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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

MRS. FRANKLIN SMITH, living near Strouds-
burg, Pa, had an experience last week such as
she will not soon forget. Her little girl, aged
two, and one of neighbor, year older, were
playing in the yard Mrs. Smith noticed
that her little one striking at something
near il, and reaching out her hands as if to
touch it. AS she did SO both children would
laugh, and were evidently in greatest glee.
Mrs. Smith watched the play for some time
thinking they had found a land turtle that was
about the yard. She finally approached the
children, when she was terrified to see that the
plaything that so greatly amused them was
large rattlesnake. 1t was docile enough until
it saw her, when it coed itself and manifested
anger. she dispatched it with a stick and then
tainted, of course
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

FOTt W ny Tie UaHtIIe.
Mr. Hendricks was elected Governor of
this State, once on a time, by the temperance
element, because he was such good temper
ance man. His opponent, Tom Brown, it
was said, was such wicked whisky man.
Brown has never in all his life done
SO much to promote the cause of whisky as
did Mr.. Hendricks in last falls campaign, or
is likely to do in the Iowa cam pagn this fall;
yet he was held up as a great temperance
light and voted for and made Governor by
the temperance element of Indiana. Mr..
Hendricks temperance and religious pro-
cliyites are skin deep, when politics do not
interfere, and never touch the skin at all
when his politics are to be interfered with,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

THE hazing cadets at Annapolis made their
victims stand on their heads and sing from a
note book to the tune of yankee Doodle"
Hazing is wrong and should be put down,
but tits remarkable that American boys have
no more pluck than to submit to it. A boy
any other unmanly trick at the bidding of
member of higher class, ought to resign and
give way to some boy who won't.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

MISS Horton, notorious from having shot
the son of Senator Morgan, of Alabama is
an importunate seeker after clerkship in
the Treasury Department She threatens
violence in case of refusal Miss Horton
should receive an appointment to a second
class clerkship in some kitchen. As long as
honorable ladies are unprovided for she
should receive no encouragement whatever
Indeed there is little probability that any
body will heed her opportunities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

AFTER a run of outrages upon the Jews for
years in Hungary, the cabinet has at last in
terfered with a stringent order against the
rioters who will be held amenable to martial
law and if found guilty executed within
three hours after sentence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

IF Shakspeare's ghost is able to walk or even
totter around at it's advanced age of two
hundred and fifty years or Whereabouts, it ought
to shake its bony fingers at the vicar of STRAIT
fOrd-upon-Avon, who has consented to allow his
bones to be disinterred.
"Good friend, for Jesuss sake, forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here!
Bles'd be the man that spares these stones,
And cursU be he that moves my bones!'
Says the inscription upon the poets tombstone
But the curse has terrors for modern curiosity
hunters, who propose to dig up the bones in or
der to compare the skull with the bust and por-
traits in order to "settle dispute" Distn-
guished citizens of this day may take warning
by this, ard have portraits prepared, for the
benefit of posterity, with afidavits and certit-
Gates of genuineness attached.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
MOrmonism Must Go.
kokomo Gazet


The growing power of the Mormons should
cause alarm among the people. The sooner
the evil is rooted out the better. 1t is an
ulcer on the nation, as slavery was, and must
be destroyed. The next Congress being so
strongly Democratic it is doubtful about it
disposing of the Mormon question. The
Democratic party has not been hostile to
Mormonism. President Arthur will use his
best endeavors toward an determination of
this great evil in the United States, and it is
also to be hoped that the next Congress will
act in the matter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
Democratic Greed for Office.


The Democracy are not content with raid
ing and raping the moral and religious part
that the law provides for convicts but in
wade the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Indi-
annapolis to make places for a lot of political
bummers whose only qualifications are that
they have worked up conventions and NOM
nations and now have to be provided for
at the expense of the deaf and dumb They
are so hungry for Office that there is moth
ing, no class of persons, no matter how I'M
fortunate they may be, whose interests are
superior to the Democratic greed for little
petty Office How long will the people of
the State submit to such ruling for the
party's sakeP
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

LONDON spectators have bought 5000. 900
in trade dollars, under the belief that Con-
gress will be prevailed upon to redeem them
at par These must be of the same party
Southern war bonds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
Importance of Municipal Affairs.

The people are quick to condemn any
population in the national or State officers;
their acts are scrutinized most closely and
they are held to the strictest acc cunt. How
different with local and munic ipal officers.
A spasm of integrity and honesty seizes the
people at long invervals and the rascals are
routed. But one such effort exhausts the
energy of the citizens and the rascals again
come to the front and run everything their
own Way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
A Good Scheme to Let Alone.

Plymouth KepubIica n.
The latest and hugest scheme to get
money from the public is that entitled "the
Peoples railway" The managers propose
to build several through routes from the At
lantic to the Pacific, with any number of
cross lines. No doubt the agents will be at
on the claim that the average cost of the rail
way will be only $36 900 per mile, and the
net earnings $4,000 per mile. We have no
desire to take stock in the Peoples railway
ourself, and would rather have fifty cents
than fifty shares of its stock. 1t is a good
scheme to let alone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
Too Much Government.
New Albany Ledge

If the government is to run our telegraph
lines, why not go further, buy up the rail-
roads, steamboat lines, telephone lines, grain
elevators-in short do everything, and feed a
feeble people as did the Roman empire, and
then collapse 1t is pretty near time that
wise men should preach the true doctrine
that poor old humdrum, slow coach, red
tape off1cialism of government has more than
enough upon it's back. 1t is much wiser to
lessen the load than to put more OH it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
Regulating Family Affairs by Law.

The New Hampshire Legislature has
passed a compulsory education bill. Now
that the people of that State no longer have
many children, they are getting more par
ticular about the care of them. With the
progressive ideas in vogue as to the necessity
of regulating family affairs by statute We
may soon look for laws in Vermont and
New Hampshire that shall make bringing
children into the world matter of compul-
sion, and perhaps shall establish the mini.
mum number of boys and girls for each
household.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

MAJOR JOHN U. SHORTER, of one of the
recently proposed for membership in the
Grand Army OF the Republic, at Williams
burg, n Y. When his regiment was made
known the business of filing his application
suddenly stopped The boys have to draw
the line somewhere, you know.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

THERE have been fewer deaths in New
York this year than for three years past, but
the total during the past eight months
reaches the formidable figures "a, 1919, or
about 100 day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
They Hone to Escane.


OTaWIOTusVIIIe JOuTnaI.
The agent of the Peoples railway has not
as yet struck Charlottesville, visionary
If not fraudulent scheme, having Indian
apois as its base of operations from which
a system of railways is to diverge and ramify
the earth. But Charlottesville is not on
any of the diverging lines and hence we
may escape the terrors of the stock-ta
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
Judge Blacks Hatred of Abolitionists.

Jerry Black had something of a patriots
detestation of the men who made war upon
the Union, but he had yet more heartfelt
hatred for the antislavery men-a patriotic
and devoted band to whom we and mankind
owe debt which We can never pay. That
hatred survived the vicissitudes of twenty
two eventful years and died with him.
Fortunately for mankind the verdict of his
tory in favor of the "Abolitonists," and
against the rebels, will stand notwithstand-
ing the posthumous words of this able,
brave, patriotic, wrong-headed, prejudiced
old man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
Draw the Line Now.
Crawfordsville journal.

Charlottesville Journal
Those who clamor for postal telegraph
will next want a government railroad,
government express government hotel, or
a government saloon. As the line must be
drawn somewhere it may as we'll be drawn
right now. The government can attend to
good deal of business, but it is not big enough
to run the entire business of the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
Consolidation of State Schools.


EIkhaTI JOUThaI
The consolidation of the different higher
institutions of learning in the State meets
with quite decided favor, and is being dis
cussed quietly but thoughtfully from differ
ent stand-points The institutions that now
receive State aid, and are located at different
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
The Fest Representative.

KushviIIe KepuDIlcan.
That representative best serves his constit,
uents, the whole people, who not merely
votes right, but who also has the intelligence
and originality to think of some measure
that will certainly improve the condition OF
mankind, and the ability to secure its adop-
ton. .-......e
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

THE father and mother of Virginia girl OBJ
jected to the marriage OF their sixteen ear old
daughter to a twenty-year-old lover on the
ground that both were too young. Last week
the mother Of the girl eloped with the same
young man, taking along all her husbands hard
earned savings This conduct seems ncensist-
ent on the part of the old lady, but she prob
ably argued, not unreasonably, that she was
better qualified than her young daughter to take
care of so inexperienoed a youth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
The Two.Do,.ar Democrats.

Spencer Republican.
The next strike will probably be in the
Democratic party. 1t is reported that the
Two-dollar Democrats are dissatisfied with
that price and are organizing for something
better. They are after crisp" four-dollar
bill now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

MAINE farmers are turning many an honest
penny by raising bears and woodchucks in
order to realize the bounty on their scalps
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
Where the Rascals Go.

Upton Advocate.
Kick the rascal out of the Republican
party and he at once becomes very promi-
nent rascal in the Democratic party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

points, have done good work, sand the senti-
ment of their graduates and of the people
surrounding them against their removal IS
natural, but there is no good reason for Ieav
ing them where they are because they were
placed there in day when intercourse be-
tween localities, settlements and means OF
communication were entirely different
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

MAYBE it would suit the croakers if the
capital of the State were moved back to Cory
don?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
General Gresham's Business Methods.


General Gresham applies business princi-
pies in the administration of his Office, Just
the same as he would and did in his private
business. Postmasters inspectors and route
agents are required to perform the duties as
signed them without any farming OUT or
shifting responsibilities upon subordinates,
or others not expected to do the work. This
is as it should be; if a gentleman is APP
pointed or elected to an Office it IS for the
purpose, and the people expect him to per-
form the duties. If they are to devolve upon
deputy, appoint the deputy at once and
have responsible head
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

Ten thousand men, mostly from jamaica
are at work upon the Panama canal, and the
statement is made that the project will be
completed in five years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

PARIs-American Exchange in Paris, 50 Boulevard
des Capucines.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

Can be found at the following places:
LONDON-American Exchange in Europe, 4I9 Strand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

NEW YoRK-Fifth Avenue and windsor Hotels,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

AN improved crematory is being built at
Philadelphia. 1t will take six hours to inciner-
ate body.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

LOUISVILLE-C. T. Dearipe, northwest corner
Third and jefferson streets.
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03

WASHINGTON. D. C.-Brentano's LOIS Pennsylva-
MIA avenue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03


CINCINNATI-J. &. Hawley & Co., ia Vine street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-03
BY JNo. C. NEW & son.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-18

animals. The lions, the tigers
and the serpent's eyes are all
magnetic.
1t is well known the serpent
will charm birds that are flying
above it, until in great circles
they will sweep down 10 the
destruction that awaits them.
Al friend of the writer. a doctor,
was one day walking In the field,
when he saw an adder lying on
a rock. He drew near to ex.
anime it, and presently looxcd
atits eyes. He was attracted by
their great beauty, and iuvolun'
tarily stepped forward two OF
three steps. Beautiful lighI
flowed from them and seemed
to battle the very coils of The
serpent. Gradually he drew
closer, until, just US he wa'
almost within the reptiles reach
he Tell, feeling, az he said after
ward, as though be had beef
struck by a stone. When III
became conscious his head wa
in friends lap. His first word
were: "Who struck me !
iF"No one struck you, doctor
! you were charmed by the snake
and.I strnck it with a stone.
He had struck the snake, an
the doctor had felt the blow
Chicago Eye.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-18
500 PER MONTH,
ANJp OUTFIT FIR EE.

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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-18
Tho ResuIr q Education.

In the elegant drawing-room
Of q Cincinnati pork merchants
mansion q large company was
assembled. All the luxury that
wealth could command Contrib
uted to tho guests. Upon a
blue satin divan the pork MGR
chants's daughter, gorgeous in
silks and pearls and diamonds,
was converslng with = FRIEND.
Presently her father approach
ed and said:
aPauline, ! want to say q
word to you."
The girl arose and accompa-
MED her parent to the seclu'
zion Of the bay window.
aPauline,r began the old mar
athsre,s q couple Of Cleveland
dudes III the dining-room hay
inc 4 hot talk about Copernicus
] was afraid they were going ts
ask me to decide the dispute
50 / made some excuse to geI
out and come to you. Now tel
ne who WAS Copernicus any
how ~
20, fasherp exclaimed Pauline
"How could you be SO ignorant
why, any school-boy knows who
Copernicus WA. He sailed
from Palos, Spain, on the 3rd Of
August 1482, and discovered
Amsrica tho following October
The venerable puryeyor Of
swine eazed e%xultingly at his
daughter 8 moment, and then
lid, with : fuggestion Of sad
moss ID bis face:
aParline, my child, ii had
your brains / might have been
5 United States senator from
Ohio. ZBrooklyn Eagle.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-18

The Raleigh IN. G. Observer,
in commencing to the young
men of the State the example Of
the late Parish Furman, says:
"But it is said that agriculture
10 not an engaging occupation.
This idea we would combat. In
the first place, generally agri-
culture is more renumerative
than manufacturing. 1t is also
generally more renumerative
than the professions. Tits pref
cradle, because futher removed
from temptations--less exact
ing, attended by fewer vices
aud more pleasures. The arena
is not so splendid, but the skill
ful, practical, eminent agricul-
turist, such as Furmah was, and
such as many OF our people are,
have more weight, a better re-
putation and a higher influence
than the ordinary manufacturer,
lawyer or physician. We coald
wish to see hundreds of young
men seek to walk in the path
way this distinguished Georgian
has so admirably mar ked OUT
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-18
Oxford Eagle.
OCT. ls, 1888.
sTRAINIMG A POINT.
fHouston Texas) Post.

The St. Louis Globe-D emo
crat. in remarking on the graft.
acation expressed blythe South
ern papers at the handsome
manner In which the wife aud
daughter Of Stonewall jackson
were treated In Boston, express,
% its pleasure at the fact, but
Enthusiastically sneers At
Southern Democracy by adding
thatit doubts whetherthe widow
Of John Brown, whom it terms
atprand old citizen in his day"
would be received at the South
with the same cordially. Such
splenstic journals as the Globe
Democrat are forever casting
up mire and dirt. What posi-
bic good can there come from
insulting tho Southern fselir 6
: ii this manner And what pos
sible comparison can DO instl'
tuted between Stonewall Jack
son aud John Brownl Northern
fanatics may Stultify themsslvea
~ much a. they please by term
ing an outlaw, . sneaking agita'
tor and I murderer 70 grand old
citizen,n but it il not polite mol
polite to attempt to thrust such
Al opinion LIwn the throats O
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-18
aeal Estate Fer Sale.


We offer Tor sale ,ne ioiio%ins
properly al Oh wn''H VI" o9
oou7hs at reasohap'e p'i't' a." a'D
so'he ior mum ie'S ''"" y"
eei
The two story bFlrk sore on on
south side OF puGiic square, ~ TX
iorJ' MISS tateiy occupien ~
o'f st'a4' lo' j., ~.
eas5 NE 30n af 10 sto,e
'o'y' ~ J'' c'
"i - "''9 90 ~
The 'wo ssofy, iroi, ron pilI"
store, on south sac Oh l"'l4O
l''ere IN Oxiord' AtisS, now oc''.-
ided 10y H. MayoS 20 in'S Is
one "i Tue h~"husV''es' "" "i
ueSllaoie s'o'e hN'se' VN'v'O'
a new and improved '~resittsce
IA OXFORD Mss, "' toi'eS' nui
street, BEYOND 'hc iHl' .9au' i'as
lour rooms Two seifal4' To- ms
.Gy
oel,oa 1co
Wandso,,s RIA r.,
~, ~, ~ abo,t IT, III
g oxforj. tn"yn as ttc
pn.ac,t Mac Can be Ionnht
49, 49,
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-18
low to aava.

All hard workers are subject to bilious
]ttaeks which may end in dangerous
Illness. Parker's Ginger Tonic will
Keep the kidneys and liver active. and
by preventing the attack, save much
ickness' loss of timeand expense. De
lay at such times means danger.-Ds.
teoit Press. Soc other column.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-18
The Man Wi h a Vow.

They met on the crowded
avenue yesterday in front ofths
City Hall. One was a young
man of about 22--the other
about 60 years old. One lives
In the northern part Of the state,
the other in the southern. Fate
had brought them together.
There was nothing cor dial in the
meeting. They didn't cry out
aPut 1t tharw and pump.handle
each other like q couple Of oil
friends. On the contrary, the
young man grew red in the face
and breathed hard and STAN
mered out:
"Ten years ago | went to
school to you.o
"Yes, you did, was the calm
reply.
aAnd one day you licked me
almost to death for an offence
committed by another boy.D
swell, you were always in
need of a lickiug.n
Sand swore.u continued the
young man, sAyc! / registered
i solemn vow that il | ever met
|you after / had grown up |
would have my revengel Pre-
pare to be pounded to a lifeless
mass p
"I'm prepared replied the
old school-master, as he spit on
his hand, and in a minute the
fun was raging. The young man
rushed upon him with a war.
whoop, but his nose struck
something and lie fell down.
He got up aud rushed again,
and stepped on and left with o
number OF loose teeth and q
splitting headache. The police
took him in, but when they came
to hunt for the old man he was
ACROSS the street trying to put
mp q rent on lis coat and saying
TO some of his friends:
at brings back all the memo
ries of the old red schoolhouses
to get my hands OH an unruly
pupil in the first reader class"
Detroit Free Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-18

The extraordinary conduct of
the approaching comet, which
has suddenly increased to fit
teen times its former brightness,
besides undergoing remarkable
changes of form, greatly puzzles
the astronomers. Prof. Young
has recently shown how as
tronom.cal collisions may occur,
and il other by potheses fail to
account for the phenomena Of
The comet, it may be suggested
that possibly it has run into
some other wanderer in space.
The sudden increase in bright
mesa, followed by an equally re
markablu expansion Of bulk,
which the comet has exhibited,
are just the appearances which
would be expected to follow a
violent collision of cosmical
bodies.
There seems now to be no
doubt that this comet ID really
the comet Of 1912 returning,
, and it is, therefore, of interest
for other things besides its
present singular conduct II
has what may be called a sister
comet, which was seen in 1916,
and which has an orbit striking
IIv roaauhlino ifa avn. On ac-
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-10-18
yHE AVALANCHE

AND Independent Democratic NeWsDaDeT.
+. S. NICHOLS, Editor.
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The Weekly Avalanche, contains
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All letters and kilograms should be
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