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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-15
Ate Some S cft-SheU Crabs.

This IS what Captain Hodgden said
when speaking of an unpleasant experi
ence he had oa board ship, near Washir g
ton. He added: The bad effects oi
which soon felt Then he went on
to say that he had severe pain, followed
by a terrible attack Of dysentery. Those
wicked crabs would have been the death
o. HIM but tor the fact that he alway.
carried PAIN KILLER on board his vessel.
Have PERRY DAvIs's PAIN KILLER At
hand by day and night for sure relief.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-15
Cured My Wife's Weakness.

From Evansville, Ind, tie home Of eul
correspondent, Mr.. .J.po r Patterson
cones the following .Som0r t,a Ner
rine cured ny wife Of case Of female
weakness. It's an extract from Mr.
Patterson letter. $l5O.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
DAVID DAVIS AND BRIDE.
The Happy Couple Their Travels-How
They Appeared in st. Louis.
St. Louis Republican, Yesterday.

St. Louis Republican, Yesterday.
Senator David Davis and his wife arrived in
this city at o'clock P. NJ. yesterday, and
took rooms at the Laclede Hotel. In the
evening Republican reporter called on the
ex-senator, and was ushered into the apart
ments of the newly-wedded couple. Senator
Davis had risen, and he met the reporter at
the threshold in very dignified and polite
manner The Senator has been so often %
scribed that any description of his personal
appearance is almost unnecessary, but it
may be said that he is a gentleman past mid
die Lille, with hair that is rather whittier than
gray, a beard that was we'll cut, and only
covers the chin, leaving to view mouth that
is rather large, but very pleasantly and
firmly lined. The Senator was dressed in
suit of black broadcloth, and wore plain
gold watch-chain that was passed around his
neck and through one of the button-holes of
his vest. With this chain the Senator toyed
constantly in conversation.
Seated i'll a rocking-chair at the left of the
fireplace Tin which burned bright, blazing
firel was Mrs. David Davis. This lady is
about the medium height, with features and
complexion and manners betokening that
simple refinement which belongs, par excel
lence if not alone, to the American lady.
Mrs Davis was reading when the reporter
entered, and had evidently been reading
aloud to the Senator when interrupted by
the intervewer's intrusion. Mrs Davis was
attired in remarkably wel-ftting travelling
dress of brown silk, and still wore her hat,
which was of like color, and in it was very
gracefully arranged brown ostrich plume.
The reporters business being made known,
the Senator said that he had just arrived
from Cincinnati, that he would remain in
the city for couple of days, and that he was
on his way to California and intended goil
over the Southern route. He and his wife
were travelling for pleasure, and would re-
pleasure. He would say nothing of po-
litical nature, because ne was not upon po-
litical business, and he did not wish to talk
politics" at all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

IN the coroner's investigation of the Fore
man tragedy it was developed yesterday
that in the circumscribed territory of Royal
ton, louisville Brownsburg and jamestown
there had been $150,OO0 of insurance placed
on the lives of aged people. This is start
ling revelation. Stripped of technicalities,
it is nothing more nor less than gambling,
with human lives as Chips in the pool.
Each speculator in reality bets that his man
or woman will die first. With an eye to
business, and with cold-plooded calculation,
each of these spectators has looked over the
ground and picked out some one so old and
decrepit that death seems certain to come
soon. In most instances the policy holders
have no insurable interest in the persons
named, which clearly renders their acts il
legal. But those more circumspect, or more
highly favored in having aged and infirm
relatives, have placed insurance on fathers
and mothers grandfathers and grandmoth-
ers, each with the secret hope that he may
realize profit in the speculation. There is
nothing regular nor respectable in it from
beginning to end. The only hope of gain is
in the early death of the person selected to
make an involuntary and unconscious race
for the grave Just so soon as a man
places policy on the life of his father or
grandfather in the graveyard insurance"
companies, just that soon he becomes pecu-
niarily interested in his speedy death. 1t
is species of ghoulish gamb-
ling, infinitely more infamous than
faro and more despicable than three-card
monte. Gambling with money is regarded
rs crime and disgrace. What then must
be said of men who gamble in the lives OF
relatives? To the covetous and unscrupu-
lous it is a constant incentive to crime, and
to any man mean enough to engage in it, it
Is enough to cause him by neglect, If nothing
more, to imperil the life of the one insured
for his benefit. 1t is an easy thing to get rid
of one so old that death seems a matter of a
few weeks or months. 1t is not necessary
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

every emotion, and is refined intelligent and ex-
pressive to high degree Her form is 1.-the,
graceful and charmingly nodded all of which
personal attributes combine to call forth the
homage received by her.
THE rat says Professor Huxley, has no place
In well-built city house. The mouse is harm
less, but the presence of rats means a connection
with the rats place, the sewer. Hence, when he
knew that there were rats in the basement of his
house, Mr. Huxley had the floor of the room
taken up, and found an opening into the sewer
where the builder had omitted to close up the
opening to a side drain, designed, but abandoned
before using. During all the years that the
house had been occupied this opening had been
in unsupported existence and had given open
passage to the emanatiOns from the sewer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
THE DIAMOND NINE.
Proposition to Abandon the Search for
Bodies and Erect a Monument.

CHICAGO, March 29.-Despairing of over
coming the distractions in the Braidwood
Diamond mine, which now make it difficult
to search for bodies, a correspondent states
that the owners are considering proposition
to close and abandon the mine, and erect
over the entrance a monument to the mem
ory of those entombed. This suggestion is
opposed by friends of the dead men. No adj
ditional progress had been made up to late
last night in clearing away the debris.
A Bradwood special to the Daily News
says: mo definite action has yet been taken
in regard to the stopping of the search for
the bodies of the dead miners but this after
noon a meeting of the various mining SUI
perintendents will be held and action taken
on the matter A committee will be ap-
pointed to visit the families of those yet in
the mine and see if some definite arrange
ments can BE- made with them. If they will
agree, work will at once be stopped and the
mine closed. The search still progresses, but
without any bodies being discovered The
passage way has been cleared about $50
yards, and the exploring party are still at
work. About 1000 tons of stone was re-
moved Yesterday. and it is estimated that
there yet remains about 5000 carloads of
matter, weighing 100000 pounds. The
talk concerning the possible abandonment Of
the mine created a great deal of comment
and widows whose husbands yet lie in the
mine will have great objections to any such
proceedings"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

that violence should be resorted to; it is
enough. to fail to properly nourish and
clothe, to administer remedies, or to
shield from the asperities of the
weather. Amy of these is a genteel
way to murder, and is not likely to
be detected. 1t may seem harsh to talk
thus, but man mean enough to invest in
this kind of business is very near mean
enough to want to win in any way that may
not hold him accountable before the law.
1t is unqualifedly infamous, and as public
sentiment has not been strong enough to put
1T down ii is we'll that laws have been passed
making it penal offense for anybody to or
ganize such companies or to solicit business
for them. No honorable man who realizes
their true character will have anything to
do with them. The bill passed by the last
Legislature must be vigorously enforced in
the interest of public morals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

No finer tribute could be paid to the char
acter of any man than the following words,
spoken by Rev. Robert Collyer at the funeral
of the late Postmaster-general Howe. Mr..
Collyer had come from New York to bear his
personal testimony to the worth of the dis
tinguished dead
1--WE have our different views and our diff
fering theories as to the policies and methods
of public management, but here in the pres
ence of our beloved dead we are not Repub-
licans, we are not Democrats, we seek not to
further our opinion in any given direction
in policies or in faith. Our hearts all beat
Just alike in the presence and under the
influence of the one overmastering emo
ton of the hour. We forget all party,
and only remember the life and the
record of the grand, noble man, The citizen
and the gentleman-a strong man, with deep
and sure convictions, and SO brave about it
all. DIR. Bushnell used to say that there was
patience of judgment and conscience so
mastering that if it bid its votary go over
Niagara he would go. | believe Senator
Howe was a man of whom such remark
could be made with truth. Had judgment
and conscience bid him go over Niagara he
would have gone With him the Judgment
seat was not set on earth; it was the great
white throne. | believe he was actuated by
the deepest and most abiding honesty OF al
most any man | ever knew"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
TIMOTHY OTIS HOWE,
Died March %, 1888,
AGED 67.
AGED 81.

The face of the dead wore perfectly life
like expression; indeed an old friend Of the
Judge said: III it were not for the appear
ance of tine head and the fact that the doc
tors have pronounced him dead l would not
be in favor of burying him. He looks as
though he must be alive" The eyes were
closed easily and naturally, as though in
Sleep There was no sunken appearance
about the face; indeed, faint life-like flush
remained, The body was dressed in black
full-dress suit. The hands were crossed easily
upon the breast
Before o'clock the hour set for beginning
the funeral exercises the church was packed
to the doors, while several hundred persons
unable to gain admission, stood in the streets
until the conclusion OF the services. The
floral tributes were profuse and magnificent,
some of the principal pieces being those used
at the services in Kenosha yesterday.
The funeral services were begun at about
o'clock, with a chant, "Abide With Me-"
by Presbyterian choir. Rev. L. ]. White
pastor of the church, offered a brief
PRAYER which was followed by the
solo, "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
by Mrs. NJ. D. Kimball, sung to the air of
"Robin Adair," a favorite song of Mr..
Howe's. Rev. H. NJ. Simmons delivered a
very affecting tribute to the life and charac-
ter of the distinguished statesman, en-
bodying substantially the thoughts and ex-
pressions delivered by him at the services in
Kenosha.
The services at the cemetery consisted
simply of the reading of the Presby terrain
burial service for the dead by Rev. L. ].
White, and few remarks by Rev. H. NJ.
Simmons. AS the coffin was being lowered
into the grave, Miss Grace Howe, a niece of
Judge Howe, was overcome by emotion and
tainted; she was tenderly cared for, and soon
recovered.
Each of the pall-bearers passed around the
grave and dropped upon the coffin u small
bouquet given them at the cemetery for the
purpose.
The floral decorations at the grave were
very beautiful, and will remain until they
dry and crumble and mingle with the dust
of him to whose memory they were grateful
tributes of loving hearts. There are no WIS.,
itors from Washington but quite>a large at
tendance of notable men from the State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
Railroad War in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 29.-In answer
to dispatch received at the central station
soon after midnight, saying that force of
men were destroying the new bridge of the
Pennsylvania railroad at Second and
Venango streets, a detachment of police was
sent thither at once. When they arrived at
the scene, about o'clock this morning, they
found the work of demolition completed
The wreckers who are believed to be work
men in the employ of the Philadelphia,
Western & New York railroad had, dispersed
and the police could obtain no information
in regard to their identity. A force was left
OH the ground to protect the material.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

IT is stated that some of the ticket holders
to the advertised Nilsson concert at Buffalo,
n. Y. which failed to come off, are about to
bring suits for damages against Manager
Abbey. They claim that they were induced
TO come from surrounding towns by Abbey's
announcement of the concert. and in some
instances made two trips to secure reserved
seats, ard through his cancellation of the
concert, were put to loss of time and money.
The case ought to be tested in court. The
public should be informed whether man
ager can cancel engagements without notice,
simply because he finds it will not pay to
keep them. The loss OH tickets may be OBJ
7iated by refunding the money, but this
does not make up for loss of time and other
eYnensaS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
The Conkling-Haversticls Murder.

New YORK, March 29.-rhe grand jury
to-day began investigation of the case of Geo.
w. Conkling, Jr., who shot and killed Will
bur H. Haverstck, and he will probably be in
dicted and rearrested. Recorder Smyth, in
addressing the grand jury, instructed them
to investigate the case, and said Police Justice
Smith had exceeded his powers in assuming
to decide that the homicide was justifable.
His action, the recorder said, does not stop
the grand jury from indicting Conkling.
Counsel for Mrs. Uhler have received in
structons to begin legal proceedings against
Dr. Amidon for recovery OF $3.50 which
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
The Wallace-Hoyey Episode.

Lafayette Journal Yesterday.
AS Mr.. Hovey left the stand Mr.. Wallace
took him by the hand and shook it warmly
Mr.. Coffroth arose and said l suppose the
dramatic part of the performance is for the
jury?
Wallace-There was no dramatic part, it
was an act of justice.
Coffroth-It was an outrageous piece of
charlatanism.
Wallace-It was my heartfelt gratitude to-
ward a man | never saw before.
Coffroth-This is an outrage.
Court saw nothing.
Coffroth-As the witness was leaving the
room Captain Wallace shook his hand vehe-
mently.
Wallace-A man has not the heart of
man in him who would deny me the right to
express my gratitude to an honest man.
Coffroth-That goes far enough. If the
court don't set you down, somebody else
ought to.
The court here called order and raped all
to their seats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

BY an examination of the House journals
it is found that no bill of any kind was
passed on the sixty-first day of the session
Of the Legislature in 1868, as stated by Rep
fesentative Moody under a great display of
headlines in the Sentinel of last Tuesday.
The act in relation to witnesses was passed
by the General Assembly of 1861 on Satur-
day, March 0, which was not the sixty-frst
day of the session, but properly and consti-
tutionally day for legislation, and the bill
was returned by the Governor, with his sig
nature, on the same day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
THE LAST RITES.
Burial of the Remains of the Late Post
master. General Howe at Green Bay.

GREEN BAY, Wis, March 29.-The train
bearing the remains of Judge Howe arrived
at the Chicago & Northwestern depot at
about $50 o'clock this morning. Attached
to the train were two Wagner sleepers, occu-
pied by the funeral party. A committee
from the Brown County Bar Association re-
ceived the body, which, being placed in a
hearse and escorted by the committee, was
taken to the Howe residence on Main street.
At 1920 o'clock the bells in the city began
the tolling OF sixty-seven strokes, the age of
the deceased, and the casket was borne from
the house to the hearse in waiting and con-
veyed to the Presbyterian Church.
The coffin was of plain black, with black
and silver trimmings, and lined with beauti-
fully finished white satin. A silver plate
bore the simple inscription:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
The SORGHUM sugar Industry.

STERLING, Kan, March 29.-The works of
the Kansas Sugar and Syrup Company were
sold to-day to a syndicate of Eastern capital
lists, most of whom are interested in the
Champaign, ILL.,, sugar-works. The COM
pany will adapt these works to the manufac-
ture of sugar from sorghum syrup, according
to the Champaign method, and will invest
$3.50, 900 for the purpose and to establish
auxiliary mills throughout this section for
making syrups, which will be reduced to
sugar at the Sterling works This enterprise
is expected to revolutionize the sorghum
sugar business in this State, and will, no
doubt, give great impetus to the cultivation
of sorghum cane in Kansas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
Serious Illness of Rev. Horace Bushnell.

CINCINNATI. March 29.-The many friends
of the Rev. Horace Bushnell, the veteran
city missionary of the Second Presbyterian
Church of this city, and who has been the
pastor of the Storrs Congregational Church
for more than fifty years, will be panied to
hear that he is lying very low with some
form of brain disease at his residence. Mr..
Bushnells advanced age, being over eighty
years old, together with the character of his
illness. gives scarcely any hope of his recov-
cry Heis unconscious, takes but little nour-
shment and his end seems very near. He
has been confined to the house for six weeks
or more, but only during the last ten days
has his disease seemed SO fatal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

Yesterdays report of suicides shows a
total of seven. The reasons are as varied as
they we'll could be. George H. johnson, of
New York, shot himself because his wife had
abandoned him. Herman Newman, of Potts
vile, Pa, hanged himself on account of
troubles arising out OF contemplated mar
riage. Colonel Corey, of Norfolk Va, cut
his throat on account of insomnia. Mrs
Shuffiebotham, of Glen Beulah Wis, shot
her babe and herself on account of ill-health
Herbert W Eaton, of Calais, Me-, who shot
his brother and partner in business, shot
himself. Thomas Cow, of Leavenworth,
Kan, took morphine because he could not
break off drinking, and twelve-year-old
boy of Canaan, N. Y, hanged himself for
some reason not given. The record is a
chastity one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal

To The Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal;
Are the commissioners appointed by the Cover
nor to locate the insane hospitals, to supe rim
tend the erection of the buildings, or do their
duties cease after determining upon the locationi
INDIANAPOLIS, March %. A READER
The four commissioners with the Governor
constitute board "to superintend the location,
the letting, the construction and the equipping
of hospitals for the insane" The law provides
that they shall hold their offices two years unless
sooner released by order of the Governor, and
that their salary shall be at the rate of So for
each days work, not to exceed, however, 5000
per annum
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
EmbeZZlers Arrested.

New YORK, March 29.-Charles Booth,
book-keeper, and James r, Burnett cashier,
formerly employees of H. 7. Anthony & Co.,
dealers in photographers materials have
been arrested for embezzling $4,000. Booth
had a position in large firm here when ar
rested, and Burnett occupied the position Of
book keeper at the San Juan bank, Silverton.
Colorado. Burnett arrived last night in
charge of a detective.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

WHEN a Philadelphia woman has a little
grudge against respectable neighbor or wants
to play an lawfully funny" Joke on friend, she
writes a letter to the lady warning her that if
she does not stop drinking and abusing her
children she will be summarily dealt with. The
name OF the president Of the Humane Society is
then attached to the note, after which the fun
begins. Since the recipients OF the humorous
productions have begun to set detectives on
the trail of the writer's the fun has ceased to be
funny,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

officer kindly allowed himself to be convinced of
his mistake, hut said he: Suppose, now, that
L had not bothered him, and he had turned out
pickpocket. Why, L should have been mad
enough to have kicked myself into East river"
1t is to be regretted that the clergyman was not
mad enough to have performed that service for
the Jealous officer,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

Mrs. Uhler claims to be due her out of he
sum left by Haverstick at the time of z !,
death.
New YORK, March 29-Dr Amidon turned
into court the property claimed by the
woman and the administrators of Haverstck.
Mrs. Uhler was ordered to show cause why
she should not be made co-defendant with
DR.. Amidon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

"NEARLY all of the strong-minded women of
the country have come to the rescue of the
cause against the animadversiOns of the Rev.
Morgan Dix, but we do not hear anything from
Lydia Pinkham on the subject. We do not I'M
derstand how this special friend of woman can
Dispatch.
Bless your heart, Lydia hasn't time, and. be-
sides, she is the particular friend of Rev. Morgan
Dixs style of woman. 1t keeps her busy to take
care of those wives and mothers who have no
"higher" education, or any other education
worth mentioning, and whom Mr.. DIX regards as
the lovelest of their sex. That sort OF woman
is Lydia's chief source of revenue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

AT bench show just opened at Ottawa, the
dogs on exhibition are valued at $15O,oOO. This
must of course be understood to he "trade"
valuation; that is, the owners of the two thou
sand $75 dogs do not expect cash. but will
ling to swap off the beasts for one thousand at
$3.50 each, or five hundred at $500, or for one
yellow dog at $4,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
DR.. Otto wilhelm Strive,

BosroN, March 29-Dr Otto Wilhelm
Strive, director of the Imperial Observatory
at Pulkowa, Russia, has arrived to test the
object glass; which has been completed at
Cambridgeport on the order of the Russian
government The glass is the largest ever
constructed, and is thirty inches in diameter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30

A DISTINGUISHED, military-looking gentleman
has been doing good business in Pennsylvania
in manufacturing coats-of-arms for aspiring
families and escutcheons, giving the war records
of ex-soldiers. He has suddenly disappeared
after an unusually successful season in Potts
willie, leaving his family and numerous creditors,
including the proprietors of four hotels. The
military mans own escutcheOn is now supposed
to be a hotel clerk rampant on sulphur-cOlUred
field.