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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30
ABOUT PEOPLE.

THE English painters, Sir Frederick Leighton,
Millais and Herkomer, are notably handsome
men.
A DANISH emigrant. who arrived at Castle
Garden, tho other day, brought with him a
blanket, upon which we're neatly woven por-
traits of Hancock, Garfield and Arthur.
"FRoM the first to the last" says Anthony
Troilope, in his autobiography "there was moth
ing satisfactory in my school career except the
way il which L licked the boy who had to be
taken home to be cured"
MISS ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS was born in
Boston, and christened May Gray for an intimate
friend of her mothers; but at the death of her
mother, when she was eight years old, "Eliza-
beth Stuart" her mothers name, was given in
stead.
A STORY Is told of one of the most famous inns
of London, known as the Bag-o.Nails Inn,
whose name was a puzzle to everyone until an
antiquary had one of the old signs washed and
cleaned, when it betrayed the fact that Bag-o'
Nails was simply a corruption of Bacchanals.
JOHN BRIGHT in a recent speech TO his con-
stituents remarked that he would not conceal
from them his conviction that the business of
the country is quite as we'll conducted during
the six months of the year when Parliament is
not in session as during the six months when it
Is in session.
THE London Echo states authoritatively that
Oscar Wilde is farmed out at the rate of $50 for
every lecture by an American lecturiug bureau.
The London agent of the American firm has dis
tributed circulars 10 that effec to various liter
airy and social institutions through the country.
At all events he is very well managed, and has
drawn large audiences at Manchester and other
towns.
THE appearance of Pere Hyacinthe is very
striking, and his smooth, broad, intellectual face
reminds one strongly of Henry Ward Beecher
in its general outline. He talks nothing but
French. although formerly he passed a good
deal of time in this country, where he wOoed
and won his wife, and thus placed a chasm be-
tween himself and the Roman Church which
nothing could bridge.
MOSES G. HARRIS, editor of the Morning Horse
shoe, of Hot Springs, Ark, is writing his edi-
torial articles in Jail, and recently a large multi
tude, headed by a brass band, assembled at the
Jail and rendered him q serenade. He made q
speech, in which he said that his imprisonment
was in violation of the right of free speech. He
was committed for contempt OF court in eriticis-
ing the acts of Judge Wood. In his speech to
the serenaders, Mr.. Harris reiterated all his
charges, and dared Judge Wood to give him an
opportunity to prove them true.
GENERAL GRANT denies that he will live in
Washington this winter. Said he: ''There is no
truth in the report. L shall certainly remain in
New York for the present. My children are in
this city. and l naturally prefer to be near them.
I have never stayed long enough in one place to
form any local attachments, Still, it has often
been my desire since the close of the war to set
tie iii Washington. have said so to friends,
hence doubtless the report you refer to. My
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

MEMBERS of stock exchanges, as they are
now conducted, can hardly be set up as
models of legitimate business principles, not
without exceptions, at any rate. A promi-
nent member of the New York exchange is
reported as delivering himself as follows,
though it is hardly possible that ne expect
ed to see it in print. Speaking of the recent
''freeze-out' of the Shorts he said:
THE policy of eliminating the entire
short interest is an erroneous one. Just as
soon as the shorts have covered, the artiti-
cial strength given to the market by a large
short interest will have departed and prices
Will drag. What the bulls should have
done was simply to have 'milked' the shorts
occasionally, and not to have turned them
out entirely. This sort OF thing, 1 fear, will
destroy legitimate business for six weeks to
come"
Legitimate business" as defined by stock
sharps, will indeed suffer fora time when the
lambs are all shorn to the skin, and no fresh
ones can be Immediately made available. 1t
is marvellous that material can be found suf-
ficient to keep up this" business" Left to
themselves, the big dealers on Change would
soon abandon it. They feed and grow fat on
the gullible and unsophisticated. Their
profits come from the outside, and between
the bulls and the bears of the markets the
small fry stand no chance whatever. But
victims are not wanting. and the piundering
still goes on, Legitimate business is main
tanned, and those inside grow rich at the ex-
pense of the uninitiated. One acquires pre-
carious wealth to where thousands lose their
all.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

POSTMASTER HAYS, of st. Louis, who is
reported in financial difficulty because of
margin speculation, and was said to have re-
signed in consequence, denies the latter part
of the statement. 1t seems to be conceded
that he is now only embarrassed fnan-
cially from dabbling in stocks. Taught,
whose trouble here has been in the city
papers for a day or two, was a Spectator in
stocks. The margin" fever is a dead, shot
to a man. 1t brings him sooner or later.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

ANTHONY TRoLLoPE had views on civil
service examinations, and devoted some
space to them in his autobiography. He
thinks the present system in operation in
England, which is much the same as that
lately put in practice in this country, is badly
in need of reform. When he himself went
into the Postofice Department, at the age of
nineteen, examinations were not required,
and he entered the service not knowing the
multiplication table and unable to write a
legible hand. He frankly admits that this
method, while fortunate for him, could not
be wholly satisfactory to the government;
but he thinks some means should be devised
for getting at the real qualifications of the
applicants. The series of eusg4ans pro-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

THE head of the Prohibition party in St.
Louis has taken the lead in the newly or.
ganized movement in that city for the en-
forcement of the existing laws against the
evils of the liquor traffic. Here is a field for
practical work, and DR.. Brooke's example
may we'll be followed by those of his like in
other States, The rule has been-and we
say it without unkindness or slurring any
one-that Prohibitionists will do nothing
toward the enforcement OF present laws. In
this State ~ - been treated to the spec
tacle of the most prominent ProhibItionists
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

Hon. w. D. KELLEY, recently returned
from England, where he spent several
months in search of health, and during
which time he examined the condition of
labor and the laboring classes, declares that
his observations abroad. have only made him
"a more intense protectionist, if possible,
than before" He visited the coal and iron
regions in South Wales, and spent some days
studying the conditions of the iron-workers
of that region. He says of them:
81 found the laboring population little
better than starving. There was an i'm
mense number Of men idle. One town
which had once a number of thriving iron
works was actually falling to pieces. l found
women and girls at the mouths of the coal
pits, loading and hauling cars filled with
coal and in the iron-works handling large
iron plates. In fact, they were engaged in
most of those forms of labor which require
no special skill and therefore receive the
smallest enumeration. The wages of the
men were of course larger than the women
were receiving, but still they were miserably
small"
In England he visited Manchester, Shelf
field and Birmingham. He says:
Everywhere l found the workmen under
paid and discontented. Near Birmingham are
the Matchmaking towns OF Lye-Waste and
Hales-Owen. [ found much of the work was
done by women. They received five shill-
ings a week, and from that were deducted the
rent of the forge, the cost of the fuel; the
cost of carrying bars from which nails were
made to the forge, and nails when made to
the shops or their employers. TIL women,
if married and with children, had usually to
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some care-taker to look after their children.
At Lye-Waste were many brick-making es-
adjustments where the women earned six
shillings a week, and were, in consequence,
envied by the nail and chain-makers. But
the envy of the countryside were the girls
employed at the galvanizing establishments.
They got seven shillings a week, but none of
them could hope to retain their health long
enough 10 enable them to work steadily for
six consecutive months because of the injur-
ious effects of the acids, used in the process
of manufacture, upon the throat.
'There is unquestionably a feeling among
all the working people in Great Britain that
free trade and American inventions have ru-
ined them. [ remember hearing a man say,
throwing all the earnestness of prayer into
his profanity: by God, it would have been
a good thing for us if America had never
been discovered"
Such was the experience of Mr.. Kelly,
and it will be observed that his opinions and
impressions are in exact accord with those
of Mr.. Porter who, a few months ago, Wis
tied the same manufacturing centers OF
England. There is little likelihood OF Amer
lean mechanics coming into competition
with these men and women, if they once I'M
derstand what the adoption of free trade
means.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

THE amenities of Democratic politics were
fight in Buffalo. Two Democrats have been
named for the Office of mayor-John B.
Manning and Jonathan Scoville. TIN friends
of the latter secured the services of a GER
tain Delilah to inveigle Manning into some
compromising scheme, when he would be
obliged to withdraw from the race. He
was too shrewd, however, and managed the
'lady'' SO adroitiy that she confessed the
conspiracy. A huge political scandal is the
result.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

pounded is, he holds, no measure of the
actual ability or education OF young men.
One may be crammed to answer the ques-
tions, and yet make a poor clerk, while
another who fails to "pass" be entirely COM
petent to do all that will be required of him.
Mr., Trollope has what may be termed "horse
sense-u
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, of Missouri, in his
letter to the st. Louis Chamber OF Commerce,
says he hopes the city will be cleared OF all
forms of gambling, including option dealing
on Change. OF course, the Governors COM
munication is by no means popular, and he
is the general target for abuse from all
quarters. And yet, why should not option
gambling ego" as well as faro or poker
pamblino2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

THE Massachusetts, Civil-service Reform
League is trying to inject another issue than
Butler into the campaign by sending out cir
culars to all candidates of both parties ask
ing their opinions on civil-service reform.
have been received from all the candidates
but Butler, who boldly and openly SCOTS at
the league. That body, in consequence, has
dropped reform for the present, and returns
to the old issue, anything to beat Butler"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

THE tendency of the age is not toward the
common law as the palladium OF liberty.
1t is toward written constitutional guarantees
enforced and upheld by statutory enact
ments. The rights of men arc to be put
down in writing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

They do some things differently in France.
A druggist in Paris, who adulterated sui
plate Of ~quinine, has been sentenced to a
ton. he is to pay a fine OF a thousand francs,
his name and crime are to be published in
twelve political and twelve professional pa
pers, and should he ever reopen his store, to
the door thereof is to be aft xed a sign: Sen
fenced for adulterating sulphate of quinine."
A copy OF this sentence might serve as a
model for American legislators.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

DELEGATE CANNON declares that he has no
aspirations to become the head of the Nor
mon Church, for the reason that the man
who fills that position will be the target for
endless abuse. 1t is to be hoped that the day
is not far distant when the whole iniquity
will be abolished forever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

GEO. ~AERER TOWNSEND says in the New
York Tribune: 'I found that Washington,
without much regard to party, was hostile
to the recent decision of the Supreme Court,
and it seemed to me that Colonel Ingersoll
and Fred. Douglass were for the nonce the
most popular men at the capital"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

THE Chicago Tribune has walked up to the
fact that a Democratic Supreme Court is not
an impossibillty in this country if the
Democratic party obtain full control of the
government, in which event it sees the posi-
bility of such things as the Journal limited
at last Saturday. In this view of the case
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

LIEUTENANT BENNETT H. YOUNG, now Of
this State, and president of the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago railway, was the
leader in the confederate raid upon st.
Adams during the war. So Gath says in the
New York Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

GOVERNOR IRELAND, of Texas, is trying to
smooth the way of the negroes in his State
by requesting the railway companies to give
them separate accommodations on trains,
and has stirred up a breeze by this action.
He is charged with r~eviving the civil-rights
question unnecessarily, and from selfish polit-
ical motives, Notwithstanding his asseyera-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

DENVER has, in Jail, the most accomplished
rascal yet caught. He was arrested for forging
n note for $500. In default of a So, 900 bond
he went to Jail, and while in that retreat forged
the signature of a well-known merchant to a
draft for the amount he desired and got the
money. The forgery was detected before he had
asoaIAad, INIT mot in tim0 tn reoovar the mnnay,
as he had turned it over to his lawyers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

READERS of David Coppertield will recolleot
the "caul" that the author speaks of in the first
chapter, and which was bought by an old wO-
man who continually denounced "'meandering."
What she wanted with a charm, TO keep her
from drowning could not, as she never went
near water deep enough to drown in. A lady in
New York now advertises a caul for sale. 1t is
said to be a favorite amulet with sailors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

INVESTIGATION into the latest Arkansas "train
robbery" brought to light three badly-scared
wood-choppers. who stopped the train to ask if
IT carried any freight for them. They knew it
would be an accommodation tothem to have the
goods thrown off without having TO go to tho
station, and probably supposed it would crafty
weight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

A JOINT discussion between John Thomas
Capel and Monsieur Loyson, alias Pere dya-
cinthe, would be attractive.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

publicly announcing their preference for
free whisky over restricted whisky.
With such a sentiment, more or less preva-
lent in such quarters, it is folly to expect
much repressive temperance work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

HENRY JAMES is very ungenerous in his esti-
nation of contemporaneous authors. OF Mrs.
Burnetts "Esmeralda" he says in the Pail Mall
Gazette: "The new play would be infantine if
infants ever expressed themselves in falsetto.
Her story is mawkish and unreal" The reading
public will be uncharitable enough to think that
the fact that the management which put on
"Esmeralda' gently, but firmly, declined Mr..
James's play, "Daisy Miller"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

THE stage is not wholly bad, after all. Two
English managers have peremptorily refused to
even listen to a dramatic version OF Zola's "Pot-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

PARK THEATEU-BGylics 4 Kennedy's bright
Lights and sullivan * Slade Athletic Combina-
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JULES LEVY blows a horn. In fact he is an al
legged cornetist. Long years ago-some sixteen
"a cornet firm gave him one of their instru-
ments. Levy liked it, and wrote a letter indors-
ing its good qualities. Recently another firm
has donated Mr.. Levy a brand new horn. Levy
writes a nice letter, saying he'd be bowed II it
wasn't the best he ever blew, He now begins a
suit against the first firm to make them stop
publishing his puff written in 1867. He should
remember the adage about being off with the
old love, etc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

NEW RK-Fif Avenue and Windsor Hotels,
WASHINGTON. D. C.-BreDtano's l,0l5 PennsylVa-
MIA avenue.
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IEUSENRNTs THIS EVENING.

sNGLIsTs- NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and ParslOe
in My Partner
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GRAND oPERA-noUsE-Prof Morris's Dog Cir
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.PARIs-American Exchange in Paris, IS Boulevard
des Capucines,
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ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot.
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DAILY JOURNAL.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 80. 1888.
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C~HICAGO-Palmer House.
CINClNNATI-J. {. Hawley & Co.. 1884 Vine streot.
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LOUISVILLE-C L. bearing, northwest corner
Third and jefferson streets.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-30

We have received a copy oil the first edition oil
the Argus. a neatly-prinicd and carefully edited
paper, published at Altoona, Orange county, c.
A. Wilson, editor and manager. It's politics are
announced as independent Democratic. We
make the following extracts from comments on
the Governors message:
The Governors message to the Legislature
now in session at Tallahassee is an able and lucid
document. l. presents in clear and iDrcible Ian
guage the q .vrrnors views upon subjt els IF ut
most iInpoI lance To The interests Of the State.
To the present administration may
be credited the successful reduction ot tue taxes
TO the lowest minimum point compatible with a
healthy finant a credit. And this in face OF the
fact that similar experiments by preceding all
ninsira ions had failed. And also of loosening
the fetefs that bound up irreirievably the Inter.
nal Improvement Fund, placing il upon basis
where il could be utilized and made source OF
revenue Z
The administration is certainly abreast with
the times and alive TO the interests of The entire
State.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-30
Mariana Courier, Jan. 25
PENSACOLA AND ATLANTIC
ITEMS

superintendent Chipley, Chief Engineer
Dawes, Paymaster Cary, OF the Pensacola and
Atlantic Railroad. were in town this week look
ing after the interest of this road
"A petition will at once be sent to Washing
ton asking that our mail be sent by the Pensa-
cola and Atlantic Railroad on and alter the 10Th
Of February.
Captain Chipley has secured the steamer
Newton 10 ply between Sampson's Landing and
Chattahoochee until the bridge is completed
she is undergoing some repairs now and will be
put on about the LIST OF February.
There are only four miles more of track to
be laid before the locomotive can run from Pen
sacola 10 the Apalachicola river; it will require
just four days to do this after the water of Choc.
tawhstchie subsidies and the temporary bridge
ID replaced.
The temporary bridge over the Choctaw-
hatchio was washed away last week. and II will
require three or four days to replace Il after the
water subsidies; the Iron bridge Is being put In,
and IN ten Or fifteen days with good water will
be completed.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-30
The New Ballot-Boxes.

The Montgomery Adcertiscr has been exam
ming new ballot-box invented by some fellow,
that is warranted to prevent Democrats from
being elected IN districts. States and counties
where there are negro majoritiea By some
strange combination of locks and springs and
India rubber bands, says that paper, guaranteed
to he above the comprehension Of any ono but
Federal Supervisor, every ballot put in BY me-
gro will come out for the Republican candidate
Ii white man put in q Democratic ballot the
box will count it as cast. The strangest part OF
the box is that if white man votes the Repub-
lican ticket il will come out just that way. We
can readily understand how it can count all the
white votes one way and all the black votes an
other way, because a white man and black man
are not the same color. Wecan even understand
how it could allow a few black votes to get
mixed with the whites, and few white ones to
get mixed with the black but we cannot under
stand how il can allow a few while votes to get
among the black votes and not allow any black
ones 10 get among the white
This, however, is the point on which the pat
ent was granted, and gives to the box its useful
ness as guaranior of full vote, a free ballot
and fair count The main feature is of course.
its compelling all negroes to vote The Republican
ticket, and this recommends it 20 the Republican
party. But as 1t leaves the power of the white
man to vote any ticket he pleases untouched, it
is not our funeral and we shall not oppose the
obseques Of negro freedom.
The box costs tri1e to make, not over $40 or
$l2, but on account of its prospective value to
the Republican party as aimeans Of enslaving the
negro vote, Senator Hoar has introduced bill in
Congress TO compel their use everywhere at a
cost of not more than $50 OF course as the in
ternal arrangement of the box renders ii impos-
sible for negro to vote Democratic ticket. al
though he should have been paid to do it, the
Hoar bill will be approved by colored voters.