Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 31, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 June 1887 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

BY H. J. FJEtfim

INDIANA

Attorney Gkx brai Garlan says he would not take a seat on the Supreme Bench under any circumstances. He also says he will not accept a public office alter his present term expires.

Canada's treatment of Editor O'Brien furnishes one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of the Dominion. Such violence as has been resorted to at Toronto, Kingston and Hamilton would not be permitted by the authorities in any English-speaking locality inr the world outside Belfast. Inoianapows ice dealers have formed a pool and are charging small customers at the rate of $10 per ton. The cost of gathering ice is but from ten to twenty cents per ton, and there ought to he a law to reach such outrageous combinations as will permit consumers being

robbed in.the manner proposed, and in force, - - ----- " : A GiGANTicschemeis reported in which it is proposed to consolidate all the cattle interests of the northwest and form a company which shall control $15,000,000 worth of cattle and grazing lands. In which case, of course,a few big men will swallow and freeze out the smaller ones and then there wiU be j ust condemnation of another monopoly. '

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Allan Arthur, son of the Ex-President, became involved in a quarrel with an Englishman in a New York hotel last week, about the shut ting of a windo w, and young Arthur drew a revol ver and threatened to shoot the Englishman, who, however, was hurried off by other parties. Young Allan Arthur ought to be ashamed of himself, whatever the provocation. i 1 1 1 1 -1 i . . Js a letter published last weet the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain urges the Government's supporters to organize as speedily as possible. Otherwise, he says, the downfall of the Salisbury Cabinet is certain. The letter created a sensation. Mr. Chamberlain has sounded a note of alarm calling attention to a danger that has for some time been apparent to close political observers; The downfall can't come too soon for. the good of Ireland and freedom.

Ex-Governor Allex Gr. Thurman, in reply to the question by Steubenville friends as to whether he would accept a spontaneous and unanimous nomination for Governor of Ohio, says: Tarn confined to my bei by sickness and can only write by the band of an amanuensis that under no circumstances could I accept the nomination for Governor. I much regret that my name is mentioned in connection with that office. I have done all I could to discourage it, and I assurer you that my reasons are welt founded and inflexible. I highly appreciate the kindness of my friends, but I cannot accede to their wiihes. ' ' -"

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Vermont has 102 Gi A. K. posts. .... Fifty-six posts were mustered in- the department of Ohio last year, i The iund for a men anient to General Grant now amounts to $120,S&. "'. -. .. .. The posts at Indianapolis, Ind.,-have a "Home Circle Social Degree." ,s There are in all nineteen out-door . memorials to public men in Washington. The Woman's Relief Corps of Ohio :jl - gained in membership last year 2,940, t. and corps forty-four. Post No. 66, Department of New York, at Syracuse, will, on June 23, un vail a : ; soldiers monument, costing $3,000. ' '. . Admiral FarraguVs flag ship, the Hartford, is the only one of the old naval '- hulks which has not been condemned. The last rebel flag that waved in Richmond is said to be in possession of . Captain Silas Adams, Bo wdoinham, Me. . Aug, i9, 20; 21 and 22 the Caatleton Soldiers , and Sailors' Association will holds its annual reunion at Sheridan, - ind. ; '. ... .... ;. ...... J The net gain in the membership of the w Department of Ohio, during the past year, was 4,S&L The total membership is 86,600. The Minnesota Di vision, Sons oi 4 i Veterans will hold its third annual en- : campment at St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, v i June 1 V r The soldier's monument at Logansport, Ind., will be unveiled July 13th, and . great preparations are being made for the event.

I The Department of West Virginia has a membership of about 1,800; there are f iBixty-seven posts, an-increase of tentysix during the year. .. The contracts for the building4 of the Ohio State Soldiers' Home to cost $150,000, have been awarded. The work is to ' be completed January, 1888. The recent OhioEncampment, G. A.R. 4 indorsed, by a unanimous vote, the action of the National Pension Committee favoring the dependent pension ; 3 bill. J , Comrade Smith, of Post 28, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, was the orator of the day at the unveiling of the General Steedman monument at ' Ohio, Mxy m ' J . M The survivors of the Sixth Army vj. Corps unveiled and dedicated a memorial tablet to General Sedgwick nearSpottsylvania Court House, Va., on: Thursday, May 14. Major J. L. Bathbone; of California, -. ' late of the United States army, and for - several years on the stafl of Major Gen

eral Schofieldhas been appointed Consul General to Paris. The General Grant relics, which have : been for several months Bafely guarded in one of the private rooms of the National Museum, are now being placed on public exhibition. r The First New York Cavalry claims p the honor of having the first volunteer, the first company to master, the first cavalry officer killed, the last officer killed, the first man killed in defense of ? free soil, and having the first deserter,he being the only one the regiment had , during its term of service. : The first annual encampment of the Indiana Division, Sons of Veterans, was held at Richmond, May 13. Officers for M the ensuing year are as follows: Colonel, E. S. Walker; Lieutenant Colonel, Edward Muhl; Major, A. J. Deffonbach. The next encampment will be held at Indianapolis in June, 1888. The'G. A; R. posts of Philadelphia contemplate the organization o? a military auxiliary to the order, to be known as the "Young Guard." he guard ft to be composed of eons of living and i deceased members of the post; to he uniformed and governed byyules laid i down by the Grand Army. .

Dr. Talmaro Preaches to the Soldiers at Washington,

Perfection Nccosanry in tlio Art oi War The Awkward Sqimd Slionltl toe .Pelifehml by mucipUneThe Horrors of War Contrasted With tiie Pur-suits o Peace Seottonal Strife Iisapp earing.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached to the soldiers in attendance at the National drill at Washington, D. C, Sunday afternoon, May 29, h. Various parts of his sermon were applauded, and after it was concluded the companies paraded before the vast concourse of people. Soldiers from thirty-one States and Territories, and nineteen Governors were present. Dr. Talmaee took for his text I. Ohron., xii. 33, and Judges xx., 15. He stud: ,. Companies of ii laniry, cavalry, artillery and Konayes, please notice the first Scrinture passage applauds the soldiers of Zv bulun because they were disciplined troops. They may have been inefficient at the start and laughed at by old., soldiers because they, seemed so clumsy in the line, but it was drill, drill, drill until they could keep step as one man. "Fifcy thousand which could keep rank." The second Scriptmre passage applauds a regiment of stingers in the tribe of Benjamin because they are dexterous . marksmen. When they first enlisted they may have been an awkward squad and all their lingers were thumbs; but they practiced until when they aimed at a mark they always hit it. "Every one could sling stones at a hair breadth and not miss." Both texts combining to show that if we must fight we should do it well. . There is something absorbing in the militar' science of the Bible. In olden times all the men between twenty and fifty years of age were enrolled in the armv, and then a levy was made for a special service. There were only three or four classes exempt: those who had built a house and had not occupied it; those who bad planted a garden and had not reaped the fruit of it; those who were engaged to be married and had not yet led" the bride to the altar; those who were yet in the nrst year of wedded life; those who were so nervous that they could not look upon an enemy but, they fled, and could not look upon blood but they fainted. The army was in three .divisions the center and right and left wings. The weapons of defense were helmet, shield, breast plate, buckler. The weapons of offense .were sword, spear, javelin, arrow, catapult which was merely a bow swung by machinery, shooting arrows at vast distances, great arrows, one arrow as large as several men could lift and ballista, which was a sling swung by machinery, hurling great rocks and large pieces of lead to vast distances. The shields wore .made of woven willow w;ork, with three thicknesses oi hide, and a loop inside through which the arm of the warrior, might be thrust; and when these soldiers were marching to attack an enemy on the level alt these shields touched each other,making a wall moving but impenetrable; and then when.. they attacked a fortress and tried to capture a battlement this shield was lifted over the head so as to resist the falling missiles. The breast plate was made of two pieces of leather, brass covert d, one piece falling over the breast, the other falling over the back. At the side.. of the warrior the two pieces fastened with buttons jor.clasps. The cows were so stout and stiff and strong that warriors often challenged each other to bend one. The strings of the bow were made from the sinews of oxen. A case like an inverted pyramid was fastened to th back;, that case containing the arrows, so that when the warrior wanted to use an arrow he would put his arm over his shoulder and pull forth the arrow for the ight. The ankle of the foot had an iron boot. When a ; wall was to be assaulted a battering ram was brought up. A battering ram was a great beam swung on chains in equilibrium. The battering ram would bo brought close up to the wall, and then a great number of men would take hold of this beam, pnsh it back as far as they could, and then let go, and the beam became a great swinging pendulum of destruction. Twenty or forty "men would stand in a movable tower on .the back of an elephant, the elephant, made drunk with wine and then headed toward the enemy, and, what with the heavy feet and the swinging proboscis, and the poisoned arrows shot from the movable tower, the destruction was appalling. War chariots were in vogue, and they were on two wheels, so they could easily, turn. A sword was fastened to the pole between the horses, so when they went ahead the sword thrust, and when they turned around it would mow down. The armies carried flags beautifully embroidered. Tribe of Judah carried a flag embroidered with a lion; Tribe of Reuben, embroidered with a man; Tribe of Dan, embroidered with cherubim. The noise of the host as they moved on was overwhelming. What with the clatter of shields and the rumbling of wheels, and the shouts of the captains, and the vociferation of the entire host, the prophet says it was like the roaring of the sea. Because the arts of war have been advancing all

these years you are not. to conclude that these armies of olden times were an uncontrollable mob. I could quote you four or five passages of Scripture showing yon that they were thoroughly drilled. They marched step to step, shoulder to shoulder, or, as the text expresses it, they were "fifty thousand which could keep rank, "..and "everyone could sling stones at a hair-breath and not mt83." , Nothing could be more important than this ereat National Enrammnfinh.

T7ndrilled troops can never stand before those that are drilled. At the time when other nations are giving such care to military tactics it behooves this nation to lack nothing in skill. We shall never have another war between North and South. The old decayed bone of contention American slavery has been cast out, although here and there a 'depraved politician takes it up to see if he can gnaw something off of it. . We are floating off further and f u rther -from t he possibility of sectional strife, but about foreign invasion I am not so sure. There is absolutely.-.-, no. room on this continent for any other nation. . I have been across the country again and again, and I know that we have not a " half inch of ground for the gouty foot of foreien despotism to stand on. I do not

know but that a half dozen nations envious of our prosperity may want to give us a wrestle. During our Civil War there were twe or three nations that could hardly keep their hands off of us. ft is very easy to pick national quarrels, ami if our nation escapes it much longer it will be the exception. If a foreign foe should come we want men like those of 1812 and like those who fought on both sides in 1S62. We want them all up and down the coast, Pulaski and Fort Sumter in the same chorus of thunder as Fort Lafayette and Fort Hamilton, men who will not only know how to fight, but how to die. When such a time comes, if it ever does come, the generations on the stage of action. will say: "My country will care for my family as they did in thesotdiers' asylums for the orphans in the Civil War, and my country will honor my dust as it honors those who preceded me in the patriotic sacrifice, and once a year at any rate on Decoration Day I shall be resurrected into the rememberanee of those for whom I died. Here I tfo for God and my country." If foreign fop-should ever come, all sectional animosities would be obliterated. Here go our regiments into battle, side by side, Fifteenth New York Volunteers, Tenth Alabama Cavalry, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Riflemen; Tenth Massaehuspits Artillery, Seventh South Carolina ftharp Shooters. I have no faith in the cry: 4No North no South, no East, no West." Let all four sec

tions keep their peculiarities and their preferences, each doing its own work, and not interfering with each other,each of the four carrying its part in the great harmony the base, the alto, tho tenor, the soprano in the grand march of the TJniom I Congratulate you, the officers and soldiers of the National Encampment, that if a foreign attack should at any time be made you would be ready, and there would bo millions of the drilled men of the North and South, like the men of my first text, who could keep rank, and like the men of my second text, that would not miss a, hair-breadth. At this National Drill, where thirtyone States of the Union are represented, and between the decorations of tho graves of the Southern dead, wnich took place a few days ago, and the decorations of the Nori hern dead, which shall lake place to-morrow, 1 would stir the Christian patriotism and gratitude. Nov only of this soldiery here present, but of ail the people, by putting before them the difference lietween these times when the soldiers of all sections meet iu . peace, and the times when they met in contest. Contrast the feeling of sectional bitterness in 1862 with the feeling of sectional unity in 1887. At the first date tho South had banished the National air, "The Star-spangled Banner," and the North had banished the popular air of "' Way Down South in Dixie." The Northern people were "mudsills" and the Southern people were "white trash' The more Southern people were killed in battle tho better the Northern people liked it. The more Northern people were killed in battle, the better the South liked it. For four years the head of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis would have been worth a million dollars, if delivered on either side of the line. No need now, standing in orir pulpits and platforms, of saying that the North and South did not hato each other. To estimate how very dearly they loved each other, count up the bombshells that -pere hurled, and the carbines that were loaded, and the cavalry horses that were mounted, North and South facing each other all armed, in the attempt to kill. The two

sections net only marshaled all their earthly hostilities, but tried to reach up and get hold of the sword of heaven,ar;d the prayer of the Norther and Southern pulpit gave more information to the Leavens about the best mode d! settling this trouble than was ever used. For four years both sides tried to get hold of the Lord's thunderbolts, but could not quite roach them. At the breaking out of the war we had not. for months'heard of my dear uncle, Samuel T. Talmage, President of the Oglethorpe University, in Georgia. He was about the grandest man t ever knew, and as good as good could be. The first we heard of him was his opening prayer in the Confederate Congress in Richmond, which was reported in the New York papers, which prayer if answered would, to say the least,have left all his Northern relatives in very uncomfortable circumstances. The ministry at the North prayed one way, and the ministry at the South prayed the other way. No use in hiding the fast that the North and the South cursed each other with a withering and all-consuming cur3e. ..... Beside that antipathy of war time I place the complete accord of this time. Not long ago a meeting in New York was held to raise money to build a Home at Richmond for crippled. Confederate soldiers, the meeting presided oyer by a man who lost an arm and a leg in fighting on the Northern side, and the leg not lost so hurt that it does not amonnt to much. The Cotton Exhibition, held not long ago at Atlanta, was attended by tens of thousands of Northern people, and by General Sherman, who was greeted with kindnesv though they had never seen him before. At the New Orleans Exhibition, held two years ago, every Northern State was represented. A thousand-fold kindlier feeling after the war than before the war. No more use of gunpowder in this country, except for ride practice, or Fourth of Jul' pylrotechnics, or a shot at a roebucfc in the Adirondacks. Contrast also the domestic life of those timea with the domestic life of these times. Many of you are either leaving liome or far away from it communicating by uncertain letter. What a morning that was when you left home! Father andmother crying, sisters crying, you smiling outside but crying inside. Everybody nervous and excited. Boys of the blue and gray! wTh ether you started from the ban ks of the Hudson, or tho Savannah, or the Androscoggin, don't you remember ; the scenes at the front door, at the rail-car windoWi .on the steamboat landing? The huzza could not drown out the suppressed sadness. Don't you remember these charges to write home often, and take good care of yourself, be goad boys, and the good-by kis3 which they thought, and you thought, might be forever. Then the: homesickness as you paced the river-bank on a star-light night on picket duty, and the sly tears which you wiped off when you heard a group at the camp-fire singing the plantation song about the old Folks at home, m The dinner of hard-tack on Thanksgiving

Day and the .Uhnstmss without any

presents, and the long nights in the hos

pital so different from the sickness when

you were at heme with mother and sis

ter at the bedside and the clock in the

hall giving the exact moment for the medicine: and that forced march when

your legs ached, and more than all, your

heart ached. Homesickness which had iu it a suffocation and a pang worse than

deatn.

Beside that domestic perturbation and homesickness of those days put the

sweet domesticity of to-day. The only camp-fire you now ever sit at is the one kindled in stove or furnace or hearth. Instead of a half-ration of salt pork, a repast luxuriant because partaken of by

lovinc family circle and in secret confi

dences, Oh, now I see who those letters were for the letters you, the young soldier, took so long in your tent to write, and that you were so particular to pnt in the mail without any one seeing you, lest you be teased by your comrades. God spared you to get back, and, though the old people have gone, you have a home of your, own construction, ,and you often contrast those awful absences and .filial and brotherly and loverly heartbreaks with your present residence, which is the dearest place you will find this side of heaven. The place wftere your children were born is the place where you want to die. Two write the figure of 1862, 1 set up four crystals of tears. To write the figures of 1887 I stand up four members of your household-figures of rosy cheeks and flaxen hair, if I can get them to standstill long enough. Contrast also the religious opportunities of twenty years ago with now. Often on tho march rrom Sunday .morn till night, or commanded by officers who considered the names of God and Christ of no use except to swear by. Sometimes the drumhead, the pulpit and you standing in heat or cold, all the surroundings of military life having a tendency to make von reckless. No privacy for prayer or bible-reading. No sound of church bells. Sabbaths spent far away from the place where you were brought up. Now, the. choicest sanctuaries, easy pew, all Christian surroundings, tho air full of God and Christ, and heaven and dc xology. Threo mountains lifting themselves into the holy light Mount Sinai thundering its law, Mount Calvary pleading the sacrifice, Mount Pisgah displaying the promised land. Contrast of national condition: 1802, spending money, by the millions, in devastation of pioperty and life; 1887, the finances so reconstructed that all the stock gamblers of Wall street combined can not make a national picnic; 1802, surgeons of the land settling broken bones and amputating gangrened liaibs, and studying gun-shot fractures, and inventing easy ambulances for the wounded and dying: i887,sureeoiiH giving v.heir

attentions to those in casualty of agriculture of commerce or mechanical life, tho j

rushing of the ambulance through our streets, not suggesting battle, but relief of some one fallen in peaceful industries 1862, thirty-five million inhabitants iii this land; 1887, fifty millions; 1862, wheat about eighty million bushels; 1887, the wheat wTill be about five hundred million bushels; 1802 Pacific Coast, five weeks from the Atlantic; 1887, for three reasons Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Northern Pacificonly, seven days across. Look at the long line of churches, universities, asylums and houses with which during the last few years this land has been decorated. Living soldiers? f tho North and Somth, take new and special ordination at this season of the year to garland the speculchersof your fallen comradcB. Nothing is too good for their memories. Turn all the private tombs and the national cemeteries into gardens. Ye dead of Malvern liill and Cold Harbor and Murfreesboro and Manassas .Junction and Cumberland Gap and field hospital,

receive these floral offerings of the liv

ing soldiers.

But they shall come again, all the dead troops. We sometimes talk about earthly

military reviews, such as took place in

Pans in the time oi Marshal JNey, in London m t he time of AVellincton, . and

in our own land but what tame things

compare with the fioal review, when all

the armies of the ages shall pa83 for divine and angelic inspection. St. John says the armies of heaven ride on white horses, and I don't know but many of the old cavalry horses of earthly battle, that wero wounded and worn out in service, may have resurrection, it would be only that, raised up and ennobled, they would bo resurrected for the grand review of the judgment day. It would not take any more power to. reconstruct their bodies than to reconstruct ours, and I should be very glad to see them among the white horses of Apocalyptic vision. Hark to the trumpet blast, the reveille of the last judgment They come up. All the armies of all lands and all centuries, on whichever side they fought, whether for freedom or despotism, for the right or for the wrong. They cornel They cornel Darius and Ryrus, and Sennacherid and Joshua and David,

leading forth the armies of Scriptural times; Hannibal and Hamilcar leading forth the armies of the Carthaginians; Victor Emanuel and Garibaldileading on the armies of the Italians; Tamerlane and Ghengis Kann followed by the armies of Asia; Gustavus Adolphus and Ptolemy Philopater and Xerxes and Alexander and Semiramus and Washington leading battalion after battalion. The dead American armies of 1776 and 1812, and one million of Northern and Southern dead in our Civil AVar. They come up, They pass in review. The six million fallen in Napoleonic hattles, the twelve million Germans fallen in the Thirty Years War, the fifteen million in the war under Sesostris, the twenty million fallen in the wars of Justinian, the. twenty-five million fallen in the Jewish wars, the eigty million fallen in the Crusades, the ono hundred and eighty million fallen in tne wars with Saracens and Turks, the thirty-five billion men estimated to have fallen in battle, enough, according to one statistician, if they stood four abreast, to reach around the earth 442 times. But we shall have time to see them pass in review before the throne of judgment. The cavalryman, the artillerymen, the spearmen, the infantry, the sharp-shooters, the gunners, the sappers, the miners, the archers, the skirmishers, men of all colors, of all epaulets, of all standards, of all weaponry, of all countries. Let the earth be especially balanced to bear their tread. Forward! Forward! Let the orchestra of the heavenly galleries play the grand march,

joined by all the fifers. drummers and

military bands that ever sounded victory

or defeat at Eylau or Borodino, Marathon or Thermopylae, Bunker Hill or Yorktown, Solferino or Balaclava, Seden or Gettysburg, from the time when Joshua

halted astronomy above Gibeon and Aiolon till the last man surrendered to

Garnet Wolseley at Tal-el-Kebir.

iNations, companies, hattahons, ages,

centuries and the universe! Forward in

the grand review of the judgment! Forward! Gracious and eternal God! On

that day may it be found that we are al

marching in t he righ t regiment aud that we carried the risrht standard, and that

we fought under the. right commander,

all heaven, some on amethystine battle

ment and others standing in the shining

gates, some on pearl v shore and others

on ferreted hhrhts, invinsr s the resound

ing million-voice cheer; "Lo Him that

overcometh!" Blessed be the Lord God

of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with

His glory. Amen and Amen!

VOYAGE Mm A SLAVER.

Protecting the Grape Crop, Philadelphia Kecord.

Since the rot first made its appearance

on grapes many experiments have

been made in order not only to prevent

its ravages but to stamp out the disease,

and, although the damage is annually

reduced, yet it is still a formidable enemy to the grape grower, as the work around the vines must be done early, no

time can now be lost. All the old wood

or decayed rubbish around the vines

must be destroyed by fire, and the ground made perfectly clean before it shall be

plowed or distributed, then saturated

wirn a solution or copperas, wnicn is

prepared by dissolving one pound of copperas in six gallons of lime water. As

the disease is propagated by diseased

berries, the work does not cease until

the end of the season, so every berry

that shows the slightest signs of attack

must bo thrown in the fire and com

pletely consumed. It will not do to bury

the berries, or attempt to destroy them

in any other manner. This work will be very laborious, but every year there

after the cases will be fewer and the

work will decrease. If all the growers in

a community wrould act together it would

bo to their mutual advantage. We weather is very favorable to the rot, as it has been noticed that its ravages are

not so great during periods of draught The success attending the bagging of grapes is due to the fact that the clusters are kept dry, but the bagging of the grapes must be done j ust as soon as the young clusters thail have been formed, as it will not do to postpone the work till later. In some sections Tesort is had to roofing the vines with boards or

muslin, which method has proved suc

cessful. The grape rot is a disease wdiich

is annually propagated by spores, and to destroy these spores is to prevent tie

spread of the disease; but it may require

several seasons before the disease can

be entirely destroyed. The proper

fertilization of the crop is also another

important matter, as well as good cultivation. The grape crop is a valuable

ono, as less labor is required in the vine

yard, when free from disease, than is

necessary for grain crops, while the profits are much larger. It pays, there

fore, to make every attempt to prevent

the rot, and all grapegrowers should

unite in the effort.

How He Knew. Bertie Pa, is that new Mr. Hanks an

ice dealer?

Pa Yes, Bertie, how did you know? Bertie -I didn't know, only I thought

ho was, for when the minister prayed

for hot weather vesterday he said

"Amen" awfully loud.

Queen Victoria was 63

the 24th,

years old on

"Early iu tho ifties, when the slave trade was booming," said l'eter Ash ton, seaman, "I was in Havana ono day, being one of the crew oi an American sugar ship, when I fell in with an American sea Captain named Scott. I was only a

boy then, not yet out of my second year of apprenticeship, and, of course, I was a greenhorn in the ways of the world. This Scott seemed to take a great liking to me,and I must confess that he treated me in such a way that the feeling was reciprocated. He claimed to own a schooner which was engaged in locating a treasure ship, which had gone down years before off tho island of Jamaica, with millions aboard. The wreck had been located, and he was then in Havana to secure some needed outfit. He had a crew of jolly good fellows, each one of whom was to be made rich within

a few weeks, and he pleaded with me to mn ftwav from mv shin and ioin him.

He was a man of the 'world, and he could put things before me in a way to stifle my conscience. I was a well-meaning boy, and only just such a man could have influenced rae. Bxcited by his stories of riches to he got by a few weeks' work, and further worked on by his seeming great kindness of heart, I finally consented to jump my ship and go with him. His schooner was not lying in that port, but across the island to the south, and I made the journey on foot in the company of ten or twelve men whose looks and language indicated anything but jolly good fellows. But for tho fact that two or three of them took a liking to me, and kept me braced up with pleasant falsehoods, I should have run away before I had been with them two houre. "We found the schooner lying in the mouth of a creek, and when the crew was musteied we numbered sixteen without the officers. The Captain was

an American, the mate a half breed Spaniard; and the cook a negro. It waa agreed that I was to wait on the Captain and keep certain accounts. I had been, well educated for a boy of that period,, and wrote a good hand aud was quick at figures. I was made a ship's clerk, and in thi3 capacity received rice, hard bread, and other provisions in great quantities, and checked them off to the debt of the schooner, which was of American build and called the Albatros. We lay there three or four days, taking in provisions and water, and dnring this time half a dczen Spaniards came aboard to do business with the Captain. The last two who came brought a num ber of small, stout wooden boxes, which were carried into the cabin by some of our men. T heard it whispered about that the boxes were full of gold and silver and it was only then that I beganto puzzle over the way we were setting out to recover lost treasure. We were taking in altogether too much provisions and water for such a trip, and

why were we tailing boxes ot money along? I heard about "the 'blackbirds' of the slave trade, but I had no suspicions that tho Albatros was in that line. I did, however, make up my mind that she was a smuggler, but there was no opportunity to get away after coming to this conclusion. We had hauled out to an anchorage, and communicated with the shore by boat. Had there been any ill treatment on the part of Captain or mate, I might have made an attempt to Swim ashore,but they wero very friendly. "When we were ready to sail we still remained at anchor, and I caught up enough from one and another to understand that a British war vessel ras off the Isle of Pines watching us. This fitted into my theory of smuggling, and

I became anxiou3 for fear we should be

captured. On the evening of the second

aav alter we wTere quite reaay to sau a

boat came in from the island with news

for the Captain, and in a few minutes

wo weighed anchor. The easiest way

out was by the "western channel, but

we took the eastern one, and by so til '

aomg avoid eu tne cruiser, wmen was

probably waiting for us at the western

end of the island. At least we got safe

ly out to sea, ami then began a voyage

which did not end until we were in the river Mpashi, which empties into the

sea about fifty miles above Cape Frio. "Long before this I had come to know

tne Dusmess in which the Amatros was

engaged. At first I looked upon it with horror, but being a native of the South and my father having been a slave owner, the Captain had no great difficulty in making'me believe that we were doing a great favor to the barbarians by removing them from their savage life and terrible surroundings to the plantations of Cuba, wrhere, as he put it, 'they could be civilized, enlightened, and taught the precious Gospel.1 It would have been, all the same whether I was satisfied or dissatisfied. I was aboard of a slayer, and could not leave her until the end of tho return voyage, and perhaps not then, though I was fully determined to jump her at the peril of my life. "We ran up the river about twenty miles to a large native village, and we found at least half a cargo in the 'bar-

racoons, it was spot cash ousiness.

We paid so much per head cash down,

aud in less than a week the schooner had

her complement. We took on more water and provisions, rigged up the

spare deck, and as fast as the negroes

came aboard they were stowed by the

mate. Men and women were huddled

into the smallest possible space, audit

was pitiful to note their looks and bear

ing as they descended into the liold,aher

a last glance around them. As the

schooner was very fast,she was crowded, and when the hold was hnally packed wdth its living freight, not only tho sight but the smell was something to be remembered for a lifetime. Wo were loaded and ready to sail when word

came up tho rivtr that a sus picious sail

was hovering about. Tho weather was

horribly warm, and the blacks would

soon begin dying oft if we did not get to -r e 1.1. 1 '

sea. in spue oi tne news wo ran uown

that afternoon, and came to anchor just

above the bar. There wero scouts at the

mouth of t ho river, and they reported a

British cruiser slowly working her way

in against the land breeice. It would be dark before she could come up, and as

he night promised to be stormy we

made all preparations to run out as soon

as darkneiss fell.

"There was plenty of water on the bar for the schooner, and as soon as it was fairly dark we ran out. The wind was favorable for us to run up the coast,

thus having the black forests for a background, and it was not until we were ten miles above the river that we laid our course. Nothing whatever was seen of tho cruiser. By midnight we had a stiff gale and smart sea, and, although not obliged to batten down the hatches, the poor victims below were racked with seasickness, and made the rest of the night hideous with their cries and lamentations. AVo were seven, days out

and the horrors of the slave traffic were strong upon me from the sights and smells I was compelled to endure, when

at daylight one morning, after running for several hours under easy sail, we discovered a British man-o'-war on our beam. She must have run a parallel course with us ior hours. We were under her guns before she was made out, and a shift on the part of our Captain to increase his distance resulted in. a shot being pitched aboard of us. Half an hour later we were prisoners, charged with a crime which had hung hundreds of men. Wo were taken into Sierra Leone, slaves, prisoners and all. I was tho only one of the Albatros not put on trial. The Captain and most of the crew testified to the fact that I was enticed aboard the fchooner under fa.lse pretences,and after lying in jail for a month I secured a passage to the Canary Islands,

whence I goc a ship for Boston."

STATE NK Wtt.

3! ISGELLA.IS'EOUS N0TBS.

Great shakes Carpet-beaters. Locked horns closed saloons.

M. Goblet proves to have been a

tumbler.

Motto of the massage doctorI knead

thee'every hour.

Solitude is tho name of a new post-

office in Kentucky.

The most fashionable thing in :.Wall

street stock kings.

Albany has sixty members iu its knee

breeches association.

Tid Bits: Sunday in ISew York is be

coming known as Thirst-day.

The pitcher of a base ball club at West

Branch, Mich., is a preacher.

Even English papers assert that

Americans are the best dressed women

at Loudon drawing rooms.

Mr. Abell, of tho Baltimore Sun, with

$20,000,000, is ' said to be the richeEt

newspaper man in the 'world. St. Louis Magazine: Strange to say, no publisher announces the usual posthumous novel by Hugh Conway. Senator Leland Stanford has been inspecting his big vineyard at Vina, Tehama County, California, It is the largest vineyard in tho world, having not less than 3,300 acres planted in bearing vines, while the entire ranch comprises 30,000 acres. An English experimenter finds that contrary to general opinion, a growth of ivy over a h mse renders the interior entirely free from mohture; the ivy extracts every possible particle of moisture from wood, brick or stone for its own sustenance, by means of the tiny roots, which work their way into even the hardest tone. The architectural iron works throughout the country are receiving a great deal of business for the summer and fall delivery. The character of the work has been greatly improved. The designing is much finer, the cost has declined, and these facts have helped to increaso the demand for such work for a greatly-increased number of uses. mere is more in a ton of coal than most persons are aware of. Besides gas, a ton of gas coal will yield 1,500 pounds of coke, '-'0 gallons of ammonia water, and 140 pounds of coal tar. Destructive distillation of the coal tar ' gives 69 0 pounds of pitch, 17 pounds of creosote, 14 pounds of heavy oils, 9.5 pounds of napthayellow,6.8 pounds oftiaphthaline, 4.75 pounds of naphthol, 2,25 pounds of alizarine, 2.4 pounds of solvent naphtha, 1.5 pounds of phenol, 1.2 pounds of auriue, -1.1 pound of aniline, .77 pound of toludme, .46 pound of anthracine and .9 pound of toluene. The Philadelphia Ledger observes that during the warm months mortality is great er than it is in the winter months. "A considerable percentage of this," says the Ledger, 'is to be ascribed to intemperance of strong drink, but the victims in quite as large a proportion of cases, and especially among' children and women, are persons to whom the taste of khot and rebellious liquors' is scarcely known. The truth is that their is 'death in the pot" as well as in the bottle. Danger from overeating is fully as insidious as danger from drink. Too much of anything, even of the most simple food, is risky at any time, but especially when the whole system, mental and physical, is under strain, and fatigue. Simple food, taken in moderation and slowly enjoyed, is a prescription to prevent the need of pills and potions." Mind Reader Bishop's Powers. New "York special Mar. 17. . . . . AVashington Irving Bishop, the mind reader, gave a peculiarly trying test of his power, this afternoon, at the Hoffman House, in the presence of members of tho press, of the theatrical, profession, doctors, lawyers and others. He bor-

io wed a brooch from Mrs, Frank Leslie, which he gave to a committee of four

gentlemen previously chosen from the

audience, telling them to conceal it any

where within a mile of the hotel. The committee drove off in a carriage, returning after a half-hour's absence Bishop was then blindfolded. This was done by tying cotton battiug around his eyes. Then a black badge wasput over his head and fastened around his neck. A two-

seated open carnage was waiting at the door, and in this Mr. Bishop and three members of the committee took seats, and Bishop took the reins and drove off through a great crowd of people and vehicles, guiding the horses with remarkable dexterity, considering that he could not use his eyes. He drove over a devious route, and just near the southeast comer of Gramercy Park stopped the

vehicle and alighted, tne committee following. A large crowd had run after the carriage all the way from the Hodman House, and Bishop had hard work making his way through the throng that

flocked about him. He crossed tho street and proceeded along East Gramercy Park until he reached tho entrance to tho Grauiercy-park Hotel, into which he turned without hesitation, walked into

a room and placed his hand, on a vase which rested on a table. He hold his

hand there for a few seconds, and then

requested that tho vase be removed. His wish was complied with, and ho picked the brooch up from the table, w-hore it had been left by thecommittee.

A street railroad will bo built at Mun cie. The salvation army is bombarding Wabash. New Albany will make 0,000,000 brick this year. There is not a vacant house to bo rented in Miahaw&ka. St. Jocsph county reports prospects good for an immense wheat crop. Fort Wayne's school enumeration is 25,897, a gain of 400 over last year.

A rain and hail storm has "almost de

stroyed" the melon crop in Jackson

county.

A lot of cattls whipped from Owers-

boro, Ky., to Evansville, is said to be

affected with pleuro-pneumonia.

William Ward and wife, on trial at Winchester, for the murder of their in

fant child, have been acquitted.

Three Angola sportsmen caught ohe day recently with a hook and line, fourteen pickerel, the largest one weighing 18 pounds. .. . The infant child of Mrs. Frank Scfiiilan, atFairland, was scalded to deanh, Saturday, by pulling a tub of boiling water over it. . The United States Supreme Court driven well decision will cost jfarmern in tho northern part of the State many thousand dollars. The Supreme Court has decided hat the Indiana statute attempting to regulate the delivery of telegraph messages in another State is unconstitutional;; Thaddeus Wright has been appointed receiver of the Wayne Agricuhural

Works at Richmond, an old institution. Liabilities $215,000, assets $31,000 BeGraff Nelson, snenrl o A hen county, died at Pleasant Lake, Friday, from pneumonia. He was a son of the -State House commissioner, I. D, G, Nelson. Rush county boasts ofthe possession of more trotting and pacing horses than any other ten counties in Indiana. Seventyfive stallions are located in the counjty. Burglars entered the residence of : Ben Kempner, at South Bend, and escaped with several hundred dollars' worta of silverware and other articles of value. The farmers of this vicinity need: not feel that their wool crop is an unprofit

able crop at 2$ cents for unwashed; and 85 cents for washed. Elkhart Review. The cherry crop is a slim one in. this part of the State, and the shipments of this fruit from New Albany this season will not be half a3 large as last season's shipments. New Albany Ledger. ' The county seat of Noble county is to be removed from Albion to Kendallyille. The commissioners appointed to appraise the value of the county property thus evacuated place it at $24,000. j Wheat and arags are lookiug remarkably well in Jackfion county, but oats will be short. Hog cholera has appeared among the hogs in the western part of the county ,and vast numbers of them are dying. . . . . ' John Harrison, tho young farmer of Clay township,-four miles west of Kokomo, who on Friday night shot his wife fatally, claiming that it was by accident, on hearing that his wife had mads an anti-mortem statement that he : had murdered her, shot and killed himself. Tho catalogue of Wabash College just issued shows 241 students in attendance during the year, as follows: Post-graduates, 10; seniors, 21; juniors, 28; sophomores, 20; freshmen, 51; senior preparatory, 48; junior preparatory, 47; English, 21, . , . . ' . .. i .; y : George Esmond, of Fort Wayne; sued John Alexander, of Largo township, Wabash county, on a note for $250 given a year ago for ten bushels of Bohemian oats. A jury Tuesday night returned a

verdict for the defendant. F&inond

claimed to be the innocent, purchaser of

the paper. j

Mrs. Emma Molloy received a hearty

indorsement from the Women's; Chris

tian Temperance Union, in its session

at Richmond. The union does not

believe the terrible charges tha

nave been brought against net, ami

commends her and her labors at length

in a series of resolutions. . f

An alarming and fatal c-ipidemic has

broken out at Oxford, Benton county

It attacks young children, principally

and in most cases terminates in death in

a few davs. The sickness is severe from

the start, and tlie afflicted chiid soon

eoes into snasras. which end in; death

There were three or four? deaths las

week, and many other children tre sick

Henrv Blocher. one of the most

eccentric characters in northern Indiana

died near Wabash, Sunday. He was an

en tensive money-lender at exorbitant

rates of interest, receiving as high as 33

per cent, tho condition being that al

notes should be considered as canceled

at his death. Blocher held notes for

large amounts.

The residence of J. T. Forsr.ih, at

Trafalgar, which is connected by a; smal

copper wire telephone with the large

brick store of J. J. Moore, was struck by lightning, which, after shattering the

residence, followed the wire to the store,

130 yards away, cutting the wire in

small bits and doing some damage by setting goods on firo where the hot bits

of wire fell on them, . . :

Three flowing wells have been s:ruck

in A ngola. One is 37 feet deep, and the

other i wo 43 feet. The largest dows

17,280 gallons of water a day, : and

through a two-inch pipe will carry the water fifteen feet above ground. They

are within a few rods of each ovher,

and while two of them give soft y ater

the other gives hard. Rowland T. DePauw, Charles W.j

Pauw, Peter 11. Stoy and John W. 3ay,

Thursday morning, qualified as execu

tors in the Floyd circuit court of the

estate of the late Washington O; De

Pauw. Messrs. John McOullough,

Hoses Jrwin,Elijah Newland,MvA, Weir

and J. 31. .tames were accepted as

bondsmen in the sum of $3,000,000.' The trial of Samuel Young, formerly editor and proprietor of the Beiphi Journal, came to a close at Monticallo Friday. Ho was charged with forgery. The prosecution was vigorous. The jury, after being out fifteen minutes returned a vdrdiet of acquittal. Pullic sympathy was very strongly with the accused, and his acquittal is heartily indorsed on all hands. Bent Jones, a lifo-time convict from

Stamper White, a farmf ?ving east!' Rushyille, was robbed of $1,05, Thurtiday night, by a confidence ma?iw Out Tuesday a stranger, well dressed, cft to Mr. White's and wanted- -to purchaaUr his farm, but Mr White told hini' he' was not anxious to sell, bu t would - sell for $8fc per acre. The stranger accepted the proposition, and wanted White to put up a forfeit of $1,00$. White .told him that he did not havehemoney by

him, addifig that he had some oo notes; but the stranger insisted on his putting up the cash, and Wiiite wetto" Rushville, Thursday, . borrowed the

money from the bank, and tookife'home with him. On going to bed, he ptti t)ii money, with $45 he had iii his poc&etbook, in his stocking, and put it on. liuf' foot. About midnight he felt some ctaa pulling at his stocking,and on awaking, ho jumped out of bed, took a chair and made for the thief whom he discovered to be the purchaser of his farm; but fhei at ranger went through thOHloorinto iho kitchen, closing it after Mm, blewftmt a

light which was placed in the Jrite u'?n

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Orange county, confined in the Southern prison, has been granted a patent on ; a folding table. Tho invention is coin sidered to be very valuable, and is gotten up on an entire new principle from

others horetofor made. The patent on the iron eas'ings alone is supposed to bo worth $100,000, if the inventor wasputof confinement to properly dispose of the:n,

and made his escapCi v. The Acton Assembly camp-mestmg " ; ' have arranged the programme for 'this ff season, beginning JTnly 20 and ending, ' Aug 13. The following speakers andt ;.v', lecturers arc on the prolamine: ProfV DeMott, of pePauw; BeWitt Miiler, of r Pouehkeosie, N. Y.: Prof. J. C. IUd--

path, of Dei?attw; Wallace Bruce;? Miss ; Catherine O. Kauffihan; Prof Ci J30t- -ton, of Cleveland, l. in i PuTduej Prof: White, of Gincirmatk Will:' Carlton; Dr. J. S. Tevis; Gen. Berk BUr"

rison; Major Grubbs afcd-Geh. Bajiter-

Patents were issuedto Indianian Tuesday as follows: CI tne, eorga J ; ' assignor of one-naif toJ W, B, Lelmien, Goshen road cart; Grossman, John A., and N . On Bueh, '.. assignors to v Er C.k Atkins & Co., Indianapolis, saw-swaging :

machine; Hand, Townson, assignor' of 4 one-half to O. Hand, Shelby ville? wasW " ingmacbine; tine," Jl, Andrews," V J fumigator; McGriff, .John N., Anderson, ; j

corn-plunter; McKinnejr, Wm. H.,f Evansvdle, non-conducting jacket: WuU cox, Charles D., nppvi7 leaner. ' - - J "' V.' INDIANA NATURAE A NnJTEafc V. The "CulloughrVttsiivine 4 Art

derson lias been tested with a shmdard

mercury gauge. The open pressure

4 13-10 pounds to the sq snare inh fxom a 5 1 inch casing,8ho wing the ontpu t of gas to be 14;06 1,421 cubic feet eveiy jtenty '1 four hours .- : j " s-. ' ' '.. . 4; " Gas was struck at Plaiafieid,; fedne day, at a depth of only 3.50 feet, m sand stone. '' When lighted it blazed :tp,a height of seven feet; out of aS r eight inch casing pipe. Though it is supposed to be mere pecket gas, it is remarkable t that the flow increases with l eAchtroke of the drill;. . ?;, -'Vv''-V -': M-, Gas well No. 3, on the Huteldnspa Stanley iarm, a mile southeast of , thev

Anderson court-house, is flowing 9,000,000 cnbio feet a day. It is owned by the

Standard Oil company. Well 1. 2 is estimated to 14,091,821 feet every ' day. This would make JLtv the .biggestfeir ih: "the Stale. ' . ;. ' 'v .y: .. .. At Redkey, on TiimcUy,.....&edriU at work on well No. 1 struck a strong: flow of gas at a depth of 900 feottena & ieet in the Trenton rocrand ceased. !

operatns until next rmorning, whenwork was resumed; At each-plunge oV ; the drill the flow increases, and; the roar of the escaping- gas san be heard ,foi! ' milesThe watchman at; the Birmpimt -wellii entered (he derrick, Friday evening. J with Ids lantern and the gas was ignited.' 4 heavy explosion followed, -biwing;-the cap off the pinei and the eseapingr VT. gas shot up ward enveloping the demck in flames and soon dtatroyinga t. . Thev

as ,. 'is now Dumuig . at tne rare ; of; 12,000,600 feet a 'day; The, wtchman was badly singed. :;y ' '. 4 Ga well. No. 4, of jfaiionj was driied into 'IVenton rock THiesday afr.ernoon, producing an imnserflow-of j Thsir' crust had no sooner been, opehx than

the gas came np with ruh.rry ihg ? iitsoi stone as large as hulled walnuta.. The drilling was continued seyen iee into the Trenton. At that' de th - the,:, well is fully the equal of the fan pus No. ,?

3, and halMhe size of tne greitt air- ,

;, Workmen were trying to test he pif sure of the gas weH; at Knights wn y j

Tuesday evening, ana succeeueo m put- r

ting t he cap on thercasingi Iri' twenty

that the casing broke loose bek'W; and.i ' 7 :f. J

forty feet of it was blown out of the well

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in tho derrick at thetimej was in jured. -

The Roman nose denotes a pr6pejasitv:

for adventure. . v' ., ' ',:." ".f.'.i'r ' " A w:ide nose with open nostrils m atmark of great sensualityr; ; . ; T1;; ; A cleft nose shows benevaenos-ft' : : was the nose of St.jyincent de Jaul. A stiaight nose denotes a jts sen ocs, fitipj judicious and energetricmiRd; Nazography is the science of) divining the character, habits apd incHnaUonii of ? people by a simple i noses.' v" l;,vl,lV::V ' The curved, thin nose is a mark of a ; ; brilliant; miu d, but vaiit, and; 1 disposed-: -

to be ironical. It is the nose 0 a dream- y

or, a poet, or a critic. ? .

The curved, flesh'v ncae is a mark

domination and cruelty. Calerme der

Mediciind Ehzabeth of England. had

noses of this kind, f .'!;' :

It is desirable tliattbe nose should W :

as longtis possible, this being a; sige 'raA

moritj'andpoweir ajid; genius mtr . toji stance Napoleon and$

noses. : .. ,,- "f! ..:

If the tine of the nose be re cntriin -

that is, if the nose is tuirned .yTflfi;

notes that its ownei? has a

mind, sometimes course and? kjoiffi

playful,)leasant pr frolicsome. A'

Uncle fctilasrrl paid ywt f 5 f or that dfe

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didn't I?v v . ;

Uncle I kra Yep, v

Uncle Silas N yew aatd . as neiwita AiM 1rtt -1l4t.ti: Trtl- l I ' 1 -.r

UnclpEzra-Yeii, Uhcle S: lasWell, I lied hini oaV J?

night an' ae ddrt iiptnotb ; Ue

down an' j;o ter sleep. 'vf! '

Uncle EzraThH'e all lighl he don't

like ;t her coons till; tey'r b'iledv K m.y

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