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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20
AT BREAKFAsr wlrH GLADSTONE.
Mr. Beechers Impression of the Premier IS
Cleaned in Conversation.

Mr. Beecher's Impression of the Premier IS
Cleaned in Conversation.
Cable Special.
If Mr. Gladstone were in America and Beecher
had asked him to breakfast at his house on Co
lumbia Heights, in Brooklyn, every newspaper
in the United States would have had column
or more concerning the event. and If everything
that was said andsdone upon such an historic oc-
casion were not faithfully chronicled the fault
could not be laid TO the door of American news
paper enterprise. / said this to Mr. Beecher to-
day in the hope of extracting some modicum Of
news as to what had transpired at the breakfast
to which Mr. Gladstone had invited himself
and DR.. Parker to-day Bat he sim
ply smiled and held his peace ''If any
body in America feels interested in what
occurred said Mr.. Beecher. in response to my
questions. II should be glad to crafty him, but
respect for the sanctty of hospitality forbids MP
doing so. was Mr.. Gladstone's guest. and il
would neither be becoming in respectful
to him TO prate about what was said or done.
IL do not hesitate to say that Mr.. Gladstones
conversation heightened very much the impress
sion | had formed of him by his public speeches.
The breadth of his knowledge, his wonderful
vivacity, the accuracy of his figures and his his
torical statements. the chasrened enthusiasm and
the versatility displayed might have been ex-
pected in a man at midlife, but in one verglngon
to eighty it was most striking and wonderful"
Is was plain TO be seen that Mr.. Beech
er was very enthusiastic over the result OF
his meeting with Gladstone, of whom and
his cause he has always been an admirer, ana
that something had transpired to arouse IN him
the expectation that even home rule for Ireland
was not such a hopeless cause as the result or
the elections would seem to indicate DR.. Par
ker was as uncommunicative about the affair as
Beecher. From another source came informa
ton that the breakfast party consisted OF eight,
including two of the most prominent Home
rulers in Parliament and two literary men well
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20

Sir Charles Grows Cheerful and Frisky, and
Mrs. Crawford Smiles SerenelY.


Mrs. Crawford Smiles Serenely.
LONDON, July 19-Public interest in the
Dixie Crawford case is unabated. In court,
to-day, Dixie was cheerful, almost frisky.
Donald Crawford was sullen and neavy-eyed.
Mrs. Crawford was cool and collected, breaking
the tedium of the technical evidence by series
of little yawns and twirlings of her handkerchief.
She sometimes consulted miniature diary,
and occasionally whispered to Mr,
Lewis, and chatted smilingly with her
sisters. The evidence of the servants
tended to show that Dixie ordered the house
maids to be on tho staircase as seldom as posi-.
BILE, because he disliked to see them about The
coachman said that he frequently drove Dixie to
the house in Young street. The visits usually
lasted quarter of an hour Once he saw Dixie
aud lady through the window; they were only
sitting and talking Three secretaries testified
that they never saw lady visitors at Dilke's
house. One said he had refreshed his memory
as to dates by reference to "Hansard"
Justice Hannen, interposing, said that Han
sard" was not q book recognized by the court.
Madame Dessoulavia. native of Neufchatel.
was difficult witness. She did not remember
whether she was married in 1873 or 1877. She
had kept cigar store in Montpelier Place, but
had forgotten whether it was in 1873 or 1863
that she had kept it. She had let lodgings, but
was unable to give the name of anybody whG
had ever stayed night Sir Charles Dixie, she
said, only called year. She never saw
Virginia Crawford. She had engaged Fanny
as a servant The witness said she was formerly
in Sir Charles Dilkes service. and was now PEN
stoned.
Mrs. Rogerson deposed that CAPTAIN Forster
had called at her house and told Virginia Craw.
ford that he was ordered to Egypt. and that Mrs.
Crawford wept The witness also said that Mrs.
Crawford had told her that she Mrs.
Crawford had on two occasions slept in Sin
Charles Dilkes House The witness be-
sought Mrs. Crawford to break her relations
with Sir Dixie.
An expert in caligraphy testified that he had
compared the handwriting in four letters ad-
mittedly written by Mrs. Crawford and signed
Virginia. with the anonymous letters warning
Mr.. Crawford against ''the member for Chelsea
and which eventually stirred Mr.. Crawford uE
to the discovery of his wifes allied relations with
Sir Charles Dixie. The. expert said the similar.
ity between the writing in the anonymous notes
and in the signed letters was so great that ne
believed the same person had written all the let
ters he examined. This testimony produced
sensation in court
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20

Lehr und Wehr Verein were training to fight
the police They have drilled in their halls, and
have steadily increased in numbers until there
are probably two hundred or three hundred OF
them"
What class of people are they9"
They are Socialists of the ultra type. Every
Socialist who is in favor of dynamite is among
them. The most of them have served in the old
country, and hate government and law. The
miters, but they were men who believed that
the only way for working people to secure their
rights was to fghtn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20
Killed because He Knew Too Much.

DETROIT. July Bon Saturday afternoon
the body of Fred Robinson, an eighteen year-old
Detroit boy, was found in an empty cattle car in
freight train near Lansing Investigation has
shown that he left here with three companions,
one of whom confesses to having some trouble
with him. It seems that Robinson knew that
which would cause the arrest of the others,
should he speak it out One of them, named
Potter, confesses that he accidentally struck
Robinson on the head. The post .mortem shows
a fractured skull Potter and his two compan-
ions, named O'Neil and McAahon, have been
arrcsted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20
Milwaukee Anarchists Sent to Prison.

MILwAUKEE, July 19.-In pronouncing SEN
tence upon Frank Hirth, Carl Simon and
Anton Palm, Anarchist leaders. of conspiring
to burn the court house, and Of melting
people to deeds of violence. Judge Sloan
said he had some doubts as to whether they
were visionary cranks, who liked to hear them
selves talk or real Anarchists. like the Chicago
crowd. However, as judge, jury and witnesses
had been threatened by their friends, be would
not exercise the clemency he would otherwise
have DONE He ordered the imprisonment of the
prisoners at hard labor for nine months each.
The limit is year. Hrth and Simon made
addresses to the judge justifying their conduct.
and the latter became quite violent in denounc-
ing his conviction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20

BANGOR, Me-. July 19--Henry the fifteen
year-old son of j. A. Bickwell. OF this city shot
and instantly killed his sister Matte aged thir.
teen years, yesterday afternoon. The boy picked
up gun. and not knowing that it was loaded,
playfully pointed it at bis sister, when it dis
charged the contents striking her in the neck
tearing away the windppe and arteries The
boy was rendered insane By the terrible affair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20
Two Young Women Drowned.

ST. PAUL. July ia Frontenac special an
nounces the drowning, while bathing in Lake
Pepin, this afternoon, of Misses Edith Bend and
Nettie Mickey. daughters of Colonel William B.
Bend and Joseph Mickey. of ST Paul. Miss
Bends body recovered. Both young ladies
were about sixteen years old. They had been
spending the summer at the lake. Both were
daughters of prominent citizens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20
ROOM FOR THE NEW TENANT.
MIR. Gladstone Packs His Papers Prepar-
atory to Leaving Downing Street.

Expectation that the New Parliament Will
BE Summoned to Meet Aug. 5, and that
Immediate Adjournment Will Follow.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09
Dosing a Horse.

Michael is the name of a good
natured Hibernian who has the care
of the horses owned by a well-known
resident of Euclid avenue. Not
long ago one of his charges fell sick
and refused to eat. Michael is a
firm believer in the virtues of home
remedies and has a profound con-
tempt for the average horse doctor.
He knew exactly what to give the
animal, but the latter steadily and
firmly refused to be dosed. Over
and over again did thepatient Irish
man try to coax the horse into swal-
lowing the medicinal powders, but
the beast resisted every effort.
Then Micheal set his wits to work
to circumvent the horse. At last a
brilliant scheme flashed upon him;
he would procure tube, fill it with
powder, insert it in the beasts
mouth, and blow it down his throat.
The rest of the story shall be told in
Michaels own words. 81 found q
long tin tube in the kitchen, dye
mind, and I poured in a big dose
of thin midicin powders, an holdin
one hond over the lower ind to kape
the sthuff from spillin, I went out to
the sthable an approached the harse.
Wild some difficulty l got the lower
ind ofthe tube in his mouth, and
thin put my lips to the upper ind.
l drew in a good long breath for a
big blow, an was just agoin toilet fly
a terrible puff, whin-holy murther
ofMosesl that bloody baste gave a
cough! Whoopl the dirty sthuff fill
ed my eyes, an nose, an throat; an
blinded, an strangled, an choked me.
1t got down in my stomach, an I
was the sickest Irishman you ever
laid your two eyes onl You bet your
life, the next time Mike Murphy
blows down a tube into a horses
mouth some one ilse will find the
breath
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09
An Immence Age.

Professor Baird says that there is
nothing to prevent a fish from living
indefinitely, as it has no period of
maturity, but grows with each year.
He is authority likewise for saying
that within fifty years a pike was
living in Russia, whose age, accord
ing to tradition, dated back to the
fifteenth century. Probably some
persons will doubt what is said by
Prof. Baird about the age a fish can
attain. If they do, they are simply
doubling the best known authority
on fish. The Russian Minister says
that in the royal aquarium in St.
Petersburg there are fish to-day that
have been known by the records to
have been in them one hundred and
forty years. Some of them are, he
says, over five times as large as when
they were captured, while others
have not grown an inch in length.
An attache of the Chinese Litigation
corrobates this statement. He says
there are sacred fish kept in some
of the palaces in China that are even
older than any of those in Russia,
Goldfshes have belonged to one
family in this country for over fifty
years.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09
Cuba's Beautiful Girls.

There are girls from the Gulf
Staes and from Tennessee districts
at Saratoga, but none of them COM
pare with the languid beauties of
Cuba. They dress in wash goods,
or white serge, with broad sashes of
colored ribbon reaching to the
ground, and carry gorgeous UNI
brellasjust low enough to clear their
artistic coifiures. Such beautiful
feet and shapely ankles never were
more common. Any one of the girls
might make overshoes of the aver
age female boot, for No. 2 is enor-
nous in theis lovely eyes. Their
slippers are of the Spanish cut, and
they trip about in the high heels
with a grace and dexterity that fair
ly bewilder Northern-bred woman.
If their feet, hands, figure and COM
plexion are lovely, their eyes are
heavenly and not to be described.
Such adjectives as dark, deep, lus-
trous, tender, languishing, persua-
sive and fierce, if need be, may do
well enough as modiIels, but even
when put together with arching
brows or sweeping lashes, in no way
signify or approximate the fascinat-
ing beauty of these lazy, lovely
helpless, thriftless women. After
all these know-nothing, read-nothing
do-nothing girls are the very sort
that men admire. 1t is not their
fault if they are ignorant of all
science and art save those of pleas
ing, but it is fact that their inabil-
ity to ride alone, walk alone, shop
alone, or to be alone an hour at a
time is the very characteristic that
endears them to the sterner sex.
They never have any money nor
any idea of the cost of pleasures,
and to go out with a man is to go
all over and think nothing about
the cash. They are helpless RS bab-
les, and in their eyes the most at
tenuated grizzly-built dude becomes
a Hercules. And then they are SC
sympathetic and credulousl They
doubt nothing, believe everything
trust everybody and are continually
on the alert to pour the oils of solace
on any head smart enough to win
their interest.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09
Shopping in China

The foreigner in China who goes
out shopping" usually loads his
"boy," as his native servant is called
with necklaces of copper "cash," of
which twelve hundred equal a dol
lars. They are small disks of metal
with squire holes punched of the CEN
tire, through which they are strung
together.
The foreigner enters any shop he
pleases, and turns over the wares at
random. The shopkeeper, lost in
gasping wonder at the strange as
pect of the foreign devil" does not
ask him to buy. But if the foreign
mean business, then ther follows a
scence of wrangling and chatting.
"How much ?" asks the customer,
handling some article.
"Ten tollale" (ten dollars).
"Oh" moving away, "that is too
much"
elbow much will give ?"
"Why, about three dollars"
Can do, can dol" is the joyful as
sent.
The next time the foreigner learns
to offer a fifth of the sum asked, in
stead of a third.
The chaffering is carried OF
through an interpreter, unless botf
customer and trader speak pidgir
English. When it comet to paying
the "boy" takes off one of the heav,
necklaces of "cash," and unstrings
few hundreds of clumsy coins.
There is no gold coinage, and tn
little silver in circulation is vieweC
with suspicion by the small trades
men. Each silver coin is fingered
chartered about, and disputed owe
until the paying becomes annoying
The foreigner, therefore, takes hi
"cash" boy with him.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09

10 conciliate is so infinitely more
agreeable than to offend, that it is
worth some sacrifice of individual
will.
Adolph Sutro, oftunneI fame. has
offered to present each of the 10000
school children of San Francisco
with a tree to be planted on Nov. 27
ana General Howard has agreed to
furnish a tract in the Preside Reser.
vation where they may 90 on that
day and begin the first general tree
planting by the bubble in California
A permanent Arbor Day will he n
matter for the Legislature to deter.
mine upon. vi
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09
They Died in their Boots.

A wild story comes in from PERI
ban, Michoacon. Three well-mount-
ed and well-armed men stopped at
an inn to pass the night. The
woman who kept the place inform
ed the authorities that three suspic-
ious men had called at her house.
The President of the City Council
and the Judge, with few citizens,
went to the house to see the suspic-
ious characters. But the three men
locked themselves in the room and
refused to interviewed. A crowd OF
citizens was collected, but when they
appeared they were greeted with
volley from the three men. An as
sault was then made on the room,
and the prisoners breaking out OF
the door, fought their way through
the crowd, using their revolvers and
daggers. The crowd followed closely
after the fugitives, and many shots
were exchanged.
Finally one of the fellows drop
ped; even while dying he turned
over and fired on his pursuers. A
second fell a few steps further on,
fighting hard. The third sheltering
himself behind a rock, made it warm
for his pursuers, and, though often
wounded, fought on with scarcely
enough strength to draw his rifle to
his shoulder. Called on to surTen-
der, he only replied with a bullet,
which relieved the President of his
hat. The crowd closed in around
him as the death mist was passing
over his eyes. Still he tried to pull
the trigger of his rifle for a parting
shot, but life and strength failed
him. The corpses were buried in
Periban. They were supposed to be
a part of Marcial Braves bandit
troop. During the fight the citizens
had fired two hundred shots, and of
these nearly twenty had taken effect
on the bandits, who were torn to
pieces by the storm of lead. Sew
eral of the citizens were wounded.
The bandits died like legendary
heroes.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09
Bottled Tears.
years.

In Persia they bottle up their tears
as of old. This is done in the fol-
lowing manner. AS the mourners
are sitting around and weeping the
weeping master of ceremonies pres
ents each one with a piece of cotton
wool, with which he wipes off his
tears. The cotton is afterward
squeezed into a bottle, and the tears
are preserved as a powerful and eff
fcacious remedy for reviving a dy-
ing man after every other means
have failed. This custom is proba-
bly, alluded to in Psalm, wi, s.
"Put thou my tears into a bottle,
The practice was once universal, as
is found by the tear bottles which are
found in almost every ancient tomb
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09
Better Whistle Than Whine

Better Whistle Than Whine
AS l was taking a walk I noticed
two little boys on their way to school,
The small one stumbled and fell,
and though he was not very much
hurt he began to whine in babyish
way, not a regular roaring boy cry,
as though he were half killed but q
little cross whine.
The older boy took his hand in a
kind, fatherly way and said =
Oh never mind Jimmy, don't
whine ; it is great deal better to
whistle.
And he began in the merriest way
a cheerful boy whistle.
Jimmy tried to join the whistle.
l can't whistlesas nice as YOU
Charlie, my lips won't pucker up
good.
Oh, that is because you have moi
got all the whine out yet, but you
try a minute and the whistle will
drive the whine away.
So he did and the last | saw O
the little fellows they were whistlins
as earnestly as though that were the
chief end of life.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09

HAD TWO NEW ONES. Macbeth
Simmons is never so happy as when
he has got lawsuit on hand. He is
everlastingly suing somebody or be-
ing sued. Not long since he met his
lawyer, who said:
1--WE got bad news. The court Of
appeals has decided against us. We
have lost the case"
"Never mind losing that case. I've
got two new ones since I saw Won
last. ."-Teras Sittinos.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09

The wcalthicst colored man in the
United States is said to be Tonic
Luron, French quadroon of New
Orleans, whose fortune is estimated
at 81 100000, An organ of the col
ored people in the South says that
the colored people of the South pay
taxes on s90OO0,O0O.
When the forenoons of life are
wasted there is not much hope of a
peaceful and fruitful evening.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09
Cost of Making Milk.

Those who keep but one or two
COWS in cities, Villages, and suburb
an homes are as much interested in
the cost Of the production of milk as
the farmer or dairyman who feeds
many. A series of careful expert
ments have been made at the Mass
achusetts Agricultural Experiment
Station to determine the cost Of max
ing milk from various foods tried
and by several combinations of foods.
These were bran, shorts, corn-meal,
gluten-meal (the refuse from glucose
factories), hay corn fodder, and corn
ensilage. A synopsis of the publish
ed results shows that in feeding bran
or shorts, corn-mcal and gluten
meal, three and a quarter pounds
weight of each were used. Two OF
the foods were also combined, max
ing six and half pounds to feed
each COW daily, and at times a Gem
bination of three kinds were used
making nine and three-quartel
pounds feed daily to each COW. The
remaining food was either hay, dry
corn fodder, Or corn ensilage. The
highest amount Of hay eaten by any
COW in one day was twenty pounds
and of ensilage fifty-fve pounds.
The apparent bulk Of the ensilagC
over the hay as shown by weight
may be understood when it is re
membercd that the hay is dry Will,
ensilage is juicy. The highest COS
Of milk per quart was from a liberia
hay and grain feed, being two anC
three-tenths cents per quart. Th
milk produced at the lowest cost wa
from a moderate feeding of ensilag
and corn meal, and was but eighty
three hundredths cents per qnart
Practically, it will be seen from tn
above that quart of milk produc
ed by feeding hay and grain costs a
much as two and one-fourth quart
produced by feeding ensilage an
corn-meal. 1t is also stated that, $
far as the quality of the milk wa
concerned, under the various cond.
of feed given, no serious alteratio
in its composition was noticed.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09

Eternity is crying out to you loud
er and louder as you near its brink.
Rise, be going! Count your resouces
learn what you are fit for, and give
us wishing for it; learn what you
can do, and do it with the energy of
man.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-09

FooD FOR THoUGHT.-"If l was
to live my life over again." said an
American defaulter as he cooked
his feet in the office of a Montreal
hotel, "I'd be a lawyer instead of
a cashier"
"For why?" was asked.
"Well, I embezzled $1,000 and am
an outlaw and an outcast. My
brother-in-law, who is a lawyer
managed an estate so that it put
him $4,000 ahead, and they have
Just elected him mayor of the town
and got him to join the church. 1
advise young men to think of these
things.-WdU Street Nelcs.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-28
SPRUCEMONT.
The Old Camp Promising TO take
ON q New lease of Life this Sum-

The Old Camp Promising TO take
on a New Lease of Life this Sum-
mer.
Sprucemont, a mining camp In Elko
county of from 100 to $50 people, prom
ises to exceed its former prosperity this
Summer. A correspondent writes con-
corning 1t to the Elko Independent as fol-
lows: "Never in this locality was there
more energy and activity evinced among
prospectors. The excitement surpasses
the days OF old; all have a claim and have
1t rich, and before many weeks elapse you
may expect to hear OF something big. Mr..
Knopf, of Wells, has lately invested extern
sively in mining property here, and from
best advices, is on a promising route to the
requirement. of immediate wealth. He has
several men engaged at present extracting
q very good quality Of ore which Will be
shipped in a few days to Salt Lake. Mr..
Samuel Cloutier has two men constantly
employed on a very hatteriDg prospect,
and by the time the roads are in good con-
dition will be able to make the finest ship
ment ever sent from here. Mr.. Robert
Hartley, an old resident of this place, is
beyond doubt the possessor OF o
very valuable mine, from which
Messrs. Gilbert and Blackburn lately OK.
tracted 20 tons of ore which they shipped
to Salt Lake and realized 81 500 therefrom.
which demonstrates thst handsome profits
can be realized from the shipment Of our
ores. Mr.. Alexander McLaughton IL owner
of the very finest mining property here.
This property il known as the Juniper and
consists of four feet of gray carbonate and
five feet OF high grade gslens. The Black
Forest, Latham and other noted mines
show up extensively; also, numerous mines
of less note. but perhaps equally valuable.
are daily being brought to light. Mr..
Harvey Sheldon, the ower Of valuable
property here, has returned for the osten-
sible purpose Of making things hum
We are also creditably informed that an
old and reliable eastern company will be
here very loon and resume operations"