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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OF CHOSEN FRIENDS.

ORDER OF CHOSEN FRIENDS.
~ Deputy Supreme Councillor Alexander Roth
enstein, of the above order, from san Francisco.
California, is now in this city in the interest OF
this order The order OF Chosen Friends was in
stituted in this city, May g. 1879, with twenty
three charter members. At the present time
there has been issued more than $4,000 certih-
Gates In California, where the order has existed
but two years, the membership at present is
nearly 5000. The order has paid to widows
and orphans, and to disability claimants, since
its organization three years and six months)
$685., 595 So. And this from 50 assessments
called into the supreme treasury The order
works on the same principle as the knights of
Honor, except that members are assessed ac-
cordiue to age, and ladies are eligible to become
members upon the same terms as men. Another
feature of the order is that One-half of the
amount of the certificate is paid to a member
when he becomes disabled, either by.sickness or
by accident, and the total amount of certificate
paid when member reaches the age of seventy
five years. Mr. Rothenstein has organized, in
the space of eight months, so councils of this
order in the State of California. He will organ
ize council in this city, Saturday, March II,
having already secured several names of proml-
nent citizens of Indianapolis. Those desiring to
become charter members will apply to No. SO
Circle street, Ross Book.
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THE PRESIDENT AT HOME.
How He Ministers to the Pleasure of His
Daughter.

How He Ministers to the Pleasure of His
Daughter.
Washington Critic.
While perambulating through the carpet
halls and rooms of the Executive Mansion
the Critic had his attention attracted by a
series of rich baritone vocalsms proceeding
from the private parlor up stairs, and as the
last note "Wait Till the Clouds Roll By
were waited out upon the hushed air he
halted in front of the parlor door.
"Who was that singing?'he inquired in a
monotone of a swallowtail attendant who
stood near by.
'Shl'' replied the attendant; that's the
President. He sings nearly every evening
for his daughter, Miss Nellie"
Just then the watery notes of an accom-
paniment on the Knabe grand were borne
to the listeners ears and a childish voice
pleaded.
"'Oh, papa, please sing that again."
Almost instantly the presidential throat
was cleared, as preliminary measure, and
the clouds began to roll by again in a clear
baritone way, accompanied by Miss Nellie's
most charming paniment. The Critic
was paralvzed with delight and stood mutely
drinking in the vapory notes of cirriocumu-
lus, slver-streaked cirrus and golden stratus
clouds as they hoated out into the hallway
in great bursts of presidential melody. The
air finished, Miss Nellie gave a final flourish
over the ivory keys and the listener imagined
that he could see the great chief step back
and make one of his dignifed bows to an
imaginary audience.
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A Mountain spec.er in Nevada.


The famous specter of the Broken which
frequently appears in the Hartz Mountains,
seldom visits this country, but it was seen
not long ago from the Touiabe range in Ne
vada, by r. A Mari, of the coast and geo.
detic survey, who gives this account of the
atmospheric phenomenon: Suddenly, as
stood looking over the vast expanse beneath
me, | saw myself confronted by a monster
figure of a man standing in mid-air before
me upon the top of clearly-defined noun
tain peak, which had but the thin air of the
valley below for resting place. The figure
was only a short distance from me-
Around it were two circles of rain bow
light and color, the outer one family defined
as compared with the inner one, which was
bright and clear and distinctly irdescent
Around the head of the figure was a beauti-
full halo of light, and from the figure itself
shot rays of colors normal to the body. The
sight star tied me more than l can now tell
l threw up my hands in establishment, and
perhaps some little fear, and at this moment
the specter seemed to move toward me. In
few minutes | got over my fright and then,
after the figure had faded away, / recognized
the fact that had enjoyed one of the most
wonderful phenomena of nature. Since then
we have seen it once or twice from jeff Davis
Peak, but it never created such an impression
upon me as it did that evening when | was
doing service as heliotroper all alone Oh top
of Arc Dome"
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Filming the Soil for Seeds.
Country Gentleman.


A Western subscriber, possessing a large
garden which is quite free from stones, uses
an implement which he calls "a planker."
After his soil is narrowed, he ''planks" it.
and finds it in splendid condition, rarely re-
quiring even the use of a rake. 1t is made
of two heavy planks, each eight feet long
placed side by side; two six-inch boards are
laid on at angle of forty-fve degrees starting
at the outer corners of the planks and meet
ing in front at the center. These boards are
nailed firmly to the planks TO serve as bat
tens, and hold them together. At
the point where the boards meet
they are firmly bolted together, and
a hole made for the glowing When
the horse is in motion, the front edge of
the planker is elevated little, so that it glides
upon the Jumps, and, aided by the weight of
the driver who stands on the back edge, COM
pletely brushes them, and leaves the soil in
an admirably fine condition. On many soils
the planker would evidently be of great SER
vice in preparing for ruta- bagas, carrots,
and other farm root-crops. In that case the
parts may be doubled in size, and two horses
used, One point about these homemade i'm
plements is, they should be made ready be-
forehand. The farmer may be convinced
that it will pay in the end, but he will rarely
stop half day in the busy season to make a
planker or other affair. Hence we call such
matters to mind in a time of leisure, that
they may be provided
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THE DUTY ON vARNIsH.
Instructions of the Treasury Department to
Collectors of Customs

LhsbEuCtAOhS VI thO LHcdSmy DSPthibLhohb "
Collectors of Customs.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-The Treasury
Department has issued instructions to col
lectors of customs that shellac varnish man
ufactured in Canada out of American alcohol
imported in bond from the United States,
shall be subject to duty on transportation on
a value not less than the value of the materi-
ais, viz: the value of alcohol and shellac in
the open markets of Canada. Heretofore
this article has been valued for ad valorem
duty at a nominal price in bond, upon the
ground that there was no market value in
Canada for this kind of yarnish. The action
of the department will probably put stop
TO the practice that heretofore prevailed of
shipping American alcohol to Canada and re.
Importing it as shellac Yarnish. The Gus
toms officers are also instructed that shellac
varnish manufactured in bonded warehouses
in the United States out of domestic alcohol,
and which may have been exported without
payment OF tax, cannot be returned to the
United States upon payment OF duty less
than the internal revenue tax which was re-
mitted on the alcohol. The officers are in
structed to score the barrels, before exporta-
ton, in such manner that they can be iden-
tiled upon reimportatiop.
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in dense mass through the Red and Blue
rooms, knew the lady whom he escorted SO
carefully. When he came to the receiving
party he and the lady were turned out of the
line and into the space behind Mrs. McElroy
and those who stood with her to greet the
callers. my dear"-this to the young lady
MY dear, this is Mrs. PendletOn," or Mrs.
Miller, or whoever else it happened to be.
The tone of address was affectionate as well
as the words, and all the ladies were straight
way buzzing it about that this must be Judge
Davis's fiancee. The Judge saw that he had
aroused a great deal of curiosity, and it was
with palpable regret that he was compelled,
in response to matter-of-fact reminder that
he had not introduced the lady by name, to
apologize for having forgot to say that the
lady was his sons wife.
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LAND ENTRIES.



for Relief of Settlers.
WASHINGTON, March BIN a communca-
ton TO the Commissioner of the General
Land Office, respecting repayment of pur-
chase money under the act of the 10th of
June, 1880, "for relief of settlers on public
lands and to provide for repayment of GER
tain fees, purchase moneys and commissions
paid on void entries of public lands" Secre
tary Teller holds that whenever an entry of
land is made by specific location, and wholly
fails, the scrip or warrant, being within con-
troll of the General Land Office,
and not in fact satisfied, may
be returned for proper location
upon cancellation of former invalid entry;
but where the consideration is carried into
the treasury as cash. and can only be with
drawn by application under the repayment
statutes, in the opinion of the Secretary it
must be repaid in the manner provided by
those statutes, "out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated" and in
cases of excess, where they fall within the
provisions of the repayment acts the excess
must always be repaid, as provided by law,
out of such money"
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One of the Queer Justices of Utah.

Salt Lake (utah) Herald, March 4.
Justice Britt, of Uintah county, is a queer
individual, in some respects, at least. Some
time ago large amount of government ma
rerial was stolen from Fort Thornburg and
the commanding officer made inquiry re-
gardihg it. One day he called at the house
of party residing in the neishborhood, and,
entering it, discovered United States over
coat there, which he took away with him.
Learning who had taken the overcoat, the
person went before the justice of the peace,
had a warrant issued. and caused the arrest
of the commander on the charge
of stealing. The termination of
the novel case is as yet unknown, but the
officer in turn had the prosecuting witness
against him arrested by the same justice on
a charge of robbing the government The
prisoner was brought in the other day, and
it proves that he is one of the bondsmen of
Justice Britt, who is gubernatoral APP
pointee. Justice Britt is the same man who
made novel ruling the other day. party
was up before him charged with arson, and
the probabilities are he concluded the man
was guilty, for he not only sentenced the in
divdual to work forty days for the county,
but he ruled that he should work forty DAYS
also for the party whose property he had
burned. There may be very little law in the
last decision, bat there is vast deal of JUS
tice in it.
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GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

Jadge Davis and the Lady-The Curiosity
Aroused and How 1t was Allayed.
Washington Letter to New York Times.
That Mr.. Davis has been aware that he
was an object of tender concern and that he
has enjoyed the curiosity OF the society"
ladies of the capital there can be no doubt
On recent Saturday he made his appear
ance at one of the White House receptions
in company with a pleasing young lady.
Everybody knew him. Few OF the great
throng of ladies assisting Mrs McElroy, and
The great crowd of ladies who were forced
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STARVING IRISH.
The Distress Described by the Nun of Ken
mare.

mare.
New York Special
The Nun OF Kenmare has addressed a let
ter upon the state of Ireland to the bishops
of Newark and Detroit. 1t appears from her
statements that the accounts of the present
famine which have reached this country
have not been exaggerated. "Men and
women and little children are literally dy-
ing-dying by inches" The suffering is
especially severe in Donegal, Glare, Mayo,
Galway and Connemara.- Outdoor relief is
refused unless the applicants bring doc
tors certificate of sickness. She adds: "The
English government has sent us no less than
four different inspectors to look at the peo-
pie. One gentleman drove through the dis
triet in five hours with the carriage blinds
down. but he entered one or two hovels and
in one admits that he found a cat fight
ing for the seaweed the unhappy chill
dren had for their only food. My
God Ii such a tale had been told of a dis
trct in any other country i'll the world,
what TRADES of righteous Indignation would
not the English press and the English people
have poured FORTH But presumably sea-
wood is good enough for the mere Irish.
Would TO God that the mere Irish had even
enough Of that to eat. Inspector after in
speetor came down only to assure the people
that they would report the matter to Her
Majestys government, but they take care to
assure the victims of English misgovern-
ment that they must not hope for any help.
In Galway, where the tenants are heavily
raekrented, the potato crop is an entire fail
ure and the small farmers are starving. In
Kincara many poor people are living in
miserable novels which wera unroofed by the
storm of last October. The entire fishing
population of that district are without food,
without fuel, without good drinking water
Typhoid fever is raging among them. They
are, as the dispensary doctor SAYS, the
poorest wretches on the face of Gods EARTH
The receipt of so small a sum as so cents was
acknowledged with profusion of gratitude
in a Donegal paper"
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Plan for a Vineyard.

Correspondence Iowa Homestead.
[ can recommend the following plan for
growing a successful vineyard; Select a
high location; mark out the rows eight feet
apart. Commencing, say on the east side, lay
off four rows eight feet apart. Then leave a
space ten feet in width to be followed with
four rows as BEFORE and space of ten feet.
The rows should run north and south, and
the vines, of such varieties as Concord
Moore's Early, Worden, Brighton, Pockling-
ton, and Rogers, should be planted twelve feet
apart in the row. Lady and Delaware may
be planted closer, say eight feet apart Gull
tivate thoroughly with row of potatoes be-
tween the vines. After the first year stretch
two wires over the row. one two and the
other three and one-half feet above the
ground. Train the vines low so they can
easily be laid down and covered with some
kind OF mulch. After the frost is out, in
spring, lift the vines and fasten to the wires,
cultivatiag thoroughly, as before. If this
plan is adhered to every man. woman and
child can have supply of the health.giving
grape,
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EVENTS AT THE CAPITAL.
Concluded from First Page.

Speaker finally asked him to address the
House and Senate, and royal ovation was
given him on the spot. General Nelson says
he has slight remembrance of some minor
events that occurred prior to the adjourn
ment of the Texas House of Representatives
that day, but has none whatever of what
happened twenty-four hours subsequent. 1t
was told however, by friend of his that
he had heard several of the Texas statesmen
say that it would be the last time they ever
undertook to out-do an ex-minister in the
matter of hospitality, especially if they
found out he had been born and raised in
on the trees -
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GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
A Few of the Causes Which Impel Presi-
dent Greyy to Resign

ueht WTtVy 10 heHIgn.
LONDON, March 13.-The Times's CORE
spondent at paris, speaking of the rumor
that President Grevy intended to resign,
says: 1.-THE general political situation the
constant strides of radicalism, the chronic
instability of cabinets, the insults of reac-
tionary organs, and the threats made at An
archist meetings, explain the desire of Grevy
to resign the presidency"
A Paris dispatch says the report that Pres
ident Grevy contemplates resigning is pro-
nounced malicious invention, intended to
encourage orleanist intrigues. The cabinet
has resolved to instruct the prosecution of
any one at public meeting melting murder
and pillage.
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viii She Send Her Address ?

Miss Catherine Wolfe, the richest young
lady in the United States, who is said to be
good looking twenty-seven years old and
is worth $4,000, 900 in her own control, it is
said receives an offer of marriage every week
This makes ffty-two propositions every year,
Money will secure anything but PROPOSE
ton for matrimony, as in the above case.
Miss Wolfes good looks are the controlling
rnntiroS
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Mr.. Gilfllan,s successor.

impression among officials of the Treasury
Department that Assistant Treasurer Wyman
will be appointed to succeed Treasurer Gil
fillan. The President has said he will be
guided entirely in this matter by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
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New Locks and KEYS for the Mail Bags.


WASHINGTON, March 13.-By the death of
Northumberland William H. Browne, of
the First infantry, Major Charles G. Bartlett,
of the Eleventh infantry, will be promoted
to lieutenant-colonel of the First infantry;
Captain James A. Snyder Third infantry, to
major of the Eleventh infantry First Lieu
tenant Edmund Rice, Fifth infantry, to cap
tam of the Fifth infantry and Second Lieu
tenent John c. F. Tillson, Fifth infantry, to
first lieutenant of the Fifth infantry.
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INFORMATION WANTED.


the Foremost Colleges.
WASHINGTON, March Is. - In directing
Professors George L. Andrews and Samuel
T. Tillman, of the United States Military
Academy, to visit Harvard, Yale and other
American colleges, the Secretary of War de-
sires thorough inquiry to be made into
the course of study and methods of in
struction at the leading American UNIVERSE
ties and colleges. Speaking of the subject
to-day, General Drum said: This may be
considered a new departure, but the world
moves, and we must keep abreast with the
spiritof the age" 1t is desirable that West
Point should avail itself OF everything which
is commended and Endorsed by the ripe ex-
perience of our leading institutions of learn
ing.
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Browns IRON BITTERs is
composed of Iron in soluble
form; Cinchona the great
tonic, together with other
standard remedies, making
a remarkable non-alcoholic
tonic, which will cure Dys-
pepsia, Indigestion, Malaria,
Weakness, and relieve all
Lung and Kidney diseases.
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Charged with Grand Larceny.

John Winchester, wringer vender, was on
trial yesterday before Squire Thompson,
charged with robbing Albert Bechler of $l65
and watch, last Friday afternoon, at No. lS5
Buchanan street. The basis of the arrest is the
statement OF little son of Maicarrier Bratton,
that he saw the prisoner enter the house twice
from the rear, at about the time the money was
taken. The case will be completed to day.
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SPURIOUS SILVER.


in Indiana and Ohio.
WASHINGTON, March 13-The chief of the
secret-service division of the Treasury De-
partment has been advised that most dan
gerous counterfeit of the standard silver
dollar has made its appearance in Ohio and
Indiana. The base coin has the exact
weight ring and appearance of the genuine,
md resists the acid test unless the outer
coating of silver is penetrated. 1t would
readily be accepted as genuine by merchants.
Several of these pieces have only been dis
covered by reaching a sub-treasury.
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An AIihi for WaIsh

PARIS March 13.-Documents have arrived
here showing that John Walsh, who was ar
rested at Havre, at the instance of the Brit
ish government was not in Dublin at the
time the Phoenix Park murders were COM
Initted.
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BY PROXY.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 13.-It is reported
that the chief sovereigns and princes who
were at Berlin during the celebration of the
silver wedding of the Crown Prince and
Princess, have agreed to be represented at the
coronation of the Car by ambassadors only
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Secretary Folger's Health.

WASHINGTON, March 13-Secretary Folger
was not at the Treasury Department to-day.
His health does not improve as rapidly as
expected, He will probably acquiesce in his
physicians advice to take short sea voyage
in a few days. in order to recuperate. Assis-
tant Secretary French will continue as Acting
Secretary Of the Treasury for some time.
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The Martin Claim.

In the case of John Martin against the Board
of Trustees OF the Indiana Insane Asylum, va
rious pleadings were filed yesterday, upon which
argument will begin this morning before Judge
Taylor.
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John Howard payne,s Home-Coming.

WASHINGTON, March 13.-Mr. Clarke, on
behalf of Mr. Corcoran, has requested the
Philharmonic Society of this city to take
charge of the musical part of the exercises on
the occasion of the reinterment of John
Howard Payne's body, and to render, with
large chorus, "Home, Sweet Home" The
invitation has been accepted
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The County Board.

The commissioners yesterday approved small
bills amounting to S72l04 of which $434.20
was the claim of Drew e. WATSON for coal fur
nished the county poor farm for the past month
On the strength of petition numerOusy signed
]. s. NJ. Orme was appointed a justice of the
peace for the Second precinct of Perry township.
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Gortchakon's Last Act.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 13.-The last act of
Gortchakoff was to dictate telegram to the
Car saluting him on the occasion Of his
birthday
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Wreck Of the Cinhria.

BERLIN, March 13-The Salvage steamer
has returned from the scene of the wreck of
the Cimbria. The divers report number of
bodies of victims jammed amongst the gear
of the life-boat on deck. The entrances to
the cabins are closed by a compact mass of
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bodies To save the cargo the three decks
will have to be removed by explosives. and
the explosions would scatter the 400 corpses
in the hold
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II. H. Norton, a lawyer from Attica. n. Y, has
been arrested and locked up in Rochester,
charged with stealing law books from William
son & Higbie's book store.
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LAWYERS will gladly learn that Brougham,the
great English barrster, was always careful of
Syrup is the best remedy for bronchitis and other
throat troubles
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GENEVA, March ia party of English
tourists, while ascending Mount Blanc to-
day were overtaken by n snow-storm and,
losing their way, fell over a precipce. 1t
is not yet known how many lives were lost.
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John N. Gale, late superintendent OF tho st.
Johnaburg water works, has been arrested on
charge OF defrauding the village.