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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
THE PARTISAN LEGISLATURES.

1t is a mistake to suppose that the present
Legislature is Intentionally making capital
for the Republicans in future campaigns. But
that the Democratic majority is daily in
creasing Republican prospects for 1884 is un-
deniable. The House has stampeded the
whole Democratic line of battle so calamity
aligned after the fall election by Mr.. Nc
Donald, by placing itself under the patron
age and protection of acknowledgement
Hand-car Heffren. This gallant leader, who
incontinently fed in the face of the enemy
and afterward made his way into the Sons
of Liberty, is acknowledged as the Democrat
ic Henry of Navarro HIS white plume
won While hustling a hand-car to the rear
is blindly followed by the faithful VINO may
have been only a little lower than himself in
the order of American Knights. But the
younger men of the Democratic party, who
have come to maturity since the days
when it was the duty and sweet pleas
ure of Northern Democrats to truckle
to their Southern masters, are not
disposed to rest easy under the uncalled-for
Insult, and, as a result, many OF them are
wavering in their allegiance, while hundreds
of Republicans who thought the Democratic
tiger was changing to a house dog have
learned their error and are aroused to the fact
that Democracy, warmed to life by hope of
success, is as ~virulent and rabid as ever.
AS if this were not enough, the Democratic
majority is alternating liberal but honest
men on every hand by e~yincing the most yo-
racious and unreasonable appetite. Bills
were rushed in to reorganize the benevolent
institutions, because, f~orsooth, under Demo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

A ROMANTIC story is told of the Ayers who
failed so disastrously in Chicago last week.
Many years ago, John Aver, father of Herbert.
who now alone constitutes the firm, was q
school-teacher in New Orleans. While there he
clan destinely married the daughter of a wealthy
family, the parents having objected to the girls
acquaintance with him. Some time after, when
they discovered what had occurred, they spir-
tied the girl away, and SO misled Aver in his
search for her that he finally believed her dead,
and went North. Having pluck and energy, he
became in time the head of the leading iron
firm In Chicago, and thinking himself free, mar
ried a second time. Thirty years after bis first
marriage he Wished New Orleans, met the wife
whom he had thought to be in her grave, and
was by her introduced to his son, a man of
tweuty-nine, of whose existence he had never
known. The father was so pleased with his
newly-found son that he offered him a position
in the Chicago office. Accepting this position,
Herbert soon became head of affairs, and at the
death OF his father was made manager. The
mother, who had also remarked. now lives in
Baltimore.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
ABOUr PEOPLE.

A LADY, Miss 8. c. Clark, has been appointed
treasurer of a savings bank in Exeter, N. H.
IT is announced that Oscar Wilde is studying
for the stage, and that one of his first efforts will
be Romeo.
THE time set for Moody and sankey to return
to this country is after two weeks of labor at
Liverpool in April.
MARY writes of matrimony:
Chine changes all; and, soon or late,
They, who seemed one of heart.
Yield unto mightier law of fate,
And happier walk apart"
A ADY In Norwich, Conn.,, seventy-two years
of age, has just begun to take lessons on the
piauoforte, greatly to her own pleasure, however
it may be with the other members of the house
hold.
THE New E~nglanders are IN danger of losing
their pre-eminence as pie-eaters. The Gar of
Russia is to serve 100000 pies as one of the
items OF the free lunch given at his coronation, a
pyramid ofindigestion. s
A LoNDo correspondent who has Investigated
the matter finds that the Prince of Wales did
write the cable cOngratulation to Mrs. Langtry
which was published in this country. The Lon
don press did not dare to print the scandal which
her conduct gave rise to in this country.
MR.. LYMAN BELTS, Senator Davis's half
brother, says that all reports concerning the
Vlce-presldentS nuptlais with the North Caro-
lima beauty have been idle fabrieations, and that
the Judges days Of courtship and matrimonial
blessings passed away when his first wife died,
four years ago.
SENATOR HoAR grows stouter as he becomes
older. His manner. like his rhetoric, lacks some
what in robustness; and when one is beginning
to admire him for suavity and learning he de-
feats ones liking by the betrayal or something
tinicsl. His temper is bad and he frequently
loses control OF it, and on such an occasion he
displays, not righteous Indignation, but frilled
and starched peevishness.
"LoRD," the famous st. Bernard dog, who has
been the protector of the family and home Of DR..
Moore, of New York, died at the Veterinary
Hospital last week. He was acknowledged to be
the finest specimen of the st. Bernard ever seen
in this country, and was remarkably intelligent.
When it was found he must die, the surgeon
general proposed administering chloroform to
relieve his suffering. He resisted until Mrs.
Moore told him 1t was all right. The Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Child
rem regarded him as one of their most watchful
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

THE good people of Decatur, Ill.,, evidently
have one eye single to the glory of God and the
other fixed upon the main chance. harrison,
the evangelist, is conducting services there, for
which he is paid 800 per week. When he be-
gan, the brethren informed him that no meet
ings would be held on Saturday, and that he
could have the day for rest. This suited the
"boy," as 1t gave him an opportunity of saving
souls in adjacent towns for a remuneration of
S25 per Saturday. Finally these outslde services
became so popular that he agreed to put IL a
week of forenoons at a neighDoring village, re-
turning to Decatur in time TO hold the usual
services there. This was too much. The Dreth-
rem had looked with uneasIness at the Saturday
excursions, but to more they could not submit.
They had engaged the evangelist to conduct a
revival in Decatur, and this division of time was
detracting from the interest. People who had
souls to be saved went to other places, when
they ought to have some there. Beside. as one
pious merchant remarked, the revival at Deca-
tur had attracted thousands of persons from the
surrounding country, and "their trade amounted
to something" 1t was unanimously agreed by
the brethren that all the revivalist's "drawing"
powers were due to Decatur, and that there
should he no side shows-Or words to that eff
feet, A conference was had with Brother Har-
of that region who want to be converted, or who
have trading to do, will find it to their advan-
tage to come to Decatur.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
JULES FERRY,
A Very Lucky Man Who has Always Hea
Position of Some Sort,

GOSttAOH OI some SORT
M. Jules Ferry is a very conspicuous n
in France to-day, partially on account offs
ability, but largely because of the position
has taken in regard to the name of Deity.
Ferry is not a very old man, but he has be
a very lucky one. He came to Paris in Is
to practice law, but, failing to get briefs, a
cepted reportorial work on a journal while
devoted itself to chronicling lawsuits an
trials. In 1862, assisted BY NJ. Floquet, the
Prefet de la Seine, he issued a 'Manue
Electoral" a work which met with great sue
cess. Then he was locked up for a montl
for holding illegal meetings, and came on
from prison a popular young man. He
Joined the Temps staff and wrote articles
pitching into Baron Haussmann as Prefet
de la Seine. The editor of the paper.
suggested that these articles should be pub
lished in book form, and proposed as a title
Lies Complies Fantastiques d'Haussman'-a
parody on the name of a book then very pop
ular, called Lies Contes Fantastiques d'Hoff-
man." and out of which Ofenbach made the
opera which was produced. after his death.
Everybody laughed at the title of Jules
Ferry's book, and he gained a reputation
from it which led the people to look upon
him as a proper person to represent them in
the Corps Legislatif. Since then he has al.
ways held some sortof a position. Personally
he is tall and well built. He has a high fore
head, very black hair and whiskers, and a
piercing pair of black eyes. His stumpy,
broad nose and wide mouth have earned for
him the sobriquet of 1.-The Laughing English
man." BY Others he is known as the Gentle
man of the Paris Democracy" His speeches
are terse and brilliant, but delivered with
apparent nervousness, which has, however,
not infrequently been of service to him in
the Assembly. He married a Mile. Risler,
granddaughter of NJ. Kestner, and sister-in-
law of Charles Floquet and several other dis
tinguished Republicans. He is just fifty. He
belonged to the Committee of Thirteen,'
the members of which, in 1864, were con-
demned to fine and imprisonment for fun
lawful ~assemblage." Elected deputy for
Paris in 1868, he was associated with Jules
Favre as his master and model" and played
an important role during the last days of the
empire, since it was he who, in May, 1870,
organized the Partisan Democratic Anti~ple-
b~iscitary~ Committee. He entered the Wad-
dington cabinet Feb. 4, 1870, as Minister Of
Public Instruction, and initiated a vast sys-
tenn of reform in educational methods. He
proposed the celebrated Article T." directed
against the Jesuits and other religious orders
in their capacity of public teachers. He sue
ceeded NJ. de Freycinet as Premier, and was
in turn deposed by Gambetta.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
A Water Cure.


Miss Maggie Nye, of Beaver Falls. is the
latest alleged case of faith cure. she has
been confined to her bed for the last four
teen years, crippled and paralyzed. Her af-
hictlon was s~uperinduced oy a fail from a
severe. Her injuries were pronounced in
durable by the physicians. In her despera-
ton she sent for some of the famous waters
of Lourdes, France, and the miraculous fluid
is said to have relieved her. The case has
attracted very general attention. Miss Nye
and her friends are Methodists, while the
water from Lourdes was procured through
the intervention of Rev. J. G. Bigham, a
Catholic priest of the neighborhood.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
ENGLAND, as usual. is looking out for mo. l.
To the EditOr OF the Indianapolis Journal:

To the Editor of the Indianapolis journal;
You will confer = favor by answering the fol-
lowing in the Journals:
l. Which counties in Indiana have no rail-
ROADS?
2. What is the general price of land in west.
ern Indiana2
8. Are there not stin large tracts of land
which can be bought cheap2
A, Where is the best place for a newcomer,
in moderate circumstances, to locate?
5. How would his advantages in Indiana
compare with the advantages of States further
Wesi2
6. Is not the general health of Indiana greatly
improving every year2
Iknow of many who are afraid to cross your
borders on account of sickness. By answering
the above, with items of interest concerning the
H0osier state, you will greatly oblige,
NEWCOMER.
MONTPELIER, Ind, Feb. IS.
L. Brown, Switzerland, Perry and Ohio coun-
ties.
.. Good farm land can be purchased from $40
to $50 per acre.
3. Large tracts of prairie land in the region
of Newton. Jasper and Starke counties are lying
idle. The soil IS good and would probably be
cultivated with profit. The Kankakee region,
if drained, will also open an extensive area of
arabic land, which can probably be purchased
cheap.
a. 1t depends largely upon what you particu.
larry desire to engage in, but localities can be
found adapted to any of the industrial pur-
suits. The natural resources of Indiana
are unequaled by any State in the
West, and are comparatively undeveloped.
The supply of coal, b-uilding-stone, timber, clay,
etc, is inexhaustible, while the srm-land is
adapted to the cultivation of all staple products
from tobacco to wheat and corn, governed by
geographical location.
5. In the matter of natural resources, no State
in the Union offers greater Inducements. Capital
and labor, well directed, cannot fail to meet with
success.
6. The general health has been growing bet
ter yearly. In the settlement of the State, when
land was being cleared, the decaying timber
caused a great deal of sickness, but there has
been a rapid Improvement during the last few
years, and the statistics gathered by the State
Board of Health show that there is now over so
per cent. less sickness than formerly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

cratic law, as now constituted, the duty OF
appointing trustees devolved upon the Gov
ernor, who happened now to be a Repub-
lican. For no other reason under the
sun this law has been cut out and
trampled under foot in order to
make way for a half dozen party
hacks who somewhere, in some obscure INK
incomprehensible manner did some disre-
putable service for a still more disreputable
party. The vast asylunls are thus to be
made a football for the play of party
clacquers. What kind of men would be
put in charge may be inferred from DIR.
Glenn, present superintendent of the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum, a Democrat who knows
nothing whatever about the duties of his
office, and who cannot converse with the
pupils under his charge. A Democratic
horse-doctor would probably be given in
charge of the Insane Hospital, and another
blind. So much for Democratic reform to be
brought about by the reorganization of the
States public institutions.
In the same spirit of hogging all
for the benefit of Democratic ~pot-house
politicians, the metropolitan police bill
was proposed, by which indianapolis
is to be deprived of the right to regulate Its
police affairs, and the control given into the
hands of a Democratic commission, with
what result may be easily imagined. The
present force would be discharged inconti-
nently, and the Democratic ward bum
mers would be clothed with tie official
blue. The shamelessness Of such an insult
to the capital city of Indiana, and its opposi-
ton to the Democratic cry of local self-gov-
ernment, in no way retards Democratic
greed.
In addition to these partisan measures has
been introduced the bill abolishing the Sol
diers' and Sailors Orphans Home and Civ
ing it to the feeble-minded children. But to
gloss over this trick to make new places for
unemployed Democrats, another bill was
proposed to create a home for invalid sol
diers and soldiers orphans. In addition to
this they have swooped down on the House of
Refuge, the Bureau of Statistics and the
State Geological Bureau, both of which
are now controlled by Republicans, in ac-
cordance with a law made and passed by a
Democratic Legislature.
While it canno be justly claimed that the
present Democratic Legislature is purposely
working in the interest of the Republican
party, it is only too evident what verdict
will be passed by the people on such shame
less raiding. Conservative Democrats will
rejoice when the term of this Legislature ex-
pires. Blunder has been heaped on blunder
until the individual members are litsally
buried under the objurgations of the party;
and the end is not yet. Let the business
proceed. Republicans can stand it until the
patience of the public is exhausted, And
then the Democratic party will once more
be relegated to private life, where it cannot
have an opportunity to pluck and plumber
the State for partisan purposes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

THE eminent DR.. Dana has demonstrated that
oysters raw are no more digestible than cooked
oysters, and thai they are almost perfectly indi-
gestible when there is either malt OF spurious
liquors in the stomach. In this way he accounts
for so many cases of sickness following oyster
suppers where the foamIug or sparkling bever-
ages form the side dishes. "-Scientific Exchange.
This is a timely discovery. 1t hasalways been
a mystery why sickness should follow indulgence
In oysters and wine, but this explains IL. Here
after the bivalves can be dispensed with on such
occasions, and the boys will be all right in the
morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

THE New York Evening Post, under the
editorship of Carl Schurz, Endorses the entire
President Arthur for the wisdom and good
judgment displayed in his selections. OF
Hon. ]. NJ. Gregory, Mr.. Schurz says: CDR.
Gregory is a man of attachments,
and his experience as an educator, as we'll as
his profound belief in civil-service reform,
seem to fit him eminently for this work"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

The Dayton Journal, fired by a holy ambi-
ton to Guido the work of its contemporaries
cts, such as the ones of 1847, 1882, and even
IS far back as 1889, prints a very interesting
and graphic report of a flood, as given in
1.-THE Daily Genesis, B. C. 2348, second
month, Zif, 18th day." So far as we have
seen both the record and the food lay over
anything of the kind in history.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
THE WAY LONDON IS GOVERNED
A Disgraceful Condition of Affairs, but only
Differing in Detail from the Government
of Many Other Cities.

of Many Other Cities.
London Letter.
The reform of the government of London
cannot be long delayed. The condition Of
things which now obtains in the metropolis
is a disgrace to a civilized country. The city
is split up into scores of small parishes, each
having a miniature official organization of its
own. Some of these parishes comprise only
a few streets, yet each has its vestrymen, So
~licitors, medical officers, surveyors, etc, etc,
and plays at covering its few square yards of
territory with a gravity which would be lu-
dicrous were it not so expensive to the rate
payers, and exasperating to all who are
thrown IN contact witt such organized
"Bumbledom."
The primary duty OF a vestry is 10 loek
after its paupers; but the vestry also has the
control of the health of the parish, must keep
the roads in repair, and superintend the cree
ton of buildings within its boundaries. In
some cases where the parishes are small, a
number is grouped together under tile title
of Local Board Of Works; but very little DOW
er beyond the control of the roads is surren-
dered to this federal organization, the YES
tries jealousy guarding their parochIal rights,
and resenting the slightest interference by
their local board or from neighboring
parishes,
The honor of being a vestryman is mu. h
sought after by a class OF illiterate and COM
paratively poor men-such as corner-grocery
men, low beer-shop keepers, and the like. 1t
is very rarely indeed that a gentleman can
be found acting as v~estryman, except in two
or three of the more aristocratic West-End
parishes. If a gentleman does happen to
join, he soon becomes Disguised with the
manner in which the business is conducted.
Grown-up men will sit and wrangle for an
hour as to whether the parish pump shall be
painted red or blue. Small cliques are formed
who fight each other like tiger-cats over
some petty standing questions-such as the
number of lamps in a given street; or as to
whether the parochial correspondence shall
be written on white or pink paper. As a
rule, the poverty of the members and the low
class from which they are recruited ender
them extremely open to corrupting infuen-
ces. Most of the London vestries are as We
nal as it is possible for any class of men to
be. 1 have known a case where a whole YES
try has been purchased at f5 per head. The
officials are as bad as their masters. Con-
scious of the insecure tenure OF their office.
they trim their sails to meet the ever-vary-
ing parochial breeze, and meanwhile make
hay while the sun shines.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

WashlngtOn Special. -
The Treasurer of the United States has a
number of orders on hand for the new FIVE
cent pieces. He is awaiting the return of
Secretary Folger to the Department before
filling them. His delay is not caused by any
prejudice on his part against the coin, but
because Secretary,Folger not long ago told him
he thought the omission of the word cents
was a mistake, and that it would have to bo
poets that Secretary Folger will take steps in
this direction when he RECEIVERS from his pres
ont Illness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
" JNo. C, NEW & soN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1888.

SAYS the New Albany Public Press, edited
by one OF the leading Democrats of Indiana,
q member of the State central committee
during the last campaign: ut is going to
take the Indiana Legislature sixty days to do
nothing but mischief"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

doing the people no benefit, but absolute in
jury, have been enacted by the present Legis-
lature.
at would have been much better for the
Democratic party of Indiana had the men,
bers of the Legislature lost their way to the
capital, and an saving to the tax
payers would have been made had no Legis-
lature been elected.p
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
Needful Legislation for the Farmers.

Franklin Jefersonian.
The indianapolis Journal of Friday morn
ing last makes a good suggestion to the
Legislature, in that of so amending the stock
law as TO prohibit their running at large.
The great floods have left very many farms
without fences, which it will be impossible to
replace in time for spring planting. Let the
statutory limitation one year. See TO it that
the farmers in Indiana's rich river bottoms
are not embarrassed in planting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
MIR. s-prague's Accumulation of Wisdom.

New York Special.
Ex-senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, has
written to a friend of this city saying:
''There is a great political tir.here: could
never again enter public office and politics
were l not wiser Than twenty years ago, when
l entered the field. l am convinced l know
how to adjust all things by a natural order
that will prevent the aggregation of values
into excess aud of people from crowding
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

THE Michigan City Dispatch, one of the
Democratic newspapers of the State, whose
sommon sense has not abandoned it. says:
The present Legislature will place their
constituents undo everlasting obligations by
avoiding an extra session and transacting as
little business as possible"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

Mr.. WIN. H. VANDERBILT denies the report,
so extensively circulated, that he is at the
point of death with paralysis. He says he
has not been in bed sick but one day in six
months, and that if he had paralysis he was
not aware of it. Mr.. Vanderbilt ought to
know
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

CHIvALRY is not yet dead in the South. A good
deal of it is floating around in the shane of the
idea that woman, God bless her! should remain
In the seclusion of the domestic circle and not
degrade herself by "working for pay" Mr..
Allie Billup, public librarian Of Atlanta, thought
so, and HIS sensibilities received a rude shock
when the board elected q young woman as his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23

into city life. I regard farming .tbs
groundwork for city life. 1 have nevet
given my consent to be a candidate. i've
no doubt it will be rendered. The lastne
l ran for governor 1 received all but si4of
the votes cast
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-23
A difference of opinien

st. Louis Post Dispatch.
There seems to be Il difference of opinion
as to whether Hazen is the right man in the
wrong place or the wrong man in the right
place. n iaa