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Minor Notes

Mr.. Ernst Pickhardt, editor and proprietor of
the Huntineburg Signal. died on Tuesday. aged
ffty-six.
The item ia tie Journal yesterday, in regard
to the subsidy to be voted the A. & M. railroad
by Union township, Montgomery county, should
read that the stax was voted down by 800 ma
jority."
At Muncie, en- Tuesday evening, Perry Barr
while speeding his horse on South Walnut
street, had runaway with serious results. His
wife was thrown against an iron fence, and was
dangerously hurt. She is in critical condition.
Mr.. Barr was severely but not dangerously in
jured. The valuable animal was impaled on an
iron fence and ruined.
The third field meeting of the Indiana Acad-
envy of Sciences will take place at Wyandotte
Cave, Crawford county, Thursday. May 3.
Members of the Academy. their friends and all
interested in any science are invited to be pres
ent. Persons from the northern and eastern
parts of the State will meet at Paoli, Orange
county. the evening of May 2. Reduced
railroad fares have been secured.
A letter received at LaPorte from Portland
Ore, states that Mrs. Emma Molloy, the noted
evangelist, has employed counsel for the uur-
pose of instituting libel suit against the Ore
gonian, the leading paper of that city. Il is all
legged that statements of slanderous nature,
rejecting against her good nane appeared in
that paper during her recent trial at Bolivar
Mo-, for completely in the murder of Sarah
Graham.
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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS
Excitement Over an Attempted Outrage
and Shooting of a Young Woman.
Young Boy Accidentally Shot and Killed by
CompanioD-A Post-Mortem Involving
$5,O00-Minor Notes and Gleanings.
INDIANA.

Young Woman Dangerously Shot by q Man
Who Sought to Outrage Her Person.
SDecial to the Indianapolis journal.
DELPHI, April Esd Chamberlain is prom
inent young man living at Reynolds, north of
this place, and Miss Ida Wittenberg is bright
young lady of eighteen, living at the same place.
Chamberlain has unsuccessfully courted Miss
Wittenberg. Last evening. when she returned
from singing school, Chamberlain assaulted her,
and after an unsuccessful attempt to overpower
her shot her. the ball entering her mouth. She
lies in critical condition. Chamberlain has
been captured. There is great excitement over
the dastardly assault, the young lady being
member of one of the most prominent families.
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Fatally Injured in Runaway.

Special to the lndianapolis journal
WABASH, April 18.-This morning James
Stewart, resident of the northwest part of the
city, was driving along Falls avenue in a spring
wagon. when his horse was frightened at seeing
lad walking on stills. The animal ran away,
across the Charey-creek bridge throwing Mr..
Stewart out OF the vehicle at the entrance to
Falls Cemetery. He was picked up unconscious
and carried home. One of his legs was broken
at the hip joint and he was badly cut about the
head, besides internal injuries. which, it is be-
lieved. will terminate fatally. Mr.. Stewart is
seventy-two years old. one of the early pioneers
OF the Wabash valley, and has an extensive
Quaintance.
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ainisterla1 Association.
be indianapolis Journal.

bpecIaI 70 INC AhuIAnapois JourpaE
ROCKVILLE, April .8-The Crawfords-
vile District Ministerial Association of the
Methodist Episcopal Church concluded two
days session in this place to-day. About twenty
five ministers were present. fine programme
was carried out consisting of essays speeches.
ETC., which called out criticisms and remarks.
Rev. Hickman is Prohibitionist and told his
part OF the story, which caused a lively dis
cussion, showing many of ministers were Pro-
hibitionists at heart but did not believe in
fastening the question to any party. Religious
discussions We're many and interesting. 1t has
been one of the best associations held in Rock
vile. as there were many leading ministers in
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picture of the old gentleman there il an In
scription in the Quaint old-feshioned German to
this effect: "Janos Robin at the age OF 172 years
Graeci Ritus; has been married lat years, was
born and lives at Szodora, his children, two sons
and two daughters, still alive; the youngest
of them is 116 years old, and has two great
grandchildren, of whom one is thirty-fYe and
the other twenty-seven years old. The inscrip-
ton at the back of the old Iady's picture is:
Sara, his lawful wife, age l68, born at
Szodora." And this happy family actually emil
grated from the scene OF his long labors an
tiller of the soil. and ended his days. if the old
chronicles right, in some corner of Silesia- q
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An INSURANCE. ELECTION.

The annual meeting of the German Fire In
surance Company of Indiana was held at it's
Office. on South Delaware street, yesterday, and
the following officers were elected for the ensu-
ing year:
Secretary-Lawrence Schmidt
Directors-Adolph Seidensticker Edwin Mueller.
Fred Schmid, Andrew Hagen Peter Spitzfaden Fred
Detz, Gabriel Schmuck, George F. Pfngst and Louis
H. Mueller
The report of the secretary showed the finan-
cial affairs OF the company to be in excellent
condition.
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A Post-Mortem Involving $4,000.
,ciaf "a 4ba fnd1ananoIia no,,r.aaa

MARION, April 18-This morning Coroner
Wagner and DR.. Fletcher, of Indianapolis, res
directed and held post-mortem examination,
at Jonesboro, on the remains of the late John
Shideler While on his way home from church,
Sunday night. April ], Mr.. Shideer fell TO
the sidewalk and almost instantly expired. He
carried accident policy for S., 900. the pay
ment of which the insurance company will re-
sist on the ground that death resulted from
natural causes. The post-mortem was to decide
the exact cause of death. The brain was found
congested with blood clot on the side where
the head Of the deceased struck the sidewalk.
The other organs were found normal
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Case In Poine

TO the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journas
To show the absurdity OF the Sentinels state
ment that when the Republicans were in
power no Dsmoc rat, however competent etc.
could obtain employment in the railway
mail department." it is only necessary to men.
ton j. B. Giwin, the present superintendent of
the Fifth division, who was clerk in the rail-
way mail.service for ten years prior to 1884 and
was appointed to his present position not on
account OF any special fitness but because he
was a Democrat from away back
ROAM, Ino., April II. c. sH.
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for President and Governor. The almost unan-
imous opinion OF Repu bicans there is for Gen.
Ben Harrison for the presidential nominee OF
the Chicago convention. As for the candidate
for Governor. there is but one opinion, it being
the unanimous choice that the Hon. Albert @.
Porter act az the standard-bearer in the next
campaign. 4. 4. W.
1SDIANAPoLTs April IT.
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The Csus. or Avn the Troubfe.

Philadelphia Press
The miserable wretch who has brought about
all the trouble between this country and Mo-
rocco is one Ben Jelolf Ell Erisi Ell Hal Eli lei
Hlhi II will probably turn out that the trouble
arose from his obstrueing travel in the streets
of Tangisr by carrying bis whole name around
with b i'm
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He was rl,nt Before.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
Every saloon keeper who 10 deprived Of his
business by the decisions of the license court
becomes at once an enemy Of the Republican
party, which is responsible for the new law, aud
a worker for the free-liquor allies OF the Demo-
cratic party
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NEARLY everybody needs good medicine at
this season to purify the blood and build up tina
system. Hoods Sarsaparilla 10 the most popular
and successful spring medicine and blood puri-
fer. IL cures scrofula, all humors, dyspepsia,
aick headache, that tired feeling.
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70 the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journals
For the past three months have been MAX
ing a business tour throuebonf northern In
diana. and have made inquiry Of the Repub-
licans Of that section regarding their preference
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Hungarian oensenarians.

Pan Mall Gazette.
Talk of longevity Here Is q wellauthen-
ticated little story of family of centenarians
In Hungary, oil paintings Of several members OF
which are now in the possession of family at
Aix-la-Chapelie. AT the back OF tho life-sizs
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Accidentally Killed by u Companion.
inecisl TO the fundamentals LournaI

GpeclaI 70 the NndlanapOI1s JoprnaI.
LoGANsPoRT, April 18-Jaeob Shaffer, aged
eight. accidentally shot and instantly Killed
Jacob ludlow, aged eleven years, this after
noon. at Walton, ten miles east of this city,
Skaters father had borrowed target-gun with
which to shoot rats. Young Shaffer was show
ing the gun to his playmate, and did not know 1t
was loaded. The ball penetrated the region of
the heagt
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Seven Children in Less than Two Years.


GORDON. April 18.-Mrs. Phiio Lynch, OF
Crawford county, is the mother of seven chill
dren, all under two years of age. Eighteen
months ago she gave birth to triplets and few
days ago she gave birth to two boys and two
girls. The mother and children are doing WELL
but the father has not fully recovered from the
shock.
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a step in the right direction, although he adj
the labor troubles. If the pending bill did not
reach the remedy, it a toward it.
The remedy was so to frame the tariff laws that
there should not be a few millionair .s in the
country at the expense of pauperized millions OF
people. Applause on the Democratic side.1
Dir. Buchanan of New Jersey, said that the
remark of the gentleman from New York, Mr..
Parkerl that the bill a cheat, was con-
spicuously Inaccurate. The committee on labor
did not claim that there was anything in the
bill except provision for voluntary arbitration.
Grave difficulties would beset the American
Congress when it attempted to 60 further than
that Enforced arbitration msant enforced
award and that meant that the party against
whom the award was given must perform its
term 60 to jail. lie was this difficulty which
impelied the committee 10 adhers TO the prin-
clple of voluntary arbitration.
Dir. Brumm. of Pennsylvania, said that when
labor bills came before the House somebody al
ways talked of the tariff and freq trade, and the
gentleman from Michigan Mr.. Tarsney had to-
day touched upon the tariff as being responsible
for the labor troubles. If the gentleman would
take pains TO investigate stock-watering in Wall
street and the damnable whisky ring OF Ken
tucky. he would strike nearer the root of the
evil 1t was simply q whisky and water syndi-
cate that was at the bottom of the evil under
which the country was suffering.
AT this point the debate drifted away from the
arbitration bill proper and TOOK the form of q
discussion upon the tariff FinGly MIR. Ander-
son, Of Kansas. offered amendment. which
was advocated By Mr.. Peters, of Kansas. looking
TO compulsory arbitration. bnt defeated
On melton OF DIR. Cannon, Of Illinois, the
sixth section, which provides for the appoint
ment by the President OF boards of arbitration.
was amended by substituting the words .'con-
rnissionersp for .'arbitrafors" and .'deeisions
for award In speaking to the amendments.
he announced his support of the bill,
thought the commissions provided for would
have q beneficial effect
Mr.. Breckenridge. OF Kentucky, regarded the
measure as unconstitutional and unwise.
The committee then rosey the bill was passed,
and the House adjourned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-06
POLITICAL NOTES.

A full meeting of the national democratic
committee is to he held in New York next
Wednesday.
Prof. james r. Burns. democratic candi-
date for Con1i ess from the Erie, Pennsyl Iva
MIA district, has been discharged from his
position az teacher in the high school in
Erie.
The democratic national committee have
invited Speaker Carlisle to make speech-
es on the tariff in New York, Nsw Jersey
and Connecticut. 1t is understood that Mr..
Carlisle is prepared to accept the invitation
of the committee, and will be at their dis
posal after next week.
The County and Tammany democracy OF
New York city have, as WIS anticipated,
failed to agree on candidate for the may
orally of that city and the latter orgsnlZs
ton have nominated Hugh J. Grant for the
position. The leaders of the TWO organlza-
tons we're in consultation all day but could
effect no compromise, and Notwithstanding
appeals from the national committee, Mr..
Hewitt declines to withdraw from the con-
test. This unfortunate state OF affairs caus-
es some uneasiness, but in spite of the war
ring elements and the possible effect on the
national ticket, bet of SO 900 even, on the
general result, was made Immediately after
the noGination.
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markets are prosperous,

AS SOON as the republicans learned that
the retaliatory measures the President pro-
posed adopting towards Canada were 10 be
general and not special in their character, IN
other words were not simply to exclude
Canadian fab for the sole benefit of the Mas
sachusetts fish packers, but were to apply
to railroads and canals in which nortbern
capital is invested, they plgeon.holed the
retaliatory bill passed by the democratic
House, though they had previously been
abusing the President for not resorting to re.
talation. Republication, no matter what
it oncs may have been, now has its only
Foundation in self-interest and sectional
prejudice.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

Col. Joseph nj. Terry, one of the most
widely known ci,izens of Roanoke county
died Tuesday last, aged so years.
The Virginia Board of Pharmacy will
me ct in Richmond on Monday, October 18th
to examine candidates for registration.
]. l. Teller has been appointed storekeep.
ar and gauger in Shenandoah county, and
Frank w. Wilson gauger in Montgomery
county.
Mr.. John H. Hall, treasurer of the r. 4
D. railroad, has purchased three hundred
acres of the Mineral Hill" tract, near Bar
louisville in Orange county.
The democrats of Broad Run, Fauquier
county, on last Saturday raised hand
some pole ninety feet high surmounted by
bandanaa, and flag 20 feet long by I
wide.
Mrs. DR.. Il. S. Lewis and Mrs. G. 8. Jones
were thrown from buggy while driving
from church to the nome of the latter near
Cnlreper, on Sunday evening. Neither was
much injured.
The old copper mines at FryiDg-pan, near
Herndon, Fairfax county, are being re.
opened with renewed energy, and MIR. W.
A. Stowell has found valuable iron ore on
his farm in the same neighborhood.
1t is reported that a foreman named Will
liams, employed Cd the Chowan Southern
Railroad, between Whaleyville and Suffolk,
shot three of his refractory colored hands on
Wednesday and had to hy for his lifs from
the ighborbood, several hundred colored
men threatening to lynch him.
MIR. Bushrod w. Herbert died at his resi-.
dence, near Charlestowu. w. Va, Thurs
day, aged IS years. His mother wss q
prandniece of George Washington and a
niece of Judge Bushrod Washington. Mr..
Herbert was bright Mason and gen.
tleman of culture aud fine literary attaib-
ments.
Miss Maud Randolph, of Loudoun ooun
ty, and Miss Mamie G. Gordon and MIR.
Douglas II. Gordon, of Rappahannock, are
in Washington. They have been making an
equestrian tour of Virginia, taking in the
Natural Bridge, coming up the Shenandoah
to the caves at Newmarket, which in many
instances surpass the Luray Caves which
they visited in turn. Then they came over
the mountains and down through Warren
ton to Washington. From Washington
they will extend their sightseeing through
Maryland. They are we'll mounted. and
make from thirty to forty miles day with.
out fatigue.
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The pickctt sHonumens.

The monument to commemorate the sarG-
ices of Pickett's division was, as stated in
the GAZETTE, unveiled in Richmond
Yesterday. The various organizations be-
gan assembling at balf-past eleven, but it
was not until nearly an hour afterward that
they moved. This delay was caused by a
slight misunderstanding between r. E. Lee
Camp of Confederate Veterans and the Poll.
adelphia Brigade Association, who had
come to attend the unveiipg. Lee Camp
heard that the Philadelphia brigade did not
desire to parade with them if they carried
the Confederate colors. A committee of the
camp waited on the brigade and ascertaned
| that some Of its members did object, but by
no means a maj ori;y. The reason given
was that the national flag carried BY the
PailadeIphans had been given them with
the understanding that it was not to be
borne in procession iu which the Confed-
ate flag hoated. 1t was finally agreed that
the brigade should leave their flag and use
United States flag loaned them by K. E.
Lee Camp. The latter declined to take
part in the parade without their banner, but
the camp always carries in its parades the
Unted States flag, as we'll as the Confeder-
At6 one. u6 udll6I Was buiSdU.y
ed and the line Was then formed, the Pnila-
delphians being heartily cheered as they
moved OF. They were present at the un.
yelling ceremonies.
In the line we're detach ment OF the First
Virginia Regiment, Lee Camp of Richmond,
Pickett Buchanan Camp OF Norfolk, mem.
bers of Pickett's Division Association, Mau.
ry Camp, Mecklenbure; Stonewall Camp. Of
cd Rinh md
details from Phil Kearney Post. OF Richmond,
Lee Camp of Alexandria, and members OF
The Philadelphia Brigade. In carriages pre-
Pickett and her son and lady relatives; ex-
Gov. Curtin and Col. A. K. Mcclure, of
Pennsylvania Capt. Reeve, president OF the
Pickett Association, and Major r. Taylor
Scott, the orator Of the day.
Arriving at Hollywood the exercises were
opened with prayer by Rev. Richard Fer
guson, chaplain of Pickett's Division Asso-
citation. Major r. Taylor Scott, of Eau.
quer, the orator of the day, spoke for more
than an hour, and was listened to with the
deepest attention by the thousands of spec.
tators. He sketched 10 eloquent words the
part the division took in the famous fight
which made its name glorious. He recalled
the chivalric deeds of Kemper, Armistesd,
Corse and others of more or less prominence,
who elped to make the fame of The heroic
division. After reciting the deeds of thess
men and the part they bore at Gettysburg.
Maj. Scott closed his address 10 theae words:
Comrades: We indulge no vain regrets and
harbor no rebeiious thoughts. We claim 10
be worthy of our dead Honest men, loyal
citizens of this great republic, bat loysl, too,
to Virginia and the South. We believed and
to-day believe the cause of Virginia and the
South was just. The principles for W hich we
fought are the foundation of civil liberty and
self government. the very corner of lhs COL
umn yea, the keystone the arch upon wh'ch
rests the federal Union. Our construction
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AS THE Secretary of War is usually man
who is more familiar with lazy books than
with fire arms, and the Secretary of the Ma
w one who is made sea sick even by a
steamboat trip to Norfolk, il is more than
probable that the Secretary of Agriculture
will be man who can distinguish the dit
ference between ground wheat and ground
MASTER But 90 far as the farmer is con-
oerned il will be just as well, for no we'll in.
formed man ever supposed that an agricul-
turai department would ever be of any real
benefit to the agricultural interests of the
country
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cause TO espor

ALEXANDRIA WAS formerly the market
for all the tobacco raised in the river couu-
ties of Maryland, and would be 80 again
were there purchasers and an inspector and
8 warehouse here. Tobacco raisers, like all
other producers, want competing markets
Those of the counties on the opposite side
of the river do not have the want referred
to supplied. Baltimore is now their only
market, and they are not only compelled to
sell it there fer any price that may be ofier'
ed, but the cost CT sending it there makes a
sad inroad into their little profit There Is
plenty of money in Alexandria Tor estso-
fishing q tobacco market here, and the men
who shall! be enterprjsng enough to engage
in the undertaking will profit by 1t, and 30
will the town, for nothing is better known
than the fact that all towns with tobacco
markets are prosperous.
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ATFXA
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6.

ONr AT least of the northern republican
Conpressmen who have been recently cam
paigning in Virginia says, but conn
dentially, SO that his name cannot
be used, that bis ideas OF the u.s.
gro have undergone an entire cnanee
since he came from his far northern nome
- Washington, where so many OF that race
now live, and that as there is now very lille
real difference in the governmental pohcy
of the two parties, he should vote with tne
damocrsts if his residence were in the South,
as he has learned that negro rule Wouiu not
only be uncomfortable, but be ruinous 10
everv moral and material interest OF any
community, az while there are few negroes
uho Of least seem to be reasonable, and 10
he sc.uated by the motives and principles
that influence white people, the vast majority
of,hem act as though they were semi Daroaf-
GUS and needed only the removal OF restraint
10 beoome entirely So This, in effect lie
what northern republican says; and yet
there are southern white men VINO Wouiu
snhiect themselves and their families, ana
their white neighbors, to the fate from which
the northerner referred to recoils, Though
from the nature of the case, he can have
only faint idea of what its horrors would
he Ia the face of such danger, tarif ano
mugwumpism and currency and retaliation
and ell other national questions. dwindie
into utter and entire insignifcance. Ihe
Issue of the approaching conflict in the
southern States will be white or black rule
in those States. In such a Confetti ia hare
to understand how any southern white mar
should have any difficulty in deciding which
cause 10 espouse.
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From Washington
Especial Correspondence of the Alexis. GAzETI
q 0at 1899

WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. 6. 1888.
A democrat from the Sth Virginia district
here today says he regrets to say that so
far ss lies within bis personal knowledge
there is distinctly apparent apathy and
lukewarmness among the democrats of that
district, and that while he believes the dis
trict ia safe, he does not think the majority
will DO even as large as it was two years ago.
he says that unless great change shall take
plsce between now and election day be
fears both Alexandris and Fairfax will go
republican.
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DroMueI.

CHICAGO, Oct. 6-Two unknown men
were drowned in the breakers on the lake
shore at 3Sth street last evening during a
storm. Their sail boat overturned and went
down with them clinging to it, while hun
dred people on shore, helpless to aid. watch
ed the pair meet death in the waves.