Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 35, Bloomington, Monroe County, 22 June 1889 — Page 2

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THE COURIERa - - i " - .. BY H. J. FELTtJS.

DR. TALMAGE B SERMON.

START YOUR BOY ttf THE JPATH-

WAY OP RIGHT,

BLOOMIKGTON,

INDIANA

The fact that the Samoan Conference at Berlin is being conducted in English instead of French has considerable sig nificauce. It implies, unquestionably, that the English language, which is now spoken by about 115,000,000 people, must soon become tke language of diplomacy, as it is already the language of commerce and of con quest

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One pleasing feature connected with the close of the civil war in Hayti is the fact that the end has been brought

about without any foreign aid to either

combatant. Keporta were common

fAr mnnthn aero that trcraiany was

secretly assisting one belligerent and

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rumor had it that a treaty had been en-

'h tared into between one of them and

France, that country to obtain a section

1 M Haytian territory as compensation

for its aid. All these stories, however

were undoubtedly false, which is a de-

cidely fortunate thing for Hayti, if not "i to the other countries mentioned.

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r Wtomino is adopting well-devised plans to keep its claims for Statehood before Congress and the people. One of its arguments is- a remarkable one, and may be cited as a telling rebuke to fashionable jokes about ignorance and illiteracy in sparsely settled districts in the far West Of Wyoming' population ? over 10 years of age only 2.6 per cent, are unable to read. Comparison with a few States and nations gives flattering results ; for the ambitious Territory. Thus in New Mexico the percentage of illiterates is 60.2, in South Carolina 48,3, in the United States 13.4, and in England 13. No State in the Union can approach Wyoming's figures, and its

closest rival among the Territories v Dakota, where the percentage is 34.

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Ajr examination into the habits of

- French criminals shows that 79 per . cent, of vagabonds, about 50 per cent, of f assassins and incendiaries, 53 percent, of those guilty of immoralities, 71 per cent, of thieves of the common sorts, 88 per cent of those guilty of assaults. 77 per cent of fraudulents were also drunka ards. It was also found that of those under 23, as compared to those over 20, the number of drunkards was quite as - great These statistics only confirm those gathered from our own prison life.

Criminality, as a rule, marks a low grade of vitality, which finds it easy to resort to stimulants or narcotics. It may be set down as a confirmed fact that to cure vagabondage and criminality, as well as drunkenness, the vitality of the victim must be improved.

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Thx day of miracles seems to have returned. An importing firm recently entered at the port of New York a quantity of what purported to be vinegar. It was inspected and the officials were convinced that it was wine; the importer protested and upon a review of the matter, the department at Washington has decided that the fluid is, in fact, wine and must pay duty as such. Now the gentlemen who entered it, assert

witn all gravity tnat it was vinegar

when it war shipped, and must have been changed by the ocean voyage. The

changing of wine to vinegar somewhere between the restaurant wine list and the customer's lips is not uncommon, but this reversal is moat extraordinary, and if these gentlemen hava the exclusive combination,they should grow rich.

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A Iay in a Russian Prison. .

From George Kennan's illustrated article in the June Century on "The Convict Mines of Kara," we quote the following; "Hard labor convicts at Kara receive a daily-ration consisting of

three pounds of black rye bread; about

four ounces of meat including the

bone; a small quantity of barley, which

is generally put into the water in which

the meat is boiled for the pupose of

making soup; and a little brick tea.

Occasionally they have potatoes or a few

leaves of cabbage; but such luxuries are bought with money made by extra

work, or saved by petty 'economies' in

other ways; This ration seemed to me

- ample in quantity, but lacking in variety

and very deficient in vegetables. The bread, which I tasted, was perhaps as good as that eaten by Russian peasants

generally; but it was very moist and

sticky, andvpieces taken from the center off the loaf could be rolled back into

dough in one's hands. The meat,

which I saw weighed out to the convicts after it had been boiled and cut up into

pieces about as large as dice, did not

have an inviting appearance, and suggested to my mind small refuse scraps

intended for use as soap grease. The

daily meals of the convicts we:

arranged as follows: . In the morning,

after the roll call or 'verification break

fast, consisting of bnck tea and black rye bread, was served to the prisoners

in their cells; The working parties then

set out on foot for the gold placers,

carrying with them bread and tea for

lunch; This midday meal was eaten in

the open air beside a camp fire, regard

less of weather, and sometimes in fierce

winter storms. Late in the afternoon the convicts returned on foot to their cells and ate on their sleeping platforms

the first hearty and nourishing meal of

the day, consisting of hot soup, meat, Oread, and perhaps a little more brick tea. After evening verification they were locked up for the night, and lay down to sleep in closely packed rows on the nsres or sleeping benches, without removing their clothing; and without making any preparations for the night beyond bringing in the 'parashas,' or excrement buckets, spreading down their thin patchwork crazy quilts, and rolling up some of their spare clothing to put under their heads. The clothing furnished to a hard labor convict at Kara consistsor should, by law, consist of one coarse linen shirt and one pair of linen trousers every six months; one cap, one pair of thick trousers and one gray overcoat every year; a 'polushuba' (polxoo-8boO'ba), or outer coat of sheepskin, every two years; one pair of brodnias,,j (brodevnee-yaa), or loose leather boots, every three and a half months in winter; and one pair of Tati1 (kot-teev), or very low shoes, every twenty-two days in summer. Tne quality of the food and clothing f arnished by the Government may be inferred from the fact that the cost of maintaining a hard labor convict at the mines is about $50 for a year a little less than fourteen cents a day.'' ,

And In the End He Will Be Where He Onght to Be The Destinies or Umpires Are in the Mother's Hands, Rev. lr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject: "People Who Have Lost Their Way." Text: Genesis xxi., 9. He said: . . . f-,.. I learn from this Oriental scene, in the first place, what a sad thing it is when people do not know their place, and get too proud for their business. Hagar was an assistant in that household, but she wanted to rule there. S ho ridiculed and jeered until her son Xsnmael got the same tricks. She dashed out her own happiness and threw Sarah into a great fret; and if she had stayed much longer in that household she would have upset calm Abraham's equilibrinm. My friends, one half of the trouble in the world to-day comes from the fact that people do not know their place, or finding their place; would not stay in it, When we come into the world there is always a place ready for us. A place for. Abraham. A place for Sarah. A place for Hagar. A place for Ishmael.

a . place lor you ana a place ior me.

Our first duty is to find our sphere; our second is to keep it. We may be born in a sphere far off from the one for

which God finally intends ns. Sextus V. was born on the low ground, and was a swine herder ;God called him up to wave a scepter. Ferguson spent his early days in looking after the sheep; God called him up to look after stars, and be a shepherd watching the flocks of light on the hillsides of heaven. Hogarth by engraving pewter pots; God raised him to stand in the enchanted realm of a painter. The shoemaker's bench held Bloom field for a . little while, but God called him to sit in the chair of a philosopher and a Christian scholar. The soap boiler of London could not keep his son in that business, for God had decided that Hawley was to be one of the greatest astronomers of England. On the other hand, we may be born in a sphere a little higher that for which God intends us. We may be born in a castle, and play in a costly conservatory, and feed hish bred pointers, and angle for gold fish in artificial ponds, and be familiar with Princes; yet God may have fitted us for a carpenter's shop, or a dentist's forceps, or a weaver's shuttle,

or a blacksmiths forge. The great

thing is to find jnstthe the sphere for which God intended us, and then to occupy that sphere, and occupy it forever. Here is a man God fashioned to make a plow. There is a man God

fashioned to make a constitution. The man who makes the plow is just as honorable as the man who makes the constitution, provided he makes the plow as good as the other man makes the constitution. There is. a woman who was made to fashion a robe, and yonder is one intended to be

a yueen ana wear nv it seems

to me that in the one case as in the

other, God appoints the sphere; and the needle is iust as respectable in His

sight as the scepter. I do not know but

that the world would long ago have been saved in some of the men out of the

ministry were in it, and some of., those

who are in it were out of it. I really think that one-half of the world may be

oiviaea mio two-quaners tnose wno

have not found their sphere, and those

wno, naving touna u. are not willing to

stay there. How many are struggling

for a position a little higher than that for which God intended them. The

bondswoman wants to be mistress. Hagar keeps crowding Sarah. The

small wheel of a watch, which beautifully went treading its golden pathway,

wants to be the balance wheel, and the

sparrow, with chagrin, droops into the

brook, because it cannot, like the eagle,

cut a circle under the , sun. In the Lord's army we all want to be brigadier-

generals. . T-

The sloop says: "More mast, more tonnage, more canvas. O, that I were a topsail schooner, or a fall-rigged, or a

uunara steamer.'; Ana so tne world is

filled with cries of discontent, because

we are not willing to stay in the place

where God put us and intended us to be. My friends, be not too proud to do

any thing God tells you to do. For the

me oi a ngnt aisposiuon m mis re

spect the world is strewn with wander

ing Hagars and ishmaels. God has

given each one of us a work to do. You carry a scuttle of coal up that dark alley. You distribute that Christian tract You give $10,000 to the missionary cause. You, for fifteen years, sit with chronic rheumatism, displaying the

beauty of Christian submission. Whatever God calls you to, whether it win

hissing or huzza; whether to walk under

triumphal arch or hit the sot out of the

aitcn; wnetner it oe to preach on a

Pentecost, or to tell some wanderer of

the street on the mercy of the Christ of

Mary Magdalene; whether it be to

weave a garland for a laughing child on

a spnnemorniner and call her. a Mav

Qaeen, orto comb out tangled locks of a waif of the street and cut up one of your

oiq oresses to nt ner out lor the sanctu

ary do. it, and do it right away

Whether it be a crown or a yoke, do

not fidget. . Everlasting honors upon those who do their work, and to their

Whole work, and are contented in the

sphere in which God has put them,

wnile there is only wanderinc. and

exile, and desolation and wilderness, for discontented Hagar and ishmael. Again: I find in this Oriental scene a lesson of sympathy with woman when she goes forth trudging in the desert. What a great change it was for this Hagar, There wasihe tent and all the the surroundings of Abraham's house, beautiful and luxurious no doubt. Now she is going out into the hot sands of the desert. O, what a change it was! And in our day we often see the wheel of fortune turn. Here is some one who lived in the very bright home of her father. She had every thing possible to administer to her happiness. Plenty at the table. Music in the drawingroom. Welcome at the- door. She is

ted forth into hie by some one who can not appreciate her. A dissipated soul comes and takes her out in the desert. Iniquities blot out ali the lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear out her spirits. The high hopes that shone out over the marriage altar while the ring was being set and the vows given and the oenediction pronounced have all faded with the orange blossoms, and there she is to-day, broken hearted, thinking of past joy and present desolation and coming anguish. Hagar in the wilderness! Here is a beautiful nome. You can not think of any thing that can be added to it. For years there has not been the

suggestion of a . single trouble. Bright

and happy children fill the house with laughter and song. Books to read: nic-

tures to look at; lounges to rest on; . cup

oi domestic loy full and running over; dark night drops; pillow hot, pulses flut

ter; eyes close. And the foot whose well-known steps on. the door-sill

brought the whole household out at

eventide, crying, ...'-'Father's comincr"

will never sound on the door-sill again. A long, deep grief plowed througn all that lightness of domestic life. Para

dise lost! Widowhood! Hagar in the wilderness! How often it is we see the

weak arm of woman conscripted for this battle with the rough world. Why is she going down the street in the earlv

light of the morning, pale with exhausting work, not half slept out with the

slumbers of last nightiragedies of suffer

ing written all over her face her luster-

less eyes looking far ahead as though

for the coming of some other trouble?

Her parents called her Mary, or Bertha.

or Agnes on the day when they held her up to the font, and the Christian minis

ter sprinkled on the ' infant's face the

washings of a holy baptism. Her name

ischangednow. I hear itin shufHe!of the

worn-out shoes. I see it m the figure

of the faded calico. I find it in the line

aments of the woebegone countenance.

Not Marv. nor Bertha, nor Agnes, but

Hagar in the wilderness. May ldd have

mer-sy upon woman inner tons, ner

struggles, her hardships, her desolation, and "inav the great heart of Divine svm-

pathy inclose lier forevexi.

Again: I find m this Oriental scene

the fact that era jr. mother leaas forth tremendous destinies

oli 8a v: ultiat isn't an unusual

scene, a mother leading her child by

the hand." Who s it that she is lefld-

ihg'? Ishmael, y.6U Say. Who is ...Ish

mael? A great nation is to be founded; a nation so strong that it is to stand for

thousands of years against all the ar

mies of the world. Egypt and Asyna

thunder against it; but in vain. Gaulus brings up his army, and his army is smit

ten. Alexander deciaos upon a cam

paign, brings up his hosts and dies, For a long while that nation monopolizes the learning of the world. It is

the nation of the Arabs. Who founded

it? Ishmael, the lad that Hagar led into

the wilderness. She had no idea she

waft leading forth such destinies. Neither does any mother. You pass along the street, and see boys and girls

who will yet make the earth quake with their influence. Who is that boy

at Button Pool, PiymoUtn, England, barefooted, wading down into the slush

and slime, until his bare foot comes up- . 3 . 1 IJ ft

on u piece oi giass, ana no nou n., bleeding and pain struck? That wound in the foot decides that he be sedentary in Ids life, decides that he be a student. That wound by the glass in the foot decides that he shall be John Kitto, who shall provide the beat religious encyclopedia the world has ever had provided, and, with his other writings as well, throwing a light upon the word of God such as has come from no other man in this century. Oh mother, mother, that little hand that wanders over your face may yet be lifted to. hurl thunderbolts of war or drop benedictions. That little voice may blaspheme ood in the gro$: shop, or cry ''Forward!" to the Lord's hosts, as they go out for their

last victory. My mind to-day leaps thirty years ahead, and I see a merchant prince of New York. One stroke of his

pen brines a ship out of Canton. An

other stroke of his pen brings a ship into

iuaoras. ne is murntv in an ine money

markets of the world. Who is he? He

sit! t;o-day beside you in the Tabernacle. My mind leaps thirty years forward

from this time, and I hnd myself m a

relief association. A great multitude of Christian women have met together for

a eenerous purpose. There is one

woman in that crowd who seems to

have the confidence of all the others,

and thev all look uo to her for

her counsel and for her prayers

Who iB she? To-day you will find

her in the Sabbath school, while

the .teacher tells her of that Christ who clott ed the naked and. fed the hungry

and healed the sick. My mind . leaps

forward thirty years from now, and 1 find myself in an African jungle: and

there is a missionary of the cross ad

dressing the natives, and their dusky

countenances are irradiated with, the

glad tidings of great joy and salvation.

Who is he? Did you not hear his voice to-day in the first sonc of the

service? My mind leaps forward thirty yeans f rom now, and I find myself looking through the wickets of a prison. I see a face Bcarred ' with every crime. His chin on his open palm, his elbow

on hris knee a picture of despair. As I open the wicket he starts, and . I hear

his chain clank. The jail keeper tells me that ho has been in there now three

times. First for theft, then for arson,

now for murder. He steps upon the trap .door, the rope is fastened to his neck; the plank falls, his body swings into the air, his soul swings off into

eterritv. Who is he, and where is he?

To-day playing kite on the city com-

nionfl. Mother, you are to-day hoisting a throne or forging a chainyou are

kindling a star or digging a dungeon.

I learn one more lesson from this

Oriental scene, and that ist that every wilderness has a well in it.' Hagar and

Ishmael gave up to die. Hagar's heart

sank within her as she heard her child crying: "Water! watei! water 1" "Ah,"

HUB JiavB, uiy utuMiiiif, LuertJ its ii u wav

er. This is a desert." And then God's

Angel Baid from the cloud; "What ail-

etn inee, nagarr And sue loosed up and saw him pointing to a well of water

where she filled the bottle for the lad. Blesiaed be God that there is in every

wilderness a well, if you only know

how to find it -fountains for all these

thirsty souls to-day. On that last dav,

on that great day of the feast. Jesus

stood and cried: "If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink." All these other fountains you find are mere

mirages oi tne desert, raraceieus, you

know, spent his time in trying to find

out the elixir of life a liquid which, if taken, would keep one perpetually

young in this world, and would change

the jjged back again to youth. Of. course,

he .was disappointed: he found not the

elixir. But here I tell you to-day of the

eJixjr of everlasting life bursting from

the JKock of Ages." And that drink

ing that water you shall never get

old, and you never will be sick,

and you win never die. no, every one

that tnirstetb, come ye to the waters.

Ah, here is a man who says: "l have

been loosing tor tnat lountain a great while, but can't find it." And heie is

ome ono else who says: "I believe all

youlsay, but I have been trudging along in the wilderness and can't find the

ountain." Do you know the reason? I

will tell you. You never looked in the

right direction. "Oh," you say, "I have

looked every wnere. I have looked norths south, east and west, and I haven't found

the fountain." Why, you are not look

ing in the right direction at all. Look up, where Hagpr looked. She never

wot Id have found the fountain at all,

but when she heard the voice of the angel ahe looked up,and she saw tie finger

pointing 10 tne supply. And, on soul,

if 1;oday, with one earnest, intense prayer, if you would only look up to

Christ he would point yon down to the

supply in the wilderness. "Look unto

me all ye ends of the earth and be ye saved, for I am God, and there is none else." hook ! look! as Hagar looked. Yei, there is a well for every desert of bereavement. Looking over the audience to-day I notke siens of mourning. Have you found consolation? Oh, man

bereft! oh, woman bereft!, have you found consolation? Hearse after Hearse. Wo step from one grave hillock to another grave hillock. We follow corpses, ourselves Boon to be like them. The world is in mourning for its dead. Every heart has become the sepulcher of sorae buried joy. But sing e to God! Every wilderness has a well in it, and I come to that well to-day and I begin to ditiw water from that well. If you have lived in the country you have sometimes taken hold of the rope of the old well sweep, and you know now the bucket came up dripping with the bright, cool water. And I lay hold of the rope of God's mercy to-day, and I bej?in to draw on that Gospel wellfsweep, and see the buckets coming up. Thirsty soul, here is one bucket of life; come and dri nk of if: "Whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freely." I pull away again at the rone, and another bucket comes up. It is thiB promise: " Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." I lay hold of the rope again, and I pull away : with all my strength, and the bucket comes up bright, and beautiful, and cool. Here is the promise: "Come unto Me all ye who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." v The old astrologers used to cheat the people with the idea that they could tell from the position of the stars what would occur in the future, and if a cluster of stars stood in one relation that would be a prophecy of evil; if a cluster of stars stood in another relation that would be a prophecy of good. What superstition! But here is a new astrology in which I put all my faith. By looking up to the Star of Jacob, the morning star of the Redeemer, I can make this prophecy' in regard to those who put their trust in God: "All things work together for good to those who love God." Tread it out on the sky. I read it out in the Bible. I read it out

in all things: "All taihgs worfc to

gether for good to those who love

God." Doyofl lote Him? Wave you

seen the Nyetantfaettf It ifl a beautiful

flower, but. it gives very nttie iragrance

until after sunset Then it pours its

richness on the air. And this grace of

fhft ftnarml that T commend to vou this

day while it may be very sweet during

the day of prosperity, li pours ionn its richest aroma after stin down, audit

will be sun down with you and me after

while. When you come to go out of this world, will it bo a desert march or will it be a fountain for yoUr soul. Ob! come to-day to the fountain the fountain open for sin and uncleanness. I will tell you the whole story in two or

three sentences, l'ardon tor ail sin.

fJnmfort for all trouble. Lieut for all

darkness. And every wilderness has a

Well in it.

JjSTNCH Jj'AW AX CORY0ON. ievin and Tehnyson, the alleged murderers of J. D. Lemay and wife, were hanged by a mob at (Orydon, ind., at 2:30 Thursday morning. They were hung from the bridge west of town. They refused to say a word, or make any confession. The members of the mob were not disguised. They got into the jail by cutting down t Wo iron doors. The captain gave orders that they were not to be cut down until 9 o'clock Thursday morning and the mob then dispersed. The mob was a m ost quiet and orderly one, numbering about two hundred men. They covered the sheriff with Winchesters and revolvers and forced him to give up the keys. Davin and Tennyson were remarkably cool and collected and took their impending fate stoically. At the bridge they were given an opportunity for prayer, which they declined. They made no explanation of their crime. Last Friday night the two men who were lynched stopped at the residence

of James D. Lemay. a wealthy farmer

who resides near Corydon. They were well dressed, apparently about twenty-

five years of age and represented them

selves to Farmer Lemay as stock buy

ers. Mr. Lemay had his wife prepare supper for them, and while they

were eating he armed himself with a

revolver, having had his suspicions aroused by their actions. After they had finished their supper they and Mr. Lemay's family sat down on a porch

and en traced in conversation until

about 8 o'clock, when the strangers sud

denly arose, with drawn revolvers,

and ordered the members of the family into tne house, remarking

that they meant business. Mr.

Lemay and his wife went into one room

and were followed by one of the stran

gers, and his niece, Miss Lucy Lemay,

and a young farm hand went into an

other room and were locked in by the

other stranger, who f ollowed them. Mr.

Lemay drew his irevolver, and the stranger who confronted him began

firing, emptying his pistol, a five-shot Colt's revolver. All of the shots took

effect, two of them penetrating Mr.

Lemay's bowels, the other penetrating his hands and arms. The other stranger

fired one shot which passed through the

young lady's right breast and lodged in

her left breast. Mr. Lemay, although badly wounded, opened fire on the men

and put them Jo flight. An alarm waii given, and a number of neighbors soon

arrived, some of them starting in pur suit of the strangers, while others went

to Corydon for medical assistance.

The two would-be murderers escaped,

but were finally captured at New Albany and taken to the Harrison county jail at

Corydon. THE JOHNSTOWN CALAMITY.

Johnstown and vicinity were placed

under military irule Wednesday

For the first time since the calamity

the neonle are commencing to

talk of their financial losses, and

this seems to worry them as much as

anything elae, and to say that a vafit

number of the former merchants are disheartened is nutting it mildlv. On

all sides you will hear these merchants exclaim, "It is no ubo, we will never recover from this; we have lost everything." The Pittsburg wholesale mer

chants are trying to comfort them, arid

are offering all the old merchants some

very elegant inducements to start up

again. A circular has been received by

these men from several Pittsburg mer

chants offering them all the credit they

want. A few moae bodieshvwere recovered. Bradetreet's gives an eati-

mate of the losses at $44,250,000.

Fourteen bodies were recovered,

Major Phillips succeeded in floating off

six: acres of massed debris down the

Conemaugh. Lumber is arriving and

roueh houses are ecinc up. The health

conditions are fairly good.

The guards at Johnstown have to be

very watchful to prevent the dogs dis

turbing the d ead. Over one hundred docs were driven from the place Mon

day night and several of them killed.

The hastily dug graves there are shallow

and the dogs have been uncovering and devouring the dead. A dispatch of

Tuesday says: Already this morning

four bodies have been blown up in the

wreck above the railroad bridge. They

are all hornblv decomposed, and can

not, on account of the offensive odor,

be identified. The blasting is stjl going

on and the work fieemB to oe syste

matized. An open outbreak between the Womans Society of Pennsylvania

and the same society of Western Penn syivania resulted in a separation of the

two societies and separate headquarters

have been established. The old fight

between these two caused the disrup

tion.

An UnnerstandingatLast, San Francisco Examiner.

Old Mr. Widower had been sitting

silently alone witlb. Miss Autumn for fifteen mum ten. Finally he spoke: "Miss Autumn, you are pret-'? "Ob, Mr. Widower!" "You are pret-" "How can you, Mr. Widower?" "I started to ay that you were pretty-" '6h, you horrid man, stop!" "Condemn it all, woman," shouted Mr. "Widower, rising and breaking for the door, "I wanted to say that you are pretty near as old as I am. Wow, demme, I think you are twice as old." A Plucky Lawyer, A Virginia court has been trying a

caso m wnicn iw piainwn, wno nas

been totally blind for many years, claims $40,000 damages from the Richmond &

Danville Railroad for having been

smashed up in an accident last year, and so injured that his legs are paralyzed

andnenas to go anouc in a wneeiea

chair. But he has conducted his own case, and maintains a large legal prac

tice besides.

CONDENSED STATE NEWS. Muncie is having a building boom. Wayne county will have a new court house. Riishville is successfully electric lighted. Vincennes has organized a company of State militia. Patrick Horn, a wealthy pioneer of Allen county, is dead.. A waterspout near Beckville earned awny a barn, Tuesday. A cyclone struck Ligonier, Sunday, doing considerable damage.

C. R. HigginB has been appointed

postmaster at Fort Wayne.

A tank and pipe line company has

been organized at Terre Haute.

Jfndianapolis and Richmond have

joined the $250 liquor license cities.

Francis Murphy has closed remarka

bly successful. meetings at Columbus.

Forty-four alleged Chicago capitalists

wore entertained by Kokomo, Saturday. Since last March three wolves and twenty foxes have been killed in Porter county. Richard Rozelle, a young man of Anderson, is insane on the subject of inventions.

Emory Stone, a despondent farmer of Allen countydrowned himself in a well last Friday. It is claimed that the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association is doing great damage to the merchants of Mt. Vernon. ...... Samuel Taten, of Jefferson county, is another who has been arrested for complicity in the ten-dollar counter! eit conspiracy. Bond, $5,000. Charles Blink, of Fort Wayne, has been indicted and arrfiBted by a United .States marshal f o r voting wile under .sentence of disfranchisement. Part of the leg bone of a mammoS. measuring four feet one inch in length, and thirty inches in circumference, was found m Honey creek, Vigo county. Sunday the two Ft, Wayne breweries gave a picnic for the alleged benefit ef the Jonn8town sufferers. Wholesale

arreBtB will iollow, as beer was dis pensed freely.

.Lewis Battorff, of Charles town town-

shin. Clark county, who was swindled

out of $2,000 by two sharpers recently,

thinks Tennyson, who was lynched at

Corydon, was one of the pair.

Dora Geffin, who has been personating mermaid in Grady's New York Museum

for three vears. was married Fort

Wayne last week to W. M. Gurney, an

other museum freak, whose home is at

Terre Haute. ...

Odd Fellows' decoration clay was

observed at many points in the State.

Rev. DeWoolnert delivered the address

at Hartfort City, Grand Secretary B. F.

Foster at Walton and W. xu Leedy,

Grand Warden, at Sullivan.

The election of Miss Anna V . LaRose

as Superintendent of the Logansport

citv schools is regarded in Cass county

as a radical departure in the manage

ment of school affairs. She is caid to be

fully competent for the place.

While laborers were digging a trench in the streets ef Fort Wayne tthey uncovered the skeleton of an Indian chief,

and lying near were the remains of an

iron tomahawk, the barrel of a rifle, an iron pot, and other aborigine treasures.

Morton Howell, of Shelby county,

loaded down with counterfeit ten dollar bills, was captured on the train -Tuesday afternoon just as he was alleged to he Boine hence. He was arrested and

placed under six thousand dollar bonds.

Rev. Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus; re

cently appointed consul general to Con

stant inople, is exceedingly popular, and is receiving hearty congratulations from

his neighbors. He has been pastor of the Christian church at Columbus for

several years.

Wm. Ryan, aged 68, a prominent

fanner of Morgan county, was snot in

the head and back Saturday and killed

bv some unknown person. He lives in

a tough neighborhood, and has always

aided in bringing the law to bear on acts

of lawlessness.

Walter Sheldon, of Terre Haute, serv

ing a sentence Jfor attempted burglary,

has fallen heir to a large fortnne by the

death of an uncle. The estate can not

be settled until his release. After Sheldon's conviction his wife secured a

divorce and remarried.

The sale of Shorthorn cattle, under

the auspices of the Bartholomew County

Shorthorn . Association wan largely

attended. The stock all brought good

nrices. the aggregate amount naid for

thirtysix head being nearly ,000. A

few of the cattle brought as high as

$130.

At New Carlisle, last Friday, J. B

McComber, the recently discharged

station agent of the Lake Shore road, addressed the farmers of Sit. Jos eph county, saying he had been discharged

because he declined to steal as much of

their grain by false weights as the company's officers required should be

taken.

Colonel I. B. McDonald, of Columbia

City, aud Miss Bechtel, daughter of a

wealthy farmer in Whitley county,

went to Chicago, last bunday, accom

panied, by the pastor of the Second

Baptist Church, of Columbia City, and were united in marriage. Colonel Mc

Donald is a veteran of two wars, and his bride is many years his junior. William Bolden, of Bridgep ort, Knox

county, found upon his doorstep a bun

dle of switches, with a note sigued by

ons of White Caps," in whiich he was

threatened if he failed to give his girls libeity to work out. This frightened him into moving hiB iamily to Vin

cennes, where he succeeded m paving warrants issued against George Carnes

and other parties under suspicion. A final settlement of the B. F, Shut-

tuck estate has been made at Brazil.

In 1871 Neal McDougal and Isaac M.

Coarpton were named as executors, the

trust to continue until the child was of

age. xne eBtate was tnen valued at $10,000. In 1881 McDougal moved away leaving Compton in charge, and ho died three years later, and was succeeded by S. M. McGregor. The latter has now made an accounting of the

trust, turning over to the heirs f 100,000

in peisonal oroporty and $40,000 in real estate. Indianapolis News.

Sheriffs of counties, under the new

law, are required to provide a proper female attendant when convejing fe

male insane persons to the hospitals.

Another important change is that h is

made the duty of the Trustees uf the

hospitals to make inquiry as to the value

of the eBtate of every patient now in,

Qqpitals, nfc-to

Hftihe Oihe

ama.

fw Admitted to the h

aim uoivm.vv- .. - 7. and if their estates are compe. wDflf fVtft oYnimspR of the care t.

4XJ WV VUV V4 J- " patient at the hospital, it is made duty of the Boards of Trustees to that the monsv is collected and pa

into the general fund of the fetat Treasury. This may have the effect oi decreasing the number of insane in the hospitals. in fniin-winc natonlA were issued to

. a t . Indianians, Tuesday : Charles G. Conn, Eikhart, musical wind instrument; Isaac Conrad and A. W. Pounder, Elkhart, mason's float; John H. lull, Red Key, water heater; William Mctf amarB Tnfliananolie. com onerated recep.0'

John H. Malton, FrancisviUe, therm ostat;' James M. McCord, Montgomery, child's carriage; Arsion McQuistion, Fort Wayne, polishing machine; Thos. B. Ross, Evans vil le, eash fastener. There was a terribto murder and suicide three miles south of Vincennes,

Wednesday morning, Seth Murray, a farmer, aged fifty-five, shooting his wife in the abdomen with a rifle, and afterward arming himself with a corn knife and severing her head from her body

while she lay dying from the effect of the gun-shot wound. Making sure of her death, Mr. Murray then ran into

the yard and uncovered a bottle oi pruBsic acid which ha had concealed, swallowed the contents, and died almost instantly. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause. The deceased were the parents of six children. 1 C. H. Ford, one of the largest land owners in Blackford county, attempted

to lease gas lands in Grant county, and secured several holdings, deBpite the general opposition of the farmers. John Wilcoxon, also of Blackford county, was interested with him, and both attended an indignation meeting gotten up by the farmers at New Cumberland, where they were compelled to nileaitly listen while gas leases and gas leasers were bitterly excoriated. Finally resolutions wef e introduced to tar and feather both gentlemen, and they backed out with their re vol vers in ready grasp, and took to flight, x0llowed Dv a volley of bricks, stoflbfl and decayed eggs. The ill-feedng ia due to the opp osition to gas leases. Report? Irom J1 points in Grant county show the appearance, during the past two daa, of a parasite tliat threatens the entire civo of Vheat to and rye. This pest is in ill? Be o a bug, smaller than the head of it fJ1'

It is the same color ef the wheat, and is difficult to detect at first glance, but, about the base of the grains, on close inspection, the hea is found to be literally alive with these lice. It is thought that the wheat that is pretty well advanced may escape serious in jury, but the backward portion of the crop is being destroyed, and the utter wiping out of oats and rye is feared. In this part of the State, where agriculture is largely devoted to raising wheat, the appearance of this bug has created great consternation among farmers. An insignificant stream known as Pony creek, across the border of Huntington county, and in Chester township Wabash county, was raised to such an extent by a cloudburst, during a . heavy storm, last Sunday afternoon, that it flooded its banks, washing out road culverts, fences, etc A farmer named John Maple was driving to his home, near Pleasant "View, LaGro township from Liberty Mills, with his wife, three, children and a servant girl. In crossing one of the culverts it gave, and all, with the vehicle, were swept down the stream. Mrs. Maole and two of the

children were drowned. Manle man- i Alaska.

aged to save his life and that of one of

the children, and the girl was also res

cued. The bodies of Mrs. Maple and

the children drowned had not been recovered up to 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. A Broad Ripple dispatch says: The new wheat pest proves to be the "green

midge, and it is the first visitation of

this insect Bince the summer of 1865, when the crop was almost entirely de

stroyed. There is scarcely a wheat head in Washington township but what

is covered with these insects, and there will be a partial destruction of the crop, if it is not entirely ruined. The "red midge," which appeared about twelve years ago, but which is not so destructive as the "green midge," is an inseet which works its way to the inside of the chaff, and draws the sap directly from the grain, while the "green midge" locates itself upon the outer Burface, and draws from the small stem supporting the grain. This causes the grain to shrivel and prevents maturity. The older residents, who bu ffered from the visitation in 1865, now expect but a small yield from what promised an enormous wheat crop one week ago.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

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Lor d Salisbury, British Premier, is in

clined to increase the support given to

indigent literary men by the English

Government. He has a fellow feeding lfor knights of the pen, as in the days when his elder brother was in robust health the present, owner nf r Av

enues of the Cecils made $1,603 aj a newspaper reporter. . According to a JFrench astronoltner, the cooling of the terrestrial Arust goes on more rapidly under the sea than "with a land surface. Trom thvs he art mas that the crust must thicker under 4ceans ajt a much more rapid rate. SO AS to ninlA rian in a nwAllino nn

. ..... - m-.w..r.r7j, ym . rr...a j. . - k

and dis tortion of the thinner portion of I u;u oa but eiy can mention one; the crust that is forming meuntainf In the P1 ? old; 5he'

m , .

' You are really enough to provoke a eaint, Mary!" said the Widwir teHs her daughter. " Why dottl you wanil marry Mr, Joslin?" ,.,,r ' "Because my feelings; toward him would make my marriage with him very unhappy, mamma." ,..v : , v ... ' "What nonsense! lan't he rich, respectable, sensible, and land hearted?'4 "I grant yon all that, amraa, but 11 "But what?" exclaimed Mrs. Curtia. "If it is a possible) thing, do speak out

and tell me what possible objection yoa

cannaretohim." "I have se veraL ob jet tions."

THE INDIANS. A dispatch from Bismarck, Dak. , says: Couriers who arrived, Sunday, from Standing Rock report Sitting Bull, the notorious Sioux Chief, as alive and slowly growing stronger. In an interview with regard to the proposed open ing of the reservation for settlement, he said he had never signed a treaty and never would. He is as bitterly opposed to the opening of the reservation now as he was a year ago. When told of the number of Indians at the lower agencies who were signing he would not believe it. He said he had Indians at the

Lower Conference who reported to him,

and he knew that no such number as reported had signed

He is cunning and suspicious and

thinks the Commissioners are giving out the reports to influence the Indians

at the Upper Agency. There is every

reason to believe that the Commis

sioners will succeed in opening the res

ervation but they must do it without

the aid or consent of Sitting Bull and

his friends. When asked if he thought

he would die, Sitting Bull said at first

he felt that he must go as the trouble

was with his heart, which felt as if he

had been shot. He now has some hope of recovery.

The I ndians at Standing Hock have

chosen the orators to represent thorn at

the coming conference, but Sitting Bull

is none of the chosen. Those elected

are Gal , John 3 rass, Mad Bear, Big Head and Eagle That Scares. During The Honeymoon Time. . . ... . : Kirclistein Vot's dot, Leah? MrB. Kirchstein It vos mein new hair swidch vot youst came init der oxDress. Kirchstein Send der bill to your ladder. You vos mosd paid netted ven I marriet you,

Pasteur hasi bet n successful in another ruthod of v inoculation;- haying effectually ieked1. the disease kilpwn as anthrax or- aplentJtVc apoplexy, whic

for so matfV years has been devastating the herds of $w outih Wales. It is stated that the losm of seheep in New South Wales by anthw tk Suw heon 200,000 per annum. The o Hseaee is highly virulent, has all the ch waeteristicB of inflammatory fever and ttfwially proves fatal within two days. , .. . What appears to be an i dmpst perfect pendulum in respect to sin lplicity" is in operation at the Universitv of Glasgow. According to this plan a e mall shot of about 1-16 of an inch in dia meter is suspended by a single silk hbre (half a

cocoon fibre) two feet long in a glass tube of three-fourths inch in. diameter,

exnausung tne iscter to stoouc onetenth of a millionth" . of an fttmoehere. Starting with a vibrational ran go of one fourth inch on each side of i its middle portion, the vibrations can ea&ily be counted after a lapse of as many as fourteen hours, a fact not realisld elsewhere. ;. J. -

Jootn j ames and John are booo . names

for a boy, yet James appears to d e a bet

ter surname than any other for & candidate for President of the United states. We have had as many as five Jaiiieses in the Presidential chair within the century James Madison, James Monroe, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, and James A. Garfield. Moreover, the father of President James Madison was named James Madison, and the father of President James Buchanan was named James Buchanan. But in the case of James G. Blaine there has been

failure up to this time. Alter the jatni)jes, the Johns have panned out next beJn-fdamB' JoYm Adams and Jo Ter- - . Information from he Bonny river that the natives at OpoXtC1 th? caxmi' bals of Creeka are as sayaisYe A short time since some merchants .wenJ

to trade with the Creekas, who invitOo them to land. One hundred and thirtysix of them were killed The Creekas men, women and children ran through the town drinking human blood out of the mugs that they carried. At the Ju-Ju house the head men held a festival, at which the flesh of the victims was the chief dish, while some of it was sold to be dried and eaten at leisure The Ju-Ju men always Iseep human

flesh in this house. Emma Johnson,

who had been a school mistress in Ja

Ja's time, has been banished from Opo-

bo, it being believed that she was the

instigator of most of the trouble that

has occurred.

A number of ex-officers of the United

States Navy, have organized a stock company for the purpose of establishing a

salmon fishsry and fur trading post in

The business of this new com

pany will be entirely different from that

of any companies now engaged in this trade, as they in tend neither to smoke

nor can their catch, but instead, by the

means of a preservative, it will - be able to transport the fish in a perfectly fresh

condition to the markets of San Fran

cisco. By bo doing the company expect

to gain control of the market for the

salted fish, which are at present the main supply. When the fish reach San Francisco they have I oat their delicate

flavor and bright pink color. The

pro name location oi hub company a i ! A . - , m

establishment will be on the. .Tokmii I ! Wf.-

ThA Vnlrnn ir nnviotthln fnr I llPB

nearly twice my age."

"He's twice aa sensible, Fm sure of that," was the Response. "JtV a good thing for a girl to marry a man older than herself; he much more likely to be steady, and to keep her bo.

I don t wantit any one to keep me steady," Mhry. ;v ?" 'I dw bW ; m?t," said her ; mother "but that has nofc'hing to do with the fact of yoir needii g some one. But yon had several tfojectatna." ."; Pretty Mary onia rawed her aoft, blue eyes timidly to ?er mother'B face. "I I don't love Mm," faltered. "I should really Uke M teow where you got such silly, roiMtvc notioaa , not from me, that's certain. When yomt are as old as I am you'll find l&t love and marriage have verj' little to $6 iritnt each other. Mr. Joslin is a man thai a wife can confide in and respect, whicbi of far more importance to the happinesm of married life than what yon msUIv girlscalUove.".' . fe?: 4But I have still another objection, mamma." .... -.. ' W..: UI hope that it is more aonsible tha any that I have yet heard.'- r ? "You place great wlianco joMr Joslin's judgment, m.Hrnwa? "Certainly I do," was the rejoinder; "and I have every reason to 4o 6." . "l am very glad to hear i. ior I .;m ;. confident if he knew my ODjeA.ion toh

vry proper and sensible." j "Very well, my dear; when T

him ackhowledge as much, I shall b the same opinion myself." 1 ? 'V:.: 'And yon will promise not to praje me any further on the subject " v : "I can safely promise that" was the reay response. "But mind, I must hays the assurance of more disinterested authority than youm" "Never you fear, mamma," exclaimed Mstry, the assurance shall come from his own lips. Only remember that I

shall hold you to your promise.

Mary, tying on her hat, went throvgh the garden, turning into a path that XtA cJptvIV to the river. "v for .some weeks past, just as the desndiUv? sun touched the western hills, y she would turn her steps down toward the river. . And just iatut lie same hour young ; Dr. Raymond sally out, only tt find his feet imev?)ly dmwj n same direction. - Mary related , her tfcwto llB her mother, and a plan wW once af ranged to bring matters to axnccessful issue.. , , '' ijj Ss Suffice it to say that the young Aoctar immediately began to lay siege - to Jhe heart.of his successful rival, and with , much success that the; old gentlemani soon declared him be the finest yoamg -man of his acquaintance. ; ; y ' - Both Mary and her mother were , pre-a ent when Mr. Joel in gave such enenge tic expression to his opinion of the -young doctor." ' 'I V.L. ; j Mary blnahed and smiled as she glanced over to where her mother waA sittirig. ; 1 CVv---' She then turned her bright eyes irpna, the face of her venerable suitor. . J, "I am very glad to learn that you entertain such a high opinion of Dr. Raymond," she said, with a bewitching smile; -kfor, do yon know, I think that '

you must have been very rnuch him when at his age."" s. 7 Mr. Joalin'g heart 'was;. '. not

r-'v

'it-

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Si

river, xne xuaon is

about 1.5C0 miles, and, next to the

Mississippi, is the largest river in North

America.

It is claimed that the recently com

pletod San Diego flume is the most stupendous in the world, being only a little

short of thirty-six miles long. An idea

of the gigantic character of the work may be obtained from the fact that the

amount of lumber consumed was more

than nine millions of feet, or, allowing

the very considerable yield of 1,000 feet to each tree, not less than 9,000 trees were required. In the course of the flume there are some 315 trestles, the

longest of these being 1.700 feet Ir

length, eighty-five feet high, and con

taining one-quarter of a million feet of

lumber. Another trestle is of the same

height, and i,2CKi feet long, tne main

timbers in both of these being ten by

ten and eight by eight, being put together on the ground and raised to their

position by home power. The number

of tunnels in the course of the flume is

eight, the longest of which is 2,100 feet, the tunnels being in sise six by six feet,

with convex shaped roofing; each mile

of the flume required an average of one-

fourtn of a million feet of lumber for its

construction, and the redwooa used en

tirely in the box is two inches in thickness throughout.

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Mary, thai I the beet and

man of l"r;

m

"I do ansiire you, Misa consider him to be by far

most sensible young

"Do you hear that, mammary ex- v claimed Mary; in a tone of triumph. "Do you hear what 3Ir. Joalin saya 1 Dr. Raymond?" ' :C'-i-f. Really, my dear," salt? 34 Curtti: "I don't kno w why hie ojion of 1k ' Raymond should concern either of us," "But it does cbncjern us, nWnrma, .

inasmuch as Dr. Raymond happens to ' be my chief objection to entertainiai x , the proposal with which he has hon-;

ored me. Mr. Joslin considered this ob- .

jection very proper and sensibleand4 so must you, if you keep your promise

to agree with him in case he expresaad

any such opinion.;

VI never heard of anything so ridicu

lous," ejaculated Mrs. Curtis, as aoo aav ?

she could speak;--'; ; ' "x V i

"I have," returned Mary, demurely;-

"I think itoa a thousand times more - ffc

diculous that a man of Mr. Joelin'a

years and judgment should choose a

foolish, giddy girl like me, ; when ha can have a woman of your good eenae

and attractions for the asking. '

With this parting broadside Mary

vanished, leaving the utonished con

together.

Mr, Joslin looked very earnestly into !

the face of the still young and pretty

widow, whose heightened color invest

ed it with a new charm. V

"Your daughter is quite right ho

.. " " -yts sirs

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m

A School of Devil Plsn.

Old ocean pilots and sea going people who watched the school of devil nsh

that played about the pilot boats, and

the tug Cynthia before the boats got off J eiflcnifttefi

m h recciie vm v., .hat can you mean, Mr. Joelin?"-

say that such a mgdt is rare in murmured the widow, averting

01 a mar me r. Auoy pmytau uuuui we crait for fully half an hour, au' ..ware' principally young devil fish; from four feet long to six feet, and they looked

like great bats. Some of them had shed their tails, while others had caudal appendages fully a yard in length. As many as twenty of these hideous looking marine curiosities were seen at one timo, and. one was shot by one of the

cfew of the Neca, and after lashing the waters of the sound into a foam it sank out of sight.

From t Stock Warket Point of View. ruck. '. .... .... "Ah, Jacobs I fear I hafe not many tays to live." "Konsense, fader, you have as much

as t'irty yet pefore."

"No, Jacob no! The Loniisn't going to take me at 100 when he can get me

at 70."

face but taking care not to withdraw

the hand he had taken. ' v ? '

"I mean, in suing for the daughter's

hand, instead ef tke mother's, I have

made a great mistake. Will you me to rectify it?" 7 A

The answer to this question was not -

intended for my ears or for youm

reader; but we can judge something of-

its purport by the fact that a few weeks hence there was a double wedding. ' A ra'iroad from Congo Falls to Stanley Pool, 262 miles, ia a project being i?f pushed fey the Belgian Government and wealthy capitalists. C. P. Hunticgtoni r

the railroad magnate, is one of the pic jectore. It is not expected that tha; road will be a good financial nveatinent,

but it is being pushed more as a mattarl

of sentiment.

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