The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-06-25

repeated to them, long before they could read,
and almost as soon as they could speak. But
have never made proclamation of this from
the house-tops. Faithfully yours.
is.+ CHARLES DICKENS.
THERE was heavy rain storm Tuesday
night. Wednesday morning an extraordinary
spectacle was presented on the Long Ridge
road at the reservoir of the Bethel Water
company. The road and the banks thereof,
for a distance of 50 rods, swarmed with young
frogs. THESE animals were scarcely an inch in
length. They were in constant motion and
yet SO immense in quantity as to be unable to
get out of the way of the passing teams. Major
Wood and wife drove through them, finding 1t
impossible to avoid doing SO. Mr.. Wood says
the number of frogs could be estimated at
millions. The ground, as far as the eye could
reach, was covered with them. They undoubt-
eddy descended in the rain, Tuesday night,
and each must have descended on its head, as
none of them appeared to know where they
were going-Danbury Comm News, June IL
OF franklin Pierce an old friend has been
recalling some pathetic memoirs. 81 knew
him, !" he says, swhen his only boy was killed
In railroad accident, and when his wife, I'M
der the dreadful shock, pinned away and died.
knew him when he bore his great sorrow
silently and alone. People wondered at some
exhibition of eccentricities, and were wont to
slur him when seeing him, dressed in his
military cloak and fatigue hat, pulled down
over his eyes, walking down the middle of
Washington street, head down, turning
neither to the right nor left, no matter how
formidable might be the rush of horses or
vehicles. They slurred him because they for
got that this man, who loved friends better
than fame, had teen bereft of his all, and
though surrounded by nation was in his
heart of hearts alone. L knew the ex-presi-
dent in Concord. 1 remember him as he still
seemed sad and alone. remember observing
him one day as he stood upon the piazza of
his residence in Concord, and for full hour,
with his arms folded, faced a driving snow
Storm"
Mrs. LYDIA MARIA CHILD, the authoress
and anti-slavery agitator, is now Il years old,
and lives at her old home in Wayland, Mass.
In the course of a recent conversation with a
writer in the Boston Herald she spoke of Gar
rison as a firm believer in Spiritualism, and
added: "Whittier admits that there is some
thing very mysterious and unexplained in it.
He told me that there was an old Quaker
whom he saw when he was a lad, who was re-
nowned for his prophecies. He very often
spoke under the influence of the spirit.
Whittier sent me a copy of prophecy made
by the old man IN 1903. 1t began by foretelling
great split in the church, which would COM
mence with the Presbyterians, and it would
include the Friends. We have since seen the
Presbyterians divide, and the Hicksite trouble
among the Quakers. Then the old prophet
said he saw great trouble about the slavery
question, which would end IN a war and
emancipation. He foresaw finally grand
gathering of the churches into an established
church and ruled by It. And he saw the Society
of Friends paying tribute to this church. And
he saw also a military despotism of the
country, though this would only be for While.
Now, this was a remarkable prophecy, and
all but the last two statements have been full
hlled.''