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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-29
Seriously Beaten by Her Drunken Husband

DECATUR, Dec. 28-John Laly was arrested,
Saturday night, for assaulting his wife, the
mother of five children, with intent to kill. He
came home intoxicated, and becoming angry be-
cause his wife did not have his supper ready,
knocked her down, kicked her in the head and
stomach, and dragged her. screaming, about the
rooms by the hair Of her head. Neighbors in
terfered and prevented murder. Lally resist
ed when arrested, but the officers overpowered
him. Mrs. Lally's head was so badly cut that
most of her hair had to be shaved off so that the
wounds could be sewed up. She was in a crit
ical condition last night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-29
Shot and Killed by a Waterman.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CONVICTION. Dec. 28.-This morning about 3
o'clock. Night Waterman Brooks shot and killed
James Keefe The circumstances, as far as they
can be ascertained indicate that the killing was
in self-defense. Keefe had been troublesome on
account of his drinking habits, and had been in
terrupted by Brooks, some time ago, in attempt
ing to open money drawer at the Brunswick
Hotel, and for several months had been threat
ening Brooks's life In the early part of the
night Keefe made threatening demonstrations
with his revolver, but Brooks evaded MIN by
running into a restaurant At the time of the
shooting keefe suddenly came upon Brooks with
his pistol drawn, and threatening again to take
his life. when Brooks shot him in the breast
Keefe died in about three hours He was un-
married Brooks surrendered himself immedl-
ately to the marshal
The Fountain County Free-Bridee Trouble,
Correspondence Of the Indiana peis journal
ATrICA, Dec. 26-The excitement here is in
tense over the action of the people Of Van
Buren, and Cain townships, VINO persist in heap
ing abuse upon Commissioners Wilson and Sny-
der, because they voted to free the toll bridges
at this place and Covington. It was made plain
to the Commissioners after arguments by both
Sides that the request to buy these bridges was
right aud just, and that by such action they
would comply with the wishes of large major
ity of the people who pay the taxes Not con-
tent with being defeated in the Commissioners
Court, the demonstrators retire to their homes
and adopt the buldozing. boycottng
and abusive tactics. The opposition to
the enterprise and the abuse Of these two Com
missiopers comes from the two townships named
At public meeting held in Cain, resolution
was passed pledgng that the people of that
township would not patronize the merchants of
Attica and Covington, boycotting scheme that
shows their venom and jealousy. The people
favoring the buying of the bridges wero willing
to argue the matter with the demonstrators, but
the latter had no argument-nothing but abuse
and at public meeting held in this city TO-
day. and attended by representatives of five
townships, it was resolved to uphold Commits
sioners Wilson and Snyder, and indorse their
action if the matter had to go through all the
courts of the land for adjudication. The bull
doing tactics Of few soreheads have aroused
the people. and they will defend the Commits
sioners and their rights with all the money
needed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16
Talking TO Millions.

An improved telephone has been
placed in DR.. Talmage's church in
Brooklyn, to enable admirers Of
that clergyman who cannot attend
his discourscs to hear his words in
their own distant homes. This is
new invention, not yet patented,
and it may not be entirely success
ful at first; but all whoare familiar
with all the possibilities Of the
telephone unto in declaring that
speaking, singing, and instrument
tai music will in time be heard in
ones own home with almost as
much satisfaction as in the halls
where the speakers, singers, or
performers exercise their several
gifts. Time WAS when the orator
was everything, and the writer Of
little account, but the invention of
printing made it possible to multi
ply books without number, while
the speaker was necessarily con.
fined TO the few thousands his
voice could reach. But in the
whirligig Of time the orator and
preacher threaten to WELD a great
er influence than the writer does
now. The Beecher of the future,
by means Of the telephone, will
speak to millions, while the PATHS
and Maternas will thrill their
melodies, not alone in vast halls,
but in hundreds of thousands Of
homes throughout the country.
What an education it will be to the
masses when the gifted lecturer
or preacher in the distant city can
be heard in every hamlet in the
country. The great cities will no
longer have monopoly Of the no.
blest strains Of music, for the telc-
phone can communicate them to
the poorest as well as TO the richest
lovers of music. AZ yet the tele-
phone transmits only a munled
sound; but experts say there is no
reason why the distant echo may
no be made AZ resonant as the
voice from the speaker lips.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16
SHENANDOAH HERALD
ADVERTISING RATES.
How II story Grows.


A farmer once was told that his
turnip field had been robbed, and
that the robbery had been commit.
ted by a poor, inOfiensive man, or
the name of Palmer, who, many Of
the people Of the village said, bad
taken away wagon load of turnips.
Farmer Brown, much exasperated
by the loss Of his turnips, deter
mined to prosecute poor Palmer
with all the severity of the law
With this intention he went to
Molly Sanders, the washerwoman,
who had been busy in spreading the
report, to know the whole truth;
but Molly denied ever having said
anything about a wagon load OF
turnips. Ii was but cart load that
Palmer had taken, and Dame Hod'
son. the huckster, had told her so
over and over again. The farmer,
hearing this, went to Dame Hod-
son, who said that Molly Sanders
was always making things worse
than they really were; that Palmer
had taken only wheelbarro" full
of tarnips, aud that she had her
account from jenkins, the tailor,
who stoutly denied the account al
together; he had only told Dame
Hodson that Palmer had pulled up
several turnips, but how many he
could not tell, for he did not see
himself, but was told by Tom Slack,
the plowman. Wondering where
this would end, Farmer Brown next
questioned Tom Slack, who in his
turn, declared he had never said a
word about seeing Palmer pull up
several turnips; he only said he
had heard say that Palmer had
pulled up a turnip, and that Barnes,
the barber, was the person who had
told him about it. The farmer, al
most out of patience at this account,
hurried off to Barnes, the barber,
who wondered much that people
should find pleasure in spreading
idle tales which had no truth IN
them. lie assured the farmer all he
had said about the matter while he
took off the beard of Tom Slack,
was that for all he knew, Palmer
was as likely to pull up a turnIp as
his nelghbors.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

TALKERs.-Who does not like to
hear a really good talker, whether
in the public room or in the pri-
vate circle? Men may gliblyquote
the adage, Speech is silvern, but
silence is goldeu,' yet it must be
acknowledged that the silent man
is. as a rule, at great disadvant-
age compared with his neighbor
who can use his tongue well, and
is, as the phrase goes, good com
pany.'
But how comparatively few are
the takers with whom We can hnd
no fault! Some are too egotistical,
others too censorious. One man
annoys us by being too argumen'
tative; another by asserting too
readily to all that we say, ana
thus, anomalous as it may seem,
blocking the road to conversation
by sheer want of obstruction. Then
there are the doubed-tongued
takers, the inquisitive and the
grandiloaueut-all of whom are
Objectionable.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16
Valuable Gems-Read and lIe
member.

Industry prevents vice.
Love and trust but few.
Sc0rn to do a mean act.
Promise little and do mach.
Write your own history daily.
Economy is the chair Of Old age
Betray no trust; diyulge no Sc
crct.
Pen and ink are the best wit.
nesses.
Little boats mast keep near the
shore.
Short reckonings lmake long
friends.
Do good whenever you can, and
forget it.
Deile not your mouth with i'm
pure words.
The fall Of the leaf is "A whisper
to the living.
Judge charitably and act kindly
to each other.
Study not to beautify the face,
but tho mind.
Truth is the hidden gem we all
should dig for.
Revenge is the only debt which
i, is wrong 20 pay.
Truth is rock large enough for
all to stand upon.
Plain words make the most orna-
mental sentences.
Avoid yourself what you think
wrong in your nelghbOr.
Speak we'll Of your friend ofyour
enemy say nothing.
IfnOne endeavored, there would
be an end to discovery.
People swear because they know
their words are worthless.
How much pain the evils have
caused us that never happened.
There is no disease so danger
Gus as the want Of common sense.
\ child il the brightest ray in
the sunshine OF q parents heart.
Without economy none can be
rich with economy few need be
poor.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16
The New Editor Begins.
HE TRIES TO WRITE UP An ACCT
DENT-THE RESULT.

By the order Of court the ChIca.
60 Times has been placed in the
hands of a new editor. Eugene
Field, Of the Chicago NelCs, gives
the first days experience Of this
court.made editor as follows:
'As we were coning from our
breakfast to our Office about Q O'Clock
this morning You mean yes.
terday morning. suggested Major
Dcnnet. 'Oh, no; il was this morn
ing said Major IIurIbut. 'Ycs,
but You should write Of it as yes
terday,i explained Major Dennct,
: for the article will not appear I'M
ill Tomorrow "Hrue enough said
Major IIurlbut. So he made the
correction and resumed reading.
'As sc were coming from our break.
fast to our Office about Q O'Clock
yes 'rday morning horse belong
ing to Mr.. John Hogan, our cs.
tecmed fcllow-townsman, with a
blaze OH his forehead and n white
tail attached 10 a furniture car in
which there was a piano that had
been rented by a wcll-known Prairie
avenue belle with carved legs, be.
came frightened and rushed madly
down the street where there were
many people scattering alarm and
destruction broadcast. On the
corner of State street and Indiana
a child Of Michael Boliyer, Esq,
ourcstcemed fcllow-townsmanthree
years old, and wearing pantalets
was playing ia lhe crowded thor
onghfarc. Young, beautiful and
innocent, this unhappy child was
called by all who knew him Patsy,
although his name IS Patrick, was
overtakcn by the bitter pin Of adj
yersity, for rin the midstof his child.
ish play the pale hand of death
stalkcd i'm and badc him 20 with
him to that bourne from which no
traveller returns Major lIurlbut
glanced at Major Dcnnct, and SAW
he vas weeping softly TO himself
1t argues volumes for Major Den
nets discretion, that he did not vol
untecr an explanation why he wept.
81 natter myself, observed Major
lIurlbut, that no ono could have
made amore delicate allusion TO my
old profession as druggist than
have done by mentioning the bittor
pill OF adyersiiy-sceF The child
did not see the approaching horse,
resumed the receiycr,jOuralist, but
we cried, 'Will no one save him
from the iron heel of the pale hand
of dcathT Alas it WAS too late,
for ere we could interposc the horse
was upon the unfortunate babe, ahd
before he could eyade the cruel fate
which strobe after him on swift but
noiscie,s wings he fell to the earth
and was picked up an unconscious
corpse, from which condition it has
been impossible TO revive him up to
the hour OF going o press. Week
tend to the family our deepest sym
paihy, and are informed upon re-
liable authority that no damage was
don 10 the piano. Truly, in the
midst Of life we are in death, and
let rs all be more careful about let
ting our children play in the street
where danger turks and they are so
liable to die without medical assist
ance.'
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16
VOL. s..
BUSYBODIES.

II is a fact, as I've been told,
That people ia the days of old,
Got rich in silver and in gold,
No matter what they bought OF sold,
by minding their own business.
They did not try TO wound ones fame,
Or slander anybody's name;
They cared not when YOU went or came
They pleased themselyes--you did the same
II 1t was your own business,
And if a man did what was right
In his own mind, and in the sight
Ot God and law, by day and night
lie went ahead and fought the fight,
Determined in his business.
But in degen'rato modern days
There's quite a change In peoples ways,
And what a person does OF says
Must be held up unto the gaze
OF every busybody,
And if you do not tell them, too.
Where you are going, and what to do,
They get into such an awful stew,
They'll even watch and follow yOu-
These very busybodies
But if we take the pains 10 see
Who these same busybolies hc,
We find there's not a he or she.
Who has decent history,
Among these busy bodies.
But let us no more notice take
OF evil tongues; but for their sake
Wen hope and pray they soon may wake
From wickedness, and money make
BY mindiug their own business.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

HEALTH ALPHABET.-The La.
dies Sanitary Association of Lon.
don gives the following simple
rules for health:
Garments should never be made
tight.
Homes should be healthy, airy
and light.
Children, if healthy, are active,
not still.
Eat slowly, and always chew
your food well.
Freshcn the air in the house
where you dwell.
Better be without shoes than sit
with wet feet.
As soon as you are up shake
the blankets and sheets.
Damp beds and damp clothes
will both make all.
If YOU wish to be well, as nc
doubt you do, just open the win
dows before you go out.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16
R. B. F. MAPHIs & BRO.
--IDentlst u.

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wooa.,ooh. Isl and 81 weeks Of each montn'
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n .sts of Artlfcial teeth from s''uV !" ''''
- and $500 ro,,o $1,000. Silver
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,,ois combinstion, Celleloid and kuoeer passsi
- porcelain rivoting. clasps, &C. sl''si
,,tion uvsn TO hllins and PSeser,,ns P,..,,'es sse
,.t,,th, and correcting the ittes
rorf warranted hrst class. ~. ,.s,n d,
,As. of Nitrous Oxido0as'
rchle.-tf.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16
The Sentiment OfFIOwers.

Mignonelte-I love you more for
not being more handsome.
Magnolia love noue on earth
better than yOu.
Rosebud, white am too young
to marry just now.
Rose, damask-I love, but am
too bashGul to tell you.
White rose-I have great prefer.
encc for the married life.
Oleander, caution-Be careful,
my dear; we are watched.
NaIcissus-Your love for your
self is greater than for me.
Peach Blossom shall never
love another as | do you.
Suuaower, false-You are made
up of deceit.
IIoneysuckle, happiuess-I will
make you happy.
IIollyhock, ambi,ioa-you are
most too ambitious.
Ivy can only ba your friend
and nothing more.
Columbine, folly You are most
tcO foolish.
Lilac-You are my first and only
love.
Gr4ss-Uscful, bat not very
handsome.
Lady-slipper-youarev very tickle.
Morning glory, love-Loye me.
Rose, withered-Departed beau
ty.
Hyacinth-Have good faith.
Violet, white-Innocence.
Orange Flower, charity-A vir.
tue which all should have.
Geranium, dark, melancholy-I
am lonely without you.
Gcranium, scarlet am happy
when in your presence.
Dandelion, coquette-You are n
merry, little, smiling Airt.
Daisy, unison-I share your de-
ightful sentiments.
Violet, blue, faithfulncss-I will
be faithful until death.
Yellow Pink, disdain-I scorn
your rich offerings.
Shrub, jusiicc-You shall have
justice done to you.
Tulip, anection-You share my
devoted affection.
Blue Bell, loncly-No wish to
lead q single life.
Dahlia elegancc-Yom charms
l cdullOi resist.
Gcrdnium, rO5e-I prefer light
hair and blue eyes.
Sycamore-I am curious to know
your secret.
Wild Tansy-l declare war
against YOU.
Fuchsia, faithfulness-I am true
to you.
Marigold, jealousy-Be very
Mulbcrry-I shall not survive
you.
Lily, humbleness-I am patient.
Peppcrmint-Warmth Of feeling.
lee Plant-You look so cold.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16
Forgive and Forget

lfall persons would forgive and
forget what a great increase there
wonld be in the happiness of this
life. Opportunities for revenge
would no longer be sought or do.
sired. Many dark clouds which
arise in our moral skies, produced
by malice, might be instantly re-
moved by those musical words /
will forget and forgive Excited
passions would bequieted and there
would be kind words and cheerful
hearts. We often hear the ex.
preston can forgive, but | can
not forget If we truly forgive,
then to forget is a natural result.
When We speak Of forgetting a
wrong we do not wish to be un.
derstOod to say that all remem.
brance Of it is entirely obliteratel
but that the mind is 50 occupied by
better thoughts Of friendship and
love that the thought remains in
oblivion until some circumstance
produces a recollection of it, but
when it does recur to the mind it
has not power to excite any feeling
of displeasure. With such regula.
tion Of our thoughts and passions,
our lives will contain less gloom and
more sunshine. Our hopes may be
raised up to the verge Of bright
realization our ambition be made
the highest and most ennobling;
our faith be made strong, all bound
as the golden cha II of love-the
fruit of forgiveness and our barQue
Will glide over the unseen hand Of
the omnipoten t; it will guide us
past all danger, and as we near the
shining shore we shall SEQ the
Golden City which will be Our
Eternal Home. We may forgive
and forget.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

A NEW WAY TO PROPOSE MAR
RfAGB.-The tide is turning at last.
A young man in Nelson county,
Iowa, armed himself with a revolv.
er and sailed out to shoot a young
woman who had declined the offer
of his hand. But she was up to
snuff. She read the papers and had
frequently seen accounts of similar
Affairs, quietly resolving that no
discarded lover could make a vic
tim of her, not if the court or rath-
er the cOurtcd, understood herself.
When the young man arrived at the
house on his deadly mission, he
found the fair but cruel one in the
kitchen doing the weeks ironing.
She didn't appear to suspect, and
he expected to have an easy time
preparing her for the Coroner but
when he reached around to the pis-
tol pocket, with the remark that her
time had come, she stated, 8 guess
not and knocked him down with
a fat iron, demohshing his nose and
front teeth. Then she gave him the
scalding contents of tea kettle
that was singing a cheerful air on
the stove, and when the family came
in she was mopping the floor with
him. The next time he proposes
and is refused he will probably con.
clude that that settles it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

She had just returned from vas
sar, aud papa was stroking her hair
fondly. Il hope, my dear, said the
old man, that you haven't acquir'
ed any of the vulgar slang phrases
which 60 many of the yassar young
ladies are said to use.' You bet
haven't, papa she replied brightly
when anybody catches me talking
slang, he is especially invited to
slug me in the seventh rib THAT
is right, my daughter, never ln'
dulge in slang, it gives "a young lady
dead away
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

How can a watch-no matter how cost
ly--be expected To 90 when the handspring
won't operatci How can anyone he well
when the stomach, liver or kidneys are out
of ordcrl OF course you say, "he can
not" Yet thousands Of people drag along
in that condition; not sick abed.
but not able 10 work with comfort aud
energy. How foolish, when a bottle OF
two of Parker's Tonic wonld set them all
right. Try it, and get back your health
and spirits.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

Young jenkins excited the adj
mirati0n of the ladies at a Lee
avenue boarding.house, by saying
he would take the part Of the
chicken that ought to wear bus
tIn
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

'How is it, Fogg, that you are
always advising everybody to mar
ry, and yet you show no hurry about
taking u Wits yourselfr Fogg
: Because, my boy, I'm too much OF
q gentleman to help myself until
everybody else is supplied
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

Upon tie ridgcd wolds,"
and almost tantalizing vistas of the
smiling meadows and dark wood
lands about Somersby, where, in
company with Arthur Hallam, that
brother of his soul, the poet in his
youth was won't to wander.
Not only can Lincolnshire boast
Of poet and divine, but this soil is
also hallowed by the blood Of some
Of England's earliest martyrs for
the truth.
Here in 1920 dwelt a band Of
simple Christians who received the
name Of 'Just Men, spending their
days 'in toll, in keeping their
hocks, in doing good, and in read
ing the Bible In the fire of perse-
cution, lighted by John LOngland,
Bishop of Lincoln and confessOr to
Henry VIII, many of these hum
bic, pious Haborers and artifcers
testified to their love of Gods
Word.
In the year 100 the Rev. Samuel
Wesley removed from South Orms-
by, on the opposite side Of the
county, to the little town of Ep-
worth, having been presented by
the Queen with the living at that
place.
The rectOry- house was a very
humble dwelling,' built all OF
timber and plaster, and covered
with straw thache, the whole build
ing being cOntriyed into three
stories, and disposed into Z chiefe
rooms, viz, a Kitchinge, a Hall, a
Parlour, a Buttrie, and three large
upper Rooms: besydes some others
of common use; and also a little
garden empailed betweene the stone
wall and the South
To this lowly dwelling to be their
home for forty years, Mr.. Wesley
brought his wife and six little ones.
We find little record of the rector's
work at Ormsby beside that of his
pen, which seems never to have
been idle. His bfother-in-law and
publisher, John Dunton, said of
him, He used to write two hun
dred couplets a day, which were
ZOO many by two-thlrds to be well
finished with all the beauties and
graces of that art 1t was at South
! Ormsby Mr.. Wesley finished his
rkLife of Christ which was dedicat
ed to Queen Mary, and procured
/ f,Or him the living at Epworth.
In the Lincolnshire home the
brector's lovely, ,pious wife, SuSannat
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16
Mischief IL Wrought

by bad cooking, tough meats, late
honrs. business worries, irregular
liyers, sour dispositions, evil dlges,
ton and impure blood. Much oil
This mischief can be overcome by
the use of Browns Iron Bitters-
the best tonic ever made. MIS-
Emilia Crawford, Reidsville, Ca,
writes, After trying Browns Iron
Bitters we are persuaded that 1t IS
all that it claims to be-a good ana
reliable tonic! Thousands OF oth-
ers sneak in like manner.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

She was a plain matter-of-fact
girl and not used to the flowers OF
rhetoric, and when he asked her if
his love did not strike responsive
chord in her heart she replied: Il
don't exactly understand what you
mean, John, as the only cord !
know Of near my heart is my cor.
set string.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

a little boy in one OF the city
schools, while defining words a few
days since, made a mistake which
was not all mistake. lie said:
"A demagogue is a vessel that
holds gin, whisky, or any other kind
of Intoxicating liquor
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

little charcoal fed two or three
times a week to fAttening hogs is
an excellent corrective OF acidity of
the stomach. They are especially
liable to this trouble when fed up
on corn and confined ina pen.
At such times they will cat char
coal greedily. and will fatten much
more rapidly with charcoal than
with corn alone.