The Argos Reflector from Argos, Indiana • Page 6

The Ingenious Boy. In a certain part of these United States, away out West, (the exact locality I do not care to indicate, as I do not wish to give the ingenious boy away, as the slang phrase is), there lived in a small farm-house a widow woman and her boy. The woman was aged forty-five "come next March," and the boy was aged ten last April. The husband of the woman and father of the boy had died about a vear before, leaving his wife a very small farm, two horses, three cows, one pig, ten chickens and the boy to support ner. With a little help from the neighbors, and now and then a hired man, she managed to scrub along, being helped a good deal by the boy, who hired himself out, with the two horses, to haul timber and other things for the surrounding farmers.

The house which they occupied was situated in a rather lonely spot some distance from the main road, and was reached by a narrow lane or farm road. Down this lane it was the boy's custom to drive the cows, and sometimes the horses, everv morning to pasture, and sel subsequently got Into the breaker? and went ashore, "although all that was possible was done to avert it. The crew then launched their four boats, and after provisioning them pulled for the shore. The provisions were landed, and the men were preparing to board the vessel to get a further supply, when she disappeared. By taking observations the Captain found that he and his men were on Herschel Island.

The island, which is about five miles long by one mile broad, was perfectly desolate and uninhabited. The men made tents of some sails they had, which was the only shelter available. The provisions were stored, and each man was allowed two biscuits and a little meat per diem. It was known that sealing schooners visited the island, and each day a good lookout was kept for these vessels, but none were found. There were eight islands in the vicinity, and each day one was visited, with the hope of finding some friendly vessel.

At last one of the islands, known as the Wol-laston, was visited by the Captain, mate and five of the crew, when they found two native families apparently living in a wretched condition. They were in a Life at the SprlrgfteM Armory. The soldier's life in these piping times of peace not so full of excitement as he might wish, but is by no means as unpleasant as has been pictured. Many young men who enlist are fascinated by the uniform, tales of the rebellion and a life of ease, as it seems to them, and when they find that they are expected to work nine hours a day the enthusiasm is dampened and they want to get out. From the dissatisfaction of this class has doubtless arisen the prejudice against peaceful army life.

But there is another side to the question. The average soldier is uneducated, has no trade and would have to work as a common laborer If discharged. It is said, however, that he would get more pay, and so it seems at a glance, but there is really very little ditl'erence between the remuneration of the soldier and laborer. The former receives from the Government his board, clothes and from $13 to $25 a month. The average is not far from $18, or $216 a year.

The day laborer working 300 days a year at $2 a day receives $600. As good board and lodging as the soldier has will cost at least $5 a Week, or $260 a year. Deducting this and $100 for clothes from hi3 full pay he has left $240, or $24 a year more than the soldier. But the men are not all uneducated. One or two in the service here have been through college, and many are well read.

Some men enlist to receive the restraint which the soldier is necessarily held under. And this is one way in which army life does good. A man whose passion for liquor is irresistible cannot devise a safer protection than that of the army. The lives of many men have unquestionably been prolonged by the restriction under which they have been placed. This restraint is, of course, irksome, and disagreeable, INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Indianapolis grain quotations art Wheat No. 2 Red, Corn-No. 2, Oats 34335c. The Cin. cinnati quotations are: Wheat No.

2 Red, 1.02 lir31.03H. Corn No. 2, 517tffiM2c. Oats No. 2, rOJiYrfoGc.

Rye No. 2, 53f.4. Barley No. 3 Fall, nominal. Martha King, an aged woman of seren-ty-nine years, arrived in Madison the oth-r evening, haring walked all the way from Lexington, Ky.

Liberty, Fayette County, has a genuine case of conscience. Thirty years ago a gentleman lost a pocket-book containing thirty dollars. It was picked up, but not returned to the owner. The finder confessed the matter to his priest a few days ago, and has refunded the principal to the daughter of the loser. After a church meeting at Waldron, Shelby County, a few evenings ago, Oscar Cox and two other men, while returning home, were run into by a horse and buggy, owned by Harry Moore.

A general crash and runaway occurred, in which one horse was killed. Cox had his nose split open and Moore was severely bruised. Miss Gretta Holliday, a New Albany (Floyd County) young lady, will soon leave as a missionary for Persia. The residence of Michael Storms, in Posey Township, Harrison County, was destroyed by fire the other night. Loss, no insurance.

At Plymouth the other evening Lizzie Chambers a waiting maid in the restaurant of F. M. Cooley, attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the bridge across Yellow River. The distance was about twenty-five feet, but before she sank out of sight Edward Baxter jumped in and rescued her. She sustained serious injuries.

Two young men, William Bronson and Fred Ginkel, were drowned in White River, at Indianapolis, the other afternoon. They had been in bathing, and were evidently taken with cramps. A monument to the late Governor Williams was unveiled at the family burying-ground at Wheatland, Knox County, a few das ago. Addresses were delivered by Senator Ben Harrison, Senator Voorhees, Hon. Joseph E.

McDonald, Niblack, ex-Governor Baker and others. The State officers and Supreme Court attended in a body. Dr. James W. Wilson, one of the oldest residents of Lafayette, died the other evening.

He was born in 1817. Charles Myers was found dead in bed at Indianapolis the other morning, his death being the result of sunstroke the previous day. A Mrs. Sneil, of Michigan City, La Porte County, whose husband was in the habit of spending the most of his time at the liquor saloons, took a notion to do a little crusading on her own hook. She visited one of the saloons the other day, seized a coal-oil lamp, and demolished the bottles ranged behind the bar.

After she had completed her work of destruction she quietly went home. John Huber was fatally injured by the bursting of an emery-wheel at the Hoosier drill-works, at Richmond, a few days ago. Mr. William Smith, from near Oldham's Landing, twenty-three miles below Madi A "CONFIDENCE QUEEN." IVie Trick of IIrth Heyman, a Frmlntn Artful Dodger, Exposed In Full After ar of Systematic Swindling and 1,1 r-tag by Her Wits She Comes to Urler. Nkw York.

Julr 11. Mrs. Bertha Heyman, the "Confidence Queen," was arrested in Taterson Monday, charged with obtaining money by false pretenses from Edward Sanders. Mrs. Hey-man's portrait adorns the ropues gallery.

She has a criminal history extending back to 1869, when she married a mechanic named Kai ko. About that time she formed the acquaintance of a man named Charles Brandt, proprietor of a saloon at 19 Bowery, and, through her false representations, induced him to lend her $200, which she never returned. She left New York, and Brandt did not see her again until 1879, when she called on him at his saloon and said she had fallen heir to $8,000,000 through the death of her father, George Curtis, of Poughkeepsle. Her husband, Kai ko, had died, and she had married a man named Heyman. She told Brandt that she had present use for $900, and that she would return the same with large interest, and also the amount first borrowed.

Her money was deposited with Albert Blatz, a banker of Milwaukee, upon whom she drew a draft payable to Brandt, and then induced him to accompany her to Kountz bankers, whence a draft for $8,500 on the Milwaukee banker was forwarded. Brandt never received his money, and lost sight of Bertha for a time. She soon returned with a retinue of people about her. In the party was a young doctor, whom she had taken under her protection, and also a protege, a young Frenchman, Mr. and Mrs.

Perine, and Lena Schwartz, who acted as French maid. Perine had been conductor on a Western railroad, and on one of the trips through the West she made his acquaintance. By her pleasant stories of her immense wealth, and under promise of making him her agent in New York, she deluded him into selling his property in Chicago, from the proceeds of which he loaned her $1,000. When he arrived in New York he insisted upon at once entering on his duties. Bertha promised that when she came into possession of her ealth through Robert Boimer, whom she said was her guardian and the executor of the will, the amount borrowed would be returned with interest.

Perine became dissatisfied, and, convinced that he had been the victim of a swindle, had Bertha arrested. She sent for a member of a Broadway firm, from whom she had previously obtained a large quantity of goods, to go her bail. He deposited the full amount asked, but on learning her character subsequently withdrew it This man 6he had induced to furnish her with goods, with representations that she wished to invest a portion of her wealth in the concern with which he was convicted and become a special partner. She "jumped" her bail, and was next heard of in Canada, where she was arrested for false pretenses. In 18S1 she went to Stat en Island, where she was arrested for stealing jewelry from Mrs.

Pauline Schlaibaum, a widow. The late husband of Mrs. Schlaibaum had for many years been in the employ of a jewelry firm on Broadway, and had been a tenant of a man named Morris. Mrs. Heyman told Morris that she had known Mrs.

Schlaibaum with whom she had boarded from girlhood, and that she would like to befriend her by purchasing the house in which she lived and presenting it to her. The price was agreed upon, the deeds drawn, and pay-uient was to be made by Morris collecting a draft for a large amount upon Albert Blatz, of Milwaukee, which she left with him. While negotiations were pending Mrs. Heyman induced Morris to advance her $1,200 on the draft, and he subsequently found himself duped like the rest. October 26, 1S81, she was convicted in the General Sessions and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.

The greatest achievement of Bertha was while she was detained in prison. She developed a scheme in her cell by which she swindled a trusting German, named Charles Karpe, out of $1,000. Karpe called to see her in the penitentiary several times before he was admitted by Warden Fox, but he begged with tears in his eyes to see her, as she was interested in certain property he had purchased on Long Island. On her release from the penitentiary Mrs. Heyman came to New York and established herself at the Hoffman House, and lived there in style, for the past three months under the name of Mrs.

Richards. It was while stopping there she became acquainted with her last victim. She is about twenty-four years of age, of stout build, five feet four inches in height, has brown hair and dark eyes, and weighs two hundred and forty-five pounds. She has four moles on her right cheek. She has a pleasing expression, is a voluble and interesting talker, but is not particularly good-look ing.

then drive them home again at night. Now, through this part of the country there often used to travel many tramps and other bad characters, who had a habit of stealing and driving off any stray horses or cattle they could lay their felonious hands on. The widow, however, escaped any depredations for some time; but one morning, when they got up, they found their red cow and their bay norse were gone. This was a sad loss to these poor people, and the widow sat down on a chair and wept, while the boy stood by a chair ana blubbered. He was a fine, bright-nosed, freckel-faced, tousel-haired boy, with a good head, and eyes that shone with intelligence.

Presently, when he had boo-hooed himself out, with a sniff and a snort which sounded like the last gulp and gurgle, of water running out of a sink, he said to his mother: "Mother, guess them fellers won't take no more of our stock guess I kin fix "Oh, Joe, I'm afeerd you can't, for they seem to rob pretty much wherever they ve a mind to the big as well as the little; but whar them as has got a rdentv don't miss a hoss or a now here and there, it'll just be the ruination of we-uns." "Guess I kin fix 'em," was Joe's only rejoinder as he walked out of the room. That evening, as the widow was standing at the door of her cottage, waiting for the return of her son, with a nice hot supper of biscuits and fried bacon on the stove, she was a good deal astonished to see walking toward her, all in a row, one after the other, the familiar forms of Sally, her horse, and the two cows, walking slowly and clumsily up the lane, each with a human male boot on each of their four feet, while Joe trudged along behind. "For pity's sakes alive, Joe," cried the mother, "what is the meanin' of all this?" Then Joe straightened himself up like a rooster about to crow, and spoke: See here, mother, I have thunk this hull thing out, and I've cum to this conclusion. These here tramps when they cum along the road they look out for the tracks. If they see the footprints of cattle and hosses, they foller them and find out where they rest at night, and then at night they gobble 'em.

If they sees the footprints of a good many men a-goin' to a place, theydarsen't go to that place, but give it a wide berth. Now I got a hull lot of old boots of father's, that I know'd was in the garret, and rigged 'em onter the critters' feet, so's where they walk they each make the footprints like two men, so when a tramp conies along by the end of our lane and looks in the mud, he sees a hull mess of men's footmarks. Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, counts he; 4 several men gone up that says he; guess I'll not go up thar," says he, and he don't." You are an ingenious by," exclaimed the mother in rapture, but I'm feared the scheme won't work." But it did work, and work admirably, for from that day to this they have never lost a single thing from their farm, and they have four cows and a calf now, besides a colt belonging to Sally. So you see the advantage of being an ingenious boy, when ingenuity is well directed. The Judge.

Strange Adventures of a Shipwrecked Crew. The London bark Silurian was instrumental on her recent passage to Valparaiso in rescuing nineteen of the crew of the American ship Oracle, which foundered at sea. The story of the wreck and the subsequent adventures of the crew as related by the commander (Captain II. Morrison), is of the most interesting kind. From Captain Morrison's statement it seems that the Oracle, a ship of some 1,500 tons, left San Francisco with a cargo of grain for New York in the early part of the present year.

On the 6th of March heavy weather was encountered, and the tremendous seas which came over the vessel filled the decks, and portions of the bulwarks had to be cut away. One wave demolished the wheel-house', whilst another smashed the cabin skylight, simultaneously flooding the cabin. The crew had to cling to the rigging to save their lives. One poor fellow named Richard Mason, who was unable to retain his hold, was washed overboard. A life-buoy was cast adrift, but nothing further could be done for the man, who perished before the eyes of his helpless comrades.

The vessel herself was at this time in a most critical condition. Land was sighted on the following day. but no Eoundings could be taken, and the ves perfect state of barbarism, but nevertheless treated the shipwrecked people with the utmost kindness, giving them what food they could. This consisted of mussels, fish and berries. The only particle of covering possessed by the natives was the skin of a seal.

This was movable, and was placed by the natives to cover that part of their bodies most exposed to the weather. The weather was very cold, a keen wind blowing across the island, accompanied by sleet and snow. The only weapon of defense or aggression possessed by the natives was a sling. Some spare clothing was dis tributed amongst the islanders pnnci pally old trousers, which were donned indiscriminately by men and women The backs were generally placed in tront, to the amusement of the sailors To test the accuracy cf the aim with the sling, an exhibition was asked by the mate, who erected a target, lhe first shot failed, when the native, in a fit of rage and disappointment, almost tore oil his civilized garments, afterwards taking aim when accoutred sim ply in his sealskin. On each attempt the mark was struck.

The seven men again put in their own boat, and for two days and two nights suffered terribly. On the third day a vessel was sighted, and after several hours of desperate pulling the exhausted men came up with the German bark Bessel. At first the Captain of the vessel thought the shipwrecked men were pirates, and for some little time persisted in his refusal to allow them to go on board. However, they were finally taken on the bark, but on no account could the German Captain be induced to go to Herschel Island for the remaining seventeen of the crew, and, with a favorable wind, he proceeded on his voyage to Valparaiso. After being twenty-eight days on board the Bessel the seven men were landed at Valparaiso.

Captain Morrison was just on the point of going before the authdri-ties at the latter place to ask for an expedition to be sent out in search of his crew when he saw several of the very men in Valparaiso. It appeared that the English vessel Silurian had gone by the island and rescued the seventeen hands, bringing them on to Valparaiso, where theynad been landed a couple of days before their comrades. The men seemed none the worse for their adventure, with the exception of the second officer, who was left behind in the hospital. Too Late. Application was made to-day to Vice-President Thomson, of the Pennsylvania Road, for a special train to New York for a curious purpose.

It was to carry 2,000 or 3,000 shares of New Jersey Cen tral Railroad stock to New York. The books closed at three o'clock this afternoon, and the short interest there was so large that stock loaned at to for use over night. There is quite a lot of the stock this city, where it loans at three per and is in good supply. When the brokers got word from theit New York correspondents. Cassatt.

Townsend Co. and W. P. Smith, who had 1,500 or 2,000 shares in their tin boxes, rushed to Vice-Presiden Thomson and asked the chance of getting a special. It was then half-past eleven.

To make deliveries the stock would have to be in Wall street and in the hands of the persons to whom it had to go by a quarter-past two o'clock. There wa3 only one hitch, if one of the big engines had her steam up there would be no trouble. The trip could be made with a single car at the rate of a mile a minute and a half-hour allowed to get round on Wall street. Telephones were brought into use after the brokers had willingly agreed to pay two hundred dollars for the train. All was in vain, however.

None of the large engines were in readiness, and the time necessary for the purpose would cause a delay, so the brokers were euchred out of a neat little profit of five hundred to a thousand dollars which they might have made by the flying trip. Philadelphia Special to Chicago Iribune, Among the concessions recently granted by the Mexican Government is one which allows Louis Logorreta and Arthur Mayer to gather for ten years the cactus or maguay plant on Government lands. These persons must establish in the country within two years a paper and textile mill, in which the cactus leaf is to be used, and for each such mill, erected at a cost of not less than $150,000, the Government will give a premium of S30.000. The plant is said to be so abundant that the industry can be extended almost without limit. but it is some men's only salvation.

Dissatisfied soldiers resort to all sorts of expedients to get away. One German said yesterday that he got "so drunk ash never vas" in the hope that he would be discharged, but the scheme was too transparent. Desertions have become so frequent that General Sherman argues that it would be advisable to lessen the soldier's work; but it is a strange fact that quite a large percentage of deserters afterward give themselves up. It is seldom that any two give the same reason for coming back. One could not overcome the fascination which had increased while he served; another repented from conscientious motives, and still another found that his lot as a soldier wasn't so very hard after all.

But the prejudice against army life has become so strong that there are very few enlistments nowadaTs, and men will probably have to be transferred from line service to fill five places soon to be vacated here by soldiers who have served their time. It is often wondered what mode of life is chosen after five years in the army, but there is very seldom any difficulty in a discharged soldier's obtaining a place. Some of them make the most of their time when in the service, and come out fitted for positions which they were wholly unable to fill when they enlisted. Many become policemen and almost invariably make good ones. Fully one-half of the Washington police force is composed of discharged soldiers, and one of Springfield's best officers lived ten years within the iron fence.

Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The people who tried to get the city of Little llock in the shape Mrs. Gaines has the city of New Orleans failed. Judge McCrary decides that they "slept too long on their rights" if they ever had any. He might have added some remarks about going to the ant, etc.

Chicago Inter-Ocean. The English life-boats saved nearly nine hundred lives last year. There are now two hundred and seventy-three liie-ooats stationeu along the coasts. Fifty thousand passengers sailed from New York for European ports i nnn o- r.ne vear v. Kin THE MARKETS.

New York, July It. 18). LIVE STOCK Cattle 00 (I SB 65 Sheep 4 0J (n ft 85 oes iv It 7ft FLOUR Good to choice 4 00 7 00 Patent 5 ce 7 50 WHEAT Xo. 2 Red 1 1 IHtf Xo. 2 Sprin-r 105 6A 107 CORN-No.

CO rs OATS Western Mixed 43 RYE KJ'iftif 5 PORK Mess IS 25 15 50 LARD Steam 8 5 i 8 67U CHEESE 4 6 8 WOOL- Domestic 30 45 CHICAGO. BEEVES Extra 5 10 Choioe 5 70 5 85 Good 5ii 5 65 Medium 4 75 fo 5 15 Butchers' Stock i 3 50 fc 45 Inferior Cattle 2 50 3 00 HOGS Live Good to Choiee 5 25 Hi 5 75 SHEEP 3 Tz 4 3') BUTTER Creamery 17 20 Good to Choiee Dairy 10 ft It) EGG 8 Fresh 14 ft 14 '4 FLOUR Winter. 4 75 U0 Spring 4WI On 5 75 Patent 6 50 fih 7 50 GRAIN Wheat, Xo. 2Spring S'1 Corn, Xo. 2 52 52l4 Oats.

Xo. 2 34 3414 Rye, Xo. 2 53; 54 Barley. Xo. 2 75 6fl 76 BROOM-CORN Red-Tipped Hurl 4'i 5 Fine re en x'kli Inferior 3 5 4 Crooked 2 f5 3 PORK Mof? 13 25 13 40 LARD Ream 8 20 8 25 LUMBER Common Sidinjr.

is ot fiTi 20 00 Floorinir 1 00 65 3H 00 Common Boards 12 (0 (A 18 00 Feneinjr 12 0 a 14 50 Lath i 2 50 2 60 Bhingles 2 J0 8 20 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE Bert fT fl 25 FnirtotkwvL ft 25 64 5 75 HOGS Yorkers 6 :5 (ft 45 Philadelphia? 8 45 (J? 0 50 SHEEP Best 4 75 5 25 Common 2 50 00 BALTIMORE. CATTLE Best f3 25 f6 50 Medium 4 V2m 4 75 HOGS 8 25 8 75 SHEEP Poor to Choice. 4 50 5 23 son, stated that the other evening a family, consisting of father, mother and three children, were drowned near that place, the waves from the steamer Charles Morgan capsizing their skiff. No trace of the unfortunates had been found.

The yield of wheat in Knox County i said to be thirty per cent, better thin was anticipated. Shelby ville speculators lost $30,000 in the recent Chicago smash-ups. Two officers at Evansville, Vanderburgh County, were badly cut by a maniac named Matthais Untried, who they were trying to capture a few days ago. A re-union of the Seventh Indiana cavalry is to be held at Portland, Jay County, on the 4th and oth of October next. On the Louisville, New Albany Chicago Road the other morning section No.

2 of freight train No. 19 ran into the caboose of the first train at Horse-Shoe Bend, four miles north of Bedford, Lawrence County, killing the conductor, William McCoy, who was asleep, and seriously injuring the fireman of the train, Henry Searls, who was lying in the caboose sick. The engineer and fireman of the section saved themselves by jumping. Their engine was totally wrecked. Several loaded cars were reduced to fragments, and their contents scattered about.

The road was blockaded for several hours. Probably the oldest woman in Southern Indiana is Mrs. McClusky, of Daviess County, who is over one hundred years of age. She is the widow of Rev. Mr.

McClusky, noted as one of the pioneer Methodist preachers of Southern Indiana, and one among the first men to establish a Methodist Church in Dubois County. Mrs. McClusky is said to possess her mental and physical strength to a remarkable degree. William Eoff, aged about fifty years, a farmer, living in Decker Township, Knox County, hung himself a few days ago. No cause for the suicide had been developed.

While more than two thousand people were congregated in the town park at Good-land, Newton County, listening to a Fourth of July oration, a bolt of lightning struck a liberty-pole standing within forty feet of the crowd, shivering the pole into fragments at the top and throwing large splinters about the park. No one as injured. A woman was slightly shocked. Several persons and horses were standing within ten feet of the pole. Mr.

Fouch, a prominent miller of Rush-ville, Rush County, dropped dead the other night at his residence. He had been complaining for several days, but nothing fatal was anticipated. He was about sixty years old, and leaves a family. Willie Blue, aged nine years, was drowned in the river just below Evansville, Vanderburgh County, the other July Agricultural Report. WAsnixrttoir.

July 11. The July report of the Department ot Agriculture shows a marked improvement in the condition of the wheat crop. The inter heat yield will be fully 300,000,000, and the spring, 12. 000,000. The com area has increased 2,500,000 acres.

Too much rain and poor seed retarded growth in the West, but the improvement of late has been rapid. 'The average is ss. as against S3 last July. The prospects for oats and barley are nearly as good as last year, the averages being respectively 99 and 97, The area of Irish potatoes has been increased about five per cent, and the esculent is in high condition, averaging 101. Tobacco has an average of 95, a diminution of seven per cent, as compared with last year.

Cotton ha? generally improved, though an excess of moisture has interfered somewhat with cultivation. The condition has advanced from 80 to 90. A Hero. Ctuc.voo. July 11.

A train on the St. Paul Road pnng north from this city Tuesday at the rate of thirty miles an hour came in view of a child standing close to the rah. There was not time to stop. Fireman Tom King bounded through the cab window, grasped the rail firmly, pi ami his foot in front of the pilot, and at the right second toppled the child eoftly into the ditch, unhurt As the brave fellow turned his head he saw the mother with her hands lifted thankfully toward Heaven..