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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-18
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IN the relation which alone he chooses to sus
tain TO American civilization, the Chinaman is
not desirable addition to our population. But
when we have got him here he is entitled to the
rights of any other human being.-St. Paul
PiOneer-Press.
If the Irish clergy had from the first presented
a united front against assassns and dealers in
oulrages, Joe Brady would not have been hanged
ana his comrades would not be awaiting their
doom. 1t is honorabeiG the highest degree to
the Pone that he has determined to reduce TO Il
sense of decency these clerical abettors and in
stigators of crine.-New York Herald,
BEFORE Ireland can hope to throw off the
/ chains England has forged about her she will
have to reform herself, learning the truth that a
people that hopes for freedom must have .nteg
rity for its rule and guide. Through all the
years that Ireland has struggled for independ-
ence defeat has come to her hopes through the
miserable wretches known as informers, a vile
breed wherever fopnd.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
IT would help the Democratic party great
deal more to put colored man on their Ken
tuky State ticket than it would to put q plank
in their Kentucky State platform in favor of
tariff for revenue only. The one will gain them
a large vote and the other will at once lose
them Speaker OF the House OF Representatives
and, if carried into their national platform, lose
them a large vote, II 1t does not split their
party.-Louisville Commercial.
THE belief that this man or that man can carry
State isa superstition The people are the
force, and they know what to do. They have
no confidence in the chromos of ex pediehcy who
assume to run the party. The attempt is at
best only git-edged fraud. Men believe
| their beliefs. The tattered flags may be raised
| Tor the sentimental part, and the whips may be
cracked for the practical part but neither will
| be of any use.-Denver Tribune.
THERE is a liquor license law In every State in
| the Union, and in every civilized nation in the
world-and this implies the undsputed power 10
| the State to regulate the retailing of intOxicat
ing drinks, at it's pleasure; to make it free to
restrict II; to exact high license no lIcense
| to hedge It with whatever reasonable conditions
| the public interests may require. This doctrine
Is too well settled TO be shaken, and 1t Is more
than foolish for any class of persons to attemps
| to overthrow it at this time.-St. Louis Republ-
can.
| THE truth is, that the Legislature not only has
the right, but is bound in duty to the public well
fare to provide adequate restraints on the liquor
traffic. The indscriminate sale of intoxieati
| liquor would be as dangerous to the community
as the indiscrminate sale of poisons or explO-
sives. Whisky is social dynamite. 1t works
destruction wherever it is used careessly or in
| excess. The State should interfere to regulate
its sale the same principle that it would Inter
| fere with a traffic in toys containing danger
GUS amount of nitro-glycerine-Ch Chicago Trb-
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personal assessment roll in San Francisco, on
which 10 was credited with $40, 100000, Mr.
j. g. Flood being assessed at only S36,5Oo.OOo,
aud j. W. Mackay at the trihing sum of $40, 50O,-
OOO Fair stands five feet eight inches in his
stockings and weighs 227 pounds, which, taken
in connection with his financial standing, makes
him in every respect a solid man.
Mr. JOHN PEARSON, a trembling old man, who
has been resident of Fort Smith, Ark, for
forty years, claims to have been the actual
inventor of the revolver patented by Colonel Colt.
He says that in 1884, while he was working in
Baltimore with gunsmith named Baxter,
Colonel Colt hired him to make experiments.
which resulted in The perfected revolver, with
six charges in the cylinder and one barrel. Pear
son never received any reward for his invention.
THE rebel COnfederacy had some very young
generals. Wheeler, 'Point," as he was called at
the Military Academy, because he had neither
length, breadth nor thickness, was a lieutenant
general at twenty-eight Pierce NJ. B. Young.
of Georgia, and Fitz Lee, Rosser and Butler, of
South Carolina, were all major generals before
they were twenty-five. Van Dorm, who was in
comparably the ablest cavalry officer of the
Confederacy, was a major general at about
thirty-two. If he could have RETAINED from
breaking the seventh commandment he might
be living now, but that which has wrecked
many a greater and wiser man than he ruined
him, and he died by the pistol OF an Injured hus-
band.
II probably an error to say that one of his
female friends so fascinated William M. Tweed
that she kept him in the country when he might
have fled in safety as Connolly and Cook and
Field and the Sweenys did. On the contrary,
both the rival school teachers on whom Tweed
lavished fortunes urged him to leave the coun-
try. One of them finally departed with "Tom"
Field, and she still shares his exile and extreme
poverty in Canada. The other tried to induce
Tweed to go to San Francisco and take steamer
for South America, like Harry Meigs, but his sea
sickness so terrifying to him that he re-
turned with the woman by the pilOt-boat which
took off the harbor pilot, He had an intense
horror of the sea, and suffered agonies in his trip
to Cuba at later date.
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dency of the Society of the Army of the
Potomac by General Newton the vote stand
ing 1876 to III, The election of General New
ton is no reflection upon General Grant,
nor indication OF his unpopularity with the
society, but the fact of his never being either
a commander or member of the Army of the
Potomac in the sense under which the So
ciety is organized, explains the turn taken in
the election. When Grant was with the
Army of the Potomac, hewa commander OF
all the forces in the field and not simply of
that department
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and so clear the cataract that impedes their
course; if they fail in their first attempt, they
continue their efforts till they have accom-
plished it"
To which Prof. Jordan replies;
''This almost takes ones breath, for of
course, no salmon ever puts his tail into his
mouth, and, as the Geological Secretary of
the Linnean Society surely ought to know,
no fish OF the salmon family has ever been
found in the Marauon (Amazor), nor in any
other waters of South America"
Prof. Jordan says Mr.. Romanes takes no
care as to the accuracy of scientific names or
names of persons. Our common cowbird APP
pears as melothrus piecius, instead of molo-
thrus pecoris. DR.. Elliot Coues appears as
Capt. Elliot Cones" (2) and Professor Clay
pole, of Antioch College, Ohio, as mir. Clay
pole, of Antioch Cottage" etc. If this is q
sample of scientific books, the less of them the
better
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-18
A Maryland Man Kills "a Friend in Fit of


BALTIMORE, May IA murder which has
some of the features of the Pocasset tragedy
was committed ON the Hanson estate, near
Leicester Howard county, Md, Edward
Hanson, a young man thirty-three years of
age, killed Mr.. Charles R. White, n man of
sixty years. White drove over to che Ham
son farm this morning and asked for Edward,
who was not in the house at the time He
waited until he heard him coming from the
barn, and stepped out on the porch to meet
him. Hanson rushed upon him from behind
the house, and, brandishing knife in
one hand, with the rage and fury
of a maniac began firing at Mr..
White with a revolver which he carried
in the other. He fired six shots,
three of which hit his victim one of them
passing through his brain and killing him
Instantly. Then with the knife he cut his
victims throat, nearly severing the head from
the body. When this was done, he turned to
the lady members of his household who
were wild with alarm, and said threaten
ingly: 'Be quiet; it was the will of God, it
was the will of God!" Subsequently he said:
"He killed my sister Mary My mother called
me to her death-bed, and made me swear that
l would xii him." He also gave variety of
other reasons for the act One was that Mr..
White was King of the Northern Amazons
and he (Hanson) was Prince of the Southern
Amazons, and that MfeWhIte initiated the
flash of his eyes, and made people think he
was Hanson. Hanson was taken to Jail at
Ellicott CITY,
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Alpha Delta Phi.

CLEVELAND, May 17.-At the convention of
the Alpha Delta Phi, to-day, the following
officers were elected: President, Phillips
Brooks of Boston, Harvard chapter; general
secretary, Prof. J. A Deremer. of Schenec-
tady, N. Y, Union chapter; treasurer, Hon.
H. L. Sprague of New York Cornell chapter;
recorder, Theodore l.. Mead, of Cornell chap
ter Members at large of the executive coun-
cil-class of 1886-Wiliam Talcott, of New
York city; j. Williams, of Philadelphia;
Prof. L. Dolph Werner, of New York city.
Members of the executive council for de-
funct chapters, B. w. Franklin, of
Geneva; A. S. Sullivan, of Miami; H.
A. Riley, of Yale; @. e, Sprague OF
Alabama; J. A, Roosevelt, of Cumberland
George. w. Wessiler, of Urbana The chap.
tiers named their New York members of the
executive council as follows: Hamilton, r,
s. Ruddeff Columbia, A. L. Manere; Am
herst, G, NJ Pratt; Harvard J. ]. Townsend,
jr Brunonian b. Barker, jr.; Bowdoin, A.
J. Libby; Hudson, H. M. Day; Peninsular,
q. NJ Goodsell; Dartmouth, II. H. Twomblyi
Rochester, J. NJ. Hudnuk Manhattan, J. V.
V. Olcott, Williams, f. l.. Stetson Middles
town, W. d. Leonard; Phi Kappa George
Kneeland; Kenyon, George J. Peet Union,
William r. Rankin; Cornell, Henry L.
Sprague.
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KANSAS CITY had a cyclone and Joseph
Cook both the same evening. The papers
next day reported the storm and the lecture
''Does Death End All2' and the presses were
kept busy till night grinding out new edi-
tons. When the people got through read
ing the accounts of the two great events,
they knew less about death than they did
before, but were firmly convinced that tor
nado could permanently end the usefulness
of the goods of this world.
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SOME years ago test case was made in the
courts of ST. Louis to decide upon the rights
of the school board to spend public money
for ornamental branches of study. The suit
was instigated by those who were opposed to
the prominence given to the German Ian
guage in the city schools. The decision,
which has just been rendered by the Supreme
Court, is to the effect that the board can
only expend school funds for the purpose of
educating children between the ages of six
and twenty. The result of this ruling will
be the closing of the kindergartens, which
are for younger children and haye'been sus-
tanned by public money. The board is left
at liberty to use its discretion in the matter
of German and other special studies and in
the present state of opinion it is safe to say
that German will not be abolished. The
kindergartens have been found very success
full and useful, and as a means of permanent
benefit can discount any foreign language.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-18

THE jury in the Thompson-Davis murder
case promptly rendered a verdict of acquit-
tai. Little Phil. S" Honor and Prowess are
thus thoroughly vindicated, and he can load
Mt his leisure for the next victim. Justice is
mighty uncertain everywhere, and the ways
of jury are inscrutable. 1t is useless to dis
cuss this case. The facts are known, the vic
tim is in his grave and the accused is acquit
But it is not certain that the very same jury
OF twelve men would not have acquitted
Davis had he shot and killed Thompson. In
that instance as in this, the personal in
nuence of the prisoner would have
bad a powerful effect. His previous
good character would have given the lie to
the scandal, and the fact that he had "killed
his man" would have glorified him in the
eyes of his fellow citizens This
much is certain: the Kentuckian who
values his life and honor should be very
quick on the trigger If he wishes to keep
them. If he hears a rumor that he has been
wronged, he need not appeal to the courts, nor
rush to be revenged Amy time within six
months will do to take human life in repara-
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L0gansport JournaI.
The prohibitionists in the strong Demo-
cratic States pursue a different course from
their brethren in the strong Republican
States. In the latter the chief aim of the
temperance people appears to be to punish
the Republican party if it does not do ex-
actly as they want it. But in the Democratic
States they take more practical and sensi-
BILE method. In Missouri for instance, they
desire the privilege of voting on prohibit
DRY amendment, but instead of spending
their energies in furnishing either party they
will organize all over the StaUe and support
those candidates who favor the submission
OF such measure to the people. 1t is pity
that the same wisdom doesn't characterize
the methods prohibitionists in many other
Statestll- ~ .-t.t..i ~ ~
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Richmond Independent
The act of the indianapolis common coun-
Gil in deciding to contest the legality or the
metropolitan police bill, although long de-
ferred, is most proper and natural step.
Whatever the construction put upon the let
ter. in this case, it is undoubtedly viola
ton of the spirit of constitutional law, and
affords just grounds for a contest. y
1t was an outrage, and though our Supreme
Court has stopped to some very low political
business, we believe they will pronounce the
act contrary to law, right and freedom, no
matter by what party perpetrated.
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Journalistic PretensiOns.


EVan5VlIIe JOurnaI, ~
The people, as a rule, place correct esti-
mates upon newspapers as upon everything
else. They may be deceived for time by
impudent pretensions and reckless assertions
and assumptions but in the long run their
observations and comparisons enable them
to strike pretty fair balance between COM
petitors and place the credit of prosperity
where it properly belongs This fact is es-
pecially commended to the little chaps who
delude themselves with the idea that hard
lying will not only build up their own cir
culation but at the same time tear down that
of their hated superior
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Dynamite No Good for ireland.

North Manchester journal.
Whatever may be the truth of the wrongs
the Irish people complain of, it is evident
their burdens have not been lessened by any
thing the consprators have done. Tho kill
ing of Cavendsh and Burke was a cold
blooded and unprovoked murder, uncalled
for by any act of theirs, and could be of no
benefit to the suffering people of that un-
happy island. The dynamite schemes and
boycotting murders that have taken place in
the past year proves to the world that the Irish
agitators are a cowardly, murderous set, en-
tirely unfit for life outside OF prison.
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Born the expected and the unexpected
happen in Kentucky. The Democratic State
convention yesterday elected J. Proctor
Knott to be Governor of that State when
the term of Governor Blackburn shall ex-
pire. The race was so close between Colonel
Thomas L. Jones and Mr.. Knott that it was
believed General Buckner would be able to
make himself the second choice of the ma
jority OF the delegates; but the turn did not
come, and Mr.. Knott won the prize. The
nomination is creditable one, and assures a
Governor of dignified mediocrity at least,
which may be better and safer than briliancy
without balance. Mr.. Watterson was in
1orsed, the convention resolving with great
vigor for tariff for revenue only, reiterat-
ing the Democratic national platforms of
1876 and $780, This is The start of Mr.. Wat
terson's Vice presidential boom.
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THE Spotless Proves Of Kentucky didn't
keep its papers from ridiculing Mrs. Davis,
the widow of the murdered man, whenever she
appeared in the courtroom. They were I'M
gallant enough to say that it was only for
effect, 1t will be sorry day for justice
when the friends of a murdered man dare
not attend the trial of his self-constituted
sxecutioner True, the presence of Mrs
Davis could do no good toward restoring her
husband to life. 1t was but natural, how
ever that she should be anxious that his
character be not assassinated while he was
powerless to respond The treatment of
Mrs. Davis was indescribably shameful.
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This imbroglio is only type of those
which occur at intervals at the benevolent
institutions. They are hot-beds of intrigue
and political and personal prescription The
Legislature acted wisely in providing for the
erection of the additional asylums at other
points than the capital. The Insane Hos
pital there is an overgrown and unwieldly
concern, large enough for two and so con-
structed as to be divisible. DIR. Walker
wished to run" one while DIR. Rogers was
determined to control both. The result in
case the former had lived, would have been
as it always is when IAN irresistible force
comes in contact with an immovable body
smash-up. 1t is almost certain that this will
yet be the result. Republican control is the
only remedy for the existing and chronic
troubles
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Rlot on the Northern pnoiflo.

BosEMAN, NJ T., May 17.-The sheriff of
this county received telegram on Tuesday
night from Gallatin City, stating that riot
had occurred among The laborers on the
Northern Pacific railroad, aud that the town
was in the hands of the mob. Sheriff Blakely
and posse armed at once, and arriving at
Gallatin, surrounded it, compelling all to
throw up their hands. The leaders were ar
rested and thrown in Boseman Jail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-18
Growth of the Tariff Idea.


NOW AIUHIy LeUgeT.
Eighteen months ago the Ledger, the Michi-
gan City Dispatch and perhaps one or two
others were the only Democratic papers in
this State advocating judicious tariff Then
1t was almost considered treason to do So by
the free-trade shriekers. But public opinion
had not been aroused-the people had not
been heard from. Now the doctrine is pop
ular, and conservative ideas on the tariff
will most certainly be embodied in the next
national Democratic platform.
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A Ridiculous Proposition.

Lafayette journal.
The talk among some Illinois Republicans
OF David Davis for President is simply ridic-
ulous, Davis is very able and doubtless
patriotic man, but he is not the right sort of
timber Republicans want for President. The
Republican party must nominate man who
has been consistent supporter of the party,
yet with independence enough to point out
and endeayor to rectify its mistakes. We do
not want machine man, neither do we
want one who believes that the party must
be punished for its errors by deserving it.
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ton. 1t ought to be done neatly and gen.
teelly, and with dispatch. These prelimi.
naries observed, he is ready to be embraced
and admitted to fellowship with the saints in
the Kentucky pantheon.
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Important Legal Question.


This legal question is just at present en-
gaging the study of our lawyers: Can man,
under the laws of Indiana, marry his wild
owls sister? B. f. Harness, after a half days
search of the authorities, decided that he
could, and his fellows are now making life
dreary waste for him. If a man have a
widow, he must be dead, and, therefore, not
in condition for Hymen's knot Seer
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these things he should not be justified and
set free-an example for other Kentuckians
to admire and emulate, No; far from it. He
should be punished, and punished to the reah
sOnable limit of the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-18

THE rigor of the criminal law of Great
Britain, while yet severe, has been greatly
modified since the days of Blackstone. Then
the penalty was death to imagine fatal harm
to the crown; now one can threaten murder
and escape with sentence in the peniten-
tiarv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-18
Good Advice for Husbands.
Richmond Independent.

hlchmond independent.
The late tragedy in Kentucky illustrates
the danger arising from giving too ready
ear to the stories of irresponsible persons
against our friends. Too many husbands are
apt to listen to the breath of SANDER aganst
their own wives. If Phil Thompson had be-
lieved his own wife as quick as ne did this
notorious Buckner woman, he would have
spared a crime and much sorrow and trouble.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-18
A Boom for Little Phil.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
How does Hon. Phil Thompson strike
you as a candidate for Speaker OF the next
Congress2
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An Example Not to Emulate.

Madison COURIER.
Thompson had killed men before he slew
Davis, certainly one, and the number is run
up as high as seven He deliberately killed
Davis for AN oifense the law does not punish
with death. He assumed to override the law
and usurped the functions of grand jury,
prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner. He
wrecked one happy home at least and for all
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-18
What to Do with the Mormon Apostles.

When Mormon preacher comes into In
diana and proceeds to preach the doctrine of
polygamy, instead of being greeted with
audiences in open day he should be arrested
and sent to the penitentiary with the same
alacrity of judicial power as would be brought
to bear upon an avowed horse-thief who
should come into the State and hold meetings
for the purpose of giving the people instruc-
tons i'll the science of horse-stealing. 1t
looks paradoxical that at the same time the
plans for the extirpation Of Mormonism the
apostles of that very doctrine should be
allowed to travel over the whole country and
hold public meetings for the propagation of
that same faith
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The Decline of Greenbaokery.

Oiuhton OnTOnlCle
The silly greenback doctrine has been be-
fore the people of this country for six years,
and the more the people think over it the
less they want to have to do with it. A few
scheming politicians still make a living off
of their deluded followers, and that is all
there is in it, 100
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pay perusal.

If all the facts were out the scandals
brought upon the benevolent institutions of
Indiana by Democratic venality and mis-
management, would rival those of Tewks-
bury in degree if not in kind.
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The indianapolis Ring.

Rockville Republican.
The indianapolis Journal, by a simple
statement OF facts, has completely silenced
such Republican papers as were disposed to
howl about the indianapolis ring"