The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis [Ind.])
April 14, 1883
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2 CAPITAL NOTES AND NEWS The Wearisome Star-Route Trial Draw ing to a Close. Rumor that Judge Frazer WiFi Be Ap pointed to Succeed Judge Gresham— Notes ami Gossip. JBIG BAILBOAD SCHEME. Efforts to Get the Erl&uger Syndicate to Extern! Its Road. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 13.—The Pacific Topalabarapo Railroad Company, of which cx-Senator Windoiu is president, has dis patched a representative to Paris to confer with Erlanger, the chief of the French syn dicate which controls the lines of the road from Brunswick, Ga., to the Rio Grande, to try and get him to extend his line from the Rio Grande across Mexi co to Topalabampo harbor, a distance of 700 miles. The company is also in con sultation with the Chinese Six Companies with a view of interesting this gigantic Mon golian importing monopoly in the scheme. The Erlanger road will connect at Brunswick with a European line of steamers and with the new Gould north and south trunk line, the East Tennessee tfc Virginia. GRESHAMS RECEPTION. Two Hundred Indisutians Pay Their Re spects to Him. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 13. —The Gresham re ception at Minister Foster’s residence, to night, was attended by nearly two hundred Indianians. Nearly everybody from Indiana availed themselves of the opportunity to pay the Postmaster-general their respects. THE STAR-ROUTE TRIAL. Making Arraugeuients for the Closing Argu ments. Washington, April 13. —In the star-route trial, after proof of destruction of the Western Union Telegraph Company’s dispatches semi yearly, Lewis Newcomb, of New York, post office inspector, was called, and testified that by order of Postmaster-general James lie had followed Rerdell across the Jersey City ferry on June 11th or 12th, 1881. Ingersoll objected to the testimony, and a long argument ensued. The court refused to receive the evidence, and witness was directed to stand aside. Mr. Bliss called James W. Donnelly, the bookkeeper, who had straightened out the books. He was asked when he had last re ceived money from Dorsey. Objection was made by the defense and sus tained by the court. A scrap of paper bearing some notes was shown witness, who 6aid the handwriting was that of Rerdell and himself. It was offered to sustain Ber dell’s testimony regarding his correspond ence with Torrey about the balance sheets. Witness identified the paper as a memoran dum from which entries had been made in the books. Dr. James Rerdell, sr., was the next wit ness. He testified that he is a brother of M. C. Rerdell; knew the latter went to New York in June, 1881. Witness said he went with his brother to the postoffice on Monday or Tuesday after his return from New York, and his brother received a letter. The defense objected at this point, and the prosecution was called upon for an explana tion of their offer. Mr. Merrick said the witness would testify' that his brother had received a letter from Dorsey as described by Rerdell in his testi mony, importuning him not to desert him, to stand by him for the sake of his wife and family, and witness had read the letter. Another argument followed, but the court finally decided to reject the evidence, and witness was excused. Thejury was then dismissed until Tuesday, and the court proceeded to consider the sub ject of the division of time to be allowed for the closing arguments. Mr. Bliss said the prosecution expected to close soon after the next meeting of the court, and he presumed the defense would not take much more time. Adjourned till Tuesday. THE NEW POSTAGE LAW, How It Operates Upon the Revenues of the Postoffice Department Washington, April 13.—The new law for the adjustment of the salaries of postmasters, taken in connection with the forthcoming re duction of letter postage from 3 to 2 cents, will effect a material change in the pay of postmasters in all small offices, as well as in the amount of revenue derived from such offices by the government. It is estimated that under the new law, and upon the pres ent volume of business, the aggregate revenue of the Postoffice Department from the sate of postage stamps of all kinds will be reduced 20 per cent. Upon the basis of this estimate, the proportional receipts of the government and postmasters respectively, in the smaller offices, will be changed as follows. In the post office, where the annual revenue from stamps amounts to SSO, the postmaster now receives S3O and the government S2O; under the new law, fora like amount of business, the post master will receive S4O and the government nothing. Similar proportionate changes will be made in the receipts of the government and postmasters, according to the amount of business done, u til offices are reached which have a gross revenue from stamps of $250 per annum. In this class of offices the post master now receives $l5O per annum and the government $100; under the new law the former will receive S2OO and the latter noth ing. In offices where the revenue exceeds that of the class last mentioned the govern ment begins to derive revenue. For instance, in postoffices where the income from stamps amounts to S4OO a year, the postmaster now receives $240 and the government $160; under the new law the postmaster will receive $272 and the government S4B. In offices where the pay of the postmasters from the sale of stamps reaches SBOO. the increase from the rent of boxes is usually enough to make the rompensation of the postmasters SI,OOO per year, and when it reaches that amount the office is placed in the third class and the post master is then commissioned by the Preai ent.wiili a specified salary,and his pay is no longer determined by the amount of stamps t.e cancels. JUDGE GRESHAM'S SUCCESSOR. itumor that the Appointment Will Re Ten dered Jarige Jame* S. Frazer. Washington, April 13.— 1 t is rumored that Judge James S. Frazer, of Indiana, who was one of the commissioners to settle the Ala bama claims, will be appointed to succeed 2ostmaster-general Gresham as United States iistrict judge. [lt is very probable that the foregoing tel egram line little, if any, foundation in fact. nator Harrison is in receipt of a telegram Vom Attorney general Brewster stating that ♦he appointment will not be made until the president returns from Florida. It is also understood that no action will be takan in the mutter until Senutor Harrison has been beard.] GENERAL AND PERSONAL. General Foster Getting in Readiness to De part. special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 13.— General Foster is getting his bouse in order in anticipation of a departure for Spain about the Ist of May. He has put his Mexican affairs in shape, and will be enabled to devote all the time necessary to the settlement of the long-pend ing and vexatious Cuban claim. The General has made himself very popular with the Indi iana delegation in Washington during his stay here, and they regret his near departure. The Deficiency in the Department of Jus tice. Washington, April 13. —It is stated at the Department of Justice that appropriations for witness and jurors’ fees for the present fiscal year are short because of the nnusual demands made against them up to this date. The appropriations for jurors are usually ex hausted by July 1. This year the fund has been exhausted early because of the long continued sessions of several courts in differ ent parts of the country. The prolonged sessions and consequent increased expenses for witnesses and jurors could not be antici pated; otherwise the department would have asked Congress at its last session for a de ficiency appropriation to meet them. Al though deficiencies Lave occurred in these appropriations several times heretofore, they are usually sufficient for the service. Most of the marshals throughout the country, howevcr have already received from the cur rent year's appropriation sufficient money to cover the expenses of conducting the courts up to the Ist of July. Tlio National Academy of Sciences. Washington, April 13.—The annual session of the National Academy of Sciences will begin in this city on Tuesday next. The meeting is expected to be of more than usual interest, for the reason that nine new mem bers will be chosen, a president is to be elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Professor Rogers, and the members of the academy are to participate in the cere mony of unveiling tine statue of Professor Henry. The preparations for the ceremony, which will take place on Thursday, the 19th iust., are now complete. Among the many distinguished officers and scientists invited to be present are the President of the United States and members of his cabinet, the Jus tices of the United States Supreme Court, a joint committee to represent the Senate and House of Representatives, the diplomatic corps, the National Academy of Science, and heads of the various scientific bureaus at this and other cities. The platform upon which the exercises will take place is to be erected on the south side of the Smithsonian Institute. President Porter, of Yale College, will be the orator of the day. Music will be furnished by the Philharmonic Society and Marine band. Reduced Fare to Army of the Potomac Re union. Washington, April 13.—The managers of the great trunk lines have decided to reduce passenger rates to Washington during the re union of the Army of the Potomac, which begins on the 16th of May. At a joint meet ing of the managers of the several roads, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: ‘•Resolved, That for this occasion excursion tickets may he said from Chicago, St. Louis, Cin cinnati, Louisville and intermediate points in the territory west of Pittsburg, Parkersburg, Buf falo and Wheeling, at one special limited fare and a third Tor the round trip, tickets to be sold ouiy on May 14 and 15, to be good for the return trip till May 19. From territory east of Pitta burg, Parkersburg aurt Wheeling, to be sold only on May 15, to bo good for return uutil May 19, continuous train tickets to be used from all points.” The New Postage Stamp. Washington, April 13. —General Gresham to-day approved a design for the new two cent postage stamp. The stamp contains a tablet upon which is the protile of Washing ton, similar to that on the present three cent stamps, and surrounding the profile is an oval band; in the upper part of the band are the words United States postage, beneath the band a large 2, and at the extreme bottom of the tablet the words “two cents,” The design will be returned to New York for engraving, after which the department will decide upon the color to be used. The color of the design approved is green. Tin-Can and Foreign Rag Tariff Washington, April 13. —Secretary Folger made the ruling that the portion of the act of Feb. 8, 1875, which imposes a duty on tin cans containing fish, that are entitled to free admission under the Washington treaty with Great Britain, remains in force notwithstand ing the tact that it is not incorporated in the new tariff acL He decided that this ruling is also applicable *o grain-bags of foreign manufacture exported filled with American wheat, and which return empty, free entry for which is allowed by the act of 1875. The new tariff act makes no reference to this sub ject. Foreign Exhibits for the Louisville Exhibi tion. Washington, April 13. —The Treasury De partment has issued a circular stating that articles arriving at Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Baltimore and New Orleans, des tined for the coming Louisville exhibition, may be shipped by bonded common carriers from the port of first arrival to Louisville under the provisions of the act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transporta tion of dutiable goods. Upon the arrival of goods at Louisville the usual regulations for the protection of government interests will be enforced. Denied the Use of the Mails. Washington, April 13. -Postmaster-general Gresham to-day placed on the fraud list the “Industrial Works,” of New Philadelphia, 0., and the “Union Trust Company,” of St. Louis, successor of the “Marion Trust Com pany,” of Indianapolis. These firms will hereafter be denied the facilities of the United States mails, so far as money-orders and registered packages are concerned. Notes and Personals. Washington, April 13. —Attorney-general Brewster is reported to have said, when asked how much the star-route trials would cost, that the total expense will not exceed SOG2J*OO. It is thought that this is rather lower than the actual cost in the end will prove to be. The following novel exhibition is an nounced on a wager: One of the sailors at the navy yard proposes to mount the dizzy heighted railing balusters surrounding the dome of the Capitol, high above the city, and run around the circle ten times in five minutes. Obituary. Washington, Ap'ril 13. —Selucius Garfield, formerly a well-known public man, died in this city to-day. of pnemonia, aged sixty-one. Steamship New*. New York, April 13.—Arrived: Baltic, from Liverpool. TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1883. STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. How Bishop Bowman Was Compelled to Bleep on the Floor. Fwtal Shooting by a Six-Year-Old Boy— Serious Fire at Lafayette—Minor Notes and Gleanings. INDIANA. Proceedings of the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Noblesville, April 13. —Yesterday after noon a woman’s home missionery society was organized, with the following officers: Mrs. Wright, of Logansport, president; Mrs. J. F. Rhoads, of Fort Wayne, vice president. Managers—Fort Wayne district, Mrs. Dr. Pierce, Fort Wayne; Goshen dis trict, Mrs. E. S. Hasty, Elkhart; Warsaw district, Mrs. R. S. Reed, Elkhart; Kokomo district, Mrs. Disbro, Elkhart; Muncie dis trict, Mrs. Herrick, Elkhart; Richmond dis trict, Mrs. Frost Craft. Richmond. This morning, after roll-call and reading of the minutes, Bishop Bowman introduced Dr. J. M. Walden, of Cincinnati; Rev. Tinsley, of Southeast Indiana Conference, and Rev. J. A. Ruley, of Virginia. The secretary requested the appointment of a committee to investigate his accounts. The committee was made to consist of W. A. Lamport, W. O. Pierce and H. J. Norris. Dr. Stowe then took the floor and spoke in behalf of the ‘‘Western Book Concern” of Cincinnati, an establishment for the supply of books and papers tor the use of the M. E. church. Rev. Hasty was elected treasurer in the place of S. N. Campbell, deceased. llevs. Green man,* Gil lam and Wright were appointed a committee on Preachers’ Aid So ciety, whose duty it is to nominate officers for the ensuing year. Rev. W. S. Birch then made the report of the “Preachers’ Aid Society,” which was adopted. Rev. Hasty next made some remarks for the benefit of the young ministers, in ex planation of the “Preachers’ Aid Society” —its organization, management, ends and objects. It was then moved that the constitution of the “Preachers’ Aid Society” be entered in the minutes of the conference. Rev. Mahin made a report of the commit tee appointed to select officers for the above society, which was as follows: President, E. Holds toe k; vice-president, H. J. Meek, and treasurer, John Marsh. Managers, Floyd Wilcox, J. F. Nickery, N. H. Phillips, G. W. H. Kemp and N. Gillam. A discussion upon the history and merits of this society was had, participated in by M. H. Mendenhall, C. E. Skinner, E, Holdstock, W. S. Birch, Hasty, and others. Rev. Hasty was delegated to make an en rollment of the members of the society. M. 11. Mendenhall, presiding elder of Go shen district, presented the case of J. G. Slusser, against whom charges of immorality have been made. Rev. Slusser has already been tried by a committee and acquitted of the charges preferred against him. But ac cording to the discipline of the church it is necessary for such cases to be retried by a committee of the conference appointed by the bishop. Such committee, consisting of fifteen men, was so appointed by the bishop, and the bill of charges was referred to them. The reports from the presiding elders and ministers were here taken up and finished. Rev. Robinson, of the Muncie district, pre sented his report, showing marked progress in all that goes to make up a healthy and growing church. Rev. C. Skinner, of the Richmond district, reported many valuable im pro veins nts in church edifices; the collections are pretty full; a commendable vigor and activity has been manifested by the pastors, and the ut most harmony lias prevailed in all temporal and spiritual things. After the minister’s reports a letter was read from Rev. Thomas R. Woods, of New Mexico, recommending the retention of Rev. Brown as missionary in New Mexico; also a letter from Charles Bishop, a missionary in Japan, which w r as full of encouraging news in regard to the work and conversions in those islands. Bishop Bowman here inadqa few remarks concerning his visit to the missions in China and Japan, speaking in high terms of praise for those earnest workers in those distaut countries. Question 18—“ Who are the snnernumerary preachers?” was then taken uj>. Answer—W. R. Jordon, A. H. Kister, W. S. Pierce, E. S. Preston, A. G. McCarter and S. C. Miller. W. E. Curt\3 was changed to effective rela tion. R. J. Parrctt’s withdrawal from Confer ence and the M. E. Chorch was presented and accepted. J. 11, McMahan was changed to the super annuated relation. On motion of Rev. Mendenhall, Rev. Phil lips and Rev. Greer were added to the com mittee ou education. poor accommodations for a bishop. One incident of this conference is not gen erally known, viz: Bishop Bowman was not expected to arrive until Wednesday morn ing, but he came on the midnight train on Tuesday. Getting off at our lonely, rickety, ratttle-trap of a depot, the Wabash, he, upon inquiry, found the direction of the hotel. Arriving there he knocked, and waited till the landlord could dress and open the door. Upon asking for lodging for the night he was told the house was filled, and there was no place to sleep. He then asked if he could not be allowed to sleep on the floor, which was granted. The following morning he asked for the amount of his lodging and breakfast, and upon being informed, gave double that amount each to the wife and daughter of the landlord, never once utter ing a single word of complaint. He is cer tainly a faithful servant of his Master, ac cepting entertainment in apparent perfect satisfaction which not one of the members of his conference but would have found fault with. The landlord was quite taken back when later in the day he learned who was his guest, as the Bishop did not attempt to make himself known to him. Alleged Attempt of a Son to Poison His Parents. Special to tlie Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, April 13.—-It has been devel oped that Thomas Coleman and wife, men tion of whom has already been made in these dispatches, were poisoned by strychnine, which had been clandestinely placed in their medicine. It is alleged that a few days ago George Coleman, son of Thomas, induced a young man named Huber to procure him a quantity of strychnine, ostensibly to kill rats. Coleman was questioned about the matter by Dr. Offerrall, but was noncommit tal. He left the city on an early morning train. Physicians who are acquainted with him assert that young Coleman is not of sound mind, having been injured someyeais ago. Mrs. Coleman is still in a precarious condition. Destructive Fire at Lafayette, Causing a Loss of 920,000. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, April 13.—Shortly after 3 o’clock this morning fire broke out in the extens’ e stave factory of Peck Abbott, situate/1 just outside the city limits, and the build*'ug was eutirely consumed, together with the cooper shops, the machinery being more or less damaged and a considerable quantity of material was burned. The esti mated loss on building and stock is $20,000, upon which there is insurance as follows: Home of New York, Franklin of Philadel phia, Hamburg-Breraen, North British and Mercantile, Springfield, Mass., Buffalo Ger man, New Orleans, Niagara of New York, and New York Underwriters’ agency, each, $500; Louisville Underwriters’, Westchester, of New York, and Mechanics’ and Traders’, each $1,000; Western Assurance, of Toronto, $2,000. About eighty men are thrown out of employment. The shops will be rebuilt. Failure of Elies Knauss, Millers and Grain- Dealers. Evansville, April 13.—Elies Knanss, millers and grain-dealers, failed here, to-day. Liabilities about $65,000: assets $40,000 The largest creditor is ex-Congressman Heilman to whom the firm owed for indorsements and loans about $40,000. They have transferred to Heilman their mill and contents, machin ery, books, etc., and given him a mortgage on individual property, covering all they pos sess for a consideration of $30,000. Outside unsecured creditors may get nothing. The firm has been an important factor in the grain trade here. Their onerations were extensive and varied. Dur ing the past year they lmve made large shipments of flour to Manchester, Liverpool and London, England; Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Netherlands, While this continental trade lias not been unsuccessful it has placed available assets beyond their ready control, which, coupled with trade in the Southern States, left them cramped and pressed. To these causes mainly, and to losses sustained by backward collections and business disasters, they have fallen into their present trouble. This is the first failure of any importance in Evansville for fifteen months past, and other commercial interests never seemed more prosperous than at the present time. This failure is therefore not attributed to local causes, but to circum stances outside the general scope of the com mercial province of Evansville. Suit Against a Bishop for Salary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Ft. Wayne, April 13. —T0 day, in the Su perior Court, Father Patrick M. Framley, a regularly ordained priest of the diocese of Ft. Way me, sued Biship D wenger for $3,000, alleged to be due him as salary from the fund to support infirm priests. lie claims that the loss of his left arm incapacitates him from acting as a pastoral priest, and that the Bishop refuses to appoint him to a suita ble position or to transfer him to any other diocese. It is understood that Father Fram ley was suspended for cause, and lost his arm while engaged as a railroad brakeman. Sixth District W. C. T- U. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL New Castle, April 13.—The Sixth district Woman’s Christian Temperance Union closed a three-days’ session last night. All the meetings were largely attended—in fact the attendance was the best ever had at a series of similar meetings in New Castle. Resolutions of sympathy with and rejoicing over the vindication of Mrs. Gougar were offered, and Miss Way asked that all in fa vor of the resolutions rise to their feet and sing the doxology. Nearly every person in the audience rose, and the scene was quite impressive. The Bluflfton Union Railway. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Portland, April 13. —Great interest is taken here in the proposed Bluffton Union railroad, the contract for building it having been let to Mr. J. Kearney Graham, of In dianapolis, and the only impediment now in the way of its speedy completion is that the right of way has not been secured in this county. A meeting has been held, a citizens’ committee is now at work securing the right of way, and things look as though work will be commenced by the Ist of May. Death of a Veteran Anti-Slavery Man, Bpenal to the Indianapolis JournaL Greensburg, April 13.—Another of Decatur county’s pioneers died this morning. John C. Donnell, residing near Kingston, was a conscientious anti-slavery man long ago in the times when it cost something to be a friend to the colored race. He died at a good old age, suddenly, of heart disease, leaving a family and a large circle of friends. One son, Hon. J. Q. Donnell, represented this county in the Legislature of 1879. The Small Boy, the Revolver and the Lady. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Craw fords ville, April 13.—Mrs. Stephen Brandcamp, while calling at the residence of Mr. Swan this evening, was sliot by a re volver in the hands of the six-year-old son of Mr. Swan. It is thought that the wound is fatal. Minor Note*. J. U. Miller, of the Stenben Republican, has moved to Chicago, lie yet retaius control of the Republican. Burglars made a raid on several places iti Mid dlebury, on Tuesday night, and secured several hundred dollars. The Vincennes Commercial nominates Captain George G. Reily as a candidate for T.he vacant district judgeship. At Washington, on Thursday afternoon, Eli Sol omon, a section-hand, was run over by a hand car and terribly bruised and cut. His recovery is doubtful. The tenth annual convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union will be held in Green castle, beginning May 8,1883, and ooutiu uing four days. The explosion at Muncie on Wednesday, which resnlted in the death of one man und injury of another, was caused by Hecla powder and not Hercules powder, as stated In the dispatches. On Wednesday night burglars entered the large jewelry establishment of Closs Elzey, of Decatur, and bv blowing open the large safe succeeded in getting about SIOO in money and $2,400 worth of valuable watches and jewelry. No arrests. A heavy wind-storm struck Laporte on Wed nesday night, about 10 o’clock, and blew with considerable force fora number ot hours. The large trestle-work leading from the lake to Tal oiare's ice-houses, was blown down, causing con sideirable damage. After thirteen years of ownership Mr. J. Keiser retires from the Wiuamao Republican. The paper has been purchased by a Joint stock company consisting of W. B. Jenkins, H. E. Ramson, J. T. Holsinger, J. H. Wood and N. L. Agnew, who will continue to publish it. Near Hazleton, a few days ago, whileguests were gathering for the marriage of William Galespie and Miss Jane Field, her brother-in law, Joseph Vanuostvau, took a chill, went to a bed-room and lay down, and in about a half au hour his wife went to the room and found him dead. The wedding passed off quietly in pres ence of this sudden death, and the sisters were made one a wife and one a widow in the short space of an hour. A few days ago a young woman named Vessie Moser got off an Ohio Mississippi train at Washington and hired a buggy to carry her to the country. She had a child in her arms, and as the vehicle drove tip Main street she suddenly became eruzed, jumped from the liturgy and went yelling through the Streets until raptured by the police and placed In jail. Bho was removed to her father’s home, and her child taken from her, but she became so wild ami umuanageble that her parents were foiced to return her to the jail and -on Thursday morning abe gave birth to a stUl-boru babe. She is in a precarious couditiou, and may not recover. The Jeffersonville correspondent of the Louis ville Commercial says: “A child of Mrs. Henry Clay, colored, died on Tuesday, and the remains w*re consigned to the vault at the Eastern cem etery. The woman dreamed that her child bad turned over in the grave ou the night following, and on examination Wednesday morning, it was fonnd that her dream bad come true. When the coffin was opened the child was discovered to be dead, but the evidence is conclusive that the child was alive when it was pur into the coffin.” ILLINOIS. A Morphine-Eating Physician Terminates His Existence. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Danville, April 13. —Dr. A. Draeger, for twelve years a practicing physician here, committed suicide at his office this afternoon by shooting himself through the brain with a forty calibre revolver. He was a morphine eater, n .nd this habit, together with financial troubles, is supposed to have led to the act. Brief Mention. The flourine-iuiil owned by William Harvey ana operated by L. T. Plummer, at Abingdon, 111., burned yesterday. Loss about.,sls,ooo; no Insurance. Albert Fowler, aged eichty-one, who was a resident of Chicago in 1832, and who built the first frame house where the city of Milwaukee now stands, died at Rockford on Thursday. John Barton, late of Adams county, and father of the notorious Lizzie Barton, the female horse thief of Central Illinois, died on Thursday at Wapello. Barton was well known as a crook in Adams county, whence he ami his two sons were sent to the glare prison for a terra of years for receiving property that Lizzie had stolen in that vicinity. Governor Hamilton has nominated 8e nat or Charies Bent, of the Morrison (Whiteside county) Sentinel; George Brown, of Grundy county, and Daniel J. Calligan, of Peoria, for State canal commissioners; Sardis 8. Lawrence, of Living ston county, for trustee of the State Reform School at Pontiac, ami for park commissioner of the West Side, Patrick McGrath. On Thursday morning Cairo was visited by an other earthquake of much more violence than that experienced several months ngo. The shock* were short and in quick succession, while the former quake was of a rocking motion. Tho shocks continued nearly a minute, and rattled windows, shutters and light articles in an alarming manner. Everyone asleep was awak ened by tne motion and the noise made thereby. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS; [Concluded from First Page. 1 new French ministry rejected the arrange ment. The result will probably be a long and costly war for France. China will use her best troops, probably to be commanded by European leaders, and perhaps to be as sisted by a European ally. Speculation in American Wheat. London, April 13.— A few months ago large quantities of American wheat were bought for forward delivery, it having been assumed by the purchaser£ that the contin uous bad weather would cause a rise. On the contrary there has been a decline of five shillings per quarter. Heavy losses have thus been caused in London and the prov inces, and a number of failures are probable. “No. 1” and Ilis Whereabouts. Dublin, April 13.—The report that Tynan, known as “No. 1,” had fled to Mexico is dis credited. The authorities assert that they have positive knowledge of his present hiding. During the proceedings in court to-day, Murphy, Queen's counsel and crown solicitor, handing Dr. Webb of the defense a photo graph of Tynan, remarked: “You can keep it until we get the original.” Shipping Explosives from Hamburg. Hamburg, April 13.—There is considerable excitement here and at Altona with regard to police inspection of the docks where ships are being loaded, portions of some cargoes being dynamite and nitro-glycerine. At this city the ships are ordered to load down the river, at a considerable distance from the city lim its, where there are no houses. Fatal for the Women. Belgrade, April 13. —The widow of Colo nel Marcoui, who attempted to shoot King Milan in the cathedral, committed suicide in prison. Helen Knitvanin, undergoing im prisonment in connection with the same of fense, took her own life in prison some time ago. The third woman is in the madhouse. Condition of Bismarck's Health. Berlin, April 13.— The condition of Bis marck’s health is less favorable, and he is not likely to appear in the Reichstag again very soon. Socialists Arrested in Bohemia. Prague, April 13.—Five Socialists were ar rested to-day, and arms and documents found upon them seized. Cable Note*. Nearly all the Nihilist prisoners on trial at Odessa confess their guilt. The trial will very soon close. It is understood that the Dominion govern ment has consented not to impose extra duties on American agricultural implemets until next session. AtOttawa, civil servantsonly are admitted to the offices of the departmental blocks after office hours by a permit from deputy heads on account of the recent dynamite scare. The metropolitan board of works has rec ommended, because of the danger to be feared from explosives, that workmen enter ing the sewers of London be carefully watched. The Berlin Nordentsclie Zeitung praises the promptness with which the British Com mons passed the bill in regard to explosives, and compares unfavorably with the long de botes on the Socialist law in the Reichstag. There is great excitement at Antwerp among the port laborers over an at tempt to introduce an improved system of unloading grain, favored by the municipal authorities. The laborers are determined to prevent its adoption. The corner in oil recently organized by speculators in Paris resulted in ruinous fail ure. The difference on the Berlin bourse alone between the prices quoted on the 12th and I.3th insts. resulted in the loss of 25,000,- 000 marks to the speculators. Telegraphic Notes. Hanlar.’s coming boat race with Ross will be rowed at Ogdensburg, N. Y. Thomas R. Conway, shipping clerk of the Commercial Line at Buffalo, it is said, has embezzled $50,000. The Lillie E. Starbuck, the first iron sail ing ship built in America, will be launched at the yard of John Roach Son to-day. She is for W. H. Starbuck, of the Pacific coast. A bill has been introduced in the Dominion Parliament enlarging the electoral franchise; also giving unmarried women possessing the same property qualifications as the men, the right to vote. The Lotus Club, of New York, last night, gave a complimentary dinner to Samuel Jlowles, of the Springfield, Mass,, Repub lican. Many prominent gentlemen were present, including General Diaz and General Grant. Heavy Failure in New York. New Yokk. April 13.—The Tribune to morrow will state that the shipping and commission firm of R. C. C. Degnor Cos., No. 50 Wall street, have suspended. They have submitted a statement to their creditors. Assets, $904,- 490; liabilities, $779,071, showing a surplus of $124,824.04. The firm owes SOO,OOO for merchandise, less $20,000 secured. Its indebtedness for acceptance is $74,000. The firtu purposes to organize the business into a limited company, with a capital slock of $250,000. Sitting Bull Has Joined the Church. Milwaukee (Wiß.) Special. Thursday morning Bishop Marty, of Da kota, who is spending a few days in tills city as the guest of Archbishop Heiss, told a re porter that he had succeeded in converting the great Indian chief, Sitting Bull, to the Catholic faith, and will receive him into the church the coming summer. The chief, with about one hundred and forty of his follow ers, has been spending the winter at Fort Randall, on the Missouri river. Sitting Bull has announced his intention of taking a farm on the Grand river, where two hundred In dian families will henceforth turn their at tention to farming. The Bishop says he had no difficulty at all in imparting religious in struction to Sitting Bull, who never before had an opportunity to receive such instruc tions. The Great Consumptionßemedy BROWN’S EXPECTORANT linn been tented in hundreds of ease and never foiled to arrest and cure CON sVM 1' TION, if taken in time. It Cures Coughs. It Cures Asthma. It Cures Bronchitis. It Cures Hoarseness. It, Cures Tightness of the Chest. It Cures Difficulty of Breathing. Brown’s Expect®WT Is Specially Recommended for WSQQ&ING €OUGM. It it-ill shorten the duration of the disease and alleviate the paroxysm of coughing, so as to enable the child to pass through it without leaving any serious consequences PRICE, 50c. and SI.OO. A. KIEFER Indianapolis, Ind. CRAFT CO., MANUFACTURING AND IMPORTING JEWELERS! Call attention to tlieir large stock of Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks and Fancy Goods. A large stock of loose Diamonds in all sizes, in original packages, which we will set to order and sell at greatly reduced prices. Special agents for Fine Montague and Inter national Watches. We invite a call. No. 24 E. Washington St. CHURCH SERVICES. Baptist. First baptlst church northeast corner of New York and Pennsylvania streets. Dr. Henry C. Mabie will preach to-morrow at 10:30 a. in. and 7:30 p. m. Sabbath-school at 2 p. in. All are cordially invited to these services. Methodist Episcopal. CENTRAL AVENUE M. E. CHURCH—COR nor of Butler street and Central avenue. Rev. J. N. Beurd. pastor. Preaching to-morrow at 10:30 a. m. and 7:3 0 p. m. by the pastor. Sun day-school at 2:15 p. m. Young people's meet ing on Tuesday evening. Strugera cordially invited. Ijl LETCHER-PLACE M. E. CHURCH-COR ner Virgiuia avenue and South st. Rev. J. H. Doddridge, pastor. Preaching in the morn ing by Rev. A. E. Mailing, of the North Indiana Conference. Regular service in the evening. Sunday-school at 2p. m. Class meetings at 9 a. m. and 3p. m. The public is cordially invited to all of these services. Cl RACE M. E. CHURCH-CORNER OF EAST T and Market streets. Revival services on Sabbath morning, afternoon and evening. Rev. T. H. Lynch, pastor, will be assisted by Evanglist M. J. Maxwell, of Cincinnati. All cordially in vited. ERIDIAN STREET M. E. CHURCH—COR uer of New York ana Meridian streets. Rev. H. J. Talbott, Dastor. Classes at 9 a. n. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by Dr Gobin, ot Greencastlo. Sunday-school at 2 p. in. Regular services during the week. OBERTB PARK M. E. CHURCH-CORNER ol Delaware uud Vermont streets. Rev. Ross C. Houghton. D. D.. pastor. Class at 9 a. m. and (5:30 p. m. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Subject of evening sermon: “Ignor ance the Basts of Popular Infidelity.” Sunday school at 2 p. m. Youmr people’s meeting Monday at 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeiiutr Thursday at 7:30 p. m. Churoh Lyceum Friday at 7:30 p. in. Presbyterian. First Presbyterian church— so uni west corner of Pennsvlvania and New York streets. Preaching morning and evening by the pastor. Rev. Myron W. Reed, Subject in the evening: “Thirteen Days In Mexico.” The peo ple ate invited to all the services of this church. Second” presbytebian church—cor ner of Pennsylvania and Vermont streets. Rev. Arthur T. Pierson. D. D., pastor. Preaeh ing at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. pi. Subject for evening: “Evidences of Christianity.” Siibbp'**- scliool and Bible class at 2:15 p. m. Prayer meeting Bunday morning at 9:30 and Thursday evening at 7:30. The public cordially invitee. nnjURD PRESBYTERIAN CHU RCH—COR- X ner of Illinois and Ohio streets. Rev. L. G. Hay will ocoupy the pulpit of this church to morrow morning at 10:30. Sabbath-school and Bible-classos at 2 v'clock. The public* cordially invited. There will be no evening service. OURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH—COR ner Pennsylvania and Pratt sts. Rev. A. 11. Carrier, pastor. Morning service at 10:30. Sun day-school at 2:15 n. m. Evening service at the Riverside Mission at 7 o’clock. Memoriai7*presbyterian CHURCH— corner of Christian avenue and Ash street. Rev. H. A. Edson, D. D., pastor. Communion service at 10:30 a. m. Preaching at 7:45 p. m. Sunday-school at 2:30 p. vu. Prayer meeting Thursday uiglit. The public weleouio. Sweden borgian. New church chapel— 333 north ala hama street. Rev. John Goddard, of Cin cinnati, will preach Sunday morning at 10:30. Subject: “Freedom in the Truth.” And will lec ture In the evening at 7:30. Subject: “Why Do Wo Accept T nuel Swedenborg a tho Loru’a Messenger*
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4 THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. O. NEW SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc... see Sixth Paee. SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1883. "twelve pages. MANUAL TRAINING. Whether manual training can be intro duced into a course of study in proportion to its value as an educational factor is a topic now before the managers of our public school system. From six to eighteen —for twelve years—in the life of the lad who takes a full course in the city graded schools the divorce between hand and mind is main tained. At eighteen years of age it is difficult to get a youth who has done no con tinuous manual labor to engage in it, and the divorce is continued. He becomes a clerk, a bookkeeper, a second-rate profes sional man. This class of young men abound in the larger cities. In school systems for cities of over 15,000 inhabitants mechanic art shops should be introduced, with op tional courses of study, just as laboratories are for the teaching of other arts and sciences, physics and chemistry. Handicraft teaches observation and accuracy as does botf.ny and zoology, and so is in the line of general education in city high schools. Shops at tached to high schools, giving opportunity for two lessons of two or three hours’ dura tion each week through four years, would give ample time for shop instruction, and would attract to such schools students who now see no gain in high-school work unless they have the college or teaching in view. There is intellectual discipline in such work; the pupil is gaining manual skill in accord ance with a definite and progressive plan of work in which principles and processes are made prominent, and mental growth must follow. It would not be necessary in making this addition to the high-scliool work in this city, for instance, to go to great expense or disturb the present system. All that is re quired is a room, a few sets of tools and a competent instructor. The same is re quired to teach any other science rightly —drawing, physics or chemistry. The *‘constructive system,” teaching the nature, theory and use of tools, the principles of the trades, a knowledge of materials and processes, the relation between 'different kinds of mechanical work, their se quence and dependence—all this can be car ried on by the laboratory methods now in use. The moral and disciplinary value of such work is great. Whatever cultivates care, close observation, exactness, patience and method, must be a valuable training and preparation for all studies and pursuits. We may thus in the high schools of graded systems bridge over in part the chasm of physical inactivity, with all its accompani ments of mental and moral evil which lies between the activities of childhood and the demands for intelligently-directed effort belonging to a normal manhood. Public interest is awakening in regard to manual education. The Commercial Club of Chicago has just raised by subscription 1100,000 for the founding of a manual train ing school for lads of high-school years. Os the Chicago manual training school the Tribune says: “Its purpose i9 to make manual training a part of mental training, and to supplement the purely literary culture of the fashionable schools witli the more practical, but not less intellectual, instruction that teaches tilings. It is not to turn out apprentices, but schol ars of nature. Its instruction is practical, but its object is essentially intellectual. Its theory is that our boys can be taught from things much that will be as useful as that which they are now learning from books. It has become abundantly evident that the con servatism of our academical pedagogues in schools and colleges w'ill resent to the end the contagion of the new ideas about education. No fact of mind and man is more interesting than the growth, all over the civilized world, by the side of the gymnasia, grammar-schools, col leges and universities, of these schools for th- new learning.’ In Germany, France, England and the United States it is in this department of education that the real fer ment of inspiration and progress is working. It does not seem too much to say that what the Greek and Latin revelation was to the students of Europe when it first came to them a few centuries ago this intrusion of science and art is destined to be in the men tal culture of our day. This is the special characteristic of our era, and that it has not long before this profoundly modified the literary and scholastic system of our colleges and universities is one of the most singular instances in history of human persistence in beaten tracks.” This is a matter in which the workingmen of the United States should take as much interest as employers and capitalists. The workingmen of Great Brit ain have spent $150,000,000 on trades unions. They have uprooted the old apprentice system of manual education ind built nothing in its place. Mr. Samuel Morley, M. P., said lately, in a meeting called in London to discuss the progress and methods of technical education in England, “that the competition of hands was becom ing a competition of intellects.” lie cited n jnse where, by means of instruction received in industrial art schools, two workmen were enabled to earn a guinea a day instead of a guinea a week. The report for 1880.of the Commissioner of Education gives interest ing details of what is doing in tho United States to train the hand with tho mind and eye. Massachusetts has the Institute of Technology, the Worcester Free Institute, the Lawrence Scientific School, with others, in all educating over 700 youth its skilled mechanics and directors of labor. s’here are a hundred colleges in the United States which bear the name of either agri cultural, mechanical or scientific schools. Half of these have come into being since the national land grant, act of July 2, 1802, “donating public lands to the several Btalcs and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mo- chanic arts.” This act and the schools aris ing from it, as well as the half hundred schools for the same purpose supported by private funds, are due to the enormous strides which science has made in the United States. The Journal has for years been advocating the coeducation of hand and mind in the higher grades of city schools. It is glad to know that some of the leading public school men in the State have carefully felt of the public pulse, and are falling into line. Superintendent Tarbell, of the city schools, in his recent paper before the Indianapolis Literary Club, took the ground that manual education can now be brought as a mental factor into certain grades of the public schools. Our city needs practical instruction in art and industry for its working classes. So does Evansville; so does Terre Haute and Fort Wayne. If this element comes in, it must be intelligently directed, countenanced by school boards and supervisors, otherwise it wili share the fate of the so-called “science and geometry of dress,” which was so mis managed as to put the manual element back a half-score of years in the public schools of Indianapolis, This move ment is in the interest of the workingmen; it will aid in uprooting the idea of caste in labor. The artisans of our cities have the right to insist that instruction in industrial art be put on the same plane as physics and chemistry in the high schools, and made op tional for those who prefer it to the orna mental studies which so largely fill high school courses of study. It is to be hoped that some of the men of wealth, for whom the cities have done so much, will come to the front with their money and influence and build for themselves a lasting monu ment, and for the State capital a well-equip ped manual-labor school. THE SCHOLAR AT NINETEEN- Just as all the world loves a lover, so all the world looks with a kindly eye upon the youth who is spending his days in the accu mulation of knowledge. The student is an object of interest not only to his associates but to the public in general, especially to that portion of it whose school days are in the past. His importance in the eyes of his elders is not due as he himself, perhaps, sup poses to the fact that he, the student, is to be, or is now, a great factor in the problem of Life—life is always capilalizcd in the student's vocabulary. They like him be cause, in watching him, they renew their own youth; they enjoy his ardor and enthu siasm; they smile indulgently at his vagaries; they like him. in short, because he is young, and youth is beautiful. Then elderly peo ple do not deny that the ambitious learner may some day move the world with his wis dom, but thej r smile quietly at his assump tion that he only needs an opportunity to do so now. These lookers on see their own reflection in this. They once seemed to themselves to have attained to a vast degree of knowledge also, but know now that they only stood on the steps of the temple and had not jet entered beyond the vestibule. They know the young man will have a like revelation some day, and are not agitated by his outbursts of immature philosophy. The oratorical contests which have come to be the fashion furnish an opportunity for a study of the student’s peculiarities not hitherto attainable by many. The elderly person before referred to goes, listens to the eloquent and elegant periods, hears the im passioned voices, and comes away in a de pressed condition of mind. The immense erudition aired by the speakers does not effect him; once upon a time he knew almost as much himself. Their self-conceit, of which they are so unconscious, is delicious to him. Once, perhaps, he too was just as com placent, but can it be possible that he was ever so misanthropic? Has it been character istic of ail young students to give utterance to gloomy and dyspeptic views of the intricate questions of existence, or is this singular tendency one of recent de velopment? The collegiate of eighteen or twenty disdains, as every one knows, to touch upon simple matters of which others may be as well informed as he, and attacks none but the deep problems of science and philosophy. He wants to get at the primal reasons of things. He reaches into the illimitable and, though he has an apparent grasp of the infinite mysteries, he fails to elucidate them to his satisfaction, and is in despair. His horizon is boundless, but he wants to look over the edge, and, because he cannot, is of the opinion that no thoughtful man can be contented or happy. He touches del icately upon religion and theology, but it is evident that respect for authority alone re strains him, and that if he dared speak, only the most hopeless and sorrowful views would he expressed. Moral, social, financial ruin await mankind, according to this youthful Jeremiah, and the wonder to the listener is that lie allows himself to remain in such a misemble world. The elderly person is de pressed, not by the pessimistic utterances in themselves, but by the fact that boys are the authors of them. He would like to take the speakers aside and whisper to them that the world lias a little joj T and brightness left, lie privately doubts whether the hopelessness lias affected their digestion, and suspects that lobster salad has yet no terrors for them, but, nevertheless, he wants to offer consolation. He could tell them that, though life may not seem worth livingat nineteen, at forty, when they have struggled with more temptations and adversities than they dream of now, they w’ill not be half so willing to leave it. lie could also whisper that while a broad outlook into the universe may be very desir able, they can do more for the amelioration of the world when they cease to soar into the TTTFi INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1883. upper ether. They would scorn the elderly person’s suggestions without doubt, but he could disclose a fact, learned by experience, that the ordinary man can serve his fellows by going his way quietly in the common W’alks of life better than by standing on a pinnacle and declaring that hope is dead and existence itself a calamity. The horizon may be narrow, but is as wide as his capacity. It would do no good to mention these things, and the elderly man goes on his way know ing that the melancholy student w’ill some clay discover, in the intervals of measuring molasses or figuring in the hog market, that the true reformer and philosopher is he who works quietly on the material that lies at his hand, rather than the one who attempts to revolutionize a whole world. In the meantime the lover of the student would be glad if he could infusointo his oratorical efforts some of the joyousness and brightness and merri ment which properly belongs to the boy, and without which he is an abnormal creature, A MEDICAL VIEW. The medical aspect of the alcohol question as related to public health was lately dis cussed by the British Medical Association, As to the influence of alcohol on health medical men are divided. A minority main tain that its moderate use favors physical w’ell-being and good morals; the majority of educated physicians hold all indulgence in alcohol during health to be injurious. Alco hol may induce disease directly as in delir ium tremens and acute alcoholic poisoning indirectly by producing diminished resisting power to disease. Statistics pertaining to drunkenness are generally unreliable, and are warped to suit the ends of temperance lecturers, total abstainers and political par ties. The most reliable statistics are those of army medical officers whore the effects of alcohol in known quantities on large bodies of men undergoing severe physical exertion in varying climates and seasons are accu rately observed and honestly recorded. The government return of the sickness and mor tality of European troops in the Madras army for 1849 showed 11.1 per cent, of deaths among the total abstain ers, 23.1 per cent, among the tem perate, and 44.5 per cent, among the intemperate. Dr. N. S. Kerr, who read the leading paper before the British Association, concluded that the annual mortality due to alcohol in the United Kingdom exceeded 40,000, w’hile twice that number "died from disease, accident, violence or starvation caused bj r the intemperance of others. Dr. Noble, of Manchester, attributes one-third of the disease in England to intemperance. Dr. Drvsdale, of London, stated his convic tion that alcohol is one of the commonest causes of death, ranking next to consump tion. Dr. Carter, of Liverpool, observed that the fact that total abstainers lived longer than the so-called moderate drinkers was as well established as any undemonstrable fact could be. Seatliff, of London, remarked that the statistics of life insurance, as proof of the beneficial result of abstinence, agreed with his own experience. He thought medi cal men should have the courage of their convictions, and advise their patrons of the danger of alcohol in health. The weight of opinion of this learned body of medical men was that, while alcohol has immense value as a medicinal agent, its habitual use as an ordinary article of diet is unnecessary for healthy persons. SOME INDIANAPOLIS BOOKS. “Rocky Fork,” the latest book of our towns woman, Mrs. Catherwood, has had quite a good circulation in the East. Those who love the country and woods life like the book. To read it is to live with “Mother Out Doors,” to have the great woods cooling one’s face, and to dip in woods streams that run over bowlders or spread into still pools under the leaning trees. To read “Rocky Fork” is to eat “mountain tea,” to feel the evening coolness and the long shadows steal ing over the earth, and to see the primrose tints of sunset and the cows coming home at night. Moreover, it is to be caught in the woods in a storm, with streaming garments and shoes that squirt water at every step, enjoying the delicious bath of warm summer rain; and not with fear, but with exhilara tion, seeing the frightful glares ot the light ning and hearing the deafening roars of thunder, and the long, sublime, whistling crash, the wonderful cry of falling trees, and smelling the rank, fresh smell of wet earth and scents of peppermint. To read Rocky Fork is to live in a sweet, quiet old house where there is a spare room having a plaster-of-paris cat and a parrot on opposite ends of the mantelpiece, and where there is a bed-room having a white valanced four-poster, a crib and a trundle bed under a window scraped by a cherry tree. It is to go to sleep hearing frogs sing ing their loudest as if to drown the far reaching cry of insects which make the sum mer night ring. It is to be a little girl put ting on a pair of tine, open-worked stockings here. And then it is to go to school in an old school-house whose oblong windows look as if they had lain down to dream. It is to play with children having the sincere, re flective bovine eyes which always distinguish country children—eyes that seem as full of woodsy sweets ns the violets. It is to be drenched with the dew of health while run ning in the woods, to have dozens of rushes through the air in a grapevine swing, with a swift-footed girl running under you to send you up among the branches. It is to play with elder flower dolls, those woods-babics, warm from the sun and freshly green and more alive than the most complete dolls, with the many-ringed floor of a stump for a play-house, and with an up-stairs and a down-stairs and acorn delft on little shelves of bark, propped with pebbles, and a fleece of woods moss, finer than the most gorgeous Persian rug. on the play-house floor—all in the cool wood, shadows. Through the deliciousness of Rocky Fork runs the thread of a delightful tule‘ that cou tracts the hearts of its young readers with fear or expands them with pleasure; a tale filled with the intense incidents of a flood in the woods; a tale in crisp, Saxon-English, lighted up with many a fine Western idiom, and glimmering with a funny little streak of humor, particularly bright in the dialogues. It is hard to leave the folks in this book. You want to stay always with the affectionate little sister, who con sents to become the grandparent of her doll in order that a younger sister may may be its mother. You want to go on play ing with the little girls whose sunbonnets turn their mouths toward you like tunnels. You want to spend more evenings with “Robert’s Liza,” and have more suppers of cookies crumbled in cream, and hear more songs and stories from the darling little sis ter who calls her doll Jawgeanno. The Dogberry Bunch, by Mrs. Catherwood, i9 a story with a regular central plot and .fifteen outflowing incidents, viz: the loss of the baby and the adventures of the other children while seeking him. It is about a family of good children who have no pa rents, but live together, earning their ow r n living and doing a great many things which children blessed with parents are not al lowed to do. They paint and alter their hab itation as they like; they have one play house up in a tree, they have another in a caboose. Imagine the incidents that flow therefrom, and the story unrolls a series of scenes of village life, the reading of which might fill a child’s heart with joy and resolution tor the rest of his life. Take this as a specimen of the author’s humor. It describes playing on an organ. “The Professor was one of those performers who are said to play all over. Now his shoulders galloped with his hands down the octaves, and his feet in a mad stampede thundered among the pedals. Then he raised himself as if to leap headlong among the pipes and beat his brains out; but, making a quick dash to the left, he pulled out a handful of stops, jumped vio lently to the right as if he had made up his mind to surprise the blower at his tricks and thrash him, and only changed it in time to grab another handful of stops and climb the banks of keys again. He was improvising.” “Craque o’ Doom” is rather queer, rather weird, and is a book written in a fascinat ingly-interesting style, and with a glowing sense of power. Mrs. Catherwood has a cer tain gusto in writing about wax candles, beaming fires, a vast expanse of hall melting away into velvet-covered stairs and othor luxuries, and when she places such things against the background of muddy roads and the clouds and rain of a Western winter, thej r are very vivid. The talk and the doings of poor Ohio folks are wonderfully portrayed in “Craque o’ Doom.” Mary Dean. Rev, J. M. Walden, of the Methodist Book Concern, who has taken a very prominent part in the temnerance movement in Ohio, wrote a letter to a meeting held on Thursday night in Cincinnati, in which he gave his views of the manner in whioh prohibitionists should conduot the can vass ror the adoption of the proposed nmendineut to the constitution. The Doctor said: “I am glad that these amendments are so presented, by the aelion of the Legislature, that their fullest discussion does not necessarily in volve an issue with either of the great political parties. A man may vote for either amendment without reference to the party vote he may cast <tlie name day for State and other officers; be be Republican or Democrat, he may vote in favor of prohibition at one ballot-box, and vote a straight party ticket at the other ballot-box. In view of this fact I sincerely nope that the dis cussion of pruiiibition will be confined to the question at issue, without reference to what may have been tno action of political conven tions, the sayings of political leaders as such, or the course of this or that partisan in the Legisla ture touching the liquor question. We do not enter this campaign to antagonize either party as such, but to reuch the whole people with arguments that ought to convince them that prohibition is demanded by every interest of the State.” The ground here taken is solid and wise. The question of prohibition cannot be mado a part lean issue in politics without danger both to the party tnat espouses it and to prohibition as well. The prohibitionist who urges the espousal of the doctrine by a political party shows himself a short-sighted advocate of his pet theory, and really an enemy to the cause he would advance. The dispatches fron Georgia show that in the State convention, which wrangled in Atlanta for full two days over the choice of a successor to the late Governor Stephens, the reactionary element finally triumphed in the person of Henry D. McDaniel, who was adopted as a compromise candidate upon the recommendation of ucom rnttteo of conference. Colonel McDaniel, was born in Walton county, Georgia, forty-six years ago. lie graduated at Mercer University, Geor gia: began the practice of law at Monroe in 1857; was a delegate to the Secession convention and went wirh the Eleventh Georgia to to the army as a First Lieutenant and became Major iu 1863. He was so severely wounded at Gettysburg that his life was despaired of, aud until the end of the war he laid in a hospital, lie was a member of the Constitutional oonveution of 1865. When his disabilities were removed in 1872 he was elected a member of the lower house, where ho served two years and wos then promoted to the Senate and remained there eight years, declin ing re election. Though he stutters, he is one of the moßt successful lawyers in the State, but he belongs to the ultra Bourbon Democrntio ring. The triumph of this faction in such a Slate, as Georgia, the Empire State of the South, may have no little influence upon political events in the next year or two. The St, Louis Po vDispatch thinks that Mr. McDonald’s presidential boom is in great danger of being wrecked upon Tildcnism. It utters this earnest caution to our distinguished fellow-cii|| zeu: t “The McDonald boom hnR been thrown into a clammy sweat by the semi-gracious patronage of the original Tildenite organs that still de nounce Hendricks for refusing in 1880 to make a second race behind the sage of Gruineroy Park. They are purposely or awkwardly creating a sus picion that McDonald has been chosen, and en gaged to piny a role which another distinguished Hoosier refused to take. A suspicion that Mc- Donald is. after ali, to take second place, after lie shall have been used as a stalking horse for Tilden’s etill hum, will soon cause ihe McDou nld boom to shrink into a state of hopeless col lapse. Its real friends should open a wider breach between it and the thrilling publications of the Tilden literary bureau, which the old bar’l organs are so promptly reproducing from retnoto and widely-scattered rural papers. The party that wins in 1884 is not going to ride into power on a bar’l, a cadaverous personal grievance, and a hopeless cuse of cold palsy. Mr, McDonald should lose no tune in announcing, as Hendricks did, thut he will not take passage in that hearse,” THE regular meeting of the Island Park As sembly will begin July 11 and continue until the 24th, and will be preceded by a music college and seen.nr teachers' normal, opening July 2 and continuing ro and through the assembly. The Fourth of July will bo appropriately ob served; the orator of the day will be Justin D. Fulton, D. I). The features which have made this resort famous in past years will be fully maintained, aud while the programme bus not been fully completed, the following lecturers and speakers have agreed to be present: Rev. Jus tin D. Fulton, D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Bishop Henry W. Warren, D. D„ Rev. Alex Blackburn, Rev. J. B. Helwig, D. D., Professor J. C. Coulter, A. M., Rev. J. H. Bayliss. D. D„ Rev. A. Marine, D. D., Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D. D., Rev. P. 8. Henson, D. D., Rev. Charles H. W. Stocking, D. D., Rev. O. H. Tiffany, D. D., of New York; Rev. L. Grinnel, Rev. Robert West, editor of the Advance; Rev. C. H. Fowler, D.D., and Hon. A. G. Porter. For furthur information address the sec retary, Mr. P. N. Stroup, Lagrange, Ind. It Is a curious feature of the history of the various amendments proposed so the constitu tion of the United States that two Thirteenth amendments have been adopted by Congress. The first was in these terms: “No amendment shall be made to the consti tution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere within any State with the domestic Institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of that State.” This amendment was passed in the House, on the 28th day of February, 1861, and in the Sen ate on the 2d of Maroh, two days before the in auguration of Lincoln. By its terms it offered perpetual protection to slavery as the price of peace. The war burst forth, and this amend ment was not submitted to the Btates for rati fication. The second, and true Thirteenth amend ment, abolished slavery, and reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, ex cept as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convioted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to its Jurisdiction.” This amendment passed both houses of Con gress on February 1, 1865, and was ratified by twenty-seven of the thirty-six States on the 18th of December of the same year. Melvin Carey, of Gilbert’s Mill, New York, a boy aged thirteen, is peculiar iu that he spoke to no one but his parents up to the time he was sent to school. There he attempted the same dodge, but his teacher, a woman, could see no reason for voluntary silence, so she walloped him into a very interesting conversation, since which time she has been added to bis limited list of speaking acquaintances. He is not sullen in any way, and plays about with othor children in perfect harmony, but never says anything to them. When he wishes to call the attention of any of his playmates he does it by catching them by the arm and making gestures. His phe nomenal oonduot is unexplained. He probably expects to run for President some day. and does not want his record brought up. It is evident that he does not get his taciturn disposition from his uncle, Sam Carey, of Cincinnati. There is a movement among Boston educators to introduce a morality department into the public schools. Emerson’s “Conduot of Life” is suggested us a text-book for beginners. From “Behavior” the child can go on to “Culture,” then to “Power,” then “Beauty,” which will be a winter’s work. This, says tho Advertiser, sol emnly, ought to strengthen the power of thought, increase the extent of use—whatever that may mean—the grace of manners, and “lighten the faces with the true beauty of ex pression.” Just so. if a Western barbarian can be allowed a suggestion on so exalted a theme, it might be well, in view of Tewksbury and other developments of Massachusetts culture, to give a preliminary course of the ten com mandments and the golden rule. Proofs are accumulating that the Chinese barbarians cannot be civilized. At tho annual business settlement in China bankrupts are able to pay their creditors at least 70 per cent. An offer to settle for less is regarded as swindling. This faot of itself shows an untutored mind, but further proof that the Chinese are iuferior comes from Philadelphia. A missionary of that city endeavored to organize a base-ball club among the Celestial laundryinen, but at tho first re hearsal the “team” was thoroughly demoralized, jumped over the fence nearest the city, and has not since been heard from. The circumstances surrounding the case of young Mr. Asher, of the State University, who won the first prize at toe oratorical contest, are not such as to contribute to the efficient discip line of that institution. Gush and fustian may easily spoil not only a young man of fair prom ise, but the value of the college as well. Fourth of July spread-eagleism is not worth that price. Hon. John W. Foster says that General Gresh am is In no sense a presidential candidate, nor does he intend to make the Postmaster-general ship a stepping-stone to the Circuit Court bench, or to any other place. Mr. Foster’s relations w ith General Gresham are such as to stamp this expression with authority. “At Castrovllle, Tex., A. Klappenback, post master, killed himself.”—Exchange. Alas! poor tnan, all wet with gore! We bid adieu to Klappenbaok, His like we cow shall see no more. Unless his ghost should happen back. Scientific Englishmen speak of teetotulers as “hydropots” or “aquabibes,” because these are more classic words, but they dare not call a temperance man so to his face. He may choose water as a favorite beverage, but won’t have it thrown up to him that way. The New York Herald advocates, as a fitting tribute to the memory of Peter Cooper, a sub scription for the purpose of extending the work of Cooper Institute. No more fitting monument could be raised to the author of this great bene faotion. It Is not every man who knows enough to know that ho is like Socrates. When he reaches that state he is in the right frame of mind to regulate tho universe. But he should beware of hemlock tea, and there is a tariff on hemlock. The Connecticut Legislature has again de feated the proposition to submit a constitutional amendment to a vote of the people. The same fate has overtaken the question in New Hamp shire. The San Francisco Chronicle is engaged iu an acrimonious discussion over a “cheap and nasty” city government with its esteemed contempo rary, the “Eveuing Ananias.” Some Washington politicians are going to in vite the President to a shad bake. There will be more fun iu it than a bad shake given by the President. It Is a big thing for a city to have the next in line to Socrates. But the blind and unfeeling world always did stone the prophets. latest diseaso among horses is scarlet New York horses have it. BREAKFAST CHAT. Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, does not rapidly improve. Ex-Minister Sciienck, who now lives in Wash ington, is in 111 health. Mahogany, ebony, rosewood and cedar are used as fuel by the poorest people iu some parts of Mexiod. It is said that Mr. Arthur is the first Presi sidentof the United States to visit Florida dur ing his term of office. It is told of General W. T. Sherman that when ho was alientenant of artillery stationed in Up per California, he once undertook to brew a big bowlofpuuoh. Housed 160 gallons of Cali- fornia aguardiente, but spoiled his punch by mixing it with salt water and forgetting to pufi in any lemon or lime juice. Sunset Cox is stilt telling about tho negro’i toast: “Here’s to Gen. Butler, who, though he has a white skin, bless God he has a black heart.” The angels neither marry nor are given in mar riage, says the good book, nevertheless there is a Mrs. Angell praying the court for a divorce in Kosciosko county. Daniel O’Connell was once challenged to fight a duel by tue grandfather of Perry Bel mont because of disparaging remarks of the Irishman concerning American slave-holders. Jonathan Newcomb, of Bath, Me., who died last week, is believed to have been the last sur vivor of the victims of the famous Dartmoor prison, where he was confined between five and six months. In one of the Yorkshire ohurches two shelves are filled eaoli Sunday with loaves of bread for the poor. No person is entitled to a loaf unless he sits the entire servioe out. Were it not for this restriction it would be very expensive to keep the custom up. Rkasonally well-to-do clergymen were the late Rev. Sir Frederick Vincent, cAnon of Chi chester, and the late Rev. Richard T. Lancaster, of Cheltenham. Their wills, just proved, dispose of personalities amounting to about $1,150,000 and $685,000, respectively. Count von Moltke received the news of his sister’s death two weeks ago, while on his way to attend his nephew’s wedding. Curiously enough, six years ago he got word of his broth er’s death just as he was starting to attend the wedding of another nephew. Eminent medical authority from Philadelphia has pronounced hopeless the coudltlon of Mr. Justice Stanley Matthews’ son, who is suffering from tuberoulosis. The sisters of the youthful sufferer have been cabled at Paris, France, whither they went a month sinoe, to return at once. The lady who has had charge for many years of the Woman's Art School of the Cooper Insti tute, New York, writes a long letter to the Critic of April 14, describing Peter Cooper’s almost dally visits to the class-rooius, and showing how keenly he was interested in the good work of the school. Mr. Cummings was a candidate for alderman in St. Louis. He wrote to the Spectator: “Give me a little puff. If you ask any one who knows, you will find that I am worthy *1 support. I enclose $10.” The editor printed the letter by way of a “little puff,” and gave the money to charity. “Where is Prince Gortschakoff stayingl” somebody asked Coumoundouros at a time when he and the Russian Chancellor were birds of passage at Geneva. “I don’t know his ad dress, but if you watoh for him at the leading print shops you will be sure to fall in with him. He goes to them to study his own photographs, which are on view in the windows.” A country clergyman who recently preached in an Austin church is a great admirer of the writings of Charles D.iokens, and quotes from his novels almost as often as ho does from the Bible. He surprised his congregation by wind ing up a gorgeous peroration with: “It is thus you see, nty brethren, as the Scripture says, ‘Barkis is willing, but the flesh is weak.’ A child has been born in Turkish Kurdistan with a full beard and mustache, a perfect set of thirty-two teeth, and no fewer than forty dls tiuct and well-formed fingers. Naturally such a prodigy attracted great attention, bat several visitors inspected it at their cost; for it snapned its thirty-two teeth at everybody who came within range with such energy and success that it became necessary to extract all the front ones. It is a wonderful thing to see the iufaut lying in Its oradle, stroking its beard with it* forty fingers. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Glllett Bros., of Atlanta, On., tobaoconists, have failed. Estimated liabilities, $40,000; as sets, $20,000. N. W. Mouroo and mother, of Halifax county, Virginia, were fatally poisoned by an unknown person yesterday. At New Orleans, the jury in the election fraud caso against Murkey, Donovan and Rankin, re turned a verdict of not guilty. Miss Mattie Smith, the young lady who mys teriously disappeared from her home in Green Bay, Wis., was found on Thursday, in Chicago, visiting in the family of a friend of her mother. A coroner’s jury declared the fugitive Dr. Langtry, guilty of the murder of Jennie Hanver at Bedford, Out. John Mclntyre was arrested as accessory before the fact. Mclntyre married tho gin a few days before the operation. Near Lynoliburg, Va., a freight train on the Norfolk Western railroad was derailed, yester day, and several cars were wrecked. Fireman Gilmore and Engineer Michael Splllun were Killed. The track was maliciously obstructed. John Fulton, manager of the Parisian Musical Troupe, now in Boston, lias disappeared, aud the baggage of the members is held for board. Fulton is said to owe Maxwell Heron £1,500, money advanced for the tour. Heron is in Bos ton penniless. Levi Ellis and William Sherman, farmers, put up at an hotel in Jackson, Mich., Wednesday night, and blowout the gas on retiring. After six hours’ labor on Thursday morning physicians resuscitated them, wheu they declared they never heard of gas in their lives. Professor William E Colton, Stato Geologist of Tennessee, lias discovered a very valuable silver mine at the head of Wolfe creek, in Cook county. An analysis by Professor Colton develops tho fact that the ore contains from $25 to $35 of silver per ton, which is fully as rich as the ma jority of great mines iu the West. Iu Boston, on Thursday, a half-barrel and forty eight bottles, which contained beer and other liquor, were found in the squalid room where the police discovered four hildren, the oldest aged nine, in a shamefully neglected condition. Their mother died last June, and their father ban abused them ever since. They were removed to the almshouse- Fowler Bros., packing-houso men of Kansas Oitv, who employ about 1,000 men, have given notice that any of their employes wboareseeu in or hanging around drinking saloons or gam bling houses, whether during working hours or at any other time, or are known to use alooholio liquors or other intoxicating beverages in an/ form or degree, will be immediately discharged without notice. Within the last ten days 5,000 men have re turned from the Wisconsin pineries, and of this number about 1,000 have gone back to engage in the drive. The estimate of the winter’s log cut upon the Chippewa and its tributaries is 800,000,000 feet. Nearly one-half of this amount will be manufactured In Eau Claire. A very prosperous season is anticipated. The into disappearance at ico in the river will delay tho beginning of the work by the mills until next week. C. C. Genet*has presented to tho New York Legislature a plan for damming tlie Hudson river near Peekskitl. He claims that sucu a dam w’oulil iucrease tho depth of tho river as far up as Albany and Troy; that it can be used for rein forcing the supply of drinking-water for Now York, and that it will furnish “a valuable barrier against ironclads ascending tho river in tho pos sible event of war.” The estimated expense for this dam Is $1,000,000, oue-half of which tho general government should defray. A sad story comes from St. Mary’s, a small town in tlie western part of Auglaize county, O. W. F. Weimeyer, a well known and prominent hardware merchant, a man of high social and financial standing, has become violently insane because his marriage with an Indiana girl lias been postponed. He became enamored of h#r some years aeo, and was to have been married in the fall of Inst year. She was not In good health, and tlie wedding was postponed until about a week ago, The same state of affairs led to a second delay, which so preyed upon Wei meyer’a mind as to wreck it. On Wednesday, Miss Florence Meredith, of Staunton, Va., aged eighteen, received through the postolflce a package of candy. Miss Mere dith. her rather and little sister partook of the candy, and were at once made sick. A physi cian was summoned, and it was found that tho candy had been poisoned. Investigation re sulted in tho arrest of Miss Maggie Greaver, who. it seems, has for soiuo time past been very Jealous or Miss Meredith, because that young lady numbered among Iter admirers one claimed by the would-be murderess. The polloe traced the candy and tho poison to Miss Greaver. Bite is held for trial, and is perfectly cool under tho circumstances.
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10 THE SONS OF MALTA. Recoil actions of a Secret Order that Forced Good Men to Give Them selves Away.** CosTler-JoMvnal. Jtret a quarter of a century ago a secret so ciety, known as the Sons of Malta, sprang suddenly Into existence in the city of New Orleans. The original object of the organi zation was the capture of Cuba, and many prominent military men of the South were the leading spirits in the movement. For reasons which the writer is not at liberty to divulge the filibustering plans of the order were abruptly squelched, and soon there after a well-known newspaper man, who had been initiated, conceived the idea of making “some fun for the boys.” The whole busi ness of initiation, etc., was transformed into a series of the most stupendous sells, practical jokes and outrageously comical proceedings ever dreamed of. The order spread rapidly ail over the Union. It was generally believed by the outside public that the Bons of Malta was a benevo lent society, and to foster this belief frequent leugthy notices of charitable deeds performed by the order were published in the newspa pers all over the land. Meetings were held weekly, and there was so much solid fun to be enjoyed that nothing short of a death in the family would deter a member from at tending. Therefore, in many places the membership was so great that the utmost difficulty was experienced in obtaining lodge rooms of sufficient capacity. Candidates for initiation were ushered into the hall, where those who were already mem bers were arranged in rows, each covered from head to foot with a white or black gown, in which were cut small holes for the eyes and mouth. With this garment on the identity of the wearer was perfectly con cealed, and the candidates who were initiated at one time did not know whether they were in the h:nds of friends or strangers. To each candidate the master of ceremon ies,” In a most impressive anti pleasing man ner, stated the objects of the order and told how the brotherhood came together with one attn and qne understanding. ‘We are bound together,” lie said, “by the ties of love, con fidence and charity for one another, strength ened and solidified by the cement of confes sion. We open up the secrets of our hearts in the hearing and presence of each other. We are all sinful creatures, ami confession is good for the soul. Our good deeds speak for themselves, and our bad deeds are recorded, and in due time these records are burned, and the ashes are all that remain of a dead and forgotten past.” Then the candidate was asked if he was willing to leave the sinful world behind and enter upon the new life. An affirmative an swer, and the initiation began. He was im mediately blindfolded, led to a step-ladder, and told to ascend and seat himself on the top stair with arms folded. This was the position.each had to occupy while under going the ordeal of a “confes sion” of hi* misdeeds. He would be led along by adroit questioning until he made what was regarded as a “clean breast” of h s moral shortcomings. When a particu larly rich or unexpected admission was pumped out of him, a deep, sepulchral voice solemnly exclaimed: “Re-c-o-r-d it!” And immediately a heavy blow was struck upon a big drum to drown the irrepressible laughter. If a candidate gave evidence of a desire to conceal anything he was given to under stand that die inner secrets of his soul were known to the order, and to hesitate in giving them would bean unpardonable crime in the eyes of the brotherhood. This would suffice for many, but the majority would of course hold out knd lexuse to answer some indeli cate question, liable to lead into a channel that might involve him in a disagrseable con fession. And all througn this was exactly what was aimed at. In such cases an intimate friend of the candidate would pass up to the master of ceremonies on a slip of paper a point or two in some questionable transaction of the ap plicant’s life, and this would prove the key to uulock the secret recesses of his heart. Then would the master say, in a tone of re buke: “The records of the order show that upon such a day, in such a year, while you were in the city of Cincinnati you did thus and so.” Then in a touo mildly expostulatory be continued: “My friend—would I couldcall you broth er—as 1 have said before, all your misdeeds are known to the order of which you are seeking admission. While crossing the portals which separate our brotherhood from u wicked and sinful world, and while about entering upon anew life, and breathing a purer atmosphere, you have ungratefully tried to deceive us. For this you are to be punished and thrust back into the wicked ness you are so loath to leave behind. “Sir Knight, summon the council of ten and take the recreant before that tribunal for punishment.” “Then to the candidate, in a saddened tone Df voice: “Sir, there is but one way in which you ran redeem yourself in the eyes of the brotherhood—make a full and complete con fession.” The feeling that their secrets might act ually be in possession of the brotherhood, and an indefinable dread of what that coun cil of ten might do in the way of punish ment, invariubly unlocked the mouth, and some of the most sedate citizens—men of good character and standing—were forced to own up to moral transgressions they would not care to have appear in print. The candidate was then asked if he could swim. If he answered in the affirmative, tiie reply was, “Let us see you.” If in the nega tive, the answer was, “We will teach you.” Still blindfolded, he was marched to a far corner of the room, where a stream of water from a faucet kept up the delusion of a pros pective bath, and commanded to disrobe for the plunge. Four strong brothers then seized him, and with a toss placed him with his stomach resting on the top of a high stool, and told him to “strike out.” The de lusion was so great that the poor victim would kick and paw the air, and make the most ridiculous exertions imaginable. Although It was a dry bath, the new fledged brother had to be put through the drying-machine. This was a high, narrow box—Just high enough and wide enough for a man to stand upright in. When he was in three slats were inserted to keep him in position while he was going through the dry ing process. The box was hung on pivots between two upright bars, and had attached n the side a crank by which it could be readily and quite rapidly revolved. And this was only one of the trials which the ambi tious seeker after the mysteries of Malta had to undergo. He was whirled round and round perpendicularly, head over heels ami cels over head, first quite slow and then with gradually increasing speed until the reath of tbe human propeller gave out. The frightened fellow was then removed to an easy chair to take a rest, while further •questions were propounded to him, and the sonorous “Ite-c-o-r-d it!” resounded through the hall after each of his answers. He was then told to prepare for the “rough and rugged road.” He was placed on all fours, and by prodding from the rear forced to crawl through a long iron boiler, on which the men wer hammering; thence up a rough incline to the top of a pedestal twelve or fif teen feet high, from which he was shoved into a large blanket made of sail-cloth, with hand-holes for ten men on a side. Then he was sent flying to the ceiling. Down he would come and up he would go at the rate of thirty times iti sixty seconds, and such a shaking up as the poor fellow experienced cannot be realized by those who have not been similarly favored. And thus the “initiation” continued until the resources of the lodge were exhausted, one grand sell following another in rapid succession, each one more stupendous than the preceding. Finally, as a grand wind-up, tbe candidate was informed that, in view of the fact that he had suffered so many indig nities and passed through such a trying ordeal, tfie lodge hail decided to confer upon him the honorary title of G. R, J. A.—judge, or colonel, or general so-and-so having resigned the position in his favor. With a lengthy and florid speech from the master of ceremonies, and a deal of adulation and inook tokens of respect from the now un masked members of the order, the candidate was presented with his ciedentials, which it was made obligatory upon him should be immediately opeued and examined. Hastily the “great seal” of the order would be broken, the certificate taken from tlie en velope and opened, when the victim would discover the picture of a jackass in bold re lief, with various accoutrements and accom plishments, and would pocket his creden tials and his chagrin amid the roar of the frolieksome gang that surrounded him. This expose could be greatly extended, but enough has been given to let those in Louisville, who were members of the “noble order,” know that one of the G. R. J. A.’shas been “giving away” their cussedness. The Singer. I see the plumed knights to battle ride, And uiy heart bounds to martial music strong; I hear the orator denouncing wrong, And hail him uiy soul’s star and staff and guide; Then two young lovers wanderiug side by side- And nand in hand Life’s sinuous path along Fill me with Love’s delight, and amorous song, And maddening ecstasy of Youth’s spriug-tide. The plumes and pennons vanish from my sight; The voice dies in the dlstauce; and, behold, Those lovers have been swallowed up of night. I linger lonely in the darkness cold; I slay uo wrong; in no great cause I fight; And no oue kisses me; and I grow old. —Herbert E. Clarks in Harper’s. GEORGE ELIOT. The Personality of the Author of Roloma and Daniel Deronda. In her girlhood. Miss Blind says, George Eliot had a quantity of soft pale brown hair, worn in ringlets. “Her head was massive, her features powerful and rugged, her mouth large but shapely, the jaw singularly square for a woman, yet having a certain delicacy of outline. A neutral tone of coloring did not help to relieve this general heaviness of structure, the complexion being pale, but not fair.” Nevertheless, the play of expres sion and the wonderful mobility of the mouth, which increased with age, gave a womanly softness to the countenance, in ca rious contrast with its frame-work. Her eyes, of a gray-blue, constantly varying in color, striking some aa intensely blue, others as of a pale, washed-out gray, were small and not beautiful in themselves, but when she grew animated in conversation those eyes lit np the whole face, seem ing in a manner to transfigure it. So much was this the case that a young lady who had once enjoyed an hour’s conversa tion with her came away under its spell with the impression that she was beautiful, but afterward, on seeing George Eliot again when she was ot talking, she could hardly believe her to be the same person. The charm of her nature disclosed itself iu her manner and in her voice, the latter recalling that of Dorothea, in being “like the voice of a soul that has once lived in an JEolian harp.” It was low and deep, vibrating with sympathy. Mr. Bray, an enthusiastic believer in phrenology, was so much struck with the grand proportions of her head that he took Marian Evans to London to have a cast made. He thinks that, after that of Na poleon, her head showed the largest develop ment from brow to ear of any person’s re corded. The similarity of type between George Eliot’s face and Savonarola’s has been frequently pointed out. Some affinity in their natures may have led her, if uncon sciously, to select that epoch of Florentine life in which he played so prominent a part. Though not above the middle bight, Marian gave people the impression of being much taller than she really was, her figure, although thin and slight, being well poised and not without a certain sturdiness of make. She was never robust in health, being deli cately strung and of a highly nervous tem perament. In youth the keen excitability of her nature often made her way way and hys terical. In fact, her extraordinary intellectual vigor did not exclude the susceptibilities and weaknesses of a peculiarly feminine organiza tion. With all hermentai activity she yet led an intensely emotional life, as in those days she was known by her friends “to weep bucketfuls of tears.” Her long, pule face, with its strongly marked features, was less rugged in the ma ture prime of life than in youth, the inner meanings of her nature having worked them selves more and more to the surface, the mouth, with its benignant suavity of ex pression, especially softening the too promi nant under-lip and massive jaw. Her abun dant hair, untinged with gray, whose smooth bands made a kind of frame to the face, was covered by a lace or muslin cap, with lappets of rich point or Valen ciennes lace fastened under her chin. Her gray-blue eyes, under noticeable eyelashes, expressed the same acute sensitiveness as her long, thin, beautifully shaped hands. She had a pleasant laugh and smile, her voice be ing low, distinct and intensely sympathetic in quality; it was contralto in singing, but she seldom sang or played before more than one or two friends. Though her conversa tion was perfectly easy, each sentence was as finished, as perfectly formed, as the style of her published works. Indeed, she laid great stress on the value of correct speaking and clearness of enunciation; and in “Theophras tus Such” she laments “the general ambition to speak every language except our mother English, which persons ‘of style’ are not ashamed of corrupting with slang, false foreign equivalents and a pronunciation that crushes out all color from the vowels, and jams them between jostling consonants.” The Aristocracy Will Protect Itself. Philadelphia Record. There is one thin® always to be depended on in an English court—if scandal threatens a member of the aristocracy the court will go to the farthest limits of its power to pre vent the exposure of the “skeleton in the closet/' Mr. John Henry Blake was for merly agent for the management of the es tate of Lord Clanricarde, in the County Gal way, Ireland. Last June Mr. Blake was as sassinated near Loughrea, and within a few days of his murder Lord Clanricarde made public a letter conveying the impression that Mr. Blake had been authorized to remit one half of the arrears of rent, while in fact the noble Lord bad urged Mr. Blake to the strongest measures for collecting the last farthing due. Mrs. Blake, who was seriously wounded when her husband was killed, lias recovered sufficiently to reply to his Loid ship’s contemptible scheme, and has prom ised to publish Clanricarde’s letters to her husband. An injunction was asked for against her, and the Master of the Rolls in Dublin lias issued his injunction, thus cut ting off Mrs. Blake’s only means of refuting Clanricarde’s falsehood. This decision only illustrates the genera! tendency of British courts in cases where the aristocracy are in volved. A Lkadvh.mc boarder named Tom Pry, Struck a dog-collar in taia mince pie. Ilia jaw came near spoiling, But a St. Jucobft Oiling Cured it, and he’s again Uvlng high. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1883. JEFFERSON DAVIS. His Home Life and Personal Appearance- Recollections of Early Friends. Beauvoir Correspondence Boston Herald. Arrived at the residence, your correspond ent w r as ushered into the parlor, a handsome apartment, the walls of which are tinted and elaborately frescoed. It is such a parloT as one would expect to see the cultured and dignified chieftain of the lost cause occupy. Fine old oil paintings hang from the walls and shine out in all their warmth of color ing from massive gilt frames resting on easels. Pictures and portfolios, bric-a-brac, articles of yertu, rases of choice cut-flowers and all the costly knick-knacks that tell of refinement and culture, are placed about tbe room, on tables, brackets and mantels. Pho tographs of many generations are conspicu ous! y displayed, and books, old and new, seen in convenient places. And, to com plete tlie picture, a large Newfoundland dog, with long, black, curly Lair, was sprawled out on a rug fast asleep. There was about the room a subdued and reposeful tone, which was only broken when Mr. Davis en tered it, clad in black, and with a tired look in his face, and greeted your correspondent. But he politely though firmly announced that he would not permit himself to be inter viewed. “What is due from me in the way of hos pitality,” said he, “I shall be only too happy to extend to you; but we must let politics alone. I am not a public man, nor am I public property. I am not a seeker for of fice, nor is any office seeking me. lam plain Mr. Jefferson Davis, a private citizen, who, in the evening of his life, desires to live in quiet and peace with his neighbors, without molestation or outside interference.” His voice trembled as he spoke, and his tone was quite pathetic. He looked very weary, and his pale, intellectual face seemed almost bloodless, surrounded as it is by snow white hair and a snow-white beard. In a moment, however, a smile passed over his features, he grasped your correspondent’s hand, and, throwing his head backward, said, with great warmth: “But that is not here or there. Come to my study, I feel more like myself there. It is my den, and I extract a good deal of comfort, consolation and pleas ure from my books. The collection is not so large as it once was, but, like sibylline leaves, they have grown in value since they have been reduced in bulk.” We entered the wide hall which runs through the center of the house, and which is furnished with easy chairs and sofas that invite re9tfulness, and passed down a flight of steps in to a graveled walk leading to an octagon-shapea verandaed building with a conical roof, standing about one hundred feet to the left and in advance of the manor house. This is Mr. Davis’s sanctum. It is what a literary work-shop should be—cosey, well lighted, well ventilated and with an open fireplace. Three sides of the octagon interior Mre lined with books, an oaken table is in the center of the room, and three or four wooden chairs occupy as many corners. Between this table and the book-slielves is a lounge bed, which Mr. Davis sleeps upon occasionally. There is nothing luxurious about the appointments to woo him from his work; on the contrary, the furnishings present all the rude reality that actual work always imparts. In this building Mr. Davis thought out and wrote his history, “The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy,” which is considered by many critics, North as well as South, the best which has been written about t he rebellion. Pulling up a chair near his own he invited your correspondent to be seated, and then handed him a fragrant Havana and played the courteous, genteel host with a grace and polish that few iflen can approach in this or any other country. Tlie fatigue incident to a trip to New Orleans and other points, and from which he had not recovered when your correspondent sent in his card, seemed to have disappeared entirely, and ho looked, talked and acted not like a man of seventy five, but like one of fifty. Like Grant he loves to smoke, but he is not such an invet erate smoker. After he had blown circlet after circlet of gray smoke over his head he began to expatiate upon the beautiful weath er, and said be saw no reason why the sum mer resorts along the Sound should not also be made winter resorts. RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY FRIENDS. “Mr. Davis, why are you so averse to being interviewed?” “Because lam constantly being abused, maligned and villified by the press, and for the reason I gave you when I first greeted you this morning.” “In your early public life what public men and associates did you most admire?” “John Quincy Adams for one. He was the most genial gentleman I knew. I enjoyed his society, and found him to be highly cul tivated. His wife was a most estimable lady, very charming in her manner, and really adorned the White House. I passed many a pleasant evening with them, and cherish among my fondest recollections the many courteous attentions which they paid me. Colonel Greene, of the Post, is another Mas sachusetts gentleman for whom 1 have had an abiding love. He was very able, and, in his day. wielded a great deal of in fluence. Daniel Webster was very kind to me, and, though some of our political views were thoroughly antagonistic, we always met as friends. He had a large heart, and never forgot a kindness. His nature was very grateful. I have reason to know whereof I speak. During my visit to Boston I was handsomely entertained, and I received a perfect ovation at Faneuil Hall. Then I had many friends in the old Bay State, and, I am proud to say, I have a few of them left. I admired Henry Clay as a speaker, but my political ideas were opposed to bis. He was a great compromiser. When a mere boy I looked upon Calhoun os an ideal statesman, and as I grew older my admiration for the man increased. He never prepared his speeches, in the sense of writing them out He frequently gave me his views on certain subjects, and when he addressed the Senate it seemed to me as if he was repeating what he had before uttered in conversation. I fol lowed him closely in many things, and. like him, lacked method and great preparation. Webster, on the other band, prepared almost everything he uttered, and paid as much at tention to the sound of his words as he did to their sense. That is why his speeches read so well.” “Have you gathered and prepared your speeches for publication?” “I have not, nor have I contemplated such a thing.” The conversation then drifted into literary channels, but by degrees Mr. Davi9 almost permitted himself to talk about the “lost cause.” Your correspondent smilingly re minded him that there was still living a Mas sachusetts man who had voted fifty-seven times to make him a presidential candidate, and who was now regarded in some quartejs as an aspirant for the same high honor, and then asked him what effect his nomination would have had upon the nation, conceding, for the sake of argument, that General But ler’s plan at Charleston had proved success ful, and that tlie Democratic party, instead of dividing into factions, bad solidified around him as a compromise nominee. Mr. Davis looked ud a moment, then became thoughtful, and finally said: “No, sir; it was to be. It was an agitation that began with the government, and that kept the country in a flurry of excitement. Providence de creed that the struggle should end as it did.” Home Decoration. A pretty way of using the lovely Christ mas. Easter and birthday cards so much in vogue at present, is to paste the card on a piece of pasteboard a couple of sizes larger than the card. Take a piece of satin or vel vet (crimson satin will look well on almost any card) and cut out an oval in it which will just fit over the card. Finish the edge of tlie oval with a quilling of ribbon, and draw the satin smoothly over the pasteboard and fasten at the back with long stitches. You can cover the back with a piece of cam bric, but it is not necessary. This makes a pretty ornament for tbe mantel. If you wish to hang it up, fasten a loop of ribbon at the back. THE MULE IN THE COAL MINE. An Underground Life Does Not Injure His Constitution, but Developes a Ferocious Temper in the Beast. Shenandoah Letter in Philadelphia Times. If the gentlest and sweetest dispositioned mule in the world were lowered into a col liery the driver-boys would by constant teas ing transform him into a four-legged demon in less than a week. The positive ferocity that is developed in these brutes is appalling even to persons familiar with tbeir malig nant peculiarities, and the official mining re ports contain scores upon scores of cases in which miners, laborers and driver-boys have received fatal and serious injuries from them. They never die in the mines, and it is only on rare occasions that one is killed by an ex plosion of gas or a fall of coal. Two or three weeks ago a dreadful explosion of gas took place in Packer Colliery No. 2. Six men were fatally injured. A mule, standing in the gangway, was sent hurling through the air by the explosion and his coat of hair was singed entirely off. He ate as usual that evening, and when put to work on the following day, his spirits revived to such an extent that he bit a piece out of the shoulder of a driver boy named Ryan, who lives in Lost Creek. Captain Dorgan, one of the oldest mining bosses in the region, declares that he has seen a colliery mule waste hours of time kicking into black space, in the hope that some unsuspecting miner would come With in range of his hoofs. Every mule that is taken into a colliery is kicked and bitten by his long-eared stable mates until he becomes vicious enough to retaliate. Then, after sharpening his teeth on his iron-bound manger and kicking at space until he has acquired perfect control over his heels, he becomes thoughtful and centers his mind on the necessity of maim ing men in general and driver-boys and visit ors in particular. In every drove ot colliery mules there is one or more that is hated on account of his thorough depravity. “Big Joe,” a fifteen-year-old mule in the Koh-i-Noor Colliery, has a kicking record that is known from one end of Schuylkill county to the other, and scores of miners bear his heel-marks on their bodies. The miners in Packer Colliery venerate a mule called “Mack.” His age is unknown, but it’s belived to be something like twenty years. He has worked in this mine ten years with out seeing daylight, and. strange to say, he is not known to have kicked any one. The miners carry cabbage-leaves, apples, green corn and other delicacies down to this mulish veteran, who is fat, happy and play ful. There are three mules in tlie Dunbar Colliery, near Shamokin, that have not been above ground for thirteen years. In Wades ville Shaft there is a mule which for five or six years never approaches the foot of the shaft with a car without looking at the little hole of light 600 feet above him. This beast is called “Peeping Tom.” No matter how long he remains standing at the “foot,” lie will not take his eyes off the mouth of the shaft. He reaches the “foot” as often as thirty times a day, and yet he never neglects to look up. A year or two ago a mule broke his traces in the Pottsville shaft and crowded himself into the cage. When found he was looking up, as if expecting the cage to be hoisted. When driven out of the cage he watched it intently a 3 it ascended. John P. Nicholson, an old and well-known miner, who was at the foot of the shaft, declares that after the cage had gone up 400 or 500 feet the mule deliberately plunged into the “sumph” and drowned himself. Turkey Run Colliery has a phantom mule, which miners believe iu implicitly. Dozens declare they have seen tlie specter and de scribe it as double the size of an ordinary mule. The vision haunts the old breasts, and no one is ever said to have seen it in the main gangway, where fleshly mules work. .When a miner declares that he has seen the spectral beast superstitious people working aDout him believe that a catastrophe is at hand. Three men, two of whom, John De vine and David Thomas Williams, now live in this place, vow that they saw the appari tion an hour before the big explosion in August, 1881, when four men were killed and several others were injured. An ordinary mule cannot be induced to enter parts of the mine where damp exists in dangerous quanti ties. There are instances on record, however, in which mules have been overpowered by damp. When the mules and rats iu a mine start" for the foot of the shaft or mouth of the drift the miners rarely fail to follow, as it is considered a sure indication of dan ger. The confinement of mules iu coal mines lias no evil effect on their constitutions. They are always well fed and cared for, and the coal dust gives their coats a gloss rarely seen on the hair of mules living in the open air. While a mine is worked the mules never come out. Some months ago water in the lower workings of the largest colliery at St. Clair caused a suspension of the work and all the mules were brought up. More than a dozen of the animals had been in the colliery eleven years. When turned out to pasture near the village they did not pay the slightest attention to the scant herbage about them, but de voted their whole time to gazing at the sky, the mountains and the horizon. They were evidently lost in open-eyed astonishment and failed to realize where they were. They stood for hours in silent contemplation of the scenjry and appeared so stupefied that not one of the lot offered to make war on his mates. The strangeness of the scene had driven all the combativeness out of them for a time. On the first day they did not even make a circuit of the ten-acre field they were in, and the food offered to them was re fused. That night, however, they devoured the food, and at daylight again huddled and remained so until nightfall. Their astonish ment did not wear off until a week went by, and hundreds of people visited the place to see them. Justus they were becoming ac customed to the place and were beginning to indulge in kicking matches they were low ered into the colliery again and renewed work in the dark. Inspired by Mary Anderson. New Orloans Pieayune. The following words occur in what is called “The Lost Song of Solomon,” recently pub lished in the London Church Review: “Who hath seen her vho was here and is not? She is very young and comely; her mother watch eth her, I was enamored and she would not listen; she turned he face from me; as the moon hideth among the mountains of Leba non, she hid her face from me. She is tlie pearl of pearls; there is none like my beloved. She bath no name among the daughters of Jerusalem. My love is more beautiful than the lily. Her eyes are like sapphires and her hair is as the yellowish mane of the lion. There is none like her; she is comely, and her mother observeth her. Straight areher limbs as the algum tree that comes from Ophir in the ships of Tarshish; her arms are like smooth ivory, her head is a star with its brightness. She is the pearl of pearls which I wear in my heart.” This appears to be the effort of one of the ancient critics on Mary Anderson, and the probability is that Solo mon never owned the song. Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Ilair Reucwer is a eerraiu remedy for removing dandruff, making the scalp white and clean, and restoring gray hair to its youtnful 'dor. It Imparts a fine gloss and freshness be lialr, and is highly recommended by y os, clergyman, and scientists as a. pre* *ccompllsliiug won derful results. THE YOUNG FOLK’S COLUMN. THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. [Everything relating to this department must be addressed to W. H. Graffam, West Scarbor ough, Cumberland county, Maine. Original con tributions and answers to each week’s puzzles are solicited from aILJ Answers to Puzzles. No. 653.—Barley—corn. No. 654.—Burn,"bar, can, ran, an, nab. No. 655 Make bay while the suu shines. No. 656.—Prohibitionist. No. 657.—a, Tiger, tige. tig. 2, Camel, came, cam. No. 658. 8 SAP BAR R E BARU O M A BAROOCELE] PRO CURE EMERY ALE E No. 659.- B—T I N-G W-AT E-R O-P E R-A R-U E L-8 D-R O 8-8 No. 6CO,— XEBEC EXUDE BURIN EDICT CENTS No. 661.- E P H A PH I L HIDE ALEE No. 662.—A catamaran. No. 663. Susan B. Anthony. No, 664.—A stitch iu time saves mine. Original Puzzles. NO. 6SI—NUMERAL ENIGMA, I am composed of ten letters— My 1. 2, 10, 5 and 9 Is an ingenious game; My 4, 6 and 3 is the female of the hart; My 8 and 7 is a prefix; My whole Is a peninsula. C. A. Det. Freelandville, Ind. NO. 682—DECAPITATIONS. 1. behead a man’s name and leave to change. 2. Behead the middle and leave to go in. 8. Behead to perform and leave a ruler. 4. Behead a color and leave want. Eastwood, Ky. Old Kaintcck. NO. 683—CROSS-WORD, Tn might, but not in force; In spring, but nst in source; In bunt, but not in course; In rout, but nor iu flight; In tense, hut not iu tight; In bend, but not iu bright; In slender, but not in slight; In stone, but not in flint; Now find the answer; I give you a hint. C. A. DET. NO. 684—DOUBLE ACROSTIC. |Five-letter words.J 1. Pertaining to the whale. 2. The last. 3. A soothsayer. 4. Swelled. Primals—Fur or halt- of a beast. Finals—A large coiub for wool. Combined—A card bearing the king, queen or knave. C, A. Dkt. NO. 685—CURTAILMENTS. 1. Curtail a sweetheart and leave a passion, 2. Curtail a p&ssiou and leave something to wear. 3. Curtail a passion and leave a plant. 4. Curtail a hood and leave a beast. 5. Curtail to fondle and leave troubles. Old Kaintuck. NO. 686—TRANSPOSITIONS. 1. Transpose a doc and leave playthings. 2. Utensils and leave to halt. 3. The sea aid leave a high boat. 4. A weed and leave to part. Columbus, Ind. F. c. Lucas. NO. 687 —DIAMOND. 1. A letter. 2. A bed. 3. A cruise. 4. Some thing we now see. 5. Course. 6. Sea-farer. 7. A letter. F. C. Lucas, no. 688—SQUARE. 1. A loop. 2. A plant. 3. To char. 4. To hide, (obs.) William Tell. Paris, 111. NO. 689—PROGRESSIVE SQUARE. 1. To cut. 2. An emotion. 3, To tinolose. 4. Con slued. AMOS QUITO. B&lvek Lake, Ind. lAnswers in Three Weeks.J Our Prizes. 1. First perfect list, a book. 2. Next best list, a late popular magazine. Puzzles Answered. By C. A. Det, Freelandville. Nos. 653,654, 055, 659, 661, 063, 664. By Faith, Indianapolis, Nos. 653 to 664, inclu sive. By Elsie, Indianapolis, Nos. 653, 654, 655, 656, 659, 660, 661, 663, 664. Prize Winners, 1. Faith—“ Off the Roll.” 2. Elsie—A magazine. Foot Notes. Ohr puzzles, this week are not very hard, and therefore we shall expect to have a Urge list of solvers. We wish to hear from a large number of new solvers this week, for we are confident that our puzzles are solved every week by many young people who never send us tbeir solutions, because they do not succeed in getting many of the true solutions. To all who do not get a per fect list, wo say, send in such solutions as you obtain, and we will thank you. THE INVENTION OF MATCHES. An Interesting Talk with the Man Who Claims to Have Invented Them. Springfield Republican. “Did I ever tell you what Charles Sumner once said to me about the manufacture of matches?” queried Lucius C. Allin, the vet eran armory foreman. “It was about fifty years ago now, when I was in doubt whether it would pay to go into the business, and asked Mr. Sumner what he thought about it. He turned around quick as a flash and said: ‘Mr. Allin, how many pins do you suppose are made in a year?’ 1 thought there must be a good many millions. ‘And how many times,’ he continued, ‘is a pin used?’ ‘Per haps twenty on an average, I replied. ‘Then at least twenty times as many matches will be needed as pins,’ he concluded, ‘and of course it will pay.’ Now, did even Charles Sumner ever size up anything neater than that. I made matches several years and, not only that, but I in vented thehi. It was away back in the ’Bos, when I was a boy. I was always fooling with the ingredients, Drimstone and the like, till finally I struck an idea. Then I went to work and made a few matches, rather crude, of course, and showed them to a few friends, but they didn’t think it would amount to anything, and I didn’t either, at first, sol minded nothing about it till 1834, I think it was, when a friend persuaded me to apply for a patent. It was* quite a trip to Wash ington in those days, but in a few days I got word that a Chicopee man had filed a similar application a short time before mine ar rived. I was satisfied that I could get the patent by fighting for it, but I didn’t think than that it would pay, and so I made an arrangement with the Chicopee man, by which I was to offer no opposition to his get ting tbe patent, but could have the privi lege of manufacturing matches on ray own hook. He got the patent and I went into the business. 1 bad quite an establishment on Walnut street, hiring about thirty hands, mostly girls, and kept it till ’37, the time of the great panic. The Chicopee man was a drunken peddler, and he went to Boston on a spree, and gambled the patent away to men who have made their fortunes out of it. I sold matches all through the country, but there was a good deal of opposition to their manufacture. The papers said it was a bid for incendiarism, and many shopkeepers wouldn’t sell them. The railroad had got as far as Worcester then, but they wouldn’t carry matches, and I had to hire men to drive clear through to Boston. There were some other matches in the market that would crack like a pistol when you lit them, and when we put some in a box and set them afire it sounded like a small cannonade. But my matches were like what we have now, and were the first ever made that I know of.” Dr. A. B Davidson, Car Department P., C. A Bt. L. railroad, says: “Brown’a Iron Bitters is a reliable touio and invigorator.” THE BATES HOUSE, Indianapolis, Ind. REBUILT AND REFURNISHED. Conceded to be the moat eligibly located and moat liberally managed of any hotel in In* dianapolis. LOUIS REIBOLD, Proprietor. railway timetable! Trains marked thus; r. c. f reclining chair oar; fy Blecper; p., parlor oar; h., hotel car. (Bee Line) C., C., C. <Se Indianapolis. Depart—New York ami Boston Express, daily 4:35 am Union Accommodation 6:15 am Dayton, Columbus and New York Express 11:05 am St. Louis, Indianapolis and Goshen 5:55 pm New York and Boston, daily.. 7:15 pm BRIGHTWOOD DIVISION. Daily 4:35 am.... 2:15 pm Dally 6:15 am 3:55 pm Daily 11:05am.... 5:55 pm Daily 7:15 pm Arrive—Louisville, New Orleans and St. Louis Express, daily 6:55 am Elkhart and Goshen Ex press.. 10:50 am South Bend Express 2:05 pm Union Accommodation 3:45 pm Boston, Indianapolis and Southern Express 6:05 pm New York ana St. Louis Ex press, daily 10:55 pm BRIGHTWOOD DIVISION. Daily 4:00am.... 2:05 pm Daily 6:00 am 3:45 pin Daily 6:55 am 5:25 pra Daily 10:50 am.... 6:05 pin Daily 10:55 pm Pittsburg, Cincinnati 4 St. Louis. Depart—New York, Philadelphia, Wash ington. Baltimore and Pitts burg Express, daily 4:35 am Dayton and Columbus Ex press, except Sunday 11:00 am Richmond Accommodation 4:10 pm New York, Philadelphia. Was hington, Baltimore ana Pitts burg Express, daily 5:15 pra Dayton Express, daily s:lspm Arrive—Richmond Accommodation, ex cept Sunday 9:55am New York, Philadelphia,Wash ington, Baltimore and Pitts burg Express, daily 12:00 m Columbus and Dayton Express except Sunday 5:45pm New York, Philadelphia,Wash ington, Baltimore and Pitts burg Express, daily 10:35 pm Dayton Express, daily except Sunday 10:35 pra CHICAGO DIVISION VIA KOKOMO, P., C. A ST. L. R. R. Depart—Louisville and Chicago Ex press, daily, p. c 11:05 am Louisville and Chicago Fast Express, daily, s 10:45pm Arrive—CJiicago ai.-l Louisville Fast Express, dail.v, s 3:4oam Chicago and Louisville Ex- press, p. o 3:sßpm Jeffersonville, Madison A Indianapolis. Depart— 8011 them Express, daily, s 4:15 am Louisville and Madison Ex press... 7:40 am Louisville and Madison mail, P- c 4:20 pm Louisville Accommodation, daily, r. c 6:30 pm Arrive—lndianapolis and Madison Mail r. c 10:00 am Indianapolis and Chicago Ex press, dally, p 11:05 am New York and Northorn Fast Express 5:50 pm Bt. Louis and Chicago Fast Liue, daily, s 10:45 pm Cinein’ti, Ind’ap'lis, St. Louis A Ghicaqo. CINCINNATI DIVISION. Depart—Chicago and Louisville Fast Line, daily, s. and 0. 0 3.45 am Cincinnati Aeo. daily 4:30 am Chicago and Louisville Mail, р. c 3:45 pm Cincinnati Accommodation.... 7:00 pm Cincinnati Accommodation.. .11:05 am Arrive Chicago and Bt. Louis Mail.p.c.ll :40 am Western Express 5:01 pm Chicago Fast Liue, daily, a. and c. c 11:05 pm Bt. Louts Express 10:40 pm CHICAGO DIVISION. Depart—Peoria and Bur. Ex 8:05 am Chicago Mail, p. c 12:00 ra Wesreru Express 5:20 pm Chicago Fast Line, dally, 5.,r.c.11:35 pin' Arrive—Chicago and Louisville Fast Line, dailr, c. c. ands 3:25 am Lafayette Accommodation 10:45 am Chicago and Louis’lla Mail, p.c. 3:30 pm Cincinnati Accommodation... 6:40 pm Vanualia Line. Depart—Mail Train 7:30 am Day Express, daily, p. li 12:35 pra Terre Haute Accommodation.. 4:00 pin Pacific Express, daily, 11:00 pm Arrive—New York Express,daily 4:05 am Mail and Accommodation 10:00 am Cincinnati and Louisville Fast Line 3:40 pm New York Express, daily, h.. 5:05 pm Wabash, St. Louis A Pacific. Depart—Detroit, Chioaeo and Toledo Mai 1...... B:soam Toledo and Fort Wayne Ex press 2:15 pra Chicago and Michigau Express, с. c. ands 6:15 pm Detroit and Toledo Express, a. 11:40 pm Arrive—Michigan and Toledo Express, daily except Sunday 2:15 am Toledo and Fort Wayne Ex press 10:55 am Detroit and Chicago Mail 5:45 pm Detroit, Toledo and Fort Wayne Express, s 10:15 pra Indiana, Bloomington Western. PHOBIA DIVISION. Depart—Pacific Express and Mall 7:45 am Kansas andTexas Fast Line.. 1:30 pm Burlington and Rock Island Express, daily, c. c 11:15 pm Arrive —Eastern aud Southern Express, daily, r. c 4:10 am Cincinnati Special 10:50 am Atluntic Express and Mail 6:30 pm ST. LOUIS DIVISION'. Depart—Moorefleld Accommodation... 6:3oam Mall and Day Express 8:20 am Night Express, daily, r. c 11:10 pm Arrive--Night Express, daily 4:10 am Mail and Day Express 5:45pm Moorefleld Accommodation... 6:25 pm EASTERN DIVISION. Depart—Eastern Express, Mail, daily.. 4:20 am Day Express and Mail 11:25 am Atlantic Express 7:oopm Arrive—Pacific Express 7:05 am Burlington aad R. I. Express,lo:so pm Western Express 1:05 pm Indianapolis and St. Louis. Depurt—Day Express, daily 0. o 7:25 ara Boston and St. Louis Express.p 7:00 pra New York and 8t Louis Ex press, dally, s. and c. c 11:10 pra Arrive —New York and Boston Et- tress, daily, 0. c 4:15 ara .ooal Passenger, p 10:55 am Day Express, 0. c„ daily 6:45 pra Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis. Depart—Western Express 4:15 am Conuersville Accommodation. 4:45 piu Indianapolis und Western Ex. 6.55 pm Indianapolis Express 11:05 am Arrive— Conneraville Accommodation. 8.45 am Indianapolis and Western 12:15 pm Western Express 10:45 pin Indianapolis and Western 7:15 am Indianapolis and Vincennes. Depart—Mail and Cairo Express 7:30 am Vincennes Accommodation.. 4:00 pm Arrive— Vincennes Accommodation..lo:so am Mall and Cairo Express 5:10 pm GRAND HOTEL, INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 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