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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

IT is expensive to die as well as to live. While
1t takes millions to keep people out Of the
grave, it requires hundreds of thousands to de-
Gently put them in. The sexton, the minister,
the hearse, the casket and the carriages, all cost
something. So, too do black gloves and dresses
and wells. Few people feel able to die respecta-
bly,. and many doubtless are kept ont Of the
grave by the fear that they would not make the
trip there in good form. The dreadful uncer-
tainty whether consciousness ceases when the
breath has left the body, the heart has stopped
beating and the silence of eternity is on the lips,
is agonizing. What if the corpse could
think. and reason, and compared How
would it feel to find itself inside of a
twenty-dollar coffin instead of five hundred
dollar casket7 What would its emotions be il it
knew that the cerements were made for show,
and not for actual service9 That they were SIM
ply false fronts, without any back, or with backs
of cheap grade of eotton4 To find its hands in
most unnatural and clerical position, and an
old-style collar on9 All these drawbacks have a
tendency 10 interfere with the undertaking bust
ness, and to render dissolution unpopular.
In New York's great metropolis, Greenwood,
during the last year, 1856 interments were
made-fve and a half full regiments
making total of 2l6,799 burials in
that cemetery. An army of over
100000 bivouaoked there under the trees.
The receipts of the cemetery for the year were
$355,97l, and the expenditures, $349,929. The
total expense of the funerals must have been
not less than ten times that amount, or $780,
900, and that vast sum by the patrons of one
cemetery alone. Yet this was not lost nor
wasted 1t is a grotesque idea; but every dollar
spent for crepe went to better the condition of
the dealer In that article The money invested
in Baskets helped dress the undertakers wife,
and to pay for the big ball she gave this season.
The artist who put up the monument, from the
proceeds was enabled to put a biliard-table in
one OF his parlors. And so it goes! Death SIM
ply increases business, and what might other
wise become stagnant is quickened by number
of funerals. So, after all, while it is very ex-
pensive to de- we cannot all afford to live at the
expense of traffic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24
One Man Who viii Not Come Back

FInCeInt5 OUIIIItTUIHI.
mo, sir" she said, with emphasis on the
sir, "my husband won't be candidate for
Legislature next year. He has learned more
deviltry during the few weeks he has been in
indianapolis than ever before in all his born
davsn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

IN Paris oysters sell at the rate Of six cents
per dozen. Paris oysters are worth about that
much. They are about big enough to pepper
American oysters with.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

ga BUFFALO scientist explains that the Bs-
thetic way of cracking butternut is to make
an incison in the osseous endocarp at right
angles with the placent@ in the region of the
rudimentary sutures. In this way the operator
is able to strike the oleaginous ovule laterally."
more common way is to set the nut upon end
and mash your thumb with the hammer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24
TWELVE PAGES.
,pecia, Meeting of the Indiana Republican

Special Meeting of the Indiana Republican
Editorial Association.
A special meeting of the Indiana Republican
Editorial Association will be held at the Federal
courtroom at Indianapolis, beginning at 7:So
O'Clock, on the evening of Thursday, March 20,
1888. Matters of Importance await considera'
ton, and all members OF the association are
urgently invited to attend.
Republican editors who are not now members
of the association should communicate with the
president or secretary without delay.
W. s. LINGLE, President.
CuAs, E. WILSON, Secretary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24
The Same Soothing Shirt.
Philadelphia Press.

PhiIadelphia Press.
The same party who charged Cadet Whit
taker with cutting his own ears are nov
accusing Florence Dixie of stabbing her OWL
corset
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

1T is comforting to reflect that this winterish
weather may accidentally kill off few too pre-.
yiOus spring poets
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

WAvERLY, Ia, correspondent says dozen
ladies of that town are about to go to Dakota to
take homesteads. The object OF these women
seems worthy, and indicates a domestic and
home-loving spirit, but the Rev. Morgan Dix
would hardly be pleased. To approach his ideal
OF tmid, feminine dependence the married
women would stay in Waverly and take care of
the children, the unmarried ones could do mis-
sionary work, and all be happy, while the "men
folks" went on and preempted the land
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

THE New York public has been expecting to
witness the presentation of Henry James's
"Daisy Miller" at the Madison Square Theater,
but the manager for whom he dramatized the
story refused to accept the play on account of
Its length. play, say the managers, should
not consist of over 10000 or $4,000 words,
whereas this manuscript contained over $4,000
words. Mr.. James refused to cut 1t down, and,
rather than have his work spoiled in this way,
withdrew it from their hands. 1t is now being
published in the Atlantic monthly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

WILCOX, GIBBS & Co., dealers in fertilizers at
Savannah, Ca, have failed. They can't guano
further
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

SOME years ago kindly-disposed person
placed dozen gray squirrels in Central Park,
New York. They increased rapidly until there
are now colonies of hundreds Of them. The
park commissioners, finding that the little ami
mails caused much injury to the small shrubbery,
ordered them destroyed. and hunters were an
ticpating much sport in shooting them. Now
comes Mr.. Berg and points out the game law,
which prohibits shooting squirrel after Feb.
!. Nobody ever thought of game laws being
applicable in cities, but SUCH on investigation,
proved to be the sad case, and the hunters put up
their little guns while the squirrels skip in MINI
bic freedom.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

Mr.. WILLIAM CRAWFORD, late of Australia,
more recently of Philadelphia, and now of the
land beyond Jordan, played 1t low down on his
relatives, and in way they despise Not long
since the old man returned from Australia,
where he had been for many years, hunted up
his long lost brothers and cousins, and gave the
impression that he was looking for heirs to his
great wealth. They were delighted to see him,
of course; fell upon his neck, and dined off the
latest veal the butcher could muster. A nephew
was detailed to wait upon his uncle, and, occu-
plying the same room, reported, with big
eyes, that the old gentleman wore q heavy
money-belt with two pouches attached, and also
had leather bag hung to string about his
neck. Beside these evidences of wealth, tue
uncle often arose in the night, opened his
"strong box" which stood In the room, and
fingered what sounded like gold coins. The
other day MIR. Bradford died suddenly, and be-
fore he was cold there was an examination of
his effects. Only fifteen cents were in his peck
cts. Nothing was found in the belt or the leather
bags. On opening the strong box few old
clothes were discovered, together with large
collection of brass buttons. When the stricken
relatives recovered from their grief sufficiently
to compare notes, it was found that no one could
actually remember having seen any money in
the hands of the deceased. He had accepted
their hospitality with great willingness, and
they had soorned to present "a board-bill, be-
cause, TO be sure, they would get their reward
some other day. The time they looked for has
come, but the reward seems to have been post
poned. The next uncle from abroad will be re-
quired to show the color of his money before he
can get much of welcome from the Branford
family.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

it take place in her room, and 1t was then dsoov-
cred that the clergyman had not arrived. He,
too, had been taken suddenly i'll, and another
minister was sent for. The ceremony was duly
performed in the presence of the family, after
which the bridegroom went down stairs without
the bride, and there received a curious mixture
OF condolences and congratulations. Under the
rather embarrassing circumstances the young
man might have been excused for falling ill and
fainting also, but no such calamity marred the
festivities
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-24

MR.. HAvERsTICK, of New York, is the man
who, having betrayed the confidence of his
former business partner and enticed away that
gentieman's wife, was shot by the woman's
brother day two ago. Mr.. Haverstick was
member of the Mining Exchange, and the
grief and agitation of that body expressed in
a series of resolutions are quite touching. Agita-
ton, indeed, of personal nature, rather more
than sorrow for the departed, seems to influence
the members strongly. They resolve that they
hear of Haverstick's death with deep pain and
regret, and gladly bear testimony to his ability
and integrity as a business man. The emphasis
placed upon these admirable qualities, las well
upon his alleged uniform courtesy ana kindness,
create a suspicion that the Mining Exchange
feels conscious of a weakness which can
nothing Incompatible in claim of "lntegrity"
for a man who robs friend of his greatest trea-
sure and a woman of her honor. This suspicion
deepers with the next resolution, and one can
fancy the members looking nervously over their
shoulders ready TO jump at the click of pistol
as they piously agree that "the sudden and
tragic death of their feew-member should re-
mind them of the uncertainty of life." 1t would
be interesting, but perhaps not edifyng to know
just how many grim shadows of enraged brothers
and wronged husbands stood in the background
while the afflicted exchange mourns the loss
of one of its members whose morals were posi-
bly, no lower in grade than those of his associ-
ates. After solemnly reaching the conclusion
that this sudden taking off should impress on
the minds of all with terrible soemnity the
obligation to SO live that when death shall come
they may stand in the sight of God and before
man without fear and without reproach, the
company adjourned. Each one, no doubt, firmly
resolved to Keep out of the way of big brothers
or other Infatuated relatives.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
Personal.

Rev. James IIerrick and his wife.
missionaries in southern India for nearly
IS years. have returned to America and
are now i'm BrattleborO. Mrs. Herrick's
former home.
Major Valentine, department COM
mander. and A. Z. Childs, State dele
gate, of Bennington. will attend the
national encampment G. A. r., next
July, in Denver. Colorado.
Governor Butler has appointed as
member of the Massachusetts board of
education Mr.. +. G. Carrigan, well
known in Vermont through his connec-
ton with the Phair case.
Jane Fisk. ST., died at the residence of
his son-in-law, in Brattleboro, Monday
evening, aged Il. lie wa a successful
dry-goOds peddler, travelling with II
fo|ur-in-hand through New York and
New England, viii his son, the late
James Fisk, il.
State Auditor Powell has started with
a span of horses and carriage to make a
tour of the State on business connected
with his office. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Powell. and will visit Chittenden,
Addison. Rutland, Windham, Windsor.
Orange, Caledonia. Lamoille and Frank
lin counties on the trip, which will
occupy several weeks.
A Boston Journal correspondent gives
this description of Senator Mrrilrs
home: Nesting in a narrow but
beautiful valley and encircled by the
verdure-clad hills of Orange county, in
the Green Mountain State, lies the
peaceful and pretty little hamlet of
STAFFORD, the home of the father of the
national tariff. Hon. Justin S. Morrill,,
the senior Senator of the State of Ver-
mont. Lying fal from the sound of the
iron horse and with one main thorough
fare running through the village, the old
town house. erected in 1893. standing at
the head of the street, and the traditional
country store and %pOstoffice combined
under one roof, where nearly half a
century ago the Senator used to measure
of ribbons and laces to the ~lassies. and
the necessaries and luXuries of life to
his rising constituency, this is the home,
scarcely changed through all the vicis-
STUDIES of fifty years, of the Hon. Justin
S. Morrill,. 1t is a strictly rural com
munity. the neat white-painted cottages
surrounded by well-kept lawns and beds
of flowers, presenting a pastoral scene
of rare attr~activeness."
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
The Christian Era.

Professor Sattler, of Munich, claims
the distinction of having solved the
problem as to the year in which Christ
was urn, and of having demonstrated
the TACT that the current year is prob
ably 1888 instead of 1888. He bases
hi proof mainly on three coins which
were struck in the rel II o. lIerod An
tipas, son Of l1erod the Great, and
which date consequently, tiom The first
halt of the first century of the current
era. Madden admits the genuineDess
of these coins, aud other numismatic
writers do the same. The evidence
they offer is said to coiUcide with the
narrative of the gospels aud with as
tronomical calculations. The follow
ing are the results at which Professor
Sattler has srrived: Jesus was born on
the 18th of December, 749 years after
the founding of Rome, aud commen-
ced his public career on November II,
$50 years after The founding OF
Rome. lie was then thirty years, ten
months aud twenty-five days old. The
date on which he commenced his ca
reel fell in the fifteenth year OF the
Emperor Tiberius, and in the forty
sixth year after the building of IIerod's
Temple. This is in accordance with
st. Luke iii, |, and t. John ii. 20.
Jesus died on the 9Th OF April, 1888 Of
the Roman era, that is to say. on the
FRIDAY before Passover; for it has
been ascertained by Exact calculation
that Passover fell that year on the 7lh
OF April, 1888; and as the latter year
was a Jewish leap year, and consisted,
accordingly, of thirteen months, his
puolic career lasted two Years and
sew II months. According to Profess
sor Sattler, the Christian reckoning is
at fault by five years. and we are now,
therefore, in 1888 and not in 1883.
lNeW York Tribune.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
Sulphur as a Cure for Catarrh.

Two citizens Of Williamsburgh re-
ferred a dispute they had yesterday,
about the efficacy of the vapor OF
burning sulphur in catarrhal affections,
to the police of the Flushing avenue
station for a decision. Near the police
station are large sulphur works, and
the one who held that the vapor was
eficacious had been unwilling to ask
the opinion of physicians. lie con-
tended that the police could, and
would, give II more valuable opinion
one not based on theory, but on facts.
Il contend" he said to a tribunal Of
policemen in the waiting room. that this
statement is true,' and then he translated
the following from Il German publication:
'In ill catarrhal affections the simple
inhaling of sulphurous acid soon effects u
cure. The acid kills the parasites that
haye entered and caused inflammation.
whereupon the pituitous glands are opened
and the phlegm Is expelled without diff
f%iculty. The discovery of bacteria in the
lungs of c%onsumptives also proves that
consumption il caused by microscopic
animalcules which infest and consume the
lungs"
Il guess that's So said one policeman.
Il know this. that you won't find many
people about here with the catarrh, and
I've heard it was the sulphur that keeps
them things away"
Every one knows that" said another.
You go to the works and the bosses will
tell you that that is just what it does, and
l believe them, for | used to have the
catarrh and used all sorts of remedies,
but they didn't do me any good. I'm moi
bothered with the catarrh now. and whyY
Because my beat for IA time was about the
works, Yes, right you are about the sui
phur."
''l've heard" said a third policemen. that
good many folks come to the place iusttO
sniff the sulphur. and I've seen people
walking about the works for hours. You
can get just AS good a sniff outside as in
Then this proves just what l say" said
the man who translated the German. "A
Mr.. Kircher, the proprietor of works in
New Orleans, in which a good deal of sui
phur is used. wrote this to a periodical in
Germany. He says that some of hie men
who were suffering with consumption when
they came to his works We're cured. Any
one. he says. who is afflicted can cure him
self by simply taking one or two drachms
of sulphur, burning it and inhaling the
vapor."
1t was decided that the vapor of burning
sulphur was efficacious for the cure of
catarrh and consumption.-Ne,o York San.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
General Notes.

For the last fiscal year the customs
duties on liquors imported into the
United States amounted to more than
six millions of dollars.
A society called 1.-THE Theatrical
Mission" exists in England. compris-
lag about 600 ladies, who are engaged
in corresponding with members of the
stage about re. gion. They write
constantly to leading members of the
profession, and it is said that very few
lake offence. Rooms have been open
ed in King street, Covent Garden,
London, where there is n library, and
means OF recreation and good, light
refreshments are provided for the pro-
tsssiOn. There have been $4,000
atiendances at the place.
The Llindoos of the temple of
Bharara, in Bengal, have for years
been worshipping a brass casting of
The arms ofthe old East India company.
1t was amounted with sandal wood oil
every dav. The priests were 10th to
believe their mistake, and greatly
objected to giving up the brass. The
demand for idols in India furnishes a
very profitable trade TO certain English
Christians. 1t is said BIZ mingham
manufacturers sell a great number of
images of heather deities to the natives
at an enormous advance over the cost
of production.
was asking Edward NJ. McCook
recently it there were any good mines
in this country, my question being
based on the knowledge that most of
the mines that had been peddled in
stock here had brought their buyers to
grief. lie rold me hat there were
numbers I good mines privately held,
and menti ned the Tombstone group
in Arizona and another series of mines
III that Territory which were giving
out several hundred thousand dollars
each per month. lie said that toward
Mexico the mines were more reliable
than further north and that sharp prac-
lice in mining stocks could only
arise from mining successes. The
richest men in California aud Colorado
had made all their money in mines or
in mining stocks, and generally took
the bulk of tue money out of he mine
first and then took another fortune out
OF the stock holders. The business of
mining being in the nature of gam
bling, it of course entailed more loss
for a large number of people than gain.
Yet the aggregate of mining produc-
ton, as clearly shown by the govern
mert reports, was Sc large that if min
ing were abandoned the Mount of
ready money in this country would be
very materially diminished. While
the Americans grumble about the n'n-
success Of their mines, foreigners here
are very much impressed with OUT
mining wealth and the richness of par
ticular deposits they had examined,
hut they did not expect to make a
great fortune in two or three mouths,
and were content with a safe and re-
spectacle return annually. 1ri6une's
Broadway LOunger.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
can infant crying in the night,
An infant crying for the light,

The child was in Opain and knew no
better han to cry until morning, or un-
til somebody brought him something to
relieve his suffering. Everybody who
has the care of a small child should re-
member that the little fellows pains and
gripes are even more severe to him than
corresponding pains would be to a big
man. Acting on this. it is wise always
to have Perry Davis's Pain Killer on
hand.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
An Idyl of the Street.

Girl on a ladder,
hopping off a winder;
Long comes q man,
With no one nigh to hinder;
Climbs up the ladder,
Puts his arms around her,
Smacks her on the mouth
A fOrty-horse-power sounder-
Naughty mani
The girls turns around,
With a sudden stop,
Reaches for the man
To use him for a mop;
Gets a good, strong hold,
No one nigh to hinder,
Goes right ahead
Mopping OF the winder-
With the mani
rot Liar
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
FIRST CLASS REPAIR SHOP.

Grateful for patronage and appreciation in the
past, he solicits the remembrance and custom OF
old friends, and would like 10 make the acquain.
lance of new ones.
Middlebury, w., April 8, 1888. Hiu
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-11-09
SAssAaO coUxTY ofexaIsfxr.
Lancaster

Lancaster.
If you want to buy good goods cheap,
call and see J. NJ. Logan at Lillard's old
stand.
Mrs Mollie Smith and Kee Kinnaird
will be pleased 70 see all of their customers
at the old stand.
IA Logan buys goods for Cash and
sells for Cash. Consequently you may eI-
pect to buy goods chesp.
Just received new line OF dress goods
and velvets at ]. NJ. Logans- Call and see
them.
Call and see new line Of eloaks at
Logans, Lillards old stand.
5 Mr.. W. o. RiRnsy is very Ill. Jno. S.
Gill and DR.. Sam Burnside left to visit the
Exposition yesterday. -
The c. Ky Ners has a sensi BILE editori-
al on the great Louisville show, in which il
shows the Country cousins" how they are
-taken in" and made to spend their money
in the city, thus cheating home merchants
out Of their dues.
The Garrard County Bible Society will
meet at the Methodist church Sunday
morning next All are invited to attend
the interesting services and each and every
one is expected to contribute something for
the great work done in the county. By the
Efforts Of this society bibles have been Ell
Their sold or given to every family within
our county limits.
"A large number Of German carp were
received and distributed here yesterday to
farmers for transplantation in ponds, where
they grow rapidly. A minnow will grow
10 weigh four or five ponds within year,
but they are not so good for cooking pur-
poses as any Of our common fish, unless you
except the sucker. II has been stated that
the favor Of the carp is very offensive to the
smell and nauseous to the taste. The
Dame Juliana Berners described the carp
as "deyn'o ls dish." Unforiur aisly this