Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 7 November 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPHONE

By Waltkk Bbadfutk.

BLOOMINGTON

INDIANA

Fifty-two "favorite sons" of the great Keystone State are members of the present Congress. Six of them are United States Senators. Two Senators and twenty-eight Representatives make up the delegation of Pennsylvania. The others are serving constituencies in twelve States and one Territory.

The gold fields in the British colonies of South Africa are booming. The reports from the new Eldorado are marvelous. The wealth of the country in diamonds, gold, silver, copper and coal is seemingly inexhaustible. Future developments it is believed will ar exceed the products of the past, which have been fabulous.

A fortune is said to await the man who will invent a cheap and harmless coloring matter that will give a pink tint to butter. A New York firm now sends butter to a faroff island of the sea, but is compelled to first color it pink, as the natives refuse to buy any other color. The "dyestuflf' now used is a French preparation, and is very expensive. A cheap substitute is badly needed in order that the traffic may be extended and the profits increased.

The roof of the new National Library at Washington is to be capped with dk dome that will rival the great white dome of the capitol. Unlike that famous structure, however, this dome is to be gilded. More gold will be used on this dome than on any gilded dome in the world. There are some 10,000 square feet to be covered. The dome is now covered with a shroud of canvas under which the workmen are carrying 4n the tedious task of applying the gold leaf. Six weeks of good weather will be needed to complete the work. The gold leaf is being made from pure gold by a Baltimore gold beater especially for this contract.

The movement to raise a fund for the Duke of Veragua is said to have been a failure. There does not seem to have been any great and irrepressible desire on the part of the great body of the American people to give away their honest or dishonest dollars to a man who had squandered his ancestral estate in an attempt to popularize the Spanish national pas time of bull-baiting at the French capital. The "Dook" is doubtless a very nice man, but it is highly improbable that he will ever have to saw wood for a living. With our starving thousands of unemployed workingmen, it would seem that the surplus wealth of our great millionaires might be better employed than in helping to swell a gift fund to a titled aristocrat who owes his financial embarassments to his own folly and barbarian tastes, and the information that the snobbish attempt to bestow such wealth in that way has failed will be received with gratifi- . cation by the majority of people.

The frantic efforts of tradesmen of all departments of business, as a rule, are considered essential to success, the intense competition of the day having produced a feverish haste and nervous tension which are denominated "business enterprise." Occasionally, however, we hear of a merchant of the old school who still survives and scorns the aid of modern innovations to hold his trade or attract new traffic. He is generally an "old settler" who "was there first," and often the the financial and social mogul of the village or town he thrives in. Such men are admirable characters in their way, and though "Young America" denounces them as "old fogy" and talks about "first-class funerals" before the town can catch up with the procession, the "old man" moves on in the even tenor of his way, holding his old friends and as a rule gaining the respect of new comers. This peculiarity of character seldom survives in large cities, the rush and drive of the multitude seldom stopping to weigh the merits or pass upon the failings of business men. The New York Sun. however, has discovered such a man in that city. He deals in old furniture. His store is chaos. No pretensions to style or even cleanliness. Prefers to buy rather than sell anything that pleases him. Hates to exhibit goods. His prices are high. Yet he is locally famous, does a large business, and his trade extends to cities hundreds of miles distant. "Long may he live and prosper'

! final outcome of the enterprise that S prevailed in the early Rummer was due to this cause. These outrages happily were to a great extent removed, and the public finally be- ! came aware that it was within the

possibilities to visit Jackson Park without being metaphorically if not actually "held up." The Columbian Exposition concessionaries have received the magnificent revenue of 4,000,000 from concessions at the Fair the Ferris wheel, intramural railroad, roller chairs, restaurants, various villages, pop-corn, soda water, etc. The people having privileges paid from 20 to 50 per cent of their profits into the general fund. Doubtless the management were swindled on the round up to some extent the same es the general public, but reasonable people who vis ited the Fair during the summer and fall must concede that the prices charged for necessaries were low considering the time and place. Visitors to Chicago from almost an3r part of Indiana, if they have confined their expenditures to actual necessities, have made an investment and acquired information and inspiration that would be cheap at ten times the money. This expenditure has not been an extravagance in the case of the great majority, but rather a solid acquisition that will yield a rich return that should only cease with life itself.

Last winter an oyster that had in some unknown manner lost its life in a bowl of church festival oyster soup precipitated a miniature riot in a Hoosier rural community, and the victim (the rioted, that is,) was landed in jail before he recovered from his "surprise" at the unusual spectacle that temporarily unsettled his reason. Now comes the startling information from Missouri that trouble has been brewing for five years in a church in Callaway county as to the price that should be charged for a dish of ice cream at the festivals and socials given by the ladies of the congregation. The cream question became a leading issue, and involved the entire membership. A serious feud was the result. Three members resigned. One elder was removed. The case was carried to the Presbytery, appealed to the Synod, and further appealed to the General Assembly. In the latter body it was thrown out, 70 to 71. The question was referred back to the Missouri Presbytary, and a committee was appointed to visit the church. The price of ice cream in the meantime has become involved in a dense cloud of uncertainty. Church socials are declared off. The community is at daggers' points. The outlook for oyster soup, with or without oysters, is bad for the coming winter. The exchequer of the Ladies' Aid Society is empty. There is a prevailing air of gloom and discontent, and a firm conviction in the minds of saint and sinner that the world is out of joint, and that if we are not "on the stroke of the midnight hour," and on the brink of everlasting destruction, we ought to be. With questions so vast and momentous claiming the entire attention of our best citizens, and rending into non-cohesive fragments the very foundations of good morals, and of society itself, the outlook for tariff reform and the growth of an undivided public sentiment in the more trivial issues of free coinage or the repeal of the Sherman bill become more than ever an "ignus fatuous" that will still elude the grasp of political reformers or Papal emissaries, and will make the "star-eyed goddess bow her head in shame and wring her hands in despair. "And

i now abideth faith, hope and charity, J these three. But the greatest of i these is charity."

Columbian concessionaries nearly wrecked the Exposition at its inception by shameless extortion, and much of the uncertainty as to the

Quaker City Maxims and Jokelots Philadelphia North American. Never swear at all. Or, if you must swear, swear off. Football maxim: There's many a

j kick 'twixt a fight and a l;ck.

Many a man can pass a football and yet not be a good quarter-back. Many an unsuccessful dramatist

i has discovered that the world indeed

is one of all work and no play. The people will not have forgotten by 1896 how unwise it is ever to change a certainty for an uncertainty. In the Senate an old maxim hac been reversed. The Senate is taking care of the hours and the minutes

I are taking care of themselves.

When you see a man constantly id the company of a married woman it

is better to ascertain his relation

ship before making comments. Generally he turns out to be her husband. Philadelphia Tnr.os. Maybe the footballer wears his hair that way so his laurels won't hurt his brow. The chrysanthemum comes late, and even then doesn't seem to have had time to comb its hair. Penn, being a Quaker, wasn't a fighter, but once he landed it wasn't long before Philadelphia was laid out.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. THE RUSSIAN-FRENCH ALLIANCE. The most notable event in Europe !or many months has been the rodent sojourn of the officers if the Russian fleet, which participated in the great naval review at Toulon, at Paris. Festivities of the most extravagant and enthusiastic character continued for many days, and the gay capital was given over to unrestrained expression of hostility to Germany and effusive friendship for the Czar and his lieutenants of every rank. The force of public opinion seems to have united France and Russia in indissoluble bonds and the mighty power thus created bodes ill for the Empire welded from non-cohesive fragments by the Iron Prince. With intrusive emphasis the declaration was repeated again and again that the newborn alliance was a guarantee of European peace, but the rooted determination of the French people to regain the lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine give the lie to such protestations and the best authorities agree that the osten tatious friendship of these two powers can mean nothing less than war. In the present temper of France a trifling incident may precipitate hostilities and it is believed they would be hailed with delight by the volatile French as affording an opportunity to wipe out the disgrace of 1871, and also by Russia as affording an opportunity long sought for to extend her borders to the gates of Constantinople. The" situation is believed to be critical and a general European war is not by any means an improbable outcome of the joyous fetes and brilliant ceremonies that have prevailed in 'iabelle Paree." TIffi OSCEOLA LADY WHITE-

CAPS. The Indiana White Caps have been outdone by the "shining lights' of the W. C."T. U. of Osceola, Neb., and the good ladies appear to have attained a national, if not a worldwide, reputation for valorous deeds performed ''in behalf of morality." The story, in brief, is that the leaders in the crusade against the rurn power in that locality became impressed with the idea thax they had a mission from on high cr elsewhere to regulate the actions of certain young ladies whom they believed "were no better than they - should be." Accordingly the gentle dames sent loving missives to the unsuspecting maids signed by the names of their own true loves for to meet them in the park in the cvenin'. The cvenin' came, no fellows did, but in the shades the dames were hid, and as each maid came to the tryst they bound 'em all fast bv the wrist, till all were caught and bid prepare for a lickin' good right then and there. The feathers flew and the eenin air was punched right through to let the scream? of the fair maids pass, as now and then they lay on the grass, out into the calm and stilly night as they frantically pulled the pillow shams white from the avenging angel forms divine who long had fought the demon wine. Mother and maid in the dying day joined in the hand-to-hand affray, till ribbons and garters and tresses of hair flew out into the twilight air and settled in showers upon the ground, whence they were gathered as trophies found. But we draw the veil on the painful scene, for the courts will settle the row between the mothers and maids whose valor that eve was displayed in a way to make angels grieve, and we'll hope that the highly moral test that seems to prevail in the woolly West will not find favor on Hoosier soil and end in an internecine broil.

ABOUT SILVER. Silver has been used as a medium of exchange since the time of Abraham. It is still the money of a large part of the world's population. The history of Greece records the fact that silver was coined for money at a period so remote as to be lost in the shades of antiquity and tradition. The first gold coins to be given the stamp of governmental sanction were put into circulation in the time of Philip, about 3(50 years U. C. In prehistoric times the precious metals were measured solely by weight, and they were used as mediums of trade and barter because of their convenience and accepted valuation among the primitive merchants and traders of that era. Silver was coined as money by the Roman Empire for the first time at the comparatively modern date of 250 years B. C. and that country established the double standard fifty years later. In England silver was a full iegal tender until 181(1, when the gold standard was adopted. Previous to 1G64 the value of gold coins was regulated by proclamation. From llti4 until 1717 silver

was the only legal tender and gold Huctuated according to its market value. In 1717 the relation of the coins of the two metals was fixed at H shillings for a guinea. By this law gold was; overrated and it became the principal currency of England. In America a few small silver coins were struck in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century. During the colonial period the metallic money in circulation consisted entirely of foreign coins, and the Spanish milled dollar was recognized as the standard of value in all the colonies, and was so recognized by the Articles of Confederation. Under the Constitution the right is reserved to the Government ''to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin " The Act of April 2, 1792, established a mint, and fixed the weight and fineness of the various coins, and also provided that any person might take either gold or silver to the mint and have it coined "free of expense," the said coins to be equally legal tender for all debts. In 1837 the mint laws were revised and the standard for gold and silver made nine-tenths fine and they have remained at that1 ever since. The weight of pure silver in the standard doller has never been changed. It is the same unit and the same standard as the first coin minted in the United States, although the alloy in the silver dollar was reduced in 1837 from 44.75 grains to 41.25 grains, so as to make it nine-tenths fine. The foregoing statements are gleaned from "Facts About Silver' a brochure issued by the National Silver Committee, and are intended solely for the unprejudiced and non-partisan information of our readers, being in no particular intended as an argument for or against the unlimited coinage or restricted powers of the "dollars of our dads." BOLIVIAN SILVER MINES. The silver mines of Potosi. in Bolivia, have produced nearly $4,000,000,000 worth of silver and are apparently inexhaustible. Ten thousand mines are known to exist in the district, which is 300 leagues long by 70 leagues wide. They have been abandoned because of the extinction of slave labor, unstable governments, lack of highways, etc. Capital is now rapidly being invested in these abandoned workings, and the outlook is that all these abandoned mines will soon be operated with improved machinery and modern milling plants, and that new ledges will undoubtedly be discovered that may increase the annual out-put of silver in the world to an unheard of figure. Expert silver authorities predict that the price of silver will yet fall to 20 or 25 cents an ounce. Prospects certainly indicate that the price will fail far below the present market rate.

INDIANA QUAKERS.

Th "Yearly Meeting" at Richmond A Model Legislative Body. Chicago Intcr-Ocean. The Indiana yearly meeting of the Society of Friends (orthodox; lately in session at Richmond, has held a position in the society second only to the irreat yearly meeting of London, England. During late years however it has not covered as wide a district as formerly. It has established a second yearly meeting at Plainfield, Ind., and the yearly meeting of Iowa and Kansas are both offshoot of this original Indiana yearly meeting. It still, however, represents a large constituency, and the annual gatherings are looked to with marked interest by members of the society everywhere. The transaction of business bv thi great organization is somewhat nover Henry Clay, who visited this meeting in 1814, said it was the most wonderful legislative bodv he ever saw. "The clerk of the meeting ' and "the messengers' are the only officials. The clerk has almost autocratic power. For nearly forty years this position was by unanimous consent held by the members of one family, that of Elijah Coffin. First he for many years occupied the position, and he was succeeded by his son. Charles F. Coffin, now of Chicago. During that period the gravest questions came before the societv for decision. The discussions are always free and open to evorv member in the audience of from 4,00G to 7,000 people. As "the spirit moves'' one and another arises and concisely states his views. A leading man will make a point clearly, and likely a score of others will arise and simply say "That is my view," or tlI agree witt the brother' There is seldom a speech of over five minutes. There is nolkmoving the previous question,' such a thing as filibustering was never known in a (Quaker meeting. After due time has been given, .hr clerk, having taken notes as the discussion was going on, arises anc reads ;a minute,1 giving ''the weight of testimony" for or against the measure. An appeal from his judgment and final summing up is some thing very rare indeed. When aques tion has been thus passed upon tin utterance is law, as binding upon th church as a law of Congress is binding to the people of the Nation. If somi of our great legislative bodies had f little of the Quaker methods injectet into them it would be greatly to tin advantage of the country

INDIANA STATE 1WS.

Swayzee reports a boom. Mitchell has a Finger street. The factories at Dunkirk an resuming. Arcadia has located a ten-pot glass factory. Kenton county has 130 rn41cs of gravel roads. New Castle has opened her new opera house. The Brown county gold excitement continues. Montpelier is to have a new band within a few days. A test well for oil is to bo sunk at once near Gas City. i Fort Wayne was founded ninety-nine years ago this month. There are 454 children in the school for feeble minded at Fort Wayne. The American liag floats abovo 110 school houses in Hamilton county. Elberiield, Warrick county, was nearly wiped out by flames, Sunday night. . The Fort Wayne gun club has decided to prosecute violators of the game law. n Indiana's World's Fair educational exhibit will be permanently located in the State house. The Very Rev. Edward Sorin, founder of Notre Dame University, died at that institution, Tuesday. Michigan City is making an effort to have the Indiana World's Fair building moved to that town. The Garret Clipper is puzzled over the "physical pulchritude" of two distinguished Auburn citizens. 8 The two-year-old daughterof Ellsworth Dunn, of Morristown. was fatally burned while playing near a trash fire. The remains of George Llorstman. who was drowned ten months ago, were recently found in the river at Medora. A cement maker in Southern Indiana advertises that his cement is strong enough to mend the break of day. The third annual reunion of the Fiftyeighth Indiana Regimental Association will be held at Oakland City, Nov. 23 and Ll4. In mending an old pin cushion at Eckerty, Thursday, Mrs. Ella Thomas found 33 needles that had slipped inside within six vears. Henry W. Grive was caught in a cave-in near Richmond. Tuesday, and buried under several feet of sand where he died in a few minutes. E. G. Short, proprietor of the Teegar-

den Hotel at Laporte, has decamped, i

leaving numerous creditors to mourn his untimely departure. Three prisoners in the Washington jail knocked the sheriff's son down, Friday, while he was giving them water, and escaped. One was recaptured. Twelve pots in a furnace of the C. H. Over window-glass works, Muncie, broke, Saturday, causing $1,010 loss and throwing half the force out of work. Harvey Ullman, seventy-four years old, of A) ton, has an at sack of whoopingcough in its severest form. It is the first time he ever grappled with the disease. The receiver of the defunct Indiana folding bed company, Goshen, made a iinal report, Thursday, showing three cents on the dollar due numerous creditors. James Stone, in his last confession of the Wratten family murder at Washington, has implicated Chas. F. McCafTerty and Robt. Swanegan, near relatives of the family. Alfred MacThompson, near Russiaville, disabled by paralysis, fell forward against a grate filled with live coals, and was so badly burned that he died. He was seventy-seven years old. English has held a public meeting in favor of removing the county seat of Crawford county from Leavenworth to that town. The Leavenworth people and newspapers ridicule the idea. Word comes from Rristow that a sevenmonths old baby ' lying in its cradle had the flesh eaten off of its hips by rats, while the mother was out in the potato patch and the father helpless from rheumatism. The plant of the Irondale rolling-mill at Anderson, giving employment to 400 persons, was destroyed by lire, Tuesday night. It had been recently repaired at a cost of $5,000. The total loss is placed at 930,COO. Ladoga having, donated grounds and buildings, besides subscribing $19,030 in stock, toward securing the Dunkard College, has appointed a committee to continue soliciting stock. It is hoped the stock subscriptions will reach $50,0 K. 9A block of stone, claimed to be the largest ever handled, was quarried by the Bedford Stone Quarries Company, last Thursday. This immense block of stone was 22 feet long, 8 feet wide and 7 feet deep, containing 1,300 cubic feet and weighing 110 tons. The Evansvillo Tribune wants the Indiana Legislaiure to pass a law making it practically impossible for a man of dangerous disposition, or one who drinks intoxicants to excess, to carry a pistol, dirk or bowie knife without being guilty of a penitentiary offense. The Rev. Dr. Charles Hutchinson has completed his fortieth year as pastor of the Third Presbyterian church of New Albany. Ho was present at the organization of the church. October 31, 1843, and has remained continuously with tho congregation. The present membership is 7U0. The Good Templars of Hebron, having warned the only saloon in tho place to refrain from selling intoxicating liquors to certain persons whose names they made public, have been sued by one of the alleged drunkards for $10, OX) damages. Similar suits, it is said, will be instituted by others. Said that the organ faction in tho United Brethren Church near Crawfordsville expect to win the light that is now in progress among the congregation as to whether they will have instrumental music or not, Their organ was wrecked, recently, by the anti-organ faction, but it is being repaired. William Webb, a farmer of Jasper county, is known among his neighbors as Shakespeare Webb, He has read Burns, Byron, Dryden, Campbell, Pope, Shakespeare and Shelley, until he is familiar with those writings, from which he is able to quote by the hour. He often entertains his friends with readings. The Gebhart-Seybert election bribery case, which occupied much attention in Madison county some months ago, in the tiial of which the defendants were acquitted, as now alleged, on a technicality, is to be revived in a suit by James Michaels to recover $300 damages under the law

which recognizes such a claim where person has been bribed with reference to his vote. The suit will be the first ever undertaken undft what Is known as the McCabc bribery law. H. S. Wright, who has been constable at Goshen for forty-three years, was enticed away from his home, Sunday night, by Dr. Smithland and David Early and taken to an -old mill, where the two men beat him, saying they would kill him. Wright got away, but was seriously injured. His assailants fled. Stephen A. Cole, living on what is known as ''Gospel Ridge," Harrison county, has received a White Cap warning. William McAdams, who occupies the same house, has also been threatened. Both men have given notice that there will be a repetition of the Conrad business if an attempt is made to molest them. The jury in the Brown-WTesner murder case at Lebanon returned a verdict of acquittal, Sunday morning at 2:30. Tears of gratitude filled the eyes of Brown as ho took each juror by the hand and thanked him for what he had done for him. The verdict is said to be justified by public sentiment at Lebanon. There is mueh indignation in Davies county over publicity of the fact that while indignation was at fever heat in the effort to avenge the Wratten murder, nine attorneys of that county, at a special meeting of the county commissioners, were allowed retaining fees ranging from $260 to $350 each. Just what was expected to be accomplished by so much legal assistance is not knewn, and the Washington Gazette is not backward in condemning the allowance as a bit of business smacking largely of a job. At Rochester in the circuit court a question was decided of wide interest to Indiana people. An action was brought to restrain the auditor from placing on the duplicate for taxation what is known as paid up stock in building and loan associations, and the court held that such stock is exempt from taxation under the statute. The result of this decision, if upheld by the Supreme Court, will be farreaching, as there are millions of dollars invested in such stock. Thomas Boyle, of Marietta, son of Thomas Boyle, Sr., who was (killed in the battle of Stone river, has been placed in possession of the pocket Testament which his father carried to the war, and which was presented to the senior Boyle by his sister in March, 1846. The person returning the book explains that he found it on the battle-field, and appropriated it to his own use, carrying it until the war was over. Recently he learned the address of Thomas Boyle, the son. and took the earliest opportunity of sending it to him. Patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: J. Farlow, Greencastle, washing machine; J. F. Grieve Clay Hill, plow; F. E. Herdman, Indianapolis, elevator; P. J. Kirsch,o Decatur, wash machine; A. Lee, Evansville, hingesetting machine; T. I). Oakley, Vevay, type case; J, Seitz, Hayville, assignor of one-half to J. T. Cora, Jasper, apparatus for forming leaders in blast holGs; W. H, Smith, Albion, wagon running-gear; H. F. Smith, assignor of one-half to H. J. Cannon, Elkhart, process of and machine for making cell cases; P. N. Staff, Terre Haute, holder for opera glasses. 3 A dastardly attempt was made to poison the Liggett family, at Lapelle, Tuesday by dumping a lot of arsenic in the well. Tuesday morning Mrs. Liggett got up and drew water from the well to get breakfast. After the water had remained in the ves sel for some time she noticed that 1t turned green. She suspected something was wrong and notified a druggist near, who examined the water. When it was analyzed it was found to be strongly charged with arsenic. Who placed the deadly drug in the well is a mystery. Buck Creek, Tippecanoe county, furnishedu a shooting scrape, Wednesday, Ed. Cool, drunk, went to tho house oi Luke Lowe, suddenly drew a revolver, and shot Lowe, tho bullet striking just below the heart. Cool then made a rush to the saloon of Obadiah Haller and repeated his performance, shooting Hallei in the thigh. Haller grabbed Cool by the throat and held him till the officers came. At the justice's oflice Cool drew his pocket knife and cut two ugly gashes In bff own throat. It is not thought any of the of the wounded men will die. Cool was landed in jail at Lafayette. He had been drinking for several days. Last year, for the purpose of getting ahead with his work, Mr. Poindextei plowed a piece of land in one of his orchards late in the season, well on toward winter. This year they noticed that the fruit in this piece was entirely exempt from the curculio. Col. Wiley's theory of the matter is, that after the egg is deposited in the ground there is a period when it is in a soft state, and if the soil is disturbed at this time the insect is killed in development. For this reason he is now trying the experiment of late plowing in his orchards. This is an important test and the result will be awaited with interest. Jeffersonville News. The desperate effort of Henry Dummerfruit, of Dearborn county, to commit suicide, is frightful in its details. He was found lying unconscious in a ravine near Laughery creek, several miles distant from home. He climbed a tree and tying a rope about his neck and a limb, he jumped off. The rope broke and he fell to the ground, breaking his leg and badly bruising himself. Several hours later he he regained consciousness, and then he tried bleeding himself to death by cutting the arteries in his wrists. This failing he stabbed himself repeatedly in the abdomen with a pointed stick, penetrating his entrails. Then he again lost consciousness and lay for two days and nights before his condition va? discovered by friends. In 1862, John Piner, of Boone county, went to Lebanon to accept an offer of $2,003 as a substitute in the army. He received the money and remained in town overnight. The next morning he went home to rind his wife murdered, she having been beaten to death with a club,. Suspicion fell upon Enoch Corter, a crank, who spent much of his time trying to solve the question of perpetual motion, and he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. It was the theory of the prosecution that Corter murdered tho woman under the supposition that the money which Piner received was concealed in the house. Corter spent many years in prison and was finally paroled. Ho always claimed to be innocent of the crime, and recently a letter was received from an unknown party in Missouri, confessing the writer to be the guilty party, and exonerating Corter.