The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-07

pieces, threw the fragments In the air and swore
he would enlist as a private. The young men
were fired by the example. and company after
company was formed. The dashing soldiers
death, which occurred at Madison a few days
ago, was caused indirectly by exposure while In
the army.
AT a Methodist conference In New York,
Thursday, a city clergyman took occasion TO
warn his rural brethren against confidence men,
who were lying In wait for the unsuspecJing in
the Book Concern building and at the doors of
the church The speaker said he had happened
aIong just In time to prevent a country clergy
man from signing a check for a sharper.
MILE LIMA BRAUN, at whose villa at Baden
Baden Prince Gortchakoff died, will sue the sons
of the late ex-Chancellor for the $4,000 marks
per year which her guest had promised her. 1t
Is now said that the sons had hard work to pre-
vent their father from fulfilling his frequently
given promise to marry the woman, who Lad
completely fascinated him ever since the Berlin
Congress.
GOVERNOR SHERMAN is, according to ex-Secre-
tary Kirkwood, having the hardest time any
Governor of Iowa ever had. "Surely, Governor"
he recently said to his sturdy old predecessor,
"you must have had a worse time during the
war" "Oh, no." answered Mr.. Kirkwood. "Of
course, l had a hard time; but then every man
who dared find fault with me was declared dis
loyal, while now every barker at your heels can
find some one weak and mean enough 10 sympa-
thlze with him."
THE late Peter Cooper was never conceited,
although he was persistent in obtaining publioa-
ton of his ideas. He had that suavity which
accompanies honest simplicity; and there was q
rural, hesitating air in his most positive intona-
lions. Perhaps Peter Cooper, more than any
I Nfhou
leans who, while making money, do not
carry a brass band with them in their endeavors
through life. He drank much milk in his later
! days, and he said that 1t kept him in good
/ health.
( MAURICE VIGNAUX, the French billiard cham
pion, whose brilliant achievements in the Chi
cago tournament have attracted SO much atten.
ton, is a stout man of commanding height, with
a pleasant face, a double chin, a small mustache,
and long, bushy, black hair. He is thirty-eight
years old, over SIX feet in height, and weighs
250 pounds, being the largest and heaviest
billiard expert in the world. He devoted him.
self to the game early in life, and became famous
years ago, having easily beaten all the crack
players in this country on his first visit to Amer
lea IN 1874.
OF the late Henry A. Patterson, of Hartford,
Conn, the Times of that city tells the following
tuO IL 0d6 III II blOOtJ CllO 1 L Y
tallgo. General Foster needed a courier with a
fast horse that could leap bitches. None such
offered. But young Patterson, when he heard
what was wanted, came forward, offering his SER
vices. He performed the hazardous duty, but on
returning was ambuscaded by a Confederate
company and greeted with a storm Of bullets.
His clothing was pierced by seven balls. One
bullet cut his sword belt, one hit his shoulder,
and one struck him in the forehead, cutting out a
piece of the skull and knocking him from his
horse. He was picked up for dead and carried
in an unconscious condition into the Union lines
in an ambulance; it was found that the ominous
bullet-hOle in the forehead had not penetrated
the skull, but, chipping off a piece of the bone,
had glanced around to the back of the head, un-
der the scalp" !
In his boyhood the late Chief Justice Chase
was adopted by his uncle, Bishop Chase. The
Cleveland Leader tells the following amusing
story of his early life. zone day the bishop
went away on one of his trips into the diocese,
and told Salmon to quit school early enough IN
the afternoon to kill and dress a pig. The young
man had never done anything of the kind, but
he knew that he must first catch the mig. He
did this after great trouble, and finally killed it,
But now the question arose how he should geU
the hair of. He had heard that the farmers
usually scalded hogs, and SO he heated O lot Of
water and soused the pig in. But he held the
pig in too long, and the water was too hot, so
that the hair was simply set, and would not
come out at all. The future jurlst dug away
with his fingers until they were raw, but to no
effect. He finally bethought himself of the
bishops razor, and getting 1t. shaved the pig
from nose to tail. Every one congratulated him
upon the good job he had done, but when the
bishop next tried TO shave himself he came as
near as bishops ever do to using profane lam
guage."