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robbed several Denver drug stores, and who
feigning insanity, was sent to the insane asy-
lum instead CT the penitentiary, has been re-
victims in consequence.
Among the pupils in theSunday after
noon school conducted in the City Hall, Den
yer, by Mrs Gray-Pitman, superintendent of
juvenile work for the Denver W. c. 7. u, is
little newsgrl who bravely trying to sup
port family OF five, Of whom two are the in
valid father and mother.
The sixty soldiers and forty y-six cattle
men who pursued the Indians who caused the
Blue Mountain trouble, had twelve hour tight
at:the junction of the Colorado and San Juan
rivers on the 25th, losing an old scout named
Wormngton, from Fort Lewis, and Charles
Higgins, OF Dolores.
On the morning Of the oath, at Du-
range, while Marshal Foley was arresting a
Ute for carrying concealed weapons another
Indian attempted his liberation and struck
prisoner to the calaboose by others and pur-
sued his assailant. The Indian took flight,
warning a number of Utes back of the Win
dom block on his way, and all ran their horses
across the mesa in the direction Of the Florida
trail. They were pursued by armed citizens
and shots were exchanged near Goodrich's
residence but nobody was hurt. Red Jacket
is in town and says the guilty Indian shall be
arrested and returned to Durango.
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Seven Wise Mon Banned.

The N. Y, Morning Journal, saws
that Mrs. F. G. Kellogg, so +. seth. ST. !,
was partially paralyzed, and lay for
seven days in convulsions. Physicians
were engaged and discharged until sew
en- had failed to help or cure her. She
was unable to leave her bed and was
rs helpless MS child. After using all
sorts OF salves. ointments, lotions and
Plasters, her case was given up ms hope
less. She was induced to try st. t.Jncobs
Oil as last chance. She began to i'm
prove from tho time the first applica-
tion was made, and by its continued
use, he has completely recovered.
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MARCH OF THE CHOLERA.
Quarantine Regulations Of no Avail to
Stop the Steady Spread Of tho
ScourGe.

Stop the Steady Spread OF tho
Scourgo.
PARIS, July 22.-The reports which
have reached here to-day indicate the slow but
steady march Of the cholera in Europe regard
less Of quarantine regulations or military from
tier guards. The officials Of this city stoutly
deny the reports that any cases Of cholera
have occurred here either Of sporadic or cpl
demic character. They attribute the recently
reported deaths to other causes. Whether It
exists or not, summer travel has been seriously
affected, and many summer resorts have been
closed for want Of the usual patronage Those
travellers who arc on their way back from the
infected districts talk less Of the cholera than
they do Of the inquisitorial character OF the
quarantine regulations.
At Marseilles fftv-sevenndcaths have occur
red In the past twenty-four hours. Quite q
sensati Jnal event occurred In that city to-day.
During the examination Of the Socialist riot
ers Buisson, their leader, was seized with the
cholera while in the court room. He was TAX
en- at once to the prison hospital.
oThe arrival of 100 coff1ns at Toulon caused
panic there and the authorities found It nee
essary to ship them back to Marseilles. There
were forty-two deaths from cholera reported at
Toulon within the past twenty-four hours.
One case has been reported from Lyons and
two cases are reported at Vienna. No reports
have been received from Madrid, neither has
any additional information come from Aries,
where the victims are reported to be about q
dozen daily.
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vers. gun which he intended to fire with
his foot, failed to explode.
The Manager of the Worlds EXPOSE
ton at New Orleans announces to those States
and Territories intending to make exhibits
that the first instalments Of the 5000 appro-
priated to each State is ready for distribution
The wheat yield at the Willamette
Valley in Oregon, for the present year, for ex-
port, is 16O, 900 tons. The acreage is in excess
Of last year. 9th ortions Of Oregon and
Washington Territor export 10000 tons.
When John He'll, chief clerk in the
German Bank at Wheeling, opened the vault
and struck a match to light the gas inside an
explosion followed, which blew him across the
room and shattered the glass front of the build
ing.
A workman at Gloucester, Massachu-
setts, while carrying bucket Of dynamite cart
ridges, discovered spark among them and he
hurled them from him. An explosion followed
which broke many windows but no lives wer
lost.
Much dissatisfaction is shown in Ire
land over the rejection by the House OF Lords
OF the bill in relation to the election OF the
poor law guardians in Ireland. The bill pass
cd the House OF Commons without an oppos
ing vote.
The President has appointed William
r. Curtis, correspondent Of the Chicago Inter
Ocean, secretary OF the committee to inquire
into the commercial relations between the
United States and the countries OF Central and
South America.
On the 2lst Mr.. Linden Kent, one of
the counsel for Lieutenant Darlington before
the Proteus Court of inquiry, writes n long
letter to General Hazen regarding the leaving
OF supplies for the lGreely. party, in which he
"goes for the chief signal officer rough shod
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NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and Foreign.

All European shipping are now quar-
antined by Portugal.
Forest fires are reported in various
parts Of Michigan, but no serious damage has
been done.
Crops in various parts of New Eng
land have been damaged by severe hail and
rain storms.
A comet has been discovered in the
constellation Lupus. 1t is thought to be NOV
ing toward the earth.
That portion of Flagstaff, Arizona,
known as the old town burned on the 23d. Loss
slO,0 600: no insurance.
Four persons were drowned by the
capsizing Of carriage, in the Marmaton river,
in Kansas, on the 22d.
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on that ticket Firstclass names are being put
forward, and the competition promises to be
very ivey."
THE Cincinnati Evening Post wants to go
record thus: For President Frederick Douglass;
for Vice president, Susan B. Anthony.
THE Hon. A. G. Smith, of North Vernon, is
spoken of very favorably for Reporter of the Su-
preme Court on the Democratic ticket
IT is announced that Hon. Joseph G. Cannon
will have practically no opposition for renomi-
nation for Congress from the Fifteenth Illinois
district.
CAPTAIN JOHN N RUNYAN, of Warsaw,
good soldier and good Republican, is mentioned
in the northern part of the State as a candidate
for Treasurer Of State
THE Winchester Journal is of the opinion that
Indiana needs new Constitution. and all can
didates for the Legislature should be asked to
pledge themselves to call constitutional con-
vention at an early date"
THE Republicans of Terre Haute have reor-
ganized the Young Mems Republican CLUB with
a membership of something over 800 voters
The membership will of course, increase as the
campaign goes on, until the organization becomes
formidable power in the politics of Vigo
county.
THE Greensburg Review understands that
Frank Gavin is not the only Democrat in that
county who would like to succeed Judge Holman
in Congress, and mentions the following names
Thomas F. Reilly, John S. Scobey, DR.. Braek
en-, A. B. Arlington, Joseph Smith, and Cort
Ewing
THE statement that Hon. L. NJ. Campbell, of
Danville, had signifed his intention to become
a candidate for Congress from the Fifth district
is erroneous. Such is not Mr. Campbell's in
tention. When he gets ready to run for any
Office he proposes to make it known in such
way that there will be mistake about it.
THE Kokomo Dispatch heads tremendous
boom for Col. J. B. Maynard, editor of the Sem
tinel, as the Democratic nominee for Congress
from this district. The Dispatch says:
''Who that knows him does not love Col May
nard9 He is one of the grandest Democrats in
the State, and the press of the Commonwealth
would rejoice to see this honor given him. Who
doubts but that he would have been elected
mayor of indianapolis had he been nominated
for the last municipal campaignl He is giant,
an idol of the State Democracy, and his name
would arouse such an enthusiasm as could not be
quenched until the ballots recorded his election"
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CHEAP NEWSPAPERS.

The Rev. Dr. Talmage, in his remarks at
the funeral of Or" Wood, the newspaper re-
porter accidentally drowned at New York re-
Gently, took occasion to give utterance to a
few facts in connection with the business of
getting up newspapers and in condemnation of
the unreasoning demand for "cheap" newspa-
pers. He said:
"All of US want the news and the newest
news and the news budget in the best shape,
but yet realize little what tolls and fatigues
every issue of morning and evening newspa-
pers represent. The senseless clamor of the
public for cheaper and cheaper newspapers.
until we get what is equal to a book OF a
small library in one newspaper for two or
three cents, may be great sport for us,
and may take no moro from the stockholders
of a newspaper company than they can spare
without especial Inconvenience, but the de-
mand comes with crushing weight upon the
reportorial CORPS who must do more work for
less pay It fetches the blood. Standing by
the casket of a dead journalist, l demand that
the public take the foot Of invasion off the
hearth stone and the bread tray of the men
who write three-quarters of the reading matter
of our morning and evening newspapers With
the vast majority Of journalists it is hand to
manu- IlOnL lOT DIthtl, anu uOJulil0
for the day of sickness or time of old age. The
toll of hand and foot in this country often fails
of proper compensation, but still more made
quately paid is the toll of brain. When pen,
for thirty years drawn at the top of its speed
across the midnight page, comes to its last par
agraph, and slows up in its last sentence and
stops at its last word, and rests at its last
period, it is to be congratulated above all the
pens that continue their weary fight"
In this enlightened age, it is an inexplicable
paradox that, in face of the fact that the news
paper is already the cheapest thing in the
world, without exception, there are those who
would still beat down the price. When read
ing men reflect on the labor and pains, the
expense and the intelligence necessary to the
reduction of frst-class newspaper, and then
i,e it sell for the price of the cheapest cigar
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thing can be said which shall induce women
to abandon rat-poison, it will be long step in
advance Not only do they shock the commu-
nity's innate sense of propriety by its use,
but there is possibility that its effects may
be more far-reaching than they have dreamed.
1t may be the serpent in Eden, or the rat in
the celestial meal bag, which will cause the
unfortunate shade to wish she had waited and
come in at the front door. The woman who
went beyond the gates, as related by Miss
Phelps, had a most affecting reconciliation
with long-lost lover. What lover, love he
never 50 wisely, will wish to take to his spirit
bosom bride who once ate rat-poison. 1t
will be rough ON her to decline, but it is doubt
full if he can do otherwise Think of this ye
women who yearn to die and rejoin your be-
loved, and go some other way.
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THE INDIANA SOLDIERS MONUMENT.
THE SOLDIERS MONUMENT.

1t is paltry and pitiful thing to wrangle
over the methods suggested for the purpose of
collecting funds for the soldiers monument.
The movement should be pushed without de-
lay There is no room for the bickerer nor the
captious If anyone feels that another has
not done enough, let him be content in doing
as much better as possible. As for any credit
that may attach to efforts to promote the en-
terprise no one with brains and heart will at
tempt to arrogate an ounce from any other
persons pound A patriotic rivalry is well
enough, while wrangling and jealousy are not
TO be thought Of Let all unite in honoring
the memory of the heroic dead, and let
there be no limit below which any
one cannot contribute his mite. We
do not think it would meet popular
approval to have two funds-one for aristo-
cratic "colonels" who never smelt powder,
and another for ordinary mortals, Or privates
Seriously speaking, it is shame that any
one should, 80 early IN the enterprise, seek for
grounds of wrangling. In this solemnest duty
to the honored dead and patriotic living, there
should be but one sentiment-perfect union
and cooperation. The people want noble
monument, as a perpetual, tangible memorial
Of noble deeds. Nearly twenty years have
elapsed since the shattered regiments of Indi-
ana volunteers came back from the war
Other States, North and South, have already
remembered their veteran soldiery in the
manner now contemplated by Indiana No
State had men in line soquickly as did Indiana
and the soldiers of none were more heroic
or more self sacrificing The honor Of re1nem-
bering their deeds in bronze will fall upon
all, as the glory of their valor did during the
late war There can be neither personal
glory nor political advantage properly reaped
in this movement Let the living veterans
be made custodians OF the funds to be raised.
This will give confidence and inspire enthu-
siasm. Let every citizen who has pride in the
glory of the State be as prompt and disinter-
ested in the effort to assist as was the Indiana
private to move to the front in the early and
perilous DAYS of 1861
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that anybody would care to smoke, it
is marvel that such price
is even possible. There is no work
that requires more vigilance, exactitude and
instantaneous readiness of thought and action
than does the preparation of a newspaper. 1t
is the century's marvel of promptitude, enter
prise and completeness. The labor expended
upon it is none too highly remunerated, and
he who would call for or seek reduction in
the price, already ridiculously small, must
do so without thinking. Reduction cannot be
made below certain point without the loss of
excellence, and this the intelligent reader will
not consent to-
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fame as 'Harpers Drawer A New York
lady, of more temper than culture or social
standing, gave ball The fair women and
brave men gathered at her bidding, and music
rose with its voluptuous swell, but the ele-
ments did not seem to assimilate as she de-
sired. The girls" all got on one side of the
room, the "boys" on the other and idly glared
at each other. Madame, the hostess, ap-
preached the gentlemen and offered intro
auctions, ices anything, everything to set the
ball in motion. All and each were declined,
and the Infatuated hostess, stamping her foot,
cried, ''Then what in the ID did you come
here forY" This is reported to have broken
the ice The discordant elements thereafter
mingled tremendously, and all went merry as
marriage bell. But the story got out, and
madame, the Infatuated hostess, is said to have
withdrawn from society and gone abroad.
Again the obtuse public laid the 'jol1e" at the
wrong door. The lady would have been iusti-
fled if she had taken these alleged gentlemen
ped them into the nearest frog-pond, as a set
of insolent curs-to accept her hospitality and
so abuse it.
In our State we have recently had similar
instance of misplaced comicality. Is there
anything truly amusing in the anecdote of a
recent street-car episode, as told with such
high glee by various papers9 A lady in one
of our street cars handed her fare to portly
gentleman, unknown to her. He pocketed
the nickel and calmly sat down. The driver
solicited another fare and accused the lady of
not having paid hers. She, much disturbed,
replied that she had given her fare to chat
fat man, who had put it in his pocket instead
of in the box. The fat man then revealed
himself as president of the street-C,l com
p.siiiy, aid the whole car full of people sailed
off on ripping seas of laughter.
Civilization is a gigantic failure when the
distress of our fellow be they whom they
may, is considered an appropriate theme for
exercise of the risibles, in public or private;
and when lovers of the comic have such dis
.torted vision that acts of gross impoliteness
are esteemed amusing by them, their percep-
tive faculties should be subjected to the seal
pei of scathing denunciation.
Aristotle defines the ridiculous as "What is
out of time and place, without danger. "
Whereupon Emerson comments: ''If there be
pain and danger it becomes tragic" 1t is not
for man to be so virtuous that 'there shall be
no more cakes and ale;" but it is well for him
to be virtuous enough to insist that the cakes
be not baked in the ashes of his neighbours
DWELLING or the ale brewed Of the bitterness
and distress of his fellow-man.
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POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

THE Columbus Democrat is for the re-nomina-
ton of Attorney general Hord.
GOVERNOR HoADLY is out in an interview for
Payne as Democratic presidential candidate.
A VERY small boom is noticed in the north for
A. P. Edgerton as Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor.
john l.. PIERCE, mayor of Lebanon. is q can
ddate for the Republican nomination for Re-
porter of the Supreme Court.
Hon. D. H. WHITE is favored by the Bristol
Banner, Elkhart Review and Goshen Times for
collection to the State Senate.
JUDaE CARR, of Bartholomew county, says
the combination formed to crush him is as full
of corruption as dog is of fcas.
The Evansville journal thinks "a favorable
sign Of Republican success in Indiana is the
anxiety to secure nominations for State Offices
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PERVERTED IDEAS OF THE COMIC.

Alarming indications are here and there
becoming deadened to the truly absurd and
ridiculous and responsive to the counterfeit
comic-a symptom which should Immediately
and foreibly be repressed, before its devasta-
tons have time to become far-reaching in
their deplorable results. Not long since niger
soil was requested TO introduce q lecturer in
an Eastern city. By some means he became
possessed Of the subjec t-matter of the lecture
to be given, and he was inspired to a perform
ance which indicates his own and the general
publics obtuse misconception of the truly
comic The time came; the lecturer was led
gracefully on the stage. Ingerson stepped
forward to achieve the introduction. In his
own glowing style he hastily but completely
delivered resume of the lecture to De given
and then gave way to the hero proper of the
occasion The ardent and impassioned preface
of Ingersoll had completely forestalled the
gentleman's lecture. His thunderbolts had
been stolen and launched, and what mild re-
marks be had intended to make fell fatter
than the tabled founder on the ears of his
audience. The listeners were restless and
mirthful, the lecturer abbreviated his disserta-
ton, and, in deep chagiin, withdrew. nger-
soil and the public at large considered this a
good Coke" Humanity and the canons Of
good breeding pronounce it piece Of inperti-
hence and unkindness.
Another instance, as related in that sub
timely comical collection Of golns known 10
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The raw winds have melted the snow in the
middle of the muddy roads, yet it still lies in the
fields. Loads of greenish hay, still juicy and
honey-sweet, are being carried from the barns of
the provident to those of the improvident,
Thoughts Of the sugar making begin to float in
farmers minds In some farm-houses the sap
buckets are already down from the garrett Yet
the trees cannot be tapped until the roar of
tumbling brooks fills the air, and the white,
foaming clear cold waters made of melting
SHOWS, the purest in the world, pour through the
deep, fresh, leafess woods in rushing streams.
Before the frogs peep the sugar sap begins to
flow, and when the frogs have been frozen up
three times more sap flows. The sap
season is the egg season, when farm
boys can fill their pockets with eggs
in the barn and boil them in the
sap, or wrap them in leaves and roast them in
the ashes. Now the ping! ping! of the ak and
the cracking of the falling tree in tho woods are
no longer heard A clean fragrance which con
tains no scent of any decaying thing fills the
forest The stock are let out of the stable and
barn-yard, and they leap and rejoice, and dig
holes in the earth with hoofs and horns in order
to smell the ground, and go around with muddy
horns Cows enjoy nature more than some peo-
pie do. In the Southern counties many fields
grow richly green. There.the butternut dreams
of putting forth its ragged tufts and sprays with
flowing tassels beneath, the ash of its upright
buds, the horse chestnut Of its hanging ones.
The fine, echoing cry of the crows sounds above
the land. A few birds are calling from
wood to wood across the wheat fields.
The blacksmiths hammer clicks far across the
village green. The country boys are playing an
odd game of base ball there-they have hung
their overcoats behind the wood-house door, and
those garments are getting queer smell because
they have fallen to the floor and the cat and dog
are asleep on them. The long evenings, when
the neighbors and the hired men sat round the
kitchen fire, and the hired girl had to reach over
them for dishwater and spilled scalding drops on
their heads are beginning to be things of tho
past The cider, which was beaded, sparkling
and delectably tart in autumn, now grows sharp
and will continue to do so through plowing
planting, hoeing haying, and harvesting, round
to the fall potato digging when it will be tipple
to make you wink. Country dances, where the
fiddler saws his bow with sweeping draw, and
a swing. and twang, and loud crescendo, will
be scarce after the thaw. MARY DEAN.
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AMONG the Pennsylvania woodsmen there is
popular superstition that the man who pur
posely, or even accidentally, causes the death of
q white deer will himself die within year, or
will meet some other misfortune only less seri-
Gus. Recently settler named Silas Rohr
bacher, in the widest region of Luzerne county,
came across such creature, and, knowing and
believing the tradition he caught It alive so as
to keep it from harm until the severe weather
moderated. few mornings later he accident
ally killed it while it was trying to escape.
Fully convinced that evil will befall him soon,
he has sold out and gone into tannery. Many
incidents are cited in proof of this
superstition. III 1872 Hornbeck Sinner, of the
Exchange Hotel, Wilkesbarre, and two friends
of his. a nan named BeaVens and one named
Haney, killed white deer. This was followed
by Sinner becoming, from rich man and one of
giant physique, a bankrupt and helpless in
valid. Haney failed in business and died Of the
smallpox Beavens, then leading merchant,
became reduced to bankruptcy and shot himself
in an clubhouse. James Van Gorden did not be
love in the sacredness Of the white door. He
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AN article which processes to give the opinion
of a railroad conductor as to what is the safest
part of a car for travellers to occupy is floating
around among our exchanges. We have not read
it, but in the light of recent events should say
that the safest spot is on the outside at dis.
lance of about mile.