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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

PHILADELPHIA has a bootblack who entered
the business thirty five years ago, and has, with
brief intervals, welded the brush during all that
period. In one of those interv ais he explains
that he Joined the staff OF a newspaper, and de-
livered his journal regularly, sir, every morn
ing" According TO the experience of
this gentleman, the profession of "shin-
ing 'em up" is not lucrative one,
and can hardly be recommended to the youths
looking for opening After thirty five years
he found himself in a condition than the
old woman who lived upon nothing but victuals
and drink Not having the victuals. and finding
boots to black, he jumped into the river ON his
way to a country where no boots are worn. He
was dragged ont by heartess man and intro
duced to the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

thing, indeed. Great heavens" said Mr.. Vest,
"do you mean that? Now, just think of it.
Think of a man going home and kissing justice
OF the peace, telling friend that he was in
love with constable! 1t is dreadful"
WAGNER was, involuntarily, considerably
mixed up with the celebrated Armin trial. Count
Arnlm was charged, among other things, with
having compared Bismarck to Wagner in pub
hshed note, saying-Ironically of course-that
the Chancellor was "the greatest living person
age next to Wagner" This, the prosecution
argued was deadly insult, ait being perfectly
notorious that Wagner, the musician, was stark
staring mad!"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

THE new street railway company with
proper conditions and guarantees should be
given permission to build its lines and COM
pete for business. Indianapolis cannot afford
to be at the mercy of any monopoly. Our
people are having taste of the disadvantage
Of that position in the unjust Determinations
made by railway companies against our bust
ness. The railways have done much for
indianapolis and in return Indianapolis has
been lenient to the last degree with these
railway corporations which seem to be now
tortion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

of which is given to the alleged plaintiff, if
the publisher concludes it cheaper and less
vexatious to submit to the blackmail than
to defend. In the hearing before the judi
ciary committee an instance was cited which
is fair indication of the way the libel laws
are used. 1t was said by one gentleman, in
defense of his position that the newspaper
should be left the prey of any harpy, that
he had himself prosecuted paper for having
libeled a man who could not obtain credit
for glass of beer in the community in which
both the plaintiff and the defendant lived.
How much could newspaper libel a man
with such a reputation? The probabilities
are that the paper, in speaking of the plain
tiff, had made use of some expression or
charged him with an offense difficult to
legally justify or prove, ard the lawyer had
taken up the case on a contingent fee, for
just what could be made out of the paper.
How much of the Judgment, if any was re-
covered, such a plaintiff would receive from
such an attorney may be left to the magma
ton.
The newspapers of Indiana, by unanim-
Gus voice asked the Legislature, not TO re-
peal the libel laws, either civil or criminal
for they favor just law and the severest
possible criminal penalties in all cases of
malicious libel-but they did ask the
General Assembly to relieve them from some
of the confessed burdens of the existing
statutes-laws which operate against the
public good, and only work in the interests
of constituencies frauds and more conscience
less shysters. The appeal was not re-
garded. The time may come when the decent
newspapers will grow tired of being longer
scheduled with the criminal classes, regarded
as public enemies; and then. with the assist
ance of intelligent people who recognize and
appreciate the value and character of the
great body of the press, there will be elected
a Legislature from which justice may be ex-
pected and will be received.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12
No Nationality in Suffering.

ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
The cable informs us that Emperor Will
liam has sent 1900 marks (about $3.50 from
his private purse as contribution for the
benefit of German sufferers by American
floods. We trust the money will be prompt
ly returned to his Majesty, with polite note
to the effect that as the Almighty, in send
ing the Hood, did not discriminate between
persons of different nationalities, but wet
all alike who came within its level, so there
should be no discrimination of this kind in
the distribution of relief. What would be
said of the man in this country who should
accompany a donation with a condition that
it should be distributed among Americans
only?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

DR.. w. D. H. HUNTER, editor of the Law
renceburg Register, and elected by the late
Legislature as one of the directors of the
Southern Prison, Democrat Endorsed by
his party, has this to say of the defeat of the
general appropriation bill by the majority of
the General Assembly:
1.-THE State was not specially interested in
the metropolitan police bill, which only
affected two cities in the State, but 1t is
specially'interested in the provisions essen
tial to secure the necessary funds to carry on
the affairs of state. The defeating, therefore,
of such measure as the general appropria-
ton bill for so trivial a cause was great out
rage, and those who were the instruments in
accom- lshing it should be severely con-
demned by the press generally, that the
Democratic party may not be held RESPONSE
BILE for this wrong in the future"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

THE House of Representatives of the State
of Ohio, by a vote of 6S yeas to % nays,
adopted resolution submitting to the peo-
pie, to be voted upon directly, two constitu-
tional amendments, one placing the power
of legislation upon the liquor traffic in the
hands of the Legislature without restriction,
and the other prohibition of the manufac-
ture of and traffic in liquors altogether.
If the Senate shall agree to this resolution,
Ohio will have reached precisely the point
in the temperance discussion which the Re-
publicans of Indiana insisted upon during
the late campaign. In speaking of the mat
ter, the Commercial Gazette of Saturday,
says
"This ISSUE which has so long been the
bugbear of the Legislature was not at all
formidable when earnestly encountered. The
difficulties vanished like thin air, and the
mist was blown away in the clear and cour-
ageous purpose to do something effective.
Had this action been had year ago, the re-
suit of the election of 1882 would have been
widely different. ,i,.o,
"All that remains for the Legislature now
to do is to frame and pass a judicious tax
law and put it in operation. If tie liquor
interest sees that the feature is to treat it on
a revenue basis with no punitive implication
of the traffic as an evil, the better part of it
will concur in the action of the Legislature
and support the first proposition"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

Hon J. B. CONNER, the efficient chief of
;he Bureau of Statistics turned over to his
successor, on Saturday last, the books and
papers belonging to the office. There is an
eternal fitness in selecting Mr.. Foster the
secretary of the Anti-prohib League of
Indiana as the managing secretary OF the
bureau. Mr. Foster earned recognition by
his fidelity in the cause last summer, and
then there is assurance by this arrangement
that there will be no further gathering of
such statistics as are found in the report of
Mr.. Conner, showing that in Marion county
alone the cost OF 8, 119 convictions was 3d.
$40. 1G more than the receipts from fines for
the year ending Aug. 81, 1882 Ii there is
anything that the people do not want to
know it is the cost of the liquor traffic, and
by making the secretary OF the liquor league
he chief secretary OF the Bureau of Statistics,
they will be saved from such a knowledge
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

BECAUSE Miss Louisa Alcott, author of "Little
Women" failed to attend suffrage meeting
held in her town, she was accused of having lost
her early affection for "the cause" 70 defend
herself from the charge she writes a card, in
which she says:
$50 far from losing interest in this question,
every year gives me greater faith in 1t, greater
hope of its success larger charity for those who
cannot see its wisdom, and more earnest wish
to what influence possess for its advance
ment"
She explains her absence from the meeting by
the statement that she was so absorbed in home
duties that she "had no time for pleasure"
There can be no further doubt that Miss Alcott is
slOyal"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

THE st. Louis Globe-Democrat says with
some degree of pertinency "The SWIVEL
service reformers of New York, under the
lead of Man Miliiner Curtis, have denounced
President Arthur for removing Naval Officer
Burt. We do not remember any similar ac-
ton on their part on the occasion of the re-
moval of Collector Merritt by the predecessor
of President Arthur"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12
PASSING THROUGH WASHINGTON.
Washington Special
Kate Chase,s Successor.

Providence tR. L. Special
Your correspondent learned by diligent
inquiry tonight that Governor Sprague has
known his present bride for long time,
having doubtless become acquainted with
her through her father. She belongs to one
OF the wealthiest families in Virginia, and
will inherit an immense amount of property
from both parents She is the descendant
of very arstrocratic Cuban family. Her
father inherited a large fortune and
besides, has been bold and very
successful speculator Her mother.
vino is Cuban also, inherited
large property. After leaving Cuba the
family lived in New Haven, Conn, for some
time, and afterward went to Staunton, Va,
where the brides father has lived as retired
merchant for the past fourteen years. The
new bride, who is about thirty years old, has
received an unusually liberal education, has
well-cultivated mind, is highly intelligent,
and in every way brilliant and beautiful
woman of charming grace and manners
The ex-Governor's wife was a widow,
having been divorced from her husband
not many years ago. Exactly what was
the cause of her estrangement from her
former husband nobody here processes to
know. Some four years ago she passed
season at Narragansett Pler, when, as
everybody knows is within short distance
of Canonchet. 1t is probable that it was
then the intimacy between the two ripened
into the love which has now led to their
marriage. Since then Governor SpragIe has
made many hying trips South, as it now APP
pears, to see his lady love; but no one ever
supposed that he had anything beside BUSH
ness on his mind. He has certainly been
very successful in keeping the whole thing
dark. and if be desired to create n sensation
there is no doubt that he has succeeded in
his object
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

eral Assembly. Even under this ruling of
their Speaker the Democratic claim as to the
general appropriation bill is ridiculous; but
in the teeth OF the plain wording of the con-
stitution and of thirty-one years of unbroken
practice, the Democracy will not succeed in
their absurd effort to relieve themselves
from the infamy OF the defeat Of the general
approximation bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

NEVER in the history of the State was
law passed upon the sixty-frst day of the
session of the Legislature. Never was a
claim made by any human being that law
passed on that day would be worth the pa
per it was written upon. Speaker Bynum,
whose partisanship and contempt Of all law
and decency were certainly strong enough
for any partisan duty ruled that while law
might be passed on that day, it could not be
delivered to the Governor, but mast lie in
operative until the next meeting OF the Gen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

THE intimation comes from the East that
DR.. McCosh, the venerable president of
Princeton, is about to retire, as also is Presi-
dent Cattell, of Lafayette College, Easton,
Pa. The cause is the same in both instances;
overwork These presidents are too old to
undertake the duty of several men, and in
the case of DR.. McCosh, particularly, there
is no possible reason why he should not be
believed of all labor except that he may
choose to do and be perfectly able to perform.
Princeton cannot afford to lose Dr. McCosh,
if his headshp of the college can be retained
BY any arrangement of faculty work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

THERE can be no shadow of doubt of the
nnconstitutionality of the metropolitan po-
lice bill The constitution expressly forbds
special legislation where laws can be general
and of uniform operation throughout the
State, and while it is true that under some
decisions of the Supreme Court this provis-
ion has been shamelessly evaded it is no less
true that if this police bill should be proper
ly attacked a court would have to be much
below what we believe our Supreme Court to
be not to hold it repugnant to the spirit and
letter OF the consultation. With Judge lyle
hart, OF Evansville, we believe its constitu-
tionality should be tested, and the mad
march of the Democratic hordes upon the
eight of local self-government met deter
ninedly at the very threshold. To talk of
che constitutionality of this bill in the face
of section 119 of the constitution is talk I'M
worthy of honest men or candid lawyers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

W1GGINs will serve to point moral and
Eeak-minded and nervous people thrown
into disturbance by his idiotic predictions.
Hereafter when Mother Symptoms come to the
iront with their balderdash they will be re-
;eived more as they deserve by reason of the
inter collapse of the Virgins bugaboo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12
JOHN W. BRTToN, of New York, cannot sing
awe fell out, my wife and
We fell nnf. L know nor MhY.v

We fell out, know not why"
because both he and his wife Mary Ann knew
very distinctly why they fell out, and why they
seek a divorce. The couple found life ntoler-
able together because they could not agree upon
naming the children. The first one the father
wanted to call elizabeth Ann" after his mother;
the wife wouldn't have it so, ana named the
child after her mother. When a son and heir ar
rived the quarrel was repeated, and rather than
compromise by giving the infant the names of
both his grandfathers, or of waiting till other
sons were added to the family circle who could
use up some of the superfiuous cognomens, the
pair agreed to separate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

THE general appro priation bill was defeated
by the Democracy "to bring the Governor to
proper sense of his position" The result
of that defeat will be TO bring the Democratic
party to proper sense of its position when
it goes before the people in 1884.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

turned verdict of $5419 Some of the gran
gers were of the opinion that no woman was
worth more than $3.50 to a possible husband,
while the more economical ran the rate as low
cents. The verdict was a compromise, figured
out, it is to be presumed, on the rule of three
the defaulting lover. the girl he married and the
other girl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

CoUMoUNDoURos, the Greek, and Gortcha-
xoff, the Russian, are dead. The latter so
eminent in the annals of Russian di plomacy,
lied yesterday at Baden, after a protracted
sickness For more than sixty years he has
seen in public life, and for half a century
commanding figure in the finesse of Eastern
and Western diplomatic intrigue. He learned
hiscraft under Nesselrode, and played his art
well. The prevalent idea, that no Russian
diplomat ever told the truth or was sincere
in his movements, received an exemplifca-
tion in the work of the venerable Prince,
who, after life of hard toll devoted to the
ambition Russia has ardently nourished since
she days of Peter the Great, died without see
ing his country's borders extended to the sea.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

THE New York Public has carefully an
ilyzed the new tariff and revenue bill, and
concludes that it will effect a reduction in
duties of $37, OOO, 900 year, and cut off more
than $40, 900 of internal revenue. That
is certainly as much of reduction in the
revenues as it would have been wise to make
now
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12
A READER, Pleasantville, sullivan county:
dress Managers Orphan Asylum, this city.
To the Editor of the Indiannnolis Ionrnar

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journar
o. Who has held the office of general3 (2)
Acknowledgement now2 81 Was General Scott
retired S general2 j. E. II.
CoLFAX, ind, March 10.
~ Ulysses s. Grant and W. 7. Sherman. (2)
W. T. Sherman is general and Philip II. Sheridan
acknowledgement. (3) Winfield Scott was re-
tired as lieutenant general.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12
A Disgrace Even to the Legislature.
Orleans Examiner,

orleans Examiner
The Journal has shown up the record of
Horace Hetfren in very complete and relia-
BILE manner the charges all being sustained
by court records, and other evidence that
cannot be gainsayed. He has been disgrace
even to the late Democratic Legislature, and
that is saving a great deal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

THE Terre Haute Courier concludes lengthy
article in review of the plans of the Rose Poly
technic Institute by saying:
at now looks though the Rose Polytechnic
is to he grand endowment for professors and
managers, all OF whom are known to be learned
and elegant gentlemen and rare opportunity for
welleducated lads to promote their already bril-
liant prospects in life by four years feeding
upon the charities of the noble founder of the
great Rose olytechnie-perverted.
"Gentlemen managers, omen your doors q
little wider, and the people will rejoice and give
thanks"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12
And in Other Places as Well.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The way for the Republican party TO carry
Cincinnati in April is to deserve success, and
this means to nominate the best men obtaina-
BILE for the positions to be filled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

IN connection with the Tabor and sprague
weddings the word "divorcee" has come into use.
1t is rather more euphonious than "grass-
widow" and more convenient than "man-with-
Observation-Disclosures wives"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM II. LIPPY, of the Saliva.
ton Army, was Joined in matrimony at Phila-
delphia, on Saturday last, to Captain Lilly E.
Cralle, of the same forces. 1t can hardly be
possible that the Captain subverted military
rules by swearing to obey the Lieutenant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

AT his home in North Vernon Hon. John Over
myer is convalescent OF a serious illness, which
has lasted more than three weeks, and hopes
now to be able to attend TO business. This will
explain why persons who have written MIR.
o vermyer on business and other matters have
not been promptly answered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

WIVES do not seem to come high in Pennsyl-
vania. In breach Of promise suit brought by
a girl who considered her affections damaged to
the extent of $500, jury of farmers has re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

THE editor of the National Republican mourps
the decadence of the widows veil He says sit
was highly becoming, graceful and suggestive,
and could express coy coquetry which no other
head-geaS has ever attained" Bless the mani
What's the difference about the VEIL so long as
the COY, coquettish widow Is left to him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12
MONDAY, MARCH ~, 1883.

THE Arkansas Legislature has changed the
name of Dorsey county to De Soto. To have
maintained the eternal fitness of things, the
new name should have been Rerdell.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

RUTLAND, Vt, is going to hav e monument to
her citizen soldiers which will have some unique
features about 1t. The plan is for a fireproof
library building of marble, in whose main hail
shall be, Iot tablets of brass marble, as is
usual, but great book of vellum, bound in
metal and written in India ink, page devoted
to the history of each soldier, which shall there
be written in impershable letters. This book
placed upon an elevated stand, will be the central
point of the hall,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

REV. JOSEPH COOK lectured in Philadelphia the
other night, and in the course of his extended
remarks expressed fear that he would not be
correctly reported by ''the cheap scribblers Of
the press" The next morning the papers ex-
plaiued the absence of report of the lecture by
the statement that Joseph didn't get through be-
fore they went to press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12

THE Philadelphia Press, after calling the Eng
lish sparrow a thief and robber, prlze-fghter,
common scold and an everlasting gossip, con-
cludes by naming him the ]. Warren Keller
among birds. This is severe upon the English
importation. The Press cannot prove that the
sparrow ever swore at newspaper man.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-19

Ioot of eutg6R NJ rates w ibe trunk llhes,
A bout migdav speculation beoafhe aieadltf |
aud whef the formal annOu cefneht ~ ne
ieiepfqpt efs strike YES made Vie public
market was QUIET. From this point toe
market ga,hefed strength prices recover
inV "a 10 2 80, followed by q
reacilnn OF Is 10 I per cent? but IN the
final dealings Vanderbilps we're IN. good
demand. and this exerted y favorable IN.
llnenoe on the whole list Western Union
was remarkably firm during the afternoon,
rallyng from 49, TO 10 5-S "a compared
vith Wednesdays close. Prices went down
ia to1 Is, except for Central Pacific, ONO
Central, Manitoba aud Union Pacific, which
are is TO Ia higher. Sales oil day. aoo'-
600 81 ares. ,
Nav YoRK. July 49, Press = Stocks
have been weak and depressed this morn
ing. Tue decline In prices ranged from la
To- 2 7-S. the latter In Canada Southern;
North western common; Louisville IL Nash
Vile, Michigan Central, and Missouri Pa
siflc were also heavy. In specialties the
Canadian Pacific broke from 81 IA TO o. D:
and Oregon TRANSIT Continental from ~ 80
to II. Western Union sold down 100 to 19'
The weakness was due to fears of the tele-
graph operators strike and reported trou-
BILE In the Trunk Line pool.
New York, July 10, 1880 p. m.-The an
nouncemeDt that the telegraph operators
had left their desks in body has had no
effect on share speculation the matter
having already been discussed. western
| Union has sold up from n 3-i TO ~ ID.