The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-24
Boss Brown, Jason B., for Governor, is the
Democratic gonfalon for 1884.

WHEN the public reads In the morning papers
of a shocking murder of one drunken man by
another at Brinkley, Ark, the thought naturally
arises in the public mind that Brinkley is one of
those Western towns where whisky flows like
water, and is free to all who have money enough
to pay for 1t. But this, it seems, is a false i'm
preston. Brinkley Is n temperance town, Like
all temperance towns, however, the wayfaring,
If not a fool, could find a place ia whioh to
quench hls thirst, All he had to do III Brinkley
was to visit the bakery and the "hlind tiger" on
exhibition in its rear to favored customers. A
blind tiger, it may be explained to Innocent
readers, consists of a trap-door, before which.
visitors place their money, while a man, whose
face is unseen, shoves out the drinks. Two in
d~ividuals tarried with this fascinating beast
until they absorbed enough of his ferocious
spirit to cause them to carve each other. Now
the people of Brinkley are wondering If a blind
tiger is not just as dangerous as one with both
eyes open and without a muzzle.
A STORY that the MoImons have a peculiar
dialect and alphabet known only to themselves
is explained by a Mormon merchant visiting
San Francisco, who says that In 1867, when tha
system of phonetic spelling was introduced In
Cincinnati, the Mormons took it up and incor-
porated IL in their schools. After printing many
text books they found that the system was oum-
bersome, and 1t finally proved a dead failure.
These text books became scattered broadcast.
Gentiles would purchase them as ssMormon cur.
~iosities" when they visited Salt Lake, and that
is how the impression prevailed that the Nor
mons had a strange alphabet and o separate
language or dialect.
'sTHE Lords last prophet before the miIlen.
MUM visited Philadelphia last week. He
offered through the newspapers to give free
Bible lessons il the public would hire a hall.
The degenerate Philadelphians failed to respond
and as the prophet, whose name was Jones, had
no money wherewith to pay hall rent himself
nor yet hotel fare, no grasped his gripsack after
three days waiting and wended his way to the
depot. His home Is a mountain fastness in
Pennsylvania, and in case of need he could
probably be induced TO make another Last ap.
pearance II proper Inducements were offered.
IT lie dangerous 10 he honest. A yonng man
who confessed to q police superintendent that La
possessed a natural an uncomfortable propensity
to steal, and asked to be locked up, was at onoe
put under arrest as a vagraDt. The next morn
ing the magistrate, who had met many thieves
but none with this peculiar form of honor, de-
cided that its possessor must be a lunatic. The
young man will probably languish In the insane
asylum until he is convinced that stealing would
have been the better policy.
A LIQUOR seller OF Rutland, VT, has been sen.
fenced to imprisonment for thirty-fve years.
There were 200 different counts for as many
diff erent offenses. Tho temperance people.
particularly the women, who worked up the
evidence are jubilant. Tho fact that tho liquor
dealer is a woman has of course nothing to dc
with their zeal nor their triumph.