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

30 per cent Invested and aggregated capital
must necessarily regard such menace with
terror, and will naturally fight 1t at every step
to the last ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Tribune
THE country wants no tax upon Incomes
Popular sentiment is against it,. And the party
tha1 would enact such a measure in a time of
peace would ma grave from which there
womb De no resurrection. Under present cir
cumstsnces, every man contributes IN an indi-
rect way TO the support OF the government, and
only TO the extent that he uses Imported goods
and wares whisky any tobacco. The man who
uses none of these pays nOthiug.-Cleveland
Leader.
HE truth is-and no workingman sSould for.
get lt-that every employer gets his work done
al as low a rate he possibly The only
reason why labor in this country commands bet
Ter remuneration than in other countries il that
cur cheap land makes farming more profitable
tnah elsewhere, and long rs land remains
cheap every man has Interior resouree-he
can dig; he can become farmer. When the land
Is occnpled, as 1t Is IN European countries. wages
Record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08
AMAsA STONES WILL.
Prompt and Generous Settlement of the Es-
tate by the Executors.

Prompt and Generous Settlement of the Es-
tate by the Executors.
Gaths Gossip.
1t seldom happens that an elaborate and
important will is so promptly and literally
executed as that of the late Amasa Stone of
Cleveland, who. as will be mbered, died
on the 18th of May last, leaving wilt signed
during last December, and one of which Mr.
stones sons-in-laws Colonel John Hay and
Comwell Mather were the executors Under
the laws OF Ohio the will was technically in
valid, having been made within less than a
year previous to the death of the testator
but the executors and the family of Mr..
Stone declined to take advantage of this
circumstance, and not only paid inn
mediately all its requests, but added to
the long list OF benehcaries, number of
distant relatives who had been, as it APP
peared, unintentionally omitted when the
will was drawn. 1t was specified in the will
OF Mr.. Stone that large number of the per-
sonal requests might be paid in securities,
but as these stocks bonds, ETC., were subject
to variations in value, Colonel Hay, with
characteristic fairness and liberaiity, paid
them all in cash.
The more remarkable feature of the settle
ment aside from its promptness was the adj
justment of the claims of the Stone estate
against the bankrupt Chicago Rolling-mill
Company, of which Mr.. A. b. Stone brother
of the deceased, was the former president.
and bonds of the company to
the amount of about $4,000, and
had beside loaned its manager at various
times 81 100000 to help them through accu.
mulating difficulties. For these loans Mr..
Stone held at the time of his death mort
gage notes which formed a first lien upon
the assets OF the company, so that the execu-
tors of his will had only to enforce these
claims, wreck the concern and recover most
or all of their money. Instead OF this, the
family of Mr.. Stone gave up, and Cancelled
the entire 81, 100000 of stock, bonds and
notes, STIMULATING only that the Chicago com
pany pay $500, 600 of its paper held by other
parties. on which Messrs. Amasa and A b
Stone were joint indorsers
This generous action rescued Mr.. A B.
Stone from what would have been TO him a
serious financial liability and cleared the
ground for a reorganization of the company,
which is now in progress under the presi.
dency of Mr.. Porter, of Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

LIKE the telegraph, the supply of gas, or wa
ter, the express business, the telephone is Ger
tain to become an absolute monopoly, tempered
by criticism and tempered with by strikes in
each locality; but in our present methods of
dealing with corporations, the public has no de-
Tense, except that the company cannot charge
more than the traffic will bear anything less it
can collect.-Philadelph Fress.
IF all tariff was removed and pauper wages
only paid TO operatives, thousands would quit
the business, take to farming to be CON
sumers of farm products, and become the COM
petitors of the farmers. The demand would
cease in this proportion, as they would become
sellers instead OF buyers. or all classes, the
farmer is the most interested in protecting Amer
lean industry.-Kansas City Journal.
1T is probable that before many years some
steps will be taken in Congress toward giving
the Executive a voice, consultative at least on
the floors of the respective houses Such a
change would have a tendency to secure more
full and accurate information to the two houses
and to the public, thus imposing some clearer
responsibility upon the committees in the exer-
else of their very extraordinary pOwers.-New
York Times.
IL the Western Union had not made free COM
petition impossible there would be no such gem
eral cutlery for government postal lines as now
is heard all over the country. Bit when a gigan-
tic monopoly deliberately makes free competl
tion impossible in a business so vitality impor
tant to the whole community as Is communica-
ton b. telegraph, the government must step In
to libsrate The citizens from oppression. New
York Herald.
SUPPOSE the strike is extended to the tele-
possibiel Why, certainly there will be great
public inconvenience, but it is not probable that
n general strike for higher wages can be q sue
cess, when the purchasing power of money is
advancing. A dollar Is worth more to-day than
year ago, or six mOnrhs ago. that is, it will
buy more OF the necessaries of ife-Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette
THE characters with whom he General Crook
has so long been dealing are savages. II needs
no great understanding of savage character to
enable rational people to comprehend that meas
ures taken from the sentimental standpoint are
utterly foolish. The savage is not q creature OF
sentiments; he is incapable of cOmprehending
It's meaning; to his limited perceptions 1t is only
a sign OF weakness, and for weakness he feels
only the barbarians contempt.-Chicago Times.
So long demand for better wages Ia con
fined TO one class, like the telegraph operators,
it is question between one class of employers
and one class Of smplyes; but, If the telegraph
strike threatens a universal demand for large
advance of wages on shrinking markets and. re-
duced cost of living, upon the basis proposed by
the telegraph operators the success of such n
movement would involve depreciation of all
corporate property amounting TO tlass than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08
A Fight Among the Generals.

National Republican.
There is going to be funny fight in army
circles when General Sheridan comes TO
Washington" said War Department man.
General Schofield, who is now at the head
of the department of the Pacific, and General
Pope, who is at the head of Che department
OF the Missouri, under General Sheridan will
both try to stay where they are. Neither OF
them want to remove to Chicago. General
Schofeld is one of the biggest men, socially,
on the Pacific slope, and General Pope is
king bee in Kansas and Missouri. Neither
could cut very wide swath in Chicago for
long time, and neither care to go there for
that reason. General Hancock is out of the
fight, apparently. nobody showing disposi-
ton to disturb him. General Sheridan will
not come here until the lst of October, but
the fight against removal to Chicago will be-
gin several weeks before that date"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

THE Invincible Club, at Newark n j.,
have drunk with great heartiness to the
health of O'Donnell, who killed James Carey,
the informer. Mr.. 0Donnelrs health will
probably continue good enough until Novem-
ber His trial takes place then, and after
the progress of cholera and sanitary matters
in general. 1t is too bad, but British justice
is feminist him, and his.chances are scarcely
Invincibles take the contract of disposing OF
O'Donnelps executioner?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

Interview in Boston Herald.
Il never met him until about a year or
more ago, when came over here to dine
with Mr.. George w. Childs. L must say
was very much surprised at the converse
tional powers he displayed. He is a splendid
talker and was very much interested in his
account of his travels abroad l confess
found none OF that reticence and want of
ability to express himself that l had heard so
much about during the past fifteen years.
found him a much broader and ADLER man
than had expected. He discussed the Mex.
lean question: as he did every other question
on which heard him talk, with great deal
of ability"
You never tested his fighting power.
during the WARP
'No; my operations were in different sec.
ton of the country, and against another
wing of the federal army"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

AMONG the myriad boomlets that now vex
the circumambieEt air that OF Mr.. Mcdonald
is regarded by one man at least with solicit
Gus regard that is truly touching. Those
who know say that its greatest brilliancy is
visible in the South; and that is probably
true. Or, maybe like ague, it is always
worse in the next township. A represen ia
tive of the Cincinnati Enquirer at this point
recently sent out 500 circulars to represent
ative men" in this State, and the same num-
Der to similar men in Illinois. The
purpose of this encyclical letter
was to arrive at an idea OF how
the various Democratic booms looked from
other standpoints. The replies are begin
ming to come in, All answers having been
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08
The superfiuous Negro.

Nashville (Tenn.) American.
For the past few days the blasts on the
Union-street excavation have been dis.
charged by electricity, the wires running
some 200 feet off. 1t will be remem bered
that the holes are drilled with a steam drill
A negro man stood watching the operation
yesterday, and, as the blast was discharged
by a young lady with the greatest ease he
shook his head sadly, saying: mo use for
the niger anyhow, now; dey drill de holes
wild steam engine and shoot off de blasts
wild 'lectIic light. Niger no good, 'cept
to load de holes"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

THE beginning of the end of the telegraph
card of which we have heard so much for a
few days-the ordering out of the operators
employed by the railway companies-does
the response to the order of Master Work
man Campbell is not OF a character to encour-
age the strikers. 1t is about time for the
of an article on 1.-THE Lesson of the Strike"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08
Not Pleased with Its Party.

Philadelphia Record (Dem.l
The preamble with which the Democratic
State convention garnished its resolutions
proper in regard to State affairs is a fraud,
and was intended TO be fraud 1t makes no
unequivocal declaration upon any matter at
issue in Federal political affairs. As to civil
service reform and tariff taxation, it is espe-
cially ambiguous and unmeaning. 1t dared
neither declare against civil-service reform,
which it has a sneaking dislike OF, nor in
favor of protective tariff for which 1t has a
sneaking liking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

lican party triumphs in Massachusetts or in
Iowa. in Maine or in Kansas, it will be be-
cause the Republican voters in those States
are convinced of the merits of the platform
adopted in convention. Otherwise they will
not hesitate to express their displeasure. In
this lies the essential difference between
Democracy and Republicanism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08
One Eject of the Strike.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
In consequence of the telegraph strike lea
gitimate business is coming to the front, and
that which is purely speculative has taken
back seat. Merchants, too, are finding out
that telegraphing is not near so necessary as
they had supposed, and having caught fairly
up and got to running by mail, the regular
business of the country is progressin
smoothly enough.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

In discussing the enormous growth of pau
perism in our large cities. the Chicago Herald
notes 'overcrowding" as the primary cause.
Then there must be more than one ''pri-
mary" cause. Exorbitant rents cut more
important figure in the process of impover-
ishment than anything else. But maybe the
Herald reasons that the overcrowding leads
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

THE total number of business failures in
the United States during the first half of the
current year was 1857, while in the United
Kingdom for the same time there were s.
SOS. In Great Britain the failures have in
creased during the past few years among
wholesale houses, while American failures
are largely confined to small dealers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

IT the Conservative party in the British
Commons are wise, they will work the Brad
laugh case off their hands by quietly admit
ting him to his seat. His cause is getting
too big to handle, and is still growing. He
had at his back in Mondays demonstration
thirty thousand freemen. Trafalgar square
rnisSion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

THE Pennsylvania Legislature is still in
session at an expense to the State OF $4,000 a
day. They are trying to pass an appropria-
ton bill. but the people are beginning to
think that unless an adjournment takes
place soon nothing will be left in the treas
ury to appropriate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08
1t Was a Little Strange.
Washington Post.

Washington POST.
contemporary, referring to the massage
of the presidential train from Louisville 10
Chicago, says: at was a great sight for In,
diana, where they do not see a PresidenS
every day" 1t does not seem TO us, how.
ever, that a State so rich as Indiana in prest
dental timber could have been moved with
devouring curiosity by the event meA-
toned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

fewer replies by way of remonstrance to his
official letters and orders during the war
than any officer in the field. Fact no doubt.
How could man reply after he had been
pulverzed?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

THE proprietors of the London Times have
modified their scheme for ahalf-penny news
Summary, but leading articles will not be in
cluded No, we should say not. One lead
ing article from the Times would sink a
catamaran
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

POSSIBLY somebody may be interested in
the Kentucky election. If so, we would
state for their benefit that the Democratic
majority for Governor At the last election
in 1879 was 1917 General Hancock s
plurality in the year following was ~, 1852.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

A LITTLE change in the name of that
Jerusalem bookseller who has found the
New Deuteronomy" would make it spell
Sharper. He only asks five millions for his
parchment and would probably take it in
trade dollars
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

John A LoGANs silence is said to be sig
nificant. 1t is undoubtedly OF the highest
importance to English grammer Courier
Journal.
Your grammar is as bad orthographical-
ly as Logan's is alleged to be in the regular
irregular way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08
fight.

FINING at long range, under fictitious
names, is simply another name for encour-
aging crime. It's the exposure that hurts,
not the trifing sum of the fine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

KENTUCKY elections excite so little atten-
ton that the country has to be prodded in
the ribs with a rail each year as reminder
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

THAT the leading metropolis of America
should furnish $4,000 audience for the
smuggling match of two brutal prize fighters
is most disgraceful fact and conclusive
proof of the boundless corruption of the
,,1one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

A BuLL-FIGHT seems to satisfy the morbid
taste of the Mexican, but the depraved classes
of this country won't stop short of bully
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

If the Democratic majority IN Kentucky is
not increased this year, it will not be Gov
ernor Blackburn's fault. He has pardoned
'em out nearly as fast as the papers could be
IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

whines, yelps or growls according to the man
ner in which he is accustomed to resent an in
jury. The result whole is not exactly har-
monious, but naturally attracts some attention
from persons unlucky enough to be in the neigh
borhood. Any one who may be curious about
the invention can gain all the needed informa-
ton by listening TO the "felina" on his wood
shed roof any dark night and manipulating its
tuneful KEYS with q hnnf-iack.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

THE two-cent postage law is undoubtedly a
good thing, but the result of Its workings may
not be entirely agreeable to the public 1t is
expected, for instance, that the revenue de-
rived from the senders of circulars will be even
greater than at present, because they Will will
ingly pay the extra rate of one cent in order
that the circulars may go sealed. 1t is we'll IN
derstoOd that a sealed letter is never cast light
ly aside or returned unopened, except in novels,
and circular in the guise of a confidential and
personal epistle is likely to be read where it
would otherwise be thrown down and neglected.
After October l, the "lady Of the house" can II o
longer be sure, from its outward appearance,
whether the mornings mail consists of letters
from her dearest friends or of appeals to con-
slider her health and buy the very latest and
much-mproved liyer-pad, to call at
once and secure bargains of Smith &
Co., who are selling off below cost,
Business men looking anxiously for remittances
which are always Subject to delay" will have
their expectations and angry passions raised
simultaneously by the receipt of promising look
ing envt lopes, which being opened contain
printed communications" calllng their attention"
to the merits of this, that or the other scheme
or invention with which they want nothing to
do. And the worst of it. or the best, looking at
tine matter from opposite points OF view, is that
the sealed circulars will be read before being
thrown away. The extra stamps and the little
bit of mucilage will add dignity and import
ance not easily frOwned down.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08
The Reason Why.


Philadelphia Press
The Scott law in Ohio has closed morS
than /, 900 whisky saloons. Still there ara
folks who wonder why the Democrats oppou
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

On Monday last Slade, the Maori pugiist, be-
fore his unlucky meeting with Mr.. Sullivan, of
Boston culture, very complacent and self
satisfied He evidently thought himself adequate
TO any PROBABLE demand upon his physical ut
tainments and rather enjoyed the nOtoriety he
had achieved without having fought battle.
A crowd had gathered about him, among them
two richly dressed '1adies," which SO pulled
him up that he delivered himself as follows:
"Ill begin to think Pm handsome" he said,
III people keep staring at me like this. Damn If
l amt beginning to take fancy to myself |
used to be all broke up when they first began to
watch me, but now don't feel natural il there
amt at least half dozen looking IN the win
dows while I'm eating. Yesterday there
dozen watching me at dinner, and pretty soon a
couple of fellows come up and tries to what
l was eating. Sit down. / said, and lock.
Wonderful thing, amt it, to see a man eating of
as much right here as You haveF Maybe you
have told him, but If you don't git ont, I'll
shy plate at yer' and that young teller didn't
stop running till he got to the beach,
This, be it remembered, is what he said on
Monday. few hours later the gentleman
from the Boston summer school of science met
him, and at the end of the third paragraph Of
the discussion had beaten him at every point,
beside hitting him quite hard on the nose. MI.
Shades remarks on the next day were not SO en-
thus1astic, perhaps. At any rate, they were not
deemed of sufficient Importance to be transmit
ted to painting public. The Maori will find
this great and growing country, and Boston
beings are not to be tritled with.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

THE old ana well-knOwn clearinghouse of
Winsow, Lanier & Co. has been undergoing
some changes MIR. John W. Ellis retires and is
succeeded by Mr.. H. G. Fahnestock, vice presi-
dent of the First National Bank of New York, and
Mr.. ]. F. ID. Lanier has been admitted to MEM
bership in the firm. For many years the house
of Winslow, Lanier & Co. has been favorably
known to Indianians, and its reputation has al
ways stood very high. The recent changes will
add to the esteem in which the firm Is held, if
such a thing be possible
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

MRS. FRANK LESLIE is in Paris, and has taken
the trouble TO send a copy of LIE solr with
the following blue-penciled, which gladly
reproduce without advertising charge:
"Mme. Frank Leslie, directrice des nombreuses
publications Frank Leslie's de New York, fait
en- ce moment une tournee a travers PEurope.
Notre charmant confrere d'outre- A tlautidue
etait un des convives du grand dejeuner offert ce
matin II MonsignOr Capel par lie poete esthetique,
le Marquis de Ieuyille"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08

JUST give IA Brooklyn man an office. and If
there are no pecuniary emoiuments attached he
will go out and attach some ami make an honest
living for himself few years ago the alder
men appointed a market clerk with the under
standing that the city should be at no ex-
pense. They neglected to mention any
who should bear the expenses, and
in fact soon forgot about the appointment
altogether. The young who was made
clerk, however, did not forget it, but went right
along attending to his business which he con-
ceived to be that of levying a tax ON every
farmer who sold produce on the market. There
was no law for this, but the industrious clerk
made them think there was, and secured fees
averae ng from 81 900 to $4,000 a year. He
might have continued to enjoy this prosperity
had not proposed change in the market site
caused the farmers to. complain that as they
paid tax on the present grounds they should
have a voice in the matter. This caused IN
vestigaton which has resulted in cutting off the
income of the clerk withouta salary.