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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-30
INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
"reminiscences. Evoked by the Recent
Natural-Gas Discovery at Vernon.
Strong Evidence Against Chesley Chambers
Editor Buergler Confesses His Error and
Attempts Suicide-State Gleanings.
INDIANA.

The Natural Gas Discoveries at vernon-The
Search for Oil in 1865.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VERNON JAN 29.-The recent discoveries of
natural gas in Ohio and Illinois are calling the
attention of many citizens of our own State to
the subject 1t is one of great interest and i'm
portance to every community aspiring to indus
trial prominence. Should the supply of gas
prove permanent many classes of manufacturing
establishments will inevitably meet with their
greatest success along the '.gas belt" Some of
the Journals readers will remember that
at the time of the oil excite
ment. in 1865, capitalists from In
dianapolis sunk wells in Jennings
county finding gas. but no oil. 1t seems prob
able that these wells wore not sunk deep enough
to penetrate the gas producing strata now yield
ing so abundantly in Ohio. Your correspond
ent has lately visited the scene of operations
just outside the town of Vernon. The wells
were drilled near the Tunnel fouring-mills by
power obtained from the engine of the mills. A
slight amount of labor with the shovel shows
both of the wells open at the surface of the first
layer of limestone. The proprietors of the mill
refuse to allow experiments as to the escape of
gas on account of the danger to the mill from
fire.
In the Vernon Banner, of May %, 1865, the
following appeared. which ought to prove of in
terest to capitalists
"About o'clock A. NJ, last Tuesday, we were
aroused from our slumbers by the ringing of the
church bells. We were informed that
Messrs. Butch & Dickson had struck oil, and the
escaping gas coming in contact with lighted
candle. had put to hazard everything Of
of the Tunnel mills We repaired to
the scene of operations, and found the greater
portion Of the space within the base of the der
rick covered with raging flames. which assembled
forty or fifty feet in the air, and would doubt
less have gone much higher were it not that the
shaft is, in great measure, closed by the drill
which is still in the we'll. At this writ
ing over one hundred men have been making
every effort within their power to subdue the
flames, but at the time we go to press have ac-
ocmplished nothing
The Banner of June l, 1865, said:
"Messrs Butsch g. Dickson commenced boring
a new hole on last Monday it being impossible
to extract the tools from the old one. The gas is
still escaping as strong the first day, and
lights are kept at a respectful distance
On Sept Z, 1865. the Banner stated that the
oil well measured no feet, and drilling was still
going on. In 1865 the value of gas was not
known, and no attempt was made to utilize it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-30
Disowned by the Church.


RICHMOND. Jan. 29.-Charles f. Coffin was
yesterday disowned in the Whitewater Monthly
Meeting, to which he had belonged all his life.
The charges upon which this action was taken
grew out of transactions attending the failure of
the Richmond National Bank, of which he was
president. The charges were originally pre-
ferred by sixteen overseers of the meeting. SUBJ
sequently referred to committeeSs3 six, who
were to have reported at the December meeting;
but as they were at variance as to
the full Interpretation of written ac-
acknowledgement by the accused. were granted
more time A ieputation visited Mr. Coffin in
Chicago, where he now lives, and a report Of
that visit was submitted. Mr.. Coffin acknowl-
edged that he had done wrong. but not willfully.
was sorry, and would make all possible restitu-
tion A clerk of the meeting prepared minute
as expressing the sense of the meeting to be
that the acknowledgment was not satisfactory,
and that the meeting testify against the accused,
jority whereupon in accordance with
the custom of the society, the. action was COM
municated to the womens meeting by mes
senger, who promptly returned to report that the
women's meeting united" in the action Mr..
Coffin is well.known philanthropist, a man
whose whole life has been given to good works,
and many years ago he succeeded his father as
clerk of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Orthodox
Friends. The unfortunate failure of the bank,
in which many of his coreligionists suffered,
brought about his remuneration by the society
into which he was born, and which he served so
long and 80 well.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-30
Buergler Confesses His wrongdoing.


Special to the Indianapolis JournaE.
FORT WAYNE, Jan. 29-J. G. Buergler the
absconding editor of Der Weltberger, German
Catholic weekly, returned voluntarily, yester-
day, from st. Louis, and presented to K. j.
Bauer. who had befriended him, a written state
ment confessing his crooked transactions, and
reciting that, to make good his losses, he had
visited Chicago gambling-housss where he was
feeced out of his few remaining dollars;
wherefore, in deep humiliation, he pro-
posed to end his life in few
hours. This thereat is given an air Of
probability, because in his room at his
boarding house. in this city, was found a revol-
yer, every chamber loaded and each cartridge
bearing the mark of the hammer of the weapon,
which haa failed to discharge The man has
been forgiven and has taken the pledge. He
was for three years editor of Der Wahrhets-
freund of Cincinnati. and afterwards was lead
ing editorial writer on the Chicago Wochenblatt
For two hours to-day he was in jail
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-30
Strong Evidence Against Chambers.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLooMINGToN, Jan. 29.-The trial of Chesley
Chambers is growing exciting as the evidence
developes, and already it is evident that the
State is making much stronger case than at
the previous trial. To-day four witnesses were
introduced to show that. instead of Chambers
being at home on the night of the crime, as he
insists he was thirty five miles south during the
day, and two of the witnesses corroborated each
other in the statement that. as the train stopped
at the last station before the deed was commit
ted, Chambers passed hurriedly through the
car, both of them recognizing him. The
State also succeeded in getting in
some important correspondence with Green
g. Huddlesey, of Cincinnati, which was
ruled out at the former trial This CORE
spondence showed that instead of Chambers
having sufficient means just before the robbery
he was writing to this firm begging for time.
and that he yet owed them over 5000 During
the trial Chambers sat all the time by the side
of his attorneys, seldom saying word, and with
the exception of frequent nervous looks at the
witness testifying, kept his eyes down. The
trial will not likely close before the last of next
week. The defense will introduce new evidence
before Monday The court continues crowded,
many ladies attending all day.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
CONSUMPTION CURED.

IN old physician, retired from prac-
tice, having had placed in his hands
by an East India missionary the foIm
ula Of simple vegetable remedy for
the speedy and permanent cure of Con.
sumption, Bronchitis, Ca.airh, Asth.
ma and all throat and Lung Affections
also positive and radical cure foI
Nervous Debility and all Nervou,
Complaints, after having tested it,
wonderful curative powers in thous
ands of cases, has felt it his duty I'd
make it known to his suffering fellows
Actuated by this motive and a desire
to relieve human suffering, | will sent
free of charge, to all who desire it, THU
recipe, in German, French or English
with full directions for preparing ant
using Sent by mail by addressing
with stamp, naming this paper, w. A
MOVES, 140 POrer'S Block, RI hester, ". Y
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12

OF the work as a popular educator in
r high department of learning. The
plan is admirable. Combining as it
does II personal knowledge of an auth
or with specimens OF his or her best
literary productions, gives it an ines
timable power for good among the
people" The work is being published
in parts of 100 pages each, paper COW
ers, at the price of - cents, also in
very handsome cloth bound volumes,
gilt tops, 4S0 pages, for 60 cents. The
parts can be exchanged for bound vol
umes, at any time. Four parts are
now ready, also the first bound vol.
ume; volume two will be issued in a
few days. The publishers 133-page
Illustrated catalogue. of standard
books may be had for cents, or con
densed 1G-page catalogue. free. JOHN
b. ALDEN, Publisher, New York.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
Ore Eject OF Alcohol.

One sometimes sees a drunken man
pitched violently from a horse, and when
the hystanders rush to the spot, expecting
to find him dead, they are astonished to dis
cover that he has been little injured. In
his "ScramblCS Among the High Alps"
Leslie stephen tells the story of guide
who, while drunk, fell over prccipice SO
deep that a fall over it seemed almost
certain death, and who yet sustained
little injury Stephen accordingly gives
his readers the advise not TO fall over IL
prccipicc, or to get thoroughly drunk be-
foe doing SO. The reason Of this i'm
munity is that the nerve ccntcrs are so
much paralyzcd in the drunken man as
not to be effected by the shock of .e
fall which, in a sober man, would have
acted upon them so violently as to stop
the heart, arrest the circulation, aud
caused instant death.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
She essex County 8erala.
ISLAND POND. FEBRUARY IL, 1880.

While we concede to laboriag
men a perfect right to combine for
their own interest, and to ask what
ever price for their labor they
choose, we see no justice or wisdom
in the efforts of such combinations
to prevent persons who are not
bound with them from laboring at
any wages they see fit to accept.
This is the great evil of strikes. Of
course, the labor unions are other
wise exposed to a competition which
might be ruinous to their plans, but
their action is exactly of a piece
with the monopolies in trade which
they stoutly condemn. If three
fourths of the merchants of Island
Pond should combine to keep "
the prices of their goods to a certain
figure, they might do it and wei
come, but what would the laborins
men say, if they should threaten
and bulldoze the other fourth VIII,
are not combined with them, be
cause they offer their goods at sucI
prices as they can get or afford
They would instantly see the inius
tice which prevent their buyin!
their groceries at places where thu
prices are most reasonable. Tn
labor unions have some good feat
ures about them, but in listening t
the advice of restless agitators
whose counsels are mwisc, imprU
dent and reckless, they are not onl
endangcring their own best inter
ests, but striking blow at the bust
ness of the country, from which W
may not recover for years. 1t is a
ways foolish to kill the goose tina
lays the golden egg.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
AIdeM's CyciOpedia of Universal
Literature.

This work is the outcome of many
years of planning and preparation. 1t
will be an almost indispensable work
OF reference for every library, large or
small, a trustworthy guide to what is
most worth knowing of the literature
of all ages and all nations. Occupying
a dozen or more volumes, ana yet is
sued at IL price so low as to be within
the reach of all, familiarity with its
contents will constitute q liberal edu.
cation to a degree that can be claimed
for few other works in existence. DR..
Losing, the eminent Ii storiiLn and
author, says of 1t: am strongly i'm
pressed with the great intrinsic value
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
PERToDICILY AS A DISEASE.
An Alarming Increase in the NuE,5cl
Periodical Drinkers.

A certain publishing establishment in
Chicago has a peculiar class of employees,
IN that, with the exception of young
lady cashier and the office boy they arc
all speriOdical drinkers" The periodical"
is the d1inker who abstains entirely for
time and then goes 10 frightful extreme
III deGauch lasting a week or two,
These men are usually able and skilled
men sober, and the ones employed by this
publisher are brilliant writers and capable
of earning good salaries in steady positions
if it were not for their occasional lapse
into dissipation. They are paid barely
orc-third the salaries their talents entitle
them to- but he has to take all risks of
their failure to show mp when most want
ed One Cf these Ealf-paid, struggling
writer's is Il gentleman Of classical cdUcat-
ion and great natural ability, who he's
held positions in educational work, and
Uho recently wrote poem as brilliant as
anything in the language.
al always have two or three brilliant
men about nc" caid the publisher. "but
| never know on coming down in the
morning if I shah find them here.
sympathizc with them, and never refuse
to employ periodical if he can be of any
''F' w Itl'' Hi!IjpOoC II hdS Ill lllS way
that my place got TO lie a sort OF head
quarters for them. 1t is painful to notice
the number Of brilliant men who arc
stricken with this disease. They come
and go like driftwCod in the currents.
Every once in awhile We'll get man who
seems to be proof against drinks temp
tatiOns. We think he never was drinker
and i'll 10 danger Of ever becoming one.
Suddenly some morning he is missing and
isn't seen again fOrtCn days OF two weeks,
when he comes in, wrecked in health and
wreck i'll appearance, and begs TO be
taken back. As q disease, inherited or
acquired, think pcliodicity is entitled to
careful consideration by scientific men, as
it is certainly becoming very common.
We have fewer steady drinkers than we
had years ago, but many more men who
occasionally fail from responsibility to
the gutter at one swoop and stay there a
week OF two at time, perfectly helpless.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
ISLAND POND TO BOSTON.

/ left at $40 a. m, in charge of
conductor Pratt. OF him | heard
passenger remark have trav-
elled from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, but have never met a con
ductor more careful or considerable
for his passengers" At home we
left about an inch of new snow; at
Berlin Falls and Gorham we found
fully six inches had fallen during
the night. Twenty minutes Of
precious time was wasted at Cor
ham for three men to eat their break
fast, which they had much better
have taken at Island Pond because
they could get a better meal for the
same money. No incident occurred
10 break the monotony of ordinary
railroad travel until we reached
Lewiston junction. Here a strange
sight met our wandering eyes, and
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
Written for the HERALD.


Tender and delicate the dying
Girl laid on her couch. The terrible
struggles in the hearts of those who
surrounded her against the decree
that had silently gone forth, moved
her not. She was all unconscious
Of her surroundings as she lay there
in the sweet innocence Of childhood.
1t was the morning and evening of
her little day. Quietly she seemed
moving away. The cords of life
were not being rudely snapped.
They were softly disengaged by the
kindly offices of nature. The form
was so still and the air so subdued
and silent that all seemed to be
listening. At last message comes
from the unseen world, sweet as the
song of angels, "Sutfer the little
children to come unto me, and for
bid them not, for of such is the
kingdom Of God" 1t was q beau
tiful picture of death. Let us ac'
cept the heavenly invitation and let
the little favorite go. 1t would be
unkind to strive to keep her now.
The delicate and sensitive being has
been kept by kindly hands thus fal
from gross contact with the world
but her little life-boat was too fraiI
to weather the storms. The pluck.
ing Of the tender branch from the
parent vine takes part of the very
life of Its paternity and maternity
still it would be selfish even in
father or mother to desire to have
their wounds healed with a life OF
suffering for her whose sensitive
nature could not withstand the un
plying things of this world. "Why
was she not of different nature
then? ?" Idle question ! Why then
YOU never would have had the be
ing YOU have loved and lost. ether
why was she sent at all ?" When
you ask that you know you would
not put out the light her being has
brought to you-for your lives you
would not. AS she sinks in the
grave to the level of kings and the
mighty of earth, her little errand
here will rise to the grandeur of
theirs in the eternity of things, and
exceed them all in the superna
beauty of its nature. She may have
been unconsciously sent after some
one whom she is waiting to wei
come to and lead in the land of the
hereafter. Who knows? But il
is quite enough to fulfill the wisest
purpose if this being of matchlcss
beauty was sent TO earth only
to show how fair a flower in para
disc might bloom. d.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
Proof.

Uncle Rastus; Use willin' ter knowl-
edge dat stole de ham, sab, but dar am
eXtenuartain' circumstances kernected
wild de case, sab l was 'toxicated sab,
an didn't know noffin what was bout.
Mr.. X: don't believe you were in
toxicated, Uncle Rastus.
Uncle Rastus; Deed l was, ! kin
prove hit. If / hadn't been drunk dat
night, yo honah, I'd toted off moan one
ham.-IL Life.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12


Detailed accounts are given in the
Berlin and Paris papers Of monster
movable globe, made of copper, the work
of blind clockmaker, and on the CON
structiOn of which seventeen years were
spent. The globe represents the earth,
and, like it, turns on its own axis by
means of mechanism, an artificial moon
moves round the globe in twenty eight
days and six hours while movable
metal band on which the hours are
marked, indicates the mean time in the
different parts of the earth. RoVnd the
upper portion of this immensd globe,
which Weighs a ton and half, and whose
surface measures 1876 feet in diameter
spins railroad car capable Of holding six
persons, and which serves to give Il better
view of the regions of the north pole.
The painting of tho globe is done in oil,
and ncccssiatGd the employment of two
men dnrng the entire year. The sun is
represented by an apparatus lighted by an
intense DrumlnOnd calcium light, which
enables the spectator 10 watch irtclli-
gently the origin and change Of the diff
:ercnt periods of the day, the carly dawn
the twilight eclipses of the sui and
moon, etc.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
COURT OF INSOLVENCY
STATE OF VERMONT, DISTRICT OF ESSEX.


ent debtors.
Take notice that T.. & ID. II. Adams OF Con-
cord. III the District of Essex, did. on the 3Oth
petit ion for adjudication Of Insolvency; and
that meeting OF creditors of SAID nsolvent
debtors will be held at Court of Insolvency
at the Probate ONCE in Guildhall, in said Dis
tIlc'. on the SD day of February. 1856. ut 10
O'Clock in the forenoon, to prove their deb $
and choose ono or more assignees Of their
estate; and that the payment of any debts or
the delivery of amy property beIonging to
said debtors to them or for their use. and the
transfer of any property by thom, are forbid
den by law.
Da;el ut Guldhal. this lst day of February.
1885. ID. II. BEAT1IE, JUDGE.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12

1t is worth remembering that no.
body enjoys the incest surroundings II
in bad health. There are miserable
people about today with one foot in
the grave, to whom bottle of Park
er's Tonic would do more good than
all the doctors and medicines they
have ever used,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12

We will wager years subscription
that ascent package of SherMm,'s
CacaIry Condition POWDERS contains more
pure ingredients and cost more money
than bushel of any kind put up in
large packs. Sheridan's powders are
absolutely pure.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12

Little Johnny, on being asked by bis
school-tcachcr if he knew what was meant
by cat par" replied that MAR was always
at Par when he came hopa tate"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
NOTICE.

WHEREAS, my wife, KATE LIBERTY.
having left my bed and board without just
cause or proNocation, this i to notify all per-
sons not to hMbor or trust her Gu my acCOlnt
as shall pay no debts of her contracting af-
Ter this date. IHOS. LIBERTY.
Wenlocli, Vt, Jan. 20 1886.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12

When DaSy was sick. We gave her castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Cas,oria,
When she became Miss, sho chung to CnslOriA,
When che had Children che gave them CastoEiA,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-02-12
CARDS;
JSAMpLR PACK OF so

II FOfIowtNo tnvEETIsFHESTs RIInCeEvr GOOD AND
RELIABLE FITS. r:.rAsE BENTON ats FAPLR wiIEN
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-14
STEAMER MOKOLI1,

STEAMER MOkOL1I,
tMcGregor, Commander,
Leaves for the following ports every alternate
Commencing August TO Lanai, Kamalo, Pp-
koO Lahaina. OlowaIu. Returning to Lahaina,
Pukoo, KamalO, Lanai arriving at Honolulu sat
urday morning.
Com .nencing August 9-To Kaunakakal, Kama
To- Pukoo Halawa, Wailau, Pelekunu, Ralaupapa.
Returning to Pukoo, Lahaina, OlOwalu, LahAlna,
Iukoo, KamaIo, Kaunakakai, arriving at Homo
lulu Saturday morning.
re- The Company will not be responsible for
any freight or packages unless rCceipted for, nor
for personal baggage unless plainly marked Not
responsible for money or jewelry unless placed in
charge of the Purser.
All possible care will be taken of Live stock, but
the Company will not assume any risk OF accident.
SAMI4 q. WILDER, President.
:. B. ROSE, Secretary.
OFFICE-Corner Fort and Queen streets.
6a-Iy Mar 30
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-14
Conldn.t See His Faults.

He was a most emphatic, wilful, stiff necked,
systematic. mental, spiritual, erranc
and a most degraded creature;
He was given to frivolity and most I'M
seemly jollity, and had mol single
quality as a redeeming feature
He was full of injudiciousness and iAsolent
officiousness, and countless kinds OF
yiciousness deformed his reputation.
A sapIess imbecility, a lack of strong vlrlllty'
monstrous incivility and moral OBJ
fuscation-
Yet his steps were all attended, all his
freaks and whims defended by ret
niue of splendid rapt extravaganza
extollers,
Foe this vicious mediocre, cracked, iras-
chile old croaker was a rich ana
bonded broker and was worth mil
hon dollars!
IS. w. Foss in Lynn Union.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-14
A. F. HIM.
HIM & PIagemann.

Manufacturers of Extra Family, Graham, Ky
Buckwheat and Rice Flour; Rye, Dat; Corn ana
seed Corn Meal; Sage, Tapioca, Fartna BncK-
wheat Greats Hominy, Cracked Corn, Pearl Bar.
ey Ground Feed, etc, etc.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-14
Der vistIes on der Poats,

Der vistIes on der POats.
Ven landts in Castle Garden,
About fnuf years ago.
II vas shtrike me mine attention
Ven hear dose shteamboats blow,
Nit hoo hoo here unit hoo hoo dere,
Fran efery ding dot floats,
ITWf finds der loudest vistles
@ DER ferry smallest poats-
Py chiminy crashusi aind dot 50
All ofer dis crate landt,
Und ali der SMALLEST funerals
Must hafe der biggest bandit
Der SMALLEST shtore der biggest sign;
Dose dudes der finest coatsa
Und you find dot most all Vfstls
On some ferry shman tugpoats.
You notice dot dose grosser ships
Aind been got mouch to say;
But all dose kleine Ieedle poats
Yoost climbs righd out der way.
Dot noise dond count ven drouple CONES
Unit. poys. yoost shplit your troat,
Dot vistle makes no deefrance, poys,
Ut you lose your leedle pOat
Wilhelm Strauss, in Judge