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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-25

"Auotber Cincinnati man was hanged, TO-
day, at the Penitentiaty," is about the form
the reporters will use, IL the courts OF Ham-
ilton county can be induced to do heir whole
duty. 1t Is useless to "splurge' on common
place even,s.-Columbus Dispatch.
And If the State gibbet doesn't work
of Columbus man, once week, and oc.
casionaly member of the Legislature, it
will be universally denounced as a failure.
1t is related OF the Duke OF Argyll that,
once talking with Charles Darwin he re-
ierred to some of the wonderful contriv-
ances seen in nature, and remarked that
one could not see them without being con-
vinced that they were the effect and ex-
preston of mind. The great naturalist
looked at Argyll very hard and said
"Well, that often comes over one with
overwhelming force but at other times -
shaking his head vaguely-"it seems to go
away" Mr.. Darwin should have caught
on to that great idea with n grip that
would have held it for all time-and eter-
nifty, too-for it is the idea that dominates
all others.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-25

General Hazen's trouble was with ex-
Secretary Lincoln, and now that the Gen
eral has been mildly reprimanded by the
President and restored to his position, it is
stated that his counsel, Judge Mackey, is
about to publish book in which "it will
be shown that Secretary Lincoln, by re-
fusing to permit General Hazen to send a
ship of rescue back to Cape Sabine for
Greedy and his men, in September, 1883,
when there were four steam sealers ready
to start at st. Johns, is the person really
responsible for the Arctic tragedy, 1t will
be shown by the testimony of leading Arc.
tic explorers that there were yet forty days
in which to reach Cape Sabine before the
navigable season closed at the very time
Secretary Lincoln, without consulting the
proper authorities, decided, on September
Is, that it was too late to dispatch ship
from St. Johns 5, which was only thirteen
days steaming from where Greedy and his
men were then encamped"
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-25
AGREATR TREv0LU7|ON
IN THE TREATMENT OF
Liver and Kidney Complaints,
Diabetes, Gravel Stone In the
Kidneys and Bladder,
Bright's Disease. etc.
EFFscTED By THE DISCOVERY or
DR.. CARPENTERS
Calculi Resolvent.

The following are specimens Of testimonials bs
Ing daily received by The alculi Resylvsnt Manu-
featuring Co.:
COLUMBUS, o., April
Calculi ResOvent Mig. Co., Cleveland, o.;
Dear sirs-One OF our customers has been trou.
bled with Kidney Complaint, h 70 tried nearly
everything, and since taking 3 Battles Cal.
Gull ites0ivent he claims To be fully relieved and
cured. lie does not want his name ade public
but we can say he has used nearly everything for
his 0mplaiht but this time he struck the rlxht
medicine. Respectfully,
kAuscHKoLB Bros, Druggists
c,,o,,,, ctEyELAsD. o., March %, 1885
Caieuli Resolvent M'Ps. TO-, 20 Water street;
Gentlemen-For years have q. times beeD
trou led fiom torpid liver, AID Also more or less
from Kidney affection. Some time sg0 when IN
the con Ion above nsntioned, procured bottle
OF your Caculi kesolvent. Al the time NV urine
was very red and the sediment acc um uatsd dur
ing the night had somewhat the appearance Of
brick dust, Before had CON pleted tie bottle nv
liver seemed To act like q new one, snd the urine
cleared up, the offensive smell left IT, aud nov no
deposit Is found when Il stands few hours give
th,s statem' nj unasked, nd, " worth anything in
calling the attention Of those Similarly ieisd
you may use 1t ssyou like. Yours truly,
JAMS A. You've.
Sold by II. u. Brown.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
General and Personal.


special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. % This mornings Post
says: "Many of the society people of Washing
ton who met Miss Mollie Landers, of Indanapo-
lis. who was the guest of Mrs. Jeremiah Wilson
last winter will be pleased to learn that she will
make her future residence here. Her wedding
to Mr.. John Beall, cashier at Bateman & Co. s,
will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at the resi-
dence of the bride Quite a party from Wash
ington will be in attendance, and Mr.. w. A. L..
Gresham is to be best man"
Gen. Tom. Browne. of Winchester, writes
that he hopes to be in Washington at the open
ing of Congress, for day or two. and will put
his affairs in condition to permit his absence for
some time. Mrs. Browne. whose illness is prob
ably of fatal character, is experiencing slight
temporary Improvement.
The record of the new House as prepared by
the clerk shows 1873 Democrats al Republicans
and one Greenback Democrat. OF the Repub-
licans, 81 have been reelected and 81 are new
members ITO of the Democrats were in the last
House and 70 al new men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23

sffect that no person is entitled TO the benefits
Of both the presumption and the homestead
laws. This is incorrect; no such rul-
ing has been made. There is rea-
son to believe, however, that when this
question comes before him in way to demand
q formal ruling. be will hold that, In the passage
of the homestead law Congress intended only to
give choice to settlers of limited means. by
affording them method of obtaining land with
out other outlay than the payment of the Gus
tomary fees in place of purchasing under the
presumption law. Such ruling, he says. would
be in concurrence with the views which have in
spired the movement in Congress to repeal the
presumption law outright, and, should
the timber-culture law be repealed,
would have the effect of restrict
ing the OF land open for settlement.
General Sparks holds that the two laws-the
homestead and the MISUNDERSTANDING to-
gether, and interpreted as they have heretofore
been-offer emptation to fraud, and place
premium upon it. The hope of securing Sec
ond claim is held ont by tho government as an
1Educement 70 make he settlement and improve
msne upon the first General Sparks holds that
If Congress designed to give the same settler
gsased upon him the requirement to establish a
Temporary home in one place, only to
Re sbandone for another within few months
ssheul6 the ruling Indicated as probable never be
made that alree - made, prohibiting commute
ton of homestead claims by persons who have
previously been pre-emptors, will still, he be-
lieves have an important effect in preventing
speculation in claims The obligation to live
five years upon claim is a test of good faith, to
which only actual farmers who desire the land
for their own cultivation will care to submit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
Fame Man.
Detroit Free Press.

| Some time ago confidential clerk in the en-
| ploy of firm in Indiana skipped the gutter with
| several thousand dollars in ready cash. While
| it was determined to hunt him down at all haz-
| ards the firm did not feel like wasting great
| deal of money in so doing A one-horse country
! detective therefore employed, and after a
while he traced his man to Detroit The de-
| tective didn't propose to share any OF the glory
with the Detroit officers and he slid around for
week before he learned that his man was in
Windsor. Then he went over there, still work
ing on the quiet, and a nice young man at one
of the hotels informed him that the defaulter
had just gone to Toronto, but would be back in
few days. The pair became fast friends, and
the nice young man had his daily drinks and
cigars at the detectives expense The two came
over to Detroit and attended the theater and had
good times; and it was the opinion Of the officer
that he never met such nice young man.
Finally, a night or two ago, as they landed from
the boat on the other side, the detective in
quired:
You must be an agent of some sort"
''Oh, no." was the reply, II am simply travel
ing for pleasure"
"Where do you live when at homer
I'm Indiana"
'Why, Pm from Indiana"
Eyes you told me so the first day.
whereabouts in IndlanaW
'Vincennes."
"Good graciousl but my home is only three
miles from Vincennes."
Eyes, know"
"What did you do in Vincennesp
''Clerked for Lath & Shingles"
"What! Why, that is the very firm that was
robbed"
Eyes. / know was the placid reply.
"And your name is-what9r queried the do
tective
william Green"
"Great Scots! but you are the chap who stole
the money!" howled the officer.
eyes. certainly! What are you going to dc
about it2" calmly replied the nice young man, al
he lighted another ifteen-center.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23

equilibrium, and fell when jump was intended.
There was at hand an accomplice of his, David
f. Harold, who assisted him upon his horse.
and they both, under whip and spur, fled, and
were but few minutes passing beyond the city
limits, and they never called halt until MS :
eadaway reached. a small rural vie
lage about fifteen miles below Washington
And here they only halted about five
m,nutes-lust long enough to procure
little whisky, and proceeded directly to the
residence of DR.. S. A. Mudd, who resided fifteen
miles below Piscadaway, or thirty miles below
Washington, and this distance was travelled by
them In something less than six hours Now
there were quite an array of witnesses from Pts
cadaway at the spiracy trials, who testified as
nave above. Booth was we'll known by them
all, and DR.. s. A Mudd, one of the alleged con-
sprators, made this confession to the court when
he was on trial. heard him myself. as was in
the courtroom every day for thirty days, as |
was at that time taking notes for the Constitu
ton of the Union, a paper then published at
Washington, and heard every trial except that
of Samuel Arnold Mudd He said: Booth called
at my gate at o'clock in the morning, near
daylight, imploring m professional services tell
ing me that he had a broken leg, the result of his
horse falling down with him. | accordingly took
him in and reset his leg. This was six hours
subsequent to the assassination" Those are, as
nearly as l can remember, the words yer batm
as spoken by DIR. Mudd. Here they remained
until Sunday night about o'clock, when Booth
again, accompanied by his accomplish, David K.
Virginia. side at a place called A.lews Fresh.
and after proceeding few miles, called another
halt at CARROTS barn. he was suffering in
tensely with his legs here We have abundant
proof as to the killing of Booth First it will be
remembered that David E. Harold was still
with him, and came out and surrendered to Col
Lafayette G. Baker who was commander OF
the squadron of cavalry that captured Harold
and killed Booth. Colonel Baker had learned
the whereabouts of Booth through the ferry
man. who put them over. Harrods own
confession puts it beyond any reasonable doubt
as to Booths death. and Booths last words were:
Tell mother died for my country" and David
E. Harrold's last words were when upon the scat
fold, 90, that l had died with Booth in the
barn." Booth is certainly dead. [ will say in
conclusion that am engaged myself writ
ing historical sketch of the assassination of
Mr. Lincoln and subsequent fight of Booth.
Incidents in the trial of each alleged assassin to
be published in pamphlet form. which is now
ready for publication, and ! will just here ex-
plain further that through the enterprises of war
was taken prisoner and carried to Washington,
and on the 10Th of March 1865, 1 was paroled
and remained in Washington until after tho
execution of the unfortunate alleged conspira-
tors. was member of the Holcombe Legion
South Carolina Volunteers, company f, at the
time OF my surrender.
So hope the above statement is explanatory
as to how derived my information.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
A Mild Indian Scare.

MILES CITY, M T., Nov 22-One troop of
the Seventh Cavalry and small detachment of
the Fifth Infantry. under command of Major
Snyder Of the Fifth Infantry, left Fort Keogh
this morning. under orders from department.
headquarters. to quell reported Indian disturb
ance at Tongue river, Cheyenne agency. AS far
can be learned here, there is no foundation
whatever for the report of disturbance. Black
Wolf. chief of the Tongue River Chey-
ennes. has been here for week,
and his band would do nothing without
him. Recent reports by Bishop Bradley. of a
famine among the Indians, supplemented by
Government Inspector Housers request to have
relief sent them, must have been misconstrued
into supposition that the Indians were ugly
and needed armed force to restrain them
The anomalous position of those Indians, being
without regular agent a defined reserva-
ton. has had tendency to keep them in an un-
settled state. but they know better than any one
that break would result III their extermina
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
Coal Miners Accent Arbitration.

COLUMBUS O., Nov 22.-All last evening and
to-day the miners at Jacksonville have discussed
the resolutions of the operators giving the terms
of arbitration. and after little wranglng
President Mcbride gave in. and sent out the
order for the miners to 60 to work tomorrow in
all places, and the wages will be settled by the
arbitration board The miners will Immediately
select their committee, to meet with the com
mittee of the operators and select the arbitrat
ing board 1t is known, however, that the oper-
ators will insist on dealing with the Hooking
Valley miners alone, and not with other miners
or the officers of any association. This is looked
upon with great favor here as being the remedy
for adjusting ali difficulties in the future and
thus avoiding all strikes and the losses which
occur therefrom.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
ILLINOIS.
Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.

Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.
Edward Lane. the old man who shot himself
at Galesburg, is dead.
At Lincoln, George Wilson, a peddler of light
ming rods, was arrested. charged with forgery
He had made trade with farmer named John
Myer, and taken note for SIT, which he after
wards. it is alleged, raised to SIT. He was lodged
in Jail.
James j. Merchant lghtning-rod peddler,
has been arrested at Fairburg, charged with
forgery. He had a note purporting to be signed
by Wilson KelsU, a farmer, for $83. which he
tried to dispose of to banks, but failed Kelso
declared the note forgery.
Two convicts at Chester penitentiary sue
ceeded in making their escape by cutting the
grating of the basement window getting into
the yard. and out of the stockade They were
Frank Elwert a three-year man, from Madison
county, sent for larceny. and Rufus Griffin. a
hve-year man, from Crawford county, sent for
assault to kill.
There is lock at the village of Pecatonica on
the liquor question, three trustees favorine H.
cense and the same number opposing, conse-
quently each side invariably opposes any meas
ure brought up by any of the opposite party. AS
a result, no public measures or needs have been
acted upon for some nine months, and the treas
ury is without a cent.
At Quincy, County Clerk Hazelhurst has re-
ceived q letter from Mrs. Ida Brown of Massa-
chusetts, to whom divorce was granted, March
20, by 'the Supreme Court of Clayton, Adams
county," asking a correction of the name, the di-
vorce being granted to Ida Brewster. No such
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
Minor Notes.

Horace HOPKINS has been appointed agent of
the Adams Express Company, at Jeffersonvlle.
Nellie Fogarty, twenty years old, of Jefferson
vile, has been sent to the hospital for the in
sane.
The Jeffersonvle board of health has issued
smallpox order, and are vaccinating everybody
free of charge.
There has been but one FIRE alarm turned in at
Jeffersonvile during the past three months, and
the loss was only about $l5.
Five indictments for violation of the liquor
laws have oeen returned against Henry Emerke
of Utica His bond was placed at ST. 000
The funeral of Mrs Margaret Brown, eighty
one years old, one of the oldest and best known
residents of New Albany, took place yesterday.
On Tuesday, December l. a vote will be taken
by the two communities interested, on the Ques-
ton of anneXlng the suburb Of Linden Hill to
Richland.
Mrs. M. p McLain, matron of Cornelia Memo
rial Orphans Home was given pleasant sur
prise, Friday night. the occasion being her fifty
fifth birthday
Mrs. l.. B. Stewart, highly respected lady,
and pioneer. of Marengo, Crawford county, died
Thursday of erysipeas and heart disease,
aged sixty years.
James P. Luse. of Deadwood, D. t., was in
Charlottesville last week, visiting his mother
and two bro hers. He went from there to Louis
vile to visit daughter
The coroner's verdict in the case of Miller,
killed by train near Clay City, is that he lay
down on the track in drunken stupor and that
the train men are not blamable for his death
A ''law and order club" has been organized in
Harrison county with over three hundred men,
bers. The object is to detect and bring TO pun
ishment the members of the mob known as the
knights of the Switch" whose acts have of late
brought so much disgrace upon the county.
Some time ago Frank Abbott and John Tom
linson were arrested at Selersburg, charged
with waylayng and robbng a German peddler
They were tried, but the evidence was deemed
insufficient. and they were discharged They
have been rearrested. additional evidence having
been found against them.
Some time ago, at Jacksonville, while Frank
Jones' pupil of the Chestnut-street school, was
descending the stairs, playmate struck him on
the neck. He went home and lay down. and
since. has been unable to leave his bed He is
not able to speak, and is suffering considerably.
The physician who attends the little fellow saws
that the blood at the base of the brain has be-
come clotted and that brain fever may result
In that event, he has no hopes for his recovery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
all Kinds in the Two States.
An Accidental Discovery Leads to the Recov-
cry of Large Amount of Stolen Prop
erty-State Notes and Gleanings.
INDIANA.
Accidental Discovery of a Clew that Led to
the Recovery of Stolen Property.

Accidental Discovery of Clew that Led to
the Recovery of Stolen Property.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYvILLE, Ind. Nov 22.-Early last Sun
day morning gang of burglars entered the resi-
dence of Judge K. M. Hord, and stole about
s., 1000 worth of silverware and clothing which
included five elegant dresses of Mrs Hord. No
clue was discovered as to the theft until
last Thursday, when Jesse Ray, who re-
sides George Morrison's farm, four miles
south of this city, went to log cabin on the
farm near the c., l., ST. L. & G. road to get
some straw, and discovered the plumber buried
about three feet under the straw The clew
which led to the discovery was very peculiar.
Near the entrance of the cabin he picked up
piece of paper on which was statement of ad-
vertising done by the Shelby Printing Company
for Mrs. Hord and Mrs. John Elliott of the
lecture of Governor Cumback, Oct 3d.
Mrs Hord had this paper in
one of her dresses, and the thieves
in some way had dropped it out in storing
away the goods. The paper excited Rays sus
picion, and he began search which resulted as
above. Sheriff Magil and Mr.. Barger have
watched the house every night since, but have
valuables were turned over to Judge Hord last
night. The burglars were evidently afraid to
return for the property
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23

An Eyewitness Story of Lincoln's Assas-
sination and the Fate of the Assassin.

An Eyewitness Story of Lincoln's Assas-
sination and the Fate of the Assassin.
j. b. Arnold, in the Atlanta Constitution.
see in a recent number of the Constitution a
sketch headed John Wilkes Booth; Startling
Publication To Be Made" where it is stated
some Birmingham man is going to prove that
Booth is still alive Now Mr.. Editor. please
allow me a short space in your paper for the
purpose OF showing the falacy of such an as
sumption. l was at Ford's Theater the night Of
the assassination, and saw the whole transaction.
Booth, as soon as he shot Mr. Lincoln leaped
from the box where MIR Lincoln was seated down
upon the stage, and fell upon his knees and
hands He Immediately arose, waving aloft a
fearful looking dagger, crying, 'Sic semper
tyrannis,' and Immediately disappeared
from public view behind the cur
tains You remember this Birmingham
man claims that he only went out of
Washington short distance accompanied by an
Irishman, whom he claims that Booth hired for
81. 900 to personate him, and he Booth, disguised
as an Irishman, returned to Washington. He
further asserts that Booths leg was not byoken.
/ will now proceed to refute the above state
ment John Wilkes Booth broke his log while
jumping from the rear platform Of the building
upon the curbstone below; it was with him one
of these rare feats Of agility by which he lost his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
OYSTER CULTURE.
A New System Proposed by Mr.. John A.
Ryder.
Washington Special.

Washington Special.
A new system of oyster culture has been pro-
posed by Mr.. John A. Ryder, of the Smithson-
ian Institution, which has a most important
bearing on the future of the oyster question
The underlying principle of Mr. Ryder's dis
covery is that the swimming embryos or fry Of
the oyster will diffuse themselves through the
dimensions of body OF water. This has
led to the construction of system of receptacles
containing dead oyster shells, upon which this
fry can attach themselves in great numbers.
Ten to twelve thousand bushels of such
shells can be exposed to the hordes of swimming
fry passing in and out Of the water, which Gibbs
and flows over the apparatus. One bushel of
oysters will yield about LOCO, 900 of fry.
Thousands of acres of the fat. marshy land skirt
ing the Chesapeake bay may now be converted
into establishments for the culture of oyster
spat, or seed oysters, to be afterward sown on
the open beds and allowed to grow to marketa-
BILE size. The future of the oyster industries in
the South is henceforth assured. All that has
been needed is the adoption of rational eco
nomical method of spat culture, such as the one
here proposed. This series of plant will pay for
itself in fifteen months in its yield Of seed oys-
tiers alone ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
The Court Makes a Little Law.

Charlottesville Journal.
Henry Lew Allen Skaggs is being tried in the
Circuit Court for attempted outrage upon his
thirteen year-old step daughter, Flora May
Enniss. The prosecuting witness is unfortunate
in being of tender years and deaf and dumb, and
can only communicate her thoughts by the sign
language The jury not being able to under
stand her, the court called an interpreter The
attorney for the defense, j. r. Courtney, saw
his main chance was in preventing her test-
mony from going to the jury. and sought to
balk justice by an objection: Your Honor
there is statute recognizing the deaf
and dumb language. and 1 have
searched in vain in the books for precedent for
this unusual proceeding" Judge Snyder-'If
you will suggest any other way to get her testi-
mony before the jury we will adopt it." Court
ney-"I have been utterly at loss, your Honor
to find any legal way out of the dilemma and
know of no way of her testifying authorized by
law" Judge Snyder-'Very we'll, Mr.. Court
ney, if there is no law applicable to this we will
make little right here that is Mr.. Interpreter,
translate her language to the jury so it will be
Ineligible" Whereat the high hopes buiided
by the defendant and his attorney tumbled to
the ground John is an apt lawyer the next
time he makes an objection to the new Judge it
will be less technical and, perhaps, less dra-
matte. Skaggs was sent to the penitentiary for
five years.