Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 23, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 April 1887 — Page 2

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BY H. J. FKLTTJS.

Itf.OOMINm'ON,

INDIANA

' Thr BejlTelephone Company, says a tolegram, earned $3,097,000 for -1SSG, against $2,76o,S8-l for 1SS5. The uerm earned" is wrongly used. "Extorted" is what the telegram intended to say.

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Ik a case arising under the Boston Sun- '.: day law a jury ha found against a barber lor plying his vocation, on the ground that shaving on Sunday is not a wort of necessity or charity. The case, is to be jtaken to the S upreaie Court. I The worst news from Russia is that the instigator of the recent plot to assassinate the Czar has safely tended in America. The most hospitable nation in the world will be pardoned f or deelin dng to extend a welcome to this gentleman. There are too many Nihilists in f he country already. V r i - . - s TnE registration books in Leaveni worth, Kan;, have just closed' with a registration of 4,318 men and 2,673 wo- ? men. The latter had an election' committee of 200, which worked very zeals' ously. The exciting issue is prohibition, and it is understood that nearly all the ' women who have registered will vote i for the enforcement of the law. Public interest in the investigation of - the late terrible railroad accident near Boston has measureably subsided, but 3 i the investigation is still going on. The i evidence seems to establish beyond a doubt the worthlessness of the bridge v that carried the train down. Congress or Legislatures might prevent such accii dents by requfring frequents inspection i of bridges. :

Lee Chuck:, a Chinese highbinder has been sentenced by a San Francisco court to be hanged, for the murder of Yen Yuen. When arrested- Lee Chuck was found to be a walking arsenal having no less than four large navy revolvers, all loaded, three sharps butcher knives, and a coat? of mail which would resist an rdainary bullet Themurder was unprovoked and vicious. I

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; The Dauntless encountered furious storms during her recent voyage, and in i- order to allay the roughness' of the seas ' resorted to the use of oil. The result "Was very satisfactory, the action of the : oil smoothing materially the loose water . from heavy topping seas and greatly diminis bing the breaking force of the waves.- This testimony is corroborative f of other experiments, and it may be aef tepted as a well settled fact that the roughest sea can be materially reduced by this means. J ? Empekor William's physicianTeceives a handsome gratuity every time his royfc- al patient celebrates & birthday. The present increases with the age of the s Emperor. In 1877 it was 150,000 marks; f last week it was double that sum. The I medical gentleman, in? returning thanks f for the gift, expressed a hope and belief I ; - that the Emperor would Five to be- a J centenarian. If ever a wish was father l to a thought, surely the physician's prophetic expression of gratitude can be t thus described.

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A westerx paper tela its "readers how ".to mind their PV in the following paragraphs: "Persons who patronize papers should pay promptly,.- for the pecuniary prospects of thepress have a peculiar power in pushing forward public prosperity. If the printer' is paid promptly, ' and his pocke tbook kept plethotic by promptly paying patrons he puts his pen to paper in peace, his paragraphs are more, pointed, he paints his pict ures of passing events' in more pleasing colors and the perusal of his paper is a pleasure to the people. Paste this piece proverbial philosophy in a prominent place where:? all can per ceive itl : - -r

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SoiEE time in January last5 a confer ence of builders was held -in Boston at which it was agreed to form a national association. A commintee was aonointed

.to prepare a plan of orgtinizition and

Chicago was selected as the first place

of meeting. The first mee ting was held

in that city last week, delegates being

present from nearly every coiisiderable city in tie United States. The proceed

ings-were marked by a degree of earnestness -and intelligence that showed a

higher motive than; mere self-interest, and the organization gives promise of public usefulness. Among the questions discussed were a better system of apprenticeship, the relations of capital and i ahor , how to prevec t and tre&t strikes, etc., and they were,ad discussed in the rightspirit. . j They Have Xesirned Better; A St. Louis detective. . We don't often find a thiefewith a revolver in hia pocket, unless he is getting out of town. A mail known to the authorities as a thief is very often arrested on suspicion. The police think he may be wanted for something - If "there is no

cnarge against hunsjiie gets away, but if.

revolver is found upon hi3 person he is charged with carrying concealed weapons and held until it; can be seen what he has been doing. '".One good thing about the carrying cf weapons is, that the large majority of revolvers carried by thieves and the tough element are cheap affairs, which are not to" be depended upon to go t off. Hardly a day goes by but what a case-is reported of -somebody snapping a revolver at some one else, but in jno&t cases the weapon reiuses to go off. A really first-class revolver only snaps-once, and then, if pointed the rightjway, somebody has to droj. ? ': - ' . Wonderful Earthquake Effect. London Court and Social Review. "It is an ill wind; that! blows nobody good," says the proverb, and no one should indorse that ancient saw more heartily -than Mrs.Terome,better known to fame as Lady Randolph Churchill's mother. After suffering from paralysis for some years and beings quite bedridden, the poor old lady was so terrified by the last shock of the earthquake' at Cannes that -she sprang out of bed, fled down stairs, and, instead of delivering up the ghost then and there, as her amazed and terrified friends, and attendants fully expected, she has been able to walk ever since! Thi3 is a case which should find its way into manuals of philosophy -and booksjax plaining miracles.

i .mm SERMON

UA lave Church" and What is Required of it. Punctuality and Karnestnoss Necessary for its Success A Xiouely Hyrrtn-fune DnzxUiijc irom tll Orpm-Loft. in Not Culculatecl to Awaken Keiigipiu En-

tlmsiasm The Sabhath pnrtant Factor.

Schoolman Iiit-

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Rev. Dr. Taluiage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday from the text Iicv. ii., S-9. Subject: "A live church." He said: It may be profitable to consider what are the elements of a live church. I remark in the first place that one characteristic of such a church is punctuality in meeting its engagements. AH ecclesiastical institutions have financial relations, and they ought to meet their obligations just as certainly as men meot their obligations at the bank. When a Chmch of God is not as faithful to its promises as . the Bank of England, it ceases to be a Church of God. It ought to be Understood that prayers can not paint a church, and' prayers can not pay the winter's coal fell, and prayers can not meet the insurance; and that, while prayer can do a thousand things, there are a thousand things that prayers can not do. . Prayer, for any particular church will never reach heaven high unless it goes down pecket deep. In my church at the West there was a man of comfortable means, who used to pray for his pastor in sucK elongated style that he became a nuisance to the prayer meeting, asking God in a prayer that was almost without ceasing, that the pastor might be blessed in his basket and in his store, while the fact was he never paid anything. If we prav for the advancement of the church, and do not out of our means contribute for its advancement, our prayer is only mockery. Let the Church of God then meet its obligations on the outside,, and let the members of. tko congregation meet the obligations on the inside, and the church will be financially prosperous. Let me say, also, that there must bt punctuality in tho attendance on the hse of the Lord. If the service begins at "half past ten in the morning, the regular congregation of a live church will not come at a quarter to eleven. If the service is to begin at half past .seven in the evening, the regutar congregation of a live church will not eorae at a quarter to eight. In some ehurches I have noticed the people are always tardy. There are some people who are always late. Thoy were born too late, and the probability is that they will die too late. Th rustling of dresses up the aisle, and the slamming of doors, and the treading of heavy feet, is poor inspiration for a minister. It requires great abstraction in a pastor's mind to proceed with the preliminary exercises of the church when one-half tho audience seated are looking around to see tho other half come in. Such a difference of attendance upon the house of God may be a difference of time pieces; but the live church of which I'm speaking ought to go by railroad time, and that's pretty well understood in all our communities. Another characteristic of a live church is the fact that all the people participate in the exercises. A stranger can tell by the way the first tune starts whether there is any life there. A church that does not sing is a dead church. It is awful to find a cold drizzle of music coming down from the organ loft, while all the people beneath sit in silence. When a tune wanders around lonely and unbefriended, and is finally lost amid the arches because the people do not join in it, there is not much melody made unto the Lord. In heaven they all sing, though some there can not sing half as well as others. The Methodist Church has sung all around the . world, and gone from conquest to conquest, among other things because it is a singing church, and any Christian, chureh organization that with enthusiasm performs this part of its du ty will go on from triumph to triumph. A , church of God that can sing can do anything that ought to bo done. We go forth into this hploy war with the Bible in one handSmd ahymnbook in the other. I am glad to know that, as a Church, we are making advancement in this respect. When I came to be your pastor we had an excellent choir in the little chapel, and they sang very sweely to us Sabbath by Sabbath; but ever and anon there was trouble, for you know that the choirs in the United States are the Waterloos where the great battles go on. One Sunday they will sing like angels, and the next Sunday they will be mad, and will not sing at all. We resolved to settle all the difficulties, and have one skillful man at the organ, and one man to do the work of a precentor, and now, from Sabbath to Sabbath, the song comes up like the voice of mighty thundering?.. Another'characteristie of a live hureh is a flourishing: Sabbath-school, i It is too

1 late in the history of the Christian

Church to argue the benefit of such an institution. The Sabbath:school is not a supplement to the church, it is its right arm. ... But you say-there are dead churches that have Sabbath-schools. Yes, but the Sabbath-schools are dead,

too. It is a dead mother holding in her

arms a dead child. But when a superintendent and teachers and scholars come

on Sabbath afternoons together, their faces glowing with interest and enthu

siasm, and their songs are heard all through the exercises, and at the close they go away feeling they have been on the Mount of Transfiguration that is a

live school, and it is characteristic of a i: 1 v mi ...-.. '

uvtt t-uurco. xnere is oniy one tmng i have against the Sabbath-schools of this country, and tha is, they are too respectable. We gather into our, schools the children of the refined, and the cultured, and the educated; but, ala3 for the great multitude of the children of the abandoned and the lost! A few of them are gathered into our Sabbath-schools; but what about the seventy-thousand destitute children of New York, and the score of thousands of destitute children of Brooklyn, around whom are thrown no benign, and heavenly and Christian influences? It is a tremendous question, what is to become of the destitute children of these cities? We must either act on them or they will act on us. We will either Christianize them or they will heathenize us. It is a question not more for the Christian than for the philanthropist and the statesman. Oh, if he could have all these snfiering little ones gathered together what a scene of hunger and w retchedness and rags and sin and trouble and darkness! If we co uld see those little feet on the broad road to death, which through Christian charity ought to be pressing the narrow path of life; if we could hear those voices in blasphemy, which ought to be singing the praises of God; if we could see those little hearts, which at that age ought not to be soiled with one unclean thought, becoming the sewers for every abomination; if we could see those suffering little ones sacrificed on the altar of every iniquitous passion and baptized with fire from the. lava of the pit we would recoil, crying out: 'Avaunt, thou dream of hei1!" They are not always going to be children. They are coming up to be the men and the women of this country. That spark of iniquity that might now be put out with one drop of water of life will become the conflagration of every green thing that God ever planted in the soil. That which ought to have been a temple of tho Holy Ghost will become a scared an d bl istered ruin every light quenched and every altar in the dust. That petty thief which slips, into your store and takes a yard of cloth from your counter will become the high wayiBan of the forest, or the burglar of midnight, picking the lock of your money safe and blowing up your store to hide the villainy, A great army, with staggering step, and blooashot eye, and drunken hoot they are coming on gathering recruits from every grog-shop and den of infamy in the land to take the

ballot-box and hurrah at the elections. The. hard-knuckled fist of rulfiianism will have more power than the gentle hand of intelligence and sobriety. Men, bloated, and with the signature of sin burned in from the top of the lorehead to the bottom of the chin, will look honest ' men out of countenance. Moral corpses, which ought to be buried a hundred feet deep to keep theni from poisoning the air, wi'U rot in the faccofthfesun at. iioonday. Industry in her plain frock will be unappreciated while thousands of men will wander around in idleness, with thenhands on their hips, saying: "The world owes us a living," O, what a tremendous power thore is in iniquity when uneducated, and unrestrained, and unblancheditgoes on concentrating, and deepening, and widening, and gathering momentum until it swings ahead with a verj' triumph of desolation, drowningHke surges, scorching like flames, crushing like rocks! What are you going to do with this abandoned population of tho streets? Will you gather them in your Churches? It is not tho will of your Heavenly father that one of these little onUs should perish. If you have ten respectable children in your class, gather in ten that are not respectable. If in your Bible class there be twenty yoiing men who nave come from Christian homes and elegant suiToundings, let those twenty young men go out and gather in twenty more of the young men of the city who are lost to God and lost to society. This outside population, unless educated and restrained, will work terror in ages that are to come Another characteristic of a live church is one with appropriate architecture. In the fat West and amid destitute population a log church is very appropriatethe people living in log houses. But in communities where people live in comfortable abodes a church uncommodious or lackin6 in beauty is a moral nuisance. Because Christ was 'born in a manger is no reason why we should worship Him in a barn. .Let the churches of Jesus Christ be not only comfortable, but ornate. .. Years ago we resolved to have a comfortable church. We resolved that it should be amphitheatrioal in shape. The prominent architects of the country, after figuring on the matter a good while said that such a church would not . be churchly, and they would have nothing to do with the enterprise. But after a while we found an architect willing to risk his reputation. He put up for us the tabernacle in amphitheatrical style. We liked it. All who came liked it. This building followed in the same style. We believe it is appropriate and adapted. An angular church will have an angular theology. The Church of Jesus Christ ought to be a great family circle the pulpit only the fire-place, around which they are gathered in sweet and domestic communion. But when our first tabernacle went up. O, the caricature and the scoffing! They said: "It's a hippodrome! It's a holy circus. It's Talmage's theater!" But the Lord came down with power upon that old building, and made it the gate of heaven to a great many. And this building followed. That we were right in persisting in the style of architecture is proved by the fact that now there are sixty or seventy churches in the United States in the same style. Indeed, oar Tabernacle has revolutionized church architecture in this country. Alive Church must have a commodious, a comfortable, an adapted building. "How amiable are Thv tabernacles, O, Lord of Hosts! I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." Again, the characteristic of a live Church must be that it is a soul-saving Church. It must be the old Gospel of Christ. Why, there is no field on earth so grand as, that which is open before the Gospel ministry. Have you powers of analysis? Exhaust them here. , Have you unconquerable logic? Let it grapple with Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Have you strong imagination? Let it discourse on the Psalms of David or John's Apocalyptic Vision. Have you great powers of pathos? Exhaust it in telling the story of a Savior's love. Have you a bold stvle of thinking? Then follow Kzekiers wheel, full oi eyes, and-' hear through his chapters the rush of the wings of the seraphim. All ye who want a grand field in which to work for God, come into the Gospel ministry. At any rate, come into Christian circles, and somewhere and somehow, declare the grace of God. Pardon for all sin. Comfort for all trouble. Eternal life for all the dead. 0, my soul! preach it forever. It has been my ambition, and I believe it has been yours, my dear people, in these 3rears of my ministry, to have this soul-saving Chureh, and we never yet threw out the Gospel net but we drew in a great multitude. They have come, a hundred at a time, and three hundred and fifty at a time, and I expect the day will appear when, in some service, there will be three thousand souls accepting the offers of eternal life. ; All the offers of the gospel are extended to you "without money and without price," and you are conscious of the fact that these opportunities will soon be gone forever. . The conductor of a rail-train was telling me of the fact that he was one night standing by his train on a side track, his train having been switched off so that the express train

might dart past unhindred. . .

He said while he stood therein the

darkness, beside his train on the sidetrack, he heard the thunder of tho express in the distance. Then he saw the flash of the headlight. .The train came with fearful velocity, nearer and nearer, until after awhile, "when it came very near, by the flash of the headlight, he saw that the switchman had not attended to his duty either through intoxication or indifference, had not attended to his duty and that train, unless something were done immediately, would rush on the side-track, and dash the other train to atoms. He shouted to the switchman: "Set up that switch!" and with one stroke the switch went back, and the express thundered on, O! men and women, going on toward the eternal world, swift as the years, swift as the months, swift as tho days, swift as the hours, swift as the minutes, swift as the seconds on what track are you running? Toward light or darkness? Toward victory or defeat? Toward heaven or hell? Set up that switch. Cry aloud to God. "Now is the day of salvation. EASTER LEAVES. I trod the path where once we walked together, Oldpcavee and withcrod fiiconts strewed the way. Amd cowslips nodded In the breezy weather. This Easter Day. Across the windy slopes sweet bells are ringing, A skylark's song came downward, clear and gay; And my full heart broke forth in joy and singing, This Easter Day. My risen Lord, I folt thy strong protection, I saw Thee stand among the graves to-day; 'I am the way, the life, the resurrection," I heard Thee say.

And all theburdens I had carried sadly, Grew light as blossoms on an April spray,My cross became a staff, I journeyed gladly, This Easter Day.

Carry Maltby Silloway, in Good Housekeeping

HE KISSED HER. He kissed her! And wns it his fault that her cherry-red lips Were sweeter tbau honey the bonoy-bce sivs? And was it his fault that the breath from that mouth

Was fragrant and warm as a breeze from the

South? He kissed her! And was it his fault, that be read in her eyes, Whose blue was a match for the sunniest Bkies, A lauguagc which utterance coyly defined, But love could not misundorsiand if it tried? ne kissed her! ....... He kissed her? Of course he kissed her. And then? Why, then, dearest reader, ho kissed her again. And surely he must be a faint-hearted thnrl Who'd risk naught to kiss such a cherry-lipped girl. Columbus Dispatch.

INDIANA STATE KEWS. Laporte will bore. North Vernon has abandoned their natural gas boring. All the gas towns arc booming, if reports are to be believed. Ileal estate business i;3 booming at Muiicie in an unprecedented manner. Eighty acres of nutmeg melons were planted in tho vicinity of Seymour, Saturday. It Bnowed to a depth of ten inches at. Louisville and six inches at Madison, Wednesdaj'. Gas, coal, oily stone, timber. Anything else wanted to me,ke Indiana a great State? Byron Keod's barn near Kokomo was burned, Tuesday, night with contents, Loss $1,2(50. New Albany reports great prosperity. The manufactories of the city are running night and day. Property to the value of nearly $16,000 went up in smoke in Ligonier during Friday and Saturday. Coal was struck near Otis, Laporto county, Thursday, at a depth of 40 feet and the vincinity is excited. Indiana is a great State, The Shelby Distilling company at Shelby ville paid, during the month of March, internal revenue tax amounting to $99,827.10. Mrs. Rebecca Studebaker, mother of the Studebaker brothers, expired at South Bend, last Friday night, at the 'age of eighty-four. Anderson struck gas at 12:30 "Wednesday morning. The pressure is very great, and tho well is pronounced one of the best in the State. Warren, an enterprising town in tho south part of Huntington county, struck oil Tuesday night at a depth of 978 feet, going twelve or fourteen feet in the Trenton rock. One of the heaviest snow storms ever known in that section fell at Yincenues, Wednesday, covering the ground to a depth of from fifteen to eighteen inches. Indiana is a great State. Mr. Blaine passed through Richmond, Indianapolis, lerre Haute, and other towns, Wednefsday, on his way to the Indian Territory, and at each place large crowds had gathered to see him. Thorntown abandoned her gas well Monday morning at a depth of 1,300 feet after drilling nearly fifty feet into Trenton rock without any indications of gas. They talk of trying in another location. Thefresidenee of Fernando Van Osborn, two miles west oi Pleasant View, Shelby county, caught fire Monday from a defective flew, and burned with all its contents. The loss is estimated at $1,200. John Hanson, a jjaloon-keeper at Wanatah, was run oyei by a freight train at that place Thursday night and instantntly killed by having his head cut ofi'. He deliberately knelt down and put his neck on the track. James Giles died at 'Oorydon on Monday, aged eighty-eight years. Ho was a resident of Corydon when the territorial capital was established there, and knew General Harrison, Governor Posey, Governor Jennings and all the pioneer statesmen. A few days ago, while boring for water on the iarm oi Mr. G. W. Bern en t, a few miles east of Terre Haute, a flow of natural gas was discovered at a depth of 275 feet, ft came in such volume that, when lighted, there was a flame several feet in height. The trustees of the industrial school and the asylum for feeble-minded chil dren, tobe erected near Fort Wayne, organized Friday by the election of E. A. K. Hackett, president; Dr. A. H. Shaffer treasurer, and Miss Mary T. Wilson,secretary. Clerk Bookwalter, of the State Printing Board, has made up the stationery account of the late lamented Legislature, which shows that the Senate expended $1,5.74.67 for stationery, and the House $1,392.95. The Senate's printing amounted to $2,643.29. At an early hour Saturday morning the town of Bos well was nearly destroyed by fire. Bromley's hotel, McKniglnVs drug store, Koclriiold's grocery, Larue's barber shop and Mrs. Arbante's millinery store were burned. Loss $16,000, with but little insurance. Warren Worth Baiiy, whoso paper, the Vincennes Sun, was the first in the United States to openly advocate the single tax idea, has been appointed State organizer for Indiana by the Land and Labor Henry George) club, and will proceed to organize clubs in all the principal towns in the State. Frank Bigley, a local tough who had served three terms in the penitentiary for stealing horses, was Wednesday, in the Wabash Circuit Court, sentenced to the penitentiary a fourth time, by Judge Conner, for the theft of an animal belonging to H. B. Lassell. He was given two years. The co-operative store that has ex

isted in Huntington for some years has failed. The original stock consisted of $15,000. Tts liabilities are $9,000 and the value of the represented stock is about $11,000. The goods are being sold at auction. The loss involved effects the fanners generally. The State officers have appointed the following gentlemen to constitute the Soldiers' Monument Commission: Gen. Lew. Wallace, Crawfordsviile; George J. Langsdale, Greencastle; Dan. At, Ransdell, Indianapolis; all of whom are Republicans, and Hugh Dougherty, Bluffton and S. B. V oyles, Salem; Democrats The Noblesville as company has fifty workmen engaged on the streets laying gas-pipe, and will in a few days furnish all the natural gas necessary. The Standard Oil company has been teasing

all the ground it can in the county. They have secured about 10,0fi0 or 15,000 acres. The company is building derricks, preparatory to drilling two wellsv : For some time rumors have been afloat that the management of the orphans' home at Rush ville, under the charge of Miss Jennie Huddelson, was not what it should be. The giand jury went down deep into its affair, and have laade a very damaging report as to the way those orphan children have been treated. The worst, feature of the whole business is that they have n ot had sufficient food. Patents were issued to Indianians, Tuesday, as followjs: Henry J. Banton, Logansport, brake for vehicle; John P. Brown, assignor to M. E. Brown, Rising Sun, fenco machine; Jacob L. Poynter, assignor of one-half to J. P, Kylt,Salem, pul verizcug cultivator; Ben jami n Roberts, Indianapolis, smoke coiujenjer,

Jas.. E. Twiname, Indianapolis, chimnejf; Lewis F. and B. C. Wicker, Lebanon, fence post; George W. W:iiiiams, Economy, fence machine. Concerning Charles Hilderbrand, the alleged desperado who died last week at Evansville, a correspondent says: "As a villain of the deepest dye.Chnrlcs was an arrant humbug and his stories of life with the outlaws is all bosh. He saw the inside of a prison for stealing a cow and that was the whole fcmount of his offending. He was married at one time to a Richmond woman, Mrs. Deanie Miller, who now lives there, but who had to leave him on account of cruel and inhuman treatment and general cussedness. The writer once interviewed Hiidy' and when he had finished his tale of woo the reporter found the reformed outlaw to be one hundred and forty-seven years old, according to his own story. By banking on his supposed wickedness Hiidebrand has amassed considerable money." William F. Baggofc,the forger, who,de

serting his family, left Jefirersonvilie, last August, with Miss Georgia Twoomey, a young girl aged fourteen years, landing at Marfa, Tex,, whei.-e he was arrested and held by the authorities until a requisition was issued for his return, pleaded guilty at the bar of the circuit court of Floyd county Friday afternoon and Judge Ferguson gave him two years at hard labor in the Southern prison. He will apply to the governor for a special permit to bo incarcerated in tho Northern prison on the grounds that as he has served in the capacity of guard and deputy warden at the prison south for a period of ten yeans, he claims that it is decidedly humiliating to wear the stripes and be seen by the convicts he once controlled. State Temperance Convention, The Indiana Christian Temperance Union convened in ninth annual sea sion at Indianapolis Wednesday with about eighty members present. The president, in his opening address, said better work bad been accomplished the past year than ever before. The members of the organization had learned to make haste slowly, anc were doing, with the uttermost ease, everything they undertook. The feeling hat prohibition must come, he said, was growing every year, and it was only a question of time until public sentiment would be so strong that it would sweep intemperance from the land. The report of the secretary showe l that during the past year 250,000 pagef of literature had been distributed over the State: and that twenty-three lecturers were employed at; a cost of $343.25. The report of the Treasurer showed that the total receipts for the year were $724.45, and the total expenditures, $675.20. All th e money except a few dollars, he stated, had been expended for literature and lecturers. The committee on r3solutions, presented the following, which waa adopted: Resolved, That we have every reason to rejoice at the results that have thus far followed the work of the Indiana State Christian Temperance Union since its organization nine years ago, and especially to feel encouraged by the increased amount of work accomplished during the past year as shown by the report of the Secretary, and that, therefore, we ought to thank God and take courage. Resolved, That .this organization ought to be maintained and perpetuated, and that it is the duty of every member to earnestly endeavor to increase its power and efficiency by increasing its financial resources, and by aiding in procuring and distributing prohibition literature. Resolved, That the noble Christian work of rescuing those perishing from strong drink, which occupied a prominent place in our scheme of work when this association was first organized, is not and must not be lost sight of; but that it would be consummate folly to devote all our energies to this branch of work and neglect such precautionary meadures as are necessar' to prevent the continuance of the traffic that makes that work necessary. Resolved, That Christian kindness and moral suasion, however commendable, are alone no match for the heartless greed of those interested in the liquor business; therefore, we insist that this liquor traffic, alwaysi professedly under control of la w, shall, be put under ban cf law.- outlawed, . Resolved, That any political party which does not recognize the need of such legislation, and propose to secure it to the saffering public, is unworthy tbe confidence and support of earnest temperance people. Ex-Governor St. John spoke to a small audience in the evening.

CirU Serrioe Iteferm in the West. Secretary John L. Doyle, of the Civilgervice Commission, returned to Washington on the 30th, from a three-weeks' tour to diflerent cities, where he has been conducting regular examinations at cer

tain places. He held examinations at Pittsburg and Willianisport,Pa,; Rochester and Buffalo, N. Y.; Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids, Mich.; Toledo and Cleveland, O,, and at Fort Wayne, Ind. Mr. Doyle says he took special pains to inquire of postmasters and boards of examiners and of leading citizens with whom he came in contact, about the civil-servicc-reform sentiment in the West, and feels satisfied it has not made any such advauce in the West as it has in the East. In .New York and Massachusetts States, civil-service boards and rules have been in operation for several years, anfl the people have a clearer comprehension of the purpose sought to be obtained than exists in the West. But there is a growing reform sentiment in the West. In several of the western cities civil-service reform associations have been organized, and they are doing good work, and in several of the western States efforts are being mado to establish State boards under regular rules. Owl Eyes in n MnnVlIoacl. Virginia, Nov., Chvoniolo. : A young man residing in Lincoln, Placer County, Cal is credited with optical organs possessing the peculiarities of those of an owl. Ho can see but littlo in daylight, Kcarcely at all in tho sunlight, but at night his vision is perfect; he can pouetr ai;e tho darkness with his peculiarly shaped and nocturnally constructed eyes, and distinguish objects at long distances when the "ordinary individual" cannot see his hand before him. His wonderful sight has been tested by many, and as a guide at night he has no equah

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A REMARKABLE CAS1K. A Prominent ami Respected BHliionnire Now Under an Assumed Name,; Onto a Forger and Suspected Murderer, Ma kes Application for tke tfoll of an Indictment of Thirtj'-Three Years Standing A remarkable case is pending before BecorderSmythe, at New York. J-. B. Hart, a San Francisco laV yer, on behalf of a California millionaire, who was known some years ago in New York as William Kissane, said that on November 14,1854, Kissane was jointly indicted with James Bishop and Lyman G ole for forgery in the third degree, The charge was negotiating a check for f6,018 on the Continental bank, now the Chemical bank. On the same day the tyooashcd a check for $12,000 on the American Exchange bank. On the first indictment a nolle pr03. was entered in the case of Cole, on March 18, 1855. On the other indictment ICissane was tried and sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment, but was pardoned after serving nine months. Mr. Hart gaid that Kissane had become a wealthy and prominent citizen in San Francisco, and had there a good reputation. He therefore asked that the remaining indictment be nolle prossed. To this application unexpected objection wan made by General Francis Dany who said that Kissane was notonly a thief but a murderer. He wrote to District Attorney Martine: "He did my family a great wrong, and I have hoped to find him all these years. I have at last succeeded recogrJzed and identified him. without a doubt- He is a prominent man in the State and has great wealth. One of his brothers is a leading lawyer in this State (Ohio), also under an assumed name, and their real names and history

is not dreamed of bv the public. His

repentance is all nonsense. He has

never offered restitution to the xnany he has wronged." UNOEK AN ASSUMED NAME.

Kissane is at present a farmer,

but a farmer on a large scale, and liyes in

the country simply because it pleases

him to do so. His fortune is suflicient

to make him independent of the most

of the vicissitudes that go about him.

His home has been said to be a castle.

Kissane is well-known to most of the

nrominent Caiifornians, He has for

years been very active in state politics, an influential delegate to conventions,

and a man who was always consulted in

the division of the spoils. He never

himself however, ran for an office that

was higher than that of county super

visor. Senator George HeaiBt is an old

friend of his, and would, it i said, speak

only favorably of him, knowing only the

history of that part of his life which he

has passed in tne (joicien fc-tate. it is

not uninteresting to know that the attorney whom Kissane sent to N. Y. to

maks the motion before Recorder Smyth,

to dismiss the untried indictment -of

1854, was an acquaintance of the former

in his youtb, but lost sieht of lam for

fifteen years until the moment when he

again met him in California. "Then,

said this attorney, "I should not have known him but for certain circumstances, and even to-day I couldn't take my oath that he is the Bill Kissane

who in 1849 was a partner in Lott Pugh's

great work packiner establishment in

Cincinnati." . - HIS EECORD,

The attorney said further: "The

record shows tnat he was accused of be

ing an accomplice in the naming of the

steamer Martha Washington on the

Mississippi river, together with Cum-

uimgjs, Duane, Cole and others. He

was- tried at Cincinnati in the United

States Court before Judge McLean on an

indictment for attempting to swindle

insurance companies. The investiga

tion was very exhaustive, and he was acquitted. Subsequently the judicial

authorities of Helena, Ark., near which place theconflacration occurred,obtained

the custody of his body and tried him for murder, one person having lost hi$

life on the steamer. He was again ac

quitted. In 1854 the forgeries were com

muted, which caused a loss of $18,000

to she Chemical Bank. In Novembei he was indicted. There is no disposi

tion to deny his guilt in connection with these cases. I went to Califernia in 1849. In 1857 I met Kissane omt there under the name which he now bears I subsequently learned that his first venture in the State was the keeping of a store in Sacramento. Probably he made a little money at that, for after

ward he engaged in mining at Gold

Hill, Nev., with a partner, and together

thev achieved a creat success. In a

few years Kissane amassed between

$200,000 and $300,000. Twenty years

ago he married a beautiful young lady, who was twenty years his junior. They have now either seven or eight children. The wife is about forty-five years old. She is amiable and beneficent of disposition, and is much loved by all who knew her. Kissane bears his sixtyfive years well, and is regarded by nearly ail of his neighbors as a man of the very highest character. He lives in Sonoma county Chief Clerk Sparks, of tho court of general sessions, added these later chapters of Kissane's historv: Last fall Gen

eral Francis Darr wrote and asked me to send him a record of Kissane's crime and trial. I did as he requested, and the General informed me how he came to discover the identify of Kissane. He said they were brought up together in a little Ohio town near Cincinnati, The families of both had oil and candle factories, and a sharp rivalry existed between them. One night the Darr factory was leveled to the ground by fire, and, as there was.only a small insurance on it, the family wa3 ruined. Kissane, then a young man, was seen around the promises and was strongly suBpecied of having set fire to the building, but he immediately left town and was not apprehended. He went to Albany and commenced his career oi! crime. A PASTA BP CE1ME. The history of the Martha Washington crime is briefly summarised is follows. Tho defendant, Kissane, and others, were engaged as wholesale boot and shoe dealers at Cincinnati, the buying and selling of wool, dealing in leather and other commodities. Thoy purchased the steamboat Martha Washington, loaded her, apparently, with a costly freight, had the cargo insured for a large sum, and sent her down the M ississippi, regularly consigned to their correspondents at New Orleans. The captain was one of the conspirators, and had charge of the whole plot anil its execution. The 0argo, supposed to be composed of boxes

of bots and shoes, leather, wool and

other valuable merchandise, was In reality made up of refuae material of no value, and the boxcB so carefully faslened

and marked to their owners were filled

with wood, stone and rubbish of every

character. At a certain time, when passengers and crew were quietly sleeping,

and at a moment when the act could be

the most safety committed, the captain was to fire the vessel in such manner as to insure its destruction, and then the

conspirators were to coltect the insurance

upon the vessel and valuable cargo as a

total loss. Apparently everything succeeded as planned. The cargo was

publicly and carefully placed on board

and no suspicion excited as to its character or genuineness. The captain was

well known, and the ve33el sailed upon her voyage with her cargo richly insured.

At a certain time she took fire. The fire

spread with inconceivable rapidity, the

crew and officers took to the boats, and

most of their lives, were saved. . , After the burning of the Martha Washington a man named Sidney Bur

ton, oi Cleveland, who was a creditor of

Filley & Chapin, and who could not ob

tain his money, suspected that eomething was wong, and finally developed the conspiracy. The insurance companies were notified, and the payment oi

the policies was stopped. From this

grew the Martha Washington case, which was finally brought before Judge John McLean, of the United States Court. The most eminent legal talen t was employed on both sides, but owing to the peculiar ruling of the Judge the jury acquitted Kissane. MIS IDENTITY. . A late dispatch from San Francisco says: There seems to be no doubt among those in position to know, that the statement published in the California Demokrat, a German paper of this city, regarding Kissane, as telegraphed east, is strictly correct, and that William Kissane and Col. William K. Rogers, a

wealthv citizen of this State, hvine at

Sonoma, is one and the same person. Kissane's or Roger's connections, by marriage, are among the wealthiest and most prominent people of the city. MISCELLAXEOS KOTJES, . The man that wants the earth doesn't seem satisfied when the grocer gives it to him in the Bugar,

An expeit, who has been investigating

the lottery, reports that a ticket holder has a better chance to get struck by lightning than to draw a prize. Trust him little who praises all; him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent to all. In fact, don't trurt anybody, if you can get ready money. The spring is here, and far and near The earth awaken, The frog partakes, .. With joy profound, ! . Hisjug-er-nimjngr-rum. The Queen-regent of Spain sees her son, the baby King, only once a day. Ro jal etiquette must be rather an icy affair when it can so freeze maternal love that a mother will remain twentythree hours without seeing her child. Queen Victoria went to the circus the other day with her newest son-in-law, Prince Henry oi Battenberg. Any suspicion that the aged queen went for her own amusement is readily refuted by the official statement that Henry had been teasing her for weeks to take him to see the animals. One of the curiosities of Cayuga county, New York, is a hotel built directly upon the dividing line between two townships. It has heen the custom for many years for the management to shift his bar from one end of the house to the other, just according to tho ?way the town went on the excise Question, and in that way he has managed to obtain a license, either in one town or the other most of the time There was a missionary conference in Dafaula, I. T., recently, and an appeal was made to the Indian congregatior for money to Bend the gospel to those who had it not. There were 300 persons in the congregation, and the collection amounted to $380, many of them giving all the money they had with them, and some of the girls throwing bracelets, rings and other jewelry into the collection baskets. , . : v ; - Sidney WelBh, an English burglar, recently arrested in Cleveland, was apparently dead when his. cell was visited . the other day. Slaps, shakings and cold water failed to relieve him. It was thought that he had poisoned himself,

and a doctor eame with a stomach-pump

and Welsh was emptied. He still remained dead. By this time the doetor was led to believe that Welsh was shamming, bo he gently tickled him in the ribs, and tnen the dead man smiled. But he proved himself .a remarkable shammer. ... ... . - According to a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a peculiar system of railway charges is in vogue in California, He says: I discovered that in the local travel the railroads have three classes of coaches, with dress as distinction. I was mtherroughly clad after ray mountain trip, and approaching the ticket-seller's window, laid down a twenty dollar gold piete. 'First, second or third class? I was asked, and I replied that I nsually traveled first-class. He surveyed- me and then remarked that I'd have to go second-class or not at all. It did me no good to object either. I found first claflto mean eleeant coaehes, where

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Ho Submits To B IntorvItro wiwwesr

Clereland r4li Bo thoHext OandMW Believes Civil Sorvlc Befprm Er-llenator Joseph E. McDonaU, fijc

an interview for a New York paper, SaK

day, was asked: fWhat isi the prcispec for Democratic victory in 1888?"

"Oh, first rate, I think.- You se5 the -.. Democrats in my Stole refused to vote at the last election.- because ther ?T

thought the administration had H')t dityided the patronage jnlctently imaopg: them. I suppose twenty tnousafld afr ' least refrained from "voting on that ac count alone. I do not mean to say by

this that President Cleveland hfi, jab

made good appointments in snf State, ' for he has, but in the congressional dlv r?"tricts there was a great many asfdrartsi- ' ' .; . who failed to get office, hese jaame , . t men, too, will tnra ont iii;i88Sd-Vp for Mr. Cleveland, if he is nommated '

because they know he is preferable to af " Republican Presideni. President Cleveland has ample time to strengthen himf . self wondferfully . before bis term expires. He me interoffice ri blowing public men, and has devoted- Ms tijne mainly, almost exclusively, to otino; work. He has made a fine admims tion and an excellent ehief exscutiy6r 'r

there is no doubt about that, and he has :t S& shown that he 3?as backboiie anAJ stamina. But if he "; would tako reom&: line of policy and shape ife a jKdi(tbaMH would redound to his credit and to - iheff ? :

credit of the Democratic parfy, be would' sweep this country with an istible impetus in 1888. It woold add , to bi popularity, to his strength, and to ibe cohesion of the Democratic5 party" President Cleveland is a consijryaUve' man, a safe man as chief- executive. If Mr. Blaine is pitte?i againstClevdand in 1883, 1 think it provable that Mi. Gleve land may carry Ne' York, though i$ will be a close race; Indiana wdl go for Mr. Cleveland, although it gv a ma jority for the Bnblicans at- the last: State eleetionf -Do I tbiiik Mr. Cleyelandwili be re-nominated? Yeef if hex

wants to be. But I. can - no. tell ym -

whether he wants to ran again If he

Anna nnA ia olonfo- T frliinlr His !XnGri A - -I P

ence will be such t that be will ctattendt: S so exclusively to his mere d aliea as ; - President, but turn bis attention to al

policy for his party. 1 itoy in Ids i ii? n lr i of Ka ahnnld tn rn t hft Reoubli- f :

cans ouc ana pui. j.u jtwuiwrew. ; y too. I believe that civil service oreform: feC

a sham. That law is mot gocd for" a0

Bepublican form of government whicb makes a civil; list and lequires at tenure of office. It may do well for .England but we do not derire anytjujn;of bfi kind in tbe United gtateB. . J? J '.. The Great MUlrnry Ercitt. . . The managers of the WaMxingtoiii drill feel confident that the atberin

will be a great one. Wp to Hatnrxlayf

April 2, the last day allowed to forworn

applications the entries passed nporif and accepted- amounted to ;abont Sfift separate organizaTions, distrihuaa? follows: Begiments, 4; . batbJiona, 6; artillery companies, 7; school--tadets, ri

ouaves, 4; infantry company drill, 65;

individual drill, about 78; rifle pracUce,

about 92: bands and drum coqs, about

22. and several telegrams of applicatJonti;

.:UJAHJ AM Mnt& nrhjnW- AATlU ' T1 ftf. Kil

accepted without examination, include three coloied onwniaaiioias, twa colored state giiard companies &ora-- : Richmond, Va., and one bonvj colored:-1 33 company of WasMngton; Wro; Mn gomery, Ala;. companies---'tbe Grays an -$m

Blues and the Atlanta, Ga., Bifflte have officially withdrawn from the drill because colored epaniea wae aliowedi to.participate. 1 . . .x;

TanuAllna TtwoBgb Snow. St. J)S!f 5f: B., April l.-A dispsitcfi . from Moncton ixnta$ns news; ot tl stalled trains on the; - northeri diyisicii. of the Inolonial railway A bre " has been ' made irom .'Sfc.yiett-"-'. Campbellton, and two blocieci trains be4 tweea those points are worldng way out throua a tunxiel of snow, - t?u.t i icon tmobmmm tnltidtnir 7QO

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imminMntfl arA nAlEMI OD v U1B niWAb'

The railway authonUes are straining

every nerve to getiooa w me pafisenj'niy and the 1,6(K) wwtoen wbov are tryiog

j: Vt Avn Anf . fina twin IS At Kll'ar . -

DuLoiip, another at BK Lne and. nii other at Sti; Fiaien, Sir Charles andf"

Idy Tupper. being ; passengirs nthe?

last named.

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Eight thousand carpentersrof Chica go are on a strike, and will refuse to dnve

a nail until the bosses aeceda to their demandK Thirty-five eents per . borne and eightpurs to eonstitu a dayr work- The deciedon to strike was rei derei without a dissenting voke 5f the bosses' 90 were willing and 67 unwill

ing to accede to the demands, ,wbil warn rAnnrted doubtful. M. '

ism

Th Boiler Kxplodfrl..

A report reached St.Jobn,N. F. Thurs-

day of the total loss of the sealing steamer; .

Eagle, with a crew of 250 men on the ' t

shoals near Funk islands, off Bonav ista v Q bay. No particulars of the diaster are ?

yet at hand. Debris, consisting of deck ladders, the forecastle deck and cooking

2l. ti.amn'. namn nn If Kofl

been found on we ice. ine supposw ipu $&m

Taxation of Vntlonal Bank Stocks

well-dressed people only were allowed; j Monday decided that the taxation orf

second-class ior men ot oruury .. w r flHftnal bank stock in

rough dress, and third elass for Chinamen and negroes."

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A Wonderful Surgical Operation. , Now Bedford dispatch. - . . Seventeen years ago Edward K. Bus-

sell met with an accident in which

the tendons in one of his legs were severed, rendering the limb useless.

Nearly a year ago two tendons from a

dog, which had been etherized for the

purpose, were transferred to RusselPs limb, where they were united with the

severed tendons in that member. For

ten months after the operation Russell was not allowed to use his leg, but with

in a few days he has been permitted to

exercise it. He has now resumed his work and has complete control of the

limb, the operation haying proved to be

an entire success. This is the first time that this operation lias been performed

in this eo antry.

Froud of the Result. Tid-Bits. ' .. , : ... ." ,.

Eastern Man Bo you think that Ba con wrote Shakespeare? Cincinnati Man I don't know as I ever gave that a thought, but just see what, it has done for the city of Cincinnati. "

Yerk4 wasX,

not in conflict witb tfce regnirement'of the VUnited States statutes, tbat the taxation of shares of national banks r shall not be at a greater rate than is

'assessed upon other moneyed capital m

the hands of individuaUcitens ofji

State."

How i Woik th ComnlsMttn;' The Inter-Statj commerce Commission Monday morniug premulteo ibfe. .h. lowing rule of proceeding: - - - - v: Applications for the offici al .actioa pi

the Commission sljali be ade by peti

tion, which shall set forth the facts on

which they :ace founded anbe verified by the oath .et the applicant $xim authorised ageir; or.attprne y ' . J J ; - . ' TUe Again in a ngiC ' ? . Authentic informatioii has bee re-; ceived from JSfc Petersburg that a freslv attempt hail was npon the lifts Qf the Czar at Jats china palace, VTednGfr day the 30th inst.i The Qwtr wag not in3ured....T; ;;;:;"L;;:;v.;;,: lhe report is affirmed hnt no- later particulars can: beobtained. '

If handwriting is reallyif m index of 1

character, there can be no doubt that !

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