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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09
The Pension Law Amendment.
Washington Special.


Much inquiry is being made about the
provisions of the bill amending the pension
laws by increasing the pension of soldiers
and sailors who have lost an arm or leg in
the service. The bill as passed provides
that all persons on the pension rolls and all
persons heretofore granted pensions, Who
while in the military or naval service of the
United States and in the line of duty. shall
have lost one hand or foot, or been totally or
permanently disabled in same, or otherwise
so disabled as to render them incapacitated
to perform manual labor equivalent to the
loss of hand or foot, shall receive PEN
sion of $24 per month: that all persons here
after granted pensions who in like manner
shall have lost either an arm at or above
the elbow, or leg at or above the knee
or shall have been otherwise so disabled as
to be apacited to perform manual labor,
but not so much as to require regular per-
sonal aid and attendance, shall receive q
pension of $50 per month.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09
ABOUT PEOPLE.

RICHARD GRANT WHITE plays the violincello
ravishinGly,
MIss ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, of Boston, is
an addition to the list of lecturers on woman
suffrage.
THE house in which Louisa Montague, the
$4,000 beauty, lives in Philadelphia was pulled
the other night and found to be gambling den.
THE demand for the pictures of Mrs Langtry
has almost entirely ceased, and Lillian Rus
sells photographs are now the ones inquired
for.
LUCY Fl. HOOPER confesses that she has sue
eumbed to the "frank bonhoinie" of the Prince
of Wales, despite his peccadlloes. The Prince
has not yet been heard from.
THE dinner table talker of London World says
that the whole secret of good melted butter is to
beat up the raw yolk of an egg with it until the
two thoroughly amalgamated
LONDON Spectator Dickens, we believe, died
of apoplexy, and i: is not uncommon for those
who die of apoplexy to have some Access
sion of good spirits toward the close"
MISS MARGARET MATHER, the actress is
making good progress toward restored health,
and hopes to be able TO leave her home in Bos-
ton this week to fulfil her engagements.
A MoHAMMEDAN paper states that an inhabitant
of India, who is eighty years Old has just paid
10000 rupees for tie hand of girl of eleven
years. and that the marriage will soon take
place.
MISS DR. HARRIS, young American lady who
opened Office in Hong Kong, was called to at
tend the wife Of one of the chief officials of
China. The native doctors were furious, but the
princess got we'll.
MIR. JAY COOKE has completed arrangements
for the transformation of his beautiful former
home, Ogoutz, near Chelten Hills, Pa into n
young ladies' boarding-school. The property is
valued at about 81 100000.
A GEORGIA paper says that a reconciliation Inns
been effected between Bob Toombs and his grand
aughter, whom he is said TO have dsinherited
because she married against his wishes. Toombs
son-in-law is in luck after all.
MIR. LAWRENCE BARRETT has bought los of
ground on Connecticut avenue, Washington,
near the British minister's, and having front
age of ninety feet, and 1t Is said will build
house for his own use ON q part OF " s..Hr
THE life of the ex-Empress Eugene at Farm
borough is most quiet and unostentatious. She
only leaves her apartments to attend mass in her
private chapel and join in the meals with the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

rights of Louisiana and South Carolina, and
the rights of both will be sacredly main
tanned by the Republican party. But this
does not mean that State sovereignty is su-
preme, and that within the legitimate sphere
ofits action the Federal sovereignty must ask
the permission of State to exercise its au-
thority within the border of the State or
that the State may set up its sovereignty and
forbid the exercise of Federal authority
under the Federal constitution. This is the
claim of the old Estate rights" party, the
party OF Calhoun and the party of Jefferson
Davis, and that party and that political faith
receive no encouragement from the recent de-
cisions of the Supreme Court that a dishon-
est State may take advantage of it's honest
debtors. Indiana lid that by the late Demo-
ocratic Legislature, and refused to pay the
John Martin warrant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

Mr.. BARRY, an ingenious Philadelphian, has
tined to he immensely popular. The body of a
deceased person is placed in the glass box, the
cover screwed on, and after the air is pumped
out through small opening, this is hermetical-
ly sealed, and the "remains" VIII remain as nat
ural as life for indefinite period. Corpses so
canned, the inventor claims, will be attractive
that it is quite probable friends will orten pre-
fer keeping them ia their own houses rather than
to have them placed in vaults. When this is not
desired, however, other arrangements can be
made. Mr.. Barry unfolds his scheme as follows:
"We should have a system of vaults IN
which collins would be placed. Spaces could be
reserved for families. Here, in a stall, would be
father by his side his wife: on the upper shelf
the grandmother and grandfather, and above
that the other ancestors. Each coffin would
have n number at its foot, and catalogues would
be Issued giving the names of the occupants for
instance, Henry Jones, 241.' Above the vaults
would be IA suite of elegant reception rooms into
which visitors would be invited. They could
sit down and call for, say No. 241.' An attend
ant would go down stairs, slide the casket iudi-
Gated mp onto II little barrow, come back again
and leave 1t with them as long as they liked.
They could look at it, have it taken to its shelf
when they were through, and return home A
certain amount of rent would, of course, have to
be exacteG." Mr. Barry's is evidently one of the
greatest minds of the age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

THE Sentinel refers to the law passed by
the late Legislature regulating the life in
surance business of the State and claims
that it was the work of and drafted by Mr.
Williams, of Knox, chairman of the COM
mittee on Insurance The law is the one
noticed by the Journal and has for its
object the squelching of the numerous horde
Of graveyard and assessment" companies
which have no visible means OF support and
no possible method of securing any except
the dollars given them by the fools and
gudgeons who bite the hook baited with
the prospectuses of these smooth-tongued
swindlers. The bill was not the work of
Mr.. Williams, Who however, aided in its
passage when its provisions were explained
80 him. Mr.. Shlvely, the representative
from Wabash county, drew the bill, after an
examination of the insurance laws of the
various States and conferences with leading
insurance men, and worked earnestly for its
passage both in the House and in the Senate
The measure is a good one, intended to do
great public benefit, and its provisions
should be closely and rigidly enforced by
the Auditor of State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

The following little paragraphs are taken
from the Vincennes News, a Democratic pa
per. They will serve as companion pieces to
those taken from the Shelbyville Volunteer,
the Wabash Courier, the Michigan City Dis
patch, the New Albany Public Press, and
other Democratic papers. Taken as whole,
they form touching and tender tribute to
the late Democratic Legislature:
Indiana was never disgraced by a more
vilely partisan Legislature than the one Just
winked out. 1t has written shame on every
page OF its record"
"About one more Legislature like the one
recently deceased would finish the Demo-
cratic party in Indiana. One cannot review
its proceedings without mingled feelings of
anger aud disgust"
"If the liquor league tail hasn't wagged
the Democratic dog in the present Legisa-
ture we are nightly mistaken, and if the
voters OF Indiana do not make it exceedingly
warm for somebody at the next general cleo
ton, we shall give it up that we are neither
a prophet nor the son of prophet"
1T will not be easy for the Democrats of
Indiana to explain to the people why the
party platform promises with respect 10 the
amendments were not lived up to religously
We are afraid that in its zeal to please the
liquor league the majority has dug for itself
a grave both wide and deep"
'If there is a Democrat in this part Of the
State who feels proud of the Legislature
whose session ended in disgrace Tuesday we
have not the honor of his acquaintance Its
infamous record has been read with pain and
disgust, and its memory will survive only to
be damned by every honest and conscien-
tiouS voter in the State - = In looking
over the whole ground it is difficult to pick
out redeeming act, and it is not reasona-
Bile to believe that the people will again
indorse party whose selfishness and incom-
potency have received such signal illustra-
ton -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

No nconsderable amount of cackling is
heard from Democratic newspapers over
the recent decision of the United States Su-
preme Court in the Louisiana cases, to the
effect that the State could not be sued by the
citizens of another State, the claim being
that it is wonderful vindcation of the doc
trine of Estate rights by court every mem
Der of which was appointed by Republican
President. What in the world there is to be
surprised about in this matter we cannot
see The eleventh amendment to the consti-
tuition expressly provides against such suits,
and in these cases the only question involved
was whether the transfer of claims by citi-
zens to the States of New York and New
Hampshire gave those States the right to sue
Louisiana. The court held that the transfer
did not avoid the constitutional prohbi-
ton, that the claims were still the claims OF
the individuals, and they could not reach in
directly what they were prohibited from di-
States Supreme Court has ever palpably vio-
lated the provisions of the constitution, nor
are we aware that the Republican party, in
any of its representative departments, has
ever asserted or maintained the doctrine that
the States had no rights The Republican
party has been as Jealous as any other party
to maintain the clear constitutional rights OF
the State, at the same time maintaining that
the sovereignty of the Federal government
was supreme in its sphere, and that State
sovereignty-not State rights-could not be
set up against Federal sovereignty to
the destruction of the latter. The constitu-
tioual rights of Massachusetts, and OF Ohio
are dear 70 them as the constitutional
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

and the seeming hopelessness OF this kind of
work would stagger anyone less plucky than
those who talk of the flood with cheeriness,
actually not unmixed with a sort of pride, as
they point out how the waters of 1888 laid
over those of 1882.
There has been much public and not lit
tie of private assistance given to Lawrence
burg, but all that has been given is as nothing
when compared with the actual extent of
the disaster The estimate is that the loss
will reach $433 900, and ne .ae can look at
the city and believe for an instant that the
figures are an overestimate. We incline to
think that half million of dollars would
not restore the city to the condition of one
month ago This is simply the money loss
Of course this loss cannot all be made good,
but there are hundreds of people who must
have little help TO put them on their
feet and enable them to grapple the problem
before them of rebuilding their homes and
begin anew the struggle of life, The State
of Indiana should have appropriated at least
$3.50, 200, as the Journal suggested, establish
ing fund, out of which, under proper re-
strictions, the worthy and honest people of
the stricken cities could have obtained a
start-for Lawrenceburg, while the worst, is
not alone in its trouble and appeal
The praise of indianapolis and of the
Board of Trade is on everybodys lips. The
food and sunol;oS cont so ,,ro,o,,+l, ,,d ,;.l,
such willing liberality did more than feed
hungry mouths and minister to physical dis
tress. They succored the hearts of the
people, stimulated with the medicine of
hope, and cheered with the knowledge that
the world is not all selhshness. The COM
mssary yet gives out his daily supplies be-
tween the hours OF 2 and P. NJ, to scores
and hundreds of people who are dependent
upon his stores for food, while the "Indian-
apolis Board of Trade Free Dispensary," upon
a conspicuous corner, affords medicines and
whom are threatened with, if not actually the
victims of, pneumonia troubles. We have
felt warranted in writing this, from late
observation, in order to emphasize upon our
readers and upon the public generally the
fact that there is still need for generosity
both public and private; that the necessity is
not likely to be entirely gone for some time,
and after public and organized methods shall
cease there will still remain the occasion
to send help through private sources-the
pastors of churches, municipal officers or in
dividual friends. And what we have said as
to Lawrenceburg applies TO other localities.
Lawrenceburg serves simply as a text for
sermon general in its application.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

THE new postal-note arrangement will be
put into effect so soon as the necessary notes
can be prepared, the system to be copied as
nearly as possible from that now in vogue in
England. The purpose is to afford the great
est practical safety for making small remit
tances at the least possible expense. The
postal notes are to be engraved on steel in a
style OF art equal to the greenback or the
national bank notes, and as compared with
the printed money order will be very expen-
sive. This care is necessary to protect the
purchaser. Owing to the great expense that
would be involved in supplying ell the post
Offices in the United States with these notes,
it has been ordered that the system be
limited to the money-order offices. The issue
OF these postal-notes at so small fee is con-
sidered at best an experiment. The estimate
of the trainers of the bill is that the net
revenue to the government will not exceed
$50, 900 on s120, 900, 900 of business annually,
and this makes no allowance for cost of
transportation of letters of advice For
the transmission OF sums under S. one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

THE late Independent party of the United
States Senate attains the age of sixty-eight
years to-day. The day after, on Saturday,
it will move on Fayetteville, N. c., in a
special car, the purpose being to add a re-
cruit to its ranks in the person of Miss Burr.
The old party, or some of its friends has
lied good deal about this matter; but as all
is fair in love and war, we presume every
thing will be forgiven.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

MAJOR PHIPPs, the ''gentlemanly" super
intendent of the Philadelphia Almshouse,
Who stole everything that was loose about
the establishment as well as some that were
not, including the roof, has been extradited
by Canadian authorities and must return
home. He has been an object of much SYM
pathy. is is said, among citizens OF Hamil-
con, where he has been cruelty incarcerated
in Jail. His wife, who has been in constant
attendance upon him, has found her society
courted by the wives and daugh-
iers of some of the first citizens but, while
expressing her gratitude she declined sew
husband. The gallant Major was not COM
PEELED to eat prison fare, his wife bringing
him dainties from outside. Once, however,
it is painful to learn, the lady failed to ar
rive, and the Major was obliged to breakfast
on prison fare though not the ordinary food
served to common prisoners. Sad to say
his attendant was a man of coarse percep-
lions, and without the tender sympathies of
irst citizens and their wives The gentle
man in confinement found fault with the
meal, and fell to scolding the attendant, who,
losing his temper, said that the food was
blanked sight better than the sawoust with
which the Major stuffed the paupers in Phil
adelphia. The Major was SO overcome by
the insult that he could not finish the meal
1t is gratifying, however, to learn that when
the governor Of the Jail heard of the outrage
the attendant was sternly reprimanded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

HE following extracts are taken from the
Shelbyville Volunteer, the old Democratic
organ of Shelby county. They give fair
idea of the opinion entertained of the late
Legislature by number of the Democratic
newspapers of the State:
"The record of the late Legislature will be
meat for the Republicans in 1884"
THE late defunct Legislature has made all
previous bodies of the kind respectable by
comparison"
What more could have been expected of
a body which mortgaged itself to the whisky
league before election and obeyed its behests
throughout"
Three movings are said to be equal to one
fire. Three Legislatures such as that just
adjourned are worse than hanging pat
emit"
Fool Legislatures are common in Indiana,
and they seem to be cumulative in their i'm
becility. The late unlamented is the worst
we ever saw"
I'VE need a good deal of saving grace,
some strong counter-irritants, to neutralize
the late defunct body whose odor permeates
the whole State. Fumigate! Fumgatel
Won't somebody burn a rag?"
1--WE would like to know how the Demo-
cratic party at indianapolis is to be benefited
by n metropolitan police law, which will be
executed by Jim Cropsey, Sim Coy, and other
ward bummers OF that ilk, who have no
higher notion of politics than that it is a
game in which the greatest rascals and most
uncoEscionable tricksters always win and
always deserve TO win"
THE hot-heads, led by Speaker Bynum
and backed by the red-nosed, blear-eyed
bummers from the city wards, would listen
neither to reason nor arguments as to party
policy. They had steam up and were deter
mined to rush on. Such is the fate of any
party which lets the riffraff get control OF its
organization. These purblind creatures at
indianapolis will realize too late the fate of
the dog in the fable, which lost its meat by
grabbing at the shadow. They will find that
metropolitan police bill was dearly gained
at the price of losing the State"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

IT is a tride discouraging to young men
striving for greatness to read as much about
the Southern statesman. The progress of
Elliott's body to New York and its reception
there have been attended to with scrupulous
fidelity, and all the incidents noted and tele-
graphed over the land. The question for
young men TO solve is: Shall be pugilist
and bully or a statesman and gentleman2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

not set foot upon the street sidewalk and
says she never will. Recently her husband
found il necessary to move TO another house,
having leased for business purposes the one
where they had so long resided. Mrs. Thorpe
obstinately refused to leave the house, and the
best her husband could do was to put up house
upon the rear of the same lot. to which he finally
obtained his wfe's consent to go. She refused
to walk, but permitted herself to be carried to
the new building.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

BARrHoLDI's Liberty Enlightening the
World" has as yet nowhere to stand. Of the
$3.50, 900 required TO erect the pedestal, but
$50 900 has been raised. The subscription
would be more popular were the colossal
statue to be erected in Central Park instead
of down the BAY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

THE present condition and past expendi-
ture of the Irish Land League fund will
sooner or later be subjected to close scrutiny
and the truth known. specific charge of
failure to account for 9152 900, made upon
reputable authority, is one which Mr.. Par
nell and Mr.. Bigger cannot afford to ignore.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09
Still Sails SereneIy.

Madison Courier. t..n
Horace Heffren availed himself of par
lamentary trick to get an opportunity to
abuse the Indianapolis Journal during tho
last hours of the General Assembly. The
Journal still sails serenely-the largest and
best newspaper ever published in the Stale
of Indiana ~. N. ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1888.

JUDGE WILEY decided yesterday, to admit
certain evidences in order to save time and
bring the Star-route trial within the compass
of an ordinary lifetime. The case still main
tains its drawing features.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09
The Status of the New.Independent Party.

The Status OF the NeW.lndependent Party.
Washington Special.
If there was any doubt about how Senator
elect Riddleberger, OF Virginia, will act polit-
ically it was settle to-day. AT his request
he has been assigned seat on the Republican
side OF the Senate, which Kellogg vacates to
go into the House
Malone has been assigned the seat occupied
by President pro tenn Edmunds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

THE difference between the merchant who adj
vertises and one who does not: The formers
stock is sold before it's old, and the atters is old
before it's sold. Or, may be, the formers sold
before it's sold, and the latter is old before it's
old. You pay for eight squares at the head Of
the column next to reading matter, and take
your choice
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

"MR. DRINKwATER happens to be the name of
great Massachusetts ale BREWER -Courier-
journal.
Might have known he didn't live in Kentucky
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

NORTH CAROLINA genius hasinvented con-
trivance for the of grocers and other dealers In
liquids by attaching W ich to barrels the tin YES
sells used in measuring may be kept drained and
Clean The innocent inventor expects to make a
fortune, hut is doomed to disappointment Bless
the man, groeers don't want their molasses
measures kept drained and clean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

GREAT sensation has been caused in a con-
vent situated at Georgetown, near Wash ington,
by the disappearance of one of the nuns known
as Sister Lorenzo. AT the age of nineteen, and
nineteen years ago, ste fancied herself sighted
and ill-treated at home, and leaving there, en-
tered Il convent where she has ever since re-
mUined. During all that time she has borne the
reputation of being one of the best scholars and
quietest inmates of the institution, and has been
a great favorte among the young lady students.
few days ago she received notice that her pa
rents were dead, and that their estate, valued at
$4,000, was ut her disposal. The temptation
to enter the world once more and to be free was
stronger than her love for convent life Nine
teen years OF seclusion and enforced religions
life ha6 not destroyed her natural love for pleas
ure, and the sister could not resist her longing
to leave the cloister and seek a hearth and home
of her own. She dared not make known her de-
clsion, but watched her opportunity and escaped
from the convent. She has resumed her family
name, covered her cropped hair with blonde
wig. and is already popular amonglthe neighbors,
Strong efforts have been made to induce her to
return TO her convent duties, but she refuses,
saying she is out In the world again, and intends
to stay. si ~