Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 October 1886 — Page 11

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OLD TRINITY CHURCH.

ITS LITIGIOUS HISTORY AND ITS GREAT POSSESSIONS.

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The Ix»n£ Battle Over a Fatou Piece of Ground Early New Yorkers and Their Dissenaiona—Claims That Date

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(Special correspondence.]

KEIT YORK, Sept. 37.—Trinity church, of this city, is the richest organization in this country. It owns more acre* of solid blocks in New York than any outrider can find out, in the most compact and business portion of the city, too. It stands on Broadway facing down Wall street The roar of traffic is load about it from morn till night. It has an interesting history, which dates back to the reign of Queen Anne.

The first church was completed in 1607 and stood unchanged for forty years, when it was almost rebuilt. At the outbreak of the revolution Trinity was accused of Tory sentiments. Its clergy, persisted in reading the prayers for the king of England, until it was closed by authority. When the British army held the city the doors were opened, but only for a few days, for it was destroyed in the great fire of 1776. The congregation worshiped in St. Paul's until it was rebuilt, twelve years later. The new building was pronounced unsafe in 1839 and was pulled down. The present one was finished in 1846. It is Gothic in style, its steeple reaches to a height of 284 feet and its material is brown sandstone. It stands in the very heart of the financial center of New York. About it rise huge commercial buildings, past it hourly flows the great human tide that moves the vast financial interests of the country. Abot^t it lie the bones of those who were identified with its interests when New York was a mere hamlet, as well as some of those whose names figure in the history of the country. o.i

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iRIKlTT CHURCH.

How did Trinity acquire its extraordinary wealth? The story, which involves even more litigation than Dickens' celebrated case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, begins ten years after Peter Minuit, governor or director general of the colony known as New Netherland, on behalf of the West India company, bought the site of New York, "11,000 morgens," or 22,000 acres, from the Indians for beads and trinkets which cost sixty guilders, or about $24.

In the year 1630 a sturdy Dutchman named Roeloff Jansen, landed at New Amsterdam, now the city of New York. He had been somebody in his native town, Maasland, and he meant to be somebody in the new country to which ho had come, and he was. More than that, he is somebody still, in history. He lived six years at Rensslaerswyck, on the Hudson, and then in 1636 came with his family to New Amsterdam, and obtained from Director Van Twiller a ground brief or patent for the farm or "Bouwery" of sixtytwo acres, which has been for nearly 200 years a bone of bitter contention. This was the original conveyance of the valuable estate since known as Trinity church property. It begins sotlth of Warren street, thence northwesterly a mile and a half to Christopher street, thus forming a sort of unequal triangle with its base upon the North river.

Roeloff Jansen did not long remain in the enjoyment of his new possessions. A year later he embarked for another world, that world whose boundaries no n|ortal man has defined. Behind him he left five sturdy children and a handsome widow. Women, particularly rich and good looking ones, were scarce in the little colony, while men were plenty. She, who has since been known to so wide a circle as Mrs. Anneke Jans, ceased her weeping early, and within a year took a husband, in the person of a dominie, Everardus Bogardus, the second established clergyman in the settlement. He was a man of education and intellect, as well as great force and independence of spirit. He held his trust directly from the directors of the company in Holland, and wasn't afraid to differ from the local government and say so in plain and vigorous language.

Human nature in that primitive day seems to have been quite as far from perfection as it is now. History has recorded acts of malice, envy, cowardice and malevolence on the part of the colonists, quite equal to anything perpetrated in this un regenerate day. The first families, too, were the culpable ones. There was bad blood between Dominie Bogardus and Director Van Twiller. They called each other opprobioua names, charged each other with reprehensible conduct, and finally brought up in the courts with an affair which was only settled by the interference of mutual friends. They undoubtedly had warm times.

Director Kieft fared no better. The dominie frequently let drive at Ww from the pulpit. In one of his sermons he said: "What are the great men of the country, but vessels of wrath and fountains of woe and trouble! They think of nothing but to plunder the property of others, to dismiss, to to transport to Hollao*." Everybody in the congregation knew tfcat that shaft was aimed at the director, and after services then was much whispering, ilioulder shrugging, speculation as to consequences, and secret en* joyment of the battle between the two mast •auoent men in the colony.

xhe courageous dominie, however, mec with a cruel fate. He went to visit the vaderland, and perished by shipwreck on the rocks off the coast of Wales. His widow died in the year 1G63, leaving four children by her first marriage and four by her second. The descendants of these children are the people wne have vainly fought Trinity church for their claims through two centuries.

The farm, which now represents (pillions, and which has been the subject of so much contention, was called the Dominie's Bouwory. The original grant of 1638 was confirmed in 1654 by Director Stuyvesant, by a patent to Mrs. Anneke Jans, as widow of Everardus Bogardus. In 16G7, three yean after the occupation by the English, Governor Nichols made a confirmatory patent to the holrs of Mrs. Bogardus, reciting the original grant from Van Twiller. The heirs sold it in 1671 to CoL Lovelace, but their deed did not convoy the share of Cornells Bogardus, and who at that time was deceased. Two years after this deed was given the Dutch recovered possession of New Amsterdam from the English and held it a year. On its restoration to the English in 1674, under the treaty of Westminster, Governor Andros, representing the Duke of York, who represented the crown, took possession of the farm, seized and confiscated in behalf of the crown, Governor Lovelace's estates, including this Bouwery. The deed from the heirs to Governor Lovelace was discovered by the Trinity church trustees in 1785, and its contents communicated to some of the heirs, as if it was a complete answer to their claims.

It does not appear that Lovelace's title was ever directly conveyed either to the duke, the crown, or to Trinity church but the transfer to him seems to have been treated practically as if it was a deed to the crown. The term King or Queen's farm was supposed to include the Jansen, or Bogardus farm, and in 1705 the grant was made from Queen Anne to the corporation of Trinity church, the validity and effect of which has been a frequent subject of discussion in the courts, and forms the principal feature in the claim of title by Trinity church.

The litigations over this bit of Manhattan soil have been interesting and numerous. The heirs, seeking "their own again," have brought to bear upon the venerable old sacerdotal institution every implement of the law. The city of New York has put forward its claim, and the state has tried to assert its rights as owner paramount, succeeding to the rights of the British crown. Each lawsuit ended leaving the church still in possession.

The battles fought over this coveted tract of land have not been wholly forensic. Bone and sinew have been engaged in the contest. Heads have been thumped and broken, as well as hearts, and shots have been fired. For years before and after the evacuation of the city by the British the community was kept badly torn up by the contending factions seeking to obtain and hold possession 6t the old Bouwery. Long before the revolutionary war this war was begun. Certain old histories contain very interesting particulars of these battles. It is written that in September, 1773, a dozen men armed with broadaxes, under orders from the authorities of the church, entered upon the premises where one of the Bogardus hen's had located himself on the tract, and tore down his fences. In 1775 they got after a tenant of one of the heirs, destroyed bis field of rye, kicked an old woman in the eye and wounded her husband. In 1784 Trinity church sent out a little army to destroy all the Bogardus fences. Several of the heirs, then located on the property, determined to fight it out. The church then put up its own fences, which were promptly burned by the heirs. One witness who participated in this engagement swore under oath that one of the church invaders

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Hannah Marsh, about 63 years of age, pulled her down on her knee3 and attempted to put her head in a pail of grog, first having dragged her across the street, and gave her very indecent usage otherwise." A year later there was a fight, in which one of the heirs fired a shotgun, wounding his man and four others.

The claimant on the Bogardus side who is entitled to all the honors of war was old Mrs. Broad, who lived in the stockades of the old fort at the foot of Reade street. One of the witnesses in a suit brought in 1830 testified in 1842 that he knew the old lady and that she continued in possession of the old redoubt, refusing to leave until tie opposing forces actually dug it away, when she compromised with parties representing Trinity church.

Altogether, Trinity, venerable Trinity, church of the chimes, high steeple and historic graveyard, has been the sourcc of much strife and great bitterness of heart. In all contests, however, the church always came off victorious. One by one the original claimants have dropped into their graves but the fight still went on. The descendants took it up and carried the war into Africa, otherwise down to date. They have not yet succumbed. Meetings are still held for the assertion of their claims. One historian says: "The contest will probably continue until through the natural increase of the multitudinous claimants the pecuniary results of success would be reduced for each to a

PAUL'S CHAPEL.

Trinity's possessions are not limited to the confines of the Bogardus farms by any means. The King's farm, with which the Bogardus farm was incorporated, reached to Christopher street on the north. Formerly, Trinity gave away a considerable portion of its property from time to time, and it also sold some. Now it sells nothing, neither does it give its lands. It leases everything. In days of old it gave leases for ninety-nine years but that kind of a lease is quite out of fashion now. Short leases are the rule.

Just how rich Trinity is nobody can say, for nobody will tell. The rector states over his own name, however, that the entire income of the church property for the current year, from all sources of revenue is about $550,000. What does it do with its great possessions? In addition to keeping up Trinity church handsomely, its educational and charitable institutions are immense. Trinitv pariah

contains seven churc&es. ihe next in importance to Trinity is St Paul's chapel, on Broadway, between Fulton and Vesey streets. It is the oldest church building in the city, and is as picturesque and historically interesting as Trinity. Its corner stone was laid in 1761, and it was finished two years later. It, too, has a churchyard surrounding it, peopled witt graves of the eminent of years and years ago No interments are made there now save in th« vaults, which are all beneath the ground. Trees shade the graves here and there, bat, like all city trees, they are dusty and feeole looking, dropping their leaves early, and sighing always in discontent at their imprisonment among men.

Some of tee gravestones are very old, every letter having vanished. Among the monuments is one erected to the memory of George Frederick Cooke (actor) by Edmund Kean, of the Theatre Royal, Drury lane, 1831.

Three kingdoms claim his birth, .-v Both hemispheres pronounce his worth. The north side bears the inscription: "Repaired by Charles Kean, 1846." On the east side is graven: "Repaired by E. A. Sothern, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 1874"

Trinity parish maintains seven schools, some are day and some night, and some industrial schools. There is a Trinity hospital, maintained at a cost of $7,800 per annum, for the benefit of the sick poor belonging to the parish. When there is room patients are received from outside the parish. In addition to the seven churches belonging to the parish, twenty outside churches receive aid in the shape of annual donations and contributions toward their support. Annual allowances are made to various missions, to Hobart college and churches not in the city. St Luke's hospital receives $2,000 per annum, for which five beds are at the disposal of the corporation. Large sums are annually paid to the Episcopal fund of the diocese, and the diocesan fund. The donations made outside the parish from Aug. 1, 1884, to Aug. 1,1885, amounted to over $41,000.

The vestry provides for the free interment of the destitute poor of the parish in St Michael's cemetery, Newtown, L. I. Trinity's year book says: "We pay taxes on every foot of ground used for secular purposes," and that "nothing is exempt from taxation except the church edifices, the cemeteries, the school houses in which daily free schools and night schools arc maintained by us for the benefit of the pborer classes, and a hospital in which the sick poor receive gratuitous treatment"

There is a Trinity Church association, Independent of the corporation of Trinity church, which carries on charitable work down town in connection with the church. It operates mission houses, provident dispensaries, kindergartens, training schools, guilds, a summer sanitarium, a relief bureau, a schoolhouse and entertainments and lectures for the poor. GERTRUDE GARRISON.

Perfectly 'Willing

Officer—I have a Warrant of arrest for you Mr. Hooligan. Mr. Hooligan—That's me name como and take me. The saints forbid that I should interfere wid the coorse of justice.—The Judge.

Conclusive Evlden

"You needn't talk prohybition to me," said old Uncle Abele Bimley with an oracular shake of his head "I know better. There I hed as four of the likeliest girls as the Corners ever see, an' all the fellers for miles around a-hookin' up to 'em. Wot did I do? Wy, yelled an' prohibited an' kicked an' prohibited an' chased fellers all over my fortyacre lot, and wot's the result? W'y ev'ry ono o'them girls is married and bringin' up the likeliest fam'lies in these parts. Does prohybition prohibit! Not by a jugful. "—Rockland Courier-Gazette.

HOW SO, HAWK?',

Why Did You Skip Out and What Was the Sense of It? .. ,.

From Saturday^ Dally,

A Week or so ago a man who registered at the Filbeck House as J. W. Hawk, of Dresden, Ohio, sought Fred Lee, of this city. He wanted to buy a farm in Illinois and Mr. Lee went with him to see his own farm located twenty-four miles from Kankakee. It suited the stranger exactly and he was also well pleased with the stock. After some figuring the price, $13,000 was agreed on. Hawk B&id he wotrid pay half down and the other half on March 1st, 1887, and these terms were agreed to. He then came back to Terre Haute with Mr. Lee and left for Farrington station, where,he said, he hod an old friend, but soon turned up again at Kankakee in the office of Mr. Eagle who had been introduced to him before by Mr. Lee. He said he had doubts if Lee could

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x. Eagle assured him he could as the man employed on the farm to manage it was working by the day. He then remarked that he had given Lee the slip as he wanted to take another look at the farm and particularly at the stock and would drive out with Mr. Lee's man on Sunday. However, on Saturday noon he went alone to a livery stable and got a team and a new buggy and has not been seen since. He did not even go in the direction of the farm but twenty-five miles in the opposite way to a station on the Wabash road where he put up the team all in good shape in a livery stable and left on the train. Why he did all this is an enigma. He pud all his exprases here and on the train going baok and fourth and looked like a hard-work-ing, honest farmer with no nonsense about him, ££e did not try to

Senator Voorhees Thinks He Will fie Renominated in 1888.

He Would Beat Blaine EasilySherman His Strongest Opponent, But He Would Be.

Elected,

Randolph In Philadelphia Times. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—Senator Voorhees of Indiana has been in the city for several days on business connected with the completion of the acquisition of title to the site for the new building for the library of Congress. Speaking of the oampaign in Indiana he

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"I have just come from Indiana and have looked the situation over carefully, and I see no probability of Senator Harrison's re-election. "We have a decided advantage in the hold-over Senators, and wa will hold our own in the other distrioto." "Who will suoceed him?"^ "That I oannot say, as the legislative nominations are not fully made, and many of those that are have no individual choice. The man selected will be a Democrat—that is, as far as I can •aMv prophesy just now." "How about the state ticket?" "I thiik we will oarry the state. Indiana is a doubtful state. In off years we usually run about 10,000 to 12,000 majority, but in a presidential year we drop to about 6,000 on a heavy vote." "How is the Blaine sentiment in Indiana?" "The Indiana Republicans are not for Blaine. For a man who is credited with political sagacity and has had so muoh prominence he made a worse mess of things in our state than is generally known. For instance, a man who brings suit for slander against himself and wjfe and then withdraws the suit and pays the costs must either have very little sense himself or have acted on the general supposition that the people of the United States have no sense. He brought suit with a great flourish of trumpets. Every Blaine man in Indiana, and I presume in the United States, took joy and encouragement from this bold stand taken in defense of himself against an alleged youthful smirch, and was expected to set at rest this old r#lic of the fight against him in 1880. Now, what was the result? The suit was permitted to drag along. In the meantime I understand the supposed libelers gathered many additional faot& whioh made a lively story and were only too anxious to have Mr. Blaine and his counsel come on. After much delay Mr. Blaine id it is letter, conceding sufficient eccentricities in the matter charged to let the bottom out of his case." "This might furnish additional campaign reading later." "I don't know about that. The parties will exercise their own judgment. When Senator Harrison was directed by Mr. Blaine to withdraw the suit it was talked around that it was on the ground of Mr. Blaine's own assertion that he could not get justice in the court. That was the worst plea he could have made, and showed up the hollowness of his pretensions of innocence. Why, the case was before a federal court. Judge Wood, in whose court it was to be tried, is a Republican of the most pronounced views. The District Attorney was a Republican, the jary commissioner was a Republican, and the inference is that it was a made-up jury. In fact, everybody about the court was a Republican. The reflection on the Court that Mr. Blaine based his withdrawal on the ground of inability to get justice made Judge Wood furious. When Senator Harrison asked to withdraw the case, Judge Wood said: 'You can withdraw the oase—that you have a right to do but at the request of your client you cannot impugn the honor of this court.' He intimated that if that claim were sec up he would fine his client, Mr. Blaine, for contempt of court. This whole affair turned out such a complete farce that a narrative of the facts as they were, in a oampaign, would only add to the multitude of grounds why Mr. Blaine is not fit to be trusted with the vast responsibilities of the executive office of this great nation." "He has many admirers." "Yes—deluded admirers. But mark this: the Republican party, being out of power, have too much sagacity to nominate him again. For the interest of the Democratic party I hope they may. We will then put the finishing stroke to the Republican party with such effectiveness that you will never hear of it in power again as long as the Democratic party continues its present wise and sagacious policy. The Republicans have a good fighting chance in 1888 with a good nominee, but not with Blaine. Mark my word for it, Blaine will not be nominated but should he be, he will be defeated. Blaine politically is like a man in business who has had his paper discounted and asks an extension. That does not strengthen his credit. There are more elements of opposition now than in 1884. He will not carry Indiana. He is weaker in New Jersey and Connecticut, and in New York he will not again poll the outside vote. Then there is the Stalwart and Mugwump opposition, which will be greater. (Jive us Blaine, and we will show you what Cleveland can do on the second heat." "Then you look for Cleveland's renomination?" "I do. There was considerable talk about discontent among our people. I hastened back to Indiana and remained there attending the convention. It was charged that he had crossed the dead line and that party traditions and expectations had been violated and ignored. I very carefully sounded the convention on that subject and found the greatest enthusiasm for the President. Three may have been dissatisfaction in the beginning, because the farseeing policy of the President was not

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I fully appreciated. It was a new dearture from old-time party matting superand '1QT6* land will be renominated and will be reelected?'* "You mean if Mr. Blaine should be nominated?" "Yes in that case Mr. Cleveland will oertainly be re-elected." "Is there no Republican candidate a match for him?" "I think Sherman of Ohio is the only nomiee of the Republican party who would make our sucoess at all doubtful.

I'll tell you why. In the first plaoe, he is able, shrewd and above reproaoh. The little tilings that are said about him are nothing. He is as strong in New York as any other man—Democrat or Republican. The moneyed interest of Wall street would be behind him. They indorse his financial views and in him would find a sure friend. Their money bags would be at his disposal He has the confidence of the manufacturing interests of the country, as he has always been a forward champion of protection for the sake of protection. The mercantile class like him on account of his persistent advocacy of a conservative financial policy when we were moving down from inflated prices and high premiums on gold to the par line of gold and currency and metallio basis of values.. He has the Germans of his own state among his most enthusiastic friends and suppoiters. This would mean a heavy (ierman vote in other states. "TheSfe are the ohief reasons why I regard Senator Sherman as the most dangerous candidate we have to encounter. I might add that he has kept aloof from factional contests. The Stalwarts could take him, Edmunds would be friendly, the Mugwumps would not objeot and the Blame men could have no grounds for complaint. In the doubtful states of New York, New Jertey and Connecticut he would be a formidable competitor to any Democratic candidate.

The Senator added that a good deal of political maneuvering would take place during the coming session of Congress in getting available presidential candidates in position for working up their interests.

CEMENTATION.

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A M^thod of Burial Which Petrifies the Body.,

Exact Preservation for All Time of Face, Form and Features.

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September 30.—A Herald

special from Buffalo, New York says Graves Huelet, aged 77 years and for several terms a side justice of the Niagara county court, came from Niagara Falls yesterday afternoon to explain before the Sanitary board of Buffalo his method of cementation, discovered some twelve years ago. The discussion of it before the recent convention of the American association for the advancement of science, caused him to come before the board to show that there was nothing new in cementation to him. He exhibited cement blocks containing specimens of fruit and the bodies of animals placed there in 1874. They were changed into a substance closely resembling stone and the original colors were preserved to a remarkable degree. Mr. Huelet said he had decided to cement all his family but his two daughters, they having expressed the idea that it would be "pretty close quarters," he had in their cases simply enclosed their coffins in the cement to the thickness of a foot, making each into a cumbrous stone box estimated to weigh close upon two tons. He exhibited his will, made some time since whioh provides that his own body shall be embedded in cement. He said further that he not infrequently cemented caskets at the Falls. At the Oakland cemetery, he said the ground is wet, and it had been found to work perfectly. The gasses escape through the cement very slowly, and a perfect copy of the body is left." "If," s»id the cementalionist, "we had the body of Moses in such a process we could now give every college in the world a perfect model of God's chosen leader." He says he has no scheme to work and only wants to give the world the benefit of his experiments.

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Appointments For tfie Coming

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Wabash annual conference of the United Brethren Church, which closed its session at Center Point Saturday, made the following appointments:

S. Bussard, Presiding Elder Terre Haute, A. W. Connett Prairieton, S. Slusser Reservoir, A. Shidler fiddlebury, W. M. Givens Dagget, W. R. Muncie Mill Creek, D. Bussard Dug-

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F. H. Grounds Center Point, J. L. Irandenburg New Goshen, J. Tohill Paris and Vermillion, J. B. Connett Edgar, J. Asbury J. L. Kephart, president of Westfield College W. C. Smith and J. F. Moore, agents.

J. G. Shuey is presiding elder of the Westfield district and S. Mills of the Olney district

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Missouri Quarantining

ST. LOUIS, Oot. 4.—The state board of health held a meeting at Jefferson City Saturday evening and established a quarantine for ninety days against cattle from the infected counties in Illinois and Indiana, all of the state of Ohio and the province of Quebec and this morning the Governor iBsuedhis proclamation carrying the same into eftect?'^

A quick-witted and waggish Georgia widow named Gunn, as soon as she felt the earthquake, blew an enormous horn that she had in her house to make her neighbors think the day of judgment had come. They thought it.

The decree of fashion is that brown shall be the prevailing oolor for the coming season.

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THE ILLINOIS MIDLAND.

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Its Sale Yesterday to the Borgs. v. From Thursday's Dai!y.| The sale of the Illinois Midland at Springfield yesterday has been the subject of muoh comment the railroad men today. A GAZKTTX reporter sought Mr. A. E. Shradef, General Traffio Manager of the road, thta morning, who when questioned regarding reports that the Bee Line had secured tt, said: I don't know but I think it is true. I knew that the Bee Line was figuring on the road but their success was a surprise to me." He thinks the failure of tke McKeen, Collett & Mackey syndicate to get the road was due to these gentlemen thinking it would be *, sold at a much lower figure than it was. Mr. Shrader went over to Springfield this morning. He did not know what would be done in regard to removing the general offices of the road fiom Peoria to this city. An I. & St. L. was next seen by the reporter and seemed to verify the reports of the Bee Line's success. Heeaid that he had been informed that the Borgs of New York had bought in 49 per cent of the road in the interest of the England bondholders and the Bee Line had secured the remaining 51 per cent, which jf gives them control of the road. The entire amount paid for the road was 81,120,250, of which $392,000 will be paid in bonds of the road. It is said that $400,000 will be paid by the big English bondholders toward improving the road, whioh will be fr/:turned over to the purchasers within

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the last receiver paid well and if it is put on a solid footing there is no reason why it should not pay. 10-^

HOW IT HAPPENED.

From various sources the GAZETTE learned the Borgs are not railroad men but Wall street speculators. It was in their interest that the claims against the the road in this section were recently bought up. They also held largely of the bonds of the Paris & Decatur division of the road which were purchased Mtfk at nominal prices. The advertisement of the sale called for bids on each division and also for the road as an entirely. If the road brought more by divisions than as an entirety then it would be sold pi that way. The Borgs bid about $800,000 for the P. & D. division of which they will have to pay about $400,000 cash and on the rest they can turn in their claims bought at various discounts, and their bonds which cost very little. The, division in fact sold'' for "-^enough to pay the receivers' debtsand six-months' claims and all other claims ^'us' at 100 per cent on the dollar, Their bids on the other divisions were

quite low, but in this way their total bid exceeded their only competitors who spi were from this city and Evansville r. The stock on all divisions amounting to two or three million dollars will be wiped out and also a large amount of bonds on the other divisions, together with a large percentage of the claims on all except the P. & D. divisions. It is I?•••& thought that the Borgs will reorganize and operate the road on their own account until it is in a condition to sell.

TEBMS OF SAIiE.

The decree of sale requires $32,000 in cash to be paid down and a good bond for faithful carrying out of the conr l-'. tract be filled within 14 days and on the 1st of November the court will pass upon the sale and either affirm or reject it. If the latter the $32,000 will of course be refunded and the road re-advertised. The only grounds known on which it is possible the sale may be not affirmed is that by the manner in which the bids were made there is unequal distribution among the claimant* of the various divisions. 7 4#KE3LDENT MCKEEN was much surprised when told of the report that the Bee Line had got the Midland and said there was positively, as far as his knowledge went, and he knows all about the sale, nothing in it

The Borgs hold such a large amount of I* the bonds of the middle division as to enable them to outbid all others, both for that division and as a consequence for the road in its entirety, as all over the cash amount of debts bid on this division would go to themselves. He said they would reorganize the road and bond it and then probably leaee or sell a* S i" i.

When George Gould's cook runs away to marry his coachman there won't be any occasion for the young husband to eat a scant dinner off the top of a flour barrel. Mrs. George Gould is both a 000k and housekeeper with all that that involves.

A Correction.

Wm. H. Mings, of Edgar dounty, and not Wm. F. Bandy took the first premium on beat four year old stallion in general imrpoee ring at the Vigo Fair.

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BEE LINE "SCOOP" DENIED. CJ# -.. Prests. McKeen and Collett returned from Springfield this morning at 10? o'clock via Danville. Prest. Mackey went through last night to Evansville. .^^7 vj They express surprise at the reports here that the sale was made to the Bee Line interest. The following despatch to the Indianapolis Journal describes .• the situation:

SPBINGCTELD, Sept. 80—The sale of the Illinois Midland railway, under & decree of the United State* Court, occurred here today. The road is 141 miles long, and brought $1,120,250. Of this sum, however, $332,000 will be paid in bonds of the road. The purchaae was made by the Borgs, of New lork, ,. who represent the bondholders.

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