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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

ing one of their own number. Bulldozer
Brown swaggeringly announced that no
power could prevent the majority from
~electing a presiding officer of their own.
This valiant observation had scarcely escaped
the lips of the Jackson statesman when the
Lieutenant-governor appeared and an
ounce that he had put Senator Henry
in the chair, and 10 power could put him
out. This quiet observation squelched the
little Democratic tempest in a teapot, and
they found for once that there was one Office
entirely beyond their reach.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

In the clash of local interests for the loca-
ton of the proposed new asylums for the in
curably insane there came to be the danger
that the entire matter would be killed, and
one of the most essential and necessary du-
ties of the Legislature go unperformed. 1t
is wise, therefore, we think, for the bill to
have been referred to a committee of the
senators from the competing counties. which
committee, we understand, will report in ia
vor of the building of three such insuitu-
tions, to be located not nearer Indianapolis
than fifty miles, and the three to cost no
more than the two heretofore proposed,
5000, 900. These three locations are to be de-
termined by a commission consisting of two
Republicans ard two Democrats, of which
the Governor shall be ex-officio chairman.
This disposition of the question should be sat
i~sfactory to all concerned. Whatever else
fails, the Legislature must not fail to make
provision for the incurably insane.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21
water-soaked Pianos and Organs.

The following Instructions to those having
pianos or organs in the flood have been fur
nished by D.. H. Baldwin & Co.:
Get the instruments out as soon as MESA
BILE and place in a warm, dry and well-venty
lated room. Heat without ventilation, is an
injury. A good draft to carry off the moist
ure is best. If a piano., draw out the key
board if possible; take off the top by drawing
out the wires in the hinges and turn the
thoroughly drained. If AN organ, open as
much as possible by taking off the top and
frets under the keys, so as to allow a %circula-
ton OF air through the instrument. Dc not
attempt to repair the damage from water
until the instrument has thoroughly dried.
Several weeks may be necessary. Ii the in.
strunent has been completely soaked it may
be considered worthless and is not likely ia
be worth repairing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

THE House of Representatives yesterday,
oy a vote of A to AZ, defeated the bill max
ing the proposed endowment of 5000, 900 for
the State University. We have observed
through the State papers, wherever the ques-
ton has been discussed, a decided opposition
to the measure, and growing feeling against
the State engagingi in higher education. There
is this to be said, and said at once; Either
the State should entirely abandon univer-
sity work, or it should make such arrange
ments that the State University can become a
credit to the people and a matter of pride to
its faculty and students. 1t is not a pleas
ont spectacle to see the president and officers
OF any of our State institutions in the lob
bies of the Legislature every two years, hat
in hand, begging for a few thousand dollars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

THE latest immigration report issued by
the Treasury Department shows a large fall
ing off in the immigration for the month of
January, as compared with the same month
last year. In January, 1888, the arrivals were
{, 940, while in January, 1882, they were 49,
4S9. There arrived from England and Wales
1885. Ireland 66S, Scotland 266. Austria 800,
Belgium 95, Bohemia so; Denmark Y, France
179, Germany 1926, Italy 1,113, Norway 80,
Sweden 165, Dominion of Canada 2,646; ale
other countries, $3.50. OF this number, 8, AGA
disembarked at New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

The Journal again remarks that it feels
perfectly safe in asserting that there will be
no extra session of the Legislature, and any
and all members who may be shaping their
conduct with a view to forty days more of
service and per diem might as we'll
give up the idea. The people OF the State of
Indiana have had quite enough of this Legis-
lature, and are a%nxionsly waiting the 9TH of
March, when the session will constitu-
t~ionally expire. There can be no
possible confederation Of circumstances
which would warrant the Governor in
calling an extra session and laying
upon the taxpayers an additional burden of
$50. 900. Our advice to the Republican mem
bers would be for them to %interpose no fac
tlous opposition even to the passage of the
most ultra-partisan measures. The majority
have it in their power to pass what they want
to pass, and any other opposition more than is
needful to place the Republican minority on
the record for the right and for the good of
the whole people can effect nothing but an
unnecessary waste of time. Let the majority
have their own sweet will; let them do what
they desire and as they desire. Every
act thus far has been to the disgust
of the people and to the manifest advantage
of the Republican party. Blu sixty days are
enough of such a Legislature, and the bare
suggestion of forty days more of it would
a howl to go up from every quarter of
the State. Even the failure of the appropria-
ton bill would not be sufficient cause for the
Governor to saddle the expense of an extra
session of such a General Assembly upon the
public treasury. Let all necessary business
be finished up the best way possible, and
then permit the Legislature of 1883 to go out
in its WI infamy, unwept, unhonored and
unsung.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

AN area of low barometer is evidently gath
srinc in the region of General w. B. Hazen.
chief signal officer. 1t is more than likely
that a court of inquiry will sit on that bump
tious officer, and if no other good be effected
it i, to be hoped his tendency to letter
writing will be summarily squelched. The
country has had quite enough of General
Hazen's letters, and about enough OF his
weather predictions. The bulletins sent out
over his full name and military title pending
the rising of the Ohio river were simple bur
ipsoues.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

THE Senate last night passed its revenue
reduction bill, with tariff amendments, by a
vote of 40 to 10, an Unexpectedly large ma
jority. Senator Sherman's wool amendment,
said to be in the interest of the whisky men,
was defeated. 1t is calculated that this meas
ure will reduce taxation fully $40, 900, 900. 1t
should be promptly agreed to by the House.
Any legislation of this character is necessa-
rily of an experimental and tentative charac-
ter, but this Congress should make a begin
ming.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

THE disaster at the Braidwood mine in
creases in extent and horror. The number
of victims is now placed at one hundred, and
even that figure. it is feared, may be in
creased. The distress and misery entailed by
the fearful casualty is beyond description.
In New York, yesterday, a Catholic school
building caught fire, and in the resulting
panic among the children fifteen little girls
we're killed. The fire was of small ac-
count, but there were hundreds in the build
ing. and a scene of confusion ensued with
the dreadful result noted. The reader OF the
daily papers breakfasts on horrors, now with
sickening regularity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

A VETERAN sporting man OF Chicago, noted
among his companions for being a good fell
low" and as a reliable authority on quota
tons from Shakespeare and the Bible, died
in that city last week. His friends of the
class to which he belonged assembled at the
undertaker's, and, with no previous ceremo-
MES, escorted the remains to Rose Hill GEM
etery. After the casket was lowered to its
final resting place a basket of champagne
was produced, and each person present drank
with a will to the health of the departed.
Wine was sprinkled upon the coffin and
empty bottles dropped into the open grave,
after which one of the leading sporting char
acters of the city stepped forward and made
the following address:
"Friends, the presence of death, the solem-
nifty of the grave, has ever been recognized,
even among uncivilized people, by some rite
or service, according to their custom. In
this instance our departed friend expressly
requested that no religious rites should be
performed oyer his remains. As the new re-
ligion of reason and philosophy, in which he
was a believer, has no prescribed rites, / may
be brief and candid. We here place in the
bosom of his great and mysterious mother
the remains of a true child of nature, once
our friend, a man of brilliant parts and no
bility of character, Notwithstanding his mis-
direction and waste of splendid talents. He
laid aside as a worthless bauble the most
beautiful of poets dreams, the doctrine of
Immortality, because he would not nave his
sinking spirit buoyed up by fiction, for he
believed in no life beyond the grave AS the
perfume of a rose is waited away on a pass
ing zephyr, never more to unite with the de-
cayed petals, so is the spirit or soul extin-
guished In the dead, and there lies all there
is"
1t was a pagan burial, and yet not without
o certain fitness for one whose life had held
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

WITH q c-ommon-sense appreciation of the
necessities of the farmers of Indiana, the
House of Representatives yesterday appointed
a committee to draft a bill for the temporary
keeping up OF all stock, so that farmers
whose fences have been washed away shall
not be compelled to expend hundreds
and thousands of dollars in building
fences against roaming cattle. The Senate,
however, rejected Senator Yancey's bill for a
similar purpose, some fellow putting in
the everlasting twaddle about the poor mans
COW. We have heard that old song in this
city until it has become tiresome. The
myth of the poor mans COW has kept Indi-
annapolis a cow pasture for a quarter of a
century, and has cost the city and its citi-
Gems more than the value of all the cows
owned in the city and vicinity twice over.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21
''BENJAMiN F. BUTLER, Governor"
Two months ago Mrs. EIiza Kodenstein dlsap:

Two months ago Mrs. Eliza Rodenstein disap-
peared from her home ill Kingston. Ont. She
was traced along the way, from farmhouse to
farmhouse, up to Niagara Falls, where every
trace of her was lost, After vainly e~ndeavoring
to get some tidlngs of her fate, her relatives and
the detectives employed gave her up, believing
she had ended her earthly pilgrimage by plung-
ing into the rapids. Imagine her brothers sur
prise, last week, when the missing lady came
into his house at Cannansville, near New York
city, as bright and smiling as though she had
just dropped in from across the street. She had
evidently been deranged, but seems all right
now, and no reference has been made to her
wanderings.
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r.
The Mountain Evangelist Strikes a Streak Of
Luck, and Is Going Round the World.

The Mountain Evangelist Strikes a Streak Of
Luck, and Is Going Round the World.
New York Special.
George o. Barnes, the mountain e%vangel-
list, conducted his last Sabbath services be-
fore his departure for Europe in the First
Identity Church, Brooklyn. Clad in a huge
ulster, the evangelist knelt down at the edge
of the platform at each of the three services,
and shook hands with scores of men, women
and children who crowded about to bid him
goodbye. About a dozen at ca CHI OF the
three services rose as a public acknowledge
ment of their conversion. After having adj
dressed an audience of nearly 700 in the
afternoon, Mr.. Barnes, said to a reporter:
Ppm going to England on Wednesday in
the steamship Pavonia. l shall begin my re-
ligious services in London promptly on my
arrival. 1 have had no invitation to go
there, but l have always been anxious to
make the trip across the water. A friend
has now kindly offered to advance the
means, SO that l may crafty my long
cherished desire. l intend before | come
home to go around the world. l want to go
wherever the English language is spoken. L
have been very kindly treated in New York
and Brooklyn, and have made many friends.
The work has been successful, too.
considering that l dropped down
among the people suddenly, and
a perfect stranger, There has not been any
thing like the rush of converts that there
was during my work in the West. | didn't
expect there would be. Nevertheless, the
work here resulted in considerable good, and
was led to believe that the benefit would be
greater still were 1 to stay longer. During
the nine weeks campaign in Brooklyn and
New York 1 have made 450 converts, Of
whom about $50 were gained in New York.
| should say there was not any discernible
difference, from a religious point of view, Sc
tween the two cities. They are both good
cities-equally good, 1 think"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21
Farmers and Their Fences.


If men have to stop in the midst of the
planting season to repair fences, work will be
delayed, and it will be impossible to get
through with it in time. TIL commissions
ers should order that no stock shall run out
until such a time as the farmers can have
their fences repaired, which will not be for
several months. The interests of the farm
ing community demand it, and if it is not
done thousands of dollars will be lost by the
ravages OF stock and loss of time in repairing
fences that should be used in getting in the
crops.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21
Legislative Appropriation for Relief.

Warsaw Times.
We have no doubt that the action of the
Legislature in making a liberal appropriation
for the relief of the sufferers in this case will
meet with universal approval. TIL money
belongs to the people, and if they could
speak with one voice they would call on the
Legislature for liberal action in the premises;
greater, indeed, than has been done.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

THERE is a great demand for clothing, for
bedding and carpets for the flood sufferers.
There are few houses wherein there are not
unused articles of this character. Let every
housewife overhaul her closets and garrets,
and have ready to be sent to some depot,
which will be hereafter announced, such ar
ticles in the shape of clothing and bedding
and all carpets that can be spared.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21
William e. Dodge's Benevolent Requests.

New York Special.
In the surrogate's Office an abstract of tho
will of the late William L. Dodge has been
placed on file. The following are the. be-
quests to charitable institutions: The Pres
byterian Board of Foreign Missions is given
$50, 900; the Presbyterian Board of Home
Missions, $50, 900; the American Board Of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, $50, 000;
for the education OF young men for the min
istry, $4,000; the American Bible Society,
$10,0 900; the American Tract Society, $20,0 600;
the American Sunday-school Union, $40, 500;
the National Temperance Society, $40, 500;
the City Missions Tract Society. $40, 900;
the Presbyterian Board of Publication,
500 Lincoln University, 500 Child
ren's Aid Society, S., 900; Howard University,
S., 1000; Atlanta University, S.. 900; Hampton
Institute, So, 900; the Presbyterian Board for
Aged Ministers, $4,000; the American Sea-
mans Friend Society, S., 900; the Interna-
tional Commission of the Young Mems
Christian Association, $1,000; the McAuley
Mission, s 5000; the Syrian Protestant Col
lege, $4,000; the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art, So, 900; the American Museum Of Natural
History, 5000.
The Chamber of Commerce, at its meeting
on the LIST of March, will adopt measures to-
ward perpetuating, in some permanent man
ner, the memory of the late William E.
Dodge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

THE constitutional amendments introduced
into the House of Representatives are not
new propositions, as has been enormously
published in some quarters. They are the
ones agreed to by the last Legislature, and
which the House of Representatives has de-
clared to be valid and properly pending be-
,sore fbemL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

little in common with Christian precept or
practice. 1t may be doubted, however,
whether these reckless disciples of treason
and philosophy" did not feel a secret lean
ing for the old religion, and an unacknowl-
edged preference for prayer rather than bro
ken wine bottles for the repose of a soul that
has fled
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21
The Interested Third House.

Washington Special.
One of the amusing features of the daily
sessions of Congress is to see the rows of
wealthy and aged-looking gentlemen sitting
in the galleries with-copies OF the tariff bill,
following with their fingers the amendments
proposed on various articles, giving the gall
ieries somewhat the appearance of a church
choir
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

physicians will hasten TO join this society as
they, better than any Others, can understand its
benefits. 1t seems quite fitting that medical
gentlemen, who are so eloquent on the subject of
the needs of science, should cheerfully give their
own remains to its service, but there is room
for doubt as to whether they are more will
ing to be dissected than are plain, unscientifo
persons who wish to be buried decently and in
order.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

eminent is obliged to pay over the principal aud
interest to the Japanese government. It is to
our interest to be on friendly terms with Japan,
and her good will can be retained by exact ius-
tice in this matter of the Shiinoneseki indemui-
ty. The denial of interest to Japan is virtually
an act of reputation by our government
Courier Inurnal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21
Common schools versus Universities

Madison Courier.
While thousands of children in Indiana
can obtain but a few months schooling. per
annum, and while other thousands are un-
able to attend school at all, on account Of
the cost of books, it is folly, 1t is wicked
ness to squander money on State UNIVERSE
H. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

IS r. R" the personal journalist of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, has discov-
cred Easy Cures for Social Evils" We
haven't read enough of this article to dis.
cover whether he advocates killing off all thu
men or all the women.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

A REMARKABLE desp-sca sounding has been
made in the Atlantic. AT a point about
seventy-fve miles north of San Juan, Porto
Rico, a depth of 4,561 fathoms was found
The deepest sounding made in the Pacific
was taken by the Tuscarora, in 1874, off the
Japan coast, where 1866 fathoms were re-
cordn6
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

TAKING their queue from Sullivan, or SlaGe, or
the Maori, or all combined, two Cinnamon had a
prize smuggling match at Philadelphia. They
were encouraged and abetted by white "Chris-
tians,' of course. One OF them, after u few
rounds, ended the affair by yelling, me catchee
n1antv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

THE Democratic majority of the State Sem
ate, under the lead OF Bulldozer Brown, made
another display OF their tigerish disposition.
Lieutenant-governor Hanna had placed
Senator Henry in the chair temporarily,
whereupon the discourteous and bullying
Democrats proposed to put him out by elect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

A NEW celerical journal-H Goffredo-lately
started in Rome offers to each annual subscriber
the right to 600 masses, to he celebrated by any
priest who may be chosen. 1t is suggested that
any ordinary sinner may he able by not drawing
out his premiums to save up enough masses to
get his soul out of purgatory, but this economy
will be unnecessary. Any prompt-paying sub
scriber to a newspaper is pretty sure to go TO
heaven anyway.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

IN emulation Of the three-tongued Arkansas
baby, a newly-arrlved Philadelphia infant dis
plays two tongues to all admiring family circle.
AS remarked by excited reporters, it is, like the
Arkansas marvel, "a girl, of course" Had they
been noys, now, one would naturally suppose
that they were predestined to be congressman
and discuss the tariff question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21
They Mourn for Wagner.

Denver Tribune.
The Arizona papers are bewailing the death
of Wagner because, they say, he was the only
man who ever had the nerve to start an OPP
position to the Pullman Car Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

IT is reported of Hon. Frederick Gebhart, late
of Cincinnati, now of this city, and soon to he of
somewhere else, that he cursed the cook at Gin
cinnati. Can it be that Fred. is practicing in
anticipation of setting up housekeeping HIMSELF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

THE present Legislature will cost the State
S13O, 900. That amount contributed to the
food sufferers would do some good.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

MRS. DEwELL, of Honesdale, Pa. has GER
tainly not been doing well since the death of her
husband eight weeks ago, and is described by
her neighbors as a widow bewitched." The
sainted Dewell was a Baptist minister. and the
wife was, during his life, properly attentive to
his comfort and irreproachable in conduct. Not
withstanding her devotion, the minister was
hardly cold before the susceptible widow was
won by a handsome stranger, who coaxed her to
sell her property and elope with him. This she
did, and left behind her four little children with
out a cent between them and the almshouse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

THE Cincinnati News speaks of "the fading
flood" We thought the flood would be sure tC
"wash." Cold water, too. Strange.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

IT is getting so that it is really unsafe for veal
thy people TO travel, and newspaper men send
their families on journeys with misgivings. If
they are not robbed of their diamonds, it is sure
to he something else. The wife of a Chicago
journalist, while on a visit TO New York, has had
the misfortune to lose two $500 pug dogs. The
thief who stole them did not know what they
were appraised at, and traded them off for a
pair OF ST. ours. He ard the lady are now both
inconsOlable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

ONE advantage about patent fre-escapes-
they generally succeed in killing the inventor
while he Is demonstrating their praeticability.
They are bound to become popular.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

CoNTRART to the professional adage, the NJ
per stories were crowded during the late foo
along the Ohio.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-21

EVERY calamity has its agreeable side. Til
floods sunny side was suhside.
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Awful Reputation of Our Law-Makers

Washington Post.
Draw poker is said to have broken out il
the Indiana Legislature.