The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis [Ind.])
August 25, 1883

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. ESTABLISHED 1523. WHEN INDICATIONS. SATURDAY.—Generally lair weather, stationary or rising temperature. The mornings and evenings are cool. We have a large stock of light-weight Overcoats that exactly fit these indica tions. WHEN THE CYCLONE’S TRACK. The Scenes and Incidents In and About tbe Wrecked City. Rochester, Minn., Aug. 24.—The streets of the city are full of people from all ever the iState, some from curiosity and some to care for ’friends, while a large number are prominent men from all portions of the State to see the effect of the cyclone that they may know the extent and needs of the victims. On every side can be heard of some new freak or horror oi the monster till the heart sickens at their recital. Reports from the hospital are to the effect that the children are much improved, while some of the men are tiorse and cannot live. The reported list of killed has been exag gerated through confusion of names. Care ful inquiry shows that sixteen comprises all the instantly killed. Tbe reason assigned by the city undertakers for the error is that four were said to have been taken into the cemetery by friends, which i9 not true, and the Dames of four other victims were incor ■rectly given, and this aided to swell the sup posititious list. One thousand men, women and children ,of the class that possess hardly anything out isido of their homes and what there is in {them, are to-day without anything. Os two •hundred houses which stood before the ap proach of the storm, there is not sufficient ’material to build an ordinary frame shelter. The same is true of household furniture and clothing. The people are poor, and must be cared for. At present they are lodged in (private houses, warehouses, empty stores and halls, and are being fed by the city. Rochester is doing all it can. A large dining hall 20xG0, is being built on tbe devastated i tract; food and clothing are being brought,and ;$3,000 have been raised among the citizens. St. Paul has subscribed $5,000, Minneapolis $12,000, Winona $3,000, Stillwater SI,OOO, Lake City, $2,500; Red Wing, $500: Hastings, SIOO. Owattona and Mankato have also re sponded. The great need of the people can only be •Appreciated by those who have seen their ‘condition. A gentleman who visited the hospital yesterday and saw Quigg and his six motherless little ones, all seriously hurt, wrote a check for S2OO and gave it to Judge Start, chairman of the relief commission, for the benefit of the afflicted family. Since then the father has died, and the helplessness of these young orphans is typical of*the general distress. The report of the disaster to a passenger train at Zambrota Falls grew out of a freight train disaster here, in which the fireman was killed, and the reported disaster did not occur. The loss of life by the cyclone in the country adjacent to Rochester has not yet "been accurately computed. AT CHAUTAUQUA The Old Soldiers Given a Benefit of Songs and Addresses. Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. 24.—Six thou sand persons assembled in the ampitheater this.afternoon to hear the singing of federal and confederate war songs, and addresses by Judge Albion W. Tourgee, of New York, and Rev. Dr. Atticus P. Haygood.of Georgia. Dr. Vincent asked all soldiers of either army present to gather in the rear of the platform, and 200 responded. A letter was read from Senator Colquitt, of Georgia. An original song, “Our nation forever.” composed at the suggestion of President Lewis Milier by Wallace Bruce, of Pongbkeepsie, and set to music by C. C. Case, was sung by the choir and congregation with fine effect. The serv ices were the most impressive ever held at Chautauqua. Several old Confederates par ticipated. Ex-Governor Pierrepont, of West Virginia, was on the platform. Dr. Vincent reported that there were 212 students in the Chautauqua school of languages for 1883. A reception was given President Miller and Superintendent John H. Vincent in the par lors of the Hotel Athenaeum this evening. The exercises of the day closed with a dis play of fire-works. Not a Comet, After All. Special to tlie Indlanasolla Jouraal. Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 24.—Dr. Lewis Swift, director of the Warner observatory, says the object dimly seen on Wednesday evening proves to have been a nebulce, the identity of which the clouds and moonlight obscured. Dr. Swift has discovered forty new nebulte lately with the powerful tele scope of the Warner observatory, all of which have escaped the eye of with large c3C opes. A Piano Manufacturer Browned. Parkersburg, W. Vn., Aug. 24.—John M. Hale, a piano manufacturer, of New York, who was summering with his family at Belpre, 0., w#s drowned to day in the Ohio fiver, while trying to rescue his son, who vas also drowned. The bodies were re lovered. INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1333—WITH EXTRA SHEET. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Presentation of the Attorneys’ Briefs in the Case Against Hill. Coleman, of the Prosecution, Charges Wit uessev for the Defense with Perjury, and Proposes to See the Case Through, The Death of Hon. D. P. Holloway Likely to Occur Soou. Timber Depredations Near the Canadian Line—Report of the Inspector of Steam Vessels for the Last Fiscal Year. THE HILL CASE. Presentation of tire Briefs—Peppery Char acter of Mr. Coleman's Statement. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 24.—The briefs of all the attorneys in the Hill investigation are now in, Mr. Coleman having filed his with .the commission this evening. Col. Thomas’s brief is compressed into 197 large printed pages, while that of Colonel Totten is put into 110 written pag&3 of legal cap, and that of Mr. Coleman has been boiled into 120 printed pages. Colonel Totten’s brief is a succinct history of the investigation, and a statement of the points involved, viewed from the Hill stand-point. About two-thirds of the‘argument is an exposition of the gran ite contract matter and explanation of the contract system in vogue in the architects office. He pays his respects to ex-Congress man Murcli in a really pointed manner. The witnesses Murcli and Stein metz, and others, are arraigned for malignant and selfish misrepresentation and perversion of facts, and the commission is asked to disre gard the testimony of these gentlemen in making up their report. Colonel Thomas treats of the contracts for heating apparatus exclusively, not touching upon any other points. The Coleman brief is decidedly peppery in its tone, and reads like a political as well as a criminal indictment of tbe alleged archi tect’s rings. He begins thus: “This investigation was set on foot by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the alleged purpose of investigating and finding out what had been the management of the su pervising architect’s office, so far as the disposition of the money appropriated by Congress for the construction of various public buildings of the United States was concerned. I understood when I first appeared in the case, that it was the earnest wish of the Secretary of the Treasury that there should be a thorough, honest and com plete investigation, and that he would do all in his power to aid such investigation. It was seen that for some reason, as the investi gation proceeded, the Secretary had deter mined there shouid not be that thorough aud satisfactory probing of the charges against the supervising architect which he, in his letter, gave assurance of. It soon be came apparent, as the investigation pro gressed, that the Secretary of the Treasury, who set it on foot, would do nothing to aid or assist it; but, on the contrary, he would do all in his power to hinder, delay and em barrass it.” Mr. Coleman professed to think that if the Secretary had been in earnest lie woula have suspended Hill and his clerks and put the office in the hands of experienced experts. He next ventures the opinion that if the in vestigation shall prove a failure—something he does not admit, however—so faf as the fraudulent appropriation of public money by Hill for his personal use is concerned, it will at least have been successful in calling attention to the fact that the duties per formed by the supervising architect in the execution of contracts for the construction of public buildings and the direction of the expenditure of public money in connection therewith, is without any authority of law whatever, there being no law that he can discover which authorizes the Supervising Architect of the Treasury to make contracts for or in behalf of the government. His next point is that the prices paid for furnishing, cutting and dressing granite for public buildings, under tbe terms of the modified contract, were in the interest of the contractors, who made more money on the new contracts than under the old fifteen cent contracts. The case of the Philadelphia postoffice is cited, and the assertion is made that the granite contractors cleared $300,- 000 on an SBOO,OOO job. He complains be cause he was not permitted to go into the cost of the granite entering into the con struction of the St. Louis, Hartford and Cincinnati buildings. The evidence produced, however, on that branch of the case is, he says, strong enough to prove the su pervising architect to have been grossly in competent or a knave, his management in either event costing the government millions that might have been saveu. Mr. Coleman pays his respects at length to Bartlett, Robbins Cos., now Bartlett, Hay ward Cos., and claims that the evidence taken convicts them of being parties to a cor rupt-conspiracy, in conjunction with Archi tect Hill, for swindling the government on heating apparatus contracts and on repairs. He dwells with great emphasis on the history of the steam-heating job in the Chicago cus tom-house, and recites with unction that the work was not done according to contract; that C. P. Newton, an inexperienced young man of twenty, in the employ of tbd firm of Bartlett, Robbins cfe Cos., was appointed to inspect the work Upon the recommendation of Architect Hill; that the boy so appointed approved of the work; that upon his report the bill was paid in full; that Newton then resigned and re turned to the employ of the firm at an in creased compensation. He charges that rank perjury was com mitted by witnesses for the defense in this matter, and says plainly that, whatever may be tbe report of tbe commission, ho proposes to follow the matter in the courts, and see where this perjury lies. The two Newtons, father and son, and Mr. Zeigler, are re ferred to pointedly as perjurers, and fit sub jects for criminal prosecution. In conclu sion, Mr. Coleman thanks the members of the commissiou personally for courteous treatment received, aud leaves the case in their hands. The commission will have its report ready the first of next week. FATAL ACCIDENTS* The Lass of Life from Collisions, etc., Dur ing the Last Fiscal Year. Washington, Aug. 24. —The Supervising Inspector-general of steam vessels, reports that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883, the total number of accidents resulting in loss of life was 34, of which 12 were from explosions, 5 from fire, 11 from collisions, and G from snags, wrecks and sinking. The total number of lives lost by accidents from various causes during the year was 284, of which G 9 were irom explosions or accidental escape of steftm, 82 from collisions, 45 from fires, 50 from wrecks or founders, 33 from accidental drowning, and 5 from other causes. As compared with the previous fiscal year the number of accidents to steamers was less, while the loss of life was greater, as the following will show: Total number of accidents to steamers re sulting in loss of life in 1882 was 41; ditto in 1883, 34; decrease 7. Total number of lives lost in 1882, 205; ditto in 1883, 284; increase, 79. The main increase occurred in acci dents caused by collisions, 48 lives being lost in excess of tbe number lost in 1882. The next greatest was loss by shipwreck, be ing forty-four more than the previous year. The increase by explosion was eighteen. The loss by fire, accidental drowning and miscellaneous was less than the previous year. The most serious single accident of the year was caused by the collision of the steamers Scotia and John Lomas, which oc curred in the Muskingum river near a place called Mingo Junction, on July 4, resulting in the loss of fifty-eight lives. A sad reflec tion in connection with the loss of life on the Scotia is the fact that notwithstanding the sinking of that vessel no lives need necessarily have been lost, as the saloon deck of the steamer, where most of the pas sengers were, was only submerged to a depth probably not exceeding two aud a half feet, while the hurrican deck was from four to five feet above the waters edge. The great loss incurred must therefore be attributed to the fright and panic natural to such acci dents causing the passengers to thrown them selves overboard. COMMISSIONER MARBLE. He Will Not Resign September 1, Nor Until He Gets Ready. Washington Special, The rumor has agaia been revived by cer tain interested parties that the Commissioner of Patents is on the point of tendering his resignation. It will be remembered that this was the place selected by the gossippers for ex-Congressman Tom Young, of Cincin nati. On being asked to-day what founda tion there was for the rumor, Mr. Marble said: “I am not going to resign on Sept. 1, ns stated. I shall resign when I get ready. I do not know that I shall ever get ready to resign. I'cannot see what prompts certain newspaper correspondents to send such false dispatches to their papers. There is no foundation for that dispatch in truth or fic tion. I am not here by sufferance, but by my own will. There are no differences between myself and the Secretary of the Interior. Everything has been and is working as smoothly as it possibly can. The affairs of the office are in good condition. It is more than paying its wav. I have had no intima tion from those higher in authority than I am that my resignation was desired, and as I said before, I shall not resign until I get ready.” GENERAL NEWS. No Expectation that Hon David F. Iloilo way Will Survive. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 24.—Judge D. P. Hol loway’s life is despaired of at this writing, and it cannot be prolonged many days. The Judge represented the “Burnt” district for one term,ana was appointed Commissioner of Patents by President Lincoln. He has been a prominent character in Washington since the war. He is seventy-five years old. Timber Depredations on Public Lands. Washington, Aug. 24.—The Commissioner general of the Land Office has been investi gating certain reports reaching that office of extensive timber depredations on public lands adjacent to the Canadian boundary line. While the facts have been somewhat exaggerated, the Commissioner is convinced that depredations on a great scale would soon follow. Os the timber already stolen a large percentage has been seized by the gov ernment, and criminal proceedings will be begun against the guilty persons. The Sec retary of State will also be requested to take the necessury steps to secure the arrest and surrender of offending Canadians to the United States judicial tribunals. Operators’ Advantages Revoked. Washington, Aug. 24.—The Critic says the American Rapid Telegraph Company to-day notified their employes that all ad vantages accorded them during the strike have been revoked, and hereafter they will receive the same pay as before the strike, and will also be compelled to labor the same number of hours. This is the company that acceded to the demands of the operators a few days after the strike, and received for this action great praise. No Sicknean at Pensacola. Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 24.—Up to noon to day there was no sickness of any kind re ported in this city. The post-mortem on the case of the man who died yesterday devel oped the fact that his death was not caused by yellow fever. Surgeon Murray and Dr. Leonard pronounce the living case one of maljrja) fever. Murray iS the surgeon who had charge of the cordon at Brownsville, Tex., last year. Dr. Leonard has hud large experience. Passengers arriving last nighj and tlnq mrtrmngTrom Employ City report that place in a remarkably healthy condition. Naval Surgeon Owen, who died at the navy-vard, sustained a sunstroke three weeks ago, which contributed to his death. He was the sur geon who defied Secretary of the Navy Chandler in the case of a man who was dis charged for deserting his post. Surgeon Owen was court-martialed aud acquitted. His popularity in Pensacola was great. NEWS BY ATLANTIC CABLE. The Berlin Gazette Awakens the Wrath of the European Press. The London Times Calls Its Utterances a Gross and Deliberate Insult--France Calm but Ready for Emergencies. The French Commander in Toncjuin Makes a Bose-Colored Report. Death of Comte de Cbambord— Outrages on Christians in Albania—The Collective Note to France. A GERMAN IN AULT. Strong Comments of the English Press on Language of the Berlin Papers. London, Aug. 24, —The Times this morn ing again comments on the article against France recently published in the Berlin North German Gazette, and which attracted much attention throughout Europe, and says the Gazette’s article is a gross and de liberate insult. If it fails to shock the pub lic opinion of Europe it is only because we are accustomed to hear Germany address France in terms wholly unknown to Europ ean diplomacy. To prefer an untenable charge in language calculated to wound and humiliate France is an outrage upon decency and courtesy. Diplomacy has abundaut re sources for conducting controversies without resorting to the language of vulgar menace. The Paris papers give various reasons for the article, including tbe recent unveiling at Courbevoie oi a monument commemorative of the defense of Paris. That Collective Note .to France. Madrid, Aug. 24.—The Imparcial says the Spanish representatives abroad sent to the cabinet the opinions of various foreign pow ers regarding the right of Spain to make representations to France with reference to the attitude of that country toward Spain. This, the Imparcial says, was probably the origin of the report that a collective note, signed by Germany, Austria and Russia, relative to the conduct of France toward Spain, had been sent to the French govern men t. France Calm, but Ready for Emergencies. London, Aug. 24.—The Paris press insist that they have given Germany no just cause for offense. They say France sincerely de sires peace. She should keep calm, but will be prepared for emergency. What Excited Germany's Wrath. London, Aug. 24.—The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent at Parissays: “Theenthusiasm of the French radical press at the recent ris ing in Spain had a share in drawing the attention of Germany to the possibility of the republican spirit becoming dangerous to the monarchies in Europe. It is believed the Tonquin expedition is peculiarly dis tasteful to Germany. DEATH OF DE CHAMBORD. Sketch of Ills Life ami His Claims to the Throne of France. Vienna, Aug. 24. —The Comte de Chambord is dead. The Count de Chambord and Due de Bor deaux, the last of the elder branch of the Bourbons, was born at Paris, Sept. 29, 1820, and was known as “The Child of Miracle,” owing to the somewhat unusual circumstances attending his birth. His father, the Due de Berri, had been assas sinated in March previous, by Jacobins, it was supposed, in the hope of destroying the last of the elder Bourbon race, and the birth of a post-humous heir was hailed by the Legiti mists almost as a providential sign that the Bourbons were to continue in power and the Republicans and Bonapartists be crushed. The infant was baptized in water brought from the Jordan by Chateaubriand, and amid great pomp and splendor. All these hopes were doomed to disappointment, however. Charles X, soon after the outbreak of the revolution of 1830, wished to abdicate in fa vor of the young prince, and, in the presence of his troops at Rrunbouillet, made a proclamation declaring him king under the title of Henry V., but the announcement was not well received, and the Count de Cham bord was compelled to leave France. In 1840 he married the Princess Maria Theresa, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Modena. In 1853 it was reported that a com pact had been made between the Count de Chambord and the Orleanist princes, by which the claims of the two branches of the house of Bourbon had been arranged, but no attempt was made to put forward a candi date for the throne of France. During the reign of Louis Napoleon the Count remained in quiet obscurity, but in 1870, after the capture *of Sedan and the downfall of the empire, he addressed a proclamation to France from the Swiss frontier, in which he promised that the Germans should be expelled, and the in tegrity of French territory maintained if the people would rail}' around him. This was followed by another proclamation in Janu ary, 1871, addressed to the governments of Europe, protesting against the bombard ment of Paris. A recent letter-writer describes the Count as an upright, pure, punctilious, rather in dolent gentleman, who, sooner than risk taking a wrong step, would take no step at all, but remain seated. There is a photo graph which shows him with his arms folded and his legs crossed, It is a speaking likeness. In his little court at Frohsdorf he was addressed as “Monseigneur” and “Your Royal Highness” (never, by his own wishes, as “Majestv”), and he received visits from a great number of curious people, who came almost as pilgrims to contemplate in him a royal hermit, and straight lie uid hot look strong; buT*he w &a Ti&ndsouie man, with a much more refined and intel lectual cast of countenance than is usual among the Bourbons. The Paris Press Comments, Paris, Aug. 24. —The Republican journals speak respectfully with regard to the death of Count de Chambord, and unite in paying homage to the sincerity of the deceased. The Royalist papers have appeared witli mourn ing borders, and are reserved in their com ments regarding the consequences of the Count’9 death. The body will be buried by the side of that of Charles the Tenth. The will of the Count will be opened in the pres ence of high officials of the Austrian court. AFFAIRS IN TONQUIN. Tbe French C immamler Reports Success, with Loss to the Euemy. Paris, Aug. 24. —General Bouet. the French military commander in Tonquin, in a tele gram to Admiral Peyron, Minister of Marine and of the Colonies, giving the details of the recent fighting near Hanoi, says. “Owing to the French reconnoissance, the enemy have abandoned their position and fallen back to Sontay. lie reports the enemy’s loss ut 300" killed and 1,000 wounded. Details of the Recent Fighting. (’all© Special. General Bouet with four columns, of 500 men each, three being French troops and one of the Annamesc allies, witli one yellow flag, under Captain George, advanced from Hanoi upon Phukai, the first of the line of fortified villages held by the black Hags in the direction of Sornay. The advance was made at 2 o’clock on the morning of the 15th inst., the thermometer registering 29 degrees. Fighting commenced at 7 o’clock and lasted until 4in the afternoon. The yellow Hag and the left column under General Bouet met with a repulse, but the center held its ground until the right came up and drove the enemy from the town. The French occupied the town until evening, when they fell back to a pagoda on the banks of the river under cover of six gun-boats. The French loss was three officers and fifteen men killed and about forty wounded. During the next two days all the French forces were withdrawn to Hanoi except one small detachment under General Bouet, which remained at the pagoda. The withdrawal was enforced by the inundation of nearly the entire region. A large part of the city of Hanoi is under water. The Sonka river rose four feet higher than ever was known before. The embankment was broken in several places, aud the water filled the lowlands of the delta, causing serious de struction of life and property. No further movement of the troops is probable until October, when they expect to carry Sontay and Bacnindh. The black flsgs were found to be strongly reinforced by Chinese troops from beyond the frontier. Thej’ were gen erally well provided with Remington rifles, and offered a stubborn resistance. The French wounded were chiefly hit below the knee, the Annamese firing being low and very effective. The enemy’s strength is variously stated to be from 10,000 to 20,000, aud is probably greatly exaggerated. Their loss is estimated at 1,200. The recent operations of Colonel Badens near Name Digne produced quiet in that neighborhood, and the troops returned to the town. There is little doubt that the French will occupy and hold the Red River delta, but the capture of Sontay and Bacnindh, which the enemy occupy iu force, and and which are the key of the situ ation, may prove more troublesome than was anticipated. No news has been received from Hue. but the enemy un doubtedly regard the affair of Phukai as a victory over the French, and this may com plicate a peaceful solution of the problem at the Annamese capital. The town and citadel of Hai Zinong, with 150 guns, were occupied without resistance. This a direct approach toward Bacnindh. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Outrages on Christians in Albania—Turkish Ofiiclals Charged With Connivance. London, Aug. 24.—A telegram from Cet tinge, Montenegro, says a reign of terror ex hU in the vilayette of Kossovo, in Albania. The Arnauts are murdering the Christians, and all the latter who can get away are flee ing from the country. The Turkish officials connive at outrages on the Christians, and have arrested and exiled a number of priests. In the Ipex district ninety-two persons have been murdered, and twenty-three vil lages have been abandoned. A Mutiny and Its Result. Lima, Aug. 24.—The Tribune received in formation from the province of Chancay that the troops under Sub-prefect Rivera, while on the way from Iguara to Sayan, approached and fell upon their officers, killing Rivera and two captains. Three soldiers also were killed. The next day, upon the arrival of a detachment of Peruvian cavalry under Col onel Vargas, fourteen culprits were hanged. The New Governor-General of Canada. London, Aug. 24.—Among the passengers by the Sardinian, which left Liverpool yes terday for Canada, were Lord and Lady Carnarvon, and Secretary Welsh, of the Quarrymens’ Union. The object of the lat ter’s trip is to establish a Welsh colony at a spur of the Rocky mountains, near Fort Calgary. British Troops for Natal. London, Aug. 24.—1n the Commons last evening, Lord Ilartington, Minister of War, said the battalion of British troops men tioned in the Durban dispatch as having been ordered to Zululand would proceed to the border of Natal, but would not enter Zululand until further orders. Twenty-Three Workmen Killed. London, Aug. 24.—8 y the falling of a scaffold at the King of Bavaria’s new palace at Lake Chiem, twenty-three workmen were killed and seventeen injured. Cable Notes. The Czar and Czarina of Russia are “ex pected to visit the royal family of DemuarK in a short time. A dispatch from Durban says Cetewavo is gathering around him a constantly-growing force of armed followers. The Cologne Gazette hints that the Reichstag was summoned owing to an inten tion to mobilize the troops. The Berlin foreign office has sent a circular to the various federal Btates urging a sub scription of money for the relief of sufferers by the earthquake at Ischia. At Alexandria thirty-three deaths from cholera occurred yesterday. No deaths from the disease are reported at Cairo yesterday. The cholera is jecreasing in the provinces, Collision of Trains In Kentucky. Louisville. Aug. 24.— At 8 o’clock this morning passenger train No. 2, from Nash ville to Louisville, nt Lexington Junction, about twenty-five miles from this city, came in collision with the rear of a freight train that was backing onto a side track. The freight was heavily loaded, und the engine recoiled, telescoping the tender and baggage car. No passengers were injured, but En gineer Clarence B. Gifford was badly crushed ami will probably die. Fireman Kidd was also severely injured. The wreck causes de luv of trains. i’KLCE FIVE CENTS, STATE NEWS ANI) GOSSIP. Destruction by Fire of Trow’s Gra.iP Llevator at Madison List of'lnsurance Companies Havincr Risks on the Property—Loam Over One Hundred Thousand Dollars. A Covington Boy, Taken for a Rurj lar, Killed by a Relative. Sneak-Tli’evlng at Fort IVayne—Frost at t'liauipuicii, lll.—Condition of Corn Crop iu the Northern Sectiou. INDIANA, Destruction of the Great Elevator of Tt'ow Cos., at Madison, Spurfal to tlie Indianapolis Journal. Madison, Aug. 24.—The elevator of Trow Cos., that has been pointed to with pride by our citizens ever since its erection by its en terprising proprietors, was almost totally de stroyed by lire this morning between 2 and 3 o’clock. The fire started in the south end of the elevator, near the roof, and, being con structed of seasoned pine, the fire spread with great rapidity. The building was of tbe most modern construction, and supplied with all of the most improved machinery. At the time of the fire it contained about 85,0000 r 90,000 bushels of wheat, all of which is destroyed or damaged. The total loss is $122,000, insured ns follows: Lancashire, of Manchester, Eng $3,000 Royal, of Liverpool 3,000 Fit e Association, of Philadelphia 2,0 Niagara, of New York. 2.000 Hartford, of Hartford, Conn 10.000 Eureka Fire and Marine, of Cincinnati. 2,500 Cincinnati, of Cincinnati 2,000 German Fire and Marine, of Cincinnati 2,000 Merchants’ and Manufacturers, of Cin cinnati 2,500 Miami Valley, of Cmciunatl 2.000 Security, of Cincinnati 1,000 Genuau, of Pittsaur*:, Pa 1,0 O City of London, London 1,500 Commercial, of Barre 1,500 New Orleans, of New Orleau* 3,000 Indiana, of Indianapolis 1,000 Continental, ot Now Y'urk 2,00 u Western Assurance, of Toronto, Canada 505 Liverpool, London and GioDe, of Liver pool sd( Security.of Cincinnati 2,056 Maimi Valiev, of Cincinnati 1,050 Kenton, of Covington, Ky 1,000 Hartford, of Hartford, Conu 2,500 Amazon, of Ciuciunati 1,000 Royal, of Liverpool 2.500 Fire Association, of Philadelphia 2,000 Fruukliu Fire Insurance Company, of Indianapolis 11,250 Firemen aud Mechanics’, of Mudlsou, lml 1.000 London ami Lancashire, of Liverpool... 2,000 Total #88,750 The fire is supposed to have been caused by friction in the machinery. The watchman had passed through the building not more than fifteen minutes previous to the break ing out of the fire and saw no signs of the lire, and went about his work over in the mill. The wheat bins were opened or burst, and their contents permitted to ruu into the street and yard adjoining, much of which will be saved in a damaged condition. The destruction of the elevator will in no way interfere with the business or running of the mills other than the inconvenience it will occasion in tiie handling of wheat, and the firm will be able to continue their busi ness uninterruptedly. Richmond Criminalities. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, Aug. 24.—A man who gave his name as Robinson has been arrested at Eaton, 0., charged with having stolen har ness at Centerville. This property, as well as a sorrel horse, was found in his possession at the time of his arrest. The horse is thought to have been stolen between hero and Indianapolis, and will be returned to the owner by Officer Yeager, who made tlio capture. Robinson is in jail, awaiting trial. At tlie trial of Policeman Blessing and Mrs. W. I>. Keyes, who eloped from New* Albany, the following verdict was rendered: Blessing was fined $25 and imprisonment in the county jail for thirty days; Mrs. and imprisonment twenty days. The princi pal witnesses for the prosecution were the wife and daughter of Blessing. They were greatly disappointed with the rulings of the mayor, before whom the case was tried, as they expected them to be bound over to the next session of court, when they would probably be sent to the penitentiary. A Fatal Mistake. 6prcial to the liuliauapolls Journal. Covington, Aug. 24.—Eddie Conover, an eight-year-old child of this place, was shot and instantly killed on Wednesday night by his uncle, Morris, who was under the impression that he was shooting a burglar Eddie was visiting at the house of his uncle near Blue Grass, 111., where the accident oc curred. Morris had some money with him. the proceeds of a sale of property he had made. A tramp had been at the house dur ing the day, and persisted in staying, and when refused threatened to return. After the family had retired the little boy had oc casion to go out, ami Morris, hearing tha noise, got up, ami seeing the moving object in the dark, shot the child with a shot-gun, causing immediate death. The remains were brought to Covington this morning, to the residence of Mr. H. F. Knapper, the child’s grandfather, for burial. A Mucli-Wnnted Commercial Tourist. 1 Bp<*ctal to Hie limianapolls JouniaL Fort Wayne, Aug. 24. —Yesterday morn* ing n polite, well-dressed young man pre sen ted himself at the Misses Graf millers fashionable boarding-house and engagec board, paying the first week in advance. Jl< said his name was Brown, and that his busi ness was that of a commercial traveler. In the afternoon he and a big valise left the house for an alleged trip on the road. Brown contained a good dinner, and the valise con tained a diamond pin and n suit of clothes, tlie property of a commercial traveler named Harry Kepliuger, and u gold watch, the

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TALK OF A CONSOLIDATION. Indefinite Humors of a Consolidation of the State and Purdue Universities. Tlie proposition to consolidate the Btate Uni versity with Purdue University is being re vived, and the matter has become the subject of some general discussion. The destruction of the college buildings at Bloomington has opened the question, and there is some speculation upon what the action of the next General As sembly will be. Avery strong pressure will be brought to bear upon it in favor of the con solidation and the looation of the institution at Lafayette, but it will be strenuously opposed by the citizens and friends of Blooming ton. It is understood that the people of Bloomington are willing to give $50,000 to aid in the construction of new college buildings at that place, and a movement is now heing made to get matters in shape for beginning work without delay, so that a proposition to change the location would be weakened before the .legislature. President Moss has already called on the citizens of Bloomington to double their tax rata to aid in the erection of the new build ing, and the sciieuie, it is said, is considered with favor. A meeting of the board of trustees of the university will be held next Monday, and it Is supposed that some action will theu be taken in regard to the matter. President Smart, of Purdue University, was questioned yesterday afternoon oy a Journal reporter in regard to the soheme for the con solidation of the two colleges. He said that he knew nothing whatever about the matter and had heard it talked of only casually. The trus tees of Purdue had not considered the question, and. so far as he knew, the proposition was receiving no encouragement from them. PERSONAL. Joseph Turnock, of South Bend, is at the Grand Hotel. Hon. R. D. S. Tyler, of Detroit, Mioh., is at the Hates. A. M. Kennedy, of Rushville, is at the Grand Hotel. Major O. R. Houghton, of Boston, is at the Hates. E. H. Andress, of Lafayette, is at the Grand .Hotel, E. M. Hawley, of Peru, was at the Bates yes terday. Hon. L. S. Hauna, of lowa, was at the Bates yesterday. E. J. Tillapaugb, of Racine, Wis., is at the Grand Hotel. Judge Jumes S. Frazer, of Warsaw, is at the Grand Hotel. A. H. Miller, of Los Angeles, Cal., is at the Grand Hotel, R. R. Parker has gone to New York and other .Eastern cities. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Johnson left yesterday for an extended trip East. W. R. Myers, Secretary of State, has gone West, and will be absent about ten days. Prof. J. H. Smart and family left for per manent residence at Lafayette yesterday. Professor G. M. Levette has returned from his Western trip and resumed his accustomed seat at the Bates. IT. F. Houghton, Peru; Charles O. Chesnut and Son. Paris; Charles H. Knight, Brazil; D. 11. Alexander and John H. Bant a, Tipton; 8. O. Pickens, Spencer, and H. P. Cutter, Chicago, are jitnong the late arrivals at the Bates House. J. A. McGregor, Columbus; F. I>. Tharp, Ravs- Ville; Colouel A. F. Beach, Attica; Samuel Har grove, Union; Charles N. Hargrove, Princeton; A. J. Mclntosh, Salem; 8. Morse, South Bend; E. G. Meleudy, Fremont; Edward B. Allen, Zanes ville; U. J. Hill, Syracuse, and Edward G, Potts, of Cincinnati, are at the Grand Hotel. Miss Florence Castleman, of Rochester, N. Y., who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tay lor at the Denison Hotel, and together with Mrs. Taylor traveling in the Northwest for sev eral weeks, returned to her home on Wednesday morning. Miss Castleman has a very highly cultivated voice, and gives promise of superior ity as a singer. THE CITY IN BRIEF. A revival is in progress at the Garden Baptist Church. Tiie Bt. Ciair Ravines and Loan Association, of tins oitv, was incorporated under Btate laws yesterday. William C. Anderson has been reappointed as k commissioner of deeds for the State of New York in ludi an a polls. Tbe executive committee of the Y. M. C. A. will meet in the secretary’s office next Tnesday evening. This is the last regular meeting of tho present association year. Benjamin Butler (not. old Bfrabinr.u) and Prances Dissezwey defied tlie superstition about •ahing any Important step on Friday, and pro cured a marriage license yesterday. Frank Lytle and Mrs. Salathian A. Butler deny the slanderous stories related concerning their conduct by Mr. Butler, and desire to go on reoord as giving the lie to Butler’s accusations. The foot-bridge over Pleasant run at Spruce Ptreet, and the Reed-street bridge are completed tor travel, so that those who attend the German Orphan Asylum anniversary to-morrow can get there without driving through the run. Building permits were issued yesterday to John R. Cowie, for SI,OOO repairs to Ins brick block on Washington street; John 8. Spann. !?600 frame dwelling on Noble street; the same. SBOO frame dwelling on Spann avenue; Hie same, SOOO frame dwelling on Hoyt aveuue. Criminal Court Matters. In the Criminal Courr, yesterday, John R. Wheat was given one year north on a plea of guilty to petit larceny, and Russell Miller and Charles Hubbard were given two years each for stealing an overcoat from Colonel A. 'V. Johnson. Judge Norton also ordered Grade Strickland and Lizzie Webb to be consigned to the Reform atory. The first named came hero with a band of gypsies, who are supposed to have stolen her, and for a time was in the Home for Friendless Women, where she was detected stealing, and is therefore sent to the Reformatory. Lizzie Webb is only fourteen years old, and has had a some what eventful career. She will be remembered ns the girl whom one George Olden brought here from Kokomo about iv year ago, and after accomplishing her ruin abandoned her. Since then she has worked at various places and has had a hard time. Mrs. Smith, of the Reforma tory, who beard of the case, made continued e fforts to get her to the institution, where she •could have at least a home and some attention, and has at last succeeded. Accidental Poisoning. The death of George L. Jameson, son o' Rev. I.ovo H. Jameson, at. No. 139 West South street, was the result of accidental poisoning. For two years or more he lias been an invalid, suffering intensely from a combination of disposes. Con sumption was the chief of these, and ids life ■was fast wearing away under its ravages, but recently ho has suffered much from neuralgia. To alleviate his neuralgic pains in the face he went to a drug store, where a hypodermic injec tion was administered. This not affording relief he took aßniall quantity of laudanum ami went to bed. lie was not visited by any member of the family in the morning, as it was thought he was sleeping and needed rest. Later in tho day it was found that he was dead. The quantity of laudanum taken was small, hut in his enfeebled condition it was sufficient to produce death. Ho was a man of good attainments and only lacked health. With that he would have made his mark In the world. Amusement Notes. Tony Pastor and his noted specialty company give a single performance at the Grand Opera house to night. The company is composed of such well-known artists as tho Kernells, William C imill, Jacques Kruger. Frank Girard, Kelley O’Brien, tho Irwin sister*, Kit,tin O’Noll, and THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1883—WITH EXTRA SHEET. others, and a thoroughly enjoyable entertain ment is assured. The advance sale of seals in sures a fine audience. The regular amusement season at the Grand Opera house opens Monday, Sept. 10, with the Madison Square "Young Mrs. Wmtlirop” com pany for three nights and a matinee, and to be immediately followed with other strong attrac tions. Numerous improvements and repairs will be made in the house before the opening. Mrs. Hattie A. Prunk’a annual dramatic and elocutionary entertainment will take place at the Grand Opera-house on Friday evening, Sept. 7. BOARD OF HEALTH RECORD. DEATHB. The following deaths have been reported for the week ending yesterday: M. Sperlln, 42 years 010, mania n po’u: Jn Vi Matlock, 6o years old, chronic bronchitis’ Barka Clune, 39 years; Lydia Rlckmeyer, 2 years, con gestion of the brain; Charles Blumberg, 21 years, typhoid fever, John Oliver, 8 weeks, onpillar} bronchitis; Edgar Davis, 6 weeks, whooping cough; Infant Butterfield, 1 year, inanition: Hamilton Carlisle, 49 s*ears, gunshot wouud in the brain, suicide; Abraham Crabtree, 08 rears, gunshot wound of head, murdei; Infant Warren, 4 hours; Alice Mitchell, 26 years, svpliiii* Ben jamin T. Wait, 42 years, cerebral heumi. ..igv; George L. Jameson, 32 years, opium poisoning: Lawrence Edwards, 19 years, pulmonary ab scess; Homer Hicks, 8 months, congestive chill; N. Lepperr, 70 years, consumption; Harry A, Roberts, 11 years, cardiac dropsy; Charles John son, 20 years, inflammation of the brain; Virgil Baker 1 year, cholera iufautuiu; Eva Malloy, 14 years, typho malaria; Dennis McLaughlin, 50 years, consumption. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. The following is the record of contagious dis eases reported: James Kennott, typhoid fever, corner of North and Douglass streets"; Leonard Pflegcr, typhoid fever, southwest corner East and North streets; Mrs. Jacks, typhoid fever, 50** South Tennessee street: Willie Freer, scarlatina, 274 Potomac street; Willie Harrison, scarlatina, No. 180 En glish avenue; Emma Taylor, typhoid fever, 379 North Pennsylvania street; Harry Horner, ty phoid fever, Occidental Hotel; Maggie Harrison, scarlatina. BIRTHS. The following are the birth returns for the week: To Fred, and Elenor Brinkman, a boy; Edward and Maria Lougrieh, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Schekel, boy; George and Ida Harrison, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dorchel. girl; Nannie Bird, boy; John and Nancy Cordell, girl; James and Annie Monroe, boy; Win. and Mary Warren, boy; Frank and Nellie Palmer, girl; Louis and Mary Fertig, irirl; John R. and Henrietta Smith, girl; Garland Rosa Hildebrand, girl; John and Jennie Hickey, hoy; John and Christina Kern, girl; Win. C. and Elnora Griffith, boy; Joliu and Kate Bickers, hoy; J. L. and Anna Cross, girl; Eugene F. and Elia Harris, girl; John A. and Margaret Lane, girl; E. B. and Mary Wilkerson, girl; James and Saran Julian, boy; John and Theresa Clemens, girl; Charles and Lena Piel, girl; Chris and Annie BoUerrer, boy; Martin and Kate O’Reily, boy; Dr. Jobu R. and Fauuie Featherstou,girl. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department. Office of the chief sign ai. okktorr. Washington, Aug. 25, 12:55a. u.S For Tennessee, and the Ohio Valley—Gen erally fair weather, winds mostly north to east, falling barometer, stationary or rising tempera ture. For the Lower Lake Region—Fair weather, variable winds, stationary or lower barometer, falling followed by rising temperature. For the Upper Lake Region—Fair weather, variable winds, mostly southerly, falling barom eter, stationary or rising temperature. Local Omiervanoua. Indianapolis, Aug. 24. Time. Bar. I Th. Hum Wind Weather K’f’l 6:24 a. M. 30.13 56.4 62 N Clear 10:24 a. m. 30.14 69.0 35 NE Clear 2:24 P. M. 30.08 73 4 38 E Clear 6:24 P. M. 30.07 72.8 46 NE Clear 10:24 l\ M. 30.09i3.2 72 W Clear Maximum Temperature, 74; minimum temp erature, 53.4. General Observations. War Department, Washington, Aug. 24, 10:25 p. ro. 5 Observations taken same moment of time at alt stations. 53 H i =n i I 5 3 5 STATION 3 H s5; i i

i 7 x Bismarck, Dak... 29 98 G 9 N Clear. Cairo 30.12 73 N Clear. Chicago 30.11 66 Calm Clear. Cincinnati 30.1 C 6S NE Clear. Davenport, la 30.10 66 NW Clear. Dwadwood 30.00 60 NW Clear. Denver 29.86 77 8 Cloudy. Des Moines 30.11 64 Calm Clear. Dodge City 29.98 74 SPi Clear. Ft. Assinniboine.. 30.01 61 s dear. Fort Buford 30.04 65 NE Clear. Fort Conoha... Fort E11i0tt....... Fort Bill Gatveston 29.98 82 HE .09 Cloudy. Indianapolis 30.09 63 N Clear. Keokuk 30.11 65 Calm Clear. La Crosse 30.06 67 8 Clear. Leavenworth 30.11 63 Calm Clear. Little Rock, Ark.. 30.04 75 NE Clear. Louisville 30.06 66 N Clear. Memphis 30.05 72 NW Clear. Moornend 29 86 69 SE Clear. Nashville 30.03 74 NW Cloudy. North Platte 29.94 73 SE Clear. Omaha 30 05 65 S Clear. Pittsburg .....30.08 64 N Clear. Han Automo Bnreveport. 30.00 HO NE Clear. Spnngtield, 111.... 30.12 68 NE Clear. St. Louis 30.13 68 N Clear. Stockton St. Paul 29.99 67 S Clear. Vicksburg 30 OOj 7H NPI Clear. Yankton. D. T.... 30.00 71 SW Clear. New Orleaus 29.96 81 SE .01 Hear. Las Animas 29."6 83 8 Cloudy. Fortomich 30.05 79 E Clear. Salt Lake City... 29-93 77 E Fair. Fort Billings TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Ground was broken on Thursday for the erec tion of an exposition and music-hall building at St. Louis. Sexton defeated Schaeffer in acush lon-carrom game of billiards at San Francisco ou Thursday night for SSOO. Anew telephone company has been Incorpo rated at Cincinnati, called tho Overlaud Tele phone Company. Two white girls were arrested at Charlotte, N. C., while attempting to leave the city with two common negro laborers. W. R. Adams, ex judeo of Faulkner county, Ar kansas, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for one year for stealing $l5O. A. S. Jones Cos., oil brokers In New York, have announced tlo ir suspension, and 200,000 barrels of petroleum were etched out for their account. Hilario Balso, a noted French swimmer, lias arrived in New York with the intention of going through tho whirlpool at Niagara or reaching a better land. Albert Horton, superintendent of DimnolPs print-works at Pawtucket, K. 1., was stabbed, while standing in the door of liia residence, by an unknown man. Mr. Edward Stabler, the oldest postmaster in the United States, is dangerously ill ;it Sandy Spring, Md. He was appointed by President Jackson, and has held his office ever since. Michael F. Welsh, who has hut one foot, de feated Captain Williams in a swimming contest in tlie Ohio river at. Cincinnati on Thursday evening, and lays claim to the championship. Arrangements have been completed between II I. Kimball and the owners of the Kimball House, property, at Atlanta, and certain citi zens, by which a large house will bo bui.t at a cost of $500,000, A siuall-sotiled clerk in the Interior Depart ment at Washington has won fame by demand ing that his vacation rover thirty working days, as tile law exempts him from holding down a stool on Sundays and holidays. Boston detectives are. searching for Julius Haas, Jr., the son of a millionaire German, who, by lying tab sand sitiootit tongue, has swindled brokers, tailors and others out f large sums, iiuaa represented falsely thut his luthtr was dead, that his estate, would roach about $4,500,- 000 when settled, and that he was the sole heir. Tho hat seen of Haas was on a Fall river boat, en route for New York. Representatives of over one hundred mercan tile houses of Chicago met ou Thursday to or ganize a freight bureau and employ a compe tent agent to protect the commercial interests of tue city agaiust arbitrary freight rules. Mrs. Harriet Green, a veteran's widow, had Patrick Manklin, a prominent Iris* m. arrest ed at St. Louis on Thursday for retaining sl,- 794.13 of the hack pension money granted Mrs. Green by the Pension Bureau, for his services in collecting it. At Grant City, Mo., a constable and posse at tempted to take William Andrews from a house of ill-repute at Isadora, and were fired upon by him, one of the parry, Dr. J. C. Rex, being killed. Andrews gave himself up. Rex was an influential citizen. INVESTIGATING THE SIOUX. Sitting Bull Finds Out that He Isn’t Chief in This Campaign. Fort Yates, D. TANARUS., Aug. 22.—Senators Dawes, Logan and Cameron, of the select coi-inittee to inquire into the grievances of the Sioux Indians, held a council here, to day, with the confederated bands at this agency. About 500 Indians were present, including Sitting Bull, Gall and Rain-in-the face, said to be the mau who killed Gen. Cus ter. The inquiries of the commission were principally directed to an investigation of the terms of agreement ceding 18,000 square miles of this reservation to the gov ernment in consideration of 25,000 cows and 1,000 bulls. The Indians claimed that they signed the agreement when not fully under standing it. They say they now wish to be come farmers and own their land in sever alty, if they can be furnished with imple ments and instructions in cultivation. They are not willing, however, to give up their rations, but insist on their continuation under this policy. In the council Sitting Bull told the committee that he had been appointed by the Great Spirit to speak to them, and that he alone had the right to express the sentiments of the Sioux. When informed that all should receive recognition, he used insulting lan guage to the committee and left the council. He afterwards returned, apologized, and ad dressed the committee, saying he wished $8,000,000 for the land covered by the agree ment. At the close of the council General Logan administered the following rebuke to Sitting Bull: “Sitting Bull, tills commission came here in behalf of the government, haviug nothing in view except to ascertuiu the wants of the In dians, and to inquire into the provisions of the treaty recently made, and whether or not, it is satisfactory. When you talked with the com mission you insulted them. This is not the first time you have been guilty of offenses of this kind to committees of Congress. Yon said you were a chief appointed by the Great Spirit. You were not appointed chief by the Great Spirit, nor has any one beeu. You are not a great chief of this country. You have no following, no power, no control, and no right to any control. Yon are on an Indian reservation at the sufferance ot the government, fed and clothed by the government. AH you have is tho gift of The government. I tell you this that you may know that you cannot insult people who come here, nor committees of Congress. You must behave yourseli like a good Indian, and if you should ever be guilty of such a thing again you will be put into the guard-house and to work." Sitting Bull sat in silence during General Logan’s remarks, making no sign beyond u few shrugs of the shoulders. BUSINESS AFFAIRS. Generally Favorable Conditions for tlie Au tumn Trade. New York, Aug. 24.—R. G. Dun Co.’s Mercantile Agency reports that nothing oc curred during the week to alter the gener ally favorable conditions which exist for au tumn business. Business throughout the country has been well maintained. Bank exchanges indicate a considerable increase over the corresponding week of last year, and there certainly are indications of in creased activity at many leading centers. The conditions of the money market seem favorable, and the year is likely to be one of vast production. The grain market has been irregular, at times giving some evidence of strength, but all advance in price has been subsequently lost Provisions are also irregular, with considerable fluctuations, but closing weaker. In petroleum the market is generally unsettled, with a ten dency upward, but without material ad vance. Freights are stronger, with desirable tonnage in good request. The wool trade is dull. Tlie market view for cotton is im proved somewhat, on account of the reports of damage and short crop. In butter and cheese business is moderately active, with some export demand. Brazil grades of coffee are in better demand and at slightly im proved prices. Tea is dull and unchanged. Raw sugar is a little more active, prices steady. Refined is in only moderate demand at prices a trifle weaker. The iron trade is not very satisfactory. In consequence of a supply of most kinds of pig. prices are lower. The feeling in trade, however, is more hope ful. The failures reported for the last seven days throughout the United States and Cana da number 165, against 170 last week. Wanted a Con tract Bad, New York, Aug. 24. —Michael Fray ap plied for a mandamus to require the execu tive committee of the committee for the erection of the Bartholdi statue of liberty to award him the contract for the erection of a pedestal for the statue. His bid. he claimed, was $2,000 less than J. Hrfikinson Smith’s, to whom they awarded the contract. Judge Potter denied the motion. Another Mystery PiUMßger Heard From. New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 24. —Friends of Joseph W. Bartlett, of the yacht Mystery, atter conversation with Captain Andrew Snow, who saw a man on the Hen-ami- Chicken rocks on the 12th inst., are confident the man gave the Masonic sign, and he must have been Bartlett, who was the only Free mason in the Mystery party. DIED. thorn TON t Cleveland, o. August 29, of cholera infantum, Frances, daughter of Ger. 1. T. L. :-F.*v ALU Principal, •i'J5*N. Pennsylvania street. MORGAN PARK MILITARY ACADEMY. A select Family School for Boys. Prepares for College, Scientific Schools, or Business. Opens Sept. 11, 1883. For full information and cata logue send to Gapt. ED. N. KIRK TAI POTT. Principal, Morgan Park, Cook county. 111. Refer to Gen. R. S. Foster, U. 8. Marshal, and S. A. Johnston, Esq. TIT ABASH COLLEGE. Crawfordsville, Indiana Tlie fall term at Wabash College begins Sep tember 12. Special attention is directed to the increased facilities offered for thorough colle giate instruction. The range of studies in tlie classical and scientific courses has been enlarged to meet the demands of the times, and in addi tion to the regular studies, a list of optional studies for tin* senior year has been provided for the benefit of those who desire to pursue any special su> jeer. The optional studies are as fol lows: Latin, with Prof. 8. S. Thompson; Physics, with Prof. J. L. Campbell; German, with Prof. W C. White; Chemistry, with Prof. 11. It. Thom son; Greek, with Prof. 11. Z. McLain; Biology, with Prof. J. M Coulter. It will thus be seen that in addition to the reg ular collegiate course of study in natural science (which includes four terms in Physics and Astronomy, three terms in Chemistry, two terms in Botany, three terms in Zoology and Hu man Physiology, one term in Mmcialogy. and two terms in Geology) a year’s advanced study m any one of these departments has been pro vided, by which very much greater facilities than usual are offered for advanced work and original investigation. Tiiis work is done, not by classes, but according to individual needs or tastes. 'File Physical Laboratory, under charge of Prof Joint L. Campbell, is thoroughly equipped for the most advanced and special work. The Chemical Laboratories are under the direction of Prof, Henry K. Thomson, who has iust returned from a year’s study at Berlin un der Prof. Hoffman, and are well equipped for qualitative, quantitative and organic* analysis. The. 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THE AFFAIRS OF PURDUE. Extracts from the Retiring Report of President E. E. "White. Discussion of the Anti-Fraternity Rule, the Consolidation Scheme, ami the Action of the Legislature. President E. E. White, of Purdue Univer sity, presented his retiring report to the trustees on Wednesday. The total number af students last year was 219. After giving tabulated statements of the number of stu dents during the past year, and also of the attendance by years since the school opened, the report says: It neeiua proper to notice, in this connection, the charge that the anti-fraternity rule of the has reduced the attenduuce of stu dents. It was stated by a senator (Mr. Miliums), on the floor of the Senate, that this rule had di minished the attendance from 284 to less than 150. The persistency with which this charge of ioss of students lias been made for three years past is evidence that “the wish is father of the thoughts” What are the tacts! This famous rule was adopted in 1877, and the years 1879, 1880 and 1881 are the only years in which the fraternity agitation among the stu dents has been a serious annoyance in the uni versity, and, by referring to the above table, it will he seen that these are the years of largest increase of students, culminating in 1881, ■when the total enrollment reached 254. It is further seen that the slight fading off the next year in the academy and special schools (there was a continued gain lu the college) was immediately subsequent to the raising of the standard of admission to these departments. The truth is, that the rule in question has doubtless caused both a vain and a loss of stu dents, some having come to Purdue because of the existence of the rule, and a few remained away on account of it. The balance has been, and will increasingly be, on the side of gain. The college which leads all the colleges in the West in the number of students has excluded college fraternities from the beginning. It is freely admitted that the suits brought against the university have affected its attend ance unfavorably. If the faculty had not been arrested in their work and subjected to harraas ing litigation, the loss of students resulting from the raising of the standard of admission would ftonbttess have been made good by a more vigor ous canvas for students. It 19 unquestionably true that if the time, thought and money which have been expended in the defense of the rightful au thority of the university against this wicked assault upon it in the courts had been used in advertising and canvassing for students, there would have been u marked in crease in attendance. But it ill becomes those who have oulpably subjected the university to the grievous wrong, to charge the result to those who, under their Are, have heroically upheld the banner of college authority and maintained the efficiency of the institution. I would call attention to the fact that the lim ited resources of the university and the impera tive demand for the use of all available means in furnishing needed appliances and paying cur rent expenses, have forbidden exteusive adver tising, or the employment of agents to canvass for students, whatever may be true of the pro priety of such a canvass in a Stare institution. We have been obliged to rely ehiefly on the dis tribution of reports, catalogues and circulars, and the voluntary co-opcrarion and assistance f the nctive friends of industrial education. We have not felt justified in neglecting the im portant duties pressing upon us in organizing the university, and demanding more than all of our time, to make a personal canvass for stu dents. THE CONSOLIDATION SCHEME. This leads me to sneak of the proposed consoli dation of the Indiana University and Purdue University by removing the former to Lafayette. The recent burning of the pricipal building of the State University, with its valuable museum and library, has renewed the advocacy of this scheme, and I regret to see that a late member of the Purdue faculty bus taken a leading part In it. As is well known, I have uniformly advised the officers and friends of Purdue Uuiversity against any support of this measure, aud this I have done not only as a inatter-of policy, hut be cause I have believed the consolidation of the two institutions to bo undesirable aud unwise, and I see nothing in the great disaster which lias befallen the State University to change my opiniou. On the contrary, lam more aud more convinced that such a consolidation would he both detrimental to the cause of liberal educa tion in Indiana and subversive of the great work of technical education undertaken by Purdue. I have never had much confidence in the suo eessful solution of the problem of higher indus trial education under the shadow of dominating classical and professional departments, and my confidence in the successful outcome of such a scheme is much less than it was seven years ago. In no ease has the at empfc to conduct agricul tural and mechanical schools as departments of State universities, with leading literary and pro fessional departments, been fairly successful, and in nearly every Instance this attempt has beeu a signal failure, and the fact is realized by no one more fully or more keenly than by the discouraged and struggling men who are at. the head of industrial departments in tile land-grant universities. A letter now before me, written by the professor of agriculture in one of the leading State universities of the West, contains this sentence: “As agriculture is only one of many departments here, it is of insignificant proportions, and many have lost all hope of our attaining any estate worthy of the cause, but it is for tne to work on.” Few land-grant universities have tried the ex periment of uniting classical, professional and industrial departments in the same institution more intelligently and earnestly than t lie Uni versity of Minnesota, under the able direction of President W. W. FolwelJ. In his opening ad dress ns president of the department of higher education, at the recent meeting of the National Educational Association at Saratoga, Dr- Fob wed said: “We shall soon be obliged to follow the ex ample of older civilizations in respect to indus trial education. The attempt to organize indus trial work in connection with literary colleges has not proved successful, and will not.” The “example of older civilizations” ihu9 commended, is tile organizing of industrial in stitutions separate from the universities. The taking out of the Industrial departments from the few Stave universities in which they have been organized, ami establishing them as sepa rate industrial schools would ituquestiouahlv'be a great gain to 'the cause of higher technical education in the States where these institutions exist. I was induced to undertake the solution of this industrial problem in Purdue hy the favora ble conditions which Indiana seemed to present. The State University, at Bloomington; the State Normal School. at Terre Haute, and the National Industrial College, at Lafayette, each under the direction of a sepa rate board of control, was, to my mind, the organization of higher education by the State on right principles, and the successful solution of the industrial college question here seemed possible. The consolidation of these rad ically distinct institutions iu one university would be a hopeless surrender of both industrial and normal training, and the nation’s lniiniMceut grant for the benefit of agrinuhure and the me chanic arts would be irretrievably lost to the in dustrial classes. I have been fully satisfied from the first, not only that the organization of a classical depart ment in Purdue would defeat its industrial de partments, but that any organic connection of the institution with the classical colleges or the State would jeopardize, if not subvert, its high est success as an industrial college, aud this opinion lias been gouerally shared by my col leagues in the faculty and by tiio trustees. Hence the anti-fraternity rule, the severing of all connection with the State oratorical associa tion, and tne. recent dropping of Latin from the courses of study. These ana other like measures have been adopted to insure the success of in dustrial education at Purdue—the leading and paramount end and work of the institution. Our entire policy hus been based on the firm and clem* conviction that the essential condition of success in an industrial college is a central, vigorous, all-con trolling industrial life and spirit, and that this depends ou freedom from the domlnaucy of the classical system. It is my earnest hope that the Indiana Univer sity may rise from us nsnes the stronger for its disaster, tiio richer for its rum, and that it may become, like Michigan University, tiio strong bold of liberal and professional education in the West, and I hi so as earnestly hope that Purdue University may go ou from strength to strength until it is everywhere recognized as tiio leading college of science und industry iu the country. THE GREEK FRATERNITY ISSUE. My last annual report opened with a grateful recognition of the fuct that the only eource of Uscord that had disturbed the university dur ng my connection with It had disappeared from .ts halls, leaving the students united aud Imrmo lious, wiu a growing industrial spirit, so essen THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1883—WITH EXTRA SIIEET. tial to the success of the industrial departments. This was followed by a citation from the opinion of the Supreme Ctuirt. expressly affirming the power of the trustees “to absolutely prohibit any connection between the Greek fraternities and the university,” and to prohibit students from having uny uctive connection therewith while under the control of the faculty— au opinion en tirely satisfactory to the authorities of rite uni versity and accepted as conclusive by patrons and students, and. so far as was then known, by all parties interested. But before these hopeful statements had worked their slow way through official channels to tlie hands of the printer and appeared in the published report, the conflict, Which had disappeared from the university, suddenly appeared in the General Assembly. A brief recital of a few facts may explain tiiis unexpected denouement. The suit decided by Judge Vinton in favor of the faculty aud taken by appeal to the Su preme Court, was remanded by that court (Au gust, 1882,) to the lower court for further hear ing. On ttie opening of the Circuit Court iu Sep tember, the faculty tiled their auswer to the ap pellants' complaint, expressly and explicitly denying the averments therein on which the Supreme Court had based its reversal of the judgment or the lower court, the cause Laving been heard and decided on a demurrer. The faculty thus squarely ntad* l an issue of fact and pressed for a speedy trial that the university might be relieved from the serious annoyance to which the uncalled-for suit had subjected it. After vexatious delays, the appellants’ coun sel filed an affidavit for a change of venue, but all efforts of the faculty’s counsel to secure a completion of the change of venue and a speedy trial failed. Under these circumstances, it seemed best to wait the appellants’ pleasure, especially us we had reasons to believe that, when the election was over, the suit might be dismissed. All effort to bring the case to trial falling, we waited patiently until February, 1883, when, to our surprise, we found that the change of venue had virtually been taken from the Circuit Court of Tippecanoe county to the General Assembly—from the judge to the poli ticians. It may bo added, in passing, that the condition of the case iu the Tippecanoe Circuit Court still remains us it was last October, the change of venue uot being perfect -l. The seventh annual report of the university contains a full history of this fraternity contro versy up to and including the decision of rite lower court. It seems important to continue this record to the present time, and to this cud I append to this report the following documents: 1. The plaintiff’s complaint, to which a de murrer was sustained hy Judge Vinton. 2. The opinion of the Bupreme Court, with the dissenting opinion of Judge Woods, now United States District Judge. 3. The ruling of the Supreme Court on the faculty’s petition for a rehearing. 4. The answer of the faculty to the plaintiff’s complaint. It is much to be regretted that we are not per mitted to add the final judgment of the court, thus completing the record of this remarkable case. Our legal knowledge is not sufficient to enable ns to reconcile the court’s explicit affirm ance of the power of the trustees, the ouly real question at issue, with its reversal of tho judgment of the lower court. The modi Heat ions of the original opinion made in ruling upon the faculty’s petition sot a rehearing seems to justify, if not require, affirmance of the judgment of the lower court. But whatever may have been the technical reason tor the reversal of such judg ment. they are fully met by the faculty’s an swer raising au issue of fact and now on tile in the Circuit Court of Tippecanoe county. This answer of the faculty under oath shows con clusively that their action was, in every par ticular, within the power affirmed by the Su preme Court; aud it will afford the friends of college authority special satisfaction to learn that the trustees have unanimously instructed their counsel to defend this cause until a llual judgment is reached. I give in tuis connection the revised regula tions of the university relating to students’ so ciety: “1. No society shall bo organized by students except by the consent of the faculty, amt no student shall join or attend the meetings, or have any other active connection with any col lege or at intents’ society, not authorized by the faculty; and as a condition of graduation or honorable dismission, students shall be required to sign a written stuiemeut that they have com plied with this regulation. “2. The public exercises of all societies or ganized in connection with the university shall be subject in tune, place and character to the approval of the faculty, and all rooms assigned for the use of societies shall ho occupied subject to the faculty’s control. “0. Asa condition of admission to the univer sity or any department therein, or of re-en trance, students shall be required to subscribe to the foregoing regulation, and all other regu lations of the. university relating to the obliga tions and duties of students, aud promise a faithful compliance therewith during their coti nec.iof. with the university; that is, until dis missed or graduated. TIIE FRATERNITY “RIDER.” The general appropriation bill was introduced into the House much earlier than usual, and be fore the needs of Purdue had been presented to or considered by the ways and means commit tee. 1 had been confined to my home for sev eral weeks by illness, but, learning that there was to be an early consideration of the bill, I went to Indianapolis to look after the interests of the Institution. When I reached the city, the Purdue appropriation was under discussion. The representative from Tippecanoe (Mr. B. Wilson Smith) moved that the appropriation be increased from $2,000 (the amount inserted by the committee) to $25,000, aud made an earnest, effort to secure its adoption. Several other amendments fixing, the appropriation nt $20,000. $15,000, etc., were successively offered, when the representative from Benton (Mr. U. Z. Wiley) moved to substitute $14,000, with tho proviso that no part of this money shall be drawn from the treasury while any restrictions are put upon students concerning Greek socie ties hy the faculty or hoard of trustees. This proposed “rider” met with very little favor in the House, and the Wiley amendment was de feated by a decisive vote. The appropriation for Purdue was finally fixed at $12,000, the en tire discussion showing that the institution had many earnest friends in the House. Mr. Wiley's motion disclosed the desperate policy agreed upon by the Greek fraternity that had instituted the suits against the university (Mr. W. being a member of this fraternity), and it also explained the delay of the trial in the Tippecanoe Court. It was hoped, however, that a measure so dangerous as a legislative prece dent, and so fraught with mischief to the univer sity, would not he again brought forward. We soon learned, however, that the Senate had been thoroughly “worked up” on this issue, and were told that thirty-two 6euatora had “pledged” themselves uot to vote an appropria tion for Purdue University, except on this ex traordinary condition.* We could not believe that a majority of the members of the Senate had committed themselves iu advance to such an objectionable measure. While the appropriation bill, which had passed the House, was in the hands of the finance com mittee of the Senate the trusti es and members of the faculty met at Indianapolis to present the financial needs of the university to this commit tee, and also to the ways and means committee of the House. The House committee granted usa very patient hearing, the nit-rubers seeming much interested iuthy industrial and scientific work undertaken, aud apparently appreciating the imperative need of increased appliances. The Senate committee, on the contrary, inter rupted us in the statement of the financial ne cessities of the college, and handed us over to the catechism and instruction of a member of the coratuitte in matters relating to college gov ernment and discipline. We were quite bluntly told, in effect, that if the trustees and facility did not at once surrender all control of the orgamz i tton of students'societies in tne university, and students connected therewith, the lnsntinion should not have a dollar. After this unsatis factory interview, tho trustees met aud adopicd a memorial to the General Assembly. [We omit the memorial. It will bo pu hi lulled iu the pamphlet edition of the report.—Editor.] It Was wi h difficulty that an opportunity was J found to present’this respectful petition to the Senate, and when presented, no action was taken upon it, not even a reference to the commit tee on agriculture or to the committee on education. In reporting back tho appropriation bill to the Senate, the finance committee proposed ihe fol lowing amendment to the section appropriating $12,000 to Purdue University, to-wit: “Provided, however, that this appropriation shall ouly be drawn quarterly, and the Auditor of State shall issue his warrant for the same only in ease that the president of the board of trustees of Purdue University shall file with I said Auditor, on or before the Ist day of July, 1883, a statement that ull restrictions or regu- *N te— The Inside history of this movement may ho j worthy of h recital in a foot note. In tin- winter of I ss 1-82, a young man was expelled hy the Faculty from Purdue University for good and sufficient cause, I as the records of the institution show Ho rul>ho- qiiently entered the law office of a politician in the i southern part of tho State, a member of the State I senate. The Senator became his champion and so- cured his election to an important office in the Senate. After liis olccliou tho voting man served notice on the Purdue faculty that he lmd nought and secured the position in the -Senate “to pay off” the iiuiversit\ for nia expulsion. Uestarted the story that he had io>-n expelled from Purdue because ho was a member of a Greek fraternity in another college, and ho thus posed before Senators as a martyr to tin-Greek cause. It will suffice to add that the faculty (tin* expulsion oc curred in the President’s absence' did not men know that he was a “Grook” aud ho alonoknow whether his bud conduct was due to such au association. lations, of any nature whatsoever, in regard to students iu said institution joining or belonging to auy college secret society shall have be in ab solutely and completely abrogated, aud shall re main so; that, complete immunity has been granted said students to connect tneniselves with any college secret society they may desire, aud a like statement shall be filed with the Audi tor before each quarterly warrant is drawn.” Tiiis extraordinary “rider” was supported by a member of the finance committee, in a still more extraordinary speech—a speech that reck lessly exposed the rear of both rider and horse. Senator Foulke, of Wayne, followed in au able and eloquent defense of college authority. 110 denounced the proposed rider as “a stab at tho college” and “au insult to its board of trustees and faculty.” H was folio wed by other honora ble representatives of “the Greek world,” who opposed the rider in strong terms, and it needed no vote to show that tho committee’s “rider” was defeated. The Senate adjourned without taking a vote, thus affording an opportunity for the easy defeat of the entire mischief. All that was needed that night was a hold word from those occupying high official positions iu the State, and who, by virtue of such should be tho guardians of the .State insti-' tutions iu all such emergencies. But Purdue failed to receive this expected support. With few honor idle exceptions, every politician who was aspiring to be United States senator or Governor, or a member of Congress, either quietly connived at tue wrong or was silent. Tlte next morning Senator Johnson, of Tippe canoe, moved as a substitute for the amendment proposed the following: “For Purdue Uuiversi ty, $20,000, provided that before any part of the appropriation here made he paid, the rule adopted by Purdue University affecting secret societies, and Greak fraternities in particular, shall ne rescinded.” A strong and earnest effort, headed by Sena tor Graham, of Madison, was made to secure the needed appropriation of $20,000 without the ob jectionable rider, but Mr. Johnson’s substitute was finally passed and sent, with other amend ments to the bill, to the House for its concur rence. In this emergency, I resigned tho presidency of the imperiled institution aud made an appeal to the General Assembly. (This appeal was published in the Journal at the time and is omitted.—Ed.) This step was taken with some hope that the House, which had once so wisely and emphatic ally rejected this “Greek” rider, would refuse concurrence in the Senate’s proviso: but leglsla tiv* tactics prevented a separate vote ou auy Senate amendment, the report of the conference committee as a whole was adopted, and the ap propriation bill only needed the signature of the proper officers to become a law. At tilts juncture the House, for well-known reasons, reconsidered its vote ou the passage of the bill; meanwhile the time fixed by the constitution for legislation passed, and the General Assembly adjourned, leaving the appropriation bill among Its “un finished business.” This left Purdue University without a “rider” aud without an appropria tion. My second object In resigning, as I did, was to bring the men responsible for this at tempted rape of college authority to tho bar of publio opinion for judgment, and this result has been accomplished. I re call few instances of mischievous legislation not immediately affeoting the interests of the great body of the people, so timversually condemned as this has been. Editors who through their exchanges have access to most of t his papers in the State inform me that not a paper, so far as they know, has approved of the measure, while scores of their exchanges ha ve condemned it In the strongest terms. Its condemnation by college men und the educators of the country generally has boon as emphatic as it has been universal. It seems fitting that, in this connection, I acknowledge the kindness and appreciation of the many friends who, after the failure or the appropriation bill, so strongly urged me to with draw my resignation, tr must suffice to say that I was not able to see either duty or personal in terest in such action. I resigned, as a high duty to the cause of higher education by the State, and the act has increasingly the approval of uiy judgment. I am happy to be able to add that in the long con tra: of which this rider outrage is the culmination, Ido not recall an important step that I would retrace. In every successive emergency I have acted more wisely than I knew, and I am con tent to submit my course not only to the verdict of the college world, but also to the judgment of all intelligent friends of college government. In taking leave of Purdue University I sever, probably permanently, my official connection with the American industrial college and the great educational problem committed to it. To tho solution of this problem I have devoted the best thought and effort of my lite. The work here accomplished has been done under great embarrafiinent und difficulty, and it is very grat ifying to tie permitted to see hopeful indications of near success. It affords me pleasure to know that tho re sponsibility and task which I assumed in ac cepting the presidency of this young Industrial college are now to be transferred to one whose wide experience in public education and strong confidence in the special work here undertaken, are an assurance of the successful outcome of this great educational experiment. I cannot close this report without an expres sion of my high appreciation of the services of the trustees of the university, who, with re markable unanimity and Intelligent purpose, have sustained Its authority, amt who, with ad mirable foresight, propose to sustain it to ttie end. It Is with deep emotion that I acknowledge my great obligation to the members and officers of the hoard for their ttnfailiug confidence and support in the trying duties to which I have been called. I also desire to t xtend iner t grateful acknowledgments to my colleagues in the faculty for their kind sympathy, generous confidence, and earnest co-operation and support in all these years of arduous hut hopeful effort. Their fidelity to duty, patieuce under discouragement, and earnest devotion to the best interests of th university have wou ami held tny highest esteem. I need not at tempt an expression of my admiration for asso ciates who in every exigency have had the cour age and wisdom to present a uuited front to the enemy of college order, whether inside or out side the college walls. It gives me great pleas ure to express the hope that those who remain, with those who succeed us that retire, may now have the opportunity to work out the great problem of higher industrial education without the interference or the students and alumni of the classical colleges, aud without any further questioning of their rightful authority. Most respectfully submitted,* E E. White, President of Purdue University. A Car-Driver “Held Up.” E. W. Madison, driver of car No. 84 on the ll linois-street line, was the victim of a daring rob bery last night. About 10:30 o’clock, as his car was at the extremity or the line on tho “rum table,” at the corner of New Jersey and Mc- Carty streets, two men entered the ear, which had no other occupants, and came to the front platform for the ostensible purpose of getting a coin changed. When Madison reached for his box one of the men drew two revolvers and t hrust them in his face, while tho other one “went through” hint, securing his watch, for which he paid sl6, and the change box, which contained $12.25. The men then left the car and ran away down aside street. Madison de scribes them as being or rather youthful appear ance, and thinks he could identify them. He is one of the oldest drivers in the employ of the company, having been with them for nearly three years. Kuper Comtrmmlery'* Journey. John H. Martin, of the Jbg Four road, returned yesterday from Salt Lake City, whither he ac companied Raper Coiiimanucry on their trip to San Francisco. Mr. Martin Rays that the eom manderr allows no opportunity for drill to es cape them, and several times had the train stopped on the plains while they went through their drill, once at I o’clock at night. At Den vor the Union Pacific people tendered them a special train fora trip to Georgetown, which was greatly enjoyed, and at Salt Lake they stopped one (lay, spending their time in sight seeing and in giving an exhibition drill. The party tendered Mr. Martin and the officers of the Big Four and Union Pacific railroads a vote of thanks for courtesies extended. Albert Gall rode up the mountains on a “burro” at G* orge towu ami was thinking of continuing the Jour ney ou foot when Mr. Martin last saw him. Third Ward Primary. The Republicans of the Third ward held their primary last night, and nominated J. W. Whar ton for Council. There were three candidates, and tho vote stood us follows: Wharton, 200; Cal. F. Darnell, 26; William Floyd, 17. Words of Wisdom. No doctor will fail to impress It in patients “that the mouth and teeth should lie healthy, because it receives the food and prepares it for its digestive work Use Sozodout, gratify your family physician, aud enjoy life comforta bly. THE NEW POSTAL NOTE. What Congress Designed to Partially Supersede Money Orders. A Convenient and Cheap Substitute for Small Orders—How They Are Issued and Paid by Postofflccs. “The new postal note will come into use next Friday,” remarked Postmaster Wildraau to a Journal reporter yesterday, “aud you might, for tho information of the public, say something about it—tell just what it is, how it is to he used, and what the purpose of it is. The public, I think, knows very little about it, and it is now time they were becoming acquainted with the new system.” “Please explain then what there is about the postal nut© that the public Ought to know,” sug gested the reporter. “The postal note,” the Postmaster continued, “was adopted by tho last Congress, and is to he used for the transmission of small sums, under $5, through the mails. It will be issued and re ceived only by money-order postoffioes. It is Intended to supersede the. motley order for small amounts, and thj feo for issuing it will he ouly three cents. The difference bet ween the two is that a postal note will be transmitted through the mails at the risk of the senders, just as a letter, while the government is responsible for the payment of money orders. The cote may be issued for any sum, from one cons to $4.99, aud it reads: “To tho Postmaster Os tho Money Order Office at Anywhere, Indiana: “Pay to Bearer, at any time within three months from the last day of tho month of issue, the sum of four dollars, 99 cents. “Richard Roe, Postmaster.” “Tills postal note is also payable to hearer at the office of issue, with the saute limitation as to time. If lost or destroyed, no duplicate thereof can be issued. “Received the above-named sum. On the left-hand side of the note is a stamp of tho office issuing, the stamp of the office paying, with a vignette between, and two columns—one giving the months iu the year, and the other twelve years, runiug from 1883 to 1894. On the right-band side there are three columns—one for dollars, containing the figures 1,2, 3,4, 0. Tho second column is for dimes, and the third for cents. The figures In each run 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7, 8. 9, 0. In issuing the note the postmaster can cels, or punches, the figures representing the amount named In the note. For instance, if tho amount is two dollars and thirty nine cents. the postmaster punches the 2 in the coluinu for dollars, the 3 in the column for dimes, and the 9 in the column for cents. This is a safe-guard against tho amount of the note being raised.” “If. through a mistake of the postmaster, the figures which have been punched out aud the amount written in the body of the note should uot agree, which would be paid!” “In a cuse of that kind the postmaster, to whom the note is presented for payment, should address an inquiry to the office from which it was issued, bur, at the request of the holder, he would in the mean time be at liberty to pay tho smaller amount. If it should afterwards bo learned that the larger amount is correct, the postmaster should then pay the remainder duo the holder, and write ucross the face of the note, •Paid s—, the correct amount, as shown by the issuing postmaster’s stub.* “In the manner of payment what is the differ ence between tho postal note and the money or der!” “Th© postal note is issued ‘to hearer,’ and no person is named. Whoever happens to hold tho note can, as bearer, demand and receive pay ment on it. A written application is uot required from the purchaser of the note ns it is from the purchaser of a money order. No limit is fixed to the number of notes which may bo issued to the same person on the same day. No advice of the note is sent to the office drawn upon. No duplicate can be issued, for the reason that every postal note is payable, to beart*r. No specified person can establish the fact of his ownership in a lost note, which, if found at any lime, would be put able to the bearer.” “If a postal note should not be paid within thref* months from the last day of the month of last!** does it become invalid!” “If not pawl within that rime if would become invalid aud would uot he payable. The holder, to obtain the amount, less an additional fee of three cents, must receipt the uote, deliverAt to the postmaster and sign an application for a duplicate, to be issued by the superintendent of the money-order system at Washington. The duplicate to tic issued by the depart incut will be made payable to the applicant by name.” Advice to Mothers* Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should always be used when children are cutting teeth. It re lieves the little sufferer at once; it produces natural, quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, aud me little cherub awakes as “bright as a button.” It is very pleasant to taste. 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These roseate, bew itching hues follow tho use of Hagan’s Mag nolia Balm—a delicate, harm less aud always reliable article. ScM by all druggists. Tho Magnolia Halm conceals every blemish, removes Sal lowness, Tan, Redness, Erup tions, all evidences of excite ment and every imperfection. 1 ts effects arc immediate and so natural I hat no human being can detect its application. N flies IS THE TIME II 11 Ilf TO CURE U Bf SKIN HUMORS. I IT is at tuis season win liTbc Pores open freeiy and the Perspiration is abundant that Disfig uring Humors, Humiliating Eruptions, Itching Tortures, Balt Rheum or Eczema, Psoriasis, Tet ter, Ringworm, Baby Humors, Scrofula. Scrofu lous Sores, Abscesses and Discharging Wounds, and every species of Itching, Scaly and Pimply Diseases of tho Skin and Scalp are most speedily and economically cured by {be Cuticura Reme dies. IT IS A FACT. Hundreds of letters iu our possession (copies of which may he had by return mail) are our au thority for the assertion that Skin, Scalp and Blood Humors, whether Scrofulous, Inherited or Contagious, may now be permanently cured hy Cuticura Resolvent, the new Blood Purifier, in ternally, aud Cuticura and Cuticura Soap, tlisr great Skin Cures and Beaut liters, externally, in one-half the time and at one-half the expense of any other seusou. Phave been connected with the drug business for twenty years and have handled every blood purifier and' remedy of any consequence for the treatment of Blood, Bkin and Scalp Diseases, and unhesitat ingly say that no system of remedies ever devised or compounded so completely and thorouglily eradicates the diseases for which they are in tended as the Cuticura Remedies. Many remark able cures have come to my knowledge and L fuel safe in warranting satisfaction if directions are followed. CHAS. H. MORSE, Druggist. Kolliston, Mass. CUTICURA RESOLVENT, tho new Blood Purifier, expels disease germs from the blood and perspiration, aud thus re moves tbe cause. Cuticura, the great Skin Cure, instantly allays Dobing and inflammation, clears the Skin aud Scalp, heals Ulcers and Sores, re stores the complexion. Cuticura Soap, an ex quisite Skin Bcautitter, is indlspeni Able in treat ing Skin Diseases, and for rough, chapped or greasy skin, blackheads, blotches and baby Hu mors. Cuticura Remedies are the only infallible Blood Purifiers and Skin Beautitters. Sold hy druggists. Cuticuru, 50 ceuts; Resolvent $1; Soap, 25 cents. POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO., Boston. BAN FORD’S RADICAL cleanses the nasal l eHa tf eßof foul mucus, re stores the sense of smell, taste and hearing when affected, frees the head, throat and bronchial tubes of offensive matter, sweetens and purifies the breath, stops the cough and arrests the progress of Catarrh towards Consumption. Complete Treatment, with Inhaler, si. Ask for Saudford’s Radical Cure. CASTOR IA for Infants and Children. Castoria promotes IJigestion and overcomes Flatulency, Coustipii tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, and Feverishness. It insures health and natural sleep, without morphine. Castoria is so well adapted to Children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me.” 11. A. Archer, M. D., 82 Portland Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. CENTAUR LINIMENT —an absolute cure for Rheuma tism, Sprains, Burns, Galls, &e. Tlic most Powerful and Pene trating Pain-relieving and Healing Remedy known to man. EIGHTH MUSICAL FESTIVAL OF THE INDIANA SAsNGERBUND, September 6,7, 8 and 9. THREE CONCERTS AT ENGLISH’S OPERA-HOUSE. THURSDAY, September G. Reception of the visiting Societies. Opening concert in the even ing. FRIDAY. September 7.—Procession in the aft moon. Grand Concert In the evening. SATURDAY, Septembers.—Grand Concert at 2 p. in. Summer Night Festival. SUN DA Y, September 9.—Picnic at Garfield Park. The Grand Chorus is composed of seventeen Societies, with GOO members. The Orchestra, com post'll of musicians from Cincinnati and this city, numbers G men. A. EUNESriNOFF. Musical Director. Soloists: Miss Ennua Cranch, of Cincinnati; Mrs. PhilJip lno Wuest, of Indianapolis; Mrs. Maretzek, of New York; Mr. A. Bisehof, of Chicago; Messrs. Oscar Steins and F. Fay, of New York. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—Boxes, $lO and $3. General admission for Parquette and Family Circle, sl. Reserved seats, 50c extra. Gallery, 50c. Bfy Co.’s FURNACES FOR ALL FUELS. fell! I.! mi w Porlab!:, cr Brick set. PowefuH, Economical. Durable, Simple. Thoroughly fi rut-class in all respects, tlnspretinn Solicited, I(), 113 and $3.50 per nay. T he latter price nicl t img '.tn. GEO. F. PFING3T, Prtmrioror- MACKINAC ISLAND. The Michigan Central Railroad Company Ims Issued a bumhiiUily illustrated guide book Lit this wave-wiis: e l tomi.Us* paradise of the un salted stms. Wi ite .it once to O W. UUGULK3 General Passenger Agent, ('iiicago, In. and gos a copy before the oillDou la cxn.utotcd. 5

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AMONG the railroads. Jmprovenrients oil Indianapolis Roads the First Seven Months of 1883. **Coiibol’* Engines Steadily Making Friends —ltems of Interest of a General Character. TRACK IMPROVEMENTS. Laid This Year on Indianapolis Roads, *JI4 Miles of Steel Rails. In the Reven months ending Aug. 1 there were 224 miles of steel rails laid ou roads centering at Indianapolis, aud there will some sixty miles additional be laid this season, or thut additional amount is already contracted for. The steel rails were distributed as follows: Indianapolis Sc Bt. Louis, sixty miles; Vandalia, tifty-flve miles; Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis A Chicago, twenty-seven miles; Jeffersonville, Madison A Indianapolis, twenty-six miles; Cincinnati, Ham ilton A Indianapolis, sixteen miles; Indiana, Bloomington A Western, thirteen miles; Indian spoils A VincenDes, twelve miles, Chicago, St. Lonte A Pittsburg (IndiauapoliH division), six miles; Wabash, six miles; Bee-line proper, four miles. The roads above named have purchased this season 1,750,000 cross-ties, about 80 per cent, of which are now in the track. In this statement the cross-ties used in the construction of the Logansport extension of the Vandalia are not included. “CONSOL** ENGINES. .Large Number in Service on Indianapolis Roads, and Performing Well. Two years ago there was not a locomotive In service on Indianapolis roads of the “consol” build; now there are forty-six and more coming. The Indiana, Bloomington Western has twen ty-four, now, for the first time, all in service. Ten are Rogers build, eight Danfortli build and four Baldwin build. All are performing admira bly but have not been a sutliclent time in use to demonstrate which build is the most serviceable. Each pattern has its friends among the engi neers. The Chicago, 8t Louis A Pittsburg has in service on the Indianapolis division eleven of the number. Bix are Grant build and five were built at the Altoona shops. This company with in the next few weeks will receive thirteen more engines, “consol” pattern, several of them Baldwin build. The Cincinnati, Hamilton A Indianapolis has four consol engines In service. Tuey were built at the Grant Locomotivc-works. President Ingalls is introducing thin class of engines on his roads. The McQueen Locomotive-works. Schenectady. N. Y., are building four, two of which have already been received and put in service on the Kentucky Central road. It is quite difficult to make a consol engiue hand some and seemingly well proportioned, and it is said that the McQueen build come* the nearest to possessing such features. These consol en gines are hauling from twenty to twenty-five piore loaded cars than the ordinary eight-wheel freight engines, and twelve to eighteen more loaded oats than the mogul-build engines, and friends of the consol say that they consume no more ooal than dees a mogul engine. REMINISCENCES. •he First Engine West of the Alleghenies— Standard Gauge a Compromise. An old railroad man, yesterday, in a familiar chat, related some reminiscences which will be read with interest. The first road built west of the Allegheny mountains was the Sandusky A Bellevue, fifteen miles in length, and was built A feet B*s inches gauge. The first engine which came west was named the “Sandusßy,” and, by mistake, was built 4 feet 10 inches gauge, and ©n its arrival the company were in a dilemma, but finally concluded to ohange the gauge of the track to conform to that of the engine. The manner the compromise—now the standard gauge was established is also a matter of interest. The Cleveland A Toledo read was built four feet, eight and one-quarter luches; the Junction road, uow a part of the Lake Bhore, was four feet nine and one-half Inches. These roads were consolidated, ana us a compro mise four feet eight and one-half inches was made the gauge of the two roads, and with this four feet eight and one-half Inches became the es tablished gauge of roads west of the Allegheny mountains. GENERAL NEWS. The Northern Routes Coming luto Greater Prominence. Indications now aro that the railways now composing the northern lines, which have been poor paying affairs, are to be made more profitable by an increase in through business. The Central Vermont road is the nat ural western outlet for the New Hampshire reads, and as such is getting its track and equipments into condition and arrauglng with Western connections to do business more expeditiously; and If the management of the New England roads rake advantage or their op portunities the Central Vermont can be made an important link of a large northern system of roads. 'Die Central Vermont has two all-rail dispatch lines between Bt. Louis, Chicago and New England. It has several Western feeders, namely, the Flint A Pere Marquette railway, Chicago A Grand Trunk railway. Grand Trunk, the Detroit, Grand Haven A Milwaukee railroad (which is uow controlled by the Grand Trunk rail wav), in the Chicago A Grand Trunk rail wav, running from Chicago to Port Huron, Mich.; in the Michigan Central railway from Chicago and the Interior of the State of Michigan to Detroit; the Wabash, St. Louis A Pacific, and the Cincin nati, Hamilton A Dayton railroad system; also, a good Baltimore A Ohio oonuectiou. The B. A Q. in Clover. The Chioago, Burlington A Quincy, as the “beys” say, is doing a rattling business. The cress earnings of the six months this year have been much lurger than iu any previous, and also the expenses, leaving the net earnings, how ever, larger than ever before, though only 1*370,000 more than in 1880, which was a won derfully prosperous year. Officials of the road are quoted as saying that the net. earnlugs this year will be 13 percent, ou the capital stock, and the net surplus will be fully $4,000,000. Last year the mad earned 10 percent, and hud a net surplus of $1,030,000. Miscellaneous Notes. New railroad construction is now going ou in this country at the rate of 125 miles per week. It is stated that work on the Ontario A Pacific railway, from Cornwall to Sault Bte. Marie., will begin at once. An average of 700 freight cars are transferred across the Detroit river by the Canada Southern boats daily, 550 at Detroit and 150 at Amnerst burg. Kate wars are raging in Chioago aud Bt. Louis dq Buffalo, Cincinnati aud Louisviile busi ness respectively, which may develop into some thing serious. The first freight shioment east over the North ern Pacific was thirty car-loads or w)vat from Walla Walls, and west-houud a car-load of beer from Milwaukee. Colonel Snow', chief engineer of the Great European A American Short-lino railway, lias published a letter in an obscure Nova Scotia newspaper explaining the causes which led to Hie suspension of work on the road. He affirms that the company is not defiinot, and that he be lieves that every claim against the road will be paid at an early day and work resumed. Several attempts have been made to extend the smoke stacks of locomotives over the tops of the oars by means of pipes, making the point of emission the back end of the train. Could this be carried out, it would effectually cure the nuisance of smoke and cinders. But the thing has been found impracticable, for the numerous 'joints could not be kept together with a train tostling round curves at him speed. An in ventor, all the way from Constantinople, Tur nkey, has now taken out a patent for a device of .this kind. The freight business of the Philadelphia A Heading road will, this fall, it is believed.be be largest ever known within its history. Esti mates already made show that an enormous tonnage is to be looked for from the New York Central system, aud derived from the numerous ines tributary to that s> stem west of Chicago. This will come down the Jersey Shore A Pine Dreak railroad and the Catawissa. The Phila lelphia business of the Lehigh Valley railroad '•aken from the Lake Erie A western, at Wave.r ---y, will also be enormous, and the importance of THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1883—WITH EXTRA SHEET; the Reading as a terinh.al road, it is declared, has been greatly enhanced by Its recent connec tions. Each engine of the Pennsylvania road last year cost $0.56 for repair*. $6.73 for fuel and 86 cents for stores for each 100 miles run. The con sumption per mile was 82 pounds of coal, 5.3 quarts of oil and 3 8 pounds of tallow. The average of passenger cars to an engine was 5.14, and of freight, 24.5. The average length of train varied from 10.61 cars on the heavy grades to 36 9, while the consumption of coal per car-mile varied from 11.12 pounds to 2.92 pounds. In other words, it oosts four times as much to move freight over the mountains as to transport it over average grades PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Going* and Comings of Railroad Men—Ex tensive Improvements to Road-Beds. J. 11. Devereaux, president of the Bee-line system, has gone to Richland Spl'iugs to rest for a few days. Harry Wefsell, agent of the Vandalia at this point, who has been spending a few days at Yellowstoue Par*, will return to-day. C. E. Henderson, general passenger agent, and f*. W. Fairbanks, attorney of the Indiana, Bloom ington A Western road, will return from New York to-day. Lucius Tuttle, general passenger agent of the Eastern railroad, who Is well known in passen ger circles, is rapidly recovering from what was thought to he a fata! illness. The jurlediclion of Mr. Charles Fame, g*nc manager of the New York, Buffalo A West Shore road has been extended over the New York. On tario A Western, which is appended by the West Shore. E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the Chicago. St. I.ouls A Pittsburg road, who with his family a few weeks since started on an ex tended Western trip, is expected home earl3' next week. Mr. G. W, It. Gooduo, late passenger agent of the Union Pacific railway iu Chicago, has been appointed city passenger agent of the Northern Pacific railway, with office at 52 Clark street. The appointment takes effect Sept. I. Charles 8. Fee, secretary to General Manager Haupt, has been selected as assistant superin tendent of passenger traffic of the Northern Pa cific. Mr. Fee is a native of Cincinnati, and be gan bis railroad career upon the Hannibal A Bt. Joe road, serving as private secretary to J. B. Carson, general manager of that road. lie sub sequently filled a similar position with .Mr. Bar geant. general manager of the Michigan Central, aua weut with him iu 1877 to Bt. Puul, when Mr. Sargent was made general manager of the Northern Pacific, under the Billlugs administra tion. Home Notes. Travel westward has set in briskly. Through coaches west-bound arenow much more heavily loaded than going eastward. With the exception of teu miles, the track of the Indianapolis A St. Louis road between In dianapolis and Mattoon is now laid with steel rails weighing sixtj' pounds to the yard, and be fore Sept. I the remaining ten miles will be so improved. Under the redistricting of the Wabash, Bt. Louis A Pacific road into thirty divisions, the road from Detroit to Butler is "on the tliiid di vision; Butler to Logansport on the fourth, Michi gan Citv to Peru on the fifth, Peru to Indianapo lis cn the sixth division. The sleeping coaches run over the Indiana, Bloomington A Western and the Baltimore A Ohio between Indianapolis and Wheeling, W. Va., are beginning to pay, but It has been up hill work to get to such poiut. The trouble is, the liue has not been sufficiently advertised. In the Pittsburg and Bt. Louis trade there 1s some sharp competition now going on between the river aud the rail rates. The Pittsburg and Bt. Louis trade should support several good boats, although, under the influence of a sharp rail competition, It is Impossible ro put freight, rates beyond a certain limit. At 12 to 15 cents per 100 pounds, the common rates of late by river, the margin for profit is small. As there is some unjust criticism that the Chi cago A Indianapolis Air-line management is so slow iu opening the line for through business, it is but just to sav that when tne L.. N. A. A C. people took the road It was about half built, and they nave wisely gone on qud completed the road before running rapid aud heavy trains over it. The management now hope to open the road for through passenger tratfio Sept. 15. The Woodruff Sleeping-car Company deserve credit for the excellent manner in which they are rebuilding their ooaches and adding new ones to their number. President Rabin has caught on to the idea that to make their couches popular they must be kept in first-class condi tion, and the men in charge of such coaches uniat be polite and obliging. Some of the Wood ruff coaches now miming over Indianapolis roads are, in some respects, superior to the Pullman or the Wagner coaches. NEW SUITS BEGUN. An Unusual Number of I)aum;e Suits and Other Litigation Instituted. The First National Bank has brought suit tor foreclosure against the Capital City Planing Mill and others to recover on two notes for SB,- 500 and SBOO, respectively. A similar suit has been brought by the bank for $2,500 against Herman Kithoff. Roswell R. Rouse has begun foreclosure suit on chattel mortgage against Philip Franklin for $89.57. Augusta Severm has begun suit for foreclosure against the heirs or Frederick Goepper for the payment of SIO,OOO. drawn by Goepper and not paid previous to bis death. 9uits were brought yesterday against F. A. W. Davis and the other partners in the late Indiana Banking Cowpauy by John Mason for $7,000, aud by Frederick 8. Nydigger for $221. Jaiues F. Poe has begun suit for SI,OOO and am ages against Miles Shelly for injuries sustained by being violently assaulted by the defendant. It ie claimed that Shelly used “brazeu knucks” as a weapon, and that Poe is permanently dis abled, having lost one eye, eto. Jeremiah O. Pursei has begun suit agaiust the Louisville, New Albany . Priiiz, lot 104 in William Y. Wiley's subdivision of outlets 102, 103 and 105, In the city of Indianapolis 2,200.00 Elizabeth J. Newcomb and husband to AnnaH. Webster,lot siu William 8. Hubbard’s subdivision of lots 13 aud 14 in square 8 of Hubbard et al.’s southeast addition to tiie city of Indianapolis 200,00 Charles Hauschlld and wife to Fred erick Pflneger. lot 295 in Fletcher et al.’s subdivision of outlets 96,97, 98 and the south half of 91, in the city of Indianapolis 550.00 Lewis Y. Newhouse and wife to Janies W. Jenkins and wife, part of the north half of the north half of the southwest quarter of section 12. township 16, range 4 east, contain ing 40 acres 3,000,00 Conveyances, 7; consideration—sl7,9so 00 “Jayhawker’s” Latest Scheme. Wide-spread horror was created the other day by J. H. Woodard’s announcement In the Cin cinnati Enquirer that Judge Norton, of the Criminal Court here, was engaged in investigat ing the so-called Dorsey confession,” and that a number of people were about to be indicted for buying up votes in Indiana in 1880. Judge Norton 3’esterday told a Journal reporter tnat the only thing he knew about the matter was that Woodard had hauded him a number of newspaper slips containing accounts of “how Indiana was carried,” with the request that they be given to the grand jury at the next term, which will be done, and in all probability the matter will end there. This looks liko ouo of “Jayhawker’s” great reform measures. Expressmen Liable. Mr. A. S. Merrill, the popular expressman of Brunswick, Me., writes us on May 15, 1883, as follows: “Having been severely afflicted for about two years with inflammation of the kid neys and bladder, so called by my physicians, I suffered with distressing paius in my back and retention of urine, caused by a stoppage of tbe neck of the bladder and a complication of other diseases. I was hardly able to attend to my business, and al times would be completely pros trated. I was alsb affected with incontinence of urine to an alarming degree; indeed, it demand ed my attention fifteen or twenty times per night, and at times it would seem impossible for me to ride down to the depot on my wagon, for every jar from the wagon would almost soein to take my life. Having failed to obtain relief from my doctor, l finally consulted our druggist, Dr. Merry man, of Bruußwick, and requested him to furnish me with the most reliable and speedy cure for such sickness, for I was suffer ing too much for humau nature to endure loug. The doctor recommended me to use Hunt’s Remedy, as it had been used with remarkable success in a good mauy cases in Brunswick and vicinity. I purchased a bottle, aud received such great relief tbaß I continued, and had not used two bottles before I began to improve be yond my expectations. The paius in my kidneys and loins disappeared, I gained strength, ami my water began to pass naturally, and I was able to sleep soundly and obtain tbe greutly needed rest which for a long time I could nor. I am fully restored to health, and can attend to my business. Thanks to Hunt's Remedy for my restoration, aud I highly recommend It to all who ure troubled with kidney complaints.” Could Not Lift a Pound- The above are the words of Mrs. Harriet Bailey, of Putnam, Conn. She writes. May 3, 1883: “I have been troubled with kidney and liver disease for two years. I suffered severely in the back and loins. Before taking your won derful medicine. Hunt’s Remedy, I could not lift a pound. After giving it a fair trial, I began to improve, aud can now truly say it was a ‘God send to me,' as I am now able to do mv house hold work and enjoy the best of health. I have recommended Hunt’s Remedy to two of ray neighbors, who have been greatly benefited by it. This letter I send voluntarily.with the hope that it will be th means of inducing some suf ferer to use Hunt’s Remedy and be cured as I have been.” ffMMAVEJrC Important to the Sick. Symptom*in -Downing, R. B.; Downing, R. 8.; Davis, Master Charlie L. K—Eugle, Miss Ella. F- Fletcher, W. M. G—Griswold, Miss Emma; Goldsmith, Simon; Griffin, Con, H—Hager, F. M.; Hamilton, Miss Lydia; Hum phries, Anna; Hownsliel, Miss Ange; Hinshaw, J. W.; Harrison, Lizzie; Hayes, Miss Laura. J--Jump, Miss Anna: Joaukine, Mrs. K—Kelley, Will R Filer, Charles M. L—Lytle, G. W. W.; Liuck, Mis. Nannie. M Miller, Mrs. Mattie; Moore, Miss Fannie; Morris, R M.; Makpean, Mr. Me—McCullough, D.; McKiuzey. Mrs. L.; Mc- Carty. James 11. O Olive, T. D. R—Richardson. Monroe. S— Steele, Archester; Steew, Miss Ella; South, Alice; Scbaw,Emma. T—Thompson. J. C. XV White, John W.; Wade, Miss Jennie; Whit ris, Chus. T. J. A. WILDMAN. P. M. CHURCH SERVICES. Baptist. JjHRST BAPTIST CHURCH NORTHEAST corner of New York and Pennsylvania streets. Rev. Dr. Anderson, of Chicago University, will preach to-morrow at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Sabbath-school at 2 p. in. All are invited, Congregational. 1 PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Oscar C. McCulloch, pastor. Services held in Dicksons’ Grand Opera-house. Service re sumed Sunday, August 26. Morning service at 10:30. In the evening, at 8 o’clock, an account of the “Wonders of the Yellowstone.” The peo ple ure iuvitod. Methodist Episcopal. /CENTRAL AVENUE M. E. CHURCH-COR VO uer of Butler street aud Ceutral avenue. Rev. J. N. Beard, pastor. Preaching at the usual hours to-morrow by the pastor. .Sunday school at 2:15 p. m. Strangers cordially iu vited. Meridian bt reeF m. e. church—cor tier of New York and Meridian streets.. Rev. H. J. Talbott, pastor. Preaching to-mor row at 10:30 a. in. by tiie pastor. No services at night. Sunday-school at 2p. m. Usual serv ices during the week. I JOB E RTS PA RKM. E. CHURCH—CORNER IV of Delaware and Vermont streets. Rev. Ross C. Houghton, D.D.. pastor. Class ut9a. m. and 6:30 p. m. Preaching at 10:30 a. ui. and 7:45 p. m. by Rev. H. A. Uuehtel, of Lafayeite. Bhu day-Mcboolat 2:15 p ui. Young people’s meeting Monday, at 8 p. w. Prayer meetlug Thursday al 8 p. iu. Presbyterian. SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-COR ner of Pennsylvania ami Vermont streets. There will be preaching at 10:30 o’clock to-mor row, August 26. It is earnestly hoped all the members of the church and congregation, who are in the city, will be present. Arrangements will be made for preaching regularly hereafter. It is hoped that Rev. Drs. Kells, Dewitt, Evans and Morris, of Cincinnati, can come In Septem ber. Morning prayer-meeting ar 9:30 o’clock. Sunday-school at 2:15. FOURT H PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-COR ncr Pennsylvania and Pratt sts. liev. A. H. Carrier, pastor. Morning service at 10:30. PreachlDg by the pastor. Sunday-school at 2:15 p. m. Evening service at the Riverside Mission at 7 o’clock. ANNOUNCEMENTS jr>UB!NEBSOPPRT UNI TV —ONE-THIRD IN 1 terest iu a tlret-claas manufacturing estab lishment in this city; no debts; an active part ner preferred. Address Manufacturing Cos., Journal office. if STABLIS HKD, 1870—FOR COLIC IN Tn j fnnte, teething and summer complaint. Breaker's Carminative Balsam lias proven posi tively to be the safest and most perfect remedy ever offered to the nubile. Forty-five thousand bottles were sold in ludiana in 18S2. Sold in 25c, 50c and $1 bottles by all druggists. wanted. WANTED—' TAILORS—FIRST (ILASS OAT TT makers. Apply to MITCHELL, the Tailor, Danville, 111. First class prices paid. \I J A NTED-THE~CHE A PEST N E WSPAPER TT in tiie West, the Weekly Indiana State Journal. One dollar per year. Ninety ceuts in clubs of fire aud over. \I r ANTi:rT-T DEBnRE TO PURCHASE A f drug store in an Indiana town of 1.200 or 2,000 inhabllanrs. Address, with particulars, J. P. MULLIN, Frankfort. Ind. ANTED—ENERGE I'IC, KEi.IABLE MEN to sell Trees, Grape Vines. Shrubs, Roses, etc. Salaries and expenses paid. Experience not essential. Mention this paper. Address Lh- CLARE A HERRICK, Rochester, N. Y. \I J AN TIC I) --1 rfoil KST 7 ASIT PRICE PAID for all kinds of oast-off clothing; fall and winter clothing, from the smallest babe to the largest, grown person; boots, shoes ami soft hats from the best families only, at 139 Mass. ave. Mrs. E. J. OWENB. \\T ANTED—ALL K rNDB OF HELP FUR f uished, positions procured, information furnished—no mutter of what nature. All busi ness confidential. correspondence solicited: stamp. Address Western Bureau of Information and Commercial Exchange, 36 W. Washington street. IU ANTED LADY AGENTS FOR THE TT ’•Queen Protector,” anew undergarment for ladies, made of soft, flexible rubber; sure protection To tiie underwear when necessary to ne worn. Retails for $2 as fast as agents’can show it. Largo profits. Address, with stamps. Ladies’ Undergarment Manufacturing Cos., 9 South May street, Chicago, 111. FINANCIAL Money to loan at lowest rate of interest. K. B. MART-INDALE A SONS. M~ ONEY TO LOAN ON CITY OK FARM property. U. M. STODDARD, Oaypoul Building. ONEY AT THE LOWEST KATES OF l.\- rerest. J. W. WILLIAMS A CO., 3 aud 4 Vinton Block. Money to loan on first mortg age of city ami farm property in Indiana and Ohio. Low interest. JOs. A. MOORE, 84 East Market street. I' WILL FURNISH MONEY ON FARM BE eunty. promptly, at tue lowest rates for long or usort time. THOS. C. DAY A CO., 72 East Market street. AUCTION HUNT A MCCURDY. REAL estate and General Auctioneers, 88 E. Waauiugton FOP SALE. I, TOR SALE FARMS. CM HAP. ON LONG credit. Send for circular. Blue grass pas ture for rent, cheap. FRANCIS SMITH A Cos. I?OR SALE-SECOND-HAND ENGINESTn D boiler outfits. Also, flour mills, wood and iron working machinery at RICHARDS A BUf* LER’S, corner Missouri aud Georgia streets. LH)K SALE—AN ASSORTMENT OF SECONLI Jl baud engines, boilers, and sawmills in good order. HADLEY. WRIGHT A CO., corner Tennessee and Georgia streets. Tndiananolia. 1.10 R SALE-TWO KXOELLKN LT.\ RMS. T.H L rarms belonging to the estate of Festus Hall, deceased, are for sale. The homo place contains 140 acres, and 40 acres may be added if desired. The other, known as the Abernathy Farm, con tains 236 acres. T hese farms are only two miles from Knightstown, and known to be among the best farms in Rush county. They aro offered at very low prices und reasonable terms. Long time will be given on part if desired at low rate of interest. For further particulars address W. A. HALL, Kuighfstown, Ind. ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE—NOTICE IS hereby given, in pursuance of the stature, tnat I will otter at public sale, und sell to the highest bidder, on Tuesday, the lstli day of Sep tember, 1883, at Patterson’s livery stable, No. 80 Court streer. in the ciry of Indianapolis, In diana, the following described personal proper ty belonging to the estate, of Samuel J. Pattef son, deceased, to-wit: Five extra tine young blooded horses of the Hambletonian breed. 1 spring wagon. 1 reaper uud mower combined, hav rake, plow, cultivator, wheat drill, cider press, etc. Terms of sale: All sums of $5 and under, cash. On all sums over $5 a oredit of six months will he given, evidenced by notes, waiv ing valuation and appraisment laws, with 6 per cent, interest after maturity, with sufficient per sonal security. Said horses can be seen at said stable for two days before sale day. Time—Sale begins at 2 o'clock p m. PATSEY PATTERSON, AdniTx. E. A. Parker, Attorney for Estate. FOR RENT. TTIOR RENT -THE HAMMOND RESIDENCE (farm boose), 16 rooms, and all conveniences, with 40 or 80 acres of ground, 20 acres wood land attached; two miles from city limits, on Central avenue. Inquire 181 Park avenue, or on premises R. R. HAMMOND. We are showing a very nice line of new Birth-day and Con gratulation Cards, Ladies’ Visit ings Cards, and Stationery in large variety. 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By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavored beverage whioh may save us many heavy' doctors’ bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to re sist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of sub tle maladies are floating around us read v to at tack wherever there is u weak point. Wo may escape many a fatal shaft by Rasping ourselves well fortified with pure blood amt a properly nourished frame.—(Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold in tins only and lb.) by grocers, labelled thus: JAMES EPPS A CO., Houußopatbic Chemists, London, England. NOTICE TO BUILDERS. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Board of Commissioners of the county'of Gib son, in the State of Indiana, have adopted plans and specifications for anew court-house to be constructed at. Princeton, in said county, ami the same are now on file in the office of the Auditor of HHld county, and that up to 12 o’clock M., on the 20th day of September, 1883, scaled bids are invited and will be received by said board, at the office of said Auditor, at Princeton. Indi ana, for the construction of said court-house, and the contract therefor will be let to the low est responsiole bidder: said board reserving the light to reject any and all bids. Bueh bids will be received for the whole work and for the separate parts thereof, and each bid must be accompanied by a good and sufficient bond, pay able to the Stateof Indiana, signed bv th bid der find at least two resident freehold sureties, which bond shall guaranty the faithful perform ance and execution of the work bid for mi case the same is awarded to said bidder, and that the contractor, so receiving tiie contract, shall promptly pay all debts incurred by him in the prosecution of such worn, including labor, in i teriuls furnished and for boarding the laborers thereon. Said court-house will be ninety by one hundred amt twenty feet, faced with stone, pressed brick mid terracotta, ami fire proof throughout. The plans and specifications tnore for may be inspected at. said Auditor’s office, and also at the office of Messrs. McDonald Bros., architects, Louisville, Ky'. Witness our hands this Brh day of August. 1883. BVI TESTER BkNSON, John 8. Meu>, J Coin. 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THE BAFLST AND strongest powder in the* world. Powder. Cans. Fuse. \Ht.BS>oto2d.BßO to 3d, S§7 O tosth. 800 to 6th, tfoOto Hth, JO to 7th, S3O to sth. 820 to wth. $lO to luih, to llth, I, Imported Pocket Knlvesworthsl each, ana o,(MK) pounds ZOO-ZOO Plug Tobacco, to be given in rotation, the largest number of tags re turned will receive the first reward, sto t ash, second highest. 800, and so on down to a loct. plug of ZOO-ZOO tobacco. These Christmas and New Year rewards will be distributed between Decem ber 2ftth and January Ist. Chew this delightful to baoco.the best ever made. Have the tags and send Uiem by mail, between December loth and 25th, to the WILSON McCALLAY TOBACCO CO. MIDDLETOWN. OHIO. Cot address out and paste on Envelope. This is THE FINEST POUND PLUG EVER MADE. ask your dealer for zoo-zoo. &er lusist on having it and you will use no other. noosms B3CTHA.OT M Clover Blossom CURES Cancers. t Ithaca. Mich., Feb. 8, 1882. J. M. T,oose Sc Cos., Moxho*, Mich. 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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL—EXTRA SHEET. SOCIAL LIFE IN MEXICO. Habits and Manners of Those Who Dwell in the Halls of Montezuma. Why So Little Is Known About Our Sister Republic— A Mexican Market—The Ser vant System—Difficulties of Traveling. Correspondence ol tlie Indianapolis Journal Monterey, Mexico. —I wish I could present this queer city—the capital of the state of Nuevo Leon —to your mind’s eye, as it really is; but, you know, we judge of things only by comparison, and as there is nothing in our own country atall like this in any sense, I shall be able to convey but a vague and imperfect idea. It seems strange that sister republics, lying side by side, whose interests are bound to soon be identical, should remain in such profound ignorance of each other’s affairs. Indeed, so far as knowledge of the other is concerned, Mexicans of the higher class know much more about our country than Americans know of Mexico; and the reason is obvious. There is no middle class here— only the rich and highly-educated, and the very poor and utterly ignorant. The rich and cultured Mexican is naturally a traveler, beginning, invariably, with the old world before visiting the country next his own. Most of them are educated in the universities of France, Spain and Germany (to a degree which the average American never attains, especially in the languages, all Latin peo ples being natural linguists), and after their studies and travels abroad they generally re turn to the land of the cactus and paftn, via New York, Boston or New Orleans. Until very recently, since the railroads have begun to lesson somewhat the difficulties and dan gers of travel, all Mexico, except its ancient capital, and the less than half-a-dozen unim portant ports which its whole water-line can boast, was of necessity a terra incognita, which few tourists dared or cared to explore. Not only was there no means of getting about, except on donkeys, with now and then a short stage line, near the principal cities, over the worst roads it is possible to conceive, but the language offered a no less formidable barrier than the strange customs and habits of a total lyMifferent race, not to mention the frequent revolutions that for more than a hundred years made human life of little value in Mexico. True, Americans came and went (for where will they not go?), but the class who are cursed by lust of lucre ©r love of adventure are not generally troubled much with cacoethis scribendi, and and few records of their findings were given to the world. The average reporter who comes here to-day (and his name is le gion) rushes the country and knows little more of the real Mexico when he gets through than when he began. Such a sensitive, proud, seciusive race is this, that every trace of the home life of the higher classes is sacredly shielded from the public gaze, and it is difficult, nay, as impossible,for the stranger to penetrate this reserve in a spirit of idle curiosity, as to gain admittance within the walls of a Turkish harem. So the enterprising reporter is fain to judge of the people by the peons (serfs) whom he meets, and wanders through these narrow streets, with no means of knowing what may be within tiie solid walls. The cnlles (streets) of most Mexican cities are ex actly alike, one-srorv houses of adobe or plastered stones, with flat adobe roofs, like floors, stretching in one unbroken line from end to end, the side of one house forming the partition wall of the next. The fronts of the houses outside are generally colored—pale blue, strawberry red or bright yellow, with dado and fresco decorations, as we some times ornament our rooms, while others are painted in striped, plaided or figured pat terns, precisely like printed calico. The streets are as bad as those of Chicago before the tire, all ups and downs, and as no two houses are ever exactly the same height, the effect, taken as a whole, would craze a master mason who can’t endure to see things “out of plumb.” However much a Mexican’s fancy may run to decorated adobe, be never thinks of painting his woodwork. Each house has one enormous wooden door, opening in the center like that of a barn, but it is generally such a door as a respect able Pennsylvania farmer would scorn for his beloved barn. Sometimes, especially in the oldest houses, the doors are elaborately carved, but never painted. They are necessarily so large because guarding the only entrance to house, court, and corral, the same passage serving for the in gress and egress of guests and donkeys household stores, provender, carts and car nages. The windows are very wide, reaching nearly from floor to ceiling, always with heavy wood or iron bars before them, like cages. All this looks gloomy and desolate enough without, and one can only guess at bloom, verdure and human life within, by the great fig-trees hovering above the house tops, tiie scent of orange blossoms and roses in the air, and glimpses of dark-eyed senor* itas imprisoned behind the bars. The Mexicans have other reasons than their pride for extreme reserve toward for eigners, and especially, I am very sorry to say, toward Americans. I have had occasion many times to blush for my country, or rather for the conduct of some of its representatives here. Perhaps it is the case with all countries that the men and women who drift over the bonier are gen erally the scum of society—the failures and cranks and disappointed ones, if not those whose actual misdeeds have exiled them from their own land. The American nation has been proverbial for its hospital ity ever since King Philip saved our ances tors from starvation by his generous gifts of niaize. Mexicans are by nature extremely hospitable, but again and again has their gen erosity been abused, their trust betrayed by foreigners whom they have received into their homes, until they have been forced to the wise determination to admit none who are not properly vouched for. Naturally, the feeling of distrust has grown to undue proportions, and, as in the Bible plan—“ln Adam’s fall, we sinned all”—the innocent me obliged to suffer for the sins of the guilty. Should I undertake to tell you, never so delicately, the doings of some Americans of both sexes in this city, (many of whom were at first received with the most generous hospitality, when they came with false letters of introduction), our food editor would refuse to publish and you to read. There are n few 4 pec table Ameri cans here, however, (chiefly Southerners), who are established in various branches of Dusines9; but the principal foreign element In Monterey is German, with a sprinkling of French—not forgetting the single representa tive of old Ireland. Sr* by stir ring inallttie of the “Snowflake” Druid.

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Moraine Glorie*. Tur heavenly hues surpass, O, tender flowers, The reyal “purple of the sea” that tells Os death. Sweet friends of childhood’s happy hours, A thousand memories cluster round your bells! When early morniug’s showers or gold were shed Upon the fresh, green, blossoming world, I’ve stood In rapture, worshiping. Your beauty fed My thirsting soul. Encircled by a wood Ids* hallowed ground, where once was life, love, home; There were you trained by mother’s loving hands. Ia fancy still I thro’ the old wood roam. Aad pause to rest me where the old home stands. I sue again yonr purple clusters lift Their radiant faces to the tnornlug light. 1 stand upon the porch; my pulse grows swift With rushing memories your forms invite! The days glide on—a cottage crowns a hill That eastward slopes down to a sparkling stream O’erhung with roses wild, where robins trill Their early songs of joy. O, sad, sweet dream! A mother with her first-born proudly stauds Beside the oot with tender vines e’ergrown; Holds up her baby girl with loving hands To sea you smiling in such beauty blown. Tbe baby leapt—your glory touched its soul! Ah! who may know the message seut to God Up thro’ your fragrant lips, where an cels troll Tbe sßgs of the redeemed! O, silent sod! O. worldless stars! my aching, breaking heart You heed not. O, ring low yonr purple bells, ©west flowers; there’s healing in your art That triumphs over death, and peace compels. —lira. J. H. Koous. Vain Waiting. A shipwrecked sailor, on a lonely isle. Climbed to a seat upon a barren peak. And there, with anxious eye and fading cheek, Pordays he watched tbe horizon, the while Hope's tides arose and fell within his breast. Sometimes he saw a email sail far away, Shine like a white dove’s wing against the sky, And then it slowly faded from his eye, And in rain watching passed each weary day. •‘A sail! a sail!” he cried one eve with bated breath, Alas! 'twae but tbe white gleam of the robe of death. —John Freelaud. Marco, Aug. 28. L.oTe*s Power. If I were blind, and thou shouldst enter E’er so softly in the room, I should know It, I should feel it, Something subtle would reveal it, Aud a glory round thee center That would lighten upthegloem. And my heart would surely guide me. With love's second-sight provide mo, One amid the crowd to find, If I were blind! If I were deaf, and thou hadat spoken Ere thy presence I had known, I should know it, I should feel it. Something subtls would reveal it, And tbe seal at once be broken By love's liquid undertone. Deaf to other, stranger voices, And tbe world’s discordant noises Whisper, wheresoe’er thou art, ’Twill reach my heart! If I were dead, and thou shouldst venture Near the coffin where 1 lay, I should know it. I should feel tt, Something subtle would reveal it, And no look of mildest censure Rest upon that face of clay, bhoulrtst thou kiss me, conscious flushes Os love’s fire through death’s cold ashes Would give hack the cheea its red. If I were dead! —Josephine Pollard, in September Csnturj Southern Camp-Meeting Song. I’m goin’ awav; I can't stay here. Death’s gwiue to rap at my door. By and by. For death’s gwine to rap at my door. By and by. O, somebody’s gwine to die, and I can’t stay here; I’m gwine. away for Death’s gwine to rap at my door, Oh! oh! oh! for Death’s gwine to rap at my door By and by. O, look at dat beautiful moon, We’re all gwine to reacn dat moon We’ll go by twoa aud twos, for J can’t ataj here; I’m gwine away, for Death’s gwine to rap at my door By and by. Dis whole hand’s Gwine to de promised land, and We’ll all rap at de door. By and by. O. O, I can’t stay here. I’m jist a goin’ I’m gwine by and by— I’m gwine to rap at de door. National Republican. An Erieuic Conceit. When Adam from bi sleep awoke A radiant creature met bis eyes Whose beauty on his vision broke Ah breaks the morn ’neath tropic skies. With wonder Adam stood transfixed— Another day had just begun— She crossed his vision just bet wixt The dawn aud rising of tbe sun. ’Tis morn,” said he, ’Mu human guise; Fair morn, niv homage pray receive." The vision blushed, cast down her eyes. And sain: “I am not morn, but Eve.” —Geo. Russell Jackson, in Cottage Hearth UNCLE RUFUS HATCH. Slow the Old Geutleioan Looks and How He Swears. flt. Paul Special. “Uncle Rufus” was the first man to jump pff the train when it pulled into the depot. Jle was greeted by a loud “How are you, Uncle Rufe!” from a score of voices in unison. A lively hand-shaking bee followed, and Rufus Hatch shed a few extra salt-drops pi perspiration of joy. He looks as hale and (hearty as when here last year. His grizzly pide whiskers have been shaved off, and his Bandy moustache holds undisputed sway ever his fine, open countenance, making im look younger by several years. He wore a white felt hat, gray suit of clothes, gray shirt and black necktie. [He carried a serpentine cane of flight yellow wood, and this gave him the ap fearanceof a cross betweeu a New York dude nd a northwestern cattle owner. “Uncle Lufe,” was the first question asked, “how do *you feel? You are looking well.” “Yes, I eat well, walk well, talk well, sleep swell, perspire well, drink well water, and by (the holy Gould, I am well.” “Speaking of Gould, do you think he will *i)U9t up’ the Northern Pacific raifway?” “Don’t think it will be that bad. I have *ome confidence in the Northern Pacific. I bought 500 additional shares in that road yesterday.” “How does President Villard feel?” 4i Villard simply laughed. You know he has fine teeth. Well, he knows how to show them, and knows how to laugh last, which has always been considered the best way to Indulge in mirth.” An Indiana poet has written some verses n the opulence of his poverty. What wor ries most of us at the present time is the pov erty of our opulence. It is too sad a thing to write verses about.—New York Com iner tial. Woman and Her Diseases hi tbs title of a large ilium rateu treatise, by Dr. fL V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., seut to any address [r three stramps. It teaches successful self treatment. wanted—a daughter. Margaret Eytiuge in iiarper’s Weekly. “An actress, sir? Never!” said Mr. Phi lander Greentree in a voice that rnado the windows rattle in their frames. And “Never” echoed his meek little wife, but in so faint a tone that it didu t disturb in the least tbe fly that was sitting on one of the pretty white puffs on her dear old head. “And if you persist in being in love with the young woman, you must cease to be an inmate of my house,” shouted Mr. Greentree. “And if you marry her, by heavens! I’ll scratch you.” “Yes, we’ll be obliged to scratch you,” added the old lady as mildly as she had spoken before, looking at the same time as though it would be utterly impossible for her to scratch any one under any circum stances whatever. Not that they meant scratching in the common sense of the word; scratching the young man’s name from his uncle’s will was the punishment they threat ened. “And I’ll never give you a penny,” thun dered Uncle Philander. “Oh, William, think of that!—not even a penny,” said Aunt Tamasin. “And I’ll adopt a girl—l will, by heavens!” the old man went on, growing more and more angry every minute. “No more un grateful boys for me. And she’ll marry to please us, and her children shall be our grandchildren.” “My dear boy, consider,” entreated the old lady. “How dreadful, how very dread ful, for us to have strange grandchildren!” “Uncleand aunt —1 suppose I must call you father and mother no longer,” said the young man, slowly and firmly—“l am truly sorry to vex you, but I have plighted my faith to Miss Fieldbrook, and I cannot and will not break it. She is an actress, but as good and lovely a girl as ever trod the earth —sweeter and lovelier than any girl it has been my lot to meet. And if you would only allow me to bring her here—” “Bring her here!” repeated his nncle, stamping about the room in his rage. “Here, where your mother—l mean your aunt Tamasin—has lived in quiet, virgin—l mean quiet, holy—l mean quietness and jieace, sir, for nearly half a century? Hew dare you even think of such a thing, sir? An actress capering around these apartments! Good heavens!” “’Twouldn’t exactly Tight, William, you know.” said Aunt Tamasin. “I never was a caperer, and at my time of life I don’t think I couLd get used to one. I don’t in deed.” “Oh, you dear, funny old mother— auntie—” began Will, with a smile, but en countering his uncle’s wrathful eyes and frowning brow, he grew serious again, and said: “Well, if you positively refuse to re ceive Eva, I suppose we must part. I am very, very thankful to you for all you have done for me since I was left a fatherless and motherless boy; but give up the woman I love for a thoroughly unreasonable prejudice of yours I cannot and will not. And so good-by. Uncle, will you shake hands with me?” “No, I won’t,” replied Mr. Greentree, brusquely. “Aunt, will you let me kiss you?” “Os course I will, my dear boy,” said Mrs. Greentree. “And if you change your mind, come back to us directly. We start for Greentree Cottage in a few days, j t ou know, and I shall keep your room ready for you there all summer.” “No, don’t, auntie, dear,” kissing her not once, hut three or four times, “for I shall not change my mind, and perhaps being one ot the prettiest rooms in the house, my room may be chosen by your adopted daughter. And I hope from the bottom of my heart that she may spend as many happy hours there as I have. Good by. Good by, fath uncle.” But Uncle Philander answered not by look nor word, and as the ball door closed after his nephew, lie exclaimed again: “An act ress! By heavens! the boy’s gone mad, and I wash my bunds of him forever.” “Don’t say forever,” begged Aunt Tama sin. “Forever’s along time—a very long time. Philander. And, oh dear! how I shall miss him! Such a good child as ho lias al ways been ever since he came to us fifteen years ago! Better in some things even than you, Philander; for you know you always say bad words when I lose my spectacles, which he never did. but looked for them time and again with the patience of an angel.” And taking off said spectacles, she proceeded to lose them once more by laytfig them on the back of the sofa, whence they dropped to the floor behind it, where, with the dreadful “depravity of inanimate things,” they remained snugly hidden, while she wept silently in her large lemon-verbena scented silk handkerchief. A few days after Will Greentree bade them “good-by” the old couple were in stalled for the summer season in their comfortable country house, Greentree Cot tage. And to Greentree Cottage came, be fore they had been there a week, this note from one of their oldest and most intimate friends: New York, June 20,1882. My Dear Tamasin and Philander—You told me, you will remember, just as you were leav ing the ciry, that you would like to receive into your home this summer some young girl—the more friendless the better for j'our purpose —with a view, should sue prove lovable aud en tertaining, to adopting her. Strange as it may appear, you had not been gone more than two hours when I met a young girl who I think will suit you to a charm. She is pretty, of cheerful disposition, tolerably well educated, and natur ally very clever; is an orphan and (her grand mother and only relative, with whom she lived, having died three weeks ago) homeless. I have Hpokon to her about your wish, and Hhe is per fectly willing—nay, anxious—to come to you. Aud T am sure her oompaniouship will add to your happiness, and help you to forget the dis obedience of your self-willed nephew. Anyhow, receive her as a summer guest ror my sake, for I loved and lost her mother; that is, she married the other chap. Faithfully yours, J AMES TOWNLY. Mr. Green tree’s face brightened as he read this note. “There, my dear,” he said, hand ing it to his wife, “Townlv—he always was the best and most reliable old chum a fellow ever had—has already found our daughter. For this girl will certainly please us, being heartily approved of by him. Pretty, clever, and cheerful.” “Yes, so he says.” said his wife: “but he needn’t have called poor William bad names, for all that. And I won’t give her the boy’s room. There’s so many trousers and boots and base ball and fishing things in it, that couldn’t be of the slightest use to her, and would only be in her way.” “Do as you like about that, my’ dear,” re joined Mr. Greentree, who, to tell the truth, was secretly pining for the discarded one, and anxious to have some young life in the cottage; “but see that the room she is to have is got ready immediately, for I shall telegraph to Townly to send her at once.” And he did. And the result of the tele gram was that the very next morning Miss Zerelda Ardemann made her best courtesy to ttie old lady and gentleman who wanted a daughter. And never wore any elderly people so quickly and entirely bewitched by any fair maiden as were Philander and Tamasin Greentree by this same violet-eyed, golden haired, sweet-voiced, pretty Zerelda Arde mann. And as day followed day, and week fol lowed week, she became more aud more dear to them. She went through the house from morn until eve. warbling like a bird, and when evening came she sat at the ohl-fash ioned piano and sang the quaint old English ballads that Tutuasin used to sing in her youth, while Philander, brave in swallow tailed, brass-buttoned blue coat, turned the pages of the music with gentle hand. She THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1883. tripped lightly over field and meadow every day, and culled the loveliest of wild flowers, which with a grace that was her own she ar ranged in rases and shells,and whatever she could find to hold them, until each room looked like* fairy bower. And many a beautiful poem she repeated with rare skill in the gloaming, bringing the happy tears to the eyes of her delighted lis teners. “Ah! if Will had only made her his choice!” tbe old lady would .say to her hus band at least a dozen times a day. “By heavens! if he had,” that impulsive individual would reply, “he wouldn’t have waited long for my blessing.” The summer passed pleasantly, very pleas antly, away, and the advent of autumn found Mr. and Airs. Greentree more in love than ever, if that were possible with their charm ing guest. “And do you think you would love us enough to call us father and mother, and to promise that when you give your whole heart to someone else you will not forsake us?” asked Mrs. Greentree of Zerelda one sunny September day. “I know I could—l know I do,” answered the girl, emphatically. “But I have a con fession to muke to you that I fear will turn you from me.” “My dear, it must be something very ter rible to do that. But make it at once, and have it over. Philander! Philander! Zerelda has something to tell us which she fears will make us love her less. Please come and hear it.” Philander dropped the newspaper he was reading on the porch, and stepped into the dining-room through the open window. Zerelda stood in the center of the room with drooping head, blit as soon as he entered she tossed buck the little ringlets that tried to shade the brightness of her eyes, placed her two little bauds in the lace-trimmed pockets of her dainty apron, danced lightly across to where the old couple were now seated side by side, and said, in a voice fraught with innocent cheeriness. “After all, what I have to tell isn’t so very bad. I have amused you both since I came here, haven’t I? And I can go awav at once if you wish me to go.” And then, dropping grace fully on one knee, and folding her hands in pretty entreaty, she said: “Please, sir, and please, ma’am. I am an actress, and my stage name is Eva Fieldbrook. But all that your friend Mr. Townly told yon about me is true.” “Aii actress!” exclaimed Mr. Philander Greentree. “Eva Fieldbrook!” said his wife. “Then you are the girl that Will—” began the old man. “That Will—” repeated tbe old lady. “That Will—The same,” replied Zerelda, demurely, still kneeling. “Please forgive me for being that girl.” But Mr. Greentree, without another word, bounced from l:is chair and tore out of the room. Zerelda sprang to her feet. “I’d better begin Ducking at once.” she said, with a sgrious lace. “I’m sorry to have vexed him so much. But indeed it wasn’t my scheme at all. Air. Townly and Will made it up between them. They thought that if you knew me you would—” “And we do,” interrupted the old lady, laying her hand lightly on her arm to detain her. “Don’t you do anything in haste, my dear. You don’t understand Mr. Greentree as well as I do. Sometimes when he seems I most angry he is most pleased. I’m sure he don’t want you to go away.” “Os course he don’t. Who said he did?” asked the old gentleman, entering the room hastily again. I’ve just sent a telegram to Will telling him important business calls him here. There’s another name for you, my dear—important business. Not as pretty as either of the others, but we’ll find a fourth before we get through that w'ill suit you best of all—Zerelda Greentree. How do you like it?” “And I shan’t have grandchildren the least bit strange after all,” said Aunt Tamasin, a bright smile lighting up her dear good old face. A CITIZEN’S DUTY. The Man Who Prepared to Discharge It to the Fullest Extent. Robert J. Burdette. I knew a man once who told me he had been young and was old. I believed him. If he had told me that he had been old ami was young I should have called for the papers on the spot. He said he had voted at every election in our town during the past quarter of a cen tury. In all that time he had never known a man to be elected for whom he voted. It got to be so that his vote was equivalent to a defeat. Sometimes a candidate would pay him $lO to vote for the other man. But his heart always failed him when he got to the polls; be had an abiding faith that his luck was going to turn that year, he couldn’t find it in his heart to vote against his benefactor, and so he would vote for him, and beat him anywhere from ten to five, thousand votes. He flopjied in politics every few years, but he never struck it. lie beat his own side every time. His party, whichever it happened to be, tried to buy him off or ship him out of the country. But he was a true citizen, and he did his duty. He voted every time, with disastrous effect. Last year at the election for councilman there we#e five candidates in his ward, two regulars and three bushwhackers. The man communed with himself. He felt that he couldn’t live forever, and he was bound to vote for one successful man before he died, if it killed him. He went down, and at different times dur ing the day he voted seven times, twice apiece for each of the two regulars, and once for each of the bushwhackers. The fraud was discovered, the election in that ward was thrown out and anew one or dered. The man went to jail, and at the new election anew man came in and beat the five men for whom he had previously repeated clear out of their hoots. The man told me that as soon ae he was out. he was going to run for Congress ami vote for the other man. and so he would either make a spoon or spoil a horn. While I repudiated his methods. I admired the man’s persistent devotion to the duties of citizenship. Young man, vote every time. We have not yet reached a time when there is nobody to vote for. This country may run a little sl*>rt on voters some time, but on candidates, never. The Wants of the Corners. Nasby’s Letter. Wat the Dimocrisy uv the Corners wants is more Dorseys among the Republikins and more Hoadlvs among the Dimokrats. Wat we need is a man wich wants to be Governor wich will cum up like a man, with his pock its full uv money and say to adelegashun: Here, I want to be Governor. I hev ssu,- 000 about my person, which yoo are welcome to. Durbin Ward wants to be Governor, too. Very good; lie lies the rite to run. But hez he $50,000? How much kin ho pay yoo for voor votes? Nothing? Well, then, wat good" is ho to yoo? Here’s the boodle!” nd then we shood take his $50,000 and nominate him. That simplifies pollytix. That makes the dooty uv the average Dime krat so eleer that he who runs may reed—the figgers on u bank note. It does the proper thing for everybody, .ledge lloadlv wants to be Governor —lie gits it—we want $lO hills, and we git em. And ez the man wich buys his nominashan in this wav ginerally intends to make it up out uv his oflis, after lie is elected, ther cutns subsequent divvys wich give us a comfortable subsistence and makes things easy all around. Burnett’s Cocoaine Softens tho hair when harsh and diy, Boothes the irritated scalp. Afford* the richest lustre, Prevents the hair from falling off. Promotes its healthy, vigorous growth. ALL SORTS The last guy of the hoodlums: “Now let yer ears down on your shoulders and rest ’em.” “Our dear brother of the Burlington Ga zette,” says an lowa editor, “will permit ns to call him so, since he says we are au ass.” The Concord School of Philosophy has not yet determined how a woman should act when her hands are in the dough pan and an aggressive fly alights on her nose.—Philadel phia Bulletin. “Forever and forever farewell, Cassius. If we do meet again, why we shall smile,” said Brutus, and how pleasaut it is to con template that “age does not wither nor cus tom stale” this delightful habit of “smiling” when friends meet. —Life. In a Newport boudoir: “Oh, he is such a charming gentleman. And he did not make his money in vulgar trade, either. No, in deed! He owns a bank, for 1 have heard people who knew him speak of it. It is in a Western city named Faro.” “I am so glad,” she said soul fully, as she crossed her dainty, slippered feet and glanced down the broad hotel piazzas, conspicuously devoid of men of the eligible order: “I am so glad the Lord knows where the men ore; I am sure no one else does.” A young lady up in Spruce street refused to allow her sister to borrow tlie former’s beau as an escort to a party, saying: “It is not good that the man should be a loan.” She had not been a member of a Bible class for nothing.—Philadelphia Bulletin. A little girl at Palmer, Mass., who had been naughty and was punished by her mother, made the following prayer when she went to bed at night: “Oh, God, please make me good: not real good, but just good enough so 1 won’t have to be whipped.” One of the men who know' it all rather took away Miss Georgia Cay van’s breath in the Luxernberg galiery the other day by ex plaining to her that a certain picture of Christ and the Magdalen “was our Lord pardoning the adulterated women.” —Gro- cer’s Journal. The Breeders’ Gazette thinks the “coming cow” will be for both milk and beef. But we think more probably for sugar-corn and cab bage, says the Commercial Gazette. But we think that she will be the one that comes home without anybody going after her. —Sidney Journal. A little boy and girl out in the west end of town were discussing the stars. The lit tle boy said they w r ere worlds like ours and have people on them. The little girl, with all the disdain she could muster, said: “They are not; they angels’ eyes, ’cause I saw them wink.”—Des Moines Leader. The Hoy and the Melon. Ttie melon grew in a sunny clime. Where the air is sweet with the brpnth of thyme; Tho boy saw life by the Northern tide Whore the sea’s wild waves o’er the Maine coast glide. They were buried together—the melon inside. —Boston Advortiser. BEAUTIFUL HEADS OF HAIR. Methods Adopted to Keep Children’s Tresses of a Golden Hue. New York Journal. “How do you keep your littie boy’s hair such a beautiful golden shade?” asked a Jour nal reporter of a fashionable New York lady. “Why, that is the natural color,” said the lady somewhat indignantly’, as she twined a long golden curl over her finger. “But doesn’t his hair grow darker as he grows older?” asked the reporter. “I have heard that some mothers can keep that bright gold in their children’s hair all the time.” “Yes,” assented the lady, “that is so. I kept the color in my little girl’s hair until she was fifteen, and then she had enough vanity to take care of it herself.” “How did you do it?” asked the reporter. “Her hair was very fine and long when she was six years old, but it began to turn dark, so every other day I washed it in soda and common soap, and when it was dry brushed it thoroughly and then curled it. Once a week I rubbed the scalp with a raw egg.” “Doesn’t washing the hair so much make it dry?” asked the Journalier. “Yes, if you do not brush it thoroughly, and then it is the best thing for it.” “Your children have very beautiful hair,” said the reporter to a lady who sat in her drawing-room, with a half dozen children playing about her. All of them but two had light yellow or golden hair, with bangs and curls. “Yes.” she replied. “Those two little chil dren with short hair are my sister’s. I wouldn’t have a child about me unless it had pretty hair; but my sister thinks differ ently. Teddie, the boy, insisted on having his hair cut when he was six, and lie had the most beautiful yellow' hair, just like spun silk; and then Flora, the little girl, cried to have her hair cut, to be like Ted die. My sister says it iuake9 a boy more manly to have short hair, but for my part 1 don’t see any necessity of being manly at six.” “How' do you keep your children’s hair so pretty?” “Oh,” she replied, “they have a French bonne who washes their hair in salt water and a little potash and puts it up in curl pa pers every night. Their hair does not curl naturally, you know.” “Isn’t the salt water injurious to the hair?” “No. I think not, although I have often heard so; but my children have heavy hair, and they have had it washed in salt w’uter ever since they were babies.” A lady living on Fifth avenue has a little girl with large black eyes, and very yellow hair floating over her shoulders to her w’aist. The reporter asked her if she did not pos sess a very unusual style of beauty. “Oh, no,” she replied; “but 1 bleach her hair. I atu so partial to dark eyes and fair hair, so 1 keep her hair bleached.” “How do you accomplish it?” asked the reporter. I wash it in lemon-juice once a week, and the acid makes it light. My other children have all black hair, and 1 keep it cropped close to their heads, but Ethel is the plainest of all of them, so I thought it was well to give her some special advant age.” “Why don’t you have your boy’s curls cut off this warm weather?” said the Journal re porter to a Brooklyn lady. “Cut off my boy’s beautiful hair!” she ex claimed. “Oh, I wouldn’t do it for sluO cash.” “But they’ll have to come off soon,” said the reporter. “1 know it, and it breaks my heart tef think of it; so don’t mention it to me, please.” An Odd Court lucidaut Dovvu South. Uinttnouga Ti iiip.hu A strange incident occurred at Kingston a few' days since. Judge Rogers convened circuit court and In liis hurry to empanel the grand jury selected thirteen men from the number in the court room. The law re quires a small child to draw the names from a box and when Judge Rogers’s mode was discovered on Thursday the entire business of the grand jury was set aside and anew panel was ordered. When the names were drawn from a lot of 200 they were precisely the same as had been chosen by die judge when court first convened. It is a remarka ble coincidence. A Woman’s Smile. Sandwich island Paper. Her rich, red lips parted, and there flashed upon the landscape two rows of beautiful white teeth. Slowly her mouth opened wider and wider. Deeper grew the dimples in her bronze cheeks. Brighter danced the sunbeams in her eyes, until a stray ray, dart ing through the foliage of an overhanging bough, illuminated the deep cavern of her mouth, bringing into view tbe back of her head. Then, seeing us gaze intently upon her, she shut her jaw and darkness fell upon the scene. TRAIL OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE. A Suggestive Story of Social Rottenness in the East. Saratoga Letter in Chicago News. Blokes, of New York, is rich. He is worth at least $3,000,000. His father was Van l)u ---senbury Blokes. His mother was one of the celebrated Hornpipers. Hornpiper Van Du senbury Blokes had never married. Having money always he had never mixed in vulgar trade. He has always been in the best of so ciety, and has had no end of gallant adven tures with dashing New York married wo men. When the scandals would become too great, Blokes would go to Europe and remain for a year or two. This has gone on with charming regularitv for forty years. Blokes has never made love in any of these years to any one but married wotneu. With plenty j of money, a good figure, a fine tailor, and u flow of animal spirits one can go far in a society where money is worshipped as it is in New York. After a career of nearly forty years of breaking up the domestic hearthstones of his friends. Blokes has arrived at a period of life where it is no longer con venient for him to dash off to Europe to es cape an irate husband. lie is sixty years old. He is straight and well preserved. He holds himself well together, and is a living ex emplification of the proverb that only the truly wicked prosper. He is very fond of ladies’ society, but as he is changeable he never confines himself long to one. lie lias brought to Saratoga this season two as hand some young married ladies from New York as ever came here. They are accompanied by their husbands—very quiet, modest, retir ing fellows. Blokes pays all the expenses of the two families. The husbands live well and have everything that is going, while the la dies are supplied with every luxury in the way of dress. Every morning and evening Blokes parades the porch with his two lady friends, one a blonde, the other a brunette. They go out riding with him. They dine when he does. Tbe husbands appear occa sionally. Their presence here at first forbade any talk of scandal, but when tiie wife of the lessee of the house told the dowagers that Blokes was paying the bills ol both families, then the dowagers began to talk. Tiiis talk increased when it was found that Blokes had been traveling about the country with his charming families, and that the complaisant husbands were not always along. But the gossip was only casual and ordinarily pun gent until the affair of the diamond neck lace. Blokes came into the office of the hotel very drunk. He was in full evening dress, with a light overcoat over his shoulders. A servant stepped forward to brush him oft, as Blokes had evidently sat down on the side walk a number of times to recover from the fatigue of advancing years and much rum. When the boy had finished Blokes felt in his waistcoat pocket for a small coin. Iu his clumsy fumbling an enormous diamond necklace was crowded out of the pocket and fell to the floor. Fifteen thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds cannot fall upon the floor of a brilliantly-lighted and thronged hotel office without attracting some attention. A friend of Blokes picked up the necklace and handed it to its owner. He winked as he put it in his pocket, saying: “It is for a dear child of mine.” The next day the brunette of the Blokes combination wore the much-advertised neck lace into the dining room It made such a sensation that it quite destroyed the appetite of the dowagers. The necklace has verily broken up the combination. It is under stood the blonde w’ill have nothing to do with Blokes until she. too, ha 9 a necklace. Then the husbands are becoming uneasy. They are followed by too many pittying glances. They are called behind their backs the wet-nurses of the “Blokes children.” The actors in this little local sensation are all stopping at the leading hotel of Saratoga, If anything, the facts relating to the Blokes combination have been understated. DAVID DAVIS. A Visit to the Ethereal Statesman of Illiuoi*, with a Hidden Meaning. Robert J. Burdette. In company with Mr. Henry Watterson I made one more political pilgrimage, this time to the beautiful home of Judge David Davis, in Bloomington. 111. I hid been prepared, by Henry’s vivid descriptive powers, for meeting a man of remarkable physique, but I must confess my astonishment, when, in answer to our ring, Mr. Davis himself came creeping through the key-hole to welcome us. “It’s a way I have,” he said, laughing, “when 1 am in too much haste to unlock the door.” The day was too beautiful to desert for the parlors, so we wandered about the "rounds where grow, I think, the most beautiful hedges in Illinois. Under the shade of a tree w’e paused, and as Mr. Davis, motioning Henry and myself to seats on a cast-iron lawn settee, seated himself carelessly on a swaying spray of purple hearted fuchsia, 1 had leisure to observe him. A slender man, only redeemed from ema ciation by the perfect symmetry of his limbs and body, with fair, curling hair that drooped about his delicate shoulders like the escap ing tendrils of a wayward vine, a faint flush just tinting his boyish cheeks, he produced upon me an impression of ethereal lightness, that I half wondered if the fragile, spirituelle creature before me w’ere really a mortal, or the spirit of the flower which Jie had made his resting place. You could not call him effeminate, for his figure has not even the robust development of a healthy woman. He does not appear weak or in ill health. lie is a visible Ariel, belonging to the realms of the air as much as tlie gaudy butterfly which he left our side to chase, and which moved with a wing scarce less light and noisless than the flying feet of the graceful statesman who pursued him. As we came away, I turned to watch him swiftly climbing a slender, swaying tree to peep into a nest of wrens, far out oti a slen der branch, and thinking over our conversa tion with this effervescent, rippling young creature, I said to my companion: “Henry, I think this is absurd. The peo ple of the United States do not want a boy, a child who chases butterflies and climbs to look into bird’s nests, a boy who walks on his hands and turns summersaults in the parlor for a President.” “Look here.” said Henry, suddenly look ing so supernaturallv wise I feared he had a rush of Drains to the head. “Look here, there is a hidden meaning to all this tree climbing and butterfly chasing business, and I am surprised that you newspaper men haven't found it out.” Neats on tlie Low Boughs. John Burroughs. iu September Century. The song birds nearly all build low; their cradle is not upon the tree-top. It is only birds of prey that fear danger from below more than from above, and that seek the higher branches for their nests. A line five feet from the ground would run above more than half the nests, ami one ten feet would bound more than three-fourths of them. It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this. The crows and jays and other enemies of the birds have learned to explore this belt pretty thor oughly. But the leaves and the protective coloring of most nests bailie them as effec tually no doubt as they do the professional oologist. IVofeHftioual stormy Petrels. St. Lomu Pont-Dispatch. A financial break is a lawyer’s harvest. Mr. G. \V. Heinkkn, Benone F. 0., Pa., lias been entirely cureil of rheumatism by the use of the Great German Remedy, St. Jucobs Oil. Pre viously lie could find no relief. THE REVOLVING MILE. Tlie Plan* and KpHulivaiiunii Presented to the Wiir Department by John Phteiilx. Baltimore American. “The last time I was in Washington,” said a veteran army officer to the American cor respondent, “those fellows up at the Navy Department were in quite a huff over an ef fort looking to a change in their uniforms, and there was as great a commotion as tho one that existed during President Pierce’s administration, when they talked of chang ing the style of uniforms in the army. That event was attended by some-very amu>ing in cidents. but the most laughable was tho part taken in it by the late Captain Derby, or John Plnenix, as he was known in jour nalistic and literary circles. He was a lieutenant at the time and stationed in California. Jeff. Davis, who was Sec retary of War, issued a general invitation to officers of the army who were skilful draughtsmen to send in suggestions for ti. new uniform which it had been decided to adopt. One such invitation was sent to eacii officer. Lieutenant Derby was very ready with hi?- pen—a really ingenious artist, It reply he sent to the War Department, not exactly a design for anew uniform, but a peculiar addition to the old uniform, tho amendment consisting merely of a ring at tached to the seat of the trousers of each pri vate soldier. Each officer was to carry, in stead of a sword, a long pole with a hook in the end, like a shepherd’s crfc grotesque pictures, representing officers hauling back cowardly recruits by the serviceable ring, cavalry securely fastened io the tops of their steeds by the same device, and artillerymen harnessed to cannon, draw ing them up ttirough narrow defiles or up ati acclivity inaccessible to mules. On another sheet of Bristol-board was an illustration, in gaudy colors, of “Derby’s Rotary Mills How itzer,” accompanied by a written inscription to this effect: “Upon the back of a young and vigilant mule strap a mountain howit zer, the muzzle pointing toward the tail. A similar piece of ordnance is fastened with iron bands under the animal’s abdomen, the muz zle aimed between his forelegs to the front. There are four gunners—two to each piece— and a “persuader,” as he is called, whoso business it is to persuade the mule to stand firm and not retreat by stuffing him with oats, after each discharge, with a tin sausago stuffer. When Indians or other legitimate game appear in view, the mule is, by a crank movement on the tail, brought to the front. It don’t maks-o any difference which way the mule faces—ami here is where my patent comes in—onci gun is always pointing towards the front. At tlie command ‘Fire!’ the top howitzer i* discharged. The recoil throws the mule on his back, bringing the second gun into posi tion. Tiiis is discharged, which suddenly throws the mule on his feet again, when the gunners swab out the mule’s throat with hay and reload.” The illustrations which accompanied these directions—in brown, red. blue and gold,are still on tile in the War Department—repre sented tbe rotary mule in seven different at titudes. looking contented and happy all the time. This was felt to be outrageous audacity on the part of a subaltern. The clerks in the War Department laughed at the funny letter immoderately, but their superiors looked serious. Jefferson Davis, the Secretary, was terribly indignant, and he re* solved to defend his wounded dig* nity. Charges and specifications were drawn up against Lieutenant Derby and tho officers were actual named for his court martial when William H Marcy, Secretary of State—a man of considerable sense and self poise—said to the Secretary of War: “Now, see here, General Davis, don’t you do it. This Derby has undoubtedly a superfluous development of humor, but he is shrewd and ingenious and really u fine draughts man. lie has valuable qualities. You can organize a court that will convict him, but you will be the butt of ridicule on account of it all your life. Better file the suggestion* of the crook-and-ring and the lively rotary mule and say nothing.” And he did it. Poor Derby subsequently becamaan inmate of au insane asylum ana later died by suicide.” Naughty Turkish Beauties. Constantinople Letter. Tlie government is poor: it is harassed with many weighty questions besides the means of defense against the cholera. Yet it has found time to enter upon a crusade against the fair sex. and it finds the ladies harder to deal with than the Czar himself. During the present vffhntb, when all moslems observe the fast of Ramazan, those who can afford it lie abed through the heat of the day. By night, however, the city is all astir. Froiu 10 o’clock until midnight all the Turkish la dies who can find carriages take their drive through the most fashionable squares. Tho jam in such places is tremendous. One night the chief of police was promenading in search of evils to be cured, and he observed theso great lines of carriages full of ladies passing along under the eyes of tho young men of the city standing on either side of the roadway. And then he saw, to his horror, ladies lean forward and smile at the young men, and even wave handkerchiefs from the carriage window*. He saw handkerchiefs dropped from the car riages, oy accident, and he was morally cer tain that the young men who politely handed them back to their owners delayed long enough to squeeze the fair hands that re ceived them. All these things were gall and wormwood to the old gentleman. The next day an order was posted through the city prohibiting ladies from driving after night fall. This, of course, raised a storm which is not yet appeased. It has drawn out the startling and treasonable claim from some of the ladies that they have equal rights and privileges with the men. It is, of course, to be expected that tbe Turkish ladies will win in this matter, in spite of police and the fact that Turkish dictionaries do not admit such a word as flirtation. ‘‘Vein" To Be Followed by tlie l)uche.M of Padua. Interview in New York Mail am! Express. “The critics say there is too much poetry iu the play?” “1 presume they think so. Well, the last act dues pass into poetry and the prose be comes rhythmic. That is in the nature of things. One could not for a moment imagine the balcony scene from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ rendered in prose. Always, passion passes into music at a certain altitude.” “If ‘Vera’ is a success will you write another play to afflict a long-suffering pub lic?” ‘Vera* is a sueress,” said Mr. Wilde, smil ing blandly. “You ad if 1 will writean other play, I have one already written. Jc is in my room. Come up and I’ll read it to you.” The reporter excused himself. “Well, I will tell you, then, that I have a five-act drama entitled ‘The Duchess of Padua.’ The period is of tbe fifteenth cen tury. and the scene is laid in Italy. It is in blank verse ami prose mixed. The prose is tbe comedy portions and the blank verse \h the dramatic parts. 1 have not yet offered ir to a manager. Good-bye. 1 shall go to a re hearsal shortly,” said Mr. Wilde, as he starr ed down Fifth avenue. Many bodily ilis result from habitual onm-N ---pat)on, Hint itHka constitution nutv be ItoU.m an<l ruined by simple neglect. Tnera is no nmd cine equal to Aver'* Pills to eorreer i ho c\ il, ni.it remote the organs to natural, healthy, niu i 1 ular action. 3

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