Bloomington Courier, Volume 13, Number 36, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 July 1887 — Page 2

THE COURIER.

BY H. J. FELTU3.

BLOOMINGTON.

INDIANA

Ax advocate of prohibition says ther are fifty-five empty county jails in Iowa, '

Jaks Sharps the modern Boss Tweed of v Newr i.orF has been found guilty. Now4et the torch be applied.

It is a fact worth y noting that of the eight Justices now on the Supreme Court Bench four of them, Waite,Miller, Fieldl and Bradley, are over seventy years of age. :.

Trik Chinese laundrymen of New Yflric have struck for higher wages.

Striking was a game that the child-like Oriental was supposed not to understand. The employers say they will be ruined by Chinese dear labor, and they are going for that heathen Chinee.

A Georgia legislative committee ia investigating the matter of penitentiary leases in that State, and some very in

teresting tacts ano; ngures are oemg brought to light It is shown, for instance, that .the orofit to the lessees on the labor of the 1,600 convicts in their different camps is not less than $75,000 per annum4, while the State receives only $25,000. : The warfof the Tollivers is raging in RenttKkynvith a ierocity equal to the old warof the Roses in England. Jt is now announced that the surviving Tollivers are resolved to avenge the death of their relatives, and are organizing a raid; with vine intention of attacking -Morehead; murdering every man who took part in the recent killing of Craig Tolliyerand his band, and burning the tawnf All thisis interesting to- persons with a yellow-coyered-literature taste. But is not Rowan County, Ky., within the United States? And is there not such a thing as law in Kentucky? ;

mwici's WILDS.

The one element of dissonance in the British islands in the otherwise harmonious celebration of ithe Queen's jubilee is Irish disaffection. The chivalrous regard for all womankind which is one of the noblest of the many noble attributes of the Irish race, says the GlobeDemocrats was not powerful enough to spare Victoria's name from insult in some of $he cities of Ireland during-the festivities. This is decidedly unfortunate, but it reveals a state of things for which England, not Ireland, is responsible. Indeed, if certain reports be true-and there' are the best of reasons for believing that they are the Queen herself can not be held altogether blameless for tiiis feeling ot resentment. The Qaeenj-rivith all her virtues, progressiveness and benevolence of disposition, is a Tory at hearts She . has always shown .more sympathy with aims and aspirations of the Derbys, Disraelis and Saltsburys than she has with those of the Russels, . Palmerstqns and Gladstone. ' This, of course; Js, natural enonghln a person placed in her position. Irishmen doubtless believe that if a moderate nortion of the Queen's influence had been exerted a year and a half ago in favor of justice' to' Ireland, the home-rule movement ' would have been successful. If that project had succeeded, the heartiest and moat enthusiastic observances of the jubilee occasion would have been those taking place in- tli e land of Darnell, Davitt and O'Brien. - , -

The Soldiers' Monument. .? The commission recentlyappointed to build the soldiers' monument held its first meeting at the office of the State auditor in Indianapolis, Tuesday. All -the members were present, including George" 11 Langsdale, Greeneastle: D.

W. McColium, Laporte; S. B. Voyal, Salem; J. M. Ransdell and George W. Johnston, city. -Governor Gray and the other State officers had an informal conference with the commissioners regarding financial matters. The Gover

nor said that on account of the depleted treasury and the failure of the Legislature to provide means for meeting, the State's usual as well as extraordinary expenses, the commissioners could not expect to get any funds from the treasury for building the monument until after the- next Legislature, and the treasurer and auditor agreed to this view -of the case. Mr. Ransdell -called the " meeting of jthe commission to . order, and Mr. Johnston was choosen temporary . secretary. Mr. Langsdale was elected president without opposition an honor which it was expected all along would be conferred on him, as he has been , president, of the G. A. R. .monumental-commission. One of the commissioners said that they thought they would be able to get enough money from the State to defray the incidental expenses of getting plans, etc. TheG. A.Ri he understood had about $21,000 subscribed for the monument; of which $8,000 were cash and $10,000 were subscribed by Marion sounty, on condition that $100,000 should be riised. -The commissioners will probably, insistthat -this condition

has been fulfilled, inasmuch as $200,000

have been appropriated by-the Legisla

ture. None of the commissioners de

sired to express an opinion as to whether

the most fitting form the memorial

should take would be a monument' or a hall. They say they are going very slowly and carefully about the selection of a pian for the structure. -: HoVr 'jfime Plies; Emma Jones in Philadelphia Press. - I met a Buffalo lady yesterday who remembers looking in at Lawyer Grover Cleveland's office many a time a dozen or more years ago, and seeing Frankie Fplsom seated in her "Uncle Grover's" lap playing with his watch chain. Bid it occur to you on Decoration Day when some of us felt a little sore that this modern Parthenia had led awy her burly Ingomar, not out of but into the wilderness, when we wanted his presence and all that it implied at the head of our marching column to-decorate-the graves of our capital city's soldier dead, just as it used to be in Gen. Grant's presidency, when the great hero himself led the columns-did it occur to you in extenuation that1 this bright haired girl woman was notyet bora when Gettysburg was fought Ah, how ancient tills makes the old heroic war days seem! Those of us who remember them in poignant detail may well begin to feel like back numbers.

A Blood-Curdling Execution by the Heathens. A Stake Driven Entirely Through the Writhing Body of a Native Criminal Frightful Experience of a Hunter Swinging Over a One Thousand Foot Precipice Iiea Afterururd from, the Nervons Shock Adventures With Bishop Taylor Among the Savages. A correspondent writing from Africa to the Indianapolis Journal gives the following particulars of two frightful experiences with the Bishop Taylor missionary expedition. The articles appeared .Tune l2fch and 19th respectively : A fewmiles out of Lukunga the Bishop saw one ot the strangest occurrences that had yet transpired in his presence in Africa. As he and his party were descending a mountain they saw that there was a village below them, a marketplace surrounded with a large number of houses. It seemed as if all the village people and many others from the surrounding country had gathered in the market-place. The Bishop's first impression was-that some kind of a fair or general trading was in progress, but as he came nearer, he saw that the event was not commercial. From his elevated point of view he could see that several natives were at work digging holes in the center of the market-place. The attention of the crowd seemed to be divided between the hole and something

else that neither the Bishop nor his companions could distinguish. The

native . carriers said that it looked as if there was -to be a public execution, whereupon Mr. Peters tried to see the

gallows, and failed. An execution it

proved to be however, but without a

scaffold. The native Africans have a much more horrible -form of judicial murder than hanging. The Bishop and

his party arrived" at the market-place

just as the tragedy was consummated.

They learned the story of the crime

which,led to it,swhich, briefly, was the

following: fe Two or three weeks before the Bishop's

arrival a man had diecLin the village, and, as is frequently the case, the medi

cine man. had been summoned to de

clare what, or rather who had baen the

cause of it. The doctor, after the usual

demonstrations, oracular utterances,

frenzied dancing and other tomfoolery,

had fixed the responsibility for the death

upoma captain of the tribe The truth undoubtedly was that this captain had

done something to offend 'the doctor, who took this way of getting even. The

captain wasbronght before the King and charged with, the crime of bewitching

the deceased. He denied the charge,

and was then ordered to drink, a cup

of a kind of tea made from the sasswood

tree. -It is a deadly poisonous mixture.

The medicine man tells the king that if

a man who is guilty drinks of it he will

die; but an innocent man will

not-be harmed. Whoever drinks.

of course, dies- immediately in terrible agony, and the prestige of the doctor is

heightened according. The captain in

this instance refused to drink the tea.

He was sent away from the King's presence for a day1 or two- pending further consideration of the case, but that very night he was shot by an unknown man in his house.- After-six days

of suffering the captain died. His friends

besought the representative of the Free

State government to interfere, but he

hesitated. He was new to his position,

and dared not take very decided measures. So the King of the tribe bestirred himself. The dead captain had been a

favorite of his, and the accusation of the

doctor had disturbed his Majesty. Now

that the captain had been murdered he

determined to punish the criminal. A

man . was arrested and tried for the

crime, ana louna guilty, tie was, ot

course, condemned to death.

When the Bishop arrived the hole in

the market-place had been completed.

It was somewhat larger and deeper than

an ordinary grave. The object that had attracted the attention .of part of the crowd

was the condemned man himself. He

sat on the ground with his hands tied

behind his back. Seven feet in front of

him was a young tree that had been

bent over toward him. The top. of the

tree had been eut away so that a fork

made by the two main branches remained on the slender trunk. The condemned man's neck was put in this fork and the ends of the lines were made last behind his head. The tension of the

tree kept a constant strain on his throat,.

not enough to strangle him, but enough to be painful and to prevent him from making any motion. He had been setting thus fcr hours watching the preparations for his execution and enduring the gaze of hundreds of the villagers. Not far away the King, dressed in a gorgeously colored robe, sat superintending the operations. The work progressed in due order, but without the cerem onious solemnity t hat characterised in execution in Christian countries. The King gave his instructions, when he chose to interfere, to a subordinate who tranfef rred them to the captain in charge of the workers at the hole. When the digger. climbed out and laid aside their shovels there was a slight pause, and

t he crowd gathered closer to the excavation. Presently the King uttered a command in a loud voice, and several subordinates actually began the work of execution. They first cut off the tree in front of the captives's. neck, leaving the prongs of the fork still tied about him. He was led to the hole and ordered into it. Up to this time he had preserved a stoical expression, but at that moment he weakened and trembled. He cast a piteous giance toward the King, and looked all around him wildly. One of the executioners hastened mat ters by pushing him into the hole. He went in after him. They placed him on his feet, and while one held him steady, the others began to pack dirt about his feet. The workmen left on the brink of the hole carefully shoveled the earth that had been dug up back again, and the men inside continued the packing process. The victim writhed and screamed terribly as the work proceeded and a gag was inserted in his mouth to still-his cries- The people, wi th morbid curiosity, crowded to the edge of the bole, even to the point of interfering with the workmen, and a squad of warriors in armor drove them back. The men in the hole stamped the earth hard allabout the victim, until it was up to his waist. Then they got out, and the filling in continued more rapidly, and others helped in the stamping. The hole was originally so deep that -the victim's

head was more than a foot below the surface. When his mouth was reached, care was taken not to fill in around him until the rest of the hole had been leveled over. Then a few shovelfuls thrown upon the head effectually buried the poor fellow, but the workmen were still cautious to note exactly where the head was. After all the dirt was thrown back and the burial was complete the reason for their caution became apparent. A workman came forward with a long, hardwood pole sharpened and tipped with iron at one end. This was inserted into the ground direclly over the victim's head. A movable platform was produced, and men standing on it began to pound the pole down into the ground. The horriblo object of i&his was to transfix the victim through the length of his body. The pounding was continued with mallets until the entire length of the pole had been driven into the ground. Then the implements that had been used were taken away and the crowd slowly dispersed. Much depressed by this lugubrious spectacle, the Bishop and his companions resumed their journey to Stanley Pool. When the Bishop had started from Matadi for Stanley Pool with Messrs. Burr andTetcr, the people left behind occupied themselves mainly in getting acclimated. Hardly one of thorn escaped atoush of the African fever as a result of some indiscretion in the way of overexertion. The temptation to find out something about the new and strange land

they had come to was irresistible to most of them. They either took waiks among the. hills and along the river banks, or explored the town, studying the habits of the natives,or went hunting. Among those who took up the latter form of recreation and study was Mr. Charles Peters. Early in the morning of the sixth day after the Bishop's departure, he set out with his gun for the bills to the southeast of the village, Up to that time it was comparatively cool and the air bracing, and he progressed at a rapid pace until he was several miles from camp. He saw many animals of various kinds, but forbore to shoot for the mere sake of killing. He wanted to find a hare or a rabbit or two to bring home for the cook to serve for dinner. He had inquired of the natives about the hunting grounds and the possibilities of difierent kinds of game in the neighborhood. They had told him that gazelles and antelopes were plentiful on the southern.hills, and when . ho found himself at the base of the ridge he made up his mind to have that kind of game or none. Accordingly, with, that in view, he began the ascent of the hills. They would be called mountains in almost any other part of the world, for many of the' peaks tower to a height of 3,000 to 5,000 feet above the sea level The hill that Peters chose to climb was one of the rockiest and most precipitous. It took him upward of two hours to arrive at the summit. By the time he was half way up he had forgotten his desire for game in the exhilarating work of mountain climbing. The view expanded before him and -increased his desire to get it all. The summit reached, he spent a haif hour or more resting and enjoying the prospect. The chain of hills continued far to the south, with many peaks higher than that on which he stood, but the view to the northwest was uninterrupted for a long distance. After a while his thoughts returned to the object of his hunt, and he began to think of game again. He made up his mind to descend the ridge to the north, and thug give variety to his return home: He had gone kut a short distance from the summit when he saw an animal bounding along over the rocks a quarter of a mile below. He said, when he told about his hunt that evening, that he believed the animal to be an antelope, and he made for it without delay. It was going in an ea&terly direction, and Peters accordingly changed his course in order to get ahead of it if possible. He scrambled down the pathless rocks as fast as he could go until he saw that the antelope had come to a standstill. It stood face away from him, perfectly still. It was yet so far distant that Peters did not venture a shot, and he crept cautiously towards it He had come within two hundred and fifty yards when the animal turned slowly about and faced him. There was neither rock nor thicket near to conceal ; him, and, following his excited impulse heraised his gun and took careful aim. The animal gave him ample time to do this, but the distance was so great that Peters was not at all sure of hitting the mark. When he fired he saw the antelope spTing inf o the air and stagger forward. He believed he had sueeeded fully, and started forward at as fast a rate as the steep descent would' allow. But the antelope seemed to recover from the shot or shock, whatever it might be, and set off on a run also. Peters was excited, and kept up the pursuit. The antelope ran alongside of the thill, while the hunter ran down. In this way he really gained somewhat on his prey, and was soon able to see that he had wounded the animal. He did not see that what made it run along the side of the

hill was the fact that it was skirting the top of a tremendous precipice a sheer descent of bare wall more than a thousand feet from top to bottom. The hills in this vicinity are not so high that vegetation is scant on the summits; it is different from that in the valleys, but thick enough in spots where the rock has soil enough for the roots to grow. There was a clump of bushes and small trees on the very edge of the precipice at one point, and it was toward tins that the antelope was making. It was evidently getting weak from loss of blood, and Peters kept his eyes upon it as he ran, and he noted the clump of bushes and feared lest his game should get out of sight in them. He had almost caught up with the antelope when it disappeared among the trees. Peters hastened all the more rapidly, and it was not until he was within a rod of the brink that ho realized to what he was approaching. He had been watching the game so closely that he hid not seen what other wise would have been most evident. It gave him something of a start to see that there was a chasm yawning before him, and he instinctively slackened his speid. In so doing his foot loosened a small stone, anei, tripping on it, he was pitched forward at a greater impetus that his run had given h i m . It was impossible to stop . A t the edge of the precipice he grasped wildly at what seemed to be a bush, and was

hurled into it. He felt it give way beneath his weight, and he let go his gun and seized the trunk of the bush, or tree with both hands. Down ho went, it seemed to him, forty feet or more. Then the tree swung up again under the influence of its own elasticity. He hung on for life, and up and down he swayed as the tree gradually settled into a sta

tionary position. He saw that . he was

mistaken about the distance through which he had sunk on his first descent, but that failed to cheer him. The tree was rooted in a shelf rock about ton feet below the top of the ledge, and its top branches coming perhaps the same distance above the edge, made it look like a bush. He had hold of the trunk within six feet of the very top, and could see that his weight made a tremendous

strain upon the tree. It was evidently supple wood, for it bent down so far that it pointed out from the rock at almost right angle3. AH these observations passed through his mind in the same flash in which he thought out a plan for escape from his perilous position. -Before the strain on his arms should grow too great he determined to pulled himself up as athletes do upon a horizontal bar, and get astride of the trunk, and then work his way along the base. He could not do this, however, without causing the tree to sway up and down again, and when he had managed to throw his leg over the trunk he found himself in imminent danger of slipping off. The tree quivered -and shook at every. motion, and it occurred to him to question how long it would stand the repeated strains before it would tear away at the roots and send him crashing down after his gun. He had to change his tactics. Carefully he let himself down again until he was in his original posi tion, hanging on to the trunk above his head. Then he, with the greatest difficulty, made his way toward the roots by a hand -over-hand process. The chief obstacles were the twiss and branches that got in his way But every inch forward let the tree regain a little of its normal position, and eventually, when he was about haif of the way toward the roots, it became nearly upright, and he was but a little below the "level of the edge of the cliff. He reached out to the rock and succeeded in getting a hold upon the very edge. By tliis vantage he drew himself from the tree to the solii earth again and sank down utterly exhausted. He found, of course, that his nerves had been badly shocked, and it was a considerable time before he recovered sufficient strength to proceed on his way. As he regained his spirits 30 felt some curiosity to see what had become of the antelope. He went into the thicket at the edge of the cliff, and surmised from the traces of bl ood on the rocks that the animal had become too exhausted to keep its feet, and had staggered and fallen over the precipice. Not far from the spot lie found a way to get down, and he made the descent without difficulty. Then he went alon the hill at the bottom of the precipice, looking for his gun. It was thick with trees at the spot directly under the shelf from which he had so narrowly escaped falling. He looked the ground over in vain for any trace of his weapon, but, glancing into a tree, he chanced jie see it lodged in the branches, and saw, not thirty yards away, an immense panther standing over the mangled; body of the antoelope. The panther was evidently making a meal of it, and was now on the defensive, for the snarl came from another beast of the same tribe, wrho appeared creeping forward a few yards distant. In an instant both had crouched, and in another they had sprung upon each other furiously, and were engaged in a death struggle. Peters watched them excitedly until one had put his teeth through the other's throat and stood victorious and snarling above the bleeding foe. Whether it was the one which had originally secured the antelope, Peters could not decide, but it turned to the carcass and began to finish it. The amateur hunter knew not what to do. He did not dare to get down from the tree, as he was not sure that his gun was in sound condition. It seemed that he must either wait until the panther had finished hiB meal and gone away, w hich might be hours for aught he knew, or try to shoot him from the tree. If he succeeded in killing the dangerous fellow he could get down and go home in comparative safety. He chose the latter alternative. The panther was in d ose range and an easy target. The gun proved to be in good condition, and when the smoke cleared away Peters saw the panther quivering helplessly over the body of the antelope. The hunt, so full of adventure and narrow escape from violent death, had a most unhappy sequel. The exertion proved altogethertoo much for Peters. He reached the camp notlong after sundown, wTeary, faint and nervous. He fell at once into a high fever and before noon the ioliowing dsy he died. WHEN MY DREAMS COME TRUE. Wlien my dreams come true when my dreams come true Shall I lean fro m out my casement, in the starlight and the dew, To listen smile and listen to the tinkle of the strings Of the sweot guitar my lover's fingers fondle, as ' he sings? And as the nude moon slowty, slowly shoulders into view, . .. - Sliall I vanish from his vision when my dreams come true? When rny dreads come tnie shaU the ' sample :. gown 1 wear. Be changed to softest satin, and my maiden hraided hair. Bo raveled into flossy mists of rarest, fairest gold, To he minted into kisses, more than any heart can hold? Or "the smnmiT of my tresses" shall my lover liken to The fervor of "his passion" when my dreams come true? When my dreams come truo I shall bide among the sheaves . . Of happy harvest mea'dows, and the grasses and ' the leaves Shall lift aud lean between me and the splendor

of the sun, Till the. moon swoons into twilight, aud the gleaners' work is done Save that yet an arm shall bind me, even as the reapers do The meanest thonf of harvest when my dreams come true. When my dreams comc.truc? when my dreams com e tr .ie! True love in all simplicity is fresh and pure as dew: ; The blossom in the blackest mold is k ft id Her to the eye Thau any lily born of pride, that blooms against the sky, Aud so it in I know my heart will gladly welcome you, My lowliest of lovers, when my dreams come true., .... James Whitcoinb Riley in the Current,

Small Things Which Lead to Greatlies it Its

Man's JCvery Action Not Without Borne Influence Whatevtr is Dopte Should Be Don3 Wisely aud Well. Rev. Dr.Talmage preached at Martha's Yin eyard , Maes. , Sun day, whither the taherjiacle people aud their friends had made their annual pilgrimage. Text: II Cor. xi., SfS He said: Observe, first, on what a slender tenuie great results hanjf. The roperaaker who twisted that cord fastened to that lowering basket never knew how much would depend upon the strength of it. How if it had been broken, and the appostle's life had deen dashed out?

What would have becomerof the Christian Church? All that magnificent missionary work in Painphilia, Cappadocian Oalatia, Macedonia, would never have been accomplished. All his writings that make up so indispensable and enchanting a part of the New Testament would never have been written. The story of resurrection would never have been so gloriously told as he told it. That example of heroic and triumphant endurance at Philippi, in the Mediterranean Euroclydon, under flagellation and at his beheding would

not have kindled the courage of ten thousand martyrdoms. But that rope holding that basket, how rauch depended on il! So again and again great results have hung on whatseemed slender circumstances. . Did ever ship of many thousand tons crossing the sea have such important passenger as had once a boat of leaves, horn tall rail to stern only three or four feet, the vessel made waterproof by. a coat of bitumen, and floating on the Nile with the infant law-giver of the Jews on board? What if some crocodile should crunch it? What if some of the cattle wading in for a drink should sink it? Vessels of war sometimes carry forty guns looking through the port-holes, ready to open battle. But that tiny craft on the Nile seems to be armed with all the guns of thunder that bombarded ' Sinai at" the lawgiving. On how fragile craft sailed how much of historical importance!: The parsonage at Epworth, England, ia on fire in the night, and the father rushed through the hallway for the rescue of his children. Seven children are out and safe on the , ground, but one remains in the consuming building. That one wakens, and, finding his bed on .fire and the building crumbling comes to the window, and two peasants make a ladder of thear bodies, one peasant standing on the shoulders of the other, and., down the human ladder the boy descends John Wesley. If you would know how much depended on that ladder of peasants, ask the millions of Methodists on both sides of the sea. Ask their mission stations all aronnd the world. Ask their hundreds of thousands already ascended to join their founder, who would have perished but for the hving stairs of peasants' shoulders, An English ship stopped at Pitcairn Island, and right in the midst ot sur

rounding cannibalism and squalor the passengers discovered a Christian colony of churches and schook and beautiful homes and . high teat style of religion aud civilization. For fifsy years no missionary and no Christian influence had landed there. Why this oasis of light amid the desert of heathendom? Sixty years before a ship had met a disaster, and one of the sailors, unable to save anything else, went to his trunk and took out a Bible which his. mother had placed there and swam ashore, the Bible held in his teeth. The book was read on all sides until the rough and vicious population were evangelized, and a church was started and an enlightened commonwealth . established, and the world's history has no more brilliant page than that which tells ot the transformation of a nation by one book. It did not seem of much importance whether the sailor cont inued to hold the book or let it fall in th e breakers, but upon what smal I circumstances depended what mighty results! Practical inference: There are no insignificance.in our lives. The minutes tiling is .part of a magnitude, Infinity is made up of- infinitesimals. Great things an aggregation of small things. Bethlehem manger pulling 'on a star in the Eastern sky. One book in a drenched sailor's mouth the evangelization of a multitude. One boat of papyrus on the Kile freigbteed with events for all ages. The fate of Christendom in a basket, let dowrn from a window on the wall. What you do, do well, Jf you make a -rope make it strongand true, for you know not how much may depend upon your workmanship. If you fashion a boat, let it be water-proof, for you know not who may sail in it. If you put a Bible in the trunk of your boy as he goes from home, let it be heard in your prayers, for it may have a mission :a far-reaching as the book which the ssiilor carried in his teeth to the Pitcairn beach. The plainest man's life is an island between two eternities ; eternity past rippling against his shoulders, eternity to come touching Jus brow. The casual, the accidental, that which merely happened so, are parts of a great plan, and the rope that lets the fugitive apostle from, the Damascus wall is the cable that holds to its mooring the ship of the Church in the north-east storm of the centuries. Again, notice unrecognized and unre corded services. Who spun that rope? Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Who Tel axed not a muscle of the arm or dismissed an anxious look from his face until the basket touched

the ground and discharged a magnificent cargo? Not one of their names has come to us. but there was no work done that

day in Damascus or in all the earth compared with the importa nce of their work. What if they had in the agitation tied a knot that could slip? What if the sound of the mob . at the door had led them to say: "Paul must take care of himself, and we wilt take care of ourselves." No, no! They held the rope,

and in doing so did more for the Chris

tian Church than airy thousand of us will ever accomplish. But God knows

and has made eternal record of their

undertaking. And they know. How exultant they must have felt, when they read his letters to the Romans, to the Corinthians, to ths Galatmns, to the Colossians, to the Thessalonians, to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, to Ihe He brews, and when they heard how he walked out of prison with the earthquake unlocking the door for him, and took command of the Alexandria cornship when the sailors were nearly scared to death, and preached a sermon that nearly. shook Felix oft" his judgment seat. I hear the mem and women who helped him down through the" window and over the wall talking in nrivato over the matter, and saying: "How glad I am that weeflected that rescue! Incoming times others may get the glorv of Paul's work, but no one sliall rob us of the satisfaction of knowing that vfe hold he rope." .:,-,. Once lor thirty-six, hours we expected every moment to go the bottom of the ocean. The waves struck through the skylights .and rushed down into the hold of tb e ship and' 1 1 issed . against; the boilers. It. was an awful time: but by

the blessing of God and the ' faithfulness ' 'ft . -' '' . i. C 1.1

Ol Liiii men m cuargt'i w ttuuu uui. ui mo cyclone andve arrived at home. Each onebefore leaving the ship thanked Captain, Andrews 1 do not think there was a man or woman that went ofi that shm ; without thanking Captain Andrews, autfSviien years after I heard of his death I was impelled to write a letter of condolence to his family in Liverpool. Everybody recognized the the goodness, the courage, the kindness of Captain Andrews; but it occurred to me that we never thanked the engineer. He stood away down in the darkness amid the hissing furnaces doing his whole duty. Nobody thanked the engineer, but God recognized his heroism and his continu

ance: and his fidelity, and there will be just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of sight as for the captain who stood on the bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling tempest. There are said to be. about sixty-nine thousand ministers of religion in this country. About fifty thousand, t warrant, carae from early homes which had to struggle for the necessaries of life. The sons of the rich bankers and merchants generally become -bankers and merchants. The most of those who become ministers are the sons of those who had terrific struggle to get their every day bread. The collegiate and theological education of that son took every luxury from the parental table for eight years. The other children were more scantily appareled. The son at college every little while got a bundle from home. In it were the socks .that mother had knit sitting up late at night, her sign t not as good as once it was.

The years go by, and the son has been5

ordained and is preaching the glorious gospel, and a great revival comes, and souls by scores and hundreds accept the gospel from the lips of that young preacher, and father and mother, quite old now, ar3 visiting the son at the village parsonage, and at the close of a Sabbath of mighty blessing father and mother retire to their room, the son lighting the way and asking them' if he can can do anything to make them more

comiortaoie, saying it tney want any thing in the night just to knock on the wall. And then, all alone, father- and mother talk over the gracious influences of the day, and say: "Well, it. wag worth all we went through to educate that boy. It was a hard pull, but we held on till the work was done The world may not know it, but, mother, we held the rope, didn't we?" And the voice, tremulous with joyful emotion, responds: "Yes, father, we held the rope. .1 feel my work is done Now, Lord, tettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eves have seen thy salvation." "Pshaw!" says the father, "I

never felt so much like living in my life as now. I want to see what that fellow is goin;a: on to do, ho begun 60 well." Oh, men and women here assembled, you brag sometimes how you have fought your way in the world, but I think i;here have been helpf al influence that you have ne er fully acknowledged. Has there not been some influence in your early or present home, that the world can not 'see? Does there not reach to you from among the New England hills, or from Western prairie, or from Southern plantation, or from English or Scottish or Irish home a cord of influence that has kept you right when you would have gone astray, and which, after you had made a crooked track, recalled you? The rope may be as long as thirty years, or five hundred miles long, or thr'20 thousand miles long, but hands that went out of mortal sight long ago, still hold the hope. You want a very swift hor3e, and you need to rowel him . with sharpest spurs, and to let the reins lie loose upon the neck, and to give a shout to- the races, if you are going to ride out of reach of you mother's prayers. Why, a ship crossing the Atlantic in six days can't sail away from that. A sailor finds them on the look-outj a; he takes his place, and find them on the mast as he climbs the ratlines to disen ¬

tangle a rope in the tempest, and finds them swinging on the hammock where he turns in. Why not be frank and acknowledge it the most of us would long ago have been dashed to pieces had not gracious and loving hands 6teadily and" lovingly. and mightily held the rope. But there must come a time when we shall find ou t who these Damascene? were who lowered Paul in the basket, and greet them and all those who hav? rendered to God and the world nnrecog niaed. and unrecorded 6ervicea, That is going: to be one of the glad excitements of heaven, the hunting up and picking out of those who did great good on the earth and got no credit for it. Here the Church has been going on nineteen centuries, and yet the world has not recog nized the services of the people in that Damascus balcony. .... We go into long sermons to prove ths.t we wilt be able to recognize people in heaven, when there, is one reason we fail to present, and that is better than all God will introduce us. You would not be guilty of the impoliteness, of having friends in your parlor noc introduced, and celestial politeness will demand that we be made acquainted with all the heavenly household. .What rehearsal ot old times and recital of stirring reminiscences! If others fail .to give in tro auction God will take us through, an d before our first twenty-four hours in heaven, (if it were calculated by earthly time pieces) have passed we Bhall meet and talk with more heavenly celebrities than in our entire mortal state we met with earthly celebrities. Many who made great noise of usefulness will mi on the last seat by tfee front door ot the heavenly temple, while right up within arm's reach of the . heaven 1) throne will be many who, though the) could not preach themselves,or do great exploits for God, nevertheless held tae rope. -. Gome, let us go right up and accost thoHe on this circle of heavenly thrones iSurely, they must have killed in battle a million men. Surely, they must ha vi been buried with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the cities teHio the national grief. Who art thou,migbt one ol: heaven? "I lived by choice the unmarried daughter in a Humble home, tha", I might take care of my parents in their old age, and I endured without complaint all their querulousness and administered to all their wants for twenty years." Let us pass on round the circle of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I was for. thirty years a Christian invalid, and 6uftered all the while, occas tonally writi ng a note of sy m pat hy for those worse off than I, fl-nd was general confidant of al those who Lad trouble, and once in a while I was strong enough to make a garment ior that pool family in the back lane." Pass on to another throne. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I was the mother who raised a whole family of children foi God; and. they are out in, the world, Christian merchants, Christian mechanics, Christian wives, and I have had full reward oi all my toil." hat us pass ou in :he circle of thrones., "I had a Sabbath school class, and they wTere always on my heart, and they all entered the kingdom of God, and I am waiting then arrival." But who art thou, the mighty onei of heaven on this other throne? "In time

of bitter nersecution I owned a house in

Damascus, a house on the v alL A man who preached Christ was hounded from street to street, and I hid him frbnv lhe assassins, and when I found them breaking jn my house, and I cotild no longer kei'p him safely, I advised him to" flee for iU life., and a basket was let down over the wall with the maltreated man in it, and I Was one who helped hold the rope.M And I said: "Is that all?" And he answered; "That is all."" A nd vhih I was lost in amazement I heard a strong voice that sounded as though it might once have been hoarse from many ex poisures,. and triumphant as though it mieht have belonged to one of the martyrs, and it said: "Not many mighty, not many noble are called, but Cod hath chosen the weak things .or the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God cliDsen; yea, and things v hich are not to bring to naught things which aro,that no llesli should glory in His presence." And I looked to see from whence the voice came, and, lo! it was. the very one who lu.d said: "Through & window in

a basket was I let down by the wall."

Henceforth think of nothing m insignificant. A little thing may decide your

all. Nothing unimportant m your life or mine. Three naughts placed on the rihtside of a figure one make a thousand, and six naughts on the right side of a tigura one make a million, and our nothingness placed on the right side may

be augmentation illimitable. All the

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. INDIANA NEWS. - The residents of Utica claim , to have discovered an oil well in. the Ohio river fronting the town. Michigan City is the only city in i.ortkern Indiana that has decided to re

tain the telephone.

A. A. Talmage, vice president and general manager of the Wabashrailway, died at Peru Wednesday. . A $25,000 fire occurred fit Sunman, Tnd., Tuesday, Nine stores and dwellings and a warehouse wore the buildings destroyed. David Bady, a youn' man living at Ladoge, bursted a blood vessel while Uruning handsprings, on. Saturday, and died instantly. The drouth in the southern part of the State is widely extended aud severe in its effects. Unless there is rain soon, t he corn crop will be burned out. The program for the Acton Park assembly is out. It calls for fitfy entertainments, consisting of sermons, lectures, reading, recitations, music, etc". Miss Ida J. Knowlton , daughter -of M. B. Knowlton, of Logansport, was found dead in her bed Monday morning. Heart diabase was the cause of her death. Gas well No. 3, drilled by the Conncrsville city council, was shot,Saturday

night, and a flame leaped fiity feet high

as the result. It decreased somewhat afterward; ,. The State Millers' Association met at Lafayette Wednesday and elected Win, Styer, of Kokomo, president; Issaac Miller, of Peru, vice-president, and A. P. Landes, Lafayette, secretary, Harriet Albin, living wi fell an aunt

near Foster's Ridge, Per ry county, while alone in the house, shot herself in the

temple with suicidal intent. She will

die. Cause, unrequited love.

Ben. D. House, Adjutant General of

the Department of Indiana G. A. K, for

poet of some distinction, died at Indian

apolis on the 4th inst. The flouring mill of Horner & Sloeum

at Medaryville, was burned Monday, wi th seven hund red bushe Is ' of grain ,

seven tons of feed and a quantity of

flour. ' Loss, $7,500: no insurance.

Several citizens of Ladoga lost money by t)ie recent failure of the Fidelity hank of Cincinnati-, Vice President

Harper at one time lived in Ladoga, and

Josiah Dougherty now holds his note for

$1,600.

The Terro Haute nail works have attached 400 tons of steel at the New

Albany rail mill, alleged to be the prop

erty of a Belgium company , to collect

$8,000 claimed .for failure to perform a

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Friday, Samuel Qj Brechtel, wealthy

and influential banker of U apanee, was instantlv killed while seeking shelter

from rain under a sandbank, the sand tailing upon him and smothering him

co death. .

n the 29th. ult . afternoon, after 2

o'clock, W. A, Oliphant, of Pike county,

cut wheat . had it taken to the machine

and threshed; he then took it to a mill,

had it eround, and bread was baked of

the flour at 6 o'clock. . . . . ; ')

The Marion county election conspn

aey cases were up before Judge Woods,

at Indianapolis on a motion to quash.

After hearing the argument -the Judge

denied the motion. The cases w:ilLcome

up for trial during this month.

Patrick Crady, an . Irishman living

near Roachdale, and who is said to1 be 125 years of age recently -walked from

Greeneastle to his home, a distance of about eighteen miles. His wife is. living,

and is said to be 110 years of age.. :

Miss Alice A. ' Stanton, clerk and

book-keeper in the dry goods and bank

ing house of Joseph. S. Irwin, of Colum

bus, eloped wittt George B. Adams, and

they were married. The parents stout

ly refused their consent to the match,

hence this result.

John Snider, a wealthy farmer living ten miles south of Shelbyyille, who- has but lately recovered from a deadly assault made on hira by two tramps on going into his barn some months ago, was kicked in the breast by a horse Sunday, and fatally in j urod. ' The vicinity ol Morgan town is in a furore of excitement over an alleged outrage commmi tted by John Lout upon the person of a Mis Holman, a daughter of Martin Holman. Lout is about thirty five years of age and the girl eighteen. The perpetrator of the crime is in jail. , .v ... .. The State Board of Health;; Tuesday appointed Dr. Ed ward J, Church, of LaPorte, as' a member of the State Board of Den tai Examiners. The board is now complete, the other members being Dra Kirk of Kokomo, Hunt of Indianapolis, Chapel of Knightf town and Van alssah of Terr e Haute. - -. .... Wildcat post; No. 492, G, A, R., will celebrate the Fourth of July at Quincy, Among other attractions will be a night scene, representing an att rick of rebels, the pickets being driven in and a battle fought. All neighboring posts and citizens of Owen andadjpiuiag.couiities are invited to attend." ' Francis Weaver.; a young man residing at North Grov, Miami county, was arrested Monday at the instigation of the officials of the Pan Handle railroad, charged wdth placing a rail tie on the track last March. Weaver failed to give bond in the sum of ?1,000 and went to jail: The tie was struck' by a freight train and thrown off without damage, Miss May A. Devine, the daughter of a well to do farmer, near Rush ville, was arrested in Chicago in company with a burly negro, whom she declared her intention of mavFying. The negro's name ia Logan D. Wrieht, jvho had been a porter of the Heritage house at Lima, O., where the girl was also employed. Her father was sent for. Thursday night James M. Temple, living near English,, was "visited byv the White Gaps," taken from his bed and severely wThipped. After they had completed their work they went to the residence of James S. Bennett, ant, calling him out instructed him to tell throughout the neighborhood that they had whipped James Tomplo for stealing, laziness, and for threatening to burn ihnocent men's barns; as reported Ferd Shrader, of Kokomo, utilized the big blaze of gas well No. 5 the other night by harvesting h is wheat, T w o sel fbinders were in operation, followed by the requisite number of men gathering ihe sheaves and putting them in shock. The light was sufficient to enable the harvesting to be done aff successfully as in mid-day, and the orkmen appreciatr ed thetjai:e p4vilege of garnering the

grain without the burning sun DjaV paniment. r..V V..V,f Thursday F. E. Peppeiv traveling salesman for Tarr A Co., of Lexington,, . Ky., got intoxicated and became in

volved in a fight with the employe of

the New Barneti house at LpganHporf. over a trifling matter. Alex; Baraett,. his two sons and a stalwart colored

porter gave Pepper a terrible beating Alex. Barhett, the proprietor r6i house and one of -the oldest hotel menjg

in the State, was struck y Pepper ana

lies in an unconscious condition'. His; 1

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physician has little; hopes ', of . ft covery. . . .i.

Porter. county is ereatly excited over'

the elopement of Rev. Wm14fcttd -Sff ;

domestic in hU' family named SORo r

Beck. He was the Methodist Epiecopai

M in isterior Ghesterfcon circuit, and vrw

quite popular. His wife threatened to leave him. lie met the hired girl by

appointment and kook her to YalnfiiWisot and Chicago. He has written ' t hm

wife that she will never see him e gain,

The girl has written to her parents sfer

ing forgiveness. West ran in debt ali

he could before his departure, ami aiso

appropriated the church property lying, around loose. ' ' - ' M i

A terrible accident catne hear hajV

pening on the I. V. road at Jndianap oils, Thursday. An eTcursion train car rv ing 1,300 of thepoor children of Jtar

dianapolis and their friends was crossing -

the White river bndge when fche?leavy A.Z 1 iL UJ .iLiAMil anil:

gave way, and the tails sank dowri grad fr-

ually until the steps of the cars dragged -.f -upon the euard rails beside the track andi" "5

plowedydeep furrowi' in the oalc. The 4

train passed on over but it was a close '. jf-:

call. The train men did not know of ; Li :

the accident until afterward, thpugliC " they realized that everything iifS-?iot ' ; ;

right as they passed oyer. -;"; ; ; '

Th following patents were-gran ted to - Indiana inventors Tuesday: JamesBojrS .1

and W, Y. Goldenburg Veyay; gate; , K? . Francis A. Coffin, assigaor to Indiana?;,.. polis Cabinet Company, letter ilejJamesj ; . N, Crabb, Bichmond,horee collar; Henry V" B. Lcwe, Kokomo, tax duplicate md ire " , ceipt; Frank Prox, Tene Haute, eciionr ; al steam boiler; Frans P. H. Prox, Teme Haute, radiator; Harvey 3i Schrocfti Goshen, automatic gate; Mark A. Sniitlfef and J: Nurre; Evansville, washhoard; . ' Clarence C. Sprinkle, Majeniea- bamr ' ; boor fastening; Budolph Stuck wischV Cory combined harrow and cnldTatorj f William Thorn, Indianapolisj iOean y -elbow machine. "I Hiaton Miller, treasurer ; of "Perry connty, of which ; Cannelton - is thfe ' county seat, has been missing for week, and it no tianspires that- his ac; counts show a largedefalcation,anioun6ing to about $67,000. Mfllet vfte a very ; popular and lughtyrrespecte4 citisen the county, having been elected ns a Re- " publican' -by 700 majority f ' ; Perry county is generally DeniociaU --ffy 200 or more. His immediate prediwesqr " S. M. Combs, a Democrat was also; ;v defaulter for $30,0G and is now seryinfel; a term in the penitentiary. Miller, hadf - . with him his young wifehw -stbond-p; ,

married a few months ago;: when he

passed through Evansviue last VYednes? -day, and it is;supposea Canals. Another account malres &he amount of his defalcation muchvleBSi', Jpnathan Houston, a wealthy- miser, of Decatur,, came home from ForfcM Wayne a few days ago. and ori account 1

of his extreme age and frailness, whenl, alighting hrom the train at th depo fell and bruised himself on his bead and " . lower limbs. He was carried v to hft . 4; . r room over one .of business rooma- .. v; on , Second streei . HeJ lias" np re-; y: latives there, and always lived"lyv ... himself, living on cheese oxcWt; and one of the most; ftUhy- b'SingsV 111 ' Tv.s dress in the city; No one eyeryimte '' kis room on account of the stench. Fri& - dav morning the health authorities emt

ployedwo men to buy newlothv

ingi bed-stead and clothing for: himself, iTirl fhwi . Wnrnd ike con ten tf of his

room to destroy tie stench. They dop v ployed a man to attend nim dtiring hl jV:; -; sickness, his recovery being veiry doubt- s: i ful.: It is said ne has womff a suit nf , clothes for twenty years, ttiey being , patch upon patch now. He ro ade what garments he , had. He did his owi ; washing: iHe ! boastr olE his B wrd ;and ; ; clothing costing him only :$2S & -yearv -f - v Ho made his stert in aiiforhia in ; J He owns valuable property in Becatu -S and Fort Wavne, and is wbra? flM '. , The 01orfou FowrthvV ;? . The glorious -FOurtii was neriftlyt rolAVrtAd ihrnnirhont the StJlte.S'ft- -

dArson never saw such a cro wdi - .The

sh am battle was a great succes, and tiifi: :f Indianapolis laght Artillery cqverei, -itself with renown. In l the wuiinjvhe gas wells furnished the fire works..: oiitv .r: Cambridge Cit the colcred OddfJF -lows had a splendid time At Oolu?nhisg the G A R. and Ki of P. celebrated i nvnpUfint, st.vlft. and the races and fire

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displayiri-which they were assisted: py the Kniarrfs of Pythias and other" or

gnizations; At CrawfordsylleV Gen Ubv Wallaceiad ehajof the cere ies. Rev. W. H; Hickman wai the orar tor, and Minister Hanna delivered an address, At Delphi the Knights of Iat. hot took ihe lead in the celebratiou; Hon. David Turpie was the omtor.': ; AJ Greeneastle the exercises consisted ota' procession of the K. okI. citisens and merchants, baby showr races, ireworksV

and many, minor attracUon8i;TOe dress of the ' day was delivered by Bom Howard Briggs. ;f At Muncie fireworks was the principalf diversion, aad it is said that over twenty seriotta accidents occurred. A Peru the vrain ; interferred souiewhatv but the demon-;. a t ration at the Sair ground wan a success. -At Shelby ville thef crowds numbered some ten thousand, but fell fur shorfe of v what was anticipated. The Whiteland band took the first prize in the Wurna ment. The sham battle was a success :

in all respecta The rainvs poiteuthe-; fireworks in the evonincr. r A number ot-

casuatUes took place. At Trre Haute a grand row took the place of the cele h ration, caused by the presence of Robert Soni'liUfe The A R. reused to take part in the -procession, and the result wa a a failure, " At Winchester the day wasJ celebrated, under the auspices of .teajA:Bed Sleu, fully 3, W people being ifc attends ; ance. A brilliant display of fireworks, etc., enlivened the .occasio '. Indianapolis News." -.. v Almost every town and village in th State celebraeL i; f ?

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