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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

where the life of the world is at stake, is
and ought to be thoroughly exploded. The
states along the Gauges and the Nile are
no longer to be recognized in the right to
nurse this monster and to finally let it loose
upon humanity in general. If England or
any other country will step in and exercise a
protectorate to compel a better system of
sanitation, no one will cry hands of, Fine
spun theories of national freedom from in
reference and nice forms of international
etiquette must go dow before the neces-
sites of the world at large. The people of
every quarter of the globe are more interested
in the condition of the streets and sewers of
Mysore and Benares, of Damietta and Alex
andria than they are of the streets of Paris,
of London, of New York, or of Peking. 1t
is a matter of little import to Californians
whether Philadelphia is provided with good
drainage and water privileges; but it is of vi
tai Importance frequently that the streets
J~ellasore be kept from breeding the
pestilence that walketh at MONDAY.
The question of life and death overleaps
the boundaries of states and nations, The
question of better sanitation in Indian
cities is of greater importance than the, fixing
of division lines between any TWO nations in
the world. Questions of commerce and poll
tics sink into insigniicance before the prob
lem of how to abate the ravages of Asiatic
cholera, and it is time united international
action be taken in this direction. The high
est medical authorities trace the origin of
this plague to the ignorance and filth
ness of the people of the orient, gener-
ally along the Gauges, and it is
the belief of such authorities
that the outbreak of the cholera could be
rendered next to impossible were active
measures taken to remove the conditions
which hatch it from the fearful filth and
slime natural to the vast gatherings of pill
grim fanatics along the banks of the sacred
river. These fanatics should be dispersed
and forbidden to gather there, and thus,
with one of the prime factors removed, the
disease could be better dealt with if not
wholly obviated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
roung Mems Christian Assoeiations.

Gath, in Cincinnati Enquirer.
There appear to be scattered over the
world about 300 Young Mems Christian
Associations In North America, $50; in
Great Britain, 404; in France, IS; in Ger
many, 422; in German Switzerland, 1872; in
Holland, $50; in Asia, "a; in Africa, 10; in
Oceanica, 20. These all find representation
in an international central committee APP
pointed at an annual worlds conference,
with its chairman in Geneva, Switzerland.
In North America 222 associations have
not reported. Among the 65S reporting there
is a membership of more than $4,000.
Preserving the ratio, an ap-
proximate membership is reached of
more than 100, 900. Some conception
of the property accumulated may be
reached from the fact that only SO associa-
ions report building and property together
worth about $4. 900, 900. with a debt of $780,
900. New York and Philadelphia have build
ings costing $500, 600 each, and all the lead
ing cities and commercial centers have build
ings bearing a cost somewhat proportional to
the population.
OF the American associations, 237 reportli-
braries, with about 200, 900 volumes, worth
1874, 900, and furniture worth $172,9 35.
Three hundred and fifty associations report
annual current expenses exceeding $500, 600.
There are 387 general secretaries constantly
engaged in the work of the associations,
with salaries averaging between $500 and
5000. Associations are organized in TIA col
leges, and 494 associations among other du-
ties supply visits and ministrations to jails
and hospitals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
Pearls of Great Price.
New York Star.

A pearl fishery of great value was some
time back reported in the Gulf of Mexico.
During the winter fishermen prospectors
have found some pearls of great value among
not a few smaller gems. The first was taken
from the shell OF a pearl oyster in December
last, 1882. 1t is believed to be the largest on
record. 1t weighs seventy-five karats. A
leweler offered $14, 1000, which was accepted.
That sum is far below its real value. An
other of forty-seven karats is since found,
perfect in form and finely tinted. 1t is val
ued on the spot at So, 900. A third pearl of
forty karats, yet more beautiful, was exhibit
ed at La Paz, where 49, 900 was bid. This
success of the first exploration is justly re-
garded as evidence of extensive deposits of
pearl-bearing oysters, and great excitement
pervades all the fishermen in that gulf.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

IT is said the lottery people propose to sue
Postniaster-general Gresham in the courts, so
as to get a judicial construction of the law
against the use of mails by fraudulent lot
terry schemes" The Louisiana gentlemen
will find they are on the losing side in this
question. Whatever some States may do
the general government cannot be made to
aid directly or indirectly anything which the
universal sentiment ~repudiates as strongly as
it does the lottery evil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

DID ex-Major WATSON, when chained to a
post, and sleeping on the floor of the Kansas
City depot, in charge OF four officers, think
that the poker he played with government
funds paid him? From the position of an
army paymaster,~ respected and esteemed, to
"A common felon In the Kansas penitentiary,
with head and face shaved and in a striped
suit, is a fearful price for the fun of playing
poker, and others have paid a like price for
the privilege of playing at the game of mar
gins" Gambling in any form costs more
than it comes to.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

THE Pail Mall Gazette admits that if the
cholera should succeed in getting out of
Egypt and spreading over the world, the
nations will be justified in charging England
with the responsibility for its ravages, be-
cause, in the present state of sanitary science,
nothing but England's criminal carelessness
and political greed can account for the strong
and universal hold cholera has been allowed
to get upon the people of Egypt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
Work of the Civil Service Commission.

Pnllauelpnla opecihl,
Judge Thoman, of the civil-service COM
mission, who is here to begin examinations,
thus expressed himself on the general subject
of his work:
After the 10th Of the month, political
pressure will have no effect whatever in the
matter of government appointments. no
matter where they may be, in the East, West,
North or South. Every appointment hence
forth to be made must rest entirely Upon
personal merit. No matter what personal
preferences a postmaster or a collector of a
port, or department head in Washington
may have, he must make his appointments
from the eligible list, which is filled only by
competitive examination.
The system is yet in a crude shape, but
enough has been seen of it to Justify it's
hearty Endorsement. The new law covers
twenty-six cities and towns.
The system has met with universal favor at
the hands of the departments throughout the
country, and, in fact, at the hands of all who
have given it any thought.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
Commissioner Evans indicated.

Commissioner Evans's management of the
internal revenue Office has ceased to be a sub
Ject OF criticism, and that gentleman will
continue in the discharge of his duties as if
no uproar had ever been occasioned by his
appointment and his first official acts. Had
there not been a scarcity of other news at the
time it is doubtful if the correspondents at
Washington would have given much atten-
ton to anything Mr.. Evans has done. At
any rate he has shown himself proof against
newspaper attacks written by men who be-
trayed their ignorance of facts, and too often
apparently instigated by those whose official
heads fell into the new Commissioner waste
basket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

A PHILADELPHIA woman, a member of the So
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to animals,
has evolved a scheme for the smelioration of the
condition of cats, which only needs to become
known to meet with the instant approval of the
humane. English sparrows are under a ban in
that city, the law having decreed their extermi-
nation. When they are shot or shared by the
small boy the sufferings of the birds are much
greater, of course, than when captured by their
natural enemy the cat. At all events this seems
to be the theory of the D. C. a. woman, who pro-
poses that the cats OF the city, which have hith-
erto run to waste and are slaughtered annually
by thousands, shall be trained to catch the spar
rows systematically. The woman, with a
touching confidence in the feline race, insists
that a cat is quite as susceptible of being taught
as is a dog, and that with proper attention these
animals may not only become self-supporting
but even a source of revenue to the city. Ac-
cOrding to her plan the sparrows are to be en-
ticed to certain convenient points by scattering
cracker-crumbs thereabouts; cats judiciously
distributed in the neighborhood will emerge
from concealment at the proper moment and
each capture his bird. This can be kept up all
day. One sparrow will be sufficient to satisfy
the hunger of one cat; the remaining birds can
be gathered up and sold 10 restaurant keepers
to be served up as game, the proceeds going to
pay any expenses incidental TO the training and
care of the cats. This admirable plan will
doubtless go into operation. A Boston woman
has just gwen $780, 900 for the establishment of
a home for debilitated and orphan cats, but a
scheme for making able-bodied tabbies self-sup-
porting is much better in principle and will I'M
doubtedly meet with the approval of philan-
thropists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
Stupid Law-Makfng,

EIIzabeth IN. ID Herald.
Take the law, for instance, passed last
winter intended to stop young boys from
smoking cigarettes. 1t forbids the sale of
these poor substitutes Tor a cigar or a pipe to
any youth who is not over fifteen years of
age. Suppose this law to be strictly obeyed
what then? Why any cigarette smoking
youngster can get all the weeds he wants by
simply employing some boy who is more
than fifteen years old to buy them for him.
What are men thinking about when they
which any smart boy can jump in a minute
without fracturing the law or hurting him
self.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

IT is reported that the Khedive is about to
fee his country on account of the cholera.
A ruler that will not remain with his sub
jscts in any common danger is unworthy of
his position, and should abdicate. Had at
tention been paid the sanitary condition of
Egypt, it is altogether probable that this ter
rible plague would not have appeared there,
or, having appeared, would have been con-
trollable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
MIR. Hendricks speaks Again.

Omaha (Neb.) Special, 9Th.
Ex-Governor Hendricks left here to-day
with a party of gentlemen for a trip through
Montana. While here he talked freely of
political affairs in his own State, and OF his
personal relations with MIR. Tilden. He
strongly repudiated the oft-repeated state
ment that he had an alteration with Mr..
Tilden at Saratoga, where they met to dis
cuss the tone of their letters of acceptance,
and said the best of feeling prevailed be-
tween them to-day. When attention was
called to the probability of his being a presi-
Dental candidate Mr.. Hendricks said that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

New YORK Sun. 81
A device has been introduced at a Chicago
hotel for the purpose OF circumventing
swindlers. Each guest receives a small,
round piece of card board on which the num-
Der OF the room he is to occupy is plainly
marked. This he is Obliged to present at the
Office whenever he desires his key. Another
card, on which the name of the bearer is
written, is a pass for the elevator, and 1t is
essential for a ride. Both these checks have
to be returned to the cashier when the de-
parting visitor pays his bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

EIMITa Hazette.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel L.. Clemens, who are
now the,parents of there children, have signal
lied their natal days in a manner at once
substantial, ornamental, and useful. The
i~ng-troughs, these being placed at convenient
intervals along the side Of the road leading
past Theodore w. Cranes QUARRY Farm"
on East Hill. On each trough, chiseled
deep, is the name and date of birth of one of
the children. 1t was a happy and original
thought of the genial and w%ell-known father.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

THE citizens of Grand Lake, Col, where
the recent wholesale murder occurred, depre-
cate any interference in their affairs by the
State authorities, and express a confidence
that the quarrel is at an end. Inasmuch as
all who took part in the quarrel seem to
have come to an end also, the atmosphere of
peace is not so surprising. There was order
in Warsaw under like circumstances
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

JAMES NEvINs, late of Clifton, Staten Island,
is dead. James died at the early age of eight.
And the wherefore OF James's death seems TO be
as follows: Thursday morning he helped a
liquor-dealer mOve-though it does not appear
that an eight-year-old could be of much service
in moving. He began the day by falling down
stairs with a child's crib. Afterward he found a
demijohn Of whisky and drank about a pint.
That made him drowsy, so he went home and
slept. He then got up and went swimming until
he was Frustrated by the beat, and was taken
home and put to bed. He awoke too late for
supper, so he hied himself to an orchard and
filled up with green apples. These he washed
down with gen, rous ~liOations of ice-water, and
went TO bed at an early hour. On Frida. morn
ing poor little Jimmy was found dead in bed,
and he is now in a blessed country where demi-
johns and green apples are unknown. The
c~oroner's jury will endeavor to find out why the
lad didn't die four or five times instead of once.
Little children, if you do like Jimmy did, you
may all see him some day, ard a good deal
sooner than you expect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

BEFORE the Supreme Court of the United
States, at the October term, there is to be
heard a suit in which the issue involved is
one of the greatest possible interest and i'm
portance to New York City and Brooklyn.
The matter at stake is nothing less than the
existence of the great bridge across the East
NV. for which the taxpayers have paid
some @i0'S 100 and the question to be set
Aed Is 49, the bridge has been
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
Some of the Indians qualifications.
louisville Courier.Journal.

General Crook believes that time and pa
tience will make a good tax-pay ing citi zen
out of the Indian. If the weakness for red
paint and mean whisky and a capacity for
carrying off anything that isn't chained enter
into the qualifications of a good citizen, the
indian hasn't far to go. He adopted these
civilized customs shortly after Columbus
arrived, and will never quite get over them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
The Kentucky Style.
Madison Courier.

NdHIBON OOUfItT.
Charles L. Jewett, our genial Democratic
friend, occasionally gets off a good thing.
He was heard to remark that in Watterson's
State they had a funny idea of the correct
thing. If a man addressed a Judge on the
street in an insolent manner he was sent To
Jail in contempt aid taken ont behind a
brass band. If a man went cunning for a
judge and brought him down he was sent to
Jacksonville to board at a first-class hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
COLFAX.
A Letter of Thanks to an Eastern Editor
Who Defended His Reputation.

A Letter of Thanks to an Eastern Editor
Who Defended His Reputation.
Lockport On. " Special.
A few days ago the Journal of this city
spoke enthusiastically of Schuyler Colfax, ex-
pressing the belief tha he was wrongfully
driven from public life by designing men.
This article, meeting the eyes of Mr.. Colfax,
produced the following letter, which was
published to-day in that paper, although not
intended for publication:
SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 8.
The editorial to which my attention has been
drawn, while saying correctly that l will not
consent to return to public life, also expresses
confidence that the people believe in my integ-
rity, q confidence of which I have had so many
gratifying proofs in my independent and enjoy
able occurring life. As to the Credit Mobilier
stock, to which you allude, I can only repeat that
l never had a share of it, nor a dollar of its divi-
dends, having voluntarily abandoned four years
before the public scandal an incomplete contract
to take some of it. Mr.. Ames testified that he
was holding its stock for General Garfield, W.
D.. Kelly and myself, which all three of US de-
MED under oath, and that three initial checks
which he produced, two for 1923 and one for
S 1900, represented dividends paid to us on 1t;
but he presented no receipts from either of us,
had no Endorsement by either of us on these
initial checks, and no witness to their
pretended payment, while We all swOre
We had never seen them and had never re-
ceived the amounts named in the checks as
dlYidehds, and the cashier OF the serseant-at,
very initial checks to Ames himself, and John
t. Drew, a lawyer, of Vermont, when he re-
turned from Europe, after Congress had ad-
journed, averred that he saw the 81 200 Ames
drew as a check TO ''S. c., or bearer" paid by
Ames to another man with whom he had been
talking on other claims. As the estate Of Mr..
Ames has since been settled, and as none of the
stock, he said he was holding in trust for us has
been found amongst his papers, it is as evident
as an automatic truth that there was no such
stock, and that however confused hs memory
might have been by the great excitement of the
period, the three initial checks. so different from
all the rest, represented abandoned stock on
which he had himself collected the dividends.
But, having no fear of Gods judgment upon
my integrity and truthfulness in this matter, l
only refer to it here thus briefly because of your
highly appreciated editorial. Yours truly,
SCHUYLER COLFAX.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

Ierrb Haute E8pTess.
But all the facts well considered showGen-
eral Gresham's ability and character. He
did not go into the place as a great reformer,
but he has shown himself to be the believer
in genuine reform. He took hold of the lot
terry question with no sounding of trumpets
and speedily settled it, as all knew he would
do, from conviction of duty under the law,
whether that would gain him popularity or
public displeasure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
The First Steel Rail.


PhiIadeIDhIa Times. --|"
The first steel rail rolled in America was
rolled at the North Chicago Rolling-mill
Company's works in Chicago, May 5, 1865, a
little over eighteen years ago. That steel
rail cost those who made it over $500, 900 in
experiments and outlay. and when it was
made there was nothing to show for the out
lay but that the rail was an established fact.
To-day American steel rails are preferred to
those made in Europe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

WHAT are we to do low? Young America
is possessed of a new and powerful argument
against studying. Books are declared by
highest sanitary authority to be the means
of carrying dangerous contagious. You may
be reasonably sure that this plea will be put
up when the schools open mex September.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

be had not considered the subject, and that
Senator VOORHEES, had no authority for stat
ing that he was not a candidate. The ex-
Governor objected strongly to being quoted,
saying that the indianapolis interview which
had put him under such a warm fire OF criti-
cism was an unjust and absurd misrepre-
SentatiOn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

PRESIDENT Arthur has given up his con-
templated trip to the Yellowstone. As chief
executive he cannot place himself out of
reach of the telegraph, and it would cost
more than So, 900 to put up a line from the
nearest point of communication to the park.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

THE Governor of Arkansas ought to fol-
low the heroic methods of his neighbor on
the north in the treatment of the bands of
outlaws now infesting a large section of that
State and openly defying the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
English Capital Invested in Cattle Rancho,

Charleston News and Courier.
1t is estimated that $50, 900, 900 of English
capital was invested in American cattle
ranches last year, there are now in the West
agents from several large institutions in Eng
land and Holland buying up water privi-
leges, and it may be safely estimated that an
equal amount will be invested this year in
the same way. Already the largest ranches
in the country are controlled by foreign
capital,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

HAS it occurred to anybody that Elan is
not wounded at all, and that the whole affair
of "honah" is but an advertising dodge?
Beirne does not act like a man who had ia
tally wounded an adversary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

THE unloaded revolver and the harmless toy
pistol have all seasons for their own, and can be
depended upon to furnish the usual number OF
fatalities from day to day without much varia-
ton. At present, however, the capsizing sail
boat is doing more execution than any of its
death-dealing rivals. The Constant reader"
who fails to find on any morning the particulars
of the drowning of at least one pleasure party
knows from past experience that the next issue
of his daily paper will contain double the num-
Der of accidents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

Ex-MIN1sTER WAsHBURNE, of Illinois, is
reported to be engaged in writing a book,
the purpose of which will be to make him
self prominent for the vice-presidential NOM
ination in 1884. This political literary bust
ness has got to be stopped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

WITH yellow fever on the Southern thresh-
old and the cholera advancing upon us from
the East, tits about time some organized de-
tense were undertaken. Once admitted,
either would be hard to cope with.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11
The watering-Place Guests.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Men who fail in business take their fami.
lies to watering places for the summer, while
their creditors bleed and sweat at home, try.
ing by economy n industry to make ur
their losses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

sUNDAY-sCHooLs are, as a rule, very pacific,
but it seems that there are exceptions. One In
New York city has just precipitated a rebellion
to get rid of an obnoxious superintendent Down
In Texas they would have simplifed matters by
shooting him full of holes and going right on
with the services.