The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-27

see our Northern CATTLE" said the Doctor AT
our county fairs we often have steers that weigh
over 5000 pounds" WALL" said the Cracker,
shifting his quid and ejecting long stream OF
tobacco Juice, you Yankees kin beat all TO tell
In la'ge vans. wy cattle CANT grow that big.
They'd bust Their hides"
large number of our shade trees have been
horribly mutilated aud many have been killed
while Others are dying sure but slow from un-
skillful arboreal surgery. indianapolis ought
TO have a city forester, "A man who understands
Tree culture, whose business it should be to see
that trees when trimmed are trimmed properly.
Street trees should only be trimmed under his
supervision and after n permit therefore has
been issued. Something should be done to PRO
tect our trees from this butchery which destroys
their graceful form and not only renders them
unsishtly but as shadeless as telegraph pole.
Our streets and tiaewalks are so wide that
their very vastness has occasioned violation of
good manners and common civliitv that Is truly
deplorable. In no other city IN the North is there
SO little courtesy and so much street-erossing
hoggishness exhibited as here. The chief Offend
efs are OF the female sex q put 1 20 in order TO
avoid the misnomer of '9adies.'1 They sweep
over the crossings two abreast and I he unlucky
person who rs coming from the opposite dlree-
ton is forced to take to the mud or dust The
Light Infantry, the Richmond Zouaves or the
Teeumseh Rifles ought to show these persons
how TO break from double to single lille.
The Hepburn Rifle club, which now has forty
two members, has leased a part of Bfuce's
grove, at the head of College avenue, and will.
beginning on next Monday. have weekly target
practice at that place. The target will first be
erected at range of $50 ards, with n backstop.
II Is intended after while TO increase the range
TO 400 yards. The baeksiop is to be thirty feet
long, twenty-five feet high and three feet thick,
the thicknes to be made up of boards with
gravel between The policeman who shoots at
the Burglar and knows he has winged" him,
Though the burglar doesn't remain for identii-
in irari I'D 10 eos n
spect this baekstop and see if he can hit it.
There are still some Ducolfc idiosyneracies
about this city. Some of these are pleasant, and
should be cherished, while we could probably
dispense with others. The other day saw a
rustic pastifne on North Meridian street which
certainly belonged to a more pastoral precinct
II was eolored man with a road-cart. to Which
he was breaking frIsky young colt. AT the
time this was going the theron ghfare was
thronged with equestrians ladies md gentlemen,
BOYS and girls, aud carriages, many of them
driven by ladies. IT is enough that every brick
wagon lime ana Goa lcart that has business any
where In the northern part of the city should 90
squares out OF the way to this beautiful
street, and wear it out, but the line ought to be
drawn somewhere. Why not draw II on the
horse bTeaker2
"Tbe longest range ever shot at" said A. NJ.
Alexander, the rife shot, "was 500 yards 1t
was four or five years ago, and General G. W.
Colonel Frank Hyde down upon the river before
the city. Colonel Hyde is an ex-member of the
American rifle team vino shoots with wind
gauge, spirit level and all that sort or thing.
The target " as set up, and he wanted we three
HOosiers to use his gun, beautiful piece, cost
$40, and had no end of fancy work and ma
chinery about it, We declined, and each of us
shot with SIG gun, Sharpe's rifle, with COM
mon open sights, Mr.. Heiner made five bulls
eyes out of eight shots ana General Russ and
myself each made six. The Colonel was made
exceedingly shaky by this eXhibftlOn, and dldu't
do as we'll with his fine gun we had done with
our cOmmoner weapon. He had helped to win
the Queens cup, too, but the fancy shooter, if
any OF his machinery gets cut Of order, is easily
ratified and broken up"
A photo-electrotgpe of the great editors"
rests upon the mantepeee in the Journal Office
counting-room. Mr.. Josiah Locke, who nineteen
years ago was one of the proprietors of the
journal, took alook at the pictures the other
day. "IoH don't know how near that gentle
manipulating to the picture of Whtelaw
Reid-"came TO being an editor of this paper, a
situation that might have made considerable
change in his destiny. II was in August or Sep
tember, 1864, that he came Through here and
stopped at the Bates House. He was then the
well-knOwn Agate of the Cincinnati Gazette.
We needed an editor and had had some CORE
spondence with him. Mr.. TilfOrd and myself
went to see him at the Bates We told him what
salary we could give him and the service we
should expect of him. He WAS rather dubious
about the amount of work. He SAID he wouldn't
mind settling down here to enlighten the West
ern mind but the work looked too hard. He
thought as he had the offer Of easy place on
the New York Tribune he would go there. There
was no great amount of hard work there; his
work would be assigned him and he would only
have to dash off an article on topic or SO at a
time. 80 he got away