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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
THE PURCELL ASSETS.
Assignee Mannjx Forced TO Resign on A
count of n Shortage.

CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 1O.-J. B. Man
nix, assignee of the Purcells, who was
cited to appear in the probate court
to answer certain objections to his re-
port recently filed, chose to give up
the trust at once, and sent his
resignation. It was accepted at once.
The creditors will hold a meeting
before Monday next, and name their
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
FLOUR DUST.

Two of 1IiIwaukee's Large FIGURING Mills
Burned to the Ground-A Terrific Ex-
plosion of Flour Dust Mangles Four
Firemen-The Heaviest Loss of the
Year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
How They Dress in Java.

A lady who has been visiting in Java writes to
the Missouri Republican: LAS soon as we got to
the house our hostess provided us with 'sarveng-
kabaya' to put on. This is the native dress Of
the country, and is worn by ladies all through
the heat of the day. being light and cool. 1t
consists of two parts; the 'saryeng or skirt, is
about four yards wide, in one piece with one
seam. 1t is drawn tightly round the waist with
out wrinkle, and folded over in front in one or
two great folds, and tied on by sash. There
are many kinds of 'sarvengs,' almost every dis
trict having some special way of making and
orHamenting them. and where a stranger would
see no difference, a connoisseur at glance dis
tinguishes between Batavian, Samarang or
Solo pattern. In some places they are woven,
sometimes with gold or silver thread in others a
rich pattern is traced in wax on fine cotton or
silk. The process is called battick and these
are the finest. Sarveng making is great in
dustry among native women, and they are of all
prices, from one or two guilders to fifty or
sixty"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
How Was Columbia Set on Fire?

W. b. HaZen's Narrative of Military Service.
South Carolina had fired the first gun, and
even the smallest drummer-boy seemed deter
mined to get even. This feeling was not confined
to the army, nor even to the North. Often have
l heard Georgians say: why don't you 90 over
to South Carolina and serve them this way?
They started it." have never doubted that Co.
lumma was deliberately set on fire in more than
a hundred places No ona orc.,-' IT. and no
one could stop it. The officers of high rank
would have saved the city, if possible, but the
army was deeply imbued with the feeling that,
as South Carolina had begun the war she must
suffer stern retribution. There was nothing
more remarkable in this campaign than the en-
tire change in the treatment of private property
after we entered North Carolina. The men all
knew where the State line was, and their volun-
tary conduct in this regard was of itself evil
dence as to how the burning of Columbia came
about
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
A Big Tortoise.
November st. Nicholas.

November st. Nicholas.
The discoverer of the gigantic extinct sea-
turtle found near Fort Wallace in western Kan
sas, first observed the large bony shields pro.
jecting from bluff near Butte creek. They
were carefully taken out and brought to Phla
delphia, where the restoration was made. The
fore fippers alone were nearly five feet long,
while its expanse from the tip of extended flip
per to another was about seventeen feet. The
question may arise, how did this sea-turtle be-
come buried in a bluff in the State of Kansas?
natural suppostion would be that Kansas is
the bed of a former ocean, and so it is
Ages ago. in what is called by biologists the Gre
taceous period, that part of the world was the
bed of a great sea, in which the great turtle
swan, together with other monsters of curious
shape and appearance. Gradually the crust of
the earth was raised, the water fell back or be-
came inclosed, and left the inhabitants of tho
cretaceous sea high and dry, to be covered by
the earth and preserved for us to study ages
afterward.
The shores of this ancient ocean are easily
found and followed by biologists It's extent has
been traced on our Western plains by the bleach
ing and disintegrating remains that have been
found upon and beneath the surface
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
A Noble WOman-Hater.

LONDON Truth
Lord Strathnairn was a confirmed bachelor,
and when he forgot the power of beauty he be-
came msogynist Spirits feminine were only
suffered to come near him when he was at home.
He travelled about with butler, valet, groom,
coachman, who were on board wages, and who
all had, save the personal attendant, to find their
own lodgings. Once upon time, and not a very
long time ago, he fell i'll in the course of a sum
mer tour somewhere in a mountainous place.
There was no doctor at hand, but an American
doctress was staying at the hotel, and was called
in by the landlady to see what was the matter
with her eminent guest He had been in a state
of semi-insensibiity. On opening his eyes and
perceiving two women bending over him, one
of whom was young and well-favored,
he bounced out of bed and told
them to begone. He was a proper
man, and did not want such creatures about him.
In their astonshment the ladies neglected to
obey his peremptory order, on seeing which he
took the doctress by the shoulders and pushed
her at a running pace out of the room. In his
last Illness he was brought to his senses by the
presence of a nurse who had been called in to
see that the doctors prescriptions were regularly
followed His mind had been a little shaken by
a recent apoplectc it, and he imagined, becau Sc
an attendant wearing feminine habiliments was
near him, that the hotel, or rather auberge,
where he staying at Versailles to look after
lawsuit, was an establishment of another kind.
His rage and distress were boundless until he
was, by friends and servants brought to under
stand that the poor woman, whose presence so
agitated him, was merely sick nurse. How
ever, no argument could bring him to letsher re-
main. Out she had to bundle, then and there.
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philanthropists the poets, the orators. the elo-
quent men and fathers who begat US. who would
already claim proud place in building devoted
to the reception and memorial of the mighty
dead. All your history would gradually crystal
lie round such nucleus. 1t would become the
eternal memorial of all your fame. Ingenious
youth would there find the cenotaphs of men like
Raleigh, and Penn, and Governor Bradford, and
Miles Standish and the names of the Pilgrim
Fathers; and busts and statues of the civil and
military heroes of the war of independence; of
jefferson, and Otis, and Patrick Henry, and
George Washington; and the heroes and mar
tyred President of your civil war. just as the
Church of st Paul outside the walls of Rome
has medallions of the long line of popes down
ward from ST. Peter, so your Valhalla would
nave pictures of the frightening line OF Presl-
dents from Washington. And there would be
the sculptured features of your own sweet sing
eminent thinkers, Thoreau and Emerson;
and of your great historians, Wash
ington Irving, and Prescott, and Mot
ley: and of such orators as Henry Clay,
and Daniel Webster; and of your men of genius
like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Poe and
OF your great theologiaDs, Jonathan Edwards
and Charming: and of your earliest bishops. like
Seabury and White. And there, when they sink
to the grave, full of years and full of honors.
would be placed in due time the memorials of
such writer's as Bancroft and Parkman, and
Lowell and Whittier and Holmes. But must
stop. Perhaps l have already said too much
Yet have written only by special request and
urgent invitation, and 1 believe that shall be
pardoned for words dictated by that profound
admiration for America which with me is not a
feeling of yesterday, but has been expressed by
me in many public places in England for more
than twenty years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
A Plea for Mussleman.

Atlanta Constitution.
The announcement is made that Mr. Mussie-
man, of Lafayette, Ind, has been sent for the
second time to the insane asylum.
In all probability this item of news would have
attracted very little attention if it had not been
fayette papers seem to think that as Mr.. Muscle
man is distinguished and wealthy citizen, the
facts concerning his insanity should be made
public
Inc history of the unfortunate man makes in
terestlng reading. By industry and thrift Mr..
MussIeman succeeded in accommodating fortune
OF $30O, OO0. few years ago his unsoundness
OF mind showed itself in refusal to pay taxes.
When his personal property was sold to paw the
same ne became indignant. His next step was
to write play. 1t is almost incredible but it ia
nevertheless true, that these vagaries induced
Lafayette jury to pronounce poor Mussleman a
lunatic. He was sent to the asylum and remained
there year. Recently the authorities became
convinced that the prisoner had regained his
reason and he was. therefore, released Unfor-
tunately Musseman's first move, after return
ing home, resulted in his ruin. He purchased q
weekly journal and started to run it as Demo-
cratic paper AS soon as his fellow townsmen
found out what he was doing they rose en- masse,
arrested him, had him again adjudged a lunatic.
and sent him to the asylum.
1t is to be feared that the victim does noe
stand ghost of chance in future. When he
objected to paying his taxes and wrote play his
lunacy was considered of mild type, but the
prompt action of the people in squelching him
that his insanity Is now regarded as dangerous
Of course, the man has been abominaby treated.
If the facts In the case make him out lunatic.
then the country is full of lunatics In thor
oughly Democratic community Mussleman would
be considered man of exceptional sanity
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
A New Religious Sect.

Odessa Correspondence London Times.
The Nest for Cody People" is the title of q
Russian religious sect which has come into ex-
istence during the last fifteen years. Its head
quarters appear to be at the historic fortress
town of Bender. in the neighboring government
of Bessarabia, and its strange name is due to
the fact that its members-all of the peasant
class-dig grave in the floor (which is of dried
earth) of their habitations, or else in their gar
dens, and lie therein until overcome by hunger,
i'll order, as they say, to commune with God, to
confess to him their sins, and examine their
past life. To enable them the better to do
this the grave is covered with a wooden
box-like lid of canopy having door in it for in
gress and egress; so that they lie in the grave
as in coffin, and were it not for small aper-
lures in the top part of it they would run the
risk of being suffocated. When the grave or
"nesJ" is in the garden, it is thickly surrounded
by bushes for the sake of greater privacy and
guarded by savage watchdog to prevent curl
GUS or impairment people going near it. These
sectarians pretend that in their ecstatic mo-
ments, and when suffering extreme hunger, they
see saints and devils, and some of them are sub
iect to Authorizations Another popularity of
the members of this sect is that they hold as lit
tie conversation possible with other people,
or, in fact, with each other; so that the kind OF
life which they endeavor to lead is akin to that
of uncloistered monks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
A Romance of the Pension Office.

Carp's Letter in Cleveland Leader.
A strange story comes to me from the Pension
Ofnce, which relate without giving the names
Not long ago one of the leading clerks of the de-
partment died, and his sweetheart came to the
house in which he lay and made great ado over
his death saying she was engaged to him. She
was pretty, an heiress, and interesting. She had
hardly reached the house before sweetheart
Number Two arrived from neighboring State
Number Two said she was also engaged to the
deceased. and she was also very pretty and very
interesting. Investigation showed that the clerk
had really engaged himself to these two girls. and
that he had made preparations to marry Number
Two a few months alter the time at which his
death took place. He had borrowed money of
the heiress Number One and as she was pre-
pairing her clothes for her coming marriage, she
had so much faith in her to-be husband that she
took no notes memoranda of the debts. The
papers left by the deceased show that he has
willed all his property to Number Two, and so
sweetheart Number One loses both her husband
and the money she lent him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
The Great DAYS.

Evermore all TIE days long and the cheeress skies
gray
Restessy wander the battling winds that scatter the
binding spray,
And the drifting currents come and go like serpents
across my way
YEARLY 'fades the evening dim, drearily wears the
night
The ghosy mists. and the hurrying clouds, and the
breakers crests of white
Have botted the from the desolate skies-have
curtaine6 them from my sight.
Speeding alone, my wave-tossed bark encounters no
passing sail;
Welcoming friend challenging foe answers my
eager hail
Only the sobbng. unquiet waves and the winds I'M
ceasing wall.
Hopefully still my sails bent, my pilot is fault
lessly true
He holds my though the and the mir
rored skies blue,
And the port of peace where the winds STILL
evermore in view.
For the spray and the rain and the clouds shines
the eternal SUD,
The unchanging stars in the curtained dome still
CLEAN when the day is done,
And the mists will be kissed from the laughing skies
when the port of rest is won.
Robert j. fBurdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
SOBS IN A MINT.
Affecting Scene Over the Recovery of Stolen
Gold at the Philadelphia Mint.

Affecting Scene Over the Recovery of Stolen
Gold at the Philadelphia Mint.
Philadelphia Special to New York World.
great deal of mystery has been thrown
around the recent loss and recovery in the mint
of an unknown quantity of gold. The facts are
theses Some time ago. while half eagles were
being coined, about forty dollars worth disap
peared during some stage of the process. A little
moro than week ago, while eagles were being
coined 800 worth more disappeared, leaving no
trace behind. Superintendent Fox was greatly
agitated 1t was at length ascertaned to a GER
tainty that the missing gold had found wings
somewhere in the adjusting department.. This
is a large room, containing eighty one delicate
scales. upon which as many girls weigh each
individual piece when It is not yet coined, but
only cut. The pieces are given out to them in
irregular lots, SO that it is not known
how many each young woman has in
her posse ssion at once. The discovery
that the loss occurred in this department
girls. On the day after the locality Of the loss
had been fixed. one of the young women, who
had been to the toilet-room, ran breathlessly to
the foreman.
There's bundle in there she said.
"Why didn't you bring it outW was the query.
''Pm afraid to. 1 believe it's that gold" Then
the forewoman looked at the bundle. She, too,
was afraid to touch it, and sent for the chief
coner. That functionary opened the bundle
| and found wrapped in rags ten pieces worth $40
each and eight worth SIS EACH He reported the
discovery to Superintendent Fox. and that dig
nifed officer FASTENED at once to the
adjusting department, where he made an
affecting speech. After rubbing his
eye glasses and clearing his throat the
superintendent remarked that if these things
continued to happen he should be forced to re-
sign. An awe struck silence greeted this awful
thrust, and some of the pretter girls shed tears
as the superintendent related his sufferings He
should be sorry to know that there was thif
in the mint, but it certainly looked as though
there was He counseled industry, caution and
honesty and finished his speech amid chorus
of eightv-one sobs from as many pretty young
women. Since then the gold has been weighed
at frequent intervals in the process of manu-
facture, but no more has been missed. Sus-
picion as yet attaches to no individual in con-
nection with the matter.
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A Tale of Two Husbands and One Wife.

Chicago Tribune.
In January. 1885, Lizzie Hamilton, at that time
a teacher of music. was married to E. 0. Hamil-
ton, a travelling man. After two months of
happy life he deserted her. For time she was
heartbroken. She liked married life. Lonei-
ness was uncomfortable. May 26 she welded
Charles Fl. Scherer another travelling man.
Once more she was batheo in happiness. Two
months went by One morning E. o. Hamilton
walked into the little cottage.
~, Good morning, wife," he said pleasantly.
The woman tainted. Over her unconscious
body the two men glared at each other Then
in a less dramatic way they sat down to solve
the conundrum as to whose wife she was.
Mime" said Hamilton.
''The preponderance of evidence is in our
favor. certainly" replied Scherer 'There has
been no divorce. believe"
Il didn't know it was necessary" sobbed the
woman family. The two men glanced down at
the prostrate woman, and then their eyes met.
Let's"
II don't care if do replied Scherer, and
they went out arm in arm. Scherer did not re-
turn, and the cottage that had known him and
his samplecases will know him no more forever
Hamilton came back. His pretty wife adds that
he beat her, and Justice Lyon granted her
warrant
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meralda,' and now he has written two new plays,
THE Fisherman's Daughter" and Through the
Lines"
Miss ,Efile EIlsler, who first made her reputa-
ton as Hazel Kirke, has made great success
in her new play, Woman against Woman by
Frank Harvey, which is said to be remarkably
strongly written drama.
Chicago News Letter. The ''exploiters" of the
Western young woman, Miss Stella Rees, who,
1T is industriously being gossiped. is to De the
next remarkable Juliet, seem to stand IN need
of being reminded of the danger OF having TOO
much zeal Mr. j. NJ Hill is credited with hav-
ing spent 800 900 in exciting the curiosity OF the
public concerning the advent of Miss Margaret
Mather but Dir. Hill never made any ailuslon 10
the lady's personal charms. She was to De
taken as an actress or not at all. MISS heess
prospective manager seems to desire to create
above ALL the impression OF her extreme lowell
ness, and likewise seeks TO create additional IN
terest in her because as he alleges she Is a
Quaker. / am constantly receiving communities
lions concerning the beauty of Miss Rees In
one of the most recent was informed that she
has ''voice as clear and musical as the early
morning lark, eyes of deepest blue, and figure
of wondrous beauty"
There was a scene in the Theater Comique In
Harlem. last week, which was not down on the
bill. A large audience was watching. with
breathless interest the actors in 1.-The Shadows
of Great City" 1t was in the most exciting
part of the second act The scene represented
the prison at Blackwels Island, showing the
cells. in of which prisoner was attempting
to escape by breaking through the wall. Down
In an orchestra chair sat well-dressed gentle
man who seemed to be completely absorbed in
the drama. Suddenly he startled the
whole house by rising in his
seat and calling out: Say there That's
not the way out You're just breaking through
into the next cell !" A moment of silence was
followed by storm of laughter and applause,
and the man who had been the cause of it left
the theater in a state of modification and con-
fusion. "Do you know why he got so interested
| in that scene9" said gentleman who was
present 'Well. III tell you. He was prisoner
on Blackwell's Island himself, about two years
ago. and made just such an attempt to escape as
is shown in the play. He failed because he
worked his way through the wrong wall. I
don't wonder that his sympathies are with the
prisoner. Do yOu9"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
An Ex-President's Ring.

In connection with the numerous weddings
which have occurred this autumn. and the prac-
tice rarely omitted of the bridesmaids cutting
cake to get the ring hidden therein, says the
Washington Herald, an incident illustrative OF
the old saying that lone wedding makes many"
may be narrated A lady not long ago noticed
the plain gold ring which ex-President Hayes al
ways wears and he said good -naturedly, observ.
ing the direction of her glance though she had
not spoken: Eyes, that ring has history Mrs
Hayes secured me with that. We were bridesmaid
ana groomsman together at wedding. and when
the cake was cut that ring was in my slice, and
when found it of course gave it to the brides
maid-Miss Lucy Webb. When, after time,
she promised to marry me. she gave me back the
ring, and have always worn it since"