The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-09
TO the Editor o, the Indianapolis journal.


port than that.
In fact, might say it was criminal careless
ness to put Clark county, with all her car works.
her ship-yards, her glass-works, cement-mills,
lme-kilns, fouringmills, her foundries, and fac
tories, at such a mere pittance.
Such statistics calculated to do harm,
rather than good 81. Q. PoINDEXTER.
BARTLE, Ind.
On an investigation of this matter at the Blu
reau of Statistics, it is found that the Journals
figures were in accordance with the reports
made from Clark county and tabulated
by the bureau. The Department of statist-
les intrusted the work of gathering the
facts on the manufacturing industries of the
| State to the several county superintendent of
schools for their respective counties. The chief
| of the Bureau says that, as these men are re-
| garded as intelligent and competent officers, it
| was believed they would do the work correctly,
and, with a few exceptions, this has been the re-
suit. The county superintendent of Clark. by
j. P. Carr acting for him, made the report for
that county. These officers do their work under
! oath, and the Bureau very naturally, with moth
ing to the contrary in hand, accepted the report
as made. The Bureau is DESTROYS that public
attention he called to all such discrepancies, as
it will have tendency to make public officers
more careful in their reports.
| GENERAL BUTLER, in a speech at Middlesex,
discaims that he has cast contumely upon Mas
sachusetts by reason of the caustic criticisms of
his recent message. The report says
"He should more be called hostile to Mas
| sachusetts than a loving son who, with wnisp
| broom, strikes off mud on his parents garment
! can be claimed to be dong an untilial action.
| No, Massachusetts is worthy of love,
respect and veneration in the past and in the
| present, because, if you allow me to follow out
my illustration, all that there is are only linger-
| ing spots on the bright face of her escutcheon.
| Let us do what We can to remove them, so that
! her escuteheon shall be bright glistening glori-
ously, and may shine forth to all the world like
"a shield polished TO its highest extent, like that
OF Richard, the Llon-hearted, when he flashed
it into the face of the Saracen. II is the duty of
| her children to bring back Massachusetts to the
high condition in which fathers gave it to us,
80 that we may transmit it to our children in
the same glory and power with which we re-
celved IT,"
But, all the same, the blue-bloods of Beacon
Hill are in terrible temper.
SING SING, New York. or that part of it outside
of the penitentiary, Is all tore up over the APP
| pearance of mysterious canal boat. Sometime
during Tuesday night the phantom craft fioated
down to the city. On Wednesday the simple
folk of the village strove In vain to learn it's
name, and to whom it belonged. Its quarter
deck was level with the water, while the for'ard
cabin, gun deck and focasle hold were
swamped. Ali day long the natives stroked
their boards and poked holes in the snow with
the toes of their boots, but when night closed in
| they were no wiser than in the morning. When
another day broke the strange craft was gone,
and not a spar remained to tell the tale. Some
think it was the shallop of a snark or perchance
hooium, while others recall Hendrick Hudson
and his mystic crew.
| COMMISSIONER DUDLEY, speaking of the con-
templated clerical changes in the Pension
Bureau, says:
81 don't know, and no one knows now, how
many will be dismissed. | am going to fix
certain standard of excellence and each of
| the new clerks has had chance to make a
record in his work, and this has been carefully
kept When the six mouths expire, those that
| have not come up to the standard 1 will
recommend for appointment As to the new
clerks, it is the general remarkin the office that
| the new clerks " ere uuexceptionably capable.
| or course, there were some who had an idea that
office was reward for political work, aud they
would have sinecure, but they soon found out
their mistake, and, as a rule, have settled down
| to work. There are some whose moral character
is not good, and will not recommend such for
reappOntment."
| Hon. GEORGE NJ robson, in a recent inter
view, gives his opinion TO what is one of the
coming great questions for settlement by the
people of the United States. He says:
SIN a country as large as ours, and as diversi-
fled in its interests, the two problems of states
manship unity and development. Their
most important conditions are the easy and con-
slant INSTRUMENTATION OF the people and the
cheap transportation of their commodities,
whether the products of the soil of work,
| whether the materials of labor or the necessities
of life. In these questions the people have di-
rect interest. They present popular and natural
| objects for the exercise OF governmental pow
| They will force themselves upon the attention of
statesmen, and cannot be long kept IN the back
ground"
| A CONNECTICUT grocer who had been troubled
| by burglars did not bother with detectives, but
set trap of his own. He "dgged a pit aud
digged it deep" all OF seventeen feet right un-
der his store. Then he adjusted the floor in such
manner that when the unsuspectng thief
st epped on it he would be tilted into the hole.
| The other morning when the ingenious grocer
entered the place he found his burglar at the
bottom of this well, fished him out and turned
him over to the police.
| A PHILADELPHIA paper publishes diagram
of a sample OF the water drank by its citizens
| which resembles view of crowded aquarium.
| The liquid is said not to be deeterious, but
rather beneficial to the reckless drinkers. The
| large and pupy worms and things pr obably
make it nutritious.
| DoMINICK HOFFMAN, a 1ewly-elected Justice
OF the peace in Iowa. fiunked in the first round,
and resigned because he had to perform
risge ceremony. Domnick's sympathy for the
bridegroom was too much for him. Dominick is
| probably married himself.
| MR.. PHINEAs I. BARNUMs New Years gift to
each of the etter-carriers in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
was a copy OF his Autobiography. This is quite
| LIBERAL when it is remembered that he might
have stood them off by writing in their auto
| graph albums.
| A BILL to provide pensions for school teachers
| has been introduced into the New York Legisla'
ture. Should it pass, which is not probable, all
: teachers who have served in the schools of that