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Silk Culture.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Jouruab
The honor OF first discovering, producing
and trading in silk probably belongs to the
Persians; though the Chinese claim that
China woman of the highest rank was the
originator of the delicate and elegant art of
manufacturing it into an article of wear
This industry of Asiatic origin and forty-six
centuries old, which has its chief develop
1nent in Syria and the countries of southern
Europe, is now brought near u.s. even to the
banks of Shawnee creek, in Shawnee town
ship, of Fountain county. 1t is not main
famed that 1t is now for the first time intro
duced into this country; for who has not
read that King James 1, of England, about
the time that Pocahontas, as some say
saved the life OF Captain Smith, say
rs years ago, introduced its culture
into our country by sending to Virginia
mulberry trees silk-worms and a book of
instruction of his own composition, and en-
couraged its growth in that colony by legis-
alive enaotments2 And who has not read
IF the mania for speculation in the morus
muticaulis, which, about fifty years ago.
apread over the country and brought such
disa ter to those engaged in it, and temporary
disa, ter to the manufacture of silk goods in
.shis country. All this has happily passed
away, and there seems to be hopeful and
nwlpg revival of the industry. Experienced
sgfaeturers say that the raw silk pro-
nnaerrege is equal to the India or Japan.
work suly walk of fifteen minutes dura-
attempt TO Tlr correspondent to u silk
Deins fa6ment ana cocoonery'
by the honest ans' hiin ven you
heir praise OF tthe mind, which should
hine (this is
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CURRENT TOPICS
Theodore Parker's Sermons.

From the published volume of Theodore
Parker's Boston sermons. 1852, we quote:
ON INTEMPERANCE
Il ave preached against intemperance
against making rum, selling rum and drink
ing rum. The evil of intemperance has been
under my eyes every Sunday There is not
a man, woman, girl or boy before me but has
lost some dear and valued relative within not
many years, slain by this monster which
poIsons the body of America. The poor
men that. l feed have often been made
paupers by rum; OF the funerals that l at
tend, rum, with its harsh hammer, has often
nailed down the coffin-lid, and of the mar
riages which have helped to solemnize, how
often has the wife been left worse than a
widow! Since incompetence has become so
popular in Boston; since it has got the mayor
aud aldermen on its side, and while every
thirty fifth voter is licensed seller of rum;
when it is invested with such strength, and
gets possession of the House of Representa-
tiyes, | have preached against it all the more.
l know from the little town where 1 was
born. as well as from this large city of Bos-
ton, what curse and blight drunkenness is.
ON THE SOCIAL EVIL.
I'm all our great cities there is one deep
and dark and CHASTITY pit of corruption,
whereinto. from all New England's hills,
there flows down what was once as fair and
as. pure and as fresh as the breath of maiden
morn. 1t is the standing monument which
shows the actual position of women in
modern society, that men regard her as the
vehicle of their comfort and the instrument
of their lust-not a person, only a thing
The minister, remem bering who it was that
drew Moses out OF the river Nile and who
washed the feet of one greater than Moses
with her own tears and wiped them with her
hair, must not forget this crime, its conse
quences which contaminate society, and its
cause afar of-contempt and Scorn for
women"
ON THE DUTIES OF A MINISTER
"The minister is to remember the immor-
tai life of man, and to shed the light OF eter-
nifty into mans consciousness in the hour of
passion. and in the more dangerous long,
cold. clear day of ambition.
in the hour OF distress and dreadful peril,
he is to hel man to that faith in God which
gives stiffness in every storm. He is to help
them overcome this puerile fear of death,
and to translate their fear of God into love
for him-into perfect blameless, absolute
trust in the Father; and he is to bring the
light of all this beneficence upon men in the
season of peril, and in the dreadful hour of
mortal bereavement when father and
mother, and child and wife, gather blackness
in the countenance, and pass away. Over
the gate of death he is to arch the rainbow
of everlasting life and bid men walk through
unabashed and unashamed. He is to promote
the sentiment of religion, as a feeling of de-
pendence on God, obligation to God, trust in
God and love for God; of ultimate depend
ence on His providence, unalienable obliga-
ton to keep His law, absolute trust in His
perfection. and perfect and complete faith
in His infinite perfection"
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The King-Boit Falls Out.


story about President Lincoln, which
has been going the rounds of the newspapers,
is likely to be spoiled by the application of a
few cold historical facts. The tail recites
that "a reliable gentlemen" called on Presi-
dent Lincoln ''just after JEFF Davis had been
captured, !" and asked what would be done
with the rebel President. To this, says the
narrator. Lincoln replied with story about
a coon which boy had captured, and which
annecdote is that Lincoln died April 10,
1865, and that Jefferson Davis was not cap
tured until May ii of that year. Otherwise
the intense realism OF the tale might deceive
the very elect
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A Turtle as Large as a Ships Bottom.

IVTcUW
the schooner Annie L. Hall, vouch for the
following: On March 30, while on the Grand
Bank, in latitude 400 10y, longitude $50, they
discovered an immense live trunk turtle,
which was at first thought to be a vessel bot
tom up. The schooner passed within twenty
five feet of the monster and those on board
had ample opportunity to measure MS dimen-
sions by a comparison with the length of the
schooner. The turtle was at least forty feet
long and thirty feet wide from the apex of
the back to the bottom of the under she'll
The fiippers were twenty feet long. 1t was
not deemed advisable to attempt its capture.
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*IF you are woman and would contribute
your influence to redeem humanity from its
numberless ills, make all things else subordinate
to health. If you possess this inestimable treas
ure you may transmit the same aud your off,
spring may rise up and Gall yen blessed. To Sc
cure this it will be we'll to seek the motherly
cOuntenance of Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
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The first apple tree raised on the Pacific
coast, from seed sent out on Hudson Bay
Company's ship 10 Vancouver, in 1926, is
said to be still standing on the government
reserve near Vancouver
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GRAND HOTEL.

INDIANAPOLIS. IND
Passenger elevator and all modern coDvea
fences. Leading Hotel OF the city. and strictly
frst-cass. Rates. $50, S3 and S.. 80 per day.
Tue latter price including bath.
GEO. +. PFINGST, Proprietor
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LAM .,a,ement to the State Boara .. ,,d' "i.
made .ssrsraay, but on account of some MS
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Chicago, St LOUIS & Pitts bura.

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Dayton and Columbus Ex-
press, except Sunday -...-.. 1850 amy
richmond Accommodation. 4:1O pin
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Dayton Express exc'p Sunday sos pun
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New York, PhiladeI phia, Wash
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Jeffersonville, Madison d Indianapolis.
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i,pa nv claptrap or deceIr .s,,, % "a
- "a piano is always exactly az as
II ,,to Who are always roisuy
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I 9 U6USo promptly I attended TO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-30

cine,n.ti. 1na,spns, St. Louis Chicago.
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of infants, who are believed to be smiling
when, III fact, they are troubled with stom-
ach ACHE"
Have you ever observed the visions and
ecstatic delights that are often spoken OF by
religious writers"'
Certainly They are quite common, and
not at all confined to religious persons Elk
perienced physicians testify that most per-
sons die in state of trance. Although they
are apparently conscious, they pass away in
state of dreaming. Often they seem to be
listening to musical sounds. Sometimes
they seem to be beckoned to by angels"
"And do you regard such exhibitions as
purely physician
Just as much as any dream. They are
controlled by the ordinary thoughts and
feelings, the everyday life and education
and imagination of the subject and precisely
the same way as a dream is controlled. Gen.
orally dream is the repropuction of a wax
irg thought The curious tumble of sub
iects in a dream is the result OF absence of
volition. There is a suspension of the func-
tons of the median tract of the brain. The
same thing occurs in the mesmeric trance.
The suspension may be temporary and
then tine person may not only return to con-
seriousness, but remember some of the cur
ious things seen in the vision. Something
Of the same nature occurs in taking opium.
In the earlier stages of opium eating the
subject appears to have two mental opera
tons going on at once. One is fantastic and
odd, the other normal and regular In
such case one is able to keep up run
ming comment on the visions passing before
his eyes,
"The death of a healthy person is always q
very different thing from the death of a
diseased person. In cases of accident, where
persons know that they must die in very
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Its rapturou
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White breas
Sf It's eli
We see--but
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-18
IN A STILL HOUR
Two Learned Men Have a Talk
and Come to Common
Conclusion.

"There eau be no question as 10 that" said Dr.
P, who is prominently connected with GER
tain hospital, to his friend, the House Surgeon,
The two SAT having Il smoke and a quiet chat
in the reception room late on recent stormy
nighttime question at all" Ever sinee began
practice in that little country village you've
heard me speak of. away up near Lake Ontario,
thirty years ago, have felt-in common with
all other physlclans-the need of a reliable plas.
ter. There are many diseases-lf, indeed,
the majority do not come under the rule-for
which good external application is better than
remedies poured into PATIENTS stomach.
"rhat's so, Doctor and to show my faith
in your theory may say that since have held
my position here, have opposed the idea of
dosing people, except in cases when we were at
our wits end and it seemed TO be that moth
ing Some soothing application. if the patient
needs anything, combined with rest and good
nursing, will do the Dusiness-save where cases
OF accidents require heroic treatment"
81 say Doctor" said the other, 'yOu can speak
of it, or not, just you like, but in my private
practice when want anything of the Sort 1
use BENSON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER.
It's proprietary thing, of course, but it Is by
all odds the best plaster have come across. 1t
is scientifically prepared, quick in taking hold,
sure to relieve where relief is possible, and neat
as wax to handle 1t is just the perfect flower
of all that has ever been done in that line. |
happen to know, too, that 1t is being rapidly in
trodueed in the principal hospitals of London,
Paris and other leading cities in Europe"
You needn't fret, my friend" laughed the
House Surgeon, "oVer the chance of being
caught in an act OF professional hetOrOdoxy, for
we use Benson's here every day, and so they do
at the other city hospitals. We tint it so much
better than liniments, lotions, etc. thar the hot
ties are actually getting scarce in the house"
Bensous plasters are prepared from Inn
proved formula by distinguished PHYSICIANS and
chemists to meet II want telt for years. You Will
not he disappointed in them. In the middle of
the genuine Is cut the word CAPCINE. Price,
20 cents. Seabury y Johnson, New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-18
BRYCE'S BAKERY.

Only one quahty of CRACKERS made, and
that the best. Wholesale price, zig cents, and
retail 10 cents per pound.
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Charged with Larceny.

Yesterday afternoon watch stolen from
Thomas p. Daily, peddler, in Kings saloon, on
South Illinois street, and upon discovery that it
missing he offered reward of 50 for its re-
turn, promising to ask no embarrassing ques-
tons, whereupon Thomas Cunningham produced
the watch and claimed the $5. Daily refused to
pay the promised reward, and Patroman Raj
terry called in TO arrest Cunningham, who
claimed that the watch had been handed him in
the saloon by man whom the police have long
regarded with suspicion, and who has disaP-
peared since the theft. Cunningham was placed
under arrest on the charge of grand larceny and
receiving stolen goods.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-18
THE CITY IN BRIEF.

Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Daniel W. Sheehan and Sarah P. Davis, Lewis
Esters and Annie Oliver.
George W. Wishard was appointed, yesterday,
administrator OF the estate of Henry Armstrong,
deceased; bond, S2o,o
The slate roof of the Exchange building at the
Union StOckyards considerably damaged
by Mondays storm. The sky-light IN the main
hall was also blown IN.
The Indiana Association of ex-Union Soldiers
Will JON In the reunion OF the members of the
Grand Army OF the Republic at the military en-
campment on August 10.
Toney Griffin, William Wiley, Ed. Preston and
ROBERT Barnes, all boys, were arrested yester-
day afternoon for breaking into freight cars ana
stealing several pounds of tobacco.
An the bids made to the receiver for the stock
of j. w. Hess & Co. were rejected yesterday by
the court, and sale at pubic auction ordered
for July 81, TO take place at the store of the
firm.
Charles Leonard stole coat day before yes
terday, and in the Criminal Court, yesterday,
on plea of guilty, John S. Duncan, judge pro
! tenn, sentenced him to the penltentiary for one
year.
The colored people of Indianapolis propose to
celebrate the anniversary of the emancipation
of their in the West indies by "a grand
picnic and reunion at the Exposition grounds
on Aug l.
The ladies of St. Johns congregation viii give
n dinner for the benefit of the Sisters OF Provi-
dence school building, at Masonic Hall, on Sat
urday, the 21st inst. The dinner Will be served
from II Al TO NJ.
Ida Patrick has brought suit for divorce from
David Padrick, to whom SHE married Ia
March. 1873. she alleges that he is hubitual
drunkart and fails To nrOvide. She asks custody
of the child, boy eighteen months old.
The Victor Steam Washing machine Company
of Button, yesterday filed articles of incorpura-
ton with the Secretary OF State. The capital
stock IS fixed at 100000 and the directors are
John z. Myers, Winfield $. Silver and William H.
Wentz.
Building permits were issued yesterday by the
city clerk TO Joseph L, Boswell, to build two
81 900 frame buildings on Park avenue, near
Bruce; to Matte P. Lemon, TO build 81 900
dwelling on he same street; TO John Graham, 20
build 5000 frame dwelling on Elizabeth street
near Blake.
The officers of the Vandalia line have issued
instructions TO agents and connections that all
properly consigned via their line for exhibition
at State and county fairs TO be held this year
and on which full charges have been paid one
way, will be returned free to the point received
by them at he close of the exhibition on pre-
sentation of certificates from the secretaries of
such fairs or associations showing that owner
ship mas not been changed.
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WELLS COLLEGE FOR YOUNG LADIES.

AUKOkA, IA4UGA LAKE. n. Y.
Full Collegiate Course OF Study. Superior IA
cilities for MUSIC and ART. Location uusur-
passed tor beauty and healthfuness. session
begins September ~, 1888. Send for catalogue.
L. ). FRISBEE d. D.. President.
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EDUCATIONAL
JACKSONVILLE FEMALE ACADEMY.

( TIL year opens Sept. 10. Location, appoint
II meats, instruction unsurpassed Music
select. f. f. BIZ LARD, A. NJ. Prin., Jackson-
vile, IA.
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The contractors began work on the levee at
:awrenceburg on Monday, IL is expected that
il VIII be completed in two months
While number of young men were bathing in
Pleasant lake, near Angola, on Sunday evening,
Daniel Hoffman was seized with cramps and
Sank immediately,
Late on SATURDAY night, as Peter Wilson, a
wealthy bachelor farmer. was RETURNING home
from Aurora, ne WAS attacked and terribly beaten
" three highwaymen
young man by the name of Mckee, living
near Fayetteville, was driving "A reaper on tho
road, on Saturday, when the horses became
:1&hten@a and ran away, throwing him III fronu
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The storm at WaveIand.
g Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WAvELAND, July 17.-Yesterday evening
shortly after 5 o'clock, a terrible wind and
ram storm struck this place, travelling a lit
tie north of due east The Union brick block
was entirely unroofed and six business firms
were exposed to the rain. The damage to
goods from the rain is slight, as every precau-
ton was resorted to to prevent the water
from leaking through the floors. The tin
roof on Moores Touring mill was badly dam
aged, about one-half of the south side of the
roof on the main part of the building being
torn off. Mr.. Moore was lucky i'll having
taken out a tornado policy on the building
but a short time ago. Shade trees and fruit
trees in many parts of town are numbered
with the things that were. The farms of j.
L. Cohen, D. B. Brush, S. II. Kritz, John
Milligan, D. B. Brush, Sam. Moore, Adam
Hanna, and many Others, are badly damaged
The timber and fencing was laid waste, and
the wheat-shocks scattered all over the fields,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-18
Man Killed by Runaway Mule.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
FOWLER, July H-Yesterday evening
man by the name of Michael Tooley was re-
turning from Raub to his home. some three
miles south, when the mule he was driving
to single buggy took fright, ra away,
threw him out and fractured his skull, caus-
ing instant death. He was a well-to-do
farmer, and leavesa large family.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-18

On Friday last Mrs Emeline B. Kampf, resid-
ing at No, 81 South Illinois street stepped on IA
rusty single nail, which pierced the sole of her
shoe and penetrated her foot Loekjaw resulted,
from the effects of which she died yesterday
morning. Three children survive her one son
and two daughters. She was worth from 3d.
900 to S2O.O 600.
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AS stages are quickly abandoned with the COM
petton of railroads. so the huge drastic. cathart-
ic pills, composed of crude and bulky medicines,
are quickly abandoned with the introduction of
DR. Pirrces "Peasant Purgntlve Pellets, (which
are sugarcoated and little larger than mustard
seeds. but composed of highly-concentrated veg
ettte extracts BY druggists.
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Twe ladies Kined hx a Runawav.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND, July 17.-Yesterday afternoon
Mrs. Loate Harris and Miss Mary Francisco
were thrown from vehicle near this city.
The horse was frightened by the harness
breaking while going down hill, and ran
away. Miss Francisco died soon after from
the injuries sustained, and the death of Mrs.
Harris is expected Two children that ac-
companied them were not hurt.
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The folowing cases were also decided, of which
abstracts will be gwen tomorrow:
Martha Prather Western Union Telegraph
Company, Bartholomew G. G. Affirmed. Howk,
j.
John G. Earl vs. Oscar A. Simons Porter c.
g. Affirmed. collars, j.
Stumph VS.. Bruner. Marion s. G. Rehearing
dAnied.
Water vs. Bacon. Jefferson c. c. Rehearing
denied.
The court then adjourned until September IS.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-23
late war between Russia and Turkey,

Is dead.
The Krupps Of Essen and other
industrial firms In the Rhine prov.
inces, intend to present Admiral Won
Stosch, late chief Of the admiralty,
with an address and q substantial
testimonial OF their esteem. The sum
Of SO, 600 marks has already been col
leoted toward the latter object.
Darings session Of the Sksnlsh sen
ate Saturday night the prime minister
Ssgasts declared that the government
was prepared to enter into negotis.
lions for commercial teaties with for
eign countries, provided Spanish In.
terests did not suffer thereby. The
policy of the government was to main
tain and improve cordial relation,
with all foreign powers.
The Emperor and Empress OF Rus.
sis will reach Moscow the 21st OF
May, and the coronation will take
place on the 9th. The festivities
include eight grand balls to be pro.
longed until tho 9Th Of June. The
state entry into st Petersburg will be
made on the 10th Of that month
Bismarck held q conference on
Thursday and Friday with the minis
ters of worship and the interior, on the
subject of the church bill, and PARTED.
pated In the cabinet council held on
Saturday to discuss the bill, which he
still strongly recommends. The
prince proposes a withdrawal from
circulation of 20 pfennig pieces, which
are unpopular, and the coinage of an
equivalent amount of money In l and
2.mark pieces.