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The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1879-08-30

WHILE passing through strip of
woods a quarter of mile west of
Palestine, few days ago, John Rogers
discovered the body of man hanging
to tree. He went back to town and
returned to the place with a crowd of
men. Upon examining the body it was
found to be that of a white man about
forty-five years old, and well dressed.
The body was greatly swollen and de-
composed, and is supposed to have been
banging three or four days. 1t was
hanging by piece Of clothes-line to a
small hickory tree, the feet touching
the ground.
THE Goshen Review gives the par
ticulars of sad double suicide that Oc-
cured at Goshen some days az o, as fol-
lows: 1.-TWO well known residents OF
this place, Havilah Smith, well known
as Captain Smith, and Ed. Hubbell,
son of A. /. Hubbell, were found lying
i'm each others arms at an early hour
this morning. Both were stone dead.
The two men had evidently committed
suicide. The two men were well known
as addicted to the use of liquor, and
had often been in company in drink
ing bouts. Last night each went into
drug store and purchased ten grains
of morphine, and then they met out
side on the street. No one thought
anything of their purchasing NOR
phine, as it is a common custom with
drinking men to use it in small guam
titles. AS they met, some one remem-
bers that one said to the other, "Well
are you ready?" Such a careless re-
mark was hardly noticed at the time
but all these things were brought tC
mind as they were found stretched cold
in death, near main street, in the
court house yard. They had lain down
together, one folding the other in his
arms, and thus they slept in death
Smith leaves wife and child, bu
Hubbell left no family. The sad oc
currence casts a cloud over our city
Both men were well known through
out the county, and the news of thei
tragic ending will occasion great sur
prise.o
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1879-08-30
John Henry.
Exchange.

Excnange.
About week ago some young ladies
got up party to go on q moonlight
excursion up the Passaic river. The
night finally arrived, and the moon
flooded field and river with glow of
pearly richness. When the party was
ready to leave the house which had
been appointed as the rendezvous, q
was noticed that one of the r1osI
charming young ladies of the cp.elie
had a shawl on.
whats the matter, Lucy m-
quired one young lady; ''are yo. afraid
of taking cold?" u q i1li
"No, no." she replied.
perhaps you are troubled with m
laria?" suggested a young man, 'whc
was struggling to direct all his vitality
into a mustache. 'fI"
81 never have malaria, !" replied the
pretty creature, with smile of gum.
dropativeness.
",The thermometer is up at SO. You'll
roast If you wear that shawl a0
Sim willing to roast" she said,
rather pettishly.
don't you know why she wears
that shawl? laughed her little brother,
as he wiped some taffy off his mouth
with his jacket sleeve.
"You keep still, you John Henry"
screamed the dear angel, as she turned
a trifie red.
The boy then got out of reach and
yelled, "Pll tell you why she wears
that shawl. When she gets out on the
river Bob puts his arm under it and
hugs her, and nobody can see through
the game"
Then there was scene. John Henry
was driven summarily to bed, and the
party started for the scene of the fes-
tivity.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1879-08-30
Encouragement f Mutton g.;

The Chicago Live Stock Journal
thinks that mutton is too much neg
lected as an article of food, saying
Americans are not mutton eaters to
any such degree as they are beef and
pork eaters. There is often a good de-
mand for mutton or lamb, but it is a
comparatively limited one. AT the
great live stock markets, as Chicago,
where there are receipts of thousands
of cattle and of hogs, there are but
hundreds of sheep. In many a village
meat market mutton is rarely to be
found. There has been gain i'm this di-
rectiOn; mutton is eaten more COM
monty than was the case few years
ago; there is an increasing apprecia-
ton of good quality i'm the flesh of the
sheep, as there has been In the flesh OF
the OK. But the best interests OF
American sheep rearing would be much
advanced if the mass of the people
could be induced to become habitual
mutton eaters, as they now are beef or
pork consumers. Reliance upon wool
as the only source of profit in sheep
rearing is to become thing of the past
in all the older-settled portions of the
country. No rapid change of habit in
such matters is to be expected; but
sheep growers can help-first, by hav.
ing sheep of good quality with which
to supply whatever demand exists; Sec
ond, by themselves practicing what
they preach, and by encouraging the
butchers in the neighboring town OIL
village to keep mutton in their shops
and call the attention of their custo'
mers to it.
1.-THE export demand for American
sheep is very encouraging. In 1878
the United States and Canada shipped
"a 900 sheep to Great Britain-almos
as large number as was that of the
cattle exported. Since the restrictions
placed on the expectation of live fa
cattle to Great Britain, the number o
sheep sent over is much greater thar
that of cattle. Thus the arrivals a
Liverpool, the first week in May, wer,
$40 cattle, 1855 sheep, and 1850 pigs
The same week !, 500 carcasses of NUT
ton were landed at Liverpool
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1879-08-30

to the Pope's private life that it is be-
lieved it was posted in America merely
as blind. An investigation is in pro-
gress.
The opening of the national temper
ance camp-meetinga at Bismarck, KAN,
last Sunday, is described as the most
Impressive popular demonstration ever
seen i'm Kansas. Addresses were made
by Governor st. John. Francis Murphy,
and others, and ten thousand people
were present.
A WASHINGTON dispatch reports
that advices from diplomatic represen-
tatives and special agents in Europe
continue to favor the opinion that the
efforts of this government to bring
about the joint reconsideration by
America and leading European Powers
of the bi-metallic standard question
will prove successful.
THE cultivation of the fig in the
Western Michigan fruit region has
DTONeu tO Ot SuCCCSos PPSNiAiShS
have been received in Chicago from a
st. Joe nursery, including a branch
four and three-fourths inches in
length, bearing seven ripe figs. The
crop of the tree from which this
branch was taken is estimated at two
bushels.
( LOCKED up in the Jail at st. Louis,
it is stated, are ten murderers, six o.
whom destroyed the lives of women
and some Of them have been there sc
long that "the names of their vic tim
and the history of the murders are for
gotten by the public and the officers
and are only to be discovered by go
ing through old files of newspapers
Between mawkish sensibility, lega
hindrances, and possibly a corrupt ust
of money, the ends of justice are de
feated, and murderers go UNPUBLISHED
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1879-08-30
Grasshopper Cruel.

In Sierra and Martis Valleys the In
dian huts can he seen and in and
around them are congregated the war.
riors and squaws of the tribe, their Sis
tiers and their cousins and their aunts,
all intent upon the accomplishment of
the grand result. AS usual, the squaws
do the work, while their noble lords
loll upon the greensward, smoke their
pipes, and dreamily and lazily gaze up
on the countless myriads of buzzing
hoppers that fill the air and devour
vegetation. The squaws, carrying
cone-shaped baskets Of great capacity,
scoop the grasshoppers with a an-shap-
ed instrument into their baskets, and
when loaded carry the wiggling mass
of insects to camp, and then prepare
them for food. The grasshoppers, kill
ed and subsequently dried, are mixed
with mashed pine nuts or cracked
wheat and made into kind of -four,
which is afterward made into a bread,
most delicious to the palate of the
Washoe. While visitors to the camp
are always invited, in accordance with
Indian hospitality, to partake of the
compound, and great is the astonish-
ment of poor LO at the disgust ex-
pressed by the white>man for this kind
of food. To the limited mind of the
Indian it is incomprehensible that any
should reject food which in his vernac-
ular is defined as being ''muchee good"
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1879-08-30
CONDIMENTS.

Mr.. Jefferson Davis, i'm referring tJ
the defunct Mrs. Dorsey: remarks:
''There was womanl what grace
what mental power! what a Wilt"
A Pulaski boy recently swallowed
penknife- Although not quite out of
danger, he finds some consolation i'm
the fact that the knife belonged to an
other boy.
Now The swell I'm style arrayed
Goeth forth TO promenade,
But willis meath the fervor of the sunbeam's
glance,
| And so do his collars and his Jacket and his
pants.
More dried apples are consumed ip
st. Louis than in any other city of its
| size; probably for the purpose of swell.
ing the population before q new direc4
tory ispublished.
One little persistent fly, one that
evades every attempt to be knocked of
your face with pillow, will stick clos
er and learn suffering man To talk
plain quicker than anything yet in
vented.
Chesterfield said, and thousands re-
echo the cry, that no one is excusable
tor being out of the fashion, but we'd
| like to know what the deuce a man il
to do who has married when blondes
We're the style.
All Oswego woman fell out of a
fourth story window the other day, and
the first thing she did after being
brought to her senses was TO wish she
had on her. new silk hose instead OF
those old cotton stockings.
Solitude is that sweet seclusion
man bankers after when he
himself adjusting a swing i'm In
rectly over sixteen expeciant girl
four inches of his pants sticking
the limb he has just vacated.
Bright as stars were her eyes of blue,
Truly loved my lady fair;
Truly my lady loved me, too.
Did 1t break my heart when my love lay
dead?
Why, bless your soul, she didn't die.
Time wrought change as 1t onward sped:
She loves another-so do /.
The following testimonial of a cer-
tain patent medicine speaks for itself 4:
dear Sir: Two months ago my wife
could scarcely speak. She has taken
two bottles of your Life Remover,
and now she can't speak at all. Please
send me two more bottles. ] wouldn't
be without it,"
A little girl about years ola ana
little boy about six had been cautioned
not to take away the nest egg: but one
/ morning when they went for the egg
, the little girl took it and started for the
house. Her disappointed brother fol-
lowed, crying: Mother, mother, SUI
sey's got the egg the old hen measures
: byW
There are no swear words in the
: Sioux language, it is said. But don't
let your sympathy go out to the poor
led man on that account. He doesn't
feel the loss of them. When anything
!, doesn't please him-when, after care
I fully sharpening his lead pencil the
I point snaps off-instead of relieving
himself with string of oaths. he NUT.
tiers two or three terrible looking five
story words with bay windows and
{ mansard roofs, and rushes out and
scalps pale-face. This soothes his
, angry feelings just as effectually as ]
he had all the profanity i'm the English
language at his command.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1879-08-30
A Sad Story

4
/ Little Benny Hawkins, nine years
old, died last Sunday at his fathers
home in Chicago Of hydrophobia. He
was playing with some companions i'm
his fathers yard, when a large New
foundland bounded i'm, and jumped up
on Benny's shoulders. He tried to
pushit off with his hand, and by chance
struck it in the mouth. He had cut
his fingers the day before, and it is sup
posed the saliva of the dog touched
the wound. In the afternoon of the
same day he was sent out for some
water, but went back crying mamma,
/ can't get the water. / can't see it.
1t hurts me.n He complained of ear
ache and of being tired. He was put
to bed, when he soon became very
nervous and restless. The next day
developed unmistakable symptoms OF
hydrophobia. 49,.
He begged his father and mother to
go away from him, saying that he was
afraid he would bite them. The least
sound threw him into paroxysm, and
he would get ep and run out of the
room, crying out that that awful dog
was after him. "Water hurts me-" he
moaped continually. DR.. Hall was
called, and after his first visit he
brought i'm for consultation five other
physicians, but their united skill was
of no avail. Sunday evening the poor
little lad asked his father to come to
his side. "Sit down, papa" he said
al am going to die pretty soon and ]
shan't ever see the big bright sun, OF
the green grass, or play with the other
bows any more. | know I've been a
naughty boy, sometimes, papa, but
pray to the dear Jesus to take care OF
yoGr little SON. AS the heart broken
father knelt by the bedside, the tiny
hands folded in duplication, the tired
worn features took on the expression
that angels wear, and Benny passed
the portal of suffering.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-15

The following sensible article regard.
ing the evil effect OF p~atroniziug foreign
merchants to tho drtrimcnt OF our home
institutions, We clip from the Eureka
Sentinel Of Yesterday. 1t is a snug ft
to n certain class or clique residing in
Elko:
I'm every community will be found
n certain class who are always found
patronizing foreign merchants. and
who send long distances for articles
that could be secured ut homo just as
cheaply. To shy that an article was
secured in San Francisco or New York
possesses a fascination for some people,
who do not stop to think that in send
ing their money elsewhere, they are
killing the goose that lays the golden
egg. One OF the most cffectual methods
Of killing a town is to send elsewhere
foE FASH articles and Let your homo
merchants and mechanics in your town
carry your accounts. or to buy Of every
agent OF peddlcr that comes along. OF
the representation Of selling you an
article 50 much cheaper than il can be
purchased for at home. But you
should remember that il is TO your in.
ierest and benefit to patrouize the NOR.
chants. mechanics and business men Of
your own town, your neighbors; and as
! the ryrs,ay IA bugiraEs opI p,,Es i'm.
pToyemouts in town. it will enhance
the value Of your own property or in
crease a greater demand for your labor.
For those itiBerant travelling peddlers
are here to-day and gone tomorrow, and
You have no recourse on them for any
mistakes or Interpretations they
have made. and they Dhko them fire..
quen;ly; BIZ; M business transactions
you have With the merchants and
mechanics II your y place that ore
just not night are corrected, as their
Interests BBJ Welfare ire identical with
yours. They pay their share and pOr-
lion Of ;aIos ard arc willing q assist
and support eTery enterprise that is for
the general Welfare of the community,
and you will find them at all times will.
ing 20 extend any accommodation In
their power 10 those who are entitled
10 receive it,and zho will appreciate 1t.
Il is always 4 better plan 10 patronizc
home industry"
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-15
--LATEST NEWS


The Arab instruction in Algeria con-
tinues serious.
Stores in the Black Hills are kept
open all day on Sundays.
The death Of tho Bishop Of Amiens
10 announced from Paris.
There are twelve regular policemen
in Denver and still they are not happy.
A grand council Of Indians Was bid
at the Umatilla Agency. Oregon, Mon.
day.
Helena ~rcjoices in a white hearse
with satin trimmings and gold mount
ings.
Transactions in mining stocks in
New York City are largely ON the in
crease.
The National Greerback State Con-
yention Of Minnesota is in session at
ST. Paul.
Specie in the Imperial Bank of Ger
many increased $500, 900 marks the
past week.
The waters Of the river Pc. in Italy.
are subsiding. but the surrounding
country is desolAIed.
The French Minister to Hati, Count
Julian RochechehouArt, died OF yellow
lever at Po-t-au- Prince.
Jef Davis is suggested as one Of the
orators in Massachusetts on the APP.
preaching Fourth Of July.
The population of Laramie City has
the mining fever badly, and is moving
en- mass to North Park.
The House yesterday passed the ju-
dicial expenses appropriation bill with
out any substantial amendment.
The disturbances in Sicily over the
collection Of taxes resulted in several
soldiers and civilians being killed.
Wheel Of Fortune, winner of the Oaks
at Epson, won the Prince Of Wales
stakes yesterday at Ascot. England.
Commodore Foxhall A. Porter, COM
mnndGnt of the United States Naval
Academy, died at Annapolis. Md, yes
terdaY.
Tho appointment Of John T. Morgan,
Of Illinois. as Chief Justice Of tho SUI
Premo Court Of Idaho, has been con-
irmed by the Senate.
A terrible affair is reported from
Wheatland, Yuba county. California, in
which two young girls we've cruelty
beaten and left for dead.
Edward Par, convicted OF the murder
Of his daughter aud sentenced to death.
committed suicide in a PHILADELPHIA
Courtroom yesterday with poison.
4 steamer will leave Cincinnati next
week for the purpose Of picking up
colored people along tho banks Of the
Mississippi who desire to go north.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-15
An Outr1oe.

The State Board Of Education, tie
members OF which are j. II. Einkead,
A. J. Hateh and d. T.. Sessions, hes
Issued an order prescribing the Pacific
Coast Speller for use in the public
schools from AID after September list,
1879. Why it is that the text book used
In u schools are changed almost every
year, We cannot comprehend, unless it
should be that there is "something in
1t" for the Board. The publishers,
whose books are used exclusively, of
course have q fat thing, and can afford
70 spend considerable money in their
attempts to foist their inferior publica-
hons upon the suffering and indignant
public.
This change is entirely uncalled for
as tho Pacific Coast series OF school
books is the most inferior that has ever
been published, and the California
Board Of Education has fired them out
of'the schools in that State having tried
them and found them wanting. II our
Board would interest themselves in
matters more important to the advance.
ment Of our school system md the
pupils, they would receive the grateful
thanks OF the parents.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-15

The Mining and Semitic Trt', defines
a " coaster" 10 be a person who fre-
quonts abandoned or neglected mines.
and rummasing about, gouges any bits
OF good orc that may bavo been left In
tho deserted drifts and Slopes. though
not always serupulons as 10 how or
where he proseou,cs his calling. He 10
TO TO regarded not so much Ms n free
booter ss n cleaner, who goes over the
stubblc-hold gathering up whit hns
boen left and would otherwise BIO lost.
He visits old dumps. and c%vethauling
them, picks out any fragments Of good
looking ore that his eye may happen 10
light upon, and he has q quick eye TO
their detection. More or less OF this
gouging and cleaning.up work has been
praotised In all the old and nearly dc.
serted mining camps in tho country;t tho
o%verhauling Of waste dumps being COM
mon wherever the owner will permit II.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-15
EIko INDEPENDENT.
Geaeral Ewing.


The Democratic nominee ill be a foe
- easily conquered. The following
RsPabliesn opinion OF the General We
clip from the Associated Press dis
paAehes:
John Bresben Wall. Secretary sher-
nan's intimate friend. and editor of the
Washington RsPsi|e, Says in to days
Issue Of his pSrer: 1t is the sheerest
H0nsense to talk about the Democratic
0oninAiions in Ohio as being weak
ones. The ticket is by 10000 votes
stronger than sny other which the Dem.
oeats could have put in the field. The
oontest which Is about to take place in
Ohio is in no sense lioeaI one. Ohio
u the chosen ground upon which the
battle between the Republican party
md the Democratic party for the pos
SeAion Of the government in 1850 is to
be fought out To attempt I belittle
oensral Ewing is only to distrac; atten-
Non from the real issue. The Demo
cat1 have s~killfully chosen their leader
for be Is a strong man, of high personal
character. of6reat ability. As s speAker.
Of hne PERSONAL presence, and has
extraordinary popularity. Moreoyer.h he
has the advantage Of holding views on
What is the popular side of the money
question in Ohio
Walker also asserts upon the author
tty OF conversations with promineu,
Ohio Greenbaekers that their party does
not intend to make an active canvass.
and that sooner or later General Pratt
will be Withdrawn in favor of Ewing.
Who is regarded in that State as the
letter Greenbaeker Of the two.
With a name like this at the head Of
the ticket who Will say that the Demo
Gratis will o march on to gIor;oUs vic
tory? With Ohio assured to the Dem
oerats, what show will the Republicans
have for the next Presidential candi-
date?
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-15
Grant,.

The Herald continues to decry tho
movement for a monster delegation to
meet Grnnt in San Francisco. We do
not see why agreat metropolitan journal
should bother itself about such small
affairs. If the proprietor OF the Herald
had been travelling in n foreign country
for a couple OF years and some Of his
friends and admirers were to get up n
grand reception for him, nothing wrong
would probably be found in the act by
that paper, but the reception OF Grant
is considered by them as almost a crime.
lf;the excursion was not continually
noticed by the press OF the United
States, 1t would in all probability turn
out to be a fizzIe and il il is from now oil
severely let alone it may come TO this
yet. We do not $40 any political sig.
niicance in this excursion; it is in our
mind simply a speculation gotten up by
some d who has made arrangements
for tickets TO cross the continent, at a
certain price, and who would like to
dispose Of them at n profit.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-15
The NInaonn I'm ScssInn.


The Grand Chspter OF Royal Arch
Aasons. Of the State OF Nevada, met in
session at Virginia City, at ~ o'clock,
Monday, with the following officers
present: NJ. T., Philip seldner. OF vir-
ginia, Grand High Priest; Il. T.. David
z. Bailey. OF Eureka, Deputy Grand
High Priest; II. T., Frank Bell. Of
Reno, Grand King; II. E., Horatio S..
Mason, Of Carson, Grand Scribe; RE,
Charles Krust, Of Reno, Grand Treas.
urer; Il. E., John d. Hammond, Of
Carson, Grand Secretary; + Trenmon
Cofin. Of Carson. Grand Captain OF the
Host: E.. Jonas Seely, " Virginia.
Grand Royal Arch Captain; T., Samuel
p. Kelley, Of Eureka, Grand Chaplain ;
T.. George N. Els, Of Virginia. Grand
orgapist; Comp. Ebert 8. Kincaid, Of
Virginia. Grand Guard, and rcpreson.
taiive Of eight subordinate Chapters.
The Grand Chapter was opened in M
pie form and Mill be In session several
dsys.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-15

1t is now suspected that there was
foul play in the sinking six mouths ago
Of the boat Serenade in Brunswick, Ga.
harbor. A corpse was found a few days
since when the forecastle parted. II
was not eaten by fishes and must have
been confined. The two men who dis
appeared with her were sailors who had
just been paid of, and the two parties
in charge swan ashore.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-15

The German representative at Lima
has been instructed by telegraph to
apply for the release Of the German
steamer Luxor, detained at Callao by
che PeruviAns. on the allegation that
she vas conveying eontrabands OF war.
At the graduating exercises Of the
Naval Academy at Annapolis yesterday.
r. H. Miner. Of Ohio, took the first
honors in the class Of cadet midship-
men, and Richard Gatevood. Of Viz
ginia, the first honors in the class Of
cadet engineers.