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The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-08-21

Mems furnishing goods, overalls, working
ing shirts, gentlemen and ladies' hose at
Bagby's, 80 Indiana avenue.
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CITY NEWS.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Take Notice.

If You fail TO receive your paper, no.
tify this Office at once.
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School satchels,
School satchels,
School satche.s,
Fancy Bazaar, E. Washington st.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-08-21

Overalls, workshirts, suspenders, towels,
etc., at 30 Ind. avenue, Wesley Block.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-08-21

All forms OF Blood and Skin Diseases
are Permanently Cured

Such as letter, salt rheum, scrofula or syphiitic
Sores structures seminal weakness or spermstorhea,
chronic venereal kidney urinary diseases OF either
sex, young or old, matter how had. We challenge
comparison with any ply stefan in America in cur
ing these diseases. Loss of manhood restored. The
Doctors refer to hundreds thus affected who credit
their present existence to being cured by them All
moles, birth marks and freckles removed Also All
the various diseases of the eye and ear.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-08-21

Large Crowds will be in attendance
from Cincinnati, Louisville, and all parts
Of Indiana.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-08-21

Indian Botanic Physicians
LATE OF LONDON, ENGLAND,

The most successful catarrh, lung and throat doc
tors in America permanently located AZ the cor
mel OF Illinois and Louisiana streets Indianapolis
Indiana, where they will examine all diseases and
REORGANIZATION Free, in either German or English
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-08-21

s~Lovers OF Sport. don't fail to be present
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-08-21

Friday, p. NJ, Grand Free for All
Trot, Purse $4,000.
The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-08-21

Thursday, p. M, 3 Year Old Trot,
Purse $500. Running Race, Purse
$l6O. 90.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17
A Journey Under the Earth.

Early next year Baltimore win cele-
5rate the completion of its water-supply
tunnel. The tunnel is seven miles in
length, and about twelve feet in dame
ter. Upon the day of inspection the
water will be turned on gradually at
the upper end of the tunnel, and flow
through until about four feet deep at
the lower end. Several long boats will
then be launched into the mouth of the
tunnel at the Lake Montebello end, in
which the. party will make the trip
through the tunnel of water. They
viii be propelled by paddles or short
oars. By the time the party has made
half the distance the lower end of the
tunnel will be completely filed by the
water, which will be slowly turned on
at the upper end during the trip.
Headlights win be placed on the boats
and at the arches, which will have been
erected where the fifteen now are; bril-
liant lights will be displayed, and large
numbers win designate each shaft.
Every arrangement win be made topre-
vent accident, as the drowning of the
party, which, of course, will include the
city fathers, wonld be an inauspicious
opening Of the great waterworks. The
trip up the subterranean river viii oc-
cupy several hours, and viii be the first
one of the kind ever made.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17
The Romance Of q Hospital.

Isuppose nearly every body read the
account of the Princess Louise's recent
visit to the East London Hospital for
Children; but l doubt If more than some
half dozen people are acquainted with
the romantic history of its foundation.
Many years ago a young lady-an or
phan of good family and an heiress to
boot-began to have grave doubts
whether life was not more serious
matter than the traditions of her class
had led her to suppose. Now, just when
she was just beginning to be haunted by
a vague longing to make her life noble
and useful, came the well remembered
cholera plague, and the opportunity she
desired presented itself. She left her
luxurious home, volunteered as an anna
teur nurse, and attended the sick and
dying through all the loathsome malady.
One might have thought that her bitter
experiences in the cholera wards would
have made her long for her formerly
luxurious life. But, no. She now de-
termined to take up the study of medi-
cine, and had already passed her pre-
liminary examinations when she met,
loved and married Mr.. Nathaniel Heck
ford, a young medical man. The hus-
band and wife, both equally full Of
philanthropic enthusiasm, then resolved
to establish . hospital where one was
sorely needed-in the east of London.
Mrs. Rockford cheerfully devoted q
great part of her fortune to the purpose,
and the hospital sprang into being
without the public finding sixpence. II
went through the usual yicissitudes
which attend Institutions of this sort !;
but after Charles Dickens wrote that
brilliant account of it, called The Star
in the East" its prosperity was secured.
To make long story short, the con-
nection between the Heckfords and the
hospital came to an end. Mr.. Heck
ford died, and his wife went to Naples.
There she helped to promote Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to AMI
mails; and, Uncover. wrote . note
called I" Excelsior" Then she went in
for adventurous travels, going through
Arabia and the widest part of India,
often accompanied merely by one guide.
She tried to practice medicine among
the women of the Zenana, but, finding
it impossible to overcome native preju-
dices, abandoned the idea. Since then
she has disappeared from civilized ken,
the latest news received of her being
that she is with party of colonists in
Africa, busily engaged in learning os-
trich farming, which she f0ndly
imagines will furnish some of our re-
dundant female population with means
of earning their livelihood. -Londou Fl
caro-.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17
A Good Night for Bear.

Up near the foot of the mountains,
above his ranch, in South River Valley,
c. w. Cook has summer corral, where
he has been dipping his sheep. Last
month number of bears came down 10
the corral one night and stampeded the
sheep. Several were killed and their
carcasses dragged off. Afterwards, as
regular as night came, eight bears
would come down from the timber and
dine on mutton. Several pilgrims in
the employ of Mr.. Cook went out a
couple of nights for "bar meat" but
the gloom of night and solid phalanx of
eight bears marching down the hillside
in soldiery line would dampen their ar
dor and cause a retreat. Finally Mr.
Cook and John Potter concluded they
had "lost" few bears, and one night,
about ten days ago, they repaired to the
field, stationed themselves and awaited
the arrival of Messrs. Bruin. They
came, the company of eight. The boys
turned loose on them with their repeat
ing rifles, and when the din of battle was
over and the smoke cleared away, there
lay deado the field four bears. Cook
and Potter can claim the belt of Meagher
County as champion bear killers.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17
Uncle Remus's Homemade Philosophy

Pigs dunno wat pens fer.
Dogs don't bite at de front gate.
Colt in the barley-patch kick high.
Pullet can't roost too high fer de owl.
De howlin' dog know wat he sees.
Bline boss don't fall wen he follers de
bit.
Don't fling away de empty wallet.
Black snake know de way ter de hin
nes'.
Looks won't do ter split rails wild.
De pig dat runs off wild de year er
corn gifts little mo- dan de cob.
Licker talks mighty loud wen it gifts
loose fun de Jug.
Sleepin' in the fence cornder don't
fetch krismus in the kitchen.
Tween de bug en- de bee martin faint
hard ter tell who's gwineter git ketched.
You'd see mo- er de mink eff he
know'd whar de yard dogs sleeps.
Hongry rooster don't cackle wen he
find wum.
Trubbles is seasonin'. Simmons Amt
good twell dey r fros'-bit.
Watch out wen you'er gittin all you
want. Fattenin' hogs amt in luck
atlantic (Ga.) Constellation.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

Two men from ulinois-farmers, APP
parently, sturdily built and ordinarily
intelligent-entered the st. Louis Re
publican Office the other afternoon,
about 8 o'clock. and, before they left,
one of them had created a sensation of
a decidedly startling nature and afford
ed one of the most striking illustrations
on record of extreme suspicion and
simplicity, sr..
The men said that they wished to
look through the building, and were
told that they would be taken upstairs
upon going to the elevator, the location
of which was pointed out to them. One
of the men entered the elevator, but
the other, for some reason, stayed out
side. The boy in charge of the ele-
vator closed the door and pulled the
rope, starting the thing upward. As
the elevator began rising, the man in
side leaped to his feet, glared about him
in terror, and yelled out, "My God,
where am goingr" He hesitated but
an instant. The elevator was moving
slowly, and the transom over the door
was still visible. Ina desperate endeav
or to escape, the terrified man threw
himself at 1t head first, at the same mo-
ment that the boy, with rare presence
of mind, jumped to the rope and re-
versed the movement The action was
just in time; the ascending elevator
caught the passengers head between its
floor and the casing of the tran
som, and pinched it slightly be
fore the movement was reversed
and the head released. Then the man
jerked back and, as the descending ele-
vator showed the glass window in the
door beneath, he again plunged for
ward, head first, and went through like
cannon-ball, striking at length on the
floor of the hall leading to the street
amid mass of broken sash and shat
tered glass. Then quick as lightning
the terror-stricken being bounded to his
feet and out of the hall and up Chestnut
Street like the wind, following his only
less terrified companion who had dashed
out into the street at the first yell from
the elevator.
The alarmed countrymen were fol-
lowed, and at last the man who had
leaped through the window was induced
to come back and be convinced that the
danger he had fled from was imaginary.
He was taken to the elevator and its use
explained to him, but he could not be
persuaded to make trip init. He ex-
planned that when he stepped in he had
no idea that he was to be "elevated, -
evidently thinking the place but the en-
trance to stairway. When the ele-
vator began moving he thought he had
fallen into one of the murderous traps
of great city and was being taken up
to be murdered or robbed, or dissected,
or to undergo some experience equally
horrible-he did not know what. 1t
was in vain that an effort was made to
detain him about the place for any
length of time. His back hurt him, he
said, and he went away, pallid, but
wiser. The whole occurrence was some
thing astonishing. 4.tc.ft sas ~ rfs
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

On Christmas Day Robert Mitchell,
one of the foremost business men and
capitalists of Cincinnati, assembled his
family, consisting of sons, daughters
and grandchildren-26 in all-for a
Christmas dinner. The first course
was 26 envelopes, passed around on a
tray, one envelope for each member Of
the company. Opening these, the as
tonished relatives found gifts of houses
and lots and money, ranging from $780,
900 dollars down, and aggregating fully
half a million dollars-the bulk Of Mr..
Mitchell's estate. His two sons and
two daughters received $4,000 each
the daughters-in-law gifts of valuable
real estate, and the grandchildren sums
of money. 1t is the most extensive
ante-mortem distribution of property
that has taken place in Cincinnati. Mr..
Mitchell's desire was to keep the matter
quiet, but the peculiar manner of dis
tribution soon led to rumors, which he
has found necessary to correct by giving.
the complete story. ~
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

ONE day last month carriage drove
up to a handsome house in Munich
(Bsvaria), and four well dressed men
alighted and entered by key. Pres
emily they reappeared bearing q human
form completely enveloped in cloth, Of
which he made vigorous efforts TO dis
embarrass himself. The carriage inn
mediately drove of at q rapid rate.
The person abducted was q man of IS,
in any thing but health, who was to
have married that very evening q poor
young girl. All efforts to discover the
abductors or abducted have failed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17
Odds and Ends.

"A rich mans son lives on his pap.
-Courtship is draw game marriage
is a tie.
"A good judge of mutton ought to be
wether--wise. s
There is something in store for us
all, but it takes money to persuade the
clerk to hand it out. Esd
Its the same with men as with
eggs: You can't tell whether they are
good or bad till they're broke.
Half the shopping world is out look
ing for something to buy; the other half
is looking for something to buy it with.
&c That's what beats me-" as the
boy said when he saw his father take
the skate-strap down from its accus-
toned nail.
-" knew il wasn't lost; l never lose
any thing" asthe careful housewife said
when she fishes the baby's shoe out of
the soup tureen.
=" A senses-taker, said the old lady;
+" Waak there's me an jeremiah, an
Sarah Ann, an that's all 'cept Jim, an
he's a fool an amt got no senses to
take.n
In 10000 years from now the coal
fields of the world will be exhausted,
and there is no reason why man in the
coal trade should not stick on an extra
quarter tomorrow. All such things
must be taken advantage of.
-"Why, Dick" said lady teacher
the other day, "you are getting to be
an awfully good boy lately; ever SO
much better than you were last year.
How is itp" "Ohl pshaw! Miss Het-
Iy,' said the youngster, 81 don't have
50 much tummick-aehe now"
"A Rochester pastor, widower,
to u young lady short time
since, but was rejected. His feelings
had the second severe test yesterday,
when widow neighbor sent him the
text to preach from: +" You
lsk and receive not because you ask
miss. James w., 5.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

TUsCARAwAs, Ohio, is excited over
what is spoken of as "the gradual pet
rifaction" Of 2-year-old son of Joseph
Kinsley. Last July the legs of the little
one became useless, and from that time
on have so hardened that they present
the solidity as wen as the appearance of
stone. A living petrified child was
never before known, and the medical
men Of Tuscarawas are reported to be
dumbfounded.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17
JACQUES NARBoNxE was educated to

JACQUES NARBoNNE was educated to
become Roman Catholic priest, but
turned out q rogue, and never entered
holy orders. T He set up as a poet, but a
volume of poems which he published as
his own proved to be stolen. He trav-
eled as an aristocrat, calling himself the
Count de st. Foy, but was soon exposed.
The inposture ended his European ca
reer, and he came to America, choosing
Montreal for his new home. The police Of
that city were lately informed that he
had ordered 100, 900 Imitation Canadian
postage stamps to be made by New York
photographers. He is now in jail.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

CANNED PEAs.-Open can Of peas
an hour before cooking them, that there
may be no musty, airless taste about
them, and turn into bowl. When
ready for them put on a farina-kettle or
one saucepan within another of hot wa
ter. If dry, add cold water to cover
them, and stew about twenty-five min
utes. Drain, stir in a generous lump of
butter; pepper and salt.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

THIN ice let three interesting little
girls of Millbury, Mass, who had ven
tured npon Towards pond to skat4
into the water, and all were drewned
They were Jane Smith, aged II years,
and Josephine and Adeline Bieso, aged
~ and Is years.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Hannah Adams was the pioneer
among. literary, women in America.
She wrote a book entitled Views of all
Religions" which caused her to be
looked upon with curiosity, awe and dis
like, as a woman monster.
Grace Greenwood's daughter Annie,
who went abroad with her mother to
cultivate her voice for the stage, has re-
nounced that project. She says the
European plan for cultivating the voice
is entirely too narrowing for her.
Among Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock
Craik's pretty poems there is none pref
tier than "Philip, My King" Few of
those who read and are fond of this
piece of verse know that the baby it
glorifies is now Mr.. Philip Bourke Mars
ton, the blind poet. He is Mrs. Craik's
godson. ~ aa
-Kossuth is about to publish the
memoirs of his life, and has issued an
appeal for subscriptions. 1t is sad to
learn that the veteran orator, now in his
seventy-eighth year, has been forced to
undertake this task in order to earn
money, since he lives entirely by the
produce of his pen.
--Of Thackeray, Mr.. Lippincott, the
Philadelphia publisher, says: "Thack-
cray was less ELUSIVE than Dickens, but
he was more genuine. He was delight
full at dinner party, but not so ready
rs Dickens as a public speaker. His
literary fame, though less splendid than
Dickens's during life, will probably be
more lasting"
M. Alphonse Daudet, the author of
"Thc Nabob" and Sidonie," and
now, perhaps, the French writer, after
Hugo, most popular in America, is a
man still in his forties. He is hand
some man, blue-eyed, with blonde hair,
and is kindly, charming in his manners,
and very heartily liked by his brother
writer's.
Mrs. Rosa Hartwick Thorpe was
the author of " Curfew Must Not Ring
Tonight when she was but l6 years
old. This poem has been one Of the
! most effective renditions of public
readers. 1t has been translated into
German, and several English plays have
been based upon it Mrs. Thorpe is a
resident of Litchiield, Mich.
kate Field made a stroke of for
tune by the telephone. Her assistance
was required to bring it before the Lon
don public. She did excellent service
singing, talking and reading through il
in public and private places, and called
attention to It both socially and COM
mercially. For this she received a sal
airy and certain number of shares OF
stock. which. MS thew ORIGINALLY sold for
$50, and can now hardly be had for
$1,000, have brought her generous re-
turn.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17
school and Church.


The Free-Will Baptists will cele-
brate their centenary next year.
Mrs. Cornelia Meter of Waterloo,
Iowa, has given $50, 900 to .endow. a
chair of practical theology in the Gar
rett Biblical Institute of Iowa.
The Reformed Episcopal Church
seems to be making satisfactory head
way in England During the present
year 5000 members have been gathered
into the fold. nes's5.iofsF = tl.f
The Rev. Charles Scott gives the
following statistics of ministers in Great
Britain: Episcopal, 25,163; Congrega-
tional, 5,2i6, Presbyterian, 4 ,95i; Meth
odist, $500. Total, 39,349.
Skeleton sermons can now be pur-
chased in New York, which may be
stuffed by the preacher according to
taste. This, in measure, does away
with unconscious plagiarism.
AT the recent sale of seats in Prof.
Swings new church, Chicago, Mr.. John
Wentworth, being the highest bidder,
took the first choice. The premiums
amounted to 90, 800, which sum will be
given to various charitable institutions.
The Theological Seminary at
Columbia, s.. Co. which lost heavily by
the failure of Adger & Co., of Charles
ton, was i'm danger of having to close its
doors and discontinue its work. A few
wealthy friends of the seminary have
now united to raise enough to help
Adger & Co. pay the debt. This keeps
life in the seminary. ifi
New York City has has one church
for every 2,6l3 of population; Brooklyn
one for every 1,721; Washington one
for every 1872; Cleveland one for every
1,0i4 New Orleans, one forevery 1,345 !;
Cincinnati one for every 1880; Balti-
more one for every 1,4l2; Boston one
for every 1,666 and st. Louis one for
every ], 1852. s'iaN ~
To show the great good done by
Sunday school library books, the stste-
ment is made that 20 years ago q Bap-
tist Sunday school in Boston sent IL
brary to Lawrence, Kansas. After it
had been there some time it did duty
in the first Sunday school which was
opened in Denver. Thence it was
transferred to an anti-Mormon Sunday
school ut Salt Lake City, where it is
supposed to be still doing its duty.
There are five fourishing churches
in Iseadville, representing the Methodist
Episcopal, Presbyterian, Baptist, Episco-
pal and Catholic societies--all of which
are fully attended, and in which the
preaching is generally very good. The
Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians
have good, plain church cdifices. The
Episcopalans are building one, and the
Catholics are putting up fine brick
cathedral. NJ
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

BAKED BEErs. These excellent veg
etables are quite as good baked as boiled,
and the sugar is better developed by the
baking process. The oven should not
be too hot, and the beets must be fire.
quently turned. Do not peel them un-
til they are cooked, then serve with but
ter, pepper and salt. a
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

A FRENCH peasant halts before the
showcase of photographer, and gazes
upon reproduction Of Rauch's famous
group Of ;" The Three Graces ~ Oh,
those women -those women" signs the
A0nest man; they were too poor to
buy a stitch of clothing, but they could
md the money to get their pictures
takeni;,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

THE industrious bee does not ss9 ~, =
complain that there are 90 many = The
our flowers and thorny branches sorev
road, but buzzes on, selecting .ns 10 IL
where She can find it and passing " =
place where it is not.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17
Science and Industry.

Germany now sends TO the United
States for many of its Christmas toys.
Cork soles have become an import
ant industry in Williamsport, Pa.
The tobacco crop of the Connccti-
cut Valley is greater than in any other
year since 1864.
The South raised 1900, 900 pounds
more of tobacco the present season than
ever before.
"A machine for making paper boxes,
just introduced ut Cleveland, produces
$4,000 complete boxes ia day.
Another large cotton mill is in
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

A SAILOR is not sailor when he is
aboard; sailor is not sailor when he
Is ashore; but he must be either ashore
or aboard sl1erefOres, "a saiIor ID not q
sailor.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

The uniform of the late Prince Inn
perial has been found at kraAl near
Ulundi, the whole front of it pierced
with assegais. I.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

The remains Of a knight of Pythias
have been denied burial in q Roman
Catholic cemetery at Winsted, Conn.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

" YES, 1 want my daughter to study
rhetoric" said the mother, "for she
can fry pancakes now without smoking
the house all up"