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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-05
Minor Notes.

The Huntington county normal institute will
open at Huntington July 10.
The annual reunion of the Forty-seveuth In
diana Regiment will be held at Button. Sept.
So
The vincennes district conference of the NJ
E. Church will be held at New Lebanon July 26,
q and IS
Cephas Rensbarger, farmer living near
Goshen, was. last week. bitten on the hand by a
rattlesnake.
Thomas Dial, soldier of the war of 1912, died
at his home in Washington township, Whitney
county, last week
Shocks mill, near Elmdale, Montgomery
county. was destroyed by fire on Thursday
night Loss, So. 900,
q Lafayette gravel pit, caught under fall
ing bank and crushed to death.
The citizens of Bloomfield are petitioning the
County Commissioners to build pontoon fridge
across White river at that point.
The collections of internal revenue in the
Terre Haute district for tbs fiscal year ending
June 30, amount to 81, 632 I76 04.
William H. Hardesty, one of the proprietors
and late editor of the Rockport Pocket, died at
Manville. Fla, few days since. OF consumption.
Mrs. Francis Cope, the oldest settler of Wayne
township, Montgomery county, died last Friday
aged seventy-eight years. She was q member
OF the United Brethren Church.
Montgomery Jones' of Lafayette member of
Captain Shams artillery company, lost his right
hand by the premature discharge of cannon
at the Boswell celebration on Saturday.
Rev. S. P. Linn. former pastor of First
avenue Church. Evansville, is now confined in
the Dlxmont Asylum for the Insane, near Pitts
burg, Pa. He is suffering from paralysis of the
brain
Col. Thomas S. Wright, one of the oldest cti-
zens of Washington, died last week He was
born in 1903. While resident of Kansas, he
was member of the State constitutional con-
vention. He practiced law in that State for
twenty years.
Sarah Waldon the colored woman in Jail at
Terre Haute for the murder of her illegitimate
child, has made second confession to the core
ner. in which she says that after she hit the
child with a stick of wood on the head she
smorhered it to death and then buried it.
On Friday evening John Riley, proprietor of
the West Union stockyards, at New Albany, was
knocked down by a cow which he had just fin
ished milking, and severely injured that he
died the next morning. He was eighty one years
old, and mad been a resident of New Albany for
fftysix years
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The Future of the Negro.

Oliver johnson, in New York Enterprise.
hold that the negro of the United States is
not at all likely to emigrate from the land of his
birth in the vain hope of placing himself IN more
favorable circumstances than those which sur
round him here Those who indulge the dream
thet he will betake himself to some region of the
earth VIII ere he can build up nationally of his
own color mistake his character and are sure to
meet with disappointment He is here, in the
land of his birth, the land of freedom and equal
ity, and here he will remain in spite of the con-
tempt of the vulgar and the persecution of the
proud. am also certain that, in proportion as
the negro qualities himself by education and re-
cultivated society. he will find the color of his
skin no bar to these advantages. Gradually
bot surely the vulgar prejudice of color will
fade out of the hearts and minds of people of
culture and black skin, no more than red hair
or blue eyes, will be regarded as a badge of social
inferiority Nor do shrink from avowing my
belief that when this day arrives, marriages be-
tween whites and blacks, il they do not become
common, will be far more frequent than they
are now, without exciting either wonder or OPP
dostion. Ignorance, whether among citizens of
a white or black complexion, will always be a
source of danger to the country; but | am con-
fdent that the day is not very distant wien the
negro will be useful and valuable factor in the
body-politic. His advancement will not be the
fruit either of concession or self.assertion ex-
elusively, but of wise resort to the one or the
other method. as circumstances may require.
We may in this particular safely confide 10 his
own judgment and tact, which have been SO
well illustrated In the past.
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Vigor and Vitality

Are quickly given to every part Of The body By Hoods
Sarsaparila That tired feeling is entirely overcoms
The blood is purified. enriched and vitaIizsd, and
carries health instead of disease every csgan The
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stored. The kidneys and liver are roused and invig
nraeed The bre:- - IND ms A. nlaa,.
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and rejuvenated by this peculiar medicine.
Hoods Sarsaparlla has done me a very great deal
of good 1t has built up my general health given ns
regular appetite and made full of new life and
energy The sores my face, with which I hays
suffered many years. are also much better. Many
ATKINSON, Summerield Pa.
My suffered from spring debility aud loss of
appetite and restored to health as soon as he be-
gan to take favorite medicine, Hoods Sarsapa-
rila. We recommend it to all our friends. Mis-.
ITALIA E. SMITH, Scipioville N. Y.
Hoods SarSaparilla
Scld by druggists 81; six for So. Prepared b,
c. /. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lossell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
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Brief Mention.

A family named Turnipseed reside near Col
fax.
A petrifed ham has been found in gravel-pit
at Oak Hill, near Peoria
Elgin girls have craze for polishing Fox
river calm shells and wearing them for breast
pins
The yield of the wheat crop in Dewitt county
this year will average thirty bushels per acre, 1t
being exceptionally good.
The dead body of Joseph Milton was found
upon the Illinois Central track near Kensington,
Saturday morning. He had been run over by a
passing freight train and horribly mangled.
John Rickart of Potomac, last week sunk an
artesian we'll which throws a twoinch stream
nine feet above the surface. At depth of
seventy feet vein of excellent coal was passed
through.
The residents of Oquawka are in state OF ok
element because q recent ordinance forbids
their bathing in the Mississippi river between
the hours of o'clock in the morning and 10
o'clock atnight
Washburn Wright, seven years old, was going
through a pasture, near Mulberry Grove. the
other day, when big bald eagle swooped down.
grabbed him by the jacket, and lifted him from
the ground. The boy yelled, the cloth gave
way, and the boys father, rushing to the rescue.
drove away the bird.
At the 4th of July celebration at Woodlawn.
DIR. j. H. Watson shot and, it is thought, fatally
wounded man named John Shaeffer ShaefTer
was not the man he shot at. but happened to be
standing near, and the for whom the shot
was intended escaped unhurt. The cause of the
trouble that the party shot at had. it is said,
insulsed lady.
Harrison Fagely, farmer living about eight
miles from Mount Vernon, committed suicide
some time Saturday morning by hanging him
self to a tree. When discovered he was quite
dead. For some time he had been brooding over
the bad outlook for crops and seemed to think
there would be nothing raised this year, and
became respondent
An accident occurred on Friday, eight miles
east of Oakland by which Thomas Jacobs, a
wealthy farmer, lost his life His team ran
away with him. pitching Jacobs ont on the
ground. but with the lines still in his hands. In
some manner his legs became entangled in the
wheels of the wagon, crushing them in so seri-
Gus manner that he died on Saturday morning
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we Don't Like to Meet EN-.

o the man who makes his criticisms upon the iolers
witticisms o the proud and patronizing,
Analysing dosmatizing, swell-headed intellect.
ual man!
How he SCOTS in fine dersion at all jokes that not
his'n; the prim. punctilious. atrabilious,
supercilious, most fastidous man!
0 the of crest ascendency, born for general
SUPPLEMENTARY; the high, emphatic, autocra-
tic, most dogmatic, magisteria man!
He made to steer the planet and to supervise and
man it: o the steering engineering domineer-
ing stiff and stern imperial man.
O tile man who talks increasingly and chatters on
increasingly; o the loud lung-spacious. unvera-
cious, most loquacious, limber-tongued and
windy man!
Woe to if he gets at with his talking apparatus
o the straight statistical. linguistical egotist
cal, glib and garrulous man!
s. w. Foss. ia It'd Bits.
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SUICIDE BY MORPHINE.
Richard Jones, a Well known Railway Book
Keeper, Tires of Life.

Richard Jones, We'll known Railway Book
Keeper, Tires of life.
Chicago Special.
Richard Jones, late book keeper for the Cen
trail Traffic Association, committed suicide this
morning or last night at his rooms at the Aus.
tin House. He swallowed eight grains of sui
plate of morphia. The deceased was most
brilliant railroad man. and had held important
positions on leading railroads both here and in
Canada. Whisky and high living are supposed
to be the cause of the rash act In 1872 Jones
was auditor of the Toronto. Grey e Bruce rail-
road, in which position he continued for seven or
eight years When this road was merged into the
Canada Pacific system he came to Chicago and
took position as claim agent OF the Chicago,
Burlington g. Quincy road Several years
position, in the same department, with the
Michigan Central road Iu 1881 he left that
road to become auditor Of the Credit Valley
railroad a Canadian corporation, now belonging
to the Canada Pacific system. In this position
he continued until this road. too. was gobbled
up by the Canada Pacific. and then he came to
Chicago Jones was high liver in the strictest
sense of the term, and on taking his position
with the Central Traffic Association last March
he was cautioned by his superior officer that
drinking was not allowed by anyone in the en-
ploy of the pool. From appearances, it seems
that this rule was observed but indiferently by
him, and about June q he became piqued at
something that was said to him on the subject,
auu Hanu0O III us reSlRuatlOus WHICH IOOh eueCI
on July L. Since that time he has been on con-
tinuors debauch and yesterday, before going to
his room, told one Of the employees of the hotel
that he felt sick. This morning he did not
arise when called, and on forcing in the door no
was found dead in his bed. On the table by his
side was the following letter, addressed to
Charles L. Thaw, also an officer of the Central
Traffic Association:
.'Dear Charley-Goodwin promised to leave
So that he borrowed from me at the hotel, but
did not do So Will you tell him to pay Hal
lowed, between State and Wabash avenue.
forty cents, and Fred Felt twenty-five cents.
That, think, covers my whisky bills. / will
my carcass to some medical college, for them to
try and find out why the mental and physical
machinery of my system did not pull together.
With kind regards to the boys, VINO tried so
hard to make bad egg good, die. Yours in
death, as we'll AS in life DICK JONES"
The deceased was an Englishman, about forty
years of age, and had been in this country about
twenty-five years. He was never married. and,
so far as known had no relatives here. Deputy
Coroner McSwain held an inquest on the re-
mains TODAY
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Stabbed while Helping the Marshal.


MOUNT CARMEL, July 3.-John Piekard was
fatally stabbed here to-day while assisting Mar
shall Wilson to arrest Que =. ara. Oh uioSon
county, Indiana, for drunkenness. Ward re-
sisted arrest. and the marshal used his club
whereupon brother OF the prisoner rushed in
and cut Pickard in the groin, and also slashed
Wilson across the back. Wilson's wound is
slight. but Packard died within two hours. Both
the Wards were dubbed, one of them severely.
They were taken to Albion for fear Of mob ven.
geance. The murdered man lived at Danville,
Ill. was fortY-five years old, and leaves a wife
aud child. He was formerly deputy sheriff ard
been employed on the c.. " & G. railway as
fireman.
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Killed by a Train.

Special to the IndianapoIis Journal
MARTINsvILLE, July Med Hendricks, a
well-to-do farmer, residing two miles north of
this city. was run over by the midnight freight
on the indianapolis e. Vincennes railroad and
killed. His head, both feet and one arm were
severed from his body This is the second oc-
currence of the same kind here within two
weeks.
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ILLINOIS.
Domestic Tragedy in Piatt County-The Wife
Dead and the Husband Seriously HURT.

OOmestlc Tragedy IN flatt County-The WIFE
Dead and the Husband Seriously HURT.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
NATION July "A farmer named Wildman,
residing in the extreme southeast corner of Piatt
county, quarreled with his wife yesterday morn
ing, and because she threatened to leave him ne
cut her throat from ear to ear. nearly severing
her head from the body. He then fed from his
house to a cornfeld and cut his own throat with
a pen-knife. 1t is said there are seven children
in the family, but they had gone to celebration
yesterday. Neighbors passing by Wildmans
house observed the unusual quiet and forced
entrance, when the CHASTITY sight of Mrs. Wild
man, with her throat cut, met their gaze. They
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-05
Three Heirs to Great Journals.

Boston Traveller.
Whiteiaw Reds little boy is now in his fourth
year, and, if he lives, he will probably be the
heir of the Tribune.
George Jones has a son (Gilbert), who is SUI
perintendent of the machinery department, with
a salary of $40. 900 year.
Charles A. Dana has son grown to manhood,
and is considered rather clever fellow but thus
far Paul Dana has not developed a noticeable de-
gree of talent.
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ward Amber, Of Long Lane and South street,
had terrible attack of mania a potu. and es-
capped from his home in the neighborhood with
out the knowledge of his friends. No one knows
how he entered the church, but it is presumed
that the door had been left unfastened.
By the time his friends arrived he was quiet
and tractable, and made no resistance when
they took him away.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal
FRANKFORT. July Am alteration between
Thomas Harrington and William Stephenson
last night resulted in Harrington being fatally
stabbed. Stephenson was captured and placed
in jail He claims that the stabbing was done
in sef-defense. Harrington, it is thought. will
die before morning. Both men are considered
tough characters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-05

Chicago Living Church.
Mrs. B. is one of those energetic. QUICKEN
toned women who carry their work by assault.
One day she had started across the room on
some Grand but midway forgot what it was.
What was / going for?" she asked aloud. Two
year-old seated on the floor and always liable to
be swept up in one OF her mothers hurricane
passages, asked meekly: goin'-for
-rme!"
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Advice IN Mothars.

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup should always
be used when children are cutting teeth. 1t re
lieves the little sufferer at once it produces nat
ural, quiet sleep by relieving the child from
pain. and the little cherub awakes as bright as
button 1t is very pleasant to taste. 1t
soorhes the child, softens the gums, allays all
pain. relieves wind regulates the bowels and is
the best known remedy for diarrhoea whether
arising from teething or other causes Twenty
Ave cents bottle.
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Somewhat Abashed.
chicarn Naws

q.
When Mr.. Van Pet Indignantly arose in the
county board meeting and asked: "Am great
thief than any other gentleman in this boardf"
the other members hung their heads in shame
and not man of them dare say Van Pelt was
not the greatest of them all
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hunted further. and found Wildman almost dead
from tbs wound in his own throat. He is in q
very precarious condition.
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DIED.

SICKELS-At 100 a. m, July 4. Frank Harvey
of Fred s. ard Nellie G. Sickels aged four months
and fourteen days.
Friends invited to attend the funeral at tho resi-
.dence No. 355 North East street. on Tuesday morn
ing July g. at o'clock
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-05

AYERS Ague Cure is a warranted specific for
ali tnalarial diseases and hillary arrangements.
Wichita eagle., 1886-12-30
Took Pay in Tobacco.

When Gen. Logan starts out to tell stories
lie gathers q circle of listeners Ono of the
anecdotes that lie toll TO a group of six or
eight old comrades vas to illustrate something
Of the character of the poor whites in the
south. While Cen. Sherman was hammering
away at BuZZardlS Roost in the Atlanta cam
psign he sent Gen. Logan in the direction of
Resaca, to come through n pass and strike
the enemy on the other side On the march
the general and his staff, coming up to q mis-
cradle hovel, surrounded by a dilapidated
fence, were suddenly confronted in the road
by lean, lank and cadaverous looking
woman with a straight cut calico gown. a
dirty face and her hair streaming down the
back, who demanded: "Bo We Gen. Hooker's
steer crittersf' She had evidently never
heard of any other general than Hooker,
but had got well acquainted with the charac-
ter of the rowing parties Of soldiers who were
swarming owe the country seeking for prov
ender.
Gen. Logan hardly knew what to answer,
but concluded that the quickest way out was
to answer in the affirmative, whereupon she
continued: We'll, one of your steer critter
companies just went by here, and they shot
in my yard and killed one of my ducks and
ca:'ried it of. Now, l want you to pay for it
right now, and it was worth 80 cents, and I'll
take my pay in terbacker" The ludicrous-
ness of the proposition struck the general so
forcibly that he turned around to the officers
of his staff and said: Boys, have YOU any
tobacco Most Of them carried plugs in
their pockets, and while the woman held her
apron nearly every fellow threw in a piece,
until she had MI she could carry. Having
satisfied her demands the column was per
mitted 10 move on.-New York Tribune.
Wichita eagle., 1886-12-30
4 Wonderful Ona,.

AS trophy, and an evidence that all the
glowing stories about Honduras are not idle
talk, Col +. DOMAIN brought back with him
the largest opal that has probably ever come
to the United States; certainly the largest
one ever seen in New Orleans 1t was shown
TO party of friends, and is, beyond all ques-
ton, stone OF wonderful magnitude and
beauty. 1t is stiil partially inclosed in the
native opal rock, as it is called, but this has
been roughly Clipped Off on three sides. and
the magnificent opal itself blazes with many
colorcd fire. Il Is as large as a small hens
egg, and in dazzling lustre seems to equal the
most brilliant diamond. Even in the dim
light Of n gas lamp it glows as if its whole
heart were atlane. 1t is said that there is
perhaps but one larger opal in the world, and
that is in tho Russian crown jewels.
Col. DOMAIN found it in the possession of an
old Spanish gentleman IN the interior of Hon
duras, and bought it at the owners own
price. 1t Is undoubtedly worth many times
what he paid for it, and IS destined to go
among the famous precious stones of tho
world. The colonel said, with n sly twinkle
In his blue eyes: Il intend TO have that gem
SET for an engagement ring for nv sweet
Leart-when find her."
1t would he cruel to draw o pen portrait Of
blushing damsel who would be able to wear
an opal as big as hens egg on her engage
ment finger, and we shrink FROM the attempt.
New Orleans Times Democrat.
Wichita eagle., 1886-12-30
Prof. Calvin f. stowe.

The Hartford Times, in an editorial, say:
that the late Prot. Calvin Z. Stowe had mort
than faith in life hereafter, he had knowl
edge, derived from actual personal expe
Tiencc. He was aware Of the reality of the
spirit world and Of its nearness TO the Garth
life through his own experience. To him the
veil was often withdrawn and he was per.
united TO see and hold communion with those
who had gone before He was entirely
satisfied that he often saw and conversej
with, il the privacy and quiet of his OWL
homo, thosa who werc no longer the occu
pantS OF earthly bodies This gift OF spiritual
clairyoyance AID clairaudience was potent tc
take away ranch or the sense Of bereavement,
and TO tx rs Thought habitually on the ighel
Saalitins.-Scw y rS Sun
Wichita eagle., 1886-12-30
A SUBSTITUTE FOR GUNPOWDER.
Very Convenient for Use Upon the Stage.
Experiments Made in Paris.

Very Convenient for Use Upon the Stage.
Experiments Made in Paris.
l have Just returned from an exceedingly
interesting series of experiments On O new
substitute for gunpowder. Tho new substi-
tute is not recommended, however-like all
those of which we have lately heard SO much
on the ground of its greater destructive
power, bUt, on the contrary, on account of its
being perfectly innocuous. The material ex-
perimented upon is primarily intended to re-
place the gunpowder used on the stage. The
accidents which have happened to actors from
the discharge of firearms are so frequent that
any means of preventing them would be a
boon to the profession.
II. Edouard Philippe, the inventor of the
new substitute for villainous saltpeter, first
showed tie adaptability of his invention to
Chassepot, the fusil gras, to old mu5letoons,
revolvers, and to toy pistols made of wood.
The explosive, fired at six PAGES, left no trace
On sheet of white paper; whereas, the plug
from an ordinary stage musI:et left at that
distance an ugly black mark. The substance
used by NJ. Philippe consists chiefly of phos-
phorus, and, the cartridge being exceedingly
thin, the whole charge completely disappears.
no trace of it is to be found. The detona-
dUced by gunpowder, the fiamo as vivid and
the smoke apparently as dense, but it has the
advantage of having no smell
III. Philippe then showed how the prompter
at the wings could himself, by a movement
Of the hand, initiate the effect Of the discharge
Of musketry or cannon without having to
give signal to some one at the back Of the
stage, and thus running the risk of the death
of q man on the stage occurring without any
reference to the means by which the catas-
trophe was supposed to be brought about.
Lastly, to prove incontestably the innocuous-
ness Of his system, the inventor placed him
self in the center of q squad of twelve men,
who fired at him with their musketS only
few inches away from his head. Although
the prevention of accidents on the stage was
his first aim, II. Philippe has higher objects
in view. Thus he suggests that tho "Batail-
Ions Scolaires" shall be provided with this
invention, so that they may be able 10 blaze
away at small cost and with 10 risk Sim
ilarly, he reckons that firing with blank cart
ridges costs tho military budget no less than
100000 francs year, whereas by his system
the same effect may be produced by the ex-
penditure of 800, 900 francs per annum.-Paris
Letter.