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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-16
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1875

spirit rtheE aloHnst er ressis -sring % dsgrees
DeiOE, the Tenl7l kEas 11a dethatea.cxsii-
yer would CONCEAL at degrees lower. / re.
quested my clerk, Mr.. Stolte, TO thoroughly
cleanse bar tumbler and partially fill il
with quicksilver, We hen exposed the
glass CT mercury and The spirit Thermometer
on the roof of the hrs-prOof on the north
side OF the store, giving them as nearly
equal exposure as possible. An hour after
the Thermometer marked 80 degrees below
but the quicksilver still remained nun,
changed. AT 900 p. NJ. the thermome-
ter stood 40 degrees below, still the quicx-
silver was 1--we. bot terribly cold. At $40 p
NJ. the spirit indicated IL degrees below.
the quicksilver was hardening on the ont
sue. A lew minutes later the thermometer
stood 420 below. picked up the tumbler
OF quicksilver, and 10 my establishment
found it completely solidi6ed-as hard as
rock. i carried it into the store. and several
persons examined it, it remaining in that
condition some time before il showed life.
On January 10, AZ IL o'clock p. NJ, the Their
mometer stood So below; January IL, at Z
o'clock A. NJ. 40 below; January III. at Q
O'Clock p NJ, $50 below. On the evening of
January 8, the evening above mentioned at
V;oO O'Clock P. NJ, the register was
FoRTY-sIx DEGREES BELOW.
This is the coolest weather we have had.
Under date Of January II, the correspond
the peculiar style of the West: "Jack Frost
hejdthe best hand last night, and played il
as follows: AT 9:45 P. NJ. the thermometer
stood 90 degrees below; at 1880 p. NJ, "a de-
grees below; at 1l:3O P. NJ, Sc degrees below
The weather locals of the Northwest make
up an interesting collection. The fol
lowing are specimens: As the stage
came through Blackford on Tuesday.
evening, nobody could tell how cold it was;
all the thermometers were frozen. The Inds-
pendent of Thursday contains an account of
the freezing TO death of four Cinnamon going
down the gulch below town. A couple of
gentlemen OF this burg intend to procure
and place on the summit of Mount Powell.
next fall, to remain through the winter a
registered spirit thermometer, graduated
down about two feet below zero. The inter
est OF the record would be increased il they
could attach toll a self-registering almanac
The worst disguised man in Deer Lodge this
winter is Granville Stuart, ESQ. the most
careful theometTical observer in Montana
Anticipating apostolic spell of weather that
the mereurial thermometers would be made.
quate TO record, he sent to New York for q
1ne spirit thermometer, for which he was
charged spirited price. 1t arrived in good
season, but on examining it il was found to
be only graduated to thirty degrees below
zero. be says 1t is good enough summer
thermometer, but il isn't "calculatedp for
this kind OF a winter,
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FOR ALL FEMALE COMPLAINTS

In young or old, married or single, at the dawn
of wonanhOOd or the change Of life DR.. Pierce
Favorite Prescription manifests such q posi-,
lively remedial influence as TO eal forth the
loudest praise from all who use fl.
Mr.. John y. Kinney, druggist of Knob Noster,
Mo-, writes as follows:
"Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, n. Y: Dear Sir-Your
medicines sell better than any other keep, and
give universal satisfaction. The people are es-
pecially delighted with your Fayorite Prescrip-
ton, and il seems to be favorite among all that
have ever used it," 1t IS sold by druggists and
dealers Ia medicines.
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ASAD COMMENCEMENT.
THE ATTEMPTS OF THE son OF PROFESSOR T
RAISE CHECKs-A Rad RECORD

THE ATTEMPTS OF THE son OF A PROFESSOR To
RAISE CHEcKs-A BAD RECORD.
The New York World of a late date gives
this short biography of crime: About four
months ago, a man representing himself az
J.W. rockingham, of Boston, Mass, pre-
scented himself at the piano warerooms of
Steinway Co., in Fourteenth street, and
purchased piano for S425, giving in pay
ment certificate of deposit from New
London lConn.l bank for 1895 on the Bank
of Commerce of this city. The certificate was
accepted and q check for 500 given for tbe
balance between the certificate and the cost
OF the piano. The piano was taken away.
the money drawn, and nothing further WAS
heard Of the matter until the certificate was
returned to the New London bank. when
the officials there pronounced it worthless
for more than So from which sum IL had
been raised to SS25. Complaint was at once
lodged at the central Office, and the case was
given into the hands of Detectives Kelley and
Williamson, who, however, could not cap
ture the criminal, though they heard of him
Ia many OF the cities and towns of the east
ern states as being engaged in similar oper-
atoms. They did not discover. however
that his house was in Boston, and that
his real name was Charles +. Sterne, and
that his mode OF proceeding was to obtain a
certificate OF deposit for a small amount
from some country bank and raise it
TO large denomination and then pass it off
for its apparent face value. Upon dis
covering the place of his residence the detec-
tives secured his Indictment here by the
grand jury for swindling Steinway & Co.,
and then awaited his arrest in Boston,
which might have been accomplished had
not Sterne returned to this city and at
tempted to swindle George w. Adams, of
No. 800 Broadway, by means of a raised
certificate OF deposit on the Union National
bank of Railway, NJ Mr.. Adams detec-
ted the swindle and handed him over to an
officer, who took him TO the Tombs poles
court on Thursday last, where he was held
for trial. Upon reading the accounts of the
case in the papers. Mr.. Steinway and the
detectives visited the TOmbs, and he was
identified by the former IS the man who
had so successfully swIndled him. Sterne
has victimiZed numerous other parties in
this city and vicinity. and they will lodge
complaints against him at an early day.
Sterne is highly educated young man,
| thirty years of age, and well connected.
He is the son of Prof Sterne, president OF
Yale college. and has wife and children
living in Boston. He was all that his
father, wife, family and friends could wish
for until he became addicted to drink and
| the society of vile men and women, and to
their evil companionship he attributes bis
| fall.
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~ YHE MOONS
~ = r W OOD<.
ny ISABELLA L. MORTIMER


From the Golden HOurSI
IN me woods the young leaves budding
Whispered the sprigtime near,
When the spirit was light
AS the SunDearns bright.
And fancy's sky was clear;
When the young birds song
Woke an echo long
Asthe hopes that the heart he'd dear
nthe woods when the summers glory
Was wTeaihed IN light aud shade.
through each leaiy bOugh
Clearer sunshine now
Which fuller lustre played,
And sweet silence bent
With glad conten.
Ger the hush that fulfilment made
In the woods when the leaves are dropping,
Down dropping one by one
AS the hopes that fade
In aGfumnal shade,
And droop when the day is done,
And weary OF life
And weary of strife,
Sink down to the rest they have won
In the woods when the winter hosry
Has spread his snowy pail
Ger q lifeless past
That is laid at last
Where the night dews softly fall,
Where the moon shines fair
Through the branches bare,
And the heavens are over all.
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TIE DEATH or CHILDR 81.
BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.


Sure, to the mansions OF the blest
When innocent aScends,
Some angel brighter than the rest
The spotless spirits fight attends.
On wings % ecstacy they rise,
Beyond where worlds material roll,
TIL some fair sister Of the skies
Receives the unpoluted soul.
There, at tn Almighty Father'shand,
Nearest the throne ofliving light,
The chofrs OF infant seraphs stand,
And dazzling shine, where all are bright.
That iuexiinguishable beam,
With dust united at our birth,
Sheds more dim, discOlored CLEAN,
Inc more Ii fingers upon earth.
Closed IL this dark abode of clay,
The stream of glory family burns,
Not unobscured the lucid ray
10 its own native fount returns.
But when the Lord of mortal breath
DEGREES his bounty 10 resume,
Ard points the silent shaft of death,
Which speeds an infant to the tomb.
No passion fierce, no low desire,
Has Quenced the radiance OF the flame /:
Back 10 its God the living fire
Returns, unsuIlied, as IL came.
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AN UNwRITTEN LIFE HISTORY.

THE HERO AND POET, ALBERT PIKE-THE
DoINGs OF A STRANGE CHARACTER.
A correspondent of the New York Graphic
writes thus of the life ola peculiarly Amer
lean character: Arthur Macarthur, judge
of the Supreme Court of the District of Co.
lumbia gave me an account OF Pike
last summer. Said he: 81 heard of
Albert Pike as being an Indian, or Texan
ranger, or something. He came to
our court, and stood up there like Moses or
some patriarch. His long, gray hair in ring
let's fell down his back and shoulders. He
stood between six aud seven feet high, and
stout in proportion, weighing. / should
think, 800 TO 400 pounds. A look of the
irontiersman, the poet and the lawyer
seemed mixed in his face, with type OF
something heather and antique. He had a big
bandana handkerchief in bis INST, clenched
into little ball. Ever and anon he drew
this across his nose, and then seized it in his
fist again. And then he rolled off law and
learning, solemn and right on the line of his
argument as practical as they could be, but
his illustrations and quotations were rare
and unusual. ! was astonished?' Albert
Pike is a man history has stepped over.
There is no man in the world of so many
sides to his character, and so plain withal.
He was born at Newburyport. Mass,
the son of a shoemaker. A wild, poetical
spirit took him to Mexico, and he returned
in pack train as mule driver, from Chihau-
hua to Fort Smith. Settling down in print
ing office at Little Rock he became an editor,
lawyer and chief of the whig party, which
he led with unfiinching consistency through
perpetual minority down to the civil war
fighing meantime in the Mexican war, and
doing the government business of the
Cherokees. He became rich and celebrated.
oUARRELINe WITH JEFFERSON DAVIS
soon after the rebellion began, he Withdrew
from the contest, and at the close was poor
He'removed to Washington about 1867, ant
opened law office with Robert Johnson
! ex-senator, the nephew of Vice President
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COLD DID YOU sAY9

WHAT MONTANA PRODUCES IN THE WAY OF
FRIGIDrTY-FRoZEN THERMOMETERS AND A
DISGUsTED PROFESSOR.
According to the New Northwest there
has been some remarkably cold weather in
Silver Bow, Montana. A correspondent of
that paper furnishes the following interest
ing item of news: Your favor of the 10th of
January is at hand, and inquiries answered
herewith. On the evening of January s,
several persons being in my store, and the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-16
JESSIE JAMES.
DINING WITH FORTY SIX MISSILES OF Deaf
ABOUT HIS PERSON.

DINING WITH FORTY SIX MISSILES OF DEATH
ABOUT HIS PERSON.
The Kansas City News of the 5th inst
gives the following bit of contemporaneous
romance: At this time anything connected
with the James boys is of interest to the
people of this section especially, and we
give the followin account of how Jessie
James appeared at house not many miles
from this city about the 18th of this month
only a few days prior to the affair near
KearDey. He rode up in front of the house
about noon, and asked the proprietor, whom
he knew, if he could get dinner. Being
replied in the affirmative, he asked if there
were any dangerous people around, and the
answer being satisfactorily, he looked care
fully in ali directions and then dismounted.
He entered the house, and welking to a
back door, opened it and looked around,
quietly remarking that he wanted to know a
way to retreat if it became necessary. He
carried fine Henry rifle with him, and
after removing his great coat, the butts of
five six-shooting Remington revolvers
were disclosed, showing that, with the rifle,
he had 'forty-six missiles of death ready for
any one coming to interfere with his liberty.
When his dinner was announced, he again
looked out at the doors, and then seating
himself ct the table, with the rifle across
his lap, dispatched his meal with hearty
relish and in the most unconcerned man
ner possible, save with an occasional glance
through the windows, keeping up, mean
while, pleasant conversation with his host.
What two or three or four men would have
relished the task of appearing in the door
way and interrupting that outlaws dinner
with demand to surrender? Their only
hope to save their lives, or at least one
or more of them, would be to get the first
shot, and that an unerring and fatal one
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las all. very well for preachfn'. tfff
But preachin' ana practice don't gesi
Pm posted on virtue and temperance,
And you can't ring 10 on me.
Just 0idis along wilh your pledge, squire,
Ef that's what on want me TO- sign;
Betwixt me and you, I've been thar,
And I'll no. take ans IN mine.
A year ago, last Fo'th July.
a tot of the boys was here;
We all got cOrned, and signed the pledge
For to drink no more that year:
There was I1lman JOY, and Sherln NcF
And me and Abner rry,
And Shelby's boy Levltacus,
And the Golysrs-Luke and Cy.
And we anteed up a hundred,
In the hands OF Deacon Hedge,
Fur TO be divided the fOllerin Fo'th
And we knowed each other so well, Squire
You may take my scalp for a TOOL
IF every man when he signed his name
Didn't feel dead sure ofthe pool.
Fur while it all went lovely;
Wepul up a JOB next day
Fur TO make Job b'iisve his wife was dead,
And be wenthome middin' gay.
Then Abner Fry he killed man
And afore ne was hung, MePhail
Jest bilked the wilder outen her sheer
By gittin' him slowed IN jail
But Chris'mas scOoped the Sheriff
The eggnOgs gethered them in
Was New Years tight as sin.
And along in March the Golyers
Got so drunk that fresh boiled owl
Would "a looked, alongside OF them Two
young men
Like sober, temperance fowl.
Fonr months alone walked the chalk;
thought my heart would break,
And All of them boys a-Slapptn' my BACK,
And akin, "What1l you take?
never sept without dreamin' creams
OF BurDin, Peach or Rye,
But chawed my niggar-head, and swore
I'd rake the pool or die.
At Iast-the Fo'th--I bumped myself
Through chores and breakfast soon,
Then Ecooted down 10 Taggart's store,
For the pledge was OF at nOoni
And ell the boys was gathered thar,
And each man hilt mis- glass, -,
Watchin' me and the clock quite solemn-ltke
Fur 10 see the last minute pass.
The clock struck twelve raised the jug
And took one lovin' pull
i was hOIler clar from skull TO boots
Itseemd couldn't get full,
But 1 was reused By fiend1sh laugh
That might have raised the dead
Them Ornarv snea ks had sOt the clock
A half an hour ahead!
"All right" 1 squawked, you've got me;
Jest order your drinks again,
And well paddle up to the DeacCn's
And scoop the ante in"
But when we got to Hedges,
What a sight was that We saw!
The Deacon and ParSon Skeeters
In the tail Of q game OF draw.
They had shook em the heft Of the mornin'
The Parsons luck was far,
And he raked, the minute we got thar,
The LAST OF oar pool on par.
So no more temp rance for me 'Squtrei
Tow it's all very fine,
But ez fur myself, THANK We,
III not take any in mine.
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THE PLEDGE AT sPUNKY POINT.
nY JoHN ~.

A TALE OF vIRTUoUs EFFoEr AND HUMAN
PEaFIDY.
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In France they call the baby farmers
"angel makers"
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.a Am n Poor blind man. >,

Detectives Warlow and Reilly are in the
condition of the happy pair in a recent car
toon. A brace of beggars had gone into bus
mess together, the tall and slim one wearing
the legend, 81 am a poor blind man," and
the short and fat one being placarded, 80
am L" No. CHANGED to be detained at home,
and his wife took his place, with ludicrous
effect, as may be imagined, when she an
nounced herself as q poor blind man. The
detectives, chose simply because of their
eyesight, stand before game of faro in full
blast, and while Warlow signs, 81 am poor
blind man, his associate, Reilly, responds,
$50 am l." Had Reilly assumed the woman s
garb he could not have made himself and his
companion more ridiculous; but these men,
if men they are, cannot escape upon so alb
surd plea. Had they been actual beggars,
standing on the sidewalk in Broadway
they would have been kicked into the gutter
by any chance passer by upon the fraud
they were practising being SO clearly exposed
AS they are detectives, caught in the practice
OF the blind beggars' trick, wo see
no reason why they should escape a
less ignominious fate. Never was exposure
more complete. The officers were led to a
place where they had only to open their eyes
and see the offence it was their duty to dis
cover and suppress. They could not help
seeing the game unless they deliberately closed
their eyes and refused to see it. Detective
Warlow swore that he looked through q win
dow into the gambling room, but could see no
gambling. Detective Reilly could hear the
"chips," but could see no men gambling
There was blaze of light In the room, and
the blindness of the detectives, under the
circumstances, was, to say the least of it,
remarkable. Mr. Theodore Aub, however
explains the cause of the officers misfortune.
"Warlow," the witness said, event to the
window, but did not look out in such man.
ner as to command a view of the room War
low said that he could hear the chips, but
could see no gamblers the witness urged
him to go back and look so that he could see
and recognize the man, but Warlow declined. >
This is the @ay In which the police have been
dealing with the public for years. When
crime was committed in the open day they
refused to see it, and the guilty have con-
stanty escaped through the determined
blindness OF those whose business it was to
detect guilt. We shall be surprised, even now,
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The SUMMER REsoRrs must either present
unusual attractions this season or be the
fashion. Saratoga, Long Branch, Niagara
and other places frequented by summer
visitors, if not full to overlooking, are all
well patronized, and the promise now is of
very successful season While the warm
weather lasts these places and their fashions
AID gossip will have much interest, not only
to the hdbitues, but even to most of those who
are prevented from enjoying their pleasures.
We present this morning q series of letters
from the most important of the watering places,
and these will give some idea OF the success of
the season thus far. At Long Branch there
are only the Imperial family and the surf and
the ordinary run of summer visitors. The
races give Saratoga q temporary Importance.
Niagara, with its special attractions, its his