The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis [Ind.])
May 23, 1883

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. ESTABLISHED 1523. WHEN INDICATIONS. WEDNESDAY. Warmer, clearing weather, winds mostly northwesterly. We have received from the Indianapolis Custom House several lines of French Under wear, of our own importation. Whenever the Winter breaks, and it gets warm enough to look at Summer Underwear

without getting the chills, just ask to see this class of goods, on which we can save you one profit AT THE WHEN CLOTHING STORE. races” EXPOSITION GROUNDS INDIANAPOLIS, MAY 30,31*™ JUNE 1,2. $4,000 IN PURSES! BY THE ORAWFORDSVILLE TROTTING ASSOCIATION. |y The largest meeting ever /given in the nity. Over one hundred horses entered. Special attraction for each day, WHERE IS JUDGE KItUM? .Mysterious Disappearance of a Prominent Legal Luminary of St. Louis. Bt. Louis, May 22.—Ex-Judge Chester H. Krum left this city for Chicago on Thursday, April 20, ostensibly to attend to some law busi ness. Bince then it lias been reported by his father. Judge John M. Krutu, with whom ho had a law partnership, that he was very sick in Chi cago, and last week he stated that his son was at Dr. William A. Hammond’s, New York city, being treated for some disease. A telegram from New York to-day, however, stared that Dr. Hammond had no knowledge whatever of Ches ter Krum. Inquiries were then made at the latter’s residence, and of his father at liis law office, but answers were refused. It was further stated that Judge Krum since had acknowledged to Sheriff Mason, whose legal ad viser Judge Krum, Jr., is, that no one was cog nisant of his son's whereabouts. There are ugly* rumors that lie lias losi several thousand dollars playing poker lately, but of this there is no dl rect evidence. Mr. Knnuis married and lias a large family of children. The Knights of Pythias Contest. Cincinnati, May 22 —The Knights of Pythias held a prize drill on the stage or Music Hall to night, before an audience of several thousand. The tirst prize, s3no. open to divisions from Ihe whole country, hud three contestants: Indiana division No. 2, Indianapolis: Kokomo No. 6. Kokomo, Ind., and Dayton No. fi, Dayton, O. For the second prize, open to uniformed Knights from Ohio, tin* contestants were Humboldt di vision No. 12, Cincinnati: Garfield No. 13, San dusky, and OBur tie 1.-on No. 9. Lancaster. The test is so tedious that it will require a great part of the night to reach tin* result. In the compeli ive drill at the Music Hall of the Knights of Pythias to-night in the free-for all# Dayton No. 0 took the S3OO prize. In the com petition open to Ohio Knights, Cmur de Leon, of Lancaster, took tho first, and Hum boldt, of Cincinnati, took the second. The drill closed near 1 a. m. The Italian Belt ini Arraigned, New York, May 22.—Giovanni Bellini, the young Italian lieutenant who recently shot hi ill lelf on account of a love affair, lias so far recov ered that ho was arraigned in the police court to answer to a charge of having attempted to ind his life. He was accompanied b.v ins friends, tlie Duke of Castelucea and General e Codeia. Bettlnt said lie did not know what he was doing when he shot himself. He was held in bail to be on good behavior, which was furnished by ills friends. The Diamond Thief Convicted. New York, May 22.—James H. Marriott, ar rested on a charge of abscondiug from Parts with $75,000 worth of diamonds entrusted him A)y Jeweler Kramer, to show to Wm. Waldorf Astnr, was convicted on a charge of grand larceny with a recommendation to mercy. Marie Peseux, who accompanied Marriott to tide country and to whom he lias been married since •his arrest, manifested deep grief wnen the ver dict was announced. I'he case will be appealed. The Kentucky Republican T’onvention. Lkxington, May 22.—About 500 delegates to the State Republican convention, which as sembles here to-morrow, have alreadv arrived, and they are busy canvassing the situation, a lively set to between the stulwart uml half breed factions is expeoted to-morrow. The ap pointment of Hon. Walter Evuns as Commis sioner of Internal Revenue appears to give the delegates groat satisfaction. The Pittsburg Iron Rale. Pittsburg, May 22.—The 1,500 tons of Mar shall pig-iron sold to day brought prices ranging ,from sl4 to $17.25 per ton, an average of $4 per ton less than the market price. The aggre gate proccods were sufficient to cover the claim for whlob the sale was made. It in not MKSIy that the balance of the GO,OOO tons held bv the hanks will be thrown 011 the market at present. Merchant Closed by the Sheriff. Youngstow.v.O .May 22.—The dry goods house of Aluion Dr-lameter, of tills city, was closed by tlie sheriff to-day on judgments entered iu favor of Drlameter A Cos., of Meudvtlle, Pa for $14,000: the Keystone National Bank, of Erie, Fa., for $5,000, and George Wallace Delatiictnr, if Me ad vilie. tor $5,000. Totul liabilities, $40,- $00; assets, $30,000 Diamond Dyes always do more than ftm-.v claim to do. Color over that old dress. It •fill look like new. Only 10 cents for any color. THE MOSCOW FESTIVITIES. Beginning of the Ceremonies Incident to the Coronation. The Czar Enters the Ancient Capital, Ac companied by a Procession of the Greatest Magnificence. A Triumphal Progress from the City’s Gates to the Kremlin. The Emperor and Empress Greeted with the Wildest Enthusiasm at Ail Points on the Route. A SCENE OF BEAUTY. The Streets and Buildings of Moscow Bril liant with Flags and Flowers. Moscow, May 22.—The opening ceremonies of the coronation festivities took place to day. The decorations of the streets and houses were completed yesterday. Ever skawa street is almost concealed by the bunting which flutters at every door and coign of vantage. Kiosks have been con structed of Russian carved wood, in which the city worthies or military bands will be installed. Heraldic devices and coats-of arms have been invented for every province of Asia. On all sides are pictures of the im perial family, and words of salutation in let ters of every size, in Slav or Russian, encir cle garlands surrounded by colored lamps. Eikons, or holy images, inclosed in side chapels glowing with burnished metal vie with massive shields and rich Byzantine portraits of former Czars carried aloft on gigantic spears, from which float banners of many forms and shapes. A thousand cupolas of the Russian churches rise in flaming cold beads or silver star-spangled blues, cruder greens, or studded with im mense nail-heads of every color, lighted up by a brilliant sun and tempered by floating clouds. In the foreground are dashing troikas with silver-harnessed steeds, open caleches full of varied uniforms or curious Asiatic costumes, less pretentious droskvs with quaint drivers, dashing recklessly by in every direction, while the light is left; mujiks in red shirts and boots; couriers in green and gold liveries, jostled by generals of the Cos sack escort ablaze with orders, or scowled at by the officials, or hustled by the police ser geants. The feverish bustle of excitement is added to by passing cavalry or the band of some tardy regiment. All the first hotels and public edifices have special decorations. The palace of the Governor of Moscow is covered with garlands and sweet-fir leaves, festooned from the windows to the ground. In the center is a monogram of the initials “A. M.,” ten feet high in rose blossoms. Every detail of door or window is picked out iu colored lamps, which at night will transform the facade into bowers of brightness, while the portico is a forest of fir-boughs and flowers. Every shop is resplendent with huge gold letters on a black ground, the characters being in Russo-Greek or antique Slav. These add something cabalistic to the magic of the whole, while the resplendent profusion of the church porches and the fretwork of light iron canopies over every hotel door vary the outlines until the whole scene becomes a marvel of novelty and varied attraction. THE PROCESSION. A Triumphal March Witnessed by a Vast and Entliusias'ic Crowd. Moscow, May 22.—The weather this fore noon for the entry into Moscow of the Czar was splendid. The whole route from the Petroffskv Palace to the Kremlin, four and one-half miles, was crowded with people. At every point the Imperial standards were displayed. The balconies were hung with gayly colored materials and Russian colors. The only foreign flags allowed to be dis played are those over the various embassies. Along the road which the procession trav ersed are one hundred Venetian masts, from which banners are flying. All domes and spires of buildings in the city are decked with flags. Thousands of persons passed the night out doors so they might secure good places to see the procession. Multitudes of others thronged the churches praying for the safety of the Emperor. The Czar left Detroffsky Palace at noon, and reached the Kremlin at 1:25 o’clock. There was a fall of rain duringYhe march of the procession, but otherwise the nfl'air was a complete success. The enthusiasm of the people along the route was unbounded, The signal for the starting of the proces sion was the firing of artillery and the ring ing of the bells of the Cathedral of the As sumption. On the Emperor mounting, other salutes were fired The order of the proces sion was as follows: Tlie chief officer of police and twelve gen darmes. The private. escort of the Emperor, the first squadron of Co-sacks of tlie guard and one squadron of dragoons. Mounted Asiatic deputations. Representatives oi tlie nobility. Court, servants, couriers and huntsman. Master of cermunni'-s in a carriage drawn by six horses and billowed by large numbers of court officials and suites. Foreign princes. Members of the Council of the Empire. The grand marshal of tbs Court. A squadron of Chevalier Guards. The Emperor on horseback, followed by Count Alexander Alderherg, Minister of War and aide-de-camp. The Czarevitch and Grand Dukes George, Ml eliuel, Alexis, Paul and Const antitie, the son Constantine of tbo last named and others, After all (he male members of the impe rial family, who were on horseback, came the Empress, accompanied by the Grand Duch ess Xenia Alexandrova In a state carriage drawn by eight horses, a groom leading each horse, with equerries on either side of the carriage, and mounted pages and grooms fol lowing. Then came the state carriages, the first containing Grand Duchess Marie Paul ovnaand Alexandra Josephovna; the second the Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna and Marie Alexandrovna and the Duchess of Edinburg: the third contained the Grand Duchess Vera Constantinovna, the Duchess INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1883. of Wurtemberg, the Grand Duchess of Wur- j temberg and the Grand Duchess Catherine Michaelovna. In the fourth were the Prin- 1 cess Marie of Baden, Princess Eugenie of Oldenburg, and the Grand Duchess Helen of Mecklenberg-Strelitz. A squadron of the Cuirasier regiment of the guards, ladies of honor in carriages, a squadron of lancers of the guard, the mayor and deputations of tradesmen joined the pro- i cession at the old Triumphal Arch. The marshals of the nobility of Warsaw and several other districts did homage to the Emperor at Tsarskaia Place. The Civil i Governor of Moscow, the judges and other 1 city officers received the Emperor at the Gate i of the Resurrection, where his Imperial Majesty, the Grand Dukes and the Empress, alighted and knelt in prayer before the pic ture of the Virgin. The Archbishop of Warsaw received their majesties at the steps of the Cathedral of the Assumption with the cross and the holy water. At this point the cheering of the people was perfectly deafening. The pro cession then entered the Kremlin. The Emperor wore the uniform of a gen eral. and was mounted on a splendid charger. He rode a little in advance of four generals, who were directly attending him. He main tained a calm demeanor, although he often smiled graciously in response to the wild en thusiasm which greeted him at every point. Cheer upon cheer followed each other inces santly from the densely packed multitude on the streets, and from thousands of people in balconies and windows. The Em press was greeted with every mark of enthu siasm and loyalty. Her daughter, the Grand Duchess Xenie, threw kisses to the people. The mounted Grand Dukes formed a very brilliant group. The Asiatic deputations were also magnificently attired. The state carriages were splendidly decorated, and the whole effect was most gorgeous. The entire route was lined with troops. At the moment the cortege entered the city a salute of seventy-one guns was fired from Tsarskaia Place. The Governor-general received the Emperor at the city boundary and joined the cortege with his suite. Tlie Emperor wore the broad blue ribbon of the order of St. Andrew over his uniform. The Empress and Grand Duchesses wore the national Russian dresses. After entering the Kremlin the court of ficials presented their Majesties with bread and salt on plates of silver and gold. When their Majesties retired the bells pealed and a salute of one hundred and one guns was fired. The streets through which the procession passed were badly paved. The Duke of Ed inburg rode in the rear and on the left of the Czar. The Duchess of Edinburg sat in tne second coach from that in which was the Empress. In the Red Square 6.000 school children in white robes sang “Life for the Czar.’’ At this point the enthusiasm of the multitude and playing of the bands produced great effect. The general verdict is that the pageant was a great success. General Sturm, head master of ceremonies, was thrown frem his horse and had his skull fractured. NICE CLOTHES. The Coronation Toilets of the Empress and the Grand Duchess Vladimir. New York, May 22.—A Paris dispatch says the following dresses have been made by Worth for the Empress of Russia: For tlie ceremony of the coronation her Impe rial Highness will wear a velvet court mantle epingle, with pale ruM, and ombrouiered with her imperial arms, set off with rich renaissance designs. The sarafan is of rose satin, embroidered with silver and trimmed with clusters of pearls and marabout. A court dress to be worn at the reception at Moscow of the notables, on the day after the coronation, has a train four metres long. It is of pale rose velvet and is embroidered with a fine silver design, copied from the manteau de cour worn by Marie Antoinette at the fete of the Dauphin at Versailles. The jupe de dessousor the “saratan,” to use a Russian expression, is of white satin, with silver embroidery. The two panneanx in front are separated by buttons of diamond, and tassels composed of clusters of diamonds. A ball dress has a train of white satin em broidered with silver daffodils, surrounded with a garland of narcissi. The front is of white crape, with crystal pears interspersed with roses and narcissi. This dress is for the ball of the noblesse. Another ball dress to be worn at the soiree which will be given by the city of Moscow to tlie Czar has a train of crape rave and satin faille crape, the stripes embroidered in re lief witn silver sprays, and the front embroi dered with five garlands, aipis d'argent, with a fringe of wild flowers. Another toilet is an opera dress of the Louis Seize style. It is a tea-rose satin, with luree bouquets woven in the tissue; the front of crape and rose satin; releve with large touffes de plumes and tassels composed of clusters of pearls. For la fete du jour, when the city of Moscow gives honor to the Czar and Czarina, there is a dress of green crape de chine cov ered with batiste ecrue, embroidered with Valenciennes, with a large cincture and knots of moire rose, chapeau capote of rose velvet. On the occasion of her arrival at Moscow the Empress wore a costume of crape tie chine faille, with lace trimmings, and with a cincture of dahlias and a short cloak to match; chapeau de faille, trimmed with moss roses and clusters of velvet dahlias. GRAND DUCHESS VLADIMIR. The following are the toilets which Worth has completed for the Grand Duchess Vladi mir: On the occasion of the entry into Mos cow, a short dress of crape de chine, trimmed with flounces of white silk and muslin, em broidered with white roses: a grand cincture of moire blanche, with large bouquets of lilacs in the center. On occasion of tlie ball of the noblesse, she will wear a toilet of white crape, embroider ed with silver violets, interspersed with Bur ma violets; a grand cincture of diamonds, with a cordon of violets. At the City of Moscow ball her toilet will be of silver-gray crape, embroidered with silver roses of tlie genre Trianon, trimmed with garlands of roses and silver hazelnuts. For the opera she will wear a robe of white China crape brociic over a white satin jupe, the whole richly trimmed with cascades of pearls. The corsage Bcauhnrnais is fastened by agraffes and heavy tassels of pearls. On the fete du jour of Moscow she will wear a short watteau dress of China crape and satin merveilleux of gris perle, trim med with insertions of malines lace and re lieved bv bows os plum-colored velvet rib bons. The hat is of gris perle crape, trimmed with gris perle and loops of plum-colored velvet, REFORM PROSPECTS. Hints of Important Administrative Changes In Russia. Vienna Dispatch to London Telegraph. Intelligence received here from St. Peters burg states that after the coronation the Czar will exercise a greater personal influence upon state affairs than hitherto, the effect of which will probably be an important change in the personnel of the administration. Ex cepting the Minister of the Household, Count Woronzoff-Dachkoff, a personal friend of the Emperor, only MM. Giers, Tol stoi, and Vannoffski will remain in the cabi net. As Minister for the Home Department a young general will probably be appointed, to whom great administrative talent, loyalty, and energy are attributed. A personage of first-rate capacity in political economy, who at one time held the portfolio of Finance, will be nominated Minister of Commerce. Count Tolstoi is designated for the Ministry of Public Instruction or the presidency of the Council. All rumors concerning the granting of a constitution in connection with the coronation are without foundation. In the first place, there is nobody about the Czar who would now undertake to make such a proposition, and then the repugnance ot the National Party to any and every re striction of the Czar’s power is opposed to it. Finally, the diversity of races, religions, and intellectual conditions in Russia would make it next to impossible to warrant identi cal liberties to all the inhabitants of the vast empire. Therefore, the manifesto promul ga:ed on the occasion of the coronation will most probably only announce a radical sim plification and reorganization of the admin istration, a scheme for increasing the nation’s wealth by regulating both the agrarian ques tion and the state of home industry—finally, the necessity of putting the finances in or der, and of making the Russian budget inde dendent of foreign credit by increasing reve nue and reducing expenses. THE NIHILISTS. Unconfirmed Rumor of an Attempt ou the Emperor’s Life. London, May 22. A dispatch from Berlin says a report, which is not yet confirmed, comes from St. Petersburg that, previous to the departure of the Emperor for Moscow, an explosion occurred under the washstand and in the fire-place in his dressing-room, hut nobody was injured, the Emperor and Empress being in the dining-room at the time. INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. A Child Fatally Injured by a Horae—Scraps of News from Two Mates. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Kokomo, May 22.—1 m-t evening, Dr. A. F. Hay huff, who resides ou North Union street, was out riding with his grandchild, the little son of Mr. aud Mrs. Byron Haskett, and ou returning home took the child out of the buggy, and left it Branding near it, while he went to get a bucket of water. While lie was away, tlie child by some means got under the horse's feet, aud upon his return he found it fearfully inaugled. It i still alive, hut there is scarcely a possibility of its re covery. Portland Votes for Incorporation. Special to the 1 ndiauaDOlis Journal. Portland, May 22. —An election was held here yesterday to decide whether Portland should be come a city or remain a town. The question was decided in favor of incorporation by 234 majority. Stabbed Himself Through the Heart. Special to the rndlananolls Journal. Portland, May 22.—Louis Oswalt, proprietor of the Central Hotel, committed suioide at 6 o’clock this evening by stabbing himself through :ue heart. Deceased was sixty-five years of onre. Indiana Notes. One of tho trustees of the Anna insane asylum has been received as a patient at the Kankakee insane asylum. Policeman English, of Peoria, was divested of hisstara few days ago by the city authorities, on account of his wife having him arrested for whipping her. Professor E. C. Smith, principal of tlie South side High School in Dixon, has resigned. Mr. Smith lias held the position for twenty years, and leaves it to go into other hnsinesH. Mr. C. O. Bcudder has been elected to till tbe place. In clearing away tlie wreck on tbe Indianap olis St. Louis railroad near Hillsboro, HI., where me bridge was blown down last Friday night, two bodies were discovered, one mangled terribly, and tlie other was found in the stream. It is supposed they were tramps stealing a ride. Richard Riehman, Tim Hurley, John Ford, PatricK Ryan atnl Patrick Kelly nAve been In dicted for complicity In tne late Springfield rolling-mill riots. Tbe offense oharged against these parties is intimidation of workmen and connection with tne tile-mill ontrage. where several non-union men were so cruelly beaten. George Reinbold a prominent ami well-con nected young merchant of St. Francisville, cut ltia throat with a butcher-knife on Monday. He wasahurd drinker, and the act is attributed to this fact. He formerly lived in Vincennes, Ind., where he married a refined aud beautiful woman, and where ho has many relatives and friends. Some weeks ago, Freddie Myers, a young son of a Freeport citizen, had lime thrown into his left eye by a comrade, destroying tlie sight. On Monday, by a strange fatality, a playmate, while at play with him at his home, slmt a Hinall-pointed arrow Into the other eye, pierc ing the eyeball and leaving the little fellow blind. Tbe Methodists are having a boom in building churches, a handsome brick building is going up in Griggsville, and large frame churches are aiso being erected at New Salem, six miles west; nt Hiiiman, six miles northwest, and yesterday 1 the corner-stone of anew oiiurcu at Bethel, four miles south or Grigssvillc, was lain. It was at Bethel that tlie pioneer, Peter Cartwright, and the venerable Peter Akres, tlie former deceased and tlie latter living at Jacksonville, now mure than uiuety-five years of age, rode the circuit. Illinois Items. Mrs. Cornelius O’Brien, of Lawrenoeburg, was stviously injured by failing down the stairs of her residence, on Monday. Mrs. Emily M. Holloway,for sixty-three years a resident of Lafayette, tiled on Moiiduy'froiu injuries sustained lußt February by a full ou the lee. Two Mormon elders—not those who were re cently egged In Carroll county—have arrived at liit limoud, where they propose to hold meet ings. Tlie death of Hon. Horace Heffren was caused by paralysis of tlie brain anti nervous prostra tion, He had been 111 about, two days, but. Ilia friends uni not think uis case serious until a few days ago, when he became unconscious, remain ing so until death relieved him. A Fort Wayne officer received a telegram on Saturday night to arrest Miss Minnie Hawkins, of Warsaw, who Had run away from home. When the officer found the young lady she pre sented a marriage certificate, which showed that site had been married to Arthur Hleckmun, of Fort Wayne, iu March last. Bho was not ur rested. The most horrible feature of the Hawkins trouble at Lawrenceburg was the hatred tlie father continued to show of his murdered child. On Sunday tlie brother, a child of ten years, begged tlie heartless Robinson woman with tears “to quit calling ills poor sister bad names.’’ Tne depraved tiling rushed ut him with clenched fists, threatening to strike the sobbing child, but was prevented by Mr. Ilamtnerie and others WhO were present. Hawkins lias tent bark threats of burning the property of those citizens who disapproved his conduct, and getting ovcu with all who have displeased him. Grand Lodge of Good Templars. CHICAGO, May 22—Tbe Grand Lodge of the World of tho Independent Order of Good Tem plars began its twenty-ninth annual session hi this city this morning, but engaged only in pre liminary work, all the delegates not having yet arrived. It is estimated that 170 delegates will lie present to represent the various grand lodges. 1 George B. Katzeiisrein, of California, Right j V. orthy Grand Templar, presided at the forenoon session. The delegates announce that a plan of action will be outlined fur tne guidance of subordinate lodges in making the power of tho order felt as a political agency in securing prohib itory cuuctmeuts iu the several Buies of tlie I Union. THE NEW BUREAU CHIEF. A Little Mild Criticism of Mr. Evans by the Eastern Press, Not Baaed on Valid Objections, but Chiefly Because He Is Not Well Known iu the East. Five Million Dollars Already Wanted for lie bate Tobacco Taxes. Fred. Douglass Warmly Defeuds the Pro posed Convention of Colored Men Notes aud Gossip. THE NEW COMMISSIONER. Mild Criticism by a Few of tho Eastern Newspapers. Special to the IndiansDoiis Journal* Washington, May 22.—A few of the met ropolitan newspapers are disposed to crit icise the appointment of Hon. Walter Evans, but the Eastern press, as a rule, says very little that can be construed into a hostile ex pression of views. The worst tbev can say about him is that he is a comparatively un known man on the Atlantic coast; but the same complaint was made concerning Gen eral Raum, who, by common consent, is ac knowledged to have been tlie best Internal Revenue Commisssoner in office, The new Commissioner will not belong in assuming the discharge of the duties of his position. Reception of the News in Louisville. Louisville Commercial, Yesterday. Colonel Walter Evans, one of the most prominent and able Republican leaders of this State, a lawyerof recognized fine ability, received yesterday afternoon from Washing ton notification of his appointment by the President as Commissioner of Internal Reve nue, to fill the vacancy caused by the resig nation of General Green B. Raum a few weeks ago. The notification was received by telegraph through the Secretary of the Treas ury, and came at 4 o’clock in the form of the following dispatch: Washington, May 21.—Walter Evans, Louis ville, Ky.: 'Hie President appoints you Commis sioner of Internal Revenue. If you accept tele graph me so, and rake official oath today, ac cording to sections 1756 and 7 and 8, Revised Btatutes, and report hero as soon us may be. Charles J. Folgkk, Secretary Treasury. The news was exceedingly pleasant to Colonel Evans, although not exactly a sur prise, for he was expecting the appointment, having been assured that he would most likely be appointed. Yesterday was the last day of grace for the President, and the ap pointment was necessary. Upon receiving the dispatch be went forthwith to the office of Mr. Henry Cassin, Deputy Clerk of the United Stales Court, where he took the oath of office, according to the instructions set forth io tlie Jelegrum from the Secretary of the Treasury. The news spread rapidly, and created quite a sensation, not only local political circles, but among business men.* It had been gen erally understood that Kentucky would be allotted the appointment, but Col. Evans’s name had not been mentioned in that con nection, and so the decision had all the pleas ure of an agreeable surprise to his friends and the public of Louisville. When it is known that Col. Evans had received assur ances three weeks ago that the appointment would be his, it must be conceded that the result was a remarkably well-kept secret. Press Comments. Louisville Courier-Journal: “Walter Evans is a man of large ability and perfect integ rity, and he will filly succeed the eminent official who has just gone out of office. We risk nothing in commending him to the re gard of his political associates and the confi dence of the country at large.” Louisville Commercial: “Mr. Evans is a man of strong convictions and of strong will, and in the dissensions which have prevailed in his party here as well as elsewhere, he has, as such men will, made enemies as w?ll as friends. Even those most opposed to him, however, will readily acknowledge that he is entirely deserving, by reason of ability, per sonal character and party services *oi the honor that has been conferred upon him.” Five Million Dollars' Worth of Rebate To bacco Tuxes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May 22, —Tlie latest estimates place the value of revenue stamps which will be presented for redemption at $5,000’000. The first estimate was $4,000,000, and that was thought extravagant. Thus far only un broken packages have been sent in. BANK TAXES. Opinion by the Attorney-General on tho Tax on Bank Capital ami Deposits. Washington, May 22. —The Attorney-gen eral lias given on opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury that under provisions of the act approved March 3, 188.1, no tax can be collect ed on capital and deposits in national banks since the first day of last January, and no tax on capital and deposits in State banks or private batiks since the first day of last De cember. The Attorney-general saye he is of the opinion that duties are not assessable and collectible on deposits and capital stock of national banking associations for the period between the date of the act. March 3, 1883, and January 1, 1883, nor on deposits and capital of other banks and bankers for the period between the date of the same act and December 1, 1882. FRED. DOUGLASS. A Vigorous Defense of the Proposed Colored Couveution, Washington Bpoelal. Fred. Douglass has conic to the front in de fense of the proposed colored convention, of which he is a leading spirit. In a published card he denounces those colored men who oppose the convention in the following vig orous language: Tliort* are traitors uml Informers among all op pressed ml iinrortnnate people. Colored men are not an exception to tlie rule. There are those who are never doing anyt king for the race them selver, but are ready to scream themselves hoarse in opposition when anything Is attempt ed by others. lam not at all surprised when rotne of those for whom I have lived aim la bored lift, their heels against me. Since tho duys ot Moses such has been the fate of ail men earnestly endeavoring to serve tlie oppressed and unfortunate, but tlie infirmity of oppressed people, Just now conspicuous in the conduct of the opponents of tlie proposed national convuu- PRICE FIVE CENTS. tion, will not deter me, or those associated with ine, from going forward with tne convention in question. I c.n see at. the bottom of this opposi tion only groundless apprehension on the part of some of our white trie mis, aud every ambition and jealousy on the part of the colored men who are just now gaining a little notoriety by assail ing the. motives of better men than themselves* This is to be followed by a reply from Greener, in which, doubtless, some sharp things will be said. Fred. Douglass i9 not the king of all the colored men. There have been complaints that Douglass has assumed too much control of the colored people, and that lie has not always used his opportunities to tlie best interests of the whole race. There is a political movement unquestionably be hind this petty agitation. The design of the leaders of the convention movement is to have some influence upon the presidential campaign. THE STAR-ROUTh TRIAL. Mr. Ingersoll Dissects and Comments Upon Herd ell's Testimony. Washington, May 22.— Mr. Ingersoll re sumed his address to the jury in tlie star route case this morning. The apparent in consistencies in Rerdeli’s description of Dor sey’s letter appealing to Rerdell to be faith ful to him, were pointed out and commented upon. He declared that Rerdeli’s testimony was proof in itseft that Dorsey never wrote such a letter, that the Albemarle Hotel interview \was a fabrication. It was in evince that after Rerdell attempted to cany out his infamous scheme the government Mid put him upon the stand, sealed with the senl of tlie De partment of Justice. While te was doing that he was borrowing money >om his co defendant, Vaile—borrowing raoiey to buy bread to support him while lit tried to swear his co-aefendants into the penitentia ry. The government knew what he W as do ing— that was beyond denial. Bcfo Mr. Ingersoll closed the court adjourned. Pen-Picture of the Jury. Washington Letter. Here is a jury chosen by American justice, to judge a case involving governmental questions, and costing in fees over half a million dollars to try. Such a jury! A set of men whom you would hardly set to managing a saw-mill; certainly not if the machinery was at all intricate. Coarse featured, low-browed, uneducated, vulgar, faced men, they look as though they had never read a newspaper and had never owned an honest opinion. Five of them are chew ing tobacco, and their jaws are moving up and down in unison with those of Jerry Wil son, who is now addressing them. One of them in the back row is asleep, and a fly is crawling on the under lip of his wide-open mouth. Most of the rest are leaning back in their chairs, and six jurors have their chairs resting on two legs. Four of them are negroes, and these are the most respectable-looking part of the twelve. They are better dressed. They look cleaner, and a.s a rule they pay better atten tion than their white brethren. One of these negroes—third from the left on the back row—looks as though he might be a full blooded African. His skin is as black as a cake of stove-polish, and it shines with the same sandy metallic lustre. Ilis hair is short and woolly, his forehead low, his face narrow and his eyes black. He is not. fat, wears a white collar, and looks respectable, CHANDLER TO DEgENDORF. “A Commendable Performance of Public Duty by a Private Citizen." Washington, May 22. —Tlie Post will pub lish to-morrow a letter from Secretary Chand ler to ex-Congressman Dezendorf, of Vir ginia, in reply to a communication received from the latter calling attention to the levy ing of assessments for political purposes on employes of the Norfolk navy-yard. Tho Secretary, after answering the charges con cerning the alleged violations of law, says: The tone of your letter, which you have made public, indicates that you take u very strong in terest in the reformation of the navy-yard at Norfolk. Your long familiarity witn the yard as constant candidate for Congress since 1878, seeking special support from the voters there employed, will undoubtedly enable you to make many more valuable suggestions for the sup pression of abuses therein, which will lie gladly received ami considered. That you should now, for tho first time, invite the attention of tho de partment and public to such abuses, after you nave ceased to expect any personal benefit from the management of the yard, is a most commend able performance of public duty by a private citizen. Very respectfully, William E. Ciiaxdi kr. Secretary Navy. GENERAL AND PERSONAL. Col. Nickerson's Prospects for a Court-Mar tial. Washington, May 22 —Col. Thomas F. Barr, Judge-advocate of the United States, has beep sent to Philadelphia by tbe Secretary of War th take note of the judicial proceedings now pend ing in that city iu the matter of the alleged fraudulent divorce recently obtained there by Col. A. 11. Nickerson, of the United States amir, and the latter’s subsequent remarriage. No other action lias yet been taken by the depart mant, but it is thought m army circles that tho proceedings in Philadelphia will lead to an official investigation, and that when Col. Barr returns and makes his report upon the case a court martial will be ordered to try Col. Nickerson on the charge of conduct unbecoming au officer und a gentleman. Heavy Exports of Merchandise. Washington, May 22.—A statistical statement Just issued by tho Treasury Department shows that tlie exports of merchandise during tho present year will probably exceed those of last year b.v from $60,000,000 to $75.000,b00. Last year their value whs $750,000,000. This year, judging from the work of tbo mtio months for which we have figures, the total will be from $810,000,000 to $820,000,000. The t*tal ex ports for the nine months ended March 31 were $650,000,000, against about $500,000,000 in the corresponding time of last year. If the in crease goes on during the remaining three months at the same rate tho exports this year will exceed those or any year in the history of the country, excepting 1880 and 1881. The President Off to New York. Washington, May 22.—Tho President left Washington this afternoon for New York, ac companied by Secretary Folger, Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Chandler, Post muster-general and Mrs. Gresham, aud Attorney-general and Mrs. Brewster. It is not definitely known how long the President will remain in New York, but It is probable he will be there until after Deco ration Day. Notes aiul Personalities. Washington, May 22.— 1 t is understood that Senator Mahone, of Virginia, has made applica tion for Suuator Anthony's seat iu tho Bcnatc mi the event of the lutter’s death. Senator J. P. Jones will have comidrrable op position in the Nevada Legislature lor iv-rlu tion. Thore are several prominent aspirant' for the pluos. A table prepared at tho Treasury Os par shows the change in tho exports and import:

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2 for the first nine months of tin* jear cempsred with 1882. Asa whole, cur exports ha earned ss7,ooo,ooo—from *579,000,000 to *036,000,000 This iudioates a wholesome gain in the balance of trsrte, and promisee for the year to give us a favorable balance of about $125,00Q.000. _ _ _ Ain oua the little girls who received the rite of continual ion, ou Sunday, from Archbishop Gibbons, at St. Pwter’s (Catholic) Church, was MUs Mina Blaine, a niece of ex-Ssoretary Blaine. Recently Colonel Martin, the assistant secre tary of the national Republican committee, wrote to ex-Senator Dorsey, the secretary of the committee, for all the papers auil memoranda in his pimseasien as secretary. To this letter Dor sey made a stirring reply, statin* m substauce that he waa still secretary of the national com mittee, and as snob he proposed to remain the custodian ot such papers as belonged to the committee until his successor ahull have been elected in form. It is said that Senator Anthony s relatives at a distance have been summoned to Providence. There are grave doubts whether he will be able to occupy hie place in the Senate aguiu, even if lie should live. _ v _ The Investigation of the affairs of the office of Supervising Architect Hill begins to-morrow morning. Mr. Murch has lnfornied Assistant Secretary New, oltairman of tlx* committee, that be is ready to proceed. He be assisted txi conduct la* the case before committee by J. 8. Blair, of the Department of Justice. Deputy Commissioner Rosters i acting Com missioner ot Internal Revenue, and will continue to act in that capacity*until the arrival of the newlv appointed commissioner. Lieutenant Garlidgton, who will command the rebel expedition Lady Franklin hay,will leave New York with Ale party on the Alhambra. June 7, for St John!, N. F Mail for Lieutenant Gree ly and bis men, and contributions of reading matter for tbc expedition, should he sent to the oare of the Chief Signal Officer in time to reach Washington not later than June 1. The Secretary of the Treasury has prepared a senes of regulations to govern the importation of sugar, and they will be promulgated In a day or two. t The President Issued an order to-day closing all the executive departments ou Decoration Day. _ TELEGRAPHIC BAEVITIKS. Mrs. Nellie Montleth, wife of the well-known Presbyterian mi ulster Hanover, died on Sun day of pneumonia. The Prohibition SfU* convention at Trenton, N. J., nominated Di* Isaac N. Quiinbey, of Jer sey City, for Governor. Three men imiirt soiled on the crib in the lake at Chicago, siJpe Sunday night, were rescued yesterday by life-saving crew. There are arventy-eight students in the aca demic depar/ment of the University of Cincin nati, and 2/8 to the art department. Score ofthe bioycle race at Cliicaeo at the close of *>e second day: Mile. Armaindo 296 miles, voodside 285 miles, Morgan 284 miles. The propeller Shicklnnna, of Montreal, is re ported to have sunk near Algonaa Mills, on Lake Horen, on Sunday night, during a northeast gals. The captain and mate of the steamer Tropic have boon arrested at Philadelphia, charged with carrying men and munitions of war into Haytl. The house of Alfred Cole, in Bnekfleld Village, Me., was entered, on Monday night, Mr. ami Mrs. Cole chloroformed, and $5,000 in currency stolen. A party of Pennsylvania veterans on a visit to tb buMleflelrt of Fredericksburg, received a cor dial welcome from the Confederate veterans and citizens. At Jerseyvllle, yesterday, Walter Diinsen shot and killed Mrs. Nellie Dodson, and then shot himself, but only inflicted a slight wound. He Is iu jail. Fmlen Hewes, an extensive commission dealer in lumber at Wilmington, Del., has failed. His liability* are estimated at SIOO,OOO, assets less than $25,000. At Rochester, N. Y, yesterday, the male strikers returned to work at W. 8. Kimball Co.’s cigarette factary. Th® places of the girls were already supplied. The Royal Society of Canada has appointed ft delegates to the meeting of the National Acad emy of Science, at Washington, Dr. fi. Hunt, Ma jor Powell and W. Gossip. Two New Orleans dudes fought a duel, yaster day, at fifteen paces. Shots were exchanged, nobody hurt, and wounded honor declared satis tied. It wasn’t, about a girl. Heavy rain in the district around Anna on Saturday night oaueed flood® which swept away bridges and fences and ruined crops. In one sec tion bail fell to :t depth of eight inches. Harvey Pool fell on to a circular saw at Piu ney’smill, at, Carrollton. Mich., yesterday after noon, ami was cut in two. His age was twenty four. and ins parents reside near Weedsport, N. Y. The first consignment of New Zealand apples has |been received at Sun Francisco. As apples ripen therein the months corresponding to our spring, it is possible for a good trade to be de veloped. Tn a drunken brawl at Chicago, Marlon county, Kentucky, last evening, Joseph Miles was shot twice and instantly killed, and James Blair and a man named Gran well dangerously cut. Blair did the shooting. A rag-picker of Troy, N. Y.. named John G. Barber, who is alleged to have had $5,000 se creted about his beggarly quarters, was found murdered on Monday, aud as no trace ofthe money could be fouud, it is supposed robbery was the motive. At Paterson, N. J over 100 of Ashley fc Bai ley’s silk weavers struck for an advance of 10 per cent, yesterday. Tlie strike Is sanctioned by the Silk Weavers’ Friendly and Protective Soci ety of America. This is tlie first attempt to equalize weavers’ wages. The Macon, Ga.. volunteers, organized in 1825. have decided to visit the cities of the West, leav ing hereon June 10, and taking flfry men and a few prominent citizens. They will visit Cin cinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Rnckport, Janes ville, Memphis and other places. A brute named “Little Bill Jourdan,” of Raker county, Ga had a w ife and six children, the eldest a girl of eleven years. While his wife lay dylug, on Friday last, she sent for some lady friends, to whom she said: “While lying here, yesterduy 1 heard the screams of my little daughter and the curses of my husband. Being too feeble to leave nir bed, I waited until my daughter came into the room here and told ino her father had outraged her.” SPORTING MATTERS. Schaefer and Daly Win the Billiard Games at the Tournament Yesterday, New York, May 22 —Schaefer and Dion played the fourteenth game of the billiard tour nament. Schafer was in good trim, but did not get to work until tlio thirteenth inning, when, by a series of brilliant round-the-table shots and a flue display of nursing, he counted 33, the score being 81 to 84 in Dion’s favor. Schaefer .•iiKcie several good figures after this, among them runs of 31, 32, 38, 43 and 44, and won the game in the fiftieth inning. 800 re, 500 to 267. Schaefer’s average was 10, the best on record; best run, 44. Wiluaui Sexton and Maurice Daly played the evening game. The attendance was the largest of the week, aud included a number of ladies, among them Madame Ylgnuux and Mrs. Daly. The game began at 7:39 by Daly winning the lead, and ended in his favor by a score of 500 to 420 for Sexton. Base Ball. Chicago, May 22.—Chicago 4, Boston 3. Bt. Louis, May 22.—St. i>euts 6, Columbus 3. East Saginaw, May 22.—Toledo 17, Saginaw 13. QuiNCr, 111., May 22.—Fort Wayne 19, Quin cy 9. Nrw York, May 22.—Metropolitan 6, Balti more o. Bat City, May 22.—Grand Rapids 17, Bay City 10. Springfield, 111., May 22. Springfield 2, Pe oria 15. Philadelphia, May 22.—Athletic 9, Alle gtaeuy 1. _ A Strike Drawing to a Close. St. Louis, May 22.—The backbone of the coal miners’ strike ip St. Clair county. 111., seems to be broken. Two operators induced now men ironi this city to go to work this morning As sixty of these arrived at Burickner Station they were met by 5,000 strikers. No hosrile demon strations were made, but the strikers Induced several of the man to quit work. The shat if! and a posse of deputies are on the ground. ISiwhop McMullen’s Case Hopeless. D wen port, la., Mur 22.—At St. Marguerite’s Cithortral on fltinday It was siinonnoed by tlie Very Bet. H Cosgrove that the Ht.-Rev. John McSluT.cn, Bishop of Davenport, was falling continually. Prayers were asked of the people for him. The Htshep's case Is now considered almost a hopeless one. Truth Is mighty and has provailed. Pee Us in Hop Bitter*, nil over the world. THE OUTLOOK FOB FOOD. The Present Condition of the Wheat and Fruit Crops in Indiana. Much of the Former Winter Killed—Fruit iu Good Shape, Except Peaches The Yield of Corn. Now York Times. Monday. INDIANAPOLIS. The wheat in the central -section of the State is by no means in a satisfactory condition. In the lower lands tlie toe stood upon tt so long throughout the winter as to kill it out entirely, and nearly all of It so planted has been plowed j up and the ground prepared for corn or mead ow. In the higher fields wheat looks reasonably fair, and under the Influence of the moist, warm weather now prevailing will grow still better. Ihe best estimate upon the yield is that in this locality it will be a little above two-thirds of an average crop, but not more than 60 per cent, of the crop of 1881 or 1882, both of which were about au average yield. Little can yet bo said for corn. A great deal of that early planted has been plowed up, the seed being worthless, but there is plenty of time to make, a good corn crop with sec' .and planting, aud the weather is very favorable. The expectations favor a fair average corn crop, but a large percentage of the oorn crop hereabout Is turned into hogs, for which there is a heavy local demand from pack ers. Oats and barley and hay are fully as well off, the alternate rains and sunshiue which have been charateristic of the month thus far being particularly adapted to the development of a large hay crop. Wheat and oorn, however, are our staple crons, aud of the one there will be a falling off of 5.000,000 bushels in this central section of the Stave, while the other is still to be made to n great extent, the farmers being badly troubled with defective seed. Iu other sections of the State wheat is better than in this region. EVANSVILLE. The winter wheat acreage in this section shows a slight increase over last year, but the crop will fall far short of that of last year. There were sigus of improvement in the crop two weeks ago, and many indulged the hope that the crop would come out In pretty good shape after all, but the average weather since then has not been favorable, and the outlook at this time Is far from encouraging over the comities of south ern Indiana, southeastern Kentucky and south western Illinois. Good Judges and close ob servers estimate that there will be not more than half a crop. In a few sections better results are expected, but in others the prospect is for a less yield than the estimated average, so that as a whole no more than half a crop can be safely counted upon. A gentleman who has traveled across the lower part of the State says he saw many nice helds of wheat, and was told by farm ers that they were counting upon more than half a crop, which Is much better than they an ticipated a week ago. From other sources it is ascertained that the pocket counties of this Stale, those nearest Evansville, taking them as a whole, will yield about half a crop of wheat. Tne potato crop is big, aud th® peach, apple aud fruit yield promised to be nnusually large. In this immediate vicinity the rains during the past two days, which are still falling, have done a great ainouut of good, and farmers to day are more hopeful than for some time past. TERRE HAUTE. In six of the western counties of Indiana, the condition of the growing crops is very discourag ing. The cold weather of the past twenty days has ruined the hope that even half a crop of wheat would be made. South of here the fly has damaged the wheat, aud only about one-third of a crop will bo raised. The acreage of wheat sown in the western part- of the State was on an average 10 per cent, above last year. The wheat crop can he put down at one-third. There is an inclination to increase the corn acreage, but plowing and planting are not over half done. Where it has appeared above ground it is coming up splendidly. There will be an increase in the acreage of one-third. The crop can be given more attention because there will be only a •mall wheat crop to harvest. NEW ALBANY. The best winter wheat belt of Indiana is em braced in the counties of Jackson, Boolt, Clark, Floyd. Washington, Orange. Lawrence, Harri son, Crawford, Dubois. Daviess, Perry, Spencer, Warrick, Pike, Ofbson, Knox, Posey aud Van derburg. and this report embraces these counties. In 1882 these nineteen counties produced a crop of about 11,600.000 bushels. This was the heaviest crop that has been produced in them heretofore. An average crop iu these counties, however, would ba about 9,500.000 bushels. The best obtainable information from the counties named indicates that there will be a falling off in the crop of 1883 from that of 1882 of fully 25 per cent, but there is an increase in the acreageof 1883 over that 1882 of 10 per cent; tlie most carefullv gleaned information in relation to the amount of the crop of 1882 yet in the hands of the farmers justifies the statement that it is felly 20 per cent. The growing crop iu the southern Indiana wheat belt, as above defined, has improved won derfully since the middle of Marcn, ami if there* are no backsets the crop of 1883 will be a full average of the past five years, excepting the crop of 1882, th© largest, as above stated, ever produced in this part of Indiana. The percent age of old wheat in the bauds of farmers and in creased acreage must be taken iuto account, however, and will make the amount of wheat in the haunt of the farmers at the close of the pres ent year's harvest not much less than that held by them at the close of tlie harvest of 1882. T here are slight complaint® of the fly in a few neighborhoods, aud rain is needed, hut the fly so far Is doing little damage, aud to-day has brought rain, with prospects favorable for its continuance in sufficient amount required by the growing grain. MU NCIB. The acreage of wheat in this county is equal to that of last year, but the crop will fall short about one half of last and previous years. The acreage of corn exceeds that of last year. The ground is in excellent condition. Planting Is finished. The corn is coming up and the pros pect is good. Oats are flat aud short. PORT WAYNE. Northern Indiana—especially the tier of counties bordering on Michigan— M the best wheat-produoing section of the State. The acreage sown is somewhat larger than last year, but the present condition is not as good as last year. At this time in nearly every field are large this spots, and in many Instances whole wheat fields have been plowed up and planted to corn. All this will decrease the crop much below that of 1882 or 1881. The oorn crop promises to be large all over northern In diana, and the acreage planted is much larger than in 1881 of 1882. I'll® condition of the wheat crop is due entirely to the severe winter. The cold, backward season has had Rome effect on corn, but tb® general condition at this dale Is good. PLYMOUTH. The weather is warm and wet now. The spring has been cold and backward. Wheat not winter killed is doing finely. Wheat iu this county (Mar bhall) promises two-tbirds of a full crop. There are many very flue fields. Some fields are spot ted—winter-killed—on the highest poiuts. In sandy soil the crop promises one-third more than last year aud oue-rourtb more than the crop of 1881. The large acreage of oat® la looking well. rasa is look tug splendid. The farmers ate in the midst of oorn planting now. The ground is In good condition. The acreage will be large. Ap ples, pears ami cherries are all right. There will le no peaches. Therein a bsttsr prospect for all crops than last year. Wheat, in this Icounty did not make half a crop last year. With fa\orab)e weal her'farmer® will get fifteen bushels to llie acre. VALPARAISO. The wheat In this (Porter) conntr, though much improved by the late fine weather, is iu a poor condition. It is backward aud thin aud a good many fields have been plowed up and sowed to oate and corn. A fair estimate or the crop would le 00 per cent, of that of 1882. The crop of 1881 was almost a total failure tn this section, and can form uo basis or comparison with the growiug crop. There has been a slight increase hi acreage, but not more than 90 per iient. of last year’s acreage is now standing. Reports from this part of the State are to about tne earn® effect ora little better, perhaps, to the eaat of us, and more to the scat®. Seeding for oorn is about ton days be hind, owing to repeated rain. Some fanner** who planted before tlie rains are now having to replant, mostly on account of poor seed. There THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1883. is a slight decrease in She acreage, caused by poor preceding crops, and more attention nqsug given to gr>t®a and the dairy business Many farmers who cribbed their last year’s crop, sup* Dosing it to be 4c good condition, find that their corn has spoiled iu the crib, and is not marketa ble. Perhaps IQ per cent, of the cribs have bad to be assorted. The ground is pretty much all ready for seeding, and it will all be seeded with in the next ten days, with perfect prospect were Jt not for the delay in scediug. There is 10 per cent, increase in the acreage ofthe oats in this region, the crop having paid well of late, an 4 the many fields of wheat winter-killed making way for it. There is an even stand, perhaps a little thin and backward, but there is a fair prospect for an average crop. Little rye aud uo barley is rassej in this section. MADISON. Os the growing staple crops in this section of our State, there will be In -general very nearly an average yield. It is believed, however, that the harvest will not be quite so great as it was tb 1882, that having been an unusually good crop year for everythiug but fruit. Where wheat was sown in good time and proper manner, it looks extremely well, while it gives poor promise where light and slovenly sowu. The acreage of wheat this year is about the same as in 1881, though somewhat less than that or 1882. The yleid of outs and graßß will be in all probability fair, as to both, especially if favored with a few more showers such as fell tn this region on Fri day. Corn, t hough late in being planted, is now nearly all in, ann, with continued favorable weather, a full average crop may be expected. Farmers complain of dry weather. Peach growers ou both the Indiana and Kentucky shies of the Ohio river anticipate leas than half u crop, but th® outlook for other fruit 1b good. Summarising the Reports. INDIANA. Suffering from the saute bad weather as Illi nois, this Btats does not promise, on the average, mere than half a crop of wheat, with probably a slightly increased acreage. The sty has done in jury in some sections. Some wheatfields have been replanted in corn, and a larger acreage in this cereal is reported, alt bough planting is uot yet finished.. Despite some trouble from poor seed, the promise, with favorable weather, is of a good average crop. Somewhat more land has becu planted in oats, which look well. A large hay crop is expected. Fruits generally, except peaches, look well. ILLINOIS. The wheat crop does not promise well, had weather, floods and insects having done much injury. Many fields have been plowed up and seeded with corn. A fair average of the reports received would be under 75 per cent, of last year’s yield. There is an increased acreage in corn, and although poor seed lias made replant* ing necessary in some instances, farmers are hopeful of at least an average crop. A larger yield than last year of oats is expected, the only poor reports coming from Sonthern Illinois. A good crop of rye is looked for. Grass prospects are good and cattl® are in good condition. THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER. The Story of the Phenomenal Weather that Followed a Cold Spring In 1816. New York Sun. During a cold spring, like that which is Just now ilrawing to un end, people generally win sole themselves with the reflection that the sun will eventually get the victory, and that sum mer will certainly come at last, though its coin ing may be delayed. Uncertain as the weather is the general features of the seasou recur with a regularity which warrants the confidence thus reposed in the annual return of seedtime and harvest; but tbore are instances on record in which even the seasons seem to have lost their characteristic features, as if the ordinary laws of meteorology had been temporarily suspended. A remarkable case of this kind, aud one which the long-continued cold weather of this spring makes particularly interesting just now, is that or the year 1816, which has been called “the year without a summer.*' A coni in uni cation printed in the Congregatlonalist gives the fol lowing summary of the weather of this remark ble yean January and February wers mild; March was cold; April negan warm, but ended in snow and ioe. Ice formed an inch thick m May, and fields were planted over aud over again till it was too iate to replant. June was the coldest even known in this latitude; frost and ioe were com mon. Almost very green thing was killed; fruit nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten Inches in Vermont, seven in Maine, three in the interior of New York, and also in Massachusetts. There wore a few warm days. It was called a dry season. But little rain fell. The wind blew steadily from the north, cold and fierce. Mothers knit extra socks ami tens for tnelr children in tne nprina. and wood piles, that usually disappeared during the warm spell, in front of the bouses were steadily built up again. Planting and shivering were done to gether, and the farmers who worked oat their taxes ou the country roads wore overcoats and mittens. Iu a town in Vermont a flock of sheep belonging t.o a farmer had been sent us usual to their pasture. On the 17th of June a heavy snow storm fell in New England. The cold was Intense. A farmer who had a large field of corn in Tewksoury built fires around it at ntght to ward off the frost. Muuy an evening he and his neigh bors took turns watebing them. He was reward ed with tlie only orop of corn in the neighbor hood. Considerable damage was done in New Orleans in consequeno© of the rapid rise of the Mississippi river. Fears were entertained that the sun was cooling off, and throughout New England all picnics were strictly prohibited. July was accompanied with trust and ice. In dian corn was nearly all destroyedj some favor ably situated fields escaped. August was more cheerless, if possible, than the summer months which preoeded it. loe was formed half au inch in thickness. Indian corn was so frozen that Mi® greater part was cut down and dried for fodder. Almost every greeu thing was destroyed in this country and iu Europe. On the 30th snow fell at Barnet, forty mlleß from Loudon. Very little corn ripened in New England aud the Mladle States. Farmers supplied themselves from corn produced in 1815 for seed In the spring of 1817, It sold at from $4 to $5 per bnshel. September furnished about two weeks of the pleasantest weather of the season, hut in the latter part of the month ice formed an inch thick. October had more than its share of cold weather. November was cold and snowr. De cember was comfortable, and the winter follow ing was mild. Very little vegetation was ma tured in the Eastern aud Middle States. The suu’s rays seemed to be destitute of heat during the summer; all nature was dad iu a sable hue, and meu exhibited no little anxiety concerning tlie future of this life. The average prloe of flour during the year In the New* York market was sl3 per barrel. The average price of wheat iu England was ninety seven shillings per quarter. Bread riots oc curred throughout Great Britain in 1817, iu con sequence of the high price of the stuff of life. Staai us nip Arrivals. Philadelphia, May 22.—Arrived: Indiana, from Liverpool. New’ York, Mar 22 —Arrived: Bothnia, from Liverpool; Anohoria, from Glasgow. London, May 22.—Arrived; Rugii, Alaska and Belgravia, from New York; Braunschweig, from Baltimore; Cadiz, Catalan and Nyiapbhc, from New Orleans. Chalmers in Memphis. Memphis, Tenu., May 22 —General J. R. Chsl mers, of Mississippi, arrived in this city inis morning. Owing to rumors afloat the chief of polio® thought proper to arrest both him aud M. C. Galloway, of th® Appeal. Before a magis trate they were both made to give bond iu sl,- 000 each to keep th© peace. Mb. C. D. Lknikh, Loguusport, says: “For Purifying and Enriching the Blood Brown's Iron Bitters is unequalert.' CRAFT &CO., MANUFACTURING AND IMPORTING JEWELERS! Call utteution to their 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 tor Fine Montague and Inter national Watches. We iuvlt® a call. No. 24 E. Washington St. Whisper it Easy Bargain No. I—Ladies’ Kid Opera Slipper, kid lined, 75e. Bargain No. 2—Gents’ Pine Calf, Sailor Tie, Hartford make, $2.75. I\/T TT”" The Famed Promoter, Maintainer and Agitator -J-vJ—of Low Prices in Indianapolis, N~o. 24r West Washington Street. HALL’S Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer was the first preparation perfectly adapted to pure diseases of the scalp, and the first successful restorer of faded or gray hair to its natural color, growth, and youthful beauty. It has had many imitators, but none have so fully met all the re quirements needful for the proper treatment of the hair and scalp. Hall's Hair Renewer has steadily grown in favor, ands ead its fame and usefulness to every quarter of the globe. Its un paralleled Buccess can be attributed to but one cause: the entire fulfilment of it*premise*. The use for a short time of Ball’s Haim Rr neweb wonderfully changes and improves th® personal appearance. It cleanses the scalp from all impurities, cures all humors, fever, and dry ness,and thus prevents baldness. It stimulates the weakened glands, and enables them to push for ward anew and vigorous growth. The effects of this article are not transient, like those of aloo* holic preparations, but remain a long time, which makes its use a matter of economy. Buckingham’s Dye FOR THE WHIBKBRS Will change the beard to a natural brown, or black, as desired. It produoes a permanent color that will not wash away. Consisting of a single preparation, it is applied without trouble. PREPARED BY R. P. HALL CO., Nashua, N. H. Bold by all Dealers iu Medicines. Cleveland, Columbus, Cincin nati Indianapolis R’y. Cleveland, 0., May 19, 1883. Special meeting of stockholders to be held June 6. 1883. The transfer books of this company will he Closed ou the 22d Inst.., in preparation for said meeting, as heretofore advertised, and reopened on June 7. By order of the Board of Directors. GEO. H. RUSSELL, Secretary. SOCIETY NOTICES. Masonic— marion lodge, no. 35. f. and a. M. Special meeting tills (Wednesday) evening at 7:30 o’clock. Worn, second degree. Visiting bretnren fraternally welcomed. HUGH J. DRUMMOND, W. M. John B. Elam, Secretary. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT—THAT there is an English Tea Festival on Friday evening next, at Memorial Presbyterian Church. Tickets, one shilling each (25 cents). Come yourself aud bring your friends. A~CH AFTER or STARTLING DISCLOSURES The ICONOCLAST next Saturday will con tain u long chapter, entitled “Indianapolis by Gas-Light.” The writer lias visited a number of the liauuts of vice and sin iu our city, and among them several houses of prostitution, in eluding not only gilded palaces, but those of a much lower grade, and gives a graphio discre tion of how their inmates live, and the class of men who frequent snob places. Interviews with the Mayor aud other prominent citizens of the city npon th© question of how to suppress the evil of prostitution, will be also given in the ar ticle. It will be a chapter of many startling dis closures, and one which will be of interest to the general public. The paper containing it will be mailed to any address at five cents a oopy, and will also be for sale by the newsboys next Saturday. wanted WANTED-GOOD BTONE-CUTTER3 AT Bedford, Ind. Wag-s. $3.50 per day for good men. HINSDAI.E-DC7I v GRANITE CO. WJ ANTED—BEVERAL GOOD YARN ISIIER3 TT can find steady work by addressing tbe Wranipelmeler Furniture Manufacturing Cos., Louisville, Ky. \\J ANTF.D—THE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER f in the West, the Weekly Indiana State Journal. One dollar per year. Ninety cents in clubs of five and over. ANTED-SnOEM AKERS-ONE HUNDRED non-union hands on men’s pegged work; good wages and steady work guaranteed to ex perienced men. Address, “FOREMAN,” Box 523, Clnoiunati, O. ANTED —TWO FIRST-CLASS EXPERN enced boot and shoe salesmen, m a jobbing house, for routes in Ohio and -Indiana, with an established trade ou both. Address Lock-box 86, Cleveland, Ohio. ANTED-YOU TO BRING A DKSCUIP tion of your property at once, if you wish to sell. We have fifty cash customers for good property at fair price. Call at once. ALEX. METZGER. Odd fellows* Hall. FINANCIAL. _ Money to loan at lowest rate of interest. E. B. MAKTINDALE dt SONS. r|TO LOAN—S7OO AT 6 PER CENT., FOR FIVE X years. T. A. GOODWIN, Room 29 Thorpe Block. Money to loan on city or farm property. U. M. STODDARD, Clay pool Building. ONEY TO LOAN AI 4 THE LOWEST RATES of interest. JOHN W. WILLIAMS CO„ 3 and 4 Vinton Blook. ONEYTO'LOAN ON FIRST MORTGAGE of city aud farm property in Indiana and Ohio. Low interest. JOS. A. MOORE, 84 East Market street. WILL FURNISH MONEY ON FARM BE eurtty. promptly, at tne lowest rate® for long or snort time. THOd. C. DAY RIM R N TOP SECOND I 1 hand engine*, boilers, and sawmills in good order. HADLEY, WRIGHT A CO., corner Teuucssee and Georgia streets. ludUuaoolU. PERSONAL. IJERSONAL-THOMAB RANDALL. OF BT. 1 lamis, your friend. Frank Miles, would like lu see you. Call at 149 East street. ROBBINS k GARRARD, P A D D T A f 17 Q No. 32 E. Georgia St U/iUIU/lljiLO. Indianapolis. GAS FinORESIID PLUMBING. Parties in need of Gas Pipes, Water Pipes, Sprinklers, Garden Hose, Nozzles, Hose Reels, etc., should call on us before buying. Prices low. Repairing promptly attended to. ANESHAENSEL STRONG, No. 93 N. Pennsylvania St., Denison Hotel Block. body and tapestry Brussels! A large Invoice just received, to be sold at Bargains. WALL PAPERS—A large and fine selected stock. AWNINGS and TENTS made to order. HERMANMARTENS, No. 40 South Meridian Street. ANALYTICAL IJ~ N. HURTY, 104 and 106 N. Pennsylvania Street, TT TT* TV T Q! HT I Indianapolis. V J XJL Hi 1V 1 X T I nF’Assaylng and analytical work solicited. I Special attention to technology. “Tlie Time of the Singing of Birds Has Come.” And as hot weather advance® people use less meat and Assnme a lighter diet, and so Crackers and Tea will be more and more in demand. BRYCE’S CRACKERS Are the most nutritious and palatable, being made strictly of the best, materials. No oleomargarine nor cotton seed oil whatever used. Always fresh, as no stock on hand is carried, but the supply made daily. Get the best, as the best is always the elieupest. Kept in nearly every grocery in the city, aud “BRYCE” stamped on every cracKer. BAKERY,' Nos. 14 and 16 East South Street. OCEAN^STEAMERS. STATE L UNTIE BETWEEN New York and Glasgow, Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast and Londonderry. These first-class, full-powered steamers will sail from New York EVERY’ THURSDAY’. First Cabin. S6O to $75, according to accom modations. Return tickets, sllO to $l3O. Sec ond Cabin, S4O. Return tickets, #75. Steerage, outward $26; these steamers carry neither cat tle, sheep nor pigs. Prepaid tickets for steerage passengers from Europe reduced to s2l. Apply to FRENZEL BROS., Agents, 48 East Washington street, ALEX. METZGER, Agent, 5 Odd fellows Hall; JOHN H. OHR, Agent, In dianapolis; AUS TIN, BALDWIN A CG.. General Agents. 53 Broadway, New York. ANCHOR LINE. United States Mail Steamships Sail from New York every Saturday for Glasgow via Londonderry. Cabin passage, S6O to SBO. Second Cabin, S4O. Steerage, Outward S2B. Prepaid s2l. LIVERPOOL AND QUEENSTOWN SERVICE. FURNESSIA sails' May 26, June 30, August 4. CITY OF ROME sails June 9. July 14, August 18. BELGRAVIA sail* June 16, July 2i, August 25. Cabiu passage S6O to SIOO according to accom modations. Seo. ud Cabin aud Steerage us above. Anchor Line Drafts issued at lowest rates are ?aid free of charge in England, Scotland and reland. For passage, Cabin Plans, Book of lours, etc., apply to HENDERSON BROTH ERS, New York, or ALEX. METZGER, 5 Odd fellows’ Hall, or FRENZEL BROTHERS. Vance Block, Indianapolis. EUROPE Cook’s Grand Excursions leave New York, April 26, June 1, June 13 and June 30, 1883. Passage tickets by all Atlantic steamers. Special facilities for securing good berths. Tourist ticket® for individual travelers in Europe, by all routes, at reduoed rates. Cook’s Excursionist, with Maps and full par ticulars, by mail 10 cents. Address THOB. COOK A SON, 261 Broadway, N. Y. HOTEL FOR SALE. A hotel in Kausas City, location most deair able, three stories high, has 58 rooms which are all available, each room furnished with a mar ble-top set. Brussels carpet in every hall and room; electric bell-call and fir® escape in each room. Th® Uoiia® is equiped with every modern convenience. Dining rtom with a seatiug ca pacity of fifty. Wooden extension two stones high belonging to lessoe. A flue bar. complete in every particular, including ice chest. Railroad ticket office iu hotel. Average receipts are $350 to S4OO per week. Appended is the month ly statement of rents: Expenditures for entire bous®. $333.33 Receipt® for BUr® $125.00 Receipts for ticket office 33.33 Receipts for bar 125.00 Receipts for two basements... 30.00 $313.33 $333 33 Deductions of receipts 313.33 Actual rent, expense 20.00 Satisfactory reason given for selling. Address HENRY B. COWAP, 1032 Uulou avenue, Kau sus City, Mo. JJILYOW&HEALY 2 ,CSig> Stale Monroe St*.. Chlcatjo.^a^^^J >Villen>l prei>*lil tony adilri-M tiww £f BAND CATALOGUE, f QB for IM3, *OO PHM, Zio KagraTTum jor tmtrum*U. Sttlu, op, U-lu.'V RffWJi '.mpon, EptfleU, Ctp-Uni|, rWB /f\m StMuU. Pram Major** Staff., and ll W ■IB Sundry Bn4 Outfit*, lUp-Urtnc 11 //ALM.I-4.L, Include* !ntmrton nrid Li■ UNJg for Amateur Hoods, nd LUMotfu CfeokM {fend Mumo, w NEW BOOKS. Folio of Music. Companion vol. to Bong Folio, 50c; by post 60 English Style in Public Discourse, by Aus tin Phelps. J> D $2.00 Liviug Kugllsk Poets 2.00 The Real Ikird Byron, by John Cordis Jeuferson Frsqr 20 BOWEN, STEWART CO., No. 18 W. Washington St, BUSINESS DIRECTORY. INDIANAPOLIS. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. ELLIOTT A BUTLER, NO. 3 ATTN A BUrLPING. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. SHEPARD, ELAM MARTINDALE, ATTORN EYS-AT-L AW, -Ptna Building, 19*9 North Pennsylvania St. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE. ALEX. METZGER’S, INSURANCE aud LOAN. REAL ESTATE and STEAMSHIP AGENCY. Second Floor Odd-fellows HalL TRUNK MANUFACTURER. 171ULL ASSORTMENT. TRUNKS MADE TO order. Repairing neatly done. JAMES BOGERT, Telephone to Bates House Trunk Store. MISCELLANEOUS. PATENTS, MODELS AND PATTERNS. JOHNSON CO., Corner of Georgia and Delaware Sts. Hercules powder, the safest and strongest powder in the world. Powder, Caps. Fuse, and all tne tools tor Blasting Stumps kept by C. H. JENNE, Sole Agent, 29-a Nortu' Pennsylvania street. Indianapolis Oil Tank Line Cos., DEALERS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. Corner Pine aud Lord Streets. baTwb. W. B. BARRY', Saw Manufacturer. 132 and 131 S. Pennsylvania St. Smith's Chemical Dye-Works, No. 3 Martimlale’s Block, near Pustoffioe. Clean, dye and repair gentlemen’s clothlmr, also, ladies’ dresses, shawls, sacqucs. and silk and woolen goods of every description, dyed and re fimshed; kid glove® neatly cleaned at 100 pm* pair. Will do more first-mass work for less money than any house ot the kiud iu the Slat®. JOHN B. SMITH. NOTICE. Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati *fc t Indianapolis Railw iy. Cleveland, O. April 2, 1883. Notice is hereby given to the stockholders of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati 6t Indian apolia Railway Coiupuuy, that a special meeting of til® stockholder® of said Railway Company will be held at the general office oi the company in the city of Cleveland, O ou the 6th day of Jane, 1883, at 11 o’clock a. M for the purpose of voting upon a lease for ninety-nine years of the St. Louis, Alton Terre Haute railroad to the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati Indian apolis and the Indiuiiapdi® A Sr. Louis Railway Companies, and to consider said lease, and to authorize, ralfy and confirm said lease or reject the same, and to take such other action in regard to said lease as th® stockholders may deem proper. By order of the Board of Directors, GEORGE 11. RUSSELL, Secretary. RUBBER BOOTS, SHOES AND ARCTICS. 10,000 CASES, Including standards and grades to match, are offered to the lobbing trade at less than manu facturers’ prices by FIELD, THAYER CO., 178 Congress Street, 1308 TON.

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THE RELIGIOUS COUNCILS. The Pre*lte,ins Discuss the Pro posed Change in Church Politjr. Fraternal Exchanged with Various Other Bod lea of Religionist* in Session. The Baptist Bible Convention Meets at Saratoga. i Heated Discussion Over the Bible So ciety Question—The Lutheran General Synod Adjourns. THE PRESBYTERIANS. Fraternal Greeting*-Home Missions and Their Needs Considered. Saratoga, NJY., May 22 —The General Assem bly opened, and the appeal of Dr. W. McLean, from the Steubenville presbytery, suspending hlui from the ministry for heresy, was laid aside temporaii!;. Rev. Dr. Go. D. Baker read the annual report of the boxrd of home missions. There is a great field for work beyond the Mississippi, among the Indians, Mormons, Spatrish speaking people and along the Northern and Southern Paoiflo railroads and Alaska. One thousand three hun dred and eighty-seven miasi caries are support ed by the boird. and 133 teachers by women auxiliary societies. The report recommends the General Assembly to ask pastors and ses sions of churches to raise $600,000 for the tin oerativo wants of the board the e>njing year. The receipts last rear were $504,000. Kev. Dr. Henry Kendall, secreturv of the board of home mission*, followed in a lengthy address, describing the field of labor and the work aeonm plished, aud what uow o*nfronts the board. The report was adopted, after being amended by striking out a recommendation that President Arthur and the Secretary of thA Interior bo asked to establish civil government in Alaska, And to grant aid to schools established there by the board. The report, of the committee on eburoh polity was made the second order for Thursday morn ing. telegram was received as follows; “Nashville, May 22. “To the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, at Saratoga: “The General A*semhlv of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church sends Christian greeting, aud wishes all peac** and prosperity in the work. “John Feizzkl. Stated Clerk.” The following answer was sent: “Saratoga, N. Y. t Mar 22. “To the General Assembly of tho Cumberland Pres byterian Church, Nashville, Teun.: “The General Assembly of the Presbvterian church of the United Slates of America responds cordially to your Christian greeting. See 2d Thesssloniar.s, ii. 16-17. “E. F. Hatfield, Moderator.” Rev. Charles E Dicker, tn the absence of Judge William Strong, chairman of the delegates to the Southern General Astepifil.v, read the re port ot the special committee on the relations of the board of home oiH to the pre*bysenes. Mis work began in 1830 by the overtures of seventeen presnyterl**, one synod asking the General Asett-ly to define the aeration* of the board of hom* miasiouH and presbyteries The committee unanimously agreed on a report as follows: “First, within the bounds of presbyteries, the work of iioud* missions should be carried on in harmony with the presbytery. Second, the hoard should not. decline to grant the appropri ttiou asked for by the unit si. after a view of tbe whole field, there is not snftleleni funds. Third, the i board should not eniiiiiiisaion pastors of mission churches, bur. issue to the presbytery the amount paid to the tuissiouarv. Peur.fi, svnodi c-al missionaries ore only to he unpointed bv synods. Firth, no missionary church to be organ lied within the bounds ot a presbytery without its consent. Sixth, each svnod shall app dut a home missionary committee to ascertain the whole number of church, a and missions reeding aid in its bounds, and equalize the salaries of missionaries.” In conclusion, the oomnnrtcf fudges that no action is a- siraltle on their part respecting a plan of sustentation Tin* report was accepted and made the first order for Thursday after noon. The appeal case of Rev. Dr. W. W. McLean, of the SteuhPiiville, O, Presbytery, suspending him from the ministry for heresy contained in his bonk, the judiciary committee recommended that, the matter be referred to the Ohio synod for union. The viva voce vote was so close, that the moderator iould not decide; a diviNiou was or dered and the report not received, 222 to 233. A motion to refer the matter to a committee of eight clergvmen and seven elder* to examine and report to the General Assembly was post poned by the expiration of tho hour. The Southern General Assembly. Lexington, Ky., May 22.- fn the convention This morning the committee on bills and over tures reported on various hills. The discussion The question of amending the constitu tion touching the education of ministers was continued. A vote was taken, and the majority report was adopted be cause the presbyteries already have power to license and ordain in exceptional cases The As setubly at the afternoon session took up the question: “How Shall Fraternal Relations be Cnrri"d on. Whether by Letter or bv Delegates!'' The committee reported in favor of letter*. Tne question was under discussion when the Assem bly adjourned. Dr. J J. Bui lock spoke in favor of delegates, and Dr R N. Smoot favored let ters. Tli- question of roreigu tuisaious is beiug discussed to-night. The Cumberland Assembly. K Nashville, May 22.—The Cumberland Presby terian General Assembly selected McKeesport, Pa., as the place for the next meeting, and the third Thursday in May, 1684, as the tlm*. The boards of ministerial relief, publication aud edu cation submitted their annual reports. It was determined to hold a bl-centenarv anniversary celebration of the introduction of Preshvterian ism in the United States during rite next meet ing of the General Assembly, and a committee wag appointed to make suitable arraugoiucuts therefor. THE BAPTISTS. Meeting of the B ble Convention at Saratoga A Warm Debate. Saratoga, May 22.—The national Baptist an niversaries begun to-day. The Bible convention assembled this morning, with J. L Howard, of Connecticut, moderator and Rev. Z Grlimel', D. D., of Michigan, secretary. Dr. Griffith staled tiiat tlie object of the convention was the deter mination by tlie Baptist* or tue Uuited States as to now their Bible and missionary work diall be done. The quchtlon for debate was “Do Bap- Qsts need a distinctive Bible society!” Kev. Dr. Lemuel Moss, or Indiana, said the proposition was one or business v. not need a distinctive Bible society because is is ituneocs sry that the great work should he divhied into parts. The American Bible gocietv of New York is doing more to hold our laud, ex cept what Is done by the pulpit than any other agency. I want to stand wt'h others. Our misslonarv union can do everything abroad: our publication society can tie nil we ask it at home. Huuli a society us that proposed would be a source of weak tie** n would a* soon think of a Baptist religion a* a Baptist Bible. We ate Hiniiuioued a* pact of the Chris tian people of the world; let us not have a schism. At the afternoon session, th church being crowded, the debate was resumed, and l)r. W. W~ Evans advocated a seiwirate Bible smdetv. Dr. J. N. Williams, of Maryland,said the whole Booth would coo perate with the Philadelphia publication society. Dr. A. C. Osborn, of Massachusetts, spoke upon economy in Bible work lie stated that the fulfil icartoo aociety had expended 96 per cent, of ta receipts Kilde distribution, but mat the American and foreign Bible society, which many want to close up, had expended 86 p-r cent, for office work, nnd but 14 Percent, for Bible work, ft had made Blbie grants of but I per cent, of ire income. Dr. Ai tui cage, of New York, presented resolu tion* pledging the convention to unity of action, and to distribute the Bible* received, the revised and Bible Union version. Dr. W. Samson protested vehemently against distributing the tula-translation and misleading Canterbury revision. Dr. J. B. Thomas, of Brooklyn, advooated a Bible society of Baptists. Dr. A. H. Hovey, president of Newton Theo logical Seminary, Massachusetts, squarely de nied the statements of Dr. Samson. Dr Wyiand, of Philadelphia, said the Ameri can Bible Society was not catholic, and Bap tists could not work with it. Dr. C. B. Crane, of Boston, thought the Bap tists need not determine the accuracy of the Canterbury revision, hut agree on a basis for work that shall bind the denomination together. Dr. Phillip Schaffer, Presbyterian, and a mem ber of the existing committee on Bible revision, was present during the debate. THE LUTHERANS. Adjournment of the Lutheran General Synod at Springfield. Springfield, 0.. May 22.—Tbe Evangeiioal Lutheran General Synod adjourned this even ing, to meet at Harrisburg, Pa., on the first Wed nesday after Whit Sunday in 1885. Tho usual resolutions of thanks aud fellowship were passed with enthusiasm, the latter especially with regard to the Cumberland Presby teriau Church. It is recommended tiiat the children on Nov. 10 next, commemorate the 4Uoth anniver sary of the birth of Martin Luther. A commit tee was appointed to prepare a suitable order of service for that occasion. The Synod resolved to enter the Indian mission field, and a commit tee whs appointed to act under the home board. The affair* of|tlie narent Education Society were considered and officers elected. To-iuorrow the Womens’Home aud Foreign Missionary Socie ties of the Lutheru Church meet for a two-days session. _ DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indication*. War Department. i Office of the Chief Signal okhiolr, Washington, May 23, la. m. For Tennossee and the Ohio Valley, warmer clearing weather, winds mostly northerly, higher pressure. For the Upper Lake Region and Upper Mis sissippi Valley, warmer, fair weather, variable wind*, shifting to southerly, stationary or lower pressure. Local Observation*. Indianapolis, Mar 22. Tune. Bar. Th. Hun. Wind Weather UTI 6:24 a. M. 20 80 37.4 84 N Lr. rain 0.09 10:24 A. M. 20.83 42 74 N Chmdv 2:24 r. u. 20 85 40.2 08 NE Cloudy. O.OL 6:24 p. m. J9BB 46 5 72 NE Lr. rain 10:24 p. m. 29.00 16 76 NW Fair Maximum temperature, 48; minimum temp erature, 35. General Observations. Wak Department, Washington. May 22, 10:25 p. m. S Observations taxen at tne same moment of time at ail siutious. “7“ TlTtf t STATION. J j j a: Bismarck, Dak... 29.841 59 NW Fair. Cairo 30.02 53 N Clear. Chicago ~...2695 45 N Clear. Cincinnati 20 01 43 NW .04 Cloudy. Davenport, la 20 97 53 N Fair, bead wood Denver 20.70 63 N Fair. I>e Monies 30.00 54 (Jolni Cloudy. Dodge City 29.80 65 SW Cloudy. Fort Asspuuoi!ie Fort Butonl 20 80 54 N ...Fair. Fort t.onouo 29.92 07 SE Clear. Gaiveslon 30 00 08 N Clear. Indian atonies 20 90 40 NW Fair. Keokuk 80.00 52 N Clear. La Crosse. 20 06 55 NW Clear. laiaveuwortu 20 90 54 Calm Clear. Little Hock. ArK.. 30.0. 50Cilm Clear. Louisville 20.02 47 NW Cloudy. Mcminn* 29 08 57 Calm Clear. Moorhead 20.8(5 56 8 (hear. Nashville 20.96 50 SE Cloudy. Norm Platte 20.80 62 E Fair. Omaha 20.98 58 8 Clear. Pittmang 29.74 42 W .28 Lc rain. San Antonio 30.01 68 8 clear. Sure report. 30 01 00 Culm Clear. SDrmgheld, 111 20 90 53 NK ....clear. St. Louis..... 30.00 52 NW Cb-ar. Stock um 29.92 71 SE lear. Bt. Paul 20 06 54 Cut in Clear. Vioksourg 30.05 57 NE Clear. Yankton. D T 20 02 58 8 Fair. Las Animus Springfield, Mu... 30.01 53 N Clear. NewOrieaus 30.02 65 NW Clear. Fort 8i11ing5...... 29 84 52 N ,20 Lt. rain. Fort Smith Frost in Peoria. Peoria, IH., May 22.—A heavy frost prevailed in this section last night, and ice formed (o a thickuess of one-eighth of an inch. Gardens suffered, but it is thought no serious injury was done to the fruit aud growing crops. Snow in Western Ohio. Cleveland, 0., May 22. Leader specials re port that snow was still falling to-day in Au glaize county. Small fruits are all killed, and other fruit badly Injured. In Fairfield county crops are iuuoh damaged by wash-outs. Rain foil luceeantly for thirty-six hours. Cold Weather in Arkansas. Little Rock, May 22.—A Gazette special from Helena says; “The cotton crop is suffering greatly from the effect of Monday night’s cold weather. The mercury touched thirty-eight de grees, the lowest ever kuowu at this time or the year. Bouie looalties report a slight white trust. Army Offloer’s Testimony- Captain Joseph L. Hayden, residing af. No. 024 Fourth street, South Boston, Mans., former ly captain iu the army, uow with the Walworth Manufacturing Coin pan r. South Boston, writes, April 28, 18S3: “While living iu Cumbridgeport my wife was afflicted with terrible palne in her buck and sides, accompanied with great weak ness and loss of appetite. She tried many ho oaile 1 remedies without avail, growiug rapidly worse, wheu her attention was colled to Hunt’s Reined; She purchased a bottle from Lowell’s drug store, In Cambridge port, and after taking the first, dose she began lo feel easier, she could sleep well, and after continuing its use a short time the severe puins in her back and side en tirely disappeared, aud she is a well woman Many of our relatives and friends have used Hunt’s Remedy with the most, gratifying re sults. I have recommended it many times, and as many times heard the same story. Hunt’s Reinedv Is alt that is claimed for it, and a real blessing to all ufflicted with kiduey or liver trouble.” Mads a Man of Him. Mr. C. O. Wheeler, No. 23 Austin street, Cam bndgeport, Muss., makes the followjug remark able statement. On April 27, 1883, he writes as follows: “i have bgeu troubled wilh kidney disease for neurly twenty years. Have stiff red at timet with terrible puins in my buck aud limbs. 1 used many medicines, Out found noth ing readied my ease until 1 took Hunt s Remedy. 1 purchased a bottle of A. P. Gilson, 630 Tre mout street; Boston, and before I hud used tilts utie bottles found relief, und continuing its use. my puins und weakness alt disappeared, and 1 feel like anew man, with new life ami vigor. Hunt’s Remedy did wonders for me, uihl I have no heslsatton in recommending it to ail afflicted with kidney or liver and iso huh*, as I am positive that br its use fhey will find immedbtr* relief. Yon may use this letter In any way you choose, so that the people may know of a sure medicine for I'lxi cure of ull diseases of the kidneys und liver.” THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAx 23, 1883. NEWS ITEMS FROM ABROAD. Another Murderous Conspiracy Dis covered in County Mayo. France and the Pope—The Egyptians and 51 dull sketch of the New Gov ernor-Geueral of Canada. MORE MURDEROUS PLOTS. Discovery and Arrest of Conspirators in County Mayo. Dublin, May 22.—An inquiry is proceeding in to a murder conspiracy which has been unearth ed in County Mayo. The ‘first clew to its exist ence was obtained from a person who was ar rested with suspicious papers on his person. He was then released to act as a spy in the Interest of the police. In this capacity he attended sev eral meetings of conspirators at which a number of pernous were named to be murdered. The as sassins were appoint* J by 'ot. In furtherance of tha plots competed by the couspirators, two farmers were snot and wounded. Six of the plotters have arrived and are undergoing exam ination. Trial of the Liverpool Prisoners. Liverpool, May 22.—The dynamite conspira tors were arraigned again to-day. Testimony was offered showing the connection of the pris oners with the explosion in the gas-works at Glasgow. Counsel for Deuse.v and Planmgun proles led that this did noi concern their clients. LORXE’S SUCCESSOR. The Marquis of Lansdowne, the New Gov ernor-General of Canada. Chicago Tribuue. The Marquis of Lansdowne is now in his thirty-eighth year, and has been in public life about ten years. He was appointed under secretary for India when Mr. Gladstone became premier iu 1880, but resigned because he ob jected to certaiu provisions of the Irish tenants’ compensation bill, which was afterwards re jected by the House or Lottie. Sluce then he has not been much in accord with his party, anti his appointuieut to the Governor-generalship of Canada looks as an exouse for getting rid of him. He is rather a dull man, yet far above the aver age of his class. He is married to one of the beautiful (laughters of the Duke of Abercoru, tiie i lien Tory lenten ant ot Ireland, ami tho heir to bis tide, a sou, is uow eleven years of age. The Marquis is peruaps heat known as an Irish landlord. He owns several extensive tracts in ihe counties of Cork and Kerry, aud has been onarged with unusual harshness, even for uu Irish landlord, to nis tenants- He inherits a bail reputation, too. 8o many of the pauperized ten ants forced to emigrate from ills estates iu 1847 aud 1848 died in tbe workhouses at New York and Mon'.real mat some of the ward* in these es tablishments are yet known as tue Lausdowue wards. Iu a book published in 1880 by Charles Rus sell, (4. C., the leader of the English bar, who is about 10 accompany Lord Coleridge iu his visit to tnis country, some very severe criticisms are made on the present Lord Lansdowue's manage ment of ins Jrisn estate*. He is charged with evading tue law, with misappropriation of relief funds 10 the improvement of his property, with capricious rent-raising, crue.l evictions, aud other sins peculiar to Irian landlords; anti me Roman Catholic priesr, the Protest ant minister, the ReV. Mi. MoCutcneon, aud the Nuu 01 Kauiuare are quoted by Mr. Russell to prove his charge-, A brothel of the Marquis, Lord Edmund Fnzmau noe, is an under secretary uuder the Gladstone ministry. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. El Mekdi’s Chiefs Said U> Be Submitting—- Others to Follow. Cairo, Egypt, May 22.—The Governor of the Soudan telegraphed to the Khedive, reporting that after the battle of April 29, the rebei forces were pursued, und two vessels, commanded by Hioks Pashu and Yehicli Bey, cut off their re treat at rim passage of the Nile. Tue majority of the native chiefs submitted 10 f he Egyptians, and the Governor is sauguiue that others will follow their exauiplM. Effect of a Dane's Question. Berlin, May 22- -In Ihe Reichstag; to-day, Schoiz, Minister of Finance.refused to reply to a question of Johannsen, a Dane, as to wuether the Germans living iu north Schleswig, who be came Daues after the Danish war, would be re admitted as German subjects if they so wished. On Joliaiinsen persisting in demanding a reply lo ins question, uli members of tite Bit desratfi left the house, saying they would not participate in the debate. France aud the Pfcpe. Paris, May 22 Cardinal Luvigerie, Arch bishop of Algiers, lias been authorized by the Pope to sail the attention of the French govern ment to the difficulty the Pope has in prevent ing the tended between the Vailcau aud France from becoming ail open rupture, and lo show it imw impatiently the enemies of tiie republic await such a result. Tne government made an amicable reply to the Cardinal's communication. Cable Notes. A Nihilist emissary from Russia has been ar rested in South Bavaria. The Vat lean replied to Prussia's note to the effect tiiat it cuuuot accept, the proposals. Tne French Chamber of Deputies adopted the American postal service bid iu a slightly modi fied form. Deau Bradley has male arrangements to place tbe bust of Lotigfellow in Weatniinaier Abbey be tween the lombs of Chaucer and Dry den. The Pall Mall Gazette says: “The Japanese government has purchased tiie man-of-war now lying tn tne Tyne which was origminliy intended for tiie Cniilitii navy.” At Rom* Prime Minister Depretls announced in tiie Chamber of Deputies that the cabinet had resigned, and lie had been intrusted by the King with the iormuliou of another cabinet. The bites' dispatches from the Cape of Good Hope say that CeteWayo made a bold attack on Oilman, on Sunday, and wiis for the third time defeated, suffering a heavy loss. THE SEASON FOIL FAIRS. Complete List of the County and District. Fairs lo He Held in Indiana. The following is an official list of the county and district agricultural fairs of Indiana for the season or 1883, giving the place of holding aud the time, the dates being Inclusive, together with the name of the secretary of each associa tion: COUNTY FAIRS. Allen County, Northern Indians—At Fort U’a.vne, from Sept. 10 to 15, W. W. Kooktiill, sec retary. Bartholomew—Columbus, Aug. 27 to Bept. 1, R. Thomas. Blackford—Hartford City, 6pt. 18 tn 21, B. G. Shinn. Bonne—Lebanon, Aug. 20 to 24, J. B. Cobb. Cass—Logausport, Sept. 18 to 22, D. W. I’om litiMon. Clinton—Frankfort, Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, John H'-iivlloti. Dearborn —Law re nee burg, Aug. 21 to 25, Will 11. O’Brum. Decatur—Greeusburg, Aug. 21 to 25, 13d. Kes sitig. F.ikhart—Goshen, Oof. 0 to 12, John W. Irwin. Faveite— I Conuersville, Sept. 18 to 21, A. B. Clay pool. Fulton—Rochester. Oct. 3 to 0, John M. D tvls. Gibson— Prlnostou, S*-pr. 17 r* 22, 8 Vet Strain. Grout—Marion, Sept. 4 to 7, D. 8. Hogan. Greene—Linton, Oct. 1 to 5, l J ir Scnuleze. Hamilton—Noblearille, Aug. 27 to 31, W. C. Vance. Harrison—Cory don, Sept. 3 to 7, J. A. Miller. Henry—New Castle, Sept. 18 to 22, William W. Cot torn I. Iln ward—Kokomo, Sept. 4 to 8. A. N. Grant. iiuiiLingLou— Uunungioii, Sept. 18 lo 21, L. F. Bugh y. JitokAon—Brownstown, Sept. 10 to 14, J. H. Matlock. Jasper—Rensselaer, Sent. 11 to 13, David B. Nowells. Jay—Portland, Oct. 2 to 5, Robert B. Steven* son. .leanings—North Vernon, Aug. 7 to 10, C. D. Shank. Knox—Vlnmmiu**, Oct. 8 to 13, Gerard Reiter. Kosuiusko—WuiHaw, bept. 18 to 21, 8. W. Old fat her. La grange*--Lagrange, Sept. 26 to 29, 11. M. K router. I Lakh—Crown I’oiut, Get. 2 lo 5, Geo. L Mullet. Lporte—Laporte, Sept. 18 to 21, George C. Borland. Madison—Anderson, Sept. 4 to 7, C. K. McCul lough. Marshall—Plymouth, Sept. 25 to 23, IV. H. Conger. Montgomery—Crawfordsville, Sept. 10 to 15, F. L. Snyder. Newton—Morocco, Sept. 4 to 7, Wm. Darroch. Noble —Llgonier, Oct. 17 to 20, J. H. Hoffman. Orange—Pooll, Sept. 19 to 22, Geo. A. Busk irk. Parke—Rockville, Aug. 20 to 26, W. J. White. Pike—Petersburg, Sept. 3 to 7, Good let Morgan. Porter—Valparaiso, Sept. 25 to 28, limotby Keen. Posey—New Harmony, Sept. 11 to 14, L. Pel ham. Pulaski—Wlnamac, Sept. 25 to 28, Jesse Taylor. Randolph—Winchester, Sept. 11 to Lt, D. E. Hoffman. Ripley—Osgood, Aug. 14 to 17, Wm. R. Glas gow,’. Rush—Rushville, Bent. 11 to 14, Lon Link. St. Joseph—South Bend, Oct. 1 to 5, C. G. Towle. Shelby—Shelby ville, Sepr. 4 to 8, A. J. Gorgas. Sie.ubeu—Angola, Oct. 9 to 12, B. F. Dawson. Switzerland—East Enterprise, Sept. 11 to 14, W. H. Madison. Tippecanoe—Lafayette, Sept. 3 to 8, Charles H. Wallace. Tipton—'Tipton, Sept. 18 to 21. Wm. Barlow. Vigo—Terre Haute, Sept. 3 to 8, Egbert Curtis. Wul>aßh—Wabash, Sept. 11 to 14, Fred. J. Suav elly. warren—West Lebanon, Sept. 11 to 14. W. S. Fleming. Warrick—Boon ville, Oct. 1 to 6, 8. W. Taylor. WtnduugLou—Salem, Sept. 17 to 21, Fred. L. Prow. Wells—Bluffton, Sept. 4 to 7, J. A. Wiley. Whitley—Columbia City, Out. 2 to 5, Thomas R. Marshall. DISTRICT FAIRS. Bridgeton Union—At Bridgeton, Parke county, from Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, D. Seybold, secretary. Camnridge City—Cambridge City, Wayne, Sept. 4 to 7, G. W. S.’iult*. Dunkirk Union Fair Association—Dunkirk, Jay. Sept. 4 to 7, W. W. Payton. Enin burg Union—Edinburg, Bartholomew, Sept. 18 to 22, John A. Thompson, jr. Fountain. Warren and Vermillion—Covington, Fouutatn, sepr. 18 to 21, Homer Sewell. Henry, Madison and Delaware Agricultural AsHociation—Middleton, Henry, Aug. 21 to 24, E L. Elliott. Kutglitstown—Koightetown, Henry, Aug. 28 to 31, T. B Drew. Lawrence District Fair— Lawrence, Marion, Sept. 11 to 15. W. B. Flick. Logon tee Agruuli ural—Logootee. Martin. Sept. 11 to 15, G. M. Stiarum. New Ross Agricultural—Now Ross, Montgom ery, Aug. 13 to 17. Tim. Miller, Northeastern Indiana Agricultural Associa tion-Waterloo, DeKaib, Oot. 1 to 5, Ida Blair. Orleans Agricuii ural Association—Orleans, Orange, Sept. 26 to 29, Henry Reed Plain find Horticultural aud Agricultural So ciety— Rluintteid, Hendrick*, Oct. 13, Win. H. Mill*. Union Agricultural ajid Mechanical Associa tion—Union City, Randolph, BeDt. 18 to 21, J. G. Btall. Way no, Henry and Randolph—Dalton, Wayne, Seor. 4 to 7, Joel Replugle. Xenia Union Agricultural and Horticultural— Xeula, Miami, Aug. 28 to Sept. 1, John W. Eward. THE BTATE CIRCUIT. Ohio Btate Fair—At Columbus, 0.. from Sept. 3 to 7; W. A. Cos when, president; W. I. Chamber lain, Hecretary. Tri-State Fair—Toledo, 0., Bept. 10 to 15; L. 8. Baumgardner, president; Johu Farley, secre tary. Michigan State Fair—Detroit, Mich., Sept. 17 to 21; Henry Fralloh, president; J. C. Sterling, secretary. Indiana State Fair—lndianapolis, Ind., Bept. 24 io 29: Robert Mitchell, president; Alexander Heron, seen*.tarj\ Northeaaterti Indiana Fair-Waterloo, Ind., Oct. 1 to 5, R. N. Crooks, president; Ida Blair, secretary. .Suicide of a Young Girl. Rosa Murdock, a girl who came to this city several mouths ago from Brazil, and has since been employed at diflereut places an a domestic, took a dose of morphine last night, about 8 o’clock, with the intention of committing suicide. It was not discovered that she hud taken poison until about midnight, and the drug had then taken effect. The Dispensary physi cians were called, but the mor phine had been absorbed into the system, aud, at 3 o’clock this morning, i here wo* no hopes of her recovery. Tne girl has been living with a widow, near the corner of Washlng *4M and West streets, and since cimi'.ng to tbe city she had been seduced and was enceiur, which led her to make the attempt to take her life. industrial Education. To the Editor of the Indlananofis Jonmol: I notice with pleasure the movement in the direction of a summer school of industry. Som years ago I hired a carpenter to give my boys instruction in the use of tools two afternoons each week. It was a double help, in giving them employment which pleased them and in teaching them the use of their hands and eyes. I afterward advertised fora carpenter to give all his time to six boys, but could never secure one. In Boston last summer I visited one of some twelve vacation schools, the expenses of which were paid by one of Boston’s liberal men, in which instruction was given free to poor children. The general plan was similar to that now advocated by Professors Tarbell ami Grant; and the methods the same prac ticed in the Polytechnic at Terre Haute. In connection with the Industrial Home in the North End, Boston, a school of carpentry is established with the best results. The whole subject is now receiving atten tion from all educators. It has been the subject of an address by Professor Huxley; it is in every newspaper. The discipline of faculty through intellectual education has left the boys without that practical skill in using the hands and eyes, without which they are unfitted for life's business. The life of“. Tames Nasmyth, a working me chanic.'’ one of the great inventors and ma chinists of England, is illustrative of this. He says: “The eves and fingers, the bare fingers, are the two principal inlets to sound, practical instruction.” A committee to plan an industrial school at Springfield, Mass., have decided to teach the rudiments of trade, and not to turn out finished mechanics. Tbe desire is to give the boy a knowledge that will enable him to choose a pursuit for which he recognizes his own adaptability, so that three or four years of his life may not be wasted after he leaves school in trying to determine how he will earn his living, and finally drifting, through ignorance and necessity, into work where manual labor, not brains, is needed. Concerning industrial training, the Chris tian Advocate says: "One of the golden sayings of Mr. Froude is this; ‘lt hurts no intellect to be able to make a boat or a suit of clothes, or hammer a horseshoe; and, if you can do either of these, you have nothing to fear from for tune.' Christ was a carpenter, Paul a tent maker. The ancient Jews taught boys trades; and, two hundred years asro, nil over Europe equivalent guards against vagabondage—in cluding some moral teaching for all classes— prevailed. The modern revolution has made it possible for men to grow up without any form of skill or auy character. Perhaps the voluntary forces, while they produce some Ihigher results and more enlightened happiness, fail to protect us at some vital points. The vagabonds multiply very fast We have begun to make the three R’s compulsory; perhaps we need to to make skill compulsory also. It is u queer result of freedom that trades unions should shut apprentices out of callings, lest there should he a glut of workmen. It is a strange result of American life that so large a part of our youth should look down on mechanic arts. The whole question has a half hun dred points of interet for American society.” If only for giving something to do to boys during the long summer days, this experi ment should he welcomed. But when one looks upon it as being in the direction of supplementing the education of the head with an education of the hand and eye, it is especially important that it be given a full opportunity of demonstrating ita value. May 20, 1883. Oscar C. McCulloch. Not Only for Men. Horsemen, turfmen, *tablt*iun all use Bt. Jt cubtt Gil iu hone ttiiuvuta. It kilts pain. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Biographical and Historical Skbtciikb of Eakly Indiana. By William Wesley Woollen. Headers of the Journal for the past two years are familiar with the valuaoie bio graphical sketches of prominent characters in Indiana’s early history, from the pen of Mr. Woollen, which have appeared in our Saturday editions. These ar ticles have attracted much at tention, and numerous requests have been received by the author that the sketches be put into shape for permanent use. Such was the intention from the beginning. Tbe materials in the possession of Mr. Woollen addded to his wide personal knowledge and remarkable memory of the subjects treated, made it little short of a sacred duty to the State to weave them into a written history. This has beeu done with great care and labor, and the work is now ready for publication. What the character and value o 4 this collection are is pretty generally known by their ptib licatin from time to time in the Journal. Their historical value is beyond computa tion, both on account of their accuracy and because they bring to the record many facts which could not be found elsewhere. Though the articles relate to personal biography, yet as the subjects are among the founders of the State government and leading actors in its public affairs, they incidentally constitute a real political history of the Common wealtii. The volume will contain between fifty and sixty biographies, including all the de ceased Governors of the State and also many of her most noted statesmen, legislators and public officers. Several of tbe most valuable subjects treated in the book have not appeared in the press, among which may be named the characters of Governors Morton, Lane and Williams. It is certain this work will have a large sale in the State, as numerous requests for it have already been received. Every lawyer, legislator, profes sional man. politician, in short, every citizen desiring to be familiar with State history from the start will want the book. It should by all means have a place in every public and private library. As to its literary quality, the public are already well-informed. Mr. Woollen is one of the most cultured, dignified and entertaining writers of the day, and this book is his most thorough and careful piece of work. The volume will con tain between 500and 600 pages, printed and bound in a style worthy of the contents. We understand the publication and sale of the work is under the management of Ham mond A Cos., of this city, by whom and their agents a canvass of the city and State will be made at once. The work will be ready for delivery about the middle of July. Merely “Knocked Out.” Gatli’s New York Letter. As I went into the Gilscy House this even ing, a stranger to me, while exhibiting a newspaper, and whom I thought to be Freddy Uebhardt or some other social crank, struck me in the face, producing no effect whatever except to throw me down. I weigh about 205 pounds, and my assailant was a young man about twenty-two years of age. I fell on my right arm, which was paralyzed by my own weight. Mr. John Norton, of St. Louis, fearing that my right arm was broken, called a physician to his room, when it was found that my right shoulder was sprained, and the nerve there bothered by the concussion. 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the EAST'RIVER BRIDGE. History of the Construction of This Highway Between Two Cities. Early Discussion of the Subject—The Diffi culties Overcome—Tlie Koeblings’ Con nection wit-li the Enterprise. New YorkTribuno. The origin of suspension bridges is un known. One in China is said to date back 2.- 000 years, and another in Thibet, India, to the year 65 A. D. Humboldt found rudely constructed suspension bridges in South America. In Europe they are common, but the system has been brought to the highest degree of perfection in this country. The application of the suspension system to bridging the East river was the subject of more or less discussion in this city and Brooklyn for at least over half a century be fore the work was begun. In 1819 an engi neer by the name of Pope published an oc tavo volume on Bridge Architecture, in which he advocated spanning the East river by a single arch. The matter, however, did not attract much attention until it was vig orously advocated in the Tribune in 1849. Numerous articles were printed on the sub ject, one of which appeared in October, 1849, and was as follows: a Briduk to Brooklyn.—The great project of municipal Improvement now occupying pub lic attention in this city and Brooklyn is tbe building of a splendid bridge connecting the two shores of the East river, amt thus making New York and Brooklyn emphatically one. All Jealousy between New York and Brooklyn is pre posterous and absurd, and is never seriously thought of save by a few speculators whose in terests are concerned In keeping alive such feel ings. It is in the inevitable course of events that the seaward point of N. w York Island should constantly be overrun with the pressure of busi ness and population, and should be seeking out lets for the excess in ev- ry possible direction. The great natural remedy for this commercial and popnlative plethora is Brooklyn. Fer ries are rapidly becoming unequal to the Im mense and swiftly-increasing intercourse be tween counting-house, and Homo to so many thousands of our citizens. The onl.v thing to he thought of is a bridge built from some high point iu New York to another in Brooklyn—thus per mitting vessels of every kind to pass freely un der at all times, and affording passage to a Steady stream of vehicles and pedestrians. Such a bridge would become instantly an immense and Important thoroughfare, second scarcely to Broadway itself. In various other articles the project was advocated. The position was taken that the bridge should be free, and that, upon its completion, the two cities should be united in one municipality. On Oct. 29, 1849, it was stated in the Tribune that the bridge should be 100 feet wide, and “to make it easily ac cessible it should start at a distance of some 1,560 feet from the shore on the New York side. It should be entirely free, ns well for carriages as for foot passengers.” On Christ mas night of 1849 a gale caused the water in the East river to become so low that ferry boats went aground while crossing, and travel wos entirely stopped from Bp. m. to 9 k. m. Thousands of men, women and chil dren remained about the ferry-houses all night, waiting for the water to return so that the boats could run again, and many a Christmas entertainment was spoiled in con sequence. After that event there was re newed and vigorous discussion of the bridge project, and estimates were made of its cost. One engineer, whose estimate was published in the Tribune, thought that it could be buiit for about the same cost as the High bridge over the Harlem river. No practical steps were taken toward erecting a bridge until 1365. MR. HOBBLING*B INTEREST IN THE ENTERPRISE. John A. Roebling, of Trentou, N. J., the distinguished engineer, was the only member or his profession in this country who, thirty years ago, had a thorough practical knowl edge of the suspension system of bridging. He first became interested in the subject of bridging the East river, according to a mem ber of his family, in 1853. In the month of February in that year he was detained with his wife and son, Washington, then a lad of fifteen years, on a ferryboat in the East river for several hours, while the boat drifted helplessly about in the ice. He is said to have resolved at that time to build a bridge across the river. Not long afterward a letter from him discussing the feasibility of the project was published. The matter slumbered until 1865, at which time Mr. Roebling was engaged in building the Covington and Cincinnati suspension bridge. In that year Oliver It. Ingersoll, of Brooklyn, addressed a letter to Mr. Roebling, asking for an estimate of the cost of a sus pension bridge across the East river. Accord ing to testimony given by Mr. Ingersoll be fore a committee of the Legislature, he re ceived a letter from Mr. Roebling in 1866. offering to build a double suspension bridge, 200 feet high, with one roadway for passen gers and another for cars, at a cost of $4,000,- 000. He interested Granville T. Jenks in the matter, and the plans and specifications were procured. About the same time S. B. Chit tenden caused to be published in a local magazine an article on a suppositi tous bridge over the East river, and this led Mr. William C. Kingsley, then a rich contractor, to be come interested in the project. He also con sulted w ith Engineer Roebling on the matter. Whether it was the plans procured by Mr. Kingsley or those secured and. Mr. Ingersoll that were sent to Henry C. Murphy, then a State senator, ami which caused him to take action on the matter, is a question now in dispute. Mr. Ingersoll has testified that lie sent his plans along with the draft of a bill to incorporate a company, of which Mr. In gersoll and friends should be meiubers, to build a bridge. Mr. Murphy introduced the bill in 1867, but Mr. Ingersoll’s name was not among those mentioned in the act which became a law in the same year. A company was formed consisting of John T. Hoffman, Simeon B. Chittenden. John Roach, Henry F. Pierrepont, and many others, some of whom atterward attained distinction as members of the Tweed ring. The cities of New York and Brooklyn were authorized to subscribe to the capital stock sucli flnioiipts is two thirds, of their common councils, re spectively, should determine. As soon as the New York Bridge Company was formed under the act of 1867, John A. Roebling was employed as chief engineer, and h s son, Colonel Washington A. Roebling. as assistant. The voting man, who served hon orably in the war, had been associated with his father in the erection of the Cincinnati bridge. When that was finished he went to Europe to collect the latest scientific infor mation upon the subject of pneumatic foun dations, for use in overcoming the difficulties of securing foundations for the great piers of the bridge. He returned to this country in February, 1899, and selected his present home on Columbia Heights, where he has lived the greater part of the time for fourteen years. From his window he can view the structure, which he has been nimble person ally to inspect since 1872. because of a pecu liar disease he contracted in the prosecution of the work at that time. His mind has not abated in vigor, and lie has full control of e v ery part of his body, and can walk about j the house, but he is unable to talk I or listen save for a short time. When he ex erts himself he lias a sudden attack of weak- I ness that prostrates him. He Ims been the i chief engineer of the bridge since the death of his father in 1869. The elder Roebling drew the original plans tad estimates, which were approved by Gen eral Newton at the head of a commission of j engineers, appointed by John A. Rawlins, j Secretary of War, in 1869. After a commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce, consisting of Henry Worthington, Sinclair Tousey and George Opdyke, had approved the plans, Congress passed an act authorizing the con struction of the bridge. The elder Roebling made the initial surveys. While standing on a string-piece of the pier next to Fulton Ferry slip, in 1869, fixing a location for the Brooklyn tower, a ferry-boat in entering the slip drove the fenders against the pier so as to crush the engineer’s foot. He was a firm believer in hydropathy, and on going to bed he put his injured foot beneath a faucet of running cold water, and allowed it to remain there until over-chilled. He died sixteen days later from lockjaw. Not a stroke of work had there been done on the bridge. The plans were most general in character, I the details not having been considered. They i have been matured hv Mr. Roebling’s son, and executed by his assistants, C. C. Martin, Colonel W. H. Paine. Francis Collingwood, George W. McNulty and S. R, Probasco, and by E. F. Farrington, master mechanic. Many new problems in bridge architecture have been solved in erecting this bridge. THE CAISSON WORK. The work of construction began on Jan. 3, 1870. The greatest difficulty was to secure firm foundations for the towers. To build these foundations below the level of the bed of the river was a work of great magnitude. Wooden caissons were used to support the towers of the bridge. A caisson is merely a creai box bottom turned lip. The Brooklyn caisson was fifteen feet thick on the top. of large, solid yellow pine timbers, and the sides were nine feet thick and nine feet high. The measurement across the box from edge to edge was 102x168 feet. It. was divided into six compartments, which were connected by means of doors. This great box was made water-tight and then anchored on the spot on which the tower was to stand. The caisson was pro tected from the river by a coffer-dam of piles and sheeting. The work of building the tower on the caisson was at once begun ami continued until enough weight was on top of it to keep it on the river bottom. There were large wrought-iron tubes or shafts in the roof of the caisson through which earth and stones excavated on the inside could be taken out, and tnere was an air-lock for per sons to enter the caisson. When it was sunk on the river bottom the water was forced out of the caisson by com pressed air, and men could go in and work. One pound of air pressure equals two feet of tide water, so tor every two feet the caisson was lowered, one pound had to be added to the air pressure inside. Gauges in the en gine-room above indicated the height of the tide and the pressure of air. The highest pressure attained in the caisson was thirty four pounds to the square* inch, in addition to atmospheric pressure. At that pressure a mancdnld not whistle, and a candle blown out would immediately ignite again. Fresh water springs appeared. Beneath this cais son blasting and excavation went on for months, when a depth of forty-five feet was reached, and tne caisson was then settled on rocky foundation. The inside was then filled with broken stone and concrete until the whole thing was a solid mass; and then the work of erecting the tower went on rapidly. Greater difficulty was encountered on the New York side, and the caisson was made stronger and bigger, and had to be sunk to a depth of seventy-eight feet. Even at that depth solid rock was not discovered. But jagged points of rock stuck up here and there, amid a bed of quicksand. The points of the ledge which appeared only under one end of the caisson were leveled off and the quicksand was confined within a wall of con crete, the whole area of the caisson was filled with the same material, after which the tower was erected and finished like the one in Brooklyn. There were many interesting incidents in the work of building the foundations. The pressure of the compressed air would some times tilt up a caisson and a portion of the air would escape, throwing up a large column of water fifty to sixty feet high. On Sunday morning a neglectful watchman caused a blow-out which covered the adjoining build ings and shipping with a coat of mud and injured two or three persons. Under ex treme pressure some of the workmen became subject to certain physical derangements which have received the name of caisson disease. Tne Brooklyn caisson caught fire several times, and twice had to be Hooded with water. In December, 1870. a careless laborer placed a lighted candle on a shelf in close proximity to the oakum caulking of a timber joint, which ignited, and under the pressure the fire made its way into the tim ber and out of sight. As the pressure was all outward no flame or smoke could be seen in the caisson, and it was some time before the fire was discovered. Colonel Roebling was summoned, and he entered the caisson at 6 o’clock p. m. and did not leave it until 5 a. m. Overwork and anxiety, in addition to the many hours in the compressed air, had its effect, and he was partially paralvzed be fore he readied home. This was the beginning of the disease that has so long prostrated him. The towers, built of granite, brought from Maine, arc 276 feet 9 inches above high-water mark. The Brooklvn tower reached its full height in May, 1875, and its New York mate in July, 187 b! The New York tower above the top of tlie caisson weighs 93,000 tons. The firmness of the foundation is shown in the fact that the tower has not settled two inches. At a height of 119 feet there are two arched open ings in each tower, through which will pass the streams of travel. On the top of the tower are saddle-plates, huge iron castings, on which rest the weight of the cables. The cables are fastened in anchorages 930 feet distant from the towers. The anchor ages are built of stone, and are 129 by 119 feet at the base and 89 feet high. Over the top of them run the roadways. Imbedded in the two anchorages are huge plates of iron weighing twenty-three tons each, to which are fastened iron bars formed into chains, at the end of which are the cables that hold up the suspended part of the bridge. There are vaults in the anchorages, where the cables join the anchor chains, and they can be in spected at any time by the engineers. The remaining stone work of the bridge consists of granite approaches, which are lofty via ducts. The Brooklyn approach begins at Sands street, and it is 971 feet long to the anchorage. The grade is two feet nine inches in each 100 feet. In this distance, Prospect, Main and New York streets are spanned by iron bridges. The New York approach is 1,502 feet long from Chatham street to tlie anchorage. The streets are spanned by stone arches, except at Franklin Square, where an iron bridge crosses over the station of the elevated railway. Beneath the arches of tiie approaches are spaces which will be utilized as warehouses. At each end of the bridge are station-houses of iron ami glass, from which the caps will run. MAKING THE CABLES. After the towers were completed the next engineering problem was to get the wires over them. The cables could not be made and then lifted into place. The first wire was carried across by a scow on August 14, 1876. It was lifted into place over the towers and fastened to the anchorages. A second wire was then run across and the two were fastened together, making an endless w ire running over driving wheels. It was then an easy matter to run across other wires, and cable-making really begun on June 11, 1877. On August 25, 1878, K. F. Farrington, the master mechanic, crossed the river in a rigger’s chair, which was uttaclied to the “traveler” wire rope. A foot-bridge running over the top of the tow THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY MAY 23, 18S3. era was stretched across the river to assist in making the cables. That bridge was four! feet wide, and was laid on two small cables 200 feet high. Two five-eighths-inch wire ropes served as hand-rails to this “pathway in the sky.” Many persons made the peril ous trip over it while it was in existence. The making of the strands for the cables, which were begun on June 11, 1877. was not completed until October 15. 1878. Each of the four cables contains 5,296 parallel (not twisted) galvanized steel, oil-coated wires, closely wrapped to a solid cylinder, and is 15*>4 inches in diameter. So many wires could not be handled at once, so that each cable is divided into nineteen strands. When twelve strands were finished in each cable, seven of the central ones were clamped into the form of a small cable nine inches in diameter. This was made into the center core. On June 14. 1878, the first serious accident in the op erations of spanning the river occurred. A strand was let loose at the New York anchor age. It swept over the ton of the tower into the river, killing two men and injuring three more. Altogether, some twenty per sons have been killed during the erection of the bridge* When the cables were ready for their loads suspended bands made of wrought iron were fastened on at intervals of seven and one half feet. To these bands were attached sus pender ropes made of sheet wires. These ropes are made to hold one hundred tons each, but not more than ten tons weight will come upon one of them. The suspender ropes hold up the steel structure which forms the roadways. On the approaches the width of the bridge is 100 feet. Here the wagonwavs are paved with Belgian blocks, and the footway, which is only three feet above the roadways, has an asphalt pavement. But from anchorage to anchorage the bridge is different. It is a deft combination of steel beams, trusses, girders and chords, eighty-five feet wide, floored with timber, except in the space re-" served for the railway tracks. The total weight of steel in the bridge is 6,620 tons. The great delay in the delivery of this steel according to contract postponed the comple tion of the bridge for nearly one year. As now completed, there are five parallel avenues on the bridge. The outer two. nine teen feet wide each, are devoted to vehicles. Tn the center is an elevated foot-path fifteen and one-half feet wide. Or. either side ot this are the railway tracks —one for cars going: to Brooklyn and one for those coming to New York. CAPACITY OF THE BRIDGE FOR TRAVEL. The promenade has a capacity, if persons move at the rate of 200 feet per minute, of ailowing 45,000 persons to pass over every hour. The roadway will admit the passage of 1.440 vehicles per hour of an average weight of three and a half tons each, esti mating three moving vehicles in every 100 leet. The bridge will sustain 10,000 soldiers marching better than any ordinary bridge. The cars are to be propelled by an endless chain, but when they reach the center of the main span they will run to the end by their own gravity and momentum, being under the control of brukes. Passengers will get in at one end and will be unable to get out until they reach the other end of the bridge. It is calculated that eighty cars, such as are used on the elevated roads, can be kept in opera tion at once, twenty of which will be on the bridge at one time. Each car can accommo date 100 passengers, and 80,000 persons can be taken across in an hour. The total length ot the bridge is 5,989 feet. The length of the river span is 1.595 feet, and at the center it will be 135 feet above high water in summer, and 138 feet in win ter, the difference being caused by the effect of the heat and cold on the steel. The wind olowing at a velocity of of 160 miles an hour would not hurt the bridge. The greatest ve locity of the wind here is 76 miles an hour. The center of the suspended structure is 15 feet higher than the roadways of the towers. Not over 3 per cent, of the vessels that enter this port would have to strike their top masts in passing under the bridge. From anchorage to anchorage the bridge is 3,460 feet long, and the total weight of the sus pended structure is 17.780 tons. The cables, Chief Engineer Roebling says, are strong enough to pull up the anchorages, which weigh 60.000 tons The bridge is to be lighted by one hundred electric light*. WONG FAT AND “NO. 1.” Celestial Reflections mi the Irish Dynamite Policy. San Francisco Chronicle. As Loo Fun was in the act of ironing Schonchin’s spare collar yesterday, his Celes tial eye became glued on the family orest of his Celtic patron—a potato held in the dis tended jawbone of an ass—and beneath it the beautiful Latin quotation: “In mi hi jawbonus est me fortuna.” The edified ironer remarked to Wong Fat: “Wha so Ilishman no taikee him own taikee? Wha so him taikee Melican man’s taikee allee time an lite Jlishon him colla?” “Him too smat taikee Ilish so can tell what him thinkee. Ilishman talkoc Melican so no can findee out what him thinkee. Him thinkee alle time how he can hit Chinaman cobble-stone—how can blow Enlisman to blazee wi dynanii. You sabee dynansi—allee same powda mill.” “Oh, yeh; me heap sabee powda mill velly muchee. Me cousin him wokee powda mill Bekelee. Bossee him say me cousin. ‘You to’n clank, flllee ba’l. You watchee powda, see him no ketchee fi. Him ketchee li, you coine tellee me; me puttee him on ice.’ Bymeby powda him ketciiee fi so quick me cousin him foglet see teller bossee. Me cou sin him so Highten him go up dc loof—foglet come down. Bymeby man San Jose findee him shoe—man Saclamento see him hat. Oh, yeli; me sabee powda mill heap well. Likee velly muchee get job so Ilishman in powda mill. Wha so Ilishman blow up Enlis man?” “Me telleo you. Ilishman wokee long time so Enlisman—no good. Enlisman him get fat, dlinka bee, eatee allee day. Ilishman him gette velly tin. Fightee alle time keep wa’m. Bymeby Ilishman sny me dam foolee wokee Enlisman. Me blow him up—fiighten him life. Me set fi dyuami. Me calleo me Numba Won. Enlisman sendee me lite away to Melicaan Melican man makee me numba won pleeceman—givee me numba won heat so me hab heap too muchee fun. clubee Chi naman, play up-n-seven, dlinka bee and sleepee potuto sack alle nilo.” A Novel Alabama Claim. I’hiludolpliiu Record. A peculiar claim for SIOO,OOO from the Ala bama fund will come before Commissioner Nickerson on Wednesday, when testimony will be produced. The claimants are Cap tain and Mrs. William A. Bailie, now living at No. 1,903 Camac street, but residents of Yokohama, Japan, from 1861 to 1864. They shipped forty-four boxes of personal effects from London to New York in July, 1864. by the steamer Adriatic, which was destroyed by the rebel cruiser Tallahassee. All but six of the boxes contained goods purchased in Jupan at a cost of $17,749 in coin, or $52,312 at the then premium of gold currency. The claimants further swell the amount of money due them to $91,328.88, by adding the cost of the six boxes purchased in London and in terest on the first cost of the goods. The value of numerous presents given to Captain and Mrs. Bailie during their sojourn abroad swells the total to nearly SIOO,OOO. Rut Not Ethereally Mild. Fliilfulelphiu Thaos. With lilac at her belt and a cyclone for u hansom, spring is u gay old girl. COUTICELLI Sewing Bilk, smooth, strong, full length. CHILDREN are extremely liable, under ordinary circumstances, to contract obnoxious diseases of the skin at sohool. Glenn’s Hulidiur Hoap i both cures and protects then from such com plaints. Parents may rely upon Its efficacy. Woollen’s Early Indiana. The best historical book, and by far the most readable and entertaining is the “Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana,” by William Wesley Woollen, soon to be issued in a handsome volume of some 600 pages. The de mand for this book comes from hundreds of the most prominent oitizeos of this State, who have read many of the articles as published in the Saturday edition of the Indianapolis Journal during two years past. The volume, consisting of about. (500 pages, will contain between fifty and sixty sketches, those having appeared in t he Journal being thoroughly revised and enlargeu by additional matter, and several most valuable articles not having appeared in print at all. The work will be embellished by several tine steel engraved portraits of distinguished men. The price of the work has been fixed at the lowest possible figure, viz.: In cloth binding at #3, leather, $4. A general canvass ot the State for orders will be made, but lest any citizen should be inadvertently passed by tne agents, all orders sent by letter or postal cant will be duly tiled, and the books delivered free of extra cost above the subscription price. This mode of ordering will be especially appreciated by the author, who*; personal friends throughout the State are numerous, *i:“! !\Y tlie publishers. It is hoped in particular that families whose distinguished members are portrayed in the work will co-oper ate in its disi ribution, and send orders without personal solicitation Orders all corre spondence on the subject musr n r,,.L’‘ ,pse era three or mora "cjXfHnHfi can he placed on sin- NO BATTERY REQUIRED. c J® We have six valid Perfect satis faction II |HB U. S. patents, and guaranteed. .-■BEsp others applied for. INSTRUMENTS SOLO OUTRIGHT. GENERAL OFFICE, FACTORY, 11N. PENNSYLVANIA ST., HEAD OF MASS. AVE., INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. LACROIX MIDDLINGS" PURIFIER COMFY. MILLERS, TAKE NOTICE. One thirty-two-inch New Stock Corn Stone under runner; one Plantation Mill, Nordvke A Marmon’s make, all in good order, and for side cheap hv LACROIX MIDDLINGS PHRIFIKU CO.. 76 to B.' South Pennsylvania street. 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