The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-28

this ruling was correct. While iJ may be true
that newspaper productions are not, as a rule,
of the highest order of ''that class of writings
distinguished for beauty of style expression in
distinction from scientific treatises" which is
definition of literature they will bear favora-
BILE comparison with much that being between
the covers of books bears the accepted badge.
English judges should read the papers and
absorb a little information.
THEODORE TILToN is now in Europe. His
once stately form is bent, and his long locks are
almost silvery white. George Alfred Townsend
once said that Tilton was more sinned against
than SHINING, and perhaps he spoke truly. Ad-
mitting that Beecher was innocent, Tilton has
always believed him guilty. This belief has
crushed him. and he has become changed in de-
meanor and intellect, aud is prematurely aged.
Mrs Tilton is said to be somewhere In central
New Jersey, taking in sewing for a living.
-O
CoLoRED children are excluded from the pub
lie schools of Burlin gton, N j., and one of the
sufferers on account 81 this discrimination has
taken icSa! steps to compel the school board to
admit his children The cause is filed in the So
preme Court Of the State and the board are cited
TO appear on the first day of November, and
show cause, il any, why these children should
not be admitted Bourbonism dies hard.
THE Chicago Tribune has come to the conclu-
sion that there is something wrong with the tele-
graph, and that possibly the companies are to
blame. At the conclusion of long editorial it
says "The first thing in order at the present
stage Of proceedings is for the companies to say
what they are willing to do and to solicit re-
turn of the operators upon more favorable terms
than those which led to the STRIKE"
If the statesmen at Concord, N H., could
change places with the philosophers at Concord,
Mass. for an hour or so, the result might be in
the interests Of concord. The philosophers
could elect senator in jiffy, and the states
men who have learned all about the "whichness
of the who,"in the past few weeks could settle
that question in no time.
AN army chaplain having exceeded his leave
of absence, the War Department is trying to get
him back from Europe to attend TO the sinful
military souls The department should reflect
that chaplain who labors with Nickersons and
Howgates and their companions needs more rest
than the ordinary pastor, and be considerable ac-
cordingly.
CDR G. HoRNIDGE PORTER, who has been for
many years surgeon In ordinary to Queen Vic:
toria in Ireland, has accepted the honor of
knighthood. Exchange.
The Queen has spent much of her time in
Ireland that the surgeons duties have, undoubt-
eddy, been arduous, and he ought to have a re-
ward.
THE death of Hon. Montgomery Blair removes
the last of the historic administration of 1860
Lincoln, Seward, Chase, Stanton, Welles, Smith,
Blair and Bates. Vice-presldent Ramlin still
lives, but he was not in active management Of
any of the governmental departments.
FIVE thousand people gathered at Rupert, Pa,
on Wednesday, TO celebrate Martin Luther's four
! hundredth birthday. The actual anniversary
does not occur until November, but when a man
gets that far along in years few months more
or less make but little difference.
TOURIST has discovered county in North
Carolina i'll which there is but one piano and one
young woman who can play. Let the happy
residents OF that county put their houses in
order. Next year they will be Overrun by sum-
mer boarders.
THE old New York capitol building has been
sold for just ST. 900. 1t cost $4,000. Indiana
will have old capitol for sale if the Demo-
cratic party should keep i'll power long enough
to let the walls rot down.
IT is now in order for "Quantrell's men" to
hold reunion 1t will be great surprise, in
the light of recent events, to hear Of them fixing
a date for a camp fire at Lawrence, Kan.
THE Louisville Courier-JOurnal affects to have
double-eaded information that an awful, not TO
say helish, scheme, is on foot to make the next
Republican ticket Arthur and Foster.
NUMBER of farmers near Windfall, have been
swinded recently by the patent wire-fence
game. These farmers have not read last years
papers YET
THE Inter Ocean is of the opinion that some of
the Indiana candidates for the presidency will
be disappointed. That is probable.
ERROR still rides on the wires while truth goes
across tho country on horseback.
THE game of Poker will not be so popular
hereafter in Tennessee.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
JUDGE ALBION W. ToURGEE viii lecture at
Chautauqua on Saturday morning next, on
''Give us a rest"
Miss AMELIA B. EDWARDS furnished the arti-
Gle on mummy" for the next volume of the
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