The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-16
by JNo. C. NEW & son

BY JNO. C. NEW & SON
For Rates of Subscription, ETC.. see Sixth Page
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1888.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette ha
reduced its size one column to the page
which is in the nature of an improvement.
SENATOR KELLOGG allows himself to be thu
authority for the statement that no tariff
legislation will be passed by the present Con
gress
GENERAL GRANT tells friend of Genera
Longstreet, United States Marshal for Georgia
that the latter sis as firm in Office as the
rock of Gibraltar"
THE interest bearing debt of the United
States is now less than 81, 400, 100000, or &C
curately speaking, it was but ST. 1872, 245, 45C
on the I'd of January
AT the Inauguration of Governor Bate
yesterday, at Nashville, an eagle was let loose
bearing in its beak a presidential ticket fol
1884 of cleveland and Bate" The eagle is
overworked.
DURING 1882 there were 81, 1924 deaths in
New York city. OF these 10 were returned
as over 100 years old, and So as 95. There
were 1880 deaths of children under s. and
1867 under year old
SPEAKING of the proposed city hall, the
correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
Il l..
savory odor and the statesmen who are en-
gineerng it will hear an outside report at
next election"
A BLAST was made recently in a limestone
quarry at Easton, Pa, in which $4,000
pounds of Judson powder-equal to SO, 500
pounds of common powder-were used This
immense charge was set off by electricity,
and ii is estimated that 10000 tons of rock
were displaced. The report was very inslg-
nilicant
DURING the past year 253, 528, 362 pieces of
ordinary mail matter We're handled by the
New York city postoffice. The heaviest day s
work was in handling 228S pouches of let
tiers and 1885 sacks o. other ordinary matter,
bOSNSuSl Will LII DOuCIGS vi ICS4SIGlSu Hidt-
ter, total of TO- 147 bags of mail matter-176
tons in We eng JoilTly.aJ-i ,3,s-a.S N t-~4
xHcAea, df= o;ell1g SNldg lknu1ea 5Hf Ia
dag.
THE terms of twenty-six United States
Senators expire on the 4th OF March next.
OF these five have been reelected and five
new members have been chosen. The ballot
ing in the remaining sixteen States that are
still to elect begins to-day. The greatest
interest naturally centers on the contests in
Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska
and Colorado
MAINE Democrats profess to have had
enough OF Plaistedism and will hereafter
nominate none but straight-out Democrats
In Michigan the Greenbackers are unhappy
because Governor Begole does not divide the
spoils fairly. The team worked all right I'M
til Democracy thought it could pull through
alone, when in TIE grand rush fer the spoili
the Greenback animal was forgotten.
THE Salvation Army now operating
around sins citadel in Paris, has incurred
the displeasure of Daudet, the novelist, ant
he is lampooning them in a serial story pub
lished in the Figaro. Daudet was incenset
because the daughter of the teacher Il
LADY, of his son had gone of with the Sal
vationsts, much to the distress of the gooC
woman. What would Daudet have done
had the army" captured his son?
PRESBYTERIAN preachers roundabout Pitts
burg have taken a determined stand agains
Satan. Mention was made few days ago o
the wholesale suspension of a Pigeon Creel
congregation for the crime of dancing Now
sixty or seventy members of the Canonsburi
church have received notice from their pas
tor that they are to be fired out for simila
offense They all went to celebrate the til
wedding of one of the deacons, and dance
till daylight did appear.
COLUMNS of slop have been and are bein
written about the Communication of the sen
tence against Bowles, Milligan and Horsey
The last story is that the everlasting Obi
man prevented the hanging of the three con
victed conspirators. The simple truth, re
peated time and again, is that the urgent Ell
forts of Governor Morton prevailed upo
President Johnson. There is little that
new and less that is true in most of tn
padded" twaddle now being printed.
A MULArTo named Underwood, from Mich
igan, is astonishing the Swans of Chicago b.
his pyrotechnic powers. Taking handker
chief and placing it to his mouth, he cause
it to be consumed, simply by breathing upol
it for minute or two. He alleges that tn
feat is natural gift, and that its exercise
very exhaustive, so much so that he neve
attempts to perform it more than two o
three times a day. Those who have watche
him have failed to detect any trickery, an