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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

"THE officers of the Equitable Trust Com
pany are at present awaiting news concern
ing the whereabouts of l. b. Marston, of
Plaintield, N. j., the interest clerk of the COM
pany, who disappeared ten days ago, a de-
fauIter to the amount of $50,
This from the New York World of Satur-
day last. How ingenious these officers are,
to be sure! Awaiting news from a fellow
who absconded with $4,000 OF their money.
Why doesn't he write,or telegraph? Wonder
if he ISN'T i'll somewhere, with no one to
smooth his pillow or to moisten his fevered
lips! How strange it is, and how sad withal.
But he surely will communicate at the ear
lest moment, for after the dear fellow had
gone he considerably sent word to the Off
GERS and directors, and in the %gentlest man.
ner possible broke to them the intelligence
a hundred thousand dollars to his personal
use. With delicate discrimination he
further assuaged the pain that he knew
mustf fall upon them by confessing that he had
been five years at it-had worked diligently
and faithfully, until, at last, the sum was
so large that he felt able to take a much
needed vacation. And now these simple
hearted, confding men, so cruelty deserted
and 50 sad over it all, are patiently and
sweetly awaiting news from their very good
young clerk. 1t is easy to imagine how, after
each mail comes in, they go down to the
postofice and there wait until it is dis
tributed, vainly hoping that a letter will be
in it for them. Day after day goes slowly
by, and no letter; yet they wait and hope.
Not that they care for the money, or that
they expect even to get it back. But they
would like to know how it was kept up for
five years, and how Mr.. Marston managed to
bridge over five annual examinations of
the books. Marston will tell; of course
he will, and all that is wanting to
make these officers s~erenely happy is
a letter from him. A cursory ex-
animation of his ccounts shows that he was
very considerate in his populations, and at
no one time took more than 81, ZOO, while
often and often he contented himself with
but a few hundreds. The case is distressing
in all its aspects. The officers are hurt, of
course, but how Marston must suffer- There
are no depositors in this instance, and much
sorrow is spared thereby. These little busl-
ness diversions will happen, of course,
though they are rather painful. Some would
endeavor to avoid unpleasant denouements
by occasionally g~lancing at the books, but
such a proceeding might hurt the book
keepers feelings, and it is not to be thought
of. If Mr.. Marston should happen to read
this paragraph, he will please write at once
to the officers of the Equitable Trust Com
pany, and relieve their evident distress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

A M1LK-DEALER of New York, referring to
a suggestion that farmers be allowed to fur
nish milk directly to customers, scornfully
says the idea is nonsense, because the people
would not buy the stuff. He knows be-
cause he has experimental, and they will
not have pure milk. 1t is evident from this
that if New Workers cannot live up to their
blue china they are educated up to the blue
milk standard, and that is the next thing to
china. The people of Indianapolis are fast
following in the footsteps of their New York
mporaries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

For a few months after the passage of the
law regulating the quality of the milk, and
especially the quality of the food given to
COWS, there was a manifest improvement in
the milk delivered in this city; but little by
little the fear of the law subsidized until this
winter half OF the milk delivered by wagons
has been skinned milk, the nights milk
being SKINNED in the morning and mixed
with the mornings milk and delivered be-
fore noon. In addition to this the refuse of
the starch factories and of the breweries have
become a common food for dairy.stock. Here
is a field for the board of health. A very
little judicious detective work and whole
some administration Of the law would do
more to protect the health of our people,
children in particular, than weeks of vault
cleaning. 1t may be some trouble at first,
but is not that what the members of the
board are paid for? Let the milk be looked
after.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

most men. He concluded in this way: off a man
could take his possessions with him, all the prop
erty of the earth would now be either IN heaven
or hell"
Mr.. SHARON, the millionaire and ex-senator,
who is manager of the Ralston estate, has COM
promised with Mrs.. Ralston and her suits have
been withdrawn. The widow of the banker
receives $495, 900 in cash, & large ranch in
Southern California and some property in San
Francisco.
WASHINGTON Special: Senator j. D. Cameron,
who submitted to a painful surgical operation a
short time ago, is still in a very weak condition
at his home on Massachusetts avenue, and does
not rally from the shock to his system as rapid
~ as his friends had hoped he would. 1t will be
some time before he can be removed.
JOHN HOWARD PAYNE wrote forty-four plays.
Forty were put on the stage, one of which is
"Brutus." He projected a "Life of Our Saw
ior," and there is a doubt as to his authorship
of "Home, Sweet Home" 1t was Washington
Irving who significantly remarked: "Mr. Payne
knows who the real author of Home, Sweet
Home is."
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND tucks his napkin under
his chin. There used to be a story that when
Sainte-Beuve was invited to breakfast with
the late Emperor and Empress of France the
proper form was TO place the napkin care
ACcoiy ONoE III huo6, Dub budb bu0 CIlflC pun ~
over both, and was never invited to a second
breakfast.
Mr.. EDMUNDs, president pro tenn. of the SEN
ate, gets $4,000 a year instead of $4,000. A
correspondent says that he is paid $4,000 a year
each by the Vermont Central Railroad Company
and the Vermont Wheel-works Company. His
fees in cases before the United States Supreme
Court are said to be large, so that his income is
from $780, 900 to $4,000.
AT a breakfast given at Delmonicos, New
York, to Herr Ludwig Barnay, the Hungarian
tragediaD, now playing in that city, Hon. Carl
Schurz said he had himself written seven TRACE
dies before his nineteenth year. He added that
it was not necessary to say they were all good
tragedies. They dealt with the dramatic uni
ties; all the heroes persisted and all the villains
met the retributive hand of justice. The TRACE
dies, too, had persisted, and he was glad of it.
JOHN G. WHITTIER writes to an Alabama
teacher, whose scholars had a whittier Day."
"Say to the dear young people under thy charge
that, while I loved liberty and hated slavery, 1
never had any but the kindest feeling toward the
people of the South" There is no truth what
ever in the current statement that while Whit
tier retained all his antislavery verses, Lowell
and Longfellow consented to the publication of
editions for the South emitting such verses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

New York city is moving for an adequate
supply of water. The present capacity of
the Croton aqueduct is from 95, 200, 900 to
9S, OO0,O 900 gallons daily, These works were
constructed at a time when the city had but
350,O 900 inhabitants, while now the popula-
zion numbers 1900, 900. The commissioners
who have the matter in hand are of opinion
that the Croton watershed will furnish
enough to satisfy the daily consumption
until it shall exceed $50, 900, 900 gallons, A
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

MADAME DE RACoNsKA, a Polish music teacher
of Philadelphia, who has been elected from her
hotel for nOn-payment of board, cOnfesses to a
reporter that she is a countess, but hides her
identity from the public because she does not
want her titled relatives to know that she is
working for a living. 1t is impossible, she says,
to retain social standing among the nobility of
Europe when engaged in any remunerative occu-
patton, hence her shrinking modesty. AS a
somewhat singular means of keeping her iden-
tity and occupation hid, the Countess brings
suit against her landlord for assault, defamation
of character and injury to her business. She for
gets the consequent newspaper publicity; but,
then, it is possible that her distinguished foreign
relatives cannot read.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

transferring to their own credit S., 200 of the
funds of Morgan & Co., of London. In turn,
the London house charged up the amount to
Drexel & Co., of Philadelphia, who now sue
Mr.. Hubby, holding him on the guarantee,
though he never drew a dollar against the
letter. 1t is certainly remarkable that a letter
for that amount could be cashed entire in
one day without diligent inquiry as to the
right of the holder to the money. An ad-
verse decision in this matter will go far
toward exciting distrust of this means of
carrying ones funds while abroad. The
bankers allege negligence against Mr.. Huddy,
but that gentleman says he proposes to make
this case a test as to whether a person to whom
a letter of credit is issued can be held respon-
sible for its payment if he should lose it and
the finder should obtain the money by forg-
ing the owners signature. Encouragement
Cassidy, who represents Mr.. Huddy, says
that the guarantee will give the banking
house no protection in the face of a forgery,
That the letter of credit, as paid, was a
forgery is not disputed, and to hold his client
responsible would be, he says, equivalent to
making letters of credit menaces rather than
a means of convenience and protection to
those to whom they were issued.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

A SUIT of interest to persons contemplate
ing a trip to Europe is now pending at
Philadelphia. 1t is customary for tourists to
buy a letter of credit, whereby the purchaser
is enabled to draw upon it in various
European cities as his needs require. A
Mr.. Hubby, a wealthy retired merchant of
Philadelphia, made a trip to the continent
in 1881, and before starting got a letter of
credit in the sum of $1,000 from Drexel &
Co., bankers, Philadelphia. AT Heidelberg
he was robbed by a pickpocket, losing, among
other valuables, the letter. He at once mott
fed Drexel, Harjes & Co., of Paris, of his loss,
and they replied that the letter had
been Cancelled. He then gave the matter
no further consideration, feeling assured
that the thief would not be able to negotiate
the letter. His establishment was great, on
his return a few weeks ago, to find that the
letter had been cashed by the thief for its
full amount, the money being drawn from
the clearinghouse of Hoyake & Co., Amster-
dam. To obtain the money the thief had to
forge the signature of Mr.. Hubby, and in
view of this fact the latter concluded that
the Amsterdam house would have to bear
the loss accruing from its own negligence in
cashing the forged letter. When he returned
to this country, however, he learned that
Hoyake & Co. had secured themselves by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

A PROPOSITION has been made to limit the
number of saloons in New York and Brook
Ign to one to each / 600 inhabitants. Allow
ing an increase of 10 per cent. since the last
census, there are now $50, 258 inhabitants
in the two cities. This would give total
of $50 saloons for the two cities. Allowing
a frontage of twenty-five feet to each saloon,
these would make a line 49, $50 feet long, or
nearly ten miles. Strange as it may appear
Tammany Hall has protested vehemently
against its adoption, on the ground that it
would be the practical equivalent of a prohib-
itory liquor law. This opposition will be bet
ter understood when it is borne in mind that
in New York city alone there are
now 10000 saloons, which, on the
basis of the above computation
would, if placed side by side, make a line
nearly fifty miles long. In Indianapolis this
would make a frontage of 125 squares, each
of the four sides being aiken up, and there
would he several hundred saloons to spare,
An idea of the area covered may be had
when it is stated that it would take all the
street frontage between Walnut street on the
north, South street on the south, Liberty on
the east, and West on the west. Taking Wash
ington street, from Pogue's run to White
river, they would crowd each side of the
street seventeen deep. These figures are not
presented as a temperance lecture, but rather
can support TO- 900 saloons with their not less
than 10000 direct attaches, should not COM
plain OF ordinary expenses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27
Saloon License in Chicago.

CHICAGO, March 26.-At a conference to-
day between the citizens committee and the
Republican managers, the former adopted a
platform for the mayoralty campaign, de-
claring for a license of $3.50 a year for beer
saloons and $500 for saloons selling distilled
liquors. The Republicans ook no action,
but tacitly acquiesced to this declaration Of
principles. The Republicans and citizens
are running O Joint city ticket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

A MINNESOTA clover who shot and killed
his sweetheart, confesses that it was his first
intention to kill the girls father also, but he
relented from his fell purpose when he re-
fected that the old man had fourteen chill
dren to support. Notwithstanding this evil
dence of a tender heart, the young man is to
be hanged by the neck until he is dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27
Dukes warned to Leave Uniontown.

PrTTsBURG, March pa Uniontown, Pa,
special to the Chronicle says: IN, L.. Dukes
arrived here from his stepfather's last night,
and this morning a committee Of citizens
waited on him and presented him with the
resolutions adopted by the indignation meet
ing lately held. They also gave him notice
transact his business and leave town. If he
attempts to remain it is thought there will be
trouhleu
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

Mr.. JENNINGS cables the New York World
tina the feeling in England is that Minister
Lowell needs protection quite as much as
Afr. Gladstone, mot that he has been actually
threatened, but because he is decidedly un-
popular with the Irish party"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27
ro the Edltor of the Indipnnaolis journal:

To the Editor of the Indipanaolis Journal:
II the farmer sells his stock and grain at q
good profit but does not get the highest market
price, does he lose money!
GEErINGsVILLE, Ind.
He does not lose any money in the sense that
a msn cannot lose what he never had, but he
fails to become possessed OF as much money as
he might, and the net result is very like an ae-
tual loss.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27
Slain by a Coinrade.

LACROSSE, Wis, March 26.-Frank Mahar.
aged II, was accidentally killed in the gun
room of the Lacrosse Light Guard armory, on
Sunday afternoon, by a comrade of the same
age, named Louis May. The latter placed
what he supposed was an empty she'll in one
OF the rifles and pointed the gun at the vic
tim, who assumed a tragic attitude, with his
hand On his heart. An instant later a bullet
was sent through his head. Mahar was the
%favorite candidate for the West Point
cadetship.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

A DEvoU Brooklynite has died and left a be-
quest of $150,000 to the Young Mems Christian
Association of that city. The interest of this
fund is to be used in the advancement of the
spiritual, intellectual and physical condition Of
the members With this amount of money in
the treasury a great advance may be looked for
among the young mon Of Brooklyn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

Hon. JOHN B. SToLL, of the Ligonier Ban
ner, announces that he has no more idea of
being a candidate for Governor than he has
of running for mayor of Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

THERE is a proposition on foot to reduce
the number of internal revenue districts in
the country to one hundred, an abolition of
twenty-slx of the present number. Should
this plan be carried out, there would be a re-
duction of three in Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

COMMODORE WHITING, of Milwaukee, did
Just as well off as if he had, He says he is a
descendant of Governor William Bradford,
commander of that famous vessel, and will
claim a share in the fortune of 800, 900, 900
deposited in the Bank of England and due
the heirs of Governor Bradford.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

10 the Editor OF the Indianapolis journal:
The quotation desired by ]. M. c. will be found
in ByrOn's Corsair, canto I'd, stanZa Is, as fol-
lows:
"What lost a world, and babe a hero fly
The timid tear III Cleopatra's eye"
FRANKLIN Ind, A. B. HUNTER.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

II is but fair to say that the sway-back poem
entitled put Yourself in His Place." now going
the rounds of the press, credited to the Indian
apolis Journal, was never even published in this
paper, much less as an original contribution.
Our Massachusetts, are burdened with better
rhythmical productions. If the thing must be re-
produced, have mercy, good friends, and kill the
credit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

Mr.. PARNELB could certainly be in better
business than in stirring up two friendly
nations to war, There are parties endeavor-
ing to embroil England and the United
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

Mrs. UHLER, whose unsavory domestic rela-
lions have lately been made prominent, is a
sensitive being. When she went to look over
the effects of the late Mr.. Haverstick she found
that his brother had carried off a diamond ring.
"That ring" said Mrs. Uhler, going into some
thing like Mysteries, 81 must have. 1t is the
engagement ring given me by Mr.. Uhler, and 1
gave it to Mr.. Haverstick. 1 must have it,"
She ought to get it. Such a clinging to mani
mate objects on account of tender associations
is something very touching.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

Young women are mighty queer at times, and
when bent on m%atrimonyt there is no telling what
they won't do. One was known to marry a con-
demned horse-thief, another a murderer about
tobe hanged, and now Clara Blatz, Of New York
city, has beat the record by running off with a
banjo-player.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

A PRESBYTERIAN church in Utah has repu-
dated what may be called the hellfire doctrine,
by a vote of 40 to IL. They had a minister who
preached too much fire and birthstone to suit
their theological tastes, and voted him out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

ga MAN in marlborough, N. H, while taking
apart an Old lounge a short time ago, found a
coin bearing the date 1907, and the word
britannia on one side, and George Ill, ID. G.
REX on the other."-Exchange.
A very remarkable coin, inasmuch as George
III. did not reign until nearly 800 years later
than 1907.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

a political friend then took it, held it above his
head, and carried it across and down the street
to the pollipg-place, the voter paying
out the string. and then the Inspector took
the paper, looked at it, at the string, and at the
man holding the other end, and deposited it in
the box. An ingenious mind might invent a
system of strings and wires connecting with
every female voters residence. Each timid
woman afraid of being contaminated by deposit
ing the ballot In The box herself, could tie her
ticket on a string, like a flyer on a kite, send it
on its way through the window, and the country
thus be saved without injury to the sex.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

TO the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Ii a person enlist in the regular army for five
years and deserts and is not arrested until his
five years has expired, can he then be arrested
and made to serve out his five years2
STAUNroN. JACOB NICHOLSON.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

A special meeting OF the Indiana Republican
Editorial Association will he held at the Federal
courtroom at Indianapolis, beginning at 7:30
O'Clock, on the evening of Thursday, March 20,
1888. Matters of Importance await considera.
ton, and all members Of the association are
urgently invited to attend.
Republican editors who are not now Members
of the association should communicate with the
president or secretary without delay.
W. S. LINGLE, President.
CHAs. E. WILSON, Secretary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

"THE tallest man in the United States lives in
Texas, and his name is Henry Clay Thurston,
He lacks four inches of being eight feet high,
and has never been to a circus."-Ex.
The last clause is inserted to show that he was
DeVer married.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
Is Q. Fl. Mccormick, the inventor of the har-
vester and self-binder dead2 This is to settle a
dispute. LEWIS GRos,
DELPHI. JAMES BCLGER.
He is not dead that weknow of.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

"A of natural soap has been found in
Wyoming. Republican candidates Will be
elected unanimously In that Territory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

THE New York Herald hood fund closed
on Saturday, with an aggregate of $51, 1867.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

THE attention Of those persons who are scan
dalized at the thought of woman degrading her.
self by venturing TO the polls, is called to the
device of a Utica voter. He had the rheumatism
so bad that he couldn't attend the recent elee-
ton, but wanted his side to win. SO he tied has
ballot on a string, let it down from his window,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

WoMEN who travel alone will do well to profit
by the experience of Mrs. Guinan, of Youngs-
town, o., and not lose their heads when they get
on the wrong train. Mrs. Guinan wanted to go
to Buffalo, but finding herself on a train which
did not go that way, behaved SO strangely in her
fright and bewilderment that she was taken for
an escaped lunatic and placed In confinement.
Her friends finally came to her rescue, but Mrs.
Guinan wouldn't feel safe to brave the perils OF
a railway journey now without a military escort.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-27

CuAs. E. WILSON, Secretary.