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How Lees Army Was Counted.

Ratick Citizen.
When Lees army was passing through
Chambersburg, Pa, in 1863 on the way to
Gettysburg, Pa, Mr.. Messersmith, the cash.
Ter of the bank, took station on the bank
steps and undertook to ascertain the number
of rebels, tallying every hundred men
on slip of paper in his hand. A rebel off
Ger ordered him to desist, under the threat
of being placed in arrest. Mr.. Messer
smith bowed and proceeded to his barn and
obtained 100 grains of corn, which be
held in his right hand, which was thrust into
his pantaloons pocket He again took his
stand on the steps OF the bank, and for every
hundred men that passed he dropped grain
of corn. When his hand was empty he had
numbered 10000 men, and then he gathered
the grains up again to repeat the enumera-
ton, Thus he stood in the hot sun-and in
deed the weather was scorching at the time
counting until he had nubered the entire
host amounting to 10000 men. During the
night he communicated to Governor Curtin
the information he had thus obtained.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-01
THE sTAR-RoUTE TRIAL.
Mr.. Merrick Continues He Charges John
Dorsey with Perjury.

Dorsey with Perjury.
WASHINGTON, May 31.-Mr. Merrick con-
tinued his address in the star-route case, to-
day, and called the attention Of the jury to
the loss sustained by the government by the
Brady system of increase and expedition.
There was, he said, the Mineral Park Phoebe
route, beginning with contract price of
50, $50, and increasing to So. O33 per annum
How they grew at morn and budded at noon,
under the favoring dews of expedition and
the fraudulent kiss of its son Brady into a
full blown rose. The route from White
river to Rawlins was an instance of
the small amount of attention Brady
paid to the petitions that he now
held up as a shield against the lance OF
Justice. There was not petition, letter.
or even a scratch of pen that asked for the
fast schedule ordered by Brady, unless it
were the contractors affidavit If the Jury
found the contractors had made these Aft
davits by perjury for the benefit of one
another, then a conspiracy was made out and
the crime was proved.
Mr.. Merrick charged John W. Dorsey with
perjury on the stand. He had devised and
concocted the whole narrative of falsehood
He was a man willing to commit perjury,
stimulated by heart blackened with
crime. Rerdell lowered above such a
man, the brother of his master,
leader, teacher in iniquty. He would make
his perjury so plain that the jury would see
1T on their walls at night when they blew out
their candles, In support of this assertion,
Mr.. Merrick placed the testimony of John
Dorsey and Rerdell in contrast and supple
mented it by other well-appled bits of evil
dence See, said he how they strained at a
gnat, yet swallowed camels Of perjury. In
angry despair they sought to substitute
sophstry for logic When a defendant like
John Dorsey lied on the stand, it was from
conscious guilt that he lied, and with a hope
to escape conviction by perjury.
Adinnrned
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New York Civil.seryioe Commission.

ALBANY, May 31.-The State Civil-service
Commission met and organized this after
noon. Ex-Nsval Officer SiIas W. Burt, OF
New York, was appointed chief examiner.
The Evening Journal has an interview with
Burt, who explains the apparent inconsist-
ency in accepting State position, after de-
clinng, last March, a similar national one, by
saying that President Arthur did not
appear to be making the nomination in good
faith and that he declined it because, coup
led with the promotion of General Graham,
it involved an affront to him and the cause of
reform" He takes the place at a lower sal
airy, because he has confidence in the COM
missioner honesty OF purpose John Jay
was chosen president.
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sULLIvAN,s POSSIBILITIES.
How the SlngSer Can BE Utilized for Great
Mural Purposes.

Mural Purposes.
New York Times.
The discovery that a pugilist can attract
crowds in other ways than by fighting or
sparring will be valuable one for others
than baseball players No Sunday-school
could engage Mr.. Sullivan to box at a Sun
day-school picnic, for reasons that are obvious.
Now, however, that it is found that he is a
powerful attraction when engaged in other
than pugilistio exercises he becomes
Immediately available for Sunday
school purposes. For example, he might
be employed to sing hymn at the
next Sunday-school picnic of some enter
prising congregation greatly in want of
money. OF course Mr.. Sullivan can't sing,
but then he can't play base ball Neither
of these facts would prevent people from
rushing to gaze upon him when the oppor-
tunty offers, and the receipts of any Sun
day-school picnic at which he could be hired
to sing hymn would be magnificent.
Similarly, Mr.. Sullivan could be made a
powerful attraction at those curious reli-
eious festivals wherewith impoverished con-
gregations strive to provide their meeting
houses with carpets, paint aud organs. 1t
would be little less than sacrilegious to in
duce Mr. Sullivan to beg for the benefit of
the Ninety-firSt Samdamaman Church of
West Springfield, but he could appear at a
strawberry festival in aid of the same con-
gregation and could read short story of q
religious character with the effect OF quad
rnping the ordinary gate money. The at
tentiOn of the managers of religious and
Sunday-school festivals is respectfully called
to Mr.. Sullivan. In him they have an at
traction infinitely stronger than stereoscopic
views, returned missionaries and real idols.
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THE MIAsfIs' CLAIM.

favoraDle Action OF Secretary rofSef-Ahe
Interest to Be Paid.
Special to the indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, May 31.-Major Steele, repre-
sentative from the Eleventh district, has Sc
cured the favorable action of Secretary Fol-
ger upon the disputed claim of the Miami
Indians of Grant, Wabash and Miami coun-
ties for one years interest on $3.50, 900, which
fell due in 1880, amounting to about $11 900.
The sum in dispute is the interest on the
due until it was paid. This money will be
distributed among the surviving Miamis, who
number about 500 persons. BY the terms of
The treaty of 1912 they became citizens in
1885, Almy Taylor, of Wabash, will proba-
bly, be assigned to the work of adjusting the
accounts
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Rathbone has been promoted, OF whom he
will have entire supervision. Mr.. Rathbone
has made an enviable reputation throughout
the district he has covered for efficiency and
shrewdness. and his promotion is a merited
one. Mr.. McCalmont has been transferred
to the Philadelphia district of the pension
department, and assumes control immediate
ly. He is a clever gentleman and good
officer, and the change is not attributable to
any dissa tisfsction with his conduct or his
ability
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-01

CHICAGO, May 81. - A Wilcox, Arizona,
special, with San Carlos advices, says it is
learned that Locos's wife, son, son-in-law
daughter grandchildren, and fourteen wo-
men, with six bucks have surrendered to the
military authorities, near San Carlos. They
are direct from Mexico, and report that
all hostiles are ready aud anxious to surren-
der So speedy ending of the Indian war
in Mexico and the return OF Crook to Arizo-
ia are anticipated. These 1ndiansar among
1he number OF Chircahuas who left the res
crvation year ago last April.
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SECRET SERVICE CHANGES.
Promotion of Il. @. Rathbone To Be Chief
of the Pension Special Agents.

OF the Pension Special Agents.
.ipccial to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, May 31.-Estes G. Rathbone,
Tor eight years past the agent of the United
States secret service division of the Treasury
Department with headquarters at Cincinnati,
aud covering the territory Of Indiana, Ohio
and Kentucky, to-day rendered his resigna-
tion, TO take effect on July 1. lie has been
appointed to succeed III. r. McCalmont as
bartment, and will assume the duties Of his
new position Immediately on retiring from the
,ecrct service. There are 200 special agents
Il the department in the division to which
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-01
Heavy storm at Montreal.

MONTREAL, May 3L-This city was visited
to-day by northwestern gale, which caused
ships to break from their moofings and drift
down the river. Some accidents were caused
by scaffoldings and insecure walls being
blown down, but nothing serious is reported.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-01
NOTICE OF SALE
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

The undersigned, commissioner appointed
by the Superior Court of Marion county. In.
diana, in cause numbered %, 643, wherein John
l.. Ketcham Is plaintiff and LOUISA A. Tousey
and others are defendants, hereby gives notice
that by virtue of the decree in said cause
tered, he will, on and after the Goth day ofJune,
A D. 1888, offer for sale, at private sale, at my
Office, room No. Bates Block, Indianapolis, In
diana, the following described real estate, to-
wit: Lots numbered seventeen 40, eighteen
Il 81 and nineteen 40, in outlot one hundred
ana seventy-two Q72) in the city of IndianapO-
lis. Also. twenty (24) feet and az
inches off of the west side of lot number eight
(8l, in square number sIXtyfi 1851, in the city
of indianapolis. Also, the west half of the east
half of the southwest quarter of section four
teen Q4l, township sixteen (l6) north of range
three 81 east. all In Marion county in the State
OF Indiana. That all of said real estate will be
SO offered for sale until the 18th day OF Septem-
Der, 1888. Said lands to be sold for not less
than the appraised value thereof aud these
terms: One third of the purchase money cash
in hand, aud the residue in three equal annual
insrallments properly secured, bearing interest
at per cent, and with per cent. attorneys
fees.
DANIEL NJ. RANSDELL,
May 81. 1888. Commissioner.
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renew for two years the contract for carry
ing the mails between San Francisco and
Australia and New Zealand. Should the
United States. however, refuse to contribute
subsidy, the contract is to terminate at the
end of the first year
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John Millions Misfortune.

st. Louis Globe Democrat.
John Milton received less than 500 for
paradise Lost" but John L. Sullivan re-
ceived more than 81, 500 for pitching in a
base ball game on last Monday. Millions
bad eyesight untitled him for base ball,
though,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-01
Steamship Arrivals

PHILADELPHIA. May 31.-Arrived: Illinois
from Liverpool.
LONDON May 31.-Arrived: Holland,
Ethiopia, Fulda and Nederland, from New
York
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Ohio Convention Not Fashioned.

COLUMBUS, O.. May 31.-The State commit
tee refused to postpone the Republican State
convention, awaiting decision on the Scott
liquor tax law, and it will be held on June 5
and G.
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GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

The Mali Contract Between San Francisco
and Australia To BE Renewed.
WELLINGTON, May 31.-The government
OF New Zealand agreed, in conjunction with
the government of New South Wales. TO
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STRAYED.

c, AYED-HORSE-BAY HORSE, WITH
y black name ana TAIL ana saddle mark "a
lump on his back. A suitable reward will be
paid for information leading to HIS recovery.
GEO. W. KEYSER, AZ North Illinois street.
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LOST.

osT-oN WEST OHIO, OR NORTH ILL
i 4 nois street. plain gold hoop earring. A
suitable reward will be paid for its return to
office of l.. 8. AYERS d co.
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Cleveland, Columbus, Cincin-
natl & Indianapolis R'y.

CLEVELAND, o., May 10, 1883.
Special meeting OF stockholders to be held
June @. 1883.
The transfer books OF this company will he
CLOSED on the 22d inst. in preparation for said
meeting. as heretofore advertised. and reOpeued
on June7
BY order of the Board of Directors.
GEO. II. RUSSELL, Secretary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-01

A UCTION sALE-CONTTNUATfON AUG
N tion sale OF Italian Marble and Alabaster
Statuary, Grecian Vases, Roman Urns Fruit
Strands, Card Receivers, Ornaments, genuine
Florentine Mosaios and other Works of Art, at
No. % N. Pennsylvania street, this evening at
7:30 O'Clock. Don't miss this rare chance TO
adorn your homes with artistic and classical
ornaments. No reserve HUNT & MoCURDY,
Auctioneers
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WILL FURNISH MONEY on FARM Sc
L curty, promptly. at the lowest rates for long
or snort time. THO5. c. DAY & CO., ~ East
Market street.
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FOR SALE

nor SALE-FARMS. CHEAP. ON LONG
4 credit, which we nave taken on foreclosure.
Send for circular. FRANCIS SMITH & co.
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INl of oity aud farm property in Indiana and
Ohio. Low interest. JOS. A. MOORE, 81 East
Msrket street.
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MONEY TO LOAN AT THE LOWEST RATES
Nl of interest. JOHN W. WILLIAMS Il CO.,
3 and 4 VintOn Block
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AUCTION SALES.

HUNT h McCURDY. REAL ESTATE AND
II General Auc5oneers. 80 E. washington So
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NOR SALE-FLAX-MILL MACHINERY-AN
IL outfit suitable for working green or rotted
stock. WILLIAM TAFT. Charles City, Iowa.
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nor SALE--AN ASSORTMENT OF SECOND
II hand engines, boilers, and sawmills in good
order. HADLEY, WRIGHT Il CO., corner
Tennessee and Georgia streets, Indianap0lls.
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NOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-FIRST-CLA
IL water-power Touring mill-one of the best in
the State: never-failing power; improved ma
chnery. viii give a splendid bargain. +. o.
WADSWORTH, 80 Circle street.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
IIIsfIN Punished

They we're talking of puns. She eaid
when man made pun he was always
proud of it, but when woman made
one she had the grace to be ashamed
of it.
He said that woman was Justly
ashamed of her puns, for they we're IN
variably wretched; that woman could
semi annually make q good pun, but she
had to bend her whole mind to it, and
sometimes sit up allnight to make it work
smoothly, while men could always make
first class puns of-hand.
She said is was no such thing. She
could make as good pun on any word
as fast as any horrid man.
"Well, said the skeptical wretch,
"make g pun on horseshoe.
+" If you talk until you're horseshoe
can't convince me" said the feeble
minded woman.
And he died.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
The Lost Rivers of Idaho.

From the PuDnc Oplnlen.J
One of the most singular features in
the scenery of the territory of Idaho is
the occurrence of dark, rocky ohasms,
into which large streams and creeks sud
denly disappear and are never more
seen. These assures are old lava chan
nels, produced by the outside of the
molten mass cooling and forming tube,
which, on the fiery stream becoming ex-
hausted, has been left empty, while the
roof of the lava duct, having at some
point fallen in, presents there the open
ing into which the river plunges and is
lost. At one place along the banks of
the Snake River one of the rivers reap
pears gushing from a cleft high up in
the basaltic walls, where it leaps a cata-
ract into the torrent below. Where this
stream has its origin, or at what point it
is swallowed up, is utterly unknown,
though it is believed that its sources are
long way up in the north country.
Besides becoming the channels of living
streams, these lava conducts are fire.
quently found impacted with ice masses,
which never entirely melt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07

Imagine million bottles standing in row
Imagine all these bottles filed with healing
balms Imagine one million of suffering
tor all these bottles! Imagine this vast army
cured and happy, chanting the praise of the
remedy which cured them! With all this you
may get an idea of what is going on, where
Sellers Imperial Cough Syrup is prepared. 1t
is fact that this old standard remedy, which
has been manufactured for more than fifty
years, is literally sold by the millions Of bot
ties. It is a safe, pleasant ard efficient RENE
dY for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness,
Whooping Cough, Bronchial Affections and in
cipient consumption. Sold by all druggists at
0Sc mar bottle
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
Knew the Habits of the Family.
from Texas Siftinps.

[From Texas Siftngs.l
The hampton family have lost by
death five or six children, but the births
are pretty much in the ratio of the
deaths, so that the family is far from
being ch1ldless. A few weeks ago there
was another death ID the family, and the
undertaker's assistant called at the
house. A small boy met him at the
door.
is your pa in?"
"Wnat do you want to see him
about ?"
81 want to ask him when the funeral
takes place."
You needn't see him then at all, if
that Is all you want. / can tell you that.
Papa always buries us at o'clock in
the afternoon
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07

Ysars Of torture afterward. Such is the wretched
experience of too many rheumatic sufferers. Slight
tHRgGs in the bones muscles attributed possibly
to cold, finally declare themselves, by their in
creasing intensity, as evidences of the atrocious
malady. But why give it Roadway? Why not Grad
icate it at the start with the potent blood depurent
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, commended by physi-
clans with equal emphasis for rheumatism, for
dyspepsia debility and constipation, complaints for
which it Is absolute specific. Where mineral and
akGloid poisons fall the Biters will be found to af
ford the rheumatic the relief they often seek in
vain. Attacked with this searching remedy at the
outset, the malady rapidly gives ground, and the
sufferer experiences a cessation of pain, O. which
he had before despaired. Malaral fever also abate
rapidly through its influence, and disorders Of the
liver, stomach, bowels and kidneys overcome
and prevented by it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
PERSONAL.


MISS BONANZA MACKEY will open her
Washington CITY campaign IN Janu
airy.
PROFESSOR DAVID SWINE, of Chicago,
has purchased two acres of land at Lake
Geneva and will build summer cot
Mye.
= EMANUEL LUCKNOW, of Napoleon, o.,
killed himself because his SONS refused
to give him a horse when he came from
the poor house.
Rosa CFsA, an Italian beggar Of New
York, has been arrested IS fraud. She
and her husband own two farms In New
Jersey, and be attends to them while she
implores the charity of the New York
streets. e%.
COLONEL HILL, of Wilkes County,
Georgia, has left fortune of SEQ, 900,
made at farming. General Bob IoOmbs
and his brother Gabriel, each worth half
million dollars, made 10 the same way,
live In the same county.
Miss En1zABRTH STUART PHELPS was
born In Boston and christened May
Gray" for an intimate friend of her
MOTHERS, but at the death of her moth
or, when she was eight years old,
elizabeth Stuart, F" her mothers name,
was given instead.
CANON CROMWELL was among the Wis
itors at the exhibition of relics of Oliver
Cromwell letely held IN London, and re-
lated there to friend that when he was
at Oxford his examiner was DIR. (after-
ward bishop Hampden. $ What is
your full name ?" asked Hampden.
"John Gabriel Cromwell "was the re-
ply; to which the examiner quickly add
ed; "Saint; angel; regicide !"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
Advertising Cheats

at has become SO common to write the be-
ginning of an article, in an elegant, interesting
manner,
" Then run it into some advertisement that
we avoid all such,
: F" And-simply call attention to the merits Of
Hop Bitters IN as plain, honest terms as pos
sible
"To induce people
$40 give them one trial, which so proved
their value that they will never use anything
else"
''THE REMEDY so favorsbly noticed Ia az
the papers,
Religious and secular, is
Having large sale, and is supplanting "a
other medicines.
There is no denying the virtues of the Hep
plant, and the proprietoIs of Hop Bitters hays
shown great shreWdness
"And ability
Sin compromising medicine whose Virbs5A
are 80 palpable to every ones observation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
We DAUNTLEss ENGINEER.

Said the Agent gay to the Engineer
When he took his seat in the cab,
As the bell rung and whistle screamed
And the brawny hand made grab
For throttle and lever, and train pulled out
From the station DER road and stream
And laundering pulled from its lungs OF hre
Clouds of smoke and kissing steam:
:. / suppose YOU have been in accidents
To ne numbered by the score.
And perhaps have killed since you run the road
Maybe hundred or more?"
Then the Engineer from the window looked
Ahead on the track to see.
And Indignantly growled, Z" Now, what in the world
Are you trying to give to met"
ooh, nothing" the Agent gay replied,
With most sardonic smile;
9 l was only thinking how you and Death
Are shaking hands oil the while.
But, say, you have run this many year"
- Yes, tits twenty this very fall"
''And been in smash ups?" "a dozen at least
land which was the worst of all?"
:. Well" said the Engineer, drawing his breath,
q don't like to talk, my mate;
But the most wholesale murder ever was IN
Was when l was on Ninety eight,
Running express on the Erie. You must have
The Oldest Of the boys tell
OF the Carr's Rock horror-the many killed
And the living burned up as IN he'll?
Yes? Wen. thought should never forget
The screams of fear and of pain ::
Never jerk throttle-but bread for the kids
And yet that wasn't one-haif bad
As when was running one night
An hour late and nearing curve
Then my hair stood up with fright
= Before me, right before me, there stood
woman young and fair,
With face white unsoilcd snow,
and LONG, waving, golden hairl
I reached for the brakes, the bell jerked,
Like ice the sweat stood on my brow
There was a splattering of blood, crunching of
bones
Great God I can see it now"
s'And what" asked the Agent, whispering low
To the Engineer at his post,
- Would you do if before you on the track,
Should suddenly rise her ghost 2"
9 Ghosts 2" questioned the Engineer, with smile,
AS he wiped the dust from his eyes
80 I don't believe in any such yarns
They are only old woman's lies.
g You can't fool me with such senseless stuff, !"
And he smiled in ineffable scorn.
9 No one that was crushed by engines wheels
Ever came back, you're born;
There isn't enough tor decent ghost,
And I've proved it many q time"
q But if you should see something white on the
track ?"
g I'd make her buzz and climb %
Just then the Fireman shouted aloud:
Were nearing the graveyard gate,
And, by the heaven above, there's woman in
white,
And with golden hair-sure as fate !"
And he and the Agent turned to look,
But the Engineer was afar;
And after long searching they found him hid
In the depths of the baggage car!
-As,o York Clipper.