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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THE Economists Franchise, with no inten-
ton to affect politics in America gives some
interesting figures regarding wages paid in
Paris 1t appears that the wages Of working
men there have risen about So to 40 per
cent. between 1860 and 1879 while the cost
of living has increased about Is to 20 per
cent, leaving net increase of wages of
about 20 per cent This is very encourag-
ing showing. But the Economists goes on
to give the rate of wages paid. zap
parently" it says, 'the average rate of
wages now is ~ to francs $50 to 90 cents) a
DAY. If this is the average, what must be
the rates that are lower than this? For the
whole of France the average rate of wages
for men in the chief towns of departments
outside of Paris appears to have been pa
francs per day in the worst paid trades
such as charcoal-burners, perruquiers (wig-
makers( and some others. Gardeners
pastry and binders earned in general
from "a to francs; workers in jewelry,
watchmakers, clockmakers and others
earned about Al francs day; while
skaters and masons earned from 81 to A
francs. What do the workingmen of
America think of this? How many of the
various trades would consent to work at such
rates, and how many could subsist upon
them? Take away the protective tariff, and
all these hundreds of thousands of poorly
paid workmen will come into direct compe-
tition with our own. The anti-Chinese bill
will not avail to keep out cheap labor" and
busy shops all over the land will be obliged
to close up, for their wares could be made
abroad at figures upon which our mechanics
could not live. The figures reproduced above
are not from protective journal in America,
but from a statistical paper in France. Its ut
terances cannot be discounted. Its conclu-
sions are free from political prejudice, and are
food for reflection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

PERHAPS the story of the Newhall House
fire is not SO old but that it may be recalled
that the telegraph wires surrounding tgreat-
ly interfered with the work of saving lives.
1t may be pertinent to observe that in Lon
don, within four metres OF the general post
Office, there are not less than 5000 miles of
telegraph wire, all under ground. All the
telegraph and telephone wires in the city of
Paris are under ground also.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

James B. Beck, of Kentucky, has declared
himself not to be freetrader, but in favor
of incidental protection TO American indus
try. The scramble of Democratic statesmen
upon the Republican platform with respect
to this question calls for another double
loaded editorial from the author of the
INDEPENDENTLY plank and the re-
puted architect of Democratic defeat in
1880.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

WE have an official declaration of Demo-
cratic civil-service reform as understood
in Indiana. During the debate on
Senator Browns benevolent rape bill,
that boss of the Democratic ma
jority announced the party principle to
be short official life, and the greatest num-
Der of persons given official employ
ment." 1t is well to have an authoritative
deliyerance on this matter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

CAMPAIGN material is accommodating in vast
quantities. The defalcations in Tennessee
and Alabama are likely to develop great
popular yearning for Democratic reform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

DEMOCRATIC State Treasurers come high,
but then we must have them in white
mans government"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

IT is coincidence that while temperance
legislation was pending in the Ohio Legisla-
ture, ono of its members-Mr. Miller, of
Mercer county-was on the verge of delirium
debauch that on Tuesday it was found neces-
sary to lock him in the station-house until
an inquest to determine his sanity can be
AAtd. He has not been sober this year. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

CULTURES" are good thing. There is
nothing bad about futures" Everybody
should go into futures" Tennessee and
Alabama have gone into Futures" and are
both liable TO go into liquidation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THE Ohio Senate has passed joint resolu-
ton submitting constitutional amendment
to vote of the people, whereby the regu-
lation of the liquor traffic shall be left abso-
lutely in control OF the Legislature to be
license, local option or prohibition. just as
the people may be able to express their opin-
ion in the election of the members of the
General Assembly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

IT is computed that the shipwrecks through
out the whole world last year numbered
close on 1000, representing an aggregate
tonnage of more than 100000, and loss
of 4,l29 lives. Bnt~the showing for the year
before was still worse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

GENERAL FITzHUGH LEE and staff are to be
the guests of Colonel Austen, of the Thir-
tenth New York regiment. This is in re-
turn for courtesies received by the New
Workers at the hands of the Virginians dur
ing TIT Yorktown centennial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THE road bill which has been debated in
the Senate for two or three days, passed that
body yesterday by yeas 81 nays II.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

PENNSYLVANIA and West Virginia are both
discussing the submission of prohibitory
amendments to direct vote OF the people of
those States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THE New York quail eater Is becoming as
intolerable nuisance as was DIR. Tanner.
Some way should be devised to keep such
idiocy out of the papers. Many things of
vastly more importance are ignored while
this nonsense is reported day by day with a
most exasperating fidelity. Let the quail
eater be given thirty-day contract at break
ing stone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THAT distinguished visitor, the Maori
pugilist, has already become Professor"
Slade since his arrival in this country. This
shows how Americans can treat foreigners,
if they are worthy, and must make Oscar
Wilde gnaSh his teeth with envy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

A SINGULAR breach of the peace is reported
from New York. A mob of drunken men
broke into Calvary Cemetery and drove out
the grave-diggers. Reinforcements shortly
arrived. and the sacrilegious roysterers were
taken into custody.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

was so low in the scale of degradation that
he was thrown out of saloon recently, and
actually refused admittance to house ofill-
fame It would be difficult to find stronger
argument in favor of regulating the liquor
traffic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

A GLASGOW paper estimates that each first
class ocean steamship earns from f1S,0OO to
f20 600 in round trip between Liverpool
and New York, nearly one-half of which is
profit. The first cost of these floating
palaces is enormous but a profit of from
$1,000 to $4,000 every four or five weeks
ought to pay good dividend.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

IF the epidemic OF defalcation keeps up
much longer in the Southern States, there
will be a long and loud prayer for the much
maligned carpet-bag governments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THE high-born, well-bred Democratic State
Treasurer of Alabama has "Polked" that
cent invested the public money in cotton flu
lures, and he has gone to New York to OBJ
tain funds to make good the deficit. That is,
he SAYS he has
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

REV. DR.. MARQUIS of the Lafayette Park
Presbyterian Church, st. Louis, has adopted
the Geneva gown for pulpit wear, whereat
there is a small sized but well defined cyclone
passing through his congregation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THE jailer at New Braunfels, Tex, is
worthy of his trust Forty citizens broke
in the Jail doors to lynch a murderer, but
the sheriff. with a revolver in each hand,
drove them like so many sheep back into the
street, and they gave up the attempt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

The flower and fruitage of Democracy is to
be found in the Southern States. How
would the people like Tennesseeism and
Alabamacy spread all over the United States?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

Boss Brown has carried his point. and the
State benevolent institutions are to be given
over to party pilage
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THE New Albany Public Press, Democratic
says: The metropolitan police bill is I'M
democratic, and should be frowned and voted
down by Democrats. Cities should be allow
ed to govern themselves"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

Mr.. BRowN's bill for the rape OF the benev-
lent institutions passed the Senate yesterday
bya strict party vote, with the exception of
Senator Magee, OF Cass who was the only
Democrat with courage to stand outside of
caucus dictation. The outrage will doubtless
be consummated in the House, and then a
few party bummers can be provided with
places at the expense of the insane, the deaf
and dumb and the blind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THE Prince OF Wales, at the urgent solicita-
zion of the Princess, is said to be using his
influence to modify the cruel sport of pigeon
shooting, as at present conducted. by the
substitution of terra-cotta pigeons for the
living birds, and there are hints of social
boycotting in case sportsmen persist IN the
old method If there is anything peculiarly
degrading it is the numbering of pigeons for
what is called sport" 1t is the sport of a
butcher and a brute.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THE attention of Count Henri di Waiter
son. of the Louisville Courier-J ournal. the
Corporal Boom OF the Democratic party. is
respectfully called to the fact that Senator
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

Mr.. CHRIST is new candidate for the office OF
| sergeaHt-at-arms of the Sonata. He is- from
Ohio, and his first name is George.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

THE church people of the town of MoIvor,
Mimi, are greatly excited over a conflict of
pastors. Rev. Mr.. Patton had been pastor for
ten years, when party determined to install
Rev. Bloodgood in his stead. After several col
lisions, with varying results, the BloodgOod
faction surrepfitiousiy captured the fort on Sat
urday night, Jan. 20. Dragging fire engine up
the conioal hill upon which the edifce is located,
they proceeded TO give the surroundings a neat
and unbroken coat OF ice, rendering it practi-
cally inaccessible. They then slid down this
miniature glacier, and awaited Developments
Next morning, provided with peculiar kind of
shoes known as ''creepers," they were prepared
10 scale the heights without serious trouble.
Arriving at the base OF the hill, they found the
Patton crowd endeavorng to get up. They
would cautiously advance for perhaps fifty feet,
only to lose their grip and slide back IN a very
uadignitied manner. The Bloodgoodites jeered
at them AS backsders and reviled them for
sliding down hill on the holy Sabbath day,
and then went on to the house, where regular
services were held. The Patton party resorted to
hatchets and salt. and reached the door in time
TO hear the benediction. What will be the plan
of the summer campaign has not been divulged.
SEVERAL well-knOwn ladies OF New York have
organized wonan's mutual insurance and acct
dent company. Men will be insured only on con-
dition that their policies are for tho benefit of
some woman 1t is not expected that Miss Kate
Field will cooperate in this, as she has sworn a
solemn oath to have nothing mors to do with
women In q business way. .4
SOME may regard it as coincidence, but others
will discover the unerrng finger of fate In the
burning OF the two piano factories on Monday
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis JoKnali
We have had an argument as to which is the
greater income to the government tariff or rev.
enue, including all stamped goods.
JAMEsTowN. Jan. 81. 1883. &C. GIBSON.
For the year ending June 80, 1882, the re-
ceipts from the tariff were $22O,4lO, $50. 25 and
from internal revenue $146, 497. 595.45.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

CAPTAIN FRED HUGHES, of New York, has
reached Fernandina, Fla, in q catamaran. Gaia
marans are very scarce In Indiana, but Canada
lynx was killed in this State few days ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01
THURSDAY FEBRUARY /, 1888.

lOr Rates of Subscription. etc. see Sixth Page.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journsd:
Please inform US whether or not the affirm
alive has the right to close tho argument IN a
debatea INQUIRER.
FRANKFORT, Ind. Jan. 80. 1888.
That is the general rule, unless other arrange
mania nra mazda.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

OOAsrISa among the Pennsylvania hills is lots
Of fun, but Is attended with some risks.
child near Shenandoah steered her sled the
wrong way and plunged into an open. coal shaft
dftv faat dam
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

SOME may regard it as coincidence, but others
will discover the unerring finger of fate In the
burning Of the two piano factories on Monday
last 10 say nothing of the incneraion OF !. brass
horn factory in this State. Outraged nature,
sooner or later. yindicates herself aud brings in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

PRESBYTERIAN pastors in Pittsburg have made
public the fact that there is an actual dearth OF
ministers, instead of being too many as is COM
commonly supposed. They give figures, showing
that there are 10 per cent more churches than
preachers, and ask anxlously what is to be done
about 1t. The youth of the period doesn't seem
to take kindly to theology.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

her revenges. Brass bands have marched up
and down the land with impunity: have torn the
very air to tatters in campaigns, and have
driven to frenzy the defeated by serenadng the
victorious Pianos in the next room, on the
next floor, or across the fence, have made life a
burden and lowered rents in many happy
neghborhOod. In the very nature of things
this could not last always, and nature revolving,
has at last begun to get in her work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

ALoUIsvILLE pharmacist has discovered tina
women learn to be successful drug clerks al
most by Intuition. Is IL intuition which ails
that numerous and increasing class Of wOmer
who mix their biscuits with arsenic instead o
baking powder, or accidentally administer
strychnine IN place of salts to members of thei
household
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

LEADING New York hotel has adopted a
flexible steel ladder as a fire escape. The sides
are OF wire cable, while the rounds are of l4inch
gas pipe. 1t is claimed that the apparatus can
be put in place and descent of fifty feet made
iu fifty seconds When rolled up, IL occupies a
cuhio foot Of Rnace.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

BY JNO. c. NEW & son.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
The Occidental Harmonic AssOcia.
tiOn.

To the Editor of the Statesman.
The fifth annual session of this mu-
steal association commenced the 18th,
18th and 14th inst, at Shady Grove
Church, Burnett county.
The session was one of much inter
est, harmonious and instructive.
This association was organized in
the town of Burnet in June, 1878, with
some fifty odd members, and with Rev
j. A. Abbey as its first president. We
have for officers as follows: PreSi-
dent, vice-president, recording secre-
tary, corresponding secretary and
treasurer, who are elected annually,
and who hold their office one year, or
until their successors are elected.
The object of the association is to
raise the standard of music by all
laudable means, believing that music
is essential and branch of public
worship in our churches, then the ele-
walton of the character, more thor
ough knowledge of it's principles and
culture among the masses of the
people is its highest aim.
Applicants to teach the science of
music are examined by a board of
competent musicians, and if found
competent certificate is granted &C
cording to the proficiency, a good
moral character being tie first Sc
quent. The membership is now some
400, scattered over the folio wing coun-
ties: Burnet, Lampasas, Llano, and
Mason. The officers elected last ses-
sion are: j. A. Abbey, president, Lam
pasas. Tex; j. H. Hill, vice-president,
Lacy, Burnet county; j. d. Burleson,
recording secre airy, Smithwick' S
Mills; 1, j. M. Smith, corresponding
secretary, Burnet; A. Tobey, treas
urer, Lacy, Tex.
Yours very truly, j. NJ. SMITH.
Burnet, Tex, July %, 1883.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
OYER PRODUCTION.

A question intimately connected
with tariff taxation is over produc.
ton. Our so-called Infant indus
tries" are producing more than they
can dispose of. The New York Her
aid treats this subject understand
dngly and ably. 1t says:
1t must be obvious that the policy
of alternately running mills on their
fullest capacity and shutting them
down. is at best a SpaSmodic and un-
satisfactory method of carrying on
industrial operations. The high
profits made during prosperous pc
riod are swallowed up in the reaction
that follows, and serious loss is laid
upon both manufacturers and work
men. The closing of mills means
millions of capital lying idle, costly
and valuable plant deteriorating and
Ghousanos of workers thrown out OF
employment. What the consumers
gain through the low prices will not
begin to make up for the losses entail
ed, and the aggregate wealth of the
country, so far from being increased
Dis wasted by such "A process.
What, then, is the remedy? OBJ
Eiously the opening of new markets
for the surplus, which cannot be con-
sumed here. Almost at our doors
exist markets which only our own
folly and stupidity have prevented
as from mono olizing; and, already
large. they stand prepared to take our
surplus cotton, wooden and glass
manufactures, our iron and steel. raw
and wrought, our leather and paper.
A possible market of $250,000,O0C
exists in South America, but al
present we occupy only one-tenth OF
It. The West Indies import more
than SIZE, 100000, but they take only
$91. 100000 from this country. Canada
obtains only one-third of what she
wants from us, and the same proper
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02

Now that Dorsey has broken the
ice, the disposition is to crowd the
martyred President. A Washington
correspondent says:
When he came to Washington, a
few days before his inauguration, he
was as cloudy about his cabinet as he
was a week after his election. When
e got here, those who were with him
will remember what siege he had of
it. His promises, like notes falling
due on a day certain. were presented
He seemed hardly to know what way
to turn. But there was one man whose
counsels he sought and upon whom he
seemed to lean, and that was Senator
Dorsey. Garfield received the plain
est kind of talk from him, and SEEM
ed to like it, and he often
protested that he could trust
Dorsey through and through. Two
days before he was inaugurated, Gar
field told Dorsey that he saw no open
ing for New York except the appoint
ment of Mr.. James. He excused
himself by saying that other New
Workers whom he preferred had de-
clined places in the cabinet, and he
could not accept Mr.. Conkling's view
that New York ought to have the
chief place or none. He also said that
he had determined to appoint Mr..
Macy eagh attorney general; though
he deeply regretted that such appoint
ment would be displeasing to Dorsey.
AS he expressed it, he would make
the appointment, and after he was in
augurated he would have time to
turn around and see what would be
hnSf
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

English journals are specializing
over the amount of energy and phys
ical forces which would be displayed
in case the plan of M. de Lesseps to
flood the Desert of Sahara was not
carried out. The flow of water would
probably be long enough to run all
the mills of New England for several
years.
Few monuments are better deserved
than the one proposed to be erected
by Mr.. Corcoran to the memory of
Major L'Enfant, the French engineer
who laid out the City of Washington.
For two generations his plan was the
subject of endless ridicule and jeers,
but now that the city is growing up
to it, it is realized that Washington is
one of the best designed cities in the
world. The plan has been described
as 1.-The city of Philadelphia griddled
across the city of Versailles" The
Capitol and the Executive Mansion
are taken as central points from which
d series of broad avenues extending
to the outer circumference of the city.
Intersecting there avenues are streets
laid out at right angles. At the points
of intersection are irregulaTly shaped
plots which have been set apart as
public squares, and in which are the
various monuments and statues. A
generation which is beginning to per-
ceive- the success of Major L'Enfant
should honor his name.