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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

RHODE ISLAND voters or rather those male
eitizens of Rhode Island who would be
voters in any other State, are now in frame
of mind. Under the present constitution
no man can exercise the right of suffrage
unless he holds real estate to the value of
$134, over all membranes Rhode Island
has not SO many inhabitants as some States
but it has more than it can supply with land
There is not enough to go around, and
good many worthy citizens who never cared
much about the great American privilege
of casting the ballot are enraged at their
disfranchisement. But one man in seven
teen, it is said, can now vote in the little
State. The other sixteen should join with
the women and form an equal suffrage So
ciety.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23


SPEAKING of the public schools of the city
of New York, the Times says:
at is evident that improvement has been
made of late i'll the sanitary and other ar
raneements of school-houses and in the
methods of instruction, but it is equally APP
parent that perfection is yet long way off
The old method of bestowing the largest ex-
pense and the best skill at the top of the
system is still pursued The inexperienced
and most poorly paid teachers are in the
primary schools, where, on the average, they
have fifty-one pupils each. This is at once
the most difficult and the most important
grade of instruction, and if more care were
given to it the higher grades would to an in
creasing extent take care of themselves. We
still pursue the top-heavy method in our
system of public education, bestowing pub
lie money upon grades of instruction which
belong rather to the domain of private effort,
and providing inadequately for that which is
essential for public reasons"
The same facts exist in Indianapolis, and
in all cities These are the faults of the
System" which it seems almost hopeless to
attack. The very ones who should be first
and foremost in correcting these glaring
errors, and who should intelligently direct
the honest criticism made in private life and
through the public press, are the very ones
who stand like wall against every improve
ment, and regard as an enemy any one with
temerity sufficient to call attention to the
facts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

THE iron hand of despotism was never
more strongly felt in Russia than it is at the
present time. Numerous papers have been
obliged to suspend publication, and others
are under strict supervision, so that nearly
every issue is delayed on account of some
certain articles having been condemned
Foreign newspapers, before they are deliver
ed, have whole paragraphs and leaders
blotched with printers ink; entire pages are
ruthlessly torn out of the Forthniehtly Re-
view, the Nineteenth Century, and other
monthies and quarterlies, and the last
volume of his History" which Solovieff
lived TO complete has been suppressed be.
cause, forsooth, it relates what every child
knows concerning the personal character of
Catherine II. Professors are to submit their
courses of lectures to the approval of the
Eensor, and students, under pain of being
expelled, are not to take Autographed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

THREE weeks ago $40, 900 worth of railroad
bonds.were stolen from tie Office of Phila-
delphia safe deposit company. On Monday,
while the president of the company was sit
ting in his Office, stranger entered, laid the
bonds upon his desk, and was allowed to de-
part without formalities The president ex-
planned that he had expected the man; that
he was an innocent party" from Canada
to which place detective sleuth-hounds had
traced them. So closely were the thieves
pressed that they were glad to give up the
property, hence the visit of the innocent
party. The president did not wish to say
more, because the detectives were still hot
upon the trail of the robbers and expected
to catch them. Curious people wonder how
innocent parties come to be 60 betweens, but
il is none of their business since the bonds
are returned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

THE gentlemen appointed as members of
the Metropolitan board of commissioners
will vouchsafe reply to-day to the question
whether or not they will accept. 1t is prob
able they will; but the board will not exc
cute the police power as Mr. Murphy is re-
ported to have said the important thing is to
know the character of the man and men APP
pointed to do the police work. The superin-
tendent and the captains are vastly more
important than the members of the board.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

Mr.. JOSIAH GwIN of the New Albany Pub
lie Press, submits platform for the Demo-
cratic party, to be adopted by a convention
which is ready to accept the record of the
late Legislature as the work of Democracy.
The first plank points with pride" to the
killing of the constitutional amendments.
The second one indorses the Brown rape of
the benevolent institutions. The third
plank has somewhat personal flavor, as
follows:
while we do not encourage drunkenness
and pugilistic encounters in legislative
bodies, still it will be policy not to censure
Senators Brown and Bell on account of their
being wheel bosses in the party" -.
The fourth plank is one we copy in full for
the benefit of the indianapolis Sentinel,
which is in an awful boggle over the general
appropriation bill:
THE defeat of the appropriation bill by
the Democrats in the Legislature meets our
most hearty approval, and every Democrat
in Indiana should rise up and bless their
masters who did the work. The money of
the State was placed in the hands of a Demo
cratic treasurer who put it where it did the
most good for himself and the party"
The fifth plank denounces the advertising
law, which was properly repealed, and the
sixth Endorses the metropolitan police bill as
"a Democratic measure" and puts the can
vass of 1884 upon that issue, requesting any
Democrat who dlsapproves of that bill
"to get out of the party as suddenly
as possible" OWNS platform is respect
fully submitted to the consideration of such
Democratic newspapers as the Terre Haute
Gazette, Wabash Courier, Shelbyville Volun-
teer, Vincennes News, and others. The
editor of the Public Press is likely to find
himself cast out into utter darkness. Free
dom of opinion is not permitted in the Dem
ocratic party of Indiana. Even Senator
Rufus Magee, after repeated statements to
the contrary, quietly and with humility
knuckled to the caucus and voted for the
metropolitan police bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

ACCORDING to his own statement, George
Holgate, of Philadelphia, is entitled to about
twenty years in the penitentiary He ad-
mits that he is the manufacturer of explo-
sve or internal machines and that he has
sold quite a number of them, as well as sew
eral burning machines, so arranged as to
create destructive flame at any hour de-
sired, and long after the manipulation has
gone away. The explosive machines are
constructed so compactly that they can be
placed in a cigar box and possess an explo-
sive force equal to 900 pounds of gunpowder.
Holgate defends his business in an ingenious
way:
go know nothing said he, of the uses to
which my machines are put. l no more ask
a man when he buys one whether he proposes
to blow up Gar or set fire to palace, any
more than a gunsmith asks his customers
whether they are about to commit murder
or a match merchant asks if his purchaser is
about to become an incendiary. l make the
machines for those who want them. l don't
believe in killing kings with bombs, nor do l
think that it is proper to assassinate states
men with knives, but would not have the
cutlery business stopped because bad men
liidhe use Vi llle udSSeT
This defense would be plausible were it not
based on a false premise. Explosive ma
chimes are built and employed solely for the
commission of crime. No other use is con-
templated by seller or buyer; while guns,
matches and knives though often used for
unlawful purposes have a legitimate use. 1t
is needless TO inquire of man who buys one
of Holgate's machines what he intends doing
with it. The simple fact that he buys it is
enough to prove that he means to assassinate
somebody or to secretly destroy property.
The machines are the same in character as
burglars tools-no honest man has any bust
ness with them, and no dealer of reputation
would handle them, even though the law
permitted traffic in them. Holgate's works
should be closed, his appliances confiscated
and himself sent to prison. His business is
a lawless one and his patrons all criminals
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

after the adjournment asked him Che was
then Lieutenant-governor) to accept. He
replied that he could not as he was on
record in the manner stated. The State CEN
trail committee is said to have thereupon
bought up every existing copy of the little
paper published three years before, and Mr..
Long then accepted the nomination. Cen
eral Butler, it is said, found out the little
game, but magnanimously Kept it secret, and
Long defeated him badly. 1t has only leaked
out now, since Long allowed the use of his
name against Hoar in the late senatorial con-
TEST
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

For sublimity of cheek Edward Cowley,
formerly known as Reverend" and recently
returned from Sing Sing, cannot be excelled.
Cowley will be better remembered by the
title of shepherd" in which capacity he
had charge of Fold in New York and was
sent to the penitentiary for having starved
and mistreated the children under his care.
He was also required to pay a fine of $3.50.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

This injured man now petitions the Legisla-
ture to set aside the decision of the court
showing that a child in the Fold died from
starvation. He cannot recover the year spent
in prison, but asks that the $3.50 be refunded
and that the city of New York be compelled
to pay the bills he incurred as manager of
the bills is Sc, $40, and with this sum the ex-
shepherd could again be able to follow the
warnings of his nature and gather other
lambs into his arms in pastures new.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

copies of the lectures In one word, the
whole of Russia is to be transformed into
huge police barrack. The old church decree
has been revived, by which every kind of
public performance provided it be in the
Russian language is forbidden on the eve of
all great saints days as well as on Saturday
nights. The public finances are in the most
deplorable condition, the paper ruble is not
worth half its nominal value, and, in spite
of the official notice printed or each, cannot
be changed at bank for silver or gold As
result of all this, business is paralyzed, and
no assurance of the future of affairs can be
had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
A CURIOUS revelation is made with regard

A CURIOUS revelation is made with regard
to late gubernatorial conventions in Massa-
chusetts. 1t is stated on what seems good
tried in open convention to secure the Re-
publican nomination for the governorship
Ex-Governor John D. Long wrote letter to
the bingham paper strongly indorsing the
claimant. The young men of the party nom
mated Long in the convention OF 1879, and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
To the EditOr of the Indianapolis journal:

Please give me the indebtedness of the United
StaIes, France, Germany and England; to settle
a dispute.
ELIZABETH, Ind.
The United States, 81 1856. 276, 11443; France,
$4,6s3, $4,000; Germany, $120,197,52s Eng
land, So, 9l4, 100000. The figures are for the
year 1882, except in the United States, which
was the amount the ist of March, instant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

Please inform through the columns of
your paper who Saint Patrick was whether a
real or fictitious character.
He was real character, born either in France
or Scotland. and died in County Ulster, March
II, 493 or 495. His original name was succath,
and Pope Celestine gave him the name of Patri-
cius. His see as Bishop of Ireland was at Ar
magh
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

SIR GEORGE JEssEL, Master of the Rolls OF
England, whose death is just announced
was of Jewish extraction, being the youngest
son of the late Zachariah Nathaniel Jessel, a
merchant OF Putney, by Mary, daughter Of
the late Mr.. Henry Harris. He was born in
London in 1924, and educated at University
College, London. He was called to the bar
at Lincolns Inn in May, 1S47 and was made
Queens Counsel and Bencher of his Inn
in 1865 At the general election of 1868 he
was returned in the Liberal interest as one
Of the representatives of the borough of
Dover. He was appointed Solicitor-general
in Mr.. Gladstones administration in Novem-
Der, 1871, and received the honor of knight
hood Feb 81, 1872. When Lord Romilly re-
signed the position of Master of the Rolls in
August, 1873, Mr.. Gladstone appointed Sir
George Jessel as his successor, and he was
then sworn in as member of the Privy
Counsel. He was the first Hebrew who ever
occupied a seat on the English judicial
hench
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

"THE town of Mason has elected the following
officers: Moderator, l. A. Bean; clerk, j. G. Bean;
seectnen. j. N. Bean and F. L. Bean; treasurer,
F. L. Bean; supervisor of schools, J. H, Bean,
and agent, j. c. Beam" You are mistaken If
you think Mason is suburb of Boston. 1t is in
oxford county, Me.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Jonnal:

TO the EdntOr OF Inc Ihdlanap0Ils JOlHnM
l. Would 1t be illegal or an infringement to
make for ones private use fac smie of any
patent2 2. Tell us the meaning of the new metro
politan police. How does it differ from the police
system that it will succeed
MARCH 10. A SUBSCRIBER
l. 1t would. 2. The metropolitan police is
police appointed by the State, instead of by the
city. The present system is thGt three council
men are elected by the Council as police board
and they elect the entire police force and have
charge of it. By the new system the Governor,
the Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer of State
choose three men, not connected with the city
government, and these men select and control
the police force.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

THE Inter Ocean remarks that ''Dr. Hat
field was right when he said to those clerical
prohibitionists that every disreputa6le sa-
loon-keeper would take Brother Judkin and
Johnson and other opponents of high license
by the hand, and bid them go on with their
good work. If the good Doctor were in this
orifiniep,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
so the Editor of the indianapolis Journal.

1. Did the recent two-cent postal law go into
effect Immediately? If not, when may we look
for two-cent Dostage9 2. Is the coinage of the
new nickel piece still going ONT If still in pro-
cess, when does it cease?
DELPHI, Ind.
The two cent postal law takes effect Oct. L.
2. The coinage of the new nickel is still going on,
and will cease when the demand is supplied.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
hal ana Fditor OF the Indiananolis Ionrnal.

y
Has the new law rendered the sO-called "grave-
yard" insurance companies void? We're they
ever reliable2 READER
1t has. 1t is misdemeauor now to insure or
apply for insurance on the life of any aged or
inflrm person, or to take insurance on anyDody's
life without the persons knowledge or consent
Graveyard" insurance companies were always
a fraud
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

The quantity of spirits now in bond which will
he liable to tax from July l to Dec. 81 is nearly
9,000,000 gallons, and the amount OF tax ST.
S5O,S36 During the next calendar year the
quantity which must he withdrawn Is over
$4,000, 900 gallons, and the tax thereon nearly
g2Q OOO ono
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

THE sea, in keeping with the spirit of the
year, has been very turbulent, and from the
LIST of January to the middle of February
wrecked $50 vessels, an increase of 14S as
compared with the same time in 1882.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

L. L. SADLER, the Republican nominee for
mayor of Cincinnati, is a nznter, having
learned his trade in the office of the Rich
mond Broadax He is a stock dealer now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
endownents.

'THE class statistics of Yale for eleven re-
cent years show 945 freetraders and 341 pro-
tectionists. "-Ex.
1t probably did not occur to the writer
that Yale graduates as a rule do not become
mechanics nor manufacturers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

1T has been said of Julian Hawtnornes new
novel, 'Dust," that it must needs be dry. Prob
ably, but it undoubtedly enjoys a wide circula-
ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

srcciaI Meeting of the Indiana Republican
Editorial Association.

special meeting OF the L. diana Republican
Editorial Association will be held at the Federal
courtroom at Indianapolis, beginning at 7:3O
O'Clock, on the evening of Thursday, March 20,
1883. Matters of Importance await considera-
tion and all members of the association are
urgently invited to attend.
Republican editors who are not now members
of the association should communicate with the
president or secretary without delay.
W. 8. LINGLE, President.
CHAs. L. WILSON, Secretary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

A REHEARING of the Iowa amendment case
has been granted by the Supreme Court, and
will be had at the next term, which will SIT
at Davenport, the city from which the case
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
To what denomination does the Rev Joseph
Cook of Boston. belong3 FRANK NJ. BENSON.
CONGREGATIONAL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
came up.

THE Boston Advertiser regards with ad-
miration General Brady's confident manner
of giving testimony in the star-route case,
and thinks he shows a GOODNESS which is re-
markable
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

In setting up the account of the attempt to
blow up the deanery at Canterbury, England, a
Boston typo substituted a for the d in deanery.
and nearly caused panic in the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

ON the 2Sth of this month, in the city of Rome,
will be celebrated the 400th anniversary of the
birth of Raphael. Great preparations are being
made, and the day will be one of general gayety,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

THE temperance movement Is at high tide in
England and the revenue from intoxicating
liquors is falling off. Since October, 1880,
100000 people have put on the blue ribbon,
and one half million have signed the pledge
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

THE remains of John Howard Payne ar
rived in New York yesterday. They will lie
in state there during to-day and tomorrow
will be forwarded to Washington for final
81
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journau

Can you help me with a quotation and its
author. 1t Is one that attempted to use but
boggled and stuck, while talking of of the
parties in great suit now pending in court. 1t
is somehow thus:
"Lost a world and made a hero fly
for Cleopalra's eye."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

IT has been shown by statisticians that Indiana
is the best wheat-producing State in the Union.
o, we are mighty near as wheat as wheat can be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

FORCE of $50 painters is now employed on
the Brooklyn bridge Ten could do the work,
but so far to the ground that they lose much
time in going back and forth to borrow tobacco
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

PLEASANT HOLLOW, N. j. is such pleasant
place that an inpecunious native, who owns
three acres of land on which oil has been discov-
cred, refuses to part with the ground, though Of
fered large price. He says he does not want
any noise around his house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

The condition of Queen Victoria is not
such as to cause anxiety.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

DURING last month tax amounting to S943,247
accrued on 936,94l gallons of spirits held in
bond. Much of this is now being withdrawn for
expectation, as thirty days after tax accrues are
given in which to pay the tax before the spirits
are proceeded against. and at any time prior to
the expiration of the thirty days the spirits may
be withdrawn for expectation. The quantity of
spirits held in bond upon which tax will accrue
during the four months ending June 80 next is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

JUDGE HAMILTON, of Baltimore, who is evil
IDENTIFY an aesthetic soul, believing that the court
rooms should not look dreary, has caused the
room in which he presides to be so decorated. az
his own expense, that it now shines in rosewood
and gold, with marble busts and engravings.
This is true philanthropy. The judges sue
cessor may be commonplace man whom the
handsome surroundings will elevate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

CHICAGO has an LII. d. for city librarian
Doctor of libraries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

We have not been able to trace the lines. Can
any OF our readers help ~. NJ. c." out?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

to be participated in by a number of the lead
ing societies of scientific men and artists. A
discourse Will be delivered, cantata composed
for the occasion will be sung, and grand tab
leaux vivant will be enacted, representing the
greatest of Raphael's paintings. A portion of
the city will be illuminated, and thu receipts at
the Costanzi Theater, where the tableaux are to
be presented, will be devoted to erecting mon-
ument in the city in memory of the great artist
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

CuAs. E. WILSON, Secretary.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-07-28

School Board Meeting.-At n meeting Of
the Baltimore county School Board. held on Tues.
day last. the following amendment 20 the bylaws
was adopted "Afier n school has reached IN
number 22j full pupils, for each additional IS 10
this enrolment the principal shall receive IS and
each assistant $3.50 per term additional salary
All pupils. unless an epidemic prevails, shall
attend school at least thirty days during the term
90 count - full pupils. No salary shall be allow.
ell between those numbers. Second. the rules
governing the annual examination of pupils for
promotion in tho public schools. as prepared By
the examiner and adopted by the board. shall be
rigidly enforced. Third, that the practice Of hay.
ing two or more divisions in grades Il condemned.
and the teachers are instructed to grade their
schools closely. and as far as practicable to keep
the grades together"