Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 1 August 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPOHNE.

Br Waltul Bradfutb.

HLOOMINOTON

INDIANA

A 8H0WEB of toads is reported from Maine. Is it possible that the Maine liquor law is a failure?

Thk tali lighthouse on Long Island, near Shinnecock Bay, was recently struck by lightning, and the keeper' rooms were badly demor-alized.

Nkw Yobk City is continually agitated over the alleged pollution of iteCroton water supply, and the leading journals wage a vigorous crusade against the evil.

find the streets like so many ovens, for weeks at a time, that leave people limp, panting, damp, unpleasant wrecks of their former selves,, can realize that a very slight increase oi misery, squalor and discomfort might temporarily turn them from peaceable citizens into flaming incendiaries or organized mobs.

Frenchmen, having become tired of fightiqg duels that result in the destruction of gun-powdef only, except where an occasional bystander stops a bullet by accident, are now talking o? a resumption of work on the Panama canr ! the coming winter, and recent dispatches state that there is already 50,000,000 francs subscribed for that purpose.

The New York Tribune defies the Colojfado silver agitators who have been proposing to light till Mood shall rise to the horses bridles, and asserts that New York Stave could place in the field and maintain more armed men than all the silver-

producing Stages combined. This !

information is no doubt correct but entirely unnecessary. There is no probability that there will be a civil war in this country again.

Lightning rod peddlers continue to make forays upon the rural population in various parts of the country, and continue to call down upon their class the maledictions of numerous victims of their treacherous wiles. There seems to be no safeguard from the ravages of these pestiferous vermin except to submit to an attack, pay the bill and acquire the rod and the experience necessary to insure immunity from future attacks. Like victims of smallpox and some other diseases, persons seldom suffer a second attack, one siege being an effective prophylactic for all time. Our advice, therefore, would be to all householders in the unprotected districts to buy a lightning rod at once, on the best possible terms, for if it is not a safeguard against the thunderbolts of heaven, it will at least act as a protection against the emissaries of the lower regions in the guise of rod peddlers, who annually prowl about seeking whom they may devour.

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SCIENCE

The Choctaw Nation in the Indian Territory have a very simple way of dispensing justice when it becomes necessary to execute the death pen alty. Two men hold the criminal s haads, while the sheriff, charged with the duty of executioner, knee's five paces in front, aims a rifle at a bit of white paper pinned over the

victim's heart, and .shoots him dead

without further ceremony. All things considered, the proceeding is an improvement on the usual hanging, accompanied, as it often is. with bungling machinery and spec

tacles of the most revolting cruelty i

and horror.

Mm C. HARRiyoTON writes to the New York Sun from Olivet, Carroll county, Arkansas, stating that there are thousands and perhaps millions of acres of good land sub-

ject to entry under the homestead j

act in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, within 150 mil of St. Louis. He urges eople desiring comfortable homes and independent incomes to investigate the healthful and undeveloped country so long eglected and so easily accessible. Lands through the southern tier of Missouri counties are rated at from 52.50 to $7 per acre in settled communities much nearer to markets than the homestead lands, and can be bought on favorable terms. There is a government land office at Harrison, Ark, The modern innovation of Safety Deposit vaults in our large cities is believed to be very largely responsible for the financial stringency which has gradually throttled the current of business transactions. These Safety Deposits, containing private apartments which any one can rent, afford a secure hiding place for untold wealth that not only escapes the assessor, and thereby fails to contribute its due proportion to the support of the government arid the maintai nance of civilized society that rendered its accumulation possibl e, but currency in large sums is thus withdrawn from the channels of commerce and thus inflicts a two-fold injury to the community that projects and cherishes the fortunate owners. The Safety Deposit is in some respects a financial heaven, for treasure placed within its ponderous and protecting walls is in a refuge where "neither moth nor rust corrupt nor thieves (and bank cashiers) break through jand steal."

Investigations conducted by a correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean seem to ' establish the innocence of Seay J. Miller, the negro lynched at Bardwcll, Ky., for the outrage and murder of the Kay sisters near that place on the 5th of July. The lynching was accompanied by extreme brutality, Miller being hung to a telegraph pole by a log chain, after being elevated on a forked stick, and then let fall to break his neck, which was done at the first drop. The crazy mob fired numberless shots into the insensible body, and the toes were cut off, after which the body was burned on a pile of timber collected for that purpose. All efforts to induce Miller to confess failed, and it is the solemn belief of many of the best citizens of Bardwell that an innocent man was sacrificed to appease the infuriated mob that demanded a sacrifice for the atrocious crime that had been committed in their midst. Such occurrences are not calculated to give thinking people an increased respect for American civilization. Savages could do no worse. Lynch law is fast becoming a reproach to American society, and is indefensible even in the most aggravated cases, where the guilt of the criminal is already established bevond a doubt.

Cable dispatches from Paris state that riots in that city have largely been caused by the excessive heat, and that all of the historic outbreaks of the past have occurred during extremely cheated terms. The high temperature, it is alleged, drives the lower classes to a desperate frenzy that is unknown when the thermometer acts in a reasonable manner. The populace confined to the squalor of heated streets, without possible relief, become temporarily madmen to whom consequences life or leath are of little moment, and they fight and kill from sheer wantonness -without reason and with no real grievance that is within the power of humc" authority to remedy or -set right. Country people will find it difficult to believe this, but residents of our American cities who

PEOPLE Justice Field is the only supreme justice remaining who sat in the famous electoral commission. Prof. C. K. Jenness. of the Loland Stanford University, the sociologist , in order to more thoroughly familiarize himself with tramp life, dressed himself as a tramp and li od among the profession. He was. however, quickly detected and forced out of the ranks of the fraternity. The oldest officer in the French army is General Mellinet; he is ninety-five years of age. The officers of the garrison of Nantes, where he resides, visited him the other day in a body, and gave him an ovation. He received the grand cross of the Legion of Honor after the battle of Magenta. Mr. Selons. the famous traveler, said in a recent lecture that during his twenty years' traveling in South Africa with a few unarmed followers he was only once attacked by the natives. This was in 1888. when in the dead of night an at tack was made on his camp by the Mashukulumbwe, who were incited to the attack by some rebel Barotse. Presideut Cleveland's new catboat will be finished for him before long, and will be sent to Buzzard's Bay. where the President is eagerly awaiting it. The new catboat will be finished in quartered oak throughout. There will be plenty of brass trimmings, and everything will be bright and attractive, j'et very practical and serviceable. There will be a small cabin. The length of the boat over all will be 18 feet (5 inches. Its water line will do 14 feet 4 inches, and it will have a beam of 8 feet J inches. Its rigging will be that of the ideal catboat type. The mast will be 16 feet high. The boom will be 20 feet long, and the gaff 12 feet, whie will allow 27 feet for the outside lc gth. The heroic conduct of a young negro named Basil Lock wood, the day of the Ford Theater disaster, has been remembered by the gift to him of a handsome watch, suitably inscribed. This man, passing along at the moment of the horror, ran and brought a ladder, and. climbing up, held the ladder horizontally for persons to escape out of the windows of the ruined building. The ladder being too short, Lockwood. who is a powerful man, fastened his feet in it by some means and bore on the strength of his legs the weight of several persons, who one by one crawled out of the window upon the ladder.

Talmage Regrets That He Is Not a Blacksmith. Th Modern Church Should Avail Itself of Modern Progress In the Arts and Seclnces Dr. Talmage preached at Monona Lake, near Madison, Wis., Sunday. Subject 1 'Sharpened Axes." Text "Now there was no smith found through all the land of Israel." He said: My loving and glad salutation to this uncounted host, Chautauquans Christian Endeavorers, gospel workers and their friends from all parts of Wisconsin and America, saints and sinners! My text is gloriously appropriate. What a galling subjugation the Israeliees were suffering! The Philistines had carried off ail the blacksmiths and torn down all the blacksmith shops and abolished

the blacksmith s trade in the land of Israel. These Philistines had a particular grudge against blacksmiths, although I have always admired them and have sometimes thought I ought to have been one myself. The Philistines would not even al

low these parties to work their valuable mines of brass and iron, nor might they make any swords or spears. There were only two swords left in all the land. Yea. these Philistines went on until they had taken all the grindstones from the land of Israel, so that if an Isruelitish farmer wanted to sharpen his plow or ax he had to go over to the garrison of the Philistines to get it done. There was only one sharpening instrument left in the land, and that was a file. The farmers and mechanics having nothing to whet up the colter and the goad and the pickax save a simple file, industry was hindered and work practically disgraced. I learn first from this subject how dangerous it is for the church of Gkd to allow its weapons to stay in the hands of its enemies. These Israelites might again have obtained a supply of swords and weapons, as, for instance, when they took the spoils of the Ammonites, but these Israelites seemed content to have no

4 words, no spears, no blacksmiths, no grindstones, no active iron mines, until it was too late for them to make any resistance. So it is in the church of Christ to-day. We ire all too willing to give up our weapons to the enemy. The world Coasts that it has gobbled up the schools and the colleges, and the irts and the sciences, and the literature and the printing press. Infilelity is making a mighty attempt to get all our weapons in its hand, and then to keep them. We want to send out against Schenkel and Strauss and Renan of the past men ike the late Theodore Christlieb of Bonn and against the infidel scientists a God-worshiping Silliman and Hitchcock and Agassiz. We want to capture all the philosophical apparatus and swing around the telescopes on the swivel until through them we can see the morning star of the Redeemer, and with mineralogical hammer discover the tlRock :f Ages," and amid the flora of the realms find the ''Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley." And we want some one able to expound the first chapter of Genesis, bringing to it the geology and astronomy of the world until, as Job suggested, "the stones of the field shall be in league" with the truth and "the stars in their courses shall fight against Sisera." Oh church of God, go out and recapture these weapons. Let men of God go out and take possession of the platform. Again, I learn from this subject what a large amount of the church's resources is actually hidden and buried and undeveloped. The bible intimates that that was a very rich land, this land of Israel. It say3, "The stones axe iron, and out of the hills thou shalt dig brass," and yet hundreds of thousands of dollars1 worth of this metal was kept under the hills. Well, that is the difficulty with the church of God at this day. Its talent is not developed. If one-half of its energy could be brought out, it might take the public iniquities of the day by the throat and make them bite the dust. If human eloquence were consecrated to the Lord Jesus Christ, it could in a few years pursuade this whole earth to surrender to God. Again, I learn from this subject that we sometimes do well to take advantage of the world's sharpening instruments. These Israelites were reduced to a file, and so they went over to the garrison of the "Philistines to get their axes and their goads and their plows sharpened. The Bible distinctly states in the context that they had no other instruments now with which to do this work, and the Iwtoiites did right when they went over to the Philistines to uss their grindstones. My friends, is it not right for us to employ the world's grindstones? If there be art, if there be logic, if there be business faculty on the other side, let us go over and employ it for Christ's sake. That was what made Paul such a master in his day. He not only got all the learning he could get of Dr. Gamaliel, but afterward, standing on Mars Hill and in a crowded thoroughfare, quoted their poetry, and grasped their logic, and wielded their eloquence, and employed their mythology until Dionysus, the Areopagite, learned in the schools of Athens and Heliopolis, went down under his tremendous powers. That was what gave to Jonathan Edwards his influence in his day. He conquered the world's metaphysics and forced

THE FINANCIAL FLURRY. "On Woe Upon Another's Bteels So Fast Do Follow."

Failure j and Attsignmrafti th Order the A General liquidation Imminent,

of

"IRON BANK" FAfLURE. Bradford fc Church, conducting a savings institution at Dearborn street, Chicago, on what Is known as the "iron bank" plan, closed up, Monday. The deposits amount to $20,000 or 130,000, collected from poor people and children by means of small iron saving's banks. The proprietors can not be fopnd.

BIG CHICAG6 failure. Parkhurst & Wilkinson, iron merchants of Chicago, confessed judgment, Monday afternoon, for $87,175. The firm's assets are estimated at f l,fOO,O00. They were among the best-known firms in their line in the United States, having been established for twenty years, and had done business with the Continental National for ten years, but the bank refused to extend the time on the notes which had been from time to time renewed.

it into the service of God until not only the old meeting houso in Northampton, Mass., but all Christendom felt thrilled by his Christian power. Again, n.y subject teaches us on what a small allowance Philistine iniquity puts a man. Yes, these Philistines shut up the mines, and then they took the spears and the swords, then they took the blacksmiths, then they took the grindstones, and thev took everything but a file. Oh. that is the way sin works. It grabs everything. It begins with robbery. History tells us that when Pome was founded, on that day there were twelve vultures flying through the air, but when a transgressor dies the sky is black with whole flocks of them. Vultures! When I see sin robbing so many people, and I see them going down day by day and week by week, I must give a plain warning. I dare not keep it back lest I risk the salva

tion of my own soul. Kover the pirate pulled down the warning bell on Inchcape rock, thinking that he would have a chance to despoil vessels that were crushed on the rocks, but one night his own ship crashed down on this very rock, and he went down with all his cargo. God declares. "When I say to the wicked, thou shalt surely die, and thou givesthun not warning, that same man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will 1 require at thy hands' ri he church of God to-day wan ts more backbone, more defiance, more

consecrated bravery, more metal, j business for twenty years here, and alHow often you see a man start out -ways took pride in ray honesty. Now I in some good enterprise, and at the i have the opportunity to show the people blast of newspaperdom he has col- j that I am honest. I want no one to lose lapsed and all his courage gone for- ! anything, not even those who have been

getful of the fact that if a man be j instrumental in bringing my misfortune

right all the newspapers of the earth, with all Ntheir columns pounding away at him, cannot do him any permanent damage. It is only when a man is wrong that he can be damaged. God is going to vindicate his truth and he is going to stand by you, my friends, in every effort you make for Christ's cause and the salvation of men. We want something of the determination of the general who went into the war, and as he entered his first battle his knees knocked together, his physical courage not quite up to his moral courage, aii-d he looked down at his knees and said: "Ah, if you knew where I was going to take you, you would shake worse than that!" There is only one question for you to ask and for me to ask. What does God want me to do? Where is che field? Where is the work? Where is the anvil? Where

FAILURE OF J. N. HUSTON. The Citizens Bank, of Connersville, owned by ex-Treasurer James N. Huston, closed its doors, Monday morning. All depositors will be paid in full. In an interview Mr. Huston said: "Tt is my mis-

fortune. None of the depositors or ciediton will lose a cent. The bank is my j own individual property and every dollar i that I am worth will stand good for my t liabilities, I have been building up a

about.

HAUGHEY'S

INDIANAPOLIS NATIONAL.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Collapse of au Old Time Institution. The Indianapolis National, T. P. Haughey, President, posted the following notice on its doors, Tuesday morning: "Owing to the general financial stringency, the steady withdrawal of deposits and the difficulty of converting securities into cash, this bunk is obliged to suspend. "IXPIAXAPOLIS NATION'AI, BANK. This failure occasioned great surprise, both at Indianapolis and Washington. The bank was a United States depositor). The postoffice and pension funds were deposi ted there. M r. H aughey is also Treasurer of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. and the funds of the Order were deposited in the Indianapolis National. The bank was organized n 1864 with Mr. Haughey, as president, and he has htld the position ever since. For nearly forty years Mr. Haughey has held the position of treasurer of the Grand Lodge, I. O. O.

prominent in all good

management

attaches to him. The assets of the bank are largely in excess of liabilities, and deruwitnr will ho n ft. id in full, hntt.hp.ro mav

Oh, mv brethren we have but lit- ; be ureravatinirdeliivs. Controller Eckels

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is the prayer meeting? Where is the pulpit? And finding out what

God wants us to do, go ahead and F.t and has been prominen do it all the energies of our body, ! works. No suspicion of bad

mind and soul enlisted in the undertaking.

has designated Hugh Young, of Pittsburg,

to take charge of the affairs of the institution. The capital stock was $300,000, with $100,000 of a surplus fund, and deposits at t he last official report of $1,71 4, 507.75.

BANK OF COMMERCE.

Another of the Old Indianapolis Institutions Gives I p.

tie time in which to- fitrht for Gcd.

You will be dead soon. Put in the Christian cause every energy that God gives you. 1 4 What thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might, for there is neither wisdom nor device in the grave w hither we are all hastening." Oh, is it not high time that we waked out of our sleep?

Church of God, lift up your head at the coming victory! The Philistines The Hank of Commerce, just across the will so down and the Israelites will strt from the Haughey bank, at Indian-

go up. We are on the winning side, i anolia, failed to open its doors, luesday Hear that-on the winning side. 1 roln and shortly after 9 o'clock the

I think just now the king's horses are being hooked up to the chariot, and when he does ride down the sky there will be such a hosanna among his frienefcs and such a wailing among his enemies as will make the earth tremble and the heavens sing. I see now the plumes of the Lord's cavalrymen tossing in the air. The archangel before the throne has already burnished his trumpet, and then he will put its golden lips to his own and he will blow the long, loud blast that will make all nations free.

Clap vour hands, all ye people!

following notice was posted on the door:

I "Owing to the general stringency of the ! money market, and the consequent difti- ! cultv of immediately realizing upon its ! securities, this bank has suspended." j The real cause of the failure is said to : have been the failure of the Premier ! Steel Works. The bank was also involved j to some extent in the failure of C. W. DePauw. The individual deposits will not j amount to more than $141,000. N. T. De- ! Pauw, of New Albany, was President, J. W. Ray. Vice-President, and Wm. Bosson

Cashier of the institution and theDePauvv family held about 3,550 of the 4,000 shares. Cashier Bosson states that depositors and

stock holders will be paid dollar fordol-

Hark! I hear the falling thrones and j lar, and thai: the bank may resume bus-

the dashing down of demolished in- ! iness.

iquities.

Electricity by Wind Power. The utilization for electrical purposes from wind-mills has been proven possible, if not commercially feasible. The data on this matter is interesting and indicative of much vet to be attempted. Experiments

made in Great Britain show that a j present general linancial stringency and

NE3EKER' S BANK FAILS. The Farmer and Merchants of Coving-ton Closes Its Doors, The Farmers and Merchants' bank of Covington, Ind., closed at 1 o,clock. Friday afternoon. A notice was pasted on the door which stated the cause to be the

machine constructed for this purpose developed results that were perfectly satisfactory, the power obtained being sufficient for the electric lighting of a flour mill winh twenty-seven sixteen- candle-power lamps and three arc lights. Experiments made by Engineer Raoul in the north lighthouse at Havre, France, by a 40-foot Halladay mill were found to give a power of 17.8 measured on the wind shaft, with a wind velocity of 23 feet per second. A fine example of ?mi electric wind plant is in Cleveland, O. The wind wheel has a diameter of fifty-six feet and furnishes power to run a plant containing 350 incandescent lamps, two arc lights and three electric motors. Other instances might be named in which experiments have been successful, although from a financial point of view the cost of electric energy thus obtained is not so satisfactory. The matter is really more of arithmetic in economy than of possibility in practical science, and it is to be assumed that sooner or later the uti lization of energy stored in the wind3, as in the waterfalls, will be more or less in form, the economics of the situation being the final determining factor. Jess Jack virtually told Maud that she used powder. Bess Wat did she say? Jess Simply exploded.

an inability to realize on its securities. Ex-17. S. Treasurer K. H. Ncbeker, who holds $3,000 of the capital stock, is president. In an interview with the bank officials they stated that the assets are more than sufficient to pay dollar for dollar of the hank's indebtedness. The capital stock of thesuspended institution is $3d,00;).

OTHER FAILURES. The Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance Jtank, at Milwaukee, closed its doors, Tuesday. Three banks suspended at Louisville, Tuesday. Three large business firms of Nashville, TeunM failed, Wednesday. H. J. Nicholas & Co., of tho New York Stock Exchange, suspended payment on the 20th. Eight comparatively small business firms in different parts of the United States were reported having suspended payment, Wednesday. OLD SETIXRRS MEKTIXG, Excursion to Mooreavllle, Aftgust 8th, via th Pennsylvania bluet. Low round-trip Excursion Tick ts will be sold from Indianapolis via the Pennsylvania Linus Undianapoila fc Vinconnes livision) to Mooresvillo. Tuesday, August sth. for the 24th annual meeting of the i )ld Settlers of Morgan ami adjoinim; counties. Return coupons valid until Wednesday, August lth( inclusive. Willie- Good gwncious, dealt boy! How did you catch such a cold? ChollyThe doosid bawbah Combed aiy bangs back off my fawrid

Oranges grow on evfcry continent Melbourne theaters bave billiard rooms. Carp and eel don't taove so much as a fin all winter. American bicycles are being sold on the Island of Java. A single Kansas cabbage head has produced over 400 'cigars'1. A woman recently married her seventh husband at van Lue, O. Great Britain has but one medical journal, while this country has over 200. Silver dollars are shipped direct to China from Mexico by Chinese merchants. India ink is made in Japan from the soot obtained by burning the shells of an oily nut. The town of Perry, MoM with a population of 800, has not, it is said, a single colored resident. Christmas and the Fourth of July are the only holidays that are alike legal in all the States and Territories. The Recorder of Chattanooga, Tenn., thrashes incorrigible boys instead of sending them to the workhouse. Sections of a cable laid tmmty-one years ago were dug up at Key West the other day. The copper wire was uninjured. The first building erected in tie United States for the Federal Government was the United States Mint in Philadelphia. Because a young man refused to shave off his mustache at the demand of his Philadelphia fiance, she promptlj' broke the engagement. There are 173,000,000 Mohamnc.e'dans in the world already and 400 missionaries ate sent out from Cairo every year to make fresh converts. In Bengal, India, there are three harvests reaped every year ; peas and oil seeds in April, the early rice crop in September, and the great rice crop in December. Wall paper is made to imitate cretonne closely, and, in these designs, is enjoying a wide sale among artistic folk, who find it a beautiful background to the oznamentation of the room. Lightning is aig-zag because, as it condenses the air in the immedia te advance of its path it flies from side to side in order to pass where there is the least resistance to its- progress. The Mexican peon's average wage is officially given as 27 cents. uIn many parts o: the country," says the Financier, ''peons receive 37 to 50 and in some cases up to 63 cents a day' A black bear came down from the mountains and wandered into' Taeoma, Wash., the other day, causing a stampede. Bruin was finally run down and killed. He wreighed 4:59 pounds. It is reported that never in the history of the Erie carial has the canal boat business been so brisk as it is at present. Th immense shipments of wheat are responsible for this increase. Since the re moral of the nuisances, says Dr. Cyrus Edson, of New York city, the Croton water is 50 per. cent, purer than it was, and no better water is furnished to any other city in the world. The mayors of Liverpool and Manchester were recently conferred the titles of lord mayors by the queen. There are only four lord mayors in all Europe, London a ad York being the other two cities so honored In Russian temperance .societ ies the pledge is taken for one year. The first time a member breaks the pledge he receives nineteen strokes with a birch rod, and with each succeeding offense the punishment is doubled. Smith s Island" or "Bald Head's Island", as it is better known, is reputed to be one of the strangest bits of land north of Florida, The island is said to project nearer the Gulf stream than any other land on this continent, and, as a result, is subtropical. The palmetto grows in p rofusion, while the olive and myrtle are found in abundance. Old bills of sale of negroes cvre very common relics of slavery days, but a bill of sale of au Indian woman is a rare article among collections of antiquarians. One of the latter, however, is in the possession of J. B. BUch, of Horwinton, Conn. The document, which hi dated 1717. records the selling of a "squaw" -lor 15 shillings. A French electrician has succeeded in establishing telephone communication between houses in the same city several hundred feet apart by using the gas and water pipes, with a two or three cell battery instead of wire. The gas and water pipes, he found, are usually insulated from each other, and his experiment was entirely successful. A feature of the midsummer holiday Century will be a fully illustrated yachting article by W. P. Stephens, recounting the various contests for the "Attterica's" cap. The yacht u America," which crossed the ocean in the summer of 1851, first won this cup, which, in 1857, was made 4ia perpetual challenge cup for friendly competition between foreign countries." The article includes pictures from photo graphs of the best known American yachts, together with comparison oi old and new types.