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THE BREEZE. "Independent in All Things; Neutral in Nothing." OLD SERIES: VOL. XVII. NO. 5.

MONROEVILLE, ALLEN THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1885. NEW SERIES: VOL. II. NO. 17.

MAKING LOTS IX I BIAS. I am waiting in the meadow While the evening shadows fa'l; While the sunset's golden splendor Fade away beyond recall. O'er the earth dewy fragrance Flings a mantle, sparkling, bright, Quivering with an untold I eauty. Flashing back the waning light. Meet me, darl ng, I am walt'ng the sighing aspen tree; Round me winds or tVe ae sweeping, Wh'sperlng to niy heart uf tbee.

Ilastenl On my lips are burning Words I would to thee irapartj Truest lore and hope are beating In my restles throbbing heart. Now the darkening world Is sleeping, BestiDg from all grief and care; Now the silent st irs arc gleaming On her tranquil boom fair; But my heart is growing weary. And a pang akin to woe Steals upon me In the gloaming. While the shadows come and go. But I know you wll be faithful.

Well I know you will be true; In your heart a kindred feeling, Liko the love I bear to you. So I'll cease from all repining. Banish every doubt, and fear. For through the fragrant gloaming I can feel your pro.ence near. Courier Journal.

Prof. Packham's Mission. BT CLARA DIXON DATIDSON. Parthenia Moore, "Theny," according to that rechristening -which so few escape had never heard what she called "a real lecture," in all the eighteen years of her life. To be sure her Aunt Cynthia had favored her with frequent discourses on morals and manners, her mother had sometimes unburdened her mind on the subject of girls who couldn't knit their own stockings, and the village pastor had fortnightly for two years droned through some unin teresting prose that he was pleased to call "Lecture on Bible History," the good man had talent undoubtedly, but the villagers all believed every word he said, and there was no opposition to rouse his energies.

So the announce ment on flaming posters that Prof. Am- aziah Packham would speak to them on the subject of the inhabit ability of the moon, at the low rate of 25 cents per head, electrified Theny people are so much more anxious to learn about other spheres than their own! "Pcrfesser Pert esser of wot in quired Aunt Cynthia, when Theny had told her of the lecture-to-be. "I don't know, only Professor, I sup pose, said Theny. "Wall, I hate to see perfessera wot jdon'i -Biaybfthe" per fosses religion, she added, bright ening. What a great man he must be, this Professor Packham, who knew so mucb about the moon 1 In her mind Theny pictured him with a silvery beard and a solemn patriarchal air, for one must be aged, she reasoned, to have quired so much wisdom.

Bo she was aston-'shed to find herself listening to the fiery oratory, of a man less than 25 years of age. a gigantic intellect must be his, what long words he could use, and what a beautiful Theny was on her knees to him, in spirit, be- fore the first lecture was delivered. She was indignant that the number of hearers was small, more and more indignant that each succeeding effort in a course of three lectures drew a less and less number of listeners. The people were ignorant boors they could not appreciate lofty talent; Mr. Packham was wasting pearls before swine; so she informed her mother in confidence.

The great professor was to make the village his stopping place during a month of cursoiy lecturing tours into neighboring school districts, and, before half that time had passed, he had obtained an introduction to Theny's father, satisfied him of his respect ability and good parentage, and obtained permission to visit the daughter occasionally. Poor Air. Moore soon found that "occasionally'' meant- three times a week. Theny was not beautiful, but there was something in her face that made people select her from a crowd, to gaze at. There were suggestions of irre sponsible tenderness coupled with stur dy obstinacy in the lips that curved outward in the soft, full line of pouting child-lips, or straightened to a mere scarlet line.

Her big brown eyes held a spark of red light in them. Some of her friends had in their hearts pronounced her "a character," because of her unreasonable pertinacity in adher ing to opinions once formed, and be cause of the subtle nerve-force hidden away in her dimpled, cushiony hands. Theny had begun to suspect her power over certain village swains, but, Professor Packham for a lover! Professor Packham condescend to present credentials She almost as much ex pacted his nightly-talked-of moon to beg pardon' for eaves-dropping about the windows of the lecture-room. The Professor's attention to Theny became very marked. Her parents remonstrated couldn't she find a well-to-do young farmer or merchant among her acquaintances upon whom to be stow herself? Professor Packham waa poor, and what an unsettled and alto gether unsatisfactory life his wife must laad.

But Theny was no less obstinate in this than in every other affair. She declared that she would rather marry a genius than a millionaire, that ahe was ashamed of their lack of appreciation for trua greatness, that sba- felt honored by Mr. Packham's preference bat thought she would defer marrying him until he asked her. Mr. Packham was honest with her; when he asked her hand in marriage he told her frankly' that he was not prospering.

People did not' seem to care for his lectures, he could not understand their apathy, but entertained great hope of success in some political campaign work upon which he was about to enter. Theny met his confidence with a per fect avalanche of enthusiastic encour agement. What mattered a little present poverty with a great future so surely opening before him. They would go away from these shallow-pated people, go where his worth would be understood and paid for. Theny united her fortunes with his misfortunes cheerfully, gladly.

She could face poverty for love's sake, she bravely said. Perhaps she might have been a trifle, just a less heroic had her ideas of poverty been more clearly defined. Living in a small house, wearing very plain clothing, doing her own housework, covering her floors with rag-carpets of her own manufacture, having meat but once a day," and pie but once a week, a picture more severe her mind had been unable to outline. Mr. Packham prepared his campaign lectures with great care.

On the day the first was to be delivered he rode five miles in an open wagon through a chill, November drizzle, and contracted a severe cold with sore throat and hoarseness. In wpite of the difficulty of speaking, he struggled through several lectures, fulfilling every engagement. But the double assault upon his vocal organs was not without result. His hearers began to hint to one another that more study of hygiene and voice culture and less of politics and the moon might be advantageous to Prof. Packham's -personal interests.

He endured more exposure, made a new appointment, and his voice sank to whispers while he en deavored to speak. Theny made him drink pennyroyal tea, and poulticed his throat with flax seed and turpentine, "to draw.out the misery," though he repeatedly assured her that the only felt arose from mortification over infinitesimal audiences, and that he feared his voice was already tfrauTtip-Eke a. -Hia ap9reheBiS9" weprophBtic. The range, and strength, and purity of his voice were thenceforth only a memory. There remained to him one key, broken and shattered, fit onb for ordering sausages and muttering at un reasonable shop-keepers, Mr.

Packham said bitterly, They had paid a quarter's rent in advance for a comfortable little house, with pleasant grounds, in a slow-niov- me town where e.ijpty houses were plenty and rent was low. "My poor little Theny," said Mr. Packham, "I was a wretch for marry ing you and taking you from a home of plenty. Go back to your father, dear, if yon want to, and I will remain here. Before the rent Bhall have come due again I shall have starved to death." Theny laughed until the tears rolled over her plump cheeks.

"What a forlorn picture Fancy a man of your ability folding his hands to starve because fate has blocked up one door to success ny, you must climb up some other way If you can't speak, you can write. Yes, that's it write a book," she cried out eagerly, gazing up into his face to mark the effect of her words. "Theny, you are an angeL" By the first of April his manuscript was ready for the publishers, if only the publisher could De found. How they had lived through the winter, 'Mr. Packham could not im agine.

When he had inquired of Theny whether their flour-barrel was like the widow's cruise of oil, and why they were not hurried adrift for rent due; she had replied lightly and sent him back to his studies and his manuscript, evident lv determined to shoulder the cares of material existence alone. Her gold watch, a valued gift from Aunt Cynthia, wes missing; the silver had been re placed by pewter and the china by ironstone. Mr. Packham observed all these things but did not speak of them. No doubt she had pawned these wed- diner presents; they should all be re deemed when his book was sold.

They had a little domestio jubilee the day the manuscript was sent away. Neither had any doubt about its success. When it came back, three weeks later, the red light outshone the brown in Theny's eyes while she declared that editors were dolts and couldn tell (renins from a donkey. She kissed and caressed her desponding husband. soothed his wounded pride with her honest praise, and encouraged him to try again.

But she was startled. She had no less faith in Mr. Packham's ability, but when would it be re cognized? and in the meantime! She communicated none of her fears to him. She seemed chiefly anxious to be rid of him the greatest possible number of hours per day. She discovered that he had spent the winter and a part of the spring in close eon finement and severe application to literary pursuits, and she coaxed him to ramble daily to the 'woods, three mil as distant, to dream under the bud ding trees and breathe deep draughts of invigorating air while he waited for the good fortune so surely in store for m.

Theny was always too busy to accompany him, so he provided him.self with books and and tried to forget his anxiety and despondency aa the weeks wore heavily Ion, and again and again his manuscript! was returned. He sought his home; earlier than usual one afternoon, and saw in the back yard a long line full of white clothes swinging slowly back and forth in the summer breeze. Theny, my poor child, how tired you must be. I did not know we made so much washing in a week. Another time, let me know when it is to be done and I will help you." I What was it in her eyes, as she sat dumbly before him? Terror? He could not understand it "How do tee live?" jThat question shocked his mind with rude sudden, ess, as if it had been shot thereby a thunderbolt from heaven.

The next day he sauntered away in the rooming, as was his1 custom, but returned in two hours, which was not by any means his custom, He dreaded, yet half expected to find Theny washing. He entered the hall with a cautious step and silently made his way toward the kitchen. Before he reached it a strong odor of soap-suds thrust itself upon his consciousness. and he heard a sound that puzzled him Ko-U, dash! roll, dash! Not rubbing on a washboard, certainly. He turned the latch- noiselessly I and Theny was caught in the very act of running a washing machine.

Her face was flushed. Little rings of damp hair lay clusters about her forehead. She stopped abruptly at sight of him and stared up at his face, while her lips slowly drew themselves to the straight line of defiance. My poor Theny! My dear love! Has it, then, come to this "Only till the manuscript is sold, you know." "It has come back again. Thenv.

You have heard of casting bread upon the waters Well, I have been casting pa- per upon the waters, and I do not be- lieve that it will return to me after many days, either. I have torn that manuscript into bits and strewed them in the river. The adverse judgments of so many publishers must mean that nature originally intended me for hod carrier or" here his voice broke in a new and very suspicious way, and The ny's lips curved outward while she hastened to his side and flung her arms about his neckJ "Don't get discouraged, dear, dear Amaziah It was too high for their understanding." My eyes have been blinded by ego tism and yours by love. I shall never attempt literary work again." Here he broke from her abruptly and tried the the lid, and examined its inward workings critically. "Can one get much washing to do in a place like this?" "Will he discuss that?" thought Theny, but she replied: Yes, a great deal, if one will work cheap, but I will not do that." No, indeed, Theny, but could Could what?" "Improve that yet machine, I think.

I How much money am not sure have you?" "Very little not more than $10 or $12." "I will help you to-day; you must teach me to washl" That was ten years ago. If you pass through to-day, you may see a sign boar a Haunting, Laundry," in aggressive capitals. The gigantic washer is worked by steam. Any villager can tell you that the enterprise 'is, very prosperous, that Mr. Packham invented the machinery himself, though he never applied for a patent because patents reminded him of author's copyrights, that the Pack ham's have a cozy home and two lovely children but they cannot tell you, because they do not know, that Theny still cherishes her faith in, and reverence for, her husband's literary ability, and Aunt Cynthia try often, privately, and with a chuckle of satisfaction, speaks of Mr.

Packham as "Perfessor of Soap suds." THK TOILET OF I UK SHAKE. Prior to shining forth resplendent in fresh attire, a serpent seeks retirement He becomes blind or days, refuses food, and appears to be in a melancholy state generally. When all is ready he begins at the lips to extricate himself from the old rubbing against whatever may be in his way. The first part of the process is tedious, but as he progresses he works, more rapidly when he reaches the ribs they assist the operation, until finally the old skin is shed entire, turned inside ont, and Mr. Snake revels in bis new suit His eyes covered with a perfectly transparent layer of cuticle, are bright and beautiful.

It is only while this cuticle is forming over the eye that the serpent is blind. Their toilet is made in the spring, but not alone at that time; any unusual circumstances is apt to make them wish for a new suit of clothes, beginning when they are infants from 1 to 2 weeks Some are so fastidious as to require a change once a month, and even oftener, while others, more plebeian, will- wear the same garment for six month Good Cheer, ULYSSES S. GRANT. Celebrating the Sixty-third Anniver sary of the Great Commander's Birth. Gen.

U. S. Grant was sixty-three years old on Monday, the 27th of April, and the anniversary of his birth was celebrated in many cities and informally observed throughout the country, lags were displayed, and cannon boomed as -when the people celebrated his great victories during the war, or when -they ''gathered in great crowds to welcome him on his return from his trip around the world. Thousands of congratulatory messages were sent to the old commander, and his name was on all lips. The event was quietly observed by the family of the stricken General at their home in New York.

Gen. Grant Itomily. It is a curious fact that the General and his wife, formerly MissDent never lost a child. Of the four- that bless their union all are alive, and have been with him throughout his dangerous illness. They are CoL Fred Dent Grant aged 31; U.

8. Grant commonly known as "Buck" Grant 31; Nellie (Mrs. Sartoris), 28; and Jesse Grant youngest is but 24. All of the children married, and all have children. Col.

Fred Grant mirried Miss Ida Honore, of Chicago, in 1874 or 1875. They have two lovelyifcildren, a little girl of 5, Julia, and a little boy, who bears the name of his grandfather, TJ. B. Grant Ulysses 8., married, in 1881, Miss Chaffee, a daughter of the Senator. They have two children, one a boy and the other a girl.

Jesse B. Grant married Miss Chapman, of Ban Francisco, within three months of the marriage of his brother, U. to MiRS Chaffee. Jesse has a charming little daughter about 3 years of age. Mrs.

Bartons nan three children the eldest a boy of 9, is named Algernon after his father. The other children are a little eirl of 5 and the "baby," a strong, healthy child, 2 years old. The vigorous blood of the Grants asserted itself in the third generation, for they all have the marked physical attributes of the General's family. Three Scars and Three. ej I.

Three score and three! Oh, God. to Thee We render in onr eratttude Warm thanks, for truly Thou art good. Thou'et swept the clouds from ont oar sides, Thoa'st wiped the tears from ont onr eyes; Thou'st si ared to us oar Grant, the great The good, the ornament of state. -m Thiee score and three I Happy are we. The nation la happy to-day: The great God heard the nation pray And answered, and has ariven ns peace; And slven to his lite a lease Who went down to the gat's of death And tasted eternity's breath.

a m. Three score and fhrrel Land of tbe free, Thv banner floats high on the breeze! High o'er all the land and the seas. Thy captain, thy savior doth live Who gave thee all. Now then dost give Homage to tbe God who gave him And hast heard onr prayers to save him. rv.

Three score and three Behold, we see AH wounds healed, and all gulfs bridged o'er; All united from snore to snore; For the stone has been rolled away And the angel of love to-day Presses her white feet on the sod Redeemed by man and blessed of God. G. W. Croft, in Chicago Inter Ocean. BUSIED ALITE.

rrig-htftil Besolt of a Snow-Sllda in Col orado. Denver special. A telegram from Tennessee Pass says news reached there at midnight of a snow- slide near that place ir which eleven miners are supposed to nave perished. The men had been working in the Homestake Mine. and, nothing having been heard of them for a fortnight, rank Sanderson started out to ascertain if any harm had come to them.

On arriving at the fat where two cabins had stood, in which the men lived, Sanderson found everything buried by a deep snow-slide, that evidently came down in the dead of night jNot a sign of life was to be seen in any direction. A special train from iieaaviue carried a party. Arriving at the point nearest the mine the party was met by a crowd of excited miners, who informed them that it was useless to attempt to reach the mine through the wilderness of soft snow, even with snowshoes, at that time of day. The next day the searching party beg in work, and found ten bodies in the cabin. They had been crushed to aeatn by the snow slide.

The victims are Martin Borden and brother Sylvester, of Nova Scotia; Horace W. Matthews and rower Jesse, of Iowa; John Lock and John Burns, of England; Charles Richards, of Nova Scotia: Chris Harvey, of Leadville; Bobert Campbell of Bed Cliff, ana John Burns, or Han i ran PimtSYLVAKiA has famished eight Ministers to the atussian uourt: oeorge M. Dallas, Benjamin Bush, James Buchanan, Albert Gallatin. Welsh, of York; William Wilkins, ex-Senator Cameron, and ex-Gov. Curtin.

Thb number of railroad accidents in the United States during 1884 is given at 1,191. VI these, ho were cuuisiom, ana oai derailments: 65 are reported as There were in all 389 persons killed and 8,760 injured. RUSSIA'S CURT REPLY. De Giers Refuses to Talk Further About the Penjdeh Incident Duplicity of Turkey. CCable dispatch from London.

The Russian reply to the communication sent to M. de Giers through Sir Edward Thornton yesterday, after the receipt of Sir Peter Lumsden's supplementary report on the battle or March ov, nas just oeen received. M. de Giers replies curtly that Russia, declines to enter npon any further discussion of the Fenjdeh incident It is reported at St Petersburg that the general staff are in favor of allowing Gen. Komaroff to act at his own discretion, not even M.

de Giers to interfere. A letter from Baku confirms the first ac count of the battle of Penjdeh, and states that the Afghan force consisted of 4,000 men. The writer, who had been with bit Peter Lumsden. but who left him before the battle was fought, states the Bussians throughout the winter had been trying to excite and irritate the Afghans, and that only Sir Peter Lumsden's influence pre vented bloodshed long ao. Col.

Alikhanoff advanced to Ak- lapa at about the end ox November, before the boundary commis sion bad arrived, and a battle with the Af ghans was narrowly avoided then. JN ews has also been received that in the battle at Penjdeh the Afghan General was through out in the fore front of the hghting and was twice wounded. It is reported that Col. Alikhanoff offered a reward of 100 tomas (about $300) for the head of either of the British officers with the Afghan force. A dispatch from Constantinople puts a new light on the diplomatic mission to En gland of Hassan i ehmi fasha, the special Turkish Envoy, and Hobart Pasha, Marshal of the Turkish Empire.

In order to avoid the censorship of press dispatches at Constantinople this message was sent by mail to Athens and transmitted thence by telegraph to London. It says that the sole mission of i ehmi iasha, who has been here constantly since January last W8 to fool the British Government into a belief that Turkey was disposed to be on friendly terms with England and to seek and follow her advice in all international complications. Hobart Pasha, whose former reputation as a gallant Ad-miral'of the British navy made him an admirable tool for this purpose, was sent with Fehmi Pasha td strengthen the blind. Hobart Pasha was intrusted only with the delivery of certain presents to the Queen and Prince of Wales, accompanied by the customary assurances of distinguished consideration, etc, which may mean a great deal or nothing. All the fine work of diplomatic) Intrigue was to be done and has been done from first to last by Fehmi Pasha.

ABDURRAHMAN KHAN. The Ameer of Afghanistan. isssmiiii, Ameer Abdurrahman Khan was born in 1830. He is the eldest son of Afzul Khan, and is thus a grandson of Dost Mahom- med, who ruled Afghanistan till his death in 1863, and nephew to the late Shere Ali, who was deposed and expelled by the British invasion of 1879, and who died soon afterward in exile. "When Shere Ali was was recognized by the English, Abdurrahman, who had married a daughter of the Turkish Ameer of Bokhara, took refuge in those countries north of Afghanistan beyond the Oxus, which had then not yet been subjected to Bussian control.

He was pursued, however, by the persecuting spite of Shere Ali and Yakoub, who had seized his mother, wife, and sister, and detained them many years prisoner at Candahar, and who compelled the Ameer of Bokhara to deny him an abode in that state' Abdurrahman was fain to put himself under the protection of the Bussians, then gradually advancing their conquests in Turkestan, and was received by Gen. Kaufmann, who procured him, in his poverty, a Bussian pension of 25,000 rubles a year, and afterward permitted him to reside at Samarcand. After innumerable intrigues and internal dissensions the throne was again vacated, and the present Ameer was chosen in 1880, and has been very substantially supported by the British Government of India, under Lord Bipon, receiving from it a regular subsidy of 160,000 a year, with large gifts of artillery, rifles, and ammunition to improve his military force. FRANZ ABT. The Well-Known Musical Composer.

wLt Franz Abt whose death was recently an nounced by a cable dispatch, was born in 1819, and was, tnereiore, oo years oia. tua parents intended him for the ministry, but having a passion for music, he chose that vocation. He was a prolific composer of songs, his compositions numbering between four and five hundred; the most popular of which is "When the Swallows Homeward Fly." Thb Bev. Dr. Talmage says he is going to Europe to rest and set acquainted with his family.

He has their photographs, but has had no time to get acquainted. It is the first rest he has had in thirty years. A Scotch gelatine manufacturer sends out with each packogo of his goods a leaf from the Bible. 'John Esixt still controls Tammany. He bit been unanimously elected to his old pTtraon.

5 THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. Portraits of Soma of the Newly Appointed Foreign Ministers. BASICUS B. ANDERSON, MINISTER TO BEN- MARK. Prof.

B. B. Anderson, of "Wisconsin, whom President Cleveland has selected as our Minister to Denmark, is a well-known American scholar, whose translations of Scandinavian authors have made his name known to scholars everywhere. He is a Professor in the University at Madison, where he was born in 1846. His father, Bjorn Anderson, was among the first large company of emigrants that came from Norway to this country.

ISAAO BELIi, MINISTER TO THE NETHEB-IAXDS. Hon. Isaac Bell, appointed as Minister to the Netherlands, was born at New port, B. in 1840, and still resides there. He married a sister of James Gordon Ben nett, of the New York Herald.

He was recently the Democratic candidate for United States Senator from Bhode Island. E. V. C. LEWIS, MINISTER TO 1'ORTTJOAXi.

Edward Parke Custis Lewis, who has been selected as Minister to Portugal, was born in Virginia in 1837. He was farming in that State when the war broke out, and served in the Confederate army, rising to the rank of Colonel. After the war he removed to New Jersey, and has since resided in Hoboken. He is of old revolutionary stock, hi grandfather, Lawrence Lewis, being a nephew of George Washington. Mr.

Lewis has been a member of the New Jersey Legislature and of the Democratio State Committee. THE YICKSBURU HORROR. Funeral of the Victims or the Recent Fire. Vlcksbnrg (Miss.) dlspatcb.l This has been a sad dav in Vicksburg. The funeral of the thirty-two victims of the horrible fire of Tuesday night last took Dlaee at 4 clock, nnd was the largest turn out of people ever known in this city.

Many persons were present from the surrounding country. The remains of W. H. Phelan, J. M.

Dent, W. B. Daniel O'Keefe, and Peter Barber were all identified. All were members of the volunteer fire department of the city. Their bodies wera all taken out of the ruins of the building occupied bv Mrs.

Bosa Bloom, a dry goods store. and were placed in handsome caskets and laid in state in the halls of the various fire comDHnies of the department. The cask ets were covered with rare flowers. The remains were to the cemetery in four hearses. The fare department headed the procession, followed by at least two thousand people.

Six of the remaining twenty-seven bodies have been identified, all coloffiU men, residents of the city. The remaining twenty-one have not been identified. The remains were so charred that it was impos sible to tell whether thoy were white or colored. The total number of bodies recovered is thirtv-seven, nnd it is known more are in the ruins. The work of exhuming the victims was suspended yesterday evening, having been conducted up to that time by the Firemen's Charitable Association.

Two other white known to be lost are Claude Sipes, aged 17. and Charles Hanley. Sevent.en of the bqdies recovered are unknown, but six of the crew of the Belle Memphis, who 'were from St Louis, are among them. It is impossible to get their names at present One of the unidentified victims was a woman. A commercial trav eler, who had registered on the Belle Mem- 1 1 1.

puis, ana pui ms wne among the victims. It is believed that his name was Middleton. Philadelphia consumed during the year 1,273,501 barrels of beer and ale. This is a little over 500 glasses a year for each man, woman, and child in that city, or about two glasses a day ail rouna. Alabama physicians say that rneumonia is now worse in that State thnu any tdma within thirty or forty years.

The Emperor of Austria gave the Pop as an Easter offering a chandelier for 600 candles. INDIANA STATE NEWS. A street railway is to be built between Sauth Bend and Mishawaka. Twenty-five Indictments bave been found against saloon keepers at Patriot Oliver Contant of Crawfordsvllle, had bis band badly lacerated by a buzz-saw. Louis A.

Moffat, of Fort Wayne, a brake- man, was lulled at Bucyrus, Ohio, while coupling cars. Cyrus W. Btull has been sentenced at Nashville for two years to the State's prison for perjury. Vevay has raised the saloon license from 750 a year to $100. Ihls will add $700 a year to the city treasury.

A fire at Sullivan, destroyed the American Masonic Hall, and other buildings, the losses aggregating 30,000. Jerry Pervine has brought suit at Evans- ville, against the Henderson Bridge Company for the loss of a leg, and asks $10,000 damages. Mrs. Catharine Leslie.of New Albany, has. after many years' effort, secured back pay and pensions amounting to $4,000.

Her husband was in the gunboat service. Mrs. Jerusba Van Scyoc, one of the oldest pioneers in Shelby County, died at the rest of her daughter, -Mrs. Elias P. Thomp son, near Shelbyville, at ths advanced age of 87 years.

John Lyons, an employe of Trow's mill, at Mndi on, fell into the river and was drowned. He was 32 years old and leaves a wire and five children. His son wai drowned recently. Miss Evans of Sevastopol, on a visit to R'climoud, tried on a pair of roller skates for tbe first time. It will probably bo her last Cfort in that direction, as eho fell and rao tured her arm.

A new pattern of church social has been inaugurated at the Second Presbyterian Church of Lafayette. The social is to be in charge of ladies, none of whom is to weigh less than 170 pounds. W. C. LVPauw, of New Albany, has presented DcPauw University with a collection of geological and anatomical specimens valued at $2,000.

The collection teen on exhibition tt New The contract for building the free turnpike from Versailles to the Ripley County line, to be extended to Rising Sun, has been let to Capt. Fletcher Hill, of Batavia, for $13,616. Distance eight and one-third miles. John Hill, of the Logansport spoke factory, a married man whose wife is thildless, is missing, as is also Mrs. Fred Joyce, the wife of a workman, and the mother of four children, whom she took with her.

The prospect of silver In pay ingquantities in the central part of Pike County is attract-ing considerable attention "A test of the quartz has shown 10 per or $10 per ton, of the ore, and lead shows 70 percent. Amos Whallen, 22 years old, was killed at Cementville, on tbe M. road, In at-, tempting to make a coupling, being caught between tbe cars and his breast crushed. The remains were taken to Bennetsville for burial. R.

M. Haworth, of Liberty, a member of the Legislature, has discovered that he has been swindled by lightning-rodders to the extent of $700. He gave an order thinking It for a small amount of work, and they put rods on everything about his farm. The Cincinnati passenger train on tho Columbus, Hope ran over and killed Uriah Holland, aged 50, near Columbus, while he was drunk and asleep on the track. He was horribly This is the first man killed since tbe road was opened.

Alvin Wheeler, who lives near Freetown, Jackson reached bis 100th birthday April 17. He was in the war of 1812 as drum major, and can still play tbe drum with much of bis old-tim? success. He has a son living in the same neighborhood whose age is 70. He bids fair I round off several moro as be is bale and hearty. Mr.

Pierre Gray, tho Governor's private Secretary, has made the discovery that by a curious mistake which nobody seems to have noticed heretofore, in numbering the Legislature of the Sta there was no Forty-fouVth. Tho General Assembly of 1865 was tho Forty-third, and that of 1867 was called the Forty-fifth, but why tho Forty-fourth was skipped nobody knows. A child, supposed to be about two weeks old, was found buried in an ash-hopper on the farm of a man named Summers, near Velpon, a small town about twenl miles from Petersburg. The lady of tbe bouse, Mrs. Summers, had been making soap, and was proceeding to refill the ash-box or hopper with fresh ashes when she found the child, which bad the appearance of having been but recently placed there.

The evidence in the Congressional contest case of M. H. Kidd against Major GcOrge W. Steele is all in, and the testimony will at once be forwarded to Washington. Major Steele's majority in the district was but fifty-throe, and Mr.

Kidd has strong hopes of overcoming this. Under tbe redistricting bill passed by the late legislature, the district instead of being from 200 to 500 Republican, is 600 Democratic. The authorities of Notre Damo are negotiating whith tbe South Bend Gas Company for gas. The gas company propose to lay m. ins to the city limits, a point near Notre Dame Cemetery, the college authorities to continue.

them to Notre Dame and St. Mary's. Tbe expenses will be about equally div ded, the estimate being $5,000 for the gas company and $4,000 for the University. It costs about $4,000 a yeir to light the two institutions. The theologicak institute, under tho oon-trol of White River Conference United Brethren Church, has closed its session at Sol ma.

Twenty-one ministers were In attendance and participated in the recitations. The advanced class has reached the fifth year of a seven years' course. Bev. H. Floyd, of Dub'in, Indiana, pre-ided.

The faculty of instructors consists of Revs. M. Wright, D. and Win. Dillon, both of Dayton, Ohio; Bev.

W. Day, of Indianapolis, and A. Wiimore, of Hartsvllle. The village of Dalton is all torn up over an attempted suicide that Is out of the usual run. The wife of Jefferson Richardson, a well-to-do farmer of Franklin Township, got up from the breakfast table, and going into the kitchen began beating herself over the head with an Iron poker, inflicting a number of ghastly Her husband and some of the neighbors rushed in, and after a desperate struggle Wrestled the weapon from the woman's hand.

Her face and head were terribly out and bruised, and tbe room very bloody. Mrs. Richardson is supposed to be Insane. Quite a breese was created at Logansport when the fact became known that Lewis Counts, a heavy stockholder In tbe Spiker-Harrison manufacturing establishment had fl ed papers asking that a receiver be appointed for tbe concern. The complaint sots forth that George Harrison, President of the Board of Directors and manager of the establishment has api roprlated proceeds of the oaooern to his own use, and that It is In immediate danger of dissolution.

Tha oompany is a Joint stock concern, with a capital stock Of.