The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09

original figures, or about $2o0,00o,000. Prom
inent items on the original valuation roll were
life insurance companies at S226, 7OO,OOO; hre
insurance companies at $40, 1856, 00trust COM
panes, $117, 100000; railroad companies,
1924, $50, 900; bank shareholders, ST., 1O7, $40.
resident personal, $137 GIG, 1871; nonresident
personal, $34, $50 1853, and miscellaneous cor
portions 81, Isl, 005, 100.
who are the largest personal taxpayers in
the cty?' / asked.
''The late Moses Taylor was the largest. He
paid tax OF 81, 300, 900 of personal property
without grumbhng and his widow now pays
the same, On the other hand, W. II. Van
derbilt last year came here and swore of
every dollar, but soon after came back ard
said that as the papers and the public were
raising such hi of row. he would pay
tax on one million. Jay Gould only pays
tax on 1000, and Mrs. A. T. Stewart on
100000. Miss Catherine Wolfe pays on
100000. The Lenox estate pays on 81 ,OOO,-
900; the late Ex-Governor e. D. Morgan's
widow on $1,000 900, and the Aston family,
all put together, on $1,000, 900, which is the
largest assessment under one name. The
number of taxpayers is steadily and rapidly
decreasing. Last year there were II, 666 per-
sonal taxpayers, and this year there will not
be more than 10000, and the amount levied
is decreasing at a like rate"
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
The illustrious pastor of Plymouth Church
will, on June a. celebrate the SEVENTEEN
anniversary of his birthday. 1 saw him on
Decoration Day. mounted on a spirited
horse, at the head of the regiment of which
he is chaplain. He was a picture of health
and robust manhood, and looked twenty
years younger than he is. A wonderful old
man. For thirty-sx years Mr., Beecher has
been preaching twice week in Plymouth
Church, to congregations averaging 5000
each. His sermons have for years been re-
ported in the papers and thus brought before
million or more readers. He has lectured
in every part of the country to great au-
diences. There is no man living to-day who
has printed deeper impress upon thoughts
and events in American history. In these
later days we are forgetful of his younger
career-of his utterances in the Kansas
border war days, when he said: Brethren,
every settler in Kansas ought to have
Bible and a Sharps rifle, but if only one, let
him have the rifle. The deacons will now
take up a collection for purchasing rifles
and powder and bullets for the Kansas free
soil settlers, for the evangelization of Mis-
souri, border-ruffians." And then we over
look his services to the Nation in the days
of the war, when he spoke in England as no
other man could have spoken, and enlisted
British sympathy on the side of liberty and
right Mr.. Beecher still thunders away from
Plymouth pulpit with all his old-time vigor.
And he is just as popular and as much be-
loved by his people as ever May he live to
see still many more anniversaries!
ELI JoHNsoN's FAMILY TROUBLES.
On a Fulton ferryboat the other day met
Mrs. Mary Johnson, the temperance advo-
70 wi hne nd 10 cItit, ri
for 800, 900 for alternating her affections. She
seemed as lighthearted and smiling as ever.
Trouble certainly hadn't turned her hair
gray, for it was just as white year ago as it
is now. She is living with her friends, and
seems not to have lost any of the esteem in
which she has always been so widely held.
Her husband has just been ordered by the
court to fnr2ish within ten days bill of
particulars, specifying the times and places
under the allegation in which the offenses
were committed The public is waiting anx-
iously to see if he can do this. If he unhes-
itatinglv brings out clear statement of the
case sympathy will go with him; otherwise,
the general opinion will be that he has been
clumsiy trying black-mail game. Hgley's
friends on the Produce Exchange think it is
clear case of black-mail. Higley they say,
is a good deal of a lady's man, but is too
honorable to invade the sanctity of another
mans home The fact that he is well known
to be favorite with the fair sex makes him
fiji subject for such an attack as this. Mean
while the temperance people are all by the
ears. Some side with Mary and some with
Eli. The Women's Christian Temperance
Union has been completely split up by it, and
its usefulness social and moral force is
for the time entirely in eclipse
HERE AND THERE.
The wedding of Hamilton Fish's daughter
to the son of Sir Stafford Northcote was the
social event of the week. 1t took place in
grand style at Mr.. Fish's country seat Glen
dyffe on the Hudson. The invitation cards
were unique, bearing neither the names OF
the bride and bridegroom, nor any intima-
ton that a wedding was to take place, except
to mention the church and the hour
The Evening Post is soon, 1 hear, to change
its FORM from the old blanket sheet of four
pages to a more convenient eight-page sheet
The Rev. Hugh Pentecost has given up the
pastorate of the Marcy-avenue Baptist
Church. Brooklyn, and will go over to some
denomination practcng open communion.
He thus follows in the footsteps of his
brother George f. PentecoSt who has
changed his faith several times. Yet couple
of years ago, when he came to Brooklyn,
Hugh stated again and again, most emphati-
cally, that he would never never. never for
sake strict Baptist principles What both
the brothers want is notoriety; and if they
can't get their names in the papers and set
people talking about them in any other way,
they will do it by turning denominatonal
somersaults. LII.
''And the Man Got Left"