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f . oung Ojvlosid on Fire.
Saturday oveoiug a tout I o'clock a
strange pheoomenoa was witucsnod in
the southern portion of town. Mr. H.
C. Harrison hearing a great rearing in
tho elometjos, went out to see what it
was. Though tho sky Wsa clear and
the sun shining in all its splendor, a
email funnel shaped dead .vaa seen
approaching from the southwest, at a
rapid rate, attended with a rumbling
sound like thunder. Tho Whirling
body would rise and fall, and occasion
al reports were heard, described as
soundin* like the explosion of oil bar
rels in a fite. The body passed between
Mr. Harrison's house and tho colored
Baptist church; crossed the street, then
turned in the direction of tbs old Sul
well place, In crossing a sandy flat a
shaft ol sand was elevated high in the
air, having the appearance of almost a
eolid pillow. The body afterwards
assumed tho appearance of fire, and
groat flaming tonguss emerged from
the top as from a burning building,
emiting host for some distance, which
was felt by those who witnessed the
scene. In passing through a cotton
patch some leaves were scorched to a
crisp, and others on the same stalk un
harmed. We were shown one stalk
that was wrung almost off,* and the
loaves, blooms and forma looked al
most as dry as they do after frost. The
body passed iuto a skirt of pines and
disappeared.
The eight was witnessed by several
white and colored, some of whom say
they never want to vritness another
such scene. — [Walton News.
B n Butler on :he tariff: “I am
O', tie largest woolen nianu r a'.tur
ers i the united States. Ido not say
this bosmngly, but to show that I am
j -i ia the views I hold. The
c th ! wear 2 ’ —placing his Land on
his coat-sleeve —“is of my own mana
ft: ’or •, and T notice several gentlemen
l>: nd izt<‘ who wear the same. On
these goods there is a tariff of 60 per
coat, Republican orators and news
paper* tel!-yon this tariff is to protect
the mill laborers. Twenty per oent
will pay nor entire labor expense .
What do you suppose becomes of the
other 10 per e-n ? ih. sft same repub
licau orator ■ and new- per tell you
it goes info the united States Treaemy
N'-f a dollar reaches there. Every
cent gpe.s into my pocket.” (Slapp
ing hie band on his pocket vigoriously
to give emphasis to his words.) “And
every one of you is paying this boun
ty to the woolen manufacturers. The
whole tariff scheme fs an imposition
and a fraud to the American people ”
The White Caps in Indiana.
Sr. Louis, Mo., Aug. 18 —A spe
cial from Evansyille, Ind., states that
some startling revelations are just be
ing matle concerning the operations ot
the “White Caps” organization.
White the infamous operations of
the lawless gang have been known,
the fountain head of the organization
lias remained a mystery.
This is now feeing revealed through
a clever rusa. A detective whose
name is withheld for prudential rea
sons, joined the “White Caps” with a
view of securing evidence for the sup
pression of the lawlessness organiza
tion. He was employed by citizens
of Harrison, Crawford and Perry
counties, and is a gentleman of unim
peachable character. The detective
joined the organization in Harrison
county two mouths ago and states
that the oath demanded of every candi
data is blood curdling in its provisions,
the penalty of its violation being death.
The < srdn-.are must also swear that
ho baa been scecvsory to crime, which
! is held ovoi him to prevent treachery.
Once admitted, he was subjected to
tnuuy curious tests in order to tost his
sincerity. These stages of initiation
having been successfully passed, the
purposes of the order were unfolded.
Ttoese consist in enumeration of mock
morality and punishment of citizens
for alleged offenses, without appeal to
law. Tho order does not countenance
murder, and r te members think they
arc working ia a good catfstf. The
ohiefheadquarters era near English,
and in tho order number about* 200.
Brother Jonah Blaine.
There can hardly boa doubt that
the republican party, in turning to
Brother Blaine for relief, has again
placed its destiny in the bands of its
Jonah. The campaign was dull and
apathetic before Brother Blaine erriv
cd. Candidate Harrison was so com
pletely smothered by the weight and
size of his grandfather’s hat that his
identity was lost. All that he could
do was to shako the hands of his fel
low citizens of Indianapolis ia an apa
thetic way, and make perfunctory re
marks in reply to their congratulations
The campaign was a very dull and
dragging one, but everything was to
be changed when Brother Blaine, “the
greatest lining statesman,” made his
appearanco on the stage.
Tho “greatest living statesman,” has
mads his appearance and the campaign
is not only livelier than it was, but it
is far livelier than the most impatient
republican could wish. Brother Blaine,
true to his record as the Jonah of the
republican party, has already begun to
cut his remarkable capers. He ap
pears to boa blunderer from the word
go, and his methods now arc not es-
sentialiy different from what they
were when he pounced on Mulligan
and seized the incriminating corres
pondence.
He has enlivened the campaign, but
not in a way to help the republican
cause In hi? Portland speech he
makes these remarks:
•‘When President Cleveland deliver
ed his message be had something to
say to the American people about the
danger of ‘trusts.’ I think there have
since been no democratic papers in the
country, whether they understood the
•meaning of the word or not, that have
not been constantly warning the peo
ple as to the possible danger of trusts.
Well, I shall not discuss trusts this
afternoon. I shall not venture to say
that they arS altogether advantageous
or disadvantageous. They are large-
ly private affairs, with which neither
President Cleveland nor any private
person has any right to interfere.
Already there are quite a number of
prompt republican explanations of
these Burch ard declarations. Colonel
Dudley, the man who bought up votes
at two dollars a head in Indiana, says
that Brother Blaine ‘probably did not
think about what ho was saying.’
And yet if Brother Blaine has read
the republican platform ho ought to
know that it condemns trusts.”
Another republican theory is that
Brother Jonah Blaine is not aware of
the state ot public sentiment in this
country towards trusts. Nevertheless
he ought to know that trusts of any
sort are in the nature of a crime against
the public.
Still another theory is that Brother
Jonah Blaine, knowing the situation
as only a cunning politician can know
it, has taj|en this opportunity to run
his North Ametican j ack knife between
Candidate Harrison’s ribs. If this was
bis purpose, ho has succeeded admirab
ly, for there is no honest American
voter in this land but believes that
Pre.sident Cleveland, as well as any
private per sou, has the right to inter
fere with trusts to the extent gf his
ability.—[Constitution.
Railway brain is a term applied by
Dr. Thomson to a uoueroeis or general
derangement of tho nurte produced by
•i shock received by tho head on a
railway-car. In the particular case de
scribed, no wound was received and
consciousness' was preserved at the
time ol the injury. A-fterward the
patient became melancholic, and com
plained of insomnia, headache, spiual
pain, weariness and failure of appetite,
A hygienic and palliative treatment
was given.
How Convicts are treated in Raspian
Prisons.
I had heard only a few days ago
fornau Engdshman horn in Russia,
that the worst of Russian criminals
were put down in quicksilver mines
in Siberia, where they were speedily
killed by unhealthy fumes. Like many
others, 1 at race believed tie story,
but little thought I should ‘one day
have the satisfaction of kicking the
bottom out of it, by proclaiming, after
crossing the eoantry myself, there were
no such things in Siberia as quicksil
ver mines, and challenging any one to
bring proof that there ever had been
As an instance, however, oftbe pertin
acity with which a .‘also idea contin
ues to spread and be believed, i may
mention that after my return I was
speaking with the editor of a leading
Pittsburg journal, who assured me
that I was quite mistaken in suppos
ing there were no quicksilver mines in
Siberia. Upon my maintaining the
contrary, he declare ! that he could
bring me proof on tho spot, which ac
eonlingly he left the room to do, but
returned begging my pardon, and say
ing that they were silver mines. Thinr
blefulls of aigental mercury have been
found, no doubt, here and there in Si
beria, as at Kolyvan, and a released
political exile told me that he heard,
many miles distant, that there was a
small quicksilver mine at Nertchinsk,
but too poor to be worth working.
When, however, be was deponed to
four places in succession about Nert
chinsk, he beard nothing more of the
said “quicksilver” mine, and neither
bo nor any other released exiH who
had worked there in the silver mines,
and whom I questioned, perceived,
they said, any objectionable “fumes.”
Another point on which false infor
mation has been spread relates to the
manner prisoners wear their chains,
which some, like the author of “Call
ed Back,” would have us believe is
under their trousers. But this is pure
ly a hoax. I have in my possession
pairs of Russian handcuffs and leg
chains, and a prison suit which 1 ob
tained in Siberia, whero also I saw
scores, not to say hundreds, of leg
chains. The last consist each of two
rings, to be riveted round the ankles
anu attached by a chain thirty inohes
long, which, for convenience in walk
ing, is suspended in the middle by a
strip of leather from the waist. Be
tween the ringß and the prisoner's skin
there is worn, first, a coarse woolen
stocking, and over that a piece of thick
b'nen cloth; vhen come the trousers,
over which is bound round the shin a
leather gaiter. How, then, could
these ohains be worn under the trous
ers?'
Tho chains in my possession weigh
five and a quarter pounds.
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