do with that?" . ..... ,.

"Jim was so infernal drunk he couldn't shoot straight,"

peroT came to a window ani againthanked the people. His appiawrance had a magic effect. . The 3Smperor waived his hand and disappeared. At late hour

the crowds still remained in Ae vicinity"

of the palace. .

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A SMtfi Bloats

An Attempt to

Monarch Fails and Many

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An attempt was made to assassinate the Czar Sunday. The attempt was the ; outgrowth of a conspiracy inching in its numbers; emDracing men an4; 1 women of every grade of life Th.sittut tion is regarded as very Berious. v -j" Particulars are as followK While the

Car was returning ' from tlie jteqniem serviccfi in the Cathedral of Ht. Paul at

St. Petersburg a bomb atteehed Vto ?a cord was thrown in his' direction. The . intention was to faghteri the string, which was connected with the mechan? ism, and thus explode the bomb , bu before it eould be executed the criminaland a suspected accomplice -were seized;

It was found that they lived together m

a lodging-house in a suburb of the city

The police visited the houce- ad dte covered thereaquantity of ex plosives and

a number of revolutiontary pamphlets. , fi gg

Tne werman poncenaa waruea mi sian authorities' that an attempt Was ta be made against the Czar's life, but the ; latter failed to trace the plotters. The bomb was thrown under the Czar's carriage. It was shaped like a book, so " that it could be earned wijout xciting suspicion. ' -r - ' v r Had to Have a Elgntof So me. Kind, fA special from San ltafaljMeaya a bull fight took place at thai town Thursdayi in the presence o I fully 5,000 people, none of whom had p id less than

$8 for seat or standing room. Ofhe bulla

reia8e 10 ngn ana naany .uev?jpwwiewa hTst intn t.h rincr and made an in

discriminate attack upon bulls and - , the fighters with chairs and other con

vement missiles. The troops were f called upon to suppress tb riot, who

several times were compelled to charges

the crowd with drawn sabers before tiie maddened people would desist from -their attack upon ttie bull fighters. Thel i people resisted the soldiertt, and large j numbers .of the former, mote- ;Or lesaN: t

wounaea, were arrestea. .

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A Queer Spot in Florida. Atlanta Constitution. Capt. Porter says that the mockingbirds of Dade county, Florida, do not

sing. He has bought some Leon cou nty songsters to learn the naughty birds of his section to sing. Another strange thing about Dade county is that there is not a road in the county. People there generally travel by water or ride along the beech or through the woods. The forest trees are all tropical and different from other sections of the Stated The State of Trade.

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"How's business?" ,; "Oh, it's picking up. How's yours?" ; '"Well, mine is falling oftV'

"So? What is your business?" "Going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. What's your's?". "I'm a ragpickW1

Flgnres Concerning Oleon utrgarine, ;' J The Commissioner of Internal Rev

enue, in reply to an officiaV infl

the Commissionerfof Agricn Iture, states

that the quantity of art ficial butier . manufactured and removttd for cbh-:

sumptionor sale during the

November, December and January was. as follows: November, 4,741,59 pounds

2,601,11 pounds; totaU 10,020,9ni pounds. - Tbe exportation werci November, 3,247 pounds; Deeembeiv 5Sjii89 pounds; Januy, $5,701 JP total, 114,097 pounds, 1 ?:kidh

Volisli War at rolt.

The Polish church actions -at Detrtnt ; have re-opened hostilities. - Sunda-. the police, who were guarding the churcli ? and convent, were attacked by ne e the factions and for awhile the outeom : ? looked dubious The fracas resulted

tire severe in j ury of severs I policemen

A tew' Poles were also hur. ; The

vent windows were badly nhattered byp

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