The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-15

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THE DAILY JOURNAL.
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MONDAY, JANUARY Is, 1883.
THE forestry law in Kansas has led to the
planting of $1,000 acres chiefly in cotton
wood trees,
THE House of Representatives has passed
the pension bill, which appropriates $S1 575,-
600 in round figures for payment this year.
DURING the past year there was 443, 440
pounds of meat condemned in Chicago. And
this does not include clearinghouse steak.
THE reported fire in the Planters Hotel,
st. Louis, was not so bad as the first bulletins
made it, but it was bad enough, as our tele-
graphic columns show.
The year of 1882 was dreadful year for
fires but 1883 has started out in a manner
which, if kept up, will make the record of
last year insignificant
JOHN c. JEssUP, of New York who filed a
petition in bankruptcy in June, 1877, has
asked for his discharge, offering to pay per
cent on an Indebtedness of $4,000 Jessup
is the typical bankrupt.
ANOTHER horrifying calamity by fire is re-
ported On Saturday, during a circus per-
formance at city in Russian Poland, fire
broke out and three hundred of the specta-
tors persisted in the flames,
THE very first day OF the meeting of the
Maine Legislature proposition for local
option liquor law was introduced. Prohibit
DRY laws do not settle the liquor question
That is proved i'll Kansas and in Maine.
ONE hundred and twenty-five physicians
are now engaged in vaccinating the people of
Baltimore This should have been done
months ago; but the Board of Health has not
before had the authority to enforce yaccina-
ton.
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of economy by cutting off the States sub
scriptio.. to the Boston Post, the Democratic
paper. The Governors good taste, as we'll as
the economical feature of this act OF his ad-
ministraton, is to be commended.
DR.. SAMUEL A. MUDD is dead. He set John
Wilkes Booths broken leg and kept him in
his house after the assassination OF Lincoln.
Mudd was arrested, tried and condemned to
the Dry Tortugas. but, after serving a time,
was pardoned by President Johnson.
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A WAsHINeToN special says: "Commis-
sioner Dudley is now busy preparing a list
OF all pensioners and the nature of their dis
abilities. 1t will be sent to Congress before
fits adjournment, and doubtless ordered
printed 1t will make three large octave
volumes"
THE National Republican says: Senator
John A. Logan has received not less than a
thousand letters from ex-soldiers and others
in commentator of his course in the Fitz
John Porter case. The writers, without ex-
ception, ndorse him fully and in the strong
.estterms"
THE house in which Mr.. Lincoln died, No.
SIG Tenth street, opposite Ford's Theater,
now the Army Medical Museum, will prob
ably be bought by the government and used
for clerical purposes, the death chamber of
the President being reserved and kept open
for public inspection.
FITz JOHN PORTER claims to have letter
from Gen. Garfield showing that he was pre-
pairing to change his mind upon the case.
Gen. Logan stated in his speech that Gar
ruary, $780, about the matter, and that he
was then contemplating a speech in defense
OF the action and sentence of the court mar
tial.
THE sanity is questioned of Mrs. Hardin,
the widow of the late Chief Justice of Ken
lucky who was recently discovered to be liv-
ing in the most abject poverty and want in
Louisville. Mrs. Hardin has little daughter
living with her and although she has an
abundance of clothes, the girl is clad in the
dirtiest and most unreasonable garments.
Mrs. Hardin positively refuses to leave the
wretched rookery in which she has been liv-
ing for the past four years.
IT is understood that only Secretary Ere
linghuysen, OF the cabinet is friendly to
the Fitz John Porter relief bill. Secretary
Folger is thought to believe in Gen. Porter's
innocence of the charge upon which he was
court-martialed, but as lawyer thinks Pres
ident Hayes's Schoield board was entirely