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INDIANA

As TOgarvla the Afghan frontier, "Bu s eia has made demands with Avltich England cannot comply," but slifr will, just the same. -

IxraANAPOLis is endeavoring to work tip a real estate boom. . Tears m though the capital city would bo chary oi real estate booms with the experience it has had:?

Thsrk can scarcely be any doubt that the United States will profit by the revision of the Mexican tariff which puts on the free list many American products which enter that country in considerable quantities. Mexico is a country with which the United States could afford to cultivate closer commercial relations than now exist

Writ President Cleveland be a candidate for re-election? is agitating political circles. According to Washington reports the answer for each day may be summarized as follows, as per telegrams sent out: .......... Monday HcTrtfl. Tuesday not Wednesday " " Thnraday " " wot Friday u i Suurday not. Sunday AU in doubt. . . . All of which leads to the question: It a "Washington correspondent can't manufacture news to ;suit the demand, who can? - - - - Abbou Day is a genuine reality in several States, and tree planting on a large scale is an achievement of which many districts are pardonably proud. The fact that over 605,006,000 of trees have been planted west of the Mississippi shows that those thoughtful individmals who infused life into! the work and preached a crusade in its favor have not worked in vain. Abundance of lumber naturally leads to recklessness in its use, but history may be always relied on to repeat itself, and poverty always follows profusion. Had some of the waste lands in Great Britain been afforested a century ago, that country would not now be sufferinst from something akin to a timber famine or be compelled to import nearly every square foot of lumber it uses, and if it were not for the movement, of which Arbor Day reminds us, future generations in'Amerxca would be in danger of suffering from the same Inconvenience. . .

FASHION 4 For children white frizzy astrakhan coats make them look like lfotle lambs. New white wool earners hair, alba tress, and imperial serge fabrics for dressy spring gowns will be trimmed with heavy watered ribbon one and a quarter inches wide. This will be placed in rows upon the overdress, both front and back. Old8Uver jewels of exquisite workmanship are all the rage just now in Paris. There are bracelets, brooches, clasps for mantles and jackets; watch chains and beautiful chatelaines with

three or five chains, and an ornamental hook. ' Bracelets still continue mere circlets from which mere stones dangle; others are formed of large half hoops of brilliants, sapphires, emeralds or. rubies. Another kind is a narrow gold curb chain, set with stones of all colors that hang? loosely upon the wrist. Wide striped satins of rare quality and pattern are very favorite materials for --evening toilets for young ladies. These striped gowns are made without the ad mixture of any other fabric, with plain , full skirts, but slightly draped over the -hips and in the back. . For best dresses for spring, faille Franoaise and other" handsome corded silks, such as bengal ine, Sic iliienne, etc., will be used in combination with gay striped velvets on satin grounds, finely plaided surahs in Roman colors, rich Lyons satins in monochrome and costly silk cord passementeries in arabesque, palm, scroll, Kusaian and Old Flemish designs. '. - Finger rings have undergone a cpmplete change. The old-fashioned clusters are still seen now and then. The half hoop has disappeared, or is rarely worn, while the long "marquise" is en- - Urely out of date. Gentlemen of conmderable wealth are extravagantly returning to the old Roman, fashion of wearing engraved sapphires, amethysts, and rubies. Bibbon is used in as great profusion as galoon and lace. Whole panels on skirts are eovered with small ribbon bows. Bows with long ends terminate with tags of beads or of light passementerie work. When wide ribbon is taken around a pointed waist it is tied on the Bide in several loops with long ends. Very wide ribbon is usually of faille, while the narrow bows are preferred when of satin or of moire. Earrings, after dwindling down from large ornaments, barbaric in custom and taste, to single stones screwed into the lobe of the ear, are now universally

eschewed until night receptions, dinners, opera, or balls,' when they take

the form of solitaire diamonds. 'Great

favorites also are two large gray pearls, quite simple, surmounted by tiny brilliant, beneath which the golden hook that pierces the ear is hidden away. Gray and black pearls are the only aural ornaments tolerated during the day. . 1 ;

, Any breast pill or lace is fashionable

" at the present time, any style, any epoch, anyc metal any stone may be

: - turned to account. Perhaps the greater

favorites are those small gold safety pins

upon which a flower or initial in diamonds, or a tiny, enameled emblem is

placed. They are sold also in sets of

three or six they then take the form - of bars, sparks of precious stones and

minute diamonds, and make sweet little

decorations set in here and there upon lace or fixing the velvet or satin waist. Married His Own Daughter. In his forthcoming article on Pharaoh, in the May Century, Professor J. A. Paine (who will be remembered as the - identifier of Mt. Pisgah) advances the novel theory that Karnes the Great mari ried his own daughter, the patroness of , Moses. It has been held by some authorities that this "Pharaoh's daughter" was the child of Seti LJ who preceded Iiameses the Great, and that in uniting herself to Rameses she xaarried her own -3 brother: Professor Paine, however,points ' out indications and evidence, provincr - that she was not the daughter, bnt the " granddaughter, of Setij and that she married, her own father;

Literature:

Its Influence for Good ami Evil.

Impuro Eooks Warp the Mind nxul Impart a Poison More Hateful Than tho Plague Demoralizing Kifeets of Cheap Works of Art and XasoiTioua Pictures.

Rev. Dr. Talmae preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text, cts xix., 19. He said: Well, my friends, one of the wants of the cities of this country is a great bonflre of bad books and newspapers. We have enough fuel to make a blaze two hundred feet high. Many of tho publishing houses would do well to throw into the blaze their entire stock of goods. Bring forth tho insufferable trash and put it into the fire, and let it bo known, in the presence of God, and angels, and men, that you are going to rid , your homes of the overtopping and underlying curse of profligate literature. The printing press is the mightiest agency on earth for good and for evil. The minister of the gospel, standing in a pulpit, has a responsible position, but I do not think itjs as responsible as the position of an editor or a publisher. At what distant point oi time, at what far out cycle- of eternity will cease the influence of a Henry J. Raymond,. or.. a Horace Greely, or a James Gordon Bennett,or a Watson Webb, or an Erasmus Brooks, or a Thomas - Kinsella? Take the simple statistic that our New. York dailies now have a circulation of about eight hundred and fifty thousand per .day, and add to it the fact that three of our weekly periodicals have an aggregate circulation of about one million, and then, cipher if you can, how far up and how fax down, and how far out, reach the influences of the American printing press. Great God, what is to be the issue of all this? I believe that tho Lord intends the printing press to be the chief means for the world's rescue and evangelization, and I chink that the great last battle of the world will not be fought with swords and guns, but with types, and presses a purified, and. Gospel literature triumphing over, trampling down and crushing out forever that which is depraved. The only way to overcome unclean literature is by scattering abroad that which is healthful. May God speed the cylinders of an honest, intelligent, aggres3ive,Christian printing press. ;- I have to tell yqt this morning that the greatest blessing that ever came to this nation is that of an elevated literature, and the greatest scourge has been that of unclean literature. This lasthas its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to All insane asylums, and penitentiaries, and alms houses, and dens of shame. The bodies of this infection lie in tho hospitals and in the craves, while their souls are being tossed over into alost eternity, an avalanche of horror and despair. The London plague was nothing to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but this modern pest has already shoveled its millions into the charnel house of the morally dead. The longest rail train that ever ran over the Erie or II udson traeks was not long enough or large enough to carry tho beastliness, and the putrefaction which have been gathered up in bad books and newspapers of this land in the last twenty years. Now, it is amid such circumstances that I put this morning a question of overmastering importance to you and your families. What books and news papers shall we read? You see I group them together. A newspaper is only a book in a swifter and , more portable shape, and the same rules which will

apply : to book reading will apply to newspaper reading.. What shall we read? Shall our minds be the receptacle of everything that an author has a

mind to write? Shall there he no dis

tinction between the tree of life and the tree of death? Shall we stoop down and drink out of the trough which the wickedness of man has filled with pollution and shame? Shall we mire in impurity, and chase fantastic will-o'-the-wisps across the swamps, when we might walk in the blooming gardens of God? Oh, no! For the sake of our present and everlasting welfare we must make an intelligent and Christian choioe.

Standing, as we do, chin deep in fictitious literature, the first question that many of the young people are asking me is: "Shall we read novels?" I reply: "There are novels that are pure, good. Christian, elevating to th3 heart and ennobling to the life. But I have still further to say that T believe that ninety-nine out of the one hundred novels in this day are baleful and destructive to the last degree... A. pure work of fiction is history and poetry combined. It is a history of things around us with the licenses and assumed names of poetry. The world can never pay the debt which it owes to., such fic

titious writers aR Hawthorne and McKenzie, and Landon and Hunt, and Arthur and Marion Harland, and others, whose names are familiar to all. The follies of high lite were never better exposed

than by Miss Bdge worth. The memo

ries of the past were never more faithfully embalmed than in the writings of Walter Scott. Cooper's novels are healthfully redolent with the breath of the seaweed, and the air of the American forest. Charles Kingsley has smitten the morbidity of the world, and led a great many to appreciate the poetry of sound health, strong muscle, and fresh air. Thackeray did a great work infaricaturing the pretenders of gentility and high blod, Dickens hss built his own monument in his books, which are an everlasting plea for the poor, and the anathema of injustice. Now, I Eay, books like these, read at right times, and read in right proportion with other books, can not help but be enobling and purifying, but alas for the loathsome and impure literature that has come in this country in the shape of novels, like a freshet overflowing all the banks of decency and common sense! They are coming from some of the most celebrated publishing houses of the country. They are coining with recommendations of some of our religious newspapers. They lie on your center table to curse your children, and blast with their infernal fires generations yet unborn. You find these books in the desk of the school miss, in the trunk of the young man, in the steamboat cabin, on the table of the hotel reception room. You see a licht in your child's room late at night. You suddenly go in and say: "What are you doing?" "lam reading." "What are yon reading?" "A book;" You look at the book; it is a bad book. "Where did you get it?" "I borrowed it." Alas! there are always those abroad who would like to loan your son or daughter a bad book. Every w here,eyery wh ere an u n clean literature. I charge upon it the destruction of ten thousand immortal souls, and t bid you this morning, wake up to the magnitude of the theme. I shall take ail the world's literature good novels and bad, travels true and false, histories faithful and in coi reft, legends beautiful and monstrous, all tracts, all chronicles, all epilogues, all family, city, State and National libraries and pile them up in a pyramid of Uteratur, and then I shall brine to bear upon it some errand, glorious, infallible, unmistakable Christian principles. God help me to speak with reference to my last account and God help you to listen. I charge you, in the first place, to stand aloof from all books that give false pictures of human life. Life is neither a tragedy nor a farce. Men are neither all knaves or heroes. Women are neither angels nor furies. And yet if yon depend upon. much of the literature of the day, you would get. tho .idea that life, instead of being something earnest, something practical, is a fitful and fantastic and extravagant thing. How poorly prepared is tnat young man and woman for the duties of to-day wtawent last night wading through-brilliant passages descriptive of magnificent knavery and wickedness! The man will be

looking all day long for his heroine, in the tin shop, by tho forge, in the factory, in the counting-room, and ho will not find her, and he will bo dissatisfied. A man who gives himself up to the indiscriminate reading of. novels will be nerveless, inane and a nuisance. Ho will befit neither for the store, nor the shop, nor the field. A woman who gives herself up to the indiscriminate reading of novels will be unfitted for the duties of wife, mother, sister, daughter. There she is, her hair disheveled, countenance vacant, cheek pale, hands trembling, bursting., into tears at midnight over the fate of some unfortunato lover; in tho day-time, when she ought to be busy, staring by the half hour at nothing; biting her finger nails into the quick, Tho carpet that was plain before, will be plainer after having wandered through a romance all night long io tassclatcd halls of castles. And your industrious companion will bo more unattractive than ever, now that you have walked in a romance through the parks with plumed princesses, or lounged in tho arbor with the polished desperado. O, these onfirmed novel readers,! They are unfitted for this lifri, which is a tremendous discipline. They know not how to ...-.go through tho furna& of trial through which they must pass, and they are unfitted for a world where every thing we gain wo achieve by hard, long continuing and osaustivo work. Again, abstain from all those books which, while they have some good things about them have also an admixture of evil. You have read books that had two elements in thorn the good and the bad. Which stuck to you?. The bad! The heart of some people is like a sieve, which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in a while there is a mind like, a load-stone, which, plunged amid steel and brass filings, gathers up the steel and ropels the brass. But it is generally just tho opposite. If you attempt to plunge through a hedge of burrs to get one blackberry you v. ill get more burrs than blackberries. You can not afford to read a bad book however good you are. You say: "The influence is insignificant." , I tell you that tho scratch of a pin has sometimes produced tho lockjaw. Alas, if through curiosity, as many do, you pry into an evil book, your curiosity is as" dangerous as that of the man who , would take a toieh into . a gunpowder mill merely to see whether it would blow it up or not. In a menagerie in New York a man put his arm through the bars of a black leopard's cage. The animals hide looked so sleek, and bright, and beautiful. Ho just stroked it once. The monster seized him, and he drew forth a hand torn, and mangled, and bleeding, O, touch not evil, even with the faintest strokel Though it may be glossy and beautiful, touch it not, least you pull forth your soul torn and bleeding under the clutch, of the black leopard. "But," you say, "how can I find out whether a book is good or bad without reading itt" There is always something suspicious about a bad book, I never knew an exception something suspicious in the index or style of illustration. This venomous reptile almost always carries a warning rattle. Again I charge you to stand off from all those books which corrupt the imagination and inflame the passions. I do not refer now to that kind of a book which the villain has under his coat waiting for the school to get out and then, looking both ways to see that t here is no policeman around the block, offers tli e book to y our son on his wav home. I do not refer to that, kind of literature, but that which evades the law and comes out im polished styie,and with acute plot sounds the tocsin that rouses up all the baser passions of the soul. To-day, under the nostrils of this land, there is a fetid, reeking, unwashed literature, enough to poison all the fountains of public: virtue, and smite your sons and ' daughters as with the wing.of a destroying angel, and itis time that the ministers of the Gospel blew the trumpet and rallied the forces of righteousness, all armed to the teeth, in

this great battle against a depraved literature. - .. Again: Abstain from those books which are apologetic of crime. It is a sad thing that some of the best and most beautiful book-bindery, and some of the finest rhetoric, have been brought to make sin attractive. Vice is a horrible thiiig, anyhow. It is born in sharae.and it dies howling in the darkness. In this world it ia scourged with a whip of scorpions, but afterward the thunders of God's wrath pursue it across a boundless desert, beating it with ruin and woe. When you come to paint carnality, do not paint it as looking from behind embroidered curtains, or through lattice of royal seraglio, but as writhing in the agonies of a city hospital. Cursed be the books that try to make impurity decent, and crime attractive, and hypocrisy noole! Cursed be . the books that swarm with , libertines and

desperadoes, who make the brain of the young people whirl with villainy! Ye autkors who write them, ye publishers who print , them, ye booksellers who distribute them, shall be cut into pieces, if not by an aroused community, then at last by the hail of Divine vengeance, which shall sweep to the lowest pit of perdition all ye murderers of souls. I tell you, though you may escape in this world, you will be ground at last under the hoof of eternal calamities, and you will be chained to the rock, and you will have the vultures of despair clawing at ...your ..soul and these whom you have destroyed will come around to torment you, and to pour hotter coals of fury upon your head, and rejoice eternally in the outcry of your pain and the howl of your .damnation. "God shall wound the hairy scalp of him thatgoeth on in his trespasses." ; There is one other thing I shall say this morning before I leave you, whether you want to hear it or not That is that 1 consider the lascivious pictorial lite rat are of i he day -as most tremendous for ruin. There is no , one who can like good pictures better than I do. The quickest and most condensed way of impressing the public mind is by pictures. What the painter does by his brush for a few favon ties the engraver does by his knife for the million. What the author accomplishes by fifty pages the artist does by a flash. The best part of a painting that costs $10,000 you may buy for ten cents. Fine painting belongs to the aristocracy of art; engravings belong to the democracy of art. You do well to gather good pictures in your homes. Spread them before your children after the tea hour is past and the evening circle is gathered. Throw them on the invalid's couch. Strew them through the rail train to cheer the traveler on his journey. Tack them on the wall of the nursery. Gather them in albums and portfolios. God speed the good pictures on their way with ministries l( knowledge and mercy! But what shall I say of the prostitution of this art to purposes of iniquity? These death-warrants of the soul are at every street-corner. They smite the vision of the young man with pollution. Many a young man buying a copy has bought his eternal discomfiture. There may be enough poison in one bad picture to poison one soul, and that soul may poison ten, and then fifty, and the fifty hundreds, and the hundreds thousands, until nothing but the measuring lino of eternity can tell tho height, the depth, and ghastliness and horror of the great undoing. The work of death that the wicked author does in a whole book tho bad engraver may do on a half side of a pictorial. Under the guise of pure mirth the young man buys one of these sheets. He unrolls it before his comrades amid roars of laughter, but long after the pn per is gone the result may, perhaps, be seen in the blasted imaginations of those who saw it, The queen of death holds a banquet everv niaht and these periodicals are the printed invitation to her guests. Alas, that t'e fair brow of American art should b3 blotched with this plague-spot, and that philanthropists, bothering themselves about smaller evils, should lift , up no united and vehement voice against this great calamity.

If I have this morning successfully laid down any principles by which to judge in. regard to looks and newspapers, then I have done fiomething which I shall not be ashamed on the day which shall try evtirjr man's work, of what sort it is. Cherish good books, and newspapers. Beware of the bad ones. One column may save your soul; one paragraph may ruin it. Benjamin Franklin said that the reading of "Cotton Mather's Essay on Doing good" molded his entire life. Tho assassin of Lord Russell declared that he was led into crime by reading ono vivid romance. The consecrated John A ngeli James, than whom England never produced a better man, declared in his old days that ho Imd never yet got over tho evil effects of having for fifteen minutes onco read a bad book. But I need not go so far off, I could come near home and tell you of something that occured in my college days. I could tell you off a coiurado who was great-hearted, noble and generous. He was studying for an honorable profession, but he had an infidel book in his trunk, and he said to me one day; ""DeWilt, would you like to read it?" I said: "Yes, I would." I took the book and read it only for a few minutes. 1 was really startled with what I saw there, and I handed the book back to him and said: "You had bettor destroy that book." No, ho kept it He read it. He reread it. After awhile lie gave up religion as a myth. He gave up God as a nonentity. He gave up the Bible as a fable. He gave up the Church of Christ as a useless institution. He gave up good morals as being unnecessarily stringent I have heard of him but twice in many years. The time before the last I heard of him, he was a confirmed inebriate. Tho last I heard of him, he was coming out of an insane asylum in body, mind and soul an awful wreck. I believe that one infidel book killed him for two worlds. Go home to-day and look through your library, and then, having looked through your library, look on the stand whero you keep your pictorials and newspapers, and apply the Christian principles I have laid down this morning. If there is anything in your home that cannot stand the test, do not give it away, for it might spoil an immortal soul; do not sell it, for the money you get would be the price of blood; but rather kindle a fire on your kitchen hearth, or in your back yark, and then drop the poison in it, and keep stirring the blare until from preface to appendix there shall not be a single paragraph left, and the bonfire in Brooklyn shall be as coms'iiming as that one in the streets of Ephesus. PAE3I NOTES. Good onion seed, planted early and well in good rich soil, well manured, is almost certain to prod r;e a large yield if properly cultivated. In Flanders the urine of cattle is saved separately from the solid excrement, and is sold to gardeners at the rate of $10 per

cow for a year. In pruning very young pear trees encourage growth of wood in proper directions, instead of fruit production at the expense of development. The sulky or riding plow, on wbich the plowman is carried around the field while the work is done, revolutionizes all the old ideas about plowing. Lucerne is a valuable leguminous plant, that thrives in all good soil of a free calcareous nature. On wet land it produces three or four abundant cuttings. With a good home-made hotbed, the construction of which any woman can superintend, and proper seeds, the battle for a floral display is half won. A western inventor claims that prairie grass ground into a pulp with corn stalks

and pressed into blocks, makes and excellent substitute for wood and coal. Ventilate the building where year poultry is kept daily, no matter how cold the clay may be. Let the foul air out and the fresh air in among the birds. Thus only can you keep them healthy in confinement. Just here wo will say to those who complain of receiving no eggs, to change the food by" giving a goodly supply of meat once a day. A pound will supply twelve fowls, and if t hey are kept warm they will nearly always lay under a meat diet. Alfalfa has been raised in New Jersey with success. Last year G. W. Thompson, in Stelton, near New Brunswick, cut 36,320 pounds of the grass in two cuttingsJune and September -from 20 pounds of seed. Tho drouh interfered with the third crop. The efisiest and surest way to destroy Canada thistles is to give an absolute summer fallow, by which no green tning is allowed to appear above the surface. Shallow plowing once in t wo weeks daring one season's growth will do this. If there be rocks, stumps, etc., alt these places must be hoed thoroughly at plowing. If the remaining weak roots shonld send np tops the next season a thorough cultivation in corn will kill out those remaining. The prevention of any green plant from making leaves for one whole season wilt totally eradicate it. iliSCELLANEOS KOTfiS.

The Quakers are said to be the longest-lived people in the world. Agents for the French Government are buying lots of horses in Michigan. If you would not have afiViction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches. About three thousand girls find employment in Baltimore stores and factories. Hjalmer Hjorth Boyesen gets $10,000 a year from the Century; $5,000 for his writings, and $5,000 f jor tho j;s in his njame. Jesse Grant, the youngest son of General Grant, is the father of a bouncing boy, which is the especial favorite of his grandmother. The price of gas in Cincinnati has been reduced to $1.15 per 1,000 feet, and is said ne w to bo cheaper for cooking and warming than coal. Judge, to a very homely old maid "Mies, in what year were you born?" Witness "In the year 1866." Judge 4Before or after Christ.?" Billy Emerson, the minfttrel, who writes his first name with a little b. receives $500 a week and travels in a private car with his wife wherever he goes. Counsel (badgering a witness) Remember, sir, that you are on oath. Witness Yes, sir. Counsel Now what did you do whwi as you say tue prison er threw- a beer glass at you? Witness I dodged. Macon Telegraph. Dakota Boll: The cashier oi a Chinese bank tried to leave with the funds for Japan or some place on the American plan tho other day , but it is not believed that 'the custom will become popular, The government walled up the cashier in a cell to starve to death and chopped the heads oft all l is family, And next fall they are going to decapitate everybody in the empire bearing his name.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A street car company, with $75,000 capital, organized at Muncie Friday. Tho Marion Street Jlailway company was organized m Friday,, with a capital stock of $50,000. Hamilton S. McRea, one of the best known of Indiana educators, died at Marion, Tuesday. Miss Eva Peters, of Logansport, rivals Blind Tom in memorizing music and rendering it on firt hearing. G reensbu rg was visited with a heavy frost Monday night, totally destroying all fruit which was sufficiently developed. The furniture facto ries of Connersville feel tho inter-State commerce law, the freight on a carload or! furniture to San Francisco having gone from $150 to $500, Fort Wayne now has three wells. Tho first, the Woodworth & Fisher, is 1,430 feet, deep, and spouts gas enough for a small town. The other two run artesian water. Mr. Rowley Bobo, a son of Judge Bobo was fined by his father, in the Adams circuit court, last week in two cases one for assault and battery, $5, the other for intoxication, $2. By the bursting of a jointer, in llambo Brothers' heating mill at Anderson, Monday, William Ford, aged twenty, wan so horribly mangled that ho died. Ed Markle, a fellow-workman, was badly wounded. There were four fires in as many different quarters of Fort AVayne from 11 o'clock Friday night until 4 o'clock Saturday morning. They are believed to be or incendiary origin, and tramps are suspetted. The White Caps of Crawford county have again been making their regular visits to some of the bad citizens. Frank Key and Jonah Longest weie taken from their houses and whipped for doing acts unbecoming gentlemen. Several notices were left at the homes of a number of iitixens to mend their ways. A Ladoga man went to Crawfordsville anil requested the mayor to plaee him in jail, so as to keep from drinking. He was informed that a complaint must be

filed against, and accordingly went out and got a drink of whisky, and persuad

ed a policeman to file an affidavit against him for drunkenneijs. Then the mayor

sent him to jail for fifteen days. He has

a wife and several children.

Patents were issued to the following

Indiana inventors, Tuesday: Charles F. Bassett, Hillsdale, end gate; John W.

Culbertson, Indianapolis, inhaler; Geo. Frazor, Williamsburg, wagon jack; E. F. Grether ami C. Mosher, South Bend,

treating raw hides; Adam Hoffman, In

dianapolis, harness; Jesse B. Johnson, Indianapolis, baling press; Jonathan D. Mawhood, assignor to Richmond City Villi Works, liichinond, feeding device for roller mills; Aaron D. Miller, Union City, device for operating window shades. Sunday an excursion of about two hundred people left Evansville on the steamer Carrie C.il dwell for Henderson. When about five miles below the city a terrific windstorm eaino up and the boat became unmanageably. She was driven into a bunch of trees, crushing the head of the steamer completely,and tearing down both statks. A great many women and children were on board, and but for the bravery of some

of the cooler head5; a sreat manv lives

would, no doubt, have been lost. The damage to the steamer will reach $1,500.

Some four weeks ago W.W. Costancer

was put off a Yandalia train by the cou-

ductor because he did not have a ticket.

Costancer claimed that ha could not

buy a ticket, because there was no per

son in the ticket office, and the, conductor refused the money he offered as fare to Darlington. Suit was brought at Darlington, and judgment for $200 was obtained by default. It is understood that the railway company will appeal the case, while on the other side they declare that a locomotive will be chained to the track if necessary to secure the judgment. Captain S. B. Patton, warden of the Southern prison, reports the institution to be getting along as well as possible, and that a great amount of work has been and is being done toward cleaning it up and making needed improvements. He thinks it can yet be made a good prison and is working to that end. About all the old employes, under the Howard regime, have been removed and the new force has been carefully selected. 4 'I found an atmosphere of dishonesty about eery thing when I went there, with the prison $30,000 in debt, and everything else wrong, caused by Howard's dishonesty and carelessness, and I am doing the best I can .straigten things out. I don't know whether Howard will be indicted or not. He is atill there, running the Jeffersonville Times." Severalyearsago a daughter of Lorenzo Powell, living in the eastern part of Shelby county, was compelled by her father to marry Adrian Rigsbee, who was not the man of her choice. A year later she gave birth to a child and died. Since then sounds of mourning have procee4-

!ed,at short intervals, from that room i every night, and all the night through,

the suppressed sobs and groans being accompanied by tho noise made by her favorite rocking-chair as it rocks back and forth, ami which is always found, next morning where she was wont to sit and rock while at home, although care has been taken time after time to leave it in another part of the room. Her father and mother believe that it is the spirit of their daughter mourning over the loss of her life and lover, and they have stood it as long as they can, and will desert tho house. Three members of the Marion county Grand Jury, it will be remembered,when the jury failed to indict the tally sheet forgers, asked to bo excused from further service in the jury. Judge Irvin has just reassembled the grand jury and aim nou need that he cannot relieve the members fjom service, as it would vitiate all future indictments that might bo returned. Among other reasons which the Judge assigned was the following: "How is this court to determine whether tho jurors who failed to vote for indictments should have voted to indict? To do this would necessitate the hearing in open court of all the evidence brought before tho Grand Jury. This would be to transfer the investigation from the Grand Jury room, where, for reasons of public policy, secrecy is enjoined, into open court for the Judge to determine whether the evidence was sufficient upon which to

find a bill. If this can fie done in this case it can be done in any case, upon application of one or more Grand Jurors, and thus the court would

usurp the legitimate functions of the Grand Jurv."

Major Jonathan W. Gordon, a prominent figure in the political and profes

sional history of Indiana, died at Indianapolis on tho 27th. He had been

identified during his long career with many of 'tho most important. 'political movements, and had been engaged in legal causes that gave him a wide reputa

tion as an attorney. Ho was born in Pennsylvania in 1820, and came to Ripley county, Indiana, thirteen years after. He was admitted to practice law in 1844. In 1548 ho enlisted in the Mexican war, but was discharged in 1847 on account of ill health. He removed to Indianapolis in 1852 and practiced law; in 1850 was elected to the Legislature, and became prominent in the memorable session in which Bright and Fitch wore elected to the United States Senate. He was elected Speaker of the House in 1858 over Hon. David Turpie, Dein., and Hon. James F. Blythe, Whig. He was a rabid abolitionist, and on the day the secessionists fired on Fort Sumpter, he enlisted, and was the first to enroll his name at a great meeting at the State House. lie served until March, 1864,

having in tho meantime been promoted to the rank of major. He defended Dodd, Bowles, Humphrey and Horsey in the court martial in connection with the conspiracy of the Knights of the Golden Circle. He was tho Republican candidate for Attorney-General in 1875, but was defeated with tho ticket. He hold a very high position as a criminal

lawyer, and for years was regarded as the most efficient in the State. He perhaps defended more men accused of homicide than any other attorney in tho country i. e., more than sixty persons accused of murder in the first degree, and he never had but one client sentenced to death Louis Guetig, INDIANA NATDKAI? GAS NOTES. Plymouth will drill. Mooresville will bore. Marion has eecured a ftlass factory. Windfall and Warsaw have commenced puncturing Drilling will commence immediately at New Palestine. South Bend is to have ib gas well at last, if the gas is to be had for the boring. Gas will be piped from Muncie to Richmond, a distance of forty miles. Mooresville is moving in the matter of gas and will soon have a well under way. Franklin will bore for gas or anything else liable to come from a hole in the ground If gas is not found at; Rockville, the five foot vein of excellent; coal found at a depth of 150 feet will be worked. The well at Brightwood has been ahot, and a flo w of gas issues forth,blazing ten feet in the air from an eight-inch pipe. Gas' was. found at Clinton, Friday, at depth of 45 feet,in sufficient quantities to supply tho surrounding country with fuel and light. . There was an excursion to Noblesville on Saturday night from . Indianapolis, fifteen coaches taking more than one thousand people to see the great gas well, among whom were some of the most prominent citizens of the capital city. Prof. Talbert, a Chicago aeronaut, performed a novel experiment in Kokomo, Wednesday evening, by making an ascension in a large balloon inflated with natural gas. His flight in mid-air was in every way successful, and is said to be the nrst instance of the kind on

record. Gas was found at a depth of 517 feet, Thursday, in Greenfield, while boring in soap stone. It gives a strong, steady blaze ten feet high. The drill has not reached Trenton rock, but the workmen say that: when Trenton rock is reached they will have a gusher. Everything is booming. Orlando Hobbs, who predicted gas at Findlay, O., says gas will be found at Jeffersonville at a depth of 600 to 1,100 feet, and. this has stimulated the fever there. A gas spring exists on the farm of Mr. Jesse Crook, on the Middle road, three miles from the w city, which was gnited some time ago. "It amuses me," said, a Pennsylvanian Wednesday, "to hear the people ou here talk about the high pressure of the wells, as they put their hands over the opening of a well and let the gas whistle through their fingers. If a man should try that on a good well in my country it would blow his arm off." The Green8burg well was shot at 9 o'clock Monday morning. Mr. Davison, the president of the company, says there i3 now a pressure of 200 pounds, and the gas is blazing twenty feet high from a two-inch pipe. The company will shoot again with 130 pounds of dynamite as soon asthe material arrives There are good indications of a strong flow of gas The Way to Get Rich. Xrkansaw Traveler. A land speculation. "But," said the would-be purchaser, they tell me that the land is covered by a swanip." ,4Swamp, why, of course. It's the richest land in the world." "But how am I toge; rid of the water?" "Pump is oft?' "Yes, but then it will be on some other man's land," "That's all right; lei him pump it off on to some one else's l and. My dear sir, you should never be bothered by what is on some other man's land." "Yes, but won't he pump the water back on my land?" "The very thing you want. The best crops in the world are raised tliat way. Pumping from first one field to another brings about a mutual system of irrigation. I got rich that way." Aphorisms. ,r The test of a man is not whether he can govern a kingdom single handed, but whether his private life is tender and beneficont,and whether his wife and children are happy. Julian Hawthorne. A man is, in general, better pleased when he has a good dinner on his table than when his wife speaks Greek.Samuel Johnson. A house is no housio unless it contains food find fire for tho mind as well as tho body Margaret Fuller. Cheerfulness is the bright weather of tho heart. Pleasant, cheerful conversation ehould be the rule at tho table. It s a breach of good, breeding for one member of the family to" ait down at the table and silently read the daily paper,

MATTERS OF LAW.

Recent Decisions of the Indiana prcmc Court.

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MISCONDUCT Or JUBY. 13,G1G. James A. Taylor ot al, vs. James M. Garnett. Elkhart C. G. Affirmed. Zollars, .?. Appellants purchased from appellee his interest in a brush factory, including the outstanding claim for goods sold. They claimed that he fraudulently made misrepresentations as to the amount of such claims, and that they sustained loss by reason thereof, and brought this action, to recover damages. It was necessary for the jury to determine what representations, if any, were made by appellee. The testimony of a witness named Summons was offered, to corroborate the appellee as to representations made. A new trial was asked on account, of misconduct of the jury. In support thereof the affidavits of several jurors were offered t: the effect that during the deliberations of the jury while the credibility of Summons was under discussion one of the jurors made statements that Summons was truthful, sober and indus

trious and that there wasn't a preacher he would sooner believe. Held. That such aflidav its of jurors can not be received to impeach the overthrow of their verdict. ' ' .

DISMISSAL JUDGMENT FOR COSTS. 11,015. Henry Rahlman vs. usanua A, Ruhlman . Bhcl by a C. ... Affirmed. Miicfccli; J When one petitions the couxt-to have another declared of unsound mind and dismisses the petition, the court has authority adjudge that the costs be taxed against the petitioner. When one was present in the court and made no

objection to a dismissal of his petition at his own cost, he can not attack such judgment on an appeal to the Supreme Court. f - TERM OF OFFICE IJXEXFIREp TERM. 13,6SS. State ox rel. vs. August A, Chapm. Allen C. C. Affirmed. Howl:, J. , In Kovember, 18S2, Judge Word en was elected as judgJi of the superior court of Allen county for four years and died in June, 1SS4. The relator was elected to the same office at uhe general election in lSSl. Held: That the rela

tor acquired title to such of) ice merely for tho unexpired portion of the four years' term of Judge Worden, and not for a full term of four years; tthat a commission by the Governor could not define the relator's term of office, but was merely prima facie of the facts recited therein; that, although there is no statute on the subject touching the office in question, it is governed by the provisions of section 7 of the general law of this State that: "Every person elected to fill any office in which a vacancy has occurred shall hold such office for the expired term thereof," ... ADMINISTRATORS. 13,513. Hattic Jones vs. Adam H, BUtinger, administrator. Allen C. C Affirmed. Howk, J. The provisions of section 2,227 of the revised statutes, t hat-letters of administration oi an estate shall be granted to the widower or widow, to the next of kin, etc., are mandatory and should be observed by the clerk and the court,but where letters have b 2en granted to a person not falling in the provisions of the statute such letterri are not void and one coming within thv, provisions ot the

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the court. His honor reviews the ques

tion at much length, and holds that the -, article in ques tion could not be coi-r struedas a contempt cf court; tfc at itws a legitimate subject of discussion whether the discharge of tuejjuy did not wlease the defendant - : 1 V"? - ' ----- - - ' ' ifATURaJiaASi . Who Has II. How They Got IiWhafc They Arc Poi n AVithfe, .. -rS " ludianapolis-News.. . i The gas-field of Indiana,so fa as it ba been developed, is coxkfined to an area sixty miles long from east to:;

twenty wide from north to sou: h.

BbruiigcsL veus Becw w uen lae yvwssz

ern half of this area. The northentHn

stretches from Kokbino on the' West t6 Portland on the east, and the southern-

from Nob I esy die to W inchest 3rr: The' greatest flow of gas ia f ound at Nobles 0 ' yiile and Anderson, with mignificen wells at tho intervening points- of Fairf.l mount and Jpnesborol Within the area ? Jy

operation, as follower Nobiesviile, twofj -y Kokomo, four; Hartford City,iione;

seven; Aiiaerson, a aarmount, Aiexandria, Elwood, EatonV Pendlaton. and

Jonesboro, one eacb and Marion, three. Each of these places are -'boring addition

al welisiswhile boring is also g sing on at?; g Sh

Red Key: Bidgeviile and Dunhirk. :MMfF cepfr at Portland and" Tiptonf ivery welt M in the mentioned area has funtishedgasA At portland four wells were Sec lures ltit Tipton two trials have bepn us aclehftUw ending in disappointment.' .- In Darke county,Ohio,or its immediate 4 vicin ity, rise three rivers w hich flow

fh'iynifth Indiana f hi Wolwch " -Wlitix . 5? 1

and MiE&issinifewa All the" gas baaf J been found between- the ash;Jand; White n vers. The four stron gesif . well are at Nobiesviile, Anderson, Paittaount

order named. Kokomo; has the best.

group ot wens. Tue weim rangm. depth from 885 feet at Anden,on to IfiW ; feet at Winchester. A Asderso Muncie, Vinchester and Har tford Cityj? ' Trenton rock was reached above sea

level. At the other points Nvas not

found u atil the drili had gom below the- 1

level ot tne sea. ciome ot inn wens give out water asj well s gas, while, others

are ury, x lie wawr, uuwevc ,iu eacn . ?

instance comes rrom a point apove tuflr : " m bottom f the well. The ga? from alt r ' S

the induna wells has a very pungent odor that is anything but phasanti buf

then the people can get used to anything in this country. .

At Portland; Winchester, - Muncief Marion, Nobiesviile, and Kokomo tho gas is being utilized. , At the oUier . points it-is being burned icp show.Thov first succsful well is the on j at'- Eaton, , and it hajj been burning for about six months This well was fixs"i bored in

1876, the operators prospect sd-ior coal

and for gss. The hole wan only two inches in diameter. At th i depth- o about 600 feet a vein of gas 'vas streak,, . which burned a flame two eet high. . Thei" well was then abandoned, fla e projectors' ' thinking nothing oi the gas! When the excitement about the gas find at Findlay, O., got up, tbe owners of the Eaton? well took a notion t hat they had been neglecting a bonama, so drilling was

FALSE PRETENSES. ...13,721.. Stale of Ind iuna vs. Jobn W. Cotmor. Gibson C. C. Afllrmed. Ni black J. An indictment Avhich charged that tbe defendant, who was the proprietor of a store, made certain specified false representations as to his financial standing, on which the prosecuting witness relied, and sold to defendant, on credit, at his special instance and request certain described goods, fs not sufficient, as it fails to show, with sufficient certainty, that the possession of the property was obtained bvthe defendant by means of the false pretenses alleged to have been made to the prosecuting witness.; TRUSTEES, 12.770. Milton R. Kintt et al. vs, State ex ret Randolph C. C. Afiirmed. ITIHott C. J. jIn an action on the bond of the treas

urer of the board of school trustees, for failure to turn over funds to his successor, it is necessary that the complaint show that the term of office has expired. This need not be averred in direct terms, but if it appears from the facts pleaded that the term had ended and that a successor had been chosen this will be sufficient. The successor of the out going treasurer is a proper relator and may maintain the action. Where an oflicer's term of office has expired, and he fails to hand the money in his hand over to his . successor, an action may be maintained without an order of the board of commissioners. The retiring treasurer can not compel his euccessor to receive anything but money in discharge of the um due him in his official capacity. contempt or court newspaper , pubu- .; cations: " ' ; " lv.O'ir. J. R. hcadlo State. Clinton C. C. Keversetl. Niblack J, ..- . r fc, The prosecuting attorney filed an information in a contempt proceeding against the appellant who published a newspaper for publishing certain false and scandalous statements of and concerning a cause then pending in the county court and of the judge of the court. The article so published was headed "A Joke on a Judge" and in the text gave a som e wha t len gt b yand. probably humorous account of the defaulting of the bond of one Spuriock during the progress of his trial, iw having gone into the country and not getting back promptly at the opening of the court next morning. The jury was discharged and his bond was defaulted and the sheriff ordered to take him into custody. A writ of habeas corpus was applied for

by Spuriock's attorneys and the newspaper article commented on this, fact in sovem I issues of the paper, claiming that tho court was dereliet in not granting the writ, and these statements were made the basis of a supplemental aflidait filed by the prosecutor.. The appellant answered that he ho was rel iably informed that - the discharso of the jury endedt he prosecution against Spuriock, and that henco the subsi?nient imprisonment was without authority of law, and that tUe article published was only intended to be fair critieiam or which tho editr considered an error of tho court, without any in lention of imputing corrupt motives to., i I: v

almost

statute having a legal right to act aefagain begun Atadepfch of 899 feet, or

administrator can not ignore letteis so granted and have himself appointed, but must first ask for a revocation of the other appointment.

five feet below sea level, Tienton

was reached. The Iforing was continuedinto the rock S2 feet, wheiiT a magnificent flow of gas was obtained'. The next -fi. welbto furnish gas was atK.okonio, the ,, ; depth being 618 feefr of which 80 feet; is 4 Trenton rock. Kokomo watd no time;?" -but at once began piping th gas into thei city for practical use. Since then ree1 other wells have been sunl; and each r j furnishes gas in almost limitless quantaties. Two of her weiisv ire 'about a? mile and a half apart, showing that the -

There is less tiaii six feet dlifference in the depth of the wells. At Marion

he three wells are all south of the Mis-

-mi

sfssinnewa, but boringisnt w north of the river! '

going;, xn

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tr,

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which gas has been iouijc , and Win Jj

Chester the farthest souths The wells at Winchester are wcat Kokomo fa the 4 farthest point weslj. Winchester is the" highest point ahove- sea; veli it being 1)89 feet and Nobiesviile isthe lowei poin, being only ?70 At Chester oil rose inhe welte to hight of seventy-five feet, and at Portland to 126 ; feet; The oil was of a ery superior quality , but the quan titylras too limited to be uiilized. Eaqhof the two we! Is at Tipton also showed oii ' The first well at Portland was bored to a depth cfs' 1,440 feet and ended in; .a failure. Thai depest hole, however, is at Bloomingtonv: Monroe county. It is 2,7i0 feet deep; water was what they wure AlterJ 6' 1 sas; oil or coal was found but a' small: ;

SUppiy -VI OUtJpUUJ. HOIW 'HIJ .. V VlM W. ? ; This is the deepest artesiair veil in :tn.fev7 world; The depths of thy other fanl- J : ious wells are as folic wsr Grenellei France, 1,797 feet, Passyy France, 1,923

Kissihgen, Bavaria, 1,87; Charleston, CjgwS S.C.. 1.250; St. Iuis, io,i 1,- andf

Louisville, Ky;0865 4 ..fy.vl

" . A Good; Word; $. -"s Bos' onHeroldw . .W - , : - Speaking of apples Prof, Faraday v -says: There is scarcely' an article ; op V vegetable food more widely useful and 7 more universally liked thin the apple. Let every family in autucan lay in fronC two to ten ormore barrels, and it will be; v .. to them the most economi cal investment v y in the whole range of cul nary supUes. A raw, mellow apple is digested in an hour and a half, while toiled- cabbage. J requires five hours. The .most healtl ml dessert that can W placed on the i table is baked apple: ' 1 laken freely ;v breakfast with coarse brait andr w ith, , out meat or flesh of anyliad, it has an admiraole effect on the general systems

often removing oanstipatiO

aciaines ana cooung quieuiueA-oumwvuw ;.c

more effectually than the most approve micines. If families cmld e indueS -v to Bubstitutie the apptT-soundi ripe-; -and iuscioutethe pies, cakes, candies and other sweetmeat? with vfhicv children are too often "stuffed, there would be a diminution of doctors' bills : ; sufficient in a single yeai, to lay up a stock of this4eUoip,us fpit for a seaiwn's use. .- j ; - JWo dont hear so much now of thoso j. solid chunks of eighteen inch clear ice that wore being cut all vitvterl We only

hear of the solid cheefc't.f tho ieeinan aav he ad vances his. price, a?, usu al . f: