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IHE COMING OF THE CICADA.
A. Great Musical Concert Which Is Heard
Only Once in Seventeen Years.
The Arrival of the Locusts—A Fall and Accu
rate Description of Insects Which Live
for Love and Eating.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
In a beautiful beech grove, two miles east of
the city, there was yesterday a concert such as
is heard only once in. seventeen years. The air
was filled with a humming something like what
would be made by two or three hundred large
swarms of bees, except that the pitch is a little
lower, and the occasional obligatos or solos are
those of bass instruments. On looking into the
trees the musicians are easily discernable. They
are the “seventy year locusts,” thousands of
which are seen on a single limb of the trees,
while others circle clumsily about in the air.
Under foot and on the trunk of every tree, on
nearly every leaf and blade of grass are the dis
carded overcoats of these small musicians,
whose song is always an address to their
lad/ loves; for they are rare lovers,
these clumsy fellows. The tender
passion is the sole object of their existence. Love
gives them wings and they flaunt themselves in
the sun for a brief space, like some gay Lo
thario, and like him they dissipate every energy,
and then fall to the earth, “like an empty
pouch," as Balzac says, and die. When exam
ined after death, they are found to be a mere
shell, scarcely more substantial than that they
cast off when they began their amatorV career.
It is true that the female, before her death,
goes to some trouble to drill holes in the bark of
the trees for the purpose of laying her eggs, af
ter which she, too, falls and dies, leaving as
empty a carcass as that of her mate. For sev
enteen years have these hopeful creatures been
waiting iu the dark recesses of the earth for the
time when fate will throw them together, and
tor seventeen years have they been laving in a
good supply of food, so that when their honey
moon shall arrive they may waste no time in
Idle, vulgar feeding, but may devote themselves
entirely to the cultivation of each other's ac
quaintance; and so, through affection, they
starve to death.
There seems to be do reason for calling these
insects locusts, any more than there would be
for calling a bat a bird. They belong to the
family of cicad®, commonly called harvest
flies. In particular, this species is called the
cicada septendecim, or seventeen-year cicada.
They have broad, short bodies, broad heads,
large red eyes on each side of the head, and
three eyelets on the crown. Their wings and
wing-covers are transparent and veined, their
bodies are brown, their legs reddish brown and
rather inadequate for their bodies, with no
power of springing like grasshoppers. The male
is the musician; he has a pair of kettle-drums,
one on each side of the body behind the hard
thorax and just back of the wings. In the
cavity .outside of the drum are cords fastened to
the inside of the plaited parchment. By con
tracting and relaxing these muscles, the drum
beads are made to emit the sound. The intensity
of the sound is increased by the cavities within
the body.
The insect has been known in this country
certainly since 1633, and has been seen at regular
intervals since then, though it does not appear at
all places in the same year. In each locality
where it has appeared, however, it recurs at
intervals of about seventeen years. The coming
of viese insects thus regularly and in such
swarms was probably the cause of their being
called locusts, suggesting, as they do by these
means the migratory locusts of the Eastern world,
the flights of which have been so destructive to
vegetation and often so pestilential in their
effects. Tho seventeen-year cicada produces no
such terrible results; in fact, the chief alarm at
liis presence probably grows out of his name,
which causes him to be mentally associated with
Egyptian plagues, and African and Asiatic
famines. The cicada takes his food under
la, and when visible is not even thinking of
eating. The only damage done by this variety*
after it reaches its perfect state, is the damage
done by the female in laying her eegs. This is
an interesting process.
The female has a conical body under which
she has a longitudinal ohannel for the reception
of an instrument with which she pierces the
limbs of trees. This piercer consists of three
parts, the inner one fitting into grooves of the
outer two. The outer parts are provided with
saw-like teeth; the central part is spear-pointed
and is used as a boring instrument The female
selects a small twig, clasps it on both sides with
her legs and then sets her saws and auger to
work, thrusting them obliquely into the bark and
wood in the direction of the fiber. The action
of the saws leaves fibrous cover for the eges.
The eggs are conveyed into the nest through the
piercer and are deposited in pairs, the woody
fiber serving to keep them separate. The nests
contain fifteen or twenty eggs each. Then the
insect moves on and makes another nest, and
continues to do so until she has stocked the
limb, whon she goes to another. She lays four
or five hundred eggs, taking about fifteen min
utes to a nest. After a while she gets tired,
tries to fly, fails to the ground and dies. The
little limb has probably been killed by the
cutting it lias received and a good wind will
throw it to the ground; where the young
hatch out in a month or so. If the limb does
not fall the young grubs, which are lively,
though only about as big assn ant, are led by
•instinct to throw themselves off the limb to the
ground, trusting to blind luck to bring up safely
somewhere, and often getting wrecked by their
unreasoning confidence. When they touch the
earth they at once bury themselves and begin to
hunt around for the root of some nice, pride-of
the-orchard peach or pear tree. Finding this,
they stick a long sucker into the root and begin
their seventeen-year lunch. Their only meat
and drink is the juice of some succulent plant
Sometimes their brothers and sisters get around
in such numbers that they year by year kill the
tree. The little creatures do not go very deeply
into the earth. The grow larger in the course of
time, and gradually develop the various mem
bers which they have had in embryo from the
time of their hatching. When their hunger is
satisfied—that is to say, after about seventeen
years of continuous feeding—they begin to think
of getting up into the air, for which purpose
they make circuitous passages toward the earth’s
surface. The burrow fills up with earth as the
insect ascends, hut it keeps the upper six or
eight inches clear. In fine weather he comes to
the top of the hote and peeps out at the sun and
takes the air. He keeps this up for several days,
until he becomes familiar with the immediate
surroundings. Then he goes on a wider voyago
of discovery, selecting the night for his ad
venture. His ambition is to keep on getting
higher, and if he starts up a blade of grass he
will go to the top of it and stay there. Often he
gets up on the trunk of trees, and more fre
quently into the limbs. When he gets tired he
stops to rest and then becomes conscious that he
is a nobler bird than he knew anything about
He finds that he has a higher nature, which he
cannot develop till he has gotten rid of his en
cumbering case. He begins to wiggle, and pres
ently the skin cracks over his head and the for
ward part of his back. Then he squirms, and
pulls, and pushes, and draws himself painfully
and slowly through the split in his skin. Finally
he gets out and leaves the old hulk still clinging
to whatever he had attached himself to before
be began to get too big for his breeches. This
cast-off skin or shell, is a very perfect bug in ap
pearance. Each detail of the anatomy is
perfect in appearance, and one not
familiar with the insist would
be deceived into thinking the empty shell a genu
ine bug. In a little while the moisture dries off,
the wings become strong and hard, and the in
sect has attained its fullest powers. In this
state he remains a week or two, perhaps more,
exhausting in this short time the strength it
required seventeen years of earnest eating to
There are many enemies to the cicada—ants,
certain birds, hogs, wasps and other enemies
materially aiding to reduce the number of eggs
find insects in all stages of development. A
pconting party of ants consider it a rich find
yrhen they catch a poor cicada with only his head
ut of the shell of his pupa state. They send off
in all directions and call in all the neighbors
aud they climb upon the back of the poor cicada,
and they catch hold of his eyes, and four or five
will take his nose, and then they march triumph
antly off with the helpless youngster and bury
him once more. Sometimes the ants get hungry
and regard him as a hard shell crab is regarded
by gourmands; they just eat him up on the spot,
and leave the shell. Many of the eggs of the
cicada are lost through the rapid growth of the
bark over the nests made by the mother, this
growth closing the opening to the nest. Many
of the grubs perish in their perilous tumble to
the earth. Were the visitations of the locust3
more frequent, their damage to plants and trees
would be serious. As it is, the damage is incon
siderable. ,
Fried Locusts for Breakfast.
New Tork Special.
A gentleman who had an engagement with
Professor Riley called at his house this morning
and found the entomologist alone in his dining
room reading the morning papers as he finished
a late breakfast
“Com* right in here," said the Professor. “I
want an unprejdiced opinion about a little mat
ter.” Then he called to the servant, “Bring me
some hot ones.”
The visitor, despite the fact that he had
breakfasted, was induced to seat himself at the
table “just for the experiment,” and was served
with a spoonful of dark brown objects, like very
small fried oysters. He eyed them suspiciously
a moment, having discovered beneath the crust
of bread crumbs a laminated back, something
like thst of small shrimp.
“What do you call it?”
“The Cicada. They ought to have been
cooked in ”
“What! Bugs?”
“No, no! not bugs, only the cicada—miscall
ed the fifteeD-year locust Don’t be afraid of
them. They are only the quintescence of vege
table juices, and everything in nature feeds upon
them ravenously.”
Thereupon the host took one of the things, bit
it in two, munched, and swallowed it with an ap
pearance of relish. The guest; shut his eyes,
and attempted to bolt a whole cicada. The ob
ject crushed in his mouth, and proved to be little
else than a delicate shell, •but its flavor was
found to be far from disagreeable.
“All its juices were absorbed in the batter,”
said the Professor, explanatorily.
Neither the entomologist nor his visitor was
able to liken the flavor to anything with which
they were familiar, but they agreed in the opin
ion that, vulgar prejudice once overcome, the
cicada would be esteemed a rare tidbit—rare,
certainly, since it required seventeen years to
ripen—and that it might take rank with frogs’
legs, birds’ nests, shad roes, and whitebait.
‘T spent an hour last night,” said the host,
“gathering them, and they wore very beautiful
when fresh. I took them just as the pupa began
to break. They were creamy, white and pi aip,
and looked good enough to eat raw, but I didn’t
venture. I think these should have been stewed
instead of fried —stewed in milk. I presume
they would be nearly as good as grasshopper
“Do you eat grasshoppers?”
“Certainly. I once ate nothing else for two
days, and I found them delicious when properly
cooked.. This is only an experiment, of course,
but my eating of grasshoppers had a practical
object in view. The insects had eaten nearly
everything in a large region of country, and
many families were on the verge of starvation. ”
Having lighted a cigar, the entomologist de
scribed his experience in attempting to introduce
a grasshopper diet in the West. He cooked the
insects in various ways, and found them always
palatable an and nutritious.
People invited to partake always evinced aver
sion at the first, but, prejudices having been
overcome, the dish became a favorite with those
who essayed it.
“Both the sediopoda mrgratoria,” he said, “and
the aeridium perigrinum have been esteemed as
food by some nations in all past ages, as far
back at least as the Nraevan era. Indeed, some
tribes have been called Acridophivi, from the
almost exclusive preference they give this diet.”
RICHARD SCOTT’S GRAB.
He Succeeds in Making His Way to Canada
—The Money All Taken in One Day.
New York, June 3.— There were said to be no
developments to day in the matter of the defal
cation of Paying Teller Riehard Scott, of the
bank of the Manhattan Company. The bank of
ficials received information during the morning
that their late employe had arrived in Canada
and was on his way to Montreal.
The first circumstance tending to confirm the
suspicions of the bank officers was the disj
covery of the fact that the slate upon
which Scott kept his temporary memo
randa was missing. Additional search only
made it more evident that he had carried
the slate with him. At the first exami
nation his books did not appear to contain any
false entries, but subsequent discoveries re
vealed the fact that he had charged up more gold
on them than was in the vaults of the bank. It
was by this count, also, that the amount of the
embezzlemeut, $160,610, was determined. The
investigations, though prosecuted steadily,
were not finished until 10:30 last
night. Nothing was found to show
that the embezzlement extended through
any greater period of time than Monday, and the
officers of the bank, therefore, arrived at the
conclusion that the money was taken in a lump,
and, as the entries overstating the quantity of
gold in the vaults would indicate, altogether in
bills. No securities of any kind are missing.
Dewitt C. Hays, president of the bank, was
seen in his house. No. 15 East Eighty-third
street. He said at first that all the information
in the possession of the bank was conveyed in
the notification sent out by its officers.
‘•How was the discovery made?” Mr. Hays was
asked.
“Why, we discovered it only this morning
through Scott's failure to come to tho bank.”
“What method did he employ to abstract the
money?”
“He does not seem to have employed any
method at all, except to put the money in his
pocket and walk off with it. I believe he took
the whole •sum yesterday. There are no false
entries in his books at all, except that more gold
is accredited to the vaults than was really there.
He could make such an entry as that without
exciting suspicion, as the gold in the vaults is
not counted every day.”
Cashier Baldwin substantiated President
Hays' statement. The other bank officials de
cline to give Scott’s full name or address. Tljey
would only say that he had been with the bank
twenty years, and had gone they know not
where. He had a salary of about $4,000 per
annum. The Manhattan Company’s charter is
one of the oldest, if not the oldest, issued to a
financial institution in this country. It was
wrung from a hostile Legislature in 1790, mainly
through the efforts of Aaron Burr, and was
ostensibly granted for the purpose of enabling
the Manhattan Company to procure a water
supply for the city of New York. It was con
sidered a very valuable franchise.
A Mysterious and Deadly Poison.
Grand Rapids, Mich., June 3. —Sam Lang, an
aged Chinaman, called at Charles Love's saloon
at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, obtained a glass
of beer, and refused to pay for it on tho ground
that Love’s son owed him for laundry work. An
altercation ensued and the Chinaman was pushed
oat. He turned and broke a vile compound in
Ollie Love’s face. Love was taken sick in less
than two minutes with convulsions. A can
vasser for rubber stamps happened in, saw the
trouble, and at once procured an antidote,
which undoubtedly saved the life of the young
man, though he is still very weak and the pupils
of the eyes distended in size. Two doctors were
called, who said they would not have known
what antidote to have given. Lang will be ar
rested on a charge of assault with attempt to
kill The fumes made every one in the room
side. The composition of the poison is known
only to Chinese and Japanese religionists.
To thoroughly cure scrofula it is necessary to
strike directly at the root of the evil. This is
exactly what Hood's Sarsaparilla does, by acting
upon the blood, thoroughly cleansing it of all im
purities, and leaving not even a taint of scrofula
in the vital fluid.
THUS INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL* THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1885.
U. 8. AND C. 8. A.
The Projected National Encampment in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, June 3. —Everybody who has
taken any interest in the subject has known that
the project of a national encampment in Fair
mount Park, beginning June 20, has been coolly
received by the National Guardsmen of this city,
and the local brigade declirtfed to participate.
The reason given was that a successful camp
could not be held in so largo a city because the
grounds would be overrun with visitors. The
reason was no doubt valid in the minds of the
local military, but developments made within
the last day or two prove that it was not the
only reason. The project to have the encamp
ment originated with Lieutenant-governor
Underwood, of Kentucky, and is being man
aged by him, with the assistance of his cousin,
Col. H. L. Underwood, whose headqarters are at
the Continental Hotel. Within five days Col.
Underwood has received from a number of citi
zens a written guarantee that the money to
make the encampment a success should be pro
vided. Within a day or two CoJ. Underwood
has posted, in conspicuous places about the city,
some very handsome lithographs, which has
given great offense to some people. A prominent
Third-street banker, who was one of,the guaran
tees, on going to his place of business yesterday
morning, saw one of these lithographs in a
Chestnut-street window, and at once sent word
to Col. I'nderwood to strike off his name from
the guarantee. Col. Underwood immediately
called on the banker, who, in polite but emphat
ic language, told the distinguished Kentuckian
that whoever had issued the lithographs repre
senting the proposed encampment had greatly
mistaken the sentiment of Philadelphia. The
lithograph represents Union and confederate
soldiers drawn up in the same line and saluting
a Union and confederate general, who are riding
side by side. The letters “C. S. A.” are on the
belts of the confederates.
“I am glad,” said the banker to Colonel Under
wood, “to do ray part in welcoming men of the
South to Philadelphia as members of the
National Guard of the United States, but I will
have no part in welcoming men with the badge
of the rebellion upon their breasts. They might
as well come carrying the rebel flag. We hate
rebellion now just as much as we hated U twenty
years ago. We cordially forgive all penitents,
but those who have not repented we have not
forgiven.”
Colonel Underwood expressed his regret that
the lithographs had been posted, and said that
he would stop their further issue at once, but
the financier insisted that his name should be
stricken from the guarantee. The facts of the
interview soon spread hrough the city and
created a good deal of talk. Many coincided
with the views of the banker, while others
thought he was over sensitive. A promi
nent member of General Hartranft’s staff
said, guardedly, that he thought it would be a
very wise thing for the Southern militiamen to
adopt the uniform of the United States army.
Gen. George R. Snowden, the commander of the
First Brigade, National Guards of Pennsylvania,
said that the national encampment was a very
commendable affair, and that he did not believe
that the gray uniforms were placed on the adver
tising posters with any disloyal motive. Colonel
Theodore E. Weidersheim, commanding the First
Regiment, N. G. P., said: “I do not approve of
that circus poster. One of them was put up at
the armory, and I saw it there. Os course, our
brigade will not be in the show, so it will not
make much difference to us, but I think it was a
mistake to print the poster with the ‘C. S. A.’ on
it I heard that the Southern militia carried
nothing but State flags in the inauguration pro
cession. and that they had not carried the
national colors at all. if that was so, it is a par
ticularly bad thing to do to parade the ‘C. S. A.’
on the advertising poster of the reunion.”
Colonel Underwood’s room at the Continental
is stocked with lithographs, ready to be sent all
over the country. He was busy yesterday after
noon and eveuing with a pen blotting out the
letters “C. S. A.” wherever they appeared on
the lithographs. Lieutenant-governor Under
wood, who has been absent from this city for
some days, returned last evening. He expressed
great surprise that any objection had been made
to the lithographs. The picture, he said, was
merely allegorical, and intended to represent
harmony and unity among those who had once
been enemies, and he pointed out the fact that
all the troops in the picthra were represented as
carrying the United States flag. He said the
idea that the Southern troops were to come here
in confederate uniforms was absurd, and that
there was not a serviceable confederate uniform
or belt in existence at this time.
GAMBLING IN CHICAGO.
Mayor Harrison Orders the Sciznre and De
struction of All Implements.
Chicago, June 3. —The following order has
been sent out from the Chicago police head
quarters:
“To Captains and Lieutenants—ln accord
ance with instructions from his Honor the
Mayor, you will ascertain in what places
gambling is being carried on, and notify the
persons conducting such places that the or
dinance relative to the seizure and destruction
of gambling implements will bo enforced liter
ally on and after the sth inst. Iu case of any
suit being brought against police officers by
reason of such soizure and destruction, the cor
poration council has volunteered the services of
the law department for the defense of all such
suits without cost to the officers. The city ordi
nance relative to the sale of liquor to miners and
drunkards needs attention. Instruct your men
to keep a sharp lookout for violations of this
ordinance, and where the offense of selling
liquor to either miners or drunkards is reported,
proceed against the offenders by warrant, and if
in the presence of offenders, by arrest without
warrant. Austin J. Doyle,
“General superintendent” •
The proprietors of all the regular gambling
houses, and the saloon-keepers in whose places
poker is played, have been notified of this order.
The notification was a great surprise to the
proprietors. None of them had expected it. All
regard it as meaning business. Similar orders
had been given before, but the gamblers are ut
terly unable to account for it at this time. One
suggested that perhaps recent articles relating
to the experience of a man who lost a large sum,
and who was twice arrested by the police for
“kicking,” had constrained the mayor to the
conclusion that it was time an effort was made
to stop gambling in Chicago.
State Taxation of Corporation Business.
Madison, Wis., June 3.— The State Supreme
Court decided, in the case of the State vs. the
Pullman Palace-car Company, that the statute
which obliged the compauy to pay to the State a
license fee of 2 percent, on gross earnings “be
tween points within the State of Wisconsin,”
cannot be construed to appl}' to business from
points without the State to points within or
crossing the State between points without the
State.” The court not only holds that the
statute in question was not to be so construed,
but that the power of a legislature to enact laws
in relation to taxing companies on>their earnings
in transporting passengers into, out of, or across
the State, is in grave doubt. Justice Cassidy
files a dissenting opinion.
Constable Killed.
Eldorado, Kan., June 3. —In a row among
the graders on the line of the Kansas City &
Southwestern road, yesterday, near Beaumont,
this county, one of the bosses, by the name of
Hency, shot and wounded one of the graders. A
constable, Thomas Cady, in attempting to arrest
Hency, was shot and killed. Sheriff Dodson has
gone to the scene.
The Billings Mining Speculation.
Chicago, Juno 3. —ln 1880 William Whalen,
from Nevada, claiming to own six gold mines in
that State, interested a Mr. Billings, of this city,
in them, and the latter agreed to purchase them
for $300,000, advancing such suras of money as
were needed from time to time for their develop
ment The contract provided that when the
mines had once been developed a stock company
should be formed, Whalen to own one-third of
the stock. Billings advanced $13,000, after
which he seat an expert to Nevada, who pro-
nounced Whalen a fraud. Billings began snit
to recover the money advanced, and Whalon
began a suit to recover the remaining portion of
the $300,000. The Circuit Court decided in
favor of Billings to-day, and gave him judgment
for $13,000. **
SENATOR BAYARD.
He Halts at St. Louis and Briefly Addresses
the Merchants’ Exchange.
St. Lotus, June 3.—Hon. Thomas F. Bayard,
Secretary of the State, accompanied by his pri
vate secretary, Mr. Henry L. Brvon, arrived
this morniDg from Washington, on route to
Columbia, Mo., to deliver the annual address be
fore the students of the State University. The
distinguished visitor was met at the Relay depot,
in East St. Louis, by Senator Vest and a com
mittee of citizens, composed of Col. John G.
Prather, Judge J. J, Lindley, Hon. E. C. Kehr,
and Messrs. Charles W. Francis and Edward
Wilkerson, and was escorted in a carriage over
the bridge and to the Southern Hotel, where he
was received by Mayor Francis and a committee
of prominent citizens with a brief address of
welcome. Mr. Bayard, shortly afterwards,
breakfasted with May or Francis, Senator Vest
and Hon. George W. Allen.
After the breakfast at the Southern Hotel,
Secretary Bayard, escorted by the reception
committee, drove to the Merchants' Exchange.
An informal reception was first had in the read
ing-room of the Exchange, where the members
of the Exchange met Mr. Bayard, and the public
were admitted into the main hall, which was
packed almost to suffocation. The galleries and
parts of the floor wore occupied by ladies. Sec
retary Bayard was next escorted to the platform
in the main hall, where President Hoarstick, of
the Exchange, introduced him to the vast
throng and welcomed him on behalf of the Ex
change. After tumultuous cheering Secretary
Bayard came forward and spoke in substance as
follows:
“I would like all to feel the unqualified satis
faction it affords me to meet, for the first time,
such a large body of men who have done so
much to advance the interests of the great inland
city of the country. In my mind the Mississippi
valley occupies as important a position as the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts. I have always tried
to do as much for this section of the country as
for any other. I appeal to every congressman,
every senator, every man with whom I have been
associated in public life, to prove that nobody has
done more to advance the interests of this great
valley. I have seconded the efforts of your great
Captain Eads to open not only Memphis and
New Orleans, but also St. Louis to the commerce
of the world through this great river. This is
not my desire ak>e. As one of the advisers of
President Cleveland, 1 think I am justified in
saying that the administration will make every
endeavor to allay every remnant of sectional
feeling, in every particular. The administration
is for the’whole country, and not for only part
of it. Go on without fear. Embark in your en
terprises; be at ease, and everything, you may
be sure, will be done to protect and advance the
interests of every citizen of the United States.”
At the close of this brief address Mr. Bayard
was applauded heartily. Addresses were then
made by United States Senator Vest and others,
after which Secretary Bayard was shown over
the floor and introduced to many of the specta
tors. He was then driven to the St. Louis Club
house, where he lunched with the reception com
mittee and invited guests. Later he was driven
about the city and shown all points of interest.
A FATAL MISTAKE.
A Blunder Which Resulted in the Killing
of Three Texas Rangers.
Laredo, Tex., June 3. —The killing of Lieu
tenant Seiker, Sergeant Reilly and Private
Ayten, of the State Rangers, a day or two ago,
by Mexicaus, seems to have been the result of a
deplorable mistake on both sides. For years
the State rangers on this frontier have been
under command of Captain Sheely, whose com
pany was recently disbanded by tho Governor
through lack of sufficient appropriations. Lieu
tenant Seiker and his company were only re
cently ordered to this section, and were
unacquainted with the people. Tho Mexicans
who did the shooting were Pilanus Gonzales and
his son, aged thirteen. Gonzales has been noted
as the best guide and Indian trailer in
this country, and owns a large ranch.
He and his son were met by the rangers. When
the rangers approached and demanded their
arms, fyoung Gonzales, not recognizing their
strange faces, opened fire, killing Lieutenant
Seiker and fatally wounding Sergeant Reilly.
Gonzales and his son then fled, believing they
were being pursued by a band of robbers. On
reached the ranch of Proneville Herrera, the
duputy sheriff of Webb county, they claimed
his protection, and the fearful error was discov
ered for the first time. Gonzales insisted on be
ing carried to Laredo for trial, and not to Eagie
Pass where he is a stranger, and would have
been killed.
The annual public meeting of the Indianapolis
Orphan Asylum will be held at the Asylum
grounds Saturday, June 6, from 3 to 10 o’clock,
p. to which the public is invited. There
will be music and refreshments. No admission
will be charged.
Remember
To-day at 10 o’clock the extraordinary auction
sale of Oriental Rugs, Portieres, Embroideries,
etc., will take place at Albert Gall’s spacious
carpet house, 17 and 19 West Washington street.
There will be over 400 lots of choice collections
to be sold without reserve. This will be the only
chance in the west part of this country to get
those genuine goods at strictly your own prices.
John. C Fullenwider.
Reed & Carnrick’s Sodium Hypochlorite.
Recommended by tho Public Health Association
as superior and least expensive of all disinfect
ants and germicides. Cholera, diphtheria, fevers,
malaria, etc., prevented by its use. Sold every
where. Send for pamphlet Reed & Carnrick,
182 Fulton street, New York.
Pink gams and mouth and dazzling teeth
And breath of balm and lips of rose
Are found not in this world beneath
With young or old, save only those
Who ever wisely, while they may,
Use Sozodont by night and day.
Ask your druggist for the best indelible ink
for marking and you will always get Paysou’s.
CHARLES MEYER k CO.
FINE ASSORTMENT OF
Antique Jewelry,
Fans, Umbrellas and Canes,
Ladies’ Shopping Satchels.
Nos. 29 and 31 West Washington Street
BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Are fast taking the place of all others in factories,
foundries, machine shops and mills. Parties having
their own power can procure an Electrio Generator
and obtain much more light at much less cost than by
any other mode. The incandescent and storage sys
tem has been perfected, making small lights for houses
and stores hung wherever needed, and lighted at will,
day or night. Parties desiring Generators or to form
companies for lighting cities and towns will please
write us for information. By permission we refer to
J. Caven. Esq., Indianapolis.
THE BRUSH ELECTRIC CO. Cleveland, O.
C. E. KREGELO & WHITSETT,
FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS.
Telephone 561
FREE AMBULANCE.
CATARRH
Complete Treatment, with Inhaler,
for every form of Catarrh, sl.
ASK FOR
SANFORD’S RADICAL CURE
Hoad Colds, Watery Discharges from the Nose and
Eyes. Ringing Ntuses in the Head, Nervous Headache
and Fever Instantly relieved.
Choking mucus dislodged, membrane cleansed and
healed, breath sweetened, smell, taste and hearing
restored, and ravages checked.
Cough, Bronchitis, Droppings into the Throat, Pains
in the Chest, Dyspepsia, Wasting of Strength and
Flesh, Loss of Sleep, etc., cured.
One bottle Radical Cure, one box Catarrhal Solvent
and one Dr. Sanford's Inhaler, in one package, of all
druggists, for sl. Ask for Sanford’s Radical Cure,
a pure distillation of Witch Hazel, Am. Pine, Ca. Fir,
Marigold, Clover Blossoms, etc. Potter Drng and
Chemical Cos., Boston.
C®||j T j^f^ 9 New Life for Shattered Nerves,
Puinful Muscles and Weakened Or
&gans. Collins’ Voltaic Electric
Plaster instantly affects the nerv
ous system aifU banishes pain, nerv
ousness and debility. A perfect
ELECTRO - GALVANIC BAT
TERY COMBINED WITH A
/£ LECTRI CV HIGHLY MEDICINAL PLASTER
Masters for 25c. All druggists.
WHEAT BAKING POWDER
aymma It contains no injurious ingre
dients.
> it leaves no deleterious sub-
IPSLwWB/yM stances in the bread as all pure
UMKsHnrsgMK grape ('ream of Tartar and
Alum Powders do.
It restores to the Flour the
hik'hly important constituents
SB rejected in the bran of the
Wheat.
It makes a better and lighter
biscuit than any other Baking
Powder.
MARTIN KALBFLEISCIIhS SONS,
Established 1889. NEW YORK.
TRADE SUPPLIED BY
ROBERTSON & PERRY,
26, 2S, 30 West Georgia St., Indianapolis, Ind.
AMUSEMENTS.
BASE BALL
TO-DAY!
AT
SEVENTH-STREET GROUNDS.
fgP’Gamos called at 10:30 a. m. and 4 p. m.
BOTTOM PRICES ALWAYS!
at
JEFFERS’ PAINT STORE,
D A F)T7D INDIANA paper comfy;
I A I r K MANUFACTURERS.
JL. JIJL JL In JJL V ■ \VM. o. DkVAY, Preside at No. 23 E. Maryland strt
paper npon which the JOURNAL is printed is furnished by this company.
UNDERTAKERS.
FLANNEE & HOMMOWN,
72 North Illinois Street. | ?Td^l T eA! tB ' JLAN0 *'
•jsag sip sin "HVOIO 1.N33 3A13 J3I D O ou
niA\ noA onv •■O’N 3HJ.HO.iJ MSV
THE INDIANA BICYCLE COMPANY, | |
108 N. Penn. St., Indianapplis, Ind. || ppiß
Have in stock full assortment of the flg4> " HBa
RUDGE AND EXPERT COLUMBIA BICYCLES. f JIJI
Agents for the STAR. FACILE, KANGAROO CLUB, SANS- 13 jtf/iH
PARI EL and TIIE IDEAL, the only first-class boys’ wheel made. ” [J|y ■* jfF
Difficult repairing and nickeling* specialty. Old wheels bought, sold or ~
taken in exchange for new. Send two-ceut stamp for catalogue.
ORIENTAL RUGS,
Portieres, Embroideries, Turkish
Novelties, Etc., at
AUCTION!
1 1 " "
ISKENDER BEY, of Constantinople, being desirous to re
• turn home, will sell at auction, REGARDLESS OF COST,
the entire elegant stock he has been showing. The sale will
take place on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, June 4 and 5, at
10 o’clock a. m. and 2:30 p. m. of each day at the Carpet House
of ALBERT GALL, J. C. Fullenwider as auctioneer. These
beautiful goods may be bought STRICTLY AT YOUR OWN
PRICE! Don’t miss this rare opportunity.
the sale Iskender Bey will be in his native
gold costume, and describe each article offered for sale.
lowlstTrices
EVER KNOWN IN THIS MARKET!
Closing-out Sale of Car
pets, Lace Curtains, Dra
peries, Window Shades,
etc. Persons at a distance
whodesiretosavemoney
are specially invited to
call.
ALBERTGALL
AMUSEMENTS.
XDIGKSONSJf
ipQPERAkook
TONIGHT! TONTGITT!
WM. LLOYD
In the Beautiful Classical Drama,
DAMON AND PYTHIAS I
Monday, June 8-MISS JENNIE CALEF. “LUffa
Muffets, ,T “Fanehon.” ‘'Little Barefoot.”
Prices—loc, 20c and 30c.
—... ■- ■■ ■ i ■ m
TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!
BENNETT MATLACK AND COMPANY W
DAMON AND PYTHIAS!
The greatest performance of this play ever seen fat
this city! New Scenery and Costumes and a Strong
Cast. __________
Friday Evening, June 5 {Benefit of J. H, Anderson*!
“HAMLET!”
Bennett Matlack as Hamfai
J. H. Anderson as .j-Horafci#
Stella Reese as 0phe1ia......
Saturday evening. “Hamlet;” Saturday matinee,
“Lady of Lyons.” Prices, 10c, 20c and 3dc.
©PROfoIfoWLER
The Veteran Phrenologist, of New York,
LECT LTRE
MA.SOTsT IO ITAILL.
MONDAY. JUNE l—“ Phrenology and Self-cult*
ure.” Free.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3—“ Love and Marriage/*
Admission. 25c.
FRIDAY. JUNE 5-“ Manhood Analyzed and Re
stored.” To males onlv. Admission, 25c.
SATURDAY, JUNE'S, 2:30 p. M —"FemaleHealth
and Bloom; Their Cause and Restoration." To ladies
only. Admission. 25c.
MONDAY. JUNE 8-“ Success and Failure in Life.*
To both. Admission, 25c.
him professionally at the Grand Hotel
from June Ito June 11. NOW OR NEVER.
THE~ROLLERrcb ASTER
Open Every Afternoon and Evening except Sunday.
One Admission and Two Rides, Be.
admitted to the grounds prkc.
VIRGINIA AVENUE RINK
* FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 5,
Floral Party and Prize March!
£ y*Each Lady skating will receive a Bouquet of
Natural Flowers. Admission, 15 cents.
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