The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-01-31


Monday. Mr.. Emmett was prominent civil
engineer and had charge OF many important
state surveys. He was especially proud OF one
relic OF the Emmett family-a large emerald
ring, which WAS used a seal by the United
Irishmen I'm 1898. AT one time the English
Government offered reward Of $500 for Its
possessiOn-but they failed TO obtain even
clue TO its owner.
A RosToN paper says that In August last
dealer i'm that city sold 25yO0 yards of cloth To a
New York manufacturer of umbrellas The
cloth being poor. the New Yorker returned III
and the goods were packsd away. Last week,
according to the same authority, the New
Yorker went to Boston for much neefe ed sup
plies, which are difficult to obtain, and actu
ally bought of the Boston man the same % 0OO
yards of cloth at an advance of 20 per cent on
the original price.
THE Washington Capital says that Jay
Gould, the great Wall street gambler, must be
suffering from softening of the brain. IL is
claimed that he is actually engaged In organ
izing q telegraph company In opposition 10
the Western Union, that is not intended for
Matchmaking purposes. but to give the people
cheap telegraphy. If this is q fact, we may ex
pect ere long to hear of Jay GOuld's incarcera-
ton In an asylum for lunatics, and shortly
4
tor,
! CARDINAL MANNING, speaking at temper
/ ance meeting at Liverpool the other day, said
that in Manchester, Liverpool and London
/ the Teetotal League of the Cross numbered
| 50, OCO of the soberest men In England. Drunk
enness was affecting England's factory hands
to such an extent, he said, that Americans
who had visited England to study the labor
| no 70 labor
America was more efficient than that OF Eng
land in consequence of intemperance among
The English factory operatives.
81 RELIEVE in q Providence" said Victor
Hugo to q company gathered around him In
his red salon in the Rue de Clichy, "because
am Providence myself" Some one asked
for an explanation OF this curious riddle. The
venerable poet replied: awe caught a mouse
! Yesterday evening. Its death sentence was
pronounced. when my little granddaughter
Jeanne, with eyes gistening with tears
begged for the life of the gray prisoner. He
mother hesitated whether to listen TO the dea
little advocate or not, and ip her doubt said
Grandfather shall decide So they came u
me. For a nome at 1 held the power of lif
and death over the diminutive creature, ano
| thought the Heavenly Providence may flint
itself in my situation when the fate of a beini
OF higher order Is to be determined. Natural
ly set the mouse free, for when man un
dertaf es the role of Providence on SINAI
scale, he should at least initiate its generos
ity."
THE New Orleans Times says: When IL
recollected that there are now In session SOM
30 odd, more or less of state Legislatures, al
bent on making laws OF some sort or other 10
the government OF the people, the situation
would seem formidable enough. One woul
think that every possible provision would
made for every public need, and whateve
! might be required to promote the best inter
! ests OF the people, and to protects rights, fran
+ chises, property and life would be thorough
4 provided for. When, however, we reflect ths
| this sort of wholesale law-making has bee
3 going on for a century, and that the mos
' pressing wants of the public service are sti
4 badly provided for, and In not a few cases vi
: terry neglected and even injuriously oea
v with, IL is plain that public confidence Ia tn
!, wisdom OF the average law-maker Is grsatl
: misplaced. The fact Is, about the best servic
( done by our Legislature is in repeating tn
wrong.headed and ill-advised acts of its pr
decessors.