The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06

an opinion which Warden French in
dorses 1t is learned that consumption
is hereditary in the prisoners family,
his uncle and several other relatives
having died from the disease. which is
Of that type termed hasty consumption
The many acquaintance of Mr.. Petit
Will be surprised to hear of his really
dangerous condition, and will sympathize
with him, inasmuch as all things point
10 his early death. Petit seems TO be
broken-hearted, and his present sur
roundings cannot be otherwise than of
character that can only hasten the
end.-Lafayette Courier.
A writer in the Richmond Palladium
says in a recent letter: II had the
pleasure Of visiting Whites institute
near Wabash, where the government is
schooling Indian children. Mr.. j. White
OF Philadelphia over forty years ago
willed $1,000 to be held In trust by In
diana yearly meeting, said money TO
be used to buy land and improve 1t and
start manual labor school for poor
white children and Indians; it is now
composed almost entirely of western In
dians. The government gets the chill
dren by the parents consent and they
are brought to this school 10 be edu-
Gated. The school consists of about
seventy pupils composed Of both sexes,
ages ranging from perhaps six to eigh-
teen years Of age. The children attend
school nine months in the year, working
I
time. The boys are taught general
! farm work, and some work at trades.
The girls are taught sewing, cooking
and all general homework. They. as
| the boys, are divided into two groups,
one-half going to school in forenoon and
the other half in the afternoon, one
one week; the next IL is reversed. The
| buildings are large and comfortable and
well arranged. The farm consists of
$50 acres. ali under good fence and good
fiN-af ION lie fIeaxr ,-afc cod
bushels of wheat and 2,1OO bushels of
oats, ninety tons Of hay"
Referring to the looting Of the Upton
! county treasury the Upton Times says:
| James K. Armstrong has at last come
down from his high perch and has ad-
mitted that there is not a dollar Of the
shortage in sight, so far as he knows.
All along he claimed that the money
would be turned over on Aug. II, but on
last Thursday the game of blIff was
! called, and in the showdown the pat
which the Armstrong; held was worse
! than a 'bob-tail flush Calvin, who is
working the Kokomo end, has also weak
ened and says the cash is gone. When
Calvin was arrested he turned over sew
eral horses and gave a mortgage on
/ 'Bugle, the runner. The animal has
been at ST Louis all the time, and the
! bondsmen began to take steps toward
bringing him to Upton. Last week
! while young Hayes was here he toll the
bondsmen that he had a feed bill to the
amount Of about six hundred dollars
against 'Bugle,' and that unless the
money was paid the horse would be sold.
They evidently feed horses rather ex-
I pensive grub in st. Louis, and ii is not
4 likely tat there will be much left OF
! 'Bugle' after his landlord gets through
with him. People in Upton county are
not in the habit Of feeding their horses
] oats at $50 q bushel, and 'Bugle' would
! not sell at an advantage in Upton. The
/ chances are that the st. Louis crowd
will get to keep the animal"
I The Akron News tells the following
pretty story about a man like whom,
1t is hoped, there are many in Hunting
ton county: Huntington county has
man whose generous qualities are scarce
" eXcelled within TIE knowledge of
many of us, not even Flor Sillin Of old.
The story runs thus: Some time before
the war a failure Of the crops made corn
scarce in the Salamonie country and the
relator Of this story, whose name was not
given, was directed to Uncle John Phil
lips as a man who had plenty Of corn
to sell. Such he found to be the case
and one Of the first questions Mr.. Phil
lips asked him was. Have you the money
to pay down for the corn? The gentle
man answered in the affirmative when
Mr. Phillips said IF you have the
money go down to Liberty mills where
they have corn for sale and buy what
you want. 1 have plenty Of corn, but
there are many poor people in this
vicinity who are hard up and cannot
pay the cash and L wish to keep my
corn to accommodate them for otherwise
they would be unable to get it, Such
generous impulses have been the rule
with Uncle John all his life. May he
live many years yet is the wish Of ALL
He is the father of ten children. five Of
whom have gone before their father
This year may be the means of develop
ing many such noble characters"
The Markle Journal editor has just had
his first tussle with Wabash valley ague
and this is the way he tells 1t: THE
classic Wabash is famed in song and
story for its verdant beauty and the
editor of the Journal has sung it's praises
in season and out Of season in his most
tuneful melody until he believed all that
was said of IL himself. But he has not
been so much impressed with its classic
charms and verdant beauty Of late as he
was. The regular old-fashioned Wabash
ague seized him with it's remOrseless
grip and knocked all the poetry and
imagery galley west. The pale, sickly
green and distempered malaria has risen
off Of the alleged classic stream and set
tied down upon the flats so thick that
you could scoop il up with a shovel, and
penetrated his frame until every vein in
his body seemed like a seething caldron
and every bone like a fostering boil The
down his spinal column until he could
neither sit, stand, lie down nor walk
and life seemed an unbearable burden.
If a man knows how it feels to be run
through a thr-shing machine, then
spread out upon the ground and have a
dozen oxen tread back and forth over
his remains then he knows how 1t feels
to have the Wabash chills. Oh, no. we
are not singing the praises Of the clas-
sic Wabash so much as we were and
probably won't until frost comes"
! Mrs. Andrew j. Shafer of Hagers-
J town thus straightens out one of the
Misrepresentation of the republican
press in regard 10 pension matters. She
writes the letter 10 the Richmond Tele-
gram: "In your issue of the 18th inst
appears an article relative to the pen
/ sion Of my late husband, Andrew j.
! Shafer, the main feature of which is
| void Of truth. My husband drew his
pension regularly from the time Of its
. allowance to the time of his DEATH
! which occurred on the 23d day of July,
and he had no notice or intimation
/ Of any kind from the pension depart
ment or from any other source that his
pension would in any way be disturbed.
And while his death was no doubt
FASTENED by the disease contracted in
the service, it was not due to the cruel
order mentioned in your article. My
husbands pension was allowed under
the old law This claim under the
old law has never been passed upon,
/ and since his death / have been shown
1 a notice from the department dated
July 1, 1893, requesting my husband to
appear before the board of examining
surgeons at New Castle, Ind, for exam