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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
DEATH OF THE GOLD DIsCovERER.

James W. Marshall, who in January, 1913,
first discovered gold in California, died in
Coloma, of that State, last Monday. A
Placerville. Cal, dispatch tells how Marshall
first discovered the precious metal:
Marshall was experimenting the building
of mill-race After shutting off the water
at the head OF the race he walked down the
ditch to see what sand and gravel had been
removed during the previous night. He
strolled to the lower end of the race and
stood looking down at the mass of debris.
At this juncture his eye caught the glitter of
something that lay lodged IN a crevice on a
rifle of soft granite. He stopped and picked
up the substance. lie was heavy, of pc
culiar color and different from anything he
had seen in the stream before. He was salts
fed that he had indeed made an important
discovery. In several days he collected
few ounces of the precious metal and as he
had occasion to visit Suffers Fort in short
time he took the specimens with him. He in
formed Suffer of his discovery, but the Gen
eral was incredulous, and it was not until
chemical experiments had settled the ques-
ton beyond all doubt would he admit the
mineral was gold. AT last all doubts faded,
and the excitement began to spread. The
news flew over the country like wildfire. and
those whites who were then in California
went into the quest for gold with great ardor
and energy. Additional revelations were
made daily, and the news of the discoveries
was spread.
He will be remembered by 'old 49ers' as
the first discoverer of gold in that State. The
fact of his having died AT the age of seventy
four years a pOverty-stricken and dis
appointed old man, when thousands of
people have amassed fortunes in the golden
State, resulting directly or indirectly from
the discovery of the precious metal
there by Mr. Marshall, is one of the sad pic
lures presented to US when we reflect upon
the fortunes and misfortunes of man in life
the picture of mans inhumanity to man.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
NEW ENGLAND IN 1857.

Among old spinning wheels last century
ancient castaways of an old New England
garnet, the.correspondent of a New York
paper found copy Of the first newspaper
published in New Haven. 1t bore the date
of October 1867, ard was called the Con-
Decticut Gazette. 1t measures fourteen
inches one way and nine and a half
the other. The advertisements are of course,
always matters of interest in an old news
paper find At the head of the first page
the notice of the publishers appeared, and
reads as follows:
Printed by j. Parker & Company, at the
Postofficc. near Captain Peck's at the Long
Wharf, where this paper may be had at ..
3D., LGrfiu lOaey, per quarter, III sent by the
special post, or Is. 1Od., Hall Penny, without
Postage; the first Quarter to be paid at En-
trance. kote.-Thirteen Papers go TO the
Quarter, none to stop but at the end of the
Quarter. Saturday, Oct. LIST, 100"
ASPIRATIONS used to appear in those days.
One man saw three angles one night. He
was evidently ''on the make" however. He
wrote an account of it and advertises it for
sale under headline ''To he sold by the
A True and Wonderful Relation of the
appearance
Or THREE ANGELS,
Clothed in white raiment) to a Young Man
in Medford, in New England, at night:-to-
gether with the substance of the Discourse,
delivered by one of the Angels, from the Sd
Chapter of Colos, and the 4th Verse.
The Public may depend that the above
Narrative is no imposition, but that it is
~
himself to numbers of people, many of whom
can attest he is person OF good character.
Some Of the good New England folks of
those days imported slaves from Africa and
bought and sold them like horses or mer-
chandisc of any Sort. The following adver-
tisement tells the story:
To be Sold-Several likely Negro Boys and
Girls arrived from Coast of Africa.
Samuel Willis, at Middleton.
Likely Negro Wench and Child to be
Sold. Inquire of the Printer.
To. be Sold-By the subscriber of Bradford,
a likely Negro Wench, eighteen years of age;
is acquainted with all sorts of House work;
is sold for no fault.
The whipping-post was used at the time
the paper was published, and the criminals
branded on the forehead, as the following
shows:
Last Saturday afternoon David Slusher and
James DAILY were cropt, branded with the let
ter II on their Fore-heads, and received each
of them Fifteen Stripes on their naked Bod
les, pursuant to their sentences, for some
time since breaking open and robbing the
shop of Mr.. Philo Mills of Derby.
The following indicates that postal facili-
ties we're poor:
Next week VIII be published Proposals for
sending by Subscription a Post to Albany,
during the summer, and for paying the post
age of all letters to the Connecticut Soldiers
in the Army. Toward which the Printers of
this paper viii advance Five Pounds, lawful
money. This is mentioned now, that Gen.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
Helpless Upon a Friendlesss Sea.


Who, in taking passage in great trans
Atlantic steamer, does not feel thrill of ex-
ultation over her magnificent power. Against
her the Storm King may hurl his elemental
forces, nor pierce her armor, nor stop her on
ward course
But let me describe a scene when, one
morning in mid-ocean, there came an alarm
from tina pilot-house. followed by cry:
The ships rudder is lost" From the con-
fident expression, CONSERVATION came to
every face. The wheelman being helpless to
direct her course, the vessel was at the mercy
of wind and wave.
The Captain had been negligent. the hang
ings of the rudder were allowed to wear
weak, and suddenly it had dropped deep into
the sea.
Strong in intellect, in physical vigor, in
energy and in ambition, man confronts I'M
daunted gigantic tasks, and commands APP
plause for his magnificent achievements
But, all Unexpectedly, an alarm comes-the
rudder of his constitution is gone. He has
been careless of its preservation; mental
strain, nervous excitement, irregular habits
overwork, have destroyed the action of his
kidneys and liver. This would not occur
were Warmers safe cure used to maintain
vigor. And even now it may restore vitality
to those organs and give back to the man
that which will lead him to the haven of his
ambition.-The Traveller.
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PERSONALS.

OSCAR WILDE is said to be father. He
will now put up poetry and pour down par
eSoric.
CHARLES MELVILLE died in the Ohio Peni-
Tertiary, and not one OF his fifteen wives
was present
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, always
has chapter from the Bible read to him i'm
mediately after dinner.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES is getting thin. He
keeps the lower part OF his face hidden with
long beard, which is nearly gray.
II John Roach is seventy-seven years old,
as is alleged, he has reached period when
lie might be expected to begin to fail.
PORE LEO has enjoyed better health this
summer than in any previous summer since
his election and confinement in the Vatican.
GEORGE JOHNSON, colored, Ill years old,
resides in Posey County Poor-house, and Dol
ly Pagan, also oolored. aged 107, lives four
miles west OF Evansville.
JOSHUA MoSTEFIoRE, an uncle of the late
Sir Moses. was the first Hebrew commits
stoned in the British army. He was the
author or compiler OF Commercial Nautical
Precedents, 1.-THE Commercial Dictionary
and other notable works, and aSteg travelling
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MONTEFIORE.
.on the sly

He lies there like an aged oak
Uprooted by the tempest stroke.
But regal, great and noble still.
Whose name and fame the country fill:
Now crownless, thornless, and from wild winds
free,
Let men show honor to the fallen tree.
j. H. Hartzell in ''Wanderings on Parnassus."
SIR MosEs takes rank with the great and
good men OF all the ages-The Interior,
Chicago.
Men of wealth and true benevolence are
not so plenty that one can die and not be
missed. The greatest of them is gone.-San
Franciscan.
No JOURNEY was SO long, no labor so
arduous no fatigue so painful as to turn
back the brave soul when once it heard the
cry for help-Charleston Is. c. News and
Courier.
He was noble Hebrew who loved his fell
low-men. That is not so strange, perhaps, as
that all his fellow-men loved him, whether
they were Jews or Gentiles.-New York
Tribune.
HE was a fine example of the character
that even the old Mosaic system, in its gem
tleness to the poor and the stranger would
produce in a loyal and faithful Israelite-an
ancient, goodly patriarch projected into
modern times.-The Advance, Chicago.
THE death of Sir Moses Montefore has
thrilled all Israel, and the civilized world in
general pauses to give kindly thought to
the good old man, who was the type of all
that is noble in humanity.-The Jewish Mes
senger.
Ii is given to few to have command OF such
resources of wealth, rank, health and time,
but the world would be very different if
those who have but a pittance of these things
would administer them with half the fidelity
and large-heartedness with which this noble
Hebrew discharged the trust he had received
from God.-The Christian Union.
II, since the days of the patriarchs' them
selves, there has been Hebrew who has
used his life, his experience and his treasury
wholly for the good of his people and of hui
mainly in true patriarchal fashion, that man
is Sir Moses Montefiorc. --Philadelphia Bull
letin.
NOTHING moro clearly demonstrates the
onward progress Of civilization than the uni
versal honor and esteem which has been de-
monstrated toward him who lived aloof from
the camp and the Senate-house, toiling
bravely in the field of philanthropy
American Hebrew.
HIS achievements, directed primarily to
the improvement of his race, have benefited
all civilized nations, and have won for him
the admiration of the world. His career is a
splendid example of what person in pri-
waite life, inspired by unselfsh motives, can
accomplish. Bulletin.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
BRILLIANT METEoR1C SHOWERS.

Most people who have been out much at
night for several days past have noticed the
unusual number of shooting stars that
have been observable in the heavens.
We are now passing through a meteoric
belt where clusters of these bodies, which
make shooting stars, exist in myriad num-
bers. They are supposed to be fragments of
solid substance. perhaps remains of destroyed
planets, which are revolving about the sun
as part of the solar system. Contact with
the atmosphere OF the earth is thought to
produce combustion or ignition of these
small stellar bodies and in their process of
consumption they produce the magnificent
natural fireworks which give US fine exhi-
bitiOn every year; and in return periods Of
thirty-three years the display is equal to that
OF any Fourth OF July celebration. Tonight
the spectacle will be brilliant if the sky be
clear, and all should be out of doors who
wish to enjoy the sight.
Calculations as to the height velocity and
magnitude OF these meteors are necessarily
imperfect from their characteristics. Though
few are seen nearly every night when the
sky is clear, Yet is it at almost regular inter
vals that We notice the phenomena OF me-
teoric showers, and the time for such recur-
renee is matter or totally accurate calcula-
ton.
From observation and study by astrono-
meIs the conclusion is reached that meteors
are largely distributed throughout the space
traversed by our earth in its
orbit; that they, however more numerously
occupy a zone or belt, and when our sphere
is passing through this ring of meteors,
those which enter the earths atmosphere are
consumed with the splendid effects which
we witness frequently in perfect showers of
brilliant shooting stars
The erolites so commonly found sprinkled
over the Earth's surface, often deeply i'm
bedded by the force of their fall from space,
are undoubtedly consumed meteOrs. The
appearance of these always shows the action
of fire, and they have occasionally been dis
covered so hot as to burn the hands of ven
turesome people who essayed to touch the
newly fallen erolite. Their composition is
almost uniformly the same, being iron and
nickel, or ''meteoric iron"
From remotest ages meteOric phenomena
have been observed in all parts of the earth,
and their appearances have given rise to the
evil superstitions usually INDUCED in by
the ignorant. who ascribed to such
natural phenomena signs OF war, or
pestilence, or famine, or other great calamity
10 be inflicted upon nations or people by
whatever gods superstitious mankind wor-
SHIPPED. Even in our day sucA belief exists
in some countr' IS where these visitors from
the vast armament beyond our world and its
covering of air, excite alarm, and frantic APP
peals for deiverance from the wrath which
they thinknear at hand as illustrated re-
Gently in Texas, when a meteor "about the
size of flower BARREL" which illuminated
all the heavens in view of the beholders,
caused CONSERVATION among the natives who
augured from it dire calamity.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19

THE Commercial Gazette has been circulat-
ing quite number of hard stories on the
Prohibition candidate for Governor of Ohio.
1t fell, day or two ago, clear up to the
neck, as the following shows:
UHIIcKsvILLE, o., August II.
To the Editor of the Commercial Gazette:
SIR-The camp-meeting ale-drinking story
in your issue of to-day is an infamous lie.
a. b. LEONARD.
The fact is that the c. G. is trying to prove
too much. If DR.. Leonard drinks ale and
champagne as freely as the C. G. is endeavor-
ing to prove, the first thing the C. G. knows
it will be driving the Republican party to
his support. The Repubs do like their tod"
ON the sly
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
JOSEPH.

1t is said that he will soon retire from the
Supreme Bench. His celebrated rancho,
Aliunde. in the dark lands. will then be his
place of repose, where he will enjoy ever
lasting life, having found in Aliunde that
water so craved by Ponce de Leon, but found
not by him, and where he will be cheered by
communion with the congenial spirits of Wis
iting statesmen and of honest Returning
Boards. These reflections are suggested by
the cheering intelligence that Justice Brad
ley-a man who did more to seat that grand
national pretender, Il. b. Hayes, in the
White House than any other man living or
dead-is about to retire from the Supreme
Bench OF the United States.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
MONOPOLIES ARE FOES OF THE
PEOPLE

The Democracy has always been the pro-
tector, and the only protector of the people
against monopolies and all such foes, so con-
slant and insidious.
The Republicans, conspicuous for so much
that is bad, are marked throughout their
career for fostering monopolies Of every
species-of railroads, by immense grants of
the peoples land and money; of herders, by
conniyance at immense seizures by them of
the peoples land; of manufacturers by ex-
orbitant tariff for their special benefits of
Government ship-building, by giving all
contracts therefor to John Roach, etc.
The Democracy has been reinstated in
power but a lew months, and yet see how
rapidly progresses the removal of these in
tolerable grievances so long heaped upon the
people by the Republicans, while proclaim
ing devotion 70 the peoples interest
Ittook Democrat 10 throttle that danger
Gus monopoly. the United States Bank; it
takes Democrat to tllrottle these dangerous
monopolies fixed on the people BY the Re-
publicans. Throttle them all, the Democ-
racy must and will 81
Such resolute boarding Of audacious and gi-
gantic monopoiisfs as recently exempliied
BY our Democratic President would be worthy
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
PARKE COUNTY CHAMBERS.
Drs. Metcalf and Pritchard do Good Days
Work Among Glandered stock

DIR. Metcalf, Secretary of the State Board
of Health, and Dr. T. H. Pritchard, the we'll
known veterinary surgeon, returned yester-
day from visit to Parke County, where
they went to investigate the case of Wesley
Jessup who died on the 18th inst. with CLAN
ders. The symptoms were described by the
attending physician, and there is now no
doubt that JeSSup died of that disease. He
first complained of soreness in his eye and
that member became badly swollen. His
nose then became affected and finally his
mouth and throat and, after twelve days
of suffering, he died. The dis
ease was first pronounced to
be erysipelas, but two or three days before
his death the physicians came to the con-
clusion that he had contracted CHAMBERS from
his horses.
Four years ago Jessup was presented with
a horse by his father-in-law, and the animal
afterward sickened and was eventually
killed. Two others horses belonging to him
were similarly affected, as were two Others
belonging to his father-in-law. These ami
mails were examined by Drs. Pritchard and
Metcalf, and were found to have CHAMBERS.
Being given the alternative of killing or
quarintinlng the animals, the owners chose
the former, and the four horses were killed
Saturday afternoon. Frank Payne, of Rock
vile, had mule that had been sick for
some time, and when DIR. Pritchard
pronounce its disease CHAMBERS, the animal
was Immediately killed. Several parties
learning that indianapolis talent was in the
county, called upon the doctors TO examine
their stock, but no further cases of CHAMBERS
were discovered. The parties whose stock
were killed promised to disinfect their
stables and do all in their power to prevent
further contagion. Drs. Pritchard and Met
calf did good work in Parke county, and
the wonder is that such q disease could exist
for four years without proper medical au-
thority being consulted.
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in nearly every country on the globe he set
tied down in his eightieth year to end his
days as a recluse at st. Adams, Vi.
PROF. RICHARD A. PROCTOR prepared him
self for pleasant reception on his return to
England by casually remarling that the man
never lived who knew as much as Matthew
Arnold thinks he knows.
Mr.. ANDREW W. BURNHAN, OF Essex,
Mass, celebrated his Tooth birthday August
5, and owing to his lifelong regular habits in
the use of liquor and tobacco he does not
look to-day like man of more than seventy.
A SARATOGA correspondent says that Mrs.
A. T. Stewart and Judge Hilton are generally
seen taking their daily drive together. Both
are still in mourning, the Judge for his wife.
Mrs. Stewards face is said to wear tired and
pitiful expression, as if cher millions did not
make her happy"
ALLEN THoRNDrKE RICE, the proprietor of
the "North American Review" and the
reputed professor of a million, is described
as young man with olive complexion, dark
brown hair, hazel eyes and a clOse-cut full
beard. He dresses quiently and has fancy
for top coat little worn at the seams.
THE great commercial family of Barring,
member of which has recently been emo
bled, is said to be the most successful of the
period in England, having received three
peerages in fifty years. Alexander Barring,
Lord AshbUrtOn, for whom Ashburton
Place in Philadelphia was named, married
the rich Miss Bingham, of Philadelphia, and
NEGOTIATED with Mr.. Webster the famous
kSbhurton treaty
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19

OF GA Hickory himself Ii is splendid ex-
hibition OF courageous fdelity to the people,
and viii live in history side by side with that
which made Old Hickory 80 famous for moral
as well as military courage.
Ii the people should desire no other benefit
from Democratic administration than this
throttling of Republican monopolies, it
would be enough; would justify their conf
dence in restoring Democratic ascendancy
and their determination to maintain it. But
this benefit IS only the initial of good to be
wrought by the Democracy.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
MORALITY LEGISLATION.

One OF the worst signs of the times is a
disposition among many people to legislate
people into morality.
There is evidently just now growing craze
in that direction; especially is this notice
able in the South, section of the country
heretofore almost free therefr0m.
But there can be no reasonable doubt that
it will end sooner or later as similar move
ments have heretofore ended. When the
sober second thought brings to bear its con-
vincing power, such fanaticisms can not
stand the test, and are remanded to the rear
by better considered public opinion.
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tlemen may be as expeditions as possible in
sending in subscriptions.
A mock Indian fight and a sad accident are
thus related:
Last Monday very unhappy accident
happened at the muster of the Militia in
North Haven. After the arms and accoutre-
ments of the Militia Company in that place
were viewed by the Officers, for the sake of
merriment il was agreed 20 have a mock In
dian fight and part of the company dressed
in Indian dress encountered the other part
of the company, when one Enoch Ives, a
young man about eighteen who was one of
the Indian party, had his Windpipe Jugular
Vein and his throat tore in such a manner by
the discharge of gun that was close by him
that he expired in an instant.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19

TIRE capital invested in the dairy business
OF the United States, says an exchange, is
computed TO be over 2Oo, 100000 and to em-
ploy about 100000 men and nearly 100000
horses, L, coo, 900 cows fed on GO,OO0oOo acres
of pasture, meadow and grain land. An
officer of the Erie Milk-Producers Associa-
ton says: 1.-THE average COW yields about
4Jo gallons of milk year, giving a total
product of e,75O,Oo00oo gallons. Twelve
cents gallon is a fair price to estimate the
value Of this milk at---a total retuR to the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19

dairy farmer OF 1910, ooooce FIFTY per cent.
of the milk is made into cheese and butter.
1t takes % pounds of milk to make one
pounds OF butter, and about 10 pounds OF
milk to make one pound Of cheese. There
is the same amount of nutrition in three and
a half pounds of milk that there Is in one
pound of beef Afat steer furnishes 50,per
cent. of boneless beef, but it would require
about 24,0o0OOO steers. weighing I 800 pounds
each, to produce the same amount OF nutri-
ton as the annual milk product does"
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Let the Good work Go ON.

We desire to call attention to the work now
being done by the Price Baking Powder Com
pany in exposing the imposition that has
has been practiced upon us for years by the
makers of adulterated baking powders-an
imposition that has enriched the adulterators
and ruined the stomachs Of many an unsus-
pecting family. No better proof of the puri-
ty and wholeSomeness of DIR. Prices Cream
Baking Powder can be offered than it is rec
commended by the heads of the great uniyer-
stiles of this country. and is used by the
United States Government,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
RoyaI Blood.

We are all kings and queens in this cOun-
try, and we have right TO as good blood as
that which courses through the veins of En-
perors. Ii the blood is poor and the cheeks
are pale, it Is well known that Browns Iron
Bitters is the great tonic which will give
color vigor and vitality. Mr.. NJ. X. Gibson,
of West Point, Miss. says: 81 felt weak
and debilitated. Browns Iron Bitters made
me strong and we'll
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19

AS A useful invention in the love-making
business, the typewriter is not signal sue
cess. A Cincinnati girl, evidently more ro-
mantle than practical, cut her intended be-
cause he unfeelingly used a typewriter in
conducting his side of the correspondence.
We do not blame her There is no sentiment
whatever expressed by the work of that in.
strument and the man who would employ
one in expressing words of endearment to
his intended-Ughl what an iceberg he must