The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis [Ind.])
August 24, 1883

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. ESTABLISHED 1823. WHKN INDICATIONS. FRIDAY.— Generally liiirireather, sta tionary or lower temperature. LISLE THREAD UNDERWEAR Fall "W"eights. m WHEN BUSINESS DIFFICULTIES. Shaw Leaves Boston, Which Causes Hu mors of Crookedueas. Boston, Aug. 23. —I. Sbaw, of the firm of I. Shaw Bros., failed, has left town, which fact has given rise to conflicting opinions as to the cause of his departure. It is learned that on the day before Shaw’s departure the attorney for the National Park Bank of New York came to Boston and made a formal demand on I. Shaw Bros, for money which the bank claimed was furnished through fraud ulent representations which Shaw had made regarding the financial standing of the firm. The bank is a creditor to the amount of $133,- 000. This demand upon Shaw’s firm was known to be the preliminary step to the commencement of criminal proceedings which the bank proposed to instititute against Shaw, and which, it is under stood, have been since begun. The de parture of Shaw so soon after this is looked upon with strong suspicion by many interested. On the other hand, Assignee Wyman makes the following statement: Shaw has been attempting, ever since the failure, to find an opportunity to go to Maine, New Brunswick and Canada to find out the precise condition of his business there, and he started away for that purpose on Tuesday, and is now either at the tanner ies of Shaw Brothers Cassil, in Canada, or on the way thither via Maine and New Brunswick. The fact of Shaw’s departure, coupled with the outcry raised by certain creditors in New York, gave rise to some ru mors absolutely untrue, viz.: that he left Massachusetts to escape process. The over whelming majority of the creditors believe the Shaw firm acted honorably, and did nothing criminal, and that the New York parties are seeking to bulldoze an advantage out of the firm. A Montreal telegram says: Fayette Shaw, who failed in Boston, is here visiting his brother, an extensive merchant in leather and hides. He states that the object in com ing here is to have a consultation with his brother about his embarrassment. A Cincinnati Grocery Firm Assigns. Cincinnati, Aug. 23.—Late this afternoon three deeds of assignment were filed by the members of one of the oldest and largest grocery and grain firms in the city. The first is Bishop Bros., the second Charles H. Bishop Cos., and the third George W. Bishop individually. The firm of Bishop Bros, has practically ceased business, and exists only for the purpose of disposing of a quantity of whisky it is carrying, and to close up the old business. It is com posed of George W. Bishop, Henry B. Morris and George A. Hendersman. The last two are also members of the grocery firm of Hawkins, Morris Cos., which does not join in this assignment. Charles H. Bishop &Cos. is composed of George W. Bishop Hons, and deals in flour and grain. The as signments are all made to George Trow bridge. No statements of assets or liabilities have been made, and the bond of theftssienee has not been fixed. George W. Bishop says they have $200,000 whisky tax due soon; that they have had a series of losses since 1873, notably on a ranch in Texas, where they were brought into losses by bad managers. They have also had recent losses m grain. He thinks when a settlement is made they will not leave the creditors with much loss. The firms are among the wealthiest in the city. A short time previous to the assign ment George W. Bishop filed mortgagee on real estate to secure obligations to persons for whom he has been acting as trustee or guardian. Investigating Recent Failures. New York, Aug. 23.—The investigating committee on the Stock Exchange to-day in quired into the circumstances attending the failures of Cecil Ward Cos. and E. C, Steel man. They will also investigate the failures of George William Ballou Cos. and Schott Knight. The results will not be disclosed before the investigations are concluded. A Richmond Failure. Richmond, Va., Aug. 23. —W r m. Jenkins A Cos., grocers and commission merchants, have failed. Liabilities about $35,000. It is believed that secured creditors will be paid in full, and leave the unsecured ones forty or fifty cents on the dollar. The American Bar Association. Saratoga. Aug. 23.—The American Bar Association held two sessions to-day, and twenty-two new members were elected. Ex- Governor Stevenson, of Kentucky, who was to deliver the opening address, was absent on account of ill-health. The report of the committee on plans of relief to suitors in the United States Supreme Court wa9 accepted. Discussions on a number of papers were par ticipated in by W. P. Wells, of Michigan; C. C. Bonney, of Chicago; R. G. Street, of Texas, and Emory A. Htorrs, of Chicago. In the evening a resolution was adopted regret ting the absence and illness of ex-Governor Stevenson, and requesting a copy of his ad dress for publication. Vitiated blood need* cleans! mr. Tmre la only ne remedy for all sucli cases- Samaritan Ner vine. THE MINNESOTA CYCLONE. Description of the Scene at Roches ter by an Eye-Witness. The Entire North Half of tlie City In Ruins, the Lum Falling Chiefly on tlio Poorer Classes. Congressman Dun noil's Account of the Storm and las Effects. Great Damage to Life ami Property Over a Large Traet of Country—ln cidents ot the Storm. TUESDAY'S BTORJW. An Eye-Witness Describes the Scene Among the Ruins at Rochester. Chicago, Aug. 23.—The Dakota passenger train on the Chicago Northwestern rail road, due here at 7 p. it., yesterday, did not arrive until 12:10 this morning, being de layed five hours at Rochester, Minn. A trestle bridge west of the place and the rail road bridge over the river in the city were both destroyed, and the passengers had to be transferred to a train sent from Winona. Among the passengers arriving was Mr. E. A. Peck, of Plano. It was 7 o’clock p. m. Tues day wheD Mr. Peck reached Rochester, a few moments after the deadly work of the cyclone had been accomplished. He de scribes the scene as being sickening in its horror. The entire north part of the place from the Chicago Northwestern track was a confused mass of debris. Scare a house was standing, and the few which were had been moved from their foundations and shattered as by an earthquake. The af frighted survivors were at work rescuing the injured and recovering the bodies of the dead. Before midnight twenty-three corpses lay in a hotel to which they had been re moved. They were pitiable figures—some of them crushed and mangled out of resem blance to the human form. Nearly all were injured about the head, and the begrimed faces appeared to have been dragged in the earth by the whirlwiud. Forty wounded, many of them seriously, had been removed to undestroyed dwellings. It was thought at least twenty bodies yet remained in the ruins. The portion of the city swept by the cyclone comprised about a third of its ex tent, including several stores and generally the poorer dwellings. The storm appeared to have formed about eighteen miles northwest of Rochester, and, gathering violence as it progressed, destroyed several farm-houses in its course. A lower ing. dun-colored, funnel-cloud was seen ap proaching the fated town, and in a few mo ments the slaughter had been accomplished. No time was given for any preparation had it been possible. The scene in the devastated district and the place where the dead lay was inde scribably sad. Mothers wildly searched for their children, while little homeless waifs were found whom the tempest had orphaned. One child was the only survivor of a family of seven. The passengers on this train wer6 not aware that a frightful cyclone had passed near them until their attention was directed to feather-beds and articles of wearing appar el lodged against the barbed wire fences, which indicated something of a blow. The wheat and other straw which was blown from the stacks was twisted about the rails in large quantities, presenting a singular ap pearance where the death-dealing funnel crossed the track. Shortly before the train arrived at Roches ter a freight train was wrecked at the tres tle at the western approach of the place. The wind twisted the switch-bar from its place, throwing open the switch. The engin eer saw the peril when close at hand and jumped, saving his life. The fireman wus carried over the embankment with his en gine and killed, his body not being recov ered until morning. The path of the storm through Rochester was strewn with wrecks, but was mostly in the poorer portions of the suburbs on the north side. The large elevator near the de pot was broken iu two portions, and the up per half, an immense mass, was carried across the railroad and over two trains of cars standing on the track, The depot building of the Northwestern road was destroyed, the roof of the court house was blown off. and a large stone man sion near by was wrecked in the upper por tion. The Cook Hotel was badly damaged, and the streets filled with debris and rolls of tin from the roofs of the destroyed build ings. The fatal black cloud swept toward St. Charles, five miles southeast, cutting a wide swath through the timber and farms, wreck ing buildings in the country and touching the skirts of the little hamlet with fatal ef fect, leaving two corpses and three fatally maimed. One of the dead men was found in a tree-top, his body bearing evidence of having been torn limb from limb by the mere force of the wind while being drawn up and carried along in the, terrible funnel. The Stevens family, consisting of four per sons, saw the approaching storm-cloud and hastly crept into a huge tank cistern buried in the ground, and which fortunately con tained no water. Their house was torn to pieces and wholly carried away over their heads. Not a vestige of their house re mained, but their lives were spared. The Injury to Life and Property. Rochester, Minn., Aug. 23,—The number killed by the cyclone on Tuesday is now fixed at thirty-four; wounded, eighty-two, of whom nine are fatal. The wind swept diag onally across the town, covering a space a miie and three-quarters in width, in which every building, some 300 in number, was de stroyed, together with the contents. It is now believed the damage will reacii $500,000. Damage Near Kasson. Kasson, Minn.. Aug. 23.—The cyclone passed about six miles south of this place, doing great damage to persons, buildings and crops. Christian Olisonjs wife was killed, and his oldest girl had Msr leg broken. Ole Anderson, a molder's wife, was badly hurt, and cannot live. His mother-in-law INDIANAFOLIS, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 18S3. was killed, his brick house unroofed, and all other buildings destroyed. J. J. Vanfrank’s house was destroyed, and some members of the family were badly injured, and his cattle were found laid in all directions over the prairie. The loss will foot up many thou sands of dollars. At Dodge Center. Dodge Center, Minn., Aug. 23.—Crops in the path of the cyclone, two miles south of here, were all destroyed, and heavy damage done to buildings. H, Elbrecht and wife were working in e field when they saw the storm, and clung to each other when it hit them. He was knocked senseless and she was blown to a considerable distance. She was found this morning in a horribly muti lated condition, one arm twisted off and the ocher nearly so. A number of other persons were less badly injured. In and About Winona. Winona, *'inn., Aug. 23.—The cyclone struck here at 7 o’clock last night. The de pot wac unroofed and badly wrecked. Xhe engine-house is a total wreck. The covered bridge near town is gone. A number of cars in the yard are completely smashed. Holton’s elevator is a total wreck; half of it obstructs the main railroad track. Streets are filled with trees and fragments of build ings. CONGRESSMAN DUNN ELL’S ACCOUNT. The North Half of Roche*ter a Complete Wreck—The Los* of Life. Chicago, Aug. 23.—Congressman Mark H. Dunnell telegraphs the following graphic picture of the Rochester disaster to the Daily News: The cyclone struck Rochester about 6:30 in the afternoon of Tuesday, lasted a min ute and a half, and largely spent its force on the north half of the city. All the dwelling houses but two on the north side of the track, embracing an entire ward,were wholly destroyed, and most of them blown into atoms. On the same side one flour mill was demolished, another unroofed and a large foundry wholly demolished, a large elevator unroofed, and the depot and adjoining buildings wholly demolished. The destruc tion from the depot north was complete. The bridge over the Zumbrota river near the depot was destroyed. The destruction on the south side of the track was very great, but not so sweeping. The court-houee and all the churches were badly damaged, the Methodist Church suffer ing most. Not less than one hundred buildings on the south side of the track are more or less damaged. The destruc tion was mainly north of the Cook House; that part suffering complete wreck. It was north of the depot and inhabited by laboring people. Darkness set in soon after, and the scene was terrible. Twenty-five dead bodies were taken from the ruins, many of them parents with children. Not less than 250 buildings were wholly or partially ruined, and the loss cannot be less than $300,000. The loss of life is very great; twenty-five killed and four or five died since. Some seventy are now being cared for who were injured. Os those now in the hospital fifty were terribly cut and mangled by flying timbers and pieces of wood. The destruction to life and property alone the track of the cyclone is very great. Bt. Paul sent $5,000, Owatonna will send SI,OOO, and other cities and towns will send relief. The poor people of the city are the greatest sufferers. Two persons were killed near Kasson. Cattle in large numbers were killed, and grain in stack and shock was taken somewhere, not leaving a straw. A Cloud-Burst in Arizona. Florence, A. TANARUS,, Aug. 23.—Lateon Tuesday evening an ominous looking cloud hurst with great fury on the lidge of the moun tain northeast of the King mine. The water divided on the ridge, part of it going on the north side and part on the south side. If this had not been the case the town of Silver King would have been a thing of the past. As it is the town was much damaged. A miner by the name of O’Donnell was washed away with his cabin, and his body was found fifteen miles distant. The Monarch of the Seas was filled with water and rocks; likewise the shafts of the Bilk mine. The men were hoisted out in great haste. The property of the King remains intact. Great bowlders weighing twenty tons were washed and ripped from the mountain sides and hurled into the road beneath as if they were but marbles or rubber balls. The roadways are pretty badly wrecked. Outside of O’Don nell no deaths were reported. The cloud burst descended with great fury, and it seemed as if all the waters in the gulf had been concentrated and forced upon Strane man pass. Probable Discovery of Another Comet. Special to the Indlanatiolls Journal. Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 23.—Dr. Lewis Swift, director of the Warner Observatory in this city, reports that he observed last even ing what seemed to be a comet in the ankle of the constellation of Andromeda. The clouds, however, obscured the vision almost instantly. As is no nebulae in the vi cinity Dr. Swift is ot the opinion that the stranger is a comet. He was unable to de termine the motion. If this discovery turns out to be a comet Dr. Swift wins the first S2OO prize for 1883 offered by Mr. H. H. War ner, the founder of the Warner Observatory, who, however, madeW. R. Brooks, of Phelps, a special award of $250 for the discovery of a comet the day before the prize for the year was announced. Dr. Swift has won about $1,200 by his cometarv discoveries. A Good Law, and How It Work*. Kansas City, Mo.. Aug. 23.—An interest ing case was concluded to-day in the District Court, at Wyandotte, Kas. John Harris A Cos., bankers, of Olathe. Kas., failed recently, with liabilities of SBO,OOO, and nearly nom inal assets. John Harris was indicted, under a recent statute making \l felony fora banker to receive deposits, knowing his bank to be in a failing condition. He took a change of venue to Wyandotte, and to-day the defendant w’as found guilty upon the first of five presentments. Sentence will be an nounced to-morrow. The extreme penalty is live years’ imprisonment, The defense will appeal. This is supposed to be the first case under the statute in question. Stilt Threatened for the Loan of Quene*. Trenton. N. J., Aug, 23. —The five China men recently incarcerated in the State prison for assault on a fellow countryman in Pat erson. threaten to bring suit against the prison keepers and boards of inspectors, j claiming damages for depriving them of i their queues. They claim tlmt the constitu -1 tion declares that no person shall be de -1 prived of the privileges of worshiping God according to the dictates of his conscience, und that the queue ia an element of Chinese religion. Don’t pliyelc, for It weaken* ami destroys, but use Hop Uuiet-, taut builds up, up, apt THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. An Ingenious Colored Citizen Making a Living in a Unique Way. lie Brlnj* Suits for Damage* Under the Civil-Rights Law, but Compromises for a Consideration. Correcting Absurd Reports as to the Publication of the Pension List. Cases of Old Army Officers Referred to the Court of Claims Report of the Experts in the Hill Case. CIVIL RIGHTS. A North Carolina Negro Wake* the Commu nity bj- a Suit for Damages. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 23.—A few day% ago a colored man prosecuted a keeper of a res taurant for refusing to sell him a dinner, and the court fined the defendant for viola tion of the civil-rights bill. The prosecuting witness claimed to be from Norwich, Conn., but it is now known that he is a native and a resident of the State of North Carolina. Emboldened by the success of his prosecu tion fo r misdemeanor, he now threatens a civil suit for damages against the restaur ateur, unless that individual compromises by* paying the sum of $l5O. To avoid the expenses and annoyance of litigation the restaurateur will probably split the difference and pay SIOO for immunity from further pro ceedings. The better class of colored peo ple strongly condemn the action of this per son. They say he should have been satisfied with the decision of the court in the misde meanor case, as that decision fully vindi cated the principle of equal rights which the civil-rights bill was designed to enforce. The suit for pecuniary damages now threat ened, they declare, will arouse public opin ion against the whole series of so-called re construction acts, and still further postpone the period when the perfect equality of the two’ races before the law will be recognized universally. They have taken the pains to inquire into the antecedents of this pretended Connecticut negro, and, as has bfeen stated, not only find that he was born b slave and has always been a resident of Nprtli Carolina, but that he has been making a practice of proceeding against the proprietors of public houses that have re fused him entertainment. It is said that he has been making his way for two or three years by this method of dead-beat ing, and that he does not pursue violators of the law upon principle, but for gain, and therefore is doing the colored race incalculable injuries. There is talk of publishing a card signed by a number of the leading colored men of the District denouncing his attempt to secure damages. NAMES OF PENSIONERS. Correcting Some Absurd Statements Con cerning the Proposed Publication. Washington Special. The Pension Office is preparing for publi cation a complete list of all pensioners, and somebody started the story that there was great unwillingness to have all these ad dresses fall into the hands of pension agents, and therefore it was represented that the Commissioner was going to take extraordi nary pains to keep the volumes in dungeons and other places where the unofficial eye could never penetrate. The story was ab surd, because the publication was ordered by Congress for the express purpose of letting everybody know who the pensioners are, with the view of exposing fraudulent cases. Nineteen hundred copies were ordered by Congress, aid Commissioner Dudley promi ses to give the publication the widest circula tion he can. lie expects that a second and much larger edition will be ordered by the' coming Congress. It is expected that the first edition will be ready for distribution by the Ist of Decem ber. The Commissioner anticipates that the publication will make a great increase in the work of the office, because it will bring thou sands of letters from every part of the coun try protesting against the granting of pen sions to persons named. Many of these will be founded on ignorance. A man may have a wound of a serious character that amply entitles him to a pension that his ac quaintance may know nothing about. By way of discounting objections of this char acter, the list, in consequence of a suggestion by the Commissioner will state the ground for which each pension is granted, except where such a statement would be embarrass ing to the pensioner on account of the na ture of the wound. Most of the protests against the pensions that the publication of the list will bring in will be purely mali cious. All objections that seem to be re spectable will be investigated, and a brief of every case is now being prepared, so that at the shortest notice all the reasons for which any pensions were granted may be at once found and reported to any person authorized to know. GENERAL NEWS. Cases of Old Army Officers Referred to the Court, of Claims. Washington, Aug. 23.—The Second Comp troller of the Treasury recommended that the cases of the following named officers of the army be referred to the Court of Claims for adjudication: Adafil Budeau, Frank T. Bennett. Francis E. Lacey, Vincent Paled, Robert H. Montgomery, Joseph Vanderslice, John H. W. Blair, jr., Charles P. Miller, William P. Gould, and Benjamin F. Pope. These cases are claims for arrearages, lon gevity pay, alleged to be due under the recent decision in the case of Captain R. W. Tyler. The Second Comptroller has asked their reference to the Court of Claims under the oid law contained in section 1.063 of the Revised Statutes, and not under the Bow man bill. Railroad Commissions Appointed. Washington, Aug. 23. —The President ap pointed D. D. 8. Brown, of Scottsville, N. Y.; George G. Wright, of Des Moines, la., and William S. Furay, of Columbus, 0., a com mission to examine and report on seventy five miles of the Northern Pacific railroad, in Montana. To examine forty-two miles of the same railroad in Oregon and Washington Territory the following named commissioners were appointed: William H. Beard, of Brook lyn; Richard M. Galloway, of New York city, and Alonzo Bell, of New York. Report of Expert* in tlie Hill Investigation. Washington, Aug. 23.—The Hill investi gating committee to-day received a report on the condition of the heating apparatus of the custom-house from Messrs. Robert Russell and Albert Galloway, tlie experts appointed by the collector of customs at Chicago, at the instance of Assistant Secre-' tary New, to examine the apparatus. The committee declined to disclose the character of the report. It is understood, however, that it corrobotates the testimony of Wood man as given before the committee. His testimony was in effect that the apparatus put in by the contractors, Bartlett, Robbins Cos., did not, in several instances, meet the requirements of the contract as regards the quality and quantity of material to be used. The report of Green, the other expert sent to examine the work, has not yet been re ceived. Mr. New, the chairman, says the re port of the committee will be submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury early next week. Getting Even with Richardson. Washington, Aug. 23.—The father of Dr. Richardson, of Washington, who has been extensively advertised as about to go over Niagara Falls in a life preserver of his own invention, says tlie whole thing is a hoax. It was originally given to the press by an in timate friend of Dr. Richardson, both being practical jokers, with a view of getting even with Dr. Richardson fora practical joke per petrated by him. Dr. Richardson has re ceived a bushel of letters on the subject. He has replied to all he could find time to read that he had never thought of going over Niagara Falls. THE TEMPLARS. Election of Officers —Corner-Stone of the Gar field Monument To He Laid To-Day. San Francisco, Aug. 23.—The following of ficers were elected by the Knights Templars: Grand Master, Robert E. Withers, of Vir ginia; deputy grand master, Charles Roome, of New York; generalissimo, John P. S. Ga bin, of Pennsylvania; captain-general, Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan; senior warden, J. Larue Thomas, of Kentucky; junior warden, George C. Perkins, of California. The treas urer and recorder were re-elected. To-morrow the inauguration of the foun dation of the Garfield monument will occur. It has been declared a State holiday, and all business will be suspended. Raper and St. Bernard. Special to Chicago Tribune. The Chicago Templars were somewhat sur prised to-day to learn through the columns of the local press that a friendly contest be tween the several competitive drill corps was to have occurred at Merchants’ Pavilion last night. Asa matter of fact, St. Bernard Cominandery having been so fraternally greeted by the Sir Knights of the Pacific coast, the old feeling of years of jealousy which so strongly characterized the meeting of Raper and St. Bernard commanderies, and in the friendly contest at Indianapolis last June, has taken this form of expression. The St. Bernard drill corps did, at a late hour, learn that their band was invited by the Grand Commanderv of Illinois to discourse a selection of music, and that Raper Cotn mandery No. 1, of Indianapolis, was to give a parade drill during the evening at the pa vilion, but they did not understand that the Chicago commandery was even expected to be present, much less to give any display drill. Tlie current opinion is that this ma tieuvre on the part of R iper was for effect, showing, as they believed, their own will ingness and St. Bernard's unwillingness to engage in any drill before the competitive drill on Saturday next. THE PRESIDENT’S TRIP. The Party Hun tin]; and Fi*hing—Approach ing Yellowstone Park. Camp Hampton, on Snake River, Aug. 20. —The President and party reached this camp, after traveling about eighteen miles along tiie foot-hills between the Shoshone and Teton mountains. The camp is named in honor of Senator Wade Hampton, who was expected to accompany the party. Its location is grand, on the bluff on Snake river, and facing the entire range of the Teton mountains. Judge Rollins shot and brought in his first antelope. All kinds of game abound at this camp. Nearly all the party are engaged iu angling for trout. The President and Senator Vest outstripped the rest of the party, and are vicing for the supremacy. Each landed a two and-a half-pound trout from the bluff facing the camp, witnessed by the entire command. Their catch for the day is much larger than any day during the trip. At our last camp the temper of the entire party was severely tried by tlie extremes of the weather—hot weather in the middle of the day, and a se vere gale of Chinook winds throughout the night, accompanied with blinding clouds of dust. Ice formed an inch thick on the water buckets before the tents before morning to day. The weather is clear and bracing, and all of the party are in excellent health and spirits. To-morrow’s march will take us to the southern boundary of Yellowstone Park. Tlie Northern Pacific Junket.. Chicago, Aug. 23. —Elaborate preparations have been.made for the entertainment of the guests of the Northern Pacific road, who will he present at the formal opening, Sept, t). It is said that $23,000 has been expended for wines und liquors alone. People in the Northwest talk of nothing but the proposed excursion. The invitations were limited, only 500 being issued. They were sent to the most prominent Americans and to peo ple of Europe. On the 41st inst. the ‘ruins bearing the party will arrive in Chicago. Mayor Harrison will join the party at Min neapolis. The party will remuin there three days, visiting the surrounding points of in terest. St. Paul business men have made, liberal subscriptions for the entertainment of the guests. H. Davis, assistant general passenger agent of the Manitoba road, will drive the last spike. Mr. Davis was the tirst man to drive a spike for the Northern Pacific. Mr. Villard will drive the golden spike. Many times you want to keep meat or IDh for several day*. Lay It in a solution or Rex Mag nus over night amt you can keep it for You can also keep milk a week or more by Stir ling inuiiuloof tue “Snowflake” uyainl. PRICE FIVE CENTS, WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR

The French Forces Compelled to Re treat. from Before Had uong. Tlie Atmatnese Well Intrenched—lt Will Require Ten Thousand Frenchmen to Cope Successfully with Them, The North German Gazette Alarms Europe with Its Articles. Fright of European* at Canton at the Atti tude of the Chinese—The French Ar rest of Mr 81iiw—Battle in Peru. THE WAR IN TONQUIN, The Frerch Disheartened, and the Enemy Encouraged by the Recent Battle. London, Aug. 23.—A Times correspond ent at Ilong Kong, referring to the move ment of the French in Tonquin, says: “The enemy was mainly composed of Chinese, armed with Remington rifles. General Bonet commanded the left column of French troops. It is believed the enemy’s loss was small. The French doctors complain of want of medicine and stores. The opera tions of the French have been stopped for the present, the number of troops being in sufficient to attack Sontay and Caoninh, which are the strongest positions in the Della. The repulse of the French dis heartened them and encouraged the enemy. Four thousand native Christians are being armed.” The Standard’s correspondent nt Hanoi adds: “It is generally admitted tnat the French will require a force of 10.000 men to be able to cope with the enemy successfully. Tne number of gunboats is also inadequate. Five hundred coolies, who accompanied the French column as curri o', o fled at the first shot. It is stated that the enemy lias in trenchments, one behind the other, over the whole twenty-five miles between Hanoi and Sontay, but it is thought the floods have de stroyed many. The black flags have been strongly reinforced from Yung Nan. No Annamese participated in the fighting.” The Times says: “The capture of Haidnong is of some importance, as it gives the French complete command of the Song Chi canal, Which is the most convenient approach to Hanoi.” The Kingdom of Annum. Tonquin forms, with Annamite Cochin China, the kingdom of Annum, whose capital is Hue. The northern part is by far the more important. The area of the kingdom is a little more than half that of France. Its former limits have been greatly reduced by the cession of six provinces to the French and the establishment of the kingdom of Cambodia as an independent monarchy. In tlie north are Hanoi and Namdinh, where French garrisons have been established. In the south is Hue, the capital, which the French expect to bombard. By this move the French hope to terrorize the black (lag3 who are stationed along the Red river delta in tiie north, and thus leave the forces at Hanoi and Namdinh free for an active cam paign. A MEDDLESOME PAPER, The Effect of the North German Gazette’* Re cent Article* on French Affair*. London, Aug. 23.—The Times, commenting on the Berlin North German Gazette’s article referring to the attacks of French journals on Germany and declaring that Fraftpe alone threatens the peace of Europe, says the ir ritation shown by the latter paper cannot be explained by the reason assigned, as the French press, upon tlie whole, lias been very moderate in regard to Germany. The article was rather an expression of general impa tience at the conduct of the French, ami ought to convince them that tlieii expedi tions in various parts of the world do not add in the smallest degree to their influence in Europe. The articles in the North German Gazette startled Paris, alarmed Europe, and causes prices on the bourses of Paris, Vienna and Berlin to fall. The press everywhere ex press surprise at the Gazette’s attack on France, and wonder as to what its object is. The French papers repel the charges con tained in the article, and intimate that France is better prepared now *to say that Bismarck is seeking a pretext for a quarrel, or for tlie imposition of fresh army burdens. The Austrian press ask if the article means war. The English journals think the warn ing was overdone, ami the cause for it insuffi cient. It would not be wise, they say. to attach too much significance to the article. AN AERONAUT’S PERIL. The Frightful Experience of M. Gratien An Unprecedented Scene. Pan’* Special. At Royan. on the Gironde, there was on Friday a scene perhaps unprecedented in the annals of ballooning. M. well* known aeronaut, was nlfout to make an as cent in n hot-air balloon; called “La Vidou villnisi.” Mile. Albertine, tlie heroine of several balloon ascensions, was seated in tiie car, and M. Gratien was holding in his right hand a loose eoii tied to one of the cords that served to attach the balloon. The balloon unexpectedly broke loose, and the cord, un rolling Itself with lightning rapidity, caught in a sort of running knot around the first and second fingers of Grntien’s right hand. Gratien was immediately whisked off into the air 600 meters high. In vain he tried to haul himself up on the cord and loop it over his arm. After frantic efforts he became ex hausted, and hung at the end of the cord, suspended solelv by two fingers, and suffering excruciating agony, owing to the jerking of the balloon. The cord cut like a razor through the flesh to the bone, in that situation Gratien was enrrird to the distance of nearly four miles. At the height of 600 metres above the earth. Mile. Alber tine, overcome by the horror of the situation, fainted away and sank to the bottom of the car. A* the air in the balloon became cool the balloon descended hut bumped against the eartli in the midst of n dense mass of thorny shrubbery. Gratien was not only stripped of his clothes but Ids skin was liter ally torn in strips from his body, as ue was

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4 THE DAILY JOURNAL. UT JNO. C. NEW SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. FRIDAY, AIM T 24, 1888* THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Tan be found at the follow!ng p'.area: LONDON—American Exchangein Europe, 449 Strand. FARlß—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Copucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, WASHINGTON. D. C.—Urentano's 1,015 Pennsylra nia avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. c. Hawley A Cos., 151 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Bearing, north vest corner Third and Jefferson streets. FT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Oepet. Now if the telephone operators would go on a strike! ______________ The New Albany Ledger talks of “the tendency of certain papers and persons to drive the Democratic party on the rocks of free trade.’* It will surprise many to be told that the assessed valuation of Boston is more than five times that of Chicago. It may be stated, further, that Boston has owned a good share of Chicago since the big fires. The Atlanta Constitution knows of no ob jection to Judge Holman, of Indiana, as a Democratic candidate for President No one else seems to know any objection to him as a candidate, but a vast majority will “rise to object” to him as President. Ex-Senator McDonald denies that he said what the newspapers say he said about-Mr. Tilden’s wire-laying and “everybody for himself in the next campaign.” With all his sagacity and experience, can it be that Mr, McDonald has forgotten the political axiom that the candidate who stops to deny is lost? Two or three empty-headed papers in the State are talking about the indictment of Dorsey and others connected with the cam paign of ISBO, by the Marion County Criminal. Court. If there is anyone who knows so much about that campaign as a few Demo cratic newspapers claim, why does he not bring his facts and proofs before the United States grand jury? The United States court is open to anybody. At the Old Orchard Beach temperance meeting Governor Robie, of Maine, said “men elected to enforce the be made to enforce it.” That is a crude notion of old fashioned people. In the present day no such absurd sentiment prevails. Now only such laws or such parts of laws are enforced as suit some particular power or interest. Governor Robie should come West, where they have more “liberal” ideas. Uncle Rufus Hatch is, in a manner, “par alyzing” his English guests, who are doing the great Northwest. On Sunday he took them to see the big Dairymple farm where they were shown 130 reapers and self-binders cutting down a field of wheat containing 28,000 acres. It is said that they were great ly astonished, and probably they were, but it takes as much to astonish an average Brit isher as it does to make an Indian smile. Thf. Governor of Kentucky, having estab lished a well-earned reputation as a free hand pardoner, is besieged by a regular army of pardon-seekers, now' that his term is near an end. One man, indicted but not yet tried fora crime, is urged as deserving a pardon because, if he is brought to trial, the feeling Will be so strong that the military will have to be summoned to defend the court. In other words, the Governor of Kentucky is urged to pardon a man before the people of Kentucky pronounce their verdict. Justice is a sham in Kentucky. Rev. Dr. Deems, of New York city, in a recent discourse, paid that he had lately met a gentleman who was so excited over the evil wrought, among all classes, especial!}” the young, by immoral pictorial newspapers, that he wanted to have all such papers as the Police Gazette suppressed. The Doctor was not willing to go that far. because lie be lieved the freedom of the press was so precious a thing to Americans that they could not afford to surrender it on account of the evils necessarily connected with it, but that he v.as willing to join any wide move ment legitimately made for the suppression of pictorial representations of criminal ac tions. Ex Senator McDonald has been compelled to again deny a reported interview. This time our Indiana friend says he never held a conversation with any newspaper corre spondent or group of friends at the Riggs House during his recent visit to Washington, end therefore could not have said about pol itics and President Arthur and the campaign of 1884 what it is said he said. When Mr. McDonald grows older and wiser and more discreet he will never “interview” to or with anybody, and he will allow the heathen to rage and the people to imagine a vain tiling to their hearts' content. Mr. McDonald is too anxious, and, therefore, is frequently very indiscreet. Mb. Henry George, m his testimony be fore the Senate committee on labor, in speaking of the recent telegraphists’ strike, said: “The Associated Press, in connection with the Western Union company, has been 0 means of defeating the recent strike by in fluencing the public press to take a stand adverse to the telegraphers.” This is so no toriously untrue as to be laughable iii a Man of Mr. George’s pretensions. Tne fact 'a that, with rare exceptions, the press of the country, associated and otherwise, was a unit in favor of the operators and against the company. If the efforts of the press of the country could have availed, the Western Union would have been speedily forced to an honorable compromise. But men like Mr. George have a theme to advocate, and matters of fact are not allowed to stand in the way. Mr. George is “au advanced thinker.' SPECULATIVE BUSINESS. The contrast between American and trans atlantic methods is often very marked, though not always to the advantage of the one or the other, as the case may be. There are, doubtless, some things in which we might profitably learn from the example of older countries, while in other matters the methods pursued in this country are unques tionably superior to those abroad. In most matters of business the older countries are more conservative, therefore slower and in nearly every instance safer. The possibility of rapidly acquired fortunes in America is an incentive to risk, and the channels of specu lation are so much more tempt ing over legitimate means that they are in many instances mis taken for the real highways of commerce. Send a tyro to Chicago or New York to dis cover the arteries of trade, and he would be sure to locate them in the stock exchange, the board of trade, or some such place. In one sense he would be right. But if he were asked to find the gulf stream In the great ocean of business there transacted he would be unable to detect it. The handling of stocks, bonds and produce at long range sug gested that the scheme might be utilized as a gambling process, though a safer term was substituted. If the legitimate dealer in wheat could buy and sell that commodity in quantities without leaving his office, why might not anybody buy and sell the same without seeing or car ing to see it? Wiiy not follow its fortunes from field to seaboard, the rise and fall of its value being provided for by what is known ns “margins?” In time this improvement on legitimate trade became so popular with speculators that it exceeded in magnitude the thing from which it sprang, and now, to where one bushel of wheat is sold in reality fifty bushels are nought and sold only as an index of determining winnings and losses. It is equally true of stocks and bonds. Millions are put up on their fluctuating values to where thousands are put in as an actual investment. Asa result of nil this unreal business, in which the fortunes of “dealers” rise and fall like tides of the sea, or rise like clouds from the sea and plunge downward again with the velocity and destructive power of a tornado —as a result of this, the manipulators of stocks and bonds find it very profitable to use them to control the market. Certain stocks are “cornered” or “watered,” as the condition of the market suggests. Artificial values, above and below' the actual value, are given them from time to time, according to the wants or needs of those in position to control these things. It is folly for small dealers, or those outside, to speculate in stocks, and a large majority of them know it. They know, as well as they know any thing, that they can'have no possible influ ence in the matter; that what they throw into this financial maelstrom is perfectly at the mercy of the tides, and that the ebb and flow of the tides are controlled in the inter est of a very few. Their only possible hope is to catch these artificial tides at a time wheu they shall be carried to fortune. The evils arising from this source are too appar ent to require argument. In England it is different. The rules of the London Stock Exchange require, before a stock can be listed, that a considerable amount of stock shall be held in London by London investors, in their own names, and that a list of the bona fide owners shall be filed with the exchange when the stock is listed. There is, therefore, no dealing in margins and comparatively no speculation. Sales made on the exchange are bona fide transfers for cash. The stocks listed are actual investment stocks, and the listing is a guarantee of the solidity of a security. In other words, the members of the Lon don Stock Exchange are in position to know somewhat of the probabilities of cer tain stock3, and of the possibility of their being manipulated for the purpose of specu lation. In this respect the plan is wholly dif ferent from that pursued in America. Here it is a question of no moment who owns the stock. It may be “bought" and “sold” a dozen times daily, without a single slure changing ownership. Take Western Union telegraph stock for example. During the year it is bought and sold ten times over its entire value, and the probability is that not one quarter of it lias changed hands even once during the twelve-month. It cannot be said, there fore, that its fluctuations arise from natural commercial reasons, but rather that those in position to do so depress or increase its quo table value in order to form a basis for spec ulation, and to afford the means of winning the money of those who arc* willing to invest and take the attendant risks. It were wise did American imitate English financiers in this matter. It would rob stock exchange transactions of their gambling features, but the effect could scarcely be other than to result beneficially to legitimate trade. There can be no doubt that there* is occa sion for the buying and selling of stocks and bonds, just as there is for traffic in grain and general produce. But the fictitious “busi ness” in these things has grown to such pro portions that its evil influence is apparent upon legitimate transitions. If the wheat product of the country was not sold ten times over there could be no possibility of THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1533. a “corner” in wheat, and no unreal value could be placed upon it to the harm of every consumer. If business in any merchantable article be confined to actual sales there can never be a “squeeze.” To this it must sometime come. It ought to be apparent that gambling in grain and stocks is no more honorable than gambling with dice and cards. It is less honorable than a lottery, for in the latter the ticket hoider lias some little chance of winning— in the former none whatever. Tiie Carson Appeal says that Senator Fair was seriously injured when a child, and as a result has developed a mental bent which led him to an aversion for the truth and a fondness and ability for falsehood and indi rection truly wonderful. It says that latterly Mr. Fair has been devoting his strange talent to the w'ork of getting up a wholesale stock of untruths, and that he has succeeded be yond his wildest hopes. In the course of a long article explaining the Senator’s odd fac ulty, the Appeal remarks: “He [Fair] says he has already invented enough to last him to his eightieth year. He estimates that be can talk eight hours a day and never tell the truth once. His system cannot be described in this short paper. Those who have been allowed to inspect it pronounce it absolutely without flaw, au thentic and self-repeating. It has for its basis the system by which algebraic and geo metrical equations are formulated, and every thing is reduced to a mathematical certainty, so as to insure a given amount of lies every day, and no lie is made to do service twice. 11 is combination will last, as we have said before, until his eightieth year; after that lie has a vague horror that his end will come or he will be obliged to begin on the other end of his combi nation and repeat. He says lie would rather die than be obliged to resort to this expedient. He now has no fears that he will be caugiit napping, and looks to. the future with hope and confidence, and, like Ajax, will defy the lightning.” We reprint the following from the Worth ington Times, as a specimen of the remarka ble feeling toward the capital of the Statain dulged in by a few newspapers and people: “Indianapolis is the best advertised city in the West, and they reap a harvest from all the big gatherings. They now propose to hold a reunion of all the old settlers of Indi ana in September. The managers and the railroads work together, and will give cheap fares to induce people to come to the city and spend their money. These gatherings are u detriment to all the towns of the State, and the country press ought not to give them encouragement.” If Indiana could get along without any capital it would suit some p&cple, or if it had a capital without enterprise or prosper ity, as some States have, these folks would be satisfied. We know of no otiier State in the Union where the largest or larger cities are a constant source of irritation except In diana. Some time since a St. Louis man set up a claim for a large portion of the real estate of Washington City, including that upon which the capitol buildings stand. The gov ernment and other land-owners not showing a disposition to settle w ith the claimant, his law'yer, another gifted St. Louis man, writes a letter advising a compromise with his client. He assures the terrified citizens that if he does not get the money or the land he will cause the government buildings to be removed from Washington to St. Louis. Something should be done at once to avert this calamity. The country could give up Washington, but it cannot take St. Louis as a capital. Let the President be summoned home to look after his property. The committee, consisting of Bishop Bowman, President Martin and Prof. Kidputh, have is sued a lengthy address respecting the proposed endowment of Asbury University, of which the following is an extract: “Anbury University has reached a crisis in her history. Whether she shall be able to stem the tide is a question which must soon be decided in the affirmative or negative by those to whom she has a right to look for help. “With a view of saving the university In its present efficiency, no less than with toe hope of securing munificent gifts from Mr. DePauw. we therefore most earnestly and anxiously present to the friends of the tnstlintion throughout the State the following recommendations: “First—That the citizens of Greeueastle and Put nam county make haste to secure lie fuli amount re maining unsubscribed utid rtxjuisito for tli*i purchase of additional campuses. ••Fwuiid— In view of the various and embarrassing conditions inserted in many of the obligations already taken, and in view of the pressing wants of the uni versity, we especially urge upon all person# who. since the beginning of the present effort have made sub scriptions or executed notes conditioned upon raising the whole sum of f|Aii,fton. that they substitute there for new obligations, made without oouditions, to the trustees of Asbury University. “Third -That every friend of the institution in every part of the State exert himself t the utmost to securw and forward to the treasurer, Golonel John W. Ray. the largest possible amount of new, uncondi tional notes and subscriptions.” ••The committee have consulted freely with Mr. DePauw since the adjournment of the hoard, and we feel warranted In saying that if between the present and tbe4th day of Octobei 'he above three conditions are fulfilled according to the measure of what may be fairly and reasonably expected in the premises, then a liberal and sat isfactory provision for the future development of the university may be expected from Mr. De- Pauw. If these conditions are not met in a lib eral spirit, then the whole enterprise in its lead ing features will have proved it failure.*’ It seems to be almost conceded that the full amount of the proposed endowment, us first con templated, will not be reached, but that Asbury will be greatly aided and put on- its feet, finan cially speaking. Even this is worth the contin ued vigorous efforts of every friend of educa tion. Harper’s Weekly for the 18th tins a very strong and original cartoon on the temperance question, entitled “The Mill and the Still.” The artist, JfessF Shepherd, represents two figures springing out of a sheaf of wheat which makes the center of the composition. That on the right is a skeleton with death’s head pouring out ruin from a bottle of intoxicating liquor upon a fam ily. The father lies on the floor In a drunken stupor. The mother sits brooding over her un fortunate lor, hardly conscious of the pleading of the child that stands before her asking lor bread or the oue that sinks exhausted at her side. On the other hand a beautiful female fig ure offers a loaf of bread to a happy, prosperous family, which they receive with gladness. The product of the still is sorrow and poverty; of thu mill, health, joy and prosperity. A Georgia convirit is really an enviable crea ture, if an exuberant correspondent in ihat State is to he believed. They live in camps and work in mines or lay railroad tracks, to be sure, but these minor inconveniences arc nothing. They fare sumptuou.-ly every day, and go to occasional picnics gotten up by ad mit ing citizens. Says the correspondent who was present at one of these festive occasions: “We nave never seen so many men together who were an well pleased with their superiors. They are woil fed and dollied, and pciieoilj’ salisflud with their treatment. They could not be in duced to voluntarily leave nere, ai.d risk chances. All the natural surroundings art*con ducive to good health, and with the excellent treatment received by the men makes them strong and active and valuable.” The writer vouchsafes the further information that a cleverer, braver or nobler set of men never man aged convicts than those now iu charge.” Any Georgia nun who wauts to get into good society will, after reading this, go at once and become a convict. Mr. Jacob THOME, a Louisville alderman, died on Wednesday from injuries received while acting as pall-bearer at the funeral of a friend. In passing through a doorway the casket came so heavily against him that It ruptured a blood vessel, resulting iu his death. A local paper sug gested that the coffin be borne upon the should ers of the men ns wap formerly the practice. A better plan is in vogue In Indianapolis. The casket is placed on a small platform wagon, built for the purpose, and this is easily drawn or pushed through narrow doors and aisles. Such as they have here, appropriately draped and provided with handles similar to those on tli6 casket, present a much better appearance than to have the usual crushing in order to pass into a church. The idea should be adopted else where. ‘“The stout, not very tall nor yet very short man, with a heavy black* mustache, close-cut black hair, deep-set and quick brown eyes, wearing a sack coat and walking very fast, al most nervously, about the streets of Boston,’ says a writer in the Boston Herald,‘is Francis A. Walkor. No on? would think of stopping him unless he had something of moment?tq say. TUe first impression that one gets of him is that lie has something to do.’ ’’—New York Tribune. And the first impression is correot. General Walker has something to do, and that is to finish up that census, of which, so far, he lias succeeded only in making a mopstrous ab surdity. Mr. Kirtland Fitch, defaulting cashier of a Warren, 0., bank, voluntarily guve himself into custody at Boston .ou Tuesday because his conscience troubled him. This act oil the part of Mr. Fitch has created some sympathy in his behalf on the part of certain soft-minded people. As tho defaulter had none of the missing SBO,- 000 aoout his person when remorse struck him, none of the creditors are likely to be benefited. The real value of a conscience when the money is all gone is not at once appureut to their critical e> es. There is a preacher in Georgia who warns the young men of liis charge against the sin of pay ing their addresses to young women on the Sab bath day, and exhorts them to postpone the mo mentous question until Monday morning. This preacher was probably led to adopt these puri tanical principles through a vain hope of giving himself a fair show. He wants to circumvent t’;a worldly rival who sits up with his, the preacher's, best girl on Sunday evenings, while tho impatient divine is engaged iu saving souls. Science is being reduced to a very fine point in the region of of Hoboken. A meteor explod ed there a lew nights ago. The able scientists of Hoboken observatory declare that tlio light was a dazzling white, much brighter than the electric light, and that the sound of the explo sion was us loud as tnat of a brass cannon. It Is a finely educated ear that can detect the differ ence between the sound* of a steel and of a brass cannon. “The women operators were the bravest of the strikers, and they held out longest without fal tering. The operators who have been taken hack'will take good care that their sisters in slavery and misfortune are not permitted to suf fer.”—The Graphic. But will they take good caret According to the dispatches, the women operators at Boston and some other points have not been taken back, but no reports have yet come in of chival rous young men withdrawing in their favor. “The Journal makes a very good defense for Indianapolis in tho matter of the encampment. Nevertheless, it remains a fact that there was a sense or lack of solin comfort and enjoyment on the part of the visitors, and ar feeling that it was a ‘grab game’on the part of Indianapolis.’’—Lib erty Herald. Not denying the existence of the feeling, let us have the particulars of any “grab game?” Where and how does any “grab” come iu! Mr. Porter Rhodes has arrived in Paris with his wonderful diamond, discovered three years ago iu Africa. He claims that while it is forty three and a half karats heavier than the great Koh-i-noor it is equally as fine a stone iu every respect. He is seeking a purchaser, and it is said that the leaning contestants are the Em press of Austria and the Czarina of California, Mrs. Mackey. A Philadelphia school-girl had heard that ar senic was good for the complexion, but her va ried and extensive information did not include the fact that arsenic was a poisonous drug and not to be eaten like sugar. After she had been pumped out her complexion was no prettier, but she possessed one or two new and well-defined ideas. There is nothing like the object lesson, after all. t Os the 127,140 persons in English lnna.lc asylums only 154 belong to the classes known as “teachers, lecturers and professors. If they had the tenth of the number of “professors” there are in America, the figures would have to be materially changed. Two brothers at Coney Island were attacked by a footpad. They downed him and sat on him for three hours, and would have been there yet had they not bribed some boys to go and wake up a policeman. The American Institute of Christian Philoso phy is holding a summer school at Richfield, N. Y. Is the country to understand from this that the Concord philosophers are a heathen people! Buttermilk, by u freak made a fashionable drink in saloons, is said to be made out of water, chalk and tartaric acid. Old Soldier, Zionsville: We know nothing of tho reputatlou of the pension agency you men tion. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mu. J. Stanley- Brown and the younger or the Garfield boys are roughing it ou the Western border. Lady Archie Campbell’s divided skirt at the Priuce of Wales’s ball was considered as not be ing unlovely. Theodore Thomas, In Utah, with a nice re gard for the locality, put several wedding marches on each programme. TiiUHLbw Weed estimated his purchase of ci gars during the eighty-four years of his lifo at $30,000. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes aud weeds to Weed. Du. Garnett, of Washington, who performed the final surgical operation on Judge Black, was Jeff. Davis’s family physician during the civil war. Mr. Mackey is not putting all his money into the Postal Telegraph Company. His wife lias just paid siu,ooo for a box at the Theatre Italienue, Paris. Miss Julia Constance Fletcher, the author of “KiSmet” and “Mirage,” is In Loudon, and just finishing anew novel, which will be brought i.ut by Macmillan and by Roberts Brothers, simultaneously. It transpires that Mine Janauscheck’s name, translated from the Bohemian into pure Anglo- Saxon, is Johusou. One oau more fully appro- elate *the riehess and ripeness of the change when he contemplates the possibility—the ridic ulous possibility—of the burly old lexicogra pher having been known to posterity as Dr. I Samuel Jatiatisohek. Senator George, of Mississippi, who boasts that nis sons are none too good to work m the cotton field, nevertheless has a son who draws a salary of $1,300 in the stationery room at Wash ington. Paper, you know, is sometimes made of I cotton. I Jack McDonald, who trained Heenan for his j prize-fights in England, nearly a quarter of a century ago, is now a needy hanger-on at Lon don places of sporting men’s resort. isn’t it i abouttimefort.be American people to chip in and buy Mr. McDonald a gin-mill! Ruskin’s enmity to railways is not altogether unreasonable. The pine forests along the Adri atic at Ravenna, Italy, celebrated by Dante and Byron, and which furnished the shipyards of Rome and Venice, nre to be cut down because tin excavation for a railroad has so drained the soil that the trees have died. The medical faculty of Parts has got an addi tional memoer in a young American lady named Mile. Viotorine Bennett. This youug lady had chosen as the subject of her thesis “Infantine Paralysis,” and sustained her arguments in a most brilliant manner, which elicited the ap plause of the'doctors on the jury. A tall, stylish-looking woman, leading a grey hound, p--sed the balcony of a Saratoga hotel, on which two gentlemen were standing. “What, a beautiful creature,” said oue of them, In a voice that proved loud enough for the lady to hear. Turning very red in the face she glanced angrily at the speaker and said: “You have no right to insult me, sir.” “Excuse me, madam,” he replied, “but you flatter yourself. I was al luding to your dog.” Henry Study, on dying at Ransom. 111., has left a strangely-acquired lortuue of $05,000. He was a cripple from birth. At the close of the war he donned the uniform of a soldier, made up a pathetio story of having been wounded in bat tle, and went ou a tour as a beggar. He was wonderfully successful, by reason of his clever talk and miserable appearance, and in three years accumulated tne sum mentioned. He ever afterwards lived idly on tho interest. It appears that there is more virtue in Van derbilt than he is generally credited with. Mr. Leet. one of the editors of the Saratoga Season, has been investigating the matter and has dis covered that during tho past few years he has disbursed $3,000,000 in private charities. This money has been distributed unostentatiously. None but his most intimate friends have known of the benefactions, but there are figures to prove that the money has gone to tho channels to which It was directed. M. Dk Lessees, meeting a friend in Paris the other day, was complimented upou liis fresh and almost youthful appearance. “It’s odd that 1 should he looking well,” responded the veteran; “for I have had a vast amount of trouble and worry lately.” “Ah, yes.” said the friend, “I know; those English and tho Suez canal.” “Not a bit of it,” broke in the ancient canul-cutter; “I mean tho worry about the illness of one of uy children. I have been passiug some anxious nights, I can assure you.” Years ago, when David Crockett was a mem ber of Congress, and returned home at the close of the first session, several of his neighbors gathered around him one day, and asked ques tions about Washington. “What time do they ♦line in tho city!” asked one. “Common people, such as we are here, dine at 1; the big ones dine at 3, we representatives at 4, the aristoc racy at 5.” Well, when does the President fod der!” “Old Hickory!” exclaimed the Colonel: “well, he doesn’t dine until next, day.” Springfield Republican; Minister Lowell used to talk iu a straightforward, honest Ameri can fashion, knowing whut he wanted to say and saying it, but now ho hums and haws like a peer at a county dinner or a lawyer In the vaca tion. “He was good enough to say,” and “I am bound to take for granted,” and “Perhaps I may be allowed to say,” and “My friend, if I may be permitted to call him so,” and a hundred more such circumlocutory and apologetic phrases— these make an American ear sick with a desire fora blunt word or two from Hosea Bigiow. SPIRIT OF THE PIiESS. AS a matter of fact, the country is unable to accept all that the telegraph operators, the iron and st*el*workers. and the shoemakers can pro duce. Hence their wages are low,—Boston Ad vertiser. It is to be lamented that tho silver certificates were ever issued. They furnish a disguise through which The silver has been and is being insidiously forced on the community. They have served to aid in storing up wrath against (be day of financial judgment.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. It may be that tho market for securities has not yet reached a solid basis, but there is much reason in recent events to hope that it has. At all events, we. are working steadily toward a settlement in all departments of trade, even if in some it lias not yet been reached. When that settlement has been completed, a revival of prosperity is to be expected.—Now York Tribune. Wk area law-abiding people, but tho increase of this diabolical crime [outrage on wonienj ad monishes us that the laws intended for its pun ishment should he made mote stringent. Im prisonment for a short term of years is not suf ficient. MolJ now in the navy for even tiie commouSrtffL

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All Goods Marked in Plain Figures. PETTIS, BASSETT k CO. A BOON TO PUBLISHERS. An Invention That Will lie of Great Benefit to Newspaper People. All newspaper publishers whose circulation is handled by news companies and ageuts, from whom they redeem all unsold papers, and news companies themselves have for years under stood the value of some machine or method which would prevent news ageuts returning papers which had once been sold. The loss from this source to the leading papers and periodicals of this country does not fall far short of a million dollars annually. Train boys and hotel ser vants gather np every loose paper they can find and in time it is returned to the publisher or news company for redemption. Mr. J. H. Woodard, of this city, has just been granted two patents, one covering the machine for sealing, the other tor seal on newspapers and periodicals, which will effectually break up the practice of returning unsold papers. The machine, is very simple, and can be attached to the folding machine, or can be run independent of It. It pastes a sill* of colored paper, bearing the sea! of the office using it. over the free edges of the newspaper, so that tne buyer cannot read his paper without breaking the seal. One of these machines is now beiug built for the Jour nal. und another for the Cincinnati Enquirer. The inventor has a large market ready at lined and as the machines can be built at small cost, lus bonanza is one tbit publishers cau readily appreciate. New Suits Begun. Mathias Mayer has brought suit to set aside a certain conveyance of property made by him to his wife, Rosa Mayer. The complaint alleges that some months ago .die applied for a divorce, and her attorneys secretly got Mayer to come to their office, where they represented to him that he would be compelled to give up all his prop erty to his wife if the suit was pressed, and in fluenced him to deed to her two pieces of prop erty which he owned. He alleges that the con vej’ance was brought about by undue lnlluences and intimidation and without any considera tion, wherefore he asks that it be set aside. Lav in a Lyons has begun suit against John Lyons, her husband, and rlie I. Bt. L. Railroad Company to compel him to contribute to her support. The railroad company is made a co defendant, it being alleged that it is indebted to Lyons. The complaint represents that Lyons has abandoned his wife mid left the eity. Jennie. Stovall has sued fora divorce from John 8. Stovall, to whom she was married in Oc tober, 1881, alleging failure to provide aud habitual intemperance. The .state of Indiana ex re). William C. Ham mond has brought suit against Thomas C. Ham mond, executor of the will of Ann 8. Hammond, to compel him to pay to the plaintiff SI,OOO which he alleges is due hliu under the provision of Mrs. Hammond's wiD, he tnbng her son. John D. Floss has begun suit for SI,OOO against Fletcher and Churchman for a street im provement a Briglitwood. Edward Hudson uskn for a legal separation from his wife, Sarah K. Hudson, to whom he was married in May, 1881, alleging desertion stud had associations. Belle Adams also wants a divorce from Robert Attains, to whom she was married in May* 1877, alleging cruel treatment. Janies Leary has brought suit against the Indiana Banking Company for $3,500 widcli tie liad on deposit, aud Elizabeth Duma* has in stituted similar proceedings for S2OO and John Mctzlcr for $3,000. Marlon County S. S. Convention. The fourth annual convention of the Marion County 8. 8. Union will he held on Wednesday, Aug. 29. In tlie Meridian-street Church. A good programme lias been printed and distributed by Ibe president, R u v. 11. M. Morey. Kino .fc Elih-.khiow you fifty now styles of bedroom acts to select iroiu. TALK WITH A TURNKEY. Where tlie Criminals of the City Have Their Haunts. Tinrnps with Euphonious Aliases—An In cident In the Police Court—Prisoners Who Grew Desperate. “Slicky” Owens was before the mayor yester day morning charged with stealing twenty-two dollars and some cents, from an old man named Tim. O’Brien. Owens wasn’t christened Bllcky but Edward, and as to Slicky, if applied to 1 personal appearance he didn’t look it, with sev eral days growth of beard on his sallow face, with his furtive eyes and his bristly, uncombed shook of hair. He wa9 charged -with having, on Thursday of lust week, t iikcu O’Brien, who was drunk, into a yard on Court street aud there relieve, and him of the twenty-two dollars and odd certs, aforesaid. The yard where Slicky had per formed this sleight-of-hand, was near Queen Mab’s place, and the Queen was sent for as a witness. She came. The Queen is rather portly, and she moved forward to the witness chair with the grace of a load of lmy settling itself on the city scales. She was dressed in black, carried a black parasol, a black satchel and brought with her a colored girl, Ida Weath ers, also a witness. The Qqeen’s voice was harsh and husky, and she wore heavy gold bracelets, a large gold neck-chain and an immense cross blaz ing with diamonds. “I saw this gentleman,” said the queen, poiuting to Slicky, “but he was smooth-faced, his beard has grown out since, and a colored man take the old man into the yard. The old man was drunk, and they stood him up behind the gate. The colored man said lie was going after an express wagon. The old man said, ‘Take me out: I’ll roast here.’ As this gen tleman [Slicky came out the gate I saw him put his hand in his pants pocket, but don’t know if there was anything in it. I did uot see any money.” The old man bad testified that he carried Ills money iu his upper vest- pocket, and that it couldn’t have got out without fingers to aid it. The robbery took place at half-past 12 o’clock, and Slicky was arrested at the county jail, where he was visiting some of the prisoners, an hour aud a quarter later. He had just been discharged from jail the evening before, and at that time hadn’t a cent in his pocket. At the time of his arrest he had on a pair of new boots, was pass ing cigars and tobacco Id to the boys, and hud twelve dollars and eleven cents in his pocket. Slicky was held for grand Jury investigation. The reporter, leaving the city court-room, went over to tne station house. Al. Taffe, the day turnkey, was on watch. “I came here,” said the turnkey, “June, 1871; that’s over twelve years. I was away four years; no, only two, for I was deputy city marshal two years, and of course, connected with the staiiou-houso. I’ve turned the key oil thousands of people—all sorts. Do you remember Cluck, who billed his wife with mi ax, I think in 1872! He tried to cur his throat afterward: it was cur from ear io ear, but not deep enough. I fed him on milk pancli for more than a week. Tnree-fourths of it was lost, ns it ran out through the wound. He took morphine and died in jail the (lay oefore he was to have been hauged. Murderers are for the most part very quiet, well-behaved people dur ing the time they stay with me. They nearly all make the same plea,self-defense, and uo trouble to prove their innocence. Jeter was the worst frightened man I ever saw. The day after the murder lie claimed that lie had no recollection of having committed it, and trembled like a leaf. This place is only a clearing-house for the jail; few prisoners stay here.” A HAVEN FOR TRAMPS. “We are not bothered with i ram pc much in the summer, but in the winter we will lodge from 250 to 350 a month. The majority of them are professionals, and mostly young men from eighteen to thirty years old. They steal, of course, but rarely anything above petty larceny. They get real Jolly when brought in out of tlie cold, take out a pipe and load up with a cigar stump and enjoy themselves. Some of them have boys with them, ‘Kids to bum tlielr chuck’ —that ie, to beg victuals for them. Those that strike this town are usually from St. Louis, going east, or Pittsburg, coming west. “The Hut,” as they call Teire Haute, is a favorite stopping place with them. Once in a while there is ku honest laboring man out of work among them, but the rule is that they are professionals. Now’ and then, particularly iu the winter, men wiil come here and ask to be locked up. Drunks stagger in und ask us to taaecareof them. Some time ago a rather good-looking man came here and asked to be locked up for the night. He was perfectly sober. I told him I couldn’t do it. ‘All right,’ said lie, and went awav. A little while after be came back and threw a bowlder through the window. ‘I guess you’ll take me now,* saul be, and I did. He was a blacksmith, out of work.” “Let me show you where the tramps register,” he continued. “Tins iR the big room. There are more in where the cells are. In the winter there are more than now, as they get rubbed off.” The names were written on tire walls aud celling, some with chalk and keel, and some with lead pencils. Here are some of them: “Yellow Frank.” “Brocky George,” “Detroit Kid,” “Shilo Jim,” “Boston Dummy, the boss Jew *i :*nip;” “Ohio Ned,” “Doff Lloyd,” “New Al bany Brock,” “Scotty,” “Dennis Condon, Syra cuse;” Philadelphia Shorty,” “New York Kid,” “Jersey’s Florida Kid,” “Black Hawk,” “Cincin nati Kid,” “The Notorious Monk,” “Hartford Bhm,” “Newport George,” “Buck Ltddy,” “Monk Sands,” “Train Jumper,” “Pony Doc,” “Philadelphia Jim,” “Albert Squirt,” “Chips Kid,” “Sligo Billy,” “Tony Blond/.” “Some of these fellows,” said the turnkey, “have been in over aud over again. Like auy other business, we have our regular customers, and I know seven out of ten who are brought here because they have been here before. And our beet customers are those who can’t afford it. Drunks are brought here. Some fellow* over and over again, working men, some of them with families, who not only lose time from their work but have to put up good money to pay for their iaw-oreaking. How their families live I don’t know. PRECOCIOUS CRIMINALS. “It’s astonishing how early some offenders be gin. Kids thirteen and fourteen years old are brought here so precocious in crime that they can give points to old men. Girls as young as* thirteen are frequently slated as prostitutes. About a year ago three girls ran away from here to Frankfort, incorngibles they were called. They were brought back to be sent to the Reformatory. None of them were over twelve. They promised to behave and were uot sent. It wasn’t a month befote they were here again slated as prostitutes. The Harter fumllv, as a family, take the cake as regular customers of the station; mother, sons aud daughters are thieves and prostitutes. Ira lias been over the road; John, the youngest boy, is now in the House of Refuge. “Now and then we get some nice fellows— dudes, I call ’em. They have a nine at night, kick over store boxes, roll beer kegs into tlie gutter, and all that sort of tbiug. They register under an assumed name, leave their money call n cholera morbus, ami their mothers give them sympathy and paregoric. “Sometimes tne lowest women brought here have as ‘friends,’ the high-toued young men of the city, and when they write a note to tne boys, they shin around and bail them out. H AUNTS OP PIKFERENT CLASSES. “Wnere are most of the thieves brought from! Wlmi locality!” inquired the reporter. “The Union Depot aud that neighborhood, and South Illinois street. An old fellow was touched at the Union Depot, night before last for S2OO good boodle,*but the thieves got away. It was done in a car just as a train had pulled Into the the depot. There were three of them worked ir. One pretended to drop something on the floor by* the old man’s feet, and stooped down to get it. The others leaned over the old man, all looking for It, you see, and when he straightened up ins pcket-book was gone. He squealed, but the thieves got Hway.” “Where are most of the arrests of women made!” “Well, prostitutes are pretty well scattered. Most of ihem come from Washington street west of the Zoo, from South Tennessee street, slid from Eddy and Ann streets and there about. Sligo-under-tlie-Hlll furnishes the worst colored toughs, men and women. Most of onr arrests don’t pan out much money wheu searched. The biggest THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1883. amount of money I ever found on any man was $”,500. That was on a railroad contractor who was on a drunk. Ho hail money iu every pocket nod bad n valtse full. Saturday’ night Is onr big night. The police begin running them in at 9 o’clock, and keep it up all night. There arc more drunks and mtsdemeanors.two to one. In summer than in winter. Whisky and women make near ly all our cases. During the week most of the deviltry is done between II aud 3 o’clock at nigh*. DRIVEN TO DESPERATION. “A man in my place here learns something of medicine amt surgery in the course of time. We’ve had a giod many attempts at suicide, both men and women. None, so far, have suc ceeded. They usually try to hang themselves by tearing blankets Into strips or with their clothes. One fellow with the jim-jams out in the big room attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a broken whisky flask. When I got. to him he was sawing away at his neck like a buzz-saw going through a block. He was sent to the City Hospital, where he was stitched up aud came out good as new again. I keep a bottle of jim- Jaui medicine here all the time—chloral and other stuff— aud have to dose ’em frequently. We have had just as bright confidence men in here as ever honored any statiou-hou.se or Jail in the United States. Some of them are very gen tec 1 don’t get drunk, and look like gentlemen. But it doesn’t make any difference how flick they are, or what they have done, they are al ways given away by some woman. They have a weakness for the sex, and as the poller manage to know tlieir women they know where to find the cod. men when they need ihetn.” Here a painter at the street-car stables, who had fallen on North Meridian street, ut about 8:20, and who had been brought to tlie station bouse as a “suustroke,” or “painter’s colic” (though there was an alcoholic flavor about it), a couple of hours before, came to himself, rolled out of ttie cot iu which he had been re posing, and walked into the office. Turnkey Taffe, in handing him the money tuken from his pocket, $8.40. explained that Dr. Hell had been called to attend him when he was first brought in, and must be paid $1 for his service?. The late “sun-struck” kicked on this, notwithstand ing his gratuitous ride in the patrol wagon, and only left the money after giving expression to some very unkind remarks, which led the re porter to infer that the patrons of tiie station house were not always grateful for the consider ate care expended upon them. AN EXCEPTIONAL GAME. Eleven Innings with No Score, and but Three Errors—Umpire Donnelly Gives the Game to Indianapolis* What was in every respect the most intensely interesting and most perfectly-played game of ball ever played iu Indianapolis was that be tween tbo home club and the Springfield, 111., club yesterday ufternoou. A lover of the na tional pastime could not have refrained from giving voice to his enthusiasm, the most unusual plays being made on both sides, some of them beiug really phenomenal. Eleven innings with no score, a total of eleven base hits, und but three errors, are seldom witnessed on a ball field, but such was the result of the game yesterday. Both clubs had on their playing-clothes, aud went in to win, exhibiting the greatest caution and accuracy. McKeon and Keenan for the home club, and Lotz and Gun- Ding, for the visitors, were the butteries pre sented. and to say that tbeir work was superb doesn’t express it. In the first nine innings but two hits were secured off McKeon, aud only three more were added to these in the next two innings, while the Indianapolis boys only hit Lotz for six single bases, two of which were made after the ninth inning. In the entire con test but two men. one on each side, reached first base by errors, Downing allowing Manning to go to first iu the seventh inning by failing to stop a|bot ball, and Scboeniok giving Keenan a life in the second inning by muffing Peters’s thrown ball. One uian on each side was sent to first on called bulls, but neither these nor the errors were fatal. Even un equal number of strikes were called (eleven) off of the two pitch ers. The home club never worked better. In the seventh inning Peliz made a catch of a line bail from Ellick's bar. that “brought down the house,” and in the ninth saved a run by a really extraordinary running catch in left center. Peoples made some beautiful stops, and caught a line ball from Peters’s bat, which nearly car ried him off of lii6 feet. Downing redeemed himself for tlie error credited him by a catch similar to that of Peoples, in which lie made a double play without assistance. Kerins oaiigbt a foul fly, which fell away down amongst the buggies, behind the right foul line, aud Dorgan distinguished himself by a fine catch and by fielding Manning out at first ou a ground ball knocked clear into right field. Callahan did good work, and Keenan was Invulnerable, while Veutcb earned hearty applause by fielding Peters out. at home-piate in the tenth inning when defeat seemed inevit able. The visitors did nor have so many diffi cult plays us the dome club, but their work was within one point of faultless. A club that can play eleven innings ami field the ball from ail points, as the Bpriugflelds did yesterday, can play ball, and play like old Acliey kept tavern, ut that. The wav they stopped the hottest kind of balls aud put the baisiueu out was calculated to fill Manager O’Leary’s tranquil mind with deep-seated disgust. At the end of the ninth Inning Captain Peters wanted to call the game, to which Captain Keenan objected, and the same trouble again arose at the end of me tenth and eleven ill in nings, when the visitors refused to resume, giv ing as a reason that they had to catch a tram for Toledo at 7:15. Umpire Donnelly accordingly gave the game to Indianapolis—9 100. Follow ing is THE SCORE. SPKINGFIEIi. A.B. R. li.H T.B. P.O. A. K. Ellick. r f 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 Householder, If 4 0 O 0 1 0 O Manning, 3b 4 O O 0 2 1 O Peters, s 4 0 l 2 1 9 0 •Tones, ni 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 Hengle, 2b 3 O O 0 5 1 0 Gunning, c 4 0 1 1 33 0 Suiioeinck, lb 4 0 1 119 1 1 Lotz, p 4 0 1 1 0 7 0 Total 35 0 5 6 33 22 1 Indianapolis, a.b u. h.h. t.h. p.o. a. e. Dorgan, r f 5 0 1 1 1 1 O Callahan. 3b 5 0 1113 0 Kerins, lb 5 O 0 0 17 1 0 Keenan, c 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 Peltz, If 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 McKeon, p 4 0 1 1 0 10 1 Downing. 2b 4 0 2 2 2 2 1 Peoples, ss 4 0 0 0 3 1 0 Veatch, w.... 4 0 110 10 Total 38 0 6 6 33 21 2 First base on errors—One each. First base on called balls—One each. Btrikea called--Off McKeon 11; off Lotz 11. Balls called—On McKeon 62: on Jjotz 86 Lett on bases— Indianapolis 6; Spriugfield 2, Passed balls—Keenan 1; Gunning 1. Double plays—Karins to Peoples; Downing. Time of game—Two hours. Umpire—James Donnelly. NOTES. Donnelly’s umpiring was as good as the play ing. To-day the Pendleton club plays the home team and to-morrow the I)anvilles will be here. Both are good amateur clubs. The Indianapolis dub plays the Br. Louis G/and Avenues at that city, on Sunday, on which occasion Lauoister will pitch for the op position. The Spnngfleids could have continued the game nnr.il darkness and taken the 11 o’clock train had they so desired, which furnished an additional reasou for Donnelly’s decision. This Is a Kick* That great labor-saving invention—tlie tele phone—whs as mute as a mummy last night. An animated solo of two hours and a half on the Journal Instrument, with only slight intermis sion for anew man to manipulate the crank, failed to disturb the young men at the exchange office. The service—or rather the lack of it—is at times most exasperating, ami rails nothing short of an outrage on the patrons. The information is volunteered that one of the night men “lies down to pleasant dreams” when he is supposed to be on duty answering calls, but whether this is true or not tho public Is entitled to better service, and an investigation into the condition of affairs should be made by the com pany. ______________________ Send me a half dozen Swift’s Speciflo for a cus tomer Who says it is tlie best medicine known to man. lie testifies to its rare meri:, and iusisis upon having more. J. M. Hendricks, Fayetteville, Ala. THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. Hot urn of Dr. A. W. Bray ton, the Journal's Representative, The Indianians Who Have Been There, and Those Now There—Projected Im provements in the Park. Dr. A. W. Brayton, representing the Journal on the Western Associated Press excursion to the Yellowstone National Park, returned yes terday morning, with health and strength great ly improved. He lias traveled nearly 4,000 miles and spent a week in the Natioual Park, riding 150 miles on an Indian “oaj’ose,” from one point of scenic Interest to another, and re turns sunburnt and tall of enthusiasm as to the wonders of the park and the great North west. Mr. Oscar C. McCulloch, who represented the Sentinel ou the same excursion, will return this week. Os the Indianapolis press representatives Morton J. Russell, of the Chicago Times, in his letter of Saturday. 18th iust., says: “The younger, tougher and lighter members of the party form the cavalcade. Cowen, of Colunu >us, formerly a chief of the Interior De partment, who visired this country officially ten years ago, is one. He might have been Govern or of Ohio it Hayes, who w°° supporting him, didn’t, with characteristic complacency, lake the nomination himself. Cowen is qaiet and shrewd and agreeable. Brayton, of Indiana po lls, is astraddle the pony he has riddeu from the start, and beside him is the gray-baired theolo gian, McCulloch. Brayton Is horuuist, geoloirisr, chemist, physician, journalist, lively us a crick et, Hardy us a mule, hearty as a buck, happy as a sunflower, nimble as a mountain goat. Tlie party owes him much for good fellowsuip. not io mention good physic. Campbell, of West Vir ginia, deserts the cavalry, but all the young fel lows—Nixon, Smith, Reeves, Cowles, Halder man, W lisou—are booted aud spurred, a com pany of rakish-looking land-pirates, from whom the tame, conventional road-agent of this rekiou would fly in afright. “Among the travelers is the Rev. O. C. McCul loch, of Indianapolis. When I learned that a parson was aboard I felt mat the salvation of the excursionists depended upon feeding the reverend gentleman to the first convenient whale. But I learned my mistake wheu the ex pedition moved. Mr. McCulloch took to the saddle. He wore trout fles for a hat band. Never once did lie ootrude his calling upou this miscellaneous company of beliefs and of no beliefs at all, but while lie was manly and self-respecting, be was also a leader in sport aud adventure. Quietly solicit ous for the comfort of everyone, jovial, hearty, even-tempered, wholesome in speech and dis position, lie soou won the warm regard of tlie whole company. This, too, in the face of the fact that ho gloried in pouring maple syrup on the lemon plo of the wilderness.” Professor John Coulter, of Wabash College, wa6 the first Indiana man to visit the National Park, spending three months, in 1871, with Hayden’s expedition, recording the times of eruption of the more important of the over six hundred geysers and boiling springs of tlie vari ous geyser basins and collecting and classifying the flora of the Yellowstone region. Mr. George C. Hitt, of tlie Journal, speut two months in tlie park In the summer of 1873, before it was acces sible by railroad. Dr. Henry Jameson, of this city, the Hon. Graham N. Fitcn, of Logansport, and Mr. Charles Tapklug, of Indianapolis, are now taking in the beauties of tlie park—that is, the seenlo beauties —as but few ladies have as yet had the courage to brave the difficulties of the steep and ofteu dangerous mountain roads which lead to Hie various points of interest. Tlie Yellow stone National Park Improvement Company will petition the next Congress to allow them to build 150 miles of ranroad iu tlie park, of a gauge unlike that of any other American rail way, and also to pat several steamers on the Yellowstone lake, so that ladies and children, as well as Invalids, may take in the pleasures of the park as a three days’ offshoot from either tlie Northern Pacific or the Union Pacific. The runner road has just completed rta branch line from Livingston, M. TANARUS, south sixty miles to Cinnabar mountain and Gardner City—a three inontlis-old collection of groceries, saloons and boat ding-houses, made of tents and “pine shakes,” within a couple of miles of the park limits, ami less than ten miles from the Monmouth Hot Springs Hotel. The latter is one of ten to he built by the Park Im provement Company, of which Rufus Hatch is oue of the main owners ami backers. He is now in the park with a party of- eighty iuvited guests. But when the railroad is opened, tlie steam boats running, and the mountain paths and gey ser basins littered with paper collars and city loafers, we opine that much of the scenic inter est and beauty of the place will be lost to the hardy and earnest class who visit the park now. But $16,000 Is now appropriated annually by tho government for repairing and opening roads, building bridges and protecting the park from specimen-smashing and hunting vandals. This paltry snm scarcely suffioos to make the roads passable, and the storms of winter destroy the work done in summer. With good mountain roads, having easy grades, and a few more bridle paths, a railroad would scarcely l necessary. A week in tlie park now costs about $75. This includes fare to and from Livingston, and return, pony or buckboard, as you choose— the pony is by far cheaper und more comfortable —teut, guide and board. One cau go entirely independent of tlie Im provemetic Company, who have all rights to build and run hotels in the park for ten years. Tim company have, however, by their moderate rates of board, pony, guides and hack hire, re duced, by competition, the expenses of the trip to the possible lniuuumui. The “season” lasts but four mouths—July to October last. August is the best mouth in tne park. Bv contract, the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel is open tlie year round, with board at from $3.50 to $5 a day. This is the most important point for invalids, as the varied waters of these springs have an al most magical power, by their heat and compo sition, to break up chronic rheumatic affections, particularly inflammatory rheumatism. Probably in tne warm seasons of the next ten years the park will prove a greater sanitarium than Arkansas Hot Springs, to say nothing of the exhilarating air ami cool climate of the mountains at this high altitude, and latitude. It is to be hoped the class which haunts Hot. Springs, broken down with loathsome diseases, due to their own indiscretion und naturul vi eiousness, will steer clear of this land of won ders, aud if the park railroad invites that class it is to lie hoped it will never be built, and that this locality mav be allowed to retain something of its natural wildness and purity, and its daz zling geyser formations and gorgeously colored canon never be disfigured with mammoth ad vertisements of Lydia Piukham’s Compound or Swift's S. 8. _ General James A. Ekin. General Jumes A. Ekiu, assistant quarter master-general, will arrive in tlie city this morn ing, at 10 o’clock, for the purpose of making an official inspection of the Soldiers’ Cemetery at Crown Hill. This will be the General’s last Visit officially, as in accordance with an act of the last Congress lie will be retired on the first of September. General Ek'ii is well known iu Indianapolis, where he has very many warm friends, he having been stationed here during the war as post quartermaster. It was mainly through his Influence that that the beautiful part of Crown Hill now set apart to the soldier dead was purchased by the government fora natioual soldiers’ cemetery, and winch, under the personal supervision of General Ekin, was laid out and adorned, and but recently has been resodded and otherwise beautified. General Ekin is a gentleman of the old school, a most consistent Christian and an honest offi cial-genial and polite both to subordinates and superiors—he won the hearty respect and es teem of ail who knew him. And now, at the conclusion ot his official career, he leaves tho service of the government with an enviable reputation fsr fidelity and an unspotted name. The Ranking Company’s Affairs. Receiver Ritter was busy all day yesterday in receipting for the various notes and obligations of the Indiana Banking Company, which Mr. Landers turned over to him. During the after noon Messrs. V. T. Malott, George Yatides and John Frenzel went over the notes held by the bunk with Mr. Ritter, and gave their estimates of their market value. As soon uh this work is complete, the receiver will be prepared to make public the bank’s exact liabilities and a close approximation of the true value ul the assets. but tlie statement will not be ready for a dav ortwoyer. Mr. Landers will probably make a report to tho court to-day or to-morrow, but It will contain nothing more than the formal an nouncement that he lias turned over the uffairs of the bank to his successor. HIS HEALTH. Dr. Pierson’s Declination of the Cal! of Tab ernacle Church Inspired by His Weak Physical Condition. A the weekly prayer meeting of the Tabernacle Church, last night, a long letter was read from Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D. D., justifying Ids ao tlou in declining the call extended to him by the congregation, which had called forth some criti cism. In tlie course of It he saj s: Since I gave encouragement to the enterprise circumstances have developed which could not have been foreseen. Such circumstances should be regarded as providential indications of duty. If tlie enterprise has taken on any features which depend on my leadership, let them be dropped. Rctaiu only what is essential in tiie judgment of the church. Modify your ba&is, and proceed in your work. Snould f have taken the leadership I should not remain but a short time at the moat. By that time tlie movement would have been so impressed by my conduct that it would be harder than ever for anew man to undertake to lead it. It is folly to talk of disbanding or abandoning a work which has connected with it. such a large and noble band of Christians. I know their superior nowhere. God will uot forsake you hecuuso He has another leader. Tlie modi fications which may be necessary may be, in G;d’s eyes, just what is needed for its highest success. As to a leader “Imbued with my ideas.” I would rather the enterprise did not have such a man. There are plenty of men imbued with Gods ideas, who can be obtained to carry on God’s work. lam suspicious of anv enterprise widen bears too stroug marks of Individuality of its leader. This is the main difficulty in Moody's church iu Chicago. To conclude, let me say that I would rather return to Indianapolis and undertake this work than to do auy other work of which I can think; bnt in mv pres ent state of doubt, nsy, more, of positive conviction that I ought not to do so, and with the positive testimony of competent and im partial physicians that I could remain only for a limited time in that climate, I should assume leadership, at best, only with a half heart. I am.so constituted that I can do nothing by halves. I must have, as the basis of all success ful work, a clear conviction that I am in tiie way of duty, in order to kindle the courage and the enthusiasm necessary to overcome hin drances and difficulties. Ido not believe that God would allow my conscience to be so dis turbed, and mv health to be so imperiled If be calls me to carry on so great a work among you. And I believe that if the work lianes on my leadership it is on the wrong basis and would not have His blessing. I never would have given the movement my encouragement bad I not been assured that it crystaiized about a principle aud not about a person. Toabaudon it on account of my withdrawal is to justify a taunt of its worst enemies, “that it was a mere personal movement.” In a private letter to one of the church’s com mittee, Dr. Pierson clearly 6hows that the con dition of hl6 health and the probable detriment to his physical condition, should he continue his residence in Indianapolis, were the prevailing causes of his declination. He says that Dr. D. Hayes Agnew warned him that his vitality was running low, and be himself discovered that a serious ailment, which had troubled him ever Since bis removal to Detroit, fourteen years ago. was relieved amt his condition improved by s* a air. Dr. Agnew advised him that the climate In the interior is peculiarly unfavorable to one of his temperament. The Doctor confesses that iie is not a little surprised at the extent to which his vital powers have been reduced. He weighs thirty pouuds less tiiun he did when lie went to Detroit, aud his nervous system is so pros trate that he lias been scarce able to eat or sleep. He has signified to Bethany Church (Wanalllaker's), Philadelphia, that if his health will permit he will take charge of thnt field Oct. 1. But he says if he shall not have grown de cidedly better by Sept. 1 lie will goto Europe be fore assuming any new pastoral charge. Os the Philadelphia field, Dr. Pierson speaks enthusiastically. He sa.vs: “Here is exactly what I want—access to thousands of people every Lord’s day, an industrial college and a pastor's college already projectec: a church of the people anil for the people m actual working order, established without friction or antago nism with other churches. If God hail made a church for me. or me for a church, I cauuot im agine a more perfect adaptation.” Dr. Pierson, at present, is staying at his old home, New York oity, at 29 Maiden Lane. WILL GABLETON, THE POET. How the Author of “The Farm Ballads” Looks aud What He Has To Say. Mr. Will Carleton, tho well-known poet, Is in the city, stopping at the Denison House, having arrived here j'esterday from Brooklyn, N. Y., to read a poem befere the Delta Tau Delta conven tion, last night. Mr. Carleton is one of the few poets who is popular with the masses, his “Farm Ballads” fend “Farm Legends” having been very extensively read and quoted. He was one of tbe first writers who achieved more than local prominence by dialect poems and character sketohes, whose homely sentiment and fidelity tc nature appealed most forcibly to all classes. Os these, his “Betsy aud I are out” and “Over the hills to the poor-house” are best known and appreciated. Mr. Carle ton’s personal appearance is decidedly in his favor, lie is nearly six feet tall, of sleu der build, with a bright, rather youthful face, blue eyes, aquiline nose and short whiskers, which cover only his ohin. His hair, which is slightly tinged witJi gray, is combed smoothly back, and this, combined with tne somewhat clerical cut of his clothes, gives him rather the appearance of a well-to-do young minister on a vacation and determined to enjoy himself and make everybody else feel us pleasant as possi ble. In conversation lie is Vinusuuilv bright and interesting, talking rapidly or* the point. To a Journal reporter, yesterb-.y, lie said he was kept busily engaged in literary aud business pursuits. He is writing a book, winch will be ready for publication booh, contributing regu larly to a number of periodicals, besides delivering occasional lectures. He said he had hoped to have tiie pleasure of becoming person ally acquainted with James Whitcomb Riley when lie came to Indianapolis, and regretted that lie was not in the city. He paid Mr. Riley tlie compliment of saying that he regarded him as one of tlie rising young literary men of the country, and that his writings Were receiving much attention in the East. Mr. Carleton was horn in Hudson, Mich., in 1845. He began teaching school at tiie age of sixteeti for the purpose of getting means to ed ucate hiinsell; entered Hillsdale College in 1865, and graduated four years later. He served in an editorial capacity for tho Detroit Trib une and other pupers for three years and then returned to Hillsdale for the purpose of devoting more time to study and reading. His first literary success was a political poem called “Fax,” which lie wrote while in the junior class at college and which had an exten sive local circulation. His first pretentions poem, which lie road on commencement day, was en titled “Rifts iu the Clouds.” In 1873 lie pub lished ids volume of “Farm Ballads,” and two years later “Farm Legends,” which gave him a national reputation. In 1878 he wrote “Tho young folks’ centennial rhymes,” which met with favor, and since then he has done much literary work, generally of a scattering charac ter, ills contributions to the magazines being best known. Mr Carlcton’s present residence is Brooklyn, and he is reputed to have consider ble wealth. A Restraining Order Granted. Judge Walker yesterday issued au order re straining Lewis A. Habeoy from disposing of any of bis property until a final disposition of the divorce proceedings Instituted by his wife, Mary E. Ilabeny, and also flirocted him to pay her SSO within five days fur attorney's fees. Underwear suitable for this weather at Parker's. We Don't Have to Now. Ten years ago, when we first tried to aril tbe H.iwo Scale, we almost had to compel a man to even look at them. Not. so now; times have changed. 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