The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-28

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
the alleged robbery was only an advertising
dodge. The actresses husband heard of this
wicked insnuation after they left the city, and
the more he thought about it the madden he got,
until at last he returned and sued the hotel pro-
prletors for the value of the diamonds He
probably holds that men who could wink at the
mlsforIunes of 1.-TWO orphans" are mean enough
to have committed the theft themselves
DOWN In South Carolina q dead body is
something than a handful of dust,
unless, indeed, it may be considered as
gold dust. Two years ago W. 8. Hook,
well-known white citizen of Lexington,
was murdered by negro. who threw the body
on the railroad track. Three trains ran over it
in the night before it was discovered, disfguring
and mangling 1t terribly. The administrator of
Hook sued the railroad company for irjuries
done to the corpse, claiming that the mutation
was caused by negligence of the company. The
referee in the case has decided in favor of the
plaintiff and allows him 81 o. 700 damages.
SOME sleeping-oar conductors on the Lake
Shore road had so II UGH to do that they intrust-
ed to the porters the work of collecting and
punching the tickets. The porters instead OF
turning all the tickets over to the conductors,
sold them to scalpers and realized a neat sum
before they were detected and arrested Most
travellers believe the duties of a sleeping-car
conductor to consist of collecting the tickets and
OF sleeping in the best berth in the car. After
reading the foregoing they will conclude that
conductors on the Lake Shore must retire
DC
A MARYLAND man has sued for a divorce from
his wife, alleging that she will not let him read
his Bible in peace and on one occasion took it
from him forclbly and threw it in the fire. 1t
was naughty to treat the good book in this way,
but il the husband is of those persons not
infrequently TO be found whose religion consists
in an o0trusive perusal of the Scriptures when
he should be at work, the wife would have been
justified in throwing him into the fire, and no di-
vorce should be granted him.
The customs-house inspector at New York
has seized thirteen of the twenty trunks recent
ly landed by Joseph A. Donahue, California
millionaire. They were found to contain dutia-
BILE goods to the value of $1,000, although the
gentleman had tacitly claimed that there were
no such articles in his baggage. Among the ar
Pope. What Mr.. Donahue really needed was
the latest textbook on "Every man his own
smugger."
A CONTRACT has been closed for the erection
of a monument to the late Senator Hill, in the
city of Atlanta. The monument is to be of mar
BILE, and is to be six feet six inches high. 1t Is to
be set on granite pedestal and base that will
be twelve feet six inches high. Mr. Alexander
Doyle, of New York. is the contractor. Mr..
Doyle is making the statue of Lee in New Or
leans, and also one Of John Howard Payne. on
order of Mr.. Corcoran.
THE fourteenth annual State Y. NJ. @. A. con-
vention will be held Oct. to 7, in Muncie. 1t
gives promise of being the most interesting
gathering of the kind ever held in the State.
President TuItle, of Wabash College, will deliver
the address on the work in educational institu-
tions Gen. George B. Wright, of this city, will
preside when the railroad work is considered. A
numerous delegation will attend from this city.
THERE is no disput'ng the fact that Boston
culture is loyal to itself and rallies to the sup
port of cherished institutions. Mr. John L. Sui
livan, of that city. says of his saloon: at cost
me $4,000 to fit it up. put in a stock amount
ing to So, 900. opened it on Aug. z, and up to
enough to pay for it. The opening night took
in So, 900, and the first Saturday $2,400.
CITIZENS of ST. Louis testify to finding in the
hydrant water large masses of brown worms
that, viewed closely, look like punches of snakes
knotted together and writing violently. With
liquid refreshments of this kind-the kind that
produces snakes-ready to be turned on at any
corner, free to all. there is need to go further
to seek the cause of the water famine threatened
in st. Louis
WITH all his knowledge of deadly drugs, a lead
ing physician of Wilmington, Del, could think
of no better way of committing suicide than the
old-fashioned way of hanging He walked, with
a cheerful "good morning" through friends
office into an inner room, where he was found
hanging from a coau-hook, and lifeless, fifteen
minutes later.
THE Cleveland Leader states, authoritatively,
that the author of 'The Bread Winners" pub
fishing in the Century, is Mr.. Frederick G..
Mather, a newspaper correspondent, living in
Albany, N. Y. His father is a citizen of Cleve-
land, the cashier of the savings bank there. The
locus of the story is Cleveland and vicinity.
MEXICO has but few laws, hut each one counts.
1t is made a pententiary offense to refuse the
nickel coin of the republic. AS these are quite
common, 1t is no unusual thing TO be compelled
to accept $500 of it at time.
A MARINE item from Milwaukee is to the effect
that "the TYPOS ashore and full of water"
Please observe: she is full of water with the sub
bass and octave coupler wide open on the last
word
Young George Vanderbilt, the prospective
millionaire, will not become a newspaper re-
porter after all. The profession has to draw the
line somewhere.
Retu I'm of the Comet of 1912.
TO the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal
About two years since systematic search for
comets was undertaken by several astronomers,
a particular portion of the heavens being select