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RICHMOND, "WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL, 15, 1874.
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yna nn paralleled in the history of
that body. It has never happened
before that a Senator of the United
States has risen in his place in
the course of a serious debate to
interpolate into the proceedings of
the Senate an elaborate burlesque
upon a subject agitating profound
ly the country from one extreme
to the other. It has never happened
before that a Senator, after having
participated extensively in a debate,
has supplemented elaborately-prepared
arguments -with a proposition
o ridiculous and so insulting to
his fellow Senators as to be prompt
ly declared out of order by the
Chair. Tho fact that the amend
ment to tho currency bill proposed
by Mr. Schurz was carefully elabor
ated adds to the gravity of the of
fense. It is scarcely possible to
characterize with snflicicnt severity
the extraordinary conduct of this
Missouri Senator. It was beneath
the dignity of a Senator, grossly
insulting to his associates, and un
becoming in a legislator professing
the manners of a gentleman. In
ter-Ocean, April 6.
A remedy for diptheria has been
brought prominently before the
public in Victoria, Australia, by Mr.
It. Greathead. In tho first "in,
stance Mr. Greathead offered to
communicate to the government a
sovereign remedy for diptheria in
consideration of a reward of 5,000.
The matter was referred to the
chief medical oflScer, Dr. McCree,
but there were manifest difficulties
in tho way of testing Mr. Great
head's method, and the speculation
which he had invented. Thereupon
air. Greathead made public his
remedy, which consisted simply of
the administration of four drops of
pure fudphoria acid in a tumbler of
water. Cases have since been . re
ported in which the supposed sue
fiis alldgd to havo operated
Boecessfully, but the cures have not
been authenticated by medical men,
and the value of the remedy is still
matter of doubt amongst laymen.
-eTho,u,Se?"te " have a w iar-
From the Inter-Ocean.
- AT EASTERTIDE.
BT T. M. JOKDAX.
Oodltsweeteat poeta wake to life ncain
From the dnil earth In fidreat reaurrectlonj
Poartus Irora many miowy lily enp
The parity of lMaven' divine refletlon,
Tha waxen crocus with its dainty leaves
Telia of lta dlamal aloep, and happy wak-Ing,
And tender blossoms In the lu-lU'rt-d nooka
From out their folded Uoda are sweetly
breaking.
The regal call a, with lta wand of gold.
Point upward where the blue la brightly
ahinlng.
Forgetting, in the Joy of new-born life.
The wintry clouds that held so fair a lin
ing. The hyacinth, from many eenser sweet.
Sings out its Ineeiue on the pasatng air.
And lilies of the valley wait to preach
A fragrant sermon, And a perfumed prayer.
Tell me, oh voiceless singers, if ye know,
la the dim earth where ye ao long have
alambered,
A lovely btosMom that we gave to death
When all the shining summer days were
numbered;
The buds are waking in the field and wood,
Distilling sweetness for the summer's
glory;
No radiant ran shall bring our lost one back,
Noiommcr day renew the pleasant story.
Sweet flower that faded flora our human
sight
To bloffMom far beyond our narrow vision,
Where fadeless roses bloom eternally,
And winter never dims the fairelyslan. ,
The garden of my heart is desolate,
Recalling all the sweetness that I cherish
ed SometningJ miss from every sunny day
The flower I loved the beot of all lias per
ished. LEGENDS OF THE REVOLU
TION.
JASPER'S WE1U
BT ARTHUR ST. CXAIR.
The Quaker poet, Whittier, in
one of his warlike lyrics made np
of the clash of cymbals, the peal of
trumpets and the roll of drums
breaks out in the following strain:
A groan from Kutaw's haunted woods
A wall where Camden's martyrs feU
By every sbrlne of patriots blood.
From Mouldrlc's wall to Jasper's well.
Now, while doubtless nearly all
of my readers have heard of Eutaw
and Camden and Fort Moultrie,
probably very few have heard of
Sergeant Jasper, and even fewer
who have heard of the exploit which
gave the name "Jasper's Well," to
the Southern locality at which it
occurred.
Sergeant Jasper, after his gallant
behavior at Fort Moultrie, was one
of the most distinguished of that
little band of heroes who served
under Marion, and kept a foothold
for liberty in ihe Carolinas and
Georgia, when the British cause
seemed everywhere triumphant.
Jasper hesitated not to leave the
camp of his commander, and ven
ture again and again within the
British lines in order that he might
obtain information of projected
movements. And it was in one of
these expeditions as a spy, when he
was accompanied by a comrade
named Newton, that the following
romantic incident occurred.
Two miles from Savannah, in the
noble old State of Georgia one of
the "Old Thirteen" there is a
spring which is well known to trav
elers. Here one day a guard of
British soldies halted to rest. Nor
are they alone. Captive Americans,
accused of treason inasmuch as
they had accepted a "protection'
from the British commander, and
afterward, when the American army
had entered that part of the coun
try, joined thejranks of their patriot
countrymen sad and downcast,
for they knew their doom was death,
also flung themselves down in the
grateful shade of the trees that
surrounded the well of the spring
One of these sad eyed prisoners
was a man, whose only daughter
was with him resolved to abide
with him to the last She was a
beautiful dark-eyed Southern girL
named Sallie St. Clair. The writer
of this would be proud to know that
kindred blood to hers runs in his
own veins.
Jasper and his comrade had
marked this sad procession, slowly
wending its dusty way to Savannah
and the gibbet; and Jasper had
been especially touched by the sor
rowful yet gloiions beauty of Sallie
St. Clair. "We shall rescue them
or die!'' exclaimed he to his brave
companion, with set lips.
A bold thought, for they were
two to ten, and, besides, they were
entirely unarmed. But in a great
cause souls count cot the odds.
Two men with God are a match for
a thousand mere myrmidons of
tyranny.
These men of Marion's pushed
on and got in advance of the sol
diers and their victims. A sudden
thought struck Jasper, as he mark
ed the cool shade of the spring.
"Here they will rest awhile; let us
conceal oui selves in this thicket,"
said he.
-If was as he had supposed.
Soon the British guard came up,
halted, and stacked their mnsketk
All but four two of these remained
on guard by the muskets, two
others went to the spring for water.
When the latter had reached the
spring, they leaned their muskets
against the tree, preparatory to
dipping np the water.
- This was the auspicious moment.
Leaping out from their ambush.
Jasper and Newton each seized a
muskef - Clubbing them, they
knocked the two soldiers senseless;
then springing like lions upon the
two soldiers who garded the stack
ed muskets, and who hardly knew
what to do in their surprise, they
shot them dead and possessed them
selves of all the stack of weapon
j "Yield at once!" shouted Jasper,
as they presented two fresh mus -kets
at the unarmed guard, "or you
die!"
. The unarmed soldiers yielded,
and the prisoners were rescued.
And this ia the famous story of
Jasper's WelL
J But it i3 not the whole of it
Journeying back again into tho in
terior of the country into the
hills, alu ays the natural fortress of
I reedom Sallie St Clair lost her
heart to the heroic rescuer of her
father and his friends.
But it was no time then for mar.
riage, if for love, and Jasper and
she parted without a word; he
for the active duties, the desperate
encounters, the hairbreadth escapes
of a partisan's life and she to
dream of one for whom she had
conceived a passion, such, perhaps,
as is seldom found save in the warm
rich blood of a Southern clime.
The cold In clime and cold In blood.
Their love can scarce deserve the namo,
lint hers wan like the lava flood.
That bolls in Etna's breast of flame.
It was about six months after
tliis when a stripling made bis way
into the depths of one of those al
most impenetrable morasses where
Marion was accustomed to take
shelter from Tarleton's dragoons,
when the latter were out in over
whelming force, and asked to be
enroDed as a member of that fa
mous band.
"Yon, my son," replied Marion
with a smile, "why you are not tall
enough and strong enough yet"
The stripling glanced at tho
small slight framo of the noted
partisan himself "I do not think
I should be so much smaller or
weaker than my General."
Marion laughed. "Frankly and
fairly spoken, my boy but my
business is to'lead. I am the head;
but the body must have strong
arms. Look there!
He pointed to his band generally
strong, and some herculean fellows,
ready to follow the flag of Freedom
up to the cannon's mouth. "But
still," continued he, 'if you have
counted the cost ftn,l think well to
stay, you shall be welcome. I will
refuse no man the glory and honor
of serving his conntry in this des
perate hour. Here Jasper, here is
a new recruit."
Sergeant Jasper stared at the
youth's face, as if it was partly fa
miliar to him.
"I think Sergeant Jasper will
know who I am," said tho young
man in a calm but musical voice.
"I am the twin-brothor of Sallie St
Clair."
'Ah, I thought your face looked
very familiar," said Jasper. "Come
with me."
From that moment Jasper and
Frank St. Clair were sworn friends
and comrades. In camp, on the
march, and in the strife of battle,
where one was, there might b
found the other.
One thing often struck Jasper as
very curious. He would waken up
at night with a kind of half con
sciousness that somebody had been
gazing earnestly into his face and
find that young St. Clair was awako
beside him. Once he opened his
eyes suddenly and his young friend
was leaning over him, his face very
close to his own.
What is it Frank?"
"Oh, nothing. I could not 6leep
and was wondering how you could
sleep so soundly."
One day however a sad end came
to all this. Marion's brigade was
attacked in camp by a party of
Tarleton's- dragoons. They flew to
their arms, however, and succeeded
in beating back the assaliants.
Toward the close of the conflict
a huge dragoon suddenly spurred
his horse to where Sergeant Jasper
was standing, and with a blow of
his sabre would have cleft him
through the 6hor.ller- It would
have gone hardly with the Sergeant
for he saw the danger too late.
But the watchful eyes of Frank
were on his comrade, and with a
wild shriek he sprang before Jasper.
The sabre decended, and Frank
fell heavily upon the earth. He
had given his. life for his friend.
He! Then tho truth was first
made known. It was Sallie St
Clair. Consumed by the fires of
love and absence, she had cut off
her long black curls, and arrayed
herself in the garb of a man. - By
passing herself as her own twin
brother, she had removed the sus
picion which otherwise migt havo
been aroused in the bosom of tho
man she devotedly loved. '
They buried her in a beautiful
spot near the Santee. and the tears
wet many a bronzed and rugged
cheek ajs'she was Liid in the grave.
As for Jasper he monrnd as one
who could not be comforted.
Death for him no longer had any
terrors. - At the siege cf Savannah,
he was among the bravest of the
brave. And when the color bearer
of his regiment was shot down,
Jasper seized the falling colors and
rescued them from the - defiling
grasp of the enemy.
But in so doingr he nad received
his death wound. Little recked he
however for he saw before his
dying eyes, radiant as an angel
from heaven, the beauarol face and
form of his beloved.
True love can never die. .
Flee you to yonder sky,
- . &liit abU you hover nieh. v . "
tsaUie St. Clair. . ,
River freights from Dubuque to St
Louis have been reduced to twelve
and a half cents, the 1 owest fnr wm
, This is done to compete with rail
ireignts t.asu
From the London Saturday lie view.
BLABBING.
at Wsswa Tain Te
The poets and moralists who have
grown eloquent over the sufferings
caused in the world by women have
generally been thinking rather of the
tragic than of the comic Bids of life.
The Helens who have wasted ships,
men and cities by their iatal loveli
ness; the Clytemnestras and Guine
veres who have recklessly opened the
floodgates of crime rather than stifle
one guilty passion; the Cleopatras who
have enslaved their fatherland ior the
pleasure of making men love them,
and those other celebrated women
whose life has been the old tale of
TVanty and anguish walking hand in hand
The down ward slopes of death,
occupy a" much larger place in the
world of imagination than the Cath
erines and other shrews who, from
circumstances over which they had no
control, have been forced to content
themselves with the humbler part of
making ordinary men miserable in a
common-place sort of way. And yet
k eeernes probable that on the stage of
life at least as much pain is caused by
the women of eomedy as by tho trag
edy queens. o doubt the great Spar
tan elopement gave rise to more suf
fering t h.aa is caused by any one case
which comes before Sir James Ilan
nen. Bat then against this we may
consider how much more frequently
the case as dealt with by Sir James
Ilanneu occurs than the ease as han
dled by Homer. And also wo may
remember that heroic sufferings are
not such an unmixed evil as those of
more insignificant people. There is a
large amount of good to be set off
against the sufferings and pain caused
by the saek Troy. But there really ia
nothing, or next to nothing, which we
can set off against tbe petty miseries
caused by the commonplace jilts and
shrews and talebearers of everyday
life. Paradoxical as it sounds, there
is a sense in which "the greater the
suffering the less the pain."
Among tho many modes of torment
ing practiced by the ordinary woman
of society, one of the worst is her
habit of blabbing or repeating to one
dear friend the things that have been
lately said and done by another dear
friend. Some women are positively
ill-natured and blab from nialiee. Old
maids whose life has been soured by
disappointments, or who, from want
of proper education in their youth,
have no satisfactory means of occupa
tion, are sometimes found to be taint
ed with this vice. Telling tales is to
them what torturing flics is to naughty
children. The emotion displayed by
a mother when they tell her that her
son at Oxford is constantly in the
compauy of fuch or such a well-known
scapegrace; the disquiet ot a young
girl when they hint to her that her
lover is generally believed to be deep
ly in debt, or when they repeat to her
some remark of his which they know
she is likely to think "shocking;" and
the annoyance visible in the face of a
sensitive man when they retail some
careless and uncomplimentary remark
made about him by some one whose
good opinion he values all these tp-
kens of suffering cause them positive
pleasure. The terror which these
people inspire among their neighbors
gives them a sense of power, and af
fords them some compensation for the
neglect of men, the condescending airs
of mothers and wives, the sickening
frivolity of the young, the impudence
of officials, the tyranny of cabmen,
and all the other real or fancied inju
ries of society. Every London coterie
and every country village numbers at
least one of these narpies; and a man
who cannot reckon one of them among
his own near kinswomen may think
himself fortunate. "Es muss auch
solch Kause geben." But these are
not, after all, the only women who do
harm and inflict suffering by their
habit of blabbing. "To blab, as Br.
Johnson says, "usually implies rather
thoughtlessness than treachery:though
I it may be used in either sense." The
K- . . X-
majority 01 women uiau, not lruui
malice, but, as somebody is. said to
have whistled, from want of thought.
And probably quite as much pain and
annoyance is caused by thoughtless
ness as by treacherous blabbing. In
this, the truest sense of the word,
every fifth or sixth woman in society
is a blab. Two elementary principles
of social well-being are more or less
systematically violated by numbers of
- . , r . i
women in society, vne oi mcse prin
ciples i3 that theie are many things
which, though not in the strict sense
of the word secrets, should not be re
peated. The other is that there are
some persons to whom certain things,
not secrets, should not be repeated.
Both these principles are comprised
under the more general maxim that
the savings and doings of friends are
not common property. And both of
them are, to the infinite misery and
diseomfort of society, neglected by the
blab.
The common blab that is to t-ay,
every fifth woman in society- pro
ceeds upon the principle that whatever
has not been communicated to her as
a "solemn secret," she is at perfect
liberty to communicate to another.
Not only docs she think . it perfectly
lawful to communicate to her friend
of Tuesday whatever happens to have
been said or done by her friend of
Monday, but she looks upon this lib
erty as a kind of natural Tight, and
resents the notion of putting any re
straint upon herself in such a matter.
"How sensitive you men are!" she
cries, whenever any one after a picnic,
a water party, or any other day of
pleasure when perhaps many un
guarded words have been spoken, and
some unpremeditated deeds have been
done ventures to suggest that it will
not add to the day's enjoyment to be
continually talking about it all next
week. At the close of any successful
day of this kind, when women have
been of the party, and when the usual
remark is made that "We have had a
perfect day,' " the reply that naturally
occurs is, "Yes, if we might never
hear another word about it." But
such a wish is very seJdom expressed,
for the simple reason that it would be
absolutely disregarded by almost every
woman of the company. Every one
knows that the day after the feast is
the time when the blab is in her glory.
Part of the next morning she spends
in writing off a few piquant details to
her mother and sister and most inti
mate friends; for the blab is generally
quite as free with her pen as with her
toneue. Her friends say of her,
M hat a capital letter she writes!'
and encourage her by their applause
and keen appreciation of her fuany
stories. She has acquired a reputa
tion for being amusing, and she knows
how to maintain it. If the sayings
and doings of the preceding day fail
to afford matter of sufficient amuse
ment or interest, 6he is not thereby
bafHed. There is always the imag
ination to be drawn upon. .The
cleverest blabs those who are
most welcome to women and most,
dreaded by the men of their society
do not rely on memory only for their
stock in trade. There are few things
so funny in fact but what they may be
made a little funnier by a touch or
two of fiction. And the woman who
is good at repeating is almost always
good at inventing. The tales which
the blab sends to her friends in her
letters are of course freely used by
those friends for their own purposes
of talk and letter-writing. And the
man who has taken one of these ladies
down to dinner on Monday may have
the satisfaction of feeling that it is far
from improbable that by Wednesday
some of his remarks will be circulated
in two or three of the remotest coun
ties of England and Wales.
But it is in talk, of course, and
nearer home, that the blab is the most
effective. Most women would be ut
terly at a loss for sufficient conversa
tion to fill up the gaps after dinner, at
afternoon tea, and on rainy days, if
they were forbidden to repeat and dis
cuss the sayings and doings of their
friends. Dress is no doubt a topic
which will fill up a good deal of time.
But even dress is not an inexhaustible
subject, and it has the great advantage
of not being available in mixed com"
pany that is, when there are men
present. Besides, interesting as the
subject of dress is, it yields in iuterest
to the matters handled by the blab,
yho is a kind of siren, exercising a
fatal fascination from which men, as
well as women, when once they have
allowed themselves to become used to
listening to her, find it very difficult
to disengage themselves. You try to
escape from the room. She arrests
you with one of her usual formulas:
Oh, I must tell you what Mrs. A.
said the other day. he was talking
about you;" or, "I want your opinion
on Mr. B. Do you think him clever?"
It i of little use to weigh your words
in talking to her. For, however in
nocent and judicious what you say
may be, you know that she will detail
it in such a way as to make you either
malicious or silly. If your observa
tions on Mr. B. are disparaging, she
tells your friends you "can't endure
him." If what you say is complimen
tary, you are represented as quite "de
voted" to him; whereas perhaps all
the while B. is to you a most ordinary
person, vnassociated ia your thoughts
with any feelings of intolerance or de
votion. Tickell, writing in the Spectator in
1712, proposes that, in order to put to
shame a certain class of persons who
were in the habit of talking rudely in
the presence of ladies, a particular
form of padlock should be designed
and sold, with printed directions for
fastening it oh the mouth; and that
any woman whose modesty was offend
ed by one of those rude talkers should
be at liberty to produce the padlock
and read the directions before - his
face. Might not some such plan as
that suggested by Tickell be tried with
our blabs in the present day? It
would not agree with our modern no
tions of politeness to produce a pad
lock and a printed aper in the course
of dinner or of afternoon tea. But
surely some enterprising firm might
design a neat little padlock in alumin
ium, to be worn by ladies as a charm,
and to be sent anonymously like a
valentine by any one who has been in
jured by the thoughtless recklessness
of a blab. Advertised in such men's
newspapers as tbe Field or the Army
and Navy Gazette, under some such
name as "The Gentle Hint" these lit
tle contrivances could hardly fail to
meet with a . genuine success. If the
ladies to whom they were sent wore
them, they would answer the purpose
of warning unwary men of the danger
they ran. And if any blab should de
cline to appear in public wearing her
padlock, it might be hoped that she
was a little ashamed of the habit
which it symbolized, and would en
deavor to reform. To anybody sin
cerely anxious of curing herself of the
pernicious habit of blabbing, the little
padlock fastened to her bunch of keys
would afford valuable help, reminding
her whenever it met her eyes of her
fault and of her resolution to cure it
If this suggestion should be adopted
by any London jeweler, the padlocks
might be ready for general use before
the beginning of the next London sea
son. But meantime we venture to
suggest to all blabs anxious not to let
the recess pass away without begin
ning the work of self-reform, to ad
dress themselves to theiifEcult task
in the spirit of a prayer which we late
ly heard attributed to a little child of
six: "Bless dear papa and mamma,
and help me to cure my tell-tale-tit-ness."
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Facta Akeat Asm-lea c ClUcs. -
Nineveh was . fourteen miles long,
and - forty-six miles around, with a
wall one hundred feet high, and thick
enough for three chariots abreast.
Babylon was' fifty miles within the
walls, which were seventy-five feet
thick and one hundred feet high, with
one hundred brazen gates. The Tem
ple of Diana, at Ephesus, "was four
hundred and twenty feet to the "sup
port of the roof. It was one hundred
years in building The largest of the
pyramids is four hundred and eighty
oae feet in height and eight hundred
and fifty-three feet on the sides. The
base covers eleven acres. The stones
are sixty feet in length, and the lay
ers are two hundred and eight It
employed three hundred and twenty
thousand men in building the
labyrinth ia Egypt nd it contains
three hundred chambers" and twelve
halls. : ' ' .
Ia one of the wards in the town of
Taylorsville, in Bartholomew county,
there are only four legal voter. . At
a late meeting of the Commissioners'
Court, a petition for a license to sell
Liquor was presented by one of then,
signed by three others.
FROM CLOYERDALE. .
Cloverdal e, Pctxam Co.,
4th Mo. T. 14. J
EfcrToa Palladium: On the 31st
ult I soke at Franklin; 4th mo. 1st,
at Edinburgh; 4th mo. 2d, at Trafal
gar; and on the 3d again at Franklin;
all in Johnston county. In this coun
ty I found considerable temperance
work had been done. At Franklin
there were four saloons before the
temperance law was passed, and con
siderable drunkenness, now every sa
loon is closed and druuVenness has
decreased largely. There ia a whole
sale house, but I understand that
there are several charges preferred
against him for violations of the Hw,
and they hope to close him up sootk
The members from this county voted
against the bill, but the temperance
men think they can carry the county
next .election. At Franklin I met
with S. E. Wishard, who is a giant in
the cause of temperance. His whole
soul is brim full of it At Trafalgar
there was a county Sabbath school
convention in session, which afforded
me a good opportunity to speak to the
teachers; one of the strongest hopes
of success is in teaching temperance
to Sabbath school children.
On the 4th I spoke at Greencastle,
at 2 p. m., on the 5th at Bainbridge,
and at 7 p.m. at Greencastle again.
I rode 11 miles in a buggy through a
fearful rain and sleet storm, from
Greencastle to Bainbridgo. Notwith
standing tho storm, we had quite a
large attendance at Bainbridge. Ma
jor Lane, a brother of Henry S. Lane,
formerly Governor and Senator of
this State, presided at the meeting.
He is a grand and noble specimen of
an old gentleman, genial, intelligent
and energetic. He is thoroughly in
earnest in the cause of temperance.
At Bainbridge, every saloon is closed
up. Meetings are being held every
week, whereby a very strong public
sentiment is being educated against
the use of intoxicants. The two meet
ings at Greencastle were large, the
latter one quite large. At that meet
ing we had the company of Win. Cur
ry, our present efficient Secretary of
State. He made a few excellent re
marks on the women's movement, in
which he laid down the proposition
that this movement will produce a
moral impress against the use ofj in
toxicants that will remain through all
time; that this woman's movement is
another grand epoch in the march of
civilization to a higher plane. At
Greencastle 1 had two consultation
meetings with tho leading women of
the city, with a view to perfect a wo
mans organization. I found them
earnest and energetic. All they want
is to know how to work most efficient
ly. Already they havo done some
good work. May success crown their
efforts. Greencastle is a hard place
to conquer. It contains some very
stubborn supporters of the whisky
traffic. Some time ago, after holding
a temperance meeting in the court
house at which the whisky sympa
thizers tried to create a disturbance,
the same evening fire was set to a fe
male college here, and 117,000 in prop
erty destroyed. Strong suspicion says
whisky did it I That is a plan which,
in the end, will do the whisky abettors
far more harm than good.
Yesterday afternoon and evening I
held two meetings here; a temperance
committee was formed for the purpose
of effecting an organization. No sa
loon now remains in this place. To
day I proceed to Brazil, in Clay coun
ty. The news from Richmond is
cheering; it serves as a good tonic
to me in my labors.
In yesterday's Indianapolis Journal
is an account of a horrible murder
committed at Blufton, in this State.
Drink was the cause of the loss of an
innocent man's life. It occurred at
the only saloon in that town. When
I was there eight weeks ago,-there
were several saloons in full blast.
The temperance work was then
commenced, and by the help of the
women, all the saloons have been
closed, except the one at which this
bloody deed was perpetrated. Surely
this terrible tragedy will so arouse the
people that they will picket that sa
loon day and night, and never leave it
until the accursed traffic be suspend
ed. It ia surely time for the people
to rise as one man, determined never
to give up the contest until every sa
loon is wiped out of our.laad. .They
are the great source of wreck and
ruin to humanity. " '
The work goes gloriously on. Even
in Floyd county, that heretofore has
been literally steeped in whisky, the
cause of temperance is taking rapid
strides. The Democratic county con
vention, under the beck of the traffic,
undertook the other day to nominate
a ring of whisky candidates for office.
This has so incensed the minds of the
good temperance Democrats that they
have united with the Republicans, and
nominated a temperance ticket This
is as it should be. The grand battle
cry in this State must involve this
temperance question. Whichever po
litical party clings to the whisky ring,
for the purpose of carrying its point
will find that it is leaning upon a bro
ken reed. .The people have resolved
that they will no longer hang to party
ties except the party will boldly and
resolutely grasp this temperance ques
tion, and use its whole power to crush
out that traffic which is the greatest
obstacle to the prosperity, virtue, and
happiness of our noble State.
' ,. W. B.
Wax aaMt Waste Its.
Mr. Sledaker. of Burlington, came
into the house the other day with his
jaws firmly set together, and by groan
and pantomime gave his wife to uu
derstand that he was unable to open
them. Mrs. Sledaker instantly sent
for the doctor, despite the evident un
willingness of her husband, and when
the physician came and examined the
patient he said that Sledaker had
lockjaw and must instantly be put to
bed and bld. Sledaker in dumb
show protested against this, and when
the doctor insisted upon it he became
infuriated and seized the poker for tho
purpose of defending himself. The
doctor told Mrs. Sledaker that this
was one paroxysm that always atten
ded suca cases. Sledaker s mind, be
sd, was slightly unsettled. Then he
wen, out and called in four able
bodied men, who put Sledaker ia bed
and tieihim down with a clothes-line.:
The docUr then bled k him and put
mustard platers on his neck and on
the back;of h head, and applied leech
es to his jawt, while Sledakor lay
there nearly purl with rage. Then
the doctor tried to pry open the
patient's jaws with a screw-driver and
a hammer, and after breaking two or
three front teeth he succeeded. Then
he put his fingers in Sled&ker's mouth
for the purpose of ascertaining if any
of the parts were swollen anf to his
amazement he extracted a lump of
shoemaker's wax! Sledaker's oldest
boy had put it among his fine-cut
tobacco, and it had fixed his father's
jaws together. Sledaker don't speak
to the doctor now, and the doctor
talks of suing him for the amount of
his bill. But Sledaker's boy has lost
all his interest in practical jokes now.
He says he had no idea that it hurt so
much to be flocged with a trunk strip.
Saturday Evening Post
Kennedy for Carnation.
The great corruption in publio life
results from the social life of the peo
ple. The reform must commence in
the houshold. Your boy must be
taught that he is not a born genius,
that his education is to be such as
will suit him for some useful vocation
in life, just such as the father of the
family will be able to place him with
out sacrificing the comforts of the
rest of the family. No boy should
learn the silly notion that he must
seek a .sphere of life superior to that
in which his father moves. If a boy
has the germ of a great man in him, he
will find his way to eminence even
though he commences life as a boot
black. Any efforts to make a great
man of a boy of midiocre abilities only
unfits him for that position which na
ture intended him to occupy. Men
honest, virtuous men and women, for
the common walks of life nature's
ladies and gentlemen, arc what the
country needs. Commence the reform
at home and give us these, and tbe
country will always find eminent men
whenever and wherever she needs
their services. Rushville Republi
can. ' r
Remedy for Sore Throat Take
oue largo red pepper, such as grown
for family use: ateep in half a piut of
water, after which strain in a ciuart of
molasses, adding a little vinegar; boil
all together to a thin syrup; use this
whenever the throat feels dry or disa
greeable; if it be in dead of night it
will soothe the throat (and not irri
tate) and warm it up well. , If sharper
thau can be borne ia the mouth, put
it back near the palate with a goon
and swallow; apply outwardly a thin
slice of salt pork, warming it up well
in vinegar and pepper: apply as Lot as
can be borne on the throat Medical
Journal. . ,. .
Light Corn Bread . Scald one quart
white corn meal with one quart hot
water; then add half cup molasses,
one teaspoonful salt and one quart
cold water. Stir well, and add one
quart meal, half pint yeast. Let rise
in a warm place for ten hours, then
stir well, put in- the skillet and bake
by the fireplace four hours. If you
haven't hop yeast add half pint salt
rising yeast before putting to bake
From the following notice which we
clip from the Cambridge Tribune of
the 2d, we 6hould judge that our old
friend Lafe Devclin, is now suffering
from the "Bright disease." Juniper
Berry tea may help him:
"Lafc Develin sued in the Superior
Court of Indianapolis last week to re
cover about $38,000 claimed to be due
from It. J. Bright, on account of sale
of the Herald establishment in .1808.
Judgment was rendered against Lafe
for the costs, but he intends to try it
over." : , -ffy-' .
It is said that the fames of sugar ,
snuffed up the nose will cure ordinary
eases of neuralgia. Pat a small qoaa- '
tity of sugar on a hot shovel and try
it as directed. . '
Corn meal cakes for a morning dish:
One quart sour milk: two or three
eggs; a teaspoonful ot saleratus, not
heaped; two level fall of salt ; Mix
thick with corn xoeal, and fry after
steak, or in lard. -;. :,,
The new directory of Omaha shows
6,091 names. Counting ,4 as the ra
tio, this shows the population of the
city to be 27,409.
An Ottawa (Can.) dispatch says
Riel, member for Provencher, Mani
toba, has taken the oath of allegiance
and subscribed to tbe roll of member
ship of the House of Commons. h '
The annual conference of the Illi
nois State German Evangelical Asso
ciation will be held at Kankakee this
week, commeneingjrhorsday. About
one hundred delegates are expected.
Mrs. Polly Booker an aged colored
woman, who. has been missing from
her home for several days, was found
dead on the 24th, in a eon field near
Columbus, Ohio. ' '"',";
A genuine eora pone ie asade tfcus
ly: : Corn meal and water sailed te a
rather stiff batter, salted to
baked well ia a hot oven.
UstlAXA
The workingrnea cf Evans ville, at
a secret mass meeting a few evenings
ago, indorsed the Democratic ticket
A Covington man has been awarded
judgment of 42,700 against his broth
er for slander. "
A new starch factory is to be built
at Rising Sun, which will use 2,000
bushels of potatoes per day.
The women of Clark county keep
what they call a black list bearing the
names of saoh as refuse to sign the
pledge. , , -
The D. H. Reynolds toy factory is
to remove on the- let of May from
Chicago.! to Ligoaier. The factory
uses 100,000 feet of lumber annually.
C. W. Rarey, a brother of the cele
brated horse-tamer, and for a long
time associated with him, died in
Randolph last week of apoplexy.
Peru has a ghost A spectre woman
clad in red and white robes, with a
headless lamb in her arms, is reported
to appear on the edge of the prairie
near the city.
Tho Masonic lodge at Winchester
has instituted a series of public meet
ings, held at their lodge room, in
which the families of the members
participate.,
A company has been organized st
Medora to construct a bridge across
the White River,, near that point.
About 10,000 has been subscribed to
the stock of the company.
A few evenings ago a committee of
ladies weDt into a. Laporte saloon,
called for "three beers," which were
gallantly drawn, drank them, and
walked off without offering to ay for
them. ... . i.ss
Terrs Haute has a new mystic so
ciety, called the K. M. l's, which pa
raded the streets one evening last week
headed by a band of music, followed
by , the members, shrouded and
masked, god carrying banners, trans
parencies, and a coffin.
On Wea Prairie, near Lafayette, is
s little hut foor feet high with a forty,
foot lightning rod on it The pro
prietor being asked if he was afraid
of the lightning replied, "not a bit;
but it keeps those d d lightning-rod
fellers from striking.
Allen L. Steward, who is in jail in
Lagrange county, under a permit to
take from his father's land some fallen
timber took about f 100 worth of lum
ber timber, nis father had him ar
rested, and would, not interfere in his
behalf dr employ counsel for him.
The following remarks on the
Morgan raid claims, made in the
Ohio House of Representatives by
Mr. Thompson, of Montgomery,
of course, are attracting somo at
tention from the press, as a sample
of fine eloquence f -
Mr. " Speaker, the Government
isn't under no obligations to pay
for tho mischief, and rascality, and
thieving that was done by the Union
forces as they called em. Them
things is all gone by now, and
what's wanted is to let bygones be
bygones. Laughter. The thing is
gone by; 'it's, barred bj the statste
of limitations. 'Great Laughter.
You see when we open np a sun thin
or another that we don't the end
from the beginnin' we better stop.
We might be called upon to mako
appropriations for that that was
done by the Union forces that
forced down tho doors of our la
mented Clement L. YaJlandigham.
We propose to let us have peace.
Great merriment . The thing is
barred by the etahtte of limitations
and we ain't a goin' to reopen 'm.
' I, I...,, i aj ay s i ., .ii
A Stan Wllkosl sa JKaeasy.
- We believe in the man or woman
who has enemies. ' This does not
sound sound bnt it is sound. - Your
milk and water people who content
themselves' with simply doing no
harm at the same time never, do
ing any good,- are mere negatives.
Yonr man of force, who never waits
for a stone to get oit of his heav
en appointed way,' bnt manfully
rolls it over, may - unintentionally
hurt some body's toes in the Act;
but thousands who will have to
travel that way will thank him for
clearing it ; The man or woman
who has no enemies is generally a
sleek, creeping, cowardly creature,
caring for no one bnt himself
smirking', and creeping bis unchal
lenged way to the , obscurity bo
merits. He adds nothing to the
common stock -does no good in
the world and is lowered into - his
six feet of earth aithout one sincere
regret from any one.' He has no
enemies, but has he had a friend?
A place is vacant but not in any
warm, gratef oi , heart A fig for
such people. i
" A friendly critic cn Ralph Waldo
Emerson says, "Ii makes no differ
ence whether you begin at the last
paragraph, and rend backward, or
begin at what he intended for the
beginning, you will always find, if
yon search, some thread on which
he strings his pearls, and find it ia
not accidental though it takes a sa
gacious reader to find that thread."
How cornforting, this would Lave
been to Friend Lay; a Quaker, who
once took one of his composition
to Benjamin Franklin for publica
tion. . Franklin, having looked over
the manuscript, observed that it
was deficient to arrangement "It
is no matter," replied tbe satisfied
author "tiee"eafi print anything
thee pleases first