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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-15
UNITED IN DEATH.
An Aged Frenchman Kills Himself Because His
Life.Companion Was Dying Of the Grip.

COLUMBUS, Ind. Feb 14.-A tragic occur
renee is reported from Napoleon. twenty
miles east of here. Two aged people. Mr..
and Mrs Bonchard, resided alone. Mrs
Bonchard had a severe case of the grip. and
the doctor said she must die. This affected
the old man. and he wept bitterly. and.
going out into .he back yard. he put pis-
tol ball through his brain. causing instant
death This SO shocked the old lady that
she. too, died. They were natives of France.
but had lived here for years.
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Henry Tenbroeclk Magee.

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-Henry Tenbroeck
Magee, eighty seven years of age. recluse
and a classmate of ex-senator Evarts at
Yale, was found dead to-day in his room in
the University of the City of
New York, where he has lived
among his collection of paintings for
the past forty nine years Death was due
to natural causes The body was found
with the head resting on the top of a
lighted oil-stove and the flesh of the face
burned Off to the bone
Very little is known about the man, No
one was permitted inside his room. His
barnlike apartment, which was illumined
only by q skylight. was fitted from floor to
ceiling with paintings and portraits in
rusty frames, said to, have been In many
instances the originals of old masters.
Undiscovered statues, and PLAQUES. and
medallions, black with age and dirt.
adorned the corners of the room. No letters
came to he old man Oftener than once in q
month or TWO, and these were usually from
the Rev. Ii. 5. Gardner, of New Milford.
Pa. and he is the only friend he had, SO far
as Ia knaWn
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Commissioner McQuewsn, charged with
running an unre gistered still. Deputy
Revenue Collector Slosson and Marshal
Clark. of Grand Rapids. made descent on
Fuller's isolated farm and found several
barrels of mash" ready to be distilled. but
did not find the still itself. At the hearing
several witnesses testified TO have seen the
still in operation. and TO having purchased
some of it's product
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-15
Chicago Has Another virruous spasm.

IHuIaHdVUIs
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-the fat has gone
forth from the police department that after
this week no more boxing shows will be
permitted in Chicago. The shows in which
the representations made TO the police have
been violated have become altogether too
prevalent. says Chief NcClaughrey.
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General Notes.
Special to the Indian napolIs Journal.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-C. S. Martindale.
of Hartford City. is at the Howard.
The ANIMAL Hoosier social reunion, under
the auspices OF the Indiana Republican
Club. of Washington. will take place on
Wednesday evening, the 18th inst. In the
hall of the Builders Exchange. President
make this the largest and most enjoy able
social ever given by the club.
DR.. X. j. Gatling who was reported to
have located an ordnance foundry at
Marion. is here yet. and Gays smokeless
powder is the greatest invention of modern
war arrangements. He is tryln to urge
Congress to take decisive steps toward
coast defenses, in which his heavy guns are
to be employed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-15
slnvin Wants TO Fight Corbstt.

LOUISVILLE, KY. Feb. 14.-Frank Slavin
tonight sent a telegram 10 the Olympic
Club, New Orleans in which he says he
will fight Corbett IN New Orleans on
March 3, four-ounce gloves. six rounds. for
purse of 5000. He left here for Indian
apolis tonight, and asks than an answer
bc seDt there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-15
OBITUARY.

Rev. Charles Elliot, ID. D., LII. D., Instructor
of Hebrew at Lafayette.
Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal
EAsTON, Pa, Feb. 14.-Rev. Charles Ell
lior, ID. D., LII. ID, died this morning of the
grip. His home was in Chicago his duties
requiring his presence at Lafayette Uni
versity but three months In the year.
Charles Elliot was born in Scotland
March Is. 1915. graduated at Lafayette
University in lS40. and for the past decade
was instructor of Hebrew at that institu-
tion. He was professor of biblical litera-
ture in the Presbyterian seminary. Chica-
90, from 1868. to 1882, having been professor
at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, for
fourteen years prior to that time. He
wrote q great deal on biblical mattera.
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Frozen To Death While Drunk.

MINNEAPoLIs. Feb. 14.-Martin Neugard,
of this city, was found in the roadway
about three-fourths of a mile from his
home, in this city. this morning, frozen 10
death. He had been drinking and evil
IDENTITY was unable to get home.
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"Noonshining- i'm Michigan.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. Feb. 1.-THE rev.
epue officers are awakening to the fact that
in the lumber counties of lower Michigan
there 10 more or less moonshining going on.
Charles w. Fuller and his son Lewis. of
Echo township. have been brought before
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-15

The New Minister to Ecuador Is Uncle
SANS Youngest Diplomatic.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Rowland b.
Mahany. of Buffalo, N. Y, who has been
nominated BY the President to be Envoy
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The Woods Nomination.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 15.-Chairman Hoar
has so far recovered from his indisposition
as to warrant the belief that the Senate
committee will take final action on the
judicial nominations before it tomorrow
morning. If the nomination of Judge
Woods is reported tomorrow 1t will likely
be confirmed by the middle of the week.
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Cantain John 8. Stout

NEW ORLEANS. La. Feb. H.-Capt John
s. Stout. famous Mississippi river pilot.
hero of the Robert f. Lee disaster In 1882
died this afternoon at his residence In this
rif
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-15
ARGUMENTS OF SILVER HEN
Report of the House Committee on Reps
resentatiye BANDS Free-CoInage Bill.
An Effort to COntrOvert the Claim that Dlsas.
ter Would Follow if the Country Was
Flooded with Dollars Worth al Cents
Rosy View of the Effect of Dumping
Loads of the Metal on Our Shores.

Foreigners Would Be Left in q Hole and Farm
ers Would Get Rich. SO the Committee
Says-How the Price Would Be Kept Up.
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Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary to Ecuador, is probably the youngest
man ever selected for such an important
position, being less than twenty-eight years
of age. He. however. Is not only we'll
qualified for the position, but Is looked
upon as one of the coming Republican lead
ers in western New York. He is a direct
descendant of the well-knOwn Mahany
family In Ireland. and. although Prot
estant. has the united support of the Cath
olic Irish in Buffalo, Father Crown having
personally worked energeticaly to secure
him this appointment In 1884. while
student in Harvard College. Mr.. Mahany
successfully prevented the president of
that college from carrying the majority of
the students against Blaine. From this
little incident sprang up q close friendship
between Blaine and this brilliant young
man, which was first shown by the appoint
ment of the latter as secretary OF the
Chiiian legation two years ago, which was
declined. and now by this important ap-
pOintment.
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AriZOna and OkIahOina TO be Aumitteu.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-There is every
reason to believe now, as exclusively an
ticipated in these dispatches some months
ago. that the result of the statehood agl-
tation before the House committee on Ter
ritories will be the adoption of bill ad-
mitting Arizona and Oklahoma to state
hood. Such measure will receive prompt
favorable action In the Senate and the un-
hesitating signature of President Harrison.
Neither Utah nor New Mexico can come in
inst VET
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Political Situation in Iowa.

Epecial 10 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.-Judge j. w. Nc
Dill, of Iowa. who was recently appointed
Interstate-commerce Commissioner, says
this of Iowa politics: Governor Boiess
election was not a political victory. 1t rep
resented the combined element of dissatis-
fed Republicans and the entire Democratic
party. Think Iowa will certainly cast its
electoral vote for Harrison. This is made
more certain. in my opinion, by the declara-
tiOn of Mr.. Blaine. that he is not a candi-
date. The Alliance Is not very strong in
Iowa. The PrOhibitionists there generally
vote the Repu blican ticket. The ProhIbi-
tion party proper is now q very unimpor-
tant factor In Iowa politics l think. were
Governor Boies given place, either first or
second on the national Democratic ticket,
local pride would induce number of
voters, Republican in sentiment, to vote
the Democratic national ticket, though not
enough to swing the State out of the Re-
publican line. The Legislature is in ses-
sion. and from present indications there
will be no change in the liquor law. the
Republicans holding the House aud the
Democrats the Senate"
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-08-11
a LITTLE spRIc or SHAMROCK,

Just little sprig Of shamrock IN letter where
the tears
Which have biottcd words together have been
dried these many years.
Loving lines, yet sadly cheerful-how sstwas
lonesome here today
Then pause, . little fearful: '.Dear, you are 80
far away"
Every sentence has its token Of q love that could
not fail,
Throbbing with d faith unsDoken, though the
Ink Is growing pale:
Faded arc the lines. dim-lettered, like sad
ghosts upon the page;
Al. that poor love should be fettered with the
rusty iron OF age!
Then that line: II picked the shamrock from
that spot, dear-you will know
Where We walked and talked togethcr--oh, 1t
seems 80 long agoi
And ct last: Love, how much better 1t will be
when, by and by,
Wen not need 70 write letter TO each other
you and L.
II you know how have needed some new token
through the years
You have slept away UNDECIDED, II must move
your soul to tears.
II you stil know how love you, how missed
you, day by day,
Since the shamrock grew above you, you could
- never stay away.
Take all treasures, Time, cherish, Fame and
Hope, and Life at last.
Fitting things which needs must pcrish--spare
this memory Of the past,
Lying with sprig Of shamrock in letter.
where the tears
Which have blotted words together have been
dried these many years
-. ID. Aarons, in Detroit Free Press
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trembling. 1.-THE road bed has been
washed away and had l been three min
utes later the northern express would
have been wrecked. With all his
childishness Uncle Hi knew more
about the Bottomless Pit than the rest
Of u.s." and then broke down and
cried. The excitement had f-irly unr
neryed me.
was laid up fofscveral days because
Of that nights work, so did not attend
the funeral Of poor Uncle Hi Al said
that almost the entire village was
there, for many Of the residents had
been passengers on the express, and
the stores in town were closed all day
as though it was the president who had
died. The railroad people recognized
his services, too, with splendid design
of hot-honse flowers, and they erected
. very nice monument over his grave.
But it always seemed to me that that
was rather an insignificant way to re-
pay the old man. Still, there was moth
ing else to do after he was dead.
After / left school the company Of
fered me position in its Office as a rec
ognition of what they were pleased to
call my bravery" but l never liked to
have the affair spoken Of, for knew
that the praise did not rightfully belong
to me. Had it not been for old Uncle
Hi, the express would have gone on to
destruction that terrible night
Whether, as Uncle Hiram had said,
the swamp was simply the covering Of
some vast cavern, | don't pretend to
say. This / do know, however, the
railroad authorities were never again
able to build their line acrosssthe Bot
tomless Pit.-W. Bert Foster, in Yankee
blade
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The Auxust Wids Awake

II veritable vacation number, -
pecially noticeable for short. practical
papers on out-of-door doings: How !
Botanic" Annie Sawyer Downs; Star
board and Port, Capt Julins A. Palm-
or, Jr.; Lets Have : Fire." Willis
Boyd Allen; How Not to Get Lost"
Prof. Charles r. Fay; ..Hints for
Trampers,~ Charles M. Skinner; "How
to Put Paddles on Rowboat," vcsper
L. George; and snch summer articles as
sport in the Water" by Alexander
Black; "A Mountain Pageant" BY MIRA
A. g. Lewis. There is capital story
of camping out, French Leave" by
Gertrude Adams; Margaret Sidney has
a striking and dramatic story Of life in
the '.Sky Country" Of North Carolina,
"Trypheny's Bicycles" Robert Beverly
Hale contributes I'm Thunderstorm"
to the Fair Harvard Series of stories;
Willis Boyd Allen has a characteristic
story of life and adventure on an ocean
steamer, ''Thc Crimson Handkerchief"
and the scrials-Kirle Munroc's The
Coral Ship" and Kate Epson Clark's
THAT Mary Ann" are equally absorbing.
Price 20 cents q number, $40 n year.
On sale at news stands, or sent postpaid
on receipt of price, by d. Lothrop Com
pany, Publishers, Boston.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-08-11
SECONDHAND FOOTWEAR.
What Becomes OF Many Pairs of Cast On
Ehnaa

What Becomes of Many Pairs of cast-ur
Shoes.
There is large and growing de.
mand in big New York for secondhand
shoes All along Seventh avenue there
are dea lcrs who make specially of old
shoes. The men usually have stalls in
cellars. Their wares embrace shoes of
all sorts, from the baby's tiny slipper
to the big, stiff brogans of the laborer
1--WE get our old Shoes" said one of
them recently, from all sorts of
places. | usually make a couple of
trips week myself to lot of stylish
fats in the unnar mart If tho o;ty T
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-08-11
A MECHANICS GREENHOUSE.

must necessarily be a movable one. The
house is heated with common brick
furnace built under the west end of the
south bench, with the door opening in
the shed. Five or six feet of the fiue.
next the furnace, is made of brick; the
remainder is made of .six-inch sewer,
pipe. The upward turn of the flue, at
the eastern end of the greenhouse, is
made with pipe (see A in illnstra.
tion). BY means of a swab thrust in
at b, can soon clean the flue. The
south bench is built inches back from
the wall to allow the warm air to
strike the glass at the lowest point and
thus keep the frost off all the way
down. l built most of the house N.Y.
self, and do not think it cost more
than $25 or $50. A bushel OF coal will
heat this house for "a hours.
/ can grow many kinds of plants, and
every year | sell more than enough to
pay for all the expense of running the
house. On very warm days. while
am away at work, my wife ventilates
the building. ! try to do all the water
ing before go to work, or after come
home. The work required to keep the
house in order is but a pleasant way of
spending some of my leisure moments,
and the little greenhouse gives much
pleasure to my family and friends. -
A Mechanic, in American Garden.
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HORTICULTURAL NOTES.

An excess Of manure is injurious tc
grapes.
Z A SHARP steel rake is a good weed
killer at the start
CULTIVATION will benefit the trees for
few years after setting out
PRuNE the trees in the orchard; keep
In good shape from the start.
SALT or salt brine can often be APP
piled under the pear trees with benefit.
WHEN through with q crop in the
garden put what is left under the
ground.
CLOVER loosens mp the soil by penc.
trating it and when it decays helps the
soil mechanically.
Corn is one of the best crops to grow
in an orchard, potatoes come next and
beans are probably next.
APEDIGREE plant may be said to be
one which possesses the best points oil
its variety in the greatest perfection.
IF second or third crops are to be
grown in the garden, be ready to plant
them soon as the first crops have ma
tured.
No PLAN of management will he best
in all cases; the owner must adapt Che
treatment to the condition of the orch
ard.
PLAN t the crops in the garden SO as
TO the whole summer rather than
to rely upon any one that will only Gov
or a portion of the season; there is
usually less risk and more profit
The peach tree bears most At tbs -
tremity of its branches, and for shis
reason is more Liable to break dowr
when laden with fruit. Pruning early
in the season is advisab;s On this ia
coupe. Western Rural.
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CAN INSECTS TALK3
Even Among Bees Ill News Was Found
to Fly Apace.

Even Among Bees Ill News Was Found
to Fly Apace.
A striking instance of the possession
of capability of spreading intelli-
gence, and that of somewhat abstruse
character, is furnished by experiments
that have been made by Huber and
others upon bees. Everyone is aware
that the queen bee is an object of the
greatest solicitude and attention to all
the workers OF the hive, and yet,
among SO many thousands, all busily
employed in different and distant parts
of the colony, would appear impos==
sible for them to ascertain, at least be-
fore the lapse of considerable time,
whether she was absent from among
them or not. In order to see whether
bees had any power of conveying news
of this kind the queen bee had been
stealthily and quietly distracted from
the hive, but here, as elsewhere, i'll
news was found to fly apace. For some
half hour or SO the loss seemed not to
have been ascertained, but the pro-
gressively increasing buzz of agitation
gradually announced the growing
alarm, until shortly the whole hive
was in an uproar and all its busy oc-
cupants were seen pouring forth their
legions in search of their lost monarch
or eager to avenge with their stings
the insult offered to their sovereign.
On restoring the captured queen to her
subjects, with equal secrecy, the tumult
speedily subsidized and the ordinary
business of the community was re-
Sumed, asbefore the occurrence. That
in such cases as those above narrated
information, and that rather of COM
pick character, was transmitted by one
insect to another cannot be doubted
but by what means? All that has been
ascertained upon this point is that the
ants and bees cross their antenn@ in q
peculiar manner with the antenn@ of
the others that they encounter, and
this action being repeated again and
again seems to be mode of commune
eating intelligence common among the
insect races. N. Y. Post.
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ABOUT COFFEE.
Some Interesting Facts Conce rning n
Great Industry.

Some Interesting Facts Conce rning n
Great Industry.
Coffee is not shrub, as is generally
supposed, but tree, which, if allowed
to grow untrimmed would attain TWEEN
ty feet or more in height, but which is
generally kept down to eight or ten
feet for convenience in picking. A
grove can be started by buying the ber-
ries, or from slips. The latter are
preferable, placed about six feet apart;
and those plants, which have been
taken from the nursery with consider
able earth around their roots, will bear
fruit in two years, though their full
yield is not attained under four years.
1t is calculated that 1000 thrifty trees
will yield fair average of 5000 pounds
of coffee per annum, but in some parts
of San Paulo province the yield is as
high as $500 pounds. There are two
and sometimes three harvests in a
year, and after fifteen or twenty years
the old trees must be cut down to give
place to new ones. When fully ripe the
berry is about the size, shape; and color
of common sour cherry, or rather
large cranberryx The tough red skin
incloses two grains or seeds. The old
way of preparing it for market, still
lmucl used in Brazil, is as follows:
When the berries hive acquired rich
blood red, they are picked into bags by
the negroes, twenty three pounds being
considered fair days work fSr-o
picker. The bags are then emptied on
the terreno, or drying place, which is
generally level piece of ground beaten
smooth or covered with cement. After
few days in the sun the outer skin
becomes black hard and shriveled; and
then the berries are pounded in huge
wooden mortars. until their skins are
broken without iniuring the tough
grain S. Chicago Inter Ocean.
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THE FARMING WORLD.
rHe 6RAPEylnE sPHlNx.

a Destruetive insect which II Kept In
Check By Other Parasites.
The greater part Of these beautiful
moths come forth during the last two
weeks of June and the first two Of July,
though stragglers may have been seen
either q month earlier or later. The
eggs are round and green, and are laid
npon the young grs pc leaves. In five
days they hatch into tiny light green
worms with blackish spine nearly
a. long as the body. The usual num-
Der OF mouths is four, though in con-
finement / have frequently recorded
six. They refrain from eating for
about twenty-four hours before each
moult As they become larger the
green of their bodies turns pinkish.
and later rose-colored. After eating
grape leaves for about six weeks they
descend from the vines and seek suit
able place, usually withered leaf near
the surface Of the ground, in which to
transform. The edges of the leaf are
drawn together around the larva and
fastened with a few threads of silk,
and in this rude structure the pupal
state is passed. The pupa is light
brown in color, sometimes having .
pinkish tint, and is roughish or granu-
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a ycrctable Compound,

On. the western prairie is found what
is called the compass plant, which is OF
great value to travellers The long
leaves at the base of its stem are placed.
not fiat as in plants generally, but in a
vertical position, and present their
edges north and south. The peculiar
propensity of this plant is attributed TO
the fact that both surfaces of its leaves
display an equal receptivity for light
(whereas the upper surfaces Of the
leaves Of most plants are more sensitive
to light than the lower); the leaves thus
assume vertical position and point
north and south. Travellers on dark
nights are said to feel the edges of the
leaves to ascertain the point of the com
pass. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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GREEN GRAPEVINE sPHINX--Moth and larv1
about natural size. Pupa smaller than natural
size.
lated.@The moth is one of the hand,
honest of the sphinxes, the general
color being green, of different shades
ON the head, thorax and fore wings, the
abdomen greenish tinged with dull red,
and the hind wings dull red Of adeeper
shade with green patch at the rear
corner next the abdomen.
The grape. sphinx is extremely sub
ject to parasitic attack and is thus kept
SO far in check as to rarely become
troublesome. Chief among its para
sites is sort of fly, much resembling
the species which proves so destructive
to the pieris'rapaca, or cabbage butter
fly, and, like that species, emerging
from the body of the worm when full
fed, and spinn in clusters of cocoons on
their victim. When the fly approaches
to deposit her eggs, the sphinx larva
throws its head backward over its body
and rapidly brushes itzback and forth,
vainly trying to brighten away its little
antagonist, or to rub off the eggs when
they have been aid.-Prairie Farmer.