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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-27
Barn Burned near Rockville.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
ROCKVILLE, Aug. Pa barn belonging to
Samuel Burks, who lives two miles west of
here, was set on fire last night and all his
grain, hay and agricultural implements and
a fine mare were consumed. Mr.. Burks was
awakened by the noise of the mare, and got
up just in time to see the roof fall in. He
had barn burnt year ago, 1t is the work
of an enemy.
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AIR. Xillard,s Guests.

New York, Aug. 25.-Amons the passen-
gers by the steamer Elbe, of the Bremen
line, were about thirty distinguished Ger
mans. guests of Mr. Willard at the opening
ceremonies of the Northern Pacific railway.
The party is made up of politicians, scen-
lists and bankers, with liberal sprinkling
of editors
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Strike Against Friends and Foes.

New York, Aug. 26.--The brass workers
union has Withdrawn from the central labor
union. The reason assigned is the exclusion
of reporters from the meetings. Strikes will
be ordered tomorrow on a number of new
buildings, where non-union men are en-
ployed. The union members of the various
building trades all go out together.
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In the swamps.

The great railroad contractor Of South Ameri-
ca, Mr.. II. II. Meiggs writes as follows:
LIMA, PERU.-"I wish TO say OF st. Jacobs OIL,
that completely satisfied with It's use,
that procured box OF 1t. have used 1t with
great satisfaction. IL has accomplished Won
ders aid given great relief 1t VIII always hay .
my positive Endorsement us pain libsralor,"
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DETROIT Aug. ga fire in the fifth story
OF Newcomhe, Endicott & Co.'S large dry
goods store this afternoon, inflicted damage
OF $4,000 or $12 600. The ire was quickly
tensive damage prevented. Fully covered
by insurance
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In the House of His Friends.

bDHINH HtTNI1.
Among the bad signs of the times" Jq-
seph Cook mentions the deterioration OF
manners among the young and uneducated."
Such, for example, as criticising a stranger
at public table for eating his beef rarer
than the bad-mannered censor likes it.
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Lefr the knights of Labor,

PITrsBuRG, Aug 26.-Glass CATERERS As
sembly 1851, numbering 40 members Sc
ceded from the Knights of Labor this
evening, and will enter the American Flint
glass workers Association next Sunday.
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Two Men Killed While Stealing Ride,

PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, Aug, 26,-Heary L.
Mitchell and an unknown person, both of
Boston, had their skulls crushed at Rosbook
tunnel while stealing ride upon the top of
a sleeper on the Hudson River railroad.
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Barn Burning at Vernon.

Special 70 Inc IndlanapOIIs JOuTnaL
VERNON, Aug. pa large barn belonging
to q. j. Coryell, near Vernon, containing
forty tons of hay, span of mules, one horse,
two wagons and farming implements was
burned last night. Loss, $4,000 1t was the
work of an incendiary
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Escaped from Jail.

speciai to the indianapolis Journal
CRAwFoRDsyILLE, Aug. 26.-Last evening,
about o'clock, five prisoners escaped from
jail here. Four were in for HOUSEKEEPING
and one for stoning train on the l., B. e. W.
All we're awaiting the action of the grand
iIYry
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STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Barns Burned by Incendiaries at
Rockville and Vernon.
INDIANA.
The Coming Exhibition of the KniGhtstOwn
Agricultural Society.
Special to tho indianapolis Journal

Agricultural Society.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
KNIGHTsTOwN, Aug. 25.-The Knightstown
Union Agricultural Society, composed OF
Rush, Henry and Hancock counties, will
hold their annual fair here next week. The
fair promises to be better than ever held
here The show of cattle hogs, sheep poul-
try, farm products, vegetables, fruits, farm
ing implements and fine arts will not be ex
celled. Fast horses are coming in and all
entries will be filled. A military exhibition
drill will take place on the second day of the
fair, when the company will be presented
with an elegant silk banner. The Soldiers
Orphans Home and the feeble-minded chill
dren, and the matrons of the children's
homes in Rush and Henry counties will
make an exhibition of their institutions.
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ESTEEPRIsING local agents wanted in This
town for An article that s sure 10 sell, ye dru q
aists and grocers preferred. Address Fiuinist0n
Food Preseryatiye Company, ~ Kilby street,
Eostons'5,s
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ports will contain valuable statistical inform
alton exhibiting the character and progress of
the work of these boards in their admins
tration of the immigrant law.
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Clinton County Teachers Institute.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
FRANKFORT, Aug. 25.-The teachers in
Clinton county under the supervision of
Superintendent W. H, Mushlitz held their
annual institute last week, closing Aug.
"a The attendance during the week
reached 100 and the greatest interest was
manifested on the part of the teachers in
the work performed. The instructors were
Prof Smith, of Lafayette; Prof, Hodgin, OF
Richmond. and Prof. Forbes, OF Chicago.
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Horsford's Acid Phosphate,

DR.. Daniel 4, Nelson. Chicago, SAYS: 81 find 1t n
pleasant and valuable remedy ia indigestion,
particularly in 0verworked men,"
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"DR. r CHMOND's Samaritan Nervine perma-
nently cured me Of epeptic tlts."--J s, Sale,
Madison, Fla, Get at your druggists.
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Two Hundred New Church Members.
;pecial TO the Indianannlis 1onrnaI

BLooMINGToN, Aug 26.-At the service
this evening at the First NJ. Z. Church
1870 were received into full connec-
ton with the church and baptized,
besides whom there were others already
baptized, making a total of 200 re-
ceived into connection This was the har-
vest of the great revival carried on six
months ago by Rev. Ferd C. Iglehart, the
pastor, formerly of Evansville, Ind
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ILLINOIS.
Particulars of the woodville wife-Murder
and Suicide.

and Suicide.
CARRoLLToN, Aug. 25.--In Fridays press
report was a condensed account of the sui
eide and attempted wife-murder of William
NJ. Pope, three miles south of the little viii
lage of Woodville, this county. The coro-
ners inquest brought out additional facts,
which are about as follows; Pope and his
wife had not been living together for about
six years, but neither had applied for di-
yorce until recently. Last Saturday Mrs
Pope came to this city and instituted suit
for divorce on the grounds of desertion.
Without having heard of his wife's action,
Mr.. P came to town on Monday for the same
purpose but, upon learning that the woman
had preceded him. he went to hardware
store and purchased a revolver, saying
that he wanted the weapon for home
protection. He then returned to Wood
vile, and about noon on Thursday went to
his wifes residence, walked in and took
seat The wife, with her daughter, Rosa
Pope, aged thirteen years, and her niece,
Jennie Varble, aged twenty, were just ready
to sit down to the dinner table, but did not
ask Pope to join them in the meal. After
they were seated Mr.. P. walked over to the
water-bucket, which was sitting just behind
Mrs p. and got a drink of water. He re-
peated this operation three times, and on
the third trip suddenly drew his revolver
and fired. The shot took effect in his wife's
head, entering just behind the ear and frac-
turing the skull. Then turning he fired an
other shot into his own body, exclaiming:
"My Cod" and instantly died, The shot
penetrated the heart The woman lived
until $50 this morning, Notwithstanding the
brain was oozing from her wound. Mr..
Pope was thirty-fve years of age, and a
brother of James Pope, OF this vicinity. Mrs.
P was considerably older, and was daugh-
ter Of Chas Narble OF Woodyille precinct.
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Local Observations.
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 26.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-08-18

down the columns everywhere. A boy
came along with apples; he bought one
of them and tried to eat it, but 1T choked
him.
Time would fail me to tell of his efforts
to make the day fly; it only crept the
slower. His very agony wore itself out
at length; he was dull and dumb, like
one who walks in a bad dream.
At last the half-hour after five came,
and he rose from the box where he had
been sitting on the street side of the
station, and went round to the railway
platform where the cars would come in.
The wind was in his favor; it blew
from the southeast. When he had
stared at the clock-face in the waiting
room, through the window, at least fifty
times, and counted out ten minutes, he
heard distant shrek of the whistle,
and his heart TODD still. Only ten
minutes more! for the train was due at
$50 r. NJ.
But what minutes! Ten? there were
ten hundred of them at the least! and
then = there it came - slowing care
fully up to the platform, and there was
Tom SCOTS pleasant face, and his ath-
letic figure at the door of the car, ready
to hand out trunks.
Toni Tom Scottr' cried strange,
hoarse voice, as a man pushed fiercely
through the astonished crowd to the
baggage-car, where's my girlP where
is LottyP"
LOFTY" calculated Tom, pausing in
the act of sliding a big trunk to the
platform.
LOFTY! why, man alive, where do
you s'pose she lisp to home, amt she?
where she'd oughter be.'
"Did you fetch her-send her, i mean,
on the 2. 10 tramp
''Bless your crazy soul! 1 never took
her! When 1 see you didn'tge aboard
this noon 1 jest took an dropped her
into Georges arms-he stood there
alookin' on; and SEE l, Take her hum,
George; he amt a-going to-day, as
see. So he ketched her and went of
with her. Didn't she kick thoughP'
And Tom Scott laughed at the recollec-
ton.
MIR. Park would have liked to knock
him down on the spot; but the relief
therevulsion, was so great he had scarce
strength to drag himself up into the car
A few pants of the engine, a short tug
up the heavy grade, and they were al
West Waring station, and there, run
ming across the street toward the sta
ton, rosy, dancing, smiling, came Los
Lotty.-Rose Terry Cooke, IN Youths
! Companion.
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NUMBER 49,.
PITH AND POINT.


Texas is a great State for ants.
Sullivan ought to go there. Doesn't
the Scripture say, "Go to the ant, thou
slug-hardpn- Exchange,
Somebody out West is trying to
find out how many mules there are in
the country. We give it up. It's a
question Of multiplication. 80 Boston
Star.
Brown, being invited to assist at his
friend Rohinson's wedding, said he
couldn't give the bride away, but he
could give the groom dead away II
occasion required. Chicago Times.
Those who have lost their money
in Chicago lard can feelingly say that
their fortune has grown "small by do
grease and beautifully less. "--Iiits-
6urgh Telegraph.
-" Yes" says Mrs, Parvenu, eve
have taken shattoe at Newport on
Maria's account--she's twenty-six, you
know, and we will entertain in as hos
pital style as any of the others. NY
Graphic.
Count Smith put on 4 clean paper
collar last Wednesday, when the Their
mometer was i04 degrees in the shade,
and it melted round his neck in three
minutes and fifteen seconds, This Is
the fastest time made by paper collar
this year.-SoR Francisco Meas Letter.
"A lady stopping at hotel in Aus
tralia was bitten by a rat, and has sued
the proprietor of the hotel for $4,000
damages. The bite was not severe, but
her fright was SO great that her hair
hanging on the back of a chair--turned
gray before morning NorristotOn Her
aid. fsl
Mrs. Lovehowers (from her window,
to new maid servant, who Is at work in
the garden): "What are you doing in
the petunia bed, Norahp ~ "Shure,
I'm pullin up all the wild carrots, m;
an I'll have it all wed in minnit, m"
"Are you sure that you know the weeds
from the young plantsP" Faith, l
am, I'M. They smells jist like tame
carrots, IN; an / smells livery wan
soon's ! pulls 1t up. IN. "--Hdrpers
Bdzdr.
--Hdrper'S Bazaar is authority for the
dictum that widow should be married
in bonnet In our opinion this idea
is wrong. BY the time the widow has
selected the style of bonnet In which
she wishes to appear ut the ceremony
the groom will have lost patience and
gone elsewhere for a wife. The best
thing for widow to be married in is in
hurry. Unless she has money. Then
she can take her. time. Rochester IN ~
Post Express. va 8ea n
johnny had come home from school
several times within month with va
rious bruises on his face and body re-
ceived in fights with his schoolmates,
and on the last occasion his mother
threatened him with severe punishment
If he ever engaged in fight again.
Only few days after the small chap
appeared with a black eye, and, scared
by the stern ma erual greeting, = Well,
sirp" he departed from his usual truth
full ways, and stammered al fell down
and hit my head on stone." "And
which got the worst Of itp" asked his
big brother. "0h, the other fellow, you
bel" answered Johnny briskly. "He's
gone home with two black eyes. ~
Harper's Bazaar.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-08-18

Said Major Jim: "B'a will leave
when you make it too hot for EN-, sir.
when 1 was dom business for old
Jedge Smides, down in Madison Parish
plantation lay right on the river
Mississippi River you know-one night
I was sittin' on my gallery smokin', sir
everything jest as still as er dead
mule, sir. Well, first thing l knowed l
heerd kinder noise way up cross the
river, and it sounded sorter low like at
first, and then it kept gittin' louder and
louder, twell couldent stand it no
longer, sir. I jest jumps up on my
feet and l says: odd CONAN, old CONAN,
hurricanes comein', sure as you're
born,' Says she: Major O.'-she al
ways called me Major o. when she
want in hurry-'how in the name O.
sense can hurricane be a comein'
when there amt cloud in the sky?'
We'll, says I, there's the deuce to pay
somewhere So l picks up my double
barrel and l breaks out for the levee,
and when [ gifts there l lissen, and l
hears that roarin' cross the river gittin'
louder and louder, jest like niger
funeral, when they begin to blow the
mud out their bilers, sir. And looked
where the moon was shinin', and | seen
that whole river turnin' black, sir, and
comm closer and closer up to where |
was standin' Skeared! l reckon l was
skeared. Why, sir, my hair would a
lifted a cotton bale. | would put up
and busted, and did kinder inch back
er little, but | dazzent run, sir, with
Susan Ann standin' there on that gal
lery. There she stood, sir, and first
she'd sing old Hundred and then
she'd git down on her marrow bones
and moan out her little prayer, and
then every once in while she'd boiler
out, Jim, what is the matterP' as if
wouldn't a given six quarts of Dexter s
best jest to half knowed what was the
matter. If you'd seed me, sir, a
standin' there havin' one agur on top
of another faster you could count EN-,
and the cold sweat runnin' out the holes
in my boots, you'd knowed, sir, how
happy / was, sir, when seed some
thin black riz up out that river and
shuck hisself. jest up and hollered to
Susan Ann not to be carryin' on like a
mooniack and maxim burned fool of
herself; but had jest as well hollered
at loggerhead turkle, for Susan Ann
and every nigger on that hill had lit out
for the canebreak, sir. So jest stood
there lonesome by myself, and jest
poured it into them bars right and left
when they topped that leyee and shuck
theyselves, twell broad daylight, sir. 1t
looked like the whole world was full OF
bars, sir. l jest stood in my tracks and
I killed thirty-eight of 'em, sir-the
biggest in the drove, and when stop
ped shootin' there wasn't a Twin soul
on that plantation 'cept me and them
dead bars. Every Niger, sir, little
and big, and Susan Ann to boot, was
clean gone, sir. got some niger
dogs and I ketched the old CONAN down
on Joe's Bayou the next day, but some
of them niggers never did git back, sir
never did. Yes, sir, bars will trave
when you makes ithotfor EN-. Pores
and Stream.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-08-18
Peas I'M the FaIl.

The way to raise the finest quality of
peas is, after the first sowing, to plant
them deep md mulch them, so that the
soil they root in is always cool and moist.
In the careless manner in which peas
are frequently cultivated they have very
little flavor and delicacy. 1t is SO with
raising what is called the snapper
beans. They are seldom planted deep
enough, and as consequence have no
more flavor than a piece of India-rub-
Der and are about as tough, but the beans
planted in September, and in due time
are for sale in our markets, are really
delicious in flavor and fairly melt in
the mouth. This is the result of cool
soil. But were these beaus planted
three and four inches deep, as we have
more than once suggested, throughout
the season, and mulched in the hottest
portion of it, we could have, as with the
peas, these vegetables at all times up to
November in perfection GermaHtoOn
Telegraph.
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Hog Against Rattlesnake.

A friend tells us of fight he wit
messed, last week, between rattle-
snake and hog. To use his own lam
guage; al had just started up the steep
hill beyond Toms Creek, goingto Roans
Creek, when my attention was attracted
to hog near the road, champing and
walking around with bristles erect, with
two smaller hogs some few feet away
looking on. Refining to better view
l saw good size rattlesnake coiled,
head erect, and his rattles sounding the
note of anger, The SOW, with head
down and bristles erect, was slowly
walking around the snake, champing
her teeth together and the foam run
ming from her mouth. Presently the
snake struck at her but missed his aim,
the sow springing to one side at the mo-
ment the snake struck. Instantly the
snake was again coilcd and his rattle
ringing. The sow renewed her circling,
the snake following, with his head al
ways facing the hog. Soon he struck
again and fastened his fangs on her
jaw below the ear. She raised her
head and the snake was raised to her.
Instantly she caught the snake in her
mouth, put her feet on his tail and strip.
ped the skin up. Renewing her foot.
hold on the body of the snake, she took
another pull and tore the snake in two,
and then, tearing off part of the quiv,
ering snake, she complacently set tc
eating it up. The other two hogs now
advanced, but the SOW took up the
pieces of the snake and walked off +,
few steps, and set to finishing the feast
/ had seen enough and rode on. y
Linden Tenn. Times.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-08-18
VOLUME lXI.
i.HE INQUISITYVE FISHERMAN.

once there was fisherman
VINO went to catch some fish;
he took with him basket
And little china dish.
Ill use one for the fishes,
The other when sup;
For, II they meet my wishes,
III cook and eat them upp
He fishcd and flshed the whole day long
From morn till late at night;
He baited hooks and watched his bob,
But could not get bite.
He then threw down his rod and line,
And vowed he d go below,
To find out what the reason was
Inc fish had used him SO.
The fish all gathered round him,
Each wagging his own tail
From the little polly-woggy
10 the great gigantic whale.
:, some fish were looking scaly, t--
~ kAnd some exceeding thin,
But all were glad to see the man,
And offered him fin.
They said: 1--WE have no china dish,
Nor basket snug and tight;
But we are very prudent fish,
Who think beforoswe bite.
We do not need to cook our prizo
Ere we sit down and sup"
And so, before his very eyes,
They ate that fisher upl
.---. XII. st. Nicholas.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-08-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Judge Folk, of Brownsville, Tenn,
has invented spiral windmill, which
will run street and railway cars.
An Atlanta (Ga.) man has invent
ed wheel for wagons in which, II a
spoke breaks. neither tire nor rim is re-
moved TO put in new one. The invOn-
ton has been patented.
Up to 1876 the standard capacity
of freight cars was 10000 pounds. In
1877 few were built to carry $4,000,
and since 1879 the standard cars, both
of the East and West, have been built to
carry 10000.
"A correspondent Of the British
Medical journal states that he has
found the application of strong solu-
ton of chronic acid three or four times
by means of a camel's hair pencil to be
the most efficient and easy method of
removing warts. They become black
and soon fall off. 49,
1t has been ascertained by Mr.. @. o.
Boutelle that the magnesium light, as
used by the United States Coast Survey,
is an effective night signal for distances
as great as forty-fiye TO seventy miles.
Even the ordinary student lamp with
parabolic reflector may be seen as much
as forty miles away.
Mr.. II. H. Wadlow, Brooklyn
(Ga.) man, after three years. hard
work and study, has finally invented
and patented new method Of making
shoes. The entire uppers Of these shoes
are of one piece, with no seams that
touch the foot They are made with
an adjustable instep, and fastened with
buckles Of his own invention. z
The London Lancet tells how to
cure bone felon. AS soon as it is felt
put directly over the spot fly blister
the size of your thumb nail. Let 1t re-
main for six hours, at the expiration OF
which time directly under the surface
of the blister may be seen the felon,
which can instantly be taken out with
the point of needle
Pine sawdust, highly compressed,
has been successfully used to make up
center frames OF carriage wheels. II
is said to be so solid that it will bear q
pressure equal to twenty-three tons pei
square inch. AS sawdust has also beer
used for partitions and bricks, its appli
cation to the production of comul
carvings and mouldings does uo,
to be far of. This OPEN
new market for saN
hitherto been q
product.--Ros
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-08-18

In the delinquent tax list of Union
Parish, La, published by the Farmers
vile Gazette, every delinquent is as,
sessed with from one to five dogs.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-08-18

In Germany, when youth and hi.
girl in public garden order ice cream
or other refreshments, the youth pays
for his own and the girls father pays
for hers. People who claim that Amer
lea has become Germanized don't know
what they are talking about.-PeilG-
detphtG Meas.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-08-18

Australia has over ten thousand
distinct species OF flowers, and trees four
hundred feet high aye quite common.