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The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-02-05
A MIDsIGHT swIM.
Captain BOyntOn's Trip from, the Bat
terry TO the Narrows.
New York Star, 18th.

New York Star. 25th.
Shortly before midnight last night the res
idents in the vicinity of Battery park were
reused from their slumbsrs by the loud toot.
ing of q horn and the shouts of a crowd of
men and boys, who stood shiyering on the
stone landing at Castle Garden. a number
of policemen repaired to the spot and found
Captain Paul Boynton standing in the center
of group, which included Nan, the News
boy," and members of his volunteer life
saving corps. Boynton was encased in his
rubber suit, and was accompanied by James
Creelman, an officer of the corps, similarly
enveloped. The two stepped nimbly into the
water at the turn of the tide, intending to
paddle down the bay as far as the Narrows,
and return at the How.
Considerable delay was experienced in ar.
ranging the contents of neat little metallic
ship which the hardy captain proposed to
take with him. 1t is built of tin, and meas
ures three feet from stem to stern. On the
forward deck was placed small but power
full reflector and coal oil lamp capable of
throwing ray of light a distance of 5000
feet. A steel compartment for heating cof
fee, q compass, barometer, cigars, biscuits
and half dozen rockets completed the out
fit of the novel little craft. baby Mine"
was the name painted on both bows, the
whole design being creation of the indom-
liable swimmer, who thus sought to over
come the danger of becoming cramped from
hunger while in the water.
The river looked dark and forbidding as
the adventures entered it, armed with In
dian canoe paddles. Ice foes twirled and
eddied about the stropg current, coming into
dangerous contact with the mems head
gear. at these obstacles the captain only
laughed, however, and led the way seaward.
his companion following closely in tow. A
rocket was set off from the miniature ship,
and assembled with blaze of light into the
darkness overhead. Then a parting cheer
was given by the assembled friends on the
| landing, and Boy n on AMI his friend soon be-
came indistinct from the pier.
| Opposite Governors Island another rocket
was discharged, but the sleepy garrison did
not respond. For long distance down the
| bay the headlight OF Baby Mime could be
seen dancing up and down. The captains
/ purpose, as announced to a reporter before
/ leaving, was to remain in the water contln-
ually from the time of entering until 10 a.
m. to-day. The pair will lunch in the lower
bay at a. M, ''up to their waists in water, "
| and take the return flow OF the tide back to
| the starting point.
The trip was undertaken for the purpose
of testing an improvement recently made in
/ the life saving suit This Is an attachment
| covering the lower part of the jacket with
| half inch rubber, to afford additional protec.
| ton to the swimmer from ice foes Oh
| rocks
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-02-05
Diphtheria viewed Historically.


In spite of the careful study that has been
given TO the disease, diphtheria must still be
classed as an unexplainable physical dis
order. For a long time it was supposed to
be of modern origin, but medical historical
research has shown that there is good rea-
SON for thinking that it prevailed with
deadly effect in India as long ago as 600 Z.
c., and that the fatal epidemic called in the
Talmud ''askara'' was essentially diphtheritic
in its character. But from this time forward
to the seventeenth century there is no dis
ease described with which it can be COM
pared. At that time there were many deaths
from this cause; but it appears to have made
complete leap over the eighteenth century,
and not to have been taken into professional
account until about 20 years ago. Since
that time, 1888. it has been intermittent in
its severity when any given locality is con-
| sidered, though 1t has never disappeared,
when this and other large countries are
taken into account. What regulates its
coming and its going is. however, an un-
solved mystery. OF the nature of the dis
| ease itself the same uncertainty exists, some
+! physicians chasing it with the very common
| disorder known as Group, while others, of
| seemingly equal authority, MAINTAIN that
| there is no connection between the two.
Indeed, almost as much is learned by
/ what it does not do as by what
| it does. In this way it has been repeatedly
shown that it is governed by family con-
stitutional attractions, since, when one
member of a family has it, other members of
| the household are much more liable to be
attacked by it than friends or nurses who are
not related by blood ties, even though the
exposure the latter cases should be
| greater than the former. In view of the
/ number OF cases of sickness from this cause
| in this oity at the present time, it would be
well for all to bear this last named circum-
stance in mind, for the frequency with
which two or more members OF family die
within short time from this disease Is one
OF its most painful features. 1t is, at least.
satisfactory to know that the number who
| recover Is now much larger than it once was,
for in ancient times it was styled an incura-
bic complaint while the present rate of
mortality from this cause is less than 40 per
cent. of those who suffer from it. The fact
of its complete absence through long terms
of years certainly indicates its possible
preventability, and in these days Of enlight-
ened medical research il will be strange If
some way Is not discovered OF stamping it
out as effectually as smallpox has been
eradicated.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-02-05

Our readers will not be SO very foolish that
they will allow themselves to be deceived
with q new cough syrup, when they have
experienced the value of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrap for many years.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-02-05
FALSE AND TRUE

Send letter stamp TO RADWAY q CO.,tNo'
81 Warren street, New YORK.
Information worth thousands wiz be sen
you.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-02-05

The National Camp Meeting association
for the promotion of holiness have resolved
to hold grand central national camp meet
ing. at Summit Grove, near New Freedom,
York county, Penn. The meeting will begin
July 80, and continue ten days.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-02-05

"a land where revolver and rifle
Aroused for the purpose OF settling disputes;
Where life IS regarded as only triiie,
And it's usual for people to die in their boots.
-Breathitt County. Ky.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-02-05

OF TEN YEARS GROWTH CURED BY
DIR. RAILWAYS REMEDIES.
DR.. RADwAY & co. 81 Warren ST., NY.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-02-05
DIR. RADWAY,S
r e GUL TING PILLS

Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet
gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and
strengthen. Railways Pills for the cure of all
diseases Of the Stomach, Liver. Bowels, Kid
neys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases. Headache,
Constipation, Cosfiveness, Indigestion. Dys-
pepsia, Biliousness, Fever, Inflammation of
the Bowels, Plies, and all arrangements of the
Internal Niscera. Warranted 10 effect per-
feet cure. Purely vegetable, containing ne
mercury, mineral, or deieterions Drugs.
IsB-Observe the following symptoms result
ing from Disorders OF the Digestive Organs:
Constipation, Inward Piles, Fuliness OF the
Blood IN the Head, Acidify " the Stomach,
Nausea, Heartburn. Disgust oil Food, Fullness
or Weight 4. the stomach, Sour Eructafions,
Sinkings or Flutte-ings in the Pit of the Siom-
ach, Swimming OF the Head, Hurried and Dif-
ncuit Breathing, Elutfcring at the Heart,
Choking or Suffocatfng Sensations when in
lying posture, Dots or Webs before the Sight,
Fever and dull Pain I'm the Head, Deficiency
of Perspiration, Yellownoss OF the SKIN and
Eyes, Pain in the Side, Chest. Limbs, and
Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh.
A few doses of Railways Pills viii free the
system from all of the above named disorders.
Price 20 cents per box. Sold by druggists.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14
THE GREAT STREAM.

In the ocean there is Il river In the
severest droughts it never fails, and in
tho mishtiest floods it never overfiows.
It's banks and the bottom are of cold
water, while its current is of warm.
The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and
its mouth is in the Arctic seas. II is
the Gulf Stream. There is in the
world no other so majestic Il flow of
water. Its current is more swift than
the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its
volume more than 4 thousand times
greater. Its waters as far as the Caro-
lima coasts are indigo blue. These are
SO distinctly marked that the common
sea water can be traced with the eye.
Often one-half the vessel may be per-
ceivcd floating in the Gulf Stream
water, while the other half is in the
common water of the sea, so sharp is
the line and the want of affinity be-
tween these waters and such, too, the
reluctance, SO to speak, ON the part of
those of the Gulf Stream to mingle
with the common waters of the sea.
In addition to this there is another
peculiar fact. The fishermen on the
coast of Norway obtain large quanti-
ties of wood from the tropics of tho
Gulf Stream. Think of the Arctic
fishermen bringing upon their hearths
tho palms of Hayti, the mahogany OF
Honduras, and the precious woods OF
the Amazon and the Orinoco.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14
BATS AND THEIR WAYS.
T London Naturalist |

London Naturalist.1
Bats live their active lives in the
night when sunlight comes they fly
away to their holes, there to sleep until
Wight comes again, when they re-
sumo their occupation of insect killing.
Tho female bat has hard time of it :;
she is the nest, and has to procure the
food for her young until they them
selves are able to fly. Often have 1
seen Il female bat, with her young
clinging to her breast, flying about in
search of food, and the little ones were
not SO small, either. How else could
they get along: The old ones make
no nest; if they wanted to ever so
much they could not, and the chances
are that from their wandering habits
they spend the day in one place and
the next in another two or three miles
distant, just as they happen to be when
day ovcrtalles them, and if they left
their young behind them the exact
locality might be forgotten. When the
young ones are able to shift for them.
selves their mothers life is easier, and
until winter comes to kill their insect
food she lives luXuriousiy. Then,
when all nature is preparing to put on
the livery of winter, bats, instead of
! leaving the scenes where they have
passed the summer, repair to their
! haunts in the caves and walls, and,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14
FRANCE AND TIE PRINCE IMPERIAL.

The long pending and intricate dis
pute between the Prince Imperial anil
the State has just been decided. The
Paris tribunal holds, as we learn from
an English journal, that "thc Prince
is not bound to restore in kind certain
articles of furniture which the civil list
was bound to keep in good condition,
but will be free from liability on this
head on paying over 70G G,0O0f. The
Chinese Museum at Fontaincbleau is
declared the property of the State, some
of the objects having been presented by
the army of the Empress. Tho same
ruling applies to the armory at Pierre
fonds. The State rclinguishcs its
claim to- certain pictures placed in the
Louvre without any intention of
making them public property, and
agrees to restore them but other pic
turcs possessed by the Emperor on his
accession, and not thus expressly re-
served, pass to the State on the prin-
ciptc OF the dcvoiution. AS to the
manufactures at Scvrcs, Beauvais, and
the Gobelins, the full value of the sur
plus raw material found therein upon
their resumption by the State is to be
paid to the plaintiff. Such manufac-
turcd articles, moreover, as were not
deposited for the purpose OF decoration
or as models are to be handed over to
the claimant. AS to private furniture,
the value is to be paid to the plaintiir,
minus five per cent. per annum for de-
preciation, but the State is not respon-
siblc for partial loss caused by war or
circumstances beyond its control. The
Princes claim for repayment of the
quota given by the civil list towards
the restoration of PIcrrcfonds is rejected
on the ground that that castle is public
property. SO, too, with regard to the
sum devoted by the Emperor to altcra-
tions in the Imperial pavilion ut Chai-
ons. AS to Chatigncrayc, the Emprcss'5
estate. she agrees to abandon her rights
for the sum of lS,72Of. Such OF the
Empcror's relics, etc., in the Tuilcrics
as have been discovered the State
agrees to restore. The claim of the
state to the reimbursement Of the civil
list for September, 1870, minus the pro-
portion of the first four days, is rejected,
the established principle being that
monthly payments to the sovereign
cannot be fraction in consideration Of
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14
TIE STATE DEBT.

| [" Sixth Ward " i'll tho Felicia,ia Patriot
Democrat.
The State debt is $4,000, 900, and n
contingent debt of two or three millions
more. The interest on the $4,000, 900
at per cent, which, with the costs OF
assessing and paying tax collectors and
other charges, makes the grand total of
near 81, ,25O, 900 to be taken from the
people before single current expense
is paid. In discussing what shall be
done about the public debt, this fact
should always be kept in view.
The first question then is, can the in
terest on the debt, as at present consti-
tuted, be paid and the officers of the
State be paid at the same time? All
agree that it is utterly impossible. We
have fallen behind on the interest al
ready near 81 ,OOO, 200. The bonds of
tho State are quoted at 62 cents on the
dollar, and if we persist in trying to
pay them all at the exhorbitant rate Of
interest, they will so to 20 cents on the
dollar.
Next, the debt is of doubtful origin :;
it is not legitimate; it is a bastard-no
one's child. Those who know say that,
in Il large part, is the price Of the shame
of Louisiana. That is represents the
political debaucheries of the usurper
kellogg, and is the purchase price of
all the magnificent estates of Warmoth.
That all the fine horses and buggies
and all the fine clothes and watches
and chains that John Gair and Bob
Ray Haunted in our faces were bought
at the expense of the people, and that
the price is now in and part of this in
supportable public debt. If this is true
the State docs not owe the debt. 1t is
a monstrous proposition to say that a
band of piundcrers can capture gov
crnnent and contract a debt, and that
the people are morally bound to pay it,
1t may be, as it was in our case, the
price of their reckless, wasteful extra
vagaace, and the chief instrumentality
by which they upheld their usurpation.
Let there be a fair. impartial exam
ination Of the State debt, by men of
wisdom, prudence and honesty, who
shall say how much and what part Of
the debt the State owes. Then sec if
the State is able to pay that debt and
carry on the government at the same
time. If not to prevent inevitable re.
pudiatiation Of it all, and the collapse
of the government, some terms must
be made with the States creditors by
which the debt can be scaled so AS to
make it practicable to go on. One
thing must never be lost sight of. The
debt as at present constituted cannot
and never will be paid. The rate of
interest is entirely too high and and
| ought to be reduced tc four per cent.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14
hanging by their hind feet in little
groups of five or six together, pass the
tireary season in one unbroken sleep.
NO UNITED STATES COURT FOR
NORTH LOUISIANA.

a Washington special this morning
announces the defeat of the bill provid-
ing for the establishment of II United
States district court for North Louisi-
ana and the division of the State into
two districts. This action is attributed
to Il partisan motive, the object Of
which was to prevent the transfer from
New Orleans to some point nearer the
homes of the persons indicted, of the
trials now going on under the election
laws.
Here we sec but another exhibition
of the ruthless partisan spirit which
always dominates the action of the
Republican party. They do not hesi-
tate to withhold manifest justice or to
do grievous wrong for party purposes,
nor are they ever at any great pains to
cover up the motives that influence
them. Yet it is revolutionary violence
for Democratic House of Representa-
tives to use it's rightful and legitimate
control over the public treasury to en-
force the repeal of obnoxious laws, uni
versally conceded to be unconstitutional,
and which were originally framed to
subserve the basest of party ends and
have never been used for any other.
When the Democrats of the House pro-
pose to use the great prerogative as-
outSN thsst oO0y ny tuc COusttUt1Ou,
derived from British laws, and being
an inherent and natural power Of the
commons i'll every constitutional gov
ernment, in order to compel the oblit-
Grafton of an infamous law, II great
howl of violence and revolution is
raised, and Democrats begin to depre-
cate and become fearful. This is not
the case with the Republicans, who
never hesitate to defeat good measures
or to pass bad ones whenever the party
eNigencies require. In this instance a
measure, to which there has never been
the slightest objection on its general
merits, is defeated for no other purpose
than to exagerate us much AS possible
the outrages that are being put upon
hundreds of our citizens by a persecu-
ton inaugurated by the Republican
party in the interests of fraud and con-
spiracy and with the intention OF
driving Democrats from the polls by
intimidation and vioiencc.-N. q.
Democrat.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14
A WEDDING SECRET WELL KEPT

On one of the excursions which left
Staunton in October, 1876, for the Cen
tennial, were two passengers, one a
young lady Of Rockbridge, whose
bright face as we'll as her bright mind
had made her us popular in Staunton
society as ut home, and another was :,
young gentleman of StauntOn, tempo
rarily residing in ckbridge, who
contemplated shortly removing to the
far West. They were devoted lovers,
and, as the sequel will show, the gen
tlcman took such Il precautiOn against
the lady changing her mind during
his expected absence as was insur-
lnountablc. Stopping III Baltimore a
few hours, the lady and gentleman,
after the latter had procured Il license,
repaired to tho residence Of Rev. Mr..
Murkland, the famous Presbyterian
minister-the lady being Presbyte-
rian-and were united in wcdlock.
They then returned to their respective
homes and there the secret was con-
fioied to two of the groom's family and
relative in Richmond, the lady
making a confident of one of her
family and Il devoted married lady
friend. The groom went West to
mako his fortune, and will, in a few
days, return to claim his wife, who has
all along retained her maiden name.
Though the marriage took place nearly
three years ago and seven persons
know it, not a word has leaked Out
about it until within the last week, q
fact that entirely disposcs Of the asser-
ton that ga woman can't keep a
secret, "and also a fact that makes eacl,
gossip in Staunton tear his or her hair
that they didn't find it out in that
length of time.-,Sio,D'toa Jn.) JJn'ii-
Gator,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14
THE SUICIDE MANIA.
lErom n. .. City Itcn.l

| lErom n. .. City tem.l
! Tho suicide mania seems now II very
prevalent one. Within a few days two
members of tho press have In this vicl-
nifty voluntarily plunged into the abyss
of death. Ono of them, poor Soulier,
of the jefferson (Gretna) Sentinel, We
knew tor nearly thirty years. He WAS
honest and Industrious, and what Is
generally known rs "his own worst
enemy" In his cups he forgot him
self, and after Il few angry words with
his wife he blew his brains out.
The other was Hood Aston, of San
Francisco. According to Il statement
which he left he was subject to period
ical fits of mental alteration, in conse-
quence Of a wound received in his head
at tho battle of Gettysburg. After tho
war he served for some time in the In
terror Department ut Washington !;
then he strayed away to California, and
became successfully gold hunter, II
schoOl-teachcr aud an editor. Think
ing that his malady was cured, he
married about four years ago and had
two children. Recently no discovered
that his minds disease had assumed Il
new type, leading him almost irresisti-
bly, to the murder of those hc most
dearly loved. TO save them he aban-
done.l them, and wandered away to
this city, and to save him from him
self he concluded that he must dio.
His first intent was to take his life in
one of our city cemeteries, but conclud-
ing that the act would be sacriligious,
he went to Bay ST. Louis, and there,
with the a0ise,'e,e Of the pines In his
ears, he swallowed tho fatal dose. He
was born at Rochester, N. ", where
his father still lives. Speaking of his
wife and children, whom ho dearly
loved, he says:
In my better senses 1 would not
touch ito harln) one hair of their sweet
heads. 1 have my senses tonight, and
am looking eternity in the face. can
not think I shall be punished. God
gave me life; I go back to Him, If not
pure, at least not altogether detiled.
am sitting in my room pondering upon
the awful deed, awaiting the tragic
instant. Mine is II wretched soul that
has been wounded in the struggle.
Thoughts of home and tho loved ones
there come over me as white-carped
breakers over Il barren coast.
can not endure the torture. l saw
the sun go down last night, and its de-
picadingly as if to draw inc back to the
far West, where those that love me
live. But "my soul from out the
shadow that lies floating on the floor
shall be lifted nevermorc." This mala-
dy has no cure. 1t has become Il part
of my very being, and would lead me
into murder in less than II week. Are
you father, and have you children
Do you know what il is to feel the
presence of love: Pity nc! Once
more to catch the childish prattle of
my darling little boy to hear him call
me papa" to press his chubby face to
mine and gaze into his luminous eyes
and SEQ and feel his love. You, who
arc stronger, who have never had an
injury, who are champions of l:fc's
great battlc-ti field, l claim your COM
iniscration.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14

After an exciting debate tho Nir-
ginia Senate, by Il vote Of 30 to II,
passed the new funding bill. This
bill provides for Il new funding of the
State debt, the bonds to bear > per cent.
interest for ten years, 4 per cent. FOR
twenty years, and . per cent. for ten
years. The bill was bitterly OppOsrd
by the I.caIj,Istrrs in tho Senate, bat
obtained Il much larger majority than
was expected.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14

The relations between Zach Chandler
and Senator Conl<iin. could never pro-
pcrly be called intimate. Their COM
mon alteration of Grant was the only
tic that bound them. ZACH once
summed up the situation exactly when
he said: sI can't stand Il man who
wears IL frified shirtfront aud puts
grease on his hair. -
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14

Tho return of the Hon. Z;,cl,urini,
Chandler to active politics, recalls the
last speech which he made before his
retirement. II referred 10 tho present
occupant of tho White House ANA was
as follows: "Why, tho damned foot
wouldn't have been President at all
but for me it was I that gave him the
votes OF South Carolina, Florida aud
LOuisiana.'
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-03-14

"Nhat docs your husband lO?'
asked the census man. "fic AMT
doin' nothing ut this time of tho year."
replied the young wife. "Is he Il
paupcr ?' asked the census man. SHE
blushcd scarlet to the cars. CLAW, no!"
she exclaimed, somewhat Indignantly.
awe amt been married MORN six
Wccks.'