The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-16
STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Mrs Cougar Talks Sharply at the
Citizens of Anderson.
Gold Discoveries in Ohio County-Island
Park ACCOMPLISHMENTS Camp
MeetiDg-NOtes from Two States.
INDIANA.
Mrs, Cougar Causes a COmmotion Among
the Anderson People.

Mrs. Cougar Causes a ComnotIon Among
the Anderson People.
Anderson Special.
Last Sunday the different ministers of the
city announced from their pupits that Mrs.
Cougar would speak on the subject of tenn
peranee, at the Presbyterian Church, on
Thursday night, and she arrived in the city
to find that the doors of the church had been
closed against her. Nothing daunted, she
secured the courtroom, and held forth to
large audience. During her address she was
extremely bitter on the hummer element"
and after making the assertion that "a whisky
drinking Republican is the meanest man on
earth" she turned her attention to the trus-
tees of the church She said 'Those who
have closed the doors of the church against
lme are strangers. / do not know who they
are, but l say boldly that, whoever they are,
they are either whisky drinkers or men who
pamper to the hummer element and are
licentious men," AS might be expected
this denunciation caused a great commotion.
Next morning Mrs. Cougar was seen by
reporter, and to him she made the same
statement supplemented with the assertion
that Mr. kanouse, the pastor, was moral
coward who carried whisky on one shoulder
and religion on the other. Mrs. Cougar
extremely bitter and declared that this was
public that church had closed its doors
upon her, and that, too, OF denomination
of which she is a member.
There are two sides to this controversy, and
the general opinion is that Mrs. Cougars in
discreet remarks have lost her many friends
in this city. Mr.. Forty was the only trustee
spoken to, and he gave his permission for
Mrs. Cougar to use the church.
One or two or the congregation
objected and at their request the
pastor conveyed the objection to Mrs. Gou
gar. No arrangement had been made for a
temperance lecture, but for union prayer
meeting of all the churches in the city, and
Mrs. Cougars statement that she had been
refused the church because the trustees were
prejudiced against her on account of her
trial, was entirely uncalled for and untrue
The trustees stand high in social and bust
ness circles and Mrs Cougar is the first who
has ever insinuated that they were immoral
men. Mr.. Kanouse, who comes in for a
large share of vituperation. is genial, clever
a fine scholar, and has the respect of the en-
tire community. He would make no state
ment, conteutng himself by saying that this
IS not the first time Mrs. Cougar has made
an uncalled-for attack on him.
Discoveries of Goldbearing PIacers in South
eastern Indiana.
AURORA, July 14-Before the American
Association for the Advancement of Science
at its meeting in Cincinnati in August, 1881,
DIR. George Sutton of this city, delivered an
exhaustive address on the Collaborating drift
of Indiana" He maintained that on the
high lands of Boone county, Kentucky, and
on the hills and in the valleys of southeast
ern Indiana, there are glacial deposits which
no doubt existed before the formation of the
valleys. Dr. Sutton then demonstrated that
in the valley of Laushery creek, dividing
Ohio and Dearborn counties, gold could be
seen with the naked eye in the form of dust,
flattened scales and small nuggets; and in
an excavation six feet long, five feet broad,
and two feet deep, s. worth OF gold had been
obtained.
This address was published by the society
and attracted the attention of scientists all
over the country, Recently the scientific
societies of Cleveland and Chicago sent out
Professor Lewis, of the former, and Pro-
lessor Kedzie, of the latter place, to investi-
gate DIR. Sutton's theory. During the past
week those gentlemen visited the highlands
OF Ohio county and the Laughery valley and
hills, and after careful investigation they are
able to verify DR.. Sutton in every particular.
They have already spent week in the vicin-
ity engaged in the research, and they are
now in Ripley county, near Osgood. They
will, we are informed, remain in southeast
ern Indiana during the month of July.
That many discoveries of interest to science
will be made there is no doubt Their re-
ports to the Chicago and Cleveland societies
will be looked for with great interest as
Professors Lewis and Kedze are eminently
qualified to make thorough and complete
Investigation.