The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-14

faced three criminal judges, and with success
carried his case to the highest court in the land
on legal points which arose out of the complica-
lions in tho lower courts Krng was on the
point of being discharged a technicality when
death put an end to the proceedings. The case
was of the most stubbornly contested in
legal history, and justice was literally worried
out and beaten.
WHEN goes wrong is there any good
reason why the names of all his respectable and
innocent relatives, dead or alive. should be
dragged into the account of the AFFAIR." Two
hundred and seventeen esteemed contempora-
ries have mentioned with uneOnceaed satisfac-
ton that DR.. Webster Jones, of Chicago who
ran away TO Europe with an adventures, is the
grandson of Noah Webster. It can hardly be
supposed that the shade of the old dictionary
maker really took any part in the elopement,
and this effort to implicate him is in bad TASTE
AN Indianapolis letter in the Cincinnati En-
quirer of yesterday says:
"The Tilden and Hendricks meeting which is
reported to have occurred last week took place.
but had no political significance. Mr.. Tilden
told Mr.. Hendricks that he did not want the
nomination, and Mr.. Hendricks responded to
the same effect. The only conclusion reached
by them was that they wousA not offer them
selves as candidates, but If the party, with
general unanimity, reDomiuated the ticket of
1876 they would accept That is the case as 1t
stands with them. They Will not volunteer, but
hold themselves liable to be drafted"
THE New Albany Ledger says Of the order of
Col. Bennett II. Young, OF the New Albany &
Chicago road, disseminating Sunday trains:
'The result of Col. Young's order has been
most beneficial, both to the men employed upon
q cd n fha I'M nf flRn Tn
stead of there being falling off in the business,
as some anti-SabOatarians predicted, there has
company fluids itself compelled to add extern
sively to its freght-car ana locomotive equipage.
These are facts that speak for themselves and
the logic of them need not be elaborated"
Down in Georgia, negroes, male or female, are
not permitted to ride in ''ladies cars" ON any
trains, while Indians enjey this privilege undis-
uurbed. The reporter for an Atlanta paper,
who was greatly pleased with four charming
Choctaw girls, whom he met on the traiB on
their way to school, mentions, iDgenuously, that
negroes on the train did not understand why
Indians were allowed in the ladies' Car while
they were excluded, Does any one understand
CHARLEY Ross has been heard from. He is a
colored man, and lives at Flushing, L. l. On
Tuesday he made wager of So. so with a baker
that he could eat seventeen ten-cent pies, the
loser to pay for the pies. Ross got away safely
with sixteen, but unacoountably failed in the
first half of the seventeenth inning. Think of a
human being walking around with dollar and
seventy cents worth of shop made pies in his
stomach
ST. LOUIS paper remarks of the Mary
Churchill disappearance, that solution of the
mystery is now almost question OF national
honor. If national honor is in the hands of st.
Louis detectives its chances of being furnished
are good. The missing girl disappeared from
home three weeks ago and up to This time not a
clew to her whereabouts has besn discovered,
nor any motive for voluntary absence.
A wILLIAMsrowN. N. c., iunatic entered a
school Tuesday with the avowed intention of
killing twenty-eight girls before he left He was
doomed, he explained, to eternal punishment
unless he offered a sacrifice of 200 female chill
dren but was willing to let this school off with
loss of only twenty-eight. The big boys made
themselves useful, for once, and prevented the
slaughter of the innocents.
Mr.. SPRATT, prominent and wealthy mer-
chant of Toronto, has q family of sixteen moth
erless children, fifteen of whom are daughters.
Tt wasn't good day for Spratts, and Mr.. Red
fern only caught one Wnon ne elOpe0, Dut IL mas
caused social sensation, because Redfern was
also prominent citizen and left wife behind.
TIE taxing population of China is but $780,
000,0 900, only about five times our own. China
is all the way from 5000 to 10000 years old
according to the testimony of the oldest fisher.
men of the empire, while the United States is
but 100.
TWO rivals for a ady's love at Richmond, Va,
have fought duel to decide the matter. Two
shots were exchanged without effect, when the
principals shook hands and. made up. But what
becomes of the grl2
PERHAPS it would be the best and shortest
way to settle the Oklahoma Payne matter to lei
him enter the Indian Territory. Indians know
considerable about the first laws of nature.
THEY draw the line at Kansas City. The
police have arrested a woman there for wearing
Mother Hubbard. 1t was after dark, too.
SIGNoR LIBERATI, the coruetist, was refused
admittance to the Louisville exposition. The
line has to be drawn somewhere.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
THE Count de Chamhord left 100000 francs
to the fund of "Peter's pence"
PROF. SCHILLING took his own daughter as
model for the great statue of Germania, to be
unveiled next month by the Emperor.