Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 December 1880 — Page 1

THANKSGIVING.

Glad Tidings of Great joy to Everybody,

Wiiy and Wherefore wa ars Thankful To-day.

Hot Everyone canEnojoy tha Luxury of a $10,000 Libel Suit Like the Gazette

But Almost ail can Have a Turkey Dinner To-Day

•Sarmon on the Elements of Progress in Civil Government by Rav- Parry at the Union Service.

Thire are abundant reasons for lieing thankful to-day with turkeys as low as they arc. Turkeys must liar*: lxcri "awful'"' cheap when Thanksgiving was invented.

Business i.« j^'ncially Suspended to-day and pariiciiiftriy this afternoon. The church r.urvioes were in accordance wit the programme published in the

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yesterday. AT ST. STKIMIMS'*.

The Rev. Mr. Dunham preached a short ivruon. The music was excellent.' CATHOLIC OlIl'KC'II tvS.

At th'J throe Catholic churches morning services were held. AT AI.l.HN CUAI'K!...

fair

and festival will be in progress

tonight.

THE t'NTON SKIlYI'JIi

at the Baptist church was veil attended. The musical jrogramme was carefully prepared and was delightfully given. The Kev. Mr. Puny preached :i sermon as follows: THKOt'TUNR KLF.MKNT3 OK T'lKKiTlHSB IN

CIVII. GOVERNMENT.

"And he shall sot up an ensign for the nalions and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather the dispersed ol' udah from the four corners of the earth. The envv also of Ephraim shall depart, and the" adversaries of udah bo eat off. Ephraim shall not envy Judali and udah shall not vex Epbraitn."—Isaiah xi, 12-13.

There a fresco in a certain church at Rome the harmony of which you can see but from one transcept from all other points all the parts of the picture are in confusion. There is a like transcept in the history of civilized nations, and my object to-day is ta lead you into that transcept and reveal to you God in history. I •will weave a small pattern with the thread elements of progress and it you will stand atuler tho central light ol God's revealed truth and providence you will sec the outlines of the Prince of Peace with the government upon his shoulders.

Oar text suggests two things-feudal-ism and the ultimate unity of the nations. The tribes of Israel are topical of most civil governments, in their feudal relations, in their rivalries of ambition and in their epochs of transition at their l'mal overthrow to irive place to a stronger government. The. petty oligarchies of the Greek state, the provinces of the Roman empire and the elan.* of the British Isles have passed the same stages, to a great degree, as that of Israel. But our text anticipates a tiuv when the tribes will vex each other no more, and when the outcast* shall assemble under the ensign of peace and harmony.

To show you the signs of '.his coming will bo my effort this morning. Let \is try to dive- down into the depths and chaos of history and discover, first, what is the character of the individual. What is his relation to the government as an unit? How that relation is changed in succeeding periods. What relation does the care of the individual life sustain to the central authority of government For progress and civilization consist in the transfer of legislative authority trom the liatriarch, or emperor, or king, or aristocracy, or feudal despotism, to the individual. In other words, civilization does not consist in fettcr'malung-monarchs, who by their deputies go about to shackle the people with their edicts, but it consists in the individual becoming a law unto himself. A civilized government is that where the people are coordinates and tlicir acts cooperate in the production of the laws.

If take a telescopic view of history, we discover, first, that the father of the family was the governor. This was the patriarchal period. The patriarchal developed the clan or tribe, and the bravest man gener.illy became ihe chief. This was the period of nomadic tribes. Tribes in their ambition and rivalries opened the way to the supremacy of the stronger and the creation of the kingdom. Thus individual manhood is last sight of—the will of the despot is carried out by the sword and brute force. This was the •period of primitive A-siatic and Egyptian kings. Then there is a great devastation of kingdoms and demolition of empires under the leadership of mighty generals, the Cyruses,the Philips of ilaceaon, the Alexanders and the. Caesars. In this catastropby nations tuniM-?d toucher, vonnteracting thoughts, clashed iuws. customs and different national experiments'arc brought together. This gave the opportunity to select a new Vases of government. As all was oa a dead level there was an endeavor to bring the whole into au arganic unity.

This is a great change. Instead of one central head, radial authority to all parts of the land, there is in each province, or section a little nucleus of lawpower, each woven with the other and converging in the council of the Senate. This is the Romance Period

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But, mark you, after this commiugling of the nations and during the Romance progress, there is a new factor coming upon the theater of action. This is the most wonderful of all changes Christanity seeks the individual. It is a divine kingdom within the external.

It is the leaven hidden in the individual soul. It seeks to make of an individual a unit with a unit-power in the Government that rules him. In spirit it makes vaid the statute law, delegated power, star officials, fetters and prisons, by developing law and order in the soul and conscience. It puts a man on his own responsibility, it establishes the principal of universal fraternity, it brings the mother hack to her family and causes in man an internal moral change. My friends, we believe in evolution, but we Jirs believe in involution. It is a law of nature that you cannot get out of a thing except what you put in a thing. You can't got divinity out of a nation except first you put divinity into it. You can't get the gfd-like image out of the human heart until first God tayernacles in the heart.

This was the great error of antiquity. They believed in evolution without involution. They thought they could bring out a clean thin from an unclean tiling. Did not the promised love of Rrutu--open the way to Gesarism and death Did not Lycnrgus, Lolon, silent Phocion and elequent Demosthenes fail because they tried to draw out of the people what was not in them I): we not fail to get law and order out of the lower strata of socicty, bccause we have neglected to put law and order in that strata first by education and Chiristly teachings? To day our states prisons over the land stand there to show the value of involution. f""

Now when Christ came into the tvorld lie came to involve. lie put something in the soul, before he expected anything to come out. And he involved so much in the life of man that it takes the development of the ages to evolve it. In the stable of Bethlehem was the beginning of our American Representative government. That was the lime when the thought of man as man began to be grasped and retained before the law. That was the time when man began to be governed for his own sake and not for the sake of the governor.

This individual manhood idea wen on evolving until toward the close of the of the second century Christianity had permeated a vast territory and entered the joints and marrow of political fabrics. But its teachings were in con tlict with Greek and Unman ideas and for this reason it endured ten persecutions by the civil power, yet it gained the ascendency over ancient learning and transformed ancient civilization.

Having thus advanced two circumstances happened to give it dominion over the human heart. (1) The insufficiency of old ideas. The world's intellectual nerve was waning but Christianity widened the intellectual vision, rent the eternal veil hiding the holiest of the sanctuary, it went down among the poor and taught the rugged muscular natures of the dust It cared for the needy, the sick and sorrowing and it, mitigated the evils of war. (2) In this shock the world was stirred from centre to circumference by the great military confederation of the North men spreading over the Roman empire. The Goths cauie to Dacia and the borders of the Black sea, the Vandals poured down the Danube, the Intcs, Saxons and Angles passed the Elba into Gaul and Ihe Huns vexed the barbarians of Asia and caused them to tlee South and West. Christ ianity, by this flux of nations, gained three tilings: 1—It had tf.c opportunity to casuhc influence of Christian principles into the formation of new governments. 2—It had an opportunity to tench barbarians from all parts of the worlti. 8—When these barbarians returned they carried the gospel \Vith them to their homes. Now, had Christianity built on the same basis as the old civilization it would have died l'n these foreign countries, bnt as it had built upon a moral change of -heart, every slave bcc-une a nucleus for a little church, and he. became a teachcr of Christ. But God never built a temple that the devil not build a synagogue near it.

From the moment the church was united with the state by the conversion of Constantine, iniquity came in like a river. From that moment Roman Hierarchy was established, the church enriched itself, and the political power grasped the dogmas of the church as instruments of tyranny. Thus the church grew in power and magnificence until in the thirteenth century when every Emperor and King bowed at the feet of the Roman Pontiff.

But what was the result? The power that had given culture and freedom to the soul became corrupted, and under the semhlancc of sanctity the most fettering despotic. Freedom of conscience and thought was at an end. The family is corrupted, marriage life degraded and culture sapped of its vitality by a mongral gibberish of Latin, the pomp of cathedral scenes, "clouds of incense from smoking censers, the blaze of lamp and branching chandeliers, the tinkling of silver bells, the play of jeweled vessels and gorgeous dresses of violet, green and gold." (Draper.) This eternal show was the bight of Catholic glory and the depth of human bondage in the dark cavern of ignorance under the iroa heel of depot ism. But let us go back and take an other look at these Northern tribes, es pecially the Anglo-Saxsons. They were a brave people and living under the feudal system. This system had a tendency to freedom aud independance. We discover this tendency in the relation existing between King and people. During ihe Anglo Saxon reign the kingly dignity was elective. They had no hereditary king, though they had a kind of royal family. Still the office was above personal dignity. Sometimes attempts were made to give the elective power to the nobility and clergy, but tie power was virtually with "the nation. There was a great national council, coinposed of the noble and wise of the kingdom. This "was the legislative body. But the common people had no voice in it and there were no deputies. This as-

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scmbly had its origin in the forest of Germany, and some have considered it as the prototype of the modern parliament.

But when William of Normandy conquered England in 1066 he divided the ccuntry among his chiefs and gradually extended the power of the throne and encroached on individual iiberty. Still that buoyant, persevering, unrelenting free spirit of the Saxon was within and ready at any time to burst the shell of royal authority. Tyranny and free spirit were there, "like fire and powder which as they touch consume," They did touch' and England in 1215 gained her great charter, the foundation of English liberty and this gave the Barons the controlling power over the King." It granted liberties and privleges to every order of men and it was the basis of repjesentation with taxation and the right of trial."

The speaker here spoke of the advance made at the s'line time inthc Italian republic and in the other countries of Europe. lie re-called the attention of his hearers to the fact that at the time «poken of England was under an interdict by the Pope. The early history of constitutional government was carefully recounted. Tic treated of the influence of crusades. In all the great devastations of the Dark Ages he saw the salvation of the Lord. The missionary work he thought (vas made easier because of familiarity with foreign tongues and peoples acquired by Crusaders.

The persecution of the first centuries scattered abroad to the four corners of the eartli the gospel. ''The Providenceplow of the Almighty cuts through the ant hills of human society that a better race and a better order may grow."

Wilh the pass of centuries individual man has grown in stature and importance, until hc stands almost abreast with the tii rone.

Mr. Parry minutely detailed the history of the Reformation, and it is with regret that lack of space prevents the publication of this part of the address. He paid a glowing tribute to the men who, "single-handed," have accomplished so much in the past. Among these lie classed Wickliffc, Huss of Bohemia, Jerome of Prague, and Martin Luther. Of them he said: "Without these single men we could not have had free speech and a free press we could not have had a Baconian philosophy the liberty of research of discussion and of new discoveries. Wc could not have had a choice in political indelendencc. We could not have had a republic in the United States. All freedom and independence are the result of gospel truths, bringing up from the mire of superstition and the coils of tyranny the individual man It is the development of worth in the soul and that worth is the diarnord setting of God that flashes forth the. eternal beams of justice, goodness and truth. All over Europe are stirring? and convulsive upheavals of morally buried eternities, struggling for expression and tre movement of nations, when as it were the curtains of the almighty were uplifted and revealed to the gaze of the world anew continent. The ancients had put upon the pillars of Hercules "ne plus ultra." They thought that there was nothing beyond. But here was a world boundless in territoiy and resoiuces to develop a brave people. Here was a world of trce.lom a refuge from the old world of tyranny. Thus in the movement of events "we see a few persecuted but earnest souls fleeing to this land of shelter."

Of the history of government he said: "You will observe that power has passed from patriarch to chief, from chief to king or emperor, from king to generals, then to Saxon feudal lord, then to Norman feudal lord, then to the tyrant, then to the baron, then to the freeman. Thus there is but one step more, and that, is achieved in the formation of the American constitution." He gave briefly some of the knotty problems that presented themselves to the early statesmen. He also spoke ol our wonderfully composite population. In this country are all nationalities, tastes and crecds.

Looking minutely at the different lines of progress the speaker said that "the educational interest has grown from parish schools and tlio few select individuals to the system of universal free schools, Academies and Universities where premiums are offered for research and discoveries,"

He also referred to the Mrtioony of the churches and remarked that "Dean Stanley cannot say today that Christians wrangle and become martycrs in attestation of peculiar combinations of the alpliabat."

He thought there was abundant cause for refoicing and thanksgiving. Thus you see progress and the gradual unfolding of the noble, the pure and spirit-ual. We believe this land to be the stage upon which the Almighty will •enact the drama of perfected civilization. It is the land of privileges yet earnest activity is demanded for we are working upon the elements and carving the stones of a mighty superstructure.^ Some day when this grand temple of civilization is finished, you will descend upon winged thought and stand in its triumphal archway to view its beauty. The light of Jehovah will shine upon it and the angels as they glide along in the glee of gladness, with their downey wing3 will fan ambrosia to sweep its brow to give it the bloom of eternal youth. jDhhow you will rejoice then that you were privileged to do something here. Do you not see that the discordant threads of hostile tribes are being woven by the Almigaty into a harmonious figure in the tapestry of the eternal plan? Oh what a land is'this where opportunity is golden, light abounds aud thought is free and movement universal. "O sometimes gleams upon our sight

Through present wrong, the eternal

And step by step since time began We see the steady gain of man. Through the harsh noises of oar day A low sweet prelude finds its way Through clouds of doubts and clouds of

A light is breakintt&lm'iftd clear.

Sentinels! whose tread we beard Through long hours when wc could not see "Pause now, exchange with cheer, the word The unexchanging watchword, liberty! .. Look backward, how mind has been won

Look round, how mind is yet to win The watches of the night are done The watches of the day begin.'.'

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The Circuit Court adjourned at 11 o'clock this morning for the day. Thetc was no Mayor's Court to-day. One girl, arrested for drunkenness, was discharged it being Thanksgiving, you know.-.

THE STATION HOUSE.

It Should be Better Furnished-

To the lid 1 tor of the OAZKTTK:

Terre Haute people arc humane and always have proved themselves considerate of the claims of humanity on them whenever an actual want has been made known. There is one matter that seems to have escaped public notice that is nevertheless of no small importance. The city has provided a station house where every week men and women are placed for violating the law. There are criminals and opposed to the good of the community in some respects or they would never be found there, and though they disregard their duties to all humanity this does not release the law abiding citizens trom their duties toward these criminals. A good roof covers their heads but they have never been provided with comfortable sleeping places. A hard bed never softens a man's heart. A small cot or bed of some kind with a comfortable mattress upon it for eaillh person would occupy no more space than those hard board platforms with nothing but a few quilts. This would be not only for the coaifort but the health of the prisoners and would be "ess degrading in its influence. No matter what crimes men are guilty of they should not be huddled together in a small room, dark and dingy, with bad ventilation, and made to sleep like hogs on a barn floor. It is hoped that those who have power to look after this andj remedy it will do so for the matter needs attention. .„

-4 OBSERVES.

A Pair of Rubbers.

A Fourth street merchant on Thanks giving day kept his store open until noon. His last customer, an honest countryman, bought a pair of rubbers. After he left the auerchaot prepg[ huge'placard feffHouncltig that nc gone to turky. That he hung at at the front window and closing the store went home—that is to his turkey. Shortly there after the countrymen who had bought the rubbers in the morning appeared upon the scene with a friend whom he had persuaded to buy some rubbers. Together they went into the store which was closed but not locked the merchant in his haste to get at his roast turkey and cranberries forgetting I ha*, usual custom. Tlicy picked out the rubbers and then started through the store trying to find some one to pay. But they could lind no one. Then they went into a barber shop adjoining, told their story, and then, seeing Chief Russell pas's by, hailed him. They paid for the rubbers and went on their way rejoicing. He locked the establishment, took the key to a neighboring store, and when the proprietor camc in that vicinity after a while, the neighbors all took rye-an'-rock fur theirs, and all were duly thankful, for it was Thanksgiving day.

Valparaiso (Ind) McsKcngcJ.

An inaiana Sportsman's Experience. One of the finest kennels in this county, and the purest in the West is owned by Mr. W. II. Holabird,—The Sportsman's Clothier of Valparaiso Indiana. He says: "We use St. Jacobs Oil in our family \u preference to all others liniments I have also tried it in my kennel with Kronderful results.-' •3s"*irfv From the Louis T.rnes.

CAIRNS,

J. R.

M'JhLY

iSIT.

The best ir.vestmf r.t is in that which will maintain iaalili. From a letter of Mr. W. Eck, No. 12 S, 5th St.,St. Louis Mo.,it is learned that the clerk of the Money-Order Depot, at the post office in Alton, Ills., Mr. J. B. Kuhn, sufFered for sometime with indigestion and all its accompanying evils, —a headache, loss of appetite and despondency, and was surely becoming a hypochondriac, lie commenced the use of Hamburg Drops and is now well and strong again^ ..

Sheriff ef Lenawee Co.,

Mich., says:—I have worn an "Only Lung Pad" for Bronchial difficulties, and have not been troubled with a cough nights since wearing it.—See

Adv.

Bastardy Case.

Louisa Rusk this morning appeared before Justice Steinmehl and filed a complaint for bastardy against August Solenski, who works in the Vandalia machine shops. Constable Burns arrested Solenski and Justice Steinmehl bound him over in the sum of $600, in default of which he was committed to jail.

An Infamous Charge-

Yesterday Jacob H. Smith, through his attorneys, Messrs. Allen, Mack, Carclton & Lamb, sued George Groves for slander. The complaint sets forth that the defendant during the month of October last accused the plaintiff of an act of sexual intercourse with a female dog. The damages are laid at $10,000. Both are wealthy fanners of Fayette township.

Axr ladies wishing to know of the merits of the Excelsior Kidney Pad, its action, etc., are referred to Mrs.

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McKiscKjaR, Photograph Parlors, Toledo Ohio.—

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KILLED.

An Attempt to Arrest Elijah Pierson by Sheriff Stepp, Deputy Watts, and

Win.

Ash

.5 ci-5" 6**

The Latter Shot, and Death Results in a Few HoursAfterwards Ij, $ 1

The Poll Particulars of the Terrible Tragedy- -.•*

'FROM SATURDAY'S TAlLY

Elijah Pierson is a desperate character iving about nineteen miies south ofthis city, near Centerville, and numerous attempts nave been made by our officers to arrest him. Pierson is a man about 45 years of age and lives in a small log house on a farm about which there has been considerable trouble. David Woods is said to own the place and was* put in possession of it about a year ago for a short time only to be hunted away at the point of the shotgun by Pierson when he returned. Pierson lives with a second wife, who is reported to be a terror, and has four or five children. Woods has also tried to replevy some wheat, corn and oats from Pierson and all the deputies under ex-Sheriff Hay tried their hand at it but with no consequence. Then Wood heard that Pierson had been making threats that/he would kill him anil he came up and swore out a peace warrant. Several Constables took hold of it but left at the sight of the shot gun.

Ycsterd ay afternoon a party consisting of Sheriff'Jackson Stepp, Deputy Sheriff James Watts and William Ash, went down to arrest Pierson. Ash had a peace warrant. He went to Justice Deniehie's office yesterday morning and asked to be appointed as a special constable. The Justice told him that he was jeopardizing his life and refused to appoint him. Then Ash hunted up constable St. John and got him to appoint him a deputy constable for the case. Ash was warned by the constable that lie was risking his life and was admonished to be careful. The party left at one o'clock in the afternorm and reached David Wood's house, which is a mile or so north-west of Piersons, between six and seven o'clock. -Ttftre they took supper

and

then started

over toPierson's accompanied by old man Woods and his nephew. When they reached Pierson's everything looked lonely. The party climbed over the fence and divided into two parties. Stepp, Ash and Watts tried the front door and woods and his nephew the rear. A lot of chairs, beds and other articles of furniture were piled up against the front door and it was some minutes l)efore it could be forced. The party entered the room (there is only one) and found all darkness. A match was struck and Pierson and his shotgun were barely aiscerncd behind a barricade in one of the comers of the room.

Pierson declared in a loud voice tha lie would shoot the first man that laid his hand on him. The officers tried to induce him to give liimslf up, and Avere in the rocm about ten minutes when a shot, supposed to be from a revolver, rang out. Then a second and louder report followed and Ash exclaimed "I'm shot." The last report was from the shotgun. Ash walked out in the yard and before he could fall was caught by the others. The party then hurriedly left the premises and drove over to Wm. Chris' house about half a mile from Pierson's. Dr. Pickens was called and stated that Ash could not recover. The shot entered the left side and tore away a portion of the arm. Messrs. Stepp and Watts came to town last night.

Ash lingered on until one o'clock last night when he died. David Woods brought the intelligence to this city at noon o-day. Ash suffered terribly. He is 43 years ot age and has been working for the last five years for Jesse Robertson. He has a family of five children and lives on south First street near Ross' brickyard. His wife is separated from him and resides the east end. Mr. Robertson told a

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reporter to-day that Ash was a quiet man, bnt hated to be called a coward, and was a good worker.

The shot from the revolver is supposed to have been fired by the wife of Pierson. After the first shot the children, who were in lied, began to scream.

Pierson was probably in bed when the officers arrived, but was evidently expecting them as the doors were barricaded. The time consumed by the officers in forcing the doors gave Pierson an opportunity to get up, dress himself and prepare for the conflict He is known all over the country as a desperate man who is not afraid to shoot.

Queer stories are told of him. Abont two years ago Deputy Constable Wolfe went down with an execution or a warrant, it is forgotten now which. Pierson chased Wolfe, about four miles with a shot gun and could not catch him ao Wolfe's horse proved to be the swiftest runner. -About a year ago Deputy Sheriff'Cleary moved Pierson's goods out in the yard and put in those of Wood's sons. Pierson ventured in the evening, chased Woods aud his family off the premises aud put his goods back in the house. He has iivecl there since.

Constable Dwyer about wo months ago went down "in the vicinity of Pierson's to summon witnesses for the Circuit Court, fie was hunting David Woods, and by mistake got into the former's yard. He nipped at the door and Pierson and his shot gun appeared. The constable asked where Woods lived, when Pierson broke in with, "What in the Hell do you want "with Woods? Get out of this yard or I'll Put some of this buck shot in

you." The constable retreated as graceully as he could, and hasn't been down there since.

Last year Pierson plowed a farm with hia shot gun strapped to the plow. It is not known what steps the &U> thoritfes will take.

PIERSON.

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A Rumor That he will Give 'Himself

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Hugh Brown and Daniel Bush, a sort in-law of Elijah. Pierson, went down to the latters place last night and will en deavor to persuade him to give himself up. They are expected back to-day.

The funeral of the murdered man OCHP! curred between two and three o'clock yc»4 terday afternoon from his late home on south First street. The hearse was followed by two carriages. The funeral expenses were defrayed by the county except a small portion which Mr. "Jesse" Robertson kindly consented to bear. The following was the warrant for the arrest of Pierson which Ashi^had in his possession at the time of the shooting: 8TATE OF

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VIGO COCTY.

The state of Indiana to any constable said comity: Whereas David Woods lias filed hi* affidavit, avering that Elijah S. Pierson will destroy and injure the personal property and also by violence injure tho affiant's person, and that he makes this affidavit only to secure the protection of the law and not from anger and malice You are, therefore, commanded to arrest the said Elijah S. Pierson and bring him forthwith before me to answer said complaint, and to be dealt with accoiding to law. And return then and there tliia writ with your doings indorsed thereon.

Given under my hand and seal this 25th dav of November, 1880.

L. B. DENKUIE, J. P. -J SKAI

Constable St. John made the following endorsement: "This writ came to hand this 26th day of November, 1880 at 20 ir inutes after one o'clock p.

MST.JOHN,.

DAVID

Constable

The return was made this morning and si is as follows: "November 28th this warrant was delivered by me to Wm. Ash to serve as my deputy, when he proceeded to the ressdence of tho defendant, when the said Wm. Ash was then and there killed by the defendant on the 26th day of November. 1880, and no arrest being made I herewith made return, NovemberSOtli, 1880.

DAVID ST.JOHN

There was a rumor current td day that Pierson had given himself up. How true it is remains to be seen.

Ms Elijah Pierson Insane? Judge Carlcton says that ho is well ao quainted with Elijah Pierson, who killed Ash, and that Pierson is undoubtedly insane. A few years ago he was attorney for Pierson in a suit to set aside a deed made by Pierson to Ira Dalton. The jury set aside the deed on the ground of Pierson's insanity.

About the same time Pierson was prosecuted before a Justice of the Peace in Clay county, and defended by Carleton & Lftmb, for shooting at Ira Dalton. The defendant was discharged on proof made by a great many witnesses that Pierson was insane. It appeared in evidence that Pierson rode into the battle on horseback, with pistol in hand, singing the Battle of New Orleans:

"It Is thus Geueral .laeksrtii"ndtlrexstti his men: My brave boys bq faithful atul we'll boat again! Remember your coun-ter-y, your children and wives, And we'll drive back those Rritonn or licr® lose our lives."

Professor Hodgin is absent attending the Fulton Co., Institute at Rochester. President Brown was absent Friday having gone elsewhere to partake of turkey

The Eclectic 8ociety on Friday even ing debated the following resolution:— "Resolved that Foreigners should not be permitted to build and control the Darien canal." Decided in the affirmative.

The generous invitation given to the students by the Baptist and Christian churches to attend their service and Sabbath school, is appreciated by all, and accepted by many being.somewhat in in contrast with those churches which seem to iznore the l'aut that there are over two hundred studeuts here among- strangers and not insensible to. kindness.

All those who have given it atrial will, it it It re Cough Syrup.

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When bang! bang! went Pierson's pistol, and Dalton incontinently changed his a base.

NORMAL ITEMS.

A proposition to adjourn from Wcdnes day till Monday was favored by some three-fifths, but was waived to please the two-fifths who could study better under the eye of the Faculty than in their roomsor did they wish to economize fuel iM

Thursday afternoon was occupied by a f# large part of the students in tryiug a case a of felony. Louie Sweitzer, law student of the city, serving as judge. Davison & Cooper for slate, and Dcaland & Ragan for defendant. The jury failed to agree, standing exactly even.

disease of the Kidneys, Bladder,

Urinary Organs, Nervous System, or case of Lame Back that cannot be cured by

DAT'S KIDNEY PAD

cannot be cured by

any other treatment or remedy in cx-

8te'nce.