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r.. V SmaI6y, IN January Century.
General Joseph f. Johnston, who COM
manded the confederate forces engaged in
resisting the advance upon Atlanta, once mar
rated the following incident which we'll il
Illustrated the impression Sherman had made
upon the minds of the Southern soldierY at
that time as a commander OF resources and
ready expedients: Johnston stood on Ken
esaw mountain watching with his glass the
movements of his enemy's wagon-trains on
the great plain to the northward. A staff
officer came riding up with the news that
the rebel cavalry had got in the rear OF Sher-
mans army and had burned num-
Der of railroad bridges. The officer had
been forced to make a detour of
two days to get around the Union arm v
Scarcely had he finished speaking, when a
whistle was heard, and a moving train ap-
peared in the distance showing that Sher-
man had already rebuilt the bridges and re-
opened his communications. Walking past
a group of soldiers lounging in the shade, a
few minutes later, the General overheard
them discussing Sherman's chances of sue
cess Said one OF them: Wen make it a
Moscow campaign and destroy his whole
army" How can you make it a Moscow
campaign without any snow?" asked bis less
enthusiastic cOmrade. Il mean that wen
cut his communications, destroy everything
and starve him out. Well burn all the
bridges" Don't you know he carries dupli-
cate bridges along with him?' well, we'll
blow up the big tunnel" ''Oh, HE'LL" ex-
claimed the other man, with a look of dis
gust; you don't know old Tecumseh Sher-
man. He's got duplicate tunnel too!'
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A REIGN OF TERROR.
Four Men Killed and Twenty Eight Wound
ed in the Riot at Harbor Grace-An
Outbreak Probable at Carbonear.

ST. JOINS, N. f., Dec. 27.-Adyices from
Harbor Grace state that the Orange process
sion yesterday, while passing Shipshead, was
fired upon by the crowd. At first the Orange
men thought the firing was from powder
guns carried by their friends until they saw
their men fall Four men were killed, two
Orangemen and two Roman Catholics. Eight
are reported mortally and eighteen to twenty
slightly wounded. Head Constable Doyle is
among the wounded. There is a lull in the
outbreak at Harbor Grace but the neighbor-
ing town of Carbonear is in a state of the
widest frenzy. Over 1000 men are parading
the streets and preparing to march to Harbor
Grace. Crowds are hurrying up from the
whole extent of the north shore of Concep-
lon bay to the scene OF the disturbance. All
business places are closed, Sand most
private dwellings protected by bars and bolts.
Police dispatched from St Johns reached
Harbor Grace last night If the riot breaks
out anew, the law officers will be powerless
to protect life and property. 1t is rumored
the government has cabled Halifax for troops
and war-ship. If the Carbonear contingent
marches to Harbor Grace the result will be
terrible to contemplate.
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ground, whereas the saloons haYe it
under the sanction of law, A prohbitory
law would not be the end namely, universal
sobriety but a means to that end. Law is
education, 1t teaches the young and rising
generation what crime is because it defines
and Furnishes crime. For a man to make
the unqualified statement that prohibition
is failure comes with about as much force
as would be found in a declaration made
from the standpoint OF the Democratic party
that the Republican party is a failure, or
vice versa. No Prohibitionist of practical
sense claims that a prohibitory law would
absolutely and universally put stop to the
making, vending and drinking of ardent
spirits; but we do believe that it will be
more effective than any other law rs means
to the great end of sobriety, political econ
omy, social purity, domestic felicity, and the
material wealth OF our country. In the
meantime let the work go on unitedly, COM
prehensively, grandly and efIectually. NJ
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DYNAMITE IN A BOTTLE.
Three Mysterious Strangers Who Were Sup
posed to Intend Mischief

new YORK oun.
The wind was bitter cold on the bridge on
Monday night. At liz o'clock three men
were grouped at the exact centre of the span
on the deserted promenade engaged in deep
conversation. Two were elderly and ope of
these was short, stout and ruddy and looked
like sea captain. The other man was tall
and slim and looked like a soldier. The
third was not more than twenty-one years
old. He had little to say, while his elder
companions conferred with each other
Presently the short, stout man said;
"0ur compact signed ten years ago Is now
to be fulfilled. Let us proceed"
The speaker drew from his overcoat pocket
something about a foot in length, about four
inches in diameter at one end, and tapering
to about one inch at the other, with a silvery
cap on the small end. The three stepped to-
ward the south side Of the footpath The
stout man held the article he had taken from
his pocket aloft and was in the act of bring
ing it down on the iron railing, when Bridge
Policeman Hill, who had been watching
them, seized his arm.
mo dynamite plosions here, gentlemen"
said he, sternly. The three men looked at
Policemen Hill, then at each other, and then
they laughed. Policeman Hill now looked
closely at the supposed dynamite cartridge
and saw that it was q champagne bottle
Then the stout gentleman made this explain
alton;
len years ago Tonight, Salu ne, at TINS
very hour, three men were at the Pierrepont
House, in Brooklyn. Myself and the tall gem
tleman were of the party. The third man has
since died, but this young man is his son.
The subject of our discussion was the prob
ability of the completion of the bridge. One
said it would be finished in three yeara. An
other said five years. | then said that if the
bridge were completed at the expiration of
ten years so that we three could meet at it's
center, l would break bottle of wine there
Circumstances have prevented us from meet
ing before tonight"
Gentlemen" replied Policeman Hill. 81
hope you will excuse my interruption. But
you know the bridge must not be blown up
with dynamite merely because it happened
to be opened on Queen Nictoria's birthday"
A champagne bottle under an electric light
has a very close resemblance to a dynamite
cartridge.
The stout gentleman then broke the neck
of the champagne bottle. Glasses were taken
from overcoat pockets, and the three strang-
ers drank to the long life of the bridge At
ter the ceremony the three strangers depart
ed Policeman Hill went and made report
OF the circumstance to Sergeant Smith.
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Very Poor Ground for a Boom.

Detroit Times.
The story comes that the Fitz John Porter
bill will pass both houses of Congress, and
this action will give Robert Lincoln a chance
to resign from the cabinet on the ground
that Porters reinstatement would be an in
suit to Abraham Lincoln, who approved Por-
ters sentence. The public feeling thus
aroused will be relied on to boost Robert into
the White House. The scheme is not prom
Using. If Congress shall become convinced
that grave mistake was made concerning
Porter the discovery will place no stigma on
the memory of the great-hearted Lincoln,
any more than General Grant is now blamed
for having once believed in Porter's guilt
Political capital is difficult to manufacture
in these days, and Robert has not started in
well.
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Where the Responsibility Rests.

Union CITY Eagle.
The general government has no right to
interfere with the internal affairs of State,
except when called upon by the proper State
officers. Any such interference would be re-
sented by every Democratic paper in the
country. Then it is apparent that the sad
condition of the negroes in the South is not
the fault of the Republican party, but of the
Southern Democrats who have full control
in those States. If there is any bloody shirt,
it has been made and flung to the breeze by
the red-shrt and law defiers of the South,
and 1t is upon their heads that the entire
press of the North should pour its walls OF
wrath and Indignation.
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EniOined.

TRENTON, Dec. 27.-The Chancellor has
granted an introductory injunction re-
straining the New Jersey Zinc ana Iron Com
pany from further working the mining
property in Sussex county, the ownership of
which is claimed by Charles w. Trotter and
Others The case has occupied the courts for
several years. The property is valued at
several million dollars.
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An Inoperative VIII.

New YoRK, Dec 27-Admiral Stephen d.
Trenchard, of the United States navy, died
on the 10Th of last November He made a
will on the goth OF January, 1856, appoint
ing his wife sole executrix, egatee and de-
visee. She died five years before him, and,
as he has never executed another will than
that made in 1856 it became imperative
Edward Trenchard, the only surviving son.
applied to-day for letters of administration
on his fathers estate. The decedents real
estate is valued at about $4,000, and his per-
sonalty at 50 600
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The Fool and the Wise Man.

Corydon Republican.
The fool hath said in his heart" 10! the
great Republican party is defunct institu-
ton and the Democrats will have walk
over at the next general election; but the
man of wisdom, whether he be Democrat or
Republican, knows we'll within himself that
the Republican party is still full of vast
vitality, and prepared for an energetic and
probably successful campaign next year.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.


To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal
At the risk of contributing further to an
amusing failure" etc, l desire to say
that there would be good deal sin the con-
stitution of the United States to prevent the
enactment OF prohibitory liquor law" if
such policy contravened human rights, or,
as DR.. Lewis puts it, personal liberty,
guaranteed in the organic law. The consti-
tuition itself calls it blessing OF liberty" |
said nothing about a law to prohibit men
from drinking, for they have a physical and
legal right and liberty to drink when and
what they please, and no law ever did or
ever can make that crime. spoke OF the
drink traffic" the selling of thing for a
hurtful purpose, as all experience has
shown it was, had been held
by the highest courts to be a "crime,"
and not alone "a vice" / agree that
declaration by statute or otherwise does
not make thing a crime. 1t was such, II at
all, long before so defined, 1t is the con-
sensus of all civilization for the past centu-
ries which makes the liquor traffic for drink
mot drinking) a crime, and the declarations
by edictS and statutes against it are simply
registrations Of that fact, and not the fact
itself. DR.. Lewis averred that selling for
drink, alike with drinking, was but vice,
and not a crime. | cited the court argu-
ments IN the celebrated license cases, which
hold that license itself involves all the ele-
ments of prohibition, and is prohibition in
limited degree to show not only the power
to prohibit but also the distinction between
the right to drink and sell, or, as DR.. Lewis
would say, the difference between vice and
a crime
The failure on the other hand of the fugi-
tive slave law lay in the fact that the con-
census of all civilization was against the
principles involved in it; an attempt to de-
clare as true that which had been declared
false by all save the few controlled by av-
arice.
| agree that all criminal laws are at times
violated. But this fact is not proof that the
thing denounced as crime by them is not
crime.
Liquor-dealing is vice. Selling for drink
is a crime. In Maine and other States it is
defined to be a crime to sell at all for drink.
In Indiana and other States it is defined to
be crime in special cases only. So license
laws, as we'll as prohibitory laws, define
liquor-selling for drink as a crime. 1t was
so before these laws declared it was. 1t was
not crime to help the painting slave to free
dom. The law to the contrary was a lie
Haunted in the face of the very declaration
which defined human rights at the threshold
of our national existence. | still think
grasp a distinction" JOHN b. CONNER.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 81 ...4..
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New ORLEANS, Dec 27.-The motion to
dissolve the injunction obtained by the New
Orleans National Bank, prohibiting interior
ence with mail matter addressed TO the bank
for the lottery company, is still being ar
gued in the United States Circuit Court.
Messrs Chandler and Moulton made argu-
ments for the bank and the lottery company,
followed by Pro essor Maury in behalf of the
government. The court took recess until
tomorrow. Encouragement Brewster makes
the closing argument
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STATE EXCHANGE TABLE.
Principal Topics of Discussion in the
Press of the state,
What Mr.. Carlsle's Commuters Mean-PO-
lygamy Must Be MISUNDERSTANDING
men in the Campaign of 1884,
workingmen in the 1884 Campaign.

Terre Haute Courier.
Workingmen will play an important part
in the political battle to fought in 1884.
With all the gush about the Democratic
party being the party of the people it is
strange that the leaders of this party should
now be favoring a policy that will reduce
the wages, and consequently the luxuries of
every laboring man in the country. But one
thing certain, the mechanics artisans and
skilled workmen of every description can
not be hoodwinked. They read, they reason,
they think. The intelligence of this class of
voters is sufficient guarantee that they
will remain true to the Republican party
in the future as they have been in the past.
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Stumbling the Irish,

Michigan tlty Enterprse
Carlisle, the Democratic Speaker Of the
House of Representatives, snubbed the Irish
most numerically in making up his COM
mttee Neither Finerty nor Cox were al
lowed place on the committee on foreign
affairs, because of their pronounced position
in the interests of the Irish. The Irish peo-
pie were never very popular with the South
ern Democrats, and now that the South is, to
all intents and purposes, the Democratic
party. the Irish will be asked to take seat
further back than ever.
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Goshen I1mes.
The teacher is entrusted with the rod, not
to administer punishment per Sc, but to en-
force discipline, order and obedience; and
when he is angry and excited he not only
disgraces his profession, but violates disci-
pline and order as much as any one else, and
cannot administer good school government.
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Banishing Obscene Literature.

5ItWUtU :
The judges in all the northern circuits OF
the State have taken steps to stop the sale OF
the foul literature which has done so much
TO eundermine the morals of the young peo-
pie of both sexes Their ,commendable ex-
ample will doubtless be generally followed,
not only in Indiana but,in all other States,
and the time will soon come when the pub
licatfon of such papers willcease, because no
longer profitable
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Another Walking Match.

NEW York, Dec. 27-The Turf, Field and
Farm says that the Madison-square Garden
has been engaged for a six-1ay race, for
which Charles Rowel and Alderman Fitz-
gerald have already signed articles. The rent
is $1,000 The start takes place at midnight
on Feb. a, stake $500 a side. Pedestrians
wishing to contest must have the amount in
the hands of the Turf, Field and Farm on or
before Feb. f.
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Stouoeh county journal
1t Is very evident that women could have
Che privilege OF elective franchise in many
ststg in gery shass tive g = glays . &C.,,
that { lajority of them really desired it. The
propee thing for the woman suffragists to do
is to create an enthusiasm among women on
this subject. Husbands and sons are not
likely to put forth much effort for the en-
actment of such laws when the wives and
mothers express content with the present
condition,
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What Does Mr.. carlisie's Election Mean?

What Does Mr.. CarlisIe's Election Mean?
Ligonier Leader
If Mr. Carlisles election means what the
free traders claim it means the party will
come out squarely and fat-footed for free
trade. But if his election does not mean
anything more than that the solid South is
in the ascendency they will dodge the issue
or follow the Republicans in favor of tariff
for revenue with incidental protection. We
shall see
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BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS

Are fast taking the place of all others IN fac
tories. Foundres Machine shops and Mills.
Parties having their own power can procure an
Electric Generator and Ohtalu much more light
al mucn less cost than py any other mode The
lncandesccnt and storage system has been per
fected. making small lights for houses and stores
hung wherever needed, and lighted at will, daY
or night. Parties desiring Generators or to form
rompsnles for lighting cities and towns, can
send To the Brush Electric Co. Cleveland, o., OF
to the uuders gned ST INDIANAPOLIS.
J. CAVEN.
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CINCINNATI, O., Dec 27.-Couuty Auditor
Brewster says he has discovered a million
dollars fraudulent increase in the valuations
of property for taxes on the books, made for
the purpose of getting the fee for procuring
the refundiug of excessive taxes. He says it
has been done since 1880.
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WE cannot prevent misrepresentation and de-
ceplIUn by others, but we positively assert that
the automatic tension device, stitch indicator,
with other valuable features, belong eXclus-
lively to the Wilcox Il Gibbs Automatic Sewing
Machine. Notwithstanding any statement to the
contrary from any source, however respectable.
90 East New York street.
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Irish BIoodthirstiness.

Edinburg Courier. ..... - ru. 4iHaif 9VH. 3 .
s There is little hope for suffering ireland
when such sentiments as were uttered at q
meeting last week in New York come from
those who are looked upon as representative
Irishmen. The threat to assassnate the
0'Donnel1 jury to blow up towns and cities
in England, and inaugurate reign of blood
and murder, is only characteristic of the
professional revolutionist, not the patriot
who seeks honestly to redress the grievances
of his country
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The more we read of the infamous doings
of the polygamous Mormons, the more are
we convinced that the government should at
once take hold of the matter with such vigor
and earnestness as will lead in the shortest
possible period TO the entire and complete
Impression of the whole business.
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Holman,s Gubern atorial Boom.

EvansYlIIe Journal.
Holman is one of the strongest men in the
State amongst the people. His political
record is as nearly invulnerable as any
mans. Those papers that are endeavoring
to belittle him are wasting their time.
Should he be nominated, our very strongest
Republican will be required to defeat him,
Ii he is a demagogue. as some people charge.
he is one of the smartest ones in the Union.
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The Frost.Bitten Sailors.

New HAVEN, Conn. Dec. 27.-Physicians
state they will be unable to tell for forty
eight hours whether amputation is necessary
in the cases of the nine frost-bitten sailors.
The bark Paragon, fifty-fiye days from Ira
PAM, has arrived at Gloucester. The crew is
badly frost-bitten.
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A sleishinr Party oarrled Over Precipic

tached to a sleigh containing four couples,
from Roaring Creek, ran away last night,
dragging the sleigh over precipice. James
Smith had a leg and arm broken. Henry
Green an arm broken. and Mary Khroner
was internally injured. The others were
slightly injured.
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Mr. Hanna is now acknowledgements of
our State. He is good man, and altogether
worthy of promotion The moral courage
and fidelity to duty and the interests of the
State which he so distinctly manifested dur
ing the exciting scenes of the last session Of
the Legislature justly won for him the re-
spect and admiration of the Republicans
throughout the State If he receives the
nomination for Governor we can most cor
daily support him
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The South Respects Only Force.

IndlanapoHs KepnDIIcan.
The South never respected the North until
it proved its superiority upon the field of
battle, and its prejudiced hate is not vet pre-
pared to yield to the slack touch and coward
ly caresses of Northern honey-hearts. They
mean well, but Southern prejudice cannot be
soothed with syrup, nor can widows and or
phans find solace in political cradle-songs
and cowardly concessions.
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ALBANY n. Y, Dec. 81. Private dis
patches from Hanover, Germany state that
Col. Henry X. Bathboue killed his wife and
committed suicide They were connected
with most prominent families here She
was the daughter OF ex- United States Senator
Harris
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Fair Warning Against Manitoba.
Texas Siftings.


Manitoba wants to come into the United
States If Uncle Sam is any way inclined
to be mashed on her we can give him a
pointer, Manitoba has cold feet.
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Same Principle,
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.


A strong element in the Democracy con-
tend that 1.-The only way to wipe out the blot
on the escutcheon of the United States is to
elect Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hen
bricks" This is on the principle that led
fellow to oil his coat all over to wipe out
grease spot.
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Tom, Dick and Harry are now appearing with
their grandfathers' recipes for coughs, etc, and
seeking a fortune through advertising, but the
people know the value of DR.. BulIs Cough Syrup
and will take no other Price, % cents bottle.
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The Fate of All Old Tickets.

Clay County Enterprise.
1t makes no difference which ticket the
Democracy nominate, the old or the new.
Either will die of old age before it gets to
Washington.
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Probable Uses of Our Crematory.

Connersvile Times
A crematory will be established before
long in Indianapolis 1t will probably be
ased to burn the carcases of heretics, editors
md other malefactors This will at least
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All the Soldiers VIII Be Pensioned.


The signs OF the times point to the fact that
the day is near when every man who served
in the army in the dark days of the country
will be pensioned, and that being the fact,
now is as good time as any to start.