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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
A WONDERFUL FREAK.
a Child Weighing One and Half Pounds
and No Larger than Mans Forearm.

CHATTANOOGA Tenn, March 19- Marion
Poe, the wife of prominent merchant of
this city, has given birth to a child which is
almost without parallel for diminutiye-
ness, the little creature weighing only one
and half pounds at its birth. The entire
body is not as large as the forearm of an
ordinary person. 1t is just eleven inches
long, and in no portion of its body is it
more than six inches in circumference. Its
head is no larger than large English wal
nut. Its arms look like a mans little finger
and its legs like the center fingers. Its hands
are not as large as a fvecent piece The
child is perfectly formed, and its entire ply
steal organization is complete in every detail
Its head is covered with all the hair usual
ly found on one so young, and in all particu-
lars it differs in nothing from an ordinary
child except in size.
Mrs. Poe is a lady weighing about 125
pounds; her husband is robust and healthy
and is fully six feet tall, has six children
two by his present wife. The first child by
his present wife when born weighed five
pounds and four ounces. She is now two
years old, and fully grown for her age. She
is wonderfully precocious, and has re-
markable intelligence. Small children were
never before born to any OF his or his wife's
family
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
1JGTHFUn CRIMINALS.
Two UnprovclSed and Probably Fatal As.
saults by Boys.

PITTsBURe, March 19.-Two unprovoked as
saults, both of which, tits thought, will prove
fatal, occurred here this afternoon, and in
each instance the assaulter and the victim
were boys. The first case happened on the
Southside Two boys, one named Wood
aged fourteen, were playing a game called
''cat and dos" when the piece of wood known
as the cat" was knocked over q fence into
yard where John Bocksmeyer, aged seven
teen, was at work. This so enraged Books
meyer that he procured pistol and fired,
the ball taking effect in Woods temple,
Bocksmeyer was arrested and the injured
boy was removed to his home, where he is
now lying in dying condition.
AT about the same hour, several BOYS were
playing ball in Allegheny City, among them
Eugene, ten-year-old son of Captain r. J.
Grace prominent citizen. Two larger and
older boys who were unknown, came upand
insisted upon joining the game. Grace re-
fused to play with them, when one picked
up large piece of curbstone and hit him on
the head fracturing his skull. He then es-
aaa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
PUBLIC SENTIMENT,
Tendency of the Outrage to Intensity the
Anti-Irish Feeling

Anti-Irish Feeling.
New YORK, March 19.-A London cable
says: Following so closely on the heels of
the explosion, this singular occurrence has
naturally intensified the current of anti
Irish feeling, for it need hardly be said that
the rules of procedure are reversed and the
Irish party adjudged guilty IN both instances
until it shall demonstrate its innocence. l
conversed for few minutes to-day on the
subject with leading Irish members of Parlia-
ment, who said: UNLESS the real offenders
are caught, l suppose it will be impossible to
convince the majority of the Englishmen
that every Land-leaguer would not be glad
to hear of Lady Dixie's death because she
persistently questioned Egan's honesty, and
fired off in various magazine news
papers ammunition prepared for her by
Richard P:gott STILL: the reported outrage
is remarkable in many respects Ii the men
desired to murder Lady Dixie they might
easily have done SO wien she tainted
and if she were unable to make an outcry the
dog ought to have done so. There are MANY
mysterious features in the affair, and it is
quite possible that the attack was planned bv
those who are trying to bring the league into
disfavor. For my part, | cannot believe that
any lrishman deserving the name would try
to injure Lady Dixie. Her mother is an out
and out Nationalist, and that fact alone,
apart from the regard due to the gentler sex,
would guard the daughter of the dowager
Marchioness OF Queensberry from insult or
violence"
The Irish members of Parliament discredt
the story of Lady Florence Dixie that she
was attacked by masked men.
The affair is puzzing everyone. There is
no clew to the assailants. A gardener who
was potting geraniums thirty yards from the
scene neither saw nor heard anything of the
occurrence. Lady Florence says she called
to her husband for help. She stated that she
should by sorry to attribute the outrage to
the Land League.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20

movement here invariably refused to regard
these things seriously and discouraged all no.
tice of them calculated only to serve a
mischievouS purpose | am one of nearly
two millions of Irishmen resident on this
side of the Irish channel Our homes are in
the midst of the cities that are. forsooth, to
be kerosened and dynamited Our little ones
to roast in the fires which our chival-
rous friends (safe and sound 1000 miles
away in New York or Peoria are to send
men to start around US. The brute creation
will fight for its yoang. Are we lower and
baser than they. Could we hearken un-
moved to chi,anood's shrek from garret or
nursery, calling in vain on Father for res
cue? Should we, forsooth coolly answer back
to our perishing children: Burn, burn away,
dear little ones in order that Mr. Grove, of
far off Peoria may think that he has fright
ened John Bull
"'All things are lawful against England!'
Are they? What tribunal OF public moral
ity or religious accountability has settled
that point? And what is meant by Eng
land? Is it unarmed English men and
women and children? If so, are we to cut
the throats OF any of the enemy we can take
at disadvantage on a lonely road, or in a
railway train? If so, are we to 'frighten Eng
land by battering out the brains of any lit
tie English boy or girl we can catch coming
home from school? What is the difference
IN morality between employing men to
treacherously burn down London, at
no matter what sacrifice of human
life, and employing them to poison
the water mains and so kill the enemy
by millions? Or suppose some handful of
his men secede from Mr. Grove and call him
half hearted because he shrinks from a mag
nificent scheme for simultaneous dosing Of
the London milk supply with strycnnne,
would they be entitled to call themselves
Ireland and make war on England after
this fashion? Surely if the world could pro-
duce body of men capable of any such line
OF action the nations and peoples of Chrsten-
dom would confederate to exterminate them
as human monsters.
We'll | know that no such cowardice and
atrocity dare be practised or really will be
practised. But while those men on your
side of the water who publish such schemes
are thinking of how to 'frighten John Bull
or put Harcourt in a rage as some of them
declared to me last autumn, they are not
frightening England bit, but they are do
ing horrible injury to lrishmen and Ireland.
They are evicting honest Irishmen from good
employment and comfortable homes and
casting them into cruel poverty. They are
hurting Irish girls upon the streets of Eng
lish cities. They are, before my eyes, driy-
ing Irish children OF tender years to mendi-
cancy and crime in the cutters and slums of
LondOn,n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
STEPHENS AND GRANT.
The Estimate of the Confederate Ex-vice g.
President of the Ex-President of the
IT. z, hVI FTsNg
Acting Commissioner.

The Estimate of the Confederate Ex-Vice
President of the Ex-President of the
Nation.
Statement Given in Washington Sunday Herald
shall never forget my first interview with
Grant II was when l came up in 1864 with
the Peace Commission from Richmond I
had been reading great deal about Grant in
all our papers during the war. l had read OF
him as Butcher Grant" so long that invol,
unfairly that idea had become pretty firmly
established i'll my mind. could not get out
of my head picture of coarse, boorsh,
brutal man. We had with us leading
officer of Lees staff. He was in full uniform,
well gotten up for visit OF extreme cere-
mony. When we reached Grants headquar-
ters it was nearly night. We had been passed
by the sentinels with a great deal of ceremo,
ny. We thought when we reached Grants
headquarters, to find great military scene.
l expected to find Grant, the then command
er OF an army of Il million men. in a splen-
did position, surrounded by all the display
that great military power makes possible.
But what was my surprise when l reached
the headquarters, to find only a log-house
with not even sentry in front of it. /
y
ters. 1t was now nearly night advanced
with my party and knocked. There was no
servant, even, in attendance, to announce
callers. The door was opened by a plain,
medum-sized man in civilian clothes. He
held n lighted lamp in his hand
| said. 81 wish to see General Grant"
81 am General Grant" he said in the sim,
plest possible way. "Wll you not walk in,
gentlemen2'
''We walked in and we're seated by him,
He was alone in the room. From the first
he eYinced the greatest possible interest I'M
the object of our mission. l observed hinl
closely during the hour we were with him!
Grants simplicity and modesty were obiectd
of my most profound admiration. i nos
ticed also, when orderlies came in to receive
orders, that these were given in an ordinary
voice There was nothing of the commanded
in his directions. He usually concluded an
order with the words go quickly delivered
in a conversational tone.
when our first consultation ended Grars
insisted upon our sleeping upon his he'd.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
BANK TAXES.
No Ruling Yet Made as to the Effect of the
Nav L

No Ruling Yet Made to the Effect of the
New Law.
i LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 19.-J. S. Barrett,
cashier of the German Security Bank, OF this
city, wrote the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue for an official construction of the
law repeating the tax on capital and deposits
of banks. In response he received the fol.
lowing:
WASHINGTON, March 16..
To j. 5. Barrett Esq, Cashier of the German Secu-
rty Bank Louisville, Ky.
S1r-ln reply to your letter of the 9th inst,
you are informed thar this Office has not Yet
decided what construction should be placed Ip-
on the language of that part of the act of March
., 1883; which repeats the tax capital and
deposits OF banks and bankers. In view of the
Importance of the questions involved it ia prom
able that the honorable Secretary OF the Treas
ury will submit the same to tie Attorney
general for his opinion soon as an actual case
arises, which calls for the decision Of the de-
partment II such taxes are still due. returns
for the same cannot he demanded before June /,
nor can the collection of the same be enforced
before July 1, 1888, Respectfully
H. &. ROGERS,
Acting Commissioner
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
Incendiaries Lxnnhed.

HELENA, NJ. T., March l9.-Last Friday
night barn, eight head OF horses, three
Ncows, hay, grain, etc., the property of H. c..
fNleNally, twelve miles from Helena. were
burned A vigilance committee traced the
crime, it is claimed, to two men named
Coomes and Smith, and they were hanged
by the committee on Sunday night Their
bodies were brought to Helena this evening.
Coomes was an old Alder-gulch miner, and
at the time of his death kept the Eleven-mile
House. Smith was a discharged railroad
hand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Socialist Meeting in Geneva-Attempt to
Shake the Allegiance of Soldiers.
LONDON, March 19.-The meeting in Bras
serie des Paques of 500 Socialists, at which a
disturbance occurred, referred to in Paris
dispatch, yesterday, was held in Geneva, not
in Paris. The only serious symptom in
France, was an attempt to seduce the SOL
diers stationed at Rheims, by throwing over
the walls of the barracks placards giving di-
rections for blowing up public buildings.
Nine persons engaged therein were arrested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
Double Murder Near Chillie otbe.

CHILLIcoTHE, O., March 19-William
Keys, a farmer living four miles from Green
field, stopped at the house of man named
Taylor, on his way home OH Saturday night,
and accused Stanton Taylor of stealing a
bnggy-robe. Taylor called out his brother
John, and the two assaulted Keys who
drew revolver and instantly killed Stanton
and mortally wounded John Keys started
to this city to surrender himself, but was
met by a constable and arrested. Four muir
ders within the past five years have been
committed in that neighborhood
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
The wilson Attachment suit.

New HAVEN. March 19.-There is much ex-
citement in Wallingford over the attachment
suit brought against the Wilson Sewing Ma
chine Company bv President William G.
Wilson. The stock are,in the dark as
to the animus of the suit The inhabitants
of Wallingford subscribed $125 900 in good
faith toward the enterprise, and R. H. Cowles,
secretary and treasurer, goes to Chicago to
ascertain the cause.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
FACTS AND RuMORs.

An Increase in the London Police Force
Parnell Coming to America.
LONDON, March 19.-The Globe says that in
consequence of the late outrages, the police
force of London will be increased by 1000
men, and the staff of detectives on duty at
night will be doubled
Parnell goes to America, and Sexton re-
mains to watch Parliament
1t is rumored that two barrels of powder
have been found in the vicinity of the large
gasometers at Kings Cross, London.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
Cable Notes.

Archbishop Croke has sent ESQ as a contri-
button to the testimonial fund for Parnell.
In the British Commons yesterday after
noon, Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice under for
eign secretary, said the government had
never proposed to appoint British resi-
dent at the Vatican.
Coleridge Kennard writes the London
Times complaining Of the Commons neglect
ing his motions relative to the surplus Of the
Alabama award. He says his object is to re-
cover the surplus for legitimate British claim
ants and taxpayers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
DYNAMITERs DENOUNCED.
Mr.. Suilivan's Indignant Protest Against
the Plans of Rossa and Grove.

the fians OF hossa and Grove.
New YORK, March 19-In letter to the
editor of the Irish American, Mr. A. NJ. Sui
livan, Member of Parliament for Louth, Ire
land, says.
'Even before visited America knew fairly
well the average value and purpose of these
announcements; 1.-THE pronunciamentoes of
dol that they were generally, though not al
ways, composed for the express purpose of
being cabled to London and being quoted In
the House of Commons, so that subscribers
should hurry up with the dollars, seeing
how mortaly John Bull was being fright
ened l know that the leaders OF the Irish
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
Suicide of an Qla s.eambostman.

WHEELING, W. Va, March 19.-Cap{u,.c
of Captain Samuel Mason, of this city, COM
mitted suicide to-day by shooting himself
through the head, Mason recently suffered
a paralytic stroke, which affected his brain.
he ne leaves no family, but considerable prop
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
A Protest Against the Relief Plan for Ire
land.

DUBLIN, March 19.-Most Rev. John Mac
Evilley, Archbishop of Tuam, replying to
Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant, on behalf of
the Catholic bishops of Ireland, writes that
the action of the government in insisting on
extending relief to the distressed people
through the work-house, is an outrage on
humanity and covert system of extermi-
mating the native race
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
PASSENGER Train Telesconed

LONDON, March 19.-The Glasgow express
from Edinburg was telescoped by train
from Glasgow, near the entral station, this
evening. Four persons were killed and
MANY injured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
Reward of Merit for sitting Buu

ST. PAUL, March 19-Sitting Bull and 140
followers, under military surveillance at
Fort Randall, express desire to join the re-
mainder of the Uncappa Sioux at Standing
Rock, and it is understood the War Depart
ment and the Indian Bureau will accede to
the change on May l, owing TO the good con-
duct of the savages during the past winter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
Fight Between Arabs and Turks

CoNsTANTINoPLE, March ia band of
Arabs attacked four Ottoman battalions,
near Yemen. The Turks lost four officers
and anumber OF soldiers, killed and wounded.
The Arabs were repulsed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20

ST. ETTENNE March 19-Sixty miners at
tempted the rescue of comrade. The gem
darmes used their weapons and one miner
was killed. Several arrests were made, and
great excitement followed,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
Death of a Leprous Patient.

BosToN, March 19.-Charles D. Erby, the
leprous patient at the Salem Aims House,
who contracted the disease in the Sandwich
Islands, died this evening
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20
NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS.
Origin of the Injuries from Which
Senator Cameron Is Now Suffering.

Brady Expresses Willingness to Answer
Questions Com ncerning the Price Checks,
but Is Overruled by His Lawyers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20

Proposed Relief Tor French WOrkmen.
PARIS, March 19.-The government will
soon introduce bill in the Chamber of Dep
uties for relief to distressed workingmen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-20

Merrick's offer was to show only that this
draft had been placed upon wtness's desk?
Mr.. Merrick-No, Your Honor; placed upon
his desk and given him for corrupt pur-
pose.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-07-19
TINE COLOR CRAZE.

The popular color for Short-horn
cattle in this country for the past few
wears has been red, and there arc few
breeders, in the West especially, who
have not been led into breeding reds,
and buying reds, simply because there
was and is more money in Short-horns
Of that color than any other. One rea-
son, and the principal one, is that
ranchmen demanded bulls of solid col
ors TO cross upon their many-colorcd
cattle of the plains, and the result has
beon that hundreds of young red thor
oughbred and grade Short-horns have
been sold in this market alone at
prices ranging from 40 TO 100 per cent.
more money than other bulls of equal
or superior individual merit could be
sold at. What the practical result has
been 10 the Short-horn interest is seen
In the fact that many ranchmcn who
purchased these "rcd" bulls for thor
ough bred Short-horns, which, no
doubt, most OF them were. boldly de-
clare that the Short-horn is no good
for the range, while the fact is that no
animal has yet been produced superior
to this breed.
A correspondent of the BreederS'
Gazette writing on that subject, SAYS
that an experience of many years in
breeding justiiies the opinion nc holds
upon this question, that the rcd, white
and roam are colors naturally belong
ing to the race, and that there is
neither merit nor demerit in either,
but that they are simply matters of
taste. "For my own part" he SAYS,
81 have my decided preference for the
rich roam, which is not found in nuy
other breed, but j. clearly and dis
tinctly found ia the purcr bred as well
rs in The grades of this grand race OF
cattle. The clanor for red Short
horns has kept large numbers of bulls
in the stud that should have been con-
signed 10 the shamblcs. while many
valuable animals of light colors have
been sacrificed TO this craze, enter
tanned mostly by young or very mex
pcricnccd breeders. English breeders
have not given way TO this prejudice
"a, regret 10 say, some have done in
this country, but adhere 10 their fav-
orite colors, largely of roam and white,
Judging 10y the exhibits last year At
their three largest fairs, when seventy
six prizes were awarded in the Short
horn classes, forty-six of which went
10 roans, ten 10 whites, and six 10
reds. Would not little more firm
ness on the part of Short-horn breed
ers in standing by their colors soon
overcome this prejudice and be of
general benefit 10 the. country. '-hdS-
sas CITY Indicator
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-07-19
BOOK FARMING.

In looking over the volume of the
Farmer and Ga,deRer for 1876, then
edited aud published by Henry Ward
Bcechcr in this city. VIC find the fol-
lowing well timed remarks of the cdi-
tor in reply TO a correspondent
"Unqucstionably there are two sides
to this question. and both of them cX-
tremes, and therefore both of them
deficient in science and common sense.
Ii men were made according TO our
notions, there would not he a silly one
alive; but il Is otherwise ordered. and
there il no department of human life
i'm which we do not find weak and
foolish men. This is true of farming
rs much as of any other calling. But
no one dreams of setting down the
vocation of agriculture because, like
every other, il has its proportion OF
stupid men. Why, then, should agri-
cultural writers rs class be sum-
marily rejected, because some of them
are visionary Are we not 10 be al
lowed our share Of fools as well as
every other department of life? We
insist on our rights. A book or paper
never proposes TO take the place of a
farmers judgment. Not TO read at all
il bad enough; but 10 read and swal-
low ever, thing without reflection or
discrimination is even worse. Such a
one Is not book headed but block
headed farmer. Papers are designed
10 assist. Those who read them must
select, modify and act according 10
their on n native judgment. So used,
papers answer double purpose they
convey great amount of practical in
formation, and then they stir up the
render 10 habits of thought they make
him more inquisitive, more observing,
more reasoning, and therefore more
reasonable. Now, as to the contents
of agricultural papers: Whose fault is
il if they are not practical men? Who
are the practical men? Who arc daily
conversant with the things cultiva-
tor most needs TO know? Who is
stumbling upon difficulties, or discov-
cring some escape from them? Who
is il that knows so much about gar
dens, orchards, farms, cattle, grains
aud orass1 WHY tho very men who
won't write word for the paper that
they read, and then complain that
there is nothing particular in il. Yes,
there is. There is practical evidence
that men are more willing TO be helped
than TO help Others, and also that men
sometimes blame others for things
of which they themselves are chiefly
blamcw Indiana Farmer.