Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 28, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 May 1889 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

BY H. J. FELTBS.

BLOOM1X0TON,

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Eptsox believes that the time is coming when transportation through the air wilt be as common . as terrestrial rrif e. There wilt be railroads lines in the sky or steamship lines more properly trains of convoy crossing the continent. He tees but , one drawback to the adoption el the practice, and that is the ease it will afford criminals to escape from any point where they have committed a crime. It will net then be possible to intercept them with wires as new. He thinks we shall then see more crime. Bat Tom forgets that the inventions which we owe to him and others

enable us now to detect and prevent

crime quite as readily as when criminals could only escape on horseback or afoot.

Science keeps apace of need and demand. Murder and all other crimea"will them '. selves out." - T "t.i - --

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Iv sounds like a eouid srom acomic

paper to read that a learned clergyman,

ihe Bishop of Lincoln; is on trial in England for ritualism and that his case is made to depend more orlesa on canon law dating back to 341 years after our Lord. If the church courts must search the records of 1900 years to discover exact! f what gowns may be worn and what number of times the knees may be crooked, and in what duration the face must be turned at a Riven moment, then the populace willbe pretty -well turnea awny from the church altogether, while the contestants quarreL Tweedledee and tweedledum are equally valuable to purify society and save the world- What is wanted is more practical . common sense and a consideration of the needs of humanity to be lifted from its every day miseries and temptations.

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Ovs of the happiest devices fer the public schools to secure good habits was made a few years ago, we believe, by a New Jersey teacher, and termed the school banking system. It consists in opening a savings bank on true business principles, in which the pupils are. encouraged to invest their pennies. It is well known by teachers that a great share of the danger to the young comes from taeir being furnished with spending money which goes indiscreetly for cigarettes or for stomach-spoiling candies, or for the worst sort of reading matter, 'or for useless trinkets and ornaments. The bank creates: habi ts of svr ing and economy which: will wonder tally anect the whole life! AtiLong Island City, in . ..Few York; receatly the deposits of a single week amounted to 1230.41. The total in bank in this school

amounts to over $10000, the credit of

.about three years' growth. '"?

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' It is not at all pleasent to learn that the laws concerning compulsorv education are not enforced in the several States -where they are in existence, and that th ey seem t o be non-enforceable? A fair sample of results is seen in Chicago, where the roll of children of a school Jge is 142,293, but of these only 84,002 : are enrolled in the schools, leaving, of course, 67,391, to be accounted for elsewhere. Plainly, in our larger tides at least,one-third of the children are receiving that education which our system of schools and our4aws? require; This is due in some degree to the increased antagonism to our school system qn the part of one of the Churches; but it is equally due to the difficulties surrounding the enforcemant of such laws where the parents do not desire it Ti e bulk of recent imigranta do not feel the need of education, nor will they willingly allow their children to she witJidrawn frcmlabor to learning. 1 . ;

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Be. Lymax reports through the New

i oxx jxusaicat a ournai some very accu

rate investigations concernin g the use of

tobacco.' In an observation cf thirty-

eaght boys of all classes of society and

of average health, who had been using

tobacco for from two months to two years, twenty-seven showed serious in

jury to the constitution and checked physical development? Thirty-two

showed damage done to tho heart's ac

tion, disordered digestion and a craving

for alcohol. Thirteen had intermits

tency of the pulse and one had con

sumption. After the abandonment o

tooacco, wrtnin six months one-half

were free from all the above symptoms

and the remainder were - cured -by the

end of the year. The Maoris are given

as an instance of the evil resulting from

tobacco. This race was; when first dis-

weu, ujrimw aeveiopea ot- any tribe ol the Pacific. It is now decimat

ed in numbers and dagenerate in type.

This is said to be owing to their inordi

nate fondness for tobacco.

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"White Hon Hygicnio.

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4 The "White House is carefully attend

w w v very year, ana in nuing up o:

tne nets at the back of the house has done away with-the malarial influences

from that quarter. It deserves now.

just as much as it ever did t the encom-

:k zgi&z sums that caniionB Tom Monm ruumA

Miuw5ir wo uuiy uung no lounu in

uus country to praise; and the great

country houseupon which it is modelled

-hat of the Tmke of Leinster is con

sidered one of the finest in Great Britain.

-When Munkacsy, the Hungarian

painter, was in Washington, he went in-

zo raptares "ever the architectural beauty

:of the building, declaring the propor

tions were among the most correct of any he had ever seen. As for the

cramped five bedrooms; there are in reality sbi, and they are ail perfectly

huge, with high ceilings, great mantels

$and heavy, old-fashioned windows; out

of which the moat- charming views are

e visible: They all open on a large com

- dor, ths sise of the state corridor downstairsv and on the whole it seems rather

ridiculous that people who were yester

day plain American citizens, andto-

morrow v.ill be plain American citizens,

fshouJd not be able to make themselves

1 4mxifnTtfthli? in th& hnnnft that.- AKitvail

ii ts. genuieman,' wno w very close to Fr asiden t Harrison, is responsible for ih3 statement that the Chief Executive has mado up his mind that General Becrsns shall not be disturbed in his pijsition as Register of the Treasury until his term has expired. The President and his party including several members of the Cabinet, left W ashington, Sunday; j for New York in a special train of elegant Pullmans.' Jfc. Blaine is indisposed and did not go.

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KING SOLOMON'S MINES. BY H. RIDEK HAGGARD. CHAPTER XVL-CoNTinxrsn. IN THE MINES. . ., .... Sometimes the stalactites took strange funis, presumably where the dropping ol the water had not always been on the same spot.- Thus, one huge mass, which must have , weighed a hundred tons or so. . was in the form of a pulpit, beautifully fretted over outside with what looked like lace. Others resembled strange beasts, and on the sides of the cave were fan-like ivory tracings, such as the frcst leaves upon a pani v Out of the vast main aisle, there opened here and there smaller caves, exactly, Sir Henry said, as chapels open out of treat cathedrals. Some were large, but one. or two and this is a wonderful instance of how nature carries out her handiwork by the same unvarying laws, utterly irrespective of size were ttiny. On little nook, for instance, was no larger than an unusually big doll's house, and yet it might have been the model of the whole place, for the water dropped, the tiny icicles hung, and the spar columns were forming in just the same way. ..." :vv . "We had not, however, as much time to examine this beautiful place as

thoroughly as we should have to do, for unfortunately Gagool seemed to be indifferent to stalactites, and only

anxious to get her business over. This

annoyed me the more, as 1 was particularly anxious to discover, if . possible, by what system the light was admitted into the place, and whether it was by ths hand of ms.n or of nature that this was done, also if it had been used in any way in ancient times, as seemed probable. However, we consoled ourselves with the idea that we would xamine it thoroughly on our return and followed on after our uncanny guide. On she led us, straight to the top of the vast and silent cave, where we found another door way, not arched as the first was, but square at the top, something like the door ways of Egyptian temples. "Are ye prepared to enter the Place of Death?" asked Gagool, evidently with a view to making us feel uncomfortable. "Lead on. Macduff," said Good, solemnly, trying to look as though ho Was not at all alarmed, as indeed did we ail except Foulatoj who caught Good by the arm for protection. "This is getting rather ghastly," said Sir Henry, peeping into the dark doo. way. "Come on, Quatermain seniorrs priores. Don't keep the old lady waiting." and he politely made way for me to lead the van, for which I inwardly did not bless him. i Tap, tap, went old Gagool's stick down the passage, as she trotted along, chuckling hideously; and still overcome by

some unaccountame presentment oi

evil, I hung back. "Come, get on, old fellow," said Good, "or we shall lose our fair guide." Thus adjured, I started down the passage, and after about twenty paces found myself in a gloomy apartment some forty feet long, by thirty broad, and thirty high, which in some past aire had evidently

been hollowed, by hand labor, out of the mountain. ; This apartment was not

nearlv so well liirhted as the vast

stalactite ante cave and at the first glance all I could make out was a mass

ive stone table running 3 length, with a colossal white figure at its head, and Kfe sized white figures all around it. Next I made out a brown thing, seated on the table in the center, and in another moment my eyes grew accustomed to the light and I saw what all these things were, and I was tailing out of it as hard as my legs would carry me. I am not a nervous man, in a general way, and very little troubled with

superstitions, of which I have lived to

see the folly; but I am free to own that

that sight quite upset me, and had it not

been .that sir Henry caught me by the collar and held me. I do honestly be

lieve that in anoth er five mi autes I

should have been outside that stalactite

cave, and that the promise of all the diamonds in Kimberley would not have induced me to enter it again. But he held me tight, so I stopped because I could not help myself. But next second bis eyes got accustomed to the, light, too, and he let go of me, and began to mop the perspiration off his forehead. As for Good he Bwore feebly, and Foulata threw ...her arms round his neck and shrieked. . Only Gagool chuckled loud and long. It" was a ghastly sight. There at the end of the long stone table, holding in his skeleton Sogers a great white spear, sat Death himself, shaped in the form of a colossal human skeleton, fifteen feet , or more in. height. High above his head he held the spear, as though in the act to strike; one bony hand rested on the stone table before him, in the position -a man assumes on rising from his seat, whilst his frame was bent forward so that the vertebra? of the neck, and the grinning, gleaming skull projected toward us, and fixed its hollow eye-places upon us, the jaws a ittle open, as though it were about to speak. . ... . -. "' . . "Great heavens!" said I, faintly, at last, "what can it be? . "And what are those things?" said

oooa, pomtine to tne wnite comnanv

rofhd that table.

"Hee! hee! hee!" laughed Gagool. "To those who enter the Hall of the Dead, evil comes. Heel hee! hee! ha! ha! "Come, Incubu, brave in battle, come and see him thou slowest." and the old creature caught his coat in her skinny fingers, and 1 ed him away toward the table. We followed. " '

Presently she stopped and point-

ea at tne orown ooiect seated on

the table. Sir Henry looked, and started

back with an exclamation: and no won

der, tor there, seated, quite naked, on

the table, the head which Sir Henry's

Dattieax nad shorn from the bodv rett

ing on its knees, was the gaunt corpse of

xwaia, last King 01 tne ruiKuanas. Yes, there.the head perched upon the knees, it sat in all its ugliness, the vertebra projecting a full inch above the level of the shrunken flesh of the neck, for all the world like a black double of Hamilton Tighe. Over the whole surface of the corpse there was gathered a thin, glassy film, which made its appearance yet more appalling, and for which we were, at th moment, quite unable to account, till we presently observed that from the roof of the chamber the water fell steadily, drip! drop! drip! on to the neck of the corpse, from whence it ran

down over the entire surface,and finally escaped into the rock through a tinv

hole in the table. Then I finessed what

itwas Twala's body was being trans-

ivnueu Jiiiua etaiacute. A look at the white forma seated on

the stone bench that ran around that

ghastlv board confirmed this view. They were human forms, indeed, or rather

had been human forms; now thev were

stalactites. This was the way in which the Kukuana people had from time immemorial preserved their royal dead. They petrified them. What the exact

system was, . if, there was an v.

beyond placing them for a long period

of years under the drip, x never -discovered, but there they sat, iced ever and preserved forever by the silicious fluid. Anything more awe-inspirine than the

spectacle of this lonar line of denarted

royalties, wrapped in a shroud of ice-

like spar, through which the features

could be dimly made out (there were

twenty-seven of them, the last being

Ignosrs father), and seated . round that inhospitable board, with Death himsel for a host, it is impossible to imagine.

That the practice ox thus preservinc

heir kings must have been an ancient

one is evident from the number, which, allowing for an average reign of fifteen

years, would, supposing that every king who reigned was placed here an im

probable thing, as some are sure to have perished in battle fai from home fix

he date of its commencement at four

and a quarter centuries back. But the

colossal Death, who sits at the head of

he board, is far older than that, and

unless I am much mistaken, owe k his

origin to the same artist Who,, designed

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the three colossi. He

out of a single

and, looked at as a work ot art was most admirably conceived and executed, Good,who understood anatomy

declared that so far as he could see tue anatomical design ot the skeleton was

perfect down to the smallest bones. ,.

iiy own mea is, tuai. mm msihuu object was a freak of fancy on the part

of some old-worm sculptor, ana iw presence had suggested to the Kukuanas the idea of placing their royal dead under its awful presidency. Or perhaps

it was placed there to frighten away any

marauders wno mignu nave uetsigua Upon the treasure chamber beyond 1 can not say; All T can do if: to describe it as it is, and the reader must form his own conclusion.

CHAPTER XVI I. BOXiOMOST S TBBAB0RE-C1IAMHBB. While we had been engaged in getting

oyer our fright, and in examining the

griBly wonders of the place, Gagool had been" differently occupied. Somehow or other iorsne was marvelously aefcivo when she chose -sne had scrambled on to the great table, and made her way to where our departed friend Twsla was placed, under the drip, to see, suggested Good, how he was '.pickling," or for some dark purpose of her own. Then Bhe came hobbling beck, stopping now and again to address a remark (the tenor of which I could not catch ) to one or other of the shrouded forms, just as you or I might greet an old acquaintance. Having gone through this mysterious an4 horrible ceremony, she squatted down on the table immediately under the white Death, and began, so far -as I could make out, to offer up prayers to it. The spectacle of this wicked old creature pouring out supplications (evil ones, no doubt) to the arch-enemy of mankind, was so uncanny that it caused us. to hasten our inspection. "Now, Gagool,' said I, in a low voice - somehow one did not dare to speak above a whisper in that place "lead us to the .chamber." The old creature promptly scrambled down off the table. , "My lords are not afraid?" -she said, leering up into my face. "Lead on." "Good, my lords;" and she hobbled round to the back of the great Death. "Here is the chamber; let my lords light

the lamp and enter: and she placed the gourd full of oil upon the floor, and leaned herself against the side

of the cave. I took out, a match, of

which we still had a few in a box.

and lit the rush wick, and then

looked for the door-way, but there was nothing before us but the solid rock.

Gagool grinned. "The way is there,

mv lords." ...

"Do not lest with us." I said, sternly.

"I lest not. mv lords. Seel" and she

pointed at the rock .

As she did so, on holding up the lamp we oreceived that a mass of stone was

slowlv rising from the floor and van

ishing into the rock above, where doubtless there was a cavity prepared to receive it The mass was of the width of

a good-siased door, about ten feet h- gh

aiad not less than five thick. It must

have weiahed at least twenty or thiity

tons, and was clearly moved upon some simple balance principle, probably the same as that upon which the opening

and shutting 01 an ordinary modern

window is arranged. Jtlow tne principle was set in motion, of course none of

us saw; Gagool was careful to avoid

that; but I have little doubt that theie

was some verv simple lever, wmcn was

moved ever so little by pressure on

secret spot, thereby throwing additional

weight on the hidden counterbalances, and causing the whole huge mass to bo lifted from the ground. Very slowly

and gently the great stone raised itself , still at last it had vanished altogether.

and a dark hole presented itself to us in

the place which it had filled,

Our excitement was so intense, as we

saw the way to Solomon's treasure cham

ber at last open, that I for one began to

tremble and shake. Would it prove

hoax after all, I wondered, or was old

Da Silvestra right? and were there vast

hoards of wealth stored in that dars place, hoards which would make us the

richest men in the whole world? Wo

should know, in a minute or two.

"Enter, white men from the stars,"

said Gagooi, advancing into ' the door

way; "but first hear your servant, Gagool the old. The bright stones that ye will see were dug out of the pit over

which tho Bilent Ones are set. and

stored here, I know not by whom.. But

once has this place been entered Bince

the time that those who stored; the

stones departed in haste, leaving them

behind. .The. report or the treasure went down among the people Who

lived in the country from age to age.

but none knew where the chamber was, nor the secret of the door. But it hap

pened that a white man-reached this

country from over the mountains, per-

chanco he too came from the stars, and was well received of the king of the day.

tie it is wno sits vonaer, ana sne point

ed to the fifth king at the . table of the

dead. "And it came to. pass that he

ana a woman 01 tne country who was

with him came to this place and that by chance the woman learned the secret of

the door a thousand years might ye search, but ye should never find it Then ; the white man

entered with the woman, and found the

stones, and filled with stones the skin

of a small goat, which the woman bad

with her to hold food. And as he was

going from the chamber he took up one

more stone, a large one, and held it- in his hand." Here she paused. .; n-nr it 1, -r -, -1 i . , . ..

- vveii, l asKea, Dreatniess with in

terest as we all were, "what happened

to Da isnvestrar .

The old hag Btarted at the mention of

the name, . t l Tt ... II, 1.

now Knowest tnou tne aeaa man s

name?" she asked, sharply; and then, without waiting for an answer, 'went on .

"None knew what happened; but it came about that the white man was

frightened, for he flunf; down the goat

skin, with the stones, find fled out with

only the one stone in his hand, and that the king took, and it is the stone that thou, Macumazahn, didst take from T wala's brows." "Have none entered here since?" I asked, peering again down the dark passage. "None, mv lordtv Only the secret of the door hath been kept, and every king hath opened it, though no hath not entered. There is a saying that those who enter there will die within a moon, even as the white man died in Ihe cave upon the mountain, where ye found him, Macumazahn. Hal ha! mine are true words." , . Our eyes met as she said it, and I turned sick and cold. How did the old hag know all these things? , '?jEnter, my lords. If I speak the

truth the zob. skins with the stones

will lie upon the floor; and if there is truth as to whether it is death to enter

here, that wi ll ye learn afterward. Ha!

ha! ha!" And she hobbled through the

door wav, bfiaring the light with her;

but I confess that once more I hesitated

about following:

, "Oh, confound it all!" said Good, "here goes. .1 am not going to be frightened by that old devil;" and followed by Foulata, who, however, evidently did not like the job, for she was Bhivering with fear, he plunged into the passage after Gagool an example which we qukkly followed. . ,. -' A few. yards down the passage, in the narrow way hewn out of the living rock, Gagool Jaad paused and was waiting for

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"See, my lords," she said, holding the light before her, "those who stored the treasure hero fled in haste, and bethought them to guard against any one who should find the secret of the , door,

but had not the time," she pointed to large square blacks of atone, which had, to the height of two courses (about two leetthree) , been placed across the passage with a view to walling it up. Along the side of the passage were similar blocks ready for use. and most curious of all, a heap of mortar and a couple of trowels,

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was hewn i which, so iar as we nau uiuw uu jiuiuo

stalactite, them, appeared to be of a similar shape

and make to those used oy workman to this day, Here Foulata, who had throughout been in a state of great fear and, agitation, said that she felt faint and could go no further, but would wait there. Accordinly we set her down on the unfinished wall, piaoiEig the basket of provisions by her side, and let her to recover. - Following the passage for about fifteen paces further we suddenly came to an elaborately painted wooden door. It was standing wide open. Whoever was last there had either not had the time,. or had forgotten, to shut it. Across the threshold lay a . skin bag, formed of a goat-skin, that appeared to be full of pebbles. "Hee! hee! white men," sniggered

Gagool, as the light from tho lamp fell is HWKfit fli1 V cl! xta tliaf tUn

UDon "vvnacoia j. tea ye. inac tne

white man who came here fled in haste, and dropped the woman's bag behold it!" Good stooped down and lifted it. It was heavy and jingled .... "By Jove! I behevo it's full of diamonds," he said, in an awed whisper; and, indeed, the idea of a small goatskin fall of diamonds is enough to awe anybody. "Go on," said Sir Benry, impatiently. "Here, old lady, give me the lamp," and taking it from GagooVs hand, he stepped through the door way and held it high above his head. We pressed in after hi:aa, forgetful, for the moment, of the bag of diamonds, and found ourselyes in Solomon's treasure chamber. At first, all that the somewhat faint light revealed was a room hewn out of the living rock, and apparently, not more than ten feet square. Next there came into Mght, stored one on tho other as hieh aa the roof, a splendid collection of elephant tusks. How many of them" tbere were we did not know, for of coarse we could not see how far they went back, but there could not have been less than the ends of four or five hundred tusks of the first qu ality visible to our eyes. There, alone, was enough ivory, to make a man wealthy for life. Perhaps, I thought, it was from this very store that Solomon drew his material for his "groat throne of iveftry," of which there was not the Jike made in any kingdom. On the opposite side of. the. chamber were about a score of wooden boxes something like Martini-Henry ammunition boxes, only rather larger, and painted red. "There are the diamonds," criea I; "bring the light." Sir Henry did so, holding it close to the top box, of whica the lid, rendered rotten by time even in that dry place, appeared to have been smashed in, probablyby Da Silvestra himself. Pushing my hand through tho hole in the lid I drew it oat full, not of diamonds, but of gold pieces, of a shape that none of ns had seen before, and with what looked like Hebrew characters stamped upon them. "Ah!" I said, replacing the coin, "we sha'n'tgo backempiy handed, anyhow. There must be a couple of thousand

pieces in each box, and there are eighteen boxes. T su ppose it was the money to tav the workmen and merchants." "Well," put in Good, "I think that is the lot; I don't see any diamonds, unless the old Portuguese nut them all into this bag." '.'Let my lords look yonder where it is darkest, if they would find the stones," said Gagool, inteipreting our looks. "There my lords wi!U find a nook, and three stone chests in the nook, two sealed and one open." . , Before interpreting this to Sir Henry, who had the light, I could not resist asking how she knew vheso things, if no one had entered .. tl e place 6ince the whito man, generations ago. "Ah, Macumazahn, who watched by ... night," was the mocki ng answer, "ye who live in the stars, do ye not know that some have eyes that can see through rock?" "Look in that comer, Curtis," I said, indicating the spot Gagool had pointed out...... . - "Hello, you fellows," he said, "heree a recess. Great heavens! look here. "We hurried up to where he was standing in a nook, something like a small bow window. Against, the wall of this recoss were placed three stone chests, each about two feet square. Two were fitted with stone lids, the lid of the third rested against the side of the chest, which was open. : "Look," he repeated hoarsely, holding the lamp over the open chest We looked, and for a raoment could make nothing out, on account of a silvery sheen that dazzled us. When our eyes got used to it we saw that the chest was three-parts full cf uncut diamonds, most of them o:! considerable size. Stooping, 1 picked some up. Yes, there was no mistake aoout it, there was the unmistakable foapy feel about them. I fairly gasped as I dropped them. "We are the richest men in the whole world,' I said. "Monte Cristo is a fool to us." . ... . " We shall flood the market with diamonds," said Good. "Got to get them there first," suggested Sir Henry. And we stood with pale faces and stared at each other, with the lantern in the middle, and the glimmering gems below, as though we were conspirators about to commit a crime, instead of being, as we thought, the three most fortunate men on earih. "Hee! hee! he;4!" went old Gagool behind us, as she flifc'd about like a vampire bat "There are the bright stones that ye love, white men, as many : as yc will; take them, run them through your

nneers, eat them, hee! heel drink them, ha! ha!" There was something so ridiculous at that moment to mrmind in the idea of eating and drinking diamonds, that I began to laugh outrageously, an example which the othurs followed, without knowing why. There we stood and shrieked with laughter over the gems which were ours, vhich had been found for us thousands of years, ago by the patient delvers in the great hole yonder, and stored lor . us by Solomon's longdead overseer, whose name, perchance, was written in the , characters stamped on the fade " wax that yet adhered to the lids of the chest Solomon never got them, nor David, nor Da Silvosvra, nor anybody else. We had got them; there before us were millions of pounds worth of diamond, and thousands ol

pounds worth of gold and ivory, only waiti ng to be taken sway.

Huuaenty the m passea on ana we

stopped laughing, ...

"Open the other chests, white men,"

croaked Gagool, "there are Burely more therein. Take your fill, white lords!"

Thus adjured, we set to work to pull

up the stone lids on the other two, first not without a feeling of sacrilege breaking the seals that fastened them. '

Hooray! they were full, too, full to the

brim: at least, the second one was; no Da Silvestra had been filling goat skins

out t f that As for the third chest, it

was only about a fourth full, but the stones were all pic ked ones; none less

than twenty carat and some of them as

large as pigeon eggs. Some of these biggest pneB, however, we could see by holding them up to the light, were a tittle vellow, "off colored," as they call is at ICimberley. . . ' What" we did not see. however, was tho look ot fearful malevolence that old Gfigooi favored us with as she crept, crept like a sneke, out of tho t reasure-chamber and down the passage toward the massive door of sold rock. . Hark! Cry u pon cry comes ringing up tho vaulted pa' h. It is Fonlata's voice! "Oh, Bougwau! helpl help! the rock falls!" "Javo go, fdrl! Then " "Help! heir ! she bait stabbed mo!" By now wo nro running down the passage, and this is what tho light from the latop falla on. The. door of rock is slowly clanir.g down; it is not three feet from tlo floor, ifear it struggle Foula

ta and Gagool, the red blood of the former runs to her knee, but still the brave airl holds the old witch, who fights like a wildcat. , Ah! she is freel Foulata falls.and Gagool throws hersel f on the ground, to twist herself like a snake throuch the crack of the closing stone. She is' under-ah, God! too late! too late! The stone nips her, and she yells in agony. Down, down, ii comes, all the thirty tons of it, slowly pressing her old body against the rock below. Shriek nnnn nhriAlf. Hllfh flq Wft never, heard,

then a long; sickening crunch, ana me door was shut jast as we, niBhing down the passa??, hurled on rselves against it. It was all none in four seconds (Contiuued nsxt week ANOTHER OUOIiEY liETTJER.

The following alleged letter, from Col. W. W.'Dudlej to Samuel Van Pelt, an old army comrade, living in Ander son, Ind., was published at Washington, Thursday, as a special to a Chicago paper from Anderson: 'Mv Dear Sara-Yours received. I need not tell you that it would be very gratifying to me to see you get tho Indian agency, knowing as I do your special fitness for the place and your service to the country in the hour of her sorest need: but I am sorry to say tht I will be unable to render you any assistance whatever with the President. He has lost h;s back-bone, and is too cowardly to bo seen consulting with me, for the simple reason that the copperheads and rebels of Indiana have trumped up a lot of charges against me. He seems entirely oblivious to the fact that it was through my efforts that Indiana was saved to him." . ....... ; When the above, waa shown Colonel Dudley he pronounced it "a; clear, , cold forcery." .He said, he had telegraphed to Van Pelt as soon as he saw i t in the paper to-day, demanding that Van Pelt give out for publication, the letter which ne actually wrote, and added: ,(I wrote only one, and I have preserved a cony. Here it is. While I don't care to have my private letters published to the world, yet there is nothing in this letter I am ashamed of, and while it was hastily written, in confidence, to an old friend, I would have no objection to the President seeing it. I have asked nothing from General Harrison, and therefore have nothing to complain of, I whm the administration every enccess, and would not, if I could, embarrass it in any way. , I am out of politics, and would not accept any public office. I have recently associated with me Mr. Cbas. D. Ingersoll, of New York, and Jerome Carty, of Philadelphia.and have decided to devote my entire attention to the practice of law. I neither seek nor would accept any public oflice." Follo wing is the letter, aa written by Col. Dudley: .. Wi.H'NGT02f, April li5, 188P. S. I. Vayelt, Esq., Anderson, .Ind.:- :.. Dear Old taai Your good letter of the 26th of March, I got in good time, but it found me absenc. I have recently returned from a trip to the South, where I went on legal business, and bad a good time and a little rest f rom the crowds of people who throng my office from morning until night, and from the mountains of letters which pile upon my desk every day. Your letter got into the pile, where I rescued it tonight, and I hasten now to Bay how much good it has done me to hear from you again. There is nothing I should like better than to do something for you, but, I am afraid you greatly overesti mate my influence. Your old friend Reed has vriaced your pension in my hand, and I am working away at it to get it soon. ; Perhaps there is no one in the coum try who has done so much for General Harrison during the last twenty years as I have, but because our Donocratic frienOs down in Indianapolis have started the hue and cry on me Brother Ben don't seem to feel that he can afford to recognize me as an acquaintance, and consequently I dont take dinner at the White House as might be exp-ected. I have not been inside the White Honse since Cleveland's inauguration, a little over four years ago, but I will see if something cannot be done a liittle later on, and tell you what to , do. ,.- If you should not hear from me again, Sam," for the next two m onths, don't be alarmed, for there will be just an good chances two months he nce--and a little better as there are now,. Give my kind regards to all the boys at Anderson, and remember me always as your friend. Sincerely your friend, W. W. Dudley. The following is the telegram sent by Mr. Dudley to Mr. Van Pali: Washington, D. C. April 25th, 1889. Samukl Vax Pelt What ia this I see in Chicago Herald from the Anderson corresponnenl? I demand that yon have my letter as written to you pub liBhed in the Indianapolis Journal, the Anderson papers and tho Chicago Herald.. Is that the way you treat private correspondence from an old friend? Answer. - W. YV. Duolkt. In accordance with this request Mr. Van Pelt gave out the letter, , which is word for word as the one given to the press at Washington by Mr Dudley. In the telegram sent by Mr. Van Pelt to Mr. Dudley, he says: "I think thev went through my mail at the postoffice." ' Ducks Killed in a Storjn.

Pittsburgh dfiipatch.

The duck storm that fell upon the plains ol : Punxsutawney was a great deal more extensive than it was at first sup

posed. It was a veritable deluge of ducks

Everybody admitted that they never

saw anvthin2 approaching it. Mahon

ing Creek and all its tributaries within

a radius of ten miles were literally

swarming with wild ducks and geese oi

every species and variety. s

A person who did not witness it could

have no conception of the immensity of the flock. There were thousands of

them. The night being dark and stormy

and the snow falling fast the birds were

attracted by the nmerous lights of th

cobe ovens surrounding Punxsutawney,

and came dawn. Hundreds of uniucky fowls flew too close - to the mouths oi

tho ovens, got their wings singed and dropped into the furnaces like moths in

to the flames of a torch; The Hungarians and Italians got out their clubs and killed barrels of the birds. The next mornina crreat numbers of wild ducks

and geese were found in the anow and were captured, and when the citizens of Punxsutawney saw that Mahoning Creek was a living mass of wild fowl every man who could buy or borrow a gun was out shooting ducks. The banks were strewn with dead fowls;, and every body was possessed with a fiendish desire to kill. John W. Barr, son of the proprietor of the City Hotel, shot, and bagged one hundred and forty-six ducks. A hundred others killed from thirty to forty each. No less than fifty ducks and geese wero caught alive. Everybody seemed to go wild over the affair. The banks of the creek for ten miles were lined with sportsmen. It is safe to say that two thousand men were out huutingducks, and it would proably not be an exaggeration to say that ten thousand ducks were slain that day. It was a wanton, barbarous slaughter of innocent creatures, for nearly all admitted that tho birds were a Yery inferior acti clc of food. This horde of ducks and geese was evidently migrating from the South to the great lakes, whea the storm caught them and forced them to descend. Such a deluge of ducks has never been known before and may never occu r again.

WEEKLY NEWS EPITOME.

Murat Halstead's condition is so mxieh improved that bis sons, who were called to Cincinnati from the East, have returned. As soon as he is able to travel, Mr. Halstead will probably, take an.cuting in some healthful locality, v At the conference of the National !Reform Association, now in session at Pittsburg, a resolution was adopted requesting President Harrison to mention Qhrietin 15tate paners, especially ThankSkinK proclamations. The oonufa 0;ended by over one hun-

a 1 .i t ministers and others

hom rtl W the Tjnited Stutes, fto call, is for consul'

x ' it,. n',ar n nnncmies of

civil government .M

in

FKIDAV. A blirJdinfl snow storm prevail

parts of Wisconout

A chair and other articles brouglit over in the Mayflower wefs lost in the burning of a farm house 150 ycre old at Maspeth, L. I. An application by Anthonv Comstock for meinbershiD 'in the U. S. Grant Post, G. A. R., of Brooklyn, was rejecKed. thirtj'-seven black balls being cast. After examinations covering eight days, a jury was secured, at Jackson ville, Mich., to try R. Irving- Latimer, charged with the murder of his mother. Patrick Carroll, a shoemaker, aged twenty-Bix years, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge. He was picked up by a tug and sent to the hospital. He will likely recover. Charles H. luscomb, President of the League of American Wheelmen, has designated Hagerstown, Md., as the place for holding the annual meet, and July 2, 3 and 4 the dates. -. Tho County Court at Parkersburg, W. Va., has decided to grant no liquor licenses in that county for the year commencing May 1. This action will result in the closing of about sixty saloons. Frederick ISbersold, at one time chief of police of Chicago, has been appointed by Mayor Crepier to be inspector of police, vice John Bonfield, who was suspended some weeks since by Mayor Roche, and afterward resigned. Two young girls, Katie Hilton and Mary Ritzer, were: attacked by a man named Calvin Ferguson in the woods near Bluffton, Ohio. Ferguson knocked Miss Ritzier insensible with a club and then attemoted an assault on .Miss Huty. The jatter's screams, brought aid, and Ferrguson was arrested and locked up. ; i " BATTJRDAV. J The American Samoan commissioners have arrived at Berlin. . The King ot5 Holland will resumo the reins of government on May 8. .. A dianatch from Auckland says that the United states steamer Nipsic was asrain disabled whilo being towed in Apia harbor. The treasure which was on board the ship Trenton when she was wrecked during the recent hurricane at Apia,has Deen recovered. The questicn of whether the freedom of the city of Iklinburg shall be conferred upon Mr. Parnell is to be submit&sd to the vote of the rat payers. The damage to private property, and the loss to tho car company, owing to the strike of the Vienna cab men amounts to 100,000 florins. The Pope summoned Father Augustine and reproved him for his recent sermon, in which he invoked diivine blessing upon Kiiig Humbert and, the Italian army; ; ... It is expected that the Spanish government will soon sell at auction $40,000,000 worth of state woodlacd, in order to cover the financial deficiency, to build railroaus,. canals and highways, and to establish rural loan banks. 1 Uriah Logftu Reavis, a noted character of Sc. Louis died in that' citj from the efects of a Burgical operation: Mr. Reavis was well known .throughout the country as the leading advocate 'cf the removal of tho National Capital to St. LouiSj on which subject he had written several books. : . . The Paris Temps says that societies have been formed, entitled "Union des Deux Mondes," to manifest bonds of sympathy between America and France and to seek an amending of the Ameri" can cooyriaht laws. Trey will organize a fete for July 4, and will give a cencerfc and other entertainments. At a dinner recently given in honor of newly appointed. Federal officers at New York, Colooel Joel B. Erhardt, Collector of Port, said: "Goneral Sherman asked xne the other day to do him a favor, and I. said I would. " Be iisked me to wash, the outside of the custom house, and I replied that I would wash the inside as well. I intend to conscientiously observe all laws,( especially the civil service act." - The eighteenth annual meetinjgiat the Woman's I'resbyterian Board 61 Missions, which, adjourned Friday a t Ft. VVavne. reports receipts at $82,09S.05, of

which all has been expended save $300.35 in cash, with $948 40 stock of publica

tions on hand. Lincoln. Neb., was se

lected as the next place of meeting Mrs.

Bemamin .uouu'nps, ot unicaco, was

continued as prepideDt, and the other

officers include Mrs. C. B. Far well, of

Chicago, treasurer; Mrs. W . B. Jacobs.

o? Chicago, secretary, and amoiacr the

vice-presidents is numbered Mrs. Benja

min Harrison, who sent a letter return

ing thanks for her election ns a life

member of the board. There aro sixty-

nine missionaries now under caro, not

including thosorecently appointed.

The conference of ministers of tho

Anglican. Presbvterian and Methodist

churches, which waa in session at Toronto, Canada, on the 24th and 25th imstant, to consitier the quek tion of organficunity

of all Protentant bodies has closed. The

sessions were of the most interesting

character, the r eoresentatrves of the

churches declaring that they would re-

'suit in great good to the whole Chris

tian church Tne utmost harmocy pre

vailed, although doctrines were dis

cussed upon which all were not :ih uni

son. Tho subjects before the confer

ence wero "Organic. Union," "The amount of CJnitv in Doctrine" " Wor-

shinand Medes of Action betwoon the

Three Bodies." "The Holy Scriwfcu res,"

"The Creeds, and "The Historic Episcopate" A resolution was adoptsd rec-

ommeding to the several churchus the

appointment of delegates to another con

ference to be held next year. f

to crime to se' y ure, t Ae necesi, ary-

money; 'V.'V"' C

Th e Pope summoi xd Father Au guBtine and reproved hi in for his re cent sermon, in which he - invoked di yine blessing upon King Hi imbert and the Italian army. ' Near Chicago, Vinci ni P. St; aitb, whose little daughter w ill with scar let fever, declined the service! of phyeicians, but called in A faith cure

doctor. Tho child died. ..... Charlos F. Hartehorn, of TauntT on, Mass., has sent to the Secretary of U He Treasury $2,000 conscience jnone.. This aniount was due the Governmeriv fc in 18o S, under an old tax law, but hac1 been o verlooked in some manxnjr. The flamoan commissioners had a conference with tho Bismarcka. The Amerhian members are much pleased with their reception. Mr, Battss made an explanation of his Century ; article, which was sitisfactory Prince Bis marck expressed 15 he hope of am early settlement of tbe questions at issue) and indications poin t to sue h a result.

MONDAY. will not visit the Piuis

ex-

The Csar

position. ' ,

Henry Eochef ort's son hae committed

suicide at Bona, Algeria,

There ware six cases of suicide at

Cleveland, O., within a week. Jr..

The Marouis of Londonderry. has re

signed the Lord Lieut en antcy .of Ire

land. ...

The Standard Oil Company -.'has acquired 10,000 acres of oil lands- around Lima, Ohio. Khartoum v has been captured, it is rumored, bv Abou Gherna. Iza nad the Mahdi has fted. ... The Queen of Wurtemburg narrowly epcaped death, by her horses taking fright. Oiio of the horses was k illed. Letters received at Brussels, from the Con k, report all well at Stan lev Falls. Four hundred troops had been, sent to the Amwbiini. Hon. John O. New, Consul-(xaneral to London, w?s dined by George K. Gibson, at Now York, Sunday -night. There wero several well knowl. people present. . ; . - v Charles E. Woodruff, of Kev Britain, Conn., h S8 confessed to havinu forged papers to the amount of $40,000 on vanous State bauks. He. tried to do business without capital, and resorted

IITESDAT. ,, President Baiu& ''d, of Columbia Colige, is dead. been ill for-soiae time' i" ,.. ; ; Bu2B and the fly at Paying havoc with the weat and tocco plants in Kentucky. A motor train ?raa thro wn ,rotm track at St. Paul, M seven people wre severely injured. ;

Thousands of laborers at Pama are idle on account of the suspension o Work on the canal, and business is paralyjced. Twenty-fonr railroad laborers, engaged in laying a side track at Lancaster, Ohio, were arrested and? - locked up for Sabbath-breaking. - c The carpenter' strike at St. -Louis came to au abrupii termination upon the basis that all carpenters may go to work at 35 cents per hour, eight hours work for a day. ... ,: rs. s. Eleven elevators at St Louis propose forming a trust The size of the syna.ate which will manage the elevators w:U naturally be large, for the original valu? of the property 4s about 14,000,000. ; , Mrs. Kinnehan, the Bedford, 111., woman who recently joined tue 5eJ?Jt5"

mites, a sect which worships Be ;

Schweinferth as Christ, pleader guilty to a charge of blasphemy;0 he refused to be sworn. " ...

Editor Webber, of the Kepublican Daily Leaflet, attempted to shoot General Powel Clayton in- a Littl R5ck saloon Political differences are said to be at the bottom of tfee trouble. Both Webber and Clayton were arrested. , N . The 8bah of Persia is due in St. Pe tersbure in the latter nart of May. and

mnst, of course,ba welcomed personally'

by the Czar. The exact day of his arrival has not been named, but it is unlikely that he will be punctilious with the Western unbelievers, and it may suit his pleasure and dignity to be - a few weeks late. ..... A report comes from Oklahoma to the effect that a gang of cowboys undertook to run a colony of old soldiers off 'their claims, and that a pitched, battle occurred, in which six of the -settlers were killed and several wounded. The old soldiers were evidently bad marksmen, as none of the cowboys are - reported dead or injured. ; .1 At Chelsea wirk, a summer, resort across the Kansas line, opposite Kansas City, a bridge across an artificial lake gave way and precipitated about seventy five persons into . seventy feet of water. Moat of them scrambled out or Wre assisted to the phore more frightened than hurt,but fifteen were injured, four of them seriously. V . " . . . .. . . W;OIOS3DAT , Carl Bosa, the well known musical director, Js dead. 1 ; Hon. William TEL Bamum, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, died at Lime Bock, Gonnf He was born in Connecticut, Sept. 17, 1 $18. He was educated at- the public schools, and in 1836 went into, business. He was for many years engaged in the manufacture' of car wheels arid in the production of. iron from ore. He was elected a member of the Connecticut Legislature in 1852, was a delegate to the TJnibri National Convention in Philadelphia in 1866, way sent to Congress , as a Democrat in the same year, and retained his seat by successive re-elections till 1878, in which year , he was elected to the United States Senate to fiiL the term of Orris S. -Ferry, deceased , ending March 4, 1870. Much of Mr. Barnum's prominence was due to his Jong services as Chairman of the, Democratic National Executive Committee, from which position he retired a 6 the opening of the last Presidential campaign. - : CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

Hog cholera prevails near Waynes

burg.

Potatoe bugs are in full bloom at Sey

mour. '

Peru 'has secured the Zrutaer Glass

Works.

"Big jaw" is spreading among Park

county cattle.

Counterfeit siiiver dollars , are feireu

lating at Laporte.

The strike of laborers and teamsters a

Anderson still continues.

. The Evansville and Chattanooga rail

way project is t o be revived:

Triplets have been born to the family

of John W. Harper; of Wabash.

Mrs. Marv B. Zimmerman, matron of

the Orphans' Home at Muncie, is dead

Muncie isagain overrun with tramps

ana heroic- measures ior reuet are

threatened. : , .

Esther Innis, i n fan t daughter of Alon-

zo Innis, near Milroy, waa scalded to

death, Wednesday.

Bushville had a chicken, which lived

a doy. with four legs, fur wings, two

bod ies and one head.

The Tennessee Range and - Pump

Company, of Nsshville, Tenn.. is to be

removed to Evansville, Vi

... Rev, F. J. Mallett has resigned pastoral charge or St. Paul's Episcopal Church

at New Albany, and will remove to Gar-

rsvansville people depending upon cisterns for water Bupply are very much

distressed Dy wie arouguc in that sec

tion. ..

Charles Kelling, of Laporte, by a fall

from a dray, hud his shoulder broken.

and for a time it was thought bis neck

was dislocated.

Clayton Down, near Seymour, climbed

a tree to catch i coon. A limb broke

and he was t;hrown .to the ground,

breaking his hip, : The United States Government depo

at Jefferson villo made a large shipment of wagons and other army supplies to

Oklahoma last week.

Terre Haute laas thirteen men on the

police force who draw nearly as much

money as the twenty-five patrolmen who guard Indianapolis.

Edgar Williams, a Clark county school

teacher, tried for assault in, failing to

protect a girl pupil, whose face was being blacked with soot by other jscholars,

has been temporarily relieved by the

failure of the jury to agree.

The workme n in Mc Ferson k Foster's

box factory at Evansville have strupK

for lughor wages. ; The nrm claims that

during tho dul I season, in order to keep

the men employed, it warehoused its

ffoods, but now that orders, are again

coming in briskly, the, employes have

taken advantage to demand an increase

C. H. Pughsl ey, of Rochester, Y

recently went to Laporte, bearing what

purported to baa leiterof recommendation from tho liockport 'N, Y.,) Bank.

and he purchased a number of blooded horses trom B,nks k Hilt and from the

Door Prairie Live Stock AsBoctation,

ihe draft was protested. Meanwhile

the horses had been shipped to Chicago

wnere iaey were recovered, M.r. ragh- m eley was not found;; '-: t'-M Professor George Evansville, who has been stricken wittparalysis, is one of he best known. band leaders in the West; He waa the'"H originator of Warren's famous Cresceni.. City Band, which caught the Southern J ear at New Orleans in 1872 by its rendttf

Mrs. Michael Gieif a, near Oorydon,; armed with a heavy club, put to flight , number of men engaged on the extent ' aion of the Corydoii Branch Railway to i King's Cave quarries, the right of Wayy- 4 not having been secured over her nna-v i

band s farm. ; Her action precipitated compromise, the company paying $709

ut t ue pn vnege. -;

fllntlrif. in 1 ' XTT mi . ' .

uuauug jii; Kv.rv . w uyiie. . xne counter- .- feit is of the ee ries of 1886, check letter -3 v'v O, and while the genuine has a striking T ly-perfect vignette of Daniel Webster, in ' ," the spurious note the face has a swly ; : expression. Thy same counterleit is ri. believed to be circulating in other -api h -tioneof the State. 'r.-'u. & It is seldom that a woman is appoint iv ed a Notary Public, but now Columbus P has been brought into renown by. . .mi. . boom in' female' notaries. AIL in one V day Wil lametta Mench, Minnie Yenna.v I .

Minnie Homey, and Anna Giisonr

nave rceivea commissions as iMotarieer . -'

Public for the town of Colnmhnar rV--. ttm

aigned by the authoritative neii oIGg&MM$

:.Hovey... F Z

, Jsaac Newman and wifei pioneers oi Miui county, who recent! v died with

in a fov hours of each other, were han ; '

i . .: hal an1 tiaf Mn iUA JV1. Z&5.

pny mace, i t jmpi 3rT

reouest of r Newman mat ne Oft

-

Duneuhv th ms ursc ww&m&m

quest concerning er fiiBfe . husband

& ffnx V.i- vlfnK 7 1.11 f. war fnrmf - r-,

cealed in a bureau drawer. .: " $

Addison Bennett, of Spr&yto wn, naa ? Deen arrested for illegV Voting. It iiy stated that he became security lor ; hie

brother, now dead j and when tbe iiote;' fell due, less than one month gov bpf pleaded that he was a minor ant? : nndp age at the time the note ' was. t1wn -"X Parties thereupon argued that heva under age when he voted, and. ihe pilit eution was instituted. . V' .. ' ' ' ''? " J. r; JpBeph Barrett, of Elkheart the poV

liccman who shot and instantly, killedl -1 policeman William Burton, in that citv. f'T.

j'st October, for assaulting the Mayor, 7 was Friday sentenced to three years ? in the penitentiary. There is considerable vi-'Ij Atl feeling over the matter as two ;-' mj&f?.i decisxdna have been rendered there- .. -. fjf within three weeks, neither fer-Jpa...,!' -M than five years, with time spent in Jail 1 CT"".-- m

netore trial deductea' as wen -aa- suoee-:

quencgooa oenavioiv .. ;Jr,;;: Edward Merando a JefieraonviBe,. , Madison & Indianapol hi railroad brake-

man, whose home ie fit Jetf ersonvi ilek; '- was assisting in doing some switching at : ' 5 9

Edinburg. Friday, when hw foot became j fastened between two tic and he was p struck by a passing car and thrown on : the track. One of his . armei was Kin4 over from the elbow to . thle . wriafi - and mashed Ho was taken to raiTf 3 road company's hospital Friday mprn; in or nd had his wounda dr88ed. '"'t rU

At Jasper, William Stillwcll.convibted - of hoff stealing; told the sheriff; wlo A ? .; M

was taking him back: to jail, that tfe Jd T5w. Smith riA ? m IT "r ' . A?-- -' :?AXr.

son, had planned to i?hoot the sheriff av-v; he entered the Jail and in the " excite-;

ment try. to escape. -Jirnmg Ktiuweu " v j over ton depnty, the sheriff rushed mto;: "ff the jailwith suother: deputy and difi v m armed Jim Smithy wbo was laken br;, j,r m

depnty. Smith hada ttoteiht libfrr y pistolin hispocke, .' -0J' .i Indiana Examining Pendon Boarda New Albany irs. K Jones vii' Alexander, W. H. Sheets. Blooniini ton Drs. George W- Bryan, Kobert ! . -Weir, William B. :Whitted Nashvilfe?f Brown county Drs, B R Genoline

. am pr (f. ward, -aiex-t-iv opencerw -1 ; ,

Madison Drs. George WlAwJia:--tt";-'ljW

ri; vvngnt, treorev y. newuu j Board of Pension .Examiners establUbeat" at Crawfordsville consists of Drs. Jesse-

N. Talbot, Samuel -fc; liamingsno Warren H. Ristine. V-,.-. . ';.r, :.y--;'t:J. The 26th was tbe 70tK anniversary 6tv American Odd FeUowshoi . and wk;.observed in all parts of thetate. Grand Secretarv Foster spoke at Cevingtopj Senator 'Hubbell, at DanvilleV i&ttiJBfcgyi . a Clippinger, at Salem. John C. Collins V. at Perry ville, . Hon: David Stroud Rockviile. At Logansport a newJia -v was dedicated. Grand- Instructor ::M&

Quiddy act in a - for the Grand Master, aaril with Hon- W. D. Owen delivering dresses. At Petersburg1, Hon. Frank R ; Posey and Grand Warden W. He Leedy'

made speeches and. at night the latter dftdirftfprl a yirw hall: ' v . il:

Some months ago Plymouth capitalists -exacted a promise from the Ft. : Wayne Jenney Electric Light Company to, esi- 5 tablish a branch in that place in eonsia-" 1. eration of shop facilities and $17,000 ' in. ty stock subscriptions. 1 The sale of thieJt Ft. Wayne Company to the Thompson $0 Huston syndicate made this impractical ble, and in consequence the Ply montlvW V

people are verv much enraged, and are

c her cine all sorts of bitter thin cs. It

was criticisms concerning this transaction which led Mr. Simons, Secretary ot the old company, to sne the Plvmbntht 'RAnnhliftnn for 41 0 OOft HnmRmM fhrltbelJJ

and the situation will still be fnrtiier complicaten by the Plymouth people:-'; suing to recover the stock subscribed t - The last of the constitutional casesy: , which have been recently brought be ? fore the Supreme Court was disposed of ;S;' Friday in an opinion reversing the de? cision of Judge How land aha holding 1.1 t. i.i . ri-2 . - t

loan of -$1,400,010 ia unconstitutionaL The opinion of the court was written by '

Judge Mitchell, all the Judges concur &

mg. ii is not unuBnaiiy ion gk out is .ujiso much involved that it is inseparable The consultation over the opinion lasted" J 'i

'-V? '-

mm

-.

v -

handed dwn to the Clerk Friday after--

noon at 2 o'clock 1"he opinion deniesthe power of the Legislature to borrow monev for any purnose other than supply a casual deficit or for some of the;

other purposesspecmcaily enumerated, and also denies the t the Legislature has:

wry firenera! power to incur a debt on

behalf of the State. A casual deficit is held to be one not designedly created and it is said in 4 substance" that ttie

T.noifilntnrA onnnnl: rut rrtriQlir rrfnfft -

deficit and borrow money to supply a'i deficiency so created. It further held.

that the court is bound to presume that'

the Legislature, acting upon the infoik: " ,V"V;

mation communicated to it by the Oov-jf V );'...

ernor and the Auditor.of State, correctly? sy&

decided that there was a casual deficit : T

within the meaning ol the conetitntiedD

3 "? .-

LIBOR KQT5S.

cental

.ei

The labor movement is spreading rap

idly throughout Germanyy.

Carpenters employed by the city '.jgittffS :- -

ernment of Chicago, III4 now get the

union rate ox wages, tnirty-nve per honr fpr ,a v?orking day. of

The Pemsylyainav Coal Company inv : brmedthe miners, as they were leaving 4

off work Saturday nighty :at' rsatonF::A-

Pa,, that a "shut down" -bad been de- -

cided upon to take place at once Thist

general suspension affects nearly 2,00dT.

ii company naa ocen operaung,

fifteen lairge collieries. ??he officers of-

the companies at the mines s&v that the v

"shut dcwn? is only temporaryv Old jv;-

.0

miners assert that in eleven years tbere has not been so eoxUinued sl period of

dullness as at tho present time. For

he past six months the men have been

Working quarter time. Their earnings

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