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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
A FLOATING PALACE.
The Steam Yacht of a Railroad Magnate
Approaching Completion.


Philadelphia Times.
Jay Gould's steam yacht, building at the
shipyards of William Cramp & Sons, is rap
idly approaching completion. AT present
the framework and deck, entirely composed
Of iron, are almost finished. Over the iron
fush-deck a wooden flooring will be laid.
The frame is 225 feet long, POS feet at the
water-line, with a ~twenty-six-feet beam. Or
dinarily loaded, it will draw about fifteen
feet of water. The shape of the frame, being
we'll pointed at the bow, clean cut at the
sides, and nicely rounded at the stern, gives
every promise that the desires of the owner
and the expectations of the builders, to make
this the most complete aud fastest-sailing
yacht in existence, will be fully realized.
Her rig will be that of a three-masted
schooner, and she will be provided with
electric lights and carry a Herreschoh steam
launch.
The cabins will be located in the forward
part of the boat of the crews quarters aft,
after the model OF James Gordon Benefits
yacht. The cabins and state-rooms Will be
ventilated by an improved steam fan, worked
from the engine room. The cabins and min
state-rooms will be furnished in most mag
nificent style before the yacht leaves Camps
yards. The floors of the state-rooms are 10
be finished in hard and fancy woods, with
porcelain bath tubs unde them, containing
fresh and salt water, which may be made
hot at the occupants desire.
The floors are to be movable and so ar
ranged that a bath may be INDUCED in with
out the necessity of the inmate leaving his
room. The upper woodwork of the state
rooms will consist of satin wood, French
walnut and mahogany, inlaid with various
designs, specially made for the purpose. The
furniture of each room will be distinct, one
in scarlet and yellow, another in blue and
gold, a third in ebony and so on. The up
holstering of the apartments will be in tapes
try, with embroidered needlework of various
%colors, so designed as to be in harmony with
the general character of each room. There
will be additional accommodations for thirty
officers and men and room to carry coal suf-
fcient for a trip of eighteen days duration.
Altogether it is estimated that the yacht will
cost not less than $3.50, 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
ABOUT PEOPLE.
ceration.

THE late William A. Seaver, who edited the
old Jokes TOR Harper's Magazine, left an estate
of S2OO,O 900.
KAISER WILHELM has bestowed a patent of
nobility upon Professor Helmholtz, the cole
brated scientist.
TIL roll OF living war Governors is a short one,
embracing only Curtin, OF Pennsylvania; Kirk
wood, of Iowa, and Blair, of Michigan.
AN Iowa editor has been asked by o GORE
spoudent for an answer to the question, "Do
hogs payf' Looking over his subscription list,
lie finds they do not. s.f ara
FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT has just put the
finishing touches to her serial story of ''fhrough
One Administration" and the final chapters viii
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
he REIMBURSEMENT of the tariff.

The account reprinted from the Chicago
Tribune OF the operations of Mr.. Alexander
Collier, who is the Marion Trust Company"
of this city, shows that this precious party is
catching gudgeons wherever he can with his
of the public the Journal exposed the nature
and work OF the Marion Trust Company, for
which, by virtue of the enlightened laws of
Indiana, framed to protect all kinds of
scoundrelism and give business to sbyster
lawyers, we have been favored with a libel
suit for $50, 900. The day will come when
the laws will be so changed as to protect the
people and the newspapers in the discharge
Of a public service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

without gloves. He asserted that Howgate
stole $500, 900 of the public funds, and that
General Hazen had continued in the service
a large number of the employees who were
cognizant of, if not implicated with, his ras-
cality. General Hazen's unfortunate tenden-
cies to p~recipitate himself into trouble,
which once received the rebuke of General
Sherman, seem now to have fairly got him
into the landing net. A court martial in his
case will almost certainly be had.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE President could not well have don't
better with the Civil,service commission than
he has. Its president, Dorman B. Eaton, has
for years been the apostle of this reform.
Had he not been appointed all the theorists
son, and no matter how able the appointees
might have been the experiment would have
been condemned from the start. Under the
guidance of Mr.. Eaton, however, no advo-
cate ofreform can syllable dissent DR.. J. N.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE revenue bill, with its tariff amend
ments, as it passed the Senate, is estimated to
reduce taxation to the amo unit of $50, 000,-
900: While there is much doubt of the
final action of the House, there is a very
hopeful feeling that the measure will be-
some a Iaw. either by the absolute concur
renee OF the'House or through the services
of a conference committee. The Republican
representatives will deserve well of the oun
try if despite the opposition of a powerful
minority, they can yet pass a bill making an
experiment in the reduction of taxation and
the readjustment of the tariff.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

have theories might be mistaken; no woman's
word on the subject could be accepted, but the
testimony of man who had really worn corsets
would settle the matter. He wore stiff stays for
a month, he laced them without mercy, and at
the end of that time found what any unscientifc
stout lady could have told him, that they had no
permanently reducing influence, and that he
was as fat as ever. When he took them off he
felt like "falling all to pieces" from lack of the
support, and suffered dyspeptic agonies in his
inside for some time after, whence he concludes
that the women of the country are, one and all,
enduring slow death from their torturing dress.
Women cannot DO too thankful that scientific
men are willing TO make such sacrifices as this
for their benefit. Without the scientific man
they would walk in ignorance to the end, not
knowing that anything was wrong with their
attire,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GoRRINGE, of the
United States Navy, is about to resign. He
that, by the aid OF capitalists who
have confidence in the undertaking, he has
leased the %ship-building yard of the Phila-
delphia & Reading Railroad Company, and
that he is now making arrangements to en-
gage in the business of ship-Duilding on a
large scale. He asks no odds of anybody,
and will enter no combination, believing
that the business will pay a legitimate profit.
He has orders already for three vessels, one
large and two small ones. The new corpora
ton, of which Lieutenant-commander Cor
ringe will be president, will manufacture all
kinds of vessels, but will make a speciality of
iron ships. He acknowledges that the nee
essary materials will be unusually high, but
says that he can secure mechanics at very
reasonable rates.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
primacy.

SOME gentleman has filed a caveat to the
idea of making Pogue's run The main artery
Of the city-sewer system and the drainage
of the State ditch into it. 1t will be a hard
matter to obtain a patent upon this idea, or
to convict any present advocate OF plagiar-
Ism. 1t is an idea that has been entertained
and promulgated ever since the question of
sewerage was a vital one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE Brown benevolent boards bill has be-
come a law. Both houses of the Legislature
have passed it over the veto of the Governor.
After the disgraceful exhibition in the
Senate by Jason Brown, a motion to re-
consider the vote was entered in the Hous
by Mr.. Jewett, but as there was no other
purpose than a personal one to Mr.. Brown,
and as Mr.. Brown entered a motion in the
Senate to reconsider the vote whereby the
Lamb-McDonald Congressional appropriation
bill was rejected, it is evident that Mr.. Jew
ett's motion will mount to nothing. So the
rape of the State charities may be considered
complete. The people will execute lynch
law against the party perpetrating the out
race.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE Senate has taken the course with the
proposed new asylums for the incurably in
sane outlined in the Journal of yesterday,
and the House will undoubtedly concur.
The only feature of difference is that Evans
Vile has been practically agreed upon by
both branches as the location for one of the
Asylums, and the proposed commission will
have but two locations to determine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

PROBABLY the most disgraceful scene ever
occurred yesterday in the State Senate, the
senator from Jackson county, Jason B. Brown,
being the chief actor. Regardless of the
proprieties of the time and place, he
poured forth a stream of profane
and obscene abuse upon a leading
member of his own party, and one of the
most prominent and courteous members OF
the body. The galleries were filled with
ladies, and at least a score were upon the
fool. There can be but one adequate action
by the Senate for this most gross outrage
of decorum and decency, and that is
the immediate expulsion of the Of
tending member from the place he
State OF Indiana is to be turned into some
thing lower and worse than a pot-house,
this can be the only thing entertained by
self-respecting and Senate-respecting mem
bers. No one can tell when Mr.. Brown may
not put himself in a condition to repeat this
%offense, and the opportunity should not be
left within his power. If the Democratic
party has any sense of shame or care for its
future it will not condone this offense of its
arrogant leader. A beautiful spectacle the
Democratic General Assembly presents to
the intelligent, moral and patriotic people
of Indiana. The Senate led by and under
the domination OF Jason B. Brown, and the
House held in the grip of Lieutenant-general
Horace Heffren. can ounce of civet, good
apothecary, to sweeten my Imagination"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE weather was very stormy yesterday
for General w. B. Hazen, brigadier and bre-
vet majorgeneral United States army, and
chief signal officer. In the Senate General
Logan said he could prove that the signal
service employees, paid with the government
money, had been used to write newspaper
articles denouncing him, while in the House
Mr.. Beltzhooyer handled the whole bureau
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journar

10 inc EOlfOr Of tne Indianapolis Journal
In last Saturdays Journal, in answer to a
question, you say the amendments hanging
between the two houses of the present Cen
eral Assembly cannot be brought before the
next Legislature. This is the strict import
of the language of the constitution; but was
not the present Legislature elected under a
constitutional amendment referred to the
electors by a third Legislature? Were our
present officers constitutionally elected? We
have patched our constitution twice, and
both patches are liable to rip off. We need a
new constitution that at least lawyers can
understand. D.
If the writer of the above will read the
constitution, he will discover that while the
agreement to a constitutional amendment
must be by two successive Legislatures, the
submission" OF the proposition to the PEG
pie may be by the third, OIL, by the tenth, or
by the fiftieth. Submission is an entirely
different thing from agreement" much as
some constitutional authorities would desire
to confound them. However, as a matter of
an amendment that was submitted by the sec
ond Legislature; but the Supreme Court de-
cided that the submission was faulty, or tan
tamount to no submission at all; hence the
next Legislature submitted it in a way that
would meet the refined views of the Demo
cratic majority of the Supreme Court. But
as we have said, there is no constitutional
specification of the particular Legislature
which shall submit an amendment after it
has been properly agreed to. Once agreed to
is ready to be submitted at any time and by
any Legislature. .
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

WESTMINSTER Abbey is reported to be dis
migrating at a rapid rate, and something
will have to be done to stop the ravages of
time and the blarsted British weather. The
entire structure will have to be refaced in
order to keep the magnificent interior and
its sacred relics intact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE natives of Malta have expressed their
political disgust with public affairs by elect
ing idiots to the council, which body had to
be dissolved by the Governor. Indiana
Democrats seem to be taking revenge in the
same way in selecting legislators. Still there
are executions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

every community and every individual
within the State, that education should be
universal and as complete as possible. 1t is
therefore important that a compulsory edu-
cation bill receive the careful attention of
the legislature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE Chicago Tribune has lost q faithful and
competent servant, and the newspaper profess
sion an honorable exponent, by the death OF
Samuel ]. Medill. Like the majority of success
full editors Mr.. Medill came up from the ranks,
having started in life as a newspaper appren-
tice, and serving in all the gradatlons up to the
place of managing editor, which he held at his
death. His service on the Tribune extended
over many years, and while ia no degree snowy
or brilliant, as tho words are used, it had the
better quality of sOlidity and endurance. He
was an honest, substantial man, a true friend, a
kindly associate, and just governor. In the
prime of his years, and so shortly after a happy
marriage, his death will be universally regretted,
and by those who knew him with any degree OF
intimacy will be regarded as q personal bereave-
ment,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
A Fair Estimate of David Davis.

Gath's Interview with a Cabinet officer.
"What kind of a figure do you think Judge
Davis has cut in the Sepateg' .5.
'sWhy, he has managed to vary his biogra-
/. phy somewhat at the expense of any mate
rial performance, and l should think at the
expense of his real dignity. Fey men who
have sat on the. Supreme Bench have had so
many circumstances occur to them as Davis,
yet in hardly any case has he seemed to di-
rect events or to show capacity for legislative
life.U - .-,..-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

general, so it is doing its best to make
amends by indulging in beastly blackguard-
ism. 1t would be difficult to conceive how
the Democratic majority in both Houses
could descend to lower depths if Brown and
Heffren are continued in their party
nrinnnnr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

WHAT respect can the people of Indiana
have for the State Senate if it permits MIR.
apology can there be to the Senate-not to
individual members, but to the Senate-for
such a foul breach of its dccorum and dig
Aifv2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
The State should Take Care of Its Own.

The State treasury is full Of money, and
practically out of debt, SO that a liberal
would add nothing to the burden of taxa
ton. Under such circumstances the great
State of Indiana, with its intelligent and
generous population, will not, we believe
and hope, permit a single one of her citizens
to perish or even to suffer from any lack Of
.liberalitY in this matter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
The Popular Opinion.
New York Times

New YORK Times, 1"--". ~. y.
General w. B. Hazen ought to be treats&
to a., c~ourt-rnartial, unless a commission de
~lunatico inquirendo is not previously ordered
in his case, az s % I'd, =,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

AN old woman in a Pennsylvania almshouse
RECOGNIZED among the inmates q daughter whom
she had not seen for many years. According to
the local reporter the mother was so Overcome
with joy" that she died on the spot with no de-
lay. 1t is just possible, considering the circum-
stances, that joy was not the emotion which
overcame the old lady.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

Brown and Heffren, Heffren and Brown
the win leaders of the Democratic party of
Indiana. How do the people like the pic
ture they present?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

CoAL-oIL has been discovered in Wales. This
will be sad news to the boys and girls of PEN
rhyndendraeth, Bettys-y-Cold and CaernarvOn-
shire generally. But then 1t can be turned down
awfully low, you know.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE executioner who hanged Oberdank, the
Austrian wOuld-be regicide, received but eleven
dollars for the JOB. But he has a monopoly of
the business, and probably makes it pay in the
long run. H
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

JOHN +. SHULTz, a wise man residing in New
York, has solved the problem of dealing with
ocean fogs. He would have each vessel pro-
vided with a balloon, and in each balloon IL look
out. When the lookout saw another balloon
looming up through the fog, he would comuuni-
cate tie intelligence to the vessel below, etc.
Just how the old thing would work on a moon
less night Mr.. Shultz does not say.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE present Legislature will hardly be re-
garded as a school of ethics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

EVANGELIST BARNES sails for England to-day.
BE alains to have converted 450 souls during
his nine weeks visit to New York and Brooklyn.
Whether the Lord took any part in the CONVEX
sions is not stated. Barnes expects to journey
around the world before returning to this couu.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE ghosts of this season seem to be of an
active disposition, and manifest a desire to make
themselves useful. A Tennessee spook appears
regularly every evening at a certain house and
rocks the cradle when the baby cries. The ghost
of Parker, the st. Louis criminal who recently
killed his wife and himself in the courtroom in
that city, appears in the building at midnight
and wakes up the night-watchman by punching
his head. Spirits who show a Willingness to lend
a hand in this way should be encouraged. Such
conduct does much TO remove the reputation of
their kind for idleness and mischief.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

IT is stated officially that the American
contributions for the European flood suffer
ers amounts to 5SS, 100 marks, or about
$147, 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
A Painful Admission.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
Joseph Cook admits that he does not know
how long after death the soul leaves the
body. 1t will surprise Mr.. Cooks acquaint,
anoes to learn that there is anything he doee
not know. M
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

The Asiatio society is about to erect n monu-
ment to commemorate the terrible Black Hole
of Calcutta, where but twenty-three out of
LAG British prisoners survived one nights incar-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

The Michigan City Dispatch, Democratic,
CURLY says: THE Legislature has fifteen
days more to finish legislation. Better cry
uuits now and go home" M
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE report of the farewell services of the
Mountain Evangelist, as published in the New
York Tribune, says: "After singing by Miss
Marie Barnes, the evangelist, in an of-hand,
matter-of-fact way, said: Let us praise Him.
and led in prayer, in which he said Now, dear
Lord, we ask one sweet parting kiss, as is Thy
WON'T" Such twaddle as this disgusts the great
mass of the people, and utterly spolls whatever
good might result from his ministrations. Amer
lea can we'll spare all such "evangelists."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

EUROPEAN divorce statistics present some in
t~eresting figures. In Roumania 24.62 per cent.
of marriages are dissolved during the first year,
or nearly ono in four, and but 11.73 per cent.
last over ten years. In Sweden 10 per cent. last
only one year, while 6O.29 per cent. are dis
solved after ten years. In Italy 6.S5 per cent.
of the marriages are dissolved in the first year;
in Switzerland, 3.52, ana in France, O.69.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

THE Catholic school tragedy in New York
City isin keeping with the already numerous
tragedies of the new year. Sixteen lives
we're lost.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

A NOVEL disaster i'd about to overtake the
town of Castlerea, Ireland. 1t is built in the
midst of n vast tract of bog, and this bog, by
action of the river Suck, which sweeps around
the town, is now floating down upon the village.
The first indications of the present movement
were noticed by u boy, who, coming from the
house where he lived, upon the Ballinagare road,
about two miles outside .Castlerea, was aston
ished to find the soil in front of him moving with
great speed. The motion of the bog appears TO
have been intermittent. After having hoated
about a couple of miles il stopped, and then once
more moved onward. 1t was not long before
the progress of the dislodged bog began to make
itself practically felt. A small farmers house
was covered, and the family had to effect their
escape through the roof. They took refuge
in a neighbours house, half a mile away,
where they have remained since. The
mass of bog which moved in this singular man
ner is known in the district as the Baslick bog.
Up to Saturday this extremely curious bog mo-
ton continued, but when Saturday night came
it appears TO have stopped. The floating matter
has completely covered the road between Castle
rea and Ballinagare, and all traffic between the
two places is suspended. The height of the bog
matter deposited on the road is about fifteen feet
at an average. About sixty perches of the Bal
linagare road are blocked up, and about four
thousand acres are covered by the bog since it
commenced it's journey. Large pieces of bog are
carried into the town by the Suck, whose waters
have recently flooded the country for miles
around Castlerea. A sudden avalanche is a ter
rible thing, but scarcely more so than a slow
moving tide of mud and mucky soil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
Favors Compulsory Education.
Lafayette Courier.

Lafayette Uourier. .T.N b" %"
There can be no question that it is for the
interest OF the State, and the interest also OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22

SENATORIAL courtesy in Indiana does mo-
mean what the term usually implies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY %, IS So.

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