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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28
ABOUT PEOPLE.

THE Duke of Argyll is trying to acelmate
American wild turkeys in Scotland.
THE Comte dc Chambord seeks popularity in
Paris by having distributed among the poor free
bread tickets bearing his coat-of-arms.
IT is stated that George o. Barnes, the "Moun-
tain Evangelist" when he arrives in England,
will take steps to organize religious movement
in opposition TO the Salvation Army.
THE Marquis of Lorne while in California had
several dozen quails shipped from that State
to the head-keeper on thu Inverary moors,
with view to having them acclimated in Scot
land.
If David Davis does not marry her as soon as
Congress adjourns, Miss Burr can begin a breach
of promise suit with cloud of witnesses ready
to swear to the engagement, and long bill of
particulars.
MIR. BLAINE says, according to a somewhat
apocryphal report, that he has not seen either
house OF Congress In session since he retired
from the cabinet, and that he does not intend
ever to go upon the floor of either house again.
GENERAL SHERIDEN is said to be already
house hunting in Washington in anticipation of
succeeding General Sherman not only as gen.
eralissimo of the American armies, but also in
q measure, as one of the social lions of the
capital.
THE death is announced, at Leipzig, of Wolf
gang Max Won Goethe, a grandson Of the great
poet, at the age of sixty-twO. He is described
as having been an amabe but very bashfui per-
son. He published volume of short poems and
long epic-lyric poem, "Elfriede."
ALETTER from Cannes rather Indignantly de-
mics that Miss Chamberlain is quite the beauty
par excellence, and declares that Miss Crabbe
quite shares the general and special admiration
claimed by the Americans for their country
woman. Miss Crabbe is the daughter of the
popular actress, whose beauty she inherits.
MR.. AUSTIN CoRBlN will sail for Europe to-day
Mr.. Corbin said, Saturday, that he was going
abroad chiefly on business and expected to re-
turn May L. He said that the Long Island sum-
mer resorts with which he Is identified would be
made more attractive than ever next season.
He would try and induce Johann Strauss to come
over and spend next summer at Manhattan
Beach.
MRS. JOHN JACOB Aston has the largest and
finest diamonds of any lady in New York-prob-
ably in America. They are remarkable for size
and brilliancy, and represent a labor of years to
collect, match, size and shade. 1t Is only on
rare occasions that she wears them, and when
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

The Journal prints a second letter this
morning from its staff correspondent with
the relief expedition up the Ohio river. The
statements made i'll this report from the per-
sonal investigation of trained and expert
9nced mind corroborating what information
comes from more general sources, will have
The effect to stimulate the people to continue
their benevolences. The necessity for active
work is in no respect lessened, if, indeed, it
be not really increased by the subsistence of
the waters. We commend our special report
to careful reading certain that it will re-
suit in an enhancement of the funds at the
disposal of the committee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

WE find in one of our exchanges the fol
the recent speech of Senator Hilligass in
defense of the leadership of the Democratic
party by acknowledgement Heffren.
"'Who is Lamdin P. MilliganT asked
Senator Hilligass. He is distinguished
constituent of mine, the intellectual peer OF
any senator on this floor Though once
tried Tor treason in this city, ne has lived tC
see the Republican party, the party claiming
to be OF Morton and of Lincoln, PROSTATE in
the dust, supplicating him to become its
candidate for the office that l, Democrat
have the honor to hold. The Republican
party of Indiana, through its chairman,
cried, Help, Milligan, or we sink"
Senator Hilligass was a Union soldier, and
he not only has an honorable record bui
bears honorable wounds received from the
associates of acknowledgement Heffsen in
the rebel army. 1t emphasizes the CALLING
fastened upon his party that he compels an
honorable and gallant Union soldier like
Captain Hilligass to rise in his seat in the
Senate and defend him from the attack OF
his own infamous record. But if the Senator
felt the thrall SO much that it was necessary
for him to champion his feshly and
hagitious grand commander, it really was
not necessary for him to add falsehood to the
burden of his pitiful and pitiable service
Captain Hilligass knows that when he init
mated that the Republican party, in any
manner or degree, advocated the candidacy
of Lamdin P. Milligan, to say nothing
of the assertion that the party asked
Milligan to become candidate for the
Senate, and that the party, by anybody oil
through any authorized representative, called
upon Milligan to stand as an opponent of the
Senator he intimated and said what is abso
lutely and unqualifedly false There can be
no excuse of ignorance on the part of Captain
Hilligass. He knows better and knew bet
ter when he uttered these words on the floor
of the Senate, and he dishonored himself
and the Office he holds by SO large majority
when he gave utterance to SO palpable mis-
statement. Any man ought to be ashamed
to be the author of such glarng falsehood
senator and particularly one in the posi-
ton of Senator Hilligass, should have con
sidered his honor worth more to him. and oil
higher influence and power with his con.
science, than even the fealty he owes as
Democrat to the leadership and orders oil
Grand Commander and Lieutenant-general
Heffren,
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A STATEMENT having been made by the
Rochester Sentinel that Governor Porter was
pardoning more convicts out of the peniten-
tiary than any of his predecessors, the Peru
Republican wrote to the Executive Depart.
ment for information. The figures show as
follows Governor Hendricks. in four years,
pardoned BOG Governor Williams, in a
little less time pardoned 297. Governor
Gray, in six weeks, pardoned IA, and Gov
ernor Porter, in two years, pardoned just 48.
The average of Governor Hendricks is u
month, of Williams over 6, of Gray 10, and
of Porter just 2. Facts and figures are valu-
able to meet the assertions of the thoughtless
or vicious.
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AFTER long and painful effort consider
able sum of money was raised toward the
building of Garfield memorial hospital in
of the country contributed to the fund. 1t
is now discovered, by little investigation
and the exercise of little sense which
seven hospitals already exist in that city,
and more than enough to supply the needs.
1t is now proposed to turn the money into
the monument fund.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

THE Reed rule, whereby the House can
disagree to the Senate amendments and send
the whole tariff and revenue question to a
committee of conference upon one motion,
was passed yesterday, and thus the way is
open to see what sort OF legislation in the
interest of reduction and tariff reformation
can come from the conference room. There
seems to be no question that the Senate bill
as it stands would work injury, is crude
and out of harmony, ana chat radical amend
ments are essential. These, it is hoped, can
be effected in the conference committee. 1t
is greatly to be desired that, after all the
pulling and hauling the alterations of hope
and chagrin, bill may be perfected and
agreed to by both houses of Congress which
shall make start at least, in the direction
of reduction of revenue and reformation of
the tariff This will fifty close the holly
contested work OF the present Congress.
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"WHATEyER may be said of the other actors
in this comedy of errors it cannot Justly
be said OF Judge Gould that he has failed in
dignity or in the preservation of order
Lafayette Courier.
If this be true, then "the other actors in
this comedy of errors have managed to turn
the court room into bear garden or a
comedy stage without the judge seeming to
be aware of it. If such proceedings as
are quoted from the Couriers own columns
are called order in Lafayette, then the
courts there had better indulge in little
disorder, not more for variety's sake than
for the sake of the sanctity OF law and the
reputation of courts of justice. Either the
reports of the trial IN the Courier columns are
grossly unfair or else the proceedings are
disgraceful in the last degree to all who par
ticipated in them. What the Journal said
was based upon the reports taken from the
Courier-and we have no doubt they were
and are correct. The business of that criti-
csm we are willing to leave to an intelligent
public or to the bench and bar of Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

DAVID DAVIS, president pro tenn. of the
Senate has given notice that he will resign
that Office on the Sd of March proximo, so
that new presiding officer can be chosen,
and thus the presidential succession be kept
intact 1t is presumed that this notice of
Senator Davis is the result of an intimation
that there viii be no special executive ses-
sion of the Senate, and, of course, no special
session of Congress. The postponement of
the consideration of the Mexican treaty
until next December also tends to confirm
this general impression, 1t is regarded as
certain that Senator Edmunds, of Vermont
will be elected the successor of Mr.. Davis,
and that the other officers of the Senate will
remain unchanged for the present.
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DISCUSSING the troubles at Purdue and the
forced resignation of President White, the
Lafayette Times says:
purdue University has never been in so
hopeful and satisfactory condition as it is at
the present time. Not only has there been a
decided advance in the work done during
President Whites administration but the
appliances and accommodations of all the
departments have been greatly improved.
The greatest change has been made in the de-
partments of agriculture and mechanics to
which the President has devoted his best at
tention.
1.-The fight over the Greek fraternities, in
some of its features, has been merelya side
show; the real fight was against President
White He has been made the target for
scurrilous abuse on the part of certain sena-
tors, notably young Willard, that was simply
disgraceful, but considering the source from
which it came should go unheeded.
"Under the circumstances, it is, perhaps,
we'll that President White should retire. He
will leave the institution in a highly flour
ishing condition, carrying with him not
only the confidence and respect of the trus-
tees but of every true friend of Purdue Uni
Versity.''
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CITIES everywhere are suffering from
diffusion of responsibility in their municipal
government. and there is almost universal
movement for the abolition of all execu-
tive boards, whether independent or inter
mediary. Experience has shown them TO be
useless, cumbrous inefficient, in the way of
the best administration, and with an inevita-
BILE tendency to lack of responsibility and
consequently breeding corruption. In the
pending session of parliament Sir William
Vernon Harcourt, Home Secretary, is to in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Jouunsa.


l am not versed in politics or legal lore
hence desire to ask you a conundrum. From
recent literature upon the subject 1 under
what is going to be done about it, was at one
time an officer in the United States army,
and that afterward he accepted a commission
as acknowledgement in the rebel army. II
these premises are true why is not said Hef-
fren disqualified from holding Office or even
voting, by the laws of the United States, un.
less his disabilities are removed by a special
act OF Congress? There is an eternal fitness
of things in Brown and Heffren as the re.
cognized leaders of the Indiana Democracy,
but it is a sickenng spectacle to all decent
citizens that blackguardsm, bullyism, cow
ardce and treason should chiefly characterize
the leading spirits of the Indiana Legislature.
REMINGTON, Ind, Feb. 26. M.
This presents view of the case which has
not heretofore attracted attention. Without
a close examination of the laws of Congress,
it is our opinion that Acknowledgment
Heffren's case is covered by the general
amnesty laws, and that now, at least, he can
legally vote and hold Office if any constitu.
ency can be found to make him their repre-
sentative. If IL should turn out that he Is
really disqualified from holding office, tina.
would only make him the stronger with his
party, if we may judge from the alacrty
with which they have made him the leader
in the Legislature, and the servility with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL
Martin County Tribune.
The indianapolis Journal has turned its
guns on the infamous metropolitan police
bill, now before the Legislature, and if it can
do as good work in this as in its lombard
ment of acknowledgement Heffren's works
it will be entitled to fresh encomiums of
praise. We are with the Journal in its fight
against this piece of partisan legislation.
NEVER so WELL CONDUCTED.
South Bend Tribune.
The indianapolis Journal was nevers so well
edited and so much of a metropolitan news
paper as it is to-day.
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saloons, involving the closing of many of the
worst of them and much increased revenue
from those of better class that will remain,
What is termed high license takes from no
man any native or acquired right. 1t does
not attempt to legislate out of existence any
known business, engagement, or privilege,
legitimate or Legitimate. 1t simply de-
mands from traffic that has no recognized
counterpart some more reasonable
pecuniary return for the enormous
drain that traffic makes upon the public
purse. 1t does not attempt, by any means,
TO balance the account inasmuch as any
grade of license that made the dramshops
pay back for all their definitely ascertaine3
prejudice to social order and general pros
perity would require much heavier tax
upon them than, within our knowledge, has
ever been proposed. There cannot be
thoughtful, well-informed man in this COM
munity who does not see in the light thrown
upon the subject the business necessity OF
imposing stricter conditions upon traffic
whose return to the body polite for per-
mitted existence is an appalling aggregate OF
contentious, woes and sorrows of direct tax
alton and related loss and injury.
We are reluctant to believe that the repre-
sentatives of this city in the Legislature are
finally committed to such regard for COM
paratively insignificant number of saloon
keepers that they will consentingly ignore
the various advantages to the city at large
which would come from a much higher dram
shop license"
These words, without exception or change,
can be applied fully and completely to the
condition of things here in this city and
State. Prohibition is out of the question,
and has been ever since the result of the
election last November in constituting the
present Legislature. We refer to pres
ent legislative or constitutional pro-
hibition; but there has been
an opportunity for the passage of strict,
just, high and operative license law Such
bills have been introduced, and they have
received no consideration whatever at the
hands of committees formed in the interests
of the saloons, or at the hands of a Legisla-
ture which is the product of vile and I'M
natural union between the liquor league
and the Democratic party. The Legislature
of 1883 will have to answer for this, among
its other crimes and misdemeanors, to peo-
pie who do not intend that government of
the people, by the people and for the people
shall be supplanted by government of the
liquor league, by the liquor league and for the
liquor league
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

THE Divorce Reform League of New Eng
land has called public meeting to agitate
the divorce reform movement The number
Of modern instances is appalling to the
respectable New England mind, and the
trouble is that the evil can no longer be laid
at the doors of Western States. Massachu-
sets and Connecticut lead all the rest in the
ratio of divorces
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

A REPORT has been prevalent in England
that the late Lord Beaconsield died in the
Catholic faith. So public and widespread
was it that Mr.. Montagu Corry-Lord Row
ton-the Earls private secretary has written
card to the press categorically denying the
truth OF the rumor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

HERE is little resume of the work of the
Legislature from the columns of the Rich
mond Palladium:
5tsThe present session of the Indiana Legis-
lature will go into history as the body of
Democrats who lodged behind a subterfuge
in order TO prevent the people from voting
on a proposition to amend their constitution;
who, for political purposes, took the power
of appointing trustees for the State institu-
tons away from the Governor, because he
was q Republican, where it had formerly
been placed by a Democratic Legislature
when the Chief Executive belonged to that
party; as the body who interfered with the
discipline of Purdue University by placing a
rider on an apportonment bill, whose effect
was to compel the resignation of Professor
White an educator of national reputation,
and to seriously cripple, if not destroy, the
usefulness of the institution; who refused
an appropriation for the Indiana University;
who seriously discussed a bill to abolish the
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home and to
give it to the feeble-minded children; who
proposed to rob the people of indianapolis
and Evansville of the right to choose their
own rulers, by an infamous metropolitan
police bill; who swooped down on the House
of Refuge, the bureau OF statistics and the
State geological bureau whose leader in the
Senate was profane backguard who used
the vileSt language IN that body; and whose
champion in the House was man who con-
spred to turn the State over to the Confed-
crate government during the war, and who,
to shield himself from merited punishment,
turned States evidence against his Cocoon
spirators This catalogue of villaines is dark
enough and long enough but, unfortunately
for the people of Indiana, it is not complet-
ed, and cannot be finished until the Legisla-
ture shall relieve the State by final adjourn
ment"
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THE Greencastle postoffice contest is set
tied by the denomination of Mr.. George j.
Langsdale, editor of the Greencastle Banner.
The nomination of Colonel John w Foster,
to be minister to Spain, was yesterday con-
firmed by the Senate, as was that of DR..
Dyhrenfurth as Assistant Commissioner OF
Datapfc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

THE Wide Awake for March is up to the usual
standard of excellence in all its departments. It's
illustrations, serial articles and short stories are
of tho choicest kind, and it will prove a welcome
visitor to any home. D. Lathrop & Co., publish
ere. BOSTON.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

THE New Albany Ledger is a Democratic
paper, and among the abest of that faith in
the State 1t is published in the shadow, SO
to speak, of Louisville where Henry Waiter
son sits on his tin throne and Eliminates his
thunderbolts in favor of free trade as the
only simon-pure Democratic doctrine, but it
is also published in the shadow of great man
ufacturing enterprises, which have been
lection to American industries, and it knows
just what the practical advantage of such es-
adjustments are. Taking up the everlasting
cant in the-free trade newspapers about the
fabulous profits made by the protected mo-
nopolies," the Ledger proposes to leave
bluster and bravado and get down to bottom
facts, which are within the observation and
reach of everybody. 1t says:
LET us take up the history of manufac-
turing in this State during the last ten years,
and see if the ''monopolies have made such
vast sums of money The News may select
ten large establishments, if it will, and their
books will show that the ten have not aver
aged 10 per cent. during the ten years. The
Ledger could very easily select ten that have
not made per cent, ten others that have not
made per cent, and ten Others that have
lost all the way from 10 to 100 per cent. and
would not select single New Albany estab
lishment either. In few instances, and in a
few exceptional years, large profits have been
derived, but they are the exception and not
the rule. What is the history of Indianap-
oils manufactures? How many of them
sunk all the original capital before they ever
do dali Nlyo vui1I CHI Yf10r
failures than successes.
1.-The same is true at Evansville, Richmond,
Jacksonville New Albany and elsewhere.
4 few great establishments, built up like one
at South Bend, from small beginning and by
lifetime of labor and remarkable skill, have
met with phenomenal success. but, as said be-
fore, these are the exceptions.
THE Ledger wants the manufacturer to
make money wants the skilled and unskilled
laborer to make money. The figures quoted
in the article which opened this controversy
showed that ship-carpenters on the
Clyde were paid only 1925 per week.
The Ledger knows that unskiiled la
Dor is paid more than that in New Albany
manufactures, ard that some skilled laborers
are paid more than twenty times that amount.
What makes the great difference? The tariff
helps"
That is the true watchword-"the tariff
helps" No one wants tariff that will not
help, but they do want helpful, helping tariff,
and that the people of this country will keep,
despite the Democratic party. The Republi-
can party, with the aid of such papers as the
Ledger, will see to it that British free trade
does not close up our factories and shops and
drive all our people on the farms, to become
the slaves and the drudges of the world.
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which they have followed his beck and nod.
Indiana admires more than any other it is
man who was a rebel and Confederate Of
ficer during the war of the rebellion.
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He is hardly a man and a brother yet down
in Atlanta. A negro, in company with two
women, who had the temerity to occupy seats In
the gallery just outside of the limit set apart
for his color, was promptly elected and put un-
der arrest in that city a day two since. A
Georgia journal has edltorially discussed the
question, "Shall we send paper to a negro2"
and has decided in the affirmative, but to sit
next to one at a show is asking too much.
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THE Montreal Witness pertinently inquiries:
"Is there no civilized way of dealing with the
avowed assassins of New York who actually
boast of their knowledge of and relations with
the thugs of Dublin?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

THE news comes from Florence that the Ponte
vecohio-an ancient bridge over tho Arno-is
shortly to be pulled down because unsafe. 1t is
said to be in danger Of being carried away by
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BoIcB, the president of Jersey City bank, is
now in the State prison at Trenton, engaged in
the honest and useful occupation of ironing
shirts. His late cashier and bookkeeper put in
their time in making linen collars. They will
make less money for few years. but will be of
far more value to the community than in their
former uOsitiOus