Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 33, Bloomington, Monroe County, 18 June 1887 — Page 2

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BY H. J. FELTU3-

BLOOMINGTON.

INDIANA

The Southwestern Iowa and Northwestern Missouri Veteran Association will hold its next reunion August 16, 17and 18,1887.

Wwr Vikointa is able to boast having the two youngest members in the United States Senate. Senator Kenna is only 39, years old and Senator Faulk-ner-41.

A TOUCH OF NABTRB. When first tne dolicatfc crocus thrusts iU nose tJ? thTOttgh th Artftirigs of belated fcndw, Whon folded green things in dini woods unclose Their crinkled spears, a suddon treinofr goes In to m y veins and m alces me kith and kin To every Wild corn thing that thrills and blows. Wiated beside this blazing sea coal Are, 'fete in the city's ceaseless roar and din, Far from thebrambly path I used io know, Far from the gurgling brooks that slip and shine, I share the tremulous sense of bud and brier Ahd inarticulate ardors of the vine. T. B. Aldrich in Harper's Magazine.

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jfc B. Sakoent, the noted New Haven manufacturer, has started on a trip around the world. He shook hands with each one of his two thousand employes on the day of his departure. ft is now doubtful if John Sherman will have the support of his- brother, the General, in his race for the Presidency. Gen. Sherman recently met Mrs. Cleveland and" was completely captivated. He says that he and Mr. Bancroft "both decided we'd hate to havt, this pretty creature turned out." The gallant Gen. told Mrs Cleveland that she was an ideal first lady of the land," that she resembled the Princess of Wales, and that altogether she was an honor to the counTnnif i KitmnjM wha wan at one time

private secretary to President Garfield.

is attempting to, form a company mr tne conatmction of a tricyclo railroad. The cars are to- be forty-six inches wide and are to run on single track suspended above existing railroad . tracks. Mr. Nichols claims that a speed of 2t0 miles an hour can be thus attained, and that the journey from New York to San Fran

cisco can be made in a day. He will probably form a combination with the JCeely Motor man.

Hannibal HAHURisnowtheonlyman-

alive ever elected to the vice-presidency

Since theontbreakof the war we have had Breckinridge, Hamlin, Johnson, Colfax, Wilson Wheeler, Arthur and Hendricks.

During that time there have been inter

regnums when Foster, Wade, Ferry, Bayard, Davis, Edmunds and Sherman, of the Senate, might have been President

had the chief executive tailed in his office At present, and under the new statute. Secretary Bayard is first in the line of presidential succession. There Is but one ex-President still living, i. e.

Batherford B. Hayes. Only two of the unsuccessful candidates for Vice President on the ticket of either of the great parties remain with us. These are George H. Pendleton and William H. English. Pendleton, who is at present the American Minister to Germany, ran on the ticket with George B. McClellan in 18My and Englisn on the Hancock ticket in 1880. All the gentlemen who have ever unsuccessfally ran " for the Presidency on the ticket of either of the two big parties are dead, except James G. Blaine.' Within the past two years two ex-Presidents Grant and Arthurfour ex-Vice Presidents Colfax. Wheel

er, (Arthur and Hendricks fonr unsuccessful Presidential candidates McClellan, Seymour, Tilden and Hancock--and three unsuccessful Vice Presidential nominees B. Grate Brown, Hendricks (in 1876) and John A, Logan have crossed the dark river. -"

G. A. K. BOYS.

The Department of $Tew York has 597

In Sumpter County, Georgia, there are 13,000 soldiers' graves. ... There are now 300,000 claims for pen. sions pending in the Pension Office. - The new pension buildine at Wash

ington ia rapidly nearing completion. There are 16,939 old soldiers registered on the Grand Army of the Republic books of Kansas. One thousand names have been added during the last three months. The sixth annual encampment of the Southern District, G. A. K., of Minnesota, was held at Albert Lea, Minn., during the past week, over 500 veterans attending. ; The Interstate Commerce Commission has decided that the inmates of the National Home for disabled volunteer soldiers, when traveling from one home to another can not do so for half fare rates. The number of regularly elected delegates to the National Encampment is 324. The Past National officers number 3G, the Council of Administration 38, and the Past Department Commanders ; Tua Department of Ohio, March 31, made the following showing: Members in good standing March 31,1887, 36,009, a net gain during the past year of 4,289. The total number of posts in " good standing at the present time is 637 f : The Twentieth Indiana Veteran Volunteer Association will hold its next reunion at Battle Ground, Ind., Sept. 1, where the regiment first went into camp and received its first lesson in the art of war. William E. Brown, of Valparaiso, Ind., is secretary of the association. The New Jersey Soldiers' Home is to be located at Kearney, opposite Newark, on the east bank, of the Passaic river. The State has appropriated $125,000 for the home. Seventeen acres of ground, costing $22,000, have been purchased. Six new building will be erected. The swords presented to Henry Ward Beecher while he was chaplain of the Thirteenth Regiment, N. G. 8. N. Y., have been presented to Company G of that regiment in memory of her husband. They will hang on the wall of the company room under a picture of Mr. -Beecher. - " s- The fourth annual reunion of "Crocker's Iowa Brigade" will be held at Davenport Iowa, Sept. 21 and 22. 4 This brigade was known at the time of its muster out,as the Third Brigade, Fourth Division, Seventeenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee, composed of the Eleventh, Tliirteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa Infantry Volunteers. The nnnal address will be delivered by Stephen A. Marine; a private soldier of Company G, Thirteenth Iowa.

txenerai Benjamin Harrison, of Indianapolis, Ind., has been presented with a medal recently found on a farm in .Morgan county in that State. It is made of - copper, and bears the inscription, "The J?eopIe Choice, the Hero of Tippecanoe' also the picture of a log cabin itnd a "barrel of cider, n the reverse .side were the words "Major General W.H. Harrison, Born February 9,1773' together with the bust of the .General.

Opie Reed lu Arknttsaw Traveler. Big Bill & Little Bill were combined in the forming of a strong evidence that friendship, which is supposed to be based upon judgment, is sometimes as capricious as love which, it is declared, has for its foundation a sort of impulsive fancy. Big Bill was almost a giant; Little Bill was almost a dwarf. They first met at a card table or rather a card

cotton bale on the Mississippi river and, as they expressed it, hankered at once for each other's society. They became so much attached to one another that they soon decided to settle down together, so, building themselves a cabin in Chicot county, Arkansaw, they began the business of "general merchants and dealer in plantation supplies." The very oddity of the firm was a valuable advertisement,and itis well known that negroes rode at least ten miles, Saturday afternoons, to deal with "the long an short o' it" The sign, which read as follows, "Big Bill A Little Bill," conveyed the only intelligence that the community has ever received with regard to their names, but, as the people who live in

the Mississippi river bottoms are not curious with regard to the affairs of other men, no one showed those symptoms of uneasy concern which make life in a hill-side village the fit abode of Beelzebub. Of course, some one would ask a question something like this: "Say, did you fellars lose your other names durin' the overflow?" But about the nearest to a satisfactory reply that was ever rendered was the following answer, sometimes delivered by the giant and sometimes by the dwarf;

"Yes; you see the water riz on us so

fasUthat we didn't have time to git out but a few uv our duds, and we 'lowed

that it would be better to load the boat

with the most necessary artivkles. We

did think fur a minute ur two that it

would be better to leave our dogs an' finish loadin' with our names, but then,

when we recollected what fine critters

they was at treein' all sorts uv varmints, we drapped our names an gathered up

the dogs." At night the two partners would sit in

a little cuddv-hole at the back end of

the store, and, smoking cob pips, would entertain each other until bedtime. Sometimes they sang songs of lively words but of most doleful tune, and

sometimes they formed themselves into

a sort of legislature and made speeches on the condition of the country. , Ten years at least were passed in this way, and not a difference of opinion sufficient to cause the slightest jar occurred

between the partners. Some of their customers declared that such warm friendship must come to an end, that sutli cheerful agreement was against human nature, but the slow drag of time brought no jar. One day while the two Bills were sitting in their store, waiting for customers, a woman drove up on a buck-board and asked for a drink of water; and, as rain began to fall at that very minute,

she was invited into the store. She was rather good-looking, with? long, black hair and the snappy quality of black eyes so much admired by river-bottom people. She was not backward in speaking of herself. "My name is Tildy Blake' said she, "and I have come here from East Tennessee to teach school over near Fetterson's sawmill, but I don't reckon there's much to be teached over there, only readin', writin and Arithmetic, mebby ,but it's no odds to me s'long as I get my money for it, for I am a widow woman with nobody to support but myself, itis true, but a person always likes to have plenty of this world's goods, for as my husband used to say before he died, and do you know that I have been thinkin' of him for the last hour? for he popped into my head back wonder when a razor-back hog jumped up from behind a log and made off through the woods, pp1 Dan was mighty partial to razor-back hogs, r'lowin' that their meat if you ever got any on 'em was sweeter than other meat, but it alius took a powerful sight of co'n, but Dan that was his name alius had plenty and he jest nachully tuck to the razor-back; and when he died he left three that eat me bodatiously out of house an' home, an' then was so naungry that they broke into a neighbor's field an' caused me to be sued for slander no, not for slander, but for damages. The slander suit came later on and finished breakin' me up; so here I am, with nothin'. but a few duds that air putty well worn, an' a boss an' a backboard. What's the name of this here firm." BigBill & LittleTBill," one of the partners replied. "What's your name?" addressing the giant. "Big Bill." "So I Bee, but what's your other nameL. "Wall, madam, it's been so long since I used it that it's too much kivered with rust to be reco'nized now." "You're a funny man; a funny man. Have you got a name?" addressing the dwarf; 1 "Yes'um, I'm pleased to say I have." "Whatisit?" "Little Bill." "Your other name. Got one ain't you?" "Yes'um, but I ain't washed it in so long that I'm ashamed to fetch it out" . " What was your dad's name?" "Little Buck." "Ob , you're a fanny man; a funny

man. uoin pretty wen witti tnis sto' I reckon?" Yes, middiin'." . "Sold anything to-day?" "Yes, some caliko and a couple of plow p'ints;" "Who keeps your books?" "Ain't got none." "How do you know how you stand?" "By lookin' 'round when we git up." "You're a peart leejle cretur, now ain't you? Which way isit to where I wan't to go?" "Straightahead."

"One of you Or both go With me; you kain't sell nothin' nio' this evening." ''Well, I don't kereef lib," said Big Bill. "An' I'm agreeable' Little Bill remarked. "Will ybur bread tray hold us?" "Bread tray? What do you mean? It's a buckboard." "Oh, skuse me. Failin to see it's ho'ns I tuk it fur er doe board." NBut that don't make it a bread tray' she replied. "Yes, it does' said Little Bill "fur you know bread tfajr ain't nothin' mo' than a dough board." "My conshuns alivel" turning to Big Bill, "the child is gittin pearter and pearter. .Wall, shet up yore contrapshun, an' le's go. The folks air expectm' me this month, an' 1 don't want 'em to wait supper." That night, while the two partners were sitting iu their cuddy hole, Big Bill, getting up to stretch his long legs, said:

" Little Bin, she nits me as pern' a

monstrous fine woman. How does she

hit you?"

"Slaps me the same way, Big Bill.

When I look at them black eyes ov

her'n I feel like goin' out in the woods

an' dancin.

"Little Bill, mebby that's what killed her husband. Mout have danced himself to death." "Didn't know but he might have been cat in two by one uv his razor back hogs," Little Bill replied. " S'pose we go out Sunday an' shine round a little with her." , "I'll jine you." They called on her the next Sunday, and it was such an odd thing tor the two Bills to go calling that many of the neighbors came and looked in upon them. Many attentions were bestowed upon the Widow Blake, and especially so by a young fellow who owned a spavined horse and a buggy with red wheels,

yet she seemed best pleased with the Bills. She invited them to go to church with her, which they did, and as she

walked hot ween them, no one, not even

the most observant eyed old maid,could

have decided upon her favorite.

That night, when the cob pipes had been lighted in the cuddy hole, Big Bill

said:

"She's arittin' better lookin' all the

time."

"Yes," replied the dwarf, "an' her

eyes ain't login' none uv their snap as

you go along. Tell you what's a fact,

Big Bill, I'll be hanged if I don't bTeve

I'm in love with her."

"Podner," replied Big Bin, "we air still in the same boat, fur I love her

myself. Shake." They arose and warmly shook hands.

They called on the widow again the

following Sunday, and again she walked

between them to church. Just before

parting that evening the two Bills held

her hands, changing about from right to left so that there might be no appear

ance of partiality. "Never seed a worn i x git bettor an' better lookin' faster than she do," said Big Bill, when they reached home and lighted their pipes. "Pints me in min' uv a young deer runnia' toward you. Gits puttier as it comes near. Look

nere, tattle mil, ten you wnat x was

thinkin' about. I was thinkin' that I would ax her to marry me."

"Blast me ef I wa'n't thinkin' 'bout

doin' the very same caper myself," "Say, little Bill." "Wall." "We kain't both marry her." "That's a fack," the dwarf replied,

after a moment's reflection. "What air we goin to do about it?" "I'll be dinged if I hardly know," said the giant, "You've got mo' larnin' than I have, so make some suTjestion." "No, I hain't got mo' l'arnin'." "W'y, you told me that you spelled way over in a book onae." "Yes, I did," replied Little Bill, but I've dunlorgot all I kno wed about it." "Wall, I never did know nothin1 about it an' a man that has kno wed an' has dun forgot still knows mo' than the man that never did know." "S'pozen we leave it to her," said Little Bill. "We've been together too long to fall out even about- a putty woman an' we'll jest 'bide by what she says." "That Strikes me about right," the giant replied. They called on the widow the followine Sunday. "Miz Blake," said Big Bill, " we'Wgot something we want to say to you, so s'pozen we don't go to church, fur what we've got to say must be said airier all the other folk a have dun gone offen the place." "I am alius ready to hear anything to my intrust," the widow replied. "My husbznd used to say that I was the patientest woman tolissen he ever seed in his life and he used to tell me that if I could only ovenome my unnat'ral dislike for razor-back hogs an' take to helpin' a little mp' round the mourner's bench that I would be wuth my weight in shoats, an' Ireckollect jest as well as if it was yistidy that a lew minits befo' his fatal pain struck him he eat a piece of ham an' 'lowed that it was the finest b'iled meat he ever eat in his life. The folks have all gone, so now what have you got to say?" "Big Bill, wanter do the talkin'?" "No, Little Bill, I ain't a hu t tin'. Yon, go ahead. "Wall, Miz Blake, it's just this," said thedwarf. 'Our firm is powerful in love with you an wants to marry you, but knowin' under the law as she now stands that a firm kain1 1 very well git married to one woman, w'y we have agreed to leave it to you which one uv U8 to take. Big Bill thar would make you a fine husband." "No better than Little Bill thar, an' mebby not half as good," replied the giant. "Wall, now, this do place me in a straight," said the widow. "I like you both jist the same, an' I don't know which one to take. I am in putty much

tne same nx my po nnsbana wjis m when he had to decide which razor-back hog he ougBter kill when he thought jist the same of all of them. Big Bill, you air stronger, but Little Bill, you air pearter. I declare T don't know which one' of you to take. It won't do to run a race,, fur Little Bill is the fastest, an' it won't do rassle, fur it's a shore thing that Bid Bill is the best man. How air you at poker?" f " 'Bout the same," said the giani;. "Ain't a whit's difference' the dwarf agreed.

"Wall," said the widows "there is a

deck of cards here summers and spozen

we settle it that way' ,

The two men agreed aud the woman

produced tfee caids

They sat down, without any visible emotion, and while they were playing the widow placidly rocked herself After a while the two men reached over and shook hands. "Who won?" the widow asked; "You did," replied fiig fell; "What do you mean by that?" "I mean that you have got the best man Little Bill." "Oh, it don't make a bit of difference to me," she said. "Now, let me see. There was something I wanted to say; Oh, yes, t must know your other name

for it would be horrid to go by the name of Mrs. Little Bill." "We won't argy about that," said the dwarf. "Oh, yes," said the widow, "there is something else that must be settled. The firm must be broke up. No matter how friendly we all are now, there mout come a time when Big Bill, seein' how happy 1 am makin' you, would git dissatisfied, so one of you, it makes no

difference which, must leave.'

The idea met with approval, and another game of poker decided that Big Bill must leave. The next day a satisfactory settlement was made, and Big Bill, mounted on a reddish mule, rode away. His travels ceased when he reached a lonely region of Georgia, and there he settled down. Several years elapsed, when, one evening, as Big Bill was sitting on a stump by the side of a grass grown road, a canvas covered wagon came in sight, and, as it drew near, Bill saw the tow heads of Beveral children protruding from under the cov

ering. He got up and was on the eve of

turnincr awav. when a man ran around

from the other side of the wagon.

"W'y, hello, Little Bill!" the giant

exclaimed.

"Stay where you air," said the dwarf,

"fur it's all I ken do to keep from shoot-

in' you."

W'y, what on the face of the yeth is

the matter, my old friend?"

"Jes this; I b'l've you let me win that

woman on purpose."

"Tend to yore business, Little Bill, an

don't talk to every ragtag and bobtail

you meet, or I'll whale you agin. I

should think two larrn pins a day was

enough for one man."

The giant, recognizing the voice, said:

"Podner, I'm sorry for you,an' I wanter

sav that I done mv best at the cards."

"Do you want her now, Big Bill?"

M.MMAGE

Five Pictures of Stephen aind of Sermon Delivered nt the Brooklyn Tabernacle by Rot, T. Do Witt Talma.g

"Wall, no. Good bye."

I'm obleeged to you

Preparing tor an Emergency. Chisago Herald.

"I'll take two of those largest re vol v-

ere you showeu ine yesterday, said a

young man with false teeth in a State

street gun store yesterday. "Self-acting?" asked the clerk.

"If you please; and just throw in three boxes of cartridges." "Anything else?" "Yes; I want a long knife with a broad hilt." "Anything else?" "Keep hand grenades?" "Yes? how many do you want?" "Half a gross of the largest size.!' "What else?" "A steel breast-plate if you have it, and j ou might toss in a small hand-ax." "Must be going to hurt somebody, eh?" "Not necessarily. And while you are about it, just wrap up a repeating rifle with a gross of explosive bullets." "Going after O'Brien?" "No; no. Got any torpedoes?"

you

"Don't keep 'em. What are going to do with all this truck?" "I've just hired out as umpire in Southwestern Base-ball League,"

the man with false teeth, "and I want to prepare myself for some close games,"

the said

Powderly on the Iabor Party. A Boston special of Tuesday says: Speaking of the Labor party and its probable successes in 1888, Mr. Powderly Bays: I do not know how successful the party will be in 1888, but I believe it will keep on growing until it is successful. Everything cannot be accomplished in a day, and the Labor party cannot gain everything in a year. You know a good job cannot be done in a hurry. The only way to do it is to work along slowly and patiently until the desired result is obtained." "Will you be the candidate of the Labor party for President in 1888?" "No; emphatically, no," replied Mr. Powderly, with great decision; "nor the candidate of any other party." "What do you think of an independent Labor party?" was the next inquiry. "That ia a question which I have not the time now to discuss."

Caplnin Perry Censured. The decision of the naval court at New York, before Acting Consul W. R. Hoare, was given, Thursday, in the matter of the collision of the steamships Celtic and Brittanic. The court very severely censured Captain Perry, of the Brittanic, for running at such speed; for not giving distinctive whistles to the

Celtic to show which way she gave way, and for not sounding his fog whistle in the fog. Captain Irving, of the Celtic, is simply censured for running at the rate of speed he did in such foggy weather. Editor O'Brien Leaves the United States. Editor O'Brien was entertained at a banquet Tuesday night, in New York. At the close of the banquet Mr. O'Brien was escorted to the Adriatic, which sailed Wednesday . His escort was the Sixty-ninth regiment, members of the municipal council of the league, and a large body of citizens. Before leaving the banquet Eugene Kelly, on behalf of the Irishmen of New York, presented Mr. O'Brien with $25,000 for the Irish people at home. Appears Against Hun.

New York Sun.

"Is Smith a man of general intelli

gence?"

"I have never met him, but I fancy

not."

"Why?" "Because I've seen him occasionally in

the jury box at the Court of General

Sessions. '

Six teenPer sons Killed hy a Landslide. Advices from Panama, under date of

the 4th inst., received on the 14th, report a landslide on the El Pedro faring

in Concordia, burying Senor Pedro Restrepeo, his wife and nine children and the servants in the house. In all, sixteen, persons were killed.

Rev. Dr. Taimage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday from Acts viij 50-60. He said: i want to siiow you to-day five plct

ures. Stephen gazing into heaven. Stephen looking at Christ. Stephen stoned. Stephen ill his dying prayer, and Stephen asleepFirst, look at Stephen sjaaing into heaven. Before you take a leap you

want to know whefe yoU arB gbing to land. Before you climb a ladder you want to know what point the ladder

reaches. And it was right that Stephen

within a few moments f heaven should be gazing into it. We would all do well

to be loUnd in tlio saffle posture. There

is enough in heaven to keep us gaeing.

A man of large wealth may have statuary

in the hallj and paintings in the sitting-

room, ana worxs ot an m au pans oi the house, but he has the chief picture in the art gallery, sind there hour after

hour you walk with the. catalogue and glass and ever-ilicreasitig admiration.

Well, heaven is the gallery where God

has gathered the chief treasures of His

realm. The whole universe is His palace. In this lower room where we stop

there are marly adornments) tessellated

floor of amethyst and blossom, and on

the winding cloud -stairs are stretched

out canvas on which commingle azure and numle and safFron and sold. Bat

neaven is tne gauery in wmcn tne cniei

glories are gathered. .There are the

brightest robes. There are the brightest

crowns. There arts the hi ghest ex uilara-

tions. Do you wonder that good people often stand like Stephen ltiokihi! into

heaven? We have a great, many irriends

there. There is not a man in this house

to-aay so isolated m nie nut tnere is some one in heaven with whom he once

shook hands. As a man gets older the number of his colestial acquain tances very rapidly multiplies. We have not had one glimpse of them since the night we kissed them goodby and they went away; but still we stand gazing at heaven. As when some of our friends go across the sea, we stand on the dock, or on the steam-tug, and watch them, and after a while the httlk of the vessel disappears, and then there is only a patch of sail on the sky, and soon this is gone, and they ar-3 all out of Bight:, and yet we stand looking in the same direction; so when our friends go away from us into the future world we keep looking down through the narrows, and gazing and gazing as though we expected that they would come out and stand on some evening cloud, and give us one glimpse at their blissful . and transfigured faces. While you long to join tneir companionship, and the years and the days go with such tedium that they break your heart, and the viper of pain, and sorrow, and bereavement keeps gnawing at your vitals, you still stand, like Stephen, gazing into heaven. You wonder if they have changed since you aw them last. You wonder if they

would recognize your lace now, so

changed has it been with trouble. You

wonder if, amid the myriad delights they have, thev (tare as much for you as they used to when they gave you a

helping hand and put their shoulder

under vour burdens. You wonder if

they look any older; and sometimes in the evening-tide, when the house is all

quiet, you wonder if you should call

them by their first names if they would not answer; and perhaps sometimes you do make the experiment, and when no

one but God and yourself are there you distinctly call their names, and listen,

and wait, and sit easing -into heaven.

, Pass on now, and see Stephen looking upon Christ. My text says he saw the

fcon of Man at the right hand of God.

Just how Christ looked in this world; - , . .

just now ne 100 as in neaven, wn can not sav. A writer in the time of Christ says, describing ime Savior's personal ap

pearance, says rile had blue eyes and light complexion, and a very graceful

structure; but I suppose it was all guess

work. The . painters of the different

ages have tried to imagine the features

of Christ and put them upon canvass;

out we win nave to wan until witra our

own eyes we see Him and with our own ears we hear Him. Andi vet there is a

way of seeing and hearing Him now.

have to tell you that unless you see and

hear Christ on earth, you will never see

and hear him in heaven.

"Look unto me, all ye ends of the

earth, and oe ye saved, for I am God,

and there is none else." Proclamation

of universal emancipation for all slaves.

Proclamation of universal amnesty for all rebels. Ahasuerus gathered the Baby

lonish nobles to bistable; George I.

entertained the Lords of England at a

banquet; Napoleon III. welcomed the

Czar of Russia and the Sultan of Tu rkey

to his forest; the Emperor of Germany

was glad to have our Minister, George

Bancroit, sit down with him athis table;

but tell me, ye who know most of the

world s nistorv, wnat otner rung ever

asked the abandoned, and the forlorn,

and the wretched, and the outcast, to

come and sit down beside him? O, wonderful invitation! You can take ill

to-day, and stand at the head of the

darkest alley in all this city, and sav:

"Cornel Clothes for vour rags, malve

for your soars, a throne for your eternal

reigning. "... A Christ that talks like that,

and acts like that, and pardons like that

do you wonder that Stephen stood looking at Him? I Kobe to spend eter

nity doing the same thing. I must see

mm. i must looK upon tnat iace once clouded with, my sin, but now radiant with mv pardon. I want to touch that

hand that, knocked off my shackles- I want to hear that voice thatpronounced my diliverance. ... I pass on now, and look at Stephen stoned. The world has always wanted toVget rid of good men. Their very life is an assanlt upon wickedness. Out with Stephen through the gates of the city.

Down with him over the precipices. Let

every man come up and drop a stone upon his head. But these men did not so much kill Stephen as they killed themselves. Every stone reoouncled

upon them. While these murderers were transfixed by the hcorn of all good men, Stephen lives in the admiration of all Christendom. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive. So all good men must be pelted. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. It is no eulogy of a man to say that every body likes "him. Shqw me any one who is doing all his ditty to State or Church", and I will show you scores of men who utterly abhor him. lf all men speak well of you it is because you are eiither a laggard or a dolt, If a steamer makes rapid progress through the waves the water will boil and foam all around it. Brave 6oldiers of Jesus Christ will hear t he carbines click. When ' see a man with voice and money and influence all on the right side, ami some caricature him, and some sneer at him, and some: denounce him, and men who pretend to bo actuated by right motives conspiie to cripple him,, to cast him out, to destroy him, Isay: "Stephen stoned." When I see a man in some great moral or :religious reform, battling against grog-shops, exposing wickedness in high places, by active means trying to purify the Church and better the world's estate, and I find that the newspapers anathematize him, and men, even good men, oppose and denounce him because, though lie does good, he does not do it in their way, J say: "Stephen

stoned." . The world, with infinite spite, took after John Frederick Oberlin and Robert Moffat, and Paul and Stephen of the text. But ypir notice my friends, that while they assaulted him they did not succeed really ia killing him. On the day of his death Stephen Hpoke before a few people in the Sanhedrim; this Sab

bath morning he addresses all Christen- J

dom. Paul, the Apostle, stood oh Mars Hill, addressing a handful of philosophers who knew not so much about Bcience ail a modern sendax-girh To-day lie talks to all the millions of Christendom about the wonders of justification arid the glories of resurrection. John Wesley was howled down by the mob to whom he preached, and they threw bircks at him, and they denounced him, and they jostled him, and they spat upon him. and yet to-day, in all lands, he is admitted to be the great father of

Presidential chair; b'tit from that soot of coagulated blood on the floor iii the pox

of Ford'u Theater there sprang up the new. life of a nation. Stephen stoned;

butt Stephen alive. Pass ofi hbw ahdsee Stephen in his dying prayer: His first thought was not how the stones hurt nis beau, not what oilla become of his body. , His first 'cholight t?a4 aboiit hid spirijt."Lord Jesus,

noOSlKHHlCHES. Great iR-esources of IiidIttna-Jorn and. Coal, Gas, Oil and Stone.

receive my spirit. The murderer standing on the trap door, the black, cap

being drawn over his head before the execution, may grimace about the future, but you and I have no shame in confessing Some aflxiety about where we are Jtomj? to coihe otit. Yoti are not all body. There is within you a soul. I see it gleam from yodr fce'S today, and I see it irradiating your countenance. Sometimes I am abashed before" an audience,, not because I come under tour physical e'Ve-slght, but because I realize the trdth that t istand before so tttahy iinmortal spirits. The probability is that yoti? body will at last find a sepulture in some of the ceiiieteries that surround this city.. There is no doubt but that your obsequies will be dedeHt and respectful, and you will be able to pillow youf head under the maple, or the Norway spruce, the cypress, or the blossoming fir; but this spirit about which Stephen prayed,what direction will that take? What guide

will escort it? What gate will open to receive it? What cloud will be cleft, for its path way? After it has gone beyond the light of our sun, will there be torches lighted for it the rest of the way? Will the bouI have to travel through long deserts before it teaches the good land? If we should lose our

pathway; will there be a castle at whose gate we may ask the way to the city?

And have I no anxiety about it? Have

you no anxiety about it? I do not care

what you do With my body when my soul is gone, or whether you believe in

cremation or inhumation, I shall sleep just as well in a wrapping of sackcloth as in s-itin lined with eagle's down. But

my soul before I leave this bouse this morning L will find out where it is going to land. Thank God for the intimation of my text, that when we die Jesus takeB us. That answers all questions for me. What though there were mapsive bars between here and the City of Light Jesus could remove them. What though there were great Saharas of darkness, Jesus c-ouldTillume them. What though I get weary on the way, Christ could lift me on His omnipotent shoulder. What though there were chasms to cross, His hand could transport me. Then let Stephen's prayer be my dying litany: "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." It may be in that hour we will be too feeble to say along prayer, lit may be in that hour we will not be able to say the "Lord's Prayer," for it has seven petitions. . But this prayer of Stephen's is so short, is so concise, is so earnest, is so comprehensive, we surely will be able to Bay that: "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." O, if that prayer is answered, how sweet it will be-to die! This world is clever enough to us. Perhaps it hast treated us a great deal better than we deserved to be treated; but if on the dying pillow there shall break the light of that better world, we shall have no more regret about leaving a small, dark, damp house for one large, beautiful and capacious. That dyirg minister ... in Philadelphia, some years ago, beautifully depicted it when, in the lsist moment, he threw up his bunds andcried out: "I move into the light!" , Paes on now, and I will show you one more picture, and that is Stephen asleep. With a pathos and simplicity peculiar to the Scriptures, the text says of Stophen, "He fell asleep." "Ob," you say, "what a place that was to sleep! A hard rock under him, stones 'falling down upon him,, the blood streaming, the mob howi iug. What a place it was to sleep!" And yet my text takes that symbol of slumber to describe his departure, so sweet was it, so contented was it, bo peaceful was it.. Stephen liad lived a very laborious life. His chief work had been to care for the poor. How many loav of bread he distributed, how many bare feet he had sandaled, how many cots of sickness and distress" he blessed with ministries of kindness and love, I do not know; but from the way he lived, and the way he preached, and the way he died, I know he was a. laborious Christian. But that is all. over now. He has pressed the cup to the last fainting lip. He has taken the last insult from his enemies. The last stone to whoae crushing weight he is susceptible has been hurled. Stephen is dead! The Disciples come. They take him up. They wash away the blood from the wounds. They straighten out the bruised limbs. They brush back the tangled hair from the brow, and then they pass around to look upon the calm countenance of him who had lived for the poor and died for the truth. : Stephen asleep! I have seen the sea driven with the hurricane until the tangled foam caught in the rigging, and wave rising above wave seemed an if about to storm the heavens, and then I have seen the tempest drop, and, the waves crouch, and everything become smooth and burn 'shed as though a campingplaco for Vibe glories of heaven; so I have seen a mn, whose life has been tossed and drivei, coming down at last to an infinite calm, in which there was the hush of fieaven's lullaby. Stephen asleep! IS saw such a one: He fought all his dayi against poverty &nd against abuse. 'jfhey traduced his name. They rattHd at the door knob while he not "pay: 3;et the peace of God brooded over his "billow, ana while the world faded heavpn dawned, and the deepening twilig'it of earth's night was only the opening twilight of heavn's morn. Not a sigh. Not a tear. Not struggle. Hush! Stephen asleep. You have seen enough for one morning. No one can successfully examine was dying with duns for debts he could more than five pictures in a day. Therefore, we stop, having seen this cluster of Divine Raphaels Stephen gazing into heaven; Stephen looking at Christ; Stephen stoned; Stephen hi his dying pray er;-Stepheni asleep."

Tobacco and the J!yes.

&ew York Mail and Express. . .

"Cigarette smoking is doing more in

jury to the eyes than anything I know of," said an optician recently to a re

porter.

"Smoking pipes and cigars is bad

enough, but there is something in the

paper with which the cigarette is rolled

that is very injurious to the eyesight.

"There are more men and boys wear

ing glasses now than. I have ever known

before, and I attribute it all to excess in

tobacco smoking. Nine out of ten Ger

mans wear spectacles. They are inveter

ate smokers."

'Worked Ilartl lor His Money.

N. Y. Suu.

"I t's $100 in your pocket," whispered

the defendant's lawyer to the juror, "if

you can bring about a verdict of manslaughter in the second degree." " Such proved to bo the verdict, and the lawyer thanked the juror Wiymly as he"

paid him the money. "Yes," said the juror, "it was tough work, bu 1 1 got there after awhile. AU t he jrest went in for acquittal."

W. Jf . Smith iu Omein'fiaii Commercial Gazette. The great resources Of Indiana are hardly known to the people of the dtfttey and are nitieh less understood by those abroad. The real facta are that Indiana is one of the richest States in the Union

in natural resources. Her riches are but being developed, and when they are

fully Unuerstooq people will cease

laughing at Indiana, w Hen sue was a

territory, and for years after she was ad

mitted into the sisterhood of States, her

magnificent forests were the wonder of th country, and the pride of her own

people.

Ijy reckless improvidence those forests have beell, to a" great extent- wasted,

but still enough is left to list for many

years, and few States can show such a growth of timber. In agricultural re

sources she stands second to none. Not

withstanding the , boasting of other

State; Indiana stands as the greatest

wheat growing State of the Union. In corn she is not far behind the best, and

ranks high in all the other products of the soil. All of her streams furnish magnificent wter power, and they traverse oerv part of the State. In

health she equals the best.

Statistics have exploded the old charge

that Indiana was given over to lever and ague and that-the staple diet' was

quinine, taxen; in ntteen-grain doses.

She has a smaller death rate than any

other of the States. But Indiana in rish beyond all comparison in the deposits beneath the surface of the ear.h. She has neither gold nor silver, but she has that which is far more valuable- coal, building stone and valuable clays. Her , natural gas field next to that of Pennsylvania, is themost extensive of any in the country, and we have every reason to believe that we will yet rival the Keystone State ia our oil fields. Alleged scientists may laugh at this

declaration , but they laughed when it was asserted that Indiana contained immense beds ot the finest bituminous

coal , They laughed again whea it was claimed that right here in Hoosierdoni was the finest building stone in America, and enough of it to supply the world. Bun the coal is here and so is the stone. Who laughs at Indiana stone now, or who sets up a cachination at the Indiana coil measm-es? Now Indiana sets up the claim that she has oil, and that in abundance and is willing to be laughed at a ain. As I said a.t the outset, ike people of the State do not comprehend the . immense sources of wealth -that are under the ground. The coal fields cover more than six thousand square miles of territory. The counties of Posey, Yanderburg, Warrick, Spencer, Gibson, Pike, Dubois, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Sullivan, Green and Clay, and large areas in Perry, Crawford, Owen, Vigo, Parke, Vermillion, Fountain and Warren are rich in deposits of remarkably pure, hard and clean burning bituminous coal. The base of the Indiana coal measure rocks is the conglomerate sandstone formation. " "... ... .. The coal strata are separated by deposits of i5ro clay, sandstones, shales of various kinds, and limestones. These deposits vary in thickness. Each coal seam is, as a rule,overlaid with bituminous shale, and underlaid by a stratum of fire clay. In the shale are found large numbers of fossil plants, while in the ire clay are imbedded roots and stems of trees. Between the coal strata are interposed rock formations varying; in thickness and structure all indicating marine origin. There are at least fourteen of these coal seams, with sedimentary locks between. The coal seams vary in thickness, but the supply is practically inexhaustible. 4 Coal mining in Indiana is of comparayely rec en t date, but the yearly output is rapidly increasing, and new mines are being opened continually. It is known that the workable coal lelds of the State cover six thousand square miles, and. yet half of the territory has hot been explored. The mining was at first of slow growth, but the increase has been .quite rapid for the lost few years, as the folio wing figures will show, being the output; of the last ten years:

Tons.

ng all the changes of' atmospheric em.-'

perature. , y ' ; -;. . . . - ;?v;.

The resistance to crushing weight, isg

very great in some of the Indiana sand

stones, remarkably great when their wftness when first quarried is coubidered

It is so soft when first quarried that; it

m&f be readily hewn into any desired

shape wftb a common axe, yet by a few: day's exposure to the air it becomes so

.hard that will, being struck with a bxmrs

mer, give out a clear metallic sound and

emit sparks like flint. r ; : ,

Bridges and culverts built out of Ia

diana sandstone hava stood for rearsv without the least sign of weathering

Good sandstone for bridges, cnherts.

fondations aud fire-proor struct urea 'sk m

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Tons. 1879 ltl')6,490 18S0. 1,5 0,375 1881 17?1,336 1882 ....X)f00O

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l8t... 2,260,000 1SS5 ...2,375,000 1886.... 3,000,000

The falling off in the years 1884 and 1885 was owing to the long continued strikes among the miners. It is estimated that the output for the current year will reach a total o f four million tons. New railroad lines are being built into the coal fieldf, while the old roads are increasing their facilities of transportation of the proJuct to market. The year promises io be one of unusual prosperity in the coal trade, notwithstanding the great discoveries of natural gas. The demand for the coal is increasing as its quality becomes more and more known. It has had much to do with attracting factories to the State, and more will come for the same reason. In building stone Indiana takes front rank. There are none that can equal her. She literally has no rivals in this line. Our quarries,extensive as they are, are in fact hut the beginning of what will y et. be developed . From the Ohio river ih rough the State two-thirds of its entire I ngtli from south to north is an immense bed of fine building stone. As a rule both the limestone and sandstone is found evenly bedded, smooth grained and easily worked. The Sil urian limestone is not a building stone of a high grade, but it is successfully used in many places. The

oolitic limestone, of Indiana, has no equal in. the world. The lower coal measure of Indiana are rich in sandstones perfectly adapted to building purposes, though at this time their great

value is not appreciated. The conglomerate is a deposit pretty evenly and uniformly distributed" throughout the base of the coal measure proper, and wherever its grain is fine it is usually a brown, buff, pinkish or gray massive sandstone, homogeneous, and exceedingly strong in all directions. It comes very stfilt from the quarry which makes it remarkably easy to cut. Afterward it. dries quickly and takes on a lively glow, and holds jtircolor perfectly. In Mont-

gomery, warren ana rountam counties

are inexhaustible quarries of this beautiful stone. It is also found in many other counties. The stone is perfectly flre-proof? and is capable withstand-

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counties in the State. In some plas it crops out in massive beds of.fine-grinedT grindstone grit. The quarrying of jandstone iu Indiana as an industry has just begun, but in a few years the State wilH be as widely famous for- its conglomer

ate sandstone as she is her mate bless;

limestone. . . , ' .. -. ' .: : It is in her wealth of oolitic limeutone that Indiana surpasses all other . Stales In Indiana from one extreme to th& other the limestones pass througbreverw

possible grade between nearly pure car

bonate of lime and an aluminous

shale. Chemically speaking, ;ooliti

limestone is, practically, aipure carbon t atef of lime, the amount of matters otheir ? '"

than this carbonate being less than fourper cent. This purity insures absolute Integrity on exposure to the ftxmeeol' Anal, while the nerfect elasticitv and .

flexibility of the mass render it invuU nerable to the forces of cold of heatr " air and moisture. ,. , .." ..:..''": .M V;- . Physically it is a calcareous sanistone composed of small grains oTlime carbonates. It occurs in massive bodies, often forty feet thick, without any lines of: cleavage or parting, perfectly bedded

homogeneous througnout, from which a. '.$Mm

flawless block of any sise may; i cut It takes up a very small amount olmois-v ture, which is so distributed that no de gree of cold will work injury! Not only!

tne nest in point or auraoiiny,t.nit sarne Ml..Un,n a11 manna, rvf 4 o(a I f ics

flexible, elastic, resonant, uniform ia crrain. xhese ouahties eive it the besfe V;

possible power of istanceto iattaiff; ; crushing force. 1 : - A bar of this stone may be bent very perceptibly, and when the. force is re: J moved it will Bpriog back to ita noi mal state with the promptness, and r en-? . ergy of steer. Its tone when truck if -s-as clear as a musical bell note; When4, first quarried it cuts like sandstone. --It-is then soft,' and yet tough enougli to hold the finest figures of carvuig- 1 " color at first is a pale brownish whicbV gradually lightens to a soft cream ot grayish white. It is : often quarried Jnf- . blocks or columns six by ten fe3lv and one hundred feet long. - This stone istnow being used in all parts of the coun try. Its area is confined to fivo or s6 i ' , counties, but thef upply can no be ei hausted. , .:;'.:y.!2':. ,,v Grain, coal and building stone by ,na means exhaust Indiana's resourceSi she leads all other States in . the extent of her quarrie8.and in the qualifyo n buUding stone, so she leads them in tbe AxtATit of her denosits of kaolin, and its ..

quality. The "jiiofa

cover a very large area, ana fireen various grades of ;toenoss and colpl 5 froni a pure white, impalpable powder to a red, or brown red, gray, ?whitisli greenish and bluish clay, unctuous to the touch and perfectly plastic and duc-1 ; tile. The colored or tinted kaojins ocr lv : cupy a greater area than the white, t They vary as much in naJit)-. air in color. . ;....rJ 7.:. ' -':. The time will soon come when the vast kaolin beds of Indiana will be of J immense value. The exceeding: pujity of the white variety makes it rulialyj ; valuable. Wthm years? the manufacture or worlnng of kaolin : will be one of the great indnstrios of the State, It needjo. most extensive oil regions found ontside of Penn8yiyaniap yet oyeloped

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.... Fred Douglass Abroad

N.Y. World's Cabl 7 $ ':: Mr. Frederick Douglass has i ast:iev.r-: : turned to London after the nine months , f of travel on the Continent and in Egypt. He said to-day that this was his thbnd? " visit to England.' He came ,-, here forty-;! ; one years ago as a slave. While here money was procured to set lim fteei "It was here." said Mr. Douclasa. thatf

forty-one years I received tlie biU of

8ale of my own body. -My owner

to lot me go for $720." - , v - : 5 During his travels Mr. Douglass

iiuii)'lliA mi! nAi n.V ' nifliin- t '1?MnM'

Switzerland, Italy, Greece and ypt. He went to Egypt for the pujTposo - of making ethnological studies, to see if -tie could And some trace of the connection

between the negro an the- ICgy ptiaii races, for the purpose of : giving, if possi-j: -'.'hk ble, a better standing for hxa people in the eyes 6! the world. Ioaglass . saidf " ul was disappointed in my researches inv ' Egypt. The inbabiUntst there have many of the traits of the negrohis ' childishness, his lacfc of energy and

grave ambitions. But I must confess

that the evidences.ot rjelatipnahip are-. ,ri very meager." v f.r v. . In speaking of the comparath e condV . ';. tions of men Btudied by him he said: 7 91 am going hornewith the knowledge that, v

the average man in the United ; States is better fedi clothed and sheltered than

in any other part of the world?!! '

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Oath ill Cincinnati Enquire ' 5 ;.. r One of i&z rjreligions ofou r is free thinkiug. Itis not only o ? of the church; but in iW nmy seS Heber Newton in one sermon make the Old Testament fly from its foundation

and the congregation sub uxexe unaer the Episcopal shield, listening 2 with the

greatest simplicity and suavity . When ; Newton undertakes to turn the town np-, side down withv the labor themes the 1

congregation begins to show its teeth Jyp 6u t be can demoralise Moses whenever he pleases, and Moses has no friend lefti Could Get Along With Economy. f ? :x.Y. sun : ,,.,7;:;:; CT

"You know, of course," said the old man .to the young man, :iliat my, ciaughter has 100,000 in her dnright?

; "."Yes, sir." .r . . : v " And you areKnot worth a ce:a??; MVm. poor, sir; but-great Scorti $100 010 is enough for twolv VtcffC'

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