The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-09

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THE DAILY JOURNAL.
BY JNO. C. NEW 3 SON
For Rates of Subscription. ETC.. see Sixth Page.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1881.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
HEROIC coaches are to be introduced into
Cincinnati.
Mr.. JAY GOULD will leave New York for a
trip West within the next fortnight
SENATOR LAMAR entertains no doubt of the
passage of a tariff bill by this Congress
THE city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, will
celebrate next July its tertio-centennary
having been founded in 1850.
Ex-SEcRErARY BLAINE denies the report
that he was or is now opposed to the mar
riage of mis- daughter with Colonel Cop
pinger.
lHE conservation Oh heN. hllcl
Thompson, d. D., as assistant bishop of Mis-
sissippi, is set for Feb. "a, at Trinity Church,
New Orleans.
THE steamer Nederland was all right on
Monday last, when she passed the Scllly
islands The story Of her being in distress
is regarded as a canard.
THE steamer Dryburgh Abbey, from Liv-
erpool, carrying the masquerade suits for the
carnival at New Orleans, was stranded en-
route and arrived too late
THE death penalty in Maine will probably
be restored to the statutes, on the ground
that the increase of capital crimes has been
very great since it was abolished.
THE Eagle and Phoenix Cotton mills at
Columbus, Ga, paid dividend of Sl37,S4
for 1882. Since 1869 the concern has paid
dividends amounting to $3.50 600.
FREDERICK CROOKS, an employe of the
Howe Sewing Machine Company in Wheel
ing, W. Va, has fallen heir to fortune OF
f40 900 by the death of his father, in Eng
land.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL is cramped for
money and begins to talk of the ingratitude
of people, and is claiming pay for services rem.
dered. a public subscription has been opened
TO pay off a mortgage on his estate.
Mr.. RICHARD SMITH JR., son of Richard
Smith, of the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette, has been appointed Northwestern agent
of the Western Associated Press, with head
quarters at ST. Paul, and will enter upon his
duties March Is.
THE United States Circuit Court for New
York granted judgment for 81, S43 against
the government for excessive duties on
''steel blooms" This was a test case. The gov
eminent will be required to repay large
amount of money,
COLONEL MAPLEsoN, of the Cincinnati
Opera Company jumped his board bill IN
that ciCv, Directing to the amount 1928. He
paid it at Columbus under protest, the Bur-
net House having attached the receipts OF
the entertainment there.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL BREWSTER has dis
charged all the colored employees in his de-
partment He claimed that they were too
s,.sceptible to the influence of star-route
money. There is great indignation among
the colored people of the District over the
action.
COLONEL CoRKHILL's farewell dinner to
General Sherman was given in Washington
last night Among the speakers were the
General himself General Sheridan, Attor-
ney-general Brewster, Chief Justice Cartier,
Senators Hawley and Logan, and ex-Secreta-
ny Blaine.
IT is expected that the President will APP
point the members of the civil-service com
mission in a few days Sias w. Burt, naval
officer of the port of New York, and Edward
o. Graves, chief of the National Bank Re-
demption Agency of the Treasury Depart
ment, are mentioned as probable appointees
GENERAL SHERMAN, in a letter to General
J. D. Cox, declng an invitation to an army
club supper, writes: I'm another year | will
be nearer Cincinnati, and so situated that
can follow my own inclinations better, when
I assure you it will give me unusual pleas
ure to meet old comrades of Cincinnati.
This refers to his coming retirement and flu
lure residence in ST. Louis.
Or the seventy-six senators whose names
are printed in the last edition of the Con-
gressional Directory eight were born in Ohio,
Ieven in Kentucky, seven in New York, foul
zach in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia
MARYLAND, Tennessee and Vermont, three
zach in Maine Massachusetts, North Caro-
ina and South Carolina, and two each in
Delaware, Illinois. New Hamsphire and
rhode Island. No other State produced
more than one. Three were born in Ireland
me in England and one in Scotland
THE temper and appetite of the Democratic
party were well evidenced in the shameful
and shame IS vote on the bill concerning
the Knightstown insttutions-the Soldiers